Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 578 The Battle of Gourd Valley

What's more, although the two countries are cooperating, Dongpu has been preserving its strength on the battlefield, consuming Baekje's troops seemingly intentionally or unintentionally.

As the general of Baekje, Pei Yongsheng could see Dongpu's intentions, so he seemed to cooperate with Dongpu's tactics on the surface, but in fact he deliberately delayed it. reason.

However, what he didn't expect was that the Tang army suddenly attacked Baekje and captured dozens of cities in Baekje in just one day. Even the royal city was occupied by the Tang army, and the king of Baekje fled to a small border town in a hurry.

Compared with the plan to attack Silla, the survival of Baekje is more important to them. After all, Baekje is their foundation.

Therefore, after being connected to Baekje's domestic emergency report, Pei Yongsheng immediately withdrew all the troops from the battlefield and rushed back to Baekje.

Although the number of Baekje troops has decreased by [-], there are still more than [-] people left.

Calabash Valley is about ten miles long, and it is impossible for [-] troops to enter at the same time, so they can only advance slowly in line.

After nearly [-] people from Baekje's leading troops entered, Feng Changqing, who had already ambushed around, immediately ordered people to light the fire starter, and set a big fire on the dead wood forest.

At this time, it was the beginning of winter, and the north wind was howling.

The wind helped the fire, and the fire took advantage of the wind, and the entrance of Calabash Valley became a sea of ​​flames in an instant.

The sudden change not only successfully divided the Baekje army into two parts, but also caused the Baekje army to fall into panic.

The raging fire blocked more than [-] people in Silla, and Pei Yongsheng was even more frightened and furious. However, he was powerless in the face of the raging sea of ​​flames.

At this time, the [-] troops had all entered the ambush circle of Calabash Valley.

There are a large number of people in the Dagua Valley, about [-] people, and more than [-] people in the Xiaogua Valley. The first few thousand people have already left the Gourd Valley and came to Baekje.

Su Hai, who was in ambush in Xiaoguagu, saw thick smoke coming out of Silla, and immediately ordered people to set fire to Xiaoguagu.

The Baekje army in Xiaogua Valley was immediately surrounded by flames, and the Baekje army that entered the valley fell into chaos.

At the same time, Gao Xianzhi, who was ambushing on both sides of the big melon valley, immediately ordered an attack after seeing the anger in the small melon valley.

Countless rolling logs and rocks rolled down from the mountains on both sides, causing the Baekje army in the valley to be in chaos.

Thousands of archers were condescending, shooting randomly at the Baekje Army in the valley.

The Baekje army in the Dagua Valley was like a target for arrows, and it is unknown how many people were killed by the feather arrows.

Even if they raised their shields to block the arrows in time, it was difficult to avoid the rolling logs and boulders rolling down from the mountains on both sides.

In addition, they were all crowded together, and there was no way to retreat, and the number of people who were crushed to death by boulders and rolling logs was countless.

There was a howling in the valley.

"All soldiers, follow me to kill the enemy, kill!" Gao Xianzhi drew out his long sword, shouted loudly, and immediately took the lead, rushing down from the hillside.

"kill!"

Seeing this, all the soldiers shouted loudly and rushed down from the hillsides on both sides.

The Baekje soldiers in the valley were killed countless by Yujian and Luoshikeng, and they were already in a state of confusion. Seeing the Tang army rushing down, they became even more flustered and retreated one after another.

At the same time, behind them, after Feng Changqing set fire to block the [-] Baekje army, he led his troops into the valley and killed the Baekje army from behind.

Under the front and back attacks, the Baekje army, which was already in a panic, became even more chaotic.

Those in front had to retreat, and those behind had to advance. For a while, nearly ten thousand Baekje troops were crowded together. Facing the Tang army falling from the sky, they were powerless to parry.

As for the [-] Baekje troops in Xiaogua Valley, nearly a thousand of them were trapped in the sea of ​​flames. The rest of them were divided into two groups, retreated all the way to Dagua Valley, and followed the first thousand people all the way out of Gourd Valley.

Seeing this, Su Hai immediately led his army to attack Daguagu.

But the Baekje army who fled out of Calabash Valley in a hurry, before they had time to catch their breath, they saw nearly ten thousand Tang troops waiting for them at the exit, as if they had been waiting for them for a long time.

When Li Canghai saw that the Baekje army escaped from the valley was still in shock, he waved his feather fan lightly, while the rest of the Tang army, led by Lu Jitong, charged towards the Baekje army.

This battle lasted for a whole day.

The Tang army waited for work with ease, while the Baekje army marched exhausted, and encountered ambushes one after another, the morale of the army was broken, and the casualties were heavy.

Blood flowed into rivers and piles of corpses piled up in the entire Gourd Valley, like a hell on earth.

For the first time in his life, Li Canghai saw the cruelty of war.

What made him even more unexpected was that this hell on earth was caused by him alone.

Looking at the corpses everywhere, Li Canghai felt extremely heavy in his heart.

Seeing Li Canghai staring at those corpses, Di Qing knew that he was blaming himself, so she softly comforted him: "Canghai, it's not your fault, war... is so cruel."

Li Canghai sighed for a long time, and said, "Why can't people coexist peacefully? Does everything have to be resolved by force?"

Di Qing said: "I heard from my master that people's hearts are the most greedy and will never be satisfied. All disputes in the world are caused by this. People don't want to see wars, but those who hold power will never be satisfied." Knowing that they are satisfied, they provoke wars, and it is the people who suffer."

Li Canghai rubbed the center of his brows, shook his head and sighed for a while, then fell silent.

The setting sun shone on the bloody water, forming a dizzying bloody light, and the originally light black soil of the entire Gourd Valley was dyed red.

"Report to Marshal, the Baekje Army has suffered heavy casualties. Our army has killed more than [-] enemies, with [-] casualties. The rest of the Baekje Army has surrendered!" Gao Xianzhi said to Li Canghai after checking the situation on the battlefield.

Li Canghai nodded. Judging from the reports from Gao Xianzhi and the others, there were only over ten thousand Baekje soldiers who died under the sword of Tang Jun, while two thousand were burned to death. .

In any case, the Tang army destroyed the main force of Baekje this time.

More than half of the more than 2 people were killed or injured, and the remaining less than [-] people chose to surrender in panic.

In one battle, the total number of casualties on both sides was nearly 2, and even the battle-tested generals Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing were shocked by it.

They guarded the border. Although wars often occurred with the Turks, the scale was not very large. The largest scale was only 1 people from both sides, and the casualties were only two to three thousand.

And in this battle, Datang and Baekje invested more than [-] troops!

What shocked them even more was that more than [-] people fought in this long and narrow Gourd Valley, directly killing more than [-] people from Baekje!

After this battle, Baekje's vitality was completely injured, and it was impossible to recover in a short time.

(End of this chapter)