Chapter 243: Attack on Pyongyang
The fifteenth moon is not as round as sixteen, and tonight it is seventeen, but the moon in the sky is still very round. The bright moon hung in the sky, illuminating the entire Liaodong City very clearly.
Ten miles below Liaodong City, during the day, it had just experienced a large-scale slaughter with a total number of nearly 10,000 people. At this time, the battle had already ended, and the entire ground that had already been leveled for more than ten miles was covered with countless corpses.
The dense remnants of the broken spears and swords were scattered all over the battlefield, extending to the far end of the pole. Under the cold moonlight, the edge of the broken knife and broken spear reflected a faint light, showing the fierceness of the great war.
Under the moonlight, groups of Goguryeo slaves waving white flags were slowly walking on the battlefield. They are cleaning the battlefield, but also to see if there are any wounded soldiers who are still alive, and those who are slightly injured are dragged back for help, if they are seriously injured, then they can't escape the fate of being stabbed!
On the four sides of Liaodong, the battlefield is also being cleaned at this time. Because of the existence of a special medical battalion, whether it is a minor injury or a serious injury, all the wounded soldiers who did not die, as long as there is still a breath of air, will be carried back to the medical battalion in the city by the civilians who are responsible for cleaning the battlefield.
The Sui army and the Goguryeo alliance under the moon sรจ, like two fierce beasts fighting for a day, each retreated to their lair at this time, licking their wounds, recuperating and preparing for the next big battle.
Under the moon, Chen Kefu and other Sui generals stood at the head of the city, looking at the city that had been soaked in blood all day.
The results of the first day of siege shocked everyone.
Their predictions were wrong, and the Goguryeo attack was as fierce and swift as it had been shown.
On the first day of arriving at the battlefield, the whole army launched a siege without even a series of battalions.
In particular, the Quartet Allied Army of Goguryeo also moved troops beyond everyone's expectations, and originally thought that in such a war, even if the Murowei family really sent troops, it would not exceed 20,000 troops at most. But in the end, 50,000 people came, and except for the Dongying people, all of them were elite soldiers.
In today's battle, the Murowei and Ji people captured section after section of the city many times.
Chen Kefu originally thought that this battle of Liaodong would be a continuous siege battle.
He thought that the Goguryeo people would send troops to attack the city without interruption, but it was a reasonable and orderly siege, not this kind of swarm of the whole army to attack the city.
It was precisely because he had speculated like that at the beginning, so in the end, he thought that with the sufficient equipment of Liaodong City, as well as so many advanced crossbow arrows and gunpowder, it was enough to cope with the siege of the Liao.
Because of this, he dispatched 20,000 of the most elite cavalry troops out of the city and took the initiative to find fighters.
But as a result, it was precisely because of his miscalculation that Liaodong City was almost lost today. No one thought that the Goguryeo people could kill the old master with their fists, and this kind of disorderly siege with all morale was so brave, especially the allied forces such as Ji and Murowei were so hard-working, and the whole army was dispatched to participate in the siege, which he did not expect. One day of fighting, although in the end the coalition forces were repulsed. It can even be said that it has achieved rich results, winning the banner of the coalition forces in one fell swoop and severely damaging the morale of the coalition forces. And the countless corpses outside the city also showed their huge achievements today.
But Chen Kefu couldn't be happy at all, the casualties were too great. In just one day, more than 30,000 soldiers of the Sui army were killed in battle, and nearly 50,000 people never stood up again. At the last moment, the six thousand four of the most elite ace heavy cavalry who went out of the city were less than 5,000 who could return to Liaodong City alive.
Of the 10,000 light cavalry who went out of the city to meet them, when they returned to the city, there were only 4,000 left.
The two most elite cavalry units lost more than 7,000 casualties at once, and in addition, the more than 10,000 cavalry who participated in the battle in Shangcheng also suffered casualties as high as 30%. In just one day, the 130,000 soldiers and horses in Liaodong City lost more than 40,000.
He couldn't help but doubt himself, maybe he had fought too many victories before, and he had fought with the wind.
Every time I fight, I am dangerous and skillful, but I rarely fight such a tough and vicious battle, and I always think that I really have nothing to miss.
If he hadn't sent out so many cavalry this time, then even if he could have 10,000 more men during the day, he wouldn't have fought so dangerously. He was even thinking that if he hadn't been so reluctant to throw more earth-shattering thunder when the coalition forces hadn't captured the city during the day, the result might have been different.
But there are no ifs and ifs for war, and now everything is over. Liaodong City, shrouded by the whistling north wind, died more than 80,000 people at once, and countless people were injured. The blame rested on his head, and he slapped a few times on the battlements, and the sound echoed far away in the silent night. ,
"Dashuai, you don't have to be like this, today's battle is actually a big victory. With 130,000 recruits who had been trained for less than a month, we defeated the coalition army of hundreds of thousands of people in Goguryeo, and the result was the reincarnation of Sun Wu, and I am afraid that this may not be the case. Li Jie stood behind Chen Kefu and comforted softly.
Today, at the most critical time, Chen Kefu was the commander of the First Army, but he bravely led thousands of people out of the city. It was precisely because he cut down the enemy's banner at the last moment and forced back the enemy's main general that the defenders of Liaodong City were able to win the final victory. Between soldiers, two people who are strangers can also establish a relationship after the war after life and death side by side.
Chen Kefu said with a heavy weight, "You don't need to persuade me, I understand that the biggest responsibility for such heavy casualties today lies with me." I will not run away, I swear, the damage we have suffered today, he will repay the Goguryeo people in the future. โ
Mao Xi looked at Chen Kefu with some displeasure and said, "Not to mention that today we are still the ones who have the last laugh, even if we are defeated today, what about it?" How many real undefeated generals are there in the world? What about Xiang Yu? The overlord of Western Chu is invincible, but what is the result? He wasn't defeated by Liu Bang, who had annihilated the entire army that had made him fight several times! Goujian, the king of Yue, was also defeated, and in the end, he was not lying on his salary to pay for his courage, and finally became the king. What is the loss of money, and then ask the Goguryeo people for it. โ
"Brother-in-law, why don't we go to the Goguryeo people tonight to take revenge? I haven't killed it during the day, so let me take my Modao soldiers to steal the camp at night! Li Xuanba stood behind and proposed.
Laughing and slapping a few punches in his mouth, Chen Kefu said, "Today is a full moon and bright, and it is not a day to steal camps." Moreover, after the war, the Liao people must be very vigilant, besides, after a day of fighting, the brothers are all tired, how can they have the strength to steal the camp. But yours is right, how can you not report back the loss. โ
When he returned to the city, he and the generals went to the wounded barracks to visit those wounded soldiers, and Chen Kefu's heart was even more uncomfortable. At the very least, there will be a few thousand people, who will die if they don't survive these days, and there will be thousands of people who will be disabled in the future, even if they are good, they will all be disabled with missing arms and broken tuว. Not only will these people not be able to return to the army, but even after returning to their hometowns, they will probably not be able to do much work.
"Deputy Marshal, Sima, Li Changshi, I'm going to transfer Lu Shishen and Shen Guang's cavalry back to Liaodong City, what do you think?" As soon as he returned to the camp, Chen Kefu said to Li Benlei and others.
Li Benlei said with some puzzlement: "The war has just passed, and it is unlikely that there will be such a war in the future." At this time, it is useless to transfer them back, not to mention that now the outside is surrounded by Goguryeo people, and the entire Liaodong City has been surrounded into an iron bucket, even if he comes back, he can't enter the city. โ
"My idea is to transfer them back to Liaodong City, but I don't need to let them go back to the city. They only need to keep attacking the Liao people day and night, and we just want to make the Liao people unable to rest in peace. In this way, it will also be able to alleviate some of the pressure in the city.
In addition, the other two cavalry armies, I also married them letters, so that they could immediately retaliate against Goguryeo's counterattack. โ
"This is all something we have planned for a long time, and now the time is ripe for implementation. I think it's better to attack the country and the Black Bone City first, it doesn't matter if you attack it or not, as long as you make enough momentum. deliberately put some messengers to Liaodong, and then Yizhi Wende will definitely divide his troops to rescue. โ
Mao Bo also said, "It's time for those allies of ours to go out and let them attack Murowei and Ji." I believe that in ten or so days at most, they will receive the letter, and the situation will naturally be different at that time. โ
Everyone said a word, I said a word, and after a while, they discussed a lot of plans for the next stage. For the situation in Liaodong City, he was full of confidence. Goguryeo made a surprising first move, and although the Sui army paid a heavy price, it was also resolved. Next, it was their turn to make a move, and the Goguryeo people came to deal with it.
Chen Kefu directly took pen and ink and sent a letter to each of his two cheap old men to let them soldier. He also sent a letter to Hu Hai and Mao Yi, asking them to send troops to attack the domestic city and the black bone city on the bank of the Yalu River. In the end, he wrote a letter to Lu Shishen, asking him to lead his troops back to Liaodong and harass the Goguryeo coalition army.
As soon as the letter was written, a special person in charge of liaison came over and sent the letter through Feiying. In order to prevent the Goguryeo people outside the city from shooting down the flying eagles, they chose to write letters at the time of Yin, and copied five or six letters each, and released dozens of flying eagles at one time. Even if the Liao people really intercept it, it can guarantee that there will be a letter that can be delivered to the generals, and there is no need to worry about the Liao people intercepting the letter.
All the letters are encrypted ciphers, and they can't decipher them even if they intercept them.
When the letter was about to be delivered, Chen Kefu added another order to Hu Hai, asking him to transfer an elite 3,000-strong army and divide his troops to go south and go straight to Pyongyang. Since Goguryeo dared to pour the country to fight at the beginning, then they would inevitably bear the cavalry raids of the Sui army. Perhaps, it is possible that the empty Goguryeo capital was really broken by the Sui army, if so, then the situation will really be good.
: There is another chapter today, asking for all kinds of support! @ใ