Liaodong City!

Yuan Binzhi stared at Tang Jun in the distance with red eyes, his eyes covered with blood, and he felt like he had red eyes, which was terrible and even scary.

From the moment the Tang army attacked the city, he had not slept well for five days and five nights. He was so sleepy that he could only hide in a safe place to take a nap and take an hour. As a veteran of a certain age, it was not easy to persevere.

Luo Shixin's style of fighting was too rogue. He did not send soldiers to put up the ground, but only allowed giant stone throwing cars to bombard the flying stones in the distance. The huge flying stones streaked across the sky, either smashed the city tower and smashed a small gap, or smashed into the crowd, crushing their city guards into flesh mud, and some even leaped over the city tower and crushed the houses of residents close to the city wall.

Faced with the tactical style of the Tang Dynasty, Yuan Binzhi had no choice. The catapult is a weapon of offense and defense, and both attacking and defending cities and camps can play a decisive role. The study of catapults began as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Xiang Yan, the Chu State, once relied on the catapults to exceed 200,000 Qin troops to force the Qin general Li Xin, who had outstanding military achievements, to commit suicide. The initial catapults structure was very simple, with a huge lever, and the long end was a stone loaded with leather holsters or wooden baskets. The short end was tied with dozens of ropes, and the simplest lever principle was thrown out. Therefore, the catapults were not called catapults, but were called "cataders". "Flying Stones" later as humans became more and more mature in control of technology, the principle of leverage became more and more profound, and "cataders" and "flying Stones" were constantly improved.

Among them, the biggest change is the Pili car invented by Liu Ye of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period. The Pili car has greatly changed the simple leverage structure of the original catapult, and relies on twisted ropes to generate force ejection. With the new model, the mobility, power, range and other performance of "stone throwing" and "flying stones" have been greatly improved, and almost all aspects are far better than the old "stone throwing" and "flying stones". "stone throwing" and "flying stones" have also become powerful tools that can move, and many names have been derived, among which the catapult car is the most widely circulated.

Goguryeo's catapult mainly came from the Southern and Northern Dynasties. They said that they expanded their strength to Liaodong, and had a good relationship with the Central Plains, and greedily absorbed the culture of the Central Plains. At that time, the Central Plains was in the extremely chaotic Southern and Northern Dynasties. Fang Gang experienced the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China, and various aristocratic families and corrupt officials and wealthy families each had their own interests and ignored the overall situation at all. In this turbulent era, everything was based on interests. There was nothing they could not do for the sake of profit. The method of making catapults was certainly a state secret, but as long as there were enough interests, Goguryeo could easily get it. Because of this, the catapults that Goguryeo mastered was from the Southern and Northern Dynasties, which originated from the catapults improved by the Pili chariot in Cao Wei.

With the Chinese reason being the unification, the catapult car changed greatly during the Sui and Tang dynasties. Especially during the Wude period of the Tang Dynasty, when Li Shimin besieged Luoyang, the military weapon supervisor who was skilled in military construction developed a brand new catapult car. It was not simply relying on the power of leverage, but a large catapult car that maximized the range of the catapult car by manpower and twisting ropes. A catapult car requires more than 200 people to operate.

This brand new invention was a military secret in the Tang Dynasty, and the leakers dealt with it as treason.

The Tang Dynasty was currently united in its heart, and there was no way to leak secrets in this powerful catapult. Even Goguryeo had never heard of it, let alone a way to deal with it.

Yuan Bin, who had rich experience in defending the city, had no choice but to do anything about the artillery tactics of the Tang Dynasty.

This technological disadvantage cannot be reversed by intelligence and strategy. Goguryeo can only be in a passive situation of being beaten.

Yuan Binzhi has tried his own way of defending. He used giant trees to build blocked battle buildings on the city and used thick ropes to try to intercept the flying stones, causing the flying stones to hit the huge net, protecting the city wall and the soldiers on the city wall. However, even the strong giant net could not resist the indestructible flying stones, and all defense methods ended in failure.

Yuan Binzhi had to rush between the four city gates to boost morale and calm the morale of the army. However, he still noticed the continuous decline in morale: although he encouraged this, he had to admit that the Tang army was far from being as simple and straightforward as the opponent he had encountered in the past, and only knew how to attack with the advantage of military strength and national strength. The enemy in front of him was impeccable for tactical use, and forced them to death step by step, and even no hope of victory might be left to them.

Thinking of his grandson who died tragically, and thinking of his adopted son who was treated like a parent-child... Yuan Binzhi, who was old, couldn't help but feel a little pain.

"Old friend, I'm sorry for you. Maybe it won't take long before I will come down to apologize to you in person!"

Yuan Binzhi thought of what Hu Sizheng said to him before leaving, "I don't ask my child to succeed in the future, I just hope he can be safe and sound. In order not to cause trouble for you, this child is called Hu Xiegu. If I still have my surname of Hu Si family, I am worried that with Yang Guang's moody personality, if I know that I have a son who lives well, it will cause you unnecessary trouble."

Yuan Binzhi did not have the intention to cultivate Huxiegu at first, but Huxiegu became a self-taught person and impressed Yuan Binzhi with his own hard work. Yuan Binzhi decided to promote and reuse it. If it weren't for the decision at the beginning, Huxiegu might not have died today.

Perhaps because of a premonition that these Tian Yuanbin was a little sentimental.

Given the solidity of Liaodong city, even if the Tang Dynasty used cannon stones to smash them for one or two months, there would be no problem. Although the cannon stones were unsolvable, the psychological pressure they brought to them was extremely terrifying.

As the attacking party, the Tang Dynasty was also deeply impressed by the key points of siege. They did not throw stones blindly. At critical moments, they would suddenly launch a wave of offensives and use the siege oars to force the city walls and gates to attack the city walls and gates. If they were not careful, there would be danger of the city gates being blasted. Forced the defenders to cheer up day and night, stand on the top of the city and be destroyed by artillery fire.

Weary of the enemy, attack the heart!

The Tang army was not only attacking the city, but also attacking the heart.

"Bang!"

A huge flying stone hit the battlements near Yuanbinzhi, breaking a gap in the rammed earth wall of the battlements.

Gravel and soil splashed and dust flew.

The tiny gravel was like a hidden weapon, shooting dozens of people around him.

"Brother Zaoyi Head?"

The soldiers around him shouted in panic: Liaodong is trapped in a Jedi, and Yuan Binzhi, a veteran who has repeatedly created miracles, is their only reliance. If Yuan Binzhi has three strengths and two weaknesses, Liaodong really has no hope.

"What a panic!"

A loud shout came from the dust made by the cannon stones. Yuan Bin's majesty calmly walked out of the flying dust. He looked at the gap lightly and laughed: "A cannon stone has only smashed a small gap. My Liaodong city wall is tall and thick. I bombarded him with a month, and used up the surrounding huge rocks, and could not knock down our city wall. One month is enough to wait for the arrival of reinforcements."

Yuan Binzhi looked at the Tang camp in the distance with his red eyes: He has been guarding Liaodong for most of his life and has never lacked the courage to live and die with Liaodong.

The Tang army's cannon stones were interrupted for a moment!

Tushan was also built with the efforts of the Tang army and the surrendered soldiers of Goguryeo.

The real siege war also began.

The powerful crossbowman and the archers used their powerful archers to suppress the Goguryeo guarding soldiers on the city tower with firepower, making it impossible for them to smoothly hinder the Tang army from siege.

Various siege cars under the city walls, and the rushing cars were fiercely hitting the city gate walls with rain stones and rolling oil and rocks.

The Tang army's crossbow and siege soldiers cooperated with each other and the offensive was extremely fierce. The Goguryeo soldiers also showed unusual tenacity under the command of Yuan Binzhi, a famous general who was good at defending. He successfully inspired the Liaodong city defenders to survive in desperate situations, and repelled the Tang army's attack again and again.

On the 18th day of the besiege of Liaodong City, the climate suddenly became abnormal.

The rare east wind whistles. If you walk in the wind, the strong wind will cut off the exposed skin like a sharp blade, making it feel painful.

This sudden change changed the situation in which Liaodong could not be conquered for a long time.

Zhang Shigui, who was responsible for attacking the east gate, faced with this strong wind, had an idea. All the flammable items such as tincture oil, rockets and other flammable items in the general gathered, ordered the crossbowman to shoot the rocket into the city, and ordered the catapult to throw the tincture oil into the city as shells.

The fire ignited the city tower, and under the guidance of the wind, it affected the residential buildings in the city. The burning became more and more prosperous and it was out of control.

Seeing that the city tower had fallen into a sea of ​​fire and it was difficult to launch a counterattack effectively, Zhang Shigui personally led the siege soldiers to suppress it.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

The car crashed into the city gate one after another, and finally...

The city gate collapsed and the huge city gate broke open a big hole that only allowed one person to pass through.

The fearless Tang army swarmed in from the big cave. Ma Wenju led the way again, leading less than a hundred people through the cave. Facing the tide of Goguryeo soldiers who rushed up like a tide, forcibly opened the city gate in the inner city and occupied the urn at the east gate of Liaodong.

Tang soldiers climbed up the city wall along the wall and fought bloody battles with Goguryeo guards on the city tower.

The defenders of Goguryeo held large shields and short soldiers one by one, while the Tang army advanced step by step with spears.

At this moment, the guards of Goguryeo suddenly retreated without fighting, and white flags were hung in the city.

Yuan Binzhi sent an envoy to express his inability to surrender to the city.

Zhang Shigui couldn't take the Dongcheng Tower for a moment. Seeing that Goguryeo was willing to surrender, he didn't know whether it was true or not, so he simply handed over the choice to Luo Shixin, suspended the offensive, and told Luo Shixin the situation to let him, the commander of the three armies, decide.

Luo Shixin's commander was at the east gate where Zhang Shigui was responsible for, and he was always paying attention to the results of this attack. When he heard Yuan Bin's intention to surrender, he was stunned and grinned: "The old guy is going to fool me as Yang Guang?" r1152
Chapter completed!