Dark Clouds Crush the City

Chen Kefu looked at him, and sure enough, amid the sound of drums and horns over and over again, the siege troops in the west finally began to attack.

The first person to appear were the dozens of long archers in the square formation. Such a large number of archers lined up in a square formation, which was the first time Chen Kefu saw it.

These archers are all infantry soldiers, and the bows they use are infantry longbows, which are different from the light bows they use by their cavalry. This bow is larger and harder, and requires a lot of effort to pull it open, and the arrows shot out can also be farther away.

With the command of the generals of each array, all the archers slapped their bows and arrows, and a sound of pulling the bowstrings came. Only dozens of majestic voices were heard shouting, "Let's go!"

A roar came, and ten thousand archers of archers fired arrows together, and bursts of sounds of breaking through the air came, and hundreds of thousands of arrow feathers rushed straight to the head of Liaodong. The eyes of Chen Kefu and other generals moved with the arrow rain. The hundreds of thousands of sharp arrows formed an invisible dark cloud in the air. Even the sun on their heads was blocked in an instant, and the whole sky became dark.

Chen Kefu opened his mouth and looked at the scene in front of him with some tremor. The rain of arrows, the real rain of arrows, was endless and filled the world. The Great Sui Dynasty, this is the Great Sui Dynasty. In this world, only the Great Sui Dynasty can shoot 100,000 long bowmen at one time. This arrow is shot out, which is 100,000 arrows. How much does it cost? How many craftsmen will take to make it.

The rain of arrows that made Liaodong City dark seemed to have been flying in the air for a long time, and even made Chen Kefu feel that it had been almost ten minutes, but in fact, this was just a matter of coming in a flash.

Even the Goguryeo people in Liaodong City had never seen such a rain of arrows before. Although the experienced generals soon discovered the situation and shouted that few soldiers raised their shields, the Sui army fired too many arrows, which was like rain, shot from the Sui army array under the city into the sky, and then roared from the heads of the Goguryeo people with the sound of wind.

Apart from the large iron shields, ordinary wooden shields cannot block such rain of arrows, and those small round shields such as small shields have no effect at all. The soldiers held the shields and folded their heads and exposed themselves. Under such dense rain of arrows, they were completely indiscriminate attacks. Anywhere exposed to the shields will be immediately filled with ruthless arrows, ruthlessly taking away the lives of Goguryeo soldiers.

Chen Kefu turned his head and looked at the generals around him. From generals to knights, all the broken military camps opened their mouths and looked at everything in front of them. It was so shocking, this was the thunder.

Mr. Li Benlei's eyes were full of excitement, and he clenched his fists and said excitedly, "Photo good, shoot again, continue shooting, and shoot these Goguryeo barbarians and bitches. Shoot them to death, shoot them all to death, and leave no one."

Wang Lin, the military counselor, recently moved up to the third level, from the eighth level to the seventh level. At this time, he was also wearing armor and stood behind Chen Kefu and the others. He looked at the arrow rain, whose storm had changed color in front of him, and said happily, "We got these arrows from Xincheng. If we hadn't brought a large number of arrows from Xincheng last time, they wouldn't have made a scene of 100,000 people shooting volleys. There was a contribution from us. Shoot quickly, it would be better to shoot all the Goguryeo people to death directly. We will definitely be able to share a great contribution, and maybe we can get rewards again." Wang Lin is extremely interested in the contributions now, and he wishes that all the contributions were from them who broke into the military camp.

One wave passed, another wave continued immediately, and the defenders on the top of the Goguryeo were suppressed by such a rain of arrows and could not even move. If you move casually, a body that was not exposed accidentally would be filled with feathered arrows.

When the archer phalanx launched an attack, the infantry siege that had been waiting for a long time later started to attack. These infantrymen took advantage of the great opportunity of the Goguryeo being suppressed and rushed towards the city wall to the west in teams.

In the past, Chen Kefu watched TV movies. When the war came to the siege, there were basically just a few routines. The soldiers carried the cloud ladder and rushed to the city wall with sacrificial sacrificial slaves, and began to climb up the city wall forcibly. There were other soldiers who had just pushed a huge crash, covered it with shields, rushed towards the city gate, and used a crash to hit the city gate. Another advanced one was to get a row of catapults, throw stones, fireballs and the like in the back. Apart from these, he didn't really find out that there were other routines in siege.

But at this moment, the Sui army's siege army opened Chen Kefu's eyes. He finally saw the situation of the ancient siege. He was really shocked. The Sui army's siege equipment was too many, all kinds, and many, and even Chen Kefu's name could not be called. Cloud ladders like this can only be regarded as the simplest entry-level siege equipment. Chen is also a siege tower wrapped in thick raw cowhide armor and can move. This is called a siege tower in front of the siege car, a large thick pillar is erected diagonally above the pillar, with an iron head on it, and the leverage power can be used to destroy the female wall on the enemy's city wall.

This type of rushing car is huge, about four or five floors high, and there are huge wheels installed below, which looks like a moving artillery tower, about dozens of meters high, which is simply a huge siege tower. What impresses this kind of rushing car is that it is erected high and used to hit the female wall of the city wall, which is very long and very thick. According to Mr. Li Benlei, this type of rushing car is fifteen meters long, which is 40 meters long.

There were more than one Sui army like this, and it was lined up in a row. As many as a hundred of them were pushed to the city of Liaodong under the courageous push of a group of soldiers. As soon as they arrived at the city of Liaodong, the soldiers and guards of the palace were all biting their knives, and they began to crawl towards the platform on the roof of the car as if they were injected with chicken blood.

Chen Le rushed to the car and followed closely behind the ladder. He was surrounded by soldiers from the Sui army, pushing some larger guys out. This big guy called Feilou is basically taller than Liaodong City. There are eight large wheels under the big guy, and the flying building is covered with wooden boards, and the outside is covered with a layer of raw cowhide. The outside is all covered with water. Not only are he not afraid of the bow and arrow attacks of the defending army, but he is not even afraid of rocket attacks.

To put it bluntly, this kind of big guy is like the gangway of the plane. As long as you push it under the city wall and lean towards the head of the city, the soldiers below will have an attack slope that can run four or five people in parallel. Such big guys are really luxurious and luxurious compared to the simple tool of the cloud ladder that will be pushed down by the enemy by accident.

However, flying towers also have disadvantages. First, this kind of big guy moves too slowly, and even a little road from the Sui Formation to the city wall will take a long time to get there. Second, it is difficult to make flying towers. Not only does it require various materials, but it is also very time-consuming. The Sui army has been besieging Liaodong for nearly a month, and it has not been made until today. These big guys are still unable to transport them, and they basically have to be made on the spot when used up. They cannot be taken away after using them. They are pure disposable consumables and are also expensive. It is not a national siege war like the Sui Dynasty, so such big guys cannot be used at all.

Hundreds of people were guarding a flying building, with shields on the outside protecting each other, and those in the middle were all selected strong men. Every time they went further, everyone shouted "Hey, hey" and shouted.

In addition to the upgraded version of the flying tower of the cloud ladder, the Sui army launched a row of big guys behind the formation. These guys are very similar to the previous flying tower, and are also taller than the city wall, and the same is driven by eight large wheels. But this big guy looks more like a tall building, and this big guy is called Yunlou. At the top of the Yunlou, there is also a platform. A cloud building can accommodate one hundred archers. The function of these cloud buildings is to transport the Sui army's archers to the near the city wall, so that the archers on the Yunlou can shoot directly from above the city wall and the defenders in the city.

In this way, the Sui army with Yunlou could completely suppress the Goguryeo defenders with archers. Such strategic weapons were also limited to the disadvantages of high cost, high time-consuming, and slow movement during combat.

These cloud towers are not all the siege equipment of the Sui army. In addition, conventional essential weapons such as catapults are naturally indispensable in the Sui army. With the efforts of teams of camel horses and auxiliary soldiers, rows of catapults were also pulled in front of the formation, and soon the Sui army's auxiliary soldiers and civilians brought stone bullets. The stone bullets were all large stones weighing dozens of kilograms and polished into round shapes.

In addition to most of the catapults projecting stone bombs, a small number of catapults cast clay pots, which were filled with oil. The Sui army had already stuffed cloth at the mouth of the clay pot. When the fire was lit, it would be thrown into the city, which would cause great damage to the defenders.

In addition to Xicheng, the three gates of the southeast, north and south, the Sui army also sent 50,000 people to attack, and the main force was placed at the West Gate. Although the Goguryeo people could see at a glance that the Sui army was mainly attacking Xicheng, they could not transfer all the troops of the other three cities to Xicheng, because the other three cities were also facing the fierce attack of the 50,000 Sui army.

The archers of the Sui army had fired ten waves of arrow rain. In just a short time, millions of feather arrows had been shot. With this cup of tea, the Sui army's cloud ladders, rushing cars, and crashing cars had all rushed to the city. Feilou and Yunlou had reached a place not far from the city wall. Even the catapults had been pushed to the front of the formation and calibrated. As long as you test the shooting, these catapults could take over the suppression mission of the archers.

After all, the power of the volley of 100,000 archers is indeed unparalleled in the world, but the consumption of the arrows is also unparalleled on the ground. Such a rain of arrows can only win some time for the siege troops in front and gain the initiative, but it is impossible to keep shooting.
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