After three days of rest, the drums of the Khitan camp sounded again, and another siege began, because the north city was covered with quenched tribulus thorns and foot pits, and the east and west sides of the ground were uneven, and the siege ladder was difficult to support, so the siege of the Khitan army was still concentrated in the south.

The Sui army has concentrated all the trebuchets to the south, and there are still more than 70 left, in addition to bed crossbow stone cannons, but without nest carts and ladders, the role of stone cannons is no longer great, so the Sui army simply abandoned them and concentrated their forces to use crossbow arrows.

Looking at the Khitan army that began to assemble rapidly in the distance, Yang Shanhui said to Duan Xianda and Lu Chifeng: "The other party's ladders, trebuchets and nest carts are gone, only siege ladders and battering rams, we are not afraid of battering rams, mainly to deal with siege ladders, the weapons that Li Shilang handed over to everyone, can you practice in the past two days?" ”

The two bowed together and said, "We have set up a special team, and we have been able to use it proficiently." ”

"Good! Whether we can hold the city or not is a matter of today's battle. ”

At this time, the mighty Khitan army in the distance came to the southern city, and despite the painful lessons again and again, the Khitans also became wiser, and thought of many ways to deal with the Sui army's thistle thorns and foot pits, they cut down thousands of large trees, and paved several roads with branches and planks.

In addition, they put the leafy canopy on the cart and let the oxen pull it forward, so that a series of tree walls were formed to resist the attacks of trebuchets and bed crossbows, and the soldiers hid behind the tree walls, although this running speed would be slowed down, but the effect came out, weakening the attack power of the Sui army's trebuchets and bed crossbows.

Huge boulders roared and smashed to the ground, and suddenly the dust flew and the boulders rolled, and one of the boulders knocked over the ox cart, and the huge canopy crushed the soldiers behind it, and the frightened oxen broke free from the ropes and ran madly on the battlefield.

Although the huge canopy did effectively weaken the Sui army's catapult, as they approached the city wall, the canopy and ox cart would instead become an obstacle to the attack, so when the ox cart drove out of the range of the trebuchet, the Khitan soldiers rushed out from behind the canopy and rushed towards the city wall.

At this time, a bang sounded at the head of the city, and the soldiers in the city fired thousands of arrows in unison, and the dense arrows shot at the Khitan soldiers who rushed like a storm, and the soldiers fell down with arrows, and thousands of Khitan soldiers also began to shoot arrows at the head of the city to counterattack, and the arrows on both sides formed a dense arrow net.

A series of siege ladders slammed up on the head of the city, the iron hook in the front section hooked the bricks of the city head, the Khitan soldiers climbed up with their shields, the rolling wood and stones at the head of the city fell down, and the siege soldiers continued to scream and fell from the ladder and fell into the trench below, but the Khitan soldiers had red eyes and climbed up regardless of life and death.

At this time, two soldiers with big axes rushed to the side of the siege ladder, swung the axe to the ladder to split, this axe is made of Mo knife's steel-clad forging method, extremely sharp, only a few axes were used to split the front end of the ladder, the iron hook and the ladder were separated, and several other militia soldiers hooked the siege ladder with iron chain flying claws from the side, and struggled to pull the ladder, while several soldiers pushed outward with steel forks, the siege ladder gradually tilted, and finally overturned, more than 20 soldiers on the ladder let out a series of screams, rolled to the ground, and most of them fell into the trench.

This is the method that Li Chun used to deal with the siege ladder, simple and practical, axes, forks, and claws are used at the same time, and the flying claws are controlled by iron chains, and the enemy soldiers can not cut them with their knives, the key is to cooperate, as long as the three groups of soldiers cooperate tacitly, they can break a siege ladder in just a moment.

As the siege ladders were easily broken by the Sui soldiers, the attacking soldiers were extremely unfavorable, and Gao Kaidao was so anxious that he shouted: "On the battering ram!" ”

Five battering rams began to appear on the battlefield, this kind of battering ram is like a moving flat and long pavilion, three zhang long, one zhang wide, one zhang five feet high, there is a wooden herringbone sloping top on it, covered with raw cowhide, not afraid of fire, there are four huge wheels below, the middle is hung with iron chains of battering rams, battering rams are made of giant wood, about three zhang long, the thickness of the bucket, the front end is sharpened and installed with a pig iron battering head, the battering ram is pulled by the soldiers to hit the city.

The giant battering ram has a force of 10,000 catties in one blow, but today this kind of battering ram belongs to a large battering ram, and it is not a giant type, and each blow has at least 3,000 catties of impact.

In the early stage, the battering ram was pulled forward by the strong ox, and when it was close to the city wall, it was carried out by soldiers, and each battering ram required 200 soldiers to maneuver to attack the city wall and city gates.

In terms of the use of siege equipment, Gao Kaidao is more experienced than the Khitans, he has long seen that the gate of Liucheng is made of pig iron, which can resist 10,000 catties of heavy blows, their kind of siege ram has no effect, and the opponent's drawbridge is pulled up high, like a guard plate blocking the city gate, and the siege gate is obviously unrealistic.

Gao Kaidao abandoned the city gate and instead considered attacking the city wall, if they could penetrate the wall, maybe they still had a chance.

Yang Shanhui saw that the battering ram was slowly coming, and it had already entered the attack range of the trebuchet, and immediately ordered, "Use the trebuchet to destroy the battering ram!" ”

Eighty trebuchets creaked apart and shot out violently, and one after another boulders roared and smashed towards the five battering rams, and there were constantly boulders smashing next to the battering rams, stirring up rolling dust, and the sound was terrifying, and several dragging oxen were blindfolded, unaware of the danger, but the hundreds of soldiers who followed the battering rams were all pale with fright, and their legs and feet were weak.

At this time, a boulder hit one of the battering rams, the roof was shattered, the battering rams rolled, the mallet body was thrown out, and more than a dozen soldiers were killed on the spot, and a cheer suddenly sounded at the head of the city.

Another battering ram was smashed, the axle was broken, rolled twice, and suddenly lay on the ground with the bottom facing the sky, unable to move, and then the third battering ram was hit by a boulder, the chain fell off, and the mallet body rolled out.

In the end, there were only two battering rams leaning against the city wall, pushed forward by the soldiers, Yang Shanhui had already prepared, he gave an order, the city head threw down hundreds of bundles of hay, buried the battering rams, a torch was thrown down, the hay was quickly ignited, the fire spread very fast, the raging fire surrounded the battering ram in a blink of an eye, hundreds of Khitan soldiers were so frightened that they turned around and fled, the city head was chaotic arrows, the Khitan soldiers fell to the ground with arrows, and the battering ram was engulfed in fire together.

The five battering rams were all wiped out, most of the siege ladders were lost, and the siege soldiers suffered heavy casualties. ”

'When! While! While! The bell rang again, and the beleaguered soldiers turned around and ran towards the camp, and the siege failed again, and there was a burst of cheers from the city.

Su Zhi and Gao Kaidao came to Dahe Duluo to plead guilty, and before they could speak, Dahe Duluo pointed at Su Zhi and shouted: "Tie me up!" ”

More than a dozen soldiers rushed forward and knocked Su Zhi down, and Su Zhi shouted: "Not guilty! ”

"Not guilty?"

Dahe Duluo said coldly: "You attacked the city before, and you can attack the city twice, but this time you didn't even touch the battlements, do you think I'm blind and can't see?" ”

"That's because the Sui army has found a way to deal with the siege ladder, and nearly half of the lowly army has been killed or wounded, am I still deliberately slacking off?"

Everyone pleaded for Su Zhi, and the eldest son of Ohga Dura, Ohga Mo, stepped forward and whispered to his father: "Killing him will affect our relationship with the Xi people, and my father must be cautious." ”

Of course, Dahe Duluo knew that Su Zhi was the chief of the Xi people, and he couldn't kill him, he just deliberately put on a posture and put the responsibility for the defeat on Su Zhi, he snorted heavily, "Okay, for the sake of the generals to intercede for you, I won't punish you first, and I'll settle the account with you when I get back." ”

He waved his hand, "Collect the troops and return to the camp!" ”

Tens of thousands of Khitan troops died down, and they returned to the camp in formation, and at the head of the city, Li Chun stepped forward and said to Yang Shanhui with a smile: "Their siege weapons are almost exhausted, if you want to attack the city, you can only cut trees to make simple ladders, I don't want to underestimate the Khitan craftsmen, but in the past few days, they have used all the siege weapons left in Liaodong by the Great Sui in the past, so it can be seen that their manufacturing level will not be too good, a good siege ladder will take at least a month to make, if it is completed in a hurry, it is difficult to fit the wooden ladder firmly, This ladder collapses with a single blow. ”

Yang Shanhui nodded and said: "Actually, I don't worry about siege weapons, I can see from today's battle that they obviously don't have the fighting spirit and morale they had before, the Khitans themselves are not good at siege, but good at cavalry combat, I estimate that they can't hold on." ”

After a pause, Yang Shanhui said worriedly: "Actually, I'm more worried about the Goguryeo people, the Khitan has greatly weakened our defense, if the Goguryeo army comes back later, how can we resist it?" ”

Li Chun smiled slightly, "I think His Royal Highness King Qi has already considered this issue, and Yang Taishou doesn't have to worry about it!" (To be continued.) )