What's more, although the two countries are cooperating, Dongying has been preserving its strength on the battlefield, seemingly intentionally or unintentionally consuming Baekje's troops. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As the general of Baekje, Bae Yongsheng naturally saw Dongying's intentions, so he was more cooperative with Dongying's tactics on the surface, but in fact he deliberately delayed, which is also the real reason why Silla was able to hold out for more than half a month under the attack of the coalition army.

However, what he didn't expect was that the Tang army suddenly attacked Baekje and captured dozens of cities in Baekje in just one day, and even the royal city was occupied by the Tang army, and the king of Baekje fled to the border town in a hurry.

The survival of Baekje was more important to them than the plan to attack Silla, after all, Baekje was their foundation.

Therefore, after receiving the emergency report from Baekje, Bae Yongsheng immediately withdrew all the troops from the battlefield and rushed back to help Baekje.

Although the number of Baekje troops has decreased by 10,000, there are still more than 70,000 remaining.

The gourd valley was about ten miles long, and it was impossible for 70,000 troops to enter at the same time, so they could only march slowly in a queue.

After nearly 40,000 people from the vanguard of Baekje entered, Feng Changqing, who had already been lying in ambush in the surroundings, immediately ordered people to set fire to the dead wood forest and set fire to it.

At this time, it is the beginning of winter, and the north wind is howling.

The wind fuels the fire, the fire borrows the power of the wind, and in an instant, the entrance of the gourd valley becomes a sea of fire.

The sudden change not only successfully divided the Baekje army into two, but also caused the Baekje army to fall into a panic.

The raging fire stopped more than 30,000 people in Silla, and Pei Yongsheng was even more furious, but in the face of the monstrous sea of fire, he was powerless at all.

At this time, the 40,000 army had all entered the ambush circle of the gourd valley.

There are about 20,000 people in the Big Melon Valley, more than 10,000 in the Small Melon Valley, and the first few thousand people have already left the Hulu Valley and come to Baekje.

Su Hai, who was ambushed in Xiaogua Valley, saw the smoke rising from the territory of Silla, and immediately ordered people to set fire to Xiaogua Valley.

The Baekje army in the valley of Xiaogua was immediately surrounded by a sea of fire, and the Baekje army that entered the valley immediately fell into chaos.

At the same time, Gao Xianzhi, who was ambushed on both sides of the Big Melon Valley, immediately ordered an attack after seeing the fire in the Little Melon Valley.

Countless rolling logs and falling rocks rolled down from the mountains on both sides, and the Baekje army in the valley was suddenly in chaos.

Thousands of archers condescended and fired indiscriminately at the Baekje army in the valley.

The Baekje army in the Great Melon Valley was like a target for arrows, and I don't know how many were killed by feather arrows.

Even if they raised their shields in time to block the arrows, it was difficult to dodge in the face of the rolling logs and boulders rolling down from the mountains on both sides.

In addition, they were all huddled together, and there was no way back, and there were no more people who were killed by boulders and rolling logs.

There was a wail in the valley.

"Soldiers, follow me forward to kill the enemy, kill!" Gao Xianzhi drew his long sword, shouted loudly, and then took the lead and rushed down from the hillside.

"Kill!"

Seeing this, all the soldiers let out a heaven-shattering shout of killing, and rushed down from the slopes on both sides.

The Baekje soldiers in the valley were killed countless by feather arrows and falling stone pits, and they were already in a big mess, and when they saw the Tang army rushing down, they were even more panicked and retreated.

At the same time, behind them, Feng Changqing immediately led his troops into the valley after setting fire to block the 30,000 troops of Baekje, and killed them from behind the Baekje army.

Under the flanking attacks from the front and back, the already panicked Baekje army became even more chaotic.

The front had to retreat, and the rear had to advance, and for a time nearly 10,000 Baekje troops were crowded together, and in the face of the Tang army that fell from the sky, they were powerless to parry.

The 10,000 Baekje troops in the Xiaogua Valley were trapped in the sea of fire with nearly 1,000 people, and the rest of the people were divided into two groups, retreating all the way to the Dagua Valley, and following the thousands of people who rushed out of the Hulu Valley all the way.

Seeing this, Su Hai immediately led his army to kill the big melon valley.

The Baekje army, which had fled from the Hulu Valley in a hurry, had not had time to catch their breath, but saw that at the exit, nearly 10,000 Tang troops were waiting for them, and it seemed that they had been waiting for them for a long time.

Li Canghai was frightened when he saw the Baekje army fleeing from the valley, and with a feather fan, the rest of the Tang army, under the leadership of Lu Ji and others, rushed towards the Baekje army.

The battle lasted a whole day.

The Tang army waited for work, while the Baekje army marched tiredly, and encountered ambushes one after another, and the army's morale was shattered, and there were heavy casualties.

The entire gourd valley is full of rivers of blood and mountains of corpses, like a hell on earth.

For the first time in his life, Li Canghai saw the cruelty of war.

What he didn't expect was that this hell on earth was actually caused by him.

Looking at the corpses everywhere, Li Canghai felt extremely heavy in his heart.

Seeing Li Canghai staring at those corpses, Di Qing knew that he was blaming himself, so he comforted him softly: "Canghai, it's not your fault, war...... It's so cruel. ”

Li Canghai let out a long sigh and said, "Why can't people coexist peacefully? Do we have to use force to solve everything? ”

Di Qing said: "I heard the master say that the human heart is the most greedy, and it will never be satisfied, and all disputes in the world arise because of this. The people do not want to see war, but those who hold power will never know satisfaction, they provoke wars, and it is the people who suffer. ”

Li Canghai rubbed his eyebrows, he shook his head and sighed for a while, and then fell silent.

The remnant sun shone on the blood water, forming a dizzying blood light, and the original pale black soil of the entire gourd valley was dyed red.

"Report to the marshal, the Baekje army has suffered heavy casualties, our army has killed more than 10,000 enemies, killed and wounded 5,000, and the rest of the Baekje army has surrendered one after another!" After checking the situation on the battlefield, Gao Xianzhi bowed to Li Canghai.

Li Canghai nodded, judging from the reports of Gao Xianzhi and others, there were only more than 10,000 Baekje troops who died under the Tang sabers, while 2,000 were burned by fire, and the rest of the dead and wounded were trampled by themselves and killed by mistake.

In any case, this time the Tang army destroyed the main force of Baekje.

More than half of the 40,000 people were killed or wounded, and the remaining less than 20,000 surrendered in terror.

In a war, the total number of casualties on both sides was nearly 20,000, and even the battle-hardened generals such as Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing were shocked.

They guarded the border passes, and although there were often wars with the Turks, the scale was not very large, and the largest scale was only 10,000 men on each side, and only two or three thousand dead and wounded.

And in this battle, the troops invested by Datang and Baekje reached more than 80,000!

What shocked them even more was that more than 80,000 people fought in this narrow gourd valley and directly killed more than 10,000 people in Baekje!

After this battle, Baekje's vitality was completely damaged, and it was impossible to recover in a short period of time. (To be continued.) )