Volume 9 Goryeo under the Smoke of Gunpowder Chapter 5 Escape
The night gradually shrouded, and the snowflakes were still flying in the air, it was a moonless night, cold and lonely all around, and even the chirping of insects did not come out, like a planet without the slightest life, only the cold ruled a qiē. In the distance, the tide of the sea ebbed and flowed, and the sound of the tide could not be heard. On the seashore, a ruin still smoky and dusty, and the smell of blood filled the air.
In the cold ruins, a figure curled up, the severe pain constantly stimulated his nerves, he moved slightly, supporting his body with his right hand that could still move, the blood scabs on his body had already condensed, sticking to his face, like a demon crawling out of hell. Yuan Gai Suwen's body trembled slightly, he was cold and hungry, and the pain on his body was constantly stimulating, so that he did not faint directly, but his state was definitely not good. In this small space under the ruins, he spent a long time, and every minute and second of this time seemed to be torment.
In the violent explosion, his hearing was temporarily deprived, and now his world was a silent world without sound, and the darkness under the night, which deprived him of his vision, was extremely bad. He never thought that he would have such a depressed day, but the pain in his body made him believe that this qiē was true, and the Tang people came, and they were still so fierce, he didn't seem to see the slightest hope. How did the Koreans deal with a weapon that would explode violently? During this time, he tortured himself in silence, and each answer he received made him extremely depressed, because it seemed to be incomprehensible. The city where I am today. Because it is close to the border of the three countries, the city defense is also a relatively high level. The city wall built is second only to the imperial capital, but such a city wall is under the attack of the Tang people. It's like papier-mâché. As soon as he stabbed it, he didn't even see the face of the Tang people, and his side was already wiped out. This time, can Goryeo defeat this group of devil-like Tang people like the Sui Dynasty?
But no matter what, Yuangai Suwen still stood up strongly, the severe pain made him almost unable to stand up, his right hand was still intact, but his left arm had broken and he was now shrugging like that. Grabbing the pieces of earth and rocks, he struggled to stand up. Shaking and enduring the pain in his body, Yuangai Suwen walked out of the small corner where he was hiding. Looking around, there was already a scorched earth all around, and countless burned remains left on the land, and there was a disgusting pungent smell, which was emitted by the corpses after being burned by the fire. Even the strong cold wind could not blow these smells away, because there were so many corpses burned on this day, countless Koreans. Silla people, Baekje people. All of them stayed here for half a day, and then they were charred by a fire.
The night was dark, and Datang's fleet had disappeared from the sea. I don't know where I went, Yuangai Suwen raised his eyes to look around, but his vision was cut off by the endless darkness. The night is as cool as water. It is no longer as endless as it is during the day. Enduring the pain, Yuangai Suwen stumbled in the direction of his memory. Because his current state is not good, he must find a place to deal with it first. In the direction he was going, there was a small village.
The ships of the Tang Dynasty did go far, after bombing the city on the shore into ruins, Li Kuan ordered to start sailing along the coastline, he wanted to patronize all the peninsula cities in these coastal areas first, and give the enemy the greatest trauma in the case of maximizing the vitality of his side, because they were short of manpower, and those slaves of the Japanese slave country were not very reliable, so it was the best choice to maximize their advantages first, so Li Kuan did not send people ashore to inspect, Even if there are definitely many surviving Goryeo people in that ruin, these people will definitely leak the news of their arrival after they survive, but Li Kuan is not prepared to hide it this time, and he will push it over in an open and honest way, and whoever stands in the way will be crushed to the slag! So after throwing down the slaves of the Japanese slave country on the boat, Li Kuan drove the boat away without hesitation, originally planning to let them clean up the ruins and extinguish the mouth, but after kicking the people down, he remembered that there were still many coastal cities that he needed to clean up, so he didn't care about these slaves, and he should release them with kindness. But let them go by himself, this cold water, and the Goryeo people on the shore, the Silla people are not necessarily!
Although Silla is a country ruled by a queen, as a male and female defense, the queen will only show up on important occasions, and the handling of government affairs on weekdays will still be separated from the minister. It was also late at night, but the queen of Silla did not rest in the dormitory, but sat in the main hall to deal with the government, and below the Silla officials in various official robes were kneeling, they were all urgently summoned here by the queen while they were asleep, and it seemed that something big had happened.
"You must know that Your Majesty is urgently summoning ministers and others late at night, what is the matter? The ministers are willing to share their worries for His Majesty! An old minister with gray hair was the first of all the hundred officials, and he asked first.
"This time, the army of the Northern Expedition to Goryeo failed, and all of my Silla nearly 10,000 sons were buried on the battlefield! Do you know what a tragedy this is? Queen Seondeok's face was gloomy, and her voice was as cold as an ice cellar instead of the spring breeze of the past. As a woman's way of dealing with the government in the past, it was mainly Huairou, but this time it has become so cold and tough, this qiē is because there are too many people who died in the Northern Expedition to Goryeo this time, in the past, it was a war of several months or even a year or two, and it was a great deal to kill or wound three or five thousand people, and the countries on the three peninsulas actually had a small population and even fewer troops, but because of their small land area, Therefore, relatively speaking, the strength of each place is not much compared to Datang. But this time, nearly 10,000 people died at one time, and almost none of them were able to come back alive, and this time the news was sent back because a soldier was nervous when he was about to go to the battlefield, and suddenly had diarrhea and escaped the catastrophe.
After seeing the countless black things that fell from the sky falling into their camp and exploding violently, and then all the people turned into blood and mud in the explosion, this Silla soldier only thought of one idea of escaping in an instant, so he found a convenient place to stand far away from the edge of the camp, not within the scope of the bombardment, and this small place on the peninsula was not very far from the capital of Silla, so after finding a war horse that was not killed, he galloped towards the excessive speed of Silla, scarred his body, and then smeared with black ashes, saying that he escaped from the battlefield with nine deaths and came back to report the news.
Regardless of the final fate of this soldier, the Silla Kingdom was the first to learn that the Tang Dynasty was coming, and with a powerful weapon that could explode, it could kill the enemy dozens of zhang away, and even attack the city with an extremely powerful weapon. This is enough, and such news is enough for this group of Silla ministers who have studied in this class for decades to make accurate judgments.
"Your Majesty, is Datang really so powerful?" After hearing the news that Queen Seondeok brought back from the battlefield, the first reaction of the Silla ministers was impossible, because they had also had a lot of contact with Datang over the years, but they had never heard of Datang having such a weapon, this kind of weapon that could wipe out the enemy a hundred steps away was too appalling, and no one dared to believe it. If so, who in this world would dare to go against Datang? And the monarch of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, I am afraid that he has already come to the city, this great king of the Tang Dynasty is not a good man and a woman, and for the surrounding countries, he is the most worthy of guard, because his ambition is really too high. Not only is it limited to the local scope of the Tang Dynasty, but it has always been eyeing the surrounding countries, as long as he has that kind of strength, he will never wait for so many years, and now he is still receiving envoys from various countries in Chang'an City, and he will definitely send troops to attack at the beginning, and include all the surrounding qiē in his hands into his own ruling category.
"I'm afraid this is true, because this is the news that the soldiers on the front line desperately brought back, and we heard a muffled thunder from time to time at noon today? At the time, I wondered why there was still thunder in the winter when it was snowing for the first time. Now I think it's the sound of this weapon of Datang. "There are also ministers who believe in an incredible news, after all, in the middle of the night, the queen hurriedly gathered them together, there must be something great happening, otherwise it would not be so urgent.
"In any case, this king has already sent someone to the front line to verify the news, and I believe that news will come tomorrow. Now we take this qiē as true, if Datang is really so strong, what should we do? Queen Seondeok asked, she had been thinking about this question since she heard the news, whether it was surrender or fighting to the death, it was within her range of thoughts, but she had been hesitating. Because of this, what should countless subjects think? If you don't surrender, Datang is furious and directly pulls the entire Shilla into the flames of war, what should I do?
"Your Majesty, if it's true, we will surrender to the Tang Dynasty, the monarch of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, is an amazing person, broad-minded, I believe that I will not be embarrassed, but how can we determine that this qiē is all done by the Tang Dynasty? We're fighting Goryeo this time, could it be the Koreans? A courtier said loudly, this is also a possibility, if it is Goryeo, this is the worst.
"It shouldn't be Goryeo, because the city of Goryeo was the first to be attacked, and then it was our alliance with Baekje, so the possibility of Goryeo is very small." Among the people here, the Queen is the one who knows the most detailed information. So she analyzed.
"But it's Yuangai Suwen who is stationed in that city! This person's ability is so good that if King Rongliu masters this weapon, he will definitely attack that city first! The Silla minister also retorted.
"This ......" (To be continued......