446. War Uprising State
After the winter, everything in Jizhou withered, and in the cold wind, only the smoke of the farmhouse rose.
In the camp of Jizhou, it was a different scene, the whole battalion was boiling hot, and the final preparations for battle were already being made.
It is inevitable that the time of going to Goryeo will be delayed, and the specific length of time is still unknown, and the north to Goryeo is thousands of rivers and mountains, so the most important thing for the march is to prepare supplies for a protracted war.
In the past, this was the most troublesome problem for the generals - logistics support channels. Whether ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, the smooth flow of logistics support lines is always greater than everything else.
But now, this will not cause us much trouble, because with my navy as support and support, the pressure on logistics support has been reduced exponentially!
To put it simply, this is like opening a hanger in the game, or opening a golden finger, as long as there are resources in the rear, it can be transported to the front at a very small cost and consumption!
But the problem is that the rebellions within the Ming Dynasty have occurred one after another, consuming and involving too much energy of the behemoth of the Ming Dynasty, so that after knowing that the troops of the Dongying Japanese Kou are very huge, they can only draw more than 40,000 horses to aid Goryeo at the first time, and at the same time draw the elite from the naval forces on the southeast coast - that is, more than a dozen warships of the Fu class or so, and rush into battle.
In terms of materials, the Goryeo Emperor Li Han and his subordinates couldn't help at all, and these peninsula garbage were almost clueless except for being extremely good at internal fighting! Before our advance, the military department had sent troops to communicate with the Goryeo Emperor Li Han, and asked him to provide supply money and food nearby to solve the problem of logistics supply.
As a result, the stupid emperor of Goryeo, Yi Han, replied in a hurry that now the eight provinces of Goryeo have lost seven and a half provinces, and most of the country's territory has lost its opponents. Therefore, it is possible to help coordinate money and food, but it is not guaranteed at all!
In addition, due to the haste of evacuation, which is the elegant way of saying fleeing, the royal family has no money to turn around at present, and I implore the Great Tomorrow Dynasty to give money and food to help with the turnover......
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty not only had to bear its own supplies, but also set aside 20,000 taels of silver to support the emperor of the "vassal state" to tide over the difficulties......
This history is embarrassing every time people think about it. Gao Liren has been synonymous with cowardice for generations, five hundred years ago was the dog of the Ming Dynasty, and five hundred years later it was the dog of the United States. A small country and a widow, where to put it is really a real pig teammate.
Therefore, before the war, the household department focused on mobilizing grain, grass and military salaries from the surrounding areas and transporting them to Jizhou to prepare for transportation. Looking at those people who came to relieve the grain, I couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion!
Back then, at the beginning of my rebirth, wasn't it also under such circumstances that I came to Quang Ninh to relieve grain, so that I had all the kind of things that followed in the following years?
Eating the Jizhou persimmons that only came down in November, I couldn't help but sigh when I saw Ye Sizhong loading the soldiers, horses, money and grain into my fleet in batches. Ever since I came up with the concept of "marines", Ye Sizhong, an old boy, has almost his eyes lit up!
Originally, he and his cavalry were going to go north from Jizhou to the border to join Li Rusong's Liaodong army. But now, with my help, his forward pressure has been reduced by almost 80%!
And the sentinels in front also sent back the news that the main force of the Dongying Western Army was entrenched east of Uiju City, ready to attack the city at any time - that is, the last piece of land of Goryeo King Yi Han. If Uiju falls, Goryeo will be officially declared dead.
Li Rusong and his 40,000 soldiers and horses have now completed the assembly near Andong, that is, the future Dandong Twin Peaks Island, ready to cross the Yalu River at any time to rescue the tragic Goryeo Emperor Li Han!
The flames of war are burning at the touch of a button, and we cannot afford to wait any longer. I didn't have time to wait for the arrival of the Ming Dynasty sailors led by Deng Zilong, and my fleet began to carry Ye Sizhong and the Guanning Iron Cavalry led by him to the north, targeting Dandong and Shuangfeng Island!
This way, we went out of the Bohai Sea and into the Yellow Sea, and this morning the sky was already covered with mist, and Lan ran to tell me that the front was the waters of Andong, and we could reach Twin Peaks Island in a few hours.
Under the proclamation of the drum and trumpet, the entire fleet was busy making final preparations for the upcoming battle!
It was nearly noon, the fog gradually lifted, and when our fleet arrived, several small boats sailed out of the shallows of the waters ahead, heading straight for our fleet.
After more than 100 steps, they exchanged orders with each other, but it was one of the few sailors of Li Rusong's army who came to sentry. Knowing that it was Jizhou soldiers and horses arriving, they were all overjoyed.
After thinking about it, I asked the army to continue to wait on the ship now, while Ye Sizhong and I were lightly armed and simple, and landed in a lifeboat with the sailors who came to meet the commander-in-chief of this operation, Li Rusong, the eldest son of Li Chengliang.
Twin Peaks Island is a short time away by horse, and I don't ink it, so I go straight to the big tent of the Chinese army.
Today's Shuangfeng Island has been occupied by the Liaodong Army, it can be described as five steps and one post, ten steps and one sentry, seeing me wearing the clothes of the governor, but so young, the sentry soldiers all looked sideways, and they all carried my identity.
There were also some officers who had known each other when they were fighting against the Jurchens and Tatars, and when they saw me, they all greeted me enthusiastically and excitedly!
Time flies, this time is many years, under the wind, frost, rain and snow, how many young men are already slightly frosty on their temples, it is really the years that make people old, and people have no time to feel nostalgic.
Walking to the big tent of the Chinese army, as soon as the sergeant announced, a person walked out of it head-on, with sonorous armor, striding in front of me!
When I stopped and looked up, I was dressed like that, and there was no doubt that it was Li Rusong himself back then! It's just that he hasn't seen him for a few years, but he looks very old in his thirties, presumably because his career is too hard and tempered.
This commanding general in the northeast looked at me for a moment, and suddenly gave me a hand and said loudly: "Sun Dudu! It's been many years since I said goodbye. My father often said that now the Ming Dynasty is the world of the younger generation, and with its skills, there is no one in the world who is better than Sun Dudu! Now that the governor has returned from overseas, we can fight side by side again, which is really a blessing for the Ming Dynasty and the world! ”
I secretly sighed in my heart, the hairy boy who only knew how to bend the bow and shoot arrows and command the killing, has now become an old man in the officialdom who knows how to wear a high hat when he meets, and time and experience are really the best teachers!
But I didn't have the heart to say these kind words to him, so I bowed my hand and said, "Pass the prize!" ”
Seeing that I was capable, Li Rusong nodded sideways, made a gesture of invitation to the tent, and said, "Sun Dudu, please!" ”
I also raised my hand: "Li Shuai, please!" ”
In full view of everyone, the two of us entered side by side and entered the big tent of the Chinese army.
The generals in the big tent were all there, looking at the map in the middle of the big tent, obviously studying the next battle plan.
Li Rusong walked to the end of the big tent, where there were two tiger skin chairs, one slightly centered and the other slightly to the left, he was not polite, and said to me again to the chair on the left: "Sun Dudu, please!" ”
This was originally also etiquette, he was the commander, and I commanded the navy, but he was half a block taller. What's more, I didn't care about these red tapes, so I also raised my hand and sat down neatly.
As soon as we sat down, a sergeant lifted the plank on which the map was placed at an angle, at an angle diagonally toward the two of us.
After Li Rusong sat down, he was a majestic general, and said to the heavy generals below: "Wait for the order, now that the imperial court reinforcements have arrived, it is Sun Qilan Sun Dudu, who led the team to fight side by side with his father and commander in Liaodong and defeat the Tatar Jurchens in one fell swoop!" Sun Dudu, the governor of the water army, and the four thousand iron cavalry of Jizhou, together assisted our Liaodong army in counterattacking Goryeo and repelled the enemy of Dongyingxiao! ”
The generals in the tent stood solemnly and upright, obviously extremely concerned about Li Rusong's words. It also made me feel very strange in my heart - it was a good thing that the commanders of friendly forces had such unity of thought and prestige. But thinking about Li Chengliang's family entrenched in the northeast, and even more troubled by the Jurchen Nurhachi's tiger raising, I can't help but think about him.
But these words can't be said to the face, after all, the enemy in front of him is not Nurhachi, let alone Li Chengliang and Li Rusong, but the Dongying people who entered Goryeo.
So I waved my hand at the soldiers and said simply: "Work together and kill the enemy with all your might." Then he looked back at Li Rusong and asked, "How is the battle situation now?" When will we start attacking? What is the situation of the enemy in the face? ”
Li Rusong was not hypocritical, stood up, walked to the map and pointed: "Sun Dudu, you came to the front line, you don't know yet, let me explain briefly." ”
As he spoke, he pointed to the location of "Yiju" written on the map, and said loudly: "The king of Goryeo, Li Han, is extremely vassal, and all of them cowered in the city of Yiju. The powerful generals of the Eastern and Western Army, Yushiba Hideyoshi, were besieging Shimazu Yoshihiro and Mori Terumoto, preparing to take the last castle of Goryeo in one fell swoop and achieve a complete victory after the city of Uiju ran out of food. ”
I wondered: "The combat effectiveness of the Goryeo army is extremely low, why didn't the Dongying Japanese invaders take advantage of the momentum of the previous victory to capture Uiju in one go, and prefer to besiege it instead of attacking?" ”
Li Rusong said with a smile: "What Governor Sun asked is very reasonable, according to the front line, after the Dongying Shibata army landed in Busan, it stormed Daegu and captured Seoul for the second time, and now the vanguard has gone north to the vicinity of Pyongyang. The main force of its army is Shibata, Tokugawa, and Date, and its power is unstoppable! Therefore, the Yuchai army surrounding Yizhou City did not dare to act blindly, for fear that they would attack the city in front of them and be pulled out behind them, so they could only besiege but not attack! ”
I nodded, "I see." After saying that, he groaned.
When Li Rusong saw me groaning, he knew that I must have a plan, but it was inconvenient to say it in front of everyone, so he commanded everyone knowingly: "Now the battle of Yizhou is imminent!" The generals immediately returned to the camp to prepare for battle, and our army will cross the river from the narrowest part of the Yalu River near Linjiang in the next two days, and gallop north to aid Yizhou! Now let's go back to camp and get ready! ”
The generals said yes and went their separate ways.
When Li Rusong and I were left in the big tent, he sat down again, lowered his voice and asked me: "Sun Dudu, before I set out on the expedition, my father said many times that Sun Dudu was both wise and brave, and there were many tricks, and this war should be guided by Sun Dudu's wisdom." I saw you silent just now, I must have something important to advise! ”
I sighed and said: "The Li family is full of loyalty, and it is really the humerus of the Ming Dynasty, and Qilan is ashamed." But when it comes to things, there is indeed one thing! ”
Li Rusong's eyes lit up: "I want to hear it in detail!" ”
I also stared at Li Rusong, and said a sentence for a long time:
"In this battle, three points are on the battlefield and seven points are behind the scenes. General Lee, can you believe me? ”
Li Rusong was taken aback, he led the army to Goryeo, he was ready to fight to the death, suddenly heard me say such a thing, and suddenly his heart was full of doubts, and he immediately leaned closer again, and said in a very low voice: "May Sun Dudu advise!" ”
I smiled slightly, stretched out my finger, and told Li Rusong about my plan like this......