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Zhang Baogui and others got ashore. The scouts who had previously got ashore reported that no sign of the Baekje people were found within a mile ahead, and this generation did not have the Baekje people's army to deploy defenses.

Zhang Baogui and the Third Army's army commander Sun Yongsheng squatted on the ground. Under the cover of a group of soldiers, they lit up the horse lanterns and checked a topographic map spread on the ground.

Before landing, they had interrogated Baekje prisoners of war who were familiar with the terrain of this area and knew that there was a town with a population of more than 800 from Sanli Road.

After confirming the prisoners they brought, Zhang Baogui and others suppressed the prisoner and ran towards the town.

Not long after, Zhang Mougui and others saw a dark and faint building in the distance, and there were still lights in some places.

Zhang Baogui and the Third Army's envoy Sun Yongsheng each brought 600 people to the town. When they reached about 200 steps away from the town, the troops stopped and, according to the plan, a small team of the special forces team went to open the city gate.

The special forces members came to the town and found some militias holding swords and guns guarding the gate of the town, and no sign of the army was found.

Baekje people are surrounded by the sea on both sides, and the coastline is too long. They do not have so many troops to deploy the entire coastline. They can only carry out key defenses on the seaside and roads leading to key cities.

The soldiers avoided the gate and found a quiet wall, climbed up from there, and after getting on the wall, they entered the town and touched towards the gate.

Zhang Baogui led the team to stare at the direction of the gate, and soon he saw lights lit up there. The lights were drawn several circles in succession, indicating that the gate had been taken off.

Zhang Baogui led the team to the gate without a sound. Just as they were about to reach the gate, there were shouts of killing sounds from the gate. Some awakened men had a fight with the special forces.

Zhang Baogui shouted, "Kill." He rushed towards the gate, and the officers and soldiers shouted and rushed forward.

The strong men who were fighting with the special forces team members were frightened to flee when they saw such a large team rushing over. At this time, Sun Yongsheng, the third army envoy on the other side of the town, heard the movement in the town and rushed over with the team.

There were shouts of killing, screams, screams of women and children in the town. About half an hour later, the town became quiet, and then a huge fire ignited.

Not long after, at an intersection north of the town facing inland, Zhang Baogui and a group of soldiers piled more than 200 Baekje heads into a wall. The more than 200 heads were bleeding, and under the cold moonlight, their hideous faces looked creepy. This is called Jingguan.

Jingguan was not the first founder of the Tang Dynasty. Its inventor was the Goguryeo. After Emperor Yang of Sui was defeated in the eastern expedition of Goguryeo, 100,000 troops surrendered to the Goguryeo, but all of them were beheaded. Their heads were piled up by the Yalu River, forming a long wall, which the Goguryeo people called Jingguan. Now decades have passed, and the heads that have long been transformed into dead bones are still placed there, symbolizing the shame of the Han people.

Afterwards, Zhang Baogui and others took the stolen women and property and left. They came to the shore, boarded a sampan and a yacht, and then disappeared into the vast sea.

Xue Rengui personally led some of the officers and soldiers of the First Army to the coast. The target he chose was a military farm in Baekje people, with 500 soldiers. They belonged to the coastal defense force to farm in normal times, and they entered the battle during wartime, and had a certain combat effectiveness. At this time, they had received a notice to strictly prevent the Tang army from landing in and fighting.

Although Li You stipulated that it would not focus on killing the opponent's army, Xue Rengui believed that if the opponent's army could be wiped out, it would be a greater blow to them. Therefore, he took the initiative to choose such a target.

Although the military farm was an elite army of the Baekje people, they were an army after all and still had certain combat effectiveness. After they received the notice, they made preparations and put their weapons in the room at night. They also set off a warning sentry towards the beach.

The baije people's military farms are not towns, there are no tall walls, only thin earth walls less than two meters high, and the gate is also a wooden fence gate.

Xue Rengui had already learned about these situations from the prisoners, and he had already known the deployment of troops, the training level of the army, the equipment and so on. After he got ashore, he did not send a special forces to touch the battalion, because it was difficult to understand the enemy's posts at night, especially the dark burning location. The tactic he decided to adopt was that the entire army quickly approached the military farm. If the Baekje posts discovered the Tang army's actions, the entire army would immediately launch an attack.

It takes some time to wait until the Baekje people wake up from their sleep, get weapons and then go to the whole team. This will take some time. This time is enough for the Tang army to rush into the enemy's camp, and they can still catch them off guard.

Xue Rengui and others lined up in six columns, and took advantage of the faint moonlight to move towards the enemy's military camp. Soon after, they saw a group of large buildings in front of them.

The Baekje people have fought wars over the years, but they have fought at sea. The soldiers of the army have not fought for many years. The soldiers in the military farm have no experience in war. They have also heard that the Tang army had about tens of thousands of people, and at most 10,000 people were able to land and fight. With such a large sea defense line, they are not an important target. The Tang Dynasty people are very likely to come here, so their vigilance is not very high.

They only placed two guard posts at the gate and two hidden guard posts dozens of meters away from the wall of the military farm.

The night on the beach was damp and cold, and two Baekje soldiers dressed in single clothes hid behind a canal and took a nap in a daze.

Suddenly, they heard a sound of footsteps. Although these footsteps were very light, they were numerous, which woke them up. A soldier sat upright and looked out of the canal and saw a dark figure.

He screamed in shock: "No, the Tang Dynasty people have called me." He ran towards the gate of the military farm and another soldier hurriedly followed him.

Xue Rengui shouted loudly: "Run." He rushed forward with a quick start.

Hearing the shouts, the military farm became chaotic, and the soldiers ran into the yard in panic. Before they could line up, the Tang army's brigade had already rushed into the gate.

The soldiers of the military farm, which were half peasants and half soldiers, had no combat experience, had almost no armor on their bodies, and had a variety of weapons, and they were in a hurry to fight. Faced with the large number of people and well-equipped Tang army, they collapsed almost instantly. In less than ten minutes, all the Baekje people in the military farm were wiped out.

What happened next gave Xue Rengui a little headache. According to His Highness the King of Qi's request, he wanted to kill all these soldiers and set up Jingguan.

However, because the fighting power of the Baekje people was too low, they surrendered after a few resistances. Only dozens of people were killed in the battle, and the rest became prisoners. He could not do it if Xue Rengui killed these prisoners who had already surrendered.

After thinking about it, he made a decision to pull out the injured soldiers and some soldiers who were disliked, and behead them in front of the other soldiers. He put about 100 of their heads and the heads of those who had been killed before, and placed them into Jingguan in front of the living Baekje soldiers.

The alive Baekje soldiers were all frightened and pissed.

Xue Rengui picked out 00 strong soldiers from them and asked them to carry the food and other supplies from the military farm back to the beach and boarded the transport ship. The remaining 100 soldiers, the weak, sick and disabled, each cut off one ear and let them go. He felt that letting these soldiers spread the situation here to promote the situation would be better for the psychological panic of Baekje people.

After breakfast the next day, Li You and Cheng Yaojin were drinking tea. Xue Rengui and others came to report last night's operation. The various troops gained a lot. However, when counting the results, something was beyond the expectations of Li You and Cheng Yaojin.

The troops sent out to perform the mission robbed a large amount of property and set up Jingguan in various places according to Li You's request. However, they brought back a large number of Baekje men, and the number of women was very small.

Xue Rengui was afraid that his generals would be punished, so he said, "Prince, after I captured the enemy's military farm, the enemy surrendered without much resistance. I originally wanted to kill them all, but later I thought that it might be useful for these people to live, so I took them back and let the King of Baekje come to redeem them. Wouldn't I be able to make another fortune? So I took them back on my own initiative."

His generals, except for the group of people from the Third Army that Zhang Baogui went to, and the envoys of the other three armies, said, "The prince, me, and others think so too."

Li You knew that they were unwilling to kill innocent people, and he felt very moved: "My Central Plains dynasty is really a country of etiquette, which is a good thing." He did not blame them and said, "You did it right, let this happen. Your gains are great. Report the merits and let Sima Jiong record them for you, and wait until he returns to the Tang Dynasty to reward merits."

Everyone was very glad to see the prince being reasonable.

Zhang Baogui was a little dumbfounded. He was the only one here who firmly implemented Li You's instructions. He said a little aggrievedly: "Brother You, they all did it right. Isn't that just saying that what I did was wrong?"

Li You said, "Okay, you're the best you can do."

"Well, this is almost the same." Zhang Baogui said excitedly.

Everyone couldn't help laughing when they looked at him.

Then, Liu Rengui reported on the naval operations. They sank four Baekje warships last night, a merchant ship carrying materials.

Next they studied the next step of action. According to the plan, the Navy took the Marine Corps and captured all important coastal ports of the Baekje during the day. The Army rested this morning and began to continue to select attack targets in the afternoon.

The capital of Baekje is located in Bacheng.

Starting from that morning, Wu Wangfu Yu Zhang continued to receive bad news from all over the country, and the strength and cruelty of the Tang Dynasty's combat effectiveness were beyond his expectations.
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