Chapter 576: The Capture of Pyongyang (Part II)
"General!" Two North Korean soldiers stood up in horror, ready to check on the North Korean general.
However, the two North Korean soldiers were also close to the edge of the city wall, and as soon as they stood up, their entire heads were exposed.
"Bang bang bang" After another burst of gunshots, the heads of the two North Korean soldiers were almost blown alive by the dense bullets, and they fell to the ground, not much better dead than the North Korean general.
The fate of the Korean generals and two North Korean soldiers immediately frightened all the Korean soldiers on the city wall, and no one dared to stick their heads out to check, concentrating on dodging the shells of the Ming army, thinking that when the Ming army climbed the city wall, the Ming army would fight, and when the time came, the Ming army would definitely not be their opponent.
The Korean soldiers on the city wall found a reason for themselves not to stick their heads out to check what the Ming army was like outside the city, but it was not certain whether the Ming army would climb the city wall and fight them face to face as they thought.
Outside the city, after artillery fire and rifles suppressed the Korean soldiers on the city wall so that they could not raise their heads, the Ming army demolition squad that had been prepared began to act, a total of nearly 100 people.
Pyongyang City is one of the few cities in North Korea with a moat, and the moat is dug directly to the side of the city wall, and soldiers cannot get close to the city wall without filling the moat, which is also part of the source of the confidence of the North Korean generals in holding Pyongyang City.
Of course, it is impossible for the Ming army to waste time to fill the moat, and there is another way to send ** to the edge of the city wall to blow up the city wall.
I saw that the Ming Army demolition team of nearly 100 people carried a bamboo raft in addition to a large bag of **.
After coming to the edge of the Pyongyang moat, the Ming soldiers first put the bamboo raft into the water of the Pyongyang moat, and then quickly filled it with ** on the top side, and after lighting the fuse, several Ming soldiers used a long penny to push the bamboo raft full of ** to the foot of the Pyongyang city wall on the other side of the moat.
"It's about to explode, run!" A Ming soldier took the lead in throwing away the penny in his hand and turned his head and ran.
Several other Ming soldiers also threw away the penny in their hands and turned to flee, and when they ran out of a distance of dozens of meters and fell to the ground, the Ming soldiers who had been shooting and killing the outcropping Korean soldiers with rifles at dozens of distances had already run away.
An earth-shattering explosion sounded, and with a bang, the sky-high flames almost enveloped the 100-meter city wall.
The earth shook like an earthquake!
When the flames gradually dissipated, a section of the city wall more than ten meters wide in the center of the explosion just now was blown down, and a large number of collapsed masonry also filled the moat in that section.
"Order, capture Pyongyang!" Huang Degong gave an order, and the Ming soldiers who had already prepared immediately launched a charge.
"Kill"
In the city, a large number of North Korean soldiers who were behind the wall of the center of the explosion were crushed to death by the collapsed masonry of the explosion, and those who were close to the explosion section were not killed, but they were also knocked to the ground.
All the generals and soldiers of the North Korean army were stunned, only to feel that their heads were buzzing, and it seemed that the violent explosion just now had been echoing.
General Park was about 30 meters away from the collapsed city wall, and although he was not affected by the explosion, he was shaken by the shock of the explosion and fell to the ground.
"Kill"
Outside the city, there was a shouting of killing from the Ming army, and General Park was worthy of being a rare leading general of the Korean army, and he suddenly came to his senses.
"The Ming army is about to enter the city, quickly, organize a large army to resist the Ming army!" General Park yelled as he kicked the North Korean generals who were still dazed next to him.
General Park's shout made many Korean generals wake up in an instant, and these Korean generals began to run everywhere, gathering troops and horses, preparing to resist the Ming army from attacking the city through the blown gap.
"Others, come with me to close the gap!" General Park yelled again, drew his sword with a bang, and rushed towards the gap with thousands of Korean soldiers, trying to plug the gap before the Ming army could reach the gap.
"Kill!" Under the personal leadership of General Park, the soldiers of the North Korean army ran extremely fast.
Finally, at the same time as the Ming army rushed into the gap, General Park also came to the gap with the first batch of Korean soldiers.
"Kill!" General Park held a sharp sword and took the lead, and wanted to use his bravery to inspire the soldiers to hold the gap and prevent the Ming army from entering the city.
It's a pity that in the face of the Ming army at this moment, General Park's actions as a leader are not friendly, and General Park's armor is obviously a senior general of the North Korean army, which is almost a clear military target.
"Bang Bang Bang"
General Park was greeted by a dense burst of gunfire and a dense hail of bullets.
In the face of powerful bullets, the armor on General Park's body did not give him any protection.
"Poof! Burst! Burst! "Because of the proximity, a large number of bullets passed through General Park's body, and then wounded other North Korean soldiers behind him with General Park's blood.
General Park was covered in blood holes, spitting blood from his mouth, and staring at a pair of dead eyes.
General Park's swift death frightened the North Korean soldiers behind him, who stopped the charge and looked in horror at the Ming soldiers who kept rushing into the gap,
"Bang bang bang" The North Korean soldiers were frightened by General Park's death, but the Ming soldiers were not frightened, and continued to shoot at the North Korean soldiers in front of them.
In the face of the intensive attack of the Ming army, the soldiers of the Korean army suffered heavy casualties, and they could not resist the attack of the Ming army at all.
In the rear, although a large number of Korean soldiers continued to come to reinforce and try to plug the gap, the Ming army also poured in in large numbers from the gap.
Resisting bullets with flesh and blood is tantamount to being slaughtered, and this is the case of the soldiers of the North Korean army, who were beaten to the ground in pieces in the face of the dense bullets fired by the Ming army.
The death of General Park has spread among all the soldiers of the Korean army at a rapid pace.
The morale of the Korean soldiers was knocked to the bottom, and they had no will to fight, and their will was destroyed by the increasingly heavy casualties and the fact that they could not stop the Ming army.
"Run!" There are even North Korean generals who are afraid of death taking the lead.
In an uproar, all the North Korean troops were defeated, and a large number of defeated North Korean soldiers fled backwards!
"Kill" The Ming soldiers immediately launched a pursuit.
The siege was missing one, and the south gate was not besieged by the Ming army, and the generals and soldiers of the Korean army who were fleeing immediately thought of it.
Not long after the "squeak", the south gate of Pyongyang was opened by the fleeing North Korean soldiers.
"Run!" A large number of North Korean soldiers escaped from the South Gate.
However, before they could run a hundred meters away, the rumbling sound of iron horses came out.
"Boom"
I saw a large number of Ming army iron cavalry rushing out and shooting at the Korean soldiers who rushed out of the city from the south gate, shooting and killing many Korean soldiers.
At least five or six thousand iron horsemen of the Ming army rushed out, and with the speed of war horses, they soon surrounded the south gate within a radius of 100 miles, and surrounded all the Korean army routs who escaped from the south gate, and the Korean soldiers who dared to run around would be shot mercilessly immediately.
"Those who descend will not be killed!" After encircling the Korean rout, the Ming soldiers began to shout.
There is no doubt that the collapsed North Korean army, which had no will to fight, had no idea of resisting at all under such circumstances, and began to throw away their weapons and surrender one by one.
In the city, a large number of Ming soldiers also began to shout the words of surrender and not killing to the Korean routs they encountered.
When attacking North Korea, in order to make the soldiers of the North Korean army understand, Huang Degong also deliberately asked the soldiers of the whole army to surrender and not kill! These words are in Korean, so the soldiers of the Ming army shouted this sentence in Korean.
As more and more Ming troops invaded the city, clearing the city was almost like surrendering, and pieces of Korean soldiers threw away their weapons and came out to surrender to the Ming army.
After the capture of Pyongyang, the 130,000 Korean soldiers in Pyongyang were wiped out, in addition to the nearly 20,000 Korean soldiers who were killed and killed when the Ming army entered the city, the Ming army captured no less than 110,000 Korean soldiers in Pyongyang, together with the Korean soldiers captured in Xuanfu and Yongbyon Province and other places, the Ming army has captured no less than 180,000 Korean soldiers since the beginning of the war, and the North Korean army has lost more than 200,000 soldiers.