Chapter 297: Under Seoul

The Silla Chinese army was defeated, and the Silla cavalry, which was entangled by the troops and horses led by Qin Jingqian and Li Wenbai, now became a lone army struggling to support. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The righteous officer made a quick decision and led his troops to retreat while fighting before the main force of the Tang Army returned, so as to protect this rare cavalry unit in Silla.

Qin Jingqian and Li Wenbai saw that the Silla army was going to retreat, how could they agree, and waved the horse lance in their hands to fight more and more bravely in the Silla army, intending to keep all the Silla army here.

In the death battle between the Tang army and the Silla army, the Silla army wanted to withdraw but could not withdraw, and many Silla soldiers turned their horses and prepared to retreat, but they were killed by the nearest Tang soldiers.

The longer the time dragged on, the more unfavorable it was to himself, and the righteous officer had to order the whole army to break through and retreat with all his might, and he led hundreds of cavalry to force the impact on the way he came, and under the will to survive, the Silla cavalry broke out with unprecedented combat effectiveness, and the Tang army that was intercepted was scattered.

The righteous officer led hundreds of horsemen to successfully break away from the melee, and the unwilling Qin Jingqian gave up the Silla army in front of him to pursue him, and as a result, more Silla troops who were caught in the melee and could not withdraw took the opportunity to kill a way out.

After chasing for three miles, Qin Jingqian failed to catch up with the righteous officials who fled with the crowd, so he had to collect his troops and return.

All the Silla troops who could not get out were beheaded by Li Wenbai, and a total of 1,857 Silla cavalry were killed after the war.

The generals saw that the commander was carrying the head of the commander of the Silla army, and obtained from the mouth of the Black Tooth Changzhi's personal soldiers that in order to kill this Silla general, he had to chase after him for miles in the mountains before he was killed.

The generals admired the bravery of the black tooth Changzhi, and the self-righteous Qin Jingqian also put away the contempt for the black tooth Changzhi in her heart.

The black-toothed Chang Zhi carried the heads of the ministers and said with a smile: "Just keep this head with lime and send it to His Highness with good news." ”

Li Wenbai asked tentatively: "General, will our army take advantage of the victory to pursue and defeat the main force of Silla next?" ”

"It is enough to defeat the Silla striker, behead its main general, and frustrate the spirit of the Silla army. Nuo frustrated his main force again, and he was worried that Jin Yuanshu would be afraid and would not dare to come, and if he was allowed to run back and retreat to the fortified city, it would not be conducive to the strategic goals that our army would achieve next. ”

The generals nodded in approval, and His Highness mobilized almost all of Andong's capable soldiers, not only to repel the invading Silla army, but to take the entire Silla. At the beginning of the war, he took the initiative to retreat a hundred miles, not to lead the elite soldiers in northern Silla to leave the fortified fortress and go deep into the hinterland of Andong to seek an opportunity to annihilate, and then wave the army south to easily capture the fortified cities in northern Silla.

After the black tooth Tsuneyuki immediately issued an order to clean up the battlefield and collect the corpses of his own fallen soldiers, the whole army quickly withdrew to Seoul to wait for the Silla army.

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Seoul was a bait set up for the Silla army after Li Yu discussed with Heizhi Changzhi, waiting for Jin Yuanshu to lead the army to attack.

When Kim Wonshu's troops were under Seoul, they could not capture it for a while, and his army was more than 300 miles away from the grain and grass hoarding place in the northern border of Silla, and the Silla naval division was completely annihilated, and it was impossible to use the water transportation of the Yeseong River to shorten the grain route. At that time, the situation in which the Silla army cannot go up or down will be very gratifying.

"Report ......" messenger flew over and half-knelt in front of Li Yu, who was inspecting the city defense of Seoul, "Your Highness, General Hei Tooth has sent good news, please take a look." ”

"The Black Tooth often lives up to my heart, so soon to send the report documents, let me see how it goes?"

Li Yu, who was very happy, took the book from the messenger, opened it and looked at it, and the civil officials and military generals who accompanied him were also very curious about the flesh in the book, and stretched their necks to look at it one by one.

"Hei Tooth Changzhi is really a brave general, not to mention the defeat of the 10,000 pioneer army of Silla in the first battle, but also personally beheaded the vanguard ministers of the Silla army, beheading more than 6,500." Li Yu shouted heartily and read the contents of the report book, and shared the joy of this victory with the ministers around him.

The messenger took a wooden box from his back and offered it with both hands, "Your Highness, this is the head of the Silla Pioneer General's ministers to be kept with lime, and the Black Tooth General ordered it to be sent for His Highness to see." ”

"Oh? Open it up and take a look. Li Yu was still very curious about the appearance of this minister, who was not a small name in the Silla army, but this person led the army to capture many places in the Xiongjin Governor's Mansion two years ago.

The messenger opened the wooden box, and a pungent smell of lime mixed with a fishy smell came to his nose, and Li Yu covered his nose with his wide sleeves and stared at it carefully.

The ministers' eyes were still wide open, unwilling with a hint of fear and despair, their hair was the same as that of the Chinese, and their faces were gray due to the lime covering.

"Come on, put this head away, and wait for me to build a Yidi Chieftain Pavilion in the future, and put all the beheaded Yidi generals into it for future generations to visit, so as to inspire future generations to make contributions."

Li Yu said with a smug smile, which surprised the ministers on the left and right. His Royal Highness actually had such thoughts, and everyone's backs were cold in vain, and they said in their hearts that the Siyi monarchs and generals who died in the hands of His Highness were really bloody, and it was not okay to be killed, and their heads had to be preserved as exhibits.

"The ancients built the Beijing Temple to show the martial arts of their ancestors to future generations, and His Royal Highness's move is similar."

Cangcao participated in the military Dou Huaike praised, Li Yu smiled and shook his head, "This move is a step further than Jingguan, Jingguan is not conducive to the battlefield, how many people among the younger generations will have the heart to go to Jingguan to find the ancient battlefield to admire the achievements of the ancestors?" And it is not easy to preserve Jingguan for a long time under the rain wash. I gather the chiefs to build a museum and preserve it, so that it can survive for eternity without accidents. The descendants of Sun Nuo want to admire the martial arts of their ancestors, and they only need to enter the museum to take a look, which is much higher than the effect to be achieved by the Jingguan. ”

Li Yu sent a few people who were experienced in handling corpses, and then summoned three military doctors with superb medical skills to try their best to save this head for future use.

During the Han Dynasty, there was a drug used to preserve the corpse from decay, but unfortunately the secret recipe was lost long ago.

If only someone in the contemporary generation could find out the formula of this kind of medicine that preserves the corpse from decay, at least after Li Yu's death, he can use it to keep his body from decaying, and then build a large tomb with copper walls and iron walls at the bottom of the deep mountain, and hide the body in it and seal it. It can ensure the safety of human tombs before the invention of high explosives into the era of thermal weapons.

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Seoul was about to become a battlefield for Li Yu to attract the Silla army under the city, and the city defense facilities became the focus of Li Yu's attention.

If the Silla army was careless to break through Seoul, then Li Yu's plan to use the offensive and defensive battles in Seoul to consume the morale of the Silla army, and then go out of the city to defeat the Silla army in one blow.

How could Li Yu, who is cautious by nature, allow carelessness and negligence to ruin his scheme? After instructing the Black Tooth Constant to reward the victorious returnees, he strictly inspected each section of the city wall to see if the city's defense equipment was in order.