Chapter 337: Rampage into Jincheng

After Li Yu sent Qin Jingqian to lead the army to reinforce Li Shangdan, with Zhang Shi as the vanguard, he led 40,000 elite soldiers to the south.

Jin Famin learned that the Tang army had dug three deep trenches outside the city of Shangzhou for siege, making it difficult for the defenders in the city to step out of the city half a step out, and the original intention of blocking the Tang army in Shangzhou went bankrupt.

In the face of Li Yu's 40,000 troops rolling south along the Huangshan River, Jin Famin, with Wen Ying as the commander, hurriedly mobilized the 30,000 soldiers and horses he had just collected to defend Xingshan County, and the other 20,000 soldiers and horses were led by Da A Chunchang and assembled in the western gate of Jincheng.

Knowing that these soldiers and horses were just farmers who had just put down their hoes, and their combat strength was worried, Jin Famin had to transfer the only remaining 10,000 elite soldiers on the south coast to the north. As a precaution, the soldiers, horses, grain and grass of the four counties near Jincheng were gathered in Jincheng, and the army and civilians were organized to strengthen the city defense.

In order to protect the safety of the national capital, Wen Ying took up his 30,000 troops and stationed on the east bank of the confluence of the two rivers to wait for the arrival of the Tang army.

When Li Yu led his troops to the west bank of the confluence of the Huangshan River and the Qinhu River, the east bank was an army of 30,000 led by Wen Ying, who had been waiting here for Jin Famin's high hopes early.

The two armies faced each other across the river, the camp stretched for miles, and the great battle was approaching, and a tense atmosphere hung over both sides of the river.

On the night of the confrontation with the Silla army across the river, Li Yu immediately sent Zhang Shi to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses under the cover of night to build a pontoon bridge to quickly cross the river in the section of the river where the Silla army was loosely defended, and launched an attack on the Silla army's forward camp on the east bank of the river at the time of Shen.

The Silla army did not expect that the Tang army would be killed from the south on the night of the confrontation, and most of the Tang cavalry came, and the 8,000 soldiers and horses arranged on the east bank of the river to defend the Tang army from crossing the river had not time to wake up from the tent and assemble, and the large camp was broken by Zhang Shi.

When the Tang army entered the Silla forward camp, the Silla army, which had come out of the tent in a hurry, became the best target for the Tang army soldiers to brush up on their military exploits, and in the chaos, the Silla soldiers who were not in good armor fell under the blades of the Tang army in batches.

When Zhang Shi's army was galloping across the Silla forward camp, a pontoon bridge on the west bank of the river was quickly built with the efforts of thousands of Tang army soldiers and soldiers to connect to the east bank.

When the last wooden plank of the pontoon bridge was laid, tens of thousands of well-equipped and orderly Tang army officers and soldiers, under the leadership of Xue Ne, quickly crossed the pontoon bridge directly over the Silla forward camp that was plundered by Zhang Shi, and rushed to the Silla Chinese army camp.

When Li Yu led the pro-army Qinglongwei to finally set foot on the east bank of the river through a pontoon bridge, the Silla forward battalion ended the battle with a classic, and the camp was full of dead bodies of Silla soldiers, and Zhang Shi did not even leave a single prisoner.

Wen Yingde's subordinates, who were sleeping in the camp of the Silla Chinese army, rushed to report that the forward camp had been broken by the Tang army, and hurriedly got up and beat drums to gather the army, but before they could gather half of the men, Xue Ne led more than 10,000 troops to attack outside his camp.

More than 60 fire oil bombs from the Tang Army's light stone throwing machine burst into flames in three rounds, and the fire oil bombs suddenly burst open in the newly assembled Silla army, and thousands of soldiers were burned like ghosts crying wolves in pain and despair by the rapidly burning fire oil splashed on their bodies.

The soldiers who were not affected by the fire oil bombs fled quickly to the camp like snakes and scorpions, and the generals could not hold back their swords and bullets.

At this moment, under the command of Xue Ne, 500 Tang army foot soldiers wearing heavy armor and holding a seven-foot-long sword with a three-foot-long blade rushed to the gate of the camp with the arrows of the Silla army, and 500 people swung their swords in unison to cut at the wooden camp gate. Under the bright moonlight, the blade of the Mo knife emitted a cold cold light, which was terrifying in the dark night.

With the five hundred Mo swords slashed together, the camp gate shattered and fell to the ground, in the excited roar of more than 10,000 Tang army soldiers, five hundred Mo swordsmen took the lead in entering, and the Silla soldiers who came to block the attack no matter how they rode on foot, in the face of the Mo swordsmen who advanced and retreated to a degree, wore heavy armor with dark bright light, and wore helmets, they were often flashing with cold light, and the people and horses were shattered.

When the Mo Dao Hand opened a killing spree, the follow-up Tang Army soldiers poured into the Silla Chinese Army camp through the passage split by the Mo Swordsman, and launched a hurricane-like furious attack on the Silla soldiers in the camp.

After Xue Ne led the Yanyun Iron Cavalry Left Guard Army into the Silla camp, the speed and powerful impact of the cavalry rushed Wen Ying's more than 10,000 soldiers and horses hastily organized from the chaotic camp to scatter and flee, and the Silla army could no longer recover the defeat.

After the failure of the only counterattack, the Silla soldiers, who numbered up to 20,000 people, were completely frightened and fled from the camp in panic in the face of the Tang army, which was as ferocious as tigers and wolves. Thinking that a month ago, they were just busy with the autumn harvest at home with hoes, praying for a better life after the grain harvest, how could they think that they would face a bloody battlefield today.

Under the chaotic situation of all the soldiers and horses in the camp being defeated and fleeing, Wen Ying painfully stepped on the war horse brought by her own soldiers, and fled east with the rout.

When the sun shone again on both sides of the river at the confluence of the Huangshan River and the Qinhu River, the camp of tens of thousands of horses on the west bank was already empty, and on the east bank were corpses, severed limbs and broken flesh all over the river valley, thousands of crows flew to grab food, and wolves, tigers and leopards infested the river valley and enjoyed the meat available everywhere.

After defeating the Silla army last night, Li Yu did not stop the army to celebrate this great victory, as the saying goes, the soldiers are fast, and there is still one last checkpoint to Jincheng, and the city of Oshido, which has a garrison of 20,000 troops seventy miles away.

Li Yu handed over half of the cavalry to Xue Ne, ordered him to raid the city of Audo, and led his own foot soldiers to advance slowly.

Xue Ne almost drove Wen Ying's defeated army to attack the city of Abdu, and the general of the Governor Da Ah Chun Chang saw that Wen Ying, who had an army of 30,000, only led more than 1,000 remnants of the army to flee back.

Xue Ne led the army to the bottom of the city, and saw that although the city wall of Abdu's city was not as tall and strong as that of Shangzhou City, he saw that the city wall was full of Silla troops who were waiting solemnly with weapons in their hands, and rolling wood and stones were piled up on the city wall higher than the female wall, which could be seen everywhere.

Seeing that there was no opportunity, Xue Ne had to lead the army to find a favorable terrain outside the city and set up camp, and handed over the city to report to Li Yu.

Li Yu and Jin Famin, who learned the news of Abbot City, sighed and excited, and the common point was that both of them thought that Abdul City would become the second Shangzhou. The difference is that, in Li Yu's opinion, it will force him to fight a costly siege. In Kim Famin's view, the upcoming siege of the Doge will be a national fortune to prevent the Tang army from leaving the national capital and save Silla from imminent defeat.

What neither of the warring parties expected was that Da Ah Chunchang's general, Da Nai Ma Defu, who was guarding the west gate of the city, actually sent people out of the city to contact Xue Ne that night, expressing his willingness to open the door and surrender the city.

At dawn on the second day, Xue Ne led the army to attack the west gate, and Da A Chunchang climbed the west tower to inspect the enemy's situation, and saw that the Tang army was under the city, and was taking a cloud ladder, and was busy ordering the soldiers to roll the wood and thunder stone to prepare, but no one responded to his order for half a day.

Just as he was wondering why the thousands of defenders on the city wall did not respond to the fact that he had smashed the rolling wood thunder stone at the Tang army under the city, Da Ah Chun Chang turned around, and what appeared in his eyes was Da Nai Ma Defu swinging a knife and slashing at his neck.

A good brain fell with the knife in Da Nai Ma Defu's hand, and rolled out of the ground for a distance.

Da Nai Ma Defu took a sip on the corpse of Da Ah Chun Chang on the ground, and shouted: "Open the city gate and welcome the Tang army." ”

The heavy west gate of the city slowly opened in the excited eyes of the Tang soldiers, and when the city gate was completely opened, the Tang soldiers who could no longer wait waved the weapons in their hands and roared loudly into the city.

The fortress of Osake, which had high hopes from the Silla monarchs, fell in one day.