Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Dead City

The people at the head of Busan watched the sun gradually set in the west, Wang Hanxin slowly raised his hand, and then fell heavily, and 5,000 women and children were cut off their necks in pieces. In the afterglow of the setting sun, the cries and curses of the Goryeo soldiers in the city lingered throughout the city, but there was nothing they could do.

However, what made them even more indignant was still waiting for them. The next morning, they found that Wang Hanxin had abandoned the corpses after slaughtering these people, and instead set up many deer bars in the rear to prevent the Goryeo soldiers from coming out to snatch the corpses.

It was the end of June and the beginning of July, and in less than two days, the stench of corpses wafted all over the mountains, attracting countless flies to surround it, making people sick for a while, and even the soldiers of the Silk Country in the surrounding deer barns could not bear it and fled back. But the weather was not beautiful, and there was no rain for several days, and there was no strong wind to blow away the stench.

After being tormented by this unbearable corpse stench for ten days, Wang Hanxin's troops were dispatched again. This time they brought with them newly assembled catapults, and the ammunition was the rotting corpses on the ground.

The soldiers of the Silk Country endured the scorching heat and stench, covered their mouths and noses with thick cloths, and continuously launched the rotting corpses into the city of Busan. As soon as these corpses were smashed into the buildings in the city under the force of the projectile, they immediately turned into a pool of vaguely shaped pieces, and the rotting juice splashed everywhere, and it was impossible to clean it up.

It was only at this time that Mingyi understood the true purpose of Wang Hanxin's move, that he wanted to kill these 5,000 people from the beginning, because these 5,000 people were the weapons used to attack Busan—he wanted to use these rotting corpses to create a plague! The so-called provoking oneself out of the city to fight is just a pretense, and it doesn't matter at all whether there is or not! At this time, Mingyi regretted it, and he couldn't see through this Wang Hanxin's methods from beginning to end, just like the previous fire attack of Gao Shanji, He Jianyi's counter-strategy, every time he was played by the opponent in the palm of his hand! Although Busan City is not short of water now, it is impossible to clean so many corpses with corpse poison in a short period of time, once the plague starts, then your army will soon lose its combat effectiveness, and then this Busan City will be self-defeating!

Sortie! Must strike! Mingyi left a small number of troops to clean up the corpses, and gathered all the remaining main forces to kill them out of the city. Even if you die desperately in the field, it is better than being tortured by disease to exhaust the last trace of strength of these people.

However, Wang Hanxin would not let Mingyi get his wish, and he used the cover of those deer barricades to build a solid formation to block the Goryeo army in the narrow strip in front of Busan City. At the beginning, Pusan was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the natural advantage of tens of thousands of silk army could not launch a siege has now become a nightmare for the Goryeo people, and the front of only 100 people does not want to tear apart the military formation of the silk country, not to mention that they have to brave the rain of arrows to fill the deep ditch. Six consecutive charges, costing hundreds of casualties, were able to fill the trench and start the attack. It's a pity that Wang Hanxin's formation has already been arranged, no matter where Mingyi attacks, he will be attacked from at least two sides, seeing these warriors who see death as if they were at home falling one after another, Mingyi's heart also sank - there is no hope for Busan City.

The fighting will of the Goryeo soldiers overwhelmed the soldiers of the Silk Country, but unfortunately this will could not make up for the numerical gap between the two and the huge terrain disadvantage, in this case, to kill a Silk Country soldier would cost the lives of three or four Goryeo soldiers, and only the strength of Wang Han's new army was more than five times that of Mingyi, and he barely fought until noon, Mingyi had lost more than forty percent of his troops, but Wang Hanxin's formation did not even show a little wavering.

In this case, Mingyi is certainly heroic and invincible, but he alone cannot save the defeat. Later, there was a legend that Ming Yi killed thousands of soldiers of the Silk Country in this battle, which is indeed an exaggeration, but in fact, Ming Yi did exert 100% of his strength, and the number of enemy soldiers he killed and wounded was almost equal to the damage caused by his men. That's how Mingyi finally had to retreat to the city, he himself may have planned to die on the same day, but Wang Hanxin, who had long seen through this, calmly commanded in the rear, and used the linkage between the troops to force his subordinates back, and he had no choice but to join his subordinates after going back and forth several times in the enemy formation, but at this time, Wang Hanxin had skillfully let the forward troops get out of contact with the Goryeo army, and the archers of the rear guard forced the Goryeo army again with a dense rain of arrows, Taking advantage of this gap, Wang Hanxin has mobilized troops to fill all the gaps in the previous formation. Mingyi saw that most of the day's attack results had been forcibly deprived, and now it would be in vain to launch an attack again, not to mention that it would still be in vain, and his subordinates had long lost their previous physical strength. Gritting his teeth, Mingyi had no choice but to retreat back to the city.

It was his last bad decision.

If he continued to fight that day, then he might be wiped out under the city of Busan, but the country of silk would probably have to pay thousands of casualties. However, as soon as he retreated to the city, Wang Hanxin immediately redeployed, and after a night of rushing work, he dug four more trenches on the original basis, which were not only wider and deeper than the previous ones, but even filled with water, putting on a posture of never fighting head-on with the Goryeo army again. At this time, it was too late for Mingyi to go to war, and all of his men would be killed before he crossed the five trenches.

Busan City, which had no damage on the surface, had been quietly shrouded by a pair of invisible demonic hands at the moment, and no matter how much Myeongyi tried to prevent it, the epidemic still began to spread ten days later. Fever, vomiting, diarrhea, swelling, and finally death from dehydration, the stock of symptomatic herbs in Busan City was quickly depleted, but the spread of the disease did not seem to be stopped in the slightest. In less than half a month, more than eighty percent of the people in the city fell ill, and the rest began to show early symptoms. The disease not only invaded the soldiers' bodies, but also tortured their spirits, and everyone's eyes showed a cry of despair, even Mingyi himself was not spared, but fortunately, he was physically strong and could not even stand up.

A month after the plague began, there were fewer than 400 survivors in the city, and none of them were still healthy. Seeing all this unfold but unable to do anything about it, Mingyi had to make a final decision: while he could still stand up, he had to choose a glorious death.

Early that morning, before the others could wake up (in fact, they couldn't get up even if they woke up), Myeong-yi climbed up to the top of Busan City alone with a stick, and he knelt on his knees facing the direction of Pyongyang and cried loudly: "Your Majesty! The criminals are incompetent, and they can't hold Busan after all! The guilty minister has no face to His Majesty's spirit in the sky, and he can only apologize for his sins with death! ”

After that, Mingyi drew his sword and committed suicide at the age of thirty-two.

Myeongyi's suicide also announced the fall of the city of Busan, and although the survivors persisted for more than twenty days, it made no difference in Wang Hanxin's eyes, because he had no intention of accepting the fortress at all. It wasn't until the crows at the head of Busan stopped flying for a long time that Wang Hanxin confirmed that the people in the city were dead.

At this point, the last organized armed forces of the once powerful Goryeo Kingdom were completely wiped out, and Goryeo was completely destroyed. (To be continued.) )