Turbulent Times Chapter 1068: Different offensive and defensive battles (3)

"Yuan Gai Suwen is not so stupid. If I were Yuan Taizuo, I would only take care of Li Xiaoli's family." Yang Kongchan, who was silent beside him, suddenly sneered.

Wang Junlin thought for a while, then nodded, and said to Yang Kongchan, "Do you want to let the Goguryeo people know that Li Xiaoli is still alive, or hide him temporarily?"

Yang Kongtang said as a matter of course: "Naturally let the people of Goguryeo know that Yuan Taejo has no other choice. He must kill Li Xiaoli's family members to make an example of others. This will also cut off Li Xiaoli's way back. He is truly one of our people, and at that time, we can ask the secret agents lurking in Goguryeo to inquire about the news, to confirm whether this is really the case, and to confirm whether Li Hyori is a trap of Goguryeo."

Wang Junlin nodded, agreeing with Yang Kongcun's statement, turned to Zhang Tiangang and said, "Don't let that Li Xiaoli get in touch with confidential matters, and temporarily serve your subordinates, ask more things from him, This person used to be a naval general and a nobleman, so he should know a lot about Goguryeo's government and domestic situation."

"The humble job understands!" Zhang Tiangang agreed, bowed and saluted, and then went to make arrangements.

Wang Junlin let the big boat approach the south of Bailing Island, and looked at the north along the moat of Nancheng. The protruding horse faces made him feel more at ease. The dead angle is greatly reduced.

The castles on Bailing Island were remodeled on the basis of the bastion model of later generations. They are all concave in shape, with almost no dead ends, giving the defenders a great advantage. This method of construction did not appear in China until the Ming Dynasty in the original history.

There is fifty paces of flat ground between the earthen wall and the city wall, and a two-foot-wide moat. Behind the earthen wall sit two hundred soldiers, who are always on standby here.

Every section of the earth wall has a sharp-angled bulge, and there is a two-foot-wide ditch in front of it. For the Goguryeo army, any attack will eventually face this ditch, and the second earth wall is different from the first. One, there is no low parapet at the back of the trench, but directly facing a one-foot-two-foot-high earthen wall.

Wang Junlin knew that the trench was full of pickets, and according to the defense plan he had drawn up with his men, patches of barbed wire would be temporarily sprinkled in the trench.

Behind this trench is the first earthen wall. At this time, Goguryeo launched another attack, piercing stone bullets and crossbows.

There are dozens of steps of flat ground between the two earth walls. Soldiers can move quickly behind the earth walls. The inner side of the earth walls is at a gentle angle. Soldiers can easily climb to the top of the wall to fight from anywhere. At this time, most of the crossbowmen on the top of the wall were crossbowmen, while spearmen and sword-shieldmen sat in the open space at the root of the earthen wall and waited for orders.

Wang Junlin's private army, whether it's the troops in the salt field, the navy on Snake Island, or even the thousands of troops hidden in the back mountain of Lu's family led by Yuchi Jingde, all have specially trained medical staff Soldiers, at this time in the safe place between the two earthen walls, there are two medical soldiers every fifty steps.

After observing one by one with the binoculars, Wang Junlin nodded in satisfaction. Liu Yidong did not disappoint himself.

Wang Junlin felt a kind of excitement at this time, because today's battle is a test of some of the combat methods and models of the private soldiers he trained in Snake Island and the salt field. completely different from the Turks.

At this time, there were pieces of Goguryeo army formations in the distance to the north of the city. After probing, Yuangai Suwen ordered a strong attack again. Numerous Goguryeo auxiliary soldiers in the shield workshop were filling the potholes, and many people even ran to the front of the shield vehicle.

Ant-like Goguryeo auxiliary soldiers pushed the shield car forward, and more auxiliary soldiers behind filled up the small potholes. They have filled up the potholes dozens of steps ahead, but the signal to withdraw troops has not yet sounded .

The catapults of both sides bombarded each other, but the accuracy of the Goguryeo people was too poor. On the contrary, the stone bullets fired by Wang Junlin's side shattered each of the catapults with screams, and countless auxiliary soldiers were beaten to pieces. But still unable to stop those auxiliary soldiers approaching step by step, the Goguryeo soldiers who supervised the battle forced the auxiliary soldiers forward, and shot the retreating auxiliary soldiers without mercy.

After Wang Junlin's side fired consecutive rounds of volleys, more than a dozen shield chariots in Goguryeo were smashed into pieces of wood, and the auxiliary soldiers suffered all casualties under the blows of those pieces of wood.

The formation of Goguryeo shield chariots is fragmented. Behind those crooked and tattered shield chariots are countless auxiliary soldiers who are still busy. Long-range crossbows and stone bullets continue to attack Goguryeo auxiliary soldiers, turning them into pieces of flying stumps. , turning Goguryeo's pit filling into a costly endeavor.

At this time on the top of the city, Liu Yidong waved his flag, and after the sound of a drum, several teams of soldiers from Wang Junlin's side rushed out of several passages at the same time. In the curved baranga ditch, the Goguryeo soldiers who lost cover kept shooting with the bursting crossbow in their hands.

The dense crossbow arrows made those Goguryeo soldiers have no time to fill in the pits, and they hid behind the remaining shield vehicles one after another.

A group of auxiliary soldiers was escorted by several Goguryeo armor-piercing soldiers in an attempt to continue filling the trench. They attracted the attention of soldiers from Wang Junlin's side. They fired a volley, and the dense auxiliary soldiers howled miserably.

The rest of the auxiliary soldiers fled in all directions, and were shot to death one by one by Goguryeo's bows and arrows. Then another group of auxiliary soldiers was sent to try to move forward, but this group of auxiliary soldiers was wiped out by both sides again.

Although Wang Junlin has heard that there were a large number of auxiliary soldiers who served as cannon fodder in the siege battle of the Goguryeo people, he was still a little surprised when he saw it today. , so humble that it is only worth a piece of sawdust flying out of the collapse.

The soldiers on Wang Junlin's side on the dirt wall accelerated their long-range attack speed, and the broken fragments of the shield car were like a bomb, which was more powerful than stone bullets and long-range crossbows. Yuan Gai Suwen, who stood watching the battle from a high place in the rear, finally couldn't bear the casualties, and ordered the rear line to beep twice, and the Goguryeo soldiers holding the line retreated, and the Goguryeo soldiers on the front line retreated like a tide.

A horn sounded on Wang Junlin's earthen wall, and several officers commanded loudly. Those groups of soldiers jumped out of the horse-barrier ditch, lined up through the remaining potholes, and rushed to the position of the shield car line with shouts. Chasing the retreating Goguryeo soldiers with a crossbow in their hands, they shot and killed more than a hundred people, but they did not catch up, but immediately killed the wounded Goguryeo soldiers on the ground with their knives.