Jin Dezhen led Cui Hongzheng to the top of the slope at the southern foot of Dongxiao Mountain. Standing here, he could clearly see the battlefield several miles away.
"Prime Minister Cui, there are many plains and hills around Pyongyang City. Only Dacheng Mountain, which is twenty miles to the northeast, and Yongak Mountain, which is forty miles to the southwest. The mountains are dangerous and commanding. They are the two most important passes outside Pyongyang City. Previously, Xijing
Liushou Mansion built a mountain city on Dacheng Mountain and a mountain fortress on Longyue Mountain."
"After the Song Army seized Pyongyang, they immediately set about strengthening the fortifications in these two places. They recruited more than 200,000 rioting civilians, drove them with food and grass, and added some engineering groups of theirs. They actually built the two buildings in just half a month.
There are two fortification groups, Dacheng Mountain and Longyue Mountain."
Cui Hongzheng held up a Song Dynasty monocular telescope that he had turned several times and looked at the Dacheng Mountain in the distance.
Dacheng Mountain is silent in the falling snow, and the majestic mountain shows an indescribable power. The mountain city built around the mountain is like an iron helmet. At the foot of the mountain, an earth embankment is like an iron chain, tightly
Tightly locked the main road leading to Pyongyang City.
This earthen embankment was dusty and shimmering from time to time, and at the top of the steep slope was a wall made of wooden fences. Soldiers could vaguely be seen patrolling the wooden wall.
In the middle of this earth embankment, every two or three hundred steps, there is a square earth city.
In the telescope, Cui Hongzheng saw a group of soldiers moving forward slowly in the snow in front of the line of defense. Dozens of officers on horseback, waving their whips, walked through the crowd, as if shouting loudly.
What are you carrying? It’s like driving a group of sheep, stumbling along in the wind and snow.
"Is there an attack from the front?" Cui Hongzheng asked.
"Yes, Prime Minister Choi!" Jin Dezhen replied, "The former army general, with twenty troops and horses, launched another attack."
"Where is the main attack direction?" Cui Hongzheng asked.
Twenty leaders means 20,000 people. The Dachengshan defense line cannot hold so many soldiers and horses. It must be both a virtual and a real one. In some places, it is a sheep attack, and in other places, it is a main attack.
After a moment of silence, Jin Dezhen replied: "There is no main direction of attack!"
"What?" Cui Hongzheng put down the telescope angrily, "You are also a veteran general who has been on the battlefield for a long time. Why do you still make such a mistake? You don't have the main direction of attack, so you can just deal with the errands? At what time now do you dare to be so perfunctory?"
Jin Dezhen argued: "Cui Xiang, in the past ten days, we have tried various methods, using a combination of virtual and real attacks to attack any point on the defense line. To no avail, we have suffered bloody blows everywhere. It seems that the Song Army has no weaknesses.
Same."
"We have also analyzed that Dacheng Mountain is the highest point within a radius of a hundred miles. The Song army stood there and built a wooden watchtower. Equipped with several telescopes, they could clearly see the movements of our army. They
Use flags to convey messages and quickly mobilize reserves. No matter where we attack, they can erect iron walls in time."
Cui Hongzheng raised his telescope and shifted his sight to Dacheng Mountain City. Indeed, in the wind and snow, he could vaguely see a wooden sentry tower standing at the highest point.
"If Dacheng Mountain is not uprooted, we will not be able to move even an inch!" Cui Hongzheng scolded fiercely.
But if you can’t even penetrate the earthen embankment and wooden wall at the foot of Daeseongsan Mountain, how can you talk about uprooting Daeseongsan Mountain Fortress?
The Goryeo troops who trudged hard in the snow finally arrived outside the earthen embankment and the wooden wall. With reference points, Cui Hongzheng discovered that the earthen embankment was really not low, and should be two or three feet high.
Under the urging of the mounted officers, it took the chaotic Goryeo army more than two-quarters of an hour to finally form a formation and look like an army about to fight.
Several officers waved their swords and guns and said something to the Korean army, probably to encourage them. From time to time, they could see puffs of water vapor coming out of their mouths, and white mist shrouded them. They must have been speaking with great enthusiasm.
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But judging from the attack that was launched immediately, the words of these officers seemed to have no effect. The soldiers of the Koryo Army slowly moved forward and came to the front of the earth embankment. The shield hands were linked together to form a shield array. The archers were
Hiding behind the shield formation, he kept shooting arrows at the earthen embankments and wooden walls.
Archers are the only unit that the Goryeo army can use, but facing the Song army hiding behind the wooden wall, there is nothing they can do. Even if the Goryeo people brag about their archers to the sky, the arrows they shoot will not turn.
Others set up wooden ladders on the slopes of the earth embankments, but it was clear that the wooden ladders were always unstable and would stagger even if there were people below to support them.
"What's going on?" Cui Hongzheng was experienced and quickly saw the problem.
"Xiang Cui, the Song army poured water on the slope of the earth embankment. When the cold wind blew, it all froze. The Song army poured water on it from time to time - there was Haishui behind them, and there was no shortage of water. In this way,
The slope of the earthen embankment is so slippery that even the wooden ladder is unstable, not to mention climbing."
Jin Dezhen's words made Cui Hongzheng so angry that his beard stood up, "When did the humble Song people become so cunning and shameless?"
"Hush, shhhhh!"
There was a sharp sound, carried by the cold wind and snow, drifting from a distance.
"What's the sound?" Cui Hongzheng asked without knowing what was going on.
Jin Dezhen's expression changed, "Bronze whistle sounds, the Song army is about to counterattack."
I saw hundreds of holes in the wooden wall, with pipes sticking out from them, facing the Korean soldiers under the embankment. Then the fire flashed, and rows of soldiers fell to the ground.
Like a field of wheat blown by a strong wind.
At this time, the heartrending sound of gunshots was heard, caught in the wind and snow.
Suddenly, I saw one after another shining and smoking iron cans thrown out of the wooden wall, specifically throwing them into the shield formation of the Goryeo Army. Then the fire flashed, black smoke rose, and a very neat and tight shield formation appeared.
It was someone digging with a hoe - a big gap appeared on the ground, smoke was rising on the dark ground, and people were lying on it.
Then I saw fires shining one after another on the slopes of Dacheng Mountain, and I vaguely saw something passing through the air from the slopes, drawing a curve, and landing among the panicked Goryeo soldiers.
Then they exploded one after another, just like stones thrown into the quagmire one after another, causing waves to rise in circles. These invisible wave crests blew away the surrounding Koryo soldiers like leaves.
"Pass--!"
"Bang!"
The sound of the mortar firing and the explosion after the shell hit the ground came belatedly, and filled the ears of Cui Hongzheng and others wildly.
The Koryo army, which had just charged forward not long ago, receded like a tide, dozens of times faster than when they had charged up.
Jin Dezhen's face was ashen and she looked at Cui Hongzheng with dull eyes.
The reality is before us and there is no need to say anything more.
Cui Hongzheng could imagine that at the beginning, the Goryeo army, which still had a bloody spirit of courage, suffered a tragic setback in front of this earth embankment. However, no matter how cruel the battlefield was, it was already covered by the white snow.
The signs can be covered up, but the battered military spirit and morale are difficult to recover. Moving forward is like a turtle crawling, and when encountering a slight setback, it flees like a rabbit. This is enough to show how depressed the Goryeo Army was at this time.
Cui Hongzheng returned to the headquarters tent without saying a word.
Jin Yiyuan brought a cup of hot tea and asked tentatively: "Prime Minister Cui, do you want to urge them to go down to the south? Let them work harder from the south. There are 190,000 elites and hundreds of thousands of strong men. If they all turn back to the north, we, Korea, will
My vitality is greatly damaged.”
Cui Hongzheng shook his head: "If we lose, we will lose our lives, and the fight is like this. How can we expect our colleagues in the south to work hard? Our country's government is the most flexible in seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages. I'm worried, now in the court
The biggest concern is not how to rescue us, but other 'big things'."
Jin Yiyuan was puzzled. What other important event could be more important than rescuing almost all the troops of Goryeo and a huge number of young men?
But Cui Hongzheng didn't say anything. He just stood up and said, "Let's inspect the camp and see what the situation is."
When Cui Hongzheng and his party moved to a camp, they encountered a dozen soldiers digging in the field.
"Hey! What are you doing?" Jin Yiyuan shouted.
The soldiers were like a group of frightened wild dogs. They were about to run around, but they were driven into one group by the guardsmen. They knelt on the ground in panic, trembling all over.
"What are you doing?" Cui Hongzheng asked.
silence!
"Answer quickly, or I will kill you all!" Jin Yiyuan said angrily.
"Hui... Hui... To tell you what the official said, we are looking for something to eat." Finally a soldier stammered in reply.
Looking at this group of naked soldiers with hungry faces, Cui Hongzheng sighed, waved his hand, and asked everyone to let them go.
Continuing to drive in silence, Jin Yiyuan couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Cui, it's freezing cold here. Is there anything else to eat in the wild?"
Cui Hongzheng shook his head in confusion, and suddenly thought that Jin Dezhen accidentally mentioned that the bodies of more than 20,000 soldiers who died in the battle were simply buried in this area.
Suddenly, his stomach and intestines felt like they had been violently twisted by someone, and he was churning violently, and even his liver and gallbladder were about to be vomited out. This chapter has been completed!