Chapter eight hundred and fifty-ninth breaking the city, street fighting
It is true that the siege cavalry is not good at it, but now that the city gate is wide open, it is time for the cavalry to perform.
With the sound of the word "kill" representing an attack, the cavalry on the flanks of the army suddenly accelerated. After passing the army, they were the first to rush towards the city.
At the front of the army, the slowest-moving heavy-armored shield bearers also spread out to both sides, and light-armored infantrymen holding spears and knives filed out. While maintaining their formation, they quickly moved towards the city gate.
direction of attack.
Behind them are soldiers holding climbing ladders.
No matter how big a city gate is, it cannot allow 30,000 soldiers to pass through quickly. Instead, it can easily become a huge meat grinding ground, and most of the soldiers from each other will be filled into this bottomless pit.
Therefore, when most of the enemy's attention was attracted by the wide-open city gate, the empty city wall became a very good breakthrough point.
When the first ladder was set up on the city wall and the first Dali soldier climbed onto the city wall, he raised his sword and rushed towards the enemy troops still on the city wall without hesitation.
Prior to this, the enemy troops on the city wall had been delayed by some of the generals who stayed here, making it impossible to release arrows and no manpower to push them up the ladder.
As the first soldier climbed up the city wall, more soldiers followed.
Therefore, after losing their general, the Goguryeo soldiers who were already in some turmoil on the city wall completely collapsed at this moment.
The soldiers did not want to fight. After leaving some to clean the battlefield, most of the soldiers headed towards the stairs where the god general had rushed down.
Compared with the fighting on the city wall, the real battlefield is below.
When the soldiers rushed down, a fierce battle began below.
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After opening the city gate, the several divine generals responsible for opening the door picked up their weapons again and joined the battle to stop the enemy.
And in this process, because the enemy could not interfere with the opening process, a lot of damage was done to the God General who was responsible for blocking it and was forced to eat it with his body.
Therefore, when the general who opened the door participated in the battle, the damage received by all the generals, including Ouyang Xuan, in this short period of time far exceeded the sum of the previous kills.
Several god generals even died as a result.
However, no one took a step back until the city gate was opened.
After the cavalry took the lead and rushed into the city, Ouyang Xuan and others sheathed their swords and temporarily withdrew from the city gate.
They are not choosing to retreat. The real war has only begun now. As divine generals in the army, even if they have been fighting fiercely for a long time, they cannot give up the battle at this time.
They briefly withdrew from the city gate because they had temporarily left their horses outside the city in order to climb the city wall.
After going out and riding their horses, they followed the cavalry and charged into the city again, with abnormal excitement on everyone's face.
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Goguryeo's initial plan was to defend the city and fight, so most of the 40,000 soldiers brought by the general were infantry.
Now that the city gate is wide open and there are no obstacles, cavalry versus infantry is a crushing existence in this cold weapon era.
On the open plains, even if there are several times the number of infantry under the iron hoofs of the cavalry, they are only worth being massacred.
The roads in the city are naturally not as spacious as those on the plains, but their length is absolutely suitable for cavalry charges. Rather, the relatively narrow roads in the city prevent the enemy from taking advantage of their strength.
Therefore, the width of sight, the number of enemy troops the cavalry can face at one time is limited, which also results in the number of enemy troops in the city being dozens or even hundreds of times greater than that of the Dali cavalry, but when it comes to actual fighting, it is no more than
It can be reflected several times.
And how could several times the number of infantrymen stop the Dali cavalry, which even the Turkic cavalry had once been ashamed of?
Not to mention, among the cavalry there were hundreds of divine generals who were not afraid of casualties. After the cavalry, there were a large number of infantry that poured in.
In almost no time, the Goguryeo soldiers, who should have been superior in strength, were forced from the city gate by the Dali army and turned into street fighting.
The alley is narrow and has many corners, making it unsuitable for cavalry operations.
Therefore, the cavalry did not step into the alley, but rode their horses back and forth on the city's avenues, blocking the entrances and exits of the alley. The infantry, under the leadership of the god general again below, stepped into the alley without fear.
They really have no fear.
When the Goguryeo soldiers took advantage of their familiarity with the city gate lanes to prepare for a sneak attack on the Dali soldiers, they were shocked to find after swinging their swords that their swords were blocked when they were still some distance away from the target soldiers.
It's like there is something in the air.
This feeling is almost the same as the feeling they had when they slashed at those divine generals before. The difference is that the intensity of the feeling is a little weaker. The soldiers wielding the sword can feel that they have cut into the layer of air that has become a shield.
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But it's of no use, there's no point if it can't hurt the enemy inside.
To make matters worse, the soldier undoubtedly alerted Dali's soldiers when he brandished his sword, so he and his entire squad were greeted with a merciless counterattack.
After leaving a pile of corpses, the Dali soldiers once again searched for new enemy troops.
Situations like this are common in alleys in the city.
Unable to fight head-on and sneak attacks ineffective, the Goguryeo soldiers soon fell into despair. Under the attack of the Dali army, their morale fell off a cliff.
Morale is gone, and naturally there is no courage to continue fighting.
After killing several deserters, the temporary supreme commander of Goguryeo had to admit that the soldiers under his command no longer had the courage to fight the enemy. Some of the soldiers whose morale had dropped the most had just heard the enemy's words.
The sound made me tremble in fear.
In fact, even he had some heart palpitations.
If it can be said that the more than 200 Dali generals in the past can be explained by using some secret method through overdrafting their bodies and thus possessing special characteristics, then there is no way to explain these tens of thousands of Dali soldiers who are almost unkillable.
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He felt like he was facing soldiers and generals from heaven.
After leaving some more corpses behind, the interim supreme commander finally recognized the reality.
From the moment the city gate was opened, it became a destined fact that the city would be captured by the enemy. Their resistance behind them was just a delay in their failure.
Since the city could no longer be defended, he simply prepared to abandon the city and flee.
Compared with losing a city, if all the troops in the city were buried here, it would be a deep blow to Goguryeo.
This is almost two-thirds of Goguryeo's military strength. Once the entire army is annihilated, it means that there will no longer be the ability to stop the Dali army within the country.