Chapter 65: Defeat is like a mountain
Liu Shijiang led his troops to attack the east gate, because the department was not the main direction of attack, the Flying Tiger Army only had a cloud ladder, and for a time there was no way to defend the east gate, and the three attacks were repulsed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Sun Chengli, the guard of the east gate of the domestic city, was panicked when he learned that the west and south gates were lost, and led his troops to flee to the north gate when the Tang army was preparing to attack again, and suddenly the two thousand defenders of the entire east gate tower fled.
When the Tang army attacked the city again, there was no soldier at the east gate, Liu Shijiang was annoyed, and the cavalry led his troops to follow the north gate of the fleeing Goguryeo army.
Gao Yanwu's general, Gao Yanzong, collected 2,000 troops from Long, and used the city lord's mansion as a base to start a battle with the Tang army.
After a fierce battle, Gao Yanzong only had more than a few hundred soldiers left, and was besieged by the Tang army in the city lord's mansion.
"General, Gao Yanwu ran away." Xie Qian, who was covered in blood, reported that he was depressed.
Li Shangdan smiled indifferently: "Hehe! Run? Where else can he run, the three brothers can wait for him outside the north gate. ”
Liu Tao ran over with a bit of a disgraced face and said with annoyance: "These Gao Li barbarians are really stubborn to the end, and they can't rush in for a while by guarding the City Lord's Mansion." ”
"Except for the foundation and walls, which are made of stone, the houses are all wood, and the weather is dry on this hot day, so why not set it on fire?"
"You're still ruthless!" Liu Tao's eyes lit up and he gave Li Shangdan a thumbs up.
"Brothers, take firewood and pile it outside the gate of the city lord's mansion, bring hundreds of torches, and tonight we will burn Gaoliman."
"Ho!" The Tang army gathered outside the city lord's mansion shouted excitedly, rushed into the surrounding houses without firewood, drove out the Goguryeo people inside, and demolished their houses amid the cries of ordinary people, and piled bundles outside the gate of the city lord's mansion one after another.
"Put." Liu Tao ordered thousands of torches to be thrown into the city lord's mansion, and the firewood that had blocked the door outside the door was dyed at the same time. However, more than a quarter of an hour, more than 200 years ago, the palace of the former Goguryeo royal palace was ablaze, and the screams of a large number of people before they were burned to death were heard in the palace.
Some Goguryeo soldiers were covered in flames and tried to rush out of the palace gate to fight the Tang army to the death, trying to pull a Tang army back before they died.
The Tang troops gathered outside the gate retreated one after another, watching the Goguryeo people screaming with flames and swords all over their bodies. Under the mocking eyes of many Tang soldiers, dozens of Goguryeo soldiers who rushed out were resentful and unwilling to burn to death in front of the Tang army.
"There are about two thousand defenders at the North Gate, plus the estimated four or five thousand defenders at the East Gate and the other two gates who have fled, so Wei Chi Xunyu may not be able to stop this group of rout." Li Shangdan looked at the fire in the City Lord's Mansion and said calmly.
"Liu Tao, you lead your troops to leave behind to clear the remnants of the Goguryeo army in the city, and you will follow me to pursue Gao Yanwu, and you must capture and kill him."
"No!"
Except for the Dangdi army, which began to search for the remnants of the enemy in the domestic city one by one, the rest of the soldiers and horses all flocked to the north gate under the leadership of Li Shangdan.
The only remaining 300 cavalry in the upper room escorted Gao Yanwu through the north gate, and ordered the north gate guard An Zhong to lead the troops to evacuate with him.
The domestic city is located on the impact plain on the left bank of the Yalu water, with the Yalu water in the east and the wooded Yushan Mountain in the west, and there is only one mountain road facing the northeast that only relies on the Yalu water and Yushan Mountain to escape to the north along the Yalu water.
"Drive." Shangmuro Chengding led the remaining 2,000 soldiers and horses to the north non-stop after leaving the north gate, so that many infantry with poor health could not keep up with the team, and the whole team was two miles long.
At this time, the north gate rushed out to charge a Goguryeo army, and the east gate guard Sun Chengli smacked the horse's buttocks fiercely, and kept scolding the north gate guard An Zhong.
"This son of a bitch guarded the north gate and fled without a fight, if it weren't for my clever running fast, this would have allowed the Tang army to occupy the north gate, then I wouldn't be a turtle."
"The general Tang army has caught up."
Sun Chengli looked back, and the frightened souls were all rising. Before all his soldiers could escape, they were cut down to the ground by the Tang cavalry chasing behind them, and most of the infantry behind them scattered in fright.
The Tang army did not chase those infantrymen, but they stared him to death.
Pumping the horse's buttocks wildly, Sun Chengli couldn't wait for the horse to have eight legs, and ran wildly like a gust of wind, completely ignoring the life and death of his subordinates behind him, and only fled to the northeast with hundreds of cavalry.
Liu Shijiang led hundreds of cavalry under his command to bite the hundreds of Goguryeo cavalry who were constantly being shortened, and even those Goguryeo infantry who fled to both sides did not bother to pursue, and slashed those who were unlucky.
The infantry of the Flying Tiger Army, which followed Liu Shijiang's cavalry, pursued and annihilated the fleeing Goguryeo infantry. For a time, dozens of feet away from the north gate of the city in China were all Goguryeo people who were chased up and killed by the Tang army, and the captives even fell to their knees.
In the northeast of the city, in the woods next to the mountain road on the left bank of the Yalushui River, the only road that can lead to the north, the three brothers of Wei Chi Xunyu led the eastern army of the town to wait here.
The Zhendong Army originally used the cover of night to ambush dozens of zhang away from the north gate, but Wei Chi Xunyu found that the mountain road eight miles away was more suitable for hiding the ambush soldiers, and when the enemy was about to pass here, he would suddenly kill him, and the enemy would panic and force him into the duck water and drown.
Omuro Cheng led the department to come, and without suspicion, he rushed to the mountain road without stopping. The mountain road is only about 20 zhang wide, and only 15 cavalry can pass side by side at the same time, and seven or eight hundred cavalry are immediately blocked at the entrance, and the thousands of infantry who follow up are even more blocked by the mountain road.
The defeated Goguryeo soldiers had no desire to fight, and only wanted to flee for their lives, and the already scattered ranks blocking the mountain pass were even more chaotic, with people neighing and horses chirping, and the noisy sound could be heard for miles away.
"Big brother, what a chance, let's go!" Wei Chi Xun rubbed his hands, and looked at the eldest brother with the cold gleaming horse lance in his hand.
Wei Chi Xunyu looked at the second brother and the third brother left and right, and the excitement in the eyes of the two made him, the eldest brother, embarrassed to wait, and shouted to the subordinates around him.
"Shoot the arrows."
The Zhendong army hidden in the forest fired a volley, and thousands of Goguryeo troops blocking the entrance of the passage stared at the flying arrows in amazement. Hundreds of people were hit by arrows, and the originally noisy Goguryeo army suddenly wailed.
"The time has come for the brethren to slay the enemy and make meritorious deeds." Yu Chi Xunyan, who had a big beard and a tiger's back, was the first to come out of the forest, holding a horse lance in his hand, and under the hazy starlight, his black face pounced like a demon, so frightened that no one in the Goguryeo army dared to come forward to fight.
Wei Chi Xunyan entered the Goguryeo army as if he had entered a no-man's land, and the tiger and tiger made by a horse lance were vigorous, and there must be one dead and one injured in the direction of the horse lance.
The 3,000 troops in Zhendong were like wolves under the leadership of the three brothers Wei Chi Xunyu, Wei Chi Xunyu, and Wei Chi Xunyan, and the already frightened Goguryeo army was about to collapse at the first touch.
An Chong couldn't stop the rout even after killing dozens of deserters, and was squeezed into the duck water by the fleeing rout, and was washed away by the water, and disappeared after a bubble.
More Goguryeo troops were frightened by the fierce Zhendong army, and in a panic, they pushed each other and fell into the surging Yalu water, and there were no less than 1,000 people who fell into the Yalu water.
A small half of the 300 soldiers around Shangmuro Chengding were squeezed into the duck water by the routed soldiers who fled for their lives in panic in the narrow road. Shangmuro Chengding was furious, drew his sword and killed the rout soldiers who tried to escape by taking the road, and the rest of his own soldiers also did the same to kill these North Gate defenders who pushed him to flee.
In order to survive, the defeated soldiers saw that Shangmuro Chengding and his own soldiers had killed their own people, and they raised their knives to fight with them.
Shangmuro Chengding didn't know how many North Gate defenders he had killed, his whole body armor was stained red with blood, and when he saw the Tang army killing closer and closer, this group of routs didn't have the courage to reflexively fight with the Tang people, and they actually slashed their knives at the friendly troops around them even more fiercely.
Gritting his teeth, Shangmuro Chengding slashed two things that were not long-eyed, got into the carriage and carried Gao Yanwu out.
At this time, Gao Yanwu burst into tears, watching his subordinates kill each other for their lives.
"Leave me alone, you can go."
Gao Yanwu pushed the upper room open, and Tan sat beside the carriage and looked helplessly at the subordinates who were running for their lives.
"Mattress."
"General go quickly, if you don't leave, it's too late." The pro-soldiers of Upper Room Chengding dragged Upper Room Chengding to run up the mountain road.
As soon as they walked out of a few dozen steps, the Tang army broke through the Goguryeo rout that was congested on the road, and several Tang soldiers saw that the one who was being pulled by their subordinates must be a big official, and they raised their bows and crossbows in their hands and shot towards the upper chamber.
Dozens of subordinates around Shangmuro Chengding were shot dead and wounded in an instant, and in desperation, he rode the horses brought by his subordinates and galloped wildly with the remnants of his own soldiers, killing more than a dozen Tang troops who did not know whether they were alive or dead and tried to intercept them, and then highlighted this section of the narrow mountain road that was only more than 200 zhang.
Sun Chengli, the guard of the east gate, fled to the entrance of the mountain road with hundreds of cavalry, staring at the slaughter field in front of him in amazement, bloody and bloody.
"Wow."
Sun Chengli looked back at Liu Shijiang behind him, hundreds of cavalry chased after him, and he fell off his horse with a frightened 'ah', and knelt on the ground weakly like ashes.
Seeing this, his subordinates saw that there was no way to escape, so they dropped their weapons and dismounted, and fell to their knees on the ground.
"Please spare your life!"
Sun Chengli said in broken Mandarin and clasped his head again and again towards Liu Shijiang, who was chasing him, and his forehead slammed on the ground. Hundreds of his subordinates followed Sun Chengli's tone of sparing his life on the ground, and the sound of kowtowing sounded loudly, which made Liu Shijiang and the others frown, and they couldn't tell whether what these Goryeo barbarians were speaking was Goryeo or Chinese.