Chapter 232: Occupation of Gyeongju
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The only way to stop the Sui army from blowing up the gates at the moment was to throw stones and logs from the top of the city. The Silla army had prepared a lot of these fortification materials, but now the city wall above the city gate has become a sea of fire, and it is impossible to pass at all. This is called Kimber, how to use rolling stones to beat wood?
It didn't take long for only the deafening sound of shattering resounding across the land, and the closed gate of Gyeongju had been burned and rotted due to the large log that served as the bolt, even if the siege vehicles of the Sui army were not the standard heavy siege vehicles. But it also collapsed with a bang under the fierce push and impact of dozens of Sui soldiers. The Silla soldiers, who were still dedicatedly prying the logs in the back, were knocked over several times.
Kim Min-hyun and Kim Min-chong were also frightened by the loud noise, and they fell to the ground, and they stood up for a long time. They looked forward in shock, and Fang was shocked......
I saw that the gate of Gyeongju had been opened, revealing a black gate hole, and at the other end of the gate hole, there were several Silla soldiers who were stunned.
Qin Qiong smiled slightly at this time, and said to Cheng Biting Jin: "Biting Jin, notify all the generals that the whole army will assault and take Gyeongju in one fell swoop!" ”
When the Sui army saw that the city gate had been opened, their morale was greatly boosted, especially the 10,000 heavy cavalry who had been recuperating and holding back their strength before, and they even brandished their sabers and rushed into the gate of Gyeongju with a roar.
Jin Bofan wept and looked at the city gate that had been knocked open, and saw the Sui soldiers rushing into the city with a shout. He looked around at the Silla soldiers, and saw that they were all terrified, and their bodies trembled.
When the city gates were breached by the enemy, almost all of the defending troops lost the courage to resist, let alone the soldiers of the Silla army.
And these 10,000 Sui heavy cavalry are the most elite troops of the Liaodong camp, they can face the Goryeo army's ironclad heavy cavalry, and now they are even more powerful in the face of these Silla infantry who have lost the courage to resist.
Seeing that the general situation was gone, Jin Bofan originally wanted to commit suicide by swinging his sword, but under the persuasion of his subordinates, he still decided to break out and tell his father the bad news, so that Jin Baijing could find a way to deal with the sudden attack of the Sui army.
Behind Gyeongju Fortress is the sea, and boats have been prepared here. The Sui army did not send a sailor to attack, and after Jin Bofan led several soldiers to get on the boat, he finally rowed off the coast before the Sui army attacked the dock, which was regarded as picking up a life. The Sui army successfully conquered Gyeongju, and most of the Silla army was killed in battle, and a small number surrendered as prisoners.
After this battle, the brothers Kim Min-hyun and Kim Min-chong admired Yuming and the Sui generals even more. They believed that the combat effectiveness of the Sui army was really strong, not to mention the Silla army, even the Ji army could not confront it at all.
At the same time, they also believed that it was the best policy to befriend Yuming and the Liaodong camp he represented. Don't let Yuming feel disgusted with himself.
After learning that Gyeongju had been breached by the Sui army, the other cities of Silla did not have many troops stationed in them, and after the Sui army approached the city, they quickly stopped resisting and were accepted by Qin Qiong and Cheng Yanjin's troops one by one.
After conquering Gyeongju, the Liaodong Army also made a windfall. Most of the wealth accumulated in Silla over the years was in the treasury of Gyeongju, and after the war, all of this wealth became the war profits of the Liaodong army. According to Qin Qiong's preliminary inventory, the total value of those gold, silver, jewelry and copper coins exceeded 500,000 yuan. Although this wealth is much smaller than the treasury of the Great Sui, it is also quite good. And judging from the casualties and costs paid, this is the most cost-effective harvest.
After occupying Gyeongju, Qin Qiong followed the instructions of Yu Ming before the expedition. It was just that all the materials in the Silla treasury in Gyeongju were emptied, as well as the private property of those officials, and there was no offense against the ordinary surname Jae-cho.
Cheng even ordered a small part of the seized clothes and food to be given to the poor Silla people living on the streets. and ordered the construction of houses for them that had been destroyed in the fighting. This made the vast majority of Silla surnames grateful. When will the kings and officials of Silla be so kind to them?
Then, in order to stabilize the situation in the city, the resistance was cleared. Qin Qiong also ordered that anyone who reported a rebellion that attempted to be unfavorable to the Sui army would be given access to the family property of the person being reported. And this time, there is nothing to hide from the resistance that those Kimberfan arranged to leave before leaving. Even if someone is lucky enough to slip through the net, they are too scared to take action. The tension in the city soon calmed down. The vigilance of the people of Gyeongju against the Liaodong Army has been greatly reduced.
Of course, in the process, there will inevitably be cases where someone makes false accusations. However, Qin Qiong and Cheng Biting Jin deliberately pretended not to know, pretending to be a big boss, and they would be arrested if they were caught, and they would be killed if they were caught. In this way, everyone in Gyeongju is in danger, for fear that they will be denounced by people who have enemies in the past. They tried every means to curry favor with the officers and men of Liaodong and maintain good relations with the occupying forces. lest he be falsely accused by his enemies.
Qin Qiong's method effectively smashed the little resistance left in the city. At the same time, after doing so, compared with the foreign Liaodong army, the people of Gyeongju resented those falsely accused traitors even more. Their trust in each other has also been greatly reduced, and they are suspicious of each other.
And the way to prevent being falsely accused is to curry favor with the Liaodong Army, if you have a few friends of the Liaodong Army, then even if you are falsely accused, you will carefully check it. As a result, the prestige and prestige of the Liaodong Army in Gyeongju City increased day by day. The riots and rebellions that Wooming had feared did not happen.
Historically, the Silla people were able to defeat the Tang Dynasty army and forced the Sui army to withdraw and cede the Korean Peninsula to them. It is precisely because they are very united, brave and good at fighting, and indomitable. When this unity is destroyed, they are estranged from each other, and it is much easier to deal with them.
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Jin Baijing didn't know that the capital had fallen at this time, he had only received the news of the Sui army's invasion of his country before, and he didn't know how many troops the Sui army had.
However, after learning that there was a fire in the backyard, he had to go all out to save him. After giving up his plan to besiege Jeguodu. He led his army eastward, and after two days of travel, he finally arrived in Daegu County, which was only ten miles away from Daegu County.
At this time, he saw that it was getting late and that there were plains all around, and he was not afraid of the enemy's sneak attack, so he ordered to camp on a flat land close to the Dongjiang River.
Little did he know that the decisive battle of Daegu, which would later be known as the Battle of Silla, which marked the destruction of Silla, began here.
Although he was a king, he was not a pampered king, but a long-time ruler who had commanded the Silla army to invade Je twenty years earlier, and successfully forced Ji to cede a city and had to form an alliance with Goryeo against Silla.
His vast experience in warfare kept him the necessary cautious in the first place, and he sent a large number of scouts to scout around the camp before setting up camp at each location. But it was precisely because the scout reported that there were no enemies that he subconsciously relaxed his fear, and failed to pay attention to some details, and finally paid a terrible price for it.
Because neither he nor the scouts sent out expected that the enemy's ambush was from the middle of the river.
After several days of rapid marching, the expeditionary army of Silla was already exhausted, and after discovering that there were plains nearby, the enemy had nowhere to hide, and no enemy troops were found for more than ten miles nearby. Jin Baijing was also careless, and did not force the soldiers to cut down trees, build fences, and set up horses and fortifications at the gate of the camp.
In Jin Baijing's thoughts, he only rests here for one night, and then he can enter Daegu County the next day, so why bother so much.
But what they never expected was that just as they had set up their tents, finished dinner, and went to sleep, a cavalry of the Liaodong Army descended from the sky in front of them.
At the moment, however, the Silla army was almost completely undefended. Because although Jin Baijing sent scouts, it was impossible to send them to the river to reconnoitre.
"God help me!" When Yuming saw the simple camp of the Silla people in front of him, he couldn't help but be overjoyed.
As early as when Jin Baijing ordered Liu Yuanzong to break off, he let his 5,000 light horsemen ride the ships of the sailors, and went up the east to the bank of the river next to Daegu County. Fearing that he would be discovered by the Silla detectives, Woomyung deliberately anchored the fleet behind an island in the middle of the river.
When it was discovered that the Silla army had arrived in Daegu County, Woomyung still held back. It wasn't until after night that he took the opportunity to lead his army out of the island by boat.
At this time, it was the time when the Silla army had just fallen asleep and its vigilance was at its worst, but the Liaodong army landed on the river bank and launched a surprise attack at this critical moment.
"Tom, tom, tom!"
The battleships of the Liaodong Naval Division, which turned out from behind Jiangxin Island, also lit and threw their skins filled with fire oil into the camp of the Silla army.
Burning and screaming sounded one after another, and the fire and smoke covered the camp of the Silla army, and countless Silla soldiers were burned to death in their sleep.
The Silla people were so frightened that they did not even have time to put on their clothes and armor, so they fled from the camp in a hurry, trying to escape.
But at this time, they were surprised to find that a large number of Sui infantry appeared in front of them, and they were still holding slender double-edged broadswords in their hands. Of course, they didn't know that they were encountering the most elite infantry in the Liaodong Army, the Modao Battalion.
"Rush up and kill them! Avenge our dead brothers! Only by killing them and hitting the passage can we go back to our country! ”
"That's right! There are only 5,000 of them, and we have 70,000! Are you still afraid that you can't beat it? ”
When the soldiers of the Silla Army saw that there were Sui people blocking them, they were also stimulated to be bloody.
Jin Baijing knew that the most critical moment was in front of him, so he threw out a heavy reward, and he shouted: "In front of me is the decisive battle of my Silla, kill a Sui soldier, and the average reward is five taels of silver!" Those who kill officers will be rewarded twice according to their official positions, and if they can kill the opposing general, they will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver! ”
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