819 Goguryeo's counterattack

Suning never doubted that Quangai Suwen was incapable of keeping his achievements, on the contrary, anyone who wanted to take his things from him would endure his stormy blows and dying throes, you know, this Quangai Suwen was the last hero of Goguryeo, when he was alive, Emperor Li Shimin's three expeditions to Goguryeo failed, and only two years after his death, Goguryeo died.

In other words, he was the man who kept Goguryeo's existence on his own, and if it weren't for the coincidence, Suning believed that he would have started a big battle with Quangai Suwen.

Now a Jin Yuxin suddenly appeared, this guy who eliminated the Goguryeo Kingdom in another time and space, but in that time and space, this guy wiped out the Goguryeo Kingdom at the age of more than thirty years later, and now he is only in his thirties, and it is not very certain whether his military skills and mental training have reached that Cheng Dù, and his opponent at that time was the son of Quangai Suwen instead of Quangai Suwen himself, not to mention the help of Li Shiji.

Therefore, Suning did not think that Quangai Suwen would be captured and then defeated, although the current Goguryeo has a big gap compared to the most powerful country in the three peninsulas in the past, at that time, in terms of military strength, it was superior, although the Silla Northern Expeditionary Army defeated the Daedong River Defense Corps, but in order to ensure that their forces are not wiped out, especially not eliminated by the Silla people, it is even more humiliating, they will definitely resist desperately.

The remaining Goguryeo army, which had been tempered by the flames of war, was definitely not so simple to destroy.

So Suning appeased Zhang Liang and Zhang Shigui well, and let them take the navy to sea from time to time to catch seafood and capture Goguryeo people and send them back to China to earn extra military expenses for the navy. Then he arranged the defense of the army, handed over the power of managing the army to Xue Rengui, and continued to prepare for the construction of the Liaodong Peninsula, quietly being a beautiful man, and not caring about those things that were fighting and killing.

Things are just as Suning expected, on the third day of the fifth month of the tenth year of the Tang Dynasty, the news of the defeat of the Silla army came from Anshi City in the north, which attracted Suning's attention, and after understanding the situation in an all-round way, Suning felt very satisfied. Quangai Suwen really didn't cover it. Although he has a "cover" in his name, although the other powerful people are not very useful, the dying struggle is enough for the Silla people to drink a pot.

This defeat was due to the final counterattack of the Iron Alliance formed by the powerful factions of the East, which completely annihilated the Eastern Expeditionary Corps of the Northern Expeditionary Army of Silla in a decisive battle. In one fell swoop, all the lost ground was recovered. Then he actually crossed the Datong River for the first time. For the first time, the Reconquista was waged against the lost territories south of the Taedong River, striking at the Silla people who were just preparing to restore order to the area, and destroying the rear bases of the Silla army.

Although Quangai Suwen crossed the river and fought. But instead of staying, he quickly returned, his forces and his resources were not enough to occupy an area south of the Taedong River for a long time, otherwise sooner or later he would be eaten by the swarming Silla Northern Expeditionary Army, and it would be difficult to support, there was no need to waste all the army in a tug-of-war with the Silla people, his strength was not endless.

Therefore, he did not try to recover the area south of the Taedong River, but this time the powerful Eastern Iron Alliance decided to do so, and they gathered a total of 120,000 soldiers and horses, in addition to cleaning up the remnants of the Silla army and the lone army in various places, they also launched a counterattack on the territory south of the Taedong River that had been lost for several months, and broke through the defense line of the newly occupied land where the Silla people were empty.

This is what Jin Yuxin, who was besieging Anshi City, did not expect, he divided part of the army to attack the land and prefectures of Goguryeo everywhere, constantly devouring the land of Goguryeo, trying to establish a stable logistics base to deal with the subsequent northward attack, and the threat from the Tang Empire that could be encountered in the future, he knew, this time Goguryeo took advantage of the danger of the people, and took advantage of the Tang Empire's all-out attack on the northern steppe to attack the Liaodong region of the Tang Empire.

But the ensuing qiē made the Goguryeo people unexpected, lost everything that could be lost, and the country would not be a country, but even so, Goguryeo still did not perish, but still had the strength to fight, but this does not mean that Silla is safe, after forming an alliance with the Tang Empire to clean up Goguryeo, Silla may not be safe, only try their best to capture Goguryeo's territory, capture strategic places, and then can occupy a favorable position and confront the Tang Empire.

Even if it can't be so, try to be invincible, at least so that the Tang Empire will be jealous of Silla, not confident.

But as time went on, he found that the situation did not seem so easy, and that every area he had conquered seemed to be in disarray, with no production, no identified inhabitants, all the people were refugees, the land was deserted, the houses were burned, there was no food to obtain, no ordnance to replenish, and the situation made him feel very bad, and the area he occupied had no way to obtain more supplies for him, which was really a disaster for him.

In fact, Song Qian also noticed this situation, and prepared to send relevant letters to China, but unfortunately, before the memora was written, he died, and this matter was over, but no matter what the situation was, what he was facing now was still the case, there was no food and ordnance in the place attacked, and the hard-earned losses could not be replenished, and everything had to rely on domestic transportation, which was a huge loss for Silla.

The loss of soldiers and horses has exceeded 60,000 before and after, the loss of horses is thousands, and the consumption of ordnance, grain and grass is incalculable, but except for some territory and population, the territory of the Goguryeo people seems to be chaotic and barren, and nothing is complete.

This invisibly increased the losses of Silla, the military rations of 100,000 people were originally an astronomical amount, and they had to be transported, and people had to eat and chew, and the ten stone grain transported to the front line was only five stone or even less, and the loss of grain was too great. When I was appointed before, some ministers in the DPRK and China raised objections, anyway, we have already taken over the south of the Datong River, our goal has basically been achieved, and the alliance with the Tang Empire has ended here, why do we continue to send troops?

Three years of food and ordnance accumulation have already been consumed, so should we continue to consume reserves?

The ministers had amassed a strong opposition to the continuation of the war, and Kim Woo-shin would have withdrawn his troops long ago without the support of Queen Seondeok, and now he was able to continue the campaign. It's all the Queen's support. In fact, there are not many people in the DPRK and China who support him, and the land that originally laid down the entire Datong River valley is already very remarkable, and unexpected results have been achieved, in fact, it is best to stop this matter.

But not only Queen Seondeok was unwilling. Jin Yuxin was not reconciled. They all wanted to avenge Song Qian. So how could it be possible to accumulate a lot of strength and ask them to stop here? What are the 60,000 soldiers and horses consumed by Quangai Suwen? And what are the generals and commanders who died in battle? Kim Yushin decided to continue the march. Capture the city of Anshi, kill Quangai Suwen, and lock the Tang army's path north.

But now, everything is different, the Eastern Expeditionary Corps was annihilated, the defenders everywhere failed, almost all the eastern lands captured were recovered, and the entire eastern defense line was also recaptured, and even they crossed the Datong River to recover the territory that belonged to them, Jin Yuxin suddenly felt a cold sweat, he almost immediately ordered the withdrawal of the army, and then ordered a horse team of more than 3,000 people to quickly assemble to cross the river, and immediately rushed back to the south of the Datong River to save the crisis.

The 100,000 Northern Expeditionary Army once again lost more than 30,000 soldiers and lost so much territory that should have been occupied, Jin Yuxin felt that he could be beheaded, and those political enemies and military figures in the country who hated him were estimated to have a strong counterattack against him, and Jin Yuxin suddenly felt that his future was bleak.

But he did not stop moving, it was late at night, he quietly and quickly gathered his troops and horses, and after the horse team set off for an hour, he led the army out of Anshi, and left an army in ambush to prevent the pursuers, and at this time, there were still three hours before Tsungai Suwen learned the news that the Silla Eastern Expeditionary Army had been wiped out, and he did not know why the Silla people withdrew their troops, and why the guy who fought very bravely in the war would withdraw his troops.

Until the next morning, Quan Gai Suwen learned that the Silla Eastern Expeditionary Army was wiped out, and the Eastern Strength Coalition Army 100,000 crossed the Datong River to the south to regain the lost territory, he almost immediately knew that a great opportunity was in front of him, he almost immediately gathered 60,000 soldiers and horses to rush out of Anshi City, and then crashed into the ambush circle left by Jin Yuxin, of course, the combat effectiveness of this ambush circle is not strong, Quan Gai Suwen is not panicked, after the initial chaos, Quan Gai Suwen calmly commanded the army to eat this ambush.

It's a pity that he was delayed for more than an hour, Quan Gai Suwen felt that he was unlikely to be able to catch up with Jin Yuxin, but he still decided to chase, sure enough, when he chased to the edge of the Datong River, except for messy footprints and some destroyed ships, he didn't see anything else, Quan Gai Suwen immediately ordered to mobilize ships to prepare to cross the river to pursue, the eastern coalition army had already pursued the past, as the overlord of the west, how could he let it go, and be laughed at by those people?

Jin Yuxin withdrew the army in a timely manner, just after reorganizing the army and a Silla eastern coalition army army met on a narrow road, Jin Yuxin wiped out this army without saying a word, and then captured a few prisoners to inquire about the news of the previous horse team, learned that the horse team was impatient and rash, had fallen into a heavy encirclement and was eaten, Jin Yuxin was furious, and immediately ordered to kill these prisoners, and then left an army to guard the defense line on the south bank, and pursued in the direction indicated with the main force.

The news of the invasion of the Eastern Coalition Army soon spread back to Silla proper, and Queen Seondeok was shocked, and the good news that she had captured the entire Taedong River valley a few days ago was so quickly turned into Goguryeo and fought back? Did the Goguryeo people hang up? How did you call it back like this? Moreover, he fought a series of victories, defeating the defenders of the newly occupied territory of Goguryeo, and almost reached Silla proper.

Silla, which has been on the offensive since its launch, was counterattacked? The Northern Expedition of 100,000 troops encountered this kind of thing? What about Jin Yuxin? What about Jin Yuxin? Queen Shande suddenly fell into extreme anger, and she couldn't wait to find Jin Yuxin immediately, and then kill him to vent her anger, Song Qian was no longer useful, and he didn't lead the people to chase him collectively, but you were good, not only did you not defeat them, but you were beaten by them in turn!

How does Queen Seondeok know the pain in Kim Yu's faith? After learning the news, Jin Yuxin hurried back to the south bank, regardless of the danger of the south bank, led the main force to rescue Silla proper, fought three victories in a row and destroyed the obstacle army, and was bent on finding Goguryeo's southern expeditionary army to fight to the death. (To be continued......)