Chapter 1143: The Killing After the War
Gao Jianwu was as frightened as a dog that was strayed from his family, as anxious as a fish that had escaped the net. He only led more than a hundred guards, abandoned Pyongyang and fled directly northward. He did not choose to go west because Yuan Taizuo was in that direction.
Behind him, there were still thousands of defenders in the city who lost their command and were in chaos. Some were excited and engaged in resistance to combat, while others abandoned swords and guns, took off their military uniforms, stood close to the walls, and even some took the opportunity to make trouble, fled into the homes of the people in the city, burned, killed, looted, and committed evil intentions. At this time, the spies sent by Chen Guoer to sneak into the city in advance also set fires everywhere in the city, creating chaos. Pyongyang, which had been peaceful for hundreds of years, fell into a catastrophe, and cried everywhere shook the sky.
Wang Junlin knew that he had brought too few people and could not siege the city, so it was difficult for Gao Jianwu to stay, so he sent Li Xuanba to chase and kill Gao Jianwu, so he no longer cared about Gao Jianwu.
After Wang Junlin led the cavalry into the city, he immediately divided his troops into various places according to the pre-developed strategy, controlled the key points in the city, took over the city defense, occupied the royal palace, various yamen and warehouses, and controlled the main intersection roads.
Then Wang Junlin led the main force to the barracks of the palace guards in the city and blocked a large number of soldiers in the barracks. Although the camp gate was closed in time, the Pyongyang soldiers, who had no leader, looked at the Sui Dynasty cavalry that had gathered more and more outside the camp, and didn't know what to do.
Several important officials and generals of Goguryeo gathered together and formed a command organization to discuss how to face the current crisis. In fact, it was nothing more than two roads, surrender or death in battle. It would be better to expect the sows to come up with a tree, which was more promising than to expect the sows to come up with trees.
Wang Junlin had about 3,000 mobile troops available at this time, and most of the troops were used to control the city defense and various important institutions. At this time, more than 2,000 Pyongyang defenders gathered in the military camp opposite him. If these soldiers were brave enough to fight, Wang Junlin would really have to fight hard.
Wang Junlin didn't wait long, and the matter was easily resolved beyond his expectations. These more than 2,000 Pyongyang defenders decided to surrender.
Half an hour later, more than 2,000 people in the military camp of Pyongyang City were all detained by Wang Junlin and his men. Then Wang Junlin quickly organized a public security team and deployed to restore order in the city.
At this point, Pyongyang completely fell into the hands of Wang Junlin.
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Because Yuan Taizuo had allocated most of the defenders in Pyongyang City to the greatest extent, and was sent by Gao Jianwu to reinforce Annan County a few days ago, this capital in Goguryeo can almost be called an empty city. The huge city has only more than 3,000 defenders, some officials and some guards in powerful families. The process of Wang Junlin leading people to break the city and enter the city to eliminate the enemy actually felt easier than when he attacked Daluo City.
Zhang Tiangang was covered in blood and rode his horse to Wang Junlin and giggled at him.
Wang Junlin glanced up and down at him, showed an admiring look, and smiled and said, "Are you injured? How were your brothers in your special operations team injured or killed?"
"Report to the Lord, I was not injured. Nearly half of the two hundred brothers below were killed or injured. The specific number is still to be settled."
"In this battle, your special forces have made their first contribution. Let me tell you the people below that they will naturally reward me on their merits after they go back." Wang Junlin nodded and said.
"I understand the humble position." Zhang Tiangang was very excited when he heard the word "first contribution". Since he landed in the border of Goguryeo in Nanyang Village, Lu Han, Guan Xiaotong and Yuchi Jingde have made great contributions one after another, and he has been extremely envious. Until these days, he led the special forces to make two great contributions, one was to capture Li Guangshun alive in the battle of Hei Shui Canyon, but the greatest contribution was to capture Pyongyang City.
Looking up at the city with firelights everywhere, as well as the buildings and people with exotic flavors everywhere, Wang Junlin suddenly felt a stir in his heart, and he couldn't help but sigh: "Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, is now earned by us, but we will stay here for at most two days before retreating."
Zhang Tiangang couldn't help but ask, "Why is this?"
Wang Junlin said: "The initial plan was to capture this city with three purposes. First, it was to strongly intimidate the Goguryeo people and let them not be arrogant just because they defeated the main force led by His Majesty the Emperor. In this way, they would naturally act cautiously when they sent troops to attack the Annan Kingdom we established."
"Secondly, after this incident spread, tens of thousands of Sui soldiers who fled into the deep mountains and forests of Goguryeo would naturally try their best to escape to the Annan Kingdom, which we controlled. Goguryeo is not large in area, and no matter how Yuan Taizuo sent people to surround him, many Sui soldiers would eventually escape to Annan Kingdom. What's more, I asked her to arrange a response from Guoer, and these veterans of a hundred battles will be our greatest gain."
"In the end, it's for money. The next step is that the troops we control will surge. The domestic business and the sea business that Yang Kongchan is responsible for is far from enough to raise soldiers. The taxes of Fanyang County are still to the court. As for Annan, it can feed back some, but not too much. The city of Pyongyang has accumulated half of Goguryeo's wealth. We can not kill people in the palace and major noble families. As long as we don't resist, we can not kill them, but we have to take all their money away. The money is enough for us to support a 100,000 army for several years."
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The capital of Goguryeo was captured by Wang Junlin with 10,000 light cavalry. The process was unexpected, but the result was expected.
The mantis stalks the cicada, and the oriole is behind. Yuan Taizuo's army is marching with great power to pursue more than 100,000 defeated soldiers who failed to escape from the Sui army. He besieged Liaodong City and strives to make his achievements perfect. Wang Junlin not only unexpectedly attacked Annan County City, but also directly attacked the capital of Goguryeo, with a total of 10,000 cavalry.
Ten thousand cavalry were placed in the main battlefield in the west of the Sui Dynasty and Goguryeo a few days ago, and it was like a dead leaf falling into a pond, with no ripple coming out. According to the normal logical behavior of the commanders, no one would take this risk and use only ten thousand people to attack the enemy's capital. It was something that Wang Junlin did and succeeded.
When the Sui army entered the city, fires quickly ignited everywhere in Pyongyang City. Both the houses and the government offices became targets of attack in the eyes of the Sui army. Originally, the Goguryeo defenders in Pyongyang City were at least 100,000. However, because Yuan Taizuo mobilized all the troops from the whole country to the western front line, there were only more than 3,000 defenders in Pyongyang City. In addition, a small number of officials and guards guarding the palace, Wang Junlin led 10,000 cavalry into the city and rushed into the sheep pen like a tiger and wolf, and almost no decent resistance was encountered. The people in the city fled in panic and screamed and screamed.
Where can war be merciful? Only the people who suffer and are killed are the people. In front of the armoured and bladed army, the people have no choice but to flee in a hurry.
"Eliminate the remaining enemies as soon as possible. If there are any resistances in the city, kill them on the spot! But if the order is passed on, no one should kill innocent people indiscriminately and do the matter of massacre." Wang Junlin ordered in a deep voice.
Wang Junlin rode on the Blood-maned horse, looking at the sky-sky fires rising everywhere in the city, and thinking of the six thousand Sui cavalry gathered by Luo Shixin and Li Xuanba, he couldn't help but feel a little worried. The six thousand people must have a huge hatred and endless murderous aura in their hearts. If they let it go, these six thousand people would probably kill all the Goguryeo people in the city, and of course the women in the city would definitely suffer.
"Yuchi Jingde, take your people to occupy the palace immediately!" Wang Junlin ordered, thought for a while, and added: "Open the palace warehouse, pack all the valuable things and tie them up in a cart to be taken away."
Yuchi Jingde grinned and left with his fists.
Next was the ruthless killing. Whether it was the imperial guards, eunuchs, palace maids, Yuchi Jingde, led people to break into the palace. As long as he did not squat down and surrender immediately, he would directly kill him. However, the guards were killed regardless of whether they surrendered or not.
However, the warehouse property in the palace was not as much as imagined. After all, although Gao Jianwu was not a puppet, he did not control the entire country. He spent too much property to deal with the conquest of the Sui army.
Yuan Taizuo could not only spend the property he controlled, but left too much money to Gao Jianwu. However, there were many treasures of cultural relics, calligraphy, paintings, antiques and other things left by the kings of Goguryeo in the palace, and many other things. Yuchi Jingde naturally would not be polite, so he searched all the books and packed them away.
After the palace was looted, the next target was Yuan Taizuo's mansion, a hundred steps away from the palace.
Gao Jianwu obviously did it intentionally. From the beginning, he never sent anyone to inform the people in Yuan Mansion, nor did he want to send people to protect the people in Yuan Mansion to escape.
So the people in Yuan Mansion were one step late and could not escape from the city.
Luo Shixin led his men to kill all the guards and male servants of the Yuan clan, and then, as Wang Junlin's instructions, captured more than 20 direct clan members of the Yuan clan. These people were to take them away when they left, and it would be of great use when they were facing the battle head-on with Yuan Taizuo's army.
Yuan Taizuo's mansion is not smaller than that of Goguryeo's palace, and its wealth is even greater than that of the palace. Luo Shixin took the people to search and gained a lot. This one mansion alone is rich enough to rival a country and can almost be regarded as a small treasury.
Luo Shixin led thousands of people to transport them for more than two hours, and then all the valuable treasures and money in Yuan Taizuo's mansion swept away, leaving behind furniture, utensils and other items that could not be taken away. Luo Shixin burned all the fire.
The other nobles, wealthy businessmen and officials in the city did not let go. They fought against each other and snatched all the money, while those who did not resist did not kill them, but they also snatched all the money.
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Although Wang Junlin had ordered the soldiers who killed the red-eyed, especially the 6,000 Sui soldiers gathered by Luo Shixin and Li Xuanba in the later period, were much different. How many innocent people in the city were killed, how many civilian families were looted, and even how many Goguryeo women were raped, it was impossible to count the specific statistics. This matter was not stopped until Wang Junlin ordered the beheading of more than 20 Sui cavalry.
War is such a rule. At this time, if a normal general would no longer control the beastly nature of the Sui army soldiers, he could only turn a blind eye and let the Sui army soldiers do all the evil things in the capital of this enemy country. But Wang Junlin was different after all.
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