Chapter 541: Halfway Attack (II)
The day finally dawned, and the fierce battle in Zhouliu City gradually came to an end, speaking of which did not look like a battle, but more like a slaughter - the defenders who were originally insufficient in strength were in a panic of passive battle, how could they resist the attack of 100,000 wolf-like Silla troops, and after a few rounds, they were already defeated with their armor thrown off their armor, and many military important places such as the arsenal in the city, the grain depot, the military camp, and the city gate all fell into the hands of the Silla army, and the only thing that was still resisting was only the city guard. Although the Silla army surrounded the castle guard early on, they were unable to make a breakthrough after repeated strong attacks, and they were simply blocked from the high courtyard wall.
"What's going on? Why hasn't it been captured yet, huh? Jin Chunqiu, who rushed to the city guard's mansion, saw a group of subordinates surrounding the courtyard, but he cowered and did not dare to attack forward.
"General Qiyu, the bow and crossbow in the courtyard are too fierce, the brothers have attacked four times, and they have all come back with random arrows, and the loss is not small......" The general saw Jin Chunqiu's seizure, his face instantly turned red like blood, lowered his head, and explained in a whisper.
"Bastard, Ben doesn't need a reason, as long as the result is not good, Ben will change to someone else, and he is still stunned to do something, don't attack quickly!" Jin Chunqiu, who cares how the member explains, stared at him, and shouted.
"Yes, the last general obeys!" The general didn't dare to defend any more, hurriedly answered the promise, ran back to the queue, waved the big knife in his hand, and ordered loudly: "The general has an order, Xu Jin is not allowed to retreat, let Lao Tzu bombard the general, kill!" As soon as the words fell, he strode towards the gate of the castle guard, and a group of Silla officers and soldiers saw this, they did not dare to slack off, and they all roared and rushed to the gate, but without waiting for a group of people to approach the courtyard gate, many crossbowmen poked out of the courtyard wall, but listening to a string sound, countless feather arrows like flying locusts towards the charging Silla officers and soldiers** past, and the Silla officers and soldiers who rushed to the forefront fell down with arrows, and even the general who bravely rushed to the forefront did not escape the attack of the arrows, Shot alive and turned into a hedgehog, seeing that they could not make a breakthrough, the Silla officers and soldiers in the charge had to retreat back again in embarrassment, except for leaving dozens of corpses outside the courtyard gate, there was no result at all.
"Damn it!" Seeing that the officers and soldiers under his command did not even touch the side of the courtyard gate and were defeated with such a loss of soldiers, Jin Chunqiu's face turned a little blue, and after scolding hatefully, he ordered the transfer of archers to suppress the defenders at the head of the wall, and let a group of officers and soldiers search the houses, took a lot of quilts, dipped them in water, draped them on the table as a car to block arrows, and personally commanded a group of Silla officers and soldiers to launch a strong attack again, this time the defenders on the courtyard wall could no longer stop the Silla army's assault, with a loud bang, The gate of the courtyard that was not too thick was smashed by the Silla officers and soldiers who rushed to the front, and a bloody battle of hand-to-hand combat was immediately in full swing in all parts of the courtyard, in the sword light and sword shadow, the screams were everywhere, and in the sound of shouting, the blood rushed to the sky, Rao is a group of Baekje remnants resisted bravely, how could it be difficult to defeat the Silla army, only a few moments before and after, the castle guard house has fallen into the control of the Silla army, the Baekje general Onimuro Fushin was killed, Futu Daochen fought unyieldingly, was seriously injured and captured, since then, the organized resistance in the city of Zhou has ceased to exist, Zhou Liucheng falls!
"Report, the great general, the thief chief ghost room Fuxin was beheaded by our army, and Futu Daochen was captured in one fell swoop, however, the whole mansion was searched, but the thief prince Fu Yufeng was not seen, please check the general." As soon as the city guard mansion fell, a partial general hurried out of the mansion, ran to Jin Chunqiu, and reported loudly.
"Huh? Search, search the whole city for me, live to see people, dead to see corpses! As soon as he heard that he failed to catch Fu Yufeng, the most important criminal, Jin Chunqiu was furious, waved his hand, and roared and issued a search warrant, so that Zhou Liucheng fell into chaos again as soon as he calmed down, and countless people's homes were ruthlessly looted, and the city was full of cries and shouts, but no matter how the Silla army searched, it was impossible to find Fu Yufeng, because at this time Fu Yufeng was standing on the top of the West Mountain outside the city.
Looking at Zhou Liucheng at the foot of the mountain, Fu Yufeng shed tears in pain, full of self-blame and grief in his eyes, if it wasn't for the idea of recovering the country to support, I was afraid that he would have been unable to bear to kill the mountain, and live and die with the city, but unfortunately he couldn't, the burden of recovering the country on his shoulders was too heavy, and Fu Yufeng couldn't breathe.
"Your Highness, let's go, I'll call back later." A guard standing beside Fu Yufeng saw his unbearable pain, and couldn't help but persuade him.
"Well, let's go!" Fu Yufeng reluctantly glanced at Zhou Liucheng for the last time, gritted his teeth, turned around, and strode towards Shanyin, but what he didn't know was that as soon as he left, he would never have the opportunity to set foot on the homeland of his dreams, and finally died of old age in Dongying.
Erdaokan, as the name suggests, is a front and one back two mountains are closely connected together, this place is located on the main road that must be passed through from Zhouliu to Quanzhou, the road is complex and difficult to travel, there was originally a military village on the mountain behind, after abandonment, under the sun and wind erosion, now only a messy wreckage remains, the surrounding radius of more than ten miles are inhuman, it seems particularly desolate, but at this moment the Erdaokan is full of countless Goguryeo officers and soldiers, everyone has a look of expectation on their faces, One of the generals at the head was none other than Liang Dae, the governor of the left army of Goguryeo.
There is no doubt that the only thing that can make Liang Dahai's department look forward to it is naturally the Tang army - since they made up their minds to escape from Zhouliu City, a group of Goguryeo generals expected that once the Tang army found that there was only a Baekje army left in the city, they would definitely wave their troops to chase and kill, if they could not kill the pursuing troops of the Tang army, the Goguryeo army would not want to withdraw to the country smoothly at all, and if they were not careful, they would have to be driven away by the Tang army, so a group of Goguryeo generals discussed to fight an ambush for the Tang army, not expecting to completely annihilate the Tang army. But no matter what, you have to give a profound lesson to the Tang army that is chasing, forcing the Tang army not to dare to pursue with all your might, however, waiting and waiting, from the time of three o'clock to arrive here, Liang Dahai's nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses have been in ambush for nearly an hour, but they have never been able to wait for the Tang army that will inevitably appear in the Tang army, which makes Liang Dahai a little confused, and his patience is almost worn out, but he still does not believe that the Tang army will do something to let the tiger return to the mountain, and will not kill the Tang army that came to pursue. Liang Dahai really couldn't rest assured that he was chasing after his main force that had gone far.
At two moments, just when Liang Dahai was waiting for his heart, a puff of smoke and dust came out at the corner of the mountain in the distance, and then the rumbling sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded, and under a fiery red flag, countless Tang cavalry were galloping along the avenue to Erdaokan, as soon as he saw this, Liang Dahai couldn't help but get excited, waved his hand to signal his troops to hide immediately, and prepared to give the chasing Tang cavalry a surprise surprise.
The speed of the cavalry of the Tang army was extremely fast, and it did not slow down at all because of the difficulty of the Erdaokan road, and never sent the top soldiers to investigate the safety of the road, so they rushed into the mountain road of the Erdaokan, seeing that Liang Dahai's blood was full of blood, and seeing that the vanguard of the Tang Army had entered his own ambush circle, Liang Dahai jumped up excitedly and shouted: "Release the arrows, kill Tang Kou!" Suddenly, countless Goguryeo soldiers emerged from their hiding places, shooting locust-like feathered arrows frantically at the Tang army crowded on the mountain road, and instantly shot the dozens of Tang cavalry who rushed to the forefront into hedgehogs.
"Withdraw, withdraw!" The main general of the cavalry of the Tang Army is Du Zhengxin, after finding out that his troops were ambushed, Du Zhengxin did not dare to fight at all, shouted, twisted the war horse under the crotch, and led a group of subordinates to turn around and flee the way they came.
"Quick, rush down and kill Tang Kou!" Seeing that the Tang cavalry was in a panic, Liang Dahai was overjoyed, regardless of the horizontal knife at his waist, roared, and led his troops to take advantage of the momentum from the mountains on both sides to rush straight down, towards the chaotic Tang cavalry, and at this time the Tang cavalry did not have a trace of fighting spirit, relying on the horse's speed, leaving more than 100 corpses of men and horses, and fleeing in disgrace, which made the Goguryeo officers and soldiers who had been fed up with the Tang army's suppression for more than a month cheered, chasing the tail of the Tang army for a long distance, It was not until the cavalry of the Tang Army had fled without a trace that they collected their troops and marched triumphantly along the avenue in the direction of the retreat of their main forces......
By the Rongshui River, Gao Quansheng, who retreated here, only sent more than 10,000 foot soldiers to build a raft, but he personally led the main force to line up in the road, putting on a posture of full vigilance - this time the evacuation of Zhou Liucheng was too smooth, so smooth that Gao Quansheng couldn't believe it, he didn't believe that Xue Wanche would be an easily fooled figure, and he didn't believe that Xue Wanche would let his department live, it was under this suspicion that Gao Quansheng did not dare to easily wave his army across the river, lest the main force of the Tang army defeat his own broken rear troops, and suddenly kill, Give himself a half-cross attack, so he can only wait, waiting for the news of Liang Dahai's department.
It was almost noon, the sun was rising higher and higher, the summer sun was hot and shrouded the earth, and the gurgling Rongshui River floated on the surface of the thick water vapor, which added to the sultry atmosphere, and a group of Goguryeo soldiers who had been in battle under the scorching sun for nearly an hour and a half were already exhausted, and they were eager to cross the river immediately, but Gao Quansheng did not give an order, and no one dared to act rashly, so he could only stand silently, waiting quietly, until a puff of smoke and dust rose from the avenue in the distance, and the originally quiet array instantly made waves, Countless thin whispers sounded noisyly, which made Gao Quansheng frown unhappily, and just wanted to scold, but suddenly saw a military flag revealed in the smoke and dust, and a heart was actually put down.
"General, it's Liang Dudu who has returned, and it seems that the Tang army that came after him has been killed and retreated by Liang Dudu." Geng Cheng, who was standing beside Gao Quansheng, also saw the military flag and couldn't help but say something excitedly.
"Hmm." Being able to escape from death, Gao Quansheng was also very excited, but as the commander-in-chief, Gao Quansheng did not dare to relax before Liang Dahai personally confirmed, so he just snorted casually, still standing on his horse calmly, and looked eagerly at Liang Dahai from a distance.
"General Yu, the last general is fortunate to have fulfilled his mission and has killed the Tang thief!" Although it was only a small victory, Liang Dahai was very excited, as soon as he saw Gao Quansheng waiting under the banner of Shuai, Da Lao Yuan couldn't help but shout loudly, as soon as these words came out, tens of thousands of Goguryeo officers and soldiers all cheered, the original neat array no longer existed, many officers and soldiers rushed out of the queue excitedly, and the comrades-in-arms who caught the triumphant return kept asking questions, and the whole scene was chaotic for a while.
"Good! There is General Lao Liang! Order, the whole army crosses the river, let's go home! Although Gao Quansheng had already guessed the result, when he heard Liang Dahai personally confirm it, his mood was still uncontrollable, and he waved his hand and gave the order to cross the river in a loud voice, and the Goguryeo army, which was already in chaos, ran to the river bank with cheers, but at this moment, a terrible horn sounded suddenly, and then the two cavalry rushed out from the mountains and forests in the distance, one left and one right, and killed the Goguryeo army in chaos like two sharp swords.
Not good, in ambush! Gao Quansheng saw the two ambushes coming out, his heart sank suddenly, he couldn't understand how the Tang army sneaked to the left, but he knew that at this time, his own formation was completely empty, and staying in place could only be a dead end, in a hurry, he hurriedly raised his arms and shouted: "Soldiers, the Tang thief won't let me wait for life, let's fight, I'll wait for Goguryeo's good son, even if I die, I will stand and die, Geng Cheng, immediately lead the troops and horses of the headquarters to block the enemy on the left, and the rest of the people will kill the thief with this general, rush, rush!" As soon as the voice fell, he didn't care whether Geng Cheng listened to the order or not, he picked up the horse lance hanging on the victory hook, and hit the horse to kill the Tang cavalry that came to the right, and a group of panicked Goguryeo soldiers saw that their commander launched a charge, and they rushed up in a panic, and the momentum was quite huge, but it was a pity that there was no formation at all, and the horses were mixed, not to mention the momentum of the charge, in fact, it was just a dying struggle.
The reason why the Tang army appeared here is not accidental, in fact, as early as a day ago, the main force of the Tang army had sneaked away from the camp at night, except for the 3,000 cavalry left behind Du Zhengxin's department, the rest of the cavalry had already rushed to the Rongshui River, hidden in the mountains and forests, and in the Tang army camp pretended to be the officers and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty and the Silla army, in order to take advantage of the panic of the Goguryeo army to launch an attack and completely wipe out the Goguryeo army on the side of the Rongshui River. From the left side of the general came out of Xiao Long's 2,000 cavalry and 12,000 foot soldiers, and from the right came out of Shi Fengshou's 3,000 cavalry and more than 10,000 infantry, as for the commander of the whole army, Xue Wanche only led 2,000 soldiers and horses to stand on a hill near the left of the battlefield to watch the battle, and did not personally rush to the front of the battle.
The two armies that were hedged against each other soon collided head-on, how could the poor Goguryeo officers and soldiers who had no formation be able to resist the Tang cavalry that had been recuperating for a long time, just a face-to-face effort, whether it was Xiao Long's department on the left wing or Shi Fengshou's department on the right wing, they all entered the Goguryeo army like a knife and a butter, and the men and horses fell all over the place, and the screams came one after another, but the Goguryeo army, which had no way out, broke out with the strongest courage at this time, and blocked the wild charge of the two cavalry of the Tang army with flesh and blood. Desperately entangled the Tang cavalry in the formation, for a time the Tang cavalry seemed to fall into a swamp, difficult to maneuver and wander, and there was no such sharp momentum as before, the situation was slightly passive, giving the Goguryeo army a rare respite, but unfortunately, without waiting for the Goguryeo army to adjust the formation, the Tang army's infantry cluster arrived, and once again gave the Goguryeo army a heavy blow in the chaos, almost completely defeating the Goguryeo army.
"Block, kill the Tang thief, kill! Kill! Kill! Seeing that his own collapse was imminent, Gao Quansheng's eyes turned red in a hurry, and he led a group of guards to fight desperately, trying to set an example for his officers and soldiers.
Not to mention, the Goguryeo army at this time saw that their own commander was so desperate, all of them fought, and took out the strength to eat milk and fight with the Tang army, the two armies combined nearly 100,000 horses and horses were strangled together by the Rongshui River, and the battle situation was stalemate for a while, although the morale of the Tang army had a slight upper hand, but it was never able to achieve an overwhelming advantage, and as time went by, the Goguryeo army in chaos gradually stabilized its position, slowly reversing the unfavorable situation of the war, and the situation was for the Tang army that was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of troops, It's not too advantageous, especially in a chaotic situation where neither side has a formation to speak of.
Seeing that their own efforts finally blocked the attack of the Tang army, a group of Goguryeo officers and soldiers were all in high spirits, and they were desperately entangled with the Tang army, fighting, trying to repel the Tang army, but unfortunately the dream is a dream after all, and there is no possibility of realizing it - just when the two armies were deadlocked, a cavalry came out from the avenue to kill the general, and the first general was Du Zhengxin, who had pretended to be defeated and retreated.
"The whole army assaults, kill!" Although Du Zhengxin's previous feint defeat was a strategy from Xue Wanche's slow enemy army, but for Du Zhengxin, this defeat was still a big shame, at this time, seeing that the two armies were deadlocked, he knew that his own troops had a good opportunity to wash away the previous shame and even break the enemy army, and he was overjoyed, shouted, and led his troops to rush towards the chaotic battlefield with all his might.
Defeated, defeated, completely defeated! Du Zhengxin's department was like the last straw that crushed the camel's camel, and the Goguryeo army's hard-fought heart of decisive victory was completely extinguished, and the Goguryeo officers and soldiers who had no slightest resistance threw their armor and fled in all directions, so they fell into the water and drowned countless people, and there were very few who were lucky enough to be able to cross the river with a gun on a raft, after a bloody battle, the Goguryeo commander Gao Quansheng abandoned his troops to escape, the left governor Liang Dahai was killed, the right governor Gengcheng was captured, the cavalry commander Gong Chaofan surrendered, and the rest of the generals died and surrendered. Only less than 3,000 of the more than 60,000 troops escaped from the sky, 18,000 were killed in battle, and the rest became prisoners of war of the Tang army......
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