Chapter 53: Descending
Yang Wenhua got down from the hot air balloon, and in just a few minutes now, a large number of Goguryeo soldiers had gathered outside.
At first, it was a tentative attack, but after seeing the situation in the courtyard clearly, it became crazy.
At this time, even the two soldiers on the hot air balloon desperately threw the detonator down, and they were almost unable to stop.
Seeing that the situation was in crisis, and if he didn't leave, he would fall into a heavy siege, Yang Wenhua hurriedly took a few steps forward, and kicked Yuan Gai Suwen, who was still twitching on the ground, without reacting.
didn't care about his life and death, grabbed it, threw it into a small space like a rotten pocket, turned around and grabbed the anchor hook rope of the hot air balloon, and at the same time cut off the bottom of the rope with a knife, and the hot air balloon took Yang Wenhua off the ground in an instant, and went towards the sky at great speed.
After Yang Wenhua climbed into the hot air balloon, floated all the way out of the city to the east, and then circled back to the west of the city, Liaodong City had been occupied by his own side.
Looking at the Goguryeo nobles and soldiers who fled out of the city, Yang Wenhua gave the order to chase and kill as much as he could.
Although Yang Wenhua robbed a lot of supplies after attacking the city earlier, he always tried to kill as little as possible, because he was afraid that the whole people of Goguryeo would rebel.
Now that the general trend has been achieved, there is no need to worry about anything, at least it is no problem to hunt down some Goguryeo families.
At this time, Cui Yuan, who was supposed to deal with government affairs, came to find Yang Wenhua with a spy head.
Looking at Cui Yuan's worried look, Yang Wenhua couldn't help but ask: "Now that Liaodong City has been taken, the good situation is just around the corner, why is my brother worried?" ”
"Alas!"
Cui Yuan sighed, waved his hand, and said, "Let him explain it to Brother Xian." ”
After the spy bowed to Yang Wenhua in awe, he reported: "Lord Wang, the subordinate manpower has sent back the news, Goguryeo Prime Minister Yuan Taizuo."
An army of 100,000 will be formed in the inner city, composed of a mixture of Goguryeo and the Tatar people, to be used to clear our army. ”
"A mere army of 100,000 won't make my brother so worried." After listening to the spies' report, Yang Wenhua was a little unimpressed.
"It's not just about the 100,000 army, it's now the 100,000 army, and when the news of Xincheng and Liaodong City being captured by our army spreads, Yuan Taizuo will not increase his troops to how many thousand?
In addition, it was previously reported that there was also a change in the direction of Gaemu City, and it was also tens of thousands of Goguryeo elite soldiers, if the King of Goguryeo sent troops in the direction of Pyongyang.
In this way, we will very likely face the front and rear attacks of nearly 500,000 troops at the same time, and the situation is so grim. ”
Ren Hanfeng blew across his face, Yang Wenhua pondered for a moment, let out a long breath, and said: "Usually with a big crisis comes a big opportunity.
Although there are 500,000 horses, it is also the last counterattack of Goguryeo, as long as we can withstand this wave of attacks, then whether it is advancing or defending, we will have the initiative in our hands. ”
"But 500,000 troops, how can we resist it?"
"Nothing is impossible, what we need to do now is to sort out Liaodong City first, and then take down the empty cities around it, and then clear the walls in the southeast and southeast directions, so that no people and things are left in the wilderness.
Next, let the merchants of Datang deal with the direction of Gaimu City, just hand over a city for them to guard, don't seek merit but no fault, anyway, that direction will be theirs in the future.
As for the king of Goguryeo in the direction of Pyongyang, it is impossible to send too many troops there, at most 100,000 people is remarkable, after all, Silla Baekje in the south still needs Goguryeo defense.
And in the direction of the domestic city, even if you add the people of the Jin, there will be more than 200,000 people in Dingtian, so that with Pyongyang, there will be more than 300,000 troops, although there are a lot of them, we are not without opportunities. ”
"Brother Xian is sure."
After these days, Cui Yuan has unconditionally trusted Yang Wenhua, in fact, even if he doesn't trust it, there is no way, anyway, Cui Yuan is a gambler now, he has won more than 10,000 people, and he has not lost much if he loses, why not gamble on such a good thing.
Since the time was urgent, Yang Wenhua then took 3,000 big-headed ghost troops, as well as Gao Yanshou and his 10,000 Goguryeo troops, and ran around Liaodong non-stop.
Due to the fact that Yuan Gai Suwen had exhausted his troops earlier, these cities now have no power to resist, and they are basically all passed on, but as long as it is a large and important city, Yang Wenhua will go to it in person.
After sealing the treasury, take away the officials, soldiers and some nobles in the city, and then transfer some young and strong, these cities don't want to make waves, and finally leave some Han soldiers and literate people in the caravan as officials.
The whole process lasted seven days.
Within seven days, Yang Wenhua not only sorted out the cities within a radius of 100 miles from Liaodong City, but also cleared the walls in the southeast and southeast directions.
After Yang Wenhua had a deep conversation with Li Zijian, who was led by the merchants of the Tang Dynasty, he handed over to them a city in the north a hundred miles west of Liaodong City.
Li Zijian's task is very simple, he only needs to hold the city before Yang Wenhua is defeated, and if he wins, it is easy to say, if Yang Wenhua loses, he can also retreat north on his own, and then go west to return to the Tang Dynasty.
After getting the west, Yang Wenhua left Cui Yuan with 2,000 big-headed ghost troops, and the Han Min leather armor army, which had just been expanded to 20,000, let him guard the city of Liaodong, and the main defense was the king of Goguryeo in the direction of Pyongyang in the south.
This is already all the elites that Yang Wenhua has accumulated during this period of time, if Cui Yuan himself is not enough, he can also form a Hanmin cloth army by himself.
Anyway, there are a lot of weapons and food, and there are people who have a spear to defend the city, and there is no shortage of food and drink, so it is not easy to pull out ordinary troops to defend the city.
Arrange the two directions in the southwest properly, Yang Wenhua led his 500 big-headed ghost army to guard, 10,000 leather armor army, expanded to 50,000 cloth army led by Zhou Xiwang, and Gao Yanshou expanded to 20,000 Goguryeo army.
Together with 100,000 Goguryeo youths, they began to rush back to Xincheng.
Although there is no definite news from Yuan Taizuo in the Eastern Domestic City, it should be the direction where the most troops are sent, because as early as seven days ago, Yuan Gai Suwen had already died in Yang Wenhua's small space.
The pain of losing a child and the national enmity, Yang Wenhua wanted to see how many troops Yuan Taizuo could assemble, and Xincheng was the battlefield that Yang Wenhua chose.
If you want to rely on the tens of thousands of new troops in your hands, facing the hundreds of thousands of troops led by a crazy old man, even if you are backed by an advanced civilization like modern times, Yang Wenhua must go back to the new city as soon as possible and make a good arrangement.
After all, even if Yang Wenhua has a lot of means, in a country where he has to open a firecracker factory first to get some explosives, there is no way to buy a large number of thermal weapons.
Besides, with so many thermal weapons, relying on Yang Wenhua alone, even if he moved over, he would have to exhaust Yang Wenhua to death.
Therefore, the modern side can only play an auxiliary role, and it is mainly up to this side to find a way.