CHAPTER XXXVII
As soon as he stepped on the shore, Gao Dingbian felt a completely different sense of oppression from before.
The Goryeo army, which was fighting here, was well-trained, and showed no signs of panic at all. They relied on defenses that had not yet been fully built, and with accurate bow and arrow shots, they continued to bring down the soldiers who rushed to the front.
This is the enemy's elite unit -- Gao Dingbian immediately made such a judgment. However, it is completely unreasonable for the elite troops to be sent to the coastline to deploy defenses, and it is inevitable that the limited elite troops will be dispersed over a considerable period of time without knowing which section of the coastline the other side will land, which is undoubtedly turning these soldiers into stragglers, which is a taboo for soldiers.
Of course, Gao Dingbian didn't know that Li Chenghui had judged that they would land south of Anzhou, and he was afraid of the combat capability of the Huwei Battalion, so he made a bet and scattered the elite troops along this coastline, in order to be able to delay the landing of the Huwei Battalion and buy time for the assembly of follow-up troops. This one is Li Chenghui's bet to win.
Seeing Gao Dingbian's hesitant expression, Wang Hanxin shouted on the side: "Big brother! Don't be stunned! Only by rushing up this section of the coast can you have a foothold! It would have been even more troublesome if reinforcements from the Koreans came, and now they could only attack regardless of casualties! ”
Wang Hanxin's words, of course, Gao Dingbian understands, but the implementation is far from being as easy as he said. Due to the limited width of the coast, the warships with too deep draft could not be close to the edge, so they could only be transported by small boats, and the number of people who came up at one time was only five or six hundred, but the other side had about a thousand people, and occupied a favorable terrain. If you want to attack, you have to have enough troops. But Gao Dingbian understands that if he has to wait for the second batch of personnel to go ashore. Then I am afraid that I will lose more than half of these vanguard troops. Rather than that, attacking may be a way out. Come to think of it. Gao Dingbian flew on his horse, picked up his spear and shouted, "Brothers! Follow me! ”
The commander led the charge, which greatly boosted the morale of the Tiger Guard Battalion, and both new recruits and veterans let out the same roar, and followed the Gaoding side towards the Goryeo defense line.
The distance from the coast to the defense line became a hell for the Tiger Guard Battalion, and the arrows of the Goryeo were as fast as meteors, dense as raindrops, and high in accuracy, causing the Tiger Guard Camp to suffer heavy casualties; The arrows fired by the Tiger Guard Battalion barely hurt the Koreans hiding in the fortifications.
With its such ineffective shooting. It is better to protect yourself with a shield, and it is more effective to stick it on hand-to-hand combat, Wang Hanxin, who didn't even have time to ride a horse, picked up a shield from his dead companion, and protected his body with the shield in his hand, and rushed straight towards the Koreans, and the rest of the people followed suit when they saw it. At this time, Gao Dingbian had already ridden into the enemy's army, and his spear suddenly set off waves of blood among the Koreans. No matter how elite the Goryeo soldiers were, they could not resist the attack of the Goryeo Side, and one by one the Goryeo soldiers who had been pierced in the throat fell to the land of the motherland.
Although the chaos created by Gao Dingbian was not very large, it bought a few precious seconds for the soldiers of the Tiger Guard Battalion who followed behind. In just a few seconds, the first group of cavalry also rushed into the enemy's formation, and the scale of the bloody storm immediately increased several times. And the soldiers on foot behind also covered up with Wang Hanxin and jumped into the enemy's army. Wang Hanxin opened his bow left and right, and smashed the faces of two Goryeo soldiers with two shields, and one of the Goryeo soldiers was quick with his eyes. Taking advantage of Wang Hanxin's two-handed attack, he stabbed with a spear, but Wang Hanxin threw down his shield. He drew his twin knives and slashed the soldier's hands into the air. After the first blow was successful, Wang Hanxin rubbed his body up. The unfortunate soldier was cut off with a single sword, and the other was plunged into the abdomen of another soldier, and then with a forceful pull, the hot intestines were scattered all over the ground. Wang Hanxin did not pause, and the knife in his hand slashed in a row, and the severed hands and feet of the Korean soldiers flew in all directions.
In just ten minutes, the defensive stronghold was breached. With this foothold, Gao Dingbian and Wang Hanxin each led their teams to attack separately and launched an attack on the rest of the strongholds, although the Goryeo army resisted, but the Huwei battalion's will to fight had overwhelmed them, and when the second batch of soldiers of the Huwei battalion landed on the coast, the Goryeo army had lost one-third of its strongholds, and the remaining strongholds were also cut into several pieces, no longer as able to maximize the effectiveness of the attack as before.
An hour later, the Goryeo army on the beachhead was completely wiped out. However, the Goryeo army was quite heroic, all of them were killed, and none of them surrendered. For this reason, the Tiger Guard Battalion also paid a heavy price of more than 170 killed and nearly 400 wounded.
"This bone is really hard, the Koreans fight so hard." Gao Dingbian, who was covered in blood, couldn't help but sigh.
"Damn, these brutes, fortunately, they didn't surrender, otherwise I wouldn't let any of them go, and I would have chopped them all up!" Wang Hanxin stabbed a knife into the corpse of a Goryeo soldier and said, "Big brother, don't sigh, let's attack in the direction of Anzhou City immediately." ”
"I'm not busy, I don't think this Goryeo army is an ordinary force, which shows that the Goryeo people have judged that the target of our attack may be Anju, otherwise it is impossible to arrange this kind of army on a beachhead."
"You're saying they're trying to use this force to hold us back and then mobilize a large army to attack us?" Wang Hanxin was reminded by Gao Dingbian and immediately came to his senses.
"That's right! I'm afraid that we have fallen into the trap of the Koreans when we go to Anju now. "Gao Dingbian Road.
Wang Hanxin looked at Gao Dingbian and rolled his eyes, and said: "Big brother, do you mean that we don't go to Anzhou City, but turn south and go straight to the Qingchuan River Ferry, as long as the Qingchuan River Ferry is cut off, it is equivalent to cutting off the connection between Anzhou City and the rear?" ”
"Exactly!" Gao Dingbian patted Wang Hanxin on the shoulder, he has always appreciated his brother's cleverness.
"No problem! Big brother, you are here to pick up the follow-up troops, and I will immediately bring 2,000 cavalry to kill them! ”
Gao Dingbian nodded, and told a few more words not to be too reckless to underestimate the enemy, Wang Hanxin immediately led the troops to go, and Gao Dingbian stayed in place and waited for the follow-up troops to land and assemble. By the time most of the 8,000 cavalry had gone ashore and Gao Dingbian was preparing to gather his troops and rush to the Qingchuan River, the Tanma in front reported that a large number of Goryeo troops were rushing here, and the advance was already less than 30 miles.
Gao Dingbian was stunned: The other party came so fast. Obviously, they did not come from Anju City, but had already assembled nearby, and as soon as they heard the news of the landing of our troops, they came in a hurry. Gao Dingbian immediately informed Zheng Menglong, who was at sea, of his intentions, and asked him to go to the mouth of the Cheongchon River to meet him, and at the same time ordered the outpost troops to attack and harass and block the rapid advance of the Goryeo army, because he still needed a little time for the remaining troops to go ashore, and then attack the direction of the Cheongchon River - although the Goryeo army was numerous, it did not have four legs, and the cavalry could get rid of them in time, control the Qingcheon River crossing before they arrived, and establish a defensive line. (To be continued......)