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Xue Rengui has not fought for six years, the blood of the soldiers is still there, he is not merciful to the enemy, he can be completely annihilated, and he has left the Korean Peninsula for six years, and the prestige of the god of war is still there, whether it is the Silla army, or the Goguryeo and Baekje rebels who were armed by Silla, they are all frightened when they see Xue Rengui's generals. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Xue Rengui ordered the army to rest for two hours, and in the afternoon launched an attack on the 12,000 allied forces composed of the Silla army and the Goguryeo rebels who retreated to Pyongyang's eastern city.

The new army and the vanguard army quickly occupied the city walls and towers, and the enemy troops bravely resisted less, less than 10 percent, 60 percent fled, and 30 percent surrendered.

The army rested for two hours, and launched an attack on the 14,000 allied forces of the Silla army and the Goguryeo rebels who retreated to the west of Pyongyang, the Silla army and the Goguryeo rebels were already frightened, and abandoned the city after the Tang army fired the "jackdaw arrow", about 10,000 Goguryeo rebels fled from Pyongyang, and about 4,000 Silla troops fled to Pyongyang's southern city.

The Silla army and the Goguryeo rebels had lost the will to fight, and their combat effectiveness was almost zero, Xue Rengui had a preliminary understanding of the strength of the enemy and us, and regardless of the Goguryeo rebels, he ordered to pursue the Silla army at full speed.

When the defeated army of Silla fled to the southern city of Pyongyang, the combined forces of Silla and the former Goguryeo who retreated to the southern city of Pyongyang did not dare to open the city gate and let their own people in, fearing that the Tang army would follow the Silla army and rush into the southern city.

The melee combat ability of the new army with pistols was too strong compared to that of their opponents with cold weapons, and they quickly knocked out all 4,000 Silla troops, like a steamroller running over them. The Silla and former Goguryeo coalition forces on the city wall had the intention of helping their allies and fired arrows at the advance of the Tang army, but they were afraid of injuring their own people by mistake, so they did not release arrows.

Xue Rengui ordered the new army to retreat back to a place with shields in hand (one hundred and twenty paces, about one hundred and eighty meters), and then launched a "jackdaw arrow" and "stepping arrow" attack against the enemy army with a crossbow, and then launched a trebuchet attack to suppress the enemy's archers, and drove them to hide in the tower and under the wall together with the soldiers who threw wood and rolling stones on the city wall.

After that, the vanguard army attacked, hung rope ladders to the barrels of the guns of the "treadmill arrows", and climbed the city wall. After a hand-to-hand encounter, the vanguard army quickly controlled the situation, and there were no enemy troops shooting arrows and throwing sassalwood and rolling stones under the city, Xue Rengui ordered 10,000 horse infantry troops to rush up the city wall to reinforce the vanguard army.

Because our army and the enemy army have started a melee, and it is easy for the new army to mistakenly injure their own people when they shoot, Xue Rengui did not transfer the new army to attack the city, but left the new army as his own guard.

The Goguryeo rebels, who were still in the majority, were the first to flee with poor peasants, poor townspeople, and slaves who had never served as soldiers, and the Silla army saw that the general trend was gone, and they also fled.

Xue Rengui and Xu Qing have reached a consensus that they will never show mercy to the Silla army, the Goguryeo rebels, and the Baekje rebels, either if they do not fight, or if they want to fight, they will strive to annihilate them completely, provided that the strength of our army is preserved as much as possible, and the lives of our officers and soldiers are not used to fill in the military merits. However, in the case of prisoners of war, in principle, prisoners of war are not killed, prisoners of war can be used as laborers, or prisoners of war can be exchanged conditionally.

There are more than 10 million Silla, ex-Goguryeo, and ex-Baekje living on the Korean Peninsula, of which more than 1 million are active military members and former Goguryeo and Baekje soldiers combined. Xu Jia's army was only 100,000 people, and Xu Qing hoped that his own casualties in this battle would not exceed 10,000, and strive to not exceed 1,000, which required the destruction of the enemy's living forces as soon as possible and as much as possible.

Nancheng soon fell into the hands of the Xu family's army.

In the center of Pyongyang, where the former Goguryeo New Palace is located, where the old palace of Andong Protectorate is located, and the four satellite cities in the southeast, northwest, and northwest are all under the control of the Xu Jiajun, Xue Rengui then issued a notice announcing the return of the Tang army to Pyongyang, and Pyongyang has been under the control of the Tang Dynasty, and the sky ban is implemented at night.

Xue Rengui stood still for the time being, and sent a herald to report to the commander Xu Qing and ask for instructions on the next move.

Xu Qing was overjoyed, and let Cui Zhenhai's department, Yu Shiwen's department, and Yang Yi's department, a total of about 9,000 people, stay in Pyongyang, and let Xue Rengui and Nie Hu lead 10,000 people to the south, and Xu Qing will lead the main force from Xiongjin City to the north with 10,000 troops commanded by Xue Rengui to attack South Pyongyang (that is, Seoul in later generations, originally the former capital of Baekje, later invaded by Goguryeo, renamed South Pyongyang, and the capital of Baekje was moved to Xiongjin City, and later moved to Kubal City).

Four days later, 25,000 people in Xu's army, including 3,000 cavalry, arrived at Xiongjin City.

Xu Qing ordered 20,000 veterans of Datang Trading Company, the second regiment of female soldiers of the new army, 300 Dong Jiajun, and 5,000 Chinese troops to stay in Xiongjin City, with Xue Rengui's old subordinates and his younger brother Xue Renyi as the main general, Xue Jinlian as the deputy general to be responsible for the defense of Xiongjin City, Yang Zhuangruo, Lin Fengying, Ye Xiaodie, Xia Xiaoyu, Mei'er, Dong Bijun, and Liu Sisi to assist in the defense.

Xu Qing personally led the 20,000 Chinese army, with the female soldiers of the New Army of the Communication Battalion and the 200 Dong Jiajun as the personal guards, and Zhao Mengchen as the personal bodyguard, and set off on the same day.

Pyongyang Fortress is about 400 li away from South Pyongyang Fortress, and Bearjin Fortress is about 300 miles away from South Pyongyang Fortress. The 20,000 troops led by Xu Qing arrived in South Pyongyang at about the same time as the 10,000 troops led by Xue Rengui.

The combined forces of the Silla Army and the Goguryeo rebels in South Pyongyang had only about 20,000 men. The Tang army was more numerous, better armed and well-trained, and better trained than them, and was stronger than them in both individual combat capability and group combat capability, especially Xu Qing brought 50 crossbows and 600 trebuchets, and Xue Rengui brought 10 crossbows and 200 trebuchets.

The 20,000 troops led by Xu Qing attacked the south gate of Pyongyang, and the 10,000 troops led by Xue Rengui attacked the north gate of Pyongyang. The enemy was in a panic, the will to fight collapsed, and they had no intention of fighting, and fled through the east and southwest gates. It took less than an hour for both armies of the Xu family army to drive the enemy away, and planted the banner of the Tang Dynasty, Xu Qing's handsome banner and Xue Rengui's general flag on the south, north, east, and west gates of South Pyongyang.