The total strength of the army of the three Goryeo kings was as high as 56,000 men (originally more than 60,000, but the naval division had been destroyed).

Among them, the Northern Road Qinwang Army has the strongest combat effectiveness, this army includes the two border armies in the north of Goryeo that have been facing the heavy pressure of the Jurchens all the year round, and the equipment has gradually converged with the Jurchens, and there is even a team of 500 armored cavalry in the team.

The flaw is that the number of such elites is very small, and the proportion of such elites in the Northern Route Army is also pitiful.

The army of the king of Namlu was the largest, and the inspector of Jeolla Province of Goryeo, Yi Huan, collected all the men who could be incorporated into the army, including a large number of regular soldiers, monks, rebels, substitute servants, and official and private slaves.

The degree of mixing of troops is very complicated, the soldiers do not know the generals, they do not know the soldiers, they have empty numbers, and their combat effectiveness is not worth mentioning at all.

The army of the king of the eastern road has nothing, the troops have no combat effectiveness, and there is no number, it looks like a cheerleader who has come to make up the numbers.

However, this was already the only mobile force left after the repeated defeats of the Koreans, and together with the thousands of old, weak, sick and disabled people in Wang Jingnei, this was the hope that Li Liang still dared to continue the war.

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On the other hand, the Qi army is also preparing for the upcoming final battle.

After all, the other party is an army with a strength of nearly 60,000, and no matter how much you look down on the opponent's combat effectiveness, there should still be pressure.

The troops that had scattered and plundered returned to the vicinity of Wang Jing one after another.

After the troops were regrouped, Xu Shiyang left only one field brigade (Pingyuan), 1,000 Li pirates who landed and 1,000 newly surrendered Goryeo servants, a total of 4,000 troops, under the command of Gongsun Sheng, to continue to encircle Goryeo Wangjing.

He himself led five field brigades, the Chinese Guards, the Trap Troops, the Blue Army Brigade, the Dragoons, and the cuirassiers, which had just been formed and had not yet been put into battle, a mobile corps of 16,000 men, ready to meet the various Goryeo Qin royal armies.

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As soon as the Great War broke out, the situation of the entire Goryeo War suddenly changed.

On the fifteenth day of the first month of the third year of Longdao, perhaps sensing that the main force of the Goryeo border army had left, Wanyan Yinshuke, who had supported his own troops in Phoenix City, suddenly led 5,000 soldiers and horses to cross the Yalu River and enter the Goryeo Ping'an Road.

The defenders who remained in Pyongan Province were unable to resist the hungry and red-eyed Jurchens, and two days later Yinshu could occupy Yongbyon, the capital of Pyongan Province, and only five days later, he occupied Pyongan, the capital of Pyongan West Province, and the entire territory of Pyongan Province fell.

After getting the news, the army of King Qin, who had approached the North Goryeo Road near the Imjin River, was fluctuating.

Most of the family members of the Northern Route generals were in Pyongan Province and Hamgyong Province, which was threatened by Yinshu Ke and could fall at any time, so many officers proposed to return to Pyongan Province and find a way to expel Wanyan Yinjuke, who threatened their families.

However, another group of generals, led by Shen Ji, the commander of the Northern Luqin Wang Army, insisted on being loyal to the king, advocating defeating the Qi army first, and then turning back to expel the Jurchens.

During the dispute, the North Road Qin Wang Jun strangely stopped on the north bank of the Imjin River.

Originally, the plan of the three-way army that the king of Goryeo was looking forward to to and fight against the army was bankrupt before the battle began.

The Southern Qinwang Army did not know the situation of the Northern Route Army, and Li Huan led more than 40,000 people of the Sandaoqin Wang Army to cross the Shuiyuan that had been looted by the Qi army on the 22nd day of the first lunar month, and gradually moved closer to Wang Jing.

At this time, the situation of the Qinwang army on the southern road was very chaotic, because Suwon was already an empty city, the Goryeo army did not find any supplies in the city, and the military rations brought by the Qinwang army were not enough to support the movement of tens of thousands of troops.

In this case, the Goryeo generals could only supply as much as possible to the private soldiers (equivalent to the family members) that were given priority to the regular soldiers and the generals, and as for the volunteers, monks, and Dai Lijun who served in the substitute service, they had to ask for more blessings.

There are also the largest number of officials, slaves and maids, but also the poorest, so naturally they can only scatter around looking for food whenever they go to a place.

As soon as they crossed the waterplain, the Southern Route Army was scattered all the way, and the number of people fleeing increased day by day, during which there were two mutinies, one when more than 2,000 people left the army without permission and became deserters, and once nearly 3,000 people simply surrendered to the Qi army.

These surrenderers brought the Qi army the exact information of the Qinwang army on the southern road, and after learning that the enemy was close at hand, Xu Shiyang, who had originally planned to deal with the Qinwang army on the northern road first, temporarily decided to change his goal, first eliminate Li Huan, and then turn back to deal with Shen Ji, who was lingering on the north bank of the Imjin River.

On the twenty-seventh day of the first month, Li Xun arrived in Yangpu with his morale-barred army, and the main force of the Qi army was already in full array.

In the face of the Goryeo, who did not have a strong cavalry, the Qi army did not have the slightest fear of field warfare, and they even gave up their best defensive counterattack tactics and directly took the initiative to meet the battle.

Of course, Qi Jun will not directly bump into it, which would be a bit too stupid.

During the siege, the Qi army forced the captive Goryeo to make hundreds of shield wagons for them, which had thin baffles and light bodies, and were very simple to manufacture.

But no matter how thin it is, it is also a shield cart, and there is no problem in resisting the arrows of the Koreans.

With the sound of the war drums of the march, the Qi army's shield car array slowly moved forward under the impetus of the Goryeo troops, and the large array that lasted for several miles showed an amazing momentum, while the Goryeo soldiers shouted and neighed, all kinds of flags shook indiscriminately, and the troops belonging to different generals moved back and forth, but many troops could not find the position arranged by the main general, and before the real battle began, the Goryeo army had fallen into deadly chaos.

The attack of the Qi army was carried out step by step, and the rangers composed of light cavalry of the reconnaissance companies of each brigade advanced to the Goryeo army's main formation more than 100 paces, and made a threatening posture against the Goryeo people in groups of three or five.

The light cavalry immediately extended the distance to dodge, because the Qi cavalry was too scattered, and the power of the arrows was insufficient, after a round of shooting, the Qi army only lost a dozen people.

Then the light cavalry made a threatening gesture again, and the Koreans continued to shoot as a matter of course, so several rounds of testing were carried out back and forth, and the horsepower of the light cavalry and the arm strength of the Goryeo archers were greatly consumed, and the light cavalry moved behind the shield chariot array and temporarily withdrew from the battlefield.

At this moment, the Qi army's shield car array had approached a distance of less than three hundred paces from the Goryeo army, and the artillery began to speak.

For the first time, the artillery unit tried to deploy observers behind the shield array, and went out to a closer distance from the enemy, using flags to help an artillery company adjust the impact point.

This tactic is very suitable for dealing with the enemy who is not mobile enough and can only fight in formation, and the Qi artillery began to hit in the second round of firing, and in the fourth round of firing, thirty percent of the shells could directly hit the enemy.

Dozens of iron balls of 2 to 8 catties were rampaging in the Goryeo army formation, and all kinds of armor fragments and human stumps flew everywhere, especially those 8 jin shells, every time they hit directly, they could open a flesh alley in the Goryeo army formation.

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