499 Goguryeo Raiders
Thirty-two thousand Imperial Defenders landed on the coast in shame.
In the first landing operation, they failed. The reason for the failure is not that they are not brave and strong enough, nor that they are not strong enough in their beliefs, nor that their magic knives are not sharp enough and their armor is not strong enough, but that those broken ships are too fragile.
So, they withdrew.
In their memory, the Empire's armies had never been defeated, and for the first time, they were.
The laughter of the Silla people is still in my ears, and the appearance of the brothers who died in battle is still in front of me...... They felt that they had tarnished His Majesty the Pope's statement that "the Emperor is invincible".
Fortunately, the Reich's North Sea Fleet saved face for them and successfully landed under the cover of artillery.
So they landed with a vengeance, they wanted to fight to the death against the lowly Silla people, make them pay for the ridicule of the day before, and make them pay for the dead imperial warriors.
The 32,000 imperial guards lined up in a goose-shaped formation, exuding a terrifying and strong fighting spirit, and marched towards the Silla army formation with uniform and loud steps.
Silla side. They claimed to have sent an army of 50,000, but in reality there were less than 30,000. Of these 30,000 people, less than 10,000 were soldiers, and the remaining 20,000 were serfs armed with farm tools. Of the 10,000 soldiers, more than 5,000 were improvised.
The combat power of such an army can be imagined.
After enduring the baptism of artillery fire, the Silla soldiers just let go of their hanging hearts, and faced the Central Plains Emperor's ** team wearing uniform thick armor and holding shining cold light weapons. Intense fear quickly spread through the army, and the idea of fleeing was born.
The experienced Silla commander could see what was in the hearts of the soldiers just by looking at them, and he shouted in the Silla dialect: "Sons, don't back down. Once the Central Plains Tiger Wolves rushed into Silla, they would slaughter our relatives and burn our cities as they did to Xianbei. In order to save the lives of our families and the king, we fought with them. ”
As soon as they heard this, the Silla people regained their lost fighting spirit. yes, what about running? The old people and the children who are waiting to be fed are all in the city, and they can't run away. Even if he can escape, Silla will be captured and killed by the Central Plains one day.
"Fight with them." The Silla people screamed, rushed out from all sides of the woods, and took the initiative to charge the imperial army.
From the binoculars, seeing that his eyes were bloodshot, but in fact the surging Silla people, Tai Shi Ci snorted coldly, "I don't know whether to live or die!" Sappers set up artillery arrays. Ballista ready. ”
The rumbling of artillery sounded again after a quarter of a pillar of incense, and the number of artillery pieces that arrived on the coast was not large, so the effect of the artillery bombardment was not as obvious as during the landing war, killing only more than 100 Silla soldiers. However, the shock of the artillery bombardment to the hearts of the Silla people was unprecedented, and they originally thought that artillery could be used on warships, but they did not expect that artillery could be loaded and unloaded and used on land.
If you use it for siege...... It is hard for the people of Silla to imagine what kind of city can withstand such a fierce blow.
Just as the Silla people were conjuring up images of artillery bombarding the city, a fierce string control sound woke them up from the environment. As soon as they followed the sound, their mood immediately darkened along with the sky.
Clusters of arrows covered the clouds like dark clouds, and flocks of crows descended from the sky like carrions, sowing heart-palpitating blood and rain among the Silla people.
After four consecutive fires from the ballista, five or six thousand Silla soldiers fell in a pool of blood.
The drums of war for the Imperial army's charge then sounded, and the 32,000-strong army swept across the scattered army formations of Silla like a whirlwind.
The Silla people tried to hinder the advance of the imperial army with their best archery. The Imperial Army, on the other hand, used shields and impregnable armor to form a tight defensive system, and with minimal casualties, they were able to break through the effective sniper range of the Silla. The first row of shieldmen rammed into the Silla with large shields with barbs.
The spearmen in the back row took advantage of the situation to pounce, and the spears were stabbed in the face with their spears.
The bloody white-knuckle battle began with this.
For the Sillas, more than 8,000 of their 30,000 horses died in the baptism of artillery fire, and the remaining 22,000 were killed by crossbow fire after the landing of the imperial army. In other words, there are only about 15,000 people who survived to confront the emperor head-on.
The vast majority of these fifteen thousand people were temporary serfs, not to mention armor, and even weapons were hoes, shovels, and forks for ploughing. Not only did these inferior wood-handled irons not threaten the lives of the Imperial Defenders, armed to the teeth, but they were also unable to protect themselves.
The Imperial Guardian with the sword slashed down, and the Silla people tried to block with their hoes, but the blades were so sharp that they slashed at the wooden handle of the hoe that was the thickness of the baby's wrist, and easily split it in two. The blade castrated non-stop, and a huge hole was made in the chest of the Silla people, and the heart, liver, lungs, and intestines flowed all over the ground.
The lack of weapons was a common problem among the Silla people, and the Silla army suffered heavy casualties, with more than 5,000 people dying in just half a pillar of incense. The army formation was rushed by the Central Plains, and several generals were put down by the brave Central Plains people and drowned in the torrent of iron armor.
They will not be able to find their own soldiers, and the soldiers will be chased everywhere by the Central Plains. The Silla people were in disarray.
A battle became a one-sided massacre by the Imperial army.
"Surrender or kill!" At this time, the translator in the emperor ** shouted the slogan of the whole township.
The remaining Silla people have long been frightened by the imperial guards, and the reason why they are still resisting stubbornly is that they are afraid that the emperor will slaughter and harvest their lives. Now that they heard that surrender could save their lives, some of the timid Silla people decisively dropped their weapons.
The Silla people, who were distrustful of the Empire, saw that the Imperial Defenders did not kill the killers again after dropping their blades, so they also threw down their weapons and knelt down to ask for surrender.
In this battle, the imperial army won a complete victory, destroying 20,000 enemies and capturing nearly 10,000 enemies.
The army then regrouped and marched north, aiming for Geumseong, the capital of Silla.
Speaking of which, the king of Silla, Nabini Shijin, is also a man, and in the face of the dilemma of the overwhelming army, he did not pat his ass and run away like the king of Baekje, but resolutely continued to confront the empire.
In this regard, he adopted the method of deep ditches and barriers, fortified walls and clear fields, intending to use passes and cities to block the invasion of the imperial army, and when the imperial army ran out of food and grass, it would retreat on its own.
However, twenty years ago, his strategy may have been effective, but as the use of gunpowder in the emperor ** team became more and more pure, his strategy seemed too naïve - the last thing the emperor was afraid of was to fight the city.
The gunpowder was blown up indiscriminately, and the castles, including the capital of Silla, were reduced to ashes, and the imperial army encountered almost no decent resistance, and easily slaughtered the golden city, and captured the king of Silla, Nabeinishi.
The war between Baekje and Silla was initially decided, and the second batch of 20,000 soldiers and horses transported by the North Sea Fleet and the Yangtze River Naval Division docked one after another. These two Qingzhou Army and Xuzhou Army under the command of Li Dian and Le Jin joined Yu Ban and Tai Shici successively.
After leaving behind the necessary garrison forces, the two armies marched together to cross the empty Goguryeo border in the rear, and the autumn wind swept away the leaves to attack the city, thinking of the back of the alliance of the three kingdoms in Changbai Mountain.
At this time, Yeonpi, a powerful Goguryeo general stationed in Changbai Mountain, met the king of Baekje who had fled for his life, and learned that Baekje had been captured by soldiers and horses from the Central Plains, and that the king of Baekje had arrived with a messenger who reported the fall of the Silla capital and the news that the capital of the Goguryeo king was in danger.
Yan Pi suddenly felt the fear of the tiger entering the house, and the internal and external difficulties made him at a loss for a while.
It was also at this time that discordant voices began to appear in the coalition forces formed by Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla.
According to Yeonpi's intentions, since Baekje and Silla had fallen, he should be left alone for the time being, and the top priority was to hold on to Changbai Mountain and the Yalu River, prevent the main force of the Central Plains people in the north from moving south, and join the troops and horses from the sea in the south.
The King of Baekje had a different set of ideas. Now that his country has fallen, even if the Central Plains people are defeated, the dilapidated Baekje will become Goguryeo's meat, and it is better to be a puppet of the Central Plains than to be annexed by Goguryeo. Therefore, his subjective will is to ask the empire to surrender. The reason why he did not put it into practice when he was in Baekje, but went to Changbai Mountain to join the Baekje army was that he hoped to use these tens of thousands of horses to raise the weight of negotiations, hoping that the pope of the Central Plains would let him stay in Baekje instead of taking him hostage to Luoyang.
The general of the Silla army was a loyal straight man, and when he learned that the king had been captured by the Central Plains, he decided to withdraw his troops and return to King Silla to save him......
The three groups of people have their own opinions and quarrel endlessly.
In the end, the stupid Silla people ignored Yeonpi's theories such as the death of lips and teeth, and led their troops to withdraw from the coalition garrison overnight and rushed to the aid of Jinseong.
When the king of Baekje saw that the Silla people had run away, he had a wicked smile on his face. Taking advantage of the Goguryeo people's inattention, he sent a secret envoy across the Yalu River to his cousins in Luanyi's big tent. He also expressed his willingness to cooperate with the imperial army to break through the defense line laid by the Goguryeo people in one fell swoop.
For those who throw olive branches, Luan Yi has always refused to come. With the assistance of the Baekje people, there was a breakthrough in the many passes of Changbai Mountain.
The imperial army then poured into the territory of Goguryeo with the momentum of breaking the embankment, and the Goguryeo general Yeonpi swore to resist to the death, but he could not support it alone, and he was defeated one after another, and his people died in the chaos.
Only then did the new king of Goguryeo know that it was extremely stupid to choose to confront the Central Plains Empire. took the initiative to go out of the city for thirty miles to confess to Luan Yi, saying that the reason why he was an enemy of the empire was not his original intention, but was instigated by the criminal minister Yan Pi.
There is no evidence that Yan Pi is dead, and Luan Yi is very disdainful of the new king of Goguryeo who poured dirty water on the dead man, and immediately ordered him to be executed to cheer up Xiaoxiao.
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