Chapter 586: Retreat from the enemy
In one case, the 10,000 troops of Goguryeo lost more than 2,000 people in front of the city wall, and not only that, but the previous wells and ladders were now all washed away by water, and if these Goguryeo people wanted to continue the siege, it was impossible. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Xuan Shijing saw the current form clearly, and Yang Wanchun's deputy general also saw it clearly, without the well and the ladder, he couldn't go up to the city wall of others, how to attack? Glancing at Xuan Shijing and Chang Le standing at the head of the city with resentment, the deputy general could only order Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.
The 10,000 troops of Anshi City were menacing, but they were calculated by Xuan Shijing in front of Beisha City, and they retreated in a hurry, which inevitably meant that they were anticlimactic, but they couldn't help it, unless they could capture the city wall and then put down the drawbridge from the city, otherwise it would be difficult to enter Beisha City.
The remaining 7,000 or so Goguryeo soldiers retreated like a tide, and if they wanted to attack Beisha City, it would be a few days later.
The wide ditch outside the city wall had become a moat for Beisha City, until the Goguryeo army retreated, and there were still some Goguryeo soldiers who struggled to survive floating in the river, but more of them had become corpses floating on the surface of the river.
"Master Hou, the Goguryeo army has retreated, what should I do with those outside the city?" Chang Le looked at Xuan Shijing. The ones outside the city he said were naturally the Goguryeo soldiers who survived by luck, as well as the corpses in the river. "Let people out of the city for a while, whether they are alive or dead, all of them will be salvaged." Xuan Shijing said: "If you soak in water all the time, you are prone to plague. "Plague, this is something that makes people talk about color change, Chang Le naturally knows how powerful it is, and quickly nodded in response.
"Yes, Master Hou."
"As for those Goguryeo soldiers who are alive...... Kill it. Xuan Shijing said.
In one sentence, the fate of the more than 100 Goguryeo soldiers who survived was decided.
The current Beisha City, no need for prisoners, or rather, Xuan Shijing, does not like prisoners for the time being, in case the number of prisoners exceeds the defenders, the consequences are immeasurable, Xuan Shijing does not dare to gamble, the safety of the entire Beisha City, the net worth and lives of more than 1,000 people, are all tied to him, he does not dare to take this risk, so he would rather bear such a murderous name.
The more than 7,000 troops of Anshi City retreated, and it was not until they disappeared from the sight of everyone on the city wall that Xuan Shijing ordered the suspension bridge to be lowered and the city gate opened. Five hundred defenders left the city with all sorts of tools and began to salvage the corpses in the moat, as well as those who survived.
It's just that once the living are fished ashore, what awaits them is still the sharp butcher's knife of the defenders. The living people who were still floating in the river did not go up at all, and those who could swim swam straight in the direction of the west of Beisha City, and those who could not swim and survived with those driftwood struggled to flutter their arms and swam away with those people, as long as they could survive from the defenders of Beisha City, that was their motivation.
It's just that how could the defenders let them run out so easily? Once these people escaped, they would surely return to Anshi City again and become their enemies, so when the defenders on the city wall saw these people like this, some of them had good archery skills, and they bent their bows and arrows and shot at those who tried to flee in the river.
The water of the moat was very deep, and only some of the people floating on it were only partial, and some of them had sunk to the bottom of the river, and they were all soldiers in heavy armor.
Salvage was not an easy task, and the city's defenders now had no more than some door panels, which were fastened with ropes and used as rafts.
It took about an hour for the corpses floating in the river to be salvaged, and they were still on the shore, lined up for a long time, stacked in two or three layers.
Xuan Shijing stood on the city wall, lost his appetite and went to have breakfast again, and after seeing that the defenders who went down to salvage the corpses were all ashore, he turned sideways and said to Chang Le: "Send a letter to Fang Shu and ask him to block the embankment, and then go to the east and blow up the embankment."
Now the west side is dug up, the sea water is poured in, and then the west side is blocked again, and the water in the river becomes stagnant water, and the east side is dug up, and the water flow will flow into the sea again, and the deep ditch in front of the city wall will be revealed again.
Anshi City didn't think of a way to deal with this level, for the time being, they won't come to disturb Beisha City again, wait for a few days, Zhang Jian will come to the vicinity of Anshi City, even if they want to send people to Beisha City again, Zhang Jian's side, will let them take off a layer of skin first. And now, what Xuan Shijing has to deal with is only the army of more than 7,000 people in the city who retreated in a hurry.
Time has dragged on for a long time, and Xuan Shijing doesn't believe that the food and grass supply of this batch of troops can keep up.
"Chang Le, I didn't rest all night last night, take advantage of my free time now, let's go down and sleep for a while, and the brothers on the city wall, take turns to rest and eat." Xuan Shijing said.
"Yes, Master Hou." Chang Le didn't shirk, a night of high-intensity mental concentration, coupled with the tension of this morning's war, as soon as he relaxed, Chang Le was indeed a little nervous, and he felt very tired for a while.
Chang Le went down the city wall and went back to the camp to rest, and the rest of the trivial matters needed to be handled by Xuan Shijing himself.
In the morning's battle, there were many people who had been wounded by enemy arrows, and they had already been carried off the walls by their robes and sent to the barracks. And in the barracks, Ye Qing, the doctor who came to Liaodong with the vanguard army, also began to be busy again.
When he first came to Liaodong, Ye Qing had already begun to do psychological construction for himself and convince himself of the tragedy of the battlefield, but what he thought in his heart and what he saw were not the same thing at all.
Three thousand Goguryeo soldiers were surrounded and killed under the city wall, and Ye Qing couldn't stand it, but when the vanguard sent some of the injured veterans to him for treatment, he accidentally heard those veterans talk about the past, and Ye Qing gradually accepted it in his heart. It turned out that the original Guanzhong men had more tragic casualties than the Goguryeo soldiers in Beisha City today...... This...... It's a battle of revenge.
Ye Qing saw with his own eyes how the veterans who were seriously injured and could not be rescued after the Goguryeo soldiers were left with relief and smiles, and saw with his own eyes how hearty the living people said to their companions.
Ye Qing understood that the Guanzhong boy and Goguryeo were mortal enemies, a deep feud in the sea of blood that could only be washed away with blood and life, and all he could do was to do his best to treat these injured people and save their lives.