Chapter 517: Dream of the Eastern Crusade (Part II)



Bohai side is responsible for the reinforcement is the fierce general Gao Su, Gao surname is one of the Bohai surnames, the past generations of famous generals, Gao Su town guard the northern border and the Yan people for more than ten years, brave and invincible, the Gao family army is full of talents, is the Bohai country for a while.

Andong's army was defeated in successive battles, and Ma and the eastern front fell from their horses, which dampened their morale, causing the front team to collapse, and he himself was almost captured.

Jin Tiyong was hit by an arrow in the shoulder, a knife in the ribs, his stomach and intestines flowed out of his body, he was unconscious before the battle, the situation was extremely critical, and the first battle of 10,000 reinforcements lost nearly one-tenth.

Ma Hedong's second request to withdraw his troops was sternly rejected by Jin Tiyong, and he actually threatened to lead his troops to leave on his own.

Jin Tiyong drew his sword in his hand, ordered those who dared to retreat to be beheaded, wrapped the captured Bohai battle flag around his waist, and personally led the team to charge, barely stabilizing the situation. The two armies ceased fighting, and Anton's army camped in muddy water and confronted the Bohai coalition army in the rain.

The next day, the battle was repeated, and the Anton army was defeated again, full of wounded soldiers, and the mood was depressed. Jin Tiyong's wound festered, and the high fever did not go away, but he still sat at the gate of the camp with his sword, letting the heavy rain pour down and suppress the soldiers to prevent the rupture.

Shi Xiong learned that the reinforcements were close at hand but could not come to help, knowing that the situation was not good, and he was afraid that the army would be distracted and could not be controlled, so he falsely claimed that he had received Li Mao's secret order, and said to the generals: "The marshal wants to use us as bait to gather the elite of the Bohai Sea and annihilate them all, if it can succeed, it is easy to go to the capital, if not, we have to go back to Liaodong in a gloomy manner, and it depends on whether the Bohai people are willing to let us go, what do you say, can you stand it?" ”

The generals replied in unison: "This head is willing to be thrown for the confidant." ”

Shi Xiong scolded with a smile: "your grandmother, at this time, you will also drag the text to Lao Tzu, and give Lao Tzu to go into battle to kill the enemy." ”

Da Qi Long is a good general in the Bohai Sea, Li Mao rose in Liaodong in just a few years, the soldiers are strong, although the soldiers are tired of war, but they are not ambiguous at all. Although Bohai claims to have 100,000 soldiers and horses, it is difficult to unify the orders, and the proportion of Fuzhou county troops and tribal soldiers is too large.

Therefore, he used a strategy of luring the enemy deep and encircling the point to send reinforcements, first coaxing Shi Xiong to the city of Tiezhou, and surrounding him with absolutely superior forces. Shi Xiong had few soldiers, and he came from afar, lacking food, grass and ordnance, so he surrounded him, fought slowly, forced Li Mao to come to the rescue, and then attacked head-on, annihilating the elite of the Anton Army in one fell swoop.

Da Chi Long dared to set up this plan, it was he who thought that he had seen Ma Hedong, this person's qualifications were older than Li Mao, and now the status disparity was huge, he was not convinced, Li Mao proposed the Eastern Crusade, he was against it, after being persuaded by Li Mao, he hesitated several times, Da Chi Long expected that at the moment of crisis, Ma Hedong was likely to be shaken again. As long as Ma Hedong's Chinese army is eaten, Andong's army will be gone, and no matter whether it is a big fight or a small fight in the future, Li Mao will not be able to take Zhongjing again, and he can only get out of ashes in two months.

Changing generals in battle has always been a taboo for soldiers, but Da Chilong didn't expect Li Mao to do it, and he did it.

Jin Tiyong is a hard bone, this point was known as early as when he commanded the Silla army to occupy the southern capital of Bohai Sea, this hard bone did not change his temperament after taking refuge in Liaodong, and even if he was defeated, he would not withdraw the army, and he would bite the hedgehog himself without knowing how to put his mouth if he did not withdraw the army, and the combat power of the Anton Army except for the Bohai King Division had no army that could be defeated, and rashly attacking was tantamount to hitting the egg with a stone.

Ochitaka decided to change his strategy, first eating Shixiong, so that the reinforcements lost their target, and then surrounded and annihilated them with superior forces. Without Shi Xiong's restraint, even if Jin Tiyong is a stone, he has to gnaw a few bites, and he can't gnaw it if he breaks his teeth, so swallow it in his stomach and slowly digest him.

Shi Xiong was trapped on a hill outside the city of Tiezhou, and soon after the siege, the water and rice were exhausted, but fortunately there was a rain, and the water problem was temporarily solved. There are good horses that can't break through, so they simply kill horses to satisfy their hunger, but they run out of arrows and can only fight with the enemy hand-to-hand.

Under siege on all sides, a rash breakthrough was tantamount to seeking death, and Shi Xiong could only hold on, and the 6,000-strong army was sharply reduced at a rate of 300 people a day.

Shi Xiong's head turned white overnight.

In the camp of the rear army a hundred miles away, Li Mao watched the bitter battle under Tiezhou City with a cold eye, and ignored the snowflake-like emergency documents. Hearing that Shi Xiong turned white overnight, he only smiled faintly, General Shi still fought too few tough battles, which just allowed him to temper and temper.

Day after day, it is a painful ordeal for anyone, and for Li Mao, the commander of the three armed forces, he is like a year, as if he is in purgatory. He admonished himself to be calm, to have calm in every major event, which he wrote to the clerk when he was leaving, and now he also uses it to encourage himself.

Defeating Bohai before the arrival of the cold winter, he only had one chance, Bohai had 100,000 people, and it was an internal battle, occupying the right time, place and people, he had to be cautious, there was only one chance, one blow missed, and the whole game was lost.

Where is the enemy's cover door, and where are the hole cards?

Finally, he saw the hole cards of the Bohai people, and he calmly bypassed Tiezhou and went straight to Zhongjing City.

Da Chilong never imagined that Li Mao would abandon the main force and cross Tiezhou to attack Zhongjing, which is an important town in the western part of the Bohai Sea, hoarding all the heavy grain and grass of the coalition army, and if Zhongjing City loses, the consequences will be unimaginable.

The voice of the subordinates requesting the surrender of Zhongjing City was higher and higher, Zhongjing City was the birthplace of the Gao family, seeing that the foundation was shaken, Gao Su asked for reinforcements from the army, and even threatened that if Da Chi Long did not agree, he would withdraw the army alone to help.

In the face of pressure from all sides, Ochitaka was also shaken for a while, but he finally calmed down: withdrawing at this moment would lead to a total collapse if he was not careful, and the only fate of a defeated army would be wantonly slaughtered by the enemy.

"I almost fell for Li Mao." Da Qi Long wiped a cold sweat, and his heart palpitated.

He made a gentleman's covenant with Gao Su, ten days later, no matter what the war was, he would let Gao Su return to Zhongjing to help, and never broke his word, Gao Su also happily promised him that he would do his best to destroy Jin Tiyong and Shi Xiong in these ten days.

The decision has been made, he will fight his, I will fight mine, and see who consumes whom first.

The meat grinder under the city of Tiezhou continued to go crazy at full power, but the explosion under the city of Zhongjing spread earth-shatteringly, and the city of Zhongjing City, which was five feet high, collapsed at the same time in the west, south and north of the city overnight, and in the huge explosion, the Anton army poured into the city like a tide, wantonly slashing and killing the soulless defenders.

Zhongjingcheng, one of the five capitals of the Bohai Kingdom, fell overnight, and the Zhongjing left behind in Dayuexian was captured alive.

When this explosive news reached Da Chi Long's ears, Li Mao's troops had already pierced Chongzhou and invaded the territory of Longquan Mansion in Shangjing. The elite of Bohai Sea are all under the city of Tiezhou, and the central place is extremely empty, although extremely reluctant, Da Chilong also had to order the withdrawal of troops to help Shangjing, Gao Su hated Da Chi Long for being unwise, and led the army to go first.

In order to prevent the army from collapsing during the retreat and falling into the dilemma of being completely annihilated by the enemy, Da Qi Longru threw his own entrails to tempt the enemy: the 40,000 army besieging Shi Xiong and Jin Tiyong was the entrail of the sea cucumber.

The news of the "internal organs" was not clear, and when he was immersed in a hard battle, Da Chi Long personally led 10,000 elite royal divisions to retreat quietly.

The result of the Battle of Tiezhou was that Jin Tiyong and Shi Xiong joined forces to break the Bohai Coalition Army, beheaded more than 20,000 people, captured more than 20,000 people, and conquered Tiezhou City by victory.

Li Mao took the Gaosu people as hostages and forced Gaoyi to avoid Huzhou and not participate in the Shangjing defense line organized by Daqilong.

In the middle of autumn and October, all the armies gathered in the capital, rested for seven days and then marched to the northeast, Lianke Tongzhou, Baishicheng, the forward Shixiong and Daqilong fought fiercely for three consecutive days, conquered Sushen Town on the outskirts of Longquan Prefecture, and approached the heart of the Bohai Sea.

At the end of October, Li Mao's overseer army and Daqilong fought under Shangjing, and the Bohai coalition army was defeated, and when it was difficult to get down, Li Mao's "big killer" volleyed over the Bohai Navy, making an earth-shattering explosion.

The explosion itself did not cause many casualties, but the blow to morale was fatal.

The Bohai Coalition Army collapsed, the 10,000 Wang Divisions were annihilated, and Da Qilong died in the chaos.

The whole country of Bohai was shaken, the alliance of various forces collapsed, and the 50,000 troops gathered in Longquan Mansion dispersed without a fight.

Signing the alliance under the city is also a good result for Li Mao, although it is only the end of October, there have been two snows in Bohai, and the snow will fall more and more, and it is not a blessing to stop troops under the fortified city.

Li Mao sent Chang Mucang and Qin Mo into the city for peace talks, but Da Yuanyu was soft and hard, calculating, and refused to give up an inch of interests, and nothing was agreed after more than ten days, but the reinforcements that had been dispersed were secretly talked back one after another.

When the fourth snow fell in the Bohai Kingdom, Li Mao broke through the sinister intentions of Dayuan Yu in the name of fake peace talks, recuperated and prepared for a counterattack, and ordered the whole army to launch a general attack on Shangjing.

After the city of Shangjing resisted the first wave of attacks, a section of the eighty-zhang long city wall in the west collapsed in a violent explosion, and the loud sound of the landslide finally shattered the will of the Bohai people to resist.

The defenders believed that Li Mao's army had the help of the gods, and they were not afraid of the most powerful invading enemy, but they could not fight against the gods, and man and god would fight against each other, and the result must be a bad death.

It seems that as a verification, Da Songxuan, who almost revived the Bohai Kingdom with his own efforts, died soon after the explosion, and the Great Yuan Yu of the Jian State inherited the throne in a hurry and did not get the canonization of the Tang Dynasty, and his throne always seemed a little unjustifiable. The reinforcements of the various departments called back in the name of Da Songxuan heard that the king was dead, and they were afraid of the divine power of the gods, so they took the opportunity to withdraw their troops, and even openly sided with Li Mao.

They accepted Li Mao's opinion and believed that it was Da Yuanyu who killed Da Songxuan, such a rebellious minister and disobedient son was not worthy of being the lord of the Bohai Sea, and the Tang army was rebellious in the sky, and they could not help the abuse, and should stand on the side of justice.

Without any worries, Li Mao pressed on the whole line, fought fiercely for a day, and the capital fell.

Shi Xiong went straight to the palace and captured 3,000 people of Da Yuanyu and the clan, concubines, and ministers.

Li Mao has respect for the eloquent Bohai King Da Songxuan, if it weren't for his serious illness and inability to manage the government, how easy would it be to break through the Bohai Sea? Li Mao ordered the funeral of Da Songxuan with the ceremony of the king of the county, and the ceremony was noble and extremely glorious. He also announced the ten major crimes of Da Yuanyu, and also planted the case of Da Songxuan falling into the water on a moonlit night on Da Yuanyu's head, such a rebel minister who killed his father and usurped the throne is naturally punished by everyone. Instead of hate, all the people of the Bohai Kingdom should be grateful.

Because Da Yuanyu was once the supervisor of the Bohai Sea and had intersections with all the civil and military generals and tribal chiefs, Li Mao could hunt and kill the ministers of the DPRK and the central government at will as long as he buckled the hat of "the same party", and he could kill whoever he wanted.

Among the brothers and descendants of Da Songxuan, who were qualified to inherit the throne, Li Mao all became Da Yuanyu's comrades, and brought them back to the Tang Dynasty to hand over the affairs office, but he chose an unidentified and unqualified concubine to be the king.

Da Shi Mu was born to a prostitute after drinking Da Songxuan, because he hated the humility of his biological mother, Da Songlin was extremely unkind to Da Shi Mu during his lifetime, if according to the normal order of succession, even if the Bohai Kingdom dies a king every year, Da Shi Mu will have to wait until his beard is white to have a chance to inherit the throne. His ability to be the king was completely supported by Li Mao, and it was a good thing that fell from the sky.

Such a puppet king can only be dead set on Li Mao, otherwise his throne will not be guaranteed at any time.