Li Chengshi pointed his sword, waved his flag, and the attack began.
"emission!"
Following the command from the commander.
One hundred ignited arrows were fired at the suspension bridge. In a series of sudden explosions, the suspension bridge was blown to pieces and two iron chains flew high into the sky.
Before the soldiers on the city could react, a second batch of arrows and thunderbolts were launched at the same time. The dense arrows and thunderbolts were fired at the city gate. In an explosion of fireworks and thunder, the city gate was blown to pieces.
The soldiers on the top of the city were frightened. Everyone was so frightened that they lay on the top of the city and did not dare to move.
The commander-in-chief Zheng Qingxuan's heart sank into the abyss. He knew that this battle would be a disaster. Zheng Qingxuan also understood the Tang army's intention and shouted: "All the troops are going down! All the troops are going down!"
The soldiers at the top of the city were so panicked that they threw themselves down the city.
At this time, the smoke from the city gate dispersed, and the third batch of arrows and mines was launched. The third batch of arrows and mines was to repair the missing parts of the city gate. With the explosion of the third batch of arrows and mines, it was already in pieces.
The city gate was blown clean.
"Kill!"
General Li Chengshi shouted, and 30,000 troops rushed into the city. Three bridges had been built, and the soldiers rushed across the bridges and rushed into the city.
There was a fierce battle with the Silla soldiers who had just rushed down the city.
There were shouts of killing at the city gate, and 20,000 Silla soldiers occupied 13 important strongholds and resisted the Tang army.
One of the largest strongholds is the Hanzhou Dudu Mansion, a building complex covering an area of 300 acres built by the Tang army in the sixth year of Xianqing. It was renovated during the Tianbao period.
At present, the Hanzhou Dudufu is the third largest building complex after Silla Palace and Baekje Palace. The Dudufu is located in the north of the city. A small river flows around the palace. The Tang army relied on this river to build the Dudufu. It was built with large bluestones.
The wall and the suspension bridge are tall and strong. It is completely a city within a city.
It was also because of this city within a city covering an area of 300 acres and the 4,000 troops gathered that the commander-in-chief Zheng Qingxuan had some luck with street fighting.
But he had never fought against the Tang Army, and he didn't know that the Tang Army had countless deadly weapons for street fighting.
The number one weapon in street fighting is the explosive arrow. A single explosive arrow can cause a wall to collapse, causing the entire house to collapse.
The second most lethal weapon in street fighting is fire, especially when dealing with dense buildings like the Hanjiang Governor's Mansion, the Tang army would not fight head-on.
With an order, two thousand gunpowder arrows were shot into the Governor's Mansion. Fires broke out everywhere in the Governor's Mansion. Then hundreds of small trebuchets threw pyrotechnics cans into the Governor's Mansion from all directions. After three rounds of hurling fire oil cans, the entire Governor's Mansion was in a panic.
A fire broke out in the mansion, and thick smoke filled the sky north of the city.
Countless Silla soldiers cried and jumped down the small moat to escape, but they were all shot and killed mercilessly in the small river by Tang army soldiers. The fire in the governor's mansion became stronger and stronger, and finally the entire governor was engulfed.
At this time, fires broke out everywhere in Hanzhou City. The Tang army used fire attacks to deal with the entrenched soldiers. Except for the warehouse, the other twelve entrenched points were engulfed in flames.
The people in the city also suffered the same disaster. Brutal street fighting did not distinguish between soldiers or civilians. Both sides were so jealous that they would instinctively kill each other if they saw that they were not their own.
Women and children fare better, but men are almost always killed.
This brutal street fighting lasted until the second watch and was basically over. All that was left was to clean up and kill. By the fourth watch, all the fighting was over. Twenty thousand Silla soldiers were killed, but the Tang army also paid two thousand casualties.
The price of the rest.
As the sky gradually dawned, the Tang army began to drive away from house to house. Each household was only allowed to carry two packages. All the people were driven out of the city. There were loud cries, fear, family members being killed in street fighting, and worries about the future.
Fear almost made everyone collapse.
But the Tang army was not the Japanese army of the Balhae Kingdom. The Tang army did not kill civilians, nor did they plunder ordinary people's property, but the nobility could not be protected. In fact, the houses of the three nobles in Hanzhou City had been looted by the Silla army in advance.
, became one of the thirteen strongholds occupied by the Silla army, and was eventually destroyed by fire. The wealth looted by the Silla army eventually fell into the hands of the Tang army.
Instead of attacking the warehouse with fire, they used explosive arrows to blow down the wall. The Tang army swarmed in and fought with more than a thousand Silla soldiers guarding the warehouse. Finally, more than 1,300 Silla soldiers were killed.
Annihilate them all.
Hanzhou City is mainly the granary of Silla. It stores the largest amount of grain in Silla, with as much as 600,000 stone.
Tens of thousands of Silla people are sitting in the wilderness. There are not many young and strong men. Basically, they are old, weak, women and children. In recent years, there have been many rebellions and civil wars in Silla, as well as the great uprising of the Baekje people, the major nobles, and the major forces.
Due to the continuous conscription, young and strong men were either captured by the conscripts or massacred in the uprising. In addition, the Tang army's total annihilation campaign without leaving prisoners of war, the young and strong men of Silla were almost exhausted.
At this time, the fear in the hearts of tens of thousands of old, weak, women and children had subsided a lot, and the Tang army began to distribute steamed buns, one to each person, which meant that the Tang army would not kill them.
Several soldiers of the Tang Army who could speak Silla repeatedly shouted: "Don't be afraid, everyone. The Tang Army does not harm civilians. The corpses in the city need to be removed, otherwise there will be an outbreak of plague."
By noon, all the corpses had been transported out of the city, and the people were allowed to return to the city. Everyone was relieved, supported each other, and stumbled back home.
The county magistrate who took over Hanzhou City was named Wang Yihou. He was from Texas and was born as a Jinshi. He was originally the chief registrar of Chuqiu County and performed well. He was selected by the Ministry of Civil Affairs to come to Silla and serve as the magistrate of Hanzhou County. There are also other county magistrates. They will
Responsible for educating the people and turning them into disciples of the Tang Dynasty.
Two days later, Li Chengshi received a military order from Ma Lin. He did not need to come to Jincheng to join forces. Ma Lin ordered him to go directly south and capture Xiongzhou.
Li Chengshi immediately left three thousand troops to defend the city, and he led 25,000 troops to go south by boat, and the fleet sailed towards Xiongzhou.
Ungju was the original capital of Baekje. It was originally pretty good. However, due to Silla's brutal oppression of the Baekje people, the Baekje people uprising last year. Kim Jung-ji led an army to defeat the rebels, and then began a massacre of Baekje men.
About 300,000 Baekje men died in the massacre.
At this time, Xiongzhou was desolate and desolate. There were only 10,000 Silla soldiers guarding Xiongzhou City. For the 25,000 Tang troops, it was easy to capture Xiongzhou.
The 30,000 Liaodong Army in the north, led by Nan Jiyun, crossed the Yalu River and immediately burned Wugu City. Half of the 10,000 Silla defenders were burned to death. The other half escaped from the city, but were surrounded and annihilated by 20,000 cavalry.
The whole army was destroyed.
The 30,000 Tang troops continued to move south and marched towards Pyongyang City, an important northern town of Silla. There were also 10,000 Silla troops in Pyongyang City, but the 10,000 troops were completely insufficient to counter the sharp attack of the 30,000 Tang troops.
The really tough nut to crack is the decisive battle between Jinju, the capital of Silla.
Ma Lin personally led 30,000 Tang troops against the 30,000 Silla troops defending the capital.
At this time, Jin Zhenzhi, the special envoy to the Tang Dynasty, was still on his way back. He had just arrived in Luoyang. It is estimated that before he arrived in Dengzhou, Silla had become a piece of cake on the chopping board.
