The sound of killings in Baiyan City was so loud that the blood on the female walls condensed into purple-black blood clots. The war lasted less than half an hour, and the Sui army only launched a tentative attack. The Goguryeo soldiers on the city suffered heavy casualties, and mourning was everywhere. .
In particular, Yang Shanhui and Wei Yunqi led two groups of cavalry respectively, which put great pressure on the morale of the Goguryeo army. The Sui army's crossbows dominated the world. Not only did they have a long range, but they were also powerful. Even iron-made black hammer armor and mountain vine armor might not be able to withstand the armor-piercing arrows within a hundred paces, let alone white cloth, soap and arrows. Silk, cloth back, infantry, leather armor, wooden armor, chainmail, vest and other armors; whenever the arrow falls, it has its own gravity, making the arrow more powerful than a flat shot.
Most of the defenders on the city were ordinary people who were driven into the city by Gao Dayang. Their armor was far inferior to that of the soldiers, and they were not trained. When the troops approached on horseback, they often fell into chaos, and the shield formation also appeared. There were gaps one after another. When sharp arrows swooped down from outside the city and fell into the gaps in the shield array, their shield array became a decoration.
The armor-piercing arrows fell down, and the powerful and heavy arrows pierced the simple "armor" of the defenders. The defenders fell to the ground after being hit by arrows, wailing all over the field. Whenever the soldiers of the Sui army stationed their horses outside the city and fired arrows, the defenders on the city fell in pieces with blood splattering like crops destroyed by the storm.
Several rounds of shooting by the Sui army soldiers caused the morale of the defenders on the city to weaken and their morale to be shaken. Many times they would scatter and flee as soon as they saw the Sui army approaching.
It is true that there are still thousands of regular troops in Baiyan City, but most of these soldiers who were defeated from Daliangshui Ferry were deployed by Gao Dayang to face Yang Yichen in the east city. The lack of troops also prevented Gao Dayang from taking care of the other three city gates and the city defenses on the city wall.
The frontal battlefield became the focus of Yang Yichen's attack. Although the offensive launched by the Sui army was killed by the Goguryeo army's crossbows and arrows, rolling logs and rocks, but after a round of probing attacks, he had already seen that Baiyan City's troops were insufficient. , morale is not high, and fighting spirit is not good. Immediately ordered: "Order the siege army to attack again, and order the horse archers to fire arrows from both sides."
As the archers fired arrows from both sides, the siege army advanced faster this time.
Gao Dayang, who was watching the battle from behind, took a breath of air. This time he finally experienced the Sui army's changeable tactics. The Sui army launched an offensive from the siege army to retreating, and now to the fierce attack and the sudden attack of the cavalry. When launched, the army's advance and retreat were far more orderly than their own. Moreover, judging from the clothes and attire of the soldiers of the Sui army, it is clear that they are a foreign army with mixed good and bad. If they were replaced by the elite divisions of the Sui Dynasty, I really don't know how powerful they would be.
Under the powerful bows and fierce attacks of the Sui army, the confidence and will of the general Gao Dayang was still fading, let alone the ordinary soldiers. The earth-shattering slogans they shouted to kill the enemy before also disappeared.
Gao Dayang also knew that morale could almost determine the outcome of a war. Looking at the powerful and unyielding Sui army, and then at the lifeless and frightened soldiers around him, he was anxious, but helpless.
"General, let alone ordinary civilians, even our soldiers are abandoning their armor and scattering." A deputy general came forward with a sword stained with the blood of deserters. He had a bitter look on his face. He looked at Gao Dayang and suggested hurriedly: "Our soldiers don't even have two thousand men. If the enemy doesn't come to attack us in a while, we will collapse. We can't stop the Sui army at all." On the offensive, it’s better to retreat!”
"Get out!" A flash of murderous intent flashed in Gao Dayang's eyes. He punched him suddenly. The deputy general was caught off guard and was hit hard on the chest by Gao Dayang. He staggered on the tall corpse and retreated to the top of the city wall. , his thigh hit the wall, his upper body leaned back, and he screamed and fell towards the outside of the city wall.
The city wall, which was more than two feet high, was not likely to kill anyone. However, the deputy general fell on his head and feet, and the ground was covered with rolling logs and rocks. The moment he landed, his helmeted head got stuck in the gaps between the rolling logs and rocks. In the middle, when his body fell sideways to the ground, his neck was immediately twisted, and the screams suddenly stopped.
Gao Dayang on the city didn't care about the life and death of the deputy general at all. He knocked him down from the city, glanced at the surrounding soldiers and generals with a murderous look on his face, and said in a serious tone: "Anyone who dares to surrender will never waver again." Those with military integrity will be killed without mercy!"
"Here!" The surrounding soldiers suddenly fell silent, but the already low morale was mixed with a different flavor.
Facing the different eyes, Gao Dayang suddenly felt something colder than ice and snow in this not-so-cold summer morning.
Opposite in the front line of the Sui army, I suddenly saw a general wearing Mingguang armor falling for no apparent reason. He turned to look at Yang Yichen with some confusion and asked: "Manager Yang, can even the arrows break through the Mingguang armor?" "
"It's broken, but this general didn't hit the arrow." Yang Yichen is a master and master of arrows. His eyesight is amazing. When the general fell into the city, he could see that the opponent didn't hit the arrow. He turned around to look. Standing at the top of the city, he said with a sneer: "The enemy's morale has been shaken, and there should be internal strife. This is a God-given opportunity to break the city, so increase the intensity of the attack immediately!"
Sumo Mohe soldiers were the main attackers in this siege, but because the orders were not unified with the Sui army, Yang Yichen transferred Tudiji to his side to deliver the order. After Tudiji heard what Yang Yichen said, he was overjoyed and gave the order: "Blow the trumpet and let the warriors attack with all their strength."
"Woooooooo!" The horn sounded even more urgently.
The Sumo Mohe soldiers fighting in the front heard the desolate and urgent order and understood that the enemy's army could no longer hold up. The general conveyed the order for the general attack to themselves, and they shouted "Aoao" in high spirits and pushed the ladder truck and the jinglan vehicle towards the enemy. Go ahead and kill.
"The Sui army has launched a general attack. Shoot your arrows. Let me kill the enemy with your arrows!" Gao Dayang's face changed horribly when he saw the enemy's momentum surge. The previous charge caused them heavy losses. If it were not for the strength of the city wall, Baiyan City would have been breached long ago. If the opponent's siege team was allowed to approach at this time, the city would definitely be breached.
Although he knew he couldn't hold it anymore, he was Gao Yuan's younger brother and the king of Goguryeo after all. He understood the importance of this city to Liaodong City, so he knew it was unbeatable and couldn't hold it, but in order to win for Gao Yuan Even if it takes a little time, we must hold on desperately.
Under the order, sparse arrows fell from the top of the city towards the Sui army, but they were unable to cause much damage to the large number of soldiers.
The more than a thousand soldiers rushing forward raised their large shields, and only heard a dense sound of "fighting, fighting, fighting", and the arrows were unable to cause any casualties to them. Gao Dayang clearly felt that the already low morale of the surrounding soldiers had dropped sharply again because the arrows could not hurt this army.
"The cavalry archers rush forward to cover the forward general. Kill!" Yang Yichen raised his horse and shouted sternly.
"Kill!" The archers on both sides were also Sumo Mohe warriors. Encouraged by the sound of the horn, and seeing that the warriors in the middle were indestructible, they let out a roar that shook the world. They stepped forward one by one and fired arrows at the defenders on the city. .
The Goguryeo soldiers on the female wall could take care of the horse archers below, but they could not help the siege team. They saw the ladder truck parked not far outside the city, and the lowered suspension bridge was built on the battlements. The enemy soldiers on the Jinglan and Chao vehicles even used repeating crossbows. He couldn't help but let out a desperate roar.
When the elite soldiers outside the city saw that the suspension bridge above their heads had been erected on the city, they all abandoned their shields and rushed up the ladder inside the ladder truck. A soldier stepped onto the suspension bridge from the car and stabbed him with a spear from a high position. Goguryeo soldiers on the city.
The Goguryeo soldier then raised his knife to slash at the suspension bridge and firmly grasped the battlement grappling hook. He was stabbed in the face with a spear and fell backwards screaming. Another soldier held a knife in one hand and a small buckler in the other. After stabbing the enemy to death in Paoze, he jumped into the city fiercely, used his shield to deflect the spear that was stabbing him, and chopped off the enemy's head with one knife. He slashed down, and just as he was slashing at another man with his sword, several spears pierced his body.
His eyes bulged, and he rushed forward with all his courage, letting the spear come out from his body, and the knife in his hand suddenly swung sideways, and the heads of the two enemy soldiers flew into the sky along with two pillars of blood.
The soldiers on the suspension bridge also bought time and space because of his life. They seized the opportunity and jumped down one after another to fight with Goguryeo.
Such a scene is also happening in front of other ladder trucks. And the fierce hand-to-hand combat between the two armies also started on the ladder truck suspension bridge.
"Death!" Gao Dayang saw the enemy soldiers easily ascending to the top of the city. He roared and stabbed one enemy soldier to death with a spear. After pulling it out, he stabbed another to death.
Just when he was about to assassinate the third person, he heard a "pop" sound and a bloody blade emerged from his chest.
At this moment, time seemed to have stopped. He looked at the blood beads on the blade, then looked back, and saw the ferocious face of a general. The general's face twitched a few times, and he pulled the knife back fiercely.
"Puff puff~" With the continuous sounds of sharp blades entering flesh, Gao Dayang's body twitched violently, his angry eyes seemed to pop out of his sockets, and blood overflowed from his mouth, and he stared at the Sui army in front of him unwillingly. A spear that penetrates the body.
"Let's go, it's too late to leave!" Gao Dayang's generals knew that the city could not be defended and they had to leave as soon as possible; at this time, the Sui Army soldiers were even more furious. For their own safety and to allow more people to rush forward, they would kill anyone they saw wearing different clothes. Regardless of whether our soldiers surrender or not, the other side will kill them all.
Therefore, surrendering during the melee was actually the stupidest move in the world. However, he was worried that he could not escape alone, so he stabbed Gao Dayang, the general who had decided to live and die with him. As long as Gao Dayang died, those who were intimidated by his authority would They will run away together. Seeing more and more enemy soldiers on the city, he led his own soldiers to kill in the direction of the horse wall.
The others had long wanted to run away, but they were afraid of Gao Dayang and were feeling uneasy. When they saw this general killing Gao Dayang, their fear of authority was instantly wiped away, and they followed the general to clear a bloody path. Withdrew from the city gate.
Baiyan City lost the garrison of these generals and soldiers, and the city fell quickly. The Goguryeo military flags on the four flagpoles were taken down by the soldiers and replaced by the red flag of the Sui Dynasty.
"General Manager Yang!" The "executive commander" of this battle suddenly heard from his generals that the general situation in the city had been decided, and when he saw the city gate opened, he recounted the results of the battle to Yang Yichen: "Baiyan Guard Gao Dayang has died in the battle, and all the soldiers and civilians in the city have been killed." They all surrendered."
Yang Yichen showed a smile on his face and nodded: "General Tudi fought very well in this battle! I will ask the king for credit for the general."
"Thank you, Manager Yang." Tu Diji cupped his fists and thanked him.
Yang Yichen looked at the flying flags of Liexun and told Yang Shanhui who was coming to meet him: "Yang Changshi, this city already belongs to me, the Sui Dynasty, and the people in it are also my people, the Sui Dynasty. You immediately send people into the city to calm the people; Neither the surrendered troops nor our soldiers are allowed to disturb the people in the city, but those who harass the people or take advantage of the chaos to commit crimes will be killed without mercy!"
The Mohe and Xi tribesmen are very wild, and coupled with their fighting habits, once they enter the city in large numbers, they will surely plunder the city and kill all the people in the city. Compared with killing prisoners, massacring a city is more criticized and more likely to arouse the determination of enemy soldiers and civilians to defend.
Compared with the Mohe and Xi tribesmen, although the Liangzhou army was more warlike, better at killing, and better at killing during the battle, and behaved more like a foreign race than a foreign race, every soldier could strictly abide by the rules and military laws. , as long as the military order is issued, the soldiers will not kill and loot indiscriminately.
In order to avoid the massacre of the city, which would then affect the subsequent war, Yang Yichen handed over the entry into the city to Yang Shanhui's "honest" Liangzhou army.
"I will obey your orders!" Yang Shanhui responded and left.
Yang Yichen then ordered to the commander of his own soldiers: "Send someone to send a message to the king, saying that Baiyan has been recovered by our army, and Goguryeo's so-called Daliang Water Defense Line no longer exists. At the same time, he told Wang Xingben to lead the main force to capture it. Xiabao City, which is depleted of troops, only needs to leave a few troops to guard the pontoon bridge at the ferry. In addition, send people to send good news to Shanshu City. Please ask the general manager to lead the army across Daliang River and occupy Prince City and Xiago City."
"I humbly obey my orders!" Upon hearing the order, the commander of the soldiers immediately went down to make arrangements.
After arranging these two things, Yang Yichen thought for a moment, looked at Wei Yunqi, nodded and said: "Wei Yunqi."
"The general is here!" Wei Yunqi responded with clasped fists on horseback.
"Hengshan City is located more than sixty miles southwest of Baiyan City, and about two hundred miles away from Liaodong City in the northwest. More importantly, its southwest is Gaimu City and Anshi City. It is also the logistics center of Liaodong City. As long as I If the army can capture this city, the strategic depth of Liaodong City will be reduced by more than two hundred miles. The Goguryeo army led by Gao Yuan will also be suppressed by our army to the south of Daliang River and east of Liao River. Tongjin also Can establish contact with King Teng." After briefly introducing the strategic position of this city, Yang Yichen then said to Wei Yunqi: "You and General Chu and Luo led 5,000 Liangzhou troops and 10,000 Xi tribe soldiers to win this battle. And keep it to me."
"General, I obey!" Wei Yunqi hesitated for a while and asked: "General Manager Yang, according to Jiang Bing, there are only three thousand soldiers stationed in Hengshan, and it is not a fortified city. General Chu and General Chuhe's 10,000 soldiers are stationed in Hengshan." Five thousand soldiers can naturally capture it easily, but Baiyan City is also a strategic location, are there too few defenders?"
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter!" Yang Yichen said with a smile: "The Goguryeo monarchs and the soldiers and civilians of Liaodong City may have been shocked because of the breach of the Daliang Water Defense Line. Even if Gao Yuan and Yuan Ziyou had plans to send troops to help, the fall of Baiyan City would definitely make it more difficult. They redeployed, and their troops couldn't react that quickly."
"What's more, the king and General Xue Shixiong must have made great achievements at this time. As long as they destroy the monk Luo, they will definitely gather here."
Wei Yunqi was right. The Sui army had passed the most dangerous critical period and now had the upper hand in all aspects. As soon as Li Jing and others' troops arrived, they could launch a fierce offensive against Liaodong City.
He immediately saluted Yang Yichen and said, "Then General Chu and General will go and prepare."
Yang Yichen nodded and ordered: "Without further delay, you two will lead south immediately and conquer Hengshan City with thunderous momentum."
"Here!" Wei Yunqi, Chu and Luo saluted and left.
