Chapter 554: Night Attacks the City

The siege is also divided into local tyrant siege method and poor force siege method!

Like the Yellow Turban Army before, the ant-attached siege depended entirely on human lives. Not to mention the low efficiency, the casualties will be several times or even ten times that of the defenders!

Those with a bit of technical content use the earth-digging siege method, which is very cost-effective for forces without powerful siege equipment. However, correspondingly, the required technical level is also very high.

Digging tunnels is not as simple as imagined. Without relevant professional skills, there is a high probability that you will encounter landslides and be buried underground if you dig with your head covered, or you will submerge yourself directly when you dig out water.

However, the wealthy and well-equipped Pingzhou Army adopted another method of playing - forcibly smashing!

Five hundred ordinary catapults, two hundred torch catapults, and two thousand improved large-scale bed crossbows bombarded the walls of the domestic city for three days!

Tens of thousands of ordinary stones were thrown in, and tens of thousands of improved explosive torch stones were used, and hundreds of thousands of large crossbow arrows that were ten feet long were shot.

Although there are defensive facilities such as catapults on the walls of the domestic city, Goguryeo's equipment manufacturing technology is obviously several grades behind that of the big man, let alone the Pingzhou army that has been improved by the public loser.

As long as Goguryeo's defense facilities dare to show their heads, they will immediately be attacked by the Pingzhou army. After two days, Koguryo's large-scale defense equipment was almost completely useless, leaving only facilities such as arrow towers available. However, so far the Pingzhou army has not sent troops to attack the city at all, and has been using long-range weapons outside the range of the arrow tower.

To put it bluntly, it is relying on national strength and technological advantages to beat Goguryeo!

In the past three days, the walls of the domestic city have already been riddled with holes. Although Gao Yanyou forced the craftsmen to risk the attack of the Pingzhou Army to repair the city wall, the specific effect was not good.

"Marshal, if the fight continues like this for another ten days, the city wall of the domestic city will definitely collapse completely. Without the city wall as a support, the defenders of the domestic city will be vulnerable!"

Liu Hu, who followed Liu Yi to investigate the battle situation, said excitedly.

"If you keep fighting like this, you will have to kill me!" Because there was no outsider by his side, Liu Yi spoke more casually. He glanced at the excited Liu Hu angrily, rolled his eyes and said.

"The equipment made by the public loser is easy to use, but it's really expensive!" Liu Yi said, pinching his teeth.

"In three days, simply counting the cost of siege, we have spent five million gold. Exploding torch stones and crossbow arrows to break the city are all money, and the damaged siege equipment is even more distressing. Counting the cost of the army For various expenses, we have spent an average of more than 2.5 million gold per day in the past three days, and if Ziyi and Jun Yi’s left and right armies are included, the Japanese military has spent more than 3 million gold!"

Liu Yi burst out a series of numbers to Liu Hu with a heartbroken face.

"Hiss... so scary!"

Liu Hu gasped when he heard the words. According to the original plan, under normal circumstances, the military expenditure of the Pingzhou Army would be 120 million gold a year. In the event of a war, etc., additional allocations will be made.

In just a few days, one-tenth of the annual military expenditure under normal circumstances was spent. Thinking of this, Liu Hu looked at the shot crossbow arrows and torch stones as if he was looking at gold!

"Commander, then, why did you reject our request to take advantage of the situation and attack?" Liu Hu asked a little puzzled.

If we sent soldiers to take advantage of the situation to attack before, even if we couldn't really open the walls of the domestic city, the results would definitely be greater than now!

At first Liu Hu thought that this was done to reduce casualties, but no one could bear such a terrible price, and it would be unreasonable to explain it by reducing casualties.

"Silly boy, do you think this is my idea? Such an extravagant and wasteful dismissal, even if you win the battle, you can't explain it! Such an attack is the result of Yue Wu's personal order!"

"Ah? Why?" Liu Hu looked at Liu Yi puzzled.

"For the test!"

"test?"

"That's right, for testing! In fact, one of the main goals of this battle is to comprehensively and completely evaluate the various combat capabilities of the Pingzhou Army, and then to check for omissions and fill in gaps!"

"From the beginning of the Yuewu Army, although we have been invincible in every attack, our Pingzhou Army's combat experience is mainly concentrated in field battles.

Large-scale cavalry combat experience is particularly rich, but seriously lacks experience in attacking large or even giant cities. The last attack on Liucheng was mainly to take advantage of the surprise attack and night battle. But this kind of cheapness is not available every time. One day we will attack the city with dignity! "

Liu Hu suddenly realized and said: "So that's the case. I said why the commander suddenly became so negative. It turns out that everything is to test the combat power of the Pingzhou Army!"

"You should have heard the rumors that our Pingzhou Army will participate in a battle of unprecedented scale under the leadership of Yue Wu in a year. I can tell you clearly that the rumors are true, and Yue Wu is currently making preparations.

At that time, our opponents had no shortage of powerful troops that ruled the world. How to attack and defend the city, how to minimize losses when defeated, and how to fight against an army that is obviously stronger than ours are all things we need to think about and verify. Conquering Goguryeo is just a simple warm-up match! "

Liu Hu's blood boiled when he heard this, and he asked excitedly, "Brother, can I participate in the big battle in a year's time?"

"Call the handsome!"

"I'm sorry, Marshal, can I participate in the big battle in a year's time?"

"If you can rise to the top of the super class before the battle, I will guarantee you to participate in the battle!"

"yes!"

Liu Hu shouted, quickly estimating in his mind how long it would take to be promoted to the top of the super class. Then, Liuhu sadly found it difficult to achieve this goal.

Rolling his eyes, Liu Hu planned to go back and beg Liu Shi. Liu Shi must have many high-grade pills in his hands.

"Don't go to see my sister, I will tell my sister not to help you. Only by relying on your own ability to advance to a super-first-class peak will count!"

Liu Yi didn't know what Liu Hu was thinking, so he spoke out immediately.

"what?!"

"Ah what, hurry back to the camp, the siege will officially begin tonight!"

"Oh!"

After night fell, Liu Yi set off secretly with the most elite 2,000 phantom pawns, 5,000 ghost cavalry, and 5,000 Xingyao Longbow.

The exclusive special arms of each general in the Pingzhou Army are under the individual management of each general in peacetime, but in wartime, each person only keeps 10,000 as personal guards, and the rest must be distributed uniformly.

Because there are many mountains in Goguryeo, Zhang Yun's phantom pawns of hundreds of battles have become the most popular troops.

Liu Yi took away 10,000, Tai Shici took away 10,000, and only 30,000 were left to Zhang Yun's left army. Of course, Shang Ji also allocated a corresponding amount of Xingyao Qiangbow and Lieyangqi for Zhang Xi.

Because they set out from the mountains, the Ghost Cavalry had no choice but to abandon their horses and become an infantry unit. Fortunately, the special arms are extremely adaptable, and without the horses, they will immediately become excellent infantry.

Liu Yixu set off at eight o'clock in the evening, walked through the secret mountains and forests found in Luoshu, and secretly arrived at the junction of the southeast city wall of the domestic city at the end of Haishi.

Because of the high-intensity siege of the city in the past few days, the defenders of the domestic city suffered heavy casualties. In particular, the southern city wall, which was the firepower point of the storm, was in a mess.

As a last resort, Gao Yanyou mobilized the defenders of the other three walls to strengthen the defense of the south wall.

On the other three walls, only the basic defense force is left, and the soldiers' combat power is quite weak!

"Walk!"

Looking at the city wall that was close at hand, Liu Yi waved his hand and ordered in a low voice.

Soon, 5,000 ghost soldiers in black leather armor, holding black long knives, and wearing black cloaks, who couldn't tell their shapes without looking closely, obeyed orders and stepped forward.

Under the cover of night, the ghost pawns rushed towards the city wall at an extremely fast speed.

And Liu Yi, taking advantage of the cover of night, led the rest of his men to lurk in the dense forest, staring at the ghost soldiers in action.

"Xingyao Longbow is ready, in the event of an accident, immediately cover the ghost pawns and retreat!"

After a few breaths, the phantom pawns had already charged within one kilometer of the city wall, and then saw the invisible figure blur for a while, completely blending into the night.

Until the ghost soldiers stepped into the base of the city wall, the defenders on the city didn't notice it at all. Using flying claws, ghost pawns quickly climbed to the city wall like agile monkeys.

"Everyone, follow my orders and move forward at full speed!"

Seeing ghosts and pawns start to climb the city wall, Liu Yi knew that he would be fully exposed next time. After all, the defenders are not fools, and the invisibility of ghost pawns does not disappear completely. The distance is close enough to still be able to see some clues!

"Notify Xu Huang, immediately lead the army to launch an attack from the south wall!"

"boom!"

As soon as Liu Yi's voice fell, Xu Huang, who had already prepared, immediately ordered an attack. The catapults and other siege equipment that had been resting for a long time showed their power again, and the roar of bursting torch stone carts came.

"what happened?"

The Goguryeo defenders panicked for a while, but everyone's attention was focused on the southern city wall, even the other three defenders were the same.

"Ok?"

On the east wall, a Goguryeo soldier suddenly let out a small gasp in doubt. It seemed that something rushed up just now?

Rubbing his eyes, he took two steps forward to investigate carefully, and suddenly found that a translucent phantom was slashing at him with a knife.

"Enemy...uh."

Before the word "attack" was uttered, a stream of blood shot out, and the heads of the soldiers flew up! At the same time, ghost pawns in black clothes and armor also showed their figures in situ.

"kill!"

With a bang, more and more ghost soldiers appeared, raising their knives and killing the nearby defenders who were still in a daze.

"Quick, speed up!"

Seeing the battle at the top of the city, Liu Yi couldn't help urging a few words, the wind was blowing under his feet, his figure was like a lightning bolt, and he quickly crossed the distance of two kilometers.

Grabbing the flying claws left by the phantom pawns, they flew to the top of the wall.

Just when he stood firm, he saw a general with the appearance of a military commander rushing up from the stairs with his people. Liu Yi flew up and shouted loudly: "Xing Yuan Luan Slash!"

The long knife cut across the night sky, and the stars flashed. The general and hundreds of Goguryeo soldiers under his command who were blocking the stairs were all killed, without the ability to resist!

Liu Yi under the night, even if Lu Bu comes, he is not afraid!