Chapter 57 II Food
There was a panic in Suzhou, and the news of the sudden appearance of enemy troops nearby shocked everyone.
Suzhou City is a strategic location on the south bank of the Qingchuan River, if you want to use the Qingchuan River as a defense line to resist the attack of the Silk Country, Suzhou City will be one of the most important strategic support points behind this defense line, because of this, Lu Xuan gathered a large amount of grain and grass here for military use. However, the unexpected arrival of the army of the Silk Country still caught people off guard. Suzhou City does not have much strength to defend now, and it is only a little more than a thousand to gather all the soldiers who can fight, and it is no more than 3,000 to barely organize the common people, and the only thing that can reassure the city now is that the walls of Suzhou City are still thick and strong, and the enemy army is basically cavalry, so it is difficult to conquer this city. The guards tried their best to comfort the floating people's hearts, closed the four gates of Suzhou City, and seized the time to prepare the utensils for defending the city.
At nightfall, the sky in the northeast corner flashed with fire, and the soldiers in the city immediately reported to the defenders. Before the guards arrived, the flames began to spread in the direction of Suzhou City, and it didn't take long for the sound of fighting to be faintly heard.
After a while, the sharp-eyed soldiers spotted dozens of carts coming from the northeast, dimly recognizable as Goryeo's grain trucks, followed by a sentry cavalry.
These cavalrymen were extremely ferocious, biting these dozens of grain carts, shooting down the soldiers on the carts with continuous arrows, and once they caught up, they immediately killed the soldiers on the carts with their knives in hand, and set fire to the grain, and the burning vehicles were driven by the frightened horses to run around. Seeing that less than half of the dozens of grain trucks were left in the blink of an eye, the field was full of burning grain trucks.
The soldiers in the fastest cars ripped their necks and shouted, "Don't open the door!" There are also their brigades in the back, shoot with arrows! Shoot with arrows! ”
The Keeper understood. Immediately command the archers to be ready and fire as soon as the enemy is within range. At the same time, the soldiers under the city were ordered to obey the order. At the first order, the gates of the city were immediately opened and the vehicles were brought into the city - and the soldiers fled with all odds. But because he was afraid that the enemy army would take the opportunity to enter the city, he voluntarily walked around the city, and as a warrior, he really couldn't die in vain to such a heroic person.
Seeing that the pursuers had entered the firing range, the defender gave an order, and hundreds of feathered arrows immediately flew out towards the enemy, and the enemy's cavalry saw that the situation was unfavorable, so they had to rein in their horses' heads and began to retreat. The cars had already rushed to the gate, and the guard gave another order, and the gate was immediately opened a crack, only wide enough for one car to pass through. Those vehicles don't hesitate either. Immediately and quickly rush into the city.
"Close the door!" As soon as the defender saw that the battle was successful, he immediately gave the order. But he did not hear the gates shut, but he heard screams.
"Enemy attack!" "There is fraud!"
The mournful shouts of the soldiers under the city hit the defenders like thunder. It all turned out to be a game!
"Quick! Surround them and close the gates! "The keeper immediately ordered. If only a few carriages entered the city, the enemy army was only about a dozen people, as long as the city gate could be closed, the enemy army outside the city could only watch no matter how powerful it was, and the people in the city would become turtles in the urn.
But he was wrong. There were not only ten enemy troops entering the city, but three or four enemy soldiers hidden in each vehicle. There were more than twenty enemies entering the city, and all of them were the most elite soldiers, including their commander Wang Hanxin!
Although Wang Hanxin has just turned twenty, he can be regarded as an experienced person. When it comes to martial arts. There are not many people in the Liaodong army who are stronger than him, and probably only his eldest brother Gao Dingbian can be said to be sure to defeat him, but when it comes to plagiarism, it is fierce. I'm afraid that even Gao Dingbian will lose to him. In this plan, he tied the Goryeo prisoners to the back carriage and let the cavalry kill them, and the superb acting skills of the Tiger Guard Battalion deceived the eyes of the guards. Let the front team of the Goryeo Army, which was impersonated by soldiers of the Tiger Guard Battalion, take advantage of it. However, the most critical part of venturing into Suzhou City is whether you can hold the city gate and wait for the arrival of the large army. Therefore, the most dangerous part of this, Wang Hanxin should not let him personally lead the team. He brandished the twin knives in his hand and flew left and right, slashing the surrounding Goryeo soldiers to the ground one after another. On his left and right sides, two soldiers held shields to protect the left and right sides of the commander, and once the Goryeo army shot an arrow, the two immediately raised their shields to block for the commander. Wang Hanxin commanded more than 20 people to guard the entrance of the city gate, and at the same time, several people desperately opened the city gate completely. At this time, the cavalry that had just retreated went and returned, and entered the city while blowing their horns.
When Wang Hanxin saw that the first wave of reinforcements had arrived, he immediately commanded the troops to guard the city gate, jumped on a horse himself, and went straight to the city tower to kill.
As the number of cavalry entering the city increased, the position at the city gate became stronger and stronger, and the Goryeo army's attempt to block the city gate became an unattainable dream. At the same time, Wang Hanxin had already killed the city tower alone, and he found the location of the guard at a glance, and rose up to kill the sword in his hand.
"If you don't want to die, get out of the way!" Wang Hanxin shouted in Korean.
The soldiers, who were completely overwhelmed by his momentum, could not even stay on their feet, and retreated one after another, even directly out of the way. Wang Han's novice sword fell mercilessly, turning all the soldiers in front of him into corpses. The guard clenched the sword in his hand and rushed towards Wang Hanxin with a loud roar.
Wang Hanxin saw that the opponent's desperate blow was coming fiercely, flashed his horse's head, and slashed at the back of the guard's head with a backhand. The guard lowered his head and flashed over, and at the same time turned around with the momentum of the forward, Wang Hanxin's second knife had already arrived in front of him, and the guard blocked it with his sword, Wang Hanxin's first knife folded back, and the guard looked like he couldn't block, so he could only flash to the right hand. Wang Hanxin took advantage of the momentum and waved his sword together, using the advantage of the horse to force the guard to continue to dodge to the right hand, seeing that he had reached the battlement of the city wall, the guard had been avoidable, at this time Wang Hanxin sealed the sword of the guard with two knives, and slammed it upward, and the guard stood unsteadily, and fell straight down from the city wall!
The fear in the hearts of the soldiers of the Goryeo Army when they saw the main general fall from the city wall spread in their hearts, and at the same time, the scene that made them even more frightened came into view: the enemy cavalry of the brigade was pouring towards Suzhou City!
Originally, the soldiers in Suzhou City were demoralized, and the only consolation was the city walls of Suzhou City, but now the city gate has been deceived open, seeing that there is no hope of regaining it, the main general has been killed again, and suddenly fell into chaos. Wang Hanxin would not give them a chance to recover, and his subordinates under his command rushed left and right, constantly increasing the scale of chaos in the Goryeo army, and survived until the large army rushed to the city.
The arrival of a large number of cavalry completely crushed the resistance of the Goryeo army, and the soldiers opened the remaining three gates of the city and fled for their lives outside the city. However, they were greeted by the fate of being hunted. Wang Hanxin's cavalry had already broken into several detours and came to the outside of the city, and raised their butcher's knives in the face of the scattered fleeing Goryeo soldiers. The battle lasted until late at night, and except for a few soldiers who escaped, all the soldiers in the city, including the common people, were all killed by the sword.
Wang Hanxin did not stop, after taking away some of the grain, a fire burned the grain stored in Suzhou City, and the sky was lit up by the fire. In the firelight, Wang Hanxin and the soldiers of the Tiger Guard Battalion sneaked into the darkness again. (To be continued......)