Chapter 79: Capturing Yuan Gai Suwen
Yuan Gaisuwen, who fell to the ground, was crushed by a horse corpse and finally pulled out. Seeing the guards who were fighting to protect him one by one, he was extremely angry and snatched an unmanned war horse next to him. He was about to turn over the horse and fight the Tang army, who was close to him.
But at this moment, suddenly, Yuan Gai Suwen heard a roar like thunder above his head, and at the same time, the guards beside him also shouted loudly. He instinctively looked up and saw a huge figure pressing down from his head. Judging from the opponent's body shape, it was the fierce general led by the Tang army.
It turned out that Hu Li was blocked by Yuan's personal army. Seeing Yuan Gaisuwen standing up safely and unhappy when he was knocked off the horse, he felt very unwilling. At this time, the two were only more than meter apart, which gave Hu Li an opportunity to take advantage of it. He jumped up from the horse regardless of the risk of his life and wanted to capture Yuan Gaisuwen alive.
Unprepared, Yuan Gaisuwen was also shocked by the other party's desperate actions. Instinctively raised the big knife in his hand to stab the other party to death, but was called aside by Huli's weapon. Then, the weight of hundreds of kilograms of armor from the man and the horse next to him was hit hard on Yuan Gaisuwen and the horse next to him.
Under the powerful kinetic energy and gravity potential energy, Yuan Gaisuwen and his men and horses were smashed to the ground. Even though Yuan Gaisuwen was strong, he was still hit with stars. Before he could recover, Hu Li had already stood up first, swept across his hand, killing or injuring Yuan's personal soldiers who came to rescue. Then he reached out to hold Yuan Gaisuwen under his armpit, holding a stick in his hand to defend the enemy, and stride towards his own team.
Seeing the main general being captured, the Yuan clan's personal army seemed crazy. Countless people surrounded the tiger's power, attacking him with dense weapons, trying to kill the tiger's power on the spot, and at the same time rescued Yuan Gaisuwen.
Although Hu Li was brave, he could not block the weapons attacked from all directions. He had no choice but to wave the iron rod and sweep away the deadly weapon. As for those who were not fatal, he could only use his body to carry it. In the blink of an eye, he suffered dozens of injuries on his body, and blood was flowing. However, this injury made Hu Li's mind flash. He swung the Yuangaisuwen, who was sandwiched under his armpit, as a stick, and swept over the surrounding Goguryeo soldiers.
Now the opponent was afraid of being afraid of hurting the life of the main general, so they retreated one after another. At this time, the Tiger Head Army and Zhou Long finally arrived. Seeing that the Tiger Li had captured the main general alive, they became even more motivated. The horse hooves stepped on the other party's corpse to protect the Tiger Li. When the Tiger Li turned over the horse, he immediately raised his head and shouted: "Yun Gaisuwen was captured. Those who surrendered were exempted from death!"
"Yun Gaisuwen was captured, and those who surrendered were exempted from death..."
As soon as Hu Li said the words, they were immediately spread by the Tang army beside him. In the blink of an eye, the Tang army on the entire battlefield was roaring in unison. After hearing this, the Goguryeo soldiers saw Yuan Gaisuwen in the hands of the tall Tang general in the field, all of them looked like earth, and in the blink of an eye, they were completely depressed.
"Clang~" As the first Goguryeo soldier threw down the weapon in his hand, it seemed to cause a chain reaction, the sound of metal clanging continued to reach the ears, and finally even formed a whole. Except for a few loyal people who were still fighting stubbornly, most of the people on the left battlefield threw down their weapons and surrendered.
Hu Li, surrounded by Zhou Long and others, rushed to the main battlefield with Yuan Gaisuwen, and spread the news of Yuan Gaisuwen's alive. As a result, the Goguryeo soldiers who had already dealt with the collapse immediately put down their weapons and surrendered.
They walked around the battlefield for a while, then they rushed to Li Shimin by horses, rolled over and dismounted the horse and threw Yuan Gaisuwen, who had been driven to death, and bowed to the ground, clasped their fists and said, "I will come and report to you!"
"Hahaha~, please get up quickly!" Li Shimin happily saw these two tiger generals, threw his saddle off the horse, stepped forward a few steps to help them up in person, but turned a blind eye to the blood and minced meat on their armor.
Although Hu Li and Zhou Long regarded Li Shimin as their enemies, they were a little moved when they saw that he attached so much importance to him. At the same time, they thought to themselves that the Li family had many talents, and the lord was defeated by them. It was indeed not unfair to lose.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The two of them bowed to thank them. Before they could stand up, Li Yan had already asked the prepared medical soldiers to support them. Although they were invincible on the battlefield, even if they were brave, they would inevitably be injured on the battlefield. What's more, they defeated the more with less and rushed to the front. Even if they were protected by armor, they still had countless wounds. If the bleeding was not stopped in time, they would probably die of excessive blood loss.
Similarly, the five thousand cavalrymen who went with them also suffered heavy casualties, nearly more than a thousand were killed in battle, and everyone else was injured. As for the 1,000 guards of the royal palace, nearly a hundred people died in the 700 Tiger Head Army, and half of the other 300 were killed in battle. After all, no matter how elite they were, they were always at the forefront of the team, and casualties were inevitable. Moreover, even many living people were seriously injured. They fell from the horse as soon as they came back. It is still unknown whether they could be rescued.
The losses of nearly one-third of the 1,000 guards brought by him were nearly one-third. Although he had made great contributions, such a large casualty still made Li Yan feel painful. These were his strongest team in the future. However, because of the heavy losses in this battle of Goguryeo, he had no place to pay for it, which was really a huge loss.
However, after this battle, Li Yan found that the surviving guards were very different, especially the 600 tiger-headed army. Although the face was still sad about losing their comrades, his whole spiritual temperament felt like he was transformed, just like a pearl covered in dust finally washed away the dust and began to shine brightly.
With the capture of Yeon Gai Suwen, the Goguryeo army surrendered one after another. Even if some diehards resisted stubbornly, it was still difficult to stop the Iron Cavalry of the Tang Dynasty. As the evening approached, the battlefield was finally cleared. Although there were still thousands of defenders in Pyongyang City, the 150,000 troops outside the city had been eliminated by the Tang army. Naturally, they had no courage to be enemies with the Tang army, so they wisely surrendered. However, it was too late at this time. Li Ji ordered people to guard the big and small gates of Pyongyang City, and did not enter the city immediately. He was still stationed outside Pyongyang City that night.
In this battle, the Tang army fought against Goguryeo 150,000, of which 20,000 were killed in the battle and more than 40,000 were injured. The Tang army also suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and the wounded were naturally mostly half of them. As a medical officer, Li Yan was originally busy, but in addition to understanding some theories, he was just average in actual operations, and he did not like to deal with the wounds himself, so he handed over all the medical officers to several deputy managers to manage, and at the same time promised them that one would be selected from among them as a future medical officer.
Chapter completed!