Chapter 2699: Attack 2
Yin Li saw the dust rising and his eyes sharpened. "Your Majesty, General Ashina has drawn the enemy out."
The emperor immediately stepped forward, looked at the dusty area, clenched his fist and said, "Wait a moment."
The emperor ordered Ashina to lead a thousand cavalrymen to lure the enemy, but he also arranged two other cavalry teams to ambush. On one side, the Duke of Zhao led 15,000 soldiers and horses to ambush at Xiling, and on the other side, the governor Niu led 11,000 soldiers and horses to ambush at the north of the mountain.
Ashina led a thousand cavalrymen to lure the enemy into the canyon. When the governor Niu, who was lying in ambush on the north side of the mountain, saw that they had fallen into a trap, he immediately rushed out with his men. The emperor, standing on the high mountain, saw the dust flying and knew that the governor Niu had taken action.
Immediately beat the war drums, wave the flags, and order the Duke of Zhao to lead his troops to charge in and surround the enemy.
When Yanshou heard the drumbeat, he looked up and saw the Great Jin Emperor standing on the mountaintop. Thrilled, he immediately ordered his men to form a battle formation to meet the enemy. Pointing his sword at him, he said, "My men, that is the Great Jin Emperor. Any warrior who can capture him will be rewarded with the rank of Marquis of a Thousand Households!"
The army began to clamor, and some people immediately rushed towards the North Mountain.
Ashina turned around and attacked, and together with the troops rushed in by Niu Zhishi, they stopped most of the enemies in an instant.
Some others rushed out. Yin Li saw this and left a thousand men to guard the emperor while he rushed down with three thousand soldiers.
Bai Shan glanced at the emperor and followed closely.
Standing on the top of the mountain, the emperor could clearly see the battle situation below and give orders directly with flag signals. Duke Zhao, Governor Niu and other generals changed their formations according to the flag signals, constantly strangling the enemy troops entering the valley and constantly bringing in more enemy troops.
Yin Li led three thousand cavalrymen and rushed down the mountain, running into the enemy army head-on. With one stroke of his sword, he cut the leading horse in half.
Bai Shan, who was behind him, looked away uncomfortably, drew his sword and charged into the army. He used a sword, which was much gentler than Yin Li's. He only wiped the neck and stabbed the heart, and would never cut a person in half with one knife like Yin Li did.
Daji was Bai Shan's personal soldier. He followed closely behind him, hacking people while protecting him as he rushed forward.
The three thousand men quickly killed all the enemy troops that rushed out of the battle formation.
Yin Li raised his hand to call back his troops. All the soldiers lined up behind him in an orderly manner, looking towards the battlefield in the canyon with murderous intent.
They will not join in. Their mission is to protect the emperor and not let any soldiers go up the mountain.
The Goguryeo soldiers kept trying to charge forward, but most of them couldn't. Some of them did, but were killed by the three thousand imperial guards.
After fighting for a long time, Yanshou found that they were constantly losing people and were completely surrounded and killed by the Jin army. His face changed drastically, and he was shocked and frightened. He had no choice but to retreat, but there were also Jin troops behind him.
"General—"
Yanshou gritted his teeth and said, "Retreat to the mountains and defend along the mountain. Quickly—"
But there were too many of them, and by the time they finally occupied a nearby mountain and defended themselves, they had lost more than 20,000 people.
Yanshou was heartbroken, but there was something even more heartbreaking. Duke Zhao led his men to charge out and directly killed the people who were going to build checkpoints along the way, cutting off their retreat.
In this way, although they occupied a mountain and temporarily defended it, they were also surrounded and could not retreat or advance.
Yanshou and the emperor on the North Mountain looked at each other from a distance. After a while, he turned back to the tent he had just set up and slammed the table in anger.
The Mohe general Huihe who was with him widened his eyes and said, "We must fight our way out. We don't have much food."
Yanshou vomited to death, "Of course I know, but how can I kill him now?"
He blamed Huihe a little for not knowing when to advance or retreat. If he hadn't been chasing Ashina, the 60,000 of them wouldn't have fallen into the trap.
A full 60,000. Although they claimed to have 150,000 reinforcements, there were actually not that many. Only 120,000 of them could actually fight, so there were only 60,000 left in the main camp, and it was unknown whether they would come to rescue.
Rescue was impossible because they were blocked by 20,000 troops from the Jin Dynasty.
The emperor watched from afar and was very happy. The results of the battle were greater than he had imagined, and the war was going more smoothly than he had thought.
I didn't expect Yanshou to be so cowardly. He didn't fight his way out, but instead relied on the mountains to defend himself. Without food and supplies, wasn't he courting death?
They tried hard to rush out. Although it was a gamble and there might be heavy casualties, their numbers far exceeded that of the Da Jin, so there was still a great chance of breaking out.
Bai Shan and Yin Li returned to the emperor, took a look, and asked the emperor, "Your Majesty, do you want to persuade him to surrender?"
The emperor glanced at Bai Shan approvingly and asked, "How did you know I wanted to persuade them to surrender?"
Bai Shan: "It's getting cold. If we continue to waste time, it will be very exhausting for us. They don't even have the courage to charge out, so it should be easy to persuade them to surrender."
The emperor nodded slightly. "There's no rush for this matter. I just saw a young general in white robes down below who looked quite brave. What's his name?"
Yin Li also noticed it and was about to send someone to ask, but Bai Shan said, "His name is Xue Gui, from the Xue family of Hedong, and he is a descendant of the King of Hedong of the Northern Dynasty."
The emperor raised an eyebrow, "He is a famous general. Let him rest for a while and then take a thousand soldiers to kill off their remaining aggressiveness."
"Yes." After Bai Shan agreed, someone would naturally go to convey the order, but he would be required to write the handwritten order and the imperial edict. Well, this was the role of the Secretariat on the battlefield.
As a result, the Goguryeo army had no peace even at night. Xue Gui, Ashina, Niu Zhishi and others took turns to fight. You go up and kill for half an hour, and after a while I go up and kill for another half an hour...
When counting the casualties the next morning, Yanshou was almost in tears.
When the soldiers came up to report that they had little dry food with them and asked whether they were going to break out or something, Yanshou's tears fell.
Just when he was hesitating and wanted to organize his troops to charge out, there was a deafening shout outside. Not only the soldiers below, but even Yanshou couldn't help but tremble with fear when he heard these sounds that seemed to be exploding in his ears.
Hui He said with a pale face: "Our retreat has been cut off. How can we retreat?"
Yanshou didn't say anything.
The lieutenants standing silently in the tent couldn't help but look at each other, and someone whispered, "General, why don't we surrender?"
Everyone looked at Yanshou with bright eyes.
Lian Huihe whispered, "Why not just surrender? The emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty doesn't kill surrendered soldiers. Look at Ashina, isn't he a surrendered general?"
Yanshou felt like he was being roasted on fire, unable to make up his mind.
Outside, the Emperor and the Duke of Zhao said, "Let the boys shout even louder. We'll make them some meat soup for lunch."
As the decree was passed down, everyone shouted even louder, surrounding the Yanshou army with shouts and yells. The sound bounced back and forth in the canyon, constantly echoing and making the sound even louder.
The hands of the Goguryeo soldiers holding swords and spears for defense were trembling. Huihe pulled Yanshou to look and said sadly: "Our courage has been broken. What can we use to fight?"
Yanshou's face turned pale. Finally, he closed his eyes, untied his sword, and went down the mountain.
Everyone knew at a glance that he agreed to surrender.
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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