Chapter 400: Submission 5
After a round of shooting, the Goryeo people's plan to drive the rout to attack the defense line of the Li army failed, and with a proud wave of Li Feifeng's hand, hundreds of pirates rushed out of the position wielding swords and launched a counterattack on the Goryeo army.
The characteristic of the Li family pirates is that everyone has them, and anyone dares to use them.
In this recoil, running at the forefront are dozens of babbling real widows, they are short but strong, wearing only a crotch cloth, with strips of white cloth tied on their heads, and their mouths are babbling and making inhuman howls, holding up their swords, regardless of whether the opposite side belongs to their own side of the army or the enemy, as long as they see the Koreans head-on, they will slash down!
The sharp sword is not good against heavy armor, but it has a terrifying lethal effect against unarmored soldiers, and the screams of the Koreans are incessant, and all kinds of heads and limbs are flying around.
The other pirates who followed behind the Wako immediately followed suit, and rushed into the Korean formation along the gap opened by the Wako to engage in melee combat.
Both sides lacked armor protection, so every hit of the cold weapon was enough to make a strong man lose his combat effectiveness, but the Goryeo army had already killed the red eye, and for the first time there was no retreat, and under the leadership of the armored general, they shouted in unison and fought with the Li family's army!
In this kind of melee, the only person wearing iron armor has a greater advantage, this is the young general who has just shown superb archery skills, his name is Jin Zhen, some time ago the defenders of Wang Jing mutinied, and when they surrendered out of the city, he also led his private soldiers to close the city gate in time.
Jin Zhen was promoted by Li Liang to be the chief general of the current Wangjing garrison, and yesterday he saw the main force of the Qi army leave at the head of the city, and immediately began to plan a counterattack after going south to deal with the Qin Wang army.
Jin Zhen didn't dare to provoke the Qi army, so he chose the pirate army blocking the Dunyi Gate, Jin Zhen had previous experience in dealing with the Japanese invaders, so he thought that this attack had a good chance of victory.
But it didn't come to pass, the Li family had already purchased all the captured Tartar firearms from Qi Province in full, and in addition to allocating a part of the pirate ship, Li Feifeng deployed all the remaining firearms on this position.
With the firepower multiplied, Li Feifeng, who had been prepared for a long time, would naturally not be overwhelmed by a mere few hundred defeated soldiers and Koreans.
As long as the first wave of impact is blocked, the Koreans will actually have no chance at all.
The first Korean soldier could not bear it anymore and began to flee, which set off a chain reaction, and the others also broke down in confidence, threw down their weapons and turned around and fled towards Dunuimon.
Soon, Jin Zhen was left with only a dozen of his own private soldiers, and he himself relied on a gorgeous armor, and did not hold a shield, with a long knife in his right hand and a shorter ring knife in his left hand, slashing left and right, killing several unarmored widows in succession.
The remaining private soldiers also mustered up their courage and resisted desperately with Jin Zhen as the core.
Hindered by this small force, the Li army was unable to pursue the Goryeo deserters, and the angry pirates surrounded the Goryeo warriors with spears and fired fiercely at Kim Jin and his soldiers with bows and arrows.
The unarmored Koreans all fell, and Kim Jin was the only one left on the battlefield still wielding twin swords.
One of the pirates threw a fishing net from behind him and grabbed Jin Zhen, and four or five pirates worked together to drag him down.
Jin Jin tries to cut the fishing net with the ring knife, but then, a pirate steps forward with a big stick and hits Jin Jin hard, and the ring knife escapes.
The other pirates swarmed up and finally subdued the Goryeo general, who was trapped in a fishing net and could not move, and could only be unwilling to scream.
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According to the strategic assumption of the Goryeo people, this time they should have the three-way Qin Wang army and the Wang Jing defenders acting at the same time, attacking inside and outside to break the encirclement of the Qi army on Wang Jing.
However, in fact, only the Southern Route Army and the Wang Jing garrison were engaged in the battle.
And both failed.
The commander of the Southern Route Army was killed, and the whole army collapsed. The defenders of Wang Jing lost one of their brightest young generals and the last daring troops in the defenders.
And until the two armies collapsed, the Northern Route Army and the Eastern Route Army did not rush to the battlefield.
Among them, the Eastern Route Army could only try to meet the Northern Route Army first because the road was not easy to walk, but it failed to reach the battlefield due to the influence of the Northern Route Army.
The Northern Route Army, which had high hopes, was caused by the disagreement of the generals and the indecisiveness of the army.
When the king of Goryeo learned the truth of the matter, he was furious, and he immediately ordered the commander of the East Road Gin King Army, the Marshal of Gangwon Province Kim Myeong-won to arrest and behead the North Road Gin King Army, and the South Hamgyong Province Army Commander Shin G.
At the same time, he also ordered Kim Myeong-won to immediately lead the two Qinwang armies to cross the Imjin River at once.
Angry and flustered, Li Liang never thought about why the Qi army only blocked the gate of Wang Jingcheng, but never cut off the connection between Wang Jing and Qin Wang Jun.
Even if some of the nobles in the two classes saw that this was a siege point, they did not dare to warn the king who had lost his mind, not to mention that they themselves were in the city, and each of them was expecting a miracle.
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On the first day of the second month of the third year of Longdo, the army of King Qin of the northern and eastern roads of Goryeo, under the strong order of the capital marshal Kim Myeong-won, began to try to strengthen the Imjin River.
Unexpectedly, the Qi army did not block it in the south of the Yangtze River, but allowed the Qin Wang's army to cross the river safely.
However, even so, it took more than 5 days for all the 16,000 Qinwang troops to cross the river.
A day later, a Qi fleet of 12 small flat-bottomed boats sailed up the Imjin River and easily captured the Goryeo army ferry, blocking the Goryeo army south of the Imjin River.
Subsequently, Xu Shiyang led the main force of the Qi army to appear in front of the Goryeo.
On the seventh day of the second month of the third year of Longdao, in the early morning, the Qi army first fired a volley of artillery, and then the Shenji soldiers approached to 50 paces under the cover of shield vehicles and sharp soldiers to shoot in turns, and finally the cavalry outflanked on both flanks, and selected the front soldiers, trapping soldiers, and the blue army brigade to launch a general attack, and it took only one hour before and after, and completely defeated the Qinwang army on the north and east roads of Goryeo.
At the last moment of the collapse of the whole army, Marshal Kim Myeong-won led 500 armored cavalry to launch a final charge against the Qi army, he himself was killed by rifled gunners in the head, and the other Goryeo cavalry were set on fire by divine cannons and musketeers, and the whole army was annihilated.
In the end, more than 2,700 Koreans were killed in battle, and more than 13,000 were captured, almost all of whom were spared.
On the eighth day of the second month, the head of the Goryeo army captured by the Qi army built a Jingguan outside each of the four gates of Wangjing, and hundreds of banners of the Goryeo army were thrown outside the largest city gate of Wangjing, Chongli Gate.
The Qi army deployed 72 artillery pieces of various types here, and at the same time fired a bow and arrow to persuade surrender into the city.
Xu Shiyang explicitly demanded that Li Liang personally go out of the city and surrender, otherwise, he would launch a general attack on Wang Jing a day later, and he threatened that if the king of Goryeo did not surrender, there would be no chickens and dogs left in Wang Jing on the day the city was broken.
At this point, the last hope of Yi Liang and the main battle faction of Goryeo had been completely shattered, and the desire to survive quickly overrode the idea of maintaining the dignity of the royal family.
On the ninth day of the second month of the third year of Longdo, all the four gates of Goryeo Wangjing were opened, and King Yi Liang led two groups of nobles to walk out of Chongryeong Gate and led the whole city to surrender to Xu Shiyang.