Xue Wanche led more than a thousand soldiers to form a vanguard formation and plunged straight into the battle formation of the Goguryeo army.
He died, his limbs and broken arms were flying everywhere, his courage was 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 and led his own soldiers to rush forward, trying to stop this Tang army from inserting itself into his formation.
The next moment, the two sides collided fiercely.
Snowflakes rolled in the sky, blood spattered on the battlefield, and stumps flew across the ground. 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, letting the enemies trample on them and turned 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. The rich finance and advanced technology make the Tang army unprecedentedly powerful.
On paper, its strength is 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 worked bravely, fighting for the first place, and resisted 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 it 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 own 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 Tang soldiers with him 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 and slashed down with the sword in his hand, shouting: "I can use your head!"
Gao Yanwu felt the roar of the wind above his head, and quickly raised his knife to block. With a "clang" sound, the steel knife in his hand was cut off. Fortunately, he also blocked the opponent's menacing knife. But before he could recover, he held the knife.
His arms were numb, so Xue Wanche put his foot on his chest. Unable to stand, he took a few steps back and staggered to 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.
Previously, Yuan Jingtu was shot to death by random arrows by these gangsters, and his achievements were greatly reduced. If the Goguryeo general was chopped to death with random knives in front of him, wouldn't it be another vain attempt to draw water from a bamboo basket?
When he rushed closer, he found that more than ten of his soldiers, including Gao Yanwu, had been killed on the spot by his own soldiers, with blood flowing all over the ground.
Xue Wanche: "..."
Holding a horizontal knife in his hand, anger surged in his chest and abdomen, and he almost cursed.
Mother!
Are you my soldiers or enemies?
Over and over again, is it so difficult for me to gain some merit?
A school captain 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 to? Can he fly to the sky with wings?"
The captain swallowed his saliva and said bravely: "But the mountains behind Anhe Palace are crisscrossed with ravines, dense forests, and covered with heavy snow. Once it escapes into it, even an army of 50,000 people may not be able to defeat it.
Found out..."
Xue Wanche was lucky enough to suppress his anger because what the captain said was reasonable.
Although Anhegong Palace is not big and the terrain is not steep enough, the entire mountain range stretches for dozens of miles, and the mountains behind it are even more continuous with ravines and crisscrossing 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 is heavy.
At this moment, the captain reminded me that although I was still angry in my heart, I couldn't ignore the overall situation, so I had to say viciously: "A bunch of bastards who are obsessed with football, don't you know how to rush up and capture them alive? I'm going to stab them with this knife?"
He moved his thick fingers around the soldiers, pointing them at the soldiers' faces one by one, shouting: "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.
How can I not know his temperament after following this uncle for many years? He is unreasonable and can even be described as unreasonable when he commits crimes. He uses whips and military sticks to every possible extent. When he gets angry, he simply kills one or two soldiers.
A common meal…
"You bastards, what are you doing standing there in such a daze? Hurry and kill all the defeated troops, capture all the prisoners, 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 suddenly dispersed. They were all trembling in fear, fearing that some unforeseen facts might anger the old man. But when they thought that they would arrive at Pingrang City soon 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 swords of the Tang army. Their morale immediately collapsed and they fled in all directions.
The Tang army, consisting of five men, was divided into countless small teams, relying on each other to pursue and kill the defeated Goguryeo soldiers. The Anhe Palace was filled with wolves running and howling loudly.
Near dawn, the fighting in Anhe Palace gradually came to an end, and the Tang army was already in a complete battle situation.
"General, in this battle, more than 4,000 enemy troops were annihilated and more than 5,000 were captured, as well as countless weapons and equipment... May I ask the general, what should be done with those seriously injured prisoners? In addition, some scattered troops escaped into Anhe Palace.
Mountain, where the mountains are high, the forests are dense, and the ravines are crisscrossed, making it extremely inconvenient to pursue and suppress us. Do we need to continue our pursuit and suppression?"
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 was less than a thousand men, so they must have been the defeated troops who had 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 captured were captured despite the strong fighting. There were only enough people to flee. This was already an army with extremely powerful fighting capabilities.
Sitting in the neatly tidied barracks, Xue Wanche stroked his beard, feeling a little embarrassed.
The army was defeated. There were less than a thousand people, so what kind of waves could they make? Going to the ravines and dense forests behind Anhe Palace to hunt down these more than a thousand people was really not worth the loss.
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 killed because of "killing prisoners" and shared the same hatred with the enemy, it would most likely make it much more difficult for the Tang army to attack the city.
Especially when Seol Wan-chul heard that His Majesty mentioned that Yeon Gaesomun had previously intended to negotiate peace. Although there has been no progress in the matter, who can guarantee that Yeon Gaesomun was not just lucky and thinking of waiting until the situation was impossible before negotiating 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. His Majesty Li Er probably 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."