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Chapter 93 Decisive Victory
The death of a large number of elite troops, coupled with the lack of food to eat, caused the combat effectiveness of the Goguryeo army to drop off a cliff.
By noon on the third day of the battle, with all the casualties among Goguryeo elites, the battle could no longer be fought.
The offensive of the Goguryeo army has almost come to a standstill, and the army is on the verge of collapse.
Seeing this scene, Li Zhen in Anshi City knew that the opportunity he had been waiting for for a long time had finally come. Whether he could defeat the Goguryeo army depends on today!
Although the Tang army in Anshi City was exhausted after three days of fighting, Li Zhen always retained an elite reserve team from beginning to end.
This is a thousand heavily armored cavalry!
This thousand heavily armored cavalry consists of one man and two horses. Both men and horses are covered in heavy armor, with iron masks on their faces, and they are murderous!
At that moment, Li Zhen called Xue Rengui and Yan Yun's Eighteen Cavalry to his side. Li Zhen said loudly: "Rengui, it's up to you whether you can defeat Goguryeo's 300,000-strong army and lay the foundation for the destruction of Goguryeo!"
"If you can defeat the Goguryeo army in one fell swoop, you will be my heroes of the Tang Dynasty!"
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, we, the Tang Dynasty, will win this battle!"
Xue Rengui was in high spirits, offered his hand to Li Zhenyi, and asked someone to open the city gate.
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The huge city gate of Anshi City was slowly pushed open, the suspension bridge fell, and a group of cavalry wearing black armor slowly walked out of the city.
With the scorching sun in the sky, countless black cavalrymen walked out of the city wearing masks, their armor reflecting the dark light in the sun.
From a distance, it looks like a group of ghost knights from hell, eerie and terrifying.
"Changlang!"
A thousand sabers were raised high, shining with strange lights under the scorching sun
"kill!"
Xue Rengui patted the horse's belly, and the horse jumped up and charged forward.
"kill!"
A thousand heavily armored knights shouted in unison, their murderous intent rising to the sky!
Like a huge billowing wave, a thousand heavily armored knights lined up in several rows and charged towards the Goguryeo formation.
The Goguryeo soldiers fought bloody battles for several days, had no food and grass, and were extremely exhausted. How could they withstand the impact of this heavily armored knight?
As soon as the two sides came into contact, the formation of the Goguryeo army was instantly broken, and the soldiers became a mess.
"kill!"
A thousand heavily armored cavalry continued to charge forward. Under the impact of the heavy armored cavalry, the Goguryeo soldiers fell one by one like wheat, and their heads fell to the ground one by one.
Xue Rengui shouted, and a thousand heavily armored cavalry marched directly towards the central army and attacked and killed Quan Gaisu Wen.
Quan Gaisuwen gritted his teeth and immediately ordered the entire army to besiege the thousand heavy armored cavalry and must destroy all of them.
"Dang Dang Dang"
Arrows are like locusts!
The arrows hit the cavalry and their horses, making clanging sounds and sparks.
"kill!"
Xue Rengui took the lead and rushed into the Goguryeo formation. He charged left and right, killing the sword and shield bearers and spearmen in the front row, and then rushed into the archer formation.
The archers lost the cover of the swordsmen, shieldmen and spearmen, and fought at close range. What they faced was a massacre. Many archers were not even equipped with short knives for self-defense. They were constantly tortured by Xue Rengui and the heavy armored cavalry, and fell to the ground one by one. .
At the same time, five thousand cavalrymen once again came out of Anshi City and repeatedly charged and killed the Goguryeo soldiers.
Continuous horns sounded from the side of the Goguryeo army.
"kill!"
Countless war horses came from behind the Goguryeo soldiers, but it was the main force of the 50,000 Tang army led by Cheng Yaojin and Li Ruyi who came.
At present, there were internal and external attacks, and the corpses of Goguryeo soldiers were scattered all over the field, and rivers of blood flowed.
The setting sun is like blood!
At dusk, the war finally ended.
The battlefield outside Anshi City was covered with the corpses of Goguryeo soldiers who died in the battle. The blood gathered into a small river, and even the originally green grass outside Anshi City was dyed blood red.
This battle is more like a massacre.
After several days of bloody fighting, the hungry and exhausted Goguryeo army was vulnerable to the powerful Tang army.
The 300,000-strong army was directly defeated. At least 50,000 Goguryeo troops were killed, and more than 50,000 people were captured. The rest were all scattered.
These defeated Goguryeo troops also knew that there was no food to eat in the hinterland of Goguryeo, so most of them headed northeast.Eat at the border.
In order to survive, many Goguryeo soldiers smuggled directly into the territory of the Tang Dynasty and willingly became subjects of the Tang Dynasty.
At the last moment of the battle, Izumi Suwen led 800 cavalrymen to flee towards the direction of Ryugyong City.
Quan Gaisuwen was at the end of his rope at this time. Goguryeo's elite troops had been completely lost, almost all the Mohe mercenaries had fled, and almost all of Goguryeo's ordinary army had collapsed.
Quan Gaisuwen knew that after this battle, not only was Goguryeo's vitality severely damaged, but it was even in danger of annihilation.
Thinking that Goguryeo might be destroyed because of him, Quan Gaesumun pulled out the sword from his waist and was about to commit suicide.
Several guards on the side quickly snatched the sword from his hand. Changsun Yan also looked sleepy at this time and said: "Da Molizhi, we are not in the final desperate situation yet. Although we cannot reverse the situation, we must protect Goguryeo." It¡¯s still okay to be subjugated.¡±
Quan Gaisuwen's eyes lit up and he said to Changsun Yan: "If Mr. Changsun can save Goguryeo and prevent Goguryeo from being destroyed, I, Quangaisuwen and Goguryeo, are willing to obey Mr. Changsun's orders from now on."
Changsun Yan nodded and said to himself that if Li Zhen really destroyed Goguryeo and achieved this extraordinary feat, then he would definitely take the initiative in the fight for the crown prince.
Therefore, the top priority is to protect Goguryeo from being destroyed. As long as Goguryeo is not destroyed, Li Zhen's military exploits will be greatly reduced, and Li Zhi will still have great potential in the future.
Thinking of this, Changsun Yan immediately asked Quan Gaisuwen to write a letter of surrender, stating that he would surrender to the Tang Dynasty, but requested that the territory would not be incorporated into the Tang Dynasty, but would only be regarded as a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty.
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At the same time, Quangaisuwen continued to collect remnant soldiers. When he heard that Quangaisuwen was not dead, the defeated troops of Goguryeo gathered one after another. In less than a month, Quangaisuwen gathered another 50,000 troops.
However, these 50,000 troops were the last assets of Goguryeo, and they were completely different from the original 600,000 troops.
At this time, Goguryeo had been weakened to the extreme by Li Zhen's continuous blows, and its strength was completely unable to support such a large country.
What Quan Gaisuwen needs now is time.
As long as he is given another ten years to wait for the next generation to grow up, then Goguryeo will recover. However, the premise is that during these ten years, the Tang Dynasty must not invade Goguryeo and give Goguryeo time. Therefore, on the surface, Surrender is necessary.
Quan Gaisu Wen has heard of the allusion about Gou Jian lying down on firewood and tasting gallbladder.
But, would the emperor of the Tang Dynasty really let go of Goguryeo, the ancient enemy of the Central Plains Dynasty for hundreds of years (remember this website address: www.hlnovel.com