Chapter 1003 [Return to the Teacher]

In the midst of the great shock, both the enemy and the enemy in the city and the city were suddenly stunned, and they all stopped their work and came to watch the various fragments scattered like heavenly maidens scattering flowers in the wind.

This kind of earth-shattering power, of course, is the first time for the East Road Jin Army led by Zong Bi, although Brother Yinshu was also hit by a guy before, but very few people who attacked the city with him that time can go back, and even if they can go back, it is impossible to talk to others about what they have seen and heard in the city.

For a while, the power of this thunderbolt shook the mountains and rivers, and everyone didn't say anything about how they reacted. The attacking and defending armies above and below the city were stunned, but before the gong of the retreating troops was sounded, naturally no one dared to retreat or flee, so they saw that everyone within a radius of 100 steps centered on the building car was stunned for more than ten breaths, and then the city was attacked again, and the stones were smashed.

The Goryeo defenders in the city were also stunned, and were driven by the generals who woke up first to recapture their positions again, and the Jin army death squads that pounced on the building cars were either killed on the spot or driven down the city wall.

Under the city, Zong Bi, who had been staring at the direction of the building car, naturally saw that after the explosion, the situation of the siege of the city was suddenly suffocated, and then the rout also appeared, and immediately sent another Jurchen general and ordered him to lead the pro-army of 500 to attack again.

However, at this time, he heard the chaotic sound of hooves in the west, and turned his head to see that about three or four hundred horsemen were retreating in confusion. ”

Zong Bi was immediately furious when he heard this, and after carefully taking a closer look at the battle situation in the entire battle array in the north of the city, he hurriedly ordered people to lead three thousand light horsemen to pursue.

This Kaijing is the Naseong city built by the decree of the 20th year of Hyeonjong of Goryeo (1028), the city base is 19,700 steps, the gate is 22 gates, and the circumference of the entire city should be about 60 li, that is, the length of a city wall should be about 10 li.

Therefore, when Zong Bi heard the news and studied for a while before sending out the pursuers, Du Ba and his three armies of dragons, tigers and leopards had actually finished cleaning the battlefield and went south along the city wall.

The location of this Goryeo Kaijing is the ** Kaesong of later generations, the city faces the Imjin Plain and the Wolam Plain to the north and east, and the southwest of the city is surrounded by Songak Mountain, Centipede Mountain and other mountain ranges.

But it is also said that when the pursuing Jin army bypassed the west of the city, it really looked at the corpses all over the field in front of the city, and found a lot of wounded soldiers of the Goryeo army, at this time they actually held guns and crossbows, moved the corpse of the Jin army and put a corpse in front of the city, and looked at the chasing soldiers to come and shouted loudly, and even saw a lame Goryeo wounded soldier with a knife to cut off the head of a still alive Jin soldier, and immediately looked at the blood of the Jin soldier and was afraid that there was a foot high, and then the master kicked the beheaded head as a ball as if he was playing a juju. Intended to provoke these pursuers.

It's just that the pursuit force sent by Zong Bi this time, the leader of the team, Mou Ke, is obviously above the level, and seeing these wounded soldiers who seem to be really unable to run are building corpse fortresses here, intending to delay time for the retreating troops, how could he be calculated by this little ridiculous plan. When even with a roar, the leading army walked around the corpse base, and did not forget to give the order to shoot arrows when passing by, then he also saw three thousand light horsemen roaring more than a hundred steps away from the corpse base, and the arrows they threw casually were really like rain, and in the blink of an eye, the entire corpse base was full of arrows, and the wounded soldiers of the Dragon, Tiger and Leopard Army who stayed in the corpse base were naturally silent.

However, although the interception of these wounded soldiers at the cost of their lives did not have any effect, the pursuing troops were still a little late, but when they bypassed the west of the city and entered the south of the city, they also happened to see the Koreans drilling into Songak Mountain, south of Kaekyung.

The pursuit force could only return in a huff, and at this time the war in the north of Kaijing also tended to be calm, in the case of the destruction of the building car, although the Jin army organized several strong attacks, but in the end failed to climb the city again, with the siege vehicle used to hammer the city gate was destroyed by the stone and boiling oil on the city after ignition, the Jin army had to ring the gong to announce the failure of today's siege.

At this time, he heard a sad horn blowing in the Jin army, so that people knew that another senior general had fallen in his army.

After collecting the troops and returning to the camp, Zong Bi first organized the funeral sacrifices of Brother Yinshu and the fallen soldiers, thinking that Du Ba's defection would not be fought anywhere, so he simply took the wounded soldiers of Goryeo who had been collected before and the wounded soldiers who were picked up when cleaning the battlefield afterwards as human martyrs.

After dealing with these things, Zong Bi also called all the remaining generals to the tent to discuss the next step.

This time, Zongbi led the army to invade the east alone, although there were only 20,000 horses, but the configuration of each army was still complete, in addition to him and Yinshu Brother as the main and deputy commanders, there were more than 20 Meng'an (thousand commanders) under his command, although the whole army suffered more than 1,000 casualties when they attacked Pyongyang, but the real battle dead were less than 500, so the system was quite complete when it came to attack Kaijing.

It's just that the casualties in today's fierce battle under Kaijing City are quite large, and the biggest loss today is that two-thirds of the entire Meng'an of Hula Leopard was killed, and only more than 300 people of the entire 1,000-man team ran back, so now Zong Bi's troops are only 13,000 intact except for the 2,000 men stationed in Pyongyang, and the number of wounded soldiers has reached 3,000.

However, there are great differences in the army about whether to continue to attack Kaekyung, and although more than half of Meng'an supports continuing the offensive, one-third of them are opposed, believing that the only 15,000 people are no longer enough to conquer Kaekyung, and even if it is defeated, it will be difficult to actually control Kaekyung, that is, if they want to rob if they want to fight down, they will not be able to draw manpower, and although the five or six thousand Goryeo annexes led by Du Ba have run away, no one knows whether they really ran away. Or is he hiding in Songyue Mountain and planning something, so this is a great hidden danger, if this threat is not ruled out, how can it be possible to continue to attack Kaekyō?

Some people also suggested that since the troops were insufficient, it would be better to withdraw to Pyongyang first, and wait until the men and horses of the 30th Division of Baeksan defeated the Goryeo border army (that is, the two armies of Shenqi and Shenbu) of Guseong and Anju and converged under Pyongyang, and then it was not too late to attack Kyongyong.

After all, Kaekyung is a big city with a population of nearly 100,000, and the defenders in the city are said to be as many as 30,000 or 50,000.

In the end, Jongbi ordered the combined army to return to Pyongyang and look for fighters again.