Chapter 338: Soldiers besiege Jincheng
Because Da Nai Ma Defu killed the defender Da Ah Chunchang, Xue Ne was able to break through the city of Abdul in one day, so that there would be no siege of the city that Li Yu was worried about.
It is a pity that Wen Ying, the general of the defeated army, heard that the governor was broken, and led more than 2,000 remnants of the army to open the east gate and escape before Xue Ne led the army to attack.
"Your family has been the minister of Silla for generations, and it can be said that the world has received the grace of the Silla country, why did you rebel against the new Tang Dynasty today?"
Li Yu casually held a knife in his hand and sharpened the snow pear in his hand, and asked Danai Ma Defu who was kneeling in front of him.
There was no shame on Da Nai Ma Defu's face, but he replied calmly: "His Royal Highness King Yan, who is enlightened and wise, although the courtiers have received the grace of Silla for generations, but Silla is a servant of the Tang Dynasty, and the minister is a minister of Silla, and he is also a loyal servant of the Tang Dynasty. As a courtier, the king of Silla, Kim Famin, did not know the righteousness of the monarch and the minister, and the country was even more for the tiger, and repeatedly raised troops to offend the father of the Tang Dynasty. Although the minister is a junior general, he does not dare to forget the loyalty of the Tang Dynasty's father, and prays day and night that His Royal Highness King Yan will lead the army to quell the kingless and fatherless thieves like Jin Famin, save the people of Silla from the sea of suffering, and extend the grace of the Tang monarch's father to the people. ”
"Hahaha......"
Li Yu couldn't help laughing, he could say that surrender was so righteous and awe-inspiring, and Da Nai Ma Defu was still the first person in history. Between the words, he was ashamed to kill the boss for his own selfishness, and the shame of treason and sacrifice to surrender to the loyal man as a picture of enduring humiliation and burden, and fighting back at a critical moment, which is a great image of the Tang Dynasty monarch's father to eradicate the traitor, which is breathtaking.
Zhang Shi, who is known for his people, couldn't help but turn his face, and couldn't bear to look at the villain of Da Nai Ma Defu.
After hearing about it, many military generals regarded it as disloyal and unrighteous people, smeared the martial artists, and despised it.
Xue Jun, who was the Sima of the Yanwang Mansion and the Sima of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, said to Li Yu in private after pacifying Silla: "Da Nai Ma Defu talks about loyalty and courage, but he is actually a villain who has no righteousness and only his own selfish interests. Judging his words and deeds, he is good at flaunting himself in words, acting decisively, without dragging mud and water, he belongs to a thoughtful person, and is by no means comparable to ordinary villains. ”
Li Yu laughed, thinking in his heart that Xue Jun was really worried, Da Nai Ma Defu is a person from Dongyi, no matter how talented he is, how can he be included in his command as a general?
Xue Jun has followed him for several years, but he doesn't know that my heart is higher than everything else?
The courtiers couldn't figure out their minds, and Li Yu didn't know whether to be happy or depressed for a while!
It was inevitable that Xue Jun would misunderstand, and Li Yu later reused the leadership of Da Nai Ma Defu to quell the rebellion in various parts of Silla, and for a time became the number two person that Li Yu relied on to rule Silla.
After spending four days in the trembling and frightened kings and ministers of Jincheng Silla, Li Yu marched eastward with an army of 40,000 troops with high morale after resting, crossing more than 70 miles of mountains and valleys, and the troops arrived in Jincheng in one day.
The war lasted for half a year, Silla lost its soldiers, and at the time of the autumn harvest, the country was about to die, a large number of young and strong people were forcibly conscripted into the army, and the surplus grain of the people's families was all requisitioned as military rations.
On the road to Jincheng, Li Yu saw that the people of Silla were poor, poorly clothed and hungry, and met several villages on the way, but there were no Ding Zhuang, only skinny old and young women and children digging wild vegetables in the mountains, forests and fields to satisfy their hunger.
Sent people to inquire and learned that the youth, grain and grass within a radius of sixty or seventy miles of Jincheng were all recruited by Jin Famin into Jincheng for defense.
"Hehe, if you don't keep it, it's just a trapped beast!" Li Yu sneered.
Geumseong is the city of Gyeongju in South Korea, which is located in a mountain valley surrounded by mountains, and there is a mountain valley tens of miles long in the northeast and southeast that can lead to the sea. Since Li Yu sent Wang Aoke to lead the Yellow Sea Fleet to the southeast coast of Silla, Jincheng can be said to have been shocked three times a day, for fear that the Tang army would come across the sea and attack Jincheng by surprise. After the Eastern Naval Division was destroyed by Wang Aoke's sneak attack, it had to transfer 30,000 elite troops to coastal defense.
With Jin Yuxin's 30,000 elite soldiers besieged in Shangzhou, Jincheng now has only 10,000 elite soldiers, and the remaining 20,000 soldiers and horses are just farmers recruited from the surrounding counties into the city, and it is conceivable how high the combat effectiveness can be.
When the troops arrived at Jincheng, Li Yu ordered Danai Ma Defu to lead Silla to surrender 10,000 troops to launch a tentative attack on Jincheng.
The city wall of Jincheng is three zhang high, there are many defenders on the city wall, the equipment to defend the city is sufficient, the great Nai Ma Defu personally supervises the battle, regardless of the generals, soldiers, those who retreat can not achieve the results of the battle.
On the day of the siege, under the service of the arrows and rolling wood and stones of the defenders on the city, more than 3,000 soldiers were killed and wounded while carrying ladders and pushing the crash car to attack the city, and few people were able to successfully climb the city wall during the period.
The tentative attack of the surrendered army gave Li Yu a clear understanding of the defense of Jincheng, although most of the defenders in the city were farmers who had just been recruited, and they could not be used in field battles, but they were still available for defending the city. In addition, after Jin Famin learned that Guowon City was lost, he strengthened the defense force of Jincheng City, and nearly two months of preparation time was used to approve Jincheng into an iron barrel.
At this time, in a hurry to storm the well-prepared Jincheng, Li Yu estimated that he would lose more than 10,000 soldiers.
When Li Yu ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, Da Nai Ma Defu and his soldiers were all relieved.
Although Da Nai Ma Defu took the initiative to surrender to King Yan and said that his act of treason and surrender was great, in the final analysis, it was just that the Silla state was overturned overnight, and more than 20,000 weak soldiers in a small city of Odok could not stop the Tang army, and it was just a delay for some time.
For the sake of his own life, Da Nai Ma Defu had to kill Da Ah Chun Chang Kaicheng and surrender.
The only thing that made Da Nai Ma Defu dissatisfied was that he opened the city and surrendered, and only 7,000 of the nearly 20,000 soldiers in the city were really under his control, and the other 12,000 people were all scattered as people, and when he needed cannon fodder, King Yan temporarily selected a few thousand people to fight under his command.
No, Ming Jin withdrew his troops, and the three thousand soldiers who were transferred to him before were stunned to be transferred back to the Minfu camp, and all those who died in the battle were counted as his subordinates.
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After collecting troops and returning to the camp, Li Yu convened the generals to discuss the strategy of breaking the city. In order to avoid heavy casualties among his subordinates due to the strong attack, Li Yu set the tone that he needed to break through Jincheng with fewer casualties, and end the Silla war by New Year's Day at the latest, so that he could escort the captured Silla magnates back to Chang'an, and take advantage of the New Year's celebration to sacrifice prisoners to Taimiao, so as to win the favor of his father and mother, and win praise both inside and outside the imperial court.
"Your Highness, isn't it very good to use gunpowder tunnels to break the city, isn't it successful to break the country or blow up Shangzhou? The defenders of Shangju Silla were all elite soldiers, and Li Shangdan blew up the city wall and did not attack it. But the golden city in front of you is different, there are no more than 10,000 elite soldiers, and the rest are old and weak soldiers. Shi Zhencheng, the general of the exterminating army, shouted.
"What General Shi said is reasonable, but the gunpowder in the army is exhausted in Shangju City, and the gunpowder produced by the gunpowder workshop in Pyongyang is not enough in a short time." Xue Jun, who manages logistics in the army, said helplessly.
"Then let's besiege it for a long time, like Shangzhou, besiege Jincheng to death, anyway, most of the land of Silla has been captured by our army, and there are no reinforcements, just wait for the food in the city to run out, and it will be self-defeating."
"Although it is good to besiege him for a long time, if the grain and grass in the city can be supported for a year and a half, then shouldn't our army surround him for a year and a half?"
"Although our army's grain and grass can be transported by sea, there are risks at sea, and the ship's fleet is sunk in strong winds and waves, which is not a good thing for our army. What's more, our army will end the war before the year and escort the prisoners back to Chang'an to offer prisoners. ”