The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1243 Killing the Enemy
After the water receded slowly, the soldiers in the camp took advantage of the situation to clean up the horses. When the water receded completely, the soldiers in the camp turned back into cavalry again.

The gate of the camp was opened, and the cavalry rushed out, heading directly upstream.

The speed of the cavalry was far faster than that of the infantry. Although the previous soldiers first took a raft and then walked on the ground, after an hour and a half, the cavalry chased after them shortly after arriving at the enemy camp.

Sure enough, as Fang Shu said, there were more Goguryeo soldiers surviving in the camp, and the Tang army's advantage became smaller as the water receded. But even so, the surviving Goguryeo soldiers still did not fight back when they faced the Tang army. Power.

All the weapons were washed away, and when fighting Tang Jun, they had to take whatever they could. Many Koguryo soldiers in the camp fought with Tang Jun's long swords with wooden sticks.

"Master Hou, many people want to surrender." Fang Shu walked to Xuan Shijing and said.

"In this battle, don't surrender troops. Liaodong has already received enough surrender troops. Moreover, our army has only 12 troops now, 15 troops, no, it should be 15." Xuan Shijing smiled and said: "[-] troops Even if the army is washed away by the water, far more than [-] people will survive. People who repeat themselves, soldiers who repeat themselves, what's the use of keeping them."

Gao Huanquan turned against Gao Huanquan, although Xuan Shijing was a little surprised, but he would not be very surprised. He wanted to kill Gao Huanquan, but people noticed it and wanted to save his life. This is normal. After all, Xuan Shijing still has [-] Liaodong Army Tang people, and Gao Huanquan and his [-] people are from Goguryeo. It just so happens that they are also fighting against Goguryeo. Let alone the enemy, why do Goguryeo make things difficult for Goguryeo? I will accept it too.

The cavalry began to continue to move upstream, while the remaining people stayed on the promised side, firstly to eliminate the living, and secondly to see if they could search for some supplies for the Tang army.

Xuan Shijing did not continue to stay on the battlefield, but rode back to the camp, while Chang Le and Fang Shu stayed on the battlefield.

In the evening, when the army returned to the camp, Chang Le and Fang Shu returned to Xuan Shijing's camp.

"Reporting to Lord Hou, Gao Huanquan, the other party's commander-in-chief and the military advisers around him have all been found, and none of them survived." Chang Le cupped his hands and said, "Although our army killed many enemy soldiers, they still ran away a lot. Our army is powerless to pursue."

"That's enough, let those who ran away continue to harm Pyongyang City." Xuan Shijing said: "Although it is considered that Pyongyang City has increased its troops, it is still what I said before. It will speed up the consumption in Pyongyang. Now that the plains on both sides of the Datong River are flooded, even if the people in Pyongyang want to come out early to collect grain, they will have no food to harvest. This water plan can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone, but the same, our army In Goguryeo, you can no longer get any supplies, let’s talk about specific things, so that Sima in the army can give credit to the soldiers.”

"Go back to Lord Marquis, after counting by the soldiers below, there are more than 9 people who can find the corpses." Fang Shu cupped his hands and said.

"That is to say, there are more than 6 people who can't find the corpse, and most of these 6 people escaped after the flood receded." Xuan Shijing said: "Is that so?"

Fang Shu nodded: "Yes."

"Beheading more than 9 people is not bad. Tell Sima in the army to write truthfully, the credits of the soldiers, and the detailed history of this battle. After writing, send it to the account of the Marquis." Xuan Shijing said.

"Yes." Fang Shu cupped his hands in response.

After Fang Shu exited the tent, Xuan Shijing got up and looked at the map behind him. The camp where the Tang army is now stationed is only more than 150 miles away from Pyongyang City. Pyongyang City is at the lower reaches of the Datong River.

"Gao Jun, call all the generals above the colonel in the battalion to me. This Marquis has something to say." Xuan Shijing said.

"Yes!" Chang Le responded, and went down to gather the manpower.

Xuan Shijing sat down in front of the desk and began to write a memorial to Chang'an.

Su Dingfang attacked Baekje, and the report spread to Chang'an, which inspired the hearts of the whole Chang'an. Now, although Xuan Shijing has not destroyed Goguryeo, the last fresh force of Goguryeo has been beheaded by the Tang army. Goguryeo was killed in this battle With a population of [-], several hectares of fertile land were destroyed, and Goguryeo's last vitality was wiped out by Xuan Shijing.

After writing the memorial, Xuan Shijing saw the family letter next to the desk, and his eyes softened instantly. In less than a month, he should be able to move his teacher back to Chang'an. As it is now, eight hundred li hastened the delivery of the report, and by the way, mixed some of my own private messages into it.

Xuan Shijing called the guard outside the tent to come in, and handed him the report: "Send it back to Chang'an urgently at eight hundred li."

"Yes!"

After a while, several generals came in one after another, and after a quarter of an hour, all the generals above the colonel in the camp gathered in Xuan Shijing's tent.

"Everyone, in today's battle, our army beheaded more than [-] enemy troops. After this battle, we will set off for Pyongyang City." Xuan Shijing said: "Pyongyang City, that is our final destination, so , Ben Hou hopes that the generals will not be dazzled by the victory in front of them, go back to the camps, reorganize the armaments, and urge the soldiers, we still have the last battle, the most difficult battle, the time to see the saw may be Longest fight."

"Reporting to Lord Hou, although our army did not lose much in this battle, there is not much food and supplies left. I will ask Lord Hou for instructions, whether to dispatch food and grass from Bozhuo City and Daxing City to the front line?" A school lieutenant from the rear battalion clasped his hands and said.

"Is the remaining food and grass enough for the army to consume for a few days?" Xuan Shijing asked.

"It will take less than seven days to return to Lord Marquis." The captain said, "If we transport food and grass from Bozhuo City, we can reach our army's current camp in four days. If we transport food and grass from Dahang City, it will take a little longer, about half a month. .”

"In this way, immediately send an order to select [-] elites from the battalion, and travel to Bozhuo City to allocate food and grass, and order the scouts to go to Dahang City, transport the food and grass, and send them directly to the direction of Pyongyang City. During the transportation of food and grass, the news between the scouts cannot be broken. That's it, I'll leave it to you to handle the matter of food and grass." Xuan Shijing said, picked up a token from the table, and threw it to the captain.

The captain took Xuan Shijing's token and clapped his hands in response.

"Do the others have anything important to say to the Marquis?" Xuan Shijing glanced over everyone.

"Master Hou, the water has passed through now, but the corpses of the enemy soldiers are still lying beside the Datong River. Do we need our army to send someone to deal with it?" asked the first officer.

(End of this chapter)