Turbulent Times Chapter 1118: The Secret Treasure of the Broken City Sent by Wang Junlin
Yang Guang watched Li Yuan leave, and looked at everyone in the room with cold eyes. Although he didn’t want to retreat, he knew that it was too late to divide his troops to attack the capital of Goguryeo.
He glanced at everyone coldly, and angrily reprimanded with murderous intent: “You think you are in a high position, relying on your prominent family background, you have besieged Liaodong City for a month, but a million troops can’t take down a small city. It’s because you are greedy for life and afraid of death, and you don’t want to work hard, do you think I really dare not kill you?”
Yang Guang’s tone was extremely severe, and the murderous intent on his body was overwhelming, all the generals lowered their heads, trembling in their hearts, knowing who dared to say no at this time, Yang Guang would immediately let Yu Wencheng come in and pull him down and kill him.
Yang Guang snorted heavily, and said sharply: “There is already an epidemic in the army, and time is running out. I will give you one last chance. If you can’t capture Liaodong City within today, don’t blame me for wanting to attack.” Killed a group of people!”
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An hour later, the Sui army began to attack Liaodong City again, and it was more violent than before.
Yang Guang personally stood on the high platform specially built by Yu Wenshu 800 steps away, watching the Sui army attacking the city with a blank face. Five thousand elite soldiers were selected, and they took turns to attack. They attacked the top of the city several times, but they were all driven down by the Goguryeo people, and all the Sui people who went up to the top of the city were also killed.
Yang Guang finally realized how stupid his “benevolence” will was these days, and the epidemic disease began to appear in the army, which completely knocked his inflated thoughts back to the original form and restored some reason, so he The decree was issued: “Decree to the whole army, the first one to attack the head of Liaodong City will be promoted to three ranks and rewarded with ten thousand pieces of silk!”
After Yang Guang’s decree was issued, the morale of the Sui army recovered a little bit, and the offensive was like a tide. The ladders were pushed to the top of Liaodong City again, but the Goguryeo people in the city believed that the Sui people would massacre the city and tried their best to defend the city. There were heavy casualties, but Liaodong City still failed to break through.
Of course, this has something to do with the fact that the morale of the soldiers of the Sui army has been exhausted these days. If the siege was like this at the beginning, and the soldiers attacked the city without restraint, no matter how strong the will of the Goguryeo people in the city is to defend the city, the city would be destroyed up.
At this moment, seeing that most of the day had passed and Liaodong City showed no signs of being breached, Yang Guang’s face became more and more ugly, and his heart sank to the bottom of the valley. Yang Guang, who had regained his sanity, knew very well that if the Liaodong City could not be captured immediately when the epidemic began to appear in the army, then his conquest of Goguryeo would be regarded as a complete failure, which would be a huge blow to him. .
“Report to Your Majesty, Duke An of Qin and Wang Junlin sent a secret letter of great urgency.” Yu Wencheng ran up to the high platform, presented a secret letter with both hands, and said with a bow.
Yang Guang’s complexion changed, and he turned his eyes away from Liaodong City. When he heard that he was ‘urgent’, he worried that Wang Junlin would also lose the battle.
Tearing the letter open, after reading it, Yang Guang was shocked and shouted: “Wang Junlin said that there is a secret treasure that can destroy the city, and he sent a small team over. Where are the small team?”
Yu Wencheng quickly said: “Report to Your Majesty, it is just outside the camp.”
Yang Guang said tremblingly: “Wang Junlin has never let me down. He said that there is a secret treasure that can break the city. I believe that his secret treasure will be able to break the city. I ordered Yu Wenshu and other twelve generals to let me go.” They fully cooperated with Wang Junlin’s team to break the city.”
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Although Wang Junlin knew that exposing the gunpowder would bring him a lot of trouble, first of all, Yang Guang’s suspicion could not be avoided, and it was difficult to completely conceal the shady things he did in Fanyang County.
However, in order to reduce the deaths of the millions of soldiers and civilians in the Sui Dynasty, he hesitated again and again, and still sent someone to send two thousand catties of gunpowder, five specially-made trebuchets, and two hundred operators.
It was Wang Junlin’s general Shan Xiongxin who brought these two hundred people. He acted very strongly. No matter if it was Yu Wenshu, Pei Shiju, Yuwen Chengdu, or all the generals, he would not let these two thousand catties be touched. gunpowder.
In Wang Junlin’s letter to Yang Guang, he mentioned that the army here needs to cooperate fully. Out of trust in Wang Junlin’s ability to create miracles, Yang Guang also ordered the twelve generals to cooperate fully, and let Yuwen Chengdu He personally led 5,000 emperor’s personal guards to protect and cooperate with this team.
Although everyone has to cooperate due to His Majesty’s will, whether it is the twelve generals or Yu Wencheng
They were all quite dissatisfied, Shan Xiongxin ignored their attitude, and just told Yuwen Chengdu that the secret treasure he brought to break the city was very dangerous, and if it was not properly controlled, it would be the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty who would be destroyed first.
Shan Xiongxin led two hundred specially trained operators to test and adjust five specially-made trebuchets for an hour.
Towards the afternoon, Yu Wencheng put on his military uniform, brought five thousand emperors’ personal guards, and said to Shan Xiong with a serious face: “If it doesn’t work, Wang Junlin is deceiving the king, and you people must It will be beheaded by His Majesty’s order, so if it doesn’t work after a while, you can take your people and die directly on the battlefield!”
Shan Xiongxin smiled slightly after hearing Yuwen Chengdu’s words, and said: “General Tianbao, don’t worry, our father-in-law has never missed a hand.”
Outside Liaodong City, under the gloomy sky, the dull sound of war drums sounded once again, and the Sui army once again began to attack the city with all its strength, while the five thousand Emperor’s personal soldiers of the Sui Dynasty, wearing heavy armor, rushed towards the city of Liaodong City step by step. The door was pushed forward, and as soon as they walked into the land of arrows, the dense arrow rain of Goguryeo people fell from three directions.
“Shield Array!”
Yu Wencheng shouted loudly, and countless shining large shields were set up, quickly turning a fast army formation into iron turtles, and the two hundred people led by Shan Xiongxin and five trebuchets, And five carts were firmly protected inside.
The Iron Turtle was still slowly heading towards Liaodong City.
At the same time, Yu Wenshu ordered the Ba Niu Crossbows to be dragged by mules and horses into Liaodong City, and stopped within a stone’s throw away. When it was wound up, a crossbow with a thick arm was placed on the chute. The strongest soldier held the handle of the eight-ox crossbow and aimed at the tall city wall of Liaodong City from a distance.
Yu Wencheng stared at the relaxed Shan Xiong and said, “When will your secret treasure show its power?”
Shan Xiongxin said with a smile: “When the trebuchet can accurately hit the gate of Liaocheng, it is also necessary to suppress and contain the Goguryeo people as much as possible in other places, because we only have one chance, and we must be foolproof. “
Yu Wencheng took a deep look at Shan Xiongxin, nodded and said: “Okay, your people are pushing your things between the iron shield formation and the crossbow formation.”