Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 349
"Shoot the arrows, and don't allow them to approach the city one step further."

Yang Wanchun waved his one arm and roared angrily.

A banner owner said hesitantly, "But the city owner, they are all the people of our Goguryeo."

"The people are fart, since they have started to fill the soil and carry stones for the Sui army, they have already betrayed us Goguryeo. They are no longer the people of Goguryeo, but our enemies. Shoot arrows and kill them."

Order passed.

The Goguryeo people on the top of the city began to shoot their bows and arrows. Some soldiers hesitated, but they were quickly reprimanded by the officers.

In the end, the arrows shot down one by one.

Those Goguryeo people fell under the Xincheng city one after another. In the distance, Luo Cheng watched all this with cold eyes.

Although this is very cruel and unkind, war is like this.Especially the war between the two countries, or this kind of war with a foreign race, there is no kindness at all.

Wu Sanbao once told him what the Goguryeo people did after they seized Liaodong from the Murong family. Their massacre of the Han people was not kind at all.

Kindness does not hold soldiers.

War is all-purpose, and it is to attack and weaken the morale and strength of the opponent in an all-round way.

"It's a pity that there are so many people, and most of them are young and strong."

Luo Cunxiao stood next to Luo Cheng in the rear compartment, constantly regretting.

"Any young man can be sold for at least ten guan if it is brought to Xiangping or Huaiyuan. If it is transported to Luoyang or Daxing, a young man can be sold for [-] or [-] guan, and a beautiful young Goguryeo female slave can even be sold for [-] guan. Forty guan, this is a lot of money, it's just wasted."

Luo Cheng just said coldly, "You can't take these people with you anyway."

"We can inform Luo Yi or Li Jing, let them send people to take these captives, and then we will share them together."

Luo Cheng glanced at Yuwen Shiji who was in the distance with his lips. The surrendered ambassador is now pale.

"Did you see him? With him, no matter how many prisoners you have, they are not yours."

"Hey, forget it, just kill it, anyway, it's Goguryeo people who kill Goguryeo people, and Goguryeo people kill Goguryeo people, it's none of our business."

Luo Cheng looked at the arrows flying down from the city, and turned to the fourth son, "The Goguryeo people are lonely when they shoot arrows, so you should bring someone to accompany them."

"Ok."

Cunxiao turned and left.

A moment later, under the city, the fourth child Cunxiao rode his horse to the front of the army, shouting loudly.

Immediately, the Sui army ordered the flag to wave, and the drums burst out.

The Sui soldiers in the phalanx held their bows and crossbows one after another, shooting random arrows like flying clouds.

The Goguryeo people in Xincheng City were immediately covered by arrow rain, so they had to dodge one after another. The Goguryeo people in the city were relieved.

But as soon as they stopped, the crossbow cart behind them fired several times, piercing through dozens of Goguryeo people. These Goguryeo people were so sad that they had to move forward again.

"Go up to me and kill those traitors!"

Yang Wanchun saw that under the cover of the Sui army's arrow array, a large number of Goguryeo people had already crowded up, and they were desperately filling the trench, with blue veins on their faces.

The defenders on the city had no choice but to stand in front of the battlements again against the flying arrows, and shoot arrows at the bottom.

The people of Goguryeo continued to fall, but the casualties of the Goguryeo defenders also increased significantly.

Some simple catapults were also pushed to the front of the formation, and began to throw stone bombs and fireballs at the top of the city, which made the defenders at the top of the city even more devastated.

The fighting lasted from noon to dusk.

Under the city of Xincheng, there are bursts of smoke and blood.

The ten-foot-wide and two-foot-deep moat in front of the city wall to the south of the new city had to be filled with more than a dozen dirt road passages, and there were corpses and blood everywhere in the moat.

long time.

The Goguryeo people in the city shot sore backs and hands, and they took arrows to shoot and kill all the more than 1 Goguryeo people who filled the trenches.

Against the Sui army's arrow rain, they insisted on killing all these people, and they also suffered nearly a thousand casualties.

In front of the Sui army.

Yuwen Shiji pointed at Luo Cheng, pointed at him, jumped and cursed.

In his opinion, Xincheng originally intended to negotiate a peace, and he had a great chance to surrender.

But now, it is no longer possible.

"You butcher, human slaughter, you are brutal!"

Luo Cheng just looked at Yuwen Shiji coldly, "Have you said enough, just go when you say enough."

Yuwen Shi was so angry that he trembled all over and cursed continuously.

Luo Cheng, who scolded him, was annoyed, so he reached out and grabbed his collar, and lifted him up.Luo Cheng, who was eight feet away, was strong and healthy, carrying a Yuwen scholar like he was carrying a chicken.

He looked directly at Yuwen Shiji, "Don't push yourself too hard, just accept it when you see it."

After finishing speaking, he put him down, and then patted his wrinkled clothes lightly.

Yuwen Shiji wanted to scold him again, but he couldn't open his mouth. Just now, he felt that Luo Cheng was full of murderous intent towards him, really full of murderous intent.

Flicking his sleeves, Yuwen Shi stepped back a few steps.

After getting a little farther away, he said loudly, "I must visit you to His Majesty, I will definitely visit you, definitely!"

"Casual!"

Luo Cheng snorted.

Wei Zheng leaned over, "This Yuwen Erlang seems a bit pedantic."

"It's bad, it's circuitous, Yuwen's family has no hope."

Wei Zheng smiled, "However, the general's methods today are indeed too harsh. After today, the surrounding area of ​​the new city will be completely empty. There will be no chickens crowing in a hundred miles, and there will be no smoke in the fields."

Luo Cheng said indifferently, "Anyway, it's a group of barbarians who don't accept Wang Hua. It doesn't matter if they kill them all. They will just immigrate from the Central Plains later. I have no shortage of land and people in the Central Plains, just right."

"The trenches have been filled with more than a dozen dirt roads, but all the captured Goguryeo people have died. Will we continue to attack tomorrow?"

Luo Cheng asked Wei Zheng, "Are you still attacking?"

"I suggest that there is no need to attack. Looking at the reaction of the defenders on the city today, the Goguryeo people are really ruthless. They didn't even frown when they killed their own people. They killed more than 1 people in a long time. This is determined. If you defend to the end, if you really want to attack hard, even if there are no ditches, the walls of this city are high, especially the other walls are mostly on the hillside, so it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so it is not easy to fight."

Luo Chengdao, "I know, I didn't intend to really attack the new city, but since I'm passing by, I can't just pass by like this."

"Then tomorrow?"

"Why don't we send Yuwen Shiji into the city tomorrow to negotiate surrender with the Goguryeo people?" Luo Cheng asked with a smile.

Wei Zheng shook his head hastily, "This joke is not funny. Anyway, I don't want to see Yuwen Shiji anymore, but he is the envoy of the Fifth Left Army after all, his status is second only to you, and he is not subject to your restraint. In case Yang Wanchun detains him Your Majesty, or kill him directly, then we will not be able to explain to His Majesty."

"That's right, then shoot the Sealed Arrow Book into the city, ask Yang Wanchun to pay the compensation and surrender, and then we can withdraw our troops and stop fighting."

When Yang Wanchun saw Luo Cheng's letter of arrows, he was threatening on the one hand and surrendering on the other. After hesitating for a long time, he finally ordered in a cold voice, asking the envoy to send 3000 taels of gold and 1 taels of silver out of the city, and then he also presented his own letter of surrender.

However, there were several additional conditions in his letter of surrender. First of all, he said that he was worried that the Sui army would plunder and slaughter the city after entering the city, so he would not let the Sui army enter the city. Being able to stay outside the city, he also said that in the end he would listen to the will of the emperor of the Sui Dynasty.

In short, the surrender was surrendered, but they refused to hand over the city.But to show his sincerity, he still gave 3000 taels of gold, 1 taels of silver, 200 beauties, [-] shi of food, and more than a thousand livestock.

When it was dark, the envoy went out of the city to meet Luo Cheng, and presented Yang Wanchun's surrender letter with both hands.

"My new city is willing to surrender, please don't make any more murders!"

(End of this chapter)