Chapter 53 Expedition to the Joy of the Lot-2
The soldiers who braved the artillery fire and arrow rain to rush to the death were extremely embarrassed when they retreated. In front of the breastwork, which was still precarious, only corpses and wounded soldiers were left behind. The strength of the "Liao army" to defend the camp was only 1,000, and the circular "big battalion" behind did not participate in the battle at all, and there were only more than 500 people in front of the battle. The 2,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Laiyuan County were not ordinary strong men, but the most elite army of the Goryeo Kingdom, and the battle was not without heroic efforts, but it still failed.
This scene fell in the eyes of Dutong Jin Xianrong, and a layer of dark clouds shrouded his face: "The 'Liao Army' is so powerful, is it the palace tent army?" Until this time, Jin Xianrong still concluded that the Liao army was at war with him. On the surface, the Goryeo court pursued a policy of "great things and sincerity", but in fact, it regarded itself as the successor of Goguryeo, a great power in Liaodong, and always wanted to expand its influence northward to Liaodong. Jin Xianrong has tens of thousands of elite soldiers in the northeast, and now he is in Baozhou, only regarding the Liao State and the rising Jin State as opponents, and the other 'savage' Jurchen tribes and the weak Han army are not in his eyes.
The nightmare of the defeated Goryeo army was far from over. Ma Rui and Jian Cheng were both ordered to pursue by the cavalry, and the two hundred cavalry went around from behind the artillery fort on the left flank, gradually increasing their speed, and pursued the defeated Goryeo troops with their backs to their positions. At the same time, the Xia army's artillery fortress turned to open fire on the far city head, and one after another the cannonballs smashed around the west city tower with heavy inertia, which not only suppressed the strong crossbow bows and arrows at the head of the city, but also made it difficult for the defeated Goryeo soldiers to escape into the nearest west gate.
This time it was Jian Cheng who led the troops to rush in front, after the hundred-man team came to the open field, he raised the horse lance horizontally with his right hand, which was the military order for the cavalry to spread out as a loose formation, and more than two hundred horsemen behind him slowly opened the distance, divided into two teams before and after, the distance between the front and rear left and right cavalry was about ten paces, and it was very convenient to shoot arrows and spears on the empty battlefield. Jian Cheng hung the horse lance on the bird's wing ring victory hook, freed his hands, took out the tiger treasure bow from the bow bag, bent the bow and set the arrow, and swished out, but the arrow was not missing. Ma Rui was armed with both arms, and a big spear stabbed the Goryeo soldiers to the ground with huge inertia, and the body of the spear stirred like a giant python turning over, and when it stretched out, it shrank like a poisonous snake spitting out a letter, and it unloaded the impulse and repulsion like a living thing. Led by these two brave generals, the two hundred cavalry pulled away and swept across the battlefield like two iron teeth of a rake. Even though one or two soldiers resisted with their lives, the Goryeo soldiers did not have the strength to turn back and fight, so they fled along the city wall while desperately calling the city.
The battle under the city was coming to an end, but the sound of artillery and shouts of killing was getting louder and louder, and it could be heard clearly on the Yalu River. Li Sihai stood in the battle of the mast and observed the battle situation with a clairvoyant mirror. Seeing that the Goryeo army was crying wolf at being hunted down, "The eighth battalion is not bad. He shouted loudly under the mast, the victory was exciting, and the end of the battle made him a little uninterested, and turned the clairvoyant mirror to the head of Baozhou City. Hey? I'm afraid there's a great general standing at the head of the city! ”
Li Sihai suddenly had a whim, half of his body leaned outside Diao Dou, and shouted loudly: "Aim at the head of Baozhou City!" Be quick! ”
The sergeants did not dare to slack off, and the position of the warship was quickly adjusted, and the port side was facing the head of Baozhou City, and ten four-inch guns roared in turn, and a huge roar resounded across the river, and the mast and the fight shook uncontrollably. Li Sihai ignored it completely, and only used a clairvoyant mirror to chase after the head of Baozhou City. Most of the shells had fallen elsewhere, and when he saw one of the shells hit the city, he couldn't help but shout excitedly: "Well done! "Ten cannons have been fired once, and the general is surrounded by the Goryeo army in the middle, and the head of Baozhou is in chaos, and it is not clear what the result of the battle is. Li Sihai leaned down again and shouted, "Keep firing the cannon, don't stop!" His eyes stared viciously at the lower deck, as if his gaze was about to penetrate the thick plank, staring at the gunners who were already scrubbing their chambers and loading ammunition with all their might, and after a long period of practice, the gunners on the ship had reached a terrifying speed of reloading. Li Sihai's body didn't have time to retract outside the railing, "Boom! A loud cannon fire shook the mast again, almost knocking the captain off guard.
"His grandmother's!" Li Sihai grabbed the railing with one hand in some shame and muttered in a low voice, "The bastard trained by Zhao De!" His other hand was busy and aimed the clairtelescope at the head of Baozhou City, the effect of the second round of shelling was better, three shells hit the city tower one after another, but the figure of the general was gone, the Gaoli soldiers ran around like headless flies, and I don't know what the results of this round of shelling were, Li Sihai couldn't help but feel a little stunned, after looking at it for a while, the mast shook violently again, he was angry in his heart, and shouted down: "Stop, stop, don't fire any more cannons!" "Because of the delay in the order and the firing of the artillery, it took six more guns below deck to stop moving. There was black smoke on the river, just like Li Sihai's mood, and the sailors were indeed not as easy to establish military merits as the battalions on the shore.
At the head of Baozhou City, the northeast camp was like a mourner, and in the round of artillery bombardment just now, Jin Xianrong, the commander of the northeast camp who came to Baozhou, was actually killed. During the first round of shelling, a cannonball hit the castle tower, and Jin Dutong was still very heroic, saying that this was just a harassment of the enemy ships on the river to show off their might, and under the persuasion of his staff and subordinates, he was still stubborn and did not go down to the castle tower to hide. However. The first shell of the second round of shelling hit the city again, and a splash of debris hit Kim Dutong's back, bleeding so much on the spot that he didn't even have time to explain his last words, so he died for a long time. Since the Goryeo State Sujong was determined to pass through the northern Xinjiang, there has been no record of the unification level generals in the camp capital, and this thunderbolt on a sunny day has been struck, and the camp in the northeast is in chaos, so that the battle situation on the other side of the Yalu River, the gains and losses of Laiyuan County, no one pays attention to it anymore.
The battlefield where the sound of artillery shook the sky and the sound of killing was everywhere just now, and it was silent at this time. The pursuing cavalry did not get too close to the far city wall, and slowly galloped back to the camp. Du Chuijiao led the sword and shield team to jump over the chest wall trench, came to the battlefield full of corpses, sorted out the battlefield, their main military affairs, in addition to the number of killed enemy soldiers, is to make up for the seriously wounded enemy soldiers. Many of the Goryeo soldiers were wounded by the shells, and only half of their bodies remained, but they still had a breath left, or they were bleeding through their stomachs, lying on the ground and moaning helplessly. The bloody courage of the desperate battle was only a matter of a moment, and the smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield at this time was not dissipated, only filled with endless sorrow. Before Du Chuijiao joined the Chengying Battalion, he had already participated in several regular battles, and it was not the first time that the sword and shield team had done military affairs to clean up the battlefield. These devastated and defeated soldiers are like lambs waiting to be killed in front of the sword and shield hands, but they are still very dangerous for the garrison camp with no experience at all. When the sergeants cleaned up all the living people on the battlefield, Zhao Xingde ordered the garrison to come out to bury the corpses and collect the spoils.
In this battle, more than 600 enemies were killed and more than 800 were taken prisoner. Two thousand Goryeo elite soldiers went into battle, and only four hundred fled back to the far city. The losses of the Xia Guoying were 21 killed and 33 wounded, and most of the casualties occurred when the Goryeo army shook the chest wall and trench defense. ushered in a big victory with outnumbered people, except for those who died in the battle, the eighth battalion of Chengying was very excited. Even the soldiers of the garrison battalion, who only saw the appearance of the Goryeo people after the battle, felt honored, and they were all overjoyed, and Sergeant Seungying looked down on the armor and blades of the Goryeo army, and these trophies were naturally used to arm the garrison battalion.
Before clearing the battlefield, military discipline was declared to the garrison in advance, and all seizures, including personal belongings found from the Koreans, were to be distributed centrally, and those who possessed them were severely punished. The soldiers even wanted to peel off those bloodstained military robes, but Zhao Xingde immediately stopped them when they found out.
The subordinates were overjoyed, but Zhao Xingde first paid attention to the dead and wounded sergeants, and said apologetically: "If we had more archers, the casualties would be smaller." "No matter how weak the enemy army is, as long as it is hand-to-hand, casualties are inevitable. However, the General's Mansion of the Xia Kingdom has never dared to let the proportion of archers in the infantry army as high as eighty percent like that of the Kanto region. Although bows and arrows can avoid casualties, in many battles of this era, it is the ability to fight hand-to-hand that determines the outcome of the battle.
Not just a coincidence but also deliberate, the battle between Xia Guoying and the Goryeo army ended in the morning, and in the afternoon, Wang Hengzhi rushed to Laiyuan County with 3,000 Kaizhou Han troops. Not only that, but two thousand Yalu River Jurchen tribesmen arrived with them. When the Han army arrived, it happened to meet the garrison camp to clean up the battlefield, and the corpses of the Goryeo soldiers were piled together, and the garrison soldiers were sweating and digging a big pit next to the corpse pile, and the armor and blades were piled up together. After obtaining the permission of the sergeant, the garrison battalion immediately distributed the armor blades that were still intact, and the damaged ones that could not be used were collected together and transported back to the camp in the future.
The belated Han army and the Jurchen coalition army could only drool when they watched as the soldiers of the garrison battalion carried piles of captured materials into the barracks.