Chapter 236 The Blood of the Compatriots

At dawn, the first vanguard of the central army commanded by Wende of Goguryeo, Thousand-man battalion, arrived at the east of Liaodong City.

There were not many people afterwards, the second thousand-man team, the third thousand-man team, the fourth thousand-man team... Until the 100th thousand-man team arrived at the battlefield, there were still troops behind them that had not arrived.

The countless torches illuminated the entire east of Liaodong City, with sparks dotted like stars.

In the mist of the morning light, you can clearly see the boundless Liao soldiers and horses like a sea of ​​black water. There are a total of 120 Goguryeo war soldiers and 1,000 teams, and there are 300 logistics civilians and 1,000 teams behind.

In addition, there were twenty cavalry teams of Shiwei people, twenty infantry teams of Baekje, and the fewest people from the Hei Shui Mohe, and only ten cavalry teams of ten thousand people came. Originally, Jueluo from the Hei Shui Mohe was dispatched this time, bringing 30,000 old and weak people to Liaodong. However, after they looted the Sumoshui tribe on the road, they also attracted Sumoshui, Sui army, and Khitan coalition forces, and finally fought between Baishui and Hei Shui.

Gao Jianwu was attacked by Daliang River, and everyone in Goguryeo thought it was done by Hei Shui Mo. In desperation, Jueluo had to send his son Huang Ge to join him and explain to Gao Jianwu to prove their innocence.

There are 470 thousand-person teams in the east and 40 thousand-person teams in the south. The Goguryeo Alliance reached 510 thousand-person teams, with a total force of 510 thousand-person teams, and although there are only 210,000 war soldiers among them. However, this number is also the largest gathering of soldiers of all races in Liaodong, east and west, and Haidong.

The Goguryeo Alliance Army had 510,000 soldiers, 210,000 soldiers, and 300,000 auxiliary soldiers. The Liaodong Sui army had 160,000 soldiers and 300,000 civilians.

The two sides seemed to have equal strengths, but in fact, the Sui army had only about 130,000 soldiers, of which 30,000 elite soldiers had been on the battlefield, 60,000 trained soldiers, and the remaining nearly 40,000 were only trained for one month, and they had not even killed anyone and had seen bloody new recruits.

The Sui army soldiers at the head of Liaodong were all watching the Liao army in Goguryeo. Everyone couldn't help but hold their breath and felt heavy in their hearts. There were tens of thousands of people, endless, and there were fifty-one tens of thousands here, which was even more endless. In the mist of the morning light, the Liao army was crowded with people, and countless military flags were flying.

This is the biggest showdown between the Central Plains dynasty and the tribes in Liaodong and western Liaoning. It is a peak showdown! In the past, the Sui army fought against the Turks, Khitans, and Xi people. In recent years, it has been fighting against the Goguryeo people. But every time, it is basically a one-on-one war, and even other tribes have to stand on the side of the Sui army and send tens of thousands of people to help the battle.

But this time it was different. This time, except for the Turks and Xi tribes who were unwilling to participate and the Khitan Dahe clan could not come, all the other surrounding tribes could come.

Except for the two major tribes near the Central Plains and Hebei, the other tribal kingdoms in Liaodong and western Liaoning have been involved in this battle. The Great Sui Dynasty, Goguryeo, Khitan, Mohe, Shiwei, Baekje, Silla, and Japan, this is a decisive battle involving the eight major regimes.

If the Sui army was victorious, then Goguryeo would inevitably perish from then on, and Baekje would definitely not escape the destruction. As for the Khitan Dahe family, Shi Wei, and Hei Shui Moe who sent troops to the alliance, they would definitely not be able to escape the revenge of the Great Sui on them. Even Japan, who was far away from the sea, would still be revenge by the Great Sui.

Yizhi Wende had the experience of annihilation of 300,000 Sui army, so no one in the coalition was dissatisfied with his command.

"Okay, since everyone believes in this commander, I will take it as the general manager. Now that our army has arrived, it is time to be full of energy. We should take this opportunity to attack the city in one fell swoop. Even if we can't capture it today, we can still show the momentum of our coalition."

There is a saying that what the Yizhi did not say was that they had already received the news that the Sui Dynasty sent the general Zhang Xutuo to support him. Seeing that there was still half a month left, Sui reinforcements were about to arrive. In order to avoid the night dream, he of course hoped that the sooner the attack, the better.

On October 16th, the mist in the morning light had not yet dissipated, but the Goguryeo coalition had already begun to roar the drums and horns, and the sound was as loud as thunder! Countless soldiers and horses were roaring and screaming, heading towards Liaodong City.

There was no order of attack or formation. The Goguryeo coalition launched an attack from Liaodong City in all directions!

The offense has begun!

The Liaodong City had already sounded the alarm when the Liao people began to blew the horn of attack. Except for retaining the cavalry and one-third of the war soldiers, all the troops were transferred to the city walls all around.

The mist in the morning light seemed to be blown away by the coalition forces that rushed towards the wildly. The Sui soldiers at the top of the city were surprised to find that the entire city was covered with soldiers and horses that were rushing like tides. What surprised them even more was that these tide-like soldiers and horses that rushed in front had no armor, but they just carried a spear or a scimitar in their hands, and rushed up in a tattered robe.

They were in a team of more than ten people, carrying crude ladders and running continuously.

"Isn't this a coalition soldier? If this is a coalition soldier, then we don't have to be afraid of 200,000 or 500,000, and we will still be wiped out." Li Shimin stood there, looking at the crowd of people who generally only had a simple weapon in surprise.

"No, these are not coalition soldiers, these are slaves of the Goguryeo people. The other party wants to use these slaves to consume our arrows and the strength of the soldiers." Li Jie said calmly that when siege the city, driving the slaves into the vanguard can not only consume the defending materials of the defending army, but also greatly consume the physical strength of the defending army. No matter how strong the archer is, he will lose his strength even if he shoots twenty arrows. When the physical strength of the defending army is almost done, the regular troops will be dispatched.

Chen Kefu said coldly, "There are not many soldiers and horses in the city of Liaodong, but our equipment and supplies are as numerous as mountains. He drove all the slaves of the Goguryeo to be the front army, and I will kill them all!"

However, what everyone expected was that the Goguryeo slaves stopped when they rushed to five or six hundred steps away from the city. Another drum sounded like thunder, and the slaves suddenly leaned to both sides in the fog, giving up a wide passage.

With the attention of all the soldiers on the city, another batch of slaves were driven out, but these slaves were all bare-handed. They had no weapons, but each of them carried a lot of earth bags. These people were responsible for filling the city-shadowing gorges around Liaodong City.

A Dahao Gully, which was three zhang wide and ten zhang deep, was dug around Liaodong City. Later, after Chen Kefu took over Liaodong City, he mobilized hundreds of thousands of civilians to widen and deepen the Haogou. It changed from three zhang wide to ten zhang wide and two zhang deep, and it completely turned into a dry river.

In order to improve his defense, he also asked the people from the engineering battalion to command the civilians to build many stakes at the bottom of the river. After the final achievements, the engineers simply dug a ditch from the nearby river company to attract the river water, turning the entire moat into a moat. Ten feet wide and two feet deep, the siege could not go without filling it.

There were tens of thousands of slaves carrying sand and soil bags. Driven by teams of Liao soldiers, they had to come down to the city of Liaodong under the spears and scimitars of spears and scimitars.

"Don't shoot arrows, don't shoot arrows, we are from Sui!"

"Don't shoot arrows, I'm the Sui Army!"

The slaves got closer and closer, and many people kept crying at the defenders on the city.

"Master, it seems that he is really a Sui person!" Li Benlei said in a deep voice.

"Don't shoot arrows, it's your own people, your own people!" Crying and wailing kept coming from the city. Chen Kefu and other generals watched carefully. These slaves who spoke Chinese in the Central Plains were indeed all like Han people, and these people spoke Chinese very fluently. Especially these *** were all young and strong men, not as weak as old people.

Li Jie had a gloomy face and was afraid of others. He said angrily, "Master, these must be the more than 40,000 captured soldiers of our army during the second conquest of Liao. These shameless Goguryeo people actually used such tricks."

With the Goguryeo people stabbed spears, scimitars, and arrows, tens of thousands of Sui prisoners had entered the range of the Sui army.

"Master, what should I do?" The generals said hesitantly. The following were brothers of the Central Plains and fellow comrades in the army. They were captured because of their defeat and were driven to block the moat. No one could order an attack on them. If they were not killed, they began to block the moat under the pressure of the Liao people.

The military police officers and soldiers wearing black armor on the top of the city and red armbands on their arms were already starting to supervise the battle.

"Shoot the arrows, the enemy has entered the range! Start shooting arrows! You can't let them fill the moat like this!" One military police after another began to roar at the archers and crossbowmen on the top of the city.

But the archers, crossbowmen and engineers on the top of the city who had always feared the black-clothed military police like tigers were all hesitant. Those under the city were their compatriots, how could they deal with them? Most of the soldiers guarding the city were newly joined in Liaodong. A few months ago, they were just a group of ordinary farmers. Although many of them had also taken war horses and killed people, on the battlefield, either you die or I die. They were not ruthless in the face of those foreign tribes, but now facing a group of compatriots, they hesitated.
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