Chapter 233 The Fire Burning City

The night of the dark moon and high winds, the night of Liaodong with dark clouds, the north wind is tighter!

In a shop not far from the north military camp in Xincheng City, the counter suddenly moved gently, and soon a person had already emerged from there. Yu Chuanlang, who had already covered his bright clothes with a black tights, looked around and left and right. After not seeing any movement, he squatted on the ground and stretched out the secret passage below the counter and made a gesture.

Silently, men in black crawled out from inside, and within a short while, hundreds of people gathered in the small shop. The three Hualangs who came up through this tunnel gathered together, took the map and gestured with their hands a few times, and confirmed their respective goals again. Each waved at his disciple behind him, and immediately the troops were divided into three parts, just like the elves of the dark night. They soon heard from the night again.

The military camp of the Grand Colonel in the north of the city is also a thunder-burning site. This is the largest school camp in the city, and it also has the most neat military camp. As long as the Liao people enter the city, they will definitely be stationed here.

So for this place, the Sui army was very polite to bury piles of explosive packs under the barracks of the soldiers. No one knew how many of them were. Anyway, except for the other three gates, the remaining ones were buried under these military camps.

In the whistling north wind, except for the 10,000 soldiers and horses on duty at the city gate, the other 10,000 people were sleeping heavily in the military camp. No one knew that they were lying on a pile of gunpowder bags that could send them to heaven.

In the darkness, Hualang disciples touched the camp in the north of the city. For these elites who had begun to receive various trainings since childhood, they were completely a special combat force. For the task of sneaking into the enemy camp in front of them, it was really a piece of cake. Occasionally some patrol sentries along the way were easily solved by them.

Following the instructions on the map, one of the teams found a hidden fuse location first.

When it was buried, for the convenience of detonating behind, the Sui army engineers connected seven or eight fuses at each explosion point, and fuses that were dozens of feet long were hidden in seven or eight inconspicuous places. As long as the people lurked in, they could detonate a point of thunder.

A burst of light smoke woke up early, and the fuse in the Beicheng military camp was ignited. Looking at the fast-burning fuse, the leader made a few gestures, and everyone retreated one after another. They all knew that the gunpowder was buried. Just find a place far away from the gunpowder point to hide, and you will be safe and sound.

The earth-shaking explosion sounded in the military camps in the north of the city. The sky was collapsing and the earth was cracking! The gunpowder packs buried in the military camps in the north of the city sounded one after another. Amid the huge shocking sound, the explosions suddenly rose in the darkness of the night.

Balls of fire rushed up, and rolling black smoke formed small mushroom clouds in the sky. Each point was at least thousands of kilograms of gunpowder. What is the effect of an explosion of thousands of kilograms of gunpowder?

The barracks built with mud bricks and reeds were easily torn and burst, like paper, and the fragments quickly burned. The Liao soldiers in their sleeping dreams who were close to the gunpowder point had no time to react and were directly bombarded into pieces, real fragments.

Large pits with diameters of several meters deep were formed in an instant, and the explosion shock wave directly swept the explosion point with a radius of dozens of meters like a hurricane passing through the border. What's even more terrifying is that when the Sui army buried gunpowder, they were worried that the gunpowder was not powerful enough. They mixed a large amount of iron sand and broken iron nails that had been quenched with poison.

The damage range of one explosion site was dozens of feet, and the explosion range of seven or eight explosion sites almost enveloped the barracks of most of the Liaodong military camps. In a round of explosion, the fearful gunpowder, poison sand, and poisonous iron nails reimbursed many soldiers who were lying quietly on the bed at one time.

At this moment, more than 1,000 people were killed by the Goguryeo who were sleeping, and more than 1,000 people were seriously injured. There were more than 2,000 people left, and many of them were injured. Except for a few who were burned, temporarily deaf, and abrasions, most of them were injured by the iron sand and nails in the explosion. Although many people only broke a small hole, the iron sand and nails that broke the hole were all soaked in poison. If these injured soldiers could not be treated in time, then only one of them would die of poison.

The Sui army did not spare the luxurious courtyard of the three-entry military camp at the beginning. The best house in the military camp here. If the Liao army entered the Daying in the north of the city, then this house would definitely become the choice of the Liao generals.

When the explosion sounded, the luxurious house was also sent to the dark sky in a huge fireball. As for the former commander of the army, Eji Wude, who was sleeping in it, was immediately bombarded into meat dumps.

Just as the sky collapsed and the earth cracked, huge explosions sounded at the three places of the West City Gate, the South City Gate and the North City Gate, and small mushroom clouds rose to the sky. However, the biggest purpose of the gunpowder buried at these three city gates was to break the city gate, so it was very disturbing, but it did not kill many Liao people.

"Tian Lei!Tian Lei! God is going to punish us again!"

The Liao people who remembered the last thunder and collapsed. The last thunder killed more than 300 people at one time, but this time, it came even more violently. There were more than ten places in the city that exploded. The huge sound was louder than the thunder, and the rising fireball was more dazzling than the sun.

The huge explosion shocked the entire Xincheng. The Liao soldiers stumbled and stood unsteadily and fell to the ground. The soldiers near the city gates even broke their eardrums by the huge explosion and became deaf.

Its power is so great that even Chen Kefu, Li Jie and others who were ambushing outside the city were shocked. Everyone opened their mouths wide and looked at the more than ten sky-storming fireballs rising in the new city, so shocked that they were beyond shock.

Li Jie and Wuqian Minzhuang stood more than ten miles outside the new city and could clearly feel the vibration of the ground beneath their feet. At that moment, countless people looked pale. No one could believe that such a reputation was actually made by man.

Hu Hai, who was preparing to attack outside the city, was also shocked for a while in the explosion like a mountain collapse. He had seen several test explosions of the sky-shattering thunder, but the power was at most a louder sound, killing one or two horses. He never thought that more than a thousand steps away from him, the tall gate tower of the new city actually collapsed like that in the sky-sky fire.

This is the third fortress city in Liaodong. If it were a normal attack, there would be no one who could attack the city easily without tens of thousands of people. But now, it collapsed in the midst of the collapse of the sky and the earth!

This was incomparable to a general's shock. He couldn't help but think, with these thunderstorms, what would they do if they attacked the city and plundered the land in the future? Isn't it enough to just send the gunpowder bag to the city every time?

But what he didn't expect was that the one who blasted the city tower was thousands of kilograms of black gunpowder. Moreover, in order to ensure that the city gate was exploded, the city-building craftsmen in the Sui Army's engineering camp specially laid a large amount of explosives at several key points based on the construction structure at the city gate. Otherwise, it would be not that simple to use black gunpowder to explode the city gate wall so easily.

"Sir, are we going to attack the city?" A general saw Hu Hai open his mouth wide and stood there for a long time without saying anything. He reminded him in shock. However, the command of the general was thunderous in the city, and they immediately launched a feint attack.

"Ah, siege the city, siege the city!" Hu Hai, who came back from his shock, ordered hurriedly.

The city gate had collapsed, and a huge gap had been broken there. Hu Hai, who had already divided the troops into three places, immediately made people beat the war drum. Hundreds of war drums sounded at the same time. They did not light a torch. They roared and shouted in the fierce and intense war drums and rushed towards the gap in the city gate.

The gap was full of gravel and broken wood, and even the city-shadowed ditch had already been filled. The Liao soldiers were still in panic. Hu Hai and his troops had already rushed to the city. The gap of more than ten feet wide made the Liao people who had just woken up and could not block it. They could only watch one Sui army after another rush through the city, like a tiger going down the mountain, three groups and five groups, all maintaining a battle formation.

Those who hold shields, guns, bows and arrows fully complete the defense, close attack, long range and other offense and defense. The chaotic Liao army could not afford effective resistance at all, and could only continue to retreat step by step.

"Star the rocket!"

Hu Hai rode on a high war horse and ordered loudly!

Teams of bows held up the longbows in their hands, set up rockets, and set fire to the houses and shops in the city. Anyway, the Liao *** army was about to go north, so the new city was to be abandoned. Instead of leaving it to the Liao people, it would be better to burn it.

"Caval assault!"

Another order sounded, and the two thousand cavalry in Hu Hai's hand slowed down, accelerated, and scattered. They were carrying cavalry lances, and they rushed wherever there were many Liao people. Before the war, they had already received orders, and the cavalry was responsible for destroying the enemy's assembly formation.

Under the continuous impact of Hu Hai's troops, the three city gates in Xincheng, west, south and north were successively lost. The Liao defenders had to retreat continuously. Gradually, they had retreated to the center of the city. The guards at the three city gates and the scattered soldiers who escaped from the city gate camp gathered together, and more than 16,000 people were gathered.

Looking at the panicked soldiers, Gao Guang grabbed a subordinate of Yizhi Wude and asked loudly, "Where is General Yizhi? Where is he? What happened? Why are you only so few people left?"

The guest looked horrified and said with a trembling face, "Tian Lei, Tian Lei, the generals of the military camp in the north of the city have descended several huge sky thunders. The brothers resting in the camp suddenly died and injured thousands of people. The house where General Yizhi lived was also struck, and the general was struck to death by lightning."

Gao Guang's heart was ashamed. The Sui army had already attacked the city, but the former general Yizhi Wude actually died in battle. What should we do next?

Gao Guang's several accomplices jumped out and shouted loudly, "General Yizhi is dead, and the army must be in charge. We have General Gao Guang as the main general, please come and decide!"

The front army was originally the commander of Gao Jianwu, and most of the generals in the army were his subordinates. After Yizhi Wude replaced him as the main general, he did not bring a few generals here. At this time, when everyone heard that Gao Guang was the main general, they had no objection and nodded in agreement.

"General, what should I do now? The three gates in the west, north and south of the city have been attacked by the Sui army. Now only the East Gate has not been broken yet. We can't defend the new city. Why don't we retreat?"

At this time, the entire army had already lost its courage, and there was no courage left in the city of Liaodong. They all nodded in agreement.

Although Gao Guang felt that the other three gates had collapsed by the thunder that day, the East Gate was fine and he was a little worried. However, at this time, no one was willing to stay in this Liaodong city anymore.

"Okay, we retreat from outside the East City, and after passing the Xiaoliao River, we will retreat eastward! Each of our generals gathered our subordinates, and the cavalry was responsible for opening the road ahead, leaving a team of cavalry behind the hall, and the entire army left the city!"

With the order, the entire army did not stop anymore. At this time, the first person only hated his parents for having less legs, so no one could stop at all. When they arrived at the East City, the guards there said that thousands of cavalry had just come to attack the East City Gate, but after a few rounds, they saw that they could not attack, so they headed towards the south of the city again.

When Gao Guang heard this, he was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered the city to open. Ten thousand people came to pass through the city gate, cross the suspension bridge, and run wildly towards the east.

Hu Hai's thousands of men followed far behind. After all the Liao people left the city, they hurriedly dispatched the battalion's cavalry to continue to follow. The rest of the troops began to set fire throughout the city, preparing to burn the entire new city.

The Goguryeo people had just been glad that escaped the nightmare new city, but heard a shout behind them, but a soldier suddenly rushed out not far behind them. Yishui's black armor was 4,000 or 5,000 people, especially each holding a long sword in his hand and heading towards them.

Gao Guang shouted that something was wrong. Sure enough, the Sui people did not escape so easily. They hurriedly ordered thousands of people from the palace and continued to run eastward with their army. The general who was selected to be behind the palace had no choice but to lead three thousand infantrymen to pause on the spot. With a command, three thousand men and horses all set their bows.

"shoot!"

Three thousand arrows left the string and headed straight for the Sui army. However, the Sui army had no concern at all, and no one retreated. The Sui army soldiers just lowered their heads slightly, avoided the weak point, and continued to take big steps.

The Liao people were good at shooting. Within a short distance, the Liao soldiers carried out five rounds of shooting, shooting out 15,000 arrows. However, so many arrows were shot out, except for the sound of Ding Ding Dangdang in the darkness, no Sui army was shot to death.

"Kill!" A neat and huge killing sound rang out. The Sui army infantry finally arrived in front of their array. In a row of neat arrays, with one wave of swords, a snow-colored white light flashed in the night, followed by constant sounds of metal and iron intersecting, the sound of long swords entering the flesh, the sound of blood splattering, and the sound of pain was endless.

A round of Modao swung, followed by another row of Modao coming forward, and the sword light flashed again. Just like a group of ruthless butchers, they were chopping bones and cutting meat without any emotion. The sword light flashed, pushing forward like a wall, with a grand momentum!

No one could stop such an attack, and the Liao soldiers who were hurriedly left behind the palace were even worse. With only three rounds of Modao's attack, these people would be dispersed. No one faced such one-sided massacre without fear, and even the brave soldiers could not make any wish in front of these steel monsters. The remaining Liao people turned around and ran away, not caring about any array or team. Just like the flock of sheep swept away by wolves on the grassland, they ran around and fled in scattered.

The three thousand Liao people behind collapsed, and the ten thousand Liao people in front were not much better. The three thousand people behind the palace were left, and they ran forward for several miles, but suddenly a group of iron armored cavalry came out.

At this time, the Liao army was basically infantry and cavalry, and there were not enough horses. They were running wildly, without a strong formation, no camp fences, and no strong walls of high cities. They had already opened their mouths to these iron armored cavalry who had already opened their mouths and were waiting for them to come to their door. They had no choice but to do anything about them.

The armored cavalry of the Sui army slowly galloped, slowly accelerating, sprinting, and finally rushed wildly. These were moving steel hills. The Sui army knights did not have to wave their spears at all, but just rode their horses to rush into the Liao army.

The iron-armored war horses running at high speed, the array of rushing forward was like a moving steel wall. They completely ignored the Liao people and directly crushed them easily. The blockers were invincible. The Liao people without war horses could not compete with the iron-armored cavalry who had already accelerated their charges. One Liao people after another were knocked away, fell to the ground, and finally they were stepped into meat mud by countless horse hooves.

Once the heavy cavalry charges, they can't even control themselves, so they can only rush forward and finally slow down slowly. Therefore, in order to avoid colliding with their own people during charge, when the cavalry of the heavy cavalry battalion charges, there are quite a distance between each row, and three cavalry forms a font shape.

When the heavy cavalry of the first row collided, the Liao people who escaped the disaster had to face the first row of cavalry immediately, followed by the third row and the fourth row. It was like a comb, sorting out the entire ten thousand Goguryeo people and clearing out several long blanks in the Liao army.

Facing such an iron cavalry, blocking it is to seek death. The only way to survive is to run, run separately, and the more you divide, the more hope you have. The more you want to rely on your life together, the more you will die first in the end. Only by running separately can you have a glimmer of hope.

Under Gao Guang's order, all the more than 10,000 Liao people completely dispersed. Anyway, everyone had only one goal, to run across the Xiao Liao River, and then there was a glimmer of hope. The soldiers of the army were completely lost and had already lost their formation. In this open area, if they had to compete with the Sui army that had already been waiting for their work and were waiting for the formation, they would really be seeking death.

The heavy cavalry is a fatal blow. With such troops, even if the Goguryeo people are afraid of death, they can only be flattened without any suspense. Without turning back or turning, these heavy cavalry are like devils in hell, rushing forward and rushing forward. In the end, when the war horses are exhausted, they will gradually slow down automatically and stop.

At this time, if a soldier surrounded the iron-armored cavalry, then the invincible existence just now would soon become a slaughter. However, the Sui army always treated heavy-armored cavalry as the ace and the treasure among the treasures.

When the heavy cavalry completely defeated the Liao army and defeated it, the light cavalry that had already been waiting on the side was dispatched. The light cavalry did not have the violent assault ability of the heavy cavalry, but was lighter and more flexible, and lasted for a longer time.

At this time, the battalion of light cavalry that was chasing from the city had arrived. They roared past one by one, took a bow and arrow, and began to harvest the Liao people who were running desperately. Four thousand light cavalry chased tens of thousands of Liao infantry and began a long pursuit.

The light cavalry did not fight with the Liao people, but kept driving the Liao people to run desperately with bows and arrows. Once the Liao people tried to gather together, teams of light cavalry would immediately pay attention to them. The long arrows, crossbow arrows, horizontal swords, and rifles would make these Liao people no longer have the intention of resisting.

With a loud bang, rows of torches suddenly lit up in the night east. Thousands of infantry had already set up a huge defensive formation of Yanyue, blocking everyone's way. The surprise soldiers held large shields, spears in front, jumping soldiers held horizontal swords, battle axes in the middle, bowmen and crossbow soldiers were behind, covering hundreds of small catapults in rows. With the loud bang just now, a catapults threw a twenty-pound bomb bag out.

After the first explosive pack exploded among the Liao soldiers, one by one, one explosive pack after another kept throwing out, and in the dark, one gorgeous spark after another rose. The Sui cavalry who chased behind had stopped chasing at this time. They formed a wide encirclement formation far to the west, surrounding the Liao soldiers and horses.

"One hundred and sixty steps, crossbowman is ready!"

"put!"

After the catapults, bed crossbows, Fuyuan crossbows and other large equipment controlled by the engineer battalion attacked, the crossbows were not willing to let the enemy down. They held the crossbows one by one, and began to shoot without hesitation after the enemy soldiers were at a range of 160 steps.

More and more Sui troops were coming from the direction of Xincheng, Hu Hai arrived, Li Shimin and Li Xuanba also arrived. Except for Guo Xiaoke's heavy cavalry, there were no power to fight again at this time, other soldiers and horses surrounded him.

Like a copper wall, they began to form a neat attack array, with shields in front, spears in the middle, and crossbows behind, constantly pushing forward. They continuously compressed and compressed the Liao soldiers and horses, and then advanced towards the infantry defense position that Chen Kefu personally ruled.

One Liao people after another fell down without sympathy or hesitation. On the battlefield, either you die or I die. Today I feel ruthless with these Liao people, and maybe it will be their turn to raise the butcher knife to themselves tomorrow.

"Sixty steps! The archer is ready!"

"put!"

Another sound came out, and there was no sound in the sound.

"Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!"

Thousands of feather arrows flew out of the Sui army's positions, penetrated the Liao people one by one, and nailed them to the ground.

The Liao people collapsed, and the Gao Guang collapsed. No matter how brave the general was, he would be unable to bear the massacre that kept falling down.

The smoke of gunpowder still spread on the battlefield, especially the pungent smell of gunpowder after the explosive pack exploded, which lasted for a long time. The ground was full of corpses, all over the place, even layered. The blood had already dyed the soil red, and the burned flags were thrown to the ground at will.
To be continued...