Chapter 1783 Let’s each go home
"Bah, bah, bah -"
The big boulder was pushed away, and Cheng Chumo's head slowly poked out from underneath.
His face and body were all covered in black smoke.
"There's no one around, you can come out now!" Cheng Chumo turned around and said to the people behind him.
Qin Huaiyu also slowly got out of his body and looked into the distance with his head.
Everywhere you see is the devastation caused by the fire.
Not a single house was intact, and the ground was full of traces of fire damage.
The original courtyard wall of the house has now become a pile of powder.
The ruins of the walls were broken, and the charred wood fell to the ground. The entire city was lifeless.
Not even a little angry.
In front of them, the broken opening of the North City Gate looked like a giant gluttonous beast, staring at them in the early morning mist.
The authentic people slowly crawled out.
Everyone's face showed the joy of surviving the disaster.
Under the fire offensive of the Goguryeo army, they could only hide under the unfinished tunnel.
Fortunately, the fire quickly burned from the north to the center of the city.
But even so, more than ten people were suffocated to death in the tunnel.
"Where's Zhao Da, go take a look." Cheng Chumo was worried about Zhao Chen's safety and hurriedly ran to the tunnel not far next door.
They didn't stay together.
How could hundreds of people be crowded into a tunnel, so they separated into several teams.
There are about fifty people in a team.
Zhao Chen, Qin Sanpao and other Xuanjia Army soldiers were in a tunnel not far from them.
Qin Huaiyu also ran over.
It is now impossible for them to organize the Goguryeo army, and the remaining things are beyond their control.
But Zhao Chen's safety is extremely important to them.
Arriving outside the tunnel where Zhao Chen and others were, Cheng Chu breathed a sigh of relief and found nothing unusual.
\u003e Just as he was about to help remove the stones blocking the outside, he saw the stones on the ground moving on their own.
After a while, Qin Sanpao appeared in front of them.
"Is Zhao Da okay?" Cheng Chumo asked quickly.
"It's okay, young master." Qin Sanpao nodded, crawled out of the tunnel, and reached out to pull Zhao Chen.
Soon, all the Xuanjia Army soldiers in the tunnel crawled out, but nothing happened to anyone.
However, the rest of the people did not move at all.
The Xincheng soldiers who were still alive went to other tunnels to search, but all they saw were corpses.
Not everyone is as lucky.
Today there are less than a hundred of them left.
And this includes the soldiers of the Xuanjia Army.
In other words, of the 100,000-strong army in Xincheng, there are now less than 50 survivors.
"Alas!" Someone sighed heavily for no reason.
They were helpless at this moment.
There is no way to deal with Yeon Gae So Moon.
No one can stop Silla's demise.
"Zhao Da, do you want to go back to Datang?" Cheng Chumo looked at Zhao Chen and asked softly.
Zhao Chen did not answer, and he had no plans for the time being.
Xincheng was only guarded for thirteen days, and there were still two days left before the half-month time requested.
In other words, the Datang frontier army led by Xu Shiji will not arrive until two days at the earliest.
But they couldn't do much in the past two days.
Either go back to Datang, or wait here.
"Where do you two want to go?" Zhao Chen asked Cheng Chumo and Qin Huaiyu.
The two looked at each other but didn't speak.
Zhao Chen knew what they were thinking.
They wanted to help a bunch of Silla again, but they didn't have any strength to do it.
With just these people, even if they catch Yeon Gaesumun, what can they do to them?
The destruction of Silla was no longer something that human power could stop.
Leng Leng -
Before Cheng Chumo and Qin Huaiyu could speak, a homing pigeon suddenly flew over from a distance and landed at Zhao Chen's feet.
"It's the carrier pigeon of the Xuanjia Army." Qin Sanpao grabbed the carrier pigeon and took the secret message from their feet.
The secret letter was delivered to Zhao Chen. When Zhao Chen opened the secret letter and took a look, his expression suddenly darkened.
"What's wrong?" Cheng Chumo asked softly.
"Wu Xu has arrived in the capital of Silla." Zhao Chen said slowly.
"What?" Cheng Chumo's expression immediately changed.
"Didn't you ask the officers of the Xuanjia Army to escort her to the west?" Qin Huaiyu also looked shocked.
When the Goguryeo army headquarters attacked Xincheng, they knew that Xincheng could not hold for more than a few days.
So Wu Xu's retreat was arranged in advance.
Their original plan was for Wu Xu to take a detour from the west and return to the Tang Dynasty.
But now I have received news that Wu Xu has arrived in the capital of Silla.
What happened?
"They encountered Goguryeo's cavalry in the west and found their traces. They had no choice but to flee south."
"Then the Goguryeo army went south again. They had no way to come back and had to hide in the capital of Silla." Zhao Chen said slowly, already starting to feel worried.
If Wu Xu returned to the Tang Dynasty, Zhao Chen would not have to go to the Silla capital again.
He could also persuade Cheng Chumo and Qin Huaiyu to leave together.
But now, Wu Xu has arrived in the capital of Silla.
Once the capital of Silla fell, Wu Xu would surely be in trouble.
r\u003e This is not what Zhao Chen wants to see.
"This is troublesome!" Qin Huaiyu sighed, with a sad look on his face.
Wu Xu was in the capital of Silla, thinking that Zhao Chen was going to find a way to rescue Wu Xu.
But the capital of Silla was about to be surrounded by Yeon Gaesumun’s army. How could they save it?
With a hundred or so of them, how could they compete with Goguryeo's 100,000-strong army?
"Zhao Da, no matter what your plan, we will listen to you." Cheng Chumo knew that Zhao Chen was worried about Wu Xu's safety, so he said without any hesitation.
What else can you plan at this time?
Naturally, we have to find a way to save Wu Xu.
Zhao Chen's eyes fell on the remaining Xincheng soldiers: "It's hard to keep the Xincheng King. You should go home and spend time with your family and children."
Zhao Chen did not want these remaining Xincheng soldiers to take such risks with him.
Besides, having dozens more people means nothing to the overall situation.
If one less person is killed now, one less person may die later.
"But……"
"There is nothing to worry about. There are only a few dozen of you left among the 100,000 Xincheng soldiers. There is no need to make unnecessary sacrifices!" Zhao Chen interrupted a Xincheng soldier.
He turned to look at Cheng Chumo, Qin Huaiyu, Qin Sanpao and others: "Leave one person here to wait for my Tang Dynasty border army, and the rest will follow me to the capital of Silla."
"Yes!" Everyone responded. Although they knew that the road ahead was likely to be a dead end, no one was afraid.
…
"Military advisor, we are almost arriving at Xincheng, the important town of Silla."
"According to detective reports, the battle between His Royal Highness the King of Han and Yeon Gaesumun is centered around the new city." The general told Xu Shiji about the situation ahead.
Xu Shiji nodded and looked at the map spread out by the soldiers.
They are still a hundred miles away from the new city.
We should be able to arrive early tomorrow morning.
