Chapter 320: Temporary Retreat
Gao Huanquan could only nod and agree, and while agreeing, he sighed in his heart that Xuan Shijing's heart and eye strategy were all first-class high, Gao Huanquan thought that he couldn't compare to Xuan Shijing, and from then on, he didn't want to be an enemy with Xuan Shijing, it was terrible to have such a powerful and strategic enemy.
Xuan Shijing and Gao Huanquan led their troops back to the camp, and ordered their soldiers to rearrange the camp, adding a lot of flammable materials, and then the army withdrew from the camp.
At this time, Gao Huanquan took the Goguryeo soldiers under him to rest, and the burning of the camp was completed by Xuan Shijing with Chang Le, Gao Jun and the government soldiers under him.
After some arrangement, the camp still looks full of people on the surface, but in fact it has long been empty, and the shadow in the tent is just a scarecrow made of straw.
The journey of more than 20 miles is not very far, and within an hour, the spring boy arrived at the foot of Daxing City with a large army.
Now the fire on the wall of Daxing City has all been lit, the inside and outside of the city wall are like daylight, and the defenders in the city have not rested, after cleaning up the battle, the blood in one place needs to be washed, and the corpses in one place need to be carried and disposed of, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, if the corpse is not dealt with as soon as possible, the smell in the city is unacceptable for the time being, and the serious ones may be able to give birth to epidemics.
Moreover, the people in the city can't be allowed to walk away from the corpses all over the ground when they go out early tomorrow morning.
"Listen to the guards on the city wall, I'm a spring boy, I came to take over Daxing City by the king's order, and quickly open the city gate!" Izumi boy sat on horseback and shouted towards the city wall.
When he saw that the banner at the head of Daxing City had not been replaced, and that the inside and outside of the city wall were as if it were daylight, and the guards on it were also dressed in the armor of the garrison in the city, his heart was half relieved.
Fortunately, Daxing City was not lost, and if Daxing City was lost, he didn't know how to explain it to his father Quan Gai Suwen.
"Wait a minute, sir." A voice came from the city wall: "When the general comes over and verifies the identity of the adult, we will open the city gate and welcome the adult into the city." ”
Daxing City has just undergone a change, and now it is the time when everyone in the city is in danger, who dares to open the city gate to the people below? The spring boy is a big man for the big soldiers on the city wall, a big man who has not been seen once in several years, and no one remembers what he looks like, whether it is a person or a seal letter, he can't remember, so he can only wait for the local generals in the city to come up.
When the general defending the city heard that the spring boy had arrived with his army, he hurriedly climbed the city wall and saw the 30,000 troops below and the spring boy riding a horse at the head.
The soldiers on the city wall put down the hanging basket, and the Izumi boy also sent someone to put his seal in the basket.
The general who defended the city checked the seal of the spring boy, and then sent a message to the people below to open the city gate.
The gates of Daxing City were opened again, and the defenders of the city were no longer greeted by the enemy, but by the twenty friendly troops, which was hope.
The city is still in shambles, and it has not yet been cleaned up, which is also a testament to the fierce fighting that has just taken place in the city.
"The Tang army just entered the city?" Izumi boy and general walked ahead, and when they saw that the city was like this, they asked aloud.
"Lord Hui, it is exactly the time of the second watch, but the people who attacked the city were not the Tang army, but the soldiers led by Gao Huanquan of Anshi City, all of them were Goguryeo, and the number of Tang people among them was not much, and there were only about four or five hundred people." The general replied.
"What is the number of Goguryeo soldiers led by Gao Huanquan?" Izumi asked as he walked.
Gao Huanquan, this person is now the mortal enemy of their Quan family, his family and Gao Huanquan are the hatred of killing their father and usurping the country, and Gao Huanquan is in Anshi City, which is also a thorn in his father's heart.
"Gao Huanquan led the troops to fight with our army in the city, for a long time, but the battle situation has been stalemate, and then they saw that they could not attack for a long time, so they withdrew their troops, and it seems that the strength of the army is about the same as our army." The general said.
The boy stopped, and his brows furrowed: "Not much different from our army?" ”
"It looks so, yes." The partial general swore and said: "Maybe there are more people than in the city, but not much, and the Goguryeo soldiers led by Gao Huanquan don't seem to have a good combat power......
"Before I came, there were 20,000 troops stationed in this Daxing City, and Gao Huanquan led people to attack Daxing City, and the number of troops was about 20,000, how did they enter the city?" Izumi asked.
Speaking of this question, the general lowered his head, with a little shame on his face: "Lord Hui, I don't know when the people in the city mixed with them, and when it was the second watch in the middle of the night, they attacked the guards on the city wall, opened the city gate, and let the people in, but the people who attacked the city wall were all masters, and the defenders on the city wall said that when they spoke, they spoke Chinese. ”
"The master of the Tang army ......" Quan boy pondered: "Generally, in the Tang army, there are ordinary soldiers, even if the generals have some kung fu, they will not personally attack the city wall, that is to say, although the number of Tang people in Gao Huanquan's army is not large, there are actually a group of masters......
What does Datang want to do? Could it be that they thought that just by sending a group of masters to assist Gao Huanquan, they could take Daxing City and fight all the way to Pyongyang City?
I heard in Pyongyang City that Xuan Shijing came to Liaodong and brought 500 guards, are these people from those 500 people?
Regarding this point, Quan Nan guessed half correctly, among the more than 20 people led by Gao Jun, only five or six of them were born in Jinyiwei, and the remaining dozen or so people were all soldiers of Zhuangzi.
Also, the number of soldiers led by Gao Huanquan is about the same as that of the defenders of Daxing City, and its combat ability is not as good as that of the defenders of Daxing City.
"How long have they been away from Daxingcheng?" Izumi asked.
"My lord, by now, it is estimated that there will be an hour." The general replied.
"An hour...... Do you know where their camp is? ”
"My lord, I can vaguely see their camp on the city wall, but I want to go up to the city wall to have a look?" The general asked.
The Izumi boy nodded: "Okay." ”
Then, the spring boy followed the general up the city wall, looked in the direction of the place where the general pointed his finger, and sure enough, he vaguely saw a military camp, and the lights in the camp were lit.
It's just that whether there are still people in this barracks is worth exploring.
"Someone!" Izumi boy shouted.
"The last general!"
"Send two scouts, quietly approach the camp over there, don't let them find out, come back immediately after the investigation, and report immediately, in addition, give the order to go down, everyone is to rest in the city with armor, and without my order, you are not allowed to unload your armor!" Izumi boy commanded.
"Yes!"