Many warships in the Navy are large and the water is deep, so they cannot approach Pingxiang City directly through the Datong River.
Some officers and soldiers of the Navy need to switch to small and medium-sized ships before they can sail into the Datong River.
Some even need to run from land to Pingxiang City.
At nine o'clock on August 20th, the navy rushed to a place ten miles outside Pingxiang City in a small boat and put down all the navy soldiers.
Pingxiang City is an important city in Goryeo and the main line of defense against China.
The entire city was built with high walls and thick walls.
The outside of the city wall was built with green bricks and filled with rammed earth.
It was about five feet high, three feet wide, and surrounded by a moat two feet and five feet deep.
Pingxiang City is the most critical city for Goryeo, and it is also a city that determines whether Goryeo can withstand the Chinese attack, so there are always 20,000 troops stationed here.
This battle is crucial to Li Jun and the navy.
In order to capture Pingxiang City in one fell swoop and to show his determination to capture Pyongyang City to the death, General Li Jun set up his headquarters 300 steps outside Pyongyang City.
In the commander's tent, Zhang Heng looked at Li Jun and said, "Pingxiang City has high walls and thick walls, so it's difficult to fight.
How do you think we should fight?"
"Pingxiang City is crucial to our army's plan.
If we conquer this city, we can lead the Korean army away.
No matter how difficult it is, we must take down Goryeo in one fell swoop.
Send the order, and the whole army will attack fiercely.
We must take down Goryeo City in one fell swoop."
"Well, if that's the case, let's fight."
"Don't worry about the strategy now.
Except for leaving the necessary personnel, everyone is going to help me.
Before the enemy is ready, I can conquer Pingxiang City in one go."
Following Li Jun's order, various naval units carried simple siege equipment such as wooden logs and ladders and launched an attack on Pyongyang City.
When the Korean soldiers on the top of the city saw billowing dust not far away, they could faintly hear shouts.
They immediately shouted in horror: "There is an enemy attacking the city, please sound the gong!"
"Close the city gate first, close the city gate" "Quickly inform your lord that there are enemies attacking the city."
With the rapid sound of gongs and clangs, the Korean soldiers who had just gotten up from the bed rushed out of the barracks, looking for their swords and guns in a chaotic manner and ran towards the city.
Cui Jingshan, who was still guarding Pyongyang City in Xijing, Korea, was still resting in his mansion when a sudden scream woke him up.
He rushed out of the room and shouted, "What happened?
Where is the noise coming from?"
Cui Jingshan's soldiers cried and shouted: "Sir, there are enemies coming to kill."
"Where do the enemies come from and how many are there?"
Cui Jingshan asked urgently upon hearing this.
The soldier hurriedly shouted: "I don't know, I just heard the news."
Cui Jingshan immediately slapped him over and shouted, "You don't know anything.
What's the use of you?
Why don't you hurry up and ask people to close the city gate and prepare the equipment to defend the city?"
"Yes, little one, let's go right away"
Cui Jingshan didn't even have time to put on his armor, so he hurriedly led his guards to the top of the city.
At this time, the navy had blocked the moat, and densely packed naval soldiers were desperately climbing up the ladder.
"Quick, quick, let me attack you."
Zhang Shun held his shield and shouted at the top of his voice to the navy soldiers to attack the tower as soon as possible.
Seeing that the navy soldiers were about to attack the city and seize control of the city wall.
At this time, Cui Jingshan, the garrison of Xijing, arrived in time.
Standing on the city wall, Cui Jingshan waved his hand and shouted hoarsely: "Fire arrows, archers, don't stop."
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Several military commanders shouted in a drawn-out tone: "Stretch your bow and release it!"
Under the officers' scolding, the Korean soldiers also recovered from the chaos.
They bent their bows and set arrows, and shot sharp arrowheads from the top of the wall one after another.
The military commander waved his arms, drums sounded, orders were issued, and bows and arrows were shot.
With such a rhythm, five or six rounds of arrow rain were fired in a short period of time.
Sharp arrows suddenly fell from the sky like a heavy rain with the scream of death.
With the strong inertia of falling from high altitude, the sharp arrows easily penetrated the human body.
The navy immediately fell to the ground like dumplings, and their progress slowed down a bit.
The Korean army's bows and arrows at the top of the city blocked the breach, and the navy was in a very critical situation.
The sharp whistling sound of arrows tearing through the air was endless.
The naval archers below the city counterattacked.
The Korean soldiers at the top of the city were hit by arrows and fell down from time to time, screaming one after another.
Pyongyang's city walls are towering and solid, far superior to ordinary cities, and the city's equipment and supplies are also quite complete.
The navy's continuous fierce attacks failed to take control of the city.
Li Jun opened his eyes angrily, the corners of his eyes bursting, and roared at the top of his lungs, "Damn it, I can't handle it.
Take out all the weapons and blow up the city wall for me."
I originally thought about keeping the government to see if I could hold Pyongyang City.
But now we can't even take the city, so what's the point of defending it?
Zhang Shun and Ruan Xiaoqi led 300 soldiers carrying military bags on their backs and prepared to carry out the bombing.
They carried iron shields and crawled forward, approaching a small ridge about 10 meters in front of Pyongyang.
The Korean soldiers on the city discovered him and shot at him desperately.
Forced by the rain of arrows, he couldn't even lift his head.
Li Jun saw it from a distance and shouted urgently, "Hurry up and cover him!"
The navy archers immediately fought back with their bows and arrows, and Zhang Shun and Ruan Xiaoqi took the opportunity to run under the city wall.
Zhang Shun stuffed his bags under the corner and turned around to evacuate.
Unexpectedly, a sharp arrow immediately pierced his arm and he fell to the ground.
When Ruan Xiaoqi saw it, he quickly protected Zhang Shun with an iron shield and dragged him back with all his strength.
When Li Jun saw Ruan Xiaoqi and Zhang Shun coming back, he immediately shouted: "Shoot rockets!"
For a moment, rockets filled the sky and shot towards the city wall.
Rumble There was a loud noise, shaking one after another, and the entire arrow tower was swallowed up by smoke and dust.
Immediately afterwards, the beams of the arrow tower were directly broken, sawdust fell one after another, and Cui Jingshan choked and coughed one after another.
A gust of river wind blew by, blowing away the smoke.
I saw a big gap in the city wall of Pyongyang.
Navy soldiers shouted, "Kill!"
Under the cover of arrow rain, the navy launched a fierce attack and quickly broke into the city, repelling many counterattacks by the Korean soldiers.
Follow-up echelons followed up one after another and launched attacks deep into the enemy.
Without the protection of the city wall, the Korean soldiers were unable to withstand the fierce offensive of the navy.
In just one stick of incense, the south gate that had been guarded before was captured.
All troops entered the city, attacked side by side from multiple routes, and bravely interspersed, dividing the Korean soldiers in the city, and encircling and annihilating them one by one.
The various ministries adopted tactical means such as interspersed divisions and roundabout encirclement to separate the Korean soldiers.
Then, under the cover of arrow rain and shouuiudàn, the follow-up troops used a combination of firepower, bombs, and assaults to attack the Korean soldiers holding strongholds.
When the fierce fighting came, the siege troops from all walks of life successively captured the west gate and the north gate, annihilating all the defenders.
Only about 8,000 Korean soldiers were left, and they retreated into Wengcheng and stood firm in the inner city to resist tenaciously.
Guard Cui Jingshan moved the command post to the Wengcheng Arrow Tower, determined to fight to the death with Pyongyang City.
At the end of the day, the navy launched a continuous fierce attack on Pyongyang's barbican city.
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Many years later, Ruan Xiaoqi, who was already a naval admiral, recalled.
"The real attack on Pyongyang only took one day.
The most difficult thing was to destroy the inner city."
"The battle to uproot the inner city of Pyongyang has begun.
No one expected that the battle for the inner city would be so fierce."
"The Arrow Tower is the commanding heights of Pyongyang City.
Capturing the Arrow Tower has also become the key to controlling Pyongyang."
"The Goryeo army deployed nearly 3,000 guards here, and when the arrows came down, it rained heavily."
"There are only ten feet between the outer city and the Wengcheng.
Even within this short ten feet, both sides killed rivers of blood and mountains of corpses."
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