In the inner city, Yizhi Wende looked at the deputy general's corpse with a rare anger. The deputy general had followed him for more than ten years and could be said to be his trusted subordinate!
But now, he had died tragically under the rain of arrows from the Meng family army. After his rage, he felt extremely fortunate. If he hadn't reacted in time, the corpse lying on the ground might have been him!
Even if he had the strength of a top-notch general, he would not be able to dodge the concentrated crossbow bolts. If the crossbow bolts hit his vital points, he would die a tragic death on the spot!
After that volley of arrows, the Goguryeon soldiers had lost close to 1,000 soldiers, including a large number of archers. The might of Great Qin's Arrow Formation could be seen from this!
"Release the arrows and suppress them!"
Yizhi Wende calmed his turbulent heart and understood that he couldn't let the Meng army continue to march. Otherwise, they would soon reach the city!
However, no matter how hard the Goguryeon archers tried, it was useless against the frenzied attacks of the Qin Crossbows. Instead, they lost a large number of soldiers!
After firing three rounds of arrows, the 1,000 Meng Army soldiers had already suppressed the Goguryeon army's assault, allowing the 5,000 Meng Army soldiers to arrive at the inner city!
Due to the threat of the Qin crossbows, the Goguryeon soldiers had only lost a few hundred of their weapons. Under the pressure of the Qin crossbows, the Goguryeon soldiers were unable to stop the Meng Army's advance!
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Below the city walls, the 2,000 Meng family soldiers quickly mounted the ladders and climbed up the city walls!
At this moment, the Goguryeon soldiers finally mustered up their courage to stand up under the command of Eji Wende. At the same time, the first batch of Meng soldiers had already climbed up the scaling ladders and were engaged in a fierce battle with the Goguryeon soldiers who had finally reacted!
However, without the Meng Army's ballista bolts suppressing them, the Goguryeon soldiers began to madly attack the Meng Army under Eji Wende's command, as if they were venting their anger!
Under the frenzied assault of the Goguryeon soldiers, many of the Meng Army soldiers were killed before they could even reach the scaling ladders. In just a few moments, more than a hundred Meng Army soldiers had died tragically under the assault of the Goguryeon soldiers!
And because the Meng Army on the city walls were few in number, after fighting with the Goguryeon soldiers for a while, they killed several times their number before being surrounded and killed!
Fifteen minutes later, with the sound of a golden bell, the Meng Army, which had lost close to a thousand men, began to retreat in an orderly manner under the command of Captain Cao Jian.
Facing the Meng army that was retreating and retreating, Yizhi Wende coldly ordered,"Fire!"”
In the next moment, countless arrows were shot down from the city walls, but they were blocked by the Meng Army soldiers with shields, causing only a small amount of damage!
A few moments later, the Meng Army threw down another hundred corpses and retreated from the shooting range of the Goguryeon archers!
As the Meng Army retreated out of the range of the Goguryeon archers, Eji Wende began to command his soldiers to regroup and take stock of the casualties!
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A quarter of an hour later, in the inner city, Yizhi Wende listened to the new deputy general's report with a slightly sunken expression. After a long while, he sighed!
"This army should be the true elites of Great Sui!”
At this moment, Yizhi Wende naturally didn't know that the Meng Army wasn't the Great Sui Army that he had imagined, but an army that belonged solely to Yang Yi!
"In that case, Liaodong City has already fallen. No wonder there hasn't been any news in the past few days!”
When Yizhi Wende thought of this, his expression changed slightly. According to the usual practice, Liaodong City would report the situation to the inner city every three days. Now that there had been no news for more than three days, coupled with the tens of thousands of Meng family soldiers outside the city, it naturally made him think of this!
"Perhaps even the new city and Black Bone City have already been taken down. What a troublesome opponent!”
At this moment, Eji Wende was very clear that with the strength of the army outside, it would be extremely easy for them to take down the new city and Blackbone City. Thus, he understood that the inner city was the final line of defense for the Goguryeon capital!
Once the inner city was lost, the Goguryeon capital would be directly attacked by the Meng Army!
This was also part of Yang Yi's plan!
Thus, he had to take down the inner city. Otherwise, if he led his troops to attack the capital of the city, he would be surrounded by the Goguryeon army and be caught in a pincer attack!
Back then, the Great Sui army had recklessly attacked the capital of the city, but they were ambushed by Eji Wende and almost wiped out. In the end, less than 3,000 of the 300,000 soldiers escaped!
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At the same time, the Meng Army that had split up to attack the new city and Black Bone City had already arrived outside the city and joined up with the 50,000 Meng Army!
At this point, the number of the Meng Army increased once again. Because they had lost a thousand men during the siege, they now had a total of 74,000 men!
On the other hand, the number of soldiers in the inner city had been greatly reduced. Just the first wave of arrow rain alone had caused the loss of nearly a thousand people. Adding on the losses from the second wave of arrow rain and the subsequent siege, the total loss was more than two thousand people, which was more than double the loss of the Meng Army!
It was precisely because of this that Yizhi Wende's expression turned gloomy after he learned of the losses. He knew that if they continued fighting, they would not be able to defeat the enemy outside!
Although the reason why they had suffered so many losses the first time was because they had been careless and suffered Qin crossbow's losses.
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