Chapter 192: The Decisive Battle
Xu Fenglai's purpose is very clear, that is, he doesn't want Li Zhongyi to know in detail the terrain of the sea off Goryeo.
Damn, the dead stick surnamed Xu, you are loyal to the Goryeo court!
This Ganghwa Island is actually a very large island, and its northernmost point is facing the estuary of the Licheng River, which leads to Kaijing, and it will be there in half a day.
Li Zhongyi thought to himself, this Xu Fenglai is also a talent, but it's a pity that the good Goryeo Empire deserves to be unlucky when he encounters a freak like Li!
"Brother Bai Xing, when do you think we should land on the shore?" Li Zhongyi held a cup of hot tea in his hand and asked Yang Lie with a smile.
"Hehe, teacher, don't ask the students such a simple question, right?" Yang Lie shook the folding fan and said, "What's the matter, we have to wait for the defenders of Kaijing and Quan Yizhun to fight until it is difficult to give up, and when both sides are defeated, we will easily clean up the two of them together." ”
"Well, you seem to have forgotten about the Japanese army?" Li Zhongyi reminded Yang Lie with a smile.
"Teacher, the central part of Goryeo has been turned into a no-man's land by the rebels, and the Japanese army has no convenience of getting food on the spot, so they can only attack Kaekyung by sea, right?" Yang Lie deliberately ignored Seoul, that was because Seoul had also been emptied by Li Zhongyi, and even if the Japanese army took Seoul, it would still not be able to raise enough food.
"Well, the reason why we want to stay in the eastern part of Ganghwa Island is to wait for the Japanese army to go north from the sea." Li Zhongyi lightly revealed the mystery.
According to the report of the sentinel, the Japanese army's ability to fight in the field was indeed good, and the Goryeo army often lost its armor and could not find the north.
However, the means of attacking the city by the Japanese army were extremely poor. I couldn't even think of the kind of soil method to fill the wall, so I only knew how to set up a wooden ladder and attack the city wall.
Regarding the incompetence of the Japanese army in attacking the city, Li Zhongyi was not surprised at all. Not to mention the current Wakoku Heian Era, even the Wa Warring States Era hundreds of years later. The daimyo attacked each other, and often they had to besiege the city, waiting for the city to run out of food before breaking the city.
Li Zhongyi's sailors hid in Jianghua Bay for four days, but they never saw the shadow of the Japanese fleet.
"Bai Xing. There are high-ranking people in the Japanese army, and it seems that we can only adopt two strategies. Li Zhongyi took a sip of tea, looking calm and calm.
Yang Lie knew it in his heart, according to Li Zhongyi's plan. Being able to annihilate the living forces of the Japanese army at sea is the best and least casualty method.
However, the Japanese army did not take the bait, which shows that the Japanese army may have known that the sailors of the Great Zhou Dynasty had not left and did not dare to venture at sea.
Maybe. The Japanese army landed from elsewhere in advance and bypassed Ganghwa Island.
Yang Lie's thought has not yet been completed. I saw a small clipper with ten people rowing on the water.
The small clipper docked to the side of the big ship, and a sentry climbed up to the deck along the rope ladder and whispered: "Li Shuai, the Japanese army of about 40,000 men and horses has circled from the open sea to Yantian County, north of the Licheng River. I am moving along the Shirakawa line to the north of Kaikyo. ”
Yang Lie shook his small fan and said, "The general of the Japanese army is very smart. He didn't go to Seoul, and he didn't come to Ganghwa Island. I actually knew that I went around the north of Kaijing from the open sea. ”
Li Zhongyi touched his chin and said, "I'm afraid, the Japanese army has already colluded with Quan Yizhun, maybe the result of their discussion should be to divide Goryeo equally, right?" ”
Liu Heyang said with some hesitation: "No, then Quan Yiyi is a Korean after all?" ”
Yang Lie smiled coldly and said, "In the face of huge interests, there are always some thieves who want to collude with outsiders and lure wolves into the house. ”
Li Zhongyi thought about it carefully, and always felt that the sudden action of the Japanese army was a little strange.
According to Quan Yizhun's selfish intentions, even if there is collusion with the Japanese army, he will definitely not let the Japanese army come to Kaijing to take advantage of the fire and robbery.
To be honest, this piece of meat in Kaijing is much fatter than that of Seoul. If you think about it with your toes, how rich will it be that the kings of Goryeo have worked hard for decades to run Kaegyo? Jeon Yizhun must have wanted to monopolize Kaegyo, and after his power grew, he gradually unified the whole of Goryeo.
However, the Japanese army suddenly appeared near Kaijing, and the development of the situation was probably out of the scope of the plan.
"It's fun, it's really fun." Li Zhongyi put down the teacup in his hand, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, "This is really a good show, Quan Yizhun is staring at Kaijing, and the Japanese army is secretly staring at Quan Yizhun." Hehe, then our army will focus on the Japanese army. The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the Anzhi yellow finch is behind it? ”
At that moment, Li Zhongyi found Qian Huai'an, the commander of the naval division, and instructed him: "After the army lands on the shore, the naval division of the Japanese army will be handed over to you." ”
Qian Huai'an grinned and said, "Li Shuai, you can rest assured, with the fire throwing rod that you ordered people to make, the final general will ensure that half of the large and small ships of the Japanese army will be burned to the ground." ”
Li Zhongyi smiled slightly, when he was in Seoul, he planned to have a decisive battle at sea with the Japanese army, so he designed a complete set of fire throwers that imitated the return cannon and installed it on the naval warships of the Great Zhou.
The principle of the return cannon is actually not complicated, the main thing is that the firearms thrown out to attack the enemy ship must be carefully used.
In the end, Li Zhongyi chose to use a clay pot as a container, which was filled with highly concentrated alcohol, high-viscosity fine flour, diluted liquid paste, and white sugar that were distilled to 9o degrees.
When the sailors were fighting, on the outside of the mud seal of the clay pot, a few lit incense sticks were tied with strips of cloth, as long as they were thrown onto the Japanese army's sea boats, hehe, it would never be extinguished without burning them clean.
That's right, this is the famous magic weapon of street fighting, the Molotov cocktail.
Not to mention the wooden warships of the Japanese army, even the German Tiger tanks of World War II, were ignited by such incendiary bombs in street battles, and most of the tankers would lose their lives.
Because the clay pot is very light, the hanging stone of the return cannon weighs more than 100 catties, and after passing through the field, the range of the attack is at least 300 meters away.
At this distance, the Japanese army sailors, who were only equipped with bamboo bows, could only stand up and be burned.
Li Zhongyi carefully explained Qian Huai'an, and then led the army to seize the front of the Japanese army, and traveled north along the east bank of the Licheng River in the dark.
Li Zhongyi led the main infantry of the Goryeo camp, marched all the way, and hid into the low hilly area north of Kaijing, Sanjuli.
Sanjuli is about 20 miles away from the north gate of Kaijing, and about 30 miles away from the west gate of Kaijing.
With the daytime march of the Goryeo camp, at most one and a half hours, you can rush to the west gate of Kaijing.
The reason why he wanted to hide farther away was mainly because he was worried that he would startle the snake by hitting the grass and let the Japanese army who had already left the lair slip away.
The army died down, and the soldiers sat silently on the ground to rest, or wiped the steel knives in their hands, or checked the combat equipment on their bodies, silently waiting for the arrival of the time to attack.
When the sky was just dawning, Li Zhongyi sat on a big rock, holding a piece of Mizhou pancake in his left hand and a water bladder in his right hand.
The members of the Senate led by Yang Lie are in full swing to formulate the latest wartime plan.
Due to the cunning of the Japanese army, Li Zhongyi missed the opportunity to annihilate its living forces at sea, and now he had to change his plan and plan the upcoming decisive battle on the 6th.
"Yang joined the army, why did Xiang Shuai recognize that the Japanese army would definitely attack the north gate of Kaijing?" A small senator from the Senate Department asked Yang Lie very curiously.
Yang Lie smiled and said: "The Japanese army must have hidden fine works among the rebels of Quanyizhun, so the general of the Japanese army must know about the fact that the north gate of Beijing has not been attacked." Of course, this is just speculation on my part and at the teacher's and my fingertips. ”
"The problem is that there are all accurate rebels stationed on the east, west, and three sides of Kaijing, if the Japanese army wants to take advantage of the opportunity, what do you think they will do?" Yang Lie had the intention to compare the small senators, and deliberately asked a question.
The little senator pondered carefully for a while, and replied with some hesitation: "Once the capital is broken, most of them, including the little king of Goryeo, will escape from the north gate outside the city." Because, on the other three sides, there are too many enemy troops, and the risk is too great. ”
Yang Lie nodded, during this time, he did not teach these senators under him in vain, he smiled and explained in a low voice: "Everyone understands the principle of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, not only our commanders understand, but also the general of Quan Yizhun and the Japanese army." ”
After taking a sip of water, Yang Lie then explained: "Quan Yizhun left a gap to open the north gate of Beijing, just because he didn't want to fight to the death with the Goryeo Jing army, so he deliberately set a trap. You must know that Quan Yizhun has 30,000 elites in his hands, if the time comes, he will chase and kill from the back of the Goryeo king, wouldn't it be much stronger than fighting under the city wall? The harvest must be much bigger, right? ”
It was only at this time that the little senator suddenly realized, and he said a little shyly: "Quan Yizhun wants to aim at the Goryeo Xiao Wang, the general of the Japanese army also has a fancy for the Goryeo Xiao Wang, hehe, our marshal naturally has an idea." ”
"Hehe, let's get to work, there's still a lot of work." Yang Lie grinned, now it is an extremely rare serial drama.
Quan Yizhun, Fujiwara Shisuke, the general of the Japanese army, and Li Xiangshuai, all took a fancy to the value of Goryeo Xiaowang.
Of course, the three marshals have different purposes in dealing with Wang Zhao.
In Yang Lie's opinion, Quan Yizhun should have wanted to kill Wang Zhao, the lord of Goryeo, and completely destroy the fighting spirit of the Goryeo Jing army, so as to take advantage of the chaos to seize the country.
Fujiwara Shisuke, the general of the Japanese army, because it was a foreign invasion, it is very likely that he will not kill Wang Zhao for the time being, and turn him into a puppet of the Japanese people, the son of the king.
Based on Yang Lie's understanding of Li Zhongyi's temper, it is very likely that Li Xiangshuai will bring Wang Zhao, who has long been an adult, back to Kaifeng, and then appoint a son of Wang Zhao at will, or choose an easy-to-manipulate puppet among the Goryeo royal family and support him as the new king of Goryeo.
In this way, the Great Zhou Dynasty could completely garrison troops in Kaijing for a long time and control the state affairs of Goryeo, so as to achieve the strategic goal of driving the Goryeo State and causing trouble to the Khitans in the northeast.
In the final analysis, because of this, Li Zhongyi has never completely torn his face with the Koreans, but just played the game of "black eats black". (To be continued)
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