Chapter 83: The Battle of the March Night

The cause of this incident, known as the Moonlit Night Raid, is actually very bizarre, and it is all due to the confusion of the king of Goryeo, Choi Jianjiang. Ignoring the advice of Prime Minister Park Anjae and General Myung-yi, he insisted on going to the temple outside the Busan Fortress to pray to the god of the sea for victory in the battle against the country of silk. Originally, the soldiers and civilians in the Busan Fortress participated in this battle with a mortal heart to live and die with Goryeo, but perhaps because the long-term siege made Choi Jianjiang psychologically unbalanced, or he intended to use the name of God to boost the low morale, Choi Jianjiang was determined to leave the Busan Fortress. In the end, Myeong-yi and Park An-jae had to make a compromise and decided to quietly leave the city at night.

In order to avoid the eyes and ears of the army of the Silk Country, the scale of this trip was minimized, and Mingyi carefully selected ten warriors with strong martial arts to accompany the king to quietly leave the city in the dark night. The temple is less than two miles outside of Busan, and it won't take long to come and go, but even then Myeong-yi is still not at ease, and in order to make sure that in case, Myeong-yi himself will be ready to receive it with an army at any time.

It stands to reason that under the cover of night, it is not to sneak camp and attack the village, let alone ten people, even a hundred people may not be discovered, it can be said that it is foolproof. But things happened to be so coincidental, this night coincided with Gai Yanxiao to inspect various defenses, the location of the temple was quiet, with the light of the waning moon, the slight waves on the sea attracted this fierce general, so he discovered Cui Jianjiang's whereabouts.

At the beginning, Gai Yanxiao didn't pay too much attention to Cui Jianjiang and his party. First of all, it was too dark for him to distinguish the identity of the other party, let alone find out whether the other party had backup, and his own entourage was not much, so for the sake of safety, he decided to send people to ask for help while lurking to observe the enemy's situation. And then the camera moves.

However, as Gai Yanxiao observed, he began to realize that the identity of the other party was extraordinary-the etiquette of those attendants and the temples they went to would never be ordinary Goryeo nobles, if not kings, then at least they were noble people. At this time, Gai Yanxiao couldn't help but start to itch his hands: the siege in the past few months had not only demoralized the Goryeo army, but also the army of the Silk Country was facing the same problem, and their living conditions were inferior to those of the other party. If you can take the opportunity to take down this unexpected Goryeo nobleman, you can at least boost your morale. Gai Yanxiao was eagerly looking forward to the arrival of the reinforcements at this time.

His expectation was met with a positive response when Cui Jianjiang and his party finished their worship and were about to leave, and about 400 infantry from nearby hurried infantry. Gai Yanxiao no longer hesitated at this time, and immediately commanded these soldiers to rush over.

When he heard the other party say the words "protect the king", Gai Yanxiao was overjoyed, he didn't expect that he actually caught such a big fish, and in an instant he had a situation of excess fighting spirit, and rushed over first. But Cui Jianjiang's guards really didn't eat for nothing, and they didn't mess up in the face of an enemy army forty times their size. Desperately cover the monarch's escape to Busan City. Even Gai Yanxiao, who is known for his fierce generals, took a lot of effort to kill three of them, seeing that Busan City was getting closer and closer, Gai Yanxiao was anxious, tightened the sword in his hand, and killed the fourth guard, and finally rushed to Cui Jianjiang's approach.

"Die in peace!" Gai Yanxiao let out a cry of victory, and a sword slammed down.

However, he ignored Cui Jianjiang's own resistance, and Cui Jianjiang's martial arts naturally could not be compared with him. However, he still struggled to pull away his sword with the sword in his hand, and the blade of the sword slashed across Cui Jianjiang's body. Cut off the reins on one side. Cui Jianjiang lost his balance for a while, and just when he was trying to adjust his posture, Gai Yanxiao's second sword arrived, this time Cui Jianjiang couldn't avoid it, and instinctively blocked it with his left hand, and the left arm was completely cut off with his sleeve!

Cui Jianjiang screamed and fell on the horse's back, and at this time, Gai Yanxiao wanted to make up for another sword. Cui Jianjiang had to die on the spot. But at this moment, one man and one rider rushed and roared: "Hugh hurt my king!" ”

The person who came was the general Mingyi, who heard the sword soldiers outside the city, and immediately led the troops to come, but he was still a step too late. Seeing this, Cui Jianjiang's arm was cut off. At this time, he was angry in his heart, and smashed the dancing stick in his hand towards Gai Yanxiao.

Gai Yanxiao is usually not his opponent even when he meets Mingyi, not to mention that he doesn't have a weapon at hand when he goes out on patrol tonight? Not daring to take his stick at the moment, he jumped away from the horse. Mingyi was furious, urging the horse to chase after him, and the soldiers of the Silk Country who blocked his way were smashed by his sticks, and they were killed and wounded.

At this time, Cui Jianjiang had already been rescued by Mingyi's men and returned to the city.

Explain again that Yi chased Gai Yanxiao all the way to the military camp of the country of Juan, and saw that if Gai Yanxiao escaped into the camp, there would be nothing to be done, and at this time, the military camp of the country of silk also got the news, and they poured out of the camp to respond. Seeing that there was no hope of catching up, Mingyi took off his bow and arrow, aimed at Gai Yanxiao's vest and shot it with an arrow.

Mingyi's archery technique is not very clever, but the momentum of his arrow is too fierce, Gai Yanxiao heard that the wind behind him had arrived, and hurriedly dialed it with the sword in his hand, who knew that the sword was actually bounced away by the arrow! The arrow was slightly off, and an arrow pierced Gai Yanxiao's left waist, Gai Yanxiao endured the pain and returned to the camp in defeat. Ming Yi saw that he had been shot, and it was too late to chase after him, so he immediately turned his horse away, and on the way, he killed the remnants of the silk country and turned over on his horse.

At this point, the moonlit night raid came to an end, and it was a completely accidental incident, and neither side expected it to turn out like this. But the facts are alive in front of him, after this night of fierce fighting, the king of Goryeo Choi Jianjiang broke a left arm, due to the lack of medical treatment in the city of Busan, and finally Choi Jianjiang became ill; And Gai Yanxiao, the lord of the Silk Country, was also hit by an arrow in Mingyi, this arrow was deeply injured, and Gai Yanxiao also fell into a long-term illness because of this, and finally had to leave the front-line command work, so that later the arrow wound became his stubborn disease, and finally died. At that time, people who were surprised by this sudden turn of events did not expect things to go in a worse direction, but did their best to treat the two injured parties.

Later historians have not been able to understand why Choi Jianjiang did such an absurd thing as praying, as if an ineffable force in the dark led him there, and Choi Jianjiang's death eventually led to the demise of the Goryeo Kingdom, because his children were too young to take charge of the overall situation. His death was effectively equivalent to the end of the Goryeo regime. (To be continued.) )