Chapter 184: Slaughter of the City
20,000 infantry troops poured into the breach, slashing at the enemies who stood in their way, some moving large stones from the breach, clearing the way for the cavalry to charge. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
On both sides of the broken wall, thunder stones and rolling logs kept falling, arrows rained down, and many soldiers fell on the way to charge.
The walls had fallen, victory was in sight, and these ragtag troops, who had not been trained for many days, were particularly brave and fearless.
Victory is already in sight, and if you make a meritorious service, you can be promoted and rewarded, who doesn't work hard?
The obstacles blocking the impact of the cavalry were cleared, and Bai Yutang raised the Yuanhong Sword, pressed it down violently, and shouted: "Attack!" ”
He saddled and leaped on his horse, and was the first to enter the gap, followed by a tidal wave of iron horsemen, who were desperately trying to plug the gap, and threw their bodies into pieces.
A large number of cavalry poured into the city, charging along the avenues, blasting the retreating defenders into a blast and trampling into a pulp.
The general trend has passed, and the completely collapsed defenders of the city stubbornly resisted for a while, and finally all collapsed and fled in all directions.
The lucky one who ran fast escaped from the city gate, and the slow one was either split in half by the cavalry's chopping knife, or was directly knocked into the air, and countless iron hooves trampled past, and the bones were gone.
When Li Jin led the rear army into the city, all the battles had ended, and the Tiantang defenders had only 20,000 people left, but 15,000 were killed, only a few soldiers escaped from the city, and the remaining 3,000 or so abandoned their weapons and surrendered.
There have been 3,000 casualties among the infantry and 1,500 casualties among the cavalry, and there is still such a casualty rate under the absolute superiority, which makes Li Jin wonder that the combat effectiveness of the army of the Korean Mianguo is not ordinarily high.
Although the cavalry dispatched were all miscellaneous troops, such a casualty rate still made him unhappy, and these miscellaneous troops would become his elite army in the future.
The city was almost out of food, and the people were panicked, Li Jin made an announcement to appease him, and on the other hand, he transferred a large amount of grain from Luocheng, which solved the urgent need for food in the city.
Tiantang is about to run out of food, if you don't guess wrong, Longnan City should be about the same, right?
Lian won the battle, and his soldiers were all in high morale and fighting spirit, and asked to march to Longnan overnight, but Li Jin was not in a hurry, and ordered the army to rest for three days.
Hold these guys back for a while, and then they will burst out more violently and crazily.
With food, the inhabitants of the city gradually stabilized, and Li Jinzheng recruited young and strong men to build the collapsed city wall, and then busily collected silver.
The treasury of Tiantang Pass is not much silver, and it is only more than three million taels, and he embezzled two million, and then extorted a sum from the big families in the city, adding up to five million taels.
Luo Chengbing is not bloody, he just symbolically asked those big families for some silver, Tiantang Pass was captured at the cost of thousands of soldiers' lives, he naturally will not be polite, the lion opened his mouth, give the silver to keep the clan safe, if you don't give it, you will be slaughtered on a random charge, and all the family wealth and women will be confiscated!
Those big families have money, money is something outside the body, spend a sum of money, save their lives, in order to save the family, although the heart is so angry that I want to swallow this frightening appetite of the general alive, but the silver has to be obediently offered.
For those miscellaneous soldiers, Li Jin didn't have to worry about the silver pension at all, it was all the responsibility of the emperor Lao'er, he only needed to be responsible for his own private army.
Of course, those private soldiers who belonged to him were twice as high as other soldiers, and the military of an ordinary soldier was the same as that of a junior officer in His Majesty's army of the Emperor, and the reward was incomparable, and the pension was even more different.
The family members of every soldier who died in the war can get a pension of ten taels and they can't close their mouths with a smile, and the family members of Li Jin's private soldiers can get a pension of several hundred taels.
Among the soldiers, coupled with the quiet propaganda of well-intentioned people, everyone knows that when they become the private soldiers of the foal and the horse, the treatment is very good, and those miscellaneous troops have found a way through their connections.
In Li Jin's words, if you want people to work for you, you have to spend money, take care of other people's families and have no worries, and people will work for you.
In short, this gang of ragtag troops, he must firmly grasp them, they have been tempered by blood and fire, all they are short of is military discipline, and with a little training, they will soon become an elite division.
After resting for three days, the army went out and approached to the city of Longnan, still repeating the old plan, surrounding the three city gates, first bombarding several rounds with the thunder chariot, and then waiting for the dawn to attack the city.
In the middle of the night, according to the scouts, countless residents fled from the city, and the situation seemed very optimistic.
The next day, the sky was white, and the generals defending the city did not surrender, and Li Jin ordered an attack.
Three hundred thunder chariots were fired one after another, and huge crossbow arrows with thick arms roared through the solid city walls, and the earth shook with a loud sound.
The city wall of Longnan City is stronger and stronger than the city wall of Tiantang Pass, and it took fifteen rounds of extreme shooting to collapse the city wall, revealing a gap more than seven zhang wide.
The soldiers, who had long been holding back their strength, let out an earth-shattering roar of killing, raised their shields, brandished their swords, and collapsed breaches like a tide.
Countless stones and logs fell on the two broken walls at the head of the city, raining down like locusts and arrows, and many soldiers fell on the way to charge.
The defenders built a fortification with stones, sandbags, planks, etc., and stubbornly resisted the frantic attack of the motley army.
The soldiers on both sides fought bloodily, one side desperately wanted to break through the opponent's defense line, and the other side stubbornly defended and did not retreat an inch until the battle was killed and fell, and the companions behind were on top and continued to fight hard.
The stones and logs thrown down from the city heads on both sides of the broken city, as well as the rain of arrows like locusts, caused great damage to the attacking soldiers.
A squad of archers rushed forward under the cover of shield men, firing at the defenders at the head of the city, suppressing the enemy archers and covering the attacking soldiers.
When the attack of the first echelon lasted for two pillars of incense, it could not be attacked for a long time, and its morale was exhausted, so it could only retreat, and the second echelon continued to attack.
The resistance of the defenders of the city was very tenacious, so tenacious that Li Jin and others did not expect, such a crazy attack, even did not give in half a step, every soldier fought to the end, bloody to the death.
Damn, it's really fucking tenacious.
As a last resort, the third echelon also went on the offensive.
Until noon, several attacks were warmed by the defenders, and Li Jin couldn't help frowning.
"Boss, I'll do it!"
Yu Hongxue, who had been standing behind her, bowed down and asked for her life.
"Boss, let's get on!"
Several officers of the Huya Army seemed to bow down at the same time to ask for their lives, just standing behind and watching the bloody battle of others, and the blood on their bodies was already boiling.
"Report!"
Several horses came galloping from a distance, causing Li Jin and the others to change their complexions.
Several horsemen galloped in, covered in blood, with broken armor and arrows stuck in some of them, apparently after a fierce battle.
"General...... General Zhang Qi was trapped in Jigong Mountain......"
A few horsemen galloped to the front, and one of the officers at the head took a breath to report, and several soldiers behind him were obviously too physically exhausted and wounded, and they were cut off from their horses.
"What?"
Li Jin, Bai Yutang and others were shocked, and after fifteen days of training, it was Bai Yutang's turn to practice, and Zhang Qi led 10,000 cavalry to attack and contain the enemy in the area of Ganluo City.
"What's going on?"
Bai Yutang grabbed the officer in his chest, "Say it quickly!" ”
The officer said in a panic: "Back to the general, General Zhang led us to attack the enemy's logistics and grain transportation team, but who expected to fall into the trap set by Feng Shuai!" ”
"Feng Shuai Feng Yan Dance?"
Li Jin took a breath of cold air, didn't she confront Xu Fang's army in the area of Yanping Pass? How did you suddenly come to Ganro?
Bai Yutang screamed strangely and asked, "Are you mistaken?" ”
"I didn't ...... It's General Zhang Qi who said that."
Bai Yutang had a solemn expression on his face, "Boss, I'll take a cavalry with me." ”
"No, you stay and command the army!"
Li Jin was surprisingly calm, "We must capture Longnan City and hold the two passes of Tiantang and Luocheng!" ”
"Boss ......"
Li Jin waved his palm and said in a deep voice: "Army, you must hold it firmly in your hands!" ”
"But, Boss......"
Li Jin said in a deep voice: "I have made up my mind, so it's decided!" ”
He glanced at Yu Hongxue, who understood, and suddenly poked out a finger, and the green clothes fell down, and a guard hurriedly supported her.
Although the green clothes couldn't move, there was an uneasy look on her pretty face, and tears flashed in her phoenix eyes, "Husband, ......"
"Let's go!"
Li Jin didn't dare to look at the green clothes, gritted his teeth and urged his mount, Yu Hongxue and other guards and 15,000 cavalry rushed towards the direction of Tiantang Pass, billowing dust and smoke, covering his not very strong body.
"A few of you, take care of your wife, lose a hair, and cut off your head to apologize!"
Bai Yutang's face was hideous, and he shouted loudly: "Pass the order, attack Longnan City, and loot freely for three days!" ”
Time does not wait for me, he can only use this crazy order to arouse the bestiality of this motley army, and arouse their fighting spirit to the limit.
In extraordinary times, extraordinary measures must be used, even if it is infamous for a lifetime, Longnan City must be captured as soon as possible, so that he can make full preparations to deal with sudden changes.
Feng Shuai Feng Yan Dance is the biggest variable of the sudden change in the wind and clouds!
His order soon spread throughout the three armies, and the soldiers shouted as if they had been boosted, braving the rain of locusts and arrows, frantically pouring into the gap, and tearing apart with the defenders.
"Brothers, go into the city, women and silver, grab them as you go!"
The officer leading the team shouted loudly and ordered the soldiers to rush forward and kill, but the defenders still resisted stubbornly, and the soldiers on both sides were red-eyed and would rather die than retreat.
"Tiger Tooth Army, attack!"
In order to capture Longnan City as soon as possible and settle the battle as soon as possible, Bai Yutang sent the Huya Army up.
The 500 soldiers of the Huya Army watched the soldiers on both sides fight bloodily, and their blood was already boiling, and they rushed into the gap with a shout, tearing apart with the defenders of the fortifications.
Among the 500 soldiers of the Huya Army, many of them are masters of the rivers and lakes with high martial arts, and several of the officers who led the team are masters close to the level of Yu Hongxue, who take the lead, wielding swords and killing one enemy after another.
The 500 soldiers of the Huya Army went crazy, and the soldiers of the miscellaneous army were also crazy, and they were free to loot for three days, which greatly stimulated their nerves and aroused their beastly nature.
In the face of the crazy attack of the soldiers of Dayan Kingdom, the defenders of the Great Han Mianguo Army, who were under great pressure, finally could not resist and retreated.
The soldiers continued to chase forward, while some of them removed the obstacles that blocked the onslaught of the cavalry, clearing a thoroughfare for the cavalry.
"Attack!"
The raised sword pressed down violently, and Bai Yutang shouted: "Attack!" ”
He really wanted to personally lead the assault, but now as the commander of the whole army, he must stay and command the whole army.
The cavalry attacked like a tide, pouring into the city from the gap, like a torrent of rolling steel, crushing the avenues in the city, and some of the soldiers of the Korean Mianguo who wanted to block it were either split in half by the swords of the horses, or were thrown up by the iron horses, and countless iron hooves stepped over their bodies, and their bones were gone.
Being rushed into the city by the enemy's cavalry and rampage with impunity can basically be the general trend.
The soldiers defending the city relied on a desperate defense! The courage of the city, on which they relied to hold on without a rout, is now that the tide has gone, morale is rapidly declining and depressed.
On the contrary, because of Bai Yutang's order to plunder freely for three days, the beastly nature of the miscellaneous soldiers was all aroused, and one by one they roared like madmen, attacked frantically, and slashed the enemy frantically.
The demoralized defenders barely resisted for a while, and when they saw that they were surrounded by insane enemies, their psychology finally collapsed completely, and some of the timid people took the lead in escaping from their positions despite the orders of their officers.
Someone started, someone followed, and the morale, like an infectious disease, spread throughout the army at once, causing the whole army to collapse, and all the soldiers scattered like ant colonies that had blown up their nests.
There were soldiers fleeing everywhere, one by one only trying to flee for their lives, and there was no resistance at all, and the red-eyed ragtag soldiers were in hot pursuit, falling with knives in their hands, and cutting people down.
In the previous evenly matched fight, because of the collapse of the psychology of the defenders, the situation was completely one-sided, one side only cared about fleeing for his life, it can be said that he no longer resisted, and the other side completely became the butcher who killed chickens and sheep, became a beast, became a demon, and only knew how to kill non-stop.
Of the 40,000 defenders, except for 2,000 or so, who ran fast and rushed out of the city gate and fled into the dense forest, the rest were all killed in battle and were not taken prisoner.
It's not that no one surrendered, the miscellaneous soldiers turned into beasts one by one, killing red-eyed, no matter whether you surrender or resist, as long as you are wearing the uniforms of the soldiers of the Korean Mianguo, they will be slaughtered.
After killing all the soldiers of the Korean Mianguo, the red-eyed miscellaneous soldiers burst out with a piercing laughter, kicked down the closed wooden doors of the houses, looted on a large scale, and those who resisted a little were immediately dismembered by the knife.
There are robberies everywhere*** There are corpses everywhere, the screams of women's humiliation, cries, begging for mercy, cursing, beastly laughter, madman-like wild screams, and the terrible screams from time to time, the entire Longnan City has become a human purgatory.
The soldiers who all turned into wild beasts looted on a large scale, and there were also happy and sad people who volatilized ***, and when they looted, they were accidentally cowardly like mice, and the residents who were so frightened that they suddenly chopped down with a firewood knife, and other soldiers rushed up, and the knives were all together, chopping the people who dared to resist into meat puree.
When some abuse women, they are bitten off their noses and lips by women who are desperately struggling to resist, and some are even more unlucky, and they are accidentally clicked off, and don't want to touch women again in this life.
The soldiers of the whole army poured into the city to burn and loot, Bai Yutang led his guards into the city at the end, looking at the dead bodies all over the ground, the screams and cries of women, he was indifferent.
In fact, at this time, he was already able to do nothing, killing the red eye, and the soldiers who grabbed the red eye all became beasts, if they forcibly pressed it, it would backfire, and if they didn't get it right, there would be a mutiny, so they could only let them leak enough.
After the soldiers of the Huya Army captured the Taishou Mansion, they guarded the gate of the mansion and did not allow anyone to enter, and the cavalry trained by Bai Yutang himself also guarded the silver treasury, weapons and equipment depot and other important departments.
The miscellaneous soldiers are also interested, but they only rob those residents, and do not dare to mess around with these important departments. Anyway, there are so many households in the whole city, enough for them to loot and vent their bestial nature.
Surrounded by the guards, Bai Yutang walked into the Taishou Mansion, where the soldiers of the Huya Army were cleaning up the corpses in the mansion and carrying them out of the street.
"Ahh
A terrible howl accompanied by the screams and cries of the female wei suddenly came from the inner hall, which made Bai Yutang frown.