Chapter 244 One Day Food

Starting from October 18, the Ninth Year of Daye, the Goguryeo Alliance began a new stage of siege on Liaodong City.

The coalition commanders of the Marceli, Shiwei, Baekje and other tribes began to find various excuses to not participate in the war every time when Goguryeo mentioned joint siege. For all tribes, they had lost too many troops in this battle of Liaodong. If they didn't make any sense, they had already made up their minds and would never send one soldier or one soldier to participate in the siege. The reason why they continued to stay at the city of Liaodong and did not go back to their own houses was because they felt that Liaodong City could not be defended. It was naturally for the wealth in the first fortress in Liaodong.

The Goguryeo people, who had lost the support of various tribes and had only more than 80,000 soldiers left, began to change their siege strategies. In the next siege, the Goguryeo people could no longer be rich and powerful. They formulated one precise siege plan after another, and each time the siege was very remarkable. There would never be any waste of troops. Each time, 20,000 to 30,000 people attacked the city, and basically all three sides were feinted and attacked on the front. The real and real, real and virtual, and they continued to carry out night attacks, small troops stealing the city.

After the precedent of the Sui army using tunnels to invade Liaodong City, the Goguryeo people sent a large number of slaves and began to dig tunnels. However, for the Sui army in the city, how could they be unprepared for the Liaodong City that they captured in this way?

The engineer battalion has the most professional tunnel digging personnel, and they are also proficient in tunnel defense. The city had already made preparations before the war. There were already deep trenches at the foot of the city walls in the city, and even a large number of urns were buried at the foot of the four walls in the city. By listening to the urn, you can accurately listen to the situation underground.

Whether the Goguryeo people dig small tunnels or large tunnels, they could not hide the Sui army's eyes. Every time they dug the tunnels, they were either bows and arrows or flooded by the Sui army. After digging the tunnels countless times, it took a lot of manpower. The Goguryeo people not only did not make any progress, but instead suffered losses of soldiers and generals and drew thousands of troops.

The Goguryeo people could not attack, but they were worried that the Sui army would send cavalry to raid the coalition camp like last time. So, the civil servants and slaves spread fortifications under the Liaodong city day and night. Around the Liaodong city, the Goguryeo people dug dozens of moats. Not only that, countless ground thorns, deer feet, trapped horse pits, and resisted horses, spread throughout the entire Liaodong city.

Moreover, in order not to let the Sui army in the city rest, Yizhi Wende and Gao Jianwu formulated a complete harassment plan. The coalition forces of the four tribes, including the Marine clan, were divided into three teams, and every night, they took 50,000 slaves to the city of Liaodong to beat gongs and drums, and shouted.

Moreover, in order to achieve better results, Gao Jianwu and Yizhi Wende, who were old and treacherous, would arrange small troops of 10,000 or 20,000 people to be caught among the harassing troops, and would change from harassment to real siege every now and then. In short, they just didn't give the Sui army some time to rest.

During the day, Gao Jianwu's troops would launch a routine attack, sometimes just one or two attacks, and sometimes they would concentrate tens of thousands of troops to launch a strong attack. However, for the Sui army at this time, the failure of the Goguryeo coalition army's siege since the first day was equivalent to announcing the failure of the entire coalition army's siege.

After replenishing some of the troops, the Goguryeo, who had only 100,000 troops left, was not taken seriously by the Sui army. Although the Sui army had only 80,000 troops left, the Sui army's equipment was still sufficient. Although most of the various crossbows were lost on the first day, there were still a large number of brand new equipment in the warehouse.

With this large number of advanced equipment, the Sui army stood firm in the city. The Goguryeo people also had firm confidence. Through this new strategy, they continued to eliminate the physical strength and will of the defenders in the city.

On the night of October 25, there was no light on the gloomy night, and I couldn't see my fingers. The Goguryeo people routinely dispatched tens of thousands of people to harass for more than three hours, and finally gradually retreated. Just when the defenders on the city thought that the annoying harassment today was finally over, Ezhi Wende and Gao Jianwu sent 50,000 soldiers to the city with thousands of ladders.

After nearly half a month of harassment, the Sui army on the city was indeed exhausted. It was only when a small Goguryeo vanguard had touched the city. The soldier who had just arrived and shouted was killed.

The Goguryeo people who touched the city wall kept guarding the city head tightly. Dozens of ladders were laid on the city wall, and teams of elite Goguryeo warriors kept jumping up from there. More and more Goguryeo people climbed to the city head, and soon hundreds of people came to the city head.

According to the Goguryeo people's expectations, they have succeeded this time.

However, God did not let them succeed. Although they occupied a section of the city, in order to deal with the sudden situation, Chen Kefu had already arranged a large number of soldiers on the city. Almost every one or two hundred meters, one or two teams of soldiers and hundreds of civilians would be on the city. These people were not on duty, but Chen Kefu arranged half of the city's troops to take turns sleeping on the city every day.

In this way, one-quarter of people on duty on the entire city every day, two-quarters sleep on the city, and only the remaining one-quarter will take turns to sleep under the city to rest.

During the battle, these soldiers and civilians in poor clothes did not have to run up to the city from the city. They got up and joined the battle. After more than half a month, Chen Kefu asked the civilians in the city to strengthen the shooting of crossbows while guarding the city. With the craftsmen in the city working day and night, the Sui army had countless simple versions of crossbows. These simple versions of crossbows have a shorter lifespan and a higher fault law, but at this price, they can produce standard accessories in large quantities and flowing water, and then quickly assembled by the civilians.

In half a month, this shoddy simple single-shot crossbow made a total of 100,000. In addition to the crossbows in the original instrument warehouse, all the people in the entire Liaodong city, except for the craftsmen and doctors who worked in the city, were basically all in hand. Even the chefs who delivered food to the defenders on the top of the city carried one with them.

Flashes of crossbow rains followed by continuous shooting down the Goguryeo people who came up on the city. The more they went up, the more they died. Amid the rapid alarm bells, more and more Sui soldiers arrived without having to fight close together. Although this simple crossbow with a range of only thirty or forty steps away, it could allow the weakest Sui military and civilians to kill the most powerful Goguryeo warrior in an instant.

The Goguryeo people prepared for a few days to attack the city today, and all the troops that went to the city first were the strongest soldiers. Moreover, for the sake of concealment, these Goguryeo people were all wearing black clothes, and in order not to make a sound, they did not wear iron armor.

The Goguryeo, who were only wearing black clothes, carrying swords but without armor, shields, and even a large number of bows and arrows, fell one by one under the rain of crossbow arrows of the Sui army. The other Sui army rushed directly poured buckets of oil into the city, threw down torches, and the raging fire ignited. The Goguryeo people who had not yet attacked the city had to retreat.

The soldiers and horses on the head of the Goguryeo city that had lost the support of the follow-up troops became alone when they completed it. When the heavy infantry troops wearing heavy armor arrived at the head of the city, there was no suspense in the entire battle. One after another, the Goguryeo people were either cut into two sections by a modao or were directly driven off the head of the city.

By dawn, all the Goguryeo people who climbed to the city were finally wiped out. The remaining Goguryeo people retreated back to Liuhe City when they saw the siege failed, leaving only nearly 5,000 corpses under the Liaodong City.

This night attack was the closest success that the Goguryeo people had after the failure of the first day of the siege. Nearly 4,000 people climbed up to each section of the city walls. However, under the strong attack of the Sui army, they finally returned in vain.

Seeing that the plan that had been carefully prepared for a long time failed, Gao Jianwu and Yizhi Wende both looked bad and felt a little bad. Through this night attack, they obviously felt a very bad signal. The Sui army in the city not only did not become weaker and weaker in the siege, but seemed to be getting stronger and stronger.

"Prince, see if you can come forward and invite Tie An, Fuyuzhang, and Huang Ge to discuss it. The siege has been delayed for too long, and the matter is beyond our estimate. If you drag on it, I am afraid that the reinforcements of the Sui army will arrive, and then you and I will be more difficult."

It has been eleven days since the first day of siege. In these eleven days, they have siege cities, big and small, virtually and in real terms, and have siege dozens of times, but except for the increase of more than 10,000 losses, there was no progress. When they first arrived, they already knew that a army of the Sui army was coming quickly and could arrive in about half a month.

Eighteen days have passed now, which means that they only have four or five days to attack the city at most. If they can't conquer then, they will face a Sui army supported by a strong reinforcements. Originally, he thought that Goguryeo could capture the Liaodong city alone, but now it seems impossible. At this time, he could no longer care about the ridicule and ridicule of the barbarians. They still had more than 20,000 elite troops in their hands, which was a new force that had been recuperating for more than ten days.

Gao Jianwu nodded, "I will talk to them later. Taking Goguryeo is good for all of us. If we can't take Goguryeo City, we will not only be unlucky for our Goguryeo family. I believe they will know how to choose."

A burst of rapid footsteps sounded, and a soldier broke in without reporting. Yizhi Wende was furious, "If you don't report, you trespass into the commander's tent, this is a death sentence, and you drag it out to behead you!" In addition to anger, he couldn't help but wonder whether it was because the siege had not made any progress recently, and even the people below began to neglect him.

The man was held down by several guards and kept struggling, "Master, I have an urgent military situation to report to you. Because the matter is urgent, I forgot the rules for a while. Please spare my life!"

Yizhi Wende reached out to stop the guards and said coldly, "Say, what kind of emergency military situation is it!"

"Master, there is no food in the army!" the man said tremblingly.

Eji Moonde, who had just picked up a glass of water and was shocked. He didn't hold any of the cups in his hand and fell to the ground, falling into seven or eight pieces. The tea in the cup also splashed up, wetting his boots.

But at this time, there was no mood to care about these people anymore. Echi Wende screamed in surprise, "What did you say!"

The person who came to report was the logistics officer. At this time, his face was as pale as paper and he whispered, "Master, there is no food in the army, and the whole army will be out of food tomorrow."

Gao Jianwu's face turned white at this time, and food was the life of the army. Now they surrounded the city of Liaodong. They had not done anything about the enemy in the city, but instead the people who surrounded the city had no food first. This matter sounded like a laugh.

"Impossible. Before the army set off, His Majesty had mobilized enough food from all over the south to transport it to the domestic city and Wugu City. When we set off, we brought the army's food for one month, and later arranged tens of thousands of civil servants to transport food to Liaodong City. How could there be no food tomorrow?" If this person had not been a real small officer, he would have thought that all the military food had been swallowed up by the logistics officer.

The logistics officer said with a sad face, "Prince, when we set off, we did bring a month's food, but part of it was carried by the front army. The front army was attacked by the Sui army at night in the Daliang River, and all the food was burned. Later, after joining the army, they replenished enough food from the Central Army. As a result, the front army was ambushed by the Sui army in Xincheng, and the entire army was gone, and that part of the food was gone. After the Central Army arrived in Liaodong this time, it has been almost a month since then. In addition, the troops such as Marine, Shiwei, and Baekje also consumed our food, and all the food was consumed very much."

"And...and..." the logistics officer hesitated for a while before he said, "and if it weren't for the first time when he attacked Liaodong City, nearly 100,000 people died in that battle, and the food would have been too late to hold on to today."

Hearing this sentence, Wude Yizhi could no longer control himself, so he kicked the logistics officer aside and cursed angrily, "Can we wait for the soldiers in the army who have been born and died, in your eyes, have we become a group of people who can only eat?"

Gao Jianwu also said with a gloomy face, "Since the army is short of food, why don't you come to report before? You will not report until the food has been cut off?"

"Prince, Marshal, there should have been a batch of food in the army five days ago. But for some reason, it has not arrived yet. I saw that the two adults were not in good mood recently, so I didn't dare to report the news. I originally thought that it would always come after one or two days, but I never thought that I would wait day after day, but I didn't wait. Now that the army has run out of food and grass, the villain has to report it."

Such an important matter was not taken seriously by the logistics officer and was delayed again and again. The B-zhi had just suffered a great defeat, but was shocked and angry by the news.

"Train this commander to drag this man who missed the military plane out and dismember him!"

After the person couldn't drag it out, Gao Jianwu said with a worried look on his face, "Master, what should I do now?"

This side could not conquer the city continuously, but the coalition troops sat on the wall to watch. Seeing that the Sui army's reinforcements were about to arrive, they actually had no food. And they were so cut off so simply that they didn't even have food for tomorrow.

There are more than 300,000 soldiers and horses under the entire Liaodong city, and this day there are more than 300,000 mouths. If there is no food, how can we get the strength to fight? If one is not good, it will be over. Now they have to consider not only how to take over Liaodong city, but maybe they will starve to death in Liaodong city.

At this time, Gao Jianwu couldn't help but admire Chen Pojun in Liaodong City. He actually used such a ruthless move to fight against the stalkers and clear the world. After breaking all the nearby cities, he confiscated all the food.

The Goguryeo soldiers who fought in their local area had to come from thousands of miles away to use food.

"The food in all the nearby cities was stolen by the Sui army. The city closest to us was still east of Daliang River. Even the fastest horse would take three days, let alone transporting grain back and forth. What's more important is that the cities near Daliang River did not supply enough food for 300,000 people." Yizhi Wende was also sweating profusely at this time.

A clever wife cannot cook without rice. Even if he is known as the God of War and the God of War, he cannot lead the army without food.

At this time, the two of them felt that they were in a dilemma. Even if they were to withdraw their troops now, it would be too late. It would take at least three days to arrive at the nearest Goguryeo controlled area, and there would be no enough food for so many people to eat within three days. No matter how far they were, they could not go so far. At that time, their hundreds of thousands of people were the biggest jokes in the world, and they had starved themselves to death. Throughout history, only those trapped in the city starved to death, and they had never heard of the besieged people starving to death.

Long-lasting silence!

"There is only one way to make the plan today!" Eji Wende said in a low voice.

Gao Jianwu nodded, and he also knew what Yizhi meant, "This is the only way. There are millions of stones of food and grass in Liaodong City. Not to mention 300,000 people, even 3 million people are enough. Now, only by taking the Liaodong City can we save 300,000 lives."

"The news of the food outage must be strictly observed. We must not let other soldiers in the army know. Prince, please immediately dispatch a team of troops to lock up all the personnel in the logistics camp. In addition, we must invite Tie An, Fuyuzhang, Huang Ge and others to discuss. If you conquer Liaodong City, everyone will have food to eat, but you can't conquer. Everyone is waiting to be a starving ghost!"

The two frowned, with deep fear in their eyes. In the current situation, even if they killed all the war horses in the army to feed, they would not be able to support them for a few days. And it would be too difficult to win the Liaodong City in just a few days!
Chapter completed!