Chapter 610: Opening up the Third Battlefield
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On a cold February night, the cold snap of spring made the whole night colder and colder.
On Tiger Mountain, the mountain city is high on the top of the mountain, like a tiger lying on the square hill.
There was silence above the city!
The Goguryeo defenders all hid in the city gate tower, corner tower, and Tibetan soldier cave, in groups of three or five, gathered together, and relied on charcoal and hot wine to keep warm.
At the junction of Hushan City and Yalu Mansion in the Bohai Sea, there were many soldiers and horses stationed in the past, but now that Goguryeo has been restored and has become an ally with the Bohai Sea, Gao Degui has transferred a group of soldiers and horses from here to the front line of the Whistle River. Although the Tang army repeatedly attacked the coastal grain transportation lines in the autumn and winter of last year, the above had already made a way to deal with it, and abandoned the current grain transportation routes after the ice fell. After the grain of the Bohai people arrived at Jiankou City, they went north to Wugu City, and then transferred to the front line of the Whistle River.
In the silent dark night, several thunderbolts suddenly sounded, resounding through the heavens and the earth.
"Thunder?" The guards in the gate tower looked up in surprise.
"Talking nonsense, the sting hasn't arrived yet, where did the thunder come from?" The officer on duty shouted.
"And what's that sound?"
"I heard that the Tang Army has heavenly fire, as well as divine thunder, one blow is like the power of thunder!" Another junior officer said with a nervous expression.
"It sounds like it's coming from the direction of Jiankou Castle at the foot of the mountain to the west."
"Didn't the Tang Army call you?"
Listening to the more people below talked, the more mysterious it became, although the officer on duty also felt that this inference was credible, but he still stopped everyone's discussion with a solemn face: "How could the Tang army silently touch Jiankou City, and there is Niangniang Mountain City in the west." Hugh is going to talk nonsense. Disturb the morale of the army. ”
"Someone looks like they're coming from outside the city!"
A soldier who had been reprimanded suddenly shouted loudly. Draw everyone's eyes into the distance. Really. I saw a line of fire winding in.
The officer on duty suddenly became nervous and shouted: "Ring the alarm bell and go to the city to defend!" ”
The alarm bell rang out, and a group of guards stood at the head of the city with spears in hand.
The procession in the distance was getting closer and closer, and there were about a thousand people and horses, with torches. However, these people were very embarrassed, marching without queue rules, and seemed to be fleeing for their lives all the way here.
"What people!"
"We are under the command of General Jiankou Castle. Jiankou City was breached by the Tang army's surprise attack, and we desperately broke through and opened the city gate quickly. ”
In the ranks of the city, an officer on a horse shouted.
The officers in the city looked down carefully, these people looked panicked, but they were indeed wearing the uniforms of the Goguryeo army, under the banner of Goguryeo. It was the person who spoke, and he also knew that it was the brother-in-law of Wang Li, the guard of Jiankou City, who served as the head of Wang Li's personal guard.
"Where is General Wang?"
"General Wang was trapped in the Tang army. He has died in the chaos of arrows. ”
"How many people are there in the Tang Army?"
"The Tang army came from the sea, at least tens of thousands of elite soldiers. Please open the gates quickly. It's too late, and the Tang army is about to kill. ”
At this time, Zhao Sheng, the city lord of Hushan City, had already heard the alarm and climbed the city tower, glanced at the crowd, and asked, "What happened?" The officer on duty explained the matter carefully, Zhao Sheng nodded, stood on the city and glanced at Lu Xia, "Kaicheng, let them in, his mother's son knew that the Tang army would come from the sea sooner or later." Wang Li, that idiot, couldn't hold on for even a moment. ”
The officer on duty whispered: "The general beware of deception. ”
"The guy below is Wang Li's brother-in-law, I know, and the others are also from Jiankou City. The Tang army attacked, and there were not many soldiers and horses in Hushan City, so let them go to the city, just to help defend the city. Zhao Sheng paused and said: "Immediately send people and horses, report to the Black Bone City on the one hand, and the Yalu Mansion on the Bohai Sea on the other, and tell them that the Tang army is attacking in a big way, let them come to reinforcements quickly!" ”
The officer on duty still wanted to persuade One Two One, but Zhao Sheng was already very impatient and waved his hand, "Go and do it quickly." ”
He led them down to the tower and ordered the gates to be opened.
The city gate slowly opened, the drawbridge was lowered, and the defeated soldiers of Jiankou City, who were trembling outside the city, immediately rushed into the city. There are even many people who quarrel with each other and even fight because of the scramble. The city gate was suddenly crowded, and more and more people joined the fight, and thousands of people crowded inside and outside the city gate.
The officer on duty was a little annoyed when he saw this, these damn guys, they shouldn't have let them in and let them all freeze to death outside the city. He kept shouting, but unfortunately his voice was completely drowned out by the sound of fighting at this time. The scene became more and more chaotic, and the soldiers on duty at the city gate were already enveloped in.
At the foot of the mountain, a man dressed in a Goguryeo military uniform strode down the mountain.
"In the Yanei, everything is as planned in the plan, and the city gate has been blocked by the soldiers."
Li Cunxiao slapped his thigh, the iron armor on his body clanged, and he said happily: "Okay, his grandmother's, what are you waiting for, go up the mountain and take Hushan City in one fell swoop." ”
With Li Cunxiao's order, two battalions of 1,000 soldiers and horses under his command immediately rushed up from the bottom of the mountain and went straight to the mountain city.
Li Cunxiao held an iron lance in his hand, put on his battle armor, and strode up the mountain.
The Tang army suddenly killed, and the Goguryeo defenders in the city did not find out at this time that the defeated soldiers of Jiankou City at the city gate had actually surrendered to the Tang army, and they were still shouting loudly to order them to stop fighting and let them enter the city.
Seeing that the Tang army was getting closer and closer, those who had gradually stopped fighting and were about to enter the city suddenly roared among the defeated soldiers, and then these people went crazy and cut down people when they saw them, and killed them whenever they met, and hit the city gate defenders by surprise, and the city gate was quickly lost. By the time Zhao Sheng in the city found out about this fact, Li Cunxiao had already rushed into the city with a thousand men and shields.
Li Cunxiao took control of the city gate, and Wang Yanzhang and Gao Siji's generals had also finished controlling Jiankou City and led troops to reinforce it. The elite soldiers in the nine yas entered the city, rushed left and right, and there were only 3,000 defenders in the city, relying only on the danger of Hushan City. Once the city gate was breached, the Goguryeo people had no danger to rely on, and they were swept away like fallen leaves in the autumn wind.
The dawn of dawn, the glimmer of light illuminates the earth.
Li Jing had already entered the Yalu River with a large army. Arrive at the Pier of Jiankou City. When Li Jing jumped off the Sirius and boarded the dock. Nine disciples stood in a row on the dock to greet them for a long time.
"Good job. Take two cities in one night! Li Jing happily patted his disciples on the shoulder, the battle was going more smoothly than he expected. Jiankou Castle and Hushan Castle are quite important, guarding the mouth of the Yalu River and the mouth of the Wugu River. Taking these two cities is equivalent to cutting off the retreat of the Bohai Navy, and it also blocks their food routes, and it can even be said that it directly threatens the Bohai mainland.
This battle was completely a surprise to the Goguryeo people. The eyes of the Goguryeo people are concentrated in the area of Liaodong City and Anshi Prefecture, as well as the area of Xiaoshaohe River and Jian'an City. They never expected that Li Jing would suddenly come across the sea from the sea this time and hit them directly in the back.
Hushan City also has a name, called Bo Shan City, 30 miles to the northeast of Bo Shan City, is the port of Bo Chai, that is, the border line between Goguryeo and the Bohai Sea. To the east is the Yalu Mansion of the Bohai Kingdom, and the Yalu Mansion has Hengzhou, Zhengzhou, Shenzhou, and Fengzhou, of which Shenzhou is the seat of the Yalu River Mansion, and it is Xijing, one of the five capitals of the Bohai Sea.
And to the south of Yalu Province. It is the Nanhai Province on the border with Silla, with Vaud and Jiaoju. Among them, the city of Wofu in Vaud is not only the seat of Nanhai Prefecture, but also the city of Nanjing in Bohai State.
At the same time, because there are a large number of mountain cities in the coastal areas on the south bank of the Yalu River, they have always been in the hands of the Goguryeos, and the important town of Pyongyang is in the hands of the Goguryeo people.
After taking Bo Fan City, Li Jing can now be said to occupy a quite favorable situation in the whole chess game.
After entering the city with the generals, Li Jing overlooked the city from afar, and had to sigh that it would not be easy to attack the city head-on if it were not for the Goguryeo people's light enemy and surprise attack. As long as the city holds out for half a month, reinforcements will arrive in the Black Bone City and Bohai. And generally speaking, the Niangniang Mountain City in the south of the Yalu River, that is, Daxing City, has always been the acropolis of Bo Shan City. It's just that they wouldn't have thought that Li Jing would come from the sea, and his strength was so strong, that he would take Jiankou and Bo Shan City overnight.
With such a strong fortress behind enemy lines, Li Jing was able to block the Bohai Sea and then encircle the 80,000 Goguryeo and Bohai navies in the Xiuxian area. But what made him even happier was that the harvest in Jiankou City was even more amazing.
"There are 500,000 stones of grain, and more than 10,000 sets of knives, guns and equipment, all of which are materials transported from Xijing and Nanjing in the Bohai Sea to be transported to the Bohai Navy."
With so much food, Li Jing's 80,000 people and horses don't need to worry about food supply within three months.
"What's next?" Wang Zhong asked. According to the plan before the war, after taking Jiankou City and Bo Shan City, they had to turn back and take Daxing City, and then go north to capture Wugu City, so as to form an encirclement of 80,000 enemy troops in the area of the Whistle River.
Of course, Wang Chong knew that Lu Dao had planned this plan, and now he asked how to fight next, naturally because the current progress was much smoother than expected, and they had enough strength to divide some troops and horses to seize greater victories.
Li Jing glanced at the generals, and saw that Wang Chongwai, Wang Pu, Lin Wu, Pei You, Liu Shouqian, Zhang Chengzong and other generals all had expectant expressions and smiled slightly.
"Do you have any plans?" He asked.
Wang nodded again, "We have more than 80,000 horses, and I think the soldiers and horses are enough to do a few big votes." Take Daxing City first, and then leave part of the Unity Army and the Township Army to guard the three cities. There are enough 10,000 or 20,000 elite soldiers in Wugu City, and we can divide a group of soldiers and horses to directly kill the Yalu Mansion and Nanhai Mansion in the Bohai Sea, and take advantage of the fact that all the soldiers and horses in the two places are now drawn to Liaodong to attack their Xijing and Nanjing, forcing them to retreat. Perhaps, if it goes well, we can also take the two capitals of the Bohai Sea directly. ”
Li Jing smiled and looked at the others, "Do you all think the same way?" ”
Pei You got up, "Marshal, our navy also has a battle plan. ”
"Tell me about it!" Li Jing was noncommittal.
Pei You said with some excitement: "After discussing with the generals Li, Wu, Meng, and Zhang, as well as the two ladies, I feel that our naval army can directly go south along the coast and directly attack Pyongyang City. As long as we take Pyongyang along the coast, then all the territories on the south bank of the Yalu River that belong to Goguryeo will be recovered by us. ”
Li Jing's fingers tapped lightly on the table, thinking very seriously about the proposals of the generals under his command! (To be continued......)