Chapter 1139: Luo Shixin and Li Xuanba's Mission
This prisoner was none other than Li Guangsheng, the chief general of the Goguryeo army, and the special combat team was ordered today to first blow up the retreat route of the Goguryeo reinforcements with gunpowder, and then planted some mines in the mountain roads on both sides.
After the Goguryeo army was dispersed, Zhang Tiangang took more than 30 masters to follow Li Guangsheng, and pursued him all the way with bloodletting tactics, and after he fled into the mountains, the special combat team took advantage of its mountain combat to chase and kill all the way, and it took half a day for more than 30 people to kill all the more than 400 people around Li Guangsheng, and captured Li Guangsheng alive.
When the captives of Goguryeo saw this, their faces were immediately like ashes, and they could be said to have been completely defeated, and even the main general was captured.
Wang Junlin called Zhang Tiangang, encouraged and praised him, and earnestly admonished Zhang Tiangang selected 300 soldiers from the special combat team to change into Goguryeo reinforcement uniforms, armor, one person and three horses, and prepared as much water and grain and grass as possible, and then went in the direction of Goguryeo Pyongyang City, and the other end of the road that was blown up, Wang Junlin had ordered people to fill in half of it.
After Zhang Tiangang led the people away, Wang Junlin called Luo Chunlai, Lu Han and Guan Xiaotong to give careful instructions, and then led more than 2,000 cavalry, one equipped with three horses, and chased Zhang Tiangang in the direction of Pyongyang.
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Compared with the Great Sui, Goguryeo was too small, and it was about the same as the larger counties, and the cavalry ran at full strength for a day or two, and even ran through the north and south.
Wang Junlin and Wei Chi Jingde led more than 2,000 cavalry, one man and three horses, to gallop in the direction of Pyongyang, marching along the way, eating, marching again, and camping at night, and the whole army was very silent.
Half a day later, the army had reached the Sa Shui River, which was not far from the city of Pyongyang.
Facts have proved that the news that Shen Guo'er inquired about before is correct, the main army led by Yuan Taizuo is still attacking Liaodong City in the west, and exterminating hundreds of thousands of Sui soldiers who have fled in all directions, but have not yet escaped from Goguryeo, the 20,000 army led by Li Guangsheng is already the last and largest army in Goguryeo, which can be described as a national army.
Therefore, Wang Junlin and Wei Chi Jingde led the army all the way north, and did not encounter any resistance on the way, and the cities they passed through were all defenders of less than 1,000 people, and the villages they passed were all old and weak women and children staggering to hide.
Wang Junlin became more and more confident in his plan to raid Pyongyang, not to mention that he had sent the two little guys, Luo Shixin and Li Xuanba, out at the beginning of the war a few months ago.
There were originally 8,000 men and horses under the command of Lu Han and Guan Xiaotong in Yanchang, including 6,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry.
Their task is mainly divided into three stages, the early stage is to hide and protect themselves, the middle stage is to be responsible for collecting the inevitable large number of Sui army stragglers, and finally according to Wang Junlin's order, lead the men and horses to meet the army on the south side of Pyongyang City, the Sasu River, and then surprise attack Pyongyang City.
After Wang Junlin and Wei Chi Jingde waited by the Sashui River for more than an hour, Luo Shixin and Li Xuanba led the men and horses to appear one after another.
The two of them each brought more than 4,000 cavalry, which was already more than four times the cavalry under their command before, and the others were naturally the cavalry of the Sui army that had been gathered these days. These people have lost their military morale in the west, and some of these generals are even more dissatisfied when they see that Luo Shixin and Li Xuanba are young, so these two teenagers have killed one or two hundred Sui army generals and soldiers these days, so that they can be regarded as controlling these horses in their hands, in fact, more than 4,000 people each is already the limit of what they can control at the moment.
After the more than 6,000 newly collected cavalry of the Sui army saw the legendary invincible poisonous general King Qin An, it was even more different, the shadow of the so-called famous tree of people, the reputation of the invincible general was not called in vain, and after hearing that the city of Pyongyang was going to be attacked, these more than 6,000 people were shocked, and they were extremely excited, they fought too badly in the west, too tragic, countless brothers and comrades-in-arms were killed by the Goguryeo people, and they died in a daze.
According to Shen Guo'er's intelligence, coupled with the results observed on the road, the defenders in Pyongyang City are estimated to be not too much, at most in the number of 5,000, with Wang Junlin's cavalry of more than 10,000, they can be easily crushed, plus Wang Junlin has a careful plan, so he is full of great confidence in entering the Goguryeo capital.
Thinking of this, even Wang Junlin's heartbeat couldn't help but speed up a lot, not to mention Wei Chi Jingde, Luo Shixin, and Li Xuanba.
The surprise attack on Pyongyang was not only a tactical success, playing a role in rescuing Zhao from Wei in the siege of Liaodong, but also being able to inflict heavy losses on Goguryeo, allowing Wang Junlin to further establish a state in Annam-gun, supporting the Kim family as a puppet, and forcibly dividing Goguryeo in two.
In addition, it may be possible to dispel Yang Guang's second expedition against Goguryeo.
The Great Sui expedition has been a fiasco, Yang Guang with a million troops, three or four million people to come, the result of the most returned to the country less than half of the army, three or four million people back to their hometown is even more than one in ten, Wang Junlin is very clear that with Yang Guang's character, at this time has begun to desperately plan the second expedition to Goguryeo, according to the original historical development, millions of people will die, and then the real distance of the Great Sui is not far from falling apart.
Wang Junlin's purpose is very simple, that is, he wants to let the Great Sui die less.
If Wang Junlin made a surprise attack on Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, and the news of the establishment of the Goguryeo state reached Luoyang, it is conceivable how wonderful the expressions of Yang Guang and all the officials in the imperial court, as well as the family gate lords, would be wonderful.
For example, Yang Guang, he led a million people to defeat in the hands of Goguryeo, but Wang Junlin only led 20,000 people to fight a county, not to mention, but also forcibly established a country, and even attacked Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo.
This makes people all over the world think of Yang Guang, with Yang Guang's strange character, not only will he not be half grateful, but he will only be mad, and he will kill Wang Junlin inexplicably.
The Sashui River is one of the few large rivers in Goguryeo, and the river flows from north to south and finally enters the Bohai Sea.
Wang Junlin led more than 10,000 cavalry very lucky, when they arrived at the Sashui River, there was a pontoon bridge made of wooden boats on the river, this pontoon bridge was left by Li Guangshun, he led 20,000 reinforcements just a few days ago passed here, to Annan County, because considering that they had to come back, so after the pontoon bridge was built, Li Guangshun did not order it to be demolished.