Central Plains Chapter 63 Kaesong surrenders
Dawu's million-strong army is the army of a state plus the border army, and the entire army was wiped out in just two days? No wonder Emperor Dawu was furious in front of his palace.
Ignoring the matter of the Dawu Golden Palace, he said that after Li Mang entered the Great Fall City, he rewarded the whole army for three days, and he distributed silver taels, and served with a lot of wine and meat, where is there any military discipline at all.
Fortunately, all the generals know that the next great military general will fall into the embarrassing situation of having no army to send. The land of the dynasty can raise 500,000 troops, and the border army has its own 500,000.
Dawu sits on the land of three states, but also faces enemies on three sides, 500,000 border troops on the northeast border are always on guard against Dayi, and 500,000 troops in Wuzhou can support the northeast border, and retreat can defend the imperial city, and cannot be moved lightly. The million-strong army on the western border guarded against Tianfu and Nanli respectively, and the 500,000 border troops in the north and the 500,000 army in Xingzhou had been completely wiped out.
In this way, it depends on how Dawu transfers troops.
In the early morning of the fourth day, the gate of the Great Meteoric City was opened, and Li Mang led 10,000 heavenly troops, 700,000 border troops, and state troops to the territory of the former Jiang Kingdom, while the remaining less than 100,000 troops were guarding the surrendering army and waiting for Emperor Liu Jing to send someone to receive it, and by the way, he brought a new army to supplement the border army.
Liu Ming led 300,000 border troops to Dongfang Valley City, Liu Lang led 300,000 Bingzhou troops to go to West Kangcheng, and Li Mang led the Heavenly Army and 100,000 mixed army to Zhangcheng.
In the once huge territory of Jiangguo, there were dozens of cities with names and surnames, and there were originally 500,000 Xingzhou troops to suppress various places, but now even the larger cities have only a few thousand city defense troops, and the smaller cities have no soldiers at all except for some private troops in the city lord's mansion.
At the same time that the army of Li Mang Middle Road advanced all the way, it also played the banner of the white enemy of the prince of Jiangguo, and for a while, the small city passing through had no resistance, opened the door and surrendered, and even cheered the army into the city.
In some slightly larger cities, before the city defense army was ready to climb the city wall, they were pressed to the ground by the old people of Jiangguo and rubbed hard.
Li Mang saw that the situation was very good, so he sent someone to order the other two armies to speed up their advance and converge at the border city of Jiangguo, and at the same time played Liu Jing, asking him to quickly send officials to govern the place.
A large area of the territory of the original Jiangguo borders the mountain city in the west, An Li City in Xingzhou in the south, and Dayi in the east.
After a few days of rapid marching, Li Mang was the first to rush to the prison city, which was originally the first gateway to resist the invasion of the Dawu Dynasty, so the construction of this city is extremely majestic, and its height is comparable to the royal city of the original Jiang Kingdom.
Li Mang thought that he would experience a fierce battle, and even if the other party did not leave the city, it was likely to be a situation of mutual protection and confrontation, and the tactics of the Great Fall City would have to be repeated.
But when Li Mang walked outside the prison city and was about to set up camp, the city lord actually opened the city gate with some officials of all sizes and greeted him alone.
"Xiaguan was the former lord of the city of Dajiang Guojian, and when the city was broken, he was committed to seeking perfection and survived to this day, and he was looking forward to the arrival of this day, I have seen King Xian, I have seen His Royal Highness the Prince... Woooooooo
Li Mang glanced at him and didn't bother to speak, but Bai Qiu took a step forward and said hatefully: "Back then, you ordered the city to open and lead the Dawu army into the city?"
"Your Royal Highness Mingjian, it was actually the captain of the prison city who led the border army to surrender to the enemy, and the old minister had no choice but to be a lackey of the great martial arts, just hoping that one day when the king or the prince ascended to the top and shouted, the old minister could serve under his knees again" The city lord cried a lot, he really smelled sad, but Bai Qiu still didn't believe it.
"Your Highness, there are still 10,000 border troops in the city, if the old minister has the heart to resist, how can he open the city gate, and please ask His Highness to be clear" The old man cried again.
Li Mang really couldn't stand it anymore, so he waved his hand and said: "Okay, okay, my second brother has his own conclusion on the merits, don't look like this anymore, let me look down on you, since you dare to open the city gate, this king will dare to enter", and then shouted behind him.
"Gathering of the Heavenly Army"
With a "bang", I saw 10,000 people lined up neatly.
"Let's try the depth of the water with this king, walk" Li Mang took the horse first and went towards the city, Bai Qiu glanced at the old man, did not speak, and followed Li Mang directly.
Li Mang entered the city gate first, although he was very casual on the surface, but he was very vigilant in his heart. But when he saw that on the main street after entering the city, 10,000 border soldiers really put their blades on the ground in the distance and knelt down facing the city gate.
Li Mang came to the border army and said: "Get up, stand on both sides, don't get in the way, and someone will come to settle you later."
"Yes" Wan Wan replied, then got up and stood on both sides, and continued to move forward, scanning both sides as he went.
It wasn't until he came to the gate of the City Lord's Mansion that Li Mang reined in his horse and said to the Heavenly Army behind him: "Spread around, inspect carefully, be careful."
"Yes"
Ten thousand people scattered and rushed to all parts of the city, and after about half a pillar of incense, the army returned again to make sure that the city was safe.
Li Mang then ordered to the person behind him: "Tell the army to enter the city."
"Yes!"
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"Bastards, waste, all waste, even made the Daxing million army drive straight in, straight to the border of my Xingzhou, waste" Emperor Dawu was furious in the morning after receiving the report from the border pass, and roared madly.
"Order the Binzhou army to be drawn out immediately, and all of them will be transferred to Anli City in the north of Xingzhou, and I must defend it, hold it," Emperor Dawu ignored the trembling ministers who knelt on the ground, and ordered angrily.
Emperor Dawu's order was quickly executed, and 500,000 Binzhou troops rushed to the north of Xingzhou, and just when the Binzhou army had just made a move, 1.5 million troops of Tianfu and Nanli combined forces pressed towards the western border of Dawu, which made the western border army extremely nervous for a while.
This news naturally quickly reached the ears of Emperor Dawu, at this time the northern border is in an emergency, the crisis has not been completely resolved, and the Binzhou army of 500,000 can only slightly delay the pace of Daxing's attack.
Emperor Dawu naturally thought of this, and saw that he had no other way than to scold the two southwestern countries, and the hundred officials kneeling on the ground had no good suggestions.
After such a gloomy atmosphere for a long time, Prime Minister Dawu seemed to have thought of something, so he said directly: "Your Majesty, the territory of the former Jiang Kingdom is still vast, and it is impossible for the Daxing army to eat this huge territory in a short period of time, not to mention that the border of this territory is Dayi, if Dayi sends troops at this time...".
"Isn't this driving the tiger to devour the wolf and raising the tiger for trouble? What's more, the Great Yi will send troops at this time?" said the Dawu Emperor unhappily.
"Your Majesty, we can send envoys to Dayi, and we have the vast territory of the former Jiang State as a reward, please send troops to Dayi, and at that time, whether Dayi directly attacks the eastern border of Daxing, or directly enters from the territory of the original Jiang State, it can disrupt the layout of Daxing and slow down the offensive pace of Li Mang's army, as long as Dayi agrees to send troops, we can even mobilize the army of Wuzhou to the north to support, and the crisis can be solved" The head of the prime minister's analysis is Dao, and the Dawu Emperor nodded directly.
Although this method said that Dawu wanted to abandon a large area of the original Jiang Kingdom, but now that the territory of Jiang Country is also under the occupation of Li Mang, isn't it the same as if it was lost? After thinking about it for a long time, Emperor Dawu was finally moved, nodded and said.
"I adopted the Prime Minister's words, so I ordered the Ministry of Rites to go to Dayi immediately to negotiate, and sent another envoy to the two southwestern countries for me, I want to ask them if they really dare to argue with my Dawu to the end?"
"Yes"
After the end of the early dynasty, Emperor Dawu summoned three people alone, and if Li Mang was present, he would naturally recognize one of them, it was Nantian, the master of the Divine Fist Gate in Dawu, and the other two must also be the royal worship masters.
"Nantian, let me ask you, the three of you combined might kill that Limang?" the emperor asked directly.
Nantian was quite embarrassed when he heard this, and then bowed and said, "Your Majesty... Minister... If the minister can't do it, even if the three of us and the others can't guarantee that they will survive, let alone kill Li Mang."
The emperor was stunned for a moment, then sighed and said, "Hey, is there really no one in the world who can beat him?
The three of them looked at each other, but none of them spoke.