Chapter 385 Lonely Army
After capturing Pyongyang, the Five Left Army searched for the remaining enemies for several days, confiscating money, and counting the treasury weapons and food. Although everyone was busy, everyone was happy.
Crack the enemy capital and capture the thief king alive.
The whole army was like the New Year.
As the capital of Goguryeo, which was founded for 700 years, Pyongyang is also known as Little Chang'an. It has a large population and a large city. The entire city of Pyongyang and the surrounding 100 miles has a population of more than 300,000. Even if the large number of troops stationed around Pyongyang and the acropolis outside the city and the rural population, Pyongyang still has a population of more than 100,000.
In the Central Plains, if a city can have a population of 100,000, the only city in Pyongyang is east of the entire Sui Dynasty.
Seven hundred years of accumulation have made the capital of Pyongyang very rich.
After all, although Goguryeo is in the northeast, it has both the Liaohe Plain and several plains on the Korean Peninsula. Especially after they defeated Baekje and Silla, they successively seized several grain-producing plains with pleasant climate and fertile land, including the Han River Plain. Years of accumulation have filled the treasury of the Pyongyang Prefecture, the capital of Goguryeo.
There are also a large number of Goguryeo nobles' houses and treasuries in Pyongyang City. The trophy obtained by the Luo family army from it was even several times the amount obtained by the Pyongyang Palace Official Treasury.
"Did you contact Lai Hu'er?"
The Left Five Army still gained a lot every day. Wang Ziming and a group of soldiers were so busy that they could not even get enough food. They used several large boxes of accounts for registering money and materials.
Luo Cheng asked them to announce the seizures in a timely manner every day, and to make a large-scale system of reward numbers to the soldiers. Even if they can't get a share for the time being, they have to let everyone know how much they can share in the account and have a clear idea.
It is precisely because of the daily seizure and announcement that the brothers' enthusiasm is very high.
After conquering Pyongyang, another great benefit is that there are a lot of supplies in the city. Everyone eats very well every day. Not to mention that the meat is full, there are fresh fruits and vegetables every day, not to mention that in this hot summer, I finally don’t have to sleep in the wild and get bitten by mosquitoes, and I’m exposed to the sun during the day.
But when the brothers below were happy, the generals above the Left Five Army were a little unhappy.
It has been five days since it was captured by Pyongyang, and Lai Hu'er has not yet contacted him.
But bad news keeps coming in the north.
The eight armies that were defeated and fled north did not escape easily. First, the rear of Xin Shixiong, the left three armies, was surrounded and defeated, and the left three armies were defeated. Then Yu Zhongwen organized the rear of the palace to block the enemy more than a dozen times, but they were all defeated.
After the troops fled for several days, the food was exhausted.
So the most difficult time came, and many soldiers could only kill their horses to satisfy their hunger. But without the horses, they could not escape even more.
By the Yalu River.
In China, the Goguryeo army on the west bank of the Yalu River, such as Wugu, blocked the Yalu River, with some blocking the enemy in front and some pursuing troops behind.
The first army of Yuwen Shu who was fleeing in the front was attacked by the ambushed Wugu Army halfway through the river. The first army of the left was killed and injured, with more than 30,000 people. As a result, only Yuwen Shu escaped from the Yalu River with more than 2,000 cavalry.
Nearly half of the Left Army was killed in battle in one battle, and more than 10,000 other people were captured.
The other armies were also blocked from the east of the Yalu River.
Several troops from Goguryeo gathered, especially when Hou Mo Chenyi, Feng Xiaoci and others broke through and fled to Daxing City with more than 6,000 troops. After Gao Jianwu left a group of troops to encircle Daxing City, he led the main force to join Yizhi Wende.
The Goguryeo and the Marine Army, which had as many as 150,000 to 100,000, were ruthlessly sweeping and trampling on the hungry and tired Sui Army on the Yalu River.
Faced with the powerful lineup of Goguryeo, the Sui army, which was already scattered and broke through, were even more scattered. Only Yu Zhongwen and Xue Shixiong finally gathered a legion of about 50,000 people, and retreated all the way, but were never killed by the Goguryeo people.
This was all thanks to the help of Xue Wanshu, the son of Xue Shixiong who came from Hou Mochen. After Xue Wanshu found his father, he told him the place where the left five army had buried food along the way. Then they found food along the way, which solved the urgent problem. After filling his stomach, they finally dared to fight.
Finally, they joined Yu Zhongwen, and the two armies fought and retreated, leaning on the food hidden by the Left Five Army, and then they survived.
In the end, Yu Zhongwen and Xue Shixiong also retreated to Daxing City. Although only 30,000 people left in the 50,000 troops retreated into Daxing City, they finally escaped and ascended to heaven.
As for the other armies, basically no army maintained a complete system and escaped from the Yalu River. They were basically defeated and then fled in dispersed ways.
According to the chaotic news obtained on the battlefield, except for Luo Cheng's left fifth army, only General Yu Xue brought 30,000 people to Daxing City, the remaining eight armies, and less than 50,000 troops, the Sui army broke through the siege and rushed across the Yalu River.
Nearly 40,000 people died directly on the hundreds of miles from Pyongyang to Yalu River, and nearly 150,000 were captured.
Even the tens of thousands of Sui troops who escaped the Yalu River were extremely difficult to escape all the way back to the Liao River. They had no system or food, and had to travel through many Goguryeo mountain cities for hundreds of miles along the way, which was a life-and-death death.
The Nine Army had more than 300,000 troops crossing the river. Daxing City had 10,000 troops from the Left Five Army led by the former Song Laosheng, plus 5,000 troops from the Left Five Army brought by Hou Mochen and others, plus 30,000 people from the 30,000 people from the Xue Shixiong and Yu Zhongwen, which had a total of 50,000. It was held in Daxing City, which was temporarily stabilized.
Next is the Luo Cheng troops, who were left with more than 17,000 people in the city of Pyongyang.
However, although there are 50,000 people in Daxing City, it is still difficult to protect itself.
After the Yalu River defeated the Eighth Army, Yizhi Wende and Gao Jianwu quickly led their troops down the river, and finally surrounded Daxing City, with a total of 180,000 Goguryeo and Mohe coalition forces.
The small big city is also a city that is ruthless.
Moreover, everyone in Daxing City did not know whether Luo Cheng had succeeded in Pyongyang.
I don’t know if Luo Cheng contacted Hu’er.
Pyongyang.
It has been five days since the city was broken, but Luo Cheng still has not contacted him to protect him.
When I went to Beijiangkou to find Lai Hu'er, I came back to report that there were only traces of the Sui army camping there, and no Sui army was found. Lai Hu'er seemed to have evacuated with the navy.
Hearing this reward.
The generals and generals of the Left Five Army in Pyongyang were silent.
He tried his best to kill a backlash and stole the city of Pyongyang under the eyes of more than 100,000 Goguryeo people. But now, Lai Hu'er is not at the beach and can't find anyone at all?
"This is really another bad news. Another bad news is that the Eighth Army was completely defeated and there is no possibility of returning to Pyongyang. Moreover, Gao Jianwu and Yizhi Wende have surrounded Hou Mo Chen Changshi in Daxing City. They seem to have discovered that it is not all of our left five armies, so the Goguryeo army may return to Pyongyang at any time."
Chapter completed!