Chapter 340: Projectile Surrender Book 1
The fierce tearing sound outside the west gate quickly attracted the attention of the commanders of the two armies, and Li Shangdan learned that the Silla army was really as stated in the south gate guard general Yi Jin's ventilation report, and Jin Wenzhi led the army to go out of the city to attack at the time of the child. However, at the moment, he was beaten in front of the trench by Qin Jingqian, who had been prepared for a long time, and it was only a matter of time before he was annihilated, so he did not pay attention to the situation in Ximen.
Jin Yuxin was furious when he heard that his son had disregarded the general's order and privately led the troops out of the city with four generals, and he was furious when he learned that their sneak attack failed, but was blocked by the Tang army in the trench and could not retreat, with heavy casualties, and the whole person almost fainted. Hurriedly sent his henchman Park Chengjun to lead 3,000 troops to respond.
At this time, outside the West Gate City, the chaotic Silla army was pressed and beaten by the Tang army in a neat formation, gradually compressing the living space of the Silla army, forcing them to the pitch-black trench of the Silla people who died in Yijing, and the strong smell of blood continued to spread around.
Seeing that the battle ahead was unfavorable and that people were falling despite the arrows constantly being fired by the Tang army, the Silla army, which was still erected on the wooden bridge of the three trenches, had already extinguished its desire to continue rushing to the battlefield, and began to turn around and rush backwards towards the West Gate, which had not yet been closed.
The way back was not smooth, after all, the arrows of the Tang army did not stop because they fled, because everyone was in a hurry to run for their lives, and the wooden bridge was only seventeen or eighteen zhang wide, resulting in many soldiers not dying on the battlefield, but were squeezed down the trench by their companions, accompanied by a miserable howl.
There were more than 3,000 Silla troops fighting with the Tang army through the trenches, and only about 2,000 people remained in the second quarter of an hour. As the Tang army pressed down the trench step by step, the soldiers in the back were squeezed into the trench one by one screaming and screaming, and the reinforcements behind them were all running back, and the morale of the Silla army was suddenly in turmoil, and many people thought that they couldn't care about the Tang army at the moment, and rushed to the wooden bridge.
Seeing this, the morale of the Tang army was undoubtedly shocked, and one by one they bravely waved the weapons in their hands and slashed and stabbed at the Silla people in front of them, on the other hand, the Silla people were exhausted, and most of them only knew how to squeeze back, trying to avoid the soldiers waved by the Tang army, even if there were brave people who did not want to die in vain, they were forced to have no room for maneuver by the crowded companions and the spears stabbed by the Tang army one by one, so that no matter how high their personal martial arts were, they were also slammed into a few holes by the spears in the hands of the Tang army.
When the leader of the Pu Chengjun army came, outside the West Gate, the outermost trench had already become the slaughterhouse of the Tang army, and the object of the slaughter was naturally the Silla army that followed Jin Wenzhi out of the city to sneak attack.
Less than 1,300 people escaped back by luck to seize the bridge, Jin Wenzhi was cut off his right arm by a member of the Tang Army during the fierce battle, and under the desperate protection of several personal guards, he did not know how many companions were squeezed off the wooden bridge along the way to escape under the city gate.
In the fierce battle, the Tang army wanted to take advantage of the situation to attack Ximen, but Qin Jingqian ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, which made the soldiers quite puzzled.
"General Qin, the west gate has not been closed, the defeated army of Silla has poured into the city in an orderly manner, our army is following the siege, the city gate must be difficult to close in time due to chaos, why did the general retreat at the good time to attack the city?"
Facing the general's questioning, Qin Jingqian smiled, "The three trenches in front of the city gate were dug out to surround Shangzhou City, and everyone knows the upside-down stakes inside. Before the trench was filled, he relied on the simple wooden bridge built by the Silla people in front of him to attack the city? If you really do what you say, I am afraid that the officers and men of our army will repeat the same path as the Silla people who retreated just now, and lose their lives in vain in the face of the opponent's arrows. ”
After saying that, Qin Jingqian didn't bother to take care of this group of meritorious generals, and took his Yanyun Iron Cavalry Left Guard back to the camp, the battle just now did not use his own cavalry, and it was pointless to continue to stay here.
The other generals looked at each other, watching the Silla army gradually retreat into the city, and it was a pity that the city gate was slammed shut. Captain Baihu Wei stepped forward and kicked the wooden bridge erected by the Silla people on the trench, and was quite resentful of Qin Jingqian's decision, and kicked the wooden bridge apart without thinking about his kick, so frightened that he jumped back, and directly scolded what kind of broken bridge.
In order not to alarm the Tang army in a hurry and achieve the effect of a sneak attack, the Silla people made the wooden bridge extremely simple, so they relied on dozens of logs to build on the trench and lay wooden planks on it to pass. After thousands of Silla people trampled back and forth, the logs erected on the trench had long been displaced, and the planks that were not even fixed with ropes were not a problem at this time.
Seeing this, the generals who were dissatisfied with Qin Jingqian's abandonment of the siege couldn't help but be afraid, just now Nuo stepped on this broken bridge to attack the city, maybe he would fall from this broken bridge and become one of the many Silla people who were killed in the trench.
The good news outside Shangzhou City soon spread to the case of Li Yu, who was brain-struggling for the siege of the city outside Jincheng, and it only brought a small amount of joy.
It has been ten days since the siege of Jincheng, and as early as five days ago, Heiya Changzhi led the army to break through Yecheng County, and then went down to Yichang County to join Li Yu. With the port of Pohang in Uichang County, the supply fleet from Duli Town docked here to supply the army with food, even if the route was cut off.
Not two days ago, the Yellow Sea Fleet, which had been defending the southern coast of Silla and was on guard and pretending to be pirates, was the only mobile force of more than 10,000 elite troops in Silla that went north to reoccupy Seongsan County at the confluence of the Huangshan River and the Qinhu River, cutting off the connection between Li Yu's headquarters and Li Shangdan's troops who surrounded Shangzhou, and Li Yu was not in a hurry at all.
The northward movement of this elite Silla army undoubtedly gave a great opportunity to the Yellow Sea Fleet, which was hovering on the southern coast of Silla.
In addition to his fleet of 8,000 soldiers, plus more than 10,000 servants led by Pak Yong-hwa and other Silla generals, he quickly occupied the three coastal counties of Hesan, Guseong, and Nghe An, besieged the city for two days, captured the important town of Jinhaejing in the south of Silla, and then went north along the Huangshan River, pulling out Micheng and Haman counties along the way, and opened up the land connection with Li Yu one day ago.
The counties on the southeast coast of Silla, such as Linguan, Dong'an, and Donglai, all came to Li Yu's camp outside Jincheng to deliver the surrender table, and supplied the Tang army with the grain and grass needed by the army, and even the people brought 5,000 people for the Tang army to requisition.
Looking at the current situation in Silla, it is not so much that the elite Silla army that went north cut off the land route for Li Yu to return north, but that it became a real lone army by being surrounded by the Tang army on three sides.
If you include the former Baekje land to the west of Seongsan-gun, where it was stationed, which was recovered by Yoo In-will, it is surrounded on all sides.
Therefore, Xue Jun proposed, "For this lone army, His Royal Highness can send people to persuade him to surrender first, and the promise is that the main general Yiyun Jinyi will not surrender to Silla, and he can send troops to force him again, and at the same time recruit his generals to surrender." Silla was overturned, and even if Yiyun Jin was willing to bury Silla, few of his generals were willing to die with him. ”
"Surrender can be used for Yiyun Jinyi, and it can also be used for Jincheng!" Zhang Weng said suddenly.
"That's right!" Li Yu patted the table and said happily: "Jincheng is surrounded by our army like an iron bucket, and foreign aid is cut off. In the past, even a powerful person like Ah Cha Daeto, who served as a high-ranking official in Silla, was able to lead his army to surrender without hesitation when victory or defeat was unknown, and at this moment, there must be no shortage of Silla magnates in the city who cherish their lives. ”
"But our army has besieged the city for ten days, but we have not seen any Silla people in the city come and surrender!" Xue Junqi said.
"Maybe they're still waiting." Xue Ne pointed out: "There must always be a good thing to surrender, as soon as our army besieges the city, the magnates of Silla will go out of the city to contact and surrender, and there will definitely be no bargaining chips here in His Highness." However, if our army cannot be attacked under Jincheng for a long time, whether they take the initiative to negotiate surrender or we take the initiative to surrender, the Silla people will have bargaining chips to hold, and they can ask His Highness to save their lives and wealth, as well as rich family wealth and power. After all, His Highness conquered Silla, and in the short term, these locals who were familiar with the situation of Silla were still needed to govern it. ”
Zhang Shi said angrily: "Do you want to bargain when you surrender? And power and wealth? Outrageous! Your Royal Highness, tomorrow will lead the army, break the golden city, arrest all the powerful people in the city to cut off their brains, and base the capital outside the city, and everyone will divide the wealth and beautiful women. Of course, Her Royal Highness the woman picks first, and the wealth is divided......"
Li Yu had a black line on his face, and scolded Zhang Shi fiercely in his heart, I am only fifteen years old this year, for the sake of sexual happiness in the future, I can't live an adult nightlife so early! Originally, it was enough for people to stand the hundreds of charming girls around them, and they finally came out to fight for half a year, so as to avoid staying in the palace One day they couldn't resist the temptation and broke their bodies on impulse.
This will be fine, Li Yu was successfully aroused by Zhang Shiyi's words to arouse the desire in his heart that had been suppressed for a long time. In other words, there is really no shortage of beauties in the Korean women's orchestra in later generations, that long legs, big breasts, cute and beautiful face. After a while, the news page popped up a message about which big-breasted beauty came out of South Korea, which made people itch and unbearable!
Along the way into Silla, I didn't even think about catching a few Silla beauties to take a look, but they were all harmed by the soldiers under his command.
When they enter Jincheng, they will first arrest the beautiful people in the Silla magnates in the city, so as not to be troubled by their subordinates first. Li Yu thought so, even if in his palace, there were hundreds of beautiful girls sent by Silla to seek peace.