Chapter 38 Eastward (5)
The captain of the Stone Cavalry was very useful, but he didn't have so many ideas. Seeing that all the Stone Cavalry had been loaded with stones, after testing the distance, he shouted and issued an attack order: "Prepare, prepare for launch!"
The schoolmen standing next to the catapult cart also raised the flags in their hands one by one, shouting and reporting to the captain Gao Dayong: "The first team is ready and requests the launch; the second team is ready and requests the launch; the third team is ready and requests the launch;..."
In the stone-treating camp, the organization is basically the same as other troops in the current Liao army. Each ten stone-treating carts is a small team; fifty units are a squadron; and one hundred units are a large team.
Gao Dayong immediately issued an attack order: "Each team fires one by one."
The schoolmen then waved the flags in their hands in turn and issued an order: "First team launches; second team launches..."
The soldiers from more than 100,000 square meters above the city were watching the catapults. The cannon ropes were pulled, and the huge stones loaded by fifty catapults made a heart-pounding whistling sound, smashing towards the walls of Yiluo City in turn. Although some fell into the city and some hit the city under the city, most of them still hit the city wall.
Everyone felt the earth swaying, and saw that the defenders on the Yiluo City walls, all the bricks and earth and stones that were hit by the stones were smashed into blood foam, and screamed endlessly. Yiluo City cracked a large crack under the first round of attacks of fifty catapults.
Gao Dayong couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw it. He ordered: "Continue to load and pay attention to the distance."
The schoolmen standing in front of the catapult car rushed to pass the orders, and everyone loaded the stones again. Then, Gao Dayong continued to shout: "Prepare, prepare for launch!"
Another round of stones flew towards the city wall of Yiluo City in turn. This time, almost all the stones were concentrated on the area where the first round of city wall was smashed. The Yiluo City Wall shook a few times and began to collapse.
Rong Feng was very happy. He had already thought that this new catapult was very powerful, but he didn't expect it to be so powerful! How long will the city wall collapse after it was about to fall? You must know that the catapult had only launched two wheels! Look at this, after the catapult was launched, the Yiluo city wall would inevitably collapse.
Just when everyone in the city was surprised, Rong Fen showed his qualities as the most outstanding general of Yan State. At this moment, there was not much time to be surprised. He just waved his hand and ordered the commander to say, "Order the entire army and prepare for the attack."
The commander, like the soldiers of Liao, was overjoyed to see the catapult cart so powerful. After hearing the commander's order, he hurriedly answered the order and said, "No."
Then, flags flew on the podium and orders to prepare for an attack were heard.
All the officers and soldiers from Liao put down their masks, held the weapons in their hands, and were ready to attack.
At this time, the guards and soldiers on Yiluo City were all "confused". No one expected that the power of the Liao army's catapult would be so huge! In just a few strokes, the city wall began to collapse, and it was too late to repair it even if it was repaired!
Before Wei Tong and others could react, the third round of stones from the Liao army camp came. The wall of Yiluo City, which was continuously hit by stones, could no longer support it. Under the close attack of dozens of stones worth nearly 500 kilograms, it collapsed and dust all over the sky floated up.
Seeing this, Rong Qi shouted on the command platform: "Stand up the flag, shoot the crossbowman! Infantry will kill me! Open the city gate as soon as possible!"
On the podium, battle flags were erected, flags were flying, and war drums were ringing rapidly.
Suddenly, tens of thousands of crossbowmen in front of the Liao army raised their crossbows and shot them up the city wall, like heavy rain. On the Yiluo city wall, the screams of the defenders being shot were suddenly heard.
The Liao army all shouted, except for the cavalry, the infantry nearest the collapsed city wall area in front of the army, led by his subordinate general Tian Dali, all the lieutenants and hundreds of generals rushed to the area where the collapsed city wall.
The shouts of "Kill! Kill!" broke through the sky.
"Prepare to launch!" Before his infantry arrived at the collapsed area, Gao Dayeng ordered the catapult camp and launched another wave with huge rocks to expand the results of the battle. After the launch, he saw that his infantry was about to surge to the collapsed city wall.
He immediately ordered: "Change small stones and launch them into the city to cover our army's rushing forward."
"promise."
At this moment, on the city wall, Wei Tong, the governor of Yilou City, and the generals were all shattered. It was over, the city wall fell! How can you defend this?
The deputy general pulled Wei Tong's arm and looked at Wei Tong: "Sir, the city can no longer be defended. When a general goes to fight, you can leave the city as soon as possible!"
Wei Tong shook his head without hesitation and said to the generals: "As a county magistrate, I am responsible for defending the territory. Now I am dead in battle, so I should not ask you for it. If anyone wants to survive, you can leave the city quickly."
Seeing Wei Tong like this, the generals' eyes turned red and said with a bang: "I wish to fight to the death with the general."
Wei Tong laughed and said to the generals: "That's right, let's die together! There is also a companion on the road to the underworld."
As the first wave of soldiers rushing into the city entered, followed closely by the second wave and third wave of infantry of the Liao army... they all rushed into the city along the collapsed city walls, stepping on rubble bricks, and suddenly there was a sound of fighting in Yiluo City.
After a while, flames rose and thick smoke rolled in Yiluo City. The sound of fighting, shouts, screams, and the collision of weapons were intertwined, as if they were purgatory on earth.
Of course, some of the flames in the city were released by the Liao army, but some were the defenders of Yiluo City, released by the Liao army to block the attack. This is true for any era of war, and the unlucky ones will always be ordinary people.
Wei Tong, the garrison of Yilou City who rushed down the city wall, held a bronze sword in his hand and was ready to fight with the Liao army infantry who rushed into the city wall. However, before he could rush to the front of many Liao army infantry, he was discovered by the Liao army crossbowmen who rushed in later.
When the crossbowmen saw Wei Tong wearing it, they knew that they were senior generals of Yiluo City. Before the Liao army infantry rushed up, they fired arrows at Wei Tong. Several personal guards and generals beside Wei Tong rushed over and blocked the arrows shot towards Wei Tong.
But Wei Tong was immediately besieged by the Liao army infantry, preparing to capture Wei Tong. Wei Tong shouted and led the few soldiers beside him to rush forward to fight with the Liao army, but was then shot by the arrows shot by the Liao army.
Wei Tong gasped, knowing that he had no strength to fight, so he shouted in the direction of He Shenggu, the capital city, "Great King, I'm leaving."
Then he raised his sword and committed suicide. As the blood splashed, Wei Tong, the governor of Yilou City, slowly fell to the ground and sacrificed his loyalty to the country. At the moment of falling down, he realized that the Goguryeo Kingdom has ended since then.
The gate of Yiluo City has been opened, and more and more Liao soldiers rushed into the city. Rong Fen, his army and cavalry outside the city, did not enter, but stood quietly outside the city, waiting for the end of the battle.
With the death of Wei Tong, the defenders in Yiluo City, all the defenders in Yiluo City surrendered one after another. In less than an hour, except for dozens of soldiers who were still loyal to Wei Tong, the rest of the city calmed down.
Rong Fen had already stood on the wall of Yiluo City and said to the commander: "Orders can concentrate troops and eliminate sporadic resistance in the city. Divide areas for the generals, assist the people in the city, and quickly put out fires. Order the medical officers to treat our wounded as soon as possible!"
"No." The messenger answered the order.
After a while, a magistrate ran to Rongfu to report: "I have reported to the general that several warehouses in Yiluo City have been accepted by our army. According to the words of the defenders of Yiluo City Warehouse, the county magistrate Wei Tong told him before his death that the food and supplies in the warehouse were not allowed to be burned, so that the people in Yiluo City will not be short of food."
Everyone was stunned, not sure what to say.
Rong Qi was stunned for a long time, and after a while, he turned around and said to the generals beside him: "This Wei Tong is indeed as rumored as he loves the people as his sons. Such a great talent cannot be used by our Liao territory, which is a pity!"
Then he came to the city, walked to the corpse of Wei Tong, the guardian general of Yiluo City, and bowed. The generals from Liao land also bowed to Wei Tong's body like a flock.
Rong Qi sighed and told his son Rong Yan and the generals who were accompanying him, "This Wei Tong is also a loyal minister. Before his death, he knew how to preserve food and use it to help the people. This is also the official I need in Liaodi! It would be a pity to die here in battle. Find a good coffin in the city, find a good blessed land, and bury him! If there are family members in the city, you must treat them well and no one can disturb you."
All the generals took the order and said, "No."
Then he turned around and said to the messenger: "You can report the victory to the Xiangping Junhou Mansion, and say that our army has occupied Yiluo City and is ready to advance towards Heshenggu, the capital of Goguryeo."
On the 18th day of the seventh lunar month of King Wucheng, Yiluo City, the last gateway of Heshenggu, the capital of Goguryeo, was captured by the Liao army in just two hours. The Liao army's catapult camp showed its might in the first large-scale siege.
Since then, there has been no more solid city on the road from the Liao army to Heshenggu, the capital of Goguryeo.
The capital of Goguryeo Kingdom, Heshenggu, was exposed under the Liao army's military front, and the destruction of Goguryeo Kingdom is about to be imminent.
(It's too sleepy, the old dog needs a good sleep. There is at least one update today, it's just a late one.)
Chapter completed!