AD 347, the third year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Huan Wen led a large army to attack Shu and approached Chengdu with a strong army that had won three battles and three victories.
Unexpectedly, when fighting with the defenders outside the city, the Jin army's forward suffered a defeat. Huan Wen deliberately retreated from the enemy's edge.
However, the drummer who conveyed the order mistakenly beat the gold-minging order that was supposed to be a retreat into a drum sound for the entire army to advance.
For a moment, the Jin army on the front thought that they had achieved a breakthrough victory somewhere, and their morale was greatly boosted. They actually turned defeat into victory, completely crushing the last stubborn resistance of the Cheng Han Li family.
A victory is that simple.
When Liu Yu, who was taking command on the battlefield, was observing the battle situation, he suddenly remembered this story and made use of it immediately.
In fact, when the Baekje attacked with more than twice the force and could not advance even half a step, the Dongnae Army was already in an invincible position.
After all, apart from their numerical advantage, the Baekje tribe's tribal army was inferior to the Dongnae Army in terms of other weapons, armor, and training.
When it was discovered that the Baekje people really had intentions, they surrounded them from both sides.
Liu Yu sent Dong Ping to personally lead 500 Donglai veterans to form a reserve force to proactively attack the Baekje left army.
At the same time, all the prisoners who were intended to be used as cannon fodder to delay the enemy on the flanks were brought near the battle line, and they were asked to confuse and disrupt the enemy's morale by shouting news of the Baekje's defeat in words that the Baekje people could understand.
The marching drum that followed caused the Dongnae Army to launch a thunderous blow, completely defeating the Baekje center. The Baekje plan to outflank the two wings naturally went bankrupt.
The two thousand people of the Baekje left army faintly heard the cry of failure of the Baekje army in the middle. Under the active surprise attack of the 500 Dongrae army, they barely resisted for a moment before being completely defeated and fled. Even the general was defeated by Dongnae. He was killed on the spot.
By the time Liu Yu arrived with a thousand Dongrai troops, Baekje's right army had been blocked in a valley.
At first, the nearly 2,000-strong Baekje Army refused to surrender and even launched a charge towards the Dongnae Army.
Liu Yu led his army to supervise the battle, using Baekje prisoners as the front army to contain them, while the Donglai army attacked from both sides.
But a quarter of an hour later, the Baekje army surrendered after hundreds of casualties.
For the Baekje people who fled, the Dongnae Army pursued them for five miles before withdrawing.
Almost all the 10,000-strong army led by King Biliu was destroyed. More than 4,000 people were killed and 3,000 were captured. However, King Biliu only escaped with less than 1,000 people.
The next day came, September 26th.
Liu Yu led his army along the river and arrived at Puyu City. Puyu City was seriously damaged in the defeat of the Yan family the day before, and the walls of this city were only a pitiful one foot high. Puyu City It did not hold out for even a day before it was breached. The city lord Yan Yigui was captured, and all the men and women in Puyu City were captured. The Donglai army plundered Puyu City and several miles around it.
September 28th.
The Dongrae Army arrived at Weirye Fortress, the capital of the Baekje Kingdom. At this time, King Biryu, who had fled back to the city, had already rushed all the men and women who could be mobilized in Weirye City to the castle walls to defend the city.
Liu Yu appointed all the previous captives of the Mahan people as officers to lead the 8,000 Baekje people captured along the way, and organized them into an army, named the "Mahan Signing Army". He also did not issue weapons, but only gave them to each person. A stick was used to drive the siege with armored soldiers, which consumed the defenders' bows and arrows and physical strength. More than a thousand soldiers were killed or injured in one day.
On September 29, thousands of Baekje troops appeared on the north bank of the Daesui River. The defenders of Weirye Fortress on the south bank of the Daesui River cheered when they saw reinforcements. However, these reinforcements from the north bank had to cross the river twice after trying to cross the river. Defeated by the Dongnae navy, the Daisu River became an insurmountable obstacle for the Baekje people.
On the same day, the signing army failed to attack the city again, killing and wounding more than 800 people.
In the early morning of September 30th, 500 elite Dongnae troops crossed the river by boat and attacked the Baekje people on the north bank. Hundreds of Baekje people were killed, and the rest fled in panic.
Ten deserters from the Lotus Army were killed, and then the Lotus Army attacked the city again, killing more than 500 people.
On the first day of October, the Donglai Army built more than a dozen huge catapults and began to throw boulders and burning objects towards Weili City, igniting a large number of houses in the city.
King Biliu sent an envoy to sue for peace and begged Liu Yu to withdraw his troops.
Liu Yu demanded that King Biliu hand over all the food, young women and Jin slaves in the city before he would retreat.
King Biliu was extremely angry. Not only did he not agree to Liu Yu's conditions, but he took all the hundreds of Jin slaves in Weili City to the top of the city, beheaded them all in the direction of the Donglai Army camp, and then threw their headless corpses into the city. Under the city.
When the Donglai army witnessed this scene, they were all furious. The catapults were launched from day to night until midnight, and all the houses near the west side of Weili City were destroyed.
The second day of October.
The scouts reported that 3,000 Baekje reinforcements appeared in the south of Weili City. Liu Yu led his elite to ambush them. Only a few hundred of the 3,000 reinforcements escaped.
The third day of October.
The walls of Weili City collapsed in several places due to trebuchet bombardment.
Liu Yu led the Donglai Army and the Signing Army to launch the final attack.
After half a day of fighting, all the Baekje defenders were killed or injured. King Peleyu of Baekje only tried to escape and did not even set fire to the palace and warehouses. After King Peleyu escaped from the east gate, thousands of men and women from the royal family and thousands of slaves were left in the city. Everyone was killed or captured.
Liu Yu ordered that the Donglai army and the signing army could plunder as much as they wanted inside and outside Weili City for three days.
On the seventh day of October, the first snow fell.
Liu Yu began to lead his army to retreat by boat down the river.
The Donglai army captured a large amount of grain, livestock and slaves and transported them three times by ship before they were all transported to Bojang Island for temporary storage.
It was almost mid-October when all the captured grain and Baekje men and women were transported back to Dongnae County.
The remaining more than 4,000 horses and Han signed troops and some livestock were all given to Zhang Tong, the governor of Daifang County, by Liu Yu nearby due to insufficient shipping capacity and the heavy snowfall in winter.
Governor Zhang almost went crazy with joy at the windfall. You must know that there are too few Jin people in Daifang and Lelang counties, resulting in a serious shortage of troops and labor. Now with more than 4,000 young men, cattle and horses, it can be greatly improved. The strength to fight against Goguryeo in the coming year.
As for whether the Baekje people will retaliate after next spring, Governor Zhang is not worried at all. The Baekje people were defeated in three battles, losing tens of thousands of people, and even the capital was looted by the Dongnae army. I am afraid that next year alone, the southern Mahan If the people's commotion cannot be suppressed, how can they still attack Daifang and Lelang counties?
Zhang Tong couldn't help but be very grateful to Liu Yu, the governor of Donglai. In this way, the people of the two isolated counties could have one less threat and could free up more strength to resist the encroachment of the Goguryeo people.
Otherwise, Zhang Tong could only go to Liaodong Murong Xianbei for help, but that would probably just lure the tiger and drive away the wolf.
