Chapter 442: Momentum (Part I)

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Night fell, and at this time when it was supposed to rest, there was chaos in Liaodong City, with shouts and screams everywhere.

"Oh my God, the Tang people are calling!"

"I heard that the generals lost the battle, and the Tang people will attack immediately!"

"O sin, this must be the punishment of heaven!"

And outside the city of Liaodong, the earth-shattering sound of cannons is also endless.

"Boom...... Rumble ......"

Wei Chigong found that he had fought for most of his life, but he had never been so cool as today, and that kind of exhilarating feeling made him feel satisfied even if he died immediately.

"Hahahaha, happy, happy!"

He laughed as he lit the cannon rope beside him, which had been loaded with ammunition.

"Boom!"

When this earth-shattering cannon sounded, the Tang army suddenly burst into cheers.

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

Today's Tang army can be said to be full of morale, and the soldiers' huge confidence comes from artillery and mines.

In the morning, they saw with their own eyes that their general's use of this thing called the cannon had blasted through the gates of the new city with less than a stick of incense, and then took the city with them in less than an hour.

Then, it took them less than half a day to rush from Xincheng to Liaodong City, and then inflicted heavy losses on the main force of Quangaisu outside Liaodong City.

The soldiers all remembered that at that time, their general asked them to do one thing, which was to bury something called "Fudo Ming Wang" outside the city of Liaodong, saying that it could deal with the Goguryeos.

At first, the soldiers didn't believe it, and in their opinion, these so-called "Fudo Ming Kings" were actually just lumps of stones.

But they soon learned that they were wrong.

It was this kind of "stone lump" that they couldn't look down on, which made the 200,000 cavalry that Quan Gaisu was proud of go up in smoke!

The Tang soldiers present at that time could never forget the scene when the Goguryeo cavalry rushed through the formation, and they felt that this was the most tragic scene they had ever seen in their lives.

After the mine was triggered, the Goguryeo cavalry was swept away with men and horses, and a few unlucky cavalrymen, after being blown up by the first mine, triggered the second mine, and then were directly blown into a mess of rotten meat!

Moreover, the roar of the mines made the Goguryeo war horses completely out of control, and they did not listen to the command of their masters at all, neighing and galloping forward, so that the result was that the mines were constantly triggered, and then the people and horses were sent to the sky.

The entire 200,000 cavalry, after rushing through the "death zone" of less than 800 meters, were left with less than half of them.

When these survivors looked back, they immediately found that behind them, in addition to the corpses of cavalry and war horses, only stumps and broken arms were left on the ground.

Everyone knows very well that the soldiers who fell to the ground are basically helpless, you must know that in this era, once you are injured on the battlefield, the chance of surviving is almost zero!

They lost more than half of their soldiers and horses without even touching the enemy, and the most unacceptable thing for them was that they didn't even know what was going on!

The unknown is the most frightening, and it is for this reason that the morale of the soldiers of Goguryeo has fallen to the bottom.

An army without morale could not win a battle, and in the face of the Tang army, which was waiting for the battle, these Goguryeo cavalry were suddenly crushed at the touch of a button.

The Goguryeo cavalry began to flee, but they did not know that if they chose the same route they had charged to retreat, they would be able to return to the city safely, because that road was almost free of mines, and it was safe.

Unfortunately, they didn't know this, for them, it was a "cursed" road, covered with Goguryeo flesh and blood, so they chose to avoid this bloody path.

And the result of this is to add several more of the same "blood routes".

The 200,000 Goguryeo cavalry came out in a rage, and then fled back in fear, and by the time they returned to the city, there was no one left in ten.

The cavalry of Goguryeo withdrew, and the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty had just appeared and started their performance, and the repertoire they performed was called Killing!

In this era, only cavalry can compete with cavalry, even between light cavalry and heavy cavalry, there is a certain gap in combat effectiveness, not to mention the huge gap between infantry and cavalry.

Therefore, when the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty faced the infantry of Goguryeo, Wei Chigong only used one round of charge, divided the more than 100,000 infantry of Goguryeo into several small pieces, and then began a one-sided massacre.

In the face of the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty, these Goguryeo soldiers who were divided and surrounded were like being cut into a cream cake, without the power to resist, and at this time they had only two choices, either die or run, and there was no first choice.

More than half of the Goguryeo soldiers died, while the remaining small ones hid in the city of Liaodong and never dared to come out again.

Such a result had long been expected by Cheng Yanjin, and after the Goguryeo soldiers retreated, he unhurriedly began to clean up the battlefield and recover the mines that had not been triggered.

This time, Gao Ming brought a total of 100,000 mines from Chang'an, and nearly 50,000 were used in this battle.

So, at this point, he yelled at the soldiers.

"Rabbit cubs, you have all put your pair of tricks on Lao Tzu, keep an eye on the soles of your feet, don't touch the rope one foot above the ground when you see it, shout, someone will get it, do you hear?"

"Yes, General!"

Under Cheng Yanjin's orders, the soldiers began to move, and after a while, their roars were heard from everywhere.

"There's a rope that's a foot off the ground!"

"I've got that too!"

"And I'm here!"

Upon hearing their roars, some specially trained soldiers immediately ran over and cut the rope with their knives, then dug up the mines, and finally untied the ropes attached to the mine triggers.

Several soldiers followed behind them with a box, placing the mines they had disposed of in the box and waiting for the next use.

It took Cheng Yanjin nearly an afternoon to recover the thousands of mines, and then received them in his baggage car as if they were treasures.

When Cheng Yanjin led the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, Wei Chigong was not idle.

He came to the gate of Liaodong City with an army of 500,000, but he did not order the soldiers to attack the city, but took out the fifty cannons that Cheng Yanjin asked for from Gao Ming, and lined them up outside Liaodong City.

Standing more than 500 meters away from Liaodong City, Wei Chi Gong held a torch, crossed his waist, and laughed arrogantly.

"Hahahaha, fire! Shoot me! Let Quan Gaisu know that Lao Tzu is not easy to mess with, hahahaha......"