Before he knew it, King Rongliu, Gao Jianwu, had arrived below the city walls with the civil and military officials of the court.
He was about to ascend.
The general guarding the city saw King Rongliu appear.
He was so frightened that he hurried to stop him.
"Your Majesty! This place is dangerous, please return to the palace!"
The cannonballs outside the city, like divine thunder, who knew if one would hit?
If King Rongliu were to perish here, he himself would not fare well.
To let the ruler of a nation die before him was an unacceptable fact for any general!
"What danger is there? Fifteen thousand troops have already charged out of the city. With the mere ten thousand Tang soldiers outside, can they still harm me?"
"Step aside!"
King Rongliu shoved the defending general aside and strode onto the city walls.
The civil and military officials behind him quickly followed.
However.
As soon as King Rongliu placed one foot on the city wall, a scene like hell appeared before his eyes!
Inside the city, he had only heard the bombardment of cannonballs.
He had never imagined that the real scene would be far more terrifying than he had imagined!
Constantly falling cannonballs erupted with a sky full of flesh and blood among the cavalry!
Limbs and broken arms flew everywhere!
Soldiers were thrown high by their horses!
Soldiers were ruthlessly trampled by their horses!
Looking at the distance the cavalry had charged, it was less than two hundred paces!
King Rongliu's legs went weak.
He even felt warmth between his legs!
The civil and military officials behind King Rongliu did not understand and kept urging him on.
"Your Majesty, why aren't you moving?"
"Yes, Your Majesty, how is the battle outside the city?"
"Have the three generals charged into the enemy formation?"
Hearing the urging of the civil and military officials behind him, King Rongliu's face stiffened, and he slowly moved aside from the steps, leaning against the parapet to stand to the side.
"You can see for yourselves."
King Rongliu's voice trembled slightly!
He had never known that war could be fought like this!
This was completely beyond his comprehension!
Since when did the invincible iron cavalry become like fish on a chopping block, slaughtered at will?
The civil and military officials, full of anticipation, bypassed King Rongliu and walked onto the city walls.
And then!
One by one, their mouths opened wide enough to fit a fist!
What kind of scene was this?
Abyss of hell could be no more than this!
"This! How is it possible!"
"This is heavenly fire! Is this divine punishment?"
"When did the Tang army become so terrifying!"
"No! This is not true!"
"This must be a deception used by the Tang army!"
The civil officials, looking at the scene outside the city, spoke with trembling voices, filled with disbelief.
As if all of this were a nightmare!
"Why did I have to come and see all this!"
"Hahahahaha!"
"Hahahahaha!"
Unlike the reaction of the civil officials.
Da Shi Dong, Yi Zhi Shuai, and another general who had escaped from Shenyang City.
They burst into mournful laughter!
As they laughed, tears welled up in their eyes.
They had fled from Shenyang to Dandong.
From Dandong, they had fled back to Pyongyang.
Now, where else could they flee!
Why should their small, insignificant country provoke the mighty lion of the Central Plains!
"King! Is this the result you wanted?"
Yi Zhi Shuai looked coldly at Gao Jianwu.
"And you lot! Those who repeatedly urged and incited the King of Pingyuan to order the construction of the Jìng Guān!"
"Are you satisfied now? Hmm?"
"Goguryeo has been established for six hundred years! Now it is about to perish at the hands of you arrogant civil officials! I will see how you face the former kings with honor!"
"Silence!"
King Rongliu seemed to have regained some strength and rebuked Yi Zhi Shuai.
"Goguryeo has not yet been defeated!"
"There are still fifteen thousand troops within the city!"
"There are still arrangements outside the city!"
"It is still unknown who will triumph!"
King Rongliu pulled over the defending general and pointed to the artillery formation outside the city.
"Can our fire arrows reach them?"
"Your Majesty! Four hundred paces! They cannot reach!"
The defending general's face was full of bitterness.
"The windlass crossbow can only shoot over two hundred paces at most!"
"Yi Zhi Shuai! Wei San! Da Shi Dong! You are defeated generals who fled from Shenyang!"
"I order you to lead ten thousand mounted archers and charge forward to attack the Tang army's artillery formation with fire arrows!"
"Since you say all this is my fault and the fault of the civil officials, then let me see how you, as generals, act!"
"If you win, I will confer upon you three the title of Supreme Pillar. If you lose! You need never return!"
Yi Zhi Shuai's words had enraged King Rongliu.
Wei San and Da Shi Dong were stunned.
"What the hell!
"What does this have to do with me?"
Both of them looked towards the other generals for help.
They wanted to beg them to persuade King Rongliu to withdraw his order.
But at this point, who would speak up for them!
"Better a dead fellow Taoist than a dead poor one!"
Someone had to go to their deaths, didn't they?
Seeing those whom they had called brothers and shared drinks with, now avoiding their gaze.
Wei San and Da Shi Dong's faces turned ashen.
Yi Zhi Shuai, however, was quite forthright. He glanced disdainfully at King Rongliu's lower body.
"Hmph!"
He turned around and directly descended the city wall.
"A general! Should die on the battlefield in a charge!"
"Not like a woman, shivering on the city wall!"
King Rongliu suppressed his shame and anger and looked at Wei San and Da Shi Dong.
"Why aren't you going yet!"