Chapter 573 Attacking Beishe

Chapter 573 Attacking Beishe

Chapter 573 Attacking Beishe
"Fire!" the commanding general shouted.

Twenty catapults simultaneously launched twenty ignited iron fire mines towards the city gate.

The gates of Beishe City are two zhang high. They are two huge pine wood doors. The material is very ordinary, but thick and easy to select. There are pine trees several zhang high everywhere. If a wooden door is broken, it is very convenient to replace it with a new one.

Of course, it would not be wrapped with iron sheets. Pig iron was a luxury for Goguryeo, so how could it be used to cover iron doors? Of course, there was no such technology.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The thirty-jin iron fire bombs were all equipped with sharp long spikes. Twenty iron mines were nailed heavily on the wooden door. After just a moment, "Boom!" There was a series of loud noises, thick smoke rose into the sky, deafening, and the entire city wall was shaking.

Thirty thousand Sui army soldiers covered their ears one after another, the soldiers on the city walls were shaken to the ground, and the five hundred crossbowmen directly above were almost all knocked unconscious.

In just a moment, the Goguryeo soldiers shouted in fear, each of them screaming at the top of their lungs. It was the first time they encountered this kind of weapon, and they were terrified, thinking it was a bolt of thunder from the sky.

The thick smoke gradually dissipated, and the city gate had disappeared, with shattered pieces of wood everywhere.

"Kill!"

Luo Shixin shouted and led 10,000 Sui troops to attack the city.

The remaining 20,000 Sui troops remained motionless. This was not a county town, but a military city. Although it was a large military city, it could not accommodate 30,000 people. Moreover, there were defensive weapons above. If they rushed into the city, they would easily be shot down by the arrows shot by the soldiers on the waist of the city.

"Dang! Ding! Ding!" The alarm bells rang in the city. The foot city had been lost, and the Goguryeo soldiers on the city wall rushed to the waist city from both sides of the wall.

At this time, hundreds of burning straw balls were thrown down from above, and the tents in the foot city were set on fire, and a sea of ​​fire suddenly ignited.
The Sui army soldiers were well prepared. When the fireball fell from the mountain, Luo Shixin immediately ordered a retreat, and the 10,000-strong army quickly retreated out of the city.

The first thousand soldiers who rushed into the city also climbed onto the city wall. Although there was a raging fire inside the city, the city wall was far away from the mountain and the straw balls could not be thrown onto the wall, so it was relatively safe.

The city of Beishe soon turned into a sea of ​​fire.

Shen Guang led a hundred scouts to the top of the mountain. Although there was no way to go, as long as it was not a 90-degree cliff, any mountain road was a piece of cake for the hundred elite scouts, and they easily reached the top of the mountain.

Shen Guang said to his two men, "Go back and report quickly. We can go up the mountain now!"

The two soldiers went down the mountain, and Shen Guang and his men rushed to the top of the mountain.

Soon, the terrain ahead gradually rose, and a solid and tall stone wall appeared at the highest point. This was not a city wall that people could walk on, but just an ordinary stone wall, about fifteen feet high, made of rough large stones.

Shen Guang waved to his men and asked them to squat. He moved forward, observed for a moment, climbed up from the back corner, and soon climbed up the high wall. He stuck his head out to take a look and was immediately overjoyed. Inside the wall turned out to be the back wall of a row of warehouses. He waved to everyone and jumped into the high wall.

Hundreds of scouts followed, entering the high wall one after another.

The top floor is mainly occupied by warehouses, with a circle of stone warehouses built against the walls around it. In the middle is a large square filled with straw balls, thousands of them. There are five large catapults at the front, throwing the straw balls down to the foot of the mountain.

Shen Guang made a prompt decision, lit a fire starter and threw it into the straw pile, and the straw ball immediately caught fire.

He waved his hand and led everyone to the roof of the warehouse, raising crossbows to shoot at hundreds of soldiers operating catapults.

The soldiers screamed and fell to the ground one after another after being shot by arrows. More than a dozen soldiers lost their balance and fell off the cliff.

Soon, the top of the mountain turned into a sea of ​​fire.

Xiao Xia saw the fire at Dingcheng, which must be Shen Guang's success. At this time, two scouts came to report that they had reached the top of the mountain and there was a way to go. Xiao Xia immediately said to Wang Junkuo: "General Wang, you can lead 10,000 mountain soldiers up the mountain to capture Dingcheng!"

Wang Junkuo grew up in Taihang Mountains and was very good at climbing mountains and crossing ridges. This time he was appointed as the commander of the mountain army, commanding 10,000 mountain soldiers.

"I humbly obey my orders!"

Wang Junkuo then led 10,000 mountain soldiers and followed two scouts westward.

There was no more straw balls to replenish the city, and the fire in the city gradually died down. Xiao Xia shouted, "Beat the drums and attack the city!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The drums sounded, and Luo Shixin led 10,000 troops to attack the waist of the city along both ends of the city wall.

From the city wall upwards, there is a narrow mountain path about twenty feet long and only five feet wide. Arrows rain down from it, and logs and rocks keep falling down from it.

Three hundred Sui soldiers walked up the mountain step by step with difficulty, holding large shields. Soldiers were constantly hit by huge rocks and rolled down the mountain screaming.

They had only walked about 20 to 30 feet when a large number of burning straw balls suddenly rolled down from above, and the Sui army quickly retreated to the city wall.

The straw balls didn't burn for long, and the fire on the top of the city gradually died out.

Thousands of Goguryeo soldiers who had retreated to Yaocheng because of the fire had to return to Dingcheng, but they couldn't go up. The two narrow passages leading to Dingcheng were also blocked by Shen Guang and his men.

Arrows rained down from above. The Goguryeo soldiers were lying in the passage and could not raise their heads at all. If they raised their heads even a little, they would be shot in the head by an arrow.

"Charge forward with your shield!"

A Goguryeo general shouted from below: "They are few in number, kill them immediately."

Hundreds of Goguryeo soldiers charged upward with shields in their hands. Shen Guang lit an iron fire bomb and rolled down the stone steps. A moment later, the iron fire bomb exploded in the crowd. More than a dozen soldiers were blown away, and the rest fell on the stone steps, each of them was blown into a bloody mess.

The Iron Fire Thunder was indeed a divine weapon. The thousands of Goguryeo soldiers below were frightened. No one dared to charge upwards, and the mountain road became silent.

At this moment, there was a loud "bang" behind him, and a large part of the wall was blown down. Wang Junkuo led an army of 10,000 and rushed into the top city.

They are not here to defend the top of the city, but to attack from top to bottom.

Shen Guang ordered the warehouse to be opened and a large number of spears to be taken out. Each soldier held a spear and followed Wang Junkuo to rush down.

It was difficult to attack from the bottom up, but it was easy to attack from the top down. A large number of Sui soldiers rushed into Yaocheng.

There are five levels in the waist city, which go up one level at a time like stairs. There is a low wall built on the side of each level, which is about one mile long. It is more like five mountain roads than a waist city.

Nearly 20,000 Goguryeo soldiers were crowded on five narrow mountain roads. The Sui army attacked from above, killing the enemy and forcing them to retreat step by step. If they encountered stubborn resistance, they would throw a fire bomb at them, which would immediately blow up a large area, and the Goguryeo soldiers would be so scared that they would retreat in a panic.

In just a moment, the Sui army occupied the top layer of the waist city. Wang Junkuo looked down and saw that the passage below was crowded with Goguryeo soldiers. He saw that the wall on the side was as high as his chest. He immediately had a ruthless idea. He originally wanted to burn the enemy with fire, but now he changed his mind.

"Pass on my order, everyone come together to tear down the wall!"

(End of this chapter)