Chapter 1831 They have no horses, so what are they afraid of?
In the early morning, the mist has not had time to dissipate.
Li Boming had already put on his armor, and behind him were 70,000 Baekje soldiers following him.
With one hundred thousand troops, they only fought one battle against Yeon Gaesumun's army.
No benefits were gained, but more than 30,000 people were lost.
Now they want to take the lead as a death squad to attack the Tang army.
Li Boming knew that he might never come back this time, but he had no way to change everything before him.
Looking back at the Baekje soldiers behind him again, Li Boming took out the sword from his waist, pointed at Rangcheng on the other side of the river, and shouted loudly: "Come with me!"
Li Boming ordered that the Baekje soldiers boarded the warships built overnight.
Although it is called a warship, it is only about the size of a fishing boat used by people in the Tang Dynasty for fishing.
A dozen Baekje soldiers could barely fit into one ship.
Thousands of small fishing boats carrying 10,000 Baekje soldiers sailed towards Jangseong on the other side.
On the other side of the river, Xu Shiji and ten thousand crossbowmen were already waiting here.
The Baekje army took the lead in attacking the city, which was what they expected.
With Otsuka Yoshio's vicious character, he would never let the Baekje army take advantage.
They will definitely be consumed with the lives of Baekje soldiers.
In Xu Shiji's eyes, the 10,000 Baekje soldiers in front of him were just those who came to die.
Although these people are quite pitiful, Xu Shiji has no mercy.
"Archers, prepare!" Xu Shiji said coldly.
Three thousand archers took two steps forward, bent their bows and nocked arrows, aiming at the densely packed boats on the river.
"Let go!" Xu Shiji waved his hand violently.
"咻咻咻——"
Countless arrows flew towards the boat on the river like a gust of wind and rain.
"ah!"
"I've been hit by an arrow!"
"Hide quickly!"
> "We're going to die!"
The intensity of the arrow rain left many Baekje soldiers with no chance to react.
Moreover, the ship they were traveling on had no defensive measures at all.
Seeing the dense rain of arrows flying towards them, they could only watch helplessly.
A frightened person hid behind his companion and saw his companion being shot through the hedgehog.
Before they could recover, the second round of arrow rain came quickly.
A small boat was so hit by arrows that it was hard to stop. Arrows were nailed everywhere.
Groups of corpses were thrown from the boats into the river.
But after two volleys, the bodies in the river were already floating, and the water downstream turned bright red.
Li Boming stood on the shore and saw that even half of the river had not crossed, and there were only a few people left among the more than 10,000 people. He was so heartbroken that he could not even breathe.
He wanted to go to Otsuka Yoshio to discuss it, but Otsuka Yoshio only told him one thing: if no one can cross the river before noon today, he, Li Boming, will take the lead in the charge.
Li Boming's whole body collapsed on the ground.
He waved to the generals behind him and said, "Let the soldiers continue on. We must cross the river before noon today!"
"Yes!" The general nodded and left with the men and horses behind him.
It was another round of life and death battle. This time the Baekje soldiers tried to fight back with bows and arrows, but it didn't have much effect at all.
They were living targets in the unprotected boat.
Before they could shoot their arrows, arrows from the Tang soldiers on the opposite side fell like raindrops.
But this time it was much closer to the other side of the river than before.
Li Boming felt this was an opportunity, and before all the soldiers in front were dead, he quickly sent out the second
Three waves of soldiers.
Another ten thousand people rushed towards Rangcheng on the other side of the river.
Many soldiers didn't even have boats, so they even thought of swimming across like this.
But before they reached the middle of the river, the rushing water swept them away.
At a glance, the river is full of corpses and people washed away by the river. .??.
The entire river was completely dyed red with blood.
"Commander, brothers, we don't have enough arrows." The archer captain ran to Xu Shiji and talked about the shortage of arrows.
Xu Shiji nodded, there were actually enough bows and arrows in the city.
But not all of them can be used here.
And there is little point in shooting these Baekje soldiers. Their main opponents are Japanese soldiers.
These Baekje soldiers were simply used as cannon fodder and did not have much combat effectiveness at all.
"Let the soldiers retreat to the trenches." Xu Shiji ordered, his eyes falling on the trenches behind him.
He didn't know whether these things could block the sky-blasting cannon in the hands of Japan.
"The other side has withdrawn, rush forward!"
When Yoshio Otsuka saw that the Tang army on the opposite side had evacuated the river bank, he quickly ordered his subordinate Doi En to lead people across the river.
A large number of ships were launched again, much larger than those used by Baekje soldiers before.
The Japanese soldiers were sitting in the boat. There were Baekje soldiers standing in front of them. Regardless of whether they were dead or alive, they all slashed into the depths of the river with their swords to prevent them from blocking the progress of the boat.
After a while, the blood in the river became more and more vivid.
It's as if the water in this river is blood.
The Japanese army crossed the river without any danger and began to gather on the river bank, while the Baekje soldiers who were death squads were squeezed into a corner by them.
Yoshio Otsuka also came by boat.
Looking at the city ahead, Yoshio Otsuka showed excitement on his face.
After crossing the river, he will not worry
Heartbroken.
Now is the time for the sky-blasting cannon in his hand to come into play.
"Madoka Doi, please immediately ask Yamamoto-kun to bring the sky-blasting artillery troops up, and blow up all these Tang people for me." Otsuka Yoshio immediately ordered to Madoka Doi next to him.
"Hai!" Tufeiyuan responded immediately.
Soon, hundreds of Japanese cannon troops came from behind, each of them carrying several cannons on his body.
Obviously Yoshio Otsuka came prepared this time.
"Sir, it seems that a lot of trenches have been dug outside the city." Yamamoto quickly came to report what he had discovered outside the city.
"Dig trenches?" Otsuka Yoshio sneered: "Does he think digging a few trenches can stop us?"
"Blow it up, it's all blown up by me!"
"Hai!"
…
"Is this trench okay? I heard that the Japanese have a lot of sky-blasting cannons."
"It should be no problem. This is the solution that His Highness came up with."
"Oh, I hope it works. The sky-blasting cannon will blow up a large area, and everyone within ten meters will have no chance of living."
"The Japanese army is coming, archers prepare!"
Following the scolding from the archer captain, all the archers stopped talking, all bowed their heads and looked ahead with bows and arrows in hand.
The Japanese army didn't pay much attention to the trenches in front of them.
Well, trenches are not used to block war horses.
They don't have horses, so what are they afraid of?
The sky-blasting artillery troops swaggered towards the trenches in front with their sky-blasting artillery, preparing to blow up all these trenches.
"咻咻咻——"
The Japanese soldiers never imagined that there were countless Tang archers hiding in these trenches.
The arrow rain came as expected, and countless Japanese soldiers were shot through by arrows without even humming.