CHAPTER XVI
Hangul's inference unfortunately hit.
He and his 20,000 soldiers were not the worst that night, and Han Chi's army also suffered the same fate at the same time, but unlike him, Han Chi's order was given a little late, and before the country of silk had to smash the Liaoshui away with a catapult, Han Chi's troops did not have time to escape back to the south bank of the Liaoshui, but threw more than half of the soldiers in the Liaoshui. In the midst of the chaos, they were attacked by a dense array of bows and arrows like locusts, and Han Chi had to order his subordinates to make a detour and retreat to the south bank, in the process, they were constantly baptized by the bows and arrows and catapults of the Silk Country, and by the time they finally crossed the Liaoshui, they had lost more than seventy percent of their troops.
And Jeon Byungyeol and Kim Seung-boo have experienced a transition from ecstasy to despair. Originally, after a hard fight, the two successfully cut off the retreat of the Silk Country. But Zhu Tianshun deliberately attracted their cavalry during the retreat, leaving them almost entirely on the ice sheet of Liaoshui. When the assault began, the two riders reacted exactly the same, but the results turned out to be completely opposite. The location of Jin Chengfu was close to the south bank, so he fled towards the south bank, but what was waiting for him on the shore was the spears of Zhu Tianshun's soldiers, and the scattered cavalry was quickly eliminated, and Jin Chengfu himself was pierced into a firewood pile by dozens of spears. Jeon Byungyeol's position was northerly, and he had no choice but to flee towards the north bank, but he was obviously more unfortunate than Kim Seung-fu, the splash of ice water made the ice wet and slippery, and his horse unfortunately fell, and before he could get up, a boulder killed his mount and threw him into the river. Jeon Bingyeol desperately took off his armor, swam to the ice, and climbed up before freezing into ice, but he was too cold to fight anymore, and barely fled to the north shore, only to find that the army of the Silk Country was waiting for him to throw himself into the net.
Nearly 40,000 Goryeo troops died along the Liaoshui coast that night, and the 10,000 elite cavalry of the Goryeo army were almost wiped out, while the army of the Silk Country suffered almost no losses except for the damage of hundreds of catapults, and this was the first overwhelming victory of the Silk Army since the two countries fought.
At dawn, the news of defeat reached the ears of Ayizhi. Ayizhi, who was directing the attack on the front line, almost fell off his horse. Ah Yizhi, who barely held on to the saddle, tried to stabilize his emotions, and after carefully inquiring about the whole process, he found that his body was drenched in cold sweat.
"Is it all smashed? Did they smash all the water open? Ah Yizhi asked.
"Yes! All of them were smashed apart on a width of more than ten miles. ”
Ah Yizhi exhaled a long breath, this battle is not over yet, his 50,000 troops were almost completely annihilated, but the other party's actions are equivalent to isolating their 30,000 people on the south bank of Liaoshui, as long as they mobilize troops to besiege these enemies, so that they can not escape from this battlefield and return to the north bank, then this battle still has to be fought, without follow-up troops, these enemy troops will definitely not last long, if these enemies are annihilated, at least it can be regarded as a draw.
"Herald the Ministries! Attack the enemy with all your might, and be sure to pin the enemy in place and annihilate it! ”
"Yes!" The heralds took their orders and left.
After giving the order, Ah Yizhi immediately organized his troops and horses to attack the city defended by the enemy's Tiger Guard Battalion - this was the enemy's trump card force, and if it could be completely annihilated, it would be able to recover a little bit of lost points.
When he set up his position to launch a general attack, a new report arrived: "Report!" Report to the Marshal! The enemy has already built a bridge on the Liaoshui! ”
"What did you say!"
"The enemy was prepared, and in the early hours of the morning they opened a slipway, and then threw the abandoned boats that had been prepared long ago into the water, and then connected them with ropes, and laid planks on them, very fast! It hadn't been done when the lower officials arrived, but now I'm afraid it's done. ”
Ah Yizhi closed his eyes: every step of his own was in Chang Miao's calculations! And Chang Miao has been carefully preparing for this for at least a month or two, all of which was already within his plan, and he acted like a puppet with his lead. It was the first time since the army that he had been defeated so completely. Ah Yizhi trembled his hands, gritted his teeth and said, "Go all out to take this city and kill all the members of the enemy's Tiger Guard Battalion!" Don't leave a single mouth alive! ”
The order was immediately carried out, and every Goryeo soldier was furious, and for the first time since the beginning of the war, his comrades died under the enemy's tricks, and they did not even have a chance to use their martial arts. The anger turned into an incomparable momentum, and the Goryeo army launched a fierce attack on the temporary town where the Tiger Guard Camp was strong.
Ah Yizhi knew that there were originally some of his own materials in this city, plus the equipment carried by the cavalry itself, it would only last about a day at most, and it would not be a problem to take this city at all.
The resistance in the city was extremely fierce, but Ah Yiji noticed one thing: almost all the arrows shot by the other side were made by the Goryeo army, and the bows of the Goryeo army were made of hardwood, which was small in size, so the arrows were relatively short, and they could not be filled with the bow of the Silk Country, and the density of the arrows was similar to the number of original Goryeo bows in the city that he mastered, which meant that this pure cavalry army was not equipped with bows and arrows at all! That way, in a few hours the city will run out of arrows. However, Ayizhi did not intend to give the other side any chance, and immediately ordered an attack on all fronts - with such a density of fire, once a general attack was launched, it would be completely ineffective, so that it would soon be able to attack the castle tower and engage in hand-to-hand combat.
Just after the general attack was launched, when the Goryeo army began to spread over the city walls like ants, an earth-shattering loud bang sounded in the city! Ah Ulji only saw a burst of fire from the city, and then a large number of Goryeo troops fell from the city!
"What is this?" Ah Yizhi's eyes were about to pop out. While he was in shock, the loud noise rang out again, and as before, after a burst of fire and a loud noise, another group of soldiers fell off the wall. This time, Ah Yizhi saw clearly, and the soldiers in the city took out a kind of black short stick, which was the fire released by the short stick, and it made a loud noise!
Ah Yizhi hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of troops, this unprecedented thing is too terrifying, and if this continues, morale will surely collapse. When he looked at the wounded soldiers who were carried back, he was even more sure of his judgment, the soldiers in armor were actually beaten with skin and flesh, and the wounds that were opened were bigger than those pierced by spears!
Of course, Ah Yizhi had never seen this kind of weapon, and he never thought that Chang Miao had specially sent three hundred soldiers of the Shenji Battalion to follow the Tiger Guard Battalion, and they were equipped with the latest invention weapon of the Silk Country, the Fire Gun.
In the face of this devilish weapon, Ah Yizhi could only stop the attack, and he could not experiment with the lives of soldiers when he still didn't know it. At the same time, he received that the enemy's main force was crossing Liaoshui, and the cavalry of Su Chengdong's department had begun to attack here, and his own forces were still in a relatively scattered state, which was obviously very disadvantageous. Ah Yizhi understood that there was no hope of victory, and the only way to do this was to gather his forces and retreat for the time being, looking for an opportunity to fight again. He immediately ordered the whole army to retreat in the direction of Pingcheng in the rear, where it was ready to regroup against Chang Miao's next offensive.