815 Change of Commander
As Mr. Li predicted, even if the local powerful coalition forces had the same powerful enemy as their target, they would not cooperate completely sincerely, compete for merit in the face of success, and pass the buck to each other in the face of failure, if they had a unified country as their backing, this kind of behavior could barely be remedied, but at this point, Goguryeo as a unified country has already existed in name only, and if they still do this, then in addition to failure, there is only failure.
On the side of the South Route Army, under the desperate decision of Quangai Suwen, the largest remaining force that could be drawn was 30,000 people to rush to help, rendezvous with the 30,000 troops originally stationed, and attacked with a strong force of 50,000 people, breaking the powerful coalition army of the South Road in one fell swoop, sweeping the coalition army in the middle section of the Datong River at once, seizing countless lands, obtaining countless food, ordnance and prisoners, greatly strengthening the military strength and strength, and directly threatening the base camp of the coalition army.
The situation of the North Road Coalition Army is the same as that of the South Route Coalition Army, the person sent by Quan Gai Suwen to deliver the news died, the news was discovered, in the middle of the night, the North Road Coalition Army camp started a big battle regardless of a qiē, a powerful figure was besieged by everyone else, precarious, at this time, Quan Gai Suwen personally led his troops to attack the North Road Coalition Army, broke it in one fell swoop, burned the company camp, killed more than 20,000 coalition troops, and captured more than 30,000 people.
Three people in the local powerful faction were captured and beheaded, two people were beheaded, and the remaining six people fled with only their own personal guards, and General Qi, as the commander, was wounded by a general under Quangai Suwen with a bow and arrow, and the arrow was poisonous, and General Qi died of poison three days later. So far, the three generals who had defeated Quan Gai Suwen to save the crisis were all killed.
And the unlucky local powerful faction surrendered, although they knew that this was Quangai Suwen's strategy, but the so-called "own people" were more fierce against themselves, even more fierce than Quangai Suwen, so this local powerful faction directly took the remaining more than 1,000 men into the command of Quangai Suwen, assisted Quangai Suwen in pursuing the coalition army, and captured a large area of land, directly pressing the coalition camp in the easternmost area of about one-fifth of the original territory of Goguryeo.
This was the third war of rebellion, and Quangai Suwen swept away the defeat of the first two times. The armies of the north and south each won great victories. Just like two sharp knives being grabbed by a person, fiercely threatening the fragile enemy, Quangai Suwen's army of the north and south at this time has reached 100,000 people, and the total strength has reached 160,000. There are also tens of thousands of captives and many more refugees. He is the number one warlord of Goguryeo.
Just when Quangai Suwen was preparing to carry out a final sweep of the remaining dozen or so local powerful factions that had been extremely weakened. On March 27, the 10th year of Zhenguan, Song Qian, the commander of the Silla Northern Expeditionary Army, decisively sent troops to cross the Dadong River from the middle section of the Daedong River to the north, and in one fell swoop entered the grain route of the Quangai Suwen South Route Army. On the spot, they seized a month's worth of food from the Quangai Suwen South Route Army, completely annihilated the transport escort army, and then divided the troops into two routes, all the way to the front line of the Southern Route Army, preparing to sneak attack the South Route Army, all the way to the Quangai Suwen lair, preparing to attack the southern territory of Quangai Suwen, and eat the Datongjiang Defense Corps from the north.
Song Qian personally led the Left Route Army, ready to personally command the battle to eat the Datong River Defense Corps, and it was his deputy general Cui Yong who dealt with the main force of the Southern Route Army, and at this time, neither the Southern Route Army nor the Datong River Defense Corps nor Quan Gai Suwen himself did not know the news that the Silla Northern Expeditionary Army had crossed the Datong River and launched an operation, so they did nothing, Quan Gai Su Wen was still commanding the annihilation campaign, and the generals who stayed in Anshi City did not know the movements of the Silla.
The result is obvious, Song Qian broke through seven or eight cities in a row, the Datong River defense line was already close at hand, and the news had not yet reached the ears of Quangai Suwen's side, the Southern Route Army was attacked by the Silla Right Route Army at night, and it had been short of food for several days, the soldiers had no combat power, they were annihilated in one fell swoop, and they were killed and drowned in battle and surrendered countless times, after annihilating the Southern Route Army, the Right Route Army of the Silla Northern Expeditionary Army continued to follow the route of the Quangai Suwen Southern Route Army, preparing to attack the eastern local powerful territory of Goguryeo.
On April 7, the tenth year of Zhenguan, the defender of Anshi City finally got the information from the rout of the Datong River Defense Corps, and learned that the Silla army had completely wiped out the remaining 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Datong River Corps, and it was attacked from the north, not from the south.
On April 10, the tenth year of Zhenguan, the Silla Northern Expeditionary Army, under the leadership of the commander Song Qian, broke through the last line of defense in the south of Anshi City, annihilated 3,000 Quangai Suwen army, and finally came to the city of Anshi, and at this time, the Right Route Army also received news from Song Qian, ordering them to stop marching, garrison on the spot, and send troops back to aid Anshi, Anshi City is too strong, there are not enough troops to contribute, Quangai Suwen's lair is here, if you don't take Anshi City, it will be very dangerous.
However, at this level, Song Qian made a big mistake, although he thought that Anshi City was very difficult to attack, but he obviously did not think that Anshi City was too difficult to attack, although the city lord at this time was no longer the original Yang Wanchun, but the city lord appointed by Quangai Suwen was obviously not a fuel-efficient lamp, and the consecutive victories brought Song Qian absolute confidence, which made him a little proud, and it may not be strict in other places, but under Anshi City, this is fatal.
Without waiting for the reinforcements of 30,000 people, Song Qian organized more than 50,000 troops under his command to attack Anshi City with captured siege weapons, but although Quangai Suwen sent a large number of troops to leave Anshi City, and tens of thousands of troops were annihilated by the Silla army, but the population of Anshi City itself and the number of reserve troops were quite a lot, but because there was not enough quota, these strong men were not recruited into the army, but now the situation is urgent, and the city lord of Anshi immediately ordered Zhuang Ding to enlist.
In order to train these people and make them as strong as possible, the lord of Anshi ordered 10,000 men to go up the city wall every day, and only those who survived after carrying it for a day could have iron weapons, while the strong men who had just started to go up the city wall only had wooden weapons or bamboo tips. Either they will find a way to survive, or they will rob the Silla people of weapons, and these strong men will take on most of the combat duties, except for some regular troops to ensure the safety of the city walls.
Therefore, there are not a lot of guards and horses in Anshi City, and in history, the elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty stormed the city of Anshi, and how can the Silla army be compared with the elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty? Therefore, it is obvious that Song Qian was frustrated, and after three days of siege, he lost troops and lost huge losses of soldiers and horses. Look at the tired corpses and the low morale of the soldiers. How could Song Qian hold back his irritable mood? Song Qian, who had lost his composure, decided to go to the battlefield to supervise the battle in person, and went to the front line to boost morale regardless of the danger, and the result was ......
A cold arrow hit Song Qian's forehead and plunged deeply. Song Qian suddenly fell into a coma. The commander of the Silla army was wounded and fell into a coma. Immediately chaos ensued, and the Goguryeo army commander in the city immediately ordered the city gate to open the city gate and attack, and the Silla army was immediately defeated. The main general was unconscious and could not command, the Silla army could not be commanded, and was disorganized, if it were not for another lieutenant general with 30,000 reinforcements who arrived in time to save Song Qian, the destruction of the Silla army would not be reversed.
Although the adjutant general made the Goguryeo army successfully retreat into the city, but Song Qian's coma made him also six gods and no master, in desperation, he had to order the whole army to gather, cross the Datong River south and return to the base camp, and then send people to report back to the imperial court, saying that the lord would be seriously injured and unconscious, and the army had to retreat to the south of the Datong River, and the territory captured had to be abandoned to ensure the integrity of the army, and the 100,000 Northern Expeditionary Army was now able to preserve more than 76,000 people.
After hearing the news of the Northern Expedition of the Silla people and eliminating the Southern Route Army, Quangai Suwen turned pale with fright, immediately stopped the northern campaign, and after leaving the army to stick to the territory that had been obtained, he immediately led the army back, and kept praying that the base camp would not be lost along the way, but halfway through the march, he suddenly received a report from a messenger that the new lord of Anseong City led his army to thwart the attack of the Silla Northern Expeditionary Army, and seriously wounded the commander of the Silla Army with a bow and arrow, and the Silla Army had all retreated back to the area south of the Taedong River.
Izumi Gai Suwen was still a little unconvinced under this great sorrow and joy, and hurried back to Anshi Castle only to finally find out that this was true, a fierce battle had been fought under Anshi Castle, and there were still some corpses of Silla people who had not been reined in, and told Sù Quan Gai Suwen that the Anshi City Lord he appointed did not disgrace him and did not live up to his expectations, but held Anshi Castle, and killed the Silla Lord General by the way.
Quan Gai Suwen was immediately promoted to his official position under great joy, but the ensuing bad situation also made him very helpless, the 50,000 troops of the Southern Route Army and the Southern Defenders and the Datongjiang Defense Corps were a full 80,000 troops, only more than 20,000 remnants were left, and the lack of strength made him feel quite distressed, so he had to stop the third rebellion war, redevelop himself, prepare troops, rebuild the Southern Route Army and the Datongjiang Defense Corps, and rebuild the defense system of the Tang Army.
The third rebellion war ended, compared with the first two defeats, this third time Quangai Suwen really did not lose in the hands of other local powerful factions in Goguryeo, but lost in the surprise attack of the Silla Northern Expeditionary Army, and he didn't know it, but the most special thing is that the Goguryeo Army shot the second commander of the Silla Northern Expeditionary Army to be seriously wounded, and it is not surprising that Song Qian decisively died of injuries a few days later.
The first commander died of illness, the second commander died of wounds, although the Silla army achieved a great victory, but the two commanders died one after another, for the Silla people, it is not a very commendable thing, but compared to Song Qian, the first commander finally laid down the Goguryeo territory south of the Datong River, although Song Qian eliminated the Goguryeo South Route Army and the Datong River Defense Corps, but in Anshi City fell into the sand, not to mention his own death, but also lost all the previous advantages, As a result, the Silla Northern Expeditionary Army had to retreat back to the original point again.
Of course, Goguryeo did not have any benefits to gain, not to mention the loss of troops, and also lost the entire southern territory, and lost most of the results of the third rebellion war, but after temporarily stabilizing the Silla front, it had to continue to recruit troops and rush into the army to do the thing that lured the donkey to quench his thirst.
Although the second commander of Silla achieved great results, he accidentally died of serious injuries, and all the achievements were in vain, and Queen Seondeok did not know what to think about it, but she was definitely angry, and became more and more angry, and in extreme anger, she ordered to continue to increase the number of troops by 30,000 to make up for the strength of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and as a final bet, the most famous young general in the country today, Kim Yu, was appointed as the new commander.
After receiving the appointment, Kim Yuxin immediately prepared to take up his post, as the "national immortal" of Silla Hwarang Road, that is, the most brave warrior in Silla, Kim Yuxin not only has a noble bloodline, but also has great military talent, known as the star of tomorrow, and in another time and space, it was this person who finally united with the Tang army to eliminate Goguryeo, and even these two commanders died, and when the Silla people were depressed, Kim Yuxin was appointed as the third commander, which can be described as a heavy responsibility. (To be continued......)