Chapter 492: Jingguan is everywhere

Jang Guigui and the others went ashore, and the scouts who had gone ashore earlier reported that there was no shadow of the Baekje people in the area of one mile ahead, and there was no Baekje army to defend this generation.

Zhang Guigui and Sun Yongsheng, the envoy of the Third Army, crouched on the ground, and under the cover of a group of soldiers, they lit a horse lantern and looked at a topographic map spread on the ground.

Before landing, they had interrogated Baekje prisoners of war who were familiar with the terrain of the area, and knew that there was a town of more than 800 people more than three miles away.

After confirming the prisoners of war they brought, Zhang Guigui and the others pressed the prisoner and ran towards the town.

Not long after, Zhang Mougui and others saw a dark and secluded building in the distance, and there were dots of light in some places.

Zhang Guigui and Sun Yongsheng, the envoy of the Third Army, each took 600 men and surrounded the town. When they reached about 200 paces from the town, the troops stopped, and according to the plan, a small team of the special operations team first went to open the city gates.

The special operators came to the town and found some militiamen armed with knives and guns guarding the gate of the town, and found no trace of the army.

The Baekje people are surrounded by the sea on both sides, and the coastline is so long that they don't have that many troops to defend the entire coastline, so they can only focus on the seaside and roads leading to key cities.

The soldiers avoided the gate and found a quiet wall, from where they climbed up, and after going up the wall, they entered the town and felt in the direction of the gate.

Zhang Guigui and his team stared at the direction of the gate, and soon saw that the lights were lit up there. The light draws several circles in succession, indicating that the gate has been taken.

Zhang Guigui ran towards the gate with the team without a word, and just as they were about to reach the gate, shouts of killing sounded at the gate. Some of the awakened men engaged in a battle with the special operators.

Zhang Guigui shouted: "Kill." Rushing towards the gate, the officers and soldiers also rushed forward with shouts.

The strong men who were fighting with the special combat forces saw such a large team rushing over, and they were immediately frightened and fled in all directions. At this time, Sun Yongsheng, the envoy of the Third Army on the other side of the town, heard the movement in the town and also rushed over with his team.

The town resounded with shouts of killing, screams, screams of women and children. After about half an hour, the town fell silent, and then a fire burst into flames.

Soon after, at a junction in the north of the town toward the interior, Jang Guigui led a group of soldiers to pile up more than 200 Baekje heads into a wall. The more than 200 human heads were dripping with blood, and in the cold moonlight, their hideous faces looked creepy. This is called Kyokan.

Jingguan was not pioneered by the Tang Dynasty, its inventors were Goguryeo. After the defeat of Emperor Yang of Sui in his eastern expedition to Goguryeo, 100,000 troops surrendered to the Goguryeo, but all of them were beheaded. Their heads were stacked on the banks of the Yalu River, forming a long wall that the Goguryeo people called Gyokan. Decades have passed, and the heads that have long since turned into dry bones are still placed there, symbolizing the shame of the Han nation.

Later, Zhang Guigui and the others escorted the stolen women and belongings away, they came to the shore, boarded the sampan and the yacht, and then disappeared into the vast sea.

Xue Rengui personally led some of the officers and soldiers of the First Army to the coast, and the target he chose was a cantonment of the Baekje people, which contained 500 soldiers. They are subordinate to the coastal defense troops, which mainly farm in peacetime, and are engaged in combat in wartime, and have a certain combat effectiveness. At this time, they had already received a notice to strictly prevent the Tang Army from landing and fighting.

Although Li You stipulated that the main thing should not be to kill or injure the opponent's army, Xue Rengui believed that if the opponent's army could be annihilated, the blow to them would be even greater. Therefore, he took the initiative to choose such a goal.

Although Tunjeonsho is not the elite army of the Baekje people, they are an army after all, and they still have a certain combat effectiveness. After they were informed, they made preparations, went to bed at night, wore clothes, and put their weapons in their rooms. And a guard post was put out in the direction of the beach.

The Baekje people are not a town, there are no tall walls, only thin earthen walls less than two meters high, and the gate is also a wooden fence gate.

Xue Rengui had already learned about these situations from the captives, and he already knew the deployment of troops inside, the training level of the army, the situation of weapons and equipment, etc. After going ashore, he did not send a special combat team to touch the camp, because it was difficult to find out the location of the enemy's sentry posts at night, especially the secret burns. The tactic he decided to adopt was to quickly approach the Tuntiansho with the whole army, and if the Baekje outposts discovered the Tang army's movements, the whole army would immediately attack.

When the Baekje people wake up from their sleep, they have to get their weapons, and then they have to go to the whole team, which will take some time. These hours were enough for the Don army to rush into the enemy's strongholds, and they were still able to take them by surprise.

Xue Rengui and the others lined up in six columns, and by the faint moonlight, they marched in the direction of the enemy's military camp, and soon after, they saw a large number of buildings in front.

The Baekje people have also fought over the years, but they have fought at sea, and the soldiers of the army have not fought for many years. None of the soldiers in the Tuntian had any experience in warfare, and they had also heard that the Tang army had probably tens of thousands of people, and at best 10,000 people could land and fight. With such a large coastal defense line, they are not an important target here, and the possibility of the Tang Dynasty people coming here is very small, so their vigilance is not very high.

They only put two sentry posts at the gate and two secret sentry posts a few dozen meters away from the wall of the tuntian station.

The night on the seashore was damp and cold, and two Baekje soldiers in single clothes hid behind a canal, dozing in a daze.

Suddenly, they heard a burst of footsteps. The footsteps were soft, but numerous, and woke them up. A soldier sat up straight, looked out from the canal, and saw a black figure.

He exclaimed: "Oh no, the Tang Dynasty people are coming." He ran towards the gate of the tuntian, and another soldier hurried after him.

Xue Rengui shouted: "Rush." "Rush forward first.

Hearing the shouting, there was chaos in the Tuntian office, and the soldiers ran to the courtyard in a panic, and before they could finish their formation, the brigade of the Tang Army had already rushed into the gate.

The soldiers of the tuntian, who were half peasants and half soldiers, had no combat experience in the first place, almost no armor on their bodies, and all kinds of weapons, and they were in a hurry. Faced with the large number of people and well-equipped Tang Army, it collapsed almost instantly. In less than ten minutes, all the Baekje people in the tuntian were cleared.

The next thing made Xue Rengui a little headache, according to the requirements of His Royal Highness the King of Qi, he wanted to kill all these soldiers and set up Jingguan.

However, due to the low combat effectiveness of the Baekje people, they surrendered after a few resistances, and only a few dozen people were killed in the battle, and the rest became prisoners. Let Xue Rengui kill these captives who have surrendered, he can't do it.

After thinking about it, he made a decision to pull out some of the soldiers who were already wounded, and some of the soldiers who looked unpleasant, and behead them in front of the other soldiers. They gathered about 100 of their heads and the heads of the soldiers who had been killed before, and placed them in front of the living Baekje soldiers.

The living Baekje soldiers were scared one by one.

Xue Rengui selected 300 strong soldiers from among them, and asked them to carry the grain and other materials in the tuntian to the seashore and get on the transport ship. The remaining 100 or so old, sick and disabled soldiers, each cut off one of their ears, and let them go. He felt that it would be better for the soldiers to spread the word about the situation in Baekje.

After breakfast the next day, Li You and Cheng Yanjin were drinking tea, Xue Rengui and others came over to report last night's actions, and the gains of each unit were very large, but when counting the results, there was something that Li You and Cheng Yanjin expected.

The various troops sent out to carry out the mission all looted a large amount of property, and they all set up Jingguan in various places according to Li You's request. However, they brought back a large number of Baekje men, and the number of women was very small.

Xue Rengui was afraid that his generals would be punished, so he said: "Lord Wang, after the minister captured the enemy's tuntian, the enemy surrendered without much resistance. Originally, the minister wanted to kill them all, but then he thought that it might be useful for these people to live, so he sent them back and let the king of Baekje ransom them, wouldn't he be able to earn a fortune again? So the minister took it upon himself to take them back. ”

The generals under him, in addition to the team of the Third Army who went with Zhang Guigui, the envoys of the other three armies said together: "Lord Wang, the ministers also think so. ”

Li You knew that they were unwilling to kill innocents indiscriminately, and he was very emotional in his heart: "My Central Plains Dynasty is really a state of etiquette, which can be regarded as a good thing." Instead of reproaching them, he said, "You have done the right thing, so be it." Your gains are very great, you report the merits, let Sima Jiong record them for you, and wait until you return to the Tang Dynasty to discuss the rewards for meritorious deeds. ”

Everyone was very happy to see that the prince was reasonable.

Zhang Guigui was a little dumbfounded, he was the only one here who resolutely carried out Li You's instructions. He said a little aggrieved: "Brother You, they all did it right, does that mean that what I did was wrong?" ”

Li You said: "Okay, you did the best." ”

"Well, that's pretty much it." Zhang Guigui said excitedly.

Everyone couldn't help but laugh when they looked at him.

Next, Liu Renliang reported on the situation of the navy's operations. They sank four Baekje warships, a merchant ship transporting supplies, last night.

Next, they looked at their next move. According to the plan, the Navy will take the Marines and capture all the important coastal ports of the Baekje people during the day today, and the Army will rest this morning and continue to select targets for attack in the afternoon.

The capital of Baekje is located in Baseong.

From this morning onwards, Yu Zhang, the husband of Wuwangfu, continued to receive bad news from all over the world, and the strength and cruelty of the Tang Dynasty people's combat effectiveness were beyond his expectations.