Chapter 601: Sweeping
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In the evening, Li Jing led the Fourth Army to the battlefield.
General Guo Zhenshan and Lin Wu have already cleaned up the battlefield, although the soldiers have just finished the battle, they are all in high spirits.
"In this battle, 6,000 soldiers and horses were annihilated, more than 4,000 were beheaded, and more than 1,000 were taken prisoners, but in fact, more than 500 were seriously wounded, and there were more than 1,300 remaining prisoners. Yerodhara was beheaded by General Lin Wu, and the banner was also captured by General Lin Wu. In addition, we also seized more than 2,100 sets of leather armor, knives and guns in good condition, and more than 3,000 sets of ordinary ones. There were more than 2,000 horses intact and a number of dry food. Guo Zhenshan held a handscroll full of numbers and reported to Li Jing.
Li Jing punched Lin Wu in the chest, "Sure enough, he is worthy of being the master of the Silver Spear Serving Jie Army, and he is worthy of the might of the Zuo Ya Army." Chop the general and capture the flag, take the head of the general among the ten thousand armies, mighty! "Lin Wunai is Li Jing's sworn brother, and he has a prestige position in the Zhenguo Army that is rare for other generals. Although there are more than 20 armies under the Zhenguo Army at present, there is still a lot of gap between the military master and the military master. For example, although Lin Wei did not serve as the military commander, his status in the Zhenguo army was second only to Li Jing. And Lin Wu and Wang Chong, the two sworn brothers of Li Jing, are also the most prestigious among the army masters. And such as Zhang Chengzong and Liu Shouqian, they are also more trusted by Li Jing than Guo Zhenshan, who later joined the military masters.
Lin Wu smiled: "In this battle, the Yanyun Army fought very well, and it was the first!" ”
At the beginning, the Yanyun Army was just the army in southern Liaoning that was dismantled, and it was later formed into a unity army. After entering Youzhou, he was weakened by Li Jing, and he was left in Youzhou at the very end. But then it did well. Li Jing slowly began to change blood from middle-level officers. The non-commissioned officers under the bottom of the line are enriched. and later added a lot of elite soldiers. By now, this army has been reborn, although I dare not say that it is as elite as the five yamen of the Zhenguo Army, but at least, there is no need to worry about loyalty.
This time, their performance was indeed beyond Li Jing's expectations. It can be said that Guan Jian still has Guo Zhenshan, the main general, and those middle and low-level transferred officers.
"In this battle, all the soldiers recorded a third-class merit. Guo Jun is in command. Merit comes first. The main commander of the forest army will capture the flag, and he should be secondary. In addition, Lao Hei and Monk Hua also contributed to this battle, which was recorded as the third merit. The marching office will write down the merits, and then reward them according to the merits. Li Jing announced with a smile.
Then, let the four armies of this battle temporarily rest in place.
The next day, Li Jing left the four armies to continue to rest, and he, together with Zhao Li, Zeng Yuanyu, Gao Zhaokang and others, led the four armies of Feixiong, Shenjie, the Korean Army, and the Shengjie Army to set off north.
The 10th Army of the Zhenguo Army and the 5th Army of the Peace Lu Army, plus the Navy Army, the Shenjie Army and the Korean Army, and the 6th Army of the United Army. There were a total of 24 armies, and Li Jing transferred 14 armies, including the three unity armies and the navy army, this time. After the three armies and one united army were stationed in Pingzhou. Li Jing also retained a total of four armies and two unity armies in Denglai and Ziqing counties.
This time he entered Liao to fight, and Li Jing also intended to test the training of the Zhenguo Army over the past year or so through actual combat. In terms of troop transfers, most of them are transferred in turns. Let every army have the opportunity to fight, and the time for training in peacetime is enough. Now this army still lacks only the tempering of sword and fire, blood and sand. As long as it is tested in actual combat, then this army is a real army.
At present, the 14th Army that entered Liao, except for the naval army and the Korean army, which did not participate in the battle, the other 12th armies still performed very well.
Liu Shouqian and Zhang Chengshou were left behind in Shuangcheng to guard against other Goguryeo forces in the east, and together with the auxiliary army, they protected the logistics of the Minfu team, and assisted in building the road to the north. After the battle just now, the four armies led by Guo Zhenshan and others also stayed in Shuangcheng for a while to recuperate, and then escorted the grain and grass to the north.
Li Jing led the 4th Army with 20,000 horses all the way north, and after Yelu Dachi and Yelu Dara were wiped out in Shuangcheng successively, the Khitans of the Lian Lai Department in the cities of Jian'an Prefecture had not received the news. Although there are still 3,000 soldiers and horses left in Jian'an Prefecture, they are distributed in more than ten cities, and each city has only three or five hundred people.
In the face of Li Jing's army sweeping like a storm, no one could stop it.
Although the mountain city is dangerous, it has to be guarded by people. Three to five hundred people had to defend a big mountain city, which was completely vulnerable to Li Jing, who had a special combat team, mountain infantry and mountain cavalry.
From the end of July to the beginning of August, Li Jinglian Ke built more than ten mountain cities in Jian'an Prefecture, such as Fenying Mountain City, Chengzigou Mountain City, Dongshuangtai Mountain City, Chishan Mountain City, Sunjiawobao Mountain City, Yantou Mountain City, Dongsheng Mountain City, Chaoyang Temple Mountain City, etc., and the soldiers and horses reached Jian'an City.
Jian'an City, also known as Goryeo City Mountain City, is located in the later generations of Yingkou City, Liaoning Province, Gaizhou City, northeast fifteen miles, on the east mountain of Qingshi Guanbao Goryeo City Village, Dongshan is also known as Stone Mountain, also called Goryeo City Mountain.
This is a steep mountain, the southwest peak is more than 100 zhang above sea level, climb to the peak, look at the Bohai Sea in the west, ten thousand blue waves, and the bottom of the heart.
This mountain city was built nearly 400 years ago, after the Tang Dynasty destroyed Goguryeo, it was changed to Jian'an Prefecture, which was the location of Jian'an Governor's Mansion, one of the nine major prefectures of Andong Metropolitan Protectorate. Since the Sui Dynasty, it has always been an important town where merchants gathered. It is close to the mouth of the Liao River in Liaodong Bay, and is an important passage for the Liaodong Peninsula to go north to the Liao River Basin.
The circumference of the whole Jian'an city reaches more than ten miles, the city becomes an irregular circle, the middle is the valley, the surrounding is dangerous because of the mountain, the city wall is built, most of them are built with stones, some rammed earth is piled up, and the steep place uses the stone cliff to make the wall.
There are three city gates, one water gate, and four watchtowers in dangerous places. There is also a protruding hill in the center of the city, commonly known as the Golden Temple Mountain, which is about seven zhang high, and there is a watchtower built on it. The hill is surrounded by five springs, and a reservoir. The spring water is cold and does not freeze, and it does not dry up in severe droughts.
There are natural dangers, plus there is a water source in the city, and even during the siege of the city, you can also farm in the city, which is very conducive to the garrison to hold on.
Li Jing attacked all the way, and the city had already learned the news, and the three city gates were closed.
Holding up the clairvoyant mirror, Li Jing looked at the city, there were soldiers with guns and bows guarding the city, but there were not many soldiers. There were also many people standing at the head of the city, but they were all young men and old people, and even many women. Things were as Li Jing expected, the Khitans did not want to surrender, but chose to hold on.
"What is the reaction of the Khitans in Anshi Prefecture?"
Li Jing turned around and asked Gongsun Lan because he was walking around in the army. Gongsun Lan wore a leather armor, a helmet, and a sword on her back. However, her leather armor is obviously not standard, the whole leather armor is fiery and eye-catching, and the leather armor is completely tailored to her body shape, and when worn on her body, it looks extremely slim, which makes Li Jing feel that there is a feeling of uniform temptation.
Li Wei has been staying in the Khitan grassland, and now the Xiaoqi Division is presided over by Gongsun Lan most of the time, and she likes this arrangement very much. Being able to be by Li Jing's side made her feel like she was even surpassing Li Jing's eight-room lady. At the very least, they can't follow the army, and when Li Jing goes out, they can only wait for him to go back at home.
"Returning to the Great Shuai, the Khitans in Anshi Prefecture are also tribes of the Diera Division, which is comparable in size to the Lian Tribe, and they have 5,000 warriors. However, some time ago, Ying Ling sent 2,000 horsemen back to the Khitan, and now there are still 3,000 soldiers. They have already known that we have invaded Jian'an State, and according to the spies, Yeluhao of Anshi State has sent a thousand soldiers to support Jian'an State. ”
"There are only 1,000 warriors, and there are only 3,000 people in the family. Very good! Li Jing smiled, "When will they be able to reach Jian'an City at the earliest?" ”
"The Tanma has just returned, and the three thousand horsemen sent by Yeluhao have arrived in Yingchengzi Mountain City, which is only a day's journey away from the Great Stone Bridge. And the big stone bridge to Jian'an City, only eighty miles of land, fast horses can be reached in one day. Gongsun Lan replied.
"It's coming so fast!"
Li Jing couldn't help but sigh, although there were only 3,000 soldiers and horses, this should only be a striker. Perhaps, there will be a large group of people coming from behind.
Anshi State, that is, Haicheng. Han Shi placed Xinchang, Anshi, and Liao team three counties. During the Three Kingdoms period, Wei occupied the north and belonged to Pingzhou, and later changed to Youzhou. From the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Haicheng began to be occupied by Goguryeo for more than 260 years. During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, Goguryeo was destroyed and Anshi Prefecture was placed, which belonged to the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate. This place, in later generations, is Haicheng and belongs to Anshan City.
"Do you know who is the commander of the army?"
"Yelu Shelu, the son of Yeluhao, is thirty years old and has the title of Khitan warrior."
Li Jing didn't have much impression when he heard it, and Li Jing didn't know much about the Khitans. But since the Khitans are here, then he has to speed up and take Jian'an City. The location of Jian'an City is quite important, blocking the passage of the Liaodong Peninsula to the Liaohe River valley and even to the Liaodong River in the north. In the same way, taking Jian'an is equivalent to being able to control the gateway to southern Liaoning.
If the Khitan reinforcements were allowed to enter the city, it would be a great loss to take Jian'an at that time.
Li Jing couldn't help but shake his head.
"Why did the handsome shake his head?" Gai Yu asked aloud.
"Jian'an City is so dangerous, I didn't want to storm it, after all, we got the news that there are more than 1,000 soldiers and horses in Jian'an City. Moreover, Jian'an is an important town, and there are about 30,000 Khitan and people of various ethnic groups in the city. If the Khitans defend to the ground and levy the young and strong Shangcheng, we will have to pay a lot of casualties if we attack strongly. I originally wanted to besiege Jian'an City, and then I was not in a hurry to attack the city, and I was ready to find an opportunity to attack it. Speaking of this, Li Jing couldn't help but sigh, "But in the current situation, we have to attack immediately, it's better to have a worse situation later." ”
"Immediately inform the Zhao army lord and let him lead the Flying Bear Army to bypass Jian'an City and go to Dashiqiao, be sure to occupy Dashiqiao first, intercept the Khitan reinforcements, and prevent them from reinforcing Jian'an." Li Jing ordered, and after a moment of silence, Li Jing turned his head to Gao Zhaokang behind him and said, "General Gao has not been sent to lead the Korean army to the battlefield in the previous battles, so it is estimated that General Gao's heart is itching." Now, this commander will give you a chance to make contributions, and after dark today, General Gao will lead the Korean army to attack Jian'an City! ”
Gao Zhaokang looked at Li Jing's smile, and was very reluctant to accept this military order, but he had to step forward to receive the order! (To be continued......)