Chapter 1831 They Don’t Have Horses, so What Are They Afraid Of?
In the early morning, the mist has not had time to dissipate.
Li Boming had already put on his armor, and behind him were 70,000 Baekje soldiers following him.
With one hundred thousand troops, they only fought one battle with Yeon Gaesumun's army.
No benefits were gained, but more than 30,000 people were lost.
Now they want to take the lead as a death squad to attack the Tang army.
Li Boming knew that he might never come back this time, but he had no way to change everything in front of him.
Looking back at the Baekje soldiers behind him again, Li Boming took out the sword from his waist, pointed at Rangcheng on the other side of the river, and shouted loudly: "Come with me!"
Li Boming ordered, and the Baekje soldiers boarded the warships built overnight.
Although it is called a warship, it is only about the size of a fishing boat used by people in the Tang Dynasty for fishing.
A dozen Baekje soldiers could barely fit into one ship.
Thousands of small fishing boats carrying 10,000 Baekje soldiers sailed towards Jangseong on the other side.
On the other side of the river, Xu Shiji had been waiting here with ten thousand crossbowmen.
The Baekje army took the lead in attacking the city, which was what they expected.
With Otsuka Yoshio's vicious character, he would never let the Baekje army take advantage.
They will definitely be consumed with the lives of Baekje soldiers.
In Xu Shiji's eyes, the 10,000 Baekje soldiers in front of him were just those who came to die.
Although these people are quite pitiful, Xu Shiji has no mercy.
"Archers prepare!" Xu Shiji said coldly.
Three thousand archers took two steps forward, bent their bows and nocked arrows, aiming at the densely packed boats on the river.
"Let go!" Xu Shiji waved his hand violently.
"咻咻咻——"
Countless arrows flew towards the boat on the river like a gust of wind and rain.
"ah!"
"I've been hit by an arrow!"
"Hide quickly!"
> "We are going to die!"
The intensity of the arrow rain left many Baekje soldiers with no chance to react.
Moreover, the ship they were traveling on had no defensive measures at all.
Seeing the dense rain of arrows flying towards them, they could only watch helplessly.
A frightened person hid behind his companion and saw his companion being shot through the hedgehog.
Before they could recover, the second round of arrow rain came quickly.
A small boat was hit by a hail of arrows and was unable to stop. There were arrows nailed everywhere.
Groups of corpses were dumped from the boats into the river.
But after two volleys, the bodies in the river were already floating, and the water downstream turned bright red.
Li Boming stood on the shore and saw that even half of the river had not been crossed, and there were only a few people left among more than 10,000 people. He was so heartbroken that he could not even breathe.
He wanted to discuss it with Otsuka Yoshio, but Otsuka Yoshio only told him one thing: if no one can cross the river before noon today, he, Li Boming, will take the lead in the charge.
Li Boming's whole body collapsed on the ground.
He waved to the generals behind him and said, "Let the soldiers continue on. We must cross the river before noon today!"
"Yes!" The general nodded and left with the troops behind him.
It was another round of life and death battle. This time the Baekje soldiers tried to fight back with bows and arrows, but it didn't have much effect at all.
They were living targets in the naked boat.
Before they could shoot their arrows, arrows from the Tang soldiers on the opposite side fell like raindrops.
But this time it was much closer to the other side of the river than before.
Li Boming felt this was an opportunity, and before all the soldiers in front were dead, he quickly sent out the second
Three waves of soldiers.
Another ten thousand people rushed towards Rangcheng on the other side of the river.
Many soldiers didn't even have boats, and they even thought of swimming across like this.
But before they reached the middle of the river, the rushing water swept them away.
At a glance, the river was full of corpses and people washed away by the river. .??.
The entire river was completely stained red with blood.
"Commander, brothers, we don't have enough arrows." The archer captain ran to Xu Shiji and talked about the shortage of arrows.
Xu Shiji nodded. There were actually enough bows and arrows in the city.
But not all of them can be used here.
And there is little point in shooting these Baekje soldiers. Their main opponents are Japanese soldiers.
These Baekje soldiers, who were simply used as cannon fodder, did not have much combat effectiveness at all.
"Let the soldiers retreat to the trenches." Xu Shiji ordered, his eyes falling on the trenches behind him.
He didn't know whether these things could block the sky-blasting cannon in the hands of Japan.
"The other side has withdrawn, rush forward!"
When Yoshio Otsuka saw the Tang army on the opposite side evacuating the river bank, he quickly ordered his subordinate Doi Yuan to lead people across the river.
A large number of ships were launched again, much larger than those used by Baekje soldiers before.
The Japanese soldiers were sitting in the boat. There were Baekje soldiers blocking them in front of them. Regardless of whether they were dead or alive, they all slashed into the depths of the river with their swords to prevent them from blocking the progress of the boat.
After a while, the blood in the river became more and more vivid.
It's as if the water in this river is blood.
The Japanese army crossed the river without any danger and began to gather on the river bank, while the Baekje soldiers who were death squads were squeezed into a corner by them.
Yoshio Otsuka also came by boat.
Looking at Soucheng in front of him, Yoshio Otsuka showed excitement on his face.
After crossing the river, he will not worry
Heartbroken.
Now is the time for the sky-blasting cannon in his hand to come into play.
"Doi-maru, immediately ask Yamamoto to take the bombardment troops and blow up these Tang people for me." Otsuka Yoshio immediately ordered Doi-maru beside him.
"Yay!" Doi-maru responded immediately.
Soon, hundreds of Japanese bombardment troops came from the rear, and each of them carried several bombardments.
Obviously, Otsuka Yoshio came prepared this time.
"My lord, it seems that the other side has dug a lot of trenches outside the city." Yamamoto soon came to report the situation outside the city.
"Dig trenches?" Otsuka Yoshio sneered: "Does he think that digging a few trenches can stop us?"
"Blow them up, blow them all up for me!"
"Hai!"
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"Will this trench work? I heard that the Japanese have a lot of bombers."
"It should be no problem. This is the idea of His Highness."
"Oh, I hope it works. The bomber will blow up a large area. No one within ten meters will survive."
"The Japanese army is coming, archers, get ready!"
With the rebuke of the archer captain, a group of archers stopped talking, and they all looked forward with their heads down and bows and arrows in their hands.
The Japanese army didn't take the trenches in front of them seriously.
Trenches, they are not used to stop war horses.
They don't have horses, what are they afraid of?
The bomber troops swaggered towards the trenches in front with bombers, ready to blow up all the trenches.
"Swish, swish, swish--"
The Japanese soldiers never expected that there were countless Tang Dynasty archers hiding in these trenches.
The rain of arrows arrived as expected, and countless Japanese soldiers were shot through by arrows without even a groan.