Section 40 Courtesy on the battlefield
Harassment, endless harassment, the Koreans from the mountains, on the water, in the grass, underground, constantly attacking Yun Ye, although in the eyes of the Tang Dynasty soldiers, this kind of low-intensity harassment is really nothing, but the mosquitoes have been buzzing in your ears for a long time, and it will also make people upset and irritable.
The soldiers who went to cut down trees in the woods kept getting injured, most of them were injured in the legs, and the traps there were dense, and the Koreans estimated that Yun Ye would need a lot of wood, and also thought that only this pine forest could supply Yun Ye with a lot of wood. They were a little arrogant, or they were reluctant to burn the forest down, so they made this arrangement.
Yun Ye didn't have those scruples, once he collected enough wood, he set fire to the woods, and the strong crossbows guarded outside, and the Goryeo people who hid in the woods and attacked were driven out by the fire, and then shot by the strong crossbows one by one like prey.
A man holding a banner with a high character and two thousand Koreans bravely rushed into the camp of the Tang Dynasty at dawn, only to find that it was an empty village, and wanted to quit, Liu Fang didn't give him a chance, and the old-fashioned trick of robbing the camp in the middle of the night was really not enough for Old Man Liu to play.
When the corpses of more than 2,000 people were piled up in front of Dawang Castle, a long horn came out of the city, a large group of cavalry stood outside the city gate, and many Goryeo people came out of the field, and they entered Dawang City in an orderly manner, as if they did not intend to harass it anymore.
An envoy came to the camp with an entourage and handed Yun Ye a letter from Goryeo's eldest brother Quan Yanchi, asking Yun Ye for permission to take away the bones of the two thousand Goryeo people, and allowing Yun Ye to take the two thousand corpses from Jingguan in return. Liu Fang agreed without hesitation, but asked the Koreans to dig up the bones from Jingguan in exchange.
"What do you mean by this three-legged chicken?" Yun Ye flipped through the letter and asked the Korean man. Before the Goryeo could reply, the attendant he brought with him replied haughtily: "That's the three-legged golden crow, our god, and the Tang people are ignorant." Only chickens are known. Don't you know the storage zĂ i of the golden crow? â
Annoyed and angry, Yun Ye ordered the head of the entourage to be cut off, and then it was put on a plate and sent up, the messenger was full of tears, and wanted to return the bones of the entourage, but Yun Ye sternly refused, unless he exchanged five hundred corpses for the bones, he would feed this heroic Goryeo retinue to the dogs.
The furious, roaring messenger agreed. Later, he found that Yun Ye looked at his neck curiously, so he returned to Dawang City in a puff of smoke, ready to report to his eldest brother Quan Yanchi for the unyielding loyalty of his entourage, such a hero is very rare among the Koreans, a hero who dares to refute the ignorance of the opposing generals in front of the enemy's thousands of troops. All Koreans need to be made known.
Seeing that the envoy was gone, Yun Ye quickly went to the tent room, and saw that the Korean entourage was eating under Liu Jinbao's service, and he was unsightly to report the appearance of roast chicken, Liu Jinbao poured him tea and advised him to slow down.
"Slow fart, Lao Tzu has been a slave for two months, and he doesn't see a single bite of meat stars all day long. I finally caught it. You can't get enough of it. â
"Didn't you say you had enough meat last time? Shouting to eat noodles, how did you turn it upside down today? â
Yun Ye asked angrily. This guy was born with an acquaintance face, and he can be a slave as an envoy's attendant, and he doesn't know how to do it.
After Qu Zhuo swallowed a large mouthful of chicken, he wiped his mouth and said to Yun Ye: "This pheasant is too firewood, not as oily as the chicken on Zhuangzi, I estimated that the army would be hindered in Dawangcheng this time, so I went to Liaodong early, and worked as a servant in the Fuyuan and family, they like slaves who can speak Tang dialect, I bribed the housekeeper of his family and got a procurement errand, so I can walk around Dawangcheng, you see this is the topographic map of Dawangcheng that I drew." I don't know if it's useful to you. â
Yun Ye watched Qu Zhuo tear off a large piece of cloth from his clothes, patted his hands, and asked him to continue eating, and he came to the handsome tent with the cloth.
"This is the internal topographic map of the Great King City, which has just been brought out by our meticulous work, why don't you see where we attack it?" Yun Ye put the cloth on the table as he spoke, Liu Fang didn't look at the cloth, but asked Yun Ye first: "Is this person reliable?" â
"Don't doubt it." Yun Ye's words were categorical.
Liu Fang carefully looked at the lines on the cloth piece by piece and compared his map piece by piece, and after reading it, he nodded to Yun Ye in approval, and finally pointed to the west gate by the river and said: "Our attack is here, after the west gate is stabilized, we can start the next move, your plan, only when the war is stalemate, will there be a possibility of success." â
"Mr. Liu, I don't want to fill in the bones of the soldiers when attacking the city, if so, I'd rather return to the Tang Dynasty, I believe that no one in the Manchu Dynasty can say that I am not coming, I will only try that plan once, whether it is successful or not, I will immediately order the camp to go home."
Liu Fang nodded and said: "We don't have the strength to capture the Great King City, Quan Yanchi also knows that he wants to consume us to death under the Great King City, you look here, the Great King City has more than one city wall, there are four roads, as long as we enter the first city wall, if we don't capture the city wall, when the jack gate on the city gate falls to the ground, we are trapped in the urn city, it is definitely a dead end, so, at the beginning of the siege, we need to suppress the enemy with absolute superiority, and then send a small group of elites to destroy their water source, only in this way, to have the possibility of completing your plan. â
"The navy is our only way to retreat, we must ensure their safety, as long as we get out of the Liaoshui, to the sea is our world."
Liu Fang's words made Yun Ye sleepless for a night, the old guy didn't mean to be perfunctory, he didn't plan to touch the big king city, but he was really ready to attack the city, but he didn't know how he would fill the wide moat.
The sun was rising, the cowhide war drums were ringing, Yun Ye rode on a horse, followed behind the tongueless and slowly walked towards the Great King City, the further he went, the taller the Great King City became, and when he walked less than three miles away from the city, the high city in front of him almost made Yun Ye breathless.
Even if he made the most adequate preparations, Yun Ye didn't think that this city could be breached by relying on flesh and blood, no generals who showed off their might ran out and asked to fight alone, and no one shouted and scolded at the city head with their throats, these indecent things have no effect in the actual war, Yun Ye, a military Bai Ding who only knew about ancient wars from "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", was full of resentment towards Luo Guanzhong.
The battlefield was quiet, and there was no one on the city wall, and suddenly, a landslide and tsunami cries sounded at the head of the city, and countless Goryeo soldiers suddenly poured out from behind the low battlements, and the city walls were covered in an instant.
Liu Fang was unmoved, waving the flag in his hand, Yun Ye found that a large row of soldiers with tall shields walked out of the neat army, stopping step by step, shouting and killing step by step, and the prestige did not fall behind at all.
The men who were bare-backed and shouting the trumpet pushing the siege wagon were full of steam in the cold of early spring, and pushed the siege wagon step by step to a position only half a mile away from the city, and the catapult with long arms stretched out behind slowly followed, and the ox cart was full of stones and followed behind with difficulty.
Yun Ye was a little disappointed, he could only do this step today, and the offensive could not be completed in a day or two. Only attacking one city gate, there are three city gates for the enemy to detour, his own soldiers are too few, no wonder the book of soldiers says, ten times the siege, five times the annihilation, 12,000 military horses, to attack the city of 10,000 people, itself is a way to find death, if it is not for Yun Ye's equipment is super luxurious, and there is a sharp weapon of fire oil that can be used, killing Liu Fang will not take this job.
Those old commanders in Chang'an City are waiting for the news of Yun Ye's defeat, as long as this news reaches the capital, and the soldiers suffer heavy casualties, then, this battle will be fought if it is not fought, no one thinks that Yun Ye can do this, breaking through Beisha City and annihilating the Goryeo Naval Division of Sanshanpu is already something they did not expect, Dawang City? It would be a joke not to have more than 100,000 soldiers and horses to take it down.
"I shouldn't be fighting with these old guys", Yun Ye muttered to himself, looking at the simple men in front of him who had come thousands of miles to fight in this strange land because they believed in themselves, Yun Ye was almost speechless.
"Put away your tears, the most unseen thing on the battlefield is this thing, you can be angry, you can't vent, straighten your chest, raise your head, and say loudly to your soldiers, you will create an unprecedented miracle." Liu Fang slapped Wangcai's ass hard.
The screaming Wangcai quickly shuttled back and forth in front of the formation, Yun Ye didn't speak, just pulled out his horizontal knife, and dialed their weapons all the way, and the sound of the gentle collision of blades echoed on the battlefield in an instant.
Two sturdy soldiers smashed down the frame, the thick arm of the catapult threw a few boulders far away to the city wall, because the distance was a little far, the landing point was not very good, just smashed heavily on the city wall, the stone became shattered, and finally fell into the moat, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty shouted in unison, praising their victory.
As if a play, several boulders flew out of the city wall, and smashed heavily not far from the catapult, because it was not a round stone projectile, it smashed on the muddy ground, and it only bounced twice and then stopped moving.
Liu Fang actually collected his troops in Mingjin, and those soldiers who had already gone out of the battle slowly retreated.
That's it? Yun Ye looked at the slightly westerly sun, there was still time, why didn't he bombard the city wall anymore?
"This is a warning, but also a courtesy, sue him, if you don't surrender, you will die, and people will also sue us, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, and swear to fight to the death." Liu Fang's white teeth looked a lot like the teeth of a beast. (To be continued.) )
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