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Liaodong City.

The important town of the Liao River, the royal capital of the Goguryeo king Gao Degui, and the fortress of the Liao River for hundreds of years.

Gao Degui mobilized 50,000 Goguryeo troops and 30,000 Khitan troops to hold on, intending to rely on the fortified city to prevent Li Jing's troops and horses from moving north.

Li Jing began to lead the army to the city of Liaodong in July, and all the armies of the Zhenguo Army gathered, the soldiers, the united soldiers and the township soldiers, and the Liaodong city reached a full 100,000 horses, of which 40,000 people reached the battle.

Such a large number of soldiers and horses gathered together, this was the first time for Li Jing.

However, although there were 100,000 male soldiers, in the face of Liaodong City, the fortress of the first heavy city of the Liaohe River, he still felt that his strength was not superior. In particular, there were 80,000 defenders in the city. For this battle, Gao Degui fought a battle for the whole country, and almost all the soldiers and horses in the rear were transferred here. If Liaodong City cannot be defended, then the entire Goguryeo Kingdom, which has just been restored for less than a year, will be destroyed again.

In the past, the cavalry of the Zhenguo Army had been carrying out guerrilla raids near Liaodong City, but now, it is a complete siege on all sides.

Liaodong City has two cities, the inner and the outer city. The city is tall and strong. If it's an ordinary siege method. With the food that is now stored in the city. It can be eaten by 80,000 defenders and 200,000 people of Goguryeo for three years. Moreover, there is a large amount of ordnance in this city, and if it is attacked, it is difficult to predict the outcome of the battle.

However, Li Jing used troops, and rarely fought in conventional warfare.

To deal with such an important city as Liaodong City, Li Jing had already prepared.

The Ordnance Department of the Zhenguo Army has been researching super catapults, and the original Great General Cannon is considered to be one, but this is not the most powerful. The most powerful catapult was actually researched more than three years ago. It was successfully developed a year ago. And start production. However, Li Jing has not put this weapon into the battlefield for a long time.

First, the battles of the Zhenguo army against Liaodong and Liaoxi were all sports warfare, and although the effect of this catapult was amazing, the transportation was a weakness.

But now, the battle of Liaodong City is a battle of city defense, and the Zhenguo Army has surrounded Liaodong City. Li Jing had time to transport the cannon from the rear, especially now that Liaodong has a wide and flat avenue.

Under the city of Liaodong, the sappers of the engineer battalion are helping the auxiliaries. The cannon that was shipped was installed.

Li Jing and a group of generals came to watch, only to see the help of pulleys, levers and other help. The first cannon gradually revealed its hideous face. Countless soldiers who saw this behemoth for the first time exclaimed in amazement.

Li Qi, the master of the Ordnance Division, pointed to the huge trebuchet like a hideous monster and proudly explained to Li Jing and the others.

"This is the Longwu Thunderbolt Fierce Fire General Cannon, which can throw a three-hundred-pound stone projectile at a distance of 100 zhang!"

Just this sentence immediately shocked everyone's generals.

The people present were all leading generals, and they were no strangers to stone throwers. But the general small catapult is to throw a stone bullet of two catties, five catties and ten catties, the medium-sized one is also ten catties and twenty catties, and the general large one can throw thirty or forty catties. The largest known catapult needs to be used by 300 people at a time, and it is only a hundred catties.

There are catapults that can throw a hundred pounds, but they use counterweights and manpower. But the distance can't reach a distance of 100 zhang at all, at most 100 steps, only 50 zhang.

And now, Li Qi actually pointed to this huge catapult and said that he could throw 300 catties of stone projectiles, and he could also throw 100 zhang away.

Hardly anyone believes that catapults are not made to be as big as they can be.

However, Li Jing did not doubt it, but smiled slightly. In fact, this so-called Longwu Thunderbolt Fierce Fire General Cannon is the Xiangyang Cannon. To be precise, this is actually called a counterweight stone thrower.

The principle is to use the principle of the lever to throw the counterweight, Li Jing told the craftsmen of the Ordnance Department the principle of the Xiangyang cannon that he knew, and then they spent three years finally creating this super giant catapult.

Throwing a 300-pound stone bomb to a distance of 100 zhang, Li Jing had already seen it in the experimental field.

The boom of this catapult is five feet long, and its counterweight weight has reached a full 20,000 catties.

In order to withstand the hammer and boom, the pillar of the cannon is a directly used steel-ladle wooden structure, especially the 20,000-pound counterweight hammer, which is directly forged with a hydraulic satin hammer.

The five-zhang long boom is directly made of high-grade stainless steel, on the base, the boom is erected, one end is hung with a 20,000-pound heavy hammer, one end is a five-zhang long boom, and the boom is also hung with a grenade belt at one end.

Using the principle of leverage, one end is a 20,000 pound heavy hammer, and the other end is equipped with a stone bullet to be fired, before firing, one end of the ammunition must be pulled down with a winch, a pulley and manpower, and the other end with a heavy object is also rising at this time, after putting the stone bullet is released or cut the rope, so that one end of the heavy object falls, and the stone bullet is also thrown out of the trend.

The principle is simple, but it is difficult to find a reasonable value for this leverage.

At present, this super catapult of the Zhenguo Army is already the maximum standard that can be used.

"How many of these super catapults do we have?" Li Juyi looked at the catapult like a high-rise building, and then looked at the 20,000-pound counterweight hammer at the other end, and he couldn't help but marvel at the thought of being able to lift the 300-pound stone bullet to a distance of 100 zhang.

A hundred zhang away, although it is said that the bed crossbow can shoot seven hundred paces away, the distance is still twice that of this super catapult, but the crossbow arrow shot by the bed crossbow is only an iron spear even if it is the thickest. But even if it's a fire spear, it's huge, every piece of wood is thick enough for someone to hug, and it's a super catapult with a thick layer of steel on the outside, so no amount of spear is useless.

The spear is impenetrable. The fire does not burn. As long as it is not directly captured by the enemy. There is simply no way to deal with such a giant super catapult.

"Bring ten seats this time!" Li Qi said with some embarrassment. This super catapult has many advantages, but it is too large to be transported separately, and it is extremely difficult to transport it. Even these ten catapults, transported from Dengzhou to Liaodong City, took almost three months.

But for Coco Lee, ten crosses are enough.

Such weapons belong to the strategic level.

All the time. Li Jing was bothered by the fact that the power of black powder was too small. But with this huge catapult, combined with black powder, it is undoubtedly more powerful.

Li Jing brought these catapults this time, and the real killer weapon was not this catapult, but all kinds of super-large gunpowder bullets newly developed with this catapult.

The amount of 300 catties can completely lead to qualitative change from quantitative change.

Based on Li Jing's instructions, the Ordnance Department has developed more than ten new gunpowder shells.

This super catapult does not rely entirely on throwing solid stone projectiles.

In addition to solid stone shells, the Ordnance Division has also developed various explosive bombs.

Kill and injure enemies with fragments of artillery shells or poisonous fire and smoke from them.

This time, along with the catapults, there were incendiary bombs. Poison bombs, poison smoke bombs. explosive bombs and other major categories.

At this time, the sun rose in the east, but the Goryeo defenders on the south gate of Liaodong City had been shocked by the ten tall buildings rising under the city. Many people think that this is the cloud tower rushing car, and some people think that it is the arrow tower. A few people who suggested that this was a catapult were immediately despised by others, how could there be such a large catapult.

"Is it commissioned?" Li Jing held the clairvoyant mirror, looked at the crowds in the opposite city, and asked with a chuckle.

Although it was only seventy zhang away from the city, the archers in the city could not shoot at this distance of one hundred and forty paces. Although the heavy crossbow is far away, the sappers under the catapult are equipped with shields, and the huge catapult is the best cover for the city, and it is not afraid of the city at all.

Li Qi said confidently: "It's ready, ready to launch." ”

"Let's make a shot!"

"Let's make a shot!" Richie shouted.

"Solid or explosive?" The loader asked aloud.

Li Jing looked at the towering city gate tower at the south gate, "Are you sure to hit the city gate tower?" ”

"No problem." Li Qi said.

"Then let's have an explosive bomb, just barbecue bombs."

"Molotov cocktails, reload!"

"Aim. South City Gatehouse! ”

"Aim!"

"Launch!"

Seventy steps away, at the South City Gate, a group of Goguryeo generals who had heard the alarm were accompanying the Goguryeo king, Gao Degui, to observe the huge equipment that was shining with black and faint light on the opposite side, looking like a catapult. But can such a huge catapult really work?

Just when Gao Degui wanted to speak and boost his morale, he suddenly heard a sharp whistling sound in the air, he turned his head sharply to look, only to see that the huge catapult that was a few points higher than the Liaodong city wall had been launched, and a huge iron bucket like a large water tank flew straight in.

"Protect the King!" Several noble guards shouted loudly. Gao Degui's frightened face turned pale, and his heart was full of death. Guarded by the guards, he hurried down to the city. As soon as he ran to the road in the lower city, he heard a loud crash.

Turning his head in a hurry, he saw that the big iron cylinder directly hit the city gate tower, and half of the city gate tower collapsed at once. Then, I saw a burst of fire and white smoke rising. There was another earth-shattering bang, and there was a loud bang, and the big iron cylinder that had not broken the city gatehouse that had been smashed for half a day just now suddenly burst apart.

Countless pieces of iron and clumps of flame splattered out, and the Goguryeo people near the gate tower suddenly burst into screams.

Hit by splinters, splashed by flames.

Gao Degui was lucky, and when the explosion occurred, several guards used their bodies to block a few fragments for him. Three of the guards died on the spot, and several others were covered in blood. He himself didn't hit a single shard, only two flames splashed on his body.

As he continued to run down the city, he slapped the fire on his clothes, and instead of extinguishing it, the flame burned on his hands.

He finally found out that something was wrong, but at this time, the flames on his body were getting bigger and bigger, Gao Degui screamed in fear, and the surviving guards next to him came to beat one after another, but in a blink of an eye, all the guards were burning.

In less than a moment, Gao Degui was actually burned into a cloud of ashes.

Li Jing and the generals held clairplanes and carefully stared at the 'power of the Longwu Thunderbolt Fierce Fire General Cannon', looking at the southern city gatehouse that had collapsed and had been burned to ashes, as well as the hundreds of Goguryeo soldiers who were screaming and howling in the city, and finally did not escape death, everyone took a breath of cold air.

Although it is said that the incendiary bomb used in this cannon is a divine fire, but this super catapult, plus 300 catties of heavy cannonballs, and the combined power of the divine fire is too amazing.

Li Jing was extremely excited to see it, such a combination can be compared with the cannon howitzer. It's powerful, it's true.

"One more shot!" Li Jing shouted excitedly. Even the generals of the Zhenguo army were so surprised, so Goguryeo, who was defending the city, must have been even more frightened. If a few more cannons can hit the morale of the Goguryeo people hard, or even directly scare the Khitans away, it will naturally be better.

Li Juyi, Wang Chong, Lin Wu and other towns were also red-faced and excited at this time. No one thought that this thing was stupid and coarse, and it was so easy to use.

"One more shot, one more shot!"

"Haoler, one more shot, solid bullets!"

It didn't take long for a loud bang to crash, and a huge solid stone projectile of 300 catties smashed directly on the head of the city, close to a battlement wide of one zhang, and was directly smashed.

Seeing this effect, all the soldiers cheered loudly.

Just as Li Jing was about to mobilize more small and medium-sized catapults, ballistas, and arrow towers to come up for an attack, Wang Yanzhang came to report that an angel from Chang'an had come to announce the decree with a holy decree.

Li Jing hurriedly took the generals back to the camp to greet the angels, but it was still an old acquaintance from the past, Zhang Tai, the envoy of the Xuanhui North Courtyard and the general of the right prison guard.

Set up the incense case, and Li Jing led the generals to listen to the order.

"Under the door:"

"The text is based on the state, the military is to prohibit violence, and the marshal will be appointed by the temple.

Taifu, Jianzhong Shuling, Tongzhongshu Menxia Ping Zhangshi, Yushi Dafu, General Zuo Wuwei, Hussar General, Shangzhu State, Andong County King, Datong Army Festival Envoy, Lu Long Army Festival Envoy.

The wind and clouds are felt, and the stars are born. Bingwen and military posture, with economic tools. Since Hu Lu has made chaos, the frontier has not been peaceful, and he has been loyal to himself, and he has become a righteous and brave business. In addition, its recognition is far-reaching, and its strategy is deep. Zhang Fei is a rebellion of 10,000 people, but he is the commander of the three armies. Therefore, I can sweep away Hulu, recover Anton, build the great honor, and become my royal industry. Although he is a young heir, Xia Mi praises his merits; Guangwu Zhongxing, Deng Yu gathered his affairs. Looking at the past with the present, there are not enough. However, the atmosphere has not yet been cleared, the army is urgent, and it is necessary to seek mastery and preparation, and to fight with the teacher's chastity, it is advisable to bear the heavy commission, and it is difficult to overcome difficulties. It can be filled with Lulong Town, Chengde Town, Yiwu Town, Weibo Town, Yichang Town, Hebei Provincial Soldiers and Horses Marshal, and control the soldiers and horses of Hebei Provincial Towns. He was also awarded the Hebei Provincial Observation Ambassador, the Hebei Provincial Yingtian Duzhi Ambassador, the Hebei Provincial Salt and Iron Transshipment Envoy and the Coinage Envoy, and the Zhufan Tribal Ambassador. Still make the festival Lu Longjun festival envoy, Datong army festival envoy! ”

"The edict of August 8 of the fifth year of the Tang Dynasty!"

Li Jing knelt down to listen to the holy decree, but after Zhang Tai finished announcing the decree, Li Jing still bowed his head and did not accept the decree.

Zhang Tai had to cough and smiled gently: "King Anton, please receive the order!" ”

Li Jing finally came back to his senses, looked at Zhang Tai's helpless expression, and although his sleeves were clenched with his fists, he still got up and took over Huang Aya's holy decree after the last! (To be continued......)