Chapter 3354 Merit Discount
Xue Wanche led more than a thousand soldiers to form a vanguard formation and plunged straight into the battle formation of the Goguryeo army. Death, broken limbs and broken arms flying everywhere, brave and unstoppable.
The strict formation of the Goguryeo army suddenly fell into disarray.
Gao Yanwu had a resolute face. Since he had already determined to die, he was naturally fearless. He led his own soldiers and rushed forward, trying to stop the Tang army from inserting into his formation.
The next moment, the two sides collided fiercely.
Snowflakes swirled in the sky, blood splattered on the battlefield, and limbs flew across the battlefield. The splashing hot blood melted the ice and snow on the ground. The soldiers who were alive and vigorous one moment turned into corpses and dumped on the ground the next, allowing their coats and enemies to trample on them, turning into flesh in the blink of an eye. mud.
The Goguryeo army is indeed not as elite as the Tang army. Regardless of the quality of its soldiers or ordnance and equipment, the Tang army has a clear advantage. This is also the current situation when the Tang army faces any army. Rich finances and advanced technology made the Tang army unprecedentedly powerful. Its paper strength alone was enough to crush any military power in the world.
However, the Goguryeo soldiers who grew up in a bitter cold land have an indomitable will. They know that behind them is Pingrang City. Once the Tang army breaks through Anhe Palace and approaches Pingrang City, it is very likely that the country will be destroyed and the family will be destroyed. In the end, they put life and death aside for a long time. Everyone fought bravely and fought for the first place, resisting the fierce offensive of the Tang army without fear of death.
For a moment, the two sides were fighting in every corner of Anhe Palace, and it turned out to be an evenly matched situation.
However, the Tang army still had the advantage in terms of strength. Countless Tang troops poured into Anhe Palace like a tide, gradually suppressing the Goguryeo army in the core area of Anhe Palace, slowly surrounding them from the front, rear, left and right, forming a siege.
No matter how powerful the Goguryeo army was, facing the situation of being surrounded by the Tang army that was several times their size, it was inevitable that they would be shaken and confused.
Gao Yanwu fought bravely while shouting for victory, trying to boost his own morale. Even if he was going to die, he would have to drag a few more Tang soldiers to be buried with him.
Xue Wanche had been staring at him for a long time. He led his soldiers to charge and finally came to Gao Yanwu. He rushed forward with an arrow, slashed down with the sword in his hand, and shouted: "I can use your head!"
Gao Yanwu felt the roar of the wind, and quickly raised his knife to block. With a "clang", the steel knife in his hand was cut off. Fortunately, he also blocked the opponent's menacing knife. However, before he could recover, the arm holding the knife went numb, and Xue Wanche kicked him in the chest. Unable to stand, he took a few steps back and staggered to sit on the ground.
The surrounding Tang troops rushed towards him and chopped him into pieces with knives.
The soldiers around Gao Yanwu rushed forward at the risk of their lives, trying to save Gao Yanwu...
Xue Wanche kicked Gao Yanwu to the ground. Just as he was about to cut off the head of the Goguryeo general with a knife, he found that the soldiers around him had rushed forward in a swarm, trying to chop Gao Yanwu into pieces. , he was so frightened that he shouted: "This guy belongs to me!"
He rushed forward impatiently.
Yuan Jingtu had been shot to death by random arrows by these gangsters before, and his achievements were greatly reduced. If the Goguryeo general was chopped to death with random knives again, wouldn't it be another waste of water?
When he rushed closer, he found that more than ten of his soldiers, including Gao Yanwu, had been killed by his own soldiers on the spot, with blood flowing all over the ground.
Xue Wanche: "..."
Holding a horizontal knife in his hand, anger rose in his chest and abdomen, and he almost cursed.
Mother!
Are you my personal soldiers or enemies?
Over and over again, is it so difficult for me to get some merit?
A school lieutenant next to him saw that Xue Wanche looked extremely ugly, and quickly said cautiously: "If we hadn't taken the first step, if it were too late, this guy would have been rescued by his own soldiers..."
Xue Wanche said angrily: "This Anhe Palace has been surrounded by a large army. Where can he escape? Can he fly to the sky with wings?"
The captain swallowed his saliva and said bravely: "But behind the Anhe Palace, there are crisscrossed mountains and ravines, dense mountains and forests, and it is covered with heavy snow. Once it escapes into it, even an army of 50,000 people may not be able to defeat it. Found..."
Xue Wanche was lucky enough to suppress his anger because what the captain said was reasonable.
Although Anhegong Palace is not large and the terrain is not steep enough, the entire mountain range stretches for dozens of miles, and the mountains behind it are even more ravines and crisscrossed mountains. Even if more than ten thousand people are hiding in it, it will be difficult to search. If this Goguryeo general takes it seriously Escape into it and focus on escaping, with no chance of capturing it again.
We can't send tens of thousands of troops under our command into the deep mountains and ridges, instead of taking advantage of the situation and going straight to the Seven Star Gate, right?
He can naturally tell which one is light and which one is serious.
At this moment, the captain reminded me that although I was still angry, I couldn't ignore the overall situation, so I had to say viciously: "A group of bastards who are obsessed with football don't know how to rush up and capture them alive. I'm going to stab them with this knife?"
His thick fingers pointed at the faces of the soldiers and soldiers around him one by one, and shouted: "Just wait for me. When this battle is over, I will deal with you one by one!"
The soldiers around him all had earth-colored faces and were trembling.
Having followed this uncle for many years, how could I not know his temperament? It is unreasonable to commit chaos, and can even be described as unreasonable. Whips and military sticks are used in all possible ways. It is commonplace to kill one or two soldiers when they are angry...
"You bastards, what are you doing standing there in such a daze? Hurry up and kill and capture all the defeated troops, clean up the Anhe Palace, and then immediately send troops to attack the Seven Star Gate!"
Xue Wanche was so angry at these stupid people that he yelled and cursed.
The surrounding soldiers immediately dispersed. They were all trembling in fear, fearing that some unforeseen facts might anger the old man. However, thinking that they would soon arrive at Pingrang City and storm the Seven Star Gate, perhaps the first attack to break the city would fall on them, their blood immediately boiled. A man with red eyes roared and rushed towards the Goguryeo soldiers who had gradually dispersed.
Under the cold wind and snow, the Goguryeo soldiers were defeated like a mountain. Gao Yanwu died tragically under the sword of the Tang army. Their morale collapsed immediately and they fled in all directions.
The five-man Tang army was divided into countless small teams, relying on each other to pursue and kill the defeated Goguryeo soldiers. The Anhe Palace was full of wolves running around, crying and howling loudly.
Near dawn, the fighting in Anhe Palace gradually came to an end, and the Tang army was completely in a state of war.
"General, in this battle, more than 4,000 enemy troops were annihilated and more than 5,000 were captured. There were also countless weapons and equipment... May I ask, general, what should be done with those seriously injured prisoners? In addition, some scattered troops escaped into Anhe Palace. Mountains, where there are high mountains, dense forests, and crisscrossing ravines, making it extremely inconvenient to pursue and suppress. Do we need to continue to pursue and suppress? ”
When the post-war statistics came out, Xue Wanche calculated the 10,000 troops stationed in Anhe Palace according to the secret letter from Chang Sun Chong, and almost all of them had been wiped out.
The gap of less than a thousand people must be the defeated troops who escaped into the mountains behind Anhe Palace.
After a great battle, nearly half of the 10,000-strong garrison was killed, and nearly half of those who fought hard were captured. There were only enough people to flee. This was already an army with extremely powerful combat capabilities.
Sitting in the neatly tidied barracks, Xue Wanche stroked his beard, feeling a little embarrassed.
It's just a defeat. There are less than a thousand people, so what kind of waves can it cause? Going to the ravines and dense forests on the back mountain of Anhe Palace to hunt these more than a thousand people was really not worth the gain.
On the contrary, it was the seriously injured Goguryeo soldiers that Xue Wanche didn't know how to deal with.
According to his past style, it is almost impossible to treat seriously injured people on the battlefield, and they will die sooner or later. Rather than wasting medicine and food to treat them, it is better to simply kill them with a knife, and in the end, abandon them in the wilderness. , let it fend for itself.
But now that they have arrived at Pingrang City, the attitude of the Tang army towards the prisoners will have a great impact on the morale of the Goguryeo defenders in Pingrang City.
If the Goguryeo defenders were grieved and resentful because of "killing prisoners", it would most likely make it more difficult for the Tang army to attack the city.
In particular, Xue Mancheol heard that His Majesty mentioned that Yeon Gaesumun had previously intended to negotiate peace. Although there has been no progress in the matter, who can guarantee that Yeon Gaesumun was not just lucky and wanted to wait until things became impossible to negotiate peace. What about surrender?
If because of "killing prisoners" Yuengai Suwen felt the violence and cruelty of the Tang army, he was afraid that he would suffer the same fate after surrendering, so he resisted forcefully and caused heavy losses to the Tang army... Xue Wanche could not afford to bear this crime.
They can't be killed, and raising them will seriously drag down the army's equipment. I'm sure His Majesty Li Er doesn't want to see it. It's really a dilemma.
After thinking about it, an idea flashed in Xue Wanche's mind, and he said: "After disarming the prisoners, take them into custody on the spot, and then report to Duke Lu and ask Duke Lu to deal with them." (End of Chapter)