Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Horror Demon King Descends from the Sky
When the conspiracy hung over the land of Baekje like a dark cloud.
Li Ji commanded the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses to attack in Goguryeo, and drove the Silla people across the river in one fell swoop.
Cheng Mingzhen, the governor of Yeongju, took the lead in crossing the Hunsu River (Daedong River) and defeated 16,000 Silla men and horses led by the Silla defender Ping Shiluo at Namhansan, conquering Suicheon in one fell swoop.
After conquering Suichuan, Cheng Mingzhen's army did not stop, but cut Pingkang City horizontally like a huge pair of scissors.
And Xue Rengui, the fierce general of the Tang Dynasty, also broke through the water in Changkou Town, and with the help of gunpowder, after blowing up the heavily guarded Haicheng into ruins, he didn't even have time to count the results, and cut it to the east like a big scissors to Jinping City.
Pei Xingjian broke Yangkou, Guo waited to be sealed and broken, and a handle of scissors always started from the south of Silla, and after he succeeded, he did not go all the way to the south, but cut horizontally until the sea in the east.
This time, Li Ji no longer hid the gunpowder, and began to really play the role of this thing, he led the Chinese army, Gao Kan on the left, Qibi He Li on the right, and the daily march was only thirty miles.
However, like a whirling hurricane, the Silla people occupied the Goguryeo people's roe fortress, and the cities of Goguryeo, Gorgu, Shuigu, Dagu, Uusen, and Berje were all ground into powder.
At the same time, Su Jeongbang's army also attacked and advanced from Daemu Fortress, the southernmost part of Baekje, to Benu, Kokuwon and other cities in Silla.
Yun Chu felt that Datang's final defeat of Jilin Prefecture and the invasion of Silla Jincheng was just a matter of time, and there could be no accidents.
Although the people of Silla were very tenacious at this time, many Silla nobles also gave up their high status and actively participated in the defense of the city, and fought against the Tang army in the field, but the consequences were not good.
A Silla city guard named Cheng Haggard, when the Tang army approached the city, knowing that he was invincible, he killed his parents, wives and children with a knife, and after the city wall was blown down, he led 3,000 remnants of the city to fight against the Tang army, and in the end, all of them were killed.
This practice has become a common practice among the nobles of Silla, so the state of the Tang army's rapid advance at the beginning of the Battle of Silla has disappeared.
The war entered a state of fierce contention, and every pass, every cliff, every city, and finally evolved into every village that needed war to pacify.
It seems that Li Ji had expected this level of resistance from the Silla people, so a large number of thunder shells and gunpowder were distributed to the front of the army.
In Li Ji's view, no matter how hard the people's hearts are, they will be destroyed under the bombardment of gunpowder.
When the army was reorganized at the beginning of the year, spring in Baekje had arrived.
In Baekje, the news of the arrival of spring is a large number of seagulls, which are obviously not migratory birds, but when the spring breeze blows, they are densely packed all over the seashore.
In previous years, this was a good time for Baekje fishermen to go to sea to catch fish, and since the beginning of the war, all fishing boats floating on the sea have been mercilessly sunk by warships of various countries.
Now that the progress of the war has been completed sixty percent, the sea has not gradually calmed down, but has become more and more dangerous.
Goguryeo's sailors have completely turned into pirates, some of Baekje's sailors have also become pirates, and Silla's sailors are attacking like moths to fire, attacking the Tang army's water grain routes.
In the middle of this, there were even a large number of Japanese ships, they did not seem to have an accurate target at sea, as long as they saw a lone ship, no matter which side it was, they would pounce on it and bite it.
The size of the army has reached 30,000 men, and now they are sweeping from the north to the south, and the people of Baekje in the rest of the country are already looking forward to them.
At the beginning, the Baekje fortress that Kim Yushin and Kim Famin had worked so hard to occupy was being abandoned by the Silla people one by one, and they even sent envoys to consult with the new king of Baekje, Hei Ya Changzhi, to jointly resist the possibility of the Tang army.
The only cities that the fierce Tang army can really control are Siyu City, where Yun Chu is located, and Xiongjin City, where Liu Renliang is located.
The situation in Baekje has changed radically, which has led to the commander of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, Lee Ji, not hesitating to ask about the situation in Baekje every three days.
And every time Yun Chu gave Li Ji's answer, he was under control.
Although Li Ji was anxious, he still believed in Yun Chu, but when he gave the attack order to the Eastern Expeditionary Army, one was more urgent than the other, and the wording was more severe than the other.
As long as they exist for a day, even if Baekje is pacified now, it won't take much time, as long as the Buyeo royal family who went to the Wa Kingdom return to Baekje, the rebellion will still be imminent.
Only when the army of peasants and slaves led by Kuroka Tsuneyuki completely swept Baekje and completely eradicated the former Buyeo royal family and nobles, Baekje would usher in a complete peace.
Yun Chu's army of 15,000 people left Siyu City, and the whole army marched to Xiongjin City to join Liu Renliang.
Less than thirty miles after the Yunchu army left Siyu City, the banner of the Praying Army was hung at the head of Siyu City.
Yun Chu's army went to meet the team of Black Tooth Changzhi, but the two armies had a tacit understanding to let go of each other, and did not meet, one slowly went north, and the other went south like a meteor.
In a small fishing village less than 100 miles from Kumajin City, Yun Chu sat in a dilapidated fishing boat that had been carried ashore.
The battered fishing boats were cleaned up and even covered with thick woolen blankets.
Amid the tireless cry of the seagulls, Yun Chu lit a small red clay stove, and the dried pine cones crackled and burned, and occasionally burst out one or two shriveled pine nuts.
After the sea receded, two big men walked on the glittering wet beach, and the sand at this time was visible, and the heavy footprints had just left a footprint on the sand, which was soon covered by a layer of water, and after a wave hit, it disappeared.
Seeing Yun Chu who was cooking tea, Hei Zhi Chang Zhi and Sha Zha jumped into the broken ship, and after drinking a cup of tea, Hei Zhi Chang Zhi said to Yun Chu: "Do you need our brother to come back now?" ”
Yun Chu shook his head and said, "This time I invited the two of you over, not to warn, or because your power is great, to call you back, but to tell you that even if you let go, it is up to you whether the people of Baekje can get out of the quagmire of war and move towards great governance." ”
"Yes, don't say that others will think wildly, even I sometimes ask myself if I can keep my heart." ”
Yun Chu smiled: "Can you still hold it?" ”
Hei Tooth Changzhi and Sha Zha glanced at each other, nodded in unison, and said, "If there is another big war, the people of Baekje should die in this world." ”
Sha Zha said: "The Tang Dynasty is too powerful, especially the kind of thunder bombs used by the Eastern Army, which cannot be resisted by manpower. ”
Yun Chu took out a home-made refueling thunder fire bomb from his arms and handed it to the two of them to observe.
"Just this little thing can blow the walls apart?"
Sha Zha looked at the thunder bomb carefully, and was surprised to himself.
Yun Chu lit the thunder bomb on the small stove and threw it out.
After a few moments, there was a loud bang where the thunderbolt landed, and the mud and sand splashed, and then the beach burst into flames, and the waves crashed onto the beach under the terrifying gaze of the black teeth and the sand like a terrified gaze.
I thought that the waves would extinguish the raging flames, but who would have thought that the flames would miraculously float on the waves, scattered into small fires, until the waves retreated, and the little flames slowly extinguished...... In other words, it is not like extinguishing, it is like entering the depths of the sea.
After reading it, Hei Tooth Changzhi sighed lightly and said, "Silla is finished." ”
Yun Chu said: "Originally, there was no such crusade, and even if there was, it would be years or decades later.
Although the Tang Dynasty was powerful, it did not arrogantly believe that as long as it fought a war, it could be exterminated and pacify Goguryeo.
The Tang Dynasty will still send a small force of troops to attack and harass Goguryeo, as in previous years, and exhaust Goguryeo, unless it encounters an extremely powerful situation against the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty will send troops to destroy Goguryeo and wash away the shame since the former Sui to the present. ”
Sha Zha said: "The appearance of this thing gave the Tang Emperor the confidence to go east at this time?" ”
Yun Chu said: "Pyongyang City is so strong and majestic, after the first use of this thing by the British Gong, it became a ruin in an instant.
Hengyuan, loyalty, from the moment this thing appeared, the way of war changed.
I would like to call it the end of the era of cold weapons.
In the past, when we fought, we mainly relied on swords, guns, halberds, bows and arrows, crossbows, and bows, the strength of our personal strength, and even the confidence of our soldiers in victory.
Ever since this thing appeared, there has been a terrible situation where a young child can easily kill a fully armored man.
What's even more terrifying is that this thing is only a prototype so far, and there is still a lot of room for improvement.
I didn't know where the power of this thing was. ”
"This will make the war very boring and cruel. ”
Yun Chu threw the last pine cone into the stove, and after waiting for the tea in the copper kettle to boil, he said: "End the war early, I already miss my wife and children at home and my Chang'an very much." ”
With black teeth, Sha Zha looked at the thick tiredness on Yun Chu's face without the slightest concealment, so he picked up his teacup and said, "End the war as soon as possible." ”
When he saw Liu Renliang again in Xiongjin City, most of the little old man's hair was already half white.
"Baekje is going to be lost."
Liu Renliang saw the situation in front of him very clearly, and also had his own cognition.
"If it is not broken or established, you will see a new Xiongjin Governor's Mansion, and you will see that Baekje will be subject to the same control as the general state capital of the Tang Dynasty."
Yun Chu was still smiling, and he didn't seem to care about the predicament in front of him.
"Black Tooth Changzhi is similar to Sha Zha, one left and one right are horns of each other, the army has been established, and it is even more difficult to exterminate them."
Liu Renliang felt that he needed to warn Yun Chu that the army that had become an army was by no means comparable to the ordinary rabble.
"Go to the sea with peace of mind, and the chaos in Baekje will soon subside."
Chapter 2, I continue
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