Although they are ready to retreat, they cannot be seen by the Dali army, otherwise it will be difficult to retreat.
After the interim supreme commander of Goguryeo made his decision, he once again sent several teams of elite soldiers to harass the enemy and attract their attention, while he led the remaining troops towards another city gate.
This is the city gate facing the inner territory of Goguryeo. Due to the favorable geographical location, it is impossible for the prince of Dali to send troops to attack the city gate here, so this is the best and only option for retreat.
Because the city here only has two gates, front and back.
However, one thing he didn't expect was.
When he led his army to start a street battle with the Dali soldiers, Dali's cavalry had already followed the official road in the city and quickly occupied the city gate here.
Therefore, when he led the rest of the army to appear at the city gate, what he saw was the Dali cavalry waiting in full formation.
"kill!"
The cavalry who had been preparing for the attack saw the enemy appear and without any hesitation, they grasped their weapons and rode their horses to charge towards them.
When entering the alleyway, the temporary supreme commander of Goguryeo had abandoned all the war horses that would affect the movement for safety reasons, so the remaining troops at this moment were all infantry.
Therefore, facing a new round of attacks by the Dali cavalry, they had almost no power to resist.
After being charged back and forth several times by the Dali cavalry, the temporary commander had no choice but to lead the remaining troops once again to retreat into the narrow alley.
Dali's cavalry did not pursue them, as if they had nothing to do with them once they entered the alley.
And soon, they knew the reason why the Dali cavalry did not pursue them.
During the cavalry charge just now, the Dali infantry who noticed the fighting had quietly surrounded them.
The Goguryeo soldiers had been frightened by the uniqueness of the Dali infantry that was almost difficult to kill. They dared not fight them again, so they relied on their familiarity with the alleyways to leave some people behind and chose to escape again.
Everyone knew that this was just poison to quench their thirst. They were trapped in the city and would eventually fall into the hands of the enemy. However, their desire to survive still made them escape again and again, delaying the arrival of the last moment.
What they don't know is that this is what the Dali side wants to see.
The soldiers of Dali connected their own qi machines through the formation, thus replenishing the qi and blood of the generals and forming a protective sheath similar to a shield on their outer layer.
But this layer of protective shield is an accessory product after all, and its protective ability for soldiers is not as magical as the Goguryeo soldiers thought.
In fact, if they are willing to send more people and attack for a longer time, they will find that this shield will be easily broken, and before a new shield is formed, they only need to break up their formation.
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Even divine generals can die under their siege. How can soldiers who are positioned as logistics have invincible defensive power?
It is a pity that the brave Goguryeo soldiers did not know all this.
The Dali soldiers also took advantage of this to reduce the number of enemy troops bit by bit.
Otherwise, no matter how complicated the lanes in the city are, and no matter how familiar the Goguryeo soldiers are with the terrain, they will not be lucky enough to have an escape route every time they are found.
That was left out intentionally.
Surrounded by three and one missing, as long as there is room for moving around, Goguryeo soldiers will not choose to break the jars, otherwise the mourning troops will only increase the losses of the far away side.
Since victory has become a foregone conclusion, what they have to do now is to reduce the losses of the army.
And by the time the temporary supreme commander of Goguryeo reacted, it was already too late.
But in fact, it would be useless for him to react earlier. If he forced all the soldiers to die with him while there was still a way to escape, mutiny would be the only thing waiting for him.
So, with less than two thousand soldiers left who had lost their fighting spirit, he decisively chose to die.
The Dali soldiers also fulfilled his last wish.
Ouyang Xuan personally took action and gave him his last dignity and dignity as a Goguryeo general.
After that, the remaining small group of enemy troops no longer needed to use the tactic of surrounding three and missing one. The Dali soldiers, who were already familiar with the lanes in the city, wiped them all out in one day.
At this point, five days have passed since the day of the siege.
As for Goguryeo's 40,000 garrison soldiers, almost all of them were wiped out before dawn on the sixth day.
The reason why we say the entire army was wiped out is because some people managed to break out.
Not many, just a few hundred people.
While the attention of the Dali army was on the city gate near the territory, they did the opposite and broke out through the broken city gate.
However, the Dali army rarely pursued them.
Of course, there is no reason why you should not pursue the enemy. There are only a few hundred deserters, so there is no need to worry about whether there will be any ambush.
The reality is that Di Xin deliberately released those hundreds of people.
In fact, if these hundreds of people had not taken the initiative to break out, Emperor Xin was considering whether to open a gap in the city gate close to Goguryeo to allow the remaining Goguryeo soldiers who had been besieged in the lanes of the Dali Army for several days to escape.
And of course there is a reason why he did this.
Rather than sending people to promote propaganda yourself, what better way to build the image of one's own army than to use a group of enemies who have been courageously killed to promote it?
Di Xin believed that few of the soldiers who escaped would be able to return to the capital of Goguryeo safely to report their intelligence.
As for the rest, I'm afraid they will be captured by spies from other forces. Through their detailed information about the siege, they can deduce the strength of Emperor Xin's army.
And Di Xin also believed that the information provided by those deserters would definitely come as a big surprise to them.
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The bait Emperor Xin has been spread out, and whether he eats it or not is a matter for those forces.
On the third day of the siege, when less than ten thousand of the enemy troops in the city were killed, Emperor Xin entered the city with Xizi and others, as well as a think tank and a group of civil servants.
In order to cope with the crusade of Emperor Xin's army, the people in this city had been relocated before the war began, and the remaining people were just some poor people.
When it prospers, the people suffer; when it dies, the people suffer.
This sentence refers to these people who belong to the bottom of the masses. No matter in peacetime or when war comes, they will always be the ones who suffer the most.
Just like now, is Goguryeo really incapable of moving all these people out of the city?
No, they have this ability, but compared with the loss of migrating these poor people, it is more cost-effective to abandon them.
In troubled times, life is like grass. In the eyes of powerful people, these poor people may not be as valuable as a war horse or two bags of grain.