823 Goguryeo version of the Three Kingdoms
Because of the relationship between artillery and reinforcements, Zhang Liang was also dissuaded by Suning, and decided to temporarily suppress his crazy desire for revenge, and when the artillery and reinforcements arrived, he would use more tyrannical and cruel means to vent his hatred, which would be more refreshing and faster at that time.
The Silla people also decided to temporarily stop the Northern Expedition because of the previous defeat and the danger of being almost beaten into the homeland by the rampaging Goguryeo, and the commander Kim Yushin was ordered by Queen Seondeok to cut off a qiē position after finally turning the tide, went home to reflect on himself, and then suspended the army to rectify, concentrated on digesting all the land south of the Taedong River, developed itself, and then continued to recruit troops to supplement the losses of the army, these three Northern Expeditions almost consumed 100,000 soldiers and horses of Silla, so that Silla's national strength suffered a great loss.
However, with the support of the rich Han River valley and the newly plundered Goguryeo materials and refugees, these losses can be compensated, but Silla will not launch the Northern Expedition again in a short period of time to try to eliminate Goguryeo, so during this period, the entire Korean Peninsula entered a period of calm and wound licking that has not been seen for a long time, everyone is licking their wounds, resting, and no one wants to have a dispute at this time.
However, things often do not conform to people's wishes, whether you want to see it or not, the easier it is for you to see, so the internal contradictions between Goguryeo's eastern powerful faction alliance broke out during this period, and it broke out very thoroughly, on the second day of the outbreak, three powerful factions were eliminated, and on the third day of the outbreak, it evolved into a full-scale war, so fast and fierce that even Quan Gai Suwen did not expect it.
The battle for supremacy in the East ceased fifteen days later, as it happened so quickly. There was no warning at all before, and the two generals of the military towns who were secretly preparing became the biggest winners, and the two of them eliminated all the local powerful warlords except for the two of them, and became the survivors after the battle for hegemony in the east, the territory is very large, and there are many soldiers and horses, compared to the previous dispersion, their strength is undoubtedly stronger.
Of course, this battle for hegemony in the east also affected Quangai Suwen, and part of Quangai Suwen was also occupied, and then the current pattern is that the entire north, including the Great Wall area, was occupied by the original Great Wall garrison general Li Yuenan. Originally, most of the powerful factions in the east were the territory of Li Yuenan in the north and the Datong River in the south. It is bordered to the west by the territory of Quangai Suwen, and this area is occupied by the former general Jin Sheng of the eastern military town, while Quangai Suwen occupies the vast fertile plains in the west.
The Goguryeo version of the Three Kingdoms was born, Wei-Li Yuenan. Shu - Quangai Suwen. Wu - Jin Sheng.
But of course. These three kingdoms are not the other three kingdoms, and the balance of power between the three kingdoms is not the same, and the most powerful of the three kingdoms of China is the Wei state. The weakest is the Shu State, the Wu State plays soy sauce in the middle, and the strongest in the Goguryeo version of the Three Kingdoms is Quangai Suwen, and the weakest is Li Yuenan, who occupies the northern territory, and the remaining Jin Sheng is the same as the Wu State, not embarrassed or embarrassed, and is in the middle position.
It's nothing, this qiē happened too fast, when Quangai Suwen, who licked his wounds, hadn't reacted yet, the battle for hegemony in the east was over, and then the two generals of the military town each claimed the king, separating one side, Quangai Suwen saw that things were no longer what they used to be, and it was useless for him to hold Mo Lizhi's official position anymore, the intellectuals and officials who were originally in the capital were all killed and burned by Suning, and the groups that supported the central government no longer existed, so the name of righteousness no longer had that effect.
In this case, if Quangae Suwen didn't do anything, it would really be a fool's hat, so Quangai Suwen immediately proclaimed himself king, and took Anshi City as his royal capital, and Goguryeo had a situation where three kings stood side by side.
The so-called one mountain does not tolerate two tigers, unless one male and one female, a country is not allowed to have two kings, let alone three, then the confrontation and blows between each other are inevitable, of course, the two generals who continued the era of the Eastern Alliance, Li Yuenan and Jin Sheng, are obviously not as stupid as those guys before, they like to fight in the nest, they all know that Quan Gai Suwen's strength is the most powerful of the three of them, so they made a covenant to destroy Quan Gai Suwen first, and then they fight each other to the death, As long as Quangai Suwen didn't die, they couldn't attack each other.
This can make Quangai Suwen a little nerve-wracking, Quangai Suwen, who has suffered from one to many, has always wanted an ally, with his current strength, if he can win over one to deal with one, and then clean up the other after dealing with this, the entire Goguryeo is his, but now both sides are very firm, and the envoys he sent have been beheaded and sent back, obviously, they don't intend to let Quangai Suwen succeed.
It didn't take long for Li Yuenan and Jin Sheng, who had integrated their respective forces, to agree to send troops together to conquer Quangai Suwen, and after losing the constraints and threats of the Silla people, their attack would be sharper, and Quangai Suwen held a battle meeting overnight, and the soldiers were divided into two ways to prepare to resist their attack, and then defined this war as a real war of rebellion, and he was a loyal minister to crusade against two people who were not subordinate, which he called the fourth war of rebellion.
On the eighth day of June in the tenth year of the Tang Dynasty, the fourth rebellion war was officially launched, the war was first launched between Quangai Suwen and Li Yuenan, Li Yuenan claimed to have 300,000 troops, went south to conquer Quangai Suwen, and the vanguard army of 10,000 iron cavalry had eliminated the small troops of the border guards of Quangai Suwen, and came towards the border town, in response to this, Quangai Suwen ordered 80,000 troops to go north to resist the enemy.
As for why only 80,000 people were sent, it was because Quan Gai Suwen believed that Li Yuenan did not have an army of 300,000 at all, this was just a claim, and the north had been completely destroyed, where was there so much population and food for him to raise an army of 300,000? To have 150,000 is to break the sky!
However, in the south, the Jin Shengxi Expeditionary Army, which is known as the 200,000 army, made Quangai Suwen more cautious and transferred 120,000 troops to fight against it, Mr. Li's analysis is that the water of this 200,000 will not be very large, because Jin Sheng has inherited more of the territory, population, and army of the powerful faction in the east, and it is not difficult for 200,000 people to come together, even if there are still those who stay, there should be 150,000 people. Compared with Li Yuenan's bluff, Jin Sheng needs to worry more.
Quangai Suwen personally led the 120,000 troops to fight against Jin Sheng, and the north was handed over to his cronies to be responsible, he looked down on Li Yuenan very much, and attached great importance to Jin Sheng, which is the case, Li Yuenan was bluffing, saying that it was 300,000 troops, but in fact, his total strength was less than 150,000, and he arrived at the Great Wall only to find that there were refugees in addition to the old, weak, sick and disabled. Most of the refugees are elderly, sick and disabled. There is simply no way to form combat effectiveness.
In desperation, Li Yuenan ordered to pull away the slightly stronger of these old, weak, sick and disabled, and the short ones picked the generals, and they just gathered 20,000 or 30,000 people to take them away, and the rest were really old, weak, sick, disabled, women and children. Not an exaggeration at all. There is no food left. The tragic journey of these people deepened even further.
The combat effectiveness and combat consciousness of the army composed of this kind of people can be imagined, Li Yuenan is also in a hurry, and the elite of the headquarters has lost too much when they compete with Jin Sheng for the fruits of victory. So I didn't grab too much, it was difficult to make up for it, so I had to do this to fill the vacancy, but the results of this were also obvious, so Li Yuenan basically didn't have a strong army except for the elite iron cavalry under his command, and after winning the first battle with the iron cavalry, the second battle was defeated by the defenders.
At this time, Quangai Suwen's 80,000 support troops had not yet arrived, that is, the local defenders, the number was less than 3,000, dealing with Li Yuenan's 30,000 troops, as soon as the confrontation began, Li Yuenan's southern expeditionary army was defeated by Quangai Suwen's defenders, and the defeat was very miserable, so that Li Yuenan was very faceless, and under the urgency of attacking, Li Yuenan took the iron cavalry to clean up the defenders, although they completely annihilated the defenders, but also let the elite troops suffer a lot of losses.
As a result, after the arrival of Quangai Suwen's 80,000 troops, the first battle was 50,000 against 50,000, Li Yuenan's iron cavalry was lost, and only less than 20,000 of the 50,000 soldiers and horses were slaughtered, and it was a complete fiasco, and the southern expedition became the northern expedition of Quangai Suwen's army in a few days, Quangai Suwen's cronies and generals led the army to rush and fight, Li Yuenan was defeated and retreated, and more than 100,000 troops were defeated in successive battles, and only 80,000 were left when they retreated to the mainland, and at this time Quangai Suwen's army only lost less than 10,000 people.
The north is completely stabilized, it should be said that Li Yuenan has no strength to defeat Quangai Suwen at all, but this south of Jin Sheng, the army's elite Cheng dù and strong Cheng dù and the number are beyond Quangai Suwen's imagination, the first battle Quangai Suwen's army lost a city, the city lord committed suicide, Quangai Suwen led the army to arrive, just met Jin Sheng's pursuing troops, a chaotic battle, Quan Gai Suwen barely repelled Jin Sheng's army.
Quangai Suwen realized that Jin Sheng was a real strong opponent, concentrated his forces and Jin Sheng, and after a few days, both sides had their own victories and defeats, Jin Sheng's army was very difficult to deal with, and Quangai Suwen's elite army could not cause them huge losses, but let Jin Sheng's army repeatedly succeed in various battlefields, losing three cities in a row, which made Quangai Suwen very angry, and finally led the iron cavalry to fight in person, thwarted Jin Sheng's besieging army, and won a small victory.
Compared with Jin Sheng's excellent performance, Li Yuenan can only use the miserable to say, the army is defeated again and again, and the territory is lost again and again, to be honest, if Quangai Suwen hadn't estimated that most of his territory was in the area of the Great Wall, he would have ordered him to be exterminated, and now he is just slowly taking away his inland territory, driving him to the border of the north, taking away the area bordering him and Jin Sheng, cutting off his connection with Jin Sheng, so that Jin Sheng cannot help him.
Jin Sheng is not stupid, his own victory is not the most important thing, so that Li Yuenan can not fail is the most important, if Li Yuenan collapses, he will have to directly face the blow of Quangai Suwen's 200,000 troops, he can deal with him 100,000, but he will definitely not be able to clean up his 200,000, in the face of this situation, he must operate carefully, and must not let Li Yuenan be completely killed, so he specially left an army at the junction of Li Yuenan's territory, and ordered this 10,000-person cavalry to attack when Li Yuenan was most critical.
When the Quangai Suwen army faced the siege of the last city in Li Yuenan's inland territory, it encountered Jin Sheng's cavalry raid, although it was only a surprise attack of 10,000 cavalry, but this sudden cavalry with strong combat effectiveness did make the Quangai Suwen army suffer great losses, Li Yuenan saw that the reinforcements were coming, and immediately led the troops to attack, sweeping away the anger that had been suppressed and beaten for several days, and the battle did not have to continue.
Quangai Suwen army encountered the first defeat in a few days, and the defeat was still very miserable, and it was very strict, more than 70,000 Northern Expeditionary Army only left more than 50,000, and more than 20,000 people were lost in the first battle, so frightened that the Northern Expeditionary Army hurriedly found a city to hold out, Li Yuenan finally exempted the crisis of losing the country, after this battle, the northern front temporarily stabilized, and the southern battle became more and more intense, Quangai Suwen and Jin Sheng personally led the army to fight, but still couldn't fight a reason, until late June, When Quangai Suwen led the army to raid Jin Sheng's camp, the fire company camp defeated Jin Sheng for a while and regained some lost territory.
The fourth war of rebellion is in full swing, and Suning will certainly not be idle here. (To be continued......)