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Li Chengshi pointed his sword, waved the flag, and the attack began.

"Fire!"

With the order of the commander.

One hundred ignited arrows and lightnings shot at the suspension bridge. In a series of sudden explosions, the suspension bridge was blown to pieces, and two iron chains flew high.

Before the soldiers on the top of the city could react, the second batch of arrows and lightnings were fired at the same time. The dense arrows and lightnings shot at the city gate. In the explosion of fireworks and thunder, the city gate was blown to pieces.

The soldiers on the top of the city were terrified. Everyone was terrified and lay on the top of the city without moving.

The commander Zheng Qingxuan's heart sank into the abyss. He knew that this battle was more dangerous than good. Zheng Qingxuan also understood the intention of the Tang army and shouted: "All troops go down the city! All troops go down the city!"

The soldiers on the top of the city were in a panic and threw themselves down the city.

At this time, the smoke at the city gate dissipated, and the third batch of arrow mines was launched. The third batch of arrow mines was to make up for the shortcomings and clean up the city gates that were not blown up. With the explosion of the third batch of arrow mines, the city gates that were already in pieces were blown up cleanly.

"Kill!"

The commander Li Chengshi shouted, and 30,000 troops rushed into the city. Three bridges had been built, and the soldiers rushed across the bridges and rushed into the city.

A fierce battle broke out with the Silla soldiers who had just rushed down the city.

The city gates shouted and killed, and 20,000 Silla soldiers occupied thirteen important strongholds and resisted the Tang army.

The largest stronghold was the Hanzhou Dudu Mansion, which was a building complex covering an area of ​​300 acres built by the Tang army in the sixth year of Xianqing, and was renovated again during the Tianbao period.

At present, Hanzhou Governor's Mansion is the third largest building complex besides Silla Palace and Baekje Palace. The Governor's Mansion is located in the north of the city, with a small river passing by. The Tang army built the Governor's Mansion by the river, built walls with large bluestones, and pulled up a suspension bridge. It is tall and solid, and it is completely a city within a city.

The commander Zheng Qingxuan also had a little luck in street fighting because of this city within a city covering an area of ​​300 acres and the 4,000 troops gathered.

But he had never fought against the Tang army, and he didn't know that the Tang army also had countless street fighting weapons.

The first killer in street fighting is the explosive arrow. An explosive arrow can cause a wall to collapse, thereby causing the collapse of the entire house.

The second killer in street fighting is fire, especially against dense buildings like the Hanjiang Governor's Mansion, the Tang army will not fight hard at all.

At the command, two thousand gunpowder arrows were shot into the Governor's Mansion, and the Governor's Mansion was immediately on fire. Then hundreds of small catapults threw oil cans into the Governor's Mansion from all directions. After three rounds of oil cans, the entire Governor's Mansion was on fire, and thick smoke filled the sky above the entire north of the city.

Countless Silla soldiers cried and jumped into the small moat to escape, but they were all ruthlessly shot in the river by Tang soldiers. The fire in the Governor's Mansion became bigger and bigger, and finally the entire Governor's Mansion was engulfed.

At this time, fires broke out everywhere in Hanzhou City. The Tang army used fire attacks to deal with the soldiers who were entrenched. Except for the warehouse, the other twelve entrenched points were engulfed by fire.

The people in the city also suffered a devastating disaster. The brutal street fighting did not distinguish between soldiers and civilians. Both sides were blood-thirsty and would instinctively kill each other if they saw that they were not their own people.

Women and children would be slightly better, but almost all men were killed.

This brutal street battle lasted until the second watch and was basically over. The rest was to clean up and kill. By the fourth watch, all the battles were over. Twenty thousand Silla soldiers were killed, but the Tang army also paid the price of more than two thousand casualties.

The sky gradually brightened, and the Tang army began to drive them out from house to house. Each household was only allowed to carry two packages. All the people were driven out of the city. The crying was deafening. The fear and family members being killed in the street battles, as well as the fear of the future, almost made everyone collapse.

But the Tang army was not the Japanese army of Bohai. The Tang army did not kill civilians or rob ordinary people of their property, but the nobles were hard to protect. In fact, the mansions of the three nobles in Hanzhou City had been looted by the Silla army in advance, becoming one of the thirteen strongholds occupied by the Silla army. In the end, they were also burned down by fire. The wealth looted by the Silla army finally fell into the hands of the Tang army.

The warehouse of Hanzhou City was not attacked by fire, but the wall was blown down by explosive arrows. The Tang army rushed in and fought with more than 1,000 Silla soldiers guarding the warehouse, and finally annihilated more than 1,300 Silla soldiers.

Hanzhou City was mainly a granary of Silla, where the most grain of Silla was stored, with a total of 600,000 stones of grain.

Tens of thousands of Silla people sat in the wilderness. There were not many young and strong men, basically all of them were old, weak, women and children. In recent years, there have been many rebellions and civil wars in Silla, and there have been major uprisings by the Baekje people. The major nobles and major forces have been constantly recruiting soldiers. Young and strong men were either captured by the conscription or slaughtered in the uprising. In addition, the Tang army's annihilation war without leaving any prisoners of war, the young and strong men of Silla were almost exhausted.

At this time, the fear in the hearts of tens of thousands of old, weak, women and children subsided a lot, and the Tang army began to distribute steamed buns, one per person, which meant that the Tang army would not kill them.

Several Tang soldiers who could speak Silla shouted repeatedly: "Don't be afraid, the Tang army will not harm civilians. We need to take the bodies out of the city, otherwise there will be an epidemic."

Until noon, all the bodies were taken out of the city, and the people were allowed to return to the city. Everyone was relieved, supporting each other, and stumbling back to their homes.

The county magistrate who took over Hanzhou City was called Wang Yihou, a native of Dezhou, a Jinshi, and originally the chief clerk of Chuqiu County. He performed well and was selected by the Ministry of Personnel to come to Silla to serve as the county magistrate of Hanzhou County. There were other county officials who would be responsible for educating the people and turning them into children of the Tang Dynasty.

Two days later, Li Chengshi received Ma Lin's military order that he did not need to come to Jincheng to join forces. Ma Lin ordered him to go directly south and take Xiongzhou.

Li Chengshi then left 3,000 troops to guard the city. He led 25,000 troops to sail south, and the fleet sailed to Xiongzhou.

Xiongzhou was the capital of Baekje. It was originally good, but because of the cruel oppression of Baekje people by Silla, the Baekje people revolted last year. Jin Zhenzhi led the army to defeat the rebels and began a massacre against Baekje men. About 300,000 Baekje men died in the massacre.

At this time, Xiongzhou was desolate and withered. There were only 10,000 Silla soldiers guarding Xiongzhou City. For the 25,000 Tang troops, it was easy to capture Xiongzhou.

The 30,000 Liaodong troops in the north crossed the Yalu River under the leadership of Nan Jiyun, and then burned the city of Wugut. Half of the 10,000 Silla defenders were burned to death, and the other half escaped from the city, but were surrounded and annihilated by 20,000 cavalry and the whole army was destroyed.

The 30,000 Tang troops continued to march southward and marched towards Pyongyang, an important city in the north of Silla. There were also 10,000 Silla troops in Pyongyang, but 10,000 troops were not enough to counter the sharp attack of the 30,000 Tang troops.

The really hard bone to chew was the decisive battle of Jinzhou, the capital of Silla.

Ma Lin personally led 30,000 Tang troops to fight against the 30,000 Silla troops guarding the capital.

At this time, Jin Zhenzhi, the special envoy to the Tang Dynasty, was still on his way back. He had just arrived in Luoyang. It is estimated that before he arrived in Dengzhou, Silla became a fish on the chopping board.