Chapter 609: Marines

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There are many mountain cities in Liaodong, and when Goguryeo destroyed the country in 700 years, there were more than 250 mountain cities in total.

However, in addition to the countless mountain fortresses of all sizes, Goguryeo also has many flat castles. For example, Liaodong City, an important town in the middle reaches of the Liaohe River, is a flat city, and a little upstream of the Yalu River estuary, the Wugu River goes all the way south from the Wugu City, and joins the Yalu River here, and there are two cities at the mouth of the river. Among them, at the confluence of the Wugu River and the Yalu River, there is the Pingdi City Jiankou City. Twenty miles east of Jiankou City, there is also a Tiger Mountain City that occupies the commanding heights.

The mountain fortress of Hushan is also the border between Goguryeo and the Balhai Sea, with the Bohai Sea to the east and Goguryeo to the west.

The Yalu River leads directly to the sea.

The huge fleet had reached the mouth of the river, and Pei You was standing at the bow of the ship.

Large ships such as building boats and fighting ships were parked outside the estuary, and Pei You led the boats and yachts as the vanguard.

On a cold February night, fog was thick on the river.

Pei You turned his head and looked at Gao Siji behind him, "How sure is Gao Yanei about this battle?" ”

It was impossible for an army of 80,000 to rush up at once, and they came from far away from the sea, even bypassing Niangniangcheng, in order to raid the Goguryeo. The marshal and the large army stayed at the mouth of the river, and the forward task of attacking the city was handed over to the nine Yanai and the light boat troops of the navy.

Gao Siji smiled, his eyes full of confidence.

"The teacher often said that the naval army led by Master Pei was invincible in the world. Master Pei personally escorted us ashore. Why be afraid? ”

Pei You listened. There was a gleam of appreciation in his eyes. These disciples of Dashuai are indeed very good. Young but already famous. Pei You likes Gao Siji more and more, the white horse and silver gun are talented, and the family background is good. Although the Gao family was originally a general in Youzhou, after being attached to the marshal, the family moved to Dengzhou. Dozens of children of the Gao family are in the army, Gao Shunli is the military master, and the brothers are also senior generals, and it is even more rare that they are among the younger generation. The three brothers of Gao Siji are the most outstanding, and they are all officers above the battalion level.

The Zhenguo Army has a characteristic, from the marshal Li Jing to many high-level, middle-level and even low-level officers, all of whom are very young, and even civilian officials such as the county commander of the assassination history are mostly young officials. I have to say that this is because the Zhenguo Army, a feudal town, has risen too fast. For example, Li Zhen, Li Lianggai, Yu Jingxiang and other civil officials, Li Juyi, Liu Xun, Gao Siji and other military generals, most of them have not started a family.

Now several ladies of Dashuai are busy all day long to introduce objects to these civil and military officers under Dashuai. Among them, Wang Haojun and Xiao Yulou are the two most popular. Pei You didn't care about these things, but he heard his eldest daughter talk about it. This matter was actually explained to the two ladies by the marshal. It is said that the reason is that since Xiao Yulou entered, he began to fight against Wang Haojun, the two women fought openly and secretly, and the eldest lady Wang Guiniang was powerless to control, and the last had to come forward. The marshal gave them a task and asked them to be responsible for helping the high-ranking civil and military unmarried officials in the Zhenguo army to introduce their partners. At the same time, it also introduced the brothers, sisters and children of these senior officials.

At first, Pei You didn't care too much, but after thinking about it, he felt that this matter was not as simple as it seemed. In the several families that have been introduced, the backgrounds of the two parties are thought-provoking, such as Li Chun's daughter married Jing Xiang, Li Liang married Wang Chong's sister, and Xiao Kai married Zhang Hong's daughter. These family affairs, civil and military relatives, as well as families and ordinary officials.

These family affairs almost all broke the very strict kind of family relationship between the families, not only the civil and military marriages were intermarried, but also the wealthy families of the family also intermarried with the ordinary eunuchs. In particular, these marriages are the result of Li Jing letting several ladies intervene.

It is not unusual for the Lord to intervene in the marriages of those below. For example, when Gaozong even decreed that the five surnames and seven sects were not allowed to marry each other. Pei You's two daughters are all married to Li Jing, and they are also Li Jing's relatives, he discussed them carefully with his staff, and finally thought that this was indeed Li Jing's intention. The intention is also obvious, Li Jing intervenes in the marriage between his subordinates, and through this introduction and marriage between each other, it can not only strengthen the boundary between the civil and military and the clans and ordinary families, but also increase the relationship between the subordinates. At the same time, it can also prevent the mutual marriage between some important ministers, so as not to be hollowed out by the subordinates to form a power alliance.

Since Pei You came to Li Jing, he has also studied Li Jing for a long time. He summed up a few points, Li Jing is a heroic figure, and he has done many things very well and boldly. For example, his unauthorized power, self-respect for the army, and even through the relationship between his father-in-law, master and apprentice, marriage, etc., as well as bribery, he has pulled up a big net and built a strong force. But at the same time, what Li Jing did himself, he didn't want his subordinates to do too. He worshipped Song Wei as his father-in-law, but he did not accept his son. He married many wealthy families, but he tried his best to control his subordinates from marrying each other so strongly. He bribed a lot of court officials and supported the army for self-respect, but his control over the internal affairs of the Zhenguo army was extremely strong, and even the generals had no actual military power in their hands, even the civilian officials were also divided.

In the Zhenguo Army, Li Jing has absolute control, but the other generals of the Zhenguo Army, he does not give any such power at all.

"I heard that Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xiao are going to pull the red line for you recently, how about it, which daughter are they talking about?" Pei You asked with a smile.

When it came to marriage, Gao Siji immediately felt a little shy, "Mrs. Wang introduced a niece of General Li Wei, who is the same age as me. Mrs. Xiao introduced the niece of General Li Xu of the Navy Army. ”

The two ladies introduced are not women from their own family, whether they are Li Wei's sister or Li Xu's sister, they are all handsome clansmen. In terms of seniority, she is Li Jing's niece, which is equivalent to Gao Siji's generation. However, it can be seen from here that what the two ladies did was indeed controlled by the marshal behind the scenes.

The handsome Li Jing originally lived separately from the people in the clan, and after he developed, the people of the Li family came to rely on Li Jing. Li Jing didn't have any opinion on this, after all, the clan could be regarded as the most reliable kind of strength. However, in the past few years, although Li Jing has also arranged a large number of clansmen to enter the Zhenguo Army, his positions are not high. Only Li Chun, Li Wei, Li Xu and a few others have slightly higher positions.

However, in the past few years, Li Jing has married his subordinates through his clansmen, and the men of the Li family have married the women of the subordinate Wenwu families, and the women of the Li family have been married into each family. Through such a marriage, Li Jing and many of his subordinates not only have a relationship between the upper and lower levels, but also have a kinship relationship with the clan.

Through such a marriage, they were not only Li Jing's subordinates, but also became Li Jing's relatives.

"Brother Ling hasn't decided yet, there are many juniors of the same age in my clan, if you don't dislike my Pei family, I would be willing to act as a matchmaker, pull a red line, and be a moon old." Pei Youzhi Dao Gao Siji is a disciple of Li Jing, and Li Jing must want to give him a Li woman. However, he is also optimistic about the Gao family and wants the Pei family to marry the Gao family, no matter what, his two daughters are married to Li Jing and have two nephews, and he also wants to find a few strong supporters for his daughters and nephews.

Pei You is from the Pei family in Hedong, although it is a side branch, but it is also a few generations that have just been separated from the main branch. Pei's fame, in today's world, is the same as Xiao's, Cui's and other top famous families in the Tang Dynasty. Gao Siji was really moved when he heard it, thanked him repeatedly, and said that he would report to his father after he went back.

"Military master, we will go to the mouth of the Wugu River immediately!" Soldier report.

Pei You listened and nodded lightly, indicating that he understood.

He immediately raised his hand and gave the order, everyone getting ready.

The lights had long since been extinguished on the boats, and they rowed up the river.

Several small boats approached the pier of Jiankou Castle first, and after a while, a few torches were dangling on the pier.

Pei You was overjoyed: "Okay, the enemy troops on the dock are defenseless, so they immediately rushed to the shore and landed." ”

One after another, the boats quickly approached the dock, Pei You pointed to the location of the water gate of Jiankou City that had been marked on the map, and called the special operations battalion of the navy, the navy and the land team, to send the ship with the divine fire to it, and directly blew the water gate open. Pei You shouted in a deep voice.

The Marine Corps is a newly built special operations battalion of the Navy Corps, and it will go there immediately after being ordered.

At this time, Gao Siji had successfully boarded the dock with his 1,000 soldiers and horses, and the Goguryeo on Jiankou City finally came to their senses and understood what had happened.

"Shoot the arrows!" Gao Siji shouted, and the two battalions of thousands of people, who had quickly formed a formation on the dock, ran and rushed to the city, and when they were fifty paces away, they stood still, squatted down and opened their bows and arrows.

"Shoot the arrows!"

With Gao Siji's order, after three rounds of arrow rain suppressed the defenders at the head of the city, the fourth row began to release rockets, and rows of rockets rose into the air.

At the same time, the Marines had already taken the map issued by the General Staff Officer earlier in their hands and launched an attack according to the location of the water gate of Jiankou City accurately marked on the map. Several dinghys filled with gunpowder rushed to the water gate, and after reaching the fence, they locked the boat to the fence and lit the line of fire.

With a loud bang, the gunpowder full of several ships suddenly exploded, and a huge fireball rose into the air, and half of the water gate was directly blown away. The fence is gone, and only an unobstructed waterway remains in its original location.

"Dive in!" After the explosion, the soldiers of the Marine Corps had already rushed straight over, jumped into the water, dived into the canal, and dived into the city from under the water.

Gao Siji's archers suppressed the defenders of the south gate and couldn't raise their heads, and Wang Yanzhang, Li Cunxiao and other Li Jing disciples led all the troops to rush to the city and stormed the city. There were only 3,000 Goguryeo people in the city, and they rushed to the south gate when they heard the alarm.

Just as the Goguryeo people rushed to the south gate, a violent explosion suddenly came from the southeast water gate, and the shocked Goguryeo people were colorless. Immediately afterwards, bursts of shouts came from the southeast city, and a group of soldiers and horses had already gone around to the east gate, killed from behind the defenders, captured the east gate, and led Fu Cunxian, Yang Shihou, Gao Jichang, Wang Tan and others to lead the crowd into the city!

The East Gate was lost, the Tang Army's offensive was more fierce, and it occupied an absolute numerical advantage, and soon the entire Jiankou City was taken in one fell swoop! (To be continued......)