Chapter 314: The army gathers
The two groups of nobles who fled all the way fled to Kaijing first, but they found that the king and the imperial court had already fled Kaijing......
Chen Xian's army occupied Kaegyong in Goryeo without bloodshed.
After the occupation of Kaegyung, Chen Xian's army did not stop, and they advanced all the way to the north bank of the Han River.
After arriving on the north bank of the Han River, Chen Xian's army began to rest, and the officials and militia in the rear began to take over the cities and villages in the occupied area.
This takeover was much easier than the first time, first of all, the two classes of nobles in the occupied area were basically gone, and secondly, some of the thorns who jumped out to take advantage of the fire were also easily suppressed by the transit army, without these two types of people, the rest were some obedient people.
After the subsequent officials and militia took over the occupied area, Chen Xian's army was basically recuperated, and the fleet and the merchant fleet carrying supplies arrived on the Han River.
After replenishing sufficient supplies, Chen Xian's army crossed the Han River without resistance and continued to advance south.
The crossing of the river by Chen Xian's army caused the Goryeo nobles who had fled to the south to completely despair and collapse, and a large number of the two classes fled abroad by boat.
Some of the two squads fled to Japan, and the richer squads, who were able to get a big ship, crossed the East China Sea and went farther and richer to the Song Kingdom.
This time, with sufficient talents who knew the Goryeo language, Chen Xian no longer stopped in the middle, and he spent nearly a year to annex the entire Goryeo Peninsula in one go.
In the process of embezzlement, Chen Xian, as always, carried out a cruel and thorough purge policy against the two classes of Goryeo nobles.
However, this time, his expectation of killing the two classes of Goryeo was completely disappointed, because most of the more than 100,000 nobles of the two classes in the entire Goryeo Kingdom fled overseas, most of them fled to Japan, and a small part went to the Song Kingdom farther away.
Without vested interests, the whole of Goryeo was soon taken over by the government that Chen Xian quickly installed to take control.
Chen Xian believes that it will not be long before this chassis will become his war potential.
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Just when Chen Xian was full of ambition, a piece of news recalled him to the Liaodong Peninsula.
After Mu Huali endured in Zhongdu for a year, he finally had a new move!
The reason why it is forbearance is because, in the past year through Goryeo, Chen Xian did not stop encroaching on the territory of Hebei, in a year, he pushed the castle line to the northwest for more than 100 miles, arrived at the Hejian Mansion, Hengshui, Handan line, on the coastline, Chen Xian's castle has even advanced to the vicinity of Tianjin in the later generations, along a large river that I don't know whether it is the Haihe River or the Yongding River in the later generations to build castles, relying on the river to develop inland.
The news that Chen Xian received from Mu Huali's attack was transmitted to Chen Xian from Tianjin Jinghai, when Chen Xian was stationed in a place called Yangzhou on the Goryeo Peninsula, which would be renamed Seoul in the future.
After receiving the news of Mu Huali's troops, Chen Gendarme did not panic, after all, he had been waiting for this day.
Chen Xian did not even return to Shandong immediately, he first took a boat to the city of Suzhou on the Liaodong Peninsula.
The sea and land army that passed through the Goryeo Peninsula also followed him back to Suzhou City, and for a time tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, more than 100 large and small warships gathered in Suzhou Port.
At the same time, in Shandong, Yang Miaozhen led his cavalry division, two horse infantry brigades, to the north to join the 1st Infantry Division led by Li Shi.
Last year, in order to cope with the pressure from the north, Chen Xian expanded the two infantry brigades of the northern border defense, and newly organized the seventh and eighth infantry brigades, and together with the first and second infantry brigades, they formed the first infantry division, with a total of more than 60,000 people, with Li Dan as the commander of the first infantry division.
The First Infantry Division, together with the First Cavalry Division led by Yang Miaozhen, and two horse infantry brigades, concentrated more than 100,000 troops on the northern front battlefield in Shandong at once.
After Yang Miaozhen and Li Dan joined forces, they drove the army to the northern edge of the fortress belt, and formed a line of troops in Hejian Province, preparing to meet the army led by Mu Huali.
Although Chen Xian gathered nearly 130,000 troops this time, it was still dwarfed by Mu Huali's army.
This time, Mu Huali can be said to have poured out, he originally gathered in the 200,000 Han troops trained in Zhongdu, this time dispatched 150,000 people, plus Mu Huali's own 30,000 Mongolian cavalry, this time Mu Huali sent a total of 180,000 troops.
When the army of 300,000 people on both sides lined up on the North China Plain to face the system, standing on the watchtower and looking at the endless company camp in front of him, Li Shi, who had always had a big heart, also had a feeling of suffocation.
That's right, the commander of this war was not Yang Miaozhen, the commander of the First Cavalry Division, but Li Shi, the commander of the First Infantry Division.
As the commander of the infantry, Li Shi's understanding of the new army established by Chen Xian is better than that of Yang Miaozhen, who has always led the cavalry.
As the commander of one side of this war, Li Shi felt extremely heavy pressure.
And what made Li Shi feel even more pressure was that the Mongol Han army on the opposite side was not a traditional military formation, but a Morris phalanx!
That's right, the enemy's 120,000 infantry formed a 120-battalion Morris phalanx, and this 120 phalanx formed a huge military formation with 24 horizontal columns and five vertical rows, and the entire military formation was arc-shaped, slightly encircling the phalanx composed of the four infantry brigades on Li Shi's side.
There were more than 40,000 musketeers in the Mongol Han army, less than half, because they did not have enough muskets.
To the left of the enemy's large formation, there was also an artillery line consisting of more than two hundred artillery carriages, and a large cavalry contingent was guarded on the left side of the artillery line. It was the cavalry of the Mongol Han army, which was composed of shock cavalry, and there were 5,000 men and horses in it.
As in the last war, the Mongolian cavalry hid behind the Han infantry, waiting for this opportunity, Li Shi could see that there was a large group of camels next to the Mongolian cavalry, and Li Shi knew that the group of camels was carrying more than 400 small cannons less than a catty.
The armies of both sides are slowly approaching, and in a maximum of twenty minutes, their own armies will be within range of the other side.
At this moment, Li Shi looked at the other party's artillery line and suddenly showed a smile.
Li Dan, who showed a smile, picked up a small order flag and waved it at the flag officer not far away for a moment.
The flag bearer, who had been keeping an eye on the manager's movements, immediately ordered the flag bearers around him to raise a few flags.
Chen Xian's military order system, after so many years of exploration, has formed a set of flags, drums, horns, and heralds combined with a mature system, no matter day or night, can ensure the rapid transmission of military orders.
As the huge flag was raised, the artillery line, which was located to the left of Li Dan's infantry formation, remembered the rumbling cannonball.
The sound of the cannon was dull and violent, somewhat different from the previous ones.
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