Chapter 160: Defeated before the battle
On the right bank of Tongjiang River, the Goryeo Camp. Park Hyo-sung already knew that Kaijing had sent reinforcements, but the Mongolians were faster. The newly arrived Mongolian army had already settled in Pyongyang City on the other side. He had to ask someone to strengthen patrol the river bank and prohibit sailboats from entering the water. At the same time, he also asked someone to pack up the gold, silver and fine materials he had collected here and send his money back to Kaijing first.
Once you are defeated, this money will be your own life-threatening money.
With this idea in mind, a personal soldier ran in and said, and another letter was sent on the other side.
"Ah?" Park Hyo-sung was both surprised and scared. He was really scared of the Mongolian movements now. When he closed his eyes, he thought of the scene of the Mongolians suddenly crossing the river.
"You-you read it!" He himself didn't want to read the contents of the letter, so he asked the soldiers who sent the letter to read it out on their own initiative.
When the other party got the order, he did not doubt that he was there, so he read it to Park Hyo-sung on the spot.
"It's unreasonable! It's unreasonable!" Park Hyo-sung was so reluctant to learn that he was invited to accompany the banquet. However, he could not refuse openly, so he ordered people to pick out ten women who were still pretty and look good from his room, as well as a large number of gold, silk and other items, and send them to the other side.
As for the reason why I couldn't attend the banquet, I said that I had a cold and would visit me again next day.
Soon, the personal soldiers who sent the letter returned from the other side. Park Hyo-sung was a little worried about whether the Mongolians would react fiercely, while the personal soldiers said that the Mongolians asked them to take good care of their illness and would come to visit them later.
Hearing this, Park Hyo-sung felt that this time was spent in Ansheng.
Until the evening, he was sleeping soundly and suddenly woke up from his dream. Because he had a terrible nightmare, that was, Mongolians were calling him. There were shouts of killing everywhere, and he was also chopped off his head by the Mongolians.
Because he was too frightened, his whole body was soaked with sweat.
It was at this moment that the noise outside became louder and louder. I was wondering if I was still in my dream, the door was pushed open by my personal soldiers and shouted in a bitter voice: "General is not good, the Mongols are calling!"
Park Hyo-sung then got out of bed barefoot. Without saying a word, he first slapped the personal soldier who reported the news. When he felt the soreness and numbness of his palm, he believed that he was not in a dream. He immediately said, "What's going on? Why did the Mongolian suddenly call him?"
"Little - the little man didn't know! It just happened that the granary suddenly caught fire in the middle of the night, and spies were causing trouble in the camp. At the same time, the Mongolians began to knock on the camp, and the soldiers could hardly stop it."
"What are you waiting for? Let's go! Let's go!" Park Hyo-sung immediately led his personal soldiers to escape without any hesitation.
Outside the Goryeo military camp, the camp was actually just a small group of Mongolians. The real Mongolian main force was still preparing to cross the river on the other side of the river. However, because the Goryeo was usually extremely afraid of the Mongolians, and there were Mongolian spies installed in the camp setting fire to the granary and causing constant turmoil in the camp.
I heard the sound of a loud bang, which was the ultimate bloom of the fire in the darkness.
Rubua was outside the camp watching the soldiers and horses below knocking on the camp in a tight manner, and was still thinking in his heart when the main force could completely cross the river. Unexpectedly, the soldiers who had been blocking the camp gate suddenly ran away. Rubua asked the soldiers below to try it and easily pushed the camp gate open.
"Not good! The Mongols are in!" The unhappy Goryeo soldiers who were injured and fleeing immediately shouted when they saw the camp gate being opened.
This suddenly aggravated the collapse of the entire army. In Rubua's eyes, they saw fleeing Goryeo soldiers everywhere. They cried and shouted at their parents, and often ran and bumped into each other.
Some even ran towards the Mongolian camp where Rubua was located. Without saying a word, a few arrows shot at him and suddenly shot several deserters to death on the spot.
After an hour, the entire Goryeo military camp had been taken down by Rubua. More than 3,000 were captured and more than 100 died. The rest escaped while the night was sunken. All of them, including Park Hyo-sung, the chief general of Goryeo, escaped without a trace.
After reporting the news from this place to A Danghan, A Danghan was also very surprised. He did not expect that the Goryeo would collapse by himself.
That's good! The threats on the other side of the river were cut off, and the army would have no worries when crossing the river. By the dawn the next day, A Danghan's 20,000 troops had already crossed the river.
After a fire and resting for an hour and a half, the Eastern Mongolian army advanced again. Because of Rubu's voluntary request, A Danghan agreed to his border army as the frontier. In this Goryeo land, the border army actually broke into pieces many times and sneaked into Goryeo.
In terms of terrain, the border troops are indeed much more familiar than the Southern Army that came from afar.
Goryeo, Huangzhou. This place is more than 20 miles away from Pyongyang, and is one of the closest cities in Goryeo to Pyongyang. After the Mongols occupied the right bank of Tongjiang, Huangzhou City was reinforced by the Goryeo. In order to use this city to block the footsteps of the Mongols after crossing the river.
But at present, this is destined to be the wishful thinking of the Goryeo people. Because the army ahead collapsed too quickly, when the Mongolian army arrived, the defenders in the city were still in a hurry to strengthen the fortifications in the city.
"This Huangzhou city is two meters high, so you can only use coffin thunder!" The coffin thunder is filled with a coffin with a large amount of gunpowder, which has a sufficient explosion effect. Therefore, it performed well in the siege of the Dazhen Kingdom before, so the soldiers in the army named the "coffin thunder".
Rubua looked at the closed city gate in front of him, thinking that he could only use this trick. However, he rashly carried the coffin under the city gate, but many people were killed and injured. Then he said, "Send someone to the rear to borrow some prisoners. If they block the arrows for us, they can get close to the city gate."
There is no policy of preferential treatment for prisoners in this era! On the battlefield, prisoners are the first cannon fodder to be consumed. It is just right now, so naturally they won’t pity their lives.
In the city, Goryeo's guards were a little nervous. However, as soon as Park Hyo-sung, who escaped from the front line, entered the city, he wanted to seize the military power of the guard Ji Liuyuan. If Park Hyo-sung was not defeated, Chi Liuyuan would really listen to him.
But now Park Hyo-sung lost 6,000 people and fled back to the city with only about 1,000 defeated soldiers. After all, there were two thousand people under him. If the Mongols had not come too quickly, perhaps the two of them would have fought themselves.
At that moment, Park Hyo-sung took the initiative to make a step back and gave up the power of the chief general for the time being. However, Chi Liu-won wanted to let the soldiers under him stand on the top of the city, which made him very dissatisfied.
Chapter completed!