Chapter 1067: A Different Offensive and Defensive Battle (2)
In addition to the temptation of this group of Goguryeo people, they also had to remove those marking stones along the way, and the mind of Yuangai Suwen was undoubtedly top-notch and intelligent in the whole world, and he judged the role of these marking stones yesterday.
When the Goguryeo shield car was 500 paces away from the opposite side, there was a sound of breaking the air from the opposite side.
With a "whoosh" sound, a ten-pound stone bullet flew out at a speed visible to the naked eye, crossed the low flat trajectory, and landed on the ground before it flew to the shield car line, splashing a cloud of smoke and dust on the ground, and the polished round stone bullet flew forward again, slowing down a lot, and it bounced on the ground again, hitting a shield car on the left wing of Goguryeo.
With a loud bang, the stone bullet slammed into the front guard, the stone bullet that had slowed down was blocked by the thick wooden board, the shield car shook violently, the front half jumped up, and countless pieces of wood chips burst out from the back of the guard, sprinkled to the rear like raindrops, large and small flying sawdust became like sharp blades, piercing the body and face door of the auxiliary soldiers behind, and the auxiliary soldiers of the back cart screamed at the same time, covering their faces and chests and screaming loudly.
The two Goguryeo soldiers of the overseer team behind them slashed to the ground with knives, hacking to death all the auxiliary soldiers who howled miserably and affected the morale of the army and were a burden to survive.
The Goguryeo soldiers reached the marker of 500 paces on the side of Wang Junlin, and the sound of breaking the air in front of them was repeated, and the catapults in the gap in the earthen wall were firing one after another, and on this more than a mile of front, there were a total of twenty catapults and ten long-range crossbows.
As early as these days, all catapults and long-range crossbows on Wang Junlin's side were pre-calibrated and test-fired many times in advance, which greatly increased their accuracy, and the hit rate was as high as 50%.
Behind the shield cart, sawdust flew everywhere, and the wounded Goguryeo auxiliaries rolled on the ground and wailed, and the overseers who supervised the auxiliaries showed no mercy and hacked all the howling auxiliaries to death. Forcing the remaining auxiliaries to remove the firing markers, the shield leader continued to move on, still filling in the potholes beyond the barrage.
As they approached, the catapults and long-range crossbows on King's side became more accurate, and the shield carts came to a halt after being hit, and the line became less neat.
In the midst of the screams, the number of casualties among the Goguryeo auxiliaries increased rapidly, and the tragic screams continued, and the auxiliary soldiers who had a nervous breakdown kept screaming and fleeing, and were beheaded by the overseers who pressed the formation behind, and the place where the shield cart passed was covered with corpses.
Goguryeo's auxiliaries also had a name - cannon fodder, and many of them were made up of prisoners and the most despicable people in the country, a tradition that Goguryeo had been doing for hundreds of years.
"Don't look back, go forward!" The Goguryeo overseer waved his sword and shouted, "Protect the door with your hands, don't want to run!" ”
But at this time, the auxiliaries were covered with beads of sweat, their lips trembled violently, their eyes were full of panic, whistling stone bullets and piercing crossbows. The sound of guns breaking through the air, the wounded in their stomachs and their bloody flesh, and the terrible cries of the guards were not seen in the most terrifying nightmares of these auxiliaries, whose spirits were already on the verge of collapse.
"Bang!"
There was another loud bang, fifty paces away, a stone bullet of more than ten catties smashed a shield cart with a roar, the shield cart exploded countless wooden blocks, flew into the air, and fell into the group of archers behind, followed by two loud bangs, the two shield carts became parts, and the auxiliaries and archers behind fell to the ground.
One of the auxiliaries screamed, turned around and was about to flee, but was cut to the ground by one of the overseers, and several other auxiliaries next to him threw down their shield carts and scurried, and the bowstring behind them rang continuously, and was shot like a hedgehog by the overseer.
Suddenly, there was a sound of gold, and the surviving auxiliaries were excited, and at this time, there were Goguryeo generals behind who shouted loudly: "According to the trained retreat, you are not allowed to run around!" ”
The Goguryeo soldiers turned around and retreated, their pace much faster than when they came, the formation was still neat, and a small number of archers watched over the remaining auxiliaries to prevent them from leaving their shield carts, although there were many trees on Bailing Island, it was also time-consuming and laborious to make a shield cart.
The auxiliaries burst out with the potential to survive, pulled the shield cart and walked quickly, and after leaving more than a hundred corpses, they quickly withdrew from the dangerous distance.
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Wang Junlin witnessed the whole process of the first battle with a telescope, and can only be said to be relatively satisfied. The guns were consumed too quickly, which made him a little worried, when the long-range attack means could not be used, under close combat, there would inevitably be casualties, and their troops were too small to withstand the attrition.
Putting the binoculars down, Wang Junlin turned to Zhang Tiangang who was following and asked, "Is there any information from Guo'er?" ”
"My lord, I was about to report to you, Guo'er drifted a piece of information in a porcelain bottle, which was discovered by our traveling sentinel ship, and some useful news came out, Goguryeo now has more than 14,000 troops, and the food and supplies have been carefully calculated, but they will last for half a month at most. Guo'er also secretly spread some rumors according to the instructions of the adults, shaking their military morale as much as possible. ”
"Guo'er did a good job, after this battle, maybe Guo'er will make a big difference." Wang Junlin had recently discovered that Shen Guo'er had shown a better ability than his brother Shen Guang.
"What about the captives caught on the sea! Is there anything to gain. Wang Junlin asked again.
"Captured a Goguryeo sailor general, but this person is a Goguryeo nobleman, himself is still a county, called Li Xiaoli, when he was at sea before, he led 3,000 sailors under his command, and 100 large and small warships attacked our sailors, causing a certain amount of confusion in our formation. He was lucky not to die, but his leg was wounded and he was captured alive by our people in the sea. ”
Wang Junlin raised his eyebrows and said, "You specifically talked about him, could it be that this person provided any useful information?" ”
"My lord, he is willing to surrender." Zhang Tiangang grinned.
Wang Junlin stopped and asked, "He said that he was going to surrender, what sincerity did he show?" How can you be sure that he is not pretending to surrender? ”
He said that the situation of Yuan Taejo in Goguryeo was not good, which is in line with what we knew before. He knew that even if Yuangai Suwen captured the small city where Bailing fell, as long as we didn't rescue Bailing Island, the army led by Yuangai Suwen would only end up trapped on the island, so he thought that he was dead, and he wanted to take refuge with the adults. ”
"That's a good start." Wang Junlin said with a smile: "For the first time, a captured Goguryeo general took the initiative to take refuge, he was a nobleman with a title in Goguryeo, and his wife, children and family Yuan Taizuo didn't know what to do?" ”
"According to what Li Xiaoli said, Yuan Taizuo is estimated to kill all the men in their family and all the women into slavery."