Chapter 19: Under the Bone City
At the end of March, the night in Liaodong was still extremely cold, and the Goryeo defenders on the black bone city rubbed their hands and walked around. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Several Goryeo soldiers on the castle tower gathered around and whispered.
"Do you say that the 20,000 troops we went to attack An'an City were really wiped out? Not even a single Korean fled back. ”
"Brother, you are lagging behind, I heard from the Silla people that our army was indeed 20,000 when it set out, and there were many rebels who surrendered along the way, and the army was almost 30,000."
"Nearly 30,000 horses were annihilated by the Tang army, and not even a single Goryeo could run back." One of them was taken aback.
"Brother, you shouldn't know Da'an Mountain, my hometown used to live in the valley mouth of the Da'an Mountain Valley, the valley can be more than ten miles long, only dozens of zhang wide, the mountains on both sides are high and dense, it is an excellent place for an ambush."
"Since it is an ambush place, why are General Gao and the Silla people still ambushed?" Immediately someone asked.
"Didn't General Gao hear from a person who fled from Anshi that the Tang army only had a few thousand people, so General Gao and the Silla people sent troops to attack Anshi."
"A few thousand people can ambush our tens of thousands of troops? The guy who fled from Anshi must be a spy of the Tang Kingdom, and tricked our army into attacking Anshi, and happened to be ambushed by the Tang people. ”
"That guy must be a spy of the Tang people, I also heard that the guy's surname is Quan, it seems to be called Quanshuijing."
"This damn Tang lackey!" A group of people gathered around and cursed the Spring Sutra angrily.
"Yawn ......" A few people in the mountains and forests who gathered around the fire sneezed repeatedly, staring at the flames with deep eyebrows.
This person is the Spring Water Sutra that has not been seen for several days and has been cursed by Gao Yanwu. There were more than 100 people, but now only five people are still with them, all of them in tattered clothes and untidy faces. What's more, they haven't eaten for a day, and although they were able to find something to eat in the forest a few days ago, none of them were half-full, and now they are hungry and weak.
"I don't know if General Gao and they have captured Anshi." One broke the silence and muttered.
"General Gao and the Silla people have an army of more than 26,000, and they will definitely be able to defeat the Tang army of several thousand people and flee." The other person replied with a somewhat calm expression, full of confidence in Gao Yanwu and their capture of Anshi.
Only Quanshuijing was not so optimistic, and a few days ago he was sent by Gao Yanwu to investigate the situation of the Tang army in Anshi, but he did not expect to be ambushed by Tang army scouts in the valley more than ten miles away from Anshi.
I thought that there were not many people on the other side, and we could fight for casualties to solve them, but I didn't expect that when the two armies were killed together, several pairs of Tang army scouts came one after another, with each team ranging from dozens to hundreds.
More than 100 of his subordinates were besieged, and most of his subordinates were killed by the other party in a few quarters of an hour, and he broke through under the desperate protection of his subordinates, and was chased and killed by Tang Army scouts along the way, which was unspeakably miserable. So much so that now there are only five subordinates left, and they are still hungry. I don't know how far I have traveled from the forest? I almost got lost, and in the end I had no choice but to follow the sun to the east during the day, hoping to find the way back to the black bones.
There were hundreds of Tang Army scouts encountered, so how could the Tang Army in An'an City send so many scouts if they only had more than 3,000 people from before?
Obviously, the Tang army has received reinforcements, and it is more likely that after detecting the news that Gao Yanwu and Sha Yan are leading the army to attack, otherwise why did they encounter so many Tang army scouts on the road from Wugu to Anshi?
Obviously, the Tang army brigade may go out of the city to meet the combined forces of Gao Yanwu and Sha Yan, and in this battle, it is not certain whether their side will win or lose.
Quan Shuijing would not have imagined that he was running for his life in the forest and could not return to the army in time to inform him of his speculation. As a result, Gao Yanwu, who was ambushed, believed that he was a spy sent by the Tang Army to introduce himself into the Tang Army's ambush.
The spring water was passed on by the soldiers who fled to the mountains and forests with Gao Yanwu in the name of Goguryeo, and even the defenders in the black bone city thought that he was a spy of the Tang army.
In the wee hours of the morning, it was the coldest time of the night.
Outside the Black Bone City, there are black figures in the forest holding horizontal knives and crossbows quietly approaching the Black Bone City, and on the avenue that cannot be seen in the city dozens of zhang away, there are thousands of cavalry ready to go.
Li Shangdan led the White Tiger Guard to the woods outside the Black Bone City, and then personally led hundreds of carefully selected death squads to stew with the defenders of the city, and quickly touched the city wall.
The death squad also carried the simple staircase that was made during the day, several feet high, which was enough to climb the black bone wall.
In the original Goguryeo era, the city was only used as a fortress to support various military towns west of Liaodong in the rear, and the city walls were not as tall and strong as Anshi and Liaodong.
Thirty soldiers were sent into the city cave to wait for the city gate to open, Li Shangdan quietly slapped the soldiers in front and behind with his hand to send a message, and then several people quietly put more than a dozen stairs on the city wall, and the soldiers quietly climbed up one by one with horizontal knives in their mouths.
"Who?" The stewed Goryeo opened his eyes and suddenly saw several figures climbing up under the city wall, and immediately said loudly.
"Boom......" The Tang soldiers did not give them a chance to raise their weapons, and cut them down to the ground with a knife.
"Enemy attack, enemy attack......" The other Goryeo soldiers shouted loudly when they realized the situation.
"Kill." Li Shangdan waved the knife in his hand and led his subordinates to kill under the city wall, opening the city gate before the defenders reacted, and as soon as the city gate was opened, the city would be broken.
"Knock knock knock......" The Goryeo army beat the big drum, and the sound of the drum spread for dozens of miles in the silent night.
"Where's the drum?" Sha Yan, who was sleeping heavily, was awakened by the sound of eager drums, and he didn't sleep well when he came back today, and rushed out of the room in anger.
"The general is not good, the Tang army is attacking the city!" A soldier ran over in a panic, ran so quickly that he fell to the ground and howled loudly with a miserable expression.
"What? How...... Possible? Sha Lu froze in place, his mouth open and closed, not knowing what to say.
"Report, general, the Tang army attacked the West Gate at night, and the West Gate was breached."
"Report, thousands of cavalry of the General Tang Army have entered the city from the West Gate, and they are about to attack the City Lord's Mansion."
One herald after another came anxiously to report the latest military situation.
"It's over." Sha Lu was dizzy, his feet were unsteady, and his whole body was about to fall.
"General, General......"
"Kill, capture Sha Yan alive." Xue Ne took the lead and led his 3,000 cavalry to attack from the west gate into a no-man's land.
Most of the Goryeo and Silla armies in the city were still asleep, and suddenly there was a shout of killing in the city, and they were so shocked that they couldn't even find the leading generals.
After Li Shangdan led the death squad to kill the defenders of the West Gate and opened the city gate, he led the White Tiger Guard to kill along the city wall, and the 3,000 cavalry handed over to Xue Ne in the city rushed to kill.
In the panic of the Goryeo and Silla armies, the Tang army, who had not even put on their clothes and armor, was slashed and killed, leaving corpses everywhere.
"Retreat, retreat from the east gate." Sha Yu shouted and retreated, leading the only hundreds of soldiers and horses that followed him to the east gate in a panic.
Sha Yi was frightened, and within a day of escaping back to Wugu, the Tang army broke into the city, and he no longer had the courage to lead the army to tear up the Tang army, so he had to flee for his life.
The black bones that had been occupied for less than a month were lost like this, and Sha Yu fled in panic, just like a few days ago in the Da'an Mountain Valley, abandoning thousands of subordinates, and once again abandoning the thousands of subordinates in the city who were fighting in chaos.