Chapter 438: Five thousand soldiers are not afraid of death
When the night came, the sound of artillery fire rang out again, and another 20,000 slave soldiers charged forward.
He was quickly repelled by artillery and the other party stopped moving again.
Li Xiaogong knew that the other party was testing, but he couldn't figure out what the other party was going to do?
After waiting for three days, through the telescope, Li Xiaogong finally saw the new rows of artillery appearing in the enemy formation.
The man ordered to rely on the telescope to count, and there were 4,000 doors, and even more.
"Where did this Goguryeo find such a large amount of iron?"
The entire territory of the Tang Dynasty was divided into less than ten thousand cannons, but there were two thousand gates in the Goguryeo City, and there were three thousand in his hand. It seemed that there should be more.
Li Xiaogong's question was quickly answered.
Eleven smiled bitterly and said, "What if there is iron ore in Goguryeo?"
Li Xiaogong was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly said: "Send a surprise soldier out of the city. If they really put on a good posture, we can't defend this city!"
There are quite a few generals under Li Xiaogong. If you want to talk about the famous one, it is Master Guo.
All three dynasties were from the Shangzhu Kingdom and the famous family in the Tang Dynasty.
"Master, the eleventh general, the last general is willing to take advantage of the night to lead the army out of the city, and wait until tomorrow when the other party is unprepared, and listen to the sound of cannons and attack them!"
Li Xiaogong picked up the token from the table, "Military orders are like mountains, do you dare to die?"
Master Guo replied: "As a native of the Tang Dynasty, death is the soul of the Tang Dynasty, the last general is never afraid of life and death!"
"catch!"
"Thank you, Marshal!"
"I can only give you five thousand people, and what you have to do must destroy the opponent's artillery array!"
"The last general will receive the order!"
The eleven pairs of Guo said, "Bring gunpowder with you, leave some thoughts for your brothers, and then you can go out of the city at night."
There is no doubt that death will occur when we go there, and there is no possibility of escaping for 5,000 to tens of thousands of people.
If it weren't for the fact that there were too few people, Li Xiaogong would probably not be willing to prepare even 5,000 people.
Master Guo received the order and retreated, and went to collect gunpowder and distributed it to the soldiers who were traveling to death.
The lead is right at the waist, and the torch dares not turn on lightly.
"Cut your hair!"
Pull out the knife, cut it off, and leave it to your comrades.
I hope they can bring their relics back to the Tang Dynasty and miss their close relatives at home. Unfortunately, the country and family hatred are ahead, so how can they be greedy for life and fear death?
There is only one battle!
One-sixth of the loss in an instant, which was even more a test for the Tang army.
To be honest, those tens of thousands of people can even pile up to death if they are in a hurry.
But the other general is not so impulsive. After all, if you really want to do this, there may not be many people who can survive in the Goguryeo.
The torch was lit, and Guo led his troops to leave Liaocheng in the dark, and walked around the path where they were before, waiting for the second day of the war to come.
Yuan Nansheng's three thousand artillery pieces were ready to attack and had already made plans to break through Liaocheng.
It took nearly a month to go, and my father probably thinks that his work is not good.
Yuan Nan’s birth did not want it, because a small Liao city affected his intention to seize the throne.
It should be noted that the war between the Tang Dynasty and Goguryeo has just begun.
Since Goguryeo can take down the Japanese island, it proves that the opponent's maritime troops are definitely not a small number, but they have not really taken action yet.
On the other hand, Li Shimin is also preparing.
All the workers of the Ministry of Works started to build ships and cannons, and tens of thousands of craftsmen were unable to stop day and night.
Li Shimin is waiting, and Yeon Gaisuwen is waiting, but the difference is that Yeon Gaisuwen is waiting for the opportunity.
The war in front continued to escalate, and Li Shimin in the rear had prepared 200,000 troops and the food and grass transferred from the country were enough to support the three-year battle of these 200,000 people!
However, Li Shimin didn't know that Yuan Gaisuwen was more prepared than him.
The Tang Dynasty was a dragon, and Goguryeo was considered a jackal at most. The problem of biting a piece of dragon meat was that I really wanted to eat the Tang Dynasty. Yuan Gaisuwen knew that he didn't have the ability.
Many days later, a latest military information was sent back from the front.
After seeing this, Li Shimin said nothing for a long time, "Five thousand soldiers are gone?"
Are you talking about Mr. Guo and the others?
Did the previous plan fail?
In fact, it is not a failure, it can only be said to be a small part.
Although the suicide attack made the Goguryeo army a little panicked, facing several times the enemy, countless people died in every step of their advance.
When they really rushed to the front of the artillery, there were only less than a hundred people left.
The sound of explosions sounded, and hundreds of Goguryeo's artillery were blown up.
But there were more than two thousand doors waiting aside, and Li Xiaogong and Eleven miscalculated.
They never thought that the other party was so difficult to deal with.
Among the five thousand soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, none of them are greedy for life and fear of death.
At the last moment of death, they will choose to pounce on the nearest enemy and detonate the gunpowder on their bodies.
Those scenes are also the Tang Dynasty’s attitude towards Goguryeo!
If you dare to fight, you will not be afraid of death!
Li Xiaogong didn't even know that Yuan Nansheng almost killed them.
The task of guarding artillery cannot be handed over to slave soldiers, so naturally the soldiers in this palace were under the supervision.
This is also the real reason why Master Guo led his men to break through the formation, causing huge casualties every step forward.
Because what they faced was the elite army of Goguryeo.
Even so, Goguryeo paid the price of deaths and injuries to thousands.
Yuan Nan gave birth very unlucky. He was still in the camp and planned to wait until the artillery fire breaks and enter Liaocheng.
But no one could have imagined that the Tang army had no idea what method they used to come to their side and slapped him loudly in the face.
"Bastard! Order all slave soldiers to break the city!"
A Tang soldier revealed that he was not far from Yuan Nan's birth, and Yuan Nan's birth, who could not dodge, suffered some minor injuries.
He was completely angered by the crazy behavior of the Tang army and directly took his life and attacked in a full-scale attack regardless of any result.
Li Xiaogong's side also responded soon. His idea was very simple. To shoot your cannons, let's talk about it!
In the blink of an eye, the two sides became a decisive battle.
No one knows what changes they will change in the next moment.
"Get to me! If there are no shells, there are weapons in our hands! The power of the Tang Dynasty cannot be easily violated!"
The artillery bombardment was a few dozen meters away because it occupied a high place, Li Xiaogong's side was dozens of meters away than the Goguryeo people.
And just a few dozen meters away, they also took advantage of it. After two rounds, they could kill at least hundreds of cannons and thousands of Goguryeo soldiers.
Unfortunately, when the Goguryeo artillery was set up, all the advantages were wasted.
The city gate is only day and night, and the two sides are more terrifying than hand-to-hand combat, and it completely turns to see who is bombarded to death first.
After six hours, the southern gate of Liaocheng was completely reduced to flat ground, with 25,000 Tang troops, and less than 2,000 people left.
And Goguryeo, at least 70,000 or 80,000 people died.
The main reason why Goguryeo was higher than the Tang army was that the gunpowder reserves in Liaocheng were far higher than those of the other party.
Facing the two sides who had completely broken up, as soon as the south city gate was broken, Li Xiaogong asked someone to pull all the cannons in the city to the south and continue to bombard them.
Chapter completed!