Chapter 940: A Thousand Miles of Attack
At this moment, in Liaoyang Prefecture, which is more than 1,000 miles away from Pyongyang, except for a few places where the Jin army set fire to cause chaos when they abandoned the city and fled, the entire Liaoyang Prefecture has long since returned to calm. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
It is impossible to be unsettled, because the city itself has a population of only 50,000 or 60,000, and the remaining population is now less than half of what it used to be.
At this time, the king of Huainan County of the Great Song Dynasty, the commander of the Jin army, Anda Huangjie in the mouth of Wanyan Zongbi, was also climbing the steps to the west gate of Liaoyang Mansion.
Liaoyang Prefecture, also known as Tokyo, is one of the five capitals of the former Liao Kingdom, and its location is Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province. The city of Liaoyang Prefecture in Tokyo is two zhang high, and the width is also thirty miles, and the palace city is in the northeast corner of the city, and the city is three zhang high. The outer city in the south is Seoul, and there are trade between the south and north markets. Most of the inhabitants in the city are Bohai and Han Chinese, and the inner city is Hucheng, which is naturally inhabited by Liao nobles, Khitans and Liao troops.
Before the Jin State captured Liaoyang Mansion, when the city was at its most prosperous, there were nearly 200,000 soldiers and civilians living inside and outside the city, which was also a kind of central city of the Liao State in the east. It was only later, with the rise of the Jin Kingdom, many people took the initiative to migrate to Xijin Mansion and Dading Mansion in order to avoid evil, and some of those who could not go were slaughtered in the battle to defend the city, making this originally prosperous city lose three-quarters of its population at once, and now it is only less than one-seventh.
Huang Jie, who climbed the Dashun Gate Tower, is also dressed in military uniform, but it looks clean and tidy, after all, he is now a commander, but he doesn't need to charge into battle, looking at the heat and green smoke still coming out of the ruins and ruins of the city that have long been extinguished, Huang Jie also feels a little big.
Holding on to the bricks and stones of the city wall, which were still very cold, Huang Jie quickly turned his gaze from inside the city to the outside of the city, and his gaze went west, landing on the horizon that was faintly visible and looming at the end of the snow line, and he was also silent for a long time.
Counting up, Huang Jie's 12,000 men and horses originally set off from Bailing Island on the fifth day of the lunar month, first traveled westward to Wendeng in Shandong, and then carried 8,000 Zhejia cavalry troops from Lijiagang to Qingzhou, and then went north into the Liaohai Sea (that is, Liaodong Bay) to ambush.
It was not until the 17th of the lunar month that he received news from the Goryeo side, confirming that the Jurchen coalition army had marched to the city of Dingzhou, and that the elite of the Jin army was not seen in the team, that Huang Jie also ordered to land on the south bank of Yaozhou with Foxiao on the 18th, and then conquered Yaozhou with lightning speed.
Don't underestimate this landing operation, this is a whole five years of painstaking planning by Huang Jie and a group of people, what crossed Goryeo from Yuanshan to the sea, crossed the Tumen River estuary and crossed the hinterland of the East China Sea to attack Huining Mansion, this is just a smoke bomb released by Huang Jie.
Although Huang Jie didn't know what the situation was at the mouth of the Tumen River, he clearly knew that from the hinterland of the East China Sea to Huining Mansion, not to mention the ready-made roads, there was no beast path for wild beasts to walk, and if he really wanted to lead tens of thousands of troops to land here, would he have to cut through thorns and build a road by himself?
And turn your head to see, Yaozhou is much better, Yaozhou is close to the sea, itself is the coastal defense city of the original Liao State, not far to the north is Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo, Liaoguo, and there is naturally a thoroughfare between the two cities. To the north of Liaoyang, there is a city almost every 100 miles, such as Shenzhou (now Shenyang City), Guide Prefecture (now Fushun City), Yinzhou (now Tieling City), Xianzhou, Tongzhou (now Siping City), Xinzhou (now Changchun City), Weizhou, you can reach Huanglong Mansion.
And according to Huang Jie's knowledge from the strange dream, the location of Yaozhou is a rare ice-free port even in the later generations, and for the thousand-material flat-bottomed sea ships of the Great Song Dynasty, whether it is a beach or a tidal flat, it can land safely, and there is no need to dock at a deep-water port, so naturally there is no need to make such a difficult big move to bypass the entire Goryeo Peninsula, directly across the Bohai Sea, and it is not better to go north from Liaodong Bay to the hinterland of Jinguo.
Of course, in addition to these ideas, the most important thing is that Huang Jie also has an information advantage, such as the nautical charts and extremely detailed detailed maps of the Pan-Northeast Asia region that he now has in his hands, which are difficult for the Jin Kingdom and Goryeo to master. So far, in the hands of the people of Jinguo, there are only a few strategic maps that are like children's graffiti, roughly drawing a strategic map of the mountains and rivers with thick and thin lines, not to mention detailed sea charts.
It's just that what Huang Jie didn't expect was that although Yaozhou, which was caught off guard, only less than 3,000 defenders, was defeated by the Song army for half a day, the Jurchens' will to resist was still very strong, and they first delayed in Yaozhou for two days before clearing the remnants of the Jin army in the city, and after attacking Liaoyang Mansion, although the outer city wall was broken in half a day under the bombardment of the Thunder God artillery, the nearly 10,000 defenders of the Jin Kingdom who defended the city and the people of the Jin Kingdom who spontaneously assisted in defending the city put on an attitude of not surrendering, but scattered into the city and fought a street battle with the Song army.
This time, Huang Jie came over, and the troops he brought were 5,000 imperial chariot troops, 5,000 daring warriors and 2,000 elite Shenwu army archers, as well as 8,000 Zhejia cavalry troops supplemented in Hebei, of which 8,000 Zhejia troops were mainly used to fight with the cavalry of the Jin army, so naturally they could not be used to fight street battles, and the imperial chariot army and the Shenwu army were strong defense and long-range troops, and they were not suitable for street fighting, so they could only send brave soldiers into the city to clear the remnants of the enemy.
However, what people didn't expect was that after these individual martial arts were good, the brave warriors who joined the street battle, instead of playing the momentum of the tiger descending the mountain and sweeping Liuhe, they were suppressed by the Jin army, just a small Liaoyang city with a wall of less than 30 miles, it took two days and one night not to say, to clear out only 3,000 remnants of the enemy, and the dare warrior troops themselves also caused more than 1,000 casualties, and it was only at this time that the resistance in Liaoyang City was completely wiped out.
But it is also said that Huang Jie was looking at the west outside the city in a daze, and when he was at the far end of the undulating horizon in the night, he also saw a team of fire dragons coming from far and near in the city, and the first to come up was Yang Keshi, who was covered in blood, but saw that his silver helmet was stained with blood, and his armor was also damaged in a few places, although his face was happy, but the overall image was still somewhat embarrassed.
Yue Fei and Zheyuemei, who followed Yang Keshi, looked much neater, but after seeing the three of them coming up, Yang Keshi and Yue Fei both took a step back, and Zheyuemei also stepped forward with a young man who was wearing a partial general's armor and said, "Report to the marshal!" Yan Bin bumped into the big luck, and he was thirty miles north of the city, and captured Jin Guocheng to defend Yan Wushe (Wan Yan Xiyin)! ”
After hearing that Yan Xiyin was captured, Huang Jie was relieved of the turbidity that had been in his chest for a long time, slammed his palm on the city wall, and said, "Okay!" A thousand miles of strong attack can be regarded as a complete achievement! ”
Because, Wanyan Xiyin is the most important strategic singularity in this battle, and Huang Jie is the most important strategic singularity, and he is the key to breaking the golden country.