Chapter 7: The Massacre
Mid-August, South Korea, Eunseong.
The sound of "Peng Peng" continued, and the huge stones emitted by the Qin army's catapults, with a whistling sound, broke through the air. The Korean soldiers, who had no time to dodge at the head of the city, suddenly fell down.
Wang Xu, the guard general of South Korea's Yancheng, was so anxious that he shouted to his soldiers: "Quickly dodge, quickly dodge." ”
Bai Qi, the general of the Qin State, stood on the built command tower, and next to him stood the deputy general Wang Yi. A handsome flag embroidered with the word "white" stands high on the tower.
Seeing the Korean army guarding the city in the distance, they dodged one after another under the blow of their own catapults. stood up, pointed at the city with his finger and said, "Set up the 'kill' word flag." ”
A battle flag embroidered with the word "kill" was slowly raised on the command tower. Thousands of Qin troops on both sides of the command tower shouted "kill", and lined up in neat squares, rushing towards the city.
This time, the Qin army attacked South Korea, which caught South Korea by surprise. Because after the Qin State occupied the two cities of Shaoqu and Gaoping in South Korea last year, South Korea also recognized itself. Later, Qin asked Korea to take advantage of the Qin army and let Qin's 100,000 troops go to attack Zhao, and King Han Henghui also agreed.
King Han Henghui thought, I don't want you to occupy my place in Korea, you let me borrow it, I borrowed it, you can't beat me again, right?
But I didn't expect that just a year later, the summer harvest had just passed. Bai Qi, the general of Qin, led another 200,000 Qin troops to attack Korea. The whole of South Korea, according to the words of our son-in-law Ji Kang, is "stunned" and unprepared.
This time, South Korea also saw that the goal of the Qin army was very clear. At the end of June, after the Qin State sent troops, 200,000 Qin troops rushed directly to the Shancheng area in the middle of the Shangdang area of South Korea and the capital Xinzheng. What is this for? This is to dismember South Korea!
The entire Korean court was in chaos, so Han Henghui and Wang Han Ran didn't have any "tricks". This is my Korean life! Resist!
On the one hand, he ordered the defenders of the nearby cities such as the Korean city of Eonseong not to retreat and defend it. then actively dispatched troops and prepared to go to Shencheng and other cities for reinforcements, but it was too late; On the other hand, he hurriedly sent envoys to the surrounding three kingdoms of Zhao, Wei, and Chu to ask for help.
But because of King Han Henghui's actions a few years ago, it really hurt the feelings of Zhao and Wei too much, and this time they don't care about you and don't send troops to reinforce them. And the king of Chu was even more excessive, and he didn't even see the face of the Korean envoy, so he sent it back.
Korean monarchs and ministers take a look, got! On the one hand, you have to resist, on the other hand, send an envoy to Qin to sue for peace! Please, King Qin Yingji, don't be like this, okay? Is there something to discuss? But before the envoy arrived in the Qin State, the Qin army led by Bai Qi had already attacked the four cities around the city, and now the troops were under the city.
Wang Xu, the defender of the city, gasped like a bellows, raised the bronze sword in his hand, shouted, and mustered all his strength to chop down a Qin army who had just climbed to the top of the city. The blood gushing out of the Qin army was also scattered on the head of the city and his own body.
Panting, he asked Liu Shou, the deputy general next to him, who was also covered in blood, "Have our reinforcements arrived?" If you don't do it again, the city will be broken. What is our king doing? ”
Adjutant General Liu Shou cried and said, "General, reinforcements haven't arrived yet." Is our king, the mother of others, a pig? He doesn't know what it will mean to South Korea if the city is broken? ”
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The Han army on the city of Shancheng desperately slashed and killed the Qin army besieging the city, picking and dressing. Many soldiers of the Qin army fell from the city one after another, and the blood had already stained the head of the city and the city below.
After a while, the entire city of Shencheng was full of horizontal and vertical corpses, intertwined with the corpses of the Qin army. The blood that flowed from these corpses had gathered into several streams.
Bai Qi, who was standing on the control tower, looked at these and was unmoved. The flag of "killing" is still fluttering high on the handsome tower of white.
Seeing the hard work of the South Korean army in Shancheng, he smiled and said to the deputy general Wang Yi next to him: "It seems that Wang Xu, the Korean guard general in Shancheng, is also very good at leading troops!"
Being able to organize such a defense in such a short period of time has stopped us for seven days, which is still a cut above the skills of the South Korean generals we have seen in the past twenty years or so. ”
Deputy General Wang Di, looking at the excessive casualties of the Qin army in front of him, frowned, and said to Bai Qi: "General, do you want our soldiers to retreat, our army has been fighting for a day today, and the casualties are too great." ”
Bai Qi looked up at the sun that was about to set in the west, and shook his head: "Now that both the enemy and us are exhausted, it depends on who can hold out to the end." The South Korean army in Shancheng has been resisting us for seven days, and if the city is not broken again, the Korean reinforcements from Xinzheng may arrive in these two days.
I saw that most of the Han troops at the head of the city were wearing ordinary people's clothes, which shows that the resistance of the Korean army has reached the last moment, and we can no longer give Wang Xu time to organize the defense, and we must break the city today. ”
Then the order was given to the herald: "Order, let the reserves come up." Set up the "slaughter" word flag, after breaking the city today, slaughter the city for a day. ”
"No".
Immediately, a large banner embroidered with the word "slaughter" was erected on the command tower of the Qin army, and the entire Qin military team shouted like a beast: "Slaughter the city, slaughter the city." ”
Subsequently, from both sides of the conning tower, thousands of Qin troops poured out, lined up in a square line, and rushed towards the city.
Wang Xu, the general of the city of Yancheng, saw the big banner of the word "Tu" fluttering high on the command tower of the Qin army in the distance, and listened to the shouts of the Qin army.
laughed miserably, turned to the deputy general Liu Shou and said, "It seems that the city can't be saved today." Go and open the east gate, and as many people as you can escape, you will escape. ”
Adjutant General Liu Shou cried: "General, I am willing to fight to the death with the general." ”
Wang Xu kicked Liu Shou and shouted, "Go quickly, open the city gate." You can run, if you can. Go to Xinzheng and tell the king that I, Wang Xu, have sacrificed my life for the country. ”
Adjutant General Liu Shou knelt down and cried and kowtowed: "No."
Then he shouted to the soldiers beside him: "Soldiers, the city is about to be destroyed." The Qin army's 'Tu' word flag has been erected, we have no way to retreat, behind us is our father and sisters, wives and children, we can only fight, today I Wang Xu is willing to die with all the soldiers. ”
The Han troops on the city wall shouted one after another: "I am willing to die with the general and fight with the Qin army." ”
In the distance, the drums of the Qin army rumbled, and more Qin troops poured in like a tide.
In the distance, the Qin general raised the command tower in white, and the flag waved, and the soldiers on both sides felt that the sky and the earth were dark, and a rain of arrows rushed straight to the head of the city, covering the sky and the sun.
And the Qin army that came afterwards, without giving any respite to the Han army in Shencheng, climbed the cloud ladder and rushed towards the city.
Wang Xu, the defender of the city, had already inserted a few arrows in his body, looking at the Qin army that was surging up, he wanted to continue to pounce and fight, but he didn't have half the strength in his body, looking at the black smoke that had risen in the city, he shouted with his last strength: "King, a certain general has tried his best to ......"
Then he slowly fell to the head of the city.
Finally, there were several gaps in the head of the city that were opened by the Qin army, and when the Qin army saw this, the war drums were louder, which stimulated more Qin troops to crawl towards the city.
The city was finally broken, and the Qin army, whose gate had been attacked, slowly opened.
The Qin army outside the city rushed to the city, and with the issuance of the Qin army's slaughter order, there was a sudden cry and shouting in the city, and the entire city was on fire, and the blood light filled the entire city.
In the battle, the Qin army slaughtered 50,000 Korean troops, and the people were even more numerous.
After the Battle of Eunseong, South Korea's elite forces were basically all lost. The Korean court was immediately plunged into chaos. From then on, Han Wangran began to seek to defend the Qin state, but it was too late.
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Historical records record: "...... In 264 B.C., in the fifty-first year of King Zhou Xun, the forty-third year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, and the eighth year of King Wucheng, Bai Qi attacked the city of South Korea, captured five cities, and beheaded 50,000. ”