Chapter 40: Expedition to Goguryeo
Beichen's face turned pale, and Zhang Liang jumped into the flames in front of his eyes, like a moth pounced on the fire, igniting flames several feet high. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
As barrels of sesame oil were poured into the pit, the flames became more ferocious, and the soldiers screamed and roared in the flames, struggling in all directions but unable to escape from the cage.
"Do you really want to kill them all, my lord? That's 250,000 people in six countries! ”
General Zhou stared at the struggling soldiers, his scalp was numb, he was timid, since the march and battle, the total annihilation of the enemy army is a big battle, how can it be like now, slaughter 250,000 troops at will!
Hearing this, Beichen turned his head to look at General Zhou, pondered for a moment, and asked without answering: "If I don't kill the army of the Six Kingdoms, have you thought about what the consequences will be?" ”
After thinking about it, General Zhou said in a deep voice: "If it is as Zhang Liang said, the six countries have promised not to attack in a hundred years, and they can get twice the tribute every year, it is not a bad policy!" ”
"I actually thought so until ......"
Beichen glanced back at the struggling enemy army, and said in a condensed voice: "It wasn't until the Khitan prince mentioned the tribute that I decided to kill the army of the Six Kingdoms?" ”
"My lord, is there anything wrong with what Prince Khitan said?" General Zhou frowned slightly, and hurriedly asked.
Beichen looked at General Zhou and shook his head, and said with a smile: "The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, why did the six countries rise up to attack Tang?" It's nothing more than profit! ”
"How can he be honest when he promises easily? It's just a delaying tactic! ”
When General Zhou heard Beichen's words, his body was shocked, and he instantly sensed that something was wrong, and then remembered the appearance of the Khitan prince at that time, it seems that this is indeed the case, the tribute is fake, and the escape is real!
"Adults are very wise, and their subordinates admire!" General Zhou willingly lowered his head and respected Beichen more and more.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, Beichen's face changed, he looked down and saw that there were Khitan soldiers climbing up along the earthen wall to grab his feet, Beichen stared at the charred half of his face, very young, still an immature child.
General Zhou stepped forward and wanted to cut off the hands of the Khitan soldiers with a knife, but was stopped by Beichen, he squatted down in surprise and looked at the young Khitan soldier quietly.
The Khitan soldier noticed Beichen's appearance, grabbed a few pieces of broken silver from his arms with trembling hands, and showed a pleading look at Beichen, and said with blood in his mouth: "...... home"
"What's your name!"
“……”
Beichen took a few pieces of blood-stained broken silver and asked the Khitan soldier in front of him, but unfortunately the Khitan soldier was speechless, and as soon as he let go of his hand, he fell into the raging flames and was gradually engulfed......
Staring at the young Khitan soldier falling into the sea of fire, Beichen clutched the broken silver in his hand, and his eyes gradually became bloodshot!
After a long time, Beichen let out a long sigh and asked Su He, who had a gloomy expression, "Are you very puzzled by my incineration of the army of the Six Kingdoms?" ”
"Something confused!" Su He said truthfully.
With a sigh of relief, Beichen explained: "Su He, if we don't kill the army of the Six Nations and let the army of the Six Nations go south, do you know what kind of situation it will be?" ”
Su He's heart trembled, his back was already full of cold sweat, and he muttered: "My Datang life has been ruined, countless deaths and injuries, and my family is ruined!" ”
"Yes, once the flames of war ignite Chang'an, Luoyang ...... When the time comes, there will be more than 300,000 people, 3 million people! ”
It's not that Beichen kills innocents indiscriminately, but if he doesn't kill the armies of the Six Kingdoms, Datang will suffer, thousands of Datang families will be ruined, and there will be mountains of bones and rivers of blood.
The fire continued to burn for several hours, and a smell of barbecue wafted out, Beichen couldn't bear to look at it directly, and ordered 80,000 troops to bury the fire pit quickly.
"My lord, what about the captured captives of the Six Kingdoms?"
At this time, a general came over and spoke in Beichen's ear, Beichen frowned slightly, and said, "Bring it here!" ”
Soon, a pair of thousands of people were pushed and walked over, and there were soldiers from the six countries inside, they stared at the fire pit in a daze, stunned, until they saw Beichen, they came back to their senses, revealing a devouring fierce gaze.
Beichen noticed a pair of cold eyes, and immediately narrowed his eyes, and then he waved his big hand and said coldly: "Kill, don't leave one!" ”
A few hours later, Beichen saw that everything was over, turned to a general and said, "General Li, this war is over, I order you to rush back to Chang'an to report the war!" ”
"My lord, why don't we go back to Chang'an?" Su He looked stunned, the invading enemy had all been annihilated, and it stands to reason that all the generals should return to Chang'an at this time to ask for merit and reward.
Beichen turned his head and said meaningfully: "Su He, how much did our army lose in this battle?" How much did the enemy lose? ”
"Our army did not spend a single soldier, and the enemy's 250,000 troops were all annihilated!"
Nodding, Beichen continued: "If we fight normally and annihilate the 250,000 army, how much will our army lose?" ”
Su He frowned slightly, and thought deeply: "Annihilating the 250,000 army, our army will lose at least more than 150,000 people, and there will be countless wounded soldiers?" ”
Taking a deep breath, Beichen looked back at the sky, his eyes flickering: "If we return to Chang'an now, the news to the surrounding feudal states is undoubtedly that this war will be fought against each other, and both sides will be defeated, and I am afraid that there will be another war in the end?" ”
"Your Excellency is reasonable, do you have any plans?" Su He thought about it, indeed, returning to the Tang Dynasty now will undoubtedly make the surrounding countries suspect that the Tang army has suffered heavy losses, and when the time comes, the war will burn again!
Walking forward, Beichen said expressionlessly: "Kill, rest for a day, order troops tomorrow morning, and go to Goguryeo!" ”
The surrounding Datang soldiers trembled in their hearts, looked at the young Beichen, and sighed infinitely for a while, with such courage and courage, even if they searched all over the world, how many could there be?
On the second day, when Beichen got up at the third pole of the sun, the leading carpenter outside the door was already waiting, and said to Beichen: "My lord, your carriage has been ready." ”
"Good!"
Beichen got dressed and said to General Zhou next to him: "Pass the order, leave a thousand soldiers, and the rest of the 80,000 troops will follow me to kill Goguryeo!" ”
Turning around, Beichen saw that the leading carpenter was still kneeling on the ground, and he suddenly said in surprise: "Why don't you leave, I won't lose a penny for the bounty!" ”
"My lord, it's not about money, the little one wants to follow the army to Goguryeo!"
Hearing his words, Beichen was stunned, but he didn't refuse, nodded and agreed, at this moment Su He walked over with a pair of maps, and asked Beichen: "My lord, I looked at the map yesterday, and it was clear that it was more appropriate to attack the Khitan, why attack Goryeo?" ”
Beichen wanted to say that a thousand years later, the Khitan would be Chinese, and Goryeo would not, but when it came to his mouth, he still held back and laughed: "I don't think the Goryeo stick is pleasing to the eye!" ”