Chapter 50: Filling the City with Corpses

The ruined city became particularly lonely and desolate in the setting sun, and the corpses were carried out of the city and burned, both the enemy and their own people, no matter how brilliant the victory, it could not hide the cruelty of the battle array itself, and the people in the city looked at these invaders with anxiety and fear, although they were not persecuted, but they became numb to the confusion and fear of the future.

Xu Da held the female wall with his hand, looked at the remnants of the sunset, and took a deep breath, this war is finally over, but he knows that Goryeo is just a supporting role in this great war, and the place that really affects the final outcome of this war is in Xiaoguan, in Yanmen, and maybe even within the Shenwu Empire, as for Goryeo, from the moment the war started, it was already doomed to a tragic ending.

"Xu Shuai, a notice has been issued to calm the people, and the remnants of the city have been cleared, what should we do next?" Shiro walked up to Xu Da and asked softly.

"The army stays here, and the victory of the war does not mean the submission of this nation, and these Koreans must be moved to the interior and dispersed to various places, so that they cannot be organized, and they can't do without an army." Xu Da naturally knew what Shiro was asking and smiled.

"But, Your Majesty's side, ......," Shiro frowned.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty is surrounded by the most elite troops in the country, and these 50,000 troops will not play a role." Xu Da looked at Shiro and said, "I want to rush to Xiao Guan immediately, and you should also set off as soon as possible and go to the lord to support." ”

"What about this side?" Shiro was slightly stunned and looked at the ruined city, although the population of Goryeo was not large, it added up to two or three hundred thousand. To send all of them to the country is definitely a huge project. It's not something that can be done in a short period of time.

"These things can be left to those civil officials. They are better at this than you and me. Xu Da looked to the far west and said: "I'll go to Xiaoguan first, replace Liulang, you four brothers, you can also reunite in Yanmen, you wait for those Wenchen to arrive, and set off as soon as possible." ”

"Yes." Shiro nodded.

The war in Goryeo can only be regarded as an embellishment for today's war, even if Huang Tianxiang is defeated, it will not affect Wen Zhong's overall situation. also won the victory in the Goryeo battle, which will not add much chance to Zhuo Ao, but it has freed up two generals for Zhuo Ao, but Wen Zhong's side also has one more peerless general.

Xiao Guan, the magnificent city wall eight zhang high, after two months of fighting, now there are only five zhang left, not that the city wall has become shorter. It's that the ground is getting higher.

Yang Jian naturally won't break the rules and use spells, he has always been a very well-behaved person, because of his identity, anything that doesn't follow the rules. Once it is made, it will be infinitely amplified by the people of Heavenly Court, so every step he takes is very orderly.

He didn't use spells. Just let half a million people take turns to carry sandbags on their backs to attack the city day and night. When people die, no one will clean up. It won't take long to be buried in the endless sand, so it has been attacking day and night for more than two months, and the ground before Xiao Pass has been raised by as much as three zhang, and now looking at it from outside Xiao Pass, although Xiao Pass in front of him is still majestic, it is no longer as desperate as it was two months ago.

It's just that who would have guessed that under this three-zhang high land, no less than 100,000 soldiers from the Western Regions were buried, and this three-zhang high land was completely made of flesh and blood, and even Zhao Yun and Liulang, who were guarding the pass, felt a chill.

Ruthless enough, but also desperate enough, this is undoubtedly a terrifying opponent, especially when he saw the six-zhang high earthen platform erected unconsciously on the opposite side, Zhao Yun also had to admire Yang Jian's means and patience, he never expected to be able to break through Xiao Pass with 100,000 lives, all he wanted was to let these 100,000 people provide him with a platform to weaken Xiao Guan's advantage.

The six-zhang high earthen platform was originally impossible to cast, even if it was built, the floating earthen platform did not have any load-bearing capacity, but Yang Jian not only built, but also put eighteen trebuchets on it, plus the three-zhang high ground, the height of the trebuchet was already higher than the city wall of Xiaoguan, although the opponent's trebuchet was not as good as the trebuchet of the Shenwu Empire, and the range was insufficient, but the height difference of one zhang could offset the technical problems.

On the ground, new earth and stone operations have started again, making people wonder if Yang Jian wants to fill in Xiao Pass directly, and then rush up directly.

Yang Jian naturally won't do this, although with the suppression of the catapult, the opponent's catapult can no longer attack as unscrupulously as in the past, but if he really wants to fill in here, these 500,000 troops are filled in, I'm afraid it's not enough, and he is not so boring, those earthen walls can well block the arrows shot from the city, at least so that the soldiers can minimize casualties before approaching the city gate, the most intuitive effect is that the defensive pressure of the defenders in Xiaoguan has increased significantly, and they can't shoot the soldiers of the Western Regions under the cover of the earthen wall, but they had to maintain their suppression, and once they gave up suppression, the arrows of these Western Regions soldiers would in turn suppress them.

"It's amazing." When Xu reached Daxiao Pass, he encountered such a situation, and couldn't help but admire.

"At this time, I still talk about cool things." Zhao Yun rolled his eyes helplessly, looked at the earthen platform opposite and said: "I smashed two earthen platforms today, but such a long distance has almost reached the limit of the range of the trebuchet, and the earthen platform is based on a wooden frame as the skeleton, if you can't break the wooden frame that fixes the earthen platform, you can't destroy the earthen platform at all." ”

Rokuro nodded and said: "There is also the earthen wall below, our arrows can't shoot in, but they have a special archer, once we stop suppressing, they will shoot quickly, in the past two days, there are no less than a thousand soldiers who have died under these archers." ”

"It took two months to do this kind of thing, and 100,000 lives were filled, what a stupid idea." Xu Da shook his head and said.

"It's a bit stupid, but now it seems that it works well." Zhao Yun said helplessly, the simpler the method, it looks stupid, but the effect is often very significant.

"Not all stupid methods work." Xu Da said with a smile.

"Oh? Brother Xu has a way? Zhao Yun's eyes lit up and looked at Xu Dadao.

"Is there tung oil?" Xu Da didn't answer, but asked rhetorically.

"Naturally." Zhao Yun nodded, because Xiao Guan has a special design, if you want to use tung oil, you must seal those holes in the city wall, and after using it, it is not easy to reopen it, so tung oil has not come in handy.

"Move them all over, throw them out with a stone thrower, and try to throw them as evenly as possible." Xu Dadao.

"Okay." Liulang immediately commanded the soldiers to move a jar of tung oil to the city wall, as the first pass in the Western Regions, all kinds of materials to defend the city are very rich, and the tung oil is enough to put a warehouse, which was useless before, but it is very sufficient at the moment.

"Papapapa~"

With the muffled sound of the stone thrower, a jar of tung oil was thrown down and hit the earthen wall, and in an instant, a large area of land was soaked with tung oil.

"With rockets!" Xu Da said to Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun and Liulang were naturally not stupid, they quickly understood what Xu Da meant, and with Liulang's order, thousands of rockets rose into the air, and in the desperate roar of the soldiers in the Western Regions, Xiao Guanxia, in an instant, countless tongues of fire jumped up, and countless ignited figures struggled, screamed, and roared in a sea of fire, and in an instant, the originally tragic battlefield turned into a hellish sea of fire.

"Second master, what should I do?" Zhijian looked at the scene in front of him in a daze, several tung oil cans continued to smash on the earthen platform, and then the earthen platform was also ignited, one by one trebuchet or burned, or directly with the collapsed earthen platform fell down, smashed and smashed, two months of hard work, 100,000 soldiers filled out the earthen platform with their lives, instantly disappeared.

"Mingjin retreats." Yang Jian raised his head and looked in the direction of Xiao Guan, but he didn't expect the other party to come up with a solution so quickly, so that his two months of hard work would be burned.

"Collect ...... Collect troops? Zhijian looked at Yang Jian puzzled, not understanding why he did this.

A few tung oil cans shot out again, this time the target, but not the earth platform, but the army here, the tung oil tank is naturally much lighter than the heavy stones, under the same force, the distance that is thrown out is naturally farther, and it can be thrown directly into their military formation, and this time the tung oil tank is different, it is directly ignited, fell in the crowd, and exploded directly, igniting more than a dozen soldiers in an instant, and the original rigorous formation appeared chaotic in an instant.

Zhijian finally understood why Yang Jian chose to retreat, the enemy's attack surface was too wide, and if he didn't retreat, he could only be a target here, with a sea of fire in front of him, there was no way to continue the siege, and they had no other way than to collect troops.

Under the command of Yang Jian, the army quickly retreated, this battle, although it looked tragic, but there were not many soldiers who were burned to death, the real damage was the morale problem, two months of sacrifice and hard work came to naught in an instant, the psychological loss and frustration, so that the morale of the Western Regions coalition army fell to the bottom in an instant.

On the other hand, above Xiao Guan, there was thunderous cheer at the moment, Zhao Yun punched Xu Da in the chest fiercely and said with a smile: "It is worthy of being the military god of my Shenwu Empire, just a plan, it will make Yang Jian's two months of hard work in vain." ”

"But the ground is still filled in by him, our tung oil is limited after all, and the next thing is a real hard battle." Xu Da rubbed his aching chest, shook his head and said, "Liulang, you immediately go to Yanmen Pass to support Your Majesty, and Yang Jian will hand it over to me and Zilong to deal with." ”

"Yes." This time, Liulang did not hesitate, it was of little use for him to stay here, and there was a combination of the Shenwu Empire Military God and the God of War, even if it was Yang Jian, he didn't want to break the level, and immediately took the order to leave.

"The battle of Goryeo is over?" Zhao Yun looked at Xu Dadao.

"That Huang Tianxiang is indeed powerful, but he is a brave man, not enough evidence, now that he has fled back to the Wenzhong camp, we must end the war here as soon as possible and support Your Majesty from the flank." Xu Da nodded.

"Okay, I thought I'd meet this Yang Jian for a while." Zhao Yun nodded and smiled. (To be continued.) )