Chapter 316: Blitz the City and Establish a New King

Although Chen Longxiang is not very old, his courageous character perfectly integrates the genes of his father Chen Polu and his brother Chen Huaian, two generations of Jin Wang, and he can keenly perceive the changes between the enemy and us on the battlefield.

Obviously, the Goguryeo Dynasty has even dispatched the guards stationed in the royal city, proving that there are no other soldiers near the royal city Pyongyang.

The battle of Yipianshi just now directly killed Tuoba Liuyun, the first warrior of the Goguryeo Dynasty and the commander of the guards. The morale and morale of the Goguryeo guards may have collapsed long ago.

If we don’t take down the Goguryeo royal city in one go, when will we?

Yuan Kai, the deputy admiral of the Tang Navy and the Marquis of Tongwu, has also been a soldier for many years, so he can naturally understand the hidden meaning of Jin Wang Chen Longxiang’s words.

He also understood that if he could pursue the victory at this time and take down the Goguryeo royal city Pyongyang with a 20,000-man navy vanguard army, he would be able to hit the Goguryeo Dynasty’s morale to the greatest extent.

Even, maybe he could capture Goguryeo's treasure king Gao Zang alive, and stage a drama of "holding the emperor hostage to command the princes", and defeat the enemy without fighting.

However, the military order given to him by Qi Jiguang, the admiral of the Tang Navy and Duke Dingguo, was to recover Jin Wang Chen Longxiang at all costs.

As a soldier, he should obey the orders of the generals as the principle of all actions.

If he, Yuan Kai, as the deputy admiral of the navy, could not enforce the orders, how could he lead the troops to fight and restrain his subordinates in the future?

Chen Longxiang, who was standing aside, seemed to see the hesitation of the deputy admiral Yuan Kai.

His eyes flashed with a maturity that was not in line with his age. Then he clasped his hands and bowed to Yuan Kai, saying: "Deputy General, as the vanguard general of the Tang Navy, Long Xiang has the right to decide battlefield matters at his convenience;"

"The lightning attack on Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, was all done by Long Xiang alone;"

"Deputy General, Deputy General, just pretend that you have never seen Long Xiang in a stone!"

As he said this, Chen Longxiang waved his hand and said sternly: "Eagle Strike Sima--(an official position in the army, ranked below the general, responsible for leading the army to conquer)"

"I am here!"

At Chen Longxiang's command, another young general who was only in his early twenties also hurriedly rode forward and waited for the order from the vanguard general.

This man was named Zhang Xuan, a servant of the Jin Wang Mansion in Longcheng. Under the arrangement of the late emperor Chen Polu, he accompanied the young second son Chen Longxiang to practice in Longhu Mountain.

After Chen Longxiang was appointed by Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian as the vanguard general of the Tang Navy, he was also incorporated into the army. He served as the Eagle Strike Sima under the command of the vanguard general Chen Longxiang and commanded the 800 personal soldiers of the Jin Wangfu in Longcheng.

Chen Longxiang said: "Pass on my order, the army will abandon all baggage and go into battle lightly, and follow me to Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo."

Zhang Xuan said: "General, what about these prisoners?"

In the battle of Yipianshi, more than half of the 20,000 Goguryeo Imperial Guards cavalry were lost. In addition to those who died in battle and escaped, there were also thousands of prisoners.

Hearing this, Chen Longxiang glared with a torch and ordered: "All the war horses are for our army. If the prisoners need to be taken back for examination by the deputy general, they will be handed over to the deputy general;"

"If the deputy general thinks it is a burden, you, you can do it yourself!"

"I have received the order!"

Zhang Xuan immediately clasped his fists and accepted the order.

After saying this, Chen Longxiang did not stop, but rode his horse directly in the direction of the Goguryeo Imperial Guards' hasty escape.

Seeing this, Zhang Xuan, the Eagle Strike Sima, who was left to deal with the aftermath, had to bite the bullet and come to the side of Deputy General Yuan Kai and asked, "Deputy General, what do you think--"

Ahem!

Yuan Kai looked at Chen Longxiang's disappearing back, then looked at the captured Goguryeo Imperial Guards cavalry, and then looked at Zhang Xuan, the Eagle Strike Sima, with a complicated look in his eyes, sneering and saying, "This general has never been here!"

After saying this, Yuan Kai hit the horse's belly hard, and rode away without looking back.

In the end, Zhang Xuan simply called over a thousand-household soldier with an expressionless face, made a gesture of wiping his neck to him, and then ordered: "All soldiers, listen to my order--"

"Unload all the baggage except weapons and equipment, and advance to Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, at full speed!"

"I have received your order!"

Soon, the vanguard army of the Tang Navy assembled in the Yipanshi area all mounted their war horses (the captured Goguryeo war horses were also requisitioned), and headed straight for Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, which was fifty or sixty miles away.

Let's talk about two things separately.

Just as Chen Longxiang was talking to Yuan Kai, the deputy admiral of the Tang Navy, the remnants of the Goguryeo Imperial Guard cavalry, which had been defeated in Yipanshi, also fled in panic for several miles, and finally joined forces with the remaining 30,000 Goguryeo infantry who came out of Pyongyang.

Faced with the miserable state of the Imperial Guard cavalry, the Goguryeo general Jin Dazhong, who commanded the remaining 30,000 troops, was also shocked.

Just as Chen Longxiang expected, when the Goguryeo Imperial Guards cavalry, who had been defeated, brought back the news that the army was defeated and the first warrior, the commander of the Imperial Guards, Tuoba Liuyun, was killed in battle, the morale and spirit of the entire Goguryeo Imperial Guards fell to the bottom in an instant.

Especially, when these grassroots Imperial Guards learned that the fierce general of the Tang Navy had only used two hammers to send the "God of War" General Tuoba Liuyun to the west, they lowered their heads in fear.

That was the first warrior of the Goguryeo Dynasty!

That was General Tuoba, who was unmatched in the minds of these Royal City Imperial Guards!

Such a brave man was killed on the spot in two moves in the hands of the Tang Dynasty Navy general. This directly caused the soldiers of the Goguryeo Guards to be deeply afraid of the Tang Dynasty Navy general who had not yet shown up, and developed a deep psychological state. Shadow, where can I muster the courage to fight against it?

Jin Daezhong, the deputy general of the Ministry of War of the Goguryeo Dynasty, was also keenly aware of the changes in the mentality and morale of the soldiers in the formation. He knew that the Nanpo Port Naval Camp was out of reach.

With the current morale of the Imperial Guards, wouldn't it be a good idea to go to the Nanpu Harbor Naval Camp to kill that brave Datang Navy general?

As a result, Jin Dazhong made a decisive decision and returned to the court with his army to defend the royal city.

"Come here, please pass on the order. The rear column of the army will be changed to the front column, and the entire army will return to the city!"

Subsequently, the infantry of the Goguryeo Imperial Guards, which departed from the royal city of Pyongyang overnight and headed straight for Nampo Port, began to turn around again and returned to the royal city in disgrace.

Another hour passed, and it was approaching three-quarters of noon.

Among the Goguryeo Imperial Guards who were returning to the city, someone suddenly stopped and raised their ears to listen carefully.

Vaguely, I seemed to hear the sound of horse hooves.

Not long after, more and more Goguryeo infantry began to stop subconsciously, pricking up their ears to listen, and looking back, trying to figure out where the increasingly clear sound of horse hooves came from. Come.

Kick, kick, kick, kick, kick!

Gradually, the ground began to tremble, which was caused by the iron hooves of the war horses getting closer and closer, constantly hitting the ground.

"Report——"

"Deputy General Qi, what's wrong, the Tang Army, the Tang Army's cavalry are catching up, less than two miles away from the main army!"

Wow!

Accompanied by galloping horses, the news brought by the Goguryeo scouts who came to report the news immediately caused an uproar among the Goguryeo Imperial Guards who were in low morale and were on their way back to the city.

"What?"

Hearing this, Jin Dazhong, the deputy general of the Goguryeo Ministry of War, raised his eyebrows and felt a thump in his heart.

Two miles away, at the speed of a war horse sprinting at full speed, it doesn't take half a stick of incense to reach it.

Lieutenant General Jin Dazhong's forehead and back were wet with a layer of fine beads of sweat. He didn't care about giving orders to meet the enemy. His first reaction was to rush back to the royal city as soon as possible to report the news. General Ma Xidong reported to King Gaozang.

Jin Dazhong said sternly: "What are you still doing? Send the order and let the army disperse to both sides of the official road to hide!"

"Once the cavalry of the Tang Army is allowed to charge, our tens of thousands of infantrymen will not be enough to fill the gap between others' teeth!"

"Disperse and hide!"

As he spoke, Jin Dazhong immediately turned the horse's head, knocked the horse's belly violently, and ran towards the royal city of Pyongyang without looking back. The whip hit the horse's back hard, as if he wanted to remove the last trace of the horse from his crotch. The physical strength is also squeezed clean.

"Disperse and hide——"

It wasn't until the deputy general Jin Dazhong was almost gone that the Goguryeo generals behind him suddenly reacted and shouted loudly to the Goguryeo soldiers crowded on the official road to spread out and hide on both sides.

At this time, the Goguryeo soldiers who reacted suddenly swarmed like ants on a hot pot, driven by fear and despair to make an instinctive escape reaction;

Not caring about the repeated orders from above not to trample the young crops in the fields before setting off for the expedition, they fled in panic and fled for their lives.

Kick, kick, kick, kick, kick.

After a while, the sound of horse hooves, like the Sanskrit sound of the god of death, was like rolling thunder, exploding in the ears of the 30,000 Goguryeo infantry.

On the backs of the galloping horses are the shining sabers, the war flags of the Tang Dynasty fluttering in the wind, the resolute face with no hesitation, and the chilling sounds. roared: "Pioneer of the Tang cavalry, charge!"

"Kill--"

On a wide field, the 20,000 cavalry of the Tang Dynasty's vanguard army faced the 30,000 infantry of the Goguryeo Dynasty. On one side, morale was high in pursuit of victory, while on the other side, morale was low and the morale of the army was low;

The outcome of this wild encounter can be imagined.

It was completely a one-sided massacre. The cavalry of the Tang Dynasty was responsible for the massacre, and the Goguryeo Imperial Guards were responsible for the massacre.

However, these 30,000 Goguryeo infantry also bought half an hour for Kim Dae-jung, the deputy general of the Ministry of War, who rushed back to the royal city of Pyongyang to report the news.

When the battle came to an end, Jin Dazhong here also crawled back to the palace.

In the main hall of the palace, Treasure King Gaozang was holding a routine meeting with the Manchu civil and military officials for today's court meeting.

While the civil servants and generals of Goguryeo were still discussing how to set up defenses on the Datong River to prevent the warships of the Tang Dynasty Navy fleet from advancing eastward along the river, Jin Dazhong, the deputy general of the Ministry of War, who had not even had time to remove his armor, was attacked by several imperial guards. He was dragged into the palace hall.

"Your Majesty, something big has happened, something bad has happened!"

Before Jin Dazhong arrived, the voice came first.

Wow!

Immediately afterwards, the Goguryeo civil servants and generals in the palace looked sideways, looking for fame.

I didn't know whether it was because he was scared out of his wits by the Tang Army's cavalry, or because he kept at least a running posture, which caused his hands and feet to become numb. Jin Dazhong, who could not recover for a while, was dragged to the middle of the hall and knelt down.

Desperately and helplessly, he continued: "Your Majesty, Datang, the cavalry of the Datang Navy have arrived in the Feihu Ridge area, less than thirty miles away from the royal city;"

"Your Majesty, hurry up and take the family members in the palace out of the city to avoid the Tang army for the time being!"

Jin Dae-jung said with tears in his eyes: "General Tuoba Liuyun, the first warrior of Goguryeo and the commander of the 100,000 imperial guards, has died on the battlefield;"

"The 50,000 imperial guards who set out to Nampo Port overnight yesterday were also killed or wounded;"

"The cavalry vanguard of the Tang army will arrive at the gates of Pyongyang in two hours at most. Once the Tang cavalry surrounds them, it will be very difficult for the king to leave the city!"