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Chapter 1200 As powerful as thunder (Part 1)

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    Huang Mingyuan arrived at Liaodong City. As Huang Mingyuan expected, Jiang Yishi had already built this place into a heavily fortified fortress, preparing to defend it with strong walls and a wide moat.

    As the first fortified city in the Liaodong region, Liaodong City was used by the Central Plains Dynasty to block the barbarians from the northeast for hundreds of years. A very important factor in its construction was the element of war. Since then, it has been reinforced every time. Even in the hands of Goguryeo, it has never been abandoned.  .  The city is square in shape, with two walls inside and outside. The walls have turrets, battlements, parapets and other buildings.  Each city gate also has a double-story gate tower, and there are two-story high-rise buildings in the northwest outside the city, which are magnificent in scale.

    This city is not easy to fight.

    Huang Mingyuan immediately ordered Li Jing and Huang Mingzhen to each lead 40,000 troops to attack the south and north gates of Liaodong City respectively. Huang Mingyuan led his troops to attack the west gate and escaped from the east gate alone.

    Li Jing questioned: "Although the art of war talks about 'encircling three towers and one tower', Jiang Yishi is a veteran and cannot fail to see such a direct strategy."

    Everyone also felt that this strategy would not work.

    Huang Mingyuan said: "This plan is a conspiracy. The more urgent our army is to attack Liaodong City, when Jiang Yishi can no longer support it, he will definitely consider breaking out. Even if he knows that there may be an ambush outside the east city, what if there is not?  When people are in desperate situations, they will try to seize any hope they have. Jiang Yishi is good at commanding troops, but he cannot escape his human nature.

    "Besides, it wouldn't hurt me if our army didn't attack the east gate, but Jiang Yishi had to guard the east gate.  "

    Everybody was relieved.

    Huang Mingyuan began his own siege.  Huang Mingyuan knew very well that it was not impossible to fight for such an important city for a year and a half if there was enough food in the city.  When the Yuan Dynasty attacked Xiangyang City, it lasted nearly six years; as for the mountain city system in Sichuan, it lasted for thirty years. When the Northern Song Dynasty fell, Diaoyu City was not captured, and even a Mongol Khan was defeated.  If you think about accomplishing something in one go, you will end up doing more haste than speed.

    Huang Mingyuan ordered two trenches more than two feet deep and three feet wide to be dug outside Liaodong City, trapping the entire Liaodong City.  Likewise, these trenches exposed the east gate.

    By the time the Sui army completed digging the two trenches, Huang Mingyuan ordered the Sui army to extend inward from the two trenches surrounding the city and dig more than ten trenches leading directly to Liaodong City.  These trenches are no more than ten feet deep and about half a foot wide. They are wide at the bottom and narrow at the top. They are a typical reverse slope.

    When everyone reached a distance of forty or fifty steps from the city wall, which was already considered the outer area of ??the moat, everyone dug a circular trench again and connected the trenches everywhere.

    Because these trenches are more than ten feet deep and protected by reverse slopes, the laborers hid in the trenches for construction, and the arrows from the top of the city almost hit the trenches secretly.

    The Sui Army's cavalry was watching eagerly not far away. The Goguryeo people tried several times to attack and destroy the Sui Army's trenches, but they failed. Instead, they lost their troops and generals.

    The Goguryeo people had to rely on a large number of catapults deployed in the city, combined with bows and arrows, to continuously attack the Sui army, but the effect was not too obvious.

    Relying on these crisscrossed trenches, the Sui army's infantry could approach Liaodong City directly, and even the crossbowmen could advance to the trenches at the front to fight back against the Goguryeo troops at the head of the city.

    After the trenches were dug, the Goguryeo people¡¯s contact with the outside world was completely restricted.  The Goguryeo people no longer had the possibility to break out of the siege and attack the Sui army from the west, north and south.

    At the same time, Huang Mingyuan ordered his troops to build siege equipment on a large scale.

    The siege equipment, including manholes, rams, and other siege equipment, were huge and inconvenient to transport. Except for some of them, which were built in Liaodong County, Huang Mingyuan ordered the navy to transport the rest from the Liao River directly to the Liaodong City.  But this was not enough. In the previous decisive battle with Bujia Khan, Huang Mingyuan had fired 400 artillery carts at once, and this time he attacked Liaodong City, Huang Mingyuan was even more prepared to engulf Liaodong City with a rain of artillery carts.

    ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????OUT????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? or????????????????????????????????????????? Huang-Mingyuan also improved the artillery carriages, and even designed the seven-shooter cannon and the return-return cannon.  The seven-tipped cannon has 125 ropes, two people hold the cannon, and 250 people pull and release it. The bullet weighs ninety kilograms and has a range of fifty steps.  As for the returning artillery, it fired huge rocks weighing more than 150 kilograms, with a range of 250 steps, nearly 400 meters, which far exceeded the width of the moat and trenches of Liaodong City.

    Hui Hui Pao appeared in the Yuan Dynasty. Legend has it that it was invented by two Christian believers, so it is called Hui Hui Pao.  Its power is several levels higher than that of the Song Dynasty's cannon.  There are no Christian believers now, and no one understands the word "Hui Hui", so Huang Mingyuan named it "Thunder Cannon", which means "Thunder Cannon" for power.

    Although this kind of cannon has been lost in later generations, for Huang Mingyuan, the use of its lever principle remains unchanged, but it is just a variety of pulleys and shafts.Just a combination of inheritance.  So after a few months of experimentation, it was successful.

    The machine is powerful, the sound shakes the heaven and the earth, and it destroys everything it hits. It penetrates seven feet into the ground. It is the most powerful weapon in the cold weapon era. This is Huang Mingyuan's confidence to break the city.

    After several days of siege, the Sui army had everything properly arranged. The Sui army built a total of fifty thunder cannons, three hundred seven-shooter cannons, and hundreds of other catapults.

    At this time, various catapults were arranged strictly around Liaodong City.

    But except for the thunder cannon, the strike range of various shooting cannons is not enough.  In order to increase the attack distance, Huang Mingyuan ordered to use thunder cannons as cover to build an earth slope fifty steps west of Liaodong City, almost seventy or eighty meters away from the city wall, which was considered a very close distance.

    Early on the morning of March 5th, Huang Mingyuan gathered fifty thunder cannons and began to attack the west gate of Liaodong City.

    Two hundred and fifty steps away, a boulder weighing more than 300 kilograms roared up, passed over everyone's heads, and hit the city wall in the distance.

    The sound of boulders rubbing against the air was shrill and harsh, as if the air was being burned.  And the fury of thunder it brought was like thunder coming from the sky and tearing apart the heaven and the earth. It hit the city wall hard and smashed a large piece of the wall into pieces.  The boulders brought up collapsed countless soldiers around them, and immediately there was a scene of broken limbs and arms flying around.

    The boulder was bouncing wildly on the city wall, killing countless people with every blow.

    When the boulder finally lost its power, everyone discovered that the place where the boulder had been hit had become a pit, and as the boulder bounced back and forth, countless soldiers were killed and injured along the way.  Apart from all kinds of tragic images of flesh and blood, there was only the wailing of the crowd.

    The Goguryeo soldiers on the top of the city were stunned. How could there be such a terrible thing in the world.

    But before they could breathe a sigh of relief, countless black dots flew toward them from the Sui army's position in the distance.

    "Avoid the stone!"

    A small Goguryeo officer was shouting loudly, and the rest of the people were panicking and trying to escape.  By the time someone looked through the gap between the stone bullets to see the shouting young officer, he had been concentrated by a stone bullet, and his upper body had long since disappeared. Only his two legs were still trembling on the edge of the city wall.

    Everyone was stunned by the rain of stone bullets for a moment, and their will to resist turned into a desire to escape, and they couldn't care less about the Sui army below the city.

    Note: The effectiveness of the Huihui artillery is doubtful. Historically, the Song Dynasty was the pinnacle of equipment in the cold weapon era, but the Huihui artillery surpassed the Qishao artillery by several levels, and the Huihui artillery only existed in the Yuan Dynasty and disappeared in the early Ming Dynasty, so the descriptions are all  It is really unreasonable to speculate for future generations.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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