Chapter 462: Destroying the withered and decaying
"Great marshal, Xiyuan Jing is victorious, the 15th Corps and the 5th Corps work together to encircle and kill 230,000 troops of Zheng Fan and Jinshandao, and capture 150,000 people." Xuan Yingwei's battle report was delivered to Chen Fan as soon as possible, and the victory of Xiyuan Jing made him look at it and nodded again and again, Zheng Fan's capture meant that the last pillar of the Xuanwu army collapsed, and the Liang in the southwest of the peninsula also completely lost its combat power. Chen Fan withdrew his eyes from the southwest and fixed his eyes on the Silla people who were raging in Lintun County. The great victory of Xiyuan Jing made all the efforts of the Silla people come to naught, and it also caused a desperate situation for himself to go deep alone, at this time Liu Yi and Liu Baoliang should have already begun to strangle, right?
Chen Fan expected it well, although the results of the battle of Xiyuanjing did not reach the hands of Liu Yi and Liu Baoliang, but with a keen grasp of the battlefield situation, Liu Yi took the lead in attacking from Yanjin and flanking the back road of the Silla army in Lintun County, cutting off the road from the rear base camp in one fell swoop. And the infantry of the two battalions that he had lurked in advance also began to show their fangs, and began to strongly attack the Goryeo rebels besieging several major logistics bases of the Cheonce Army, which was almost everyone's surprise, a large number of Cheonce troops suddenly began to attack in a big way, killing the local resistance forces in Goryeo while also making the Silla people suspicious, and the Silla people who were alone in the territory of the other party and had no intelligence sources no longer dared to carry out the set goal and went towards Changkou, but they were extremely unwilling to retreat back to the territory of Silla. During this time, they bewitched and supported the anti-Tang forces in northern Goryeo to attack the empty rear of the Cheonce army, and at the same time recovered most of the land and cities in Lingtun County, the Silla people also obtained a large amount of wealth from the Goryeo people and their continued food, weapons and other strategic materials, and the war has become a means of rapid national strength for the Silla people, and even those front-line soldiers have made a lot of money because of burning, looting, and looting the people of Goryeo along the way. Therefore, when Silla coach Hua Jinman planned to retreat, he was opposed by everyone, and even the anti-Tang forces in Goryeo, which were in full swing during this time, strongly opposed the withdrawal of the Silla people. They have not yet made contact with their royal capital, and they have not received official support, and at this time the Silla people are their lifesaver, and if the Silla people want to retreat, then the resurgent Tiance army will definitely strangle them cleanly.
However, at this time, the news of Liu Yi's large-scale attack quickly spread to the county seat of Lintun County, and the 50,000 infantry began to reverse the anti-terrorism Lintun County after cutting off the retreat of the Silla people. This news shocked everyone, Hua Jinman felt even more desperate, his group of people were still arguing about whether to withdraw from the army when the other party had already begun to move, and even Hua Jinman felt that he had fallen into the trap set by the other party, Zheng Fan's carefully arranged counter-plot and strategy to take advantage of the situation were seen through by the other party, but a huge trap was arranged by the other party, and everyone was trapped in one fell swoop. Thinking of this, Hua Jinman glanced at several leaders of the anti-Tang forces in Goryeo near the root of his ear, and sighed silently, people are calculating more than they think, I am afraid that this is to use their own hands to wipe out all the resistance forces in Goryeo.
"Immediately send an order, and all the departments immediately return to the Silla mainland, and at the same time urgently summon the king and gather the whole country's troops to assemble in the north." Hua Jinman stopped everyone's quarrel and coldly issued the order to withdraw the troops. As soon as his order came out, the Silla generals had no extra opinions at this time, and they didn't dare to have any doubts in front of the soldiers of the Tiance army and began to prepare immediately, but the several Goryeo leaders present had bitter faces, and Zhu hurriedly asked: "Marshal Hua, your army has withdrawn, so what should I do?" ”
"It's really mud that can't support the wall, and at this time you still ask others what to do?" Hua Jinman's face was calm, and his voice began to return to normal, "If the leaders are willing to retreat south with our army, they can go to prepare together, if they are not willing to retreat south, they should also withdraw from the counties and cities as soon as possible, and enter the northern mountains of your country to hide and wait, I think if your army can work together with the Liang army in the royal capital to break the attack of the Tiance army, then you can go south to Beiyuanjing." After dropping a sentence, Hua Jinman began to turn around and go out to urge the armies to hurry up, throw away all unnecessary things and move forward lightly, his biggest wish now is to bring back all the 100,000 elites in his hands intact, this is the most elite main battle force of Silla, as long as the soldiers and horses in his hands are still there, then Silla has the power to fight, no matter what the outcome of the future will be, he has the ability to protect himself, as for the battle situation of Kitahara Kyo and Nishihara Kyo He no longer has any illusions, The attack of the Tiance army in the north also means that the battle between the two places has been decided, so that the other side will have the energy to attack his own troops who have advanced behind enemy lines.
Although Hua Jinman tried his best to urge the troops to speed up, and he himself saw the opportunity very early, there was still no way to withdraw from the county seat of Lintun County before Liu Yi blocked the road, these days relying on the filial piety of the anti-Tang forces in Goryeo and the wanton burning and looting of the Silla army has accumulated a huge amount of wealth and grain, grass and weapons and equipment, because of the rush of time, only a very small part of them were transported back to China by the logistics baggage troops, and most of them were hoarded in the barracks of the army. It took all the troops three full days to retreat south from outside the city, and there were too many things to retreat at a speed that Hua Jinman demanded. In order to speed things up, Hua Jinman even had to throw away the redundant weapons, grain and grass that were cumbersome and useless at this time, and some of his money was also thrown away. However, Hua Jinman kept an eye on it and deliberately threw these things on the side of the road, causing the surrounding Goryeo people to come and loot in order to delay the possible pursuers.
In fact, Hua Jinman's plan did work, at least Liu Baoliang's cavalry advance force was blocked by the swarming people at the beginning. However, soon after Liu Baoliang led the main force of the cavalry corps to arrive, these people were quickly frightened by the strong army of the Tiance Army, and many people even returned all the grain, grass and money they had just grabbed.
"Put away all these messy weapons for me, and tell these people that we will give them all this grain and grass that they are willing to work for us." Liu Baoliang ordered a battalion of cavalry to immediately go south to continue the pursuit, and the remaining people began to command these people to collect and collect the weapons scattered privately and hand them over to the logistics transport team, and on the other hand, they began to concentrate their forces to encircle and suppress the Goryeo resistance forces that did not have time to retreat with the Silla, in fact, the role of the cavalry battalion sent by him was the same, this time Chen Fan was determined to suppress all the resistance of the Goryeo people, so he concentrated the cavalry corps of the main attack to fight these local snakes, Placed the infantry in front of the confrontation with the Sillas.
Liu Yi and Liu Baoliang teamed up almost at the same time as the end of the Battle of Xiyuanjing in the vast land of Lintun County, and swept the entire Lintun County in just ten days, countless leaders of the resistance forces were killed, and the bloody fact once again showed all the Koreans the fate of opposing the Tang Dynasty, and those small minions who were captured in large numbers were quickly escorted to Changkou, and then transported back to Dalian by boatload after boat, from where they took a train they had never seen all the way forward, traveling thousands of miles west to a strange land.
Liu Yi's main force and horses met the Silla people when they advanced north on the Yanjin line, and the two sides launched a tragic battle north of the Cheongcheon River, Liu Yi with 30,000 infantry with incomparable fire support stubbornly blocked Hua Jinman's continuous attack for three days and three nights, so that it could not move forward. The other two battalions of infantry who took advantage of this time to rush from the rear quickly rushed to support and besiege the Silla army from the rear after the cavalry took over the task of attacking the Goryeo, and the front and rear flanking made the Silla army of Hua Jinman quickly collapse, and although the Silla people broke out with great combat power after being close to the door of the house but were blocked by the other side, they were completely broken in the face of the Silla army that had been formed before even the cold weapons and armor needed to rely on the cold weapons and armor. After three days and three nights of fighting, they lost a large number of troops. After seeing that nothing could be done, Hua Jinman secretly took the pro-guard to go to sea at night and made a detour back to Silla by sea. As soon as he left, it meant that the Silla people no longer had room for repetition, and Liu Yi decisively seized this opportunity to launch a counterattack on all fronts, and without the central command of the commander, the various military headquarters that had been in chaos were broken one by one. This battle was completely ended by Liu Yi on the night of the fourth day, although the battle lasted for a long time, but basically all the elites of the Silla people were defeated, and the 100,000 troops were almost completely annihilated except for the last captured more than 30,000 people, and Silla completely lost the main force, which also laid the foundation for Liu Yi and Liu Baoliang to lead the army into Silla and quickly occupy the entire Silla border.
Liu Yi's battle was fought heartily, but it was like a bolt from the blue for the last remnants of the re-encircled Goryeo Kingdom in the capital of Beiyuan, which was not far away, and Jinshan Dao, who had just fled back, was surrounded by Ge Cunzhou again before he could discuss with the king about any good way. This time, Ge Cunzhou directly sent people outside the city to shout, ordering Li Cunji, the king of Goryeo in the city, to immediately surrender to the Tang Dynasty, and go to Chang'an to plead guilty to the Tang Emperor Li Xuanqing, otherwise the army would enter the city and completely destroy the country.
I have to say that Ge Cunzhou's trick did play a great role, Li Cunji, who was at the end of the road, surrendered despite the opposition of Jinshan Dao, so far the Goryeo Kingdom perished, and the land of Goryeo was all incorporated into the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and he himself was subsequently sent to Chang'an with his family, although the Minister of Foreign Affairs Zhang Han gave preferential treatment to the king's family in accordance with the instructions of Li Xuanqing and Cen Tianshi, and did not restrict him from allowing him to walk freely, but the scene of the death of the country made the king unable to let go for a long time. He died quietly in the sixth year of the Apocalypse. However, Goryeo's commander, Kim San-do, escaped from Kitahara-kyo and went to Japan, where he fought again a few years later.
However, at this time, after Ge Cun and Zhou's soldiers took Beiyuan Jing without blood, he joined forces with Hou Yong and quickly went south to take all the last territories in the south of Goryeo.
Ge Cunzhou's side is led by Zhu Youliang, so although he has not yet entered the territory of Daliang, he is very familiar with the various arrangements inside it, plus the adjustment of Zhu Youqi sent by Xuan Yingwei in the future, so Ge Cunzhou immediately sent troops south to attack the territory of Daliang after a little repair.
At this time, Liu Yi and they had already crossed the Cheongcheon River and began to follow the road before the Silla people came to Nanda. Because this time, both Silla and Zhu Youjue's beams belong to their own elite troops have been lost, although both countries quickly recruited troops and horses after receiving the news of the defeat on the front, but the hastily recruited people and horses are simply a rabble, no combat effectiveness, and compared to Zhu Youjue's side has weapons and equipment but lacks soldiers, the Silla people have no weapons and food, and the Silla people who almost emptied the treasury in the previous war can only be forced to levy grain and grass from the people in the face of a strong enemy. In order to assemble the army as soon as possible, many people even sent a weapon directly to the battlefield. Such an army could not play any role at all in the face of the division of the Tiance Army, and after the two armies broke up the troops that were not easy to organize in the two countries, Ge Cunzhou surrounded and suppressed the last trace of Zhu Youqi's strength near Hainan County in the south, and Zhu Youqi himself fled back to the previous Tamna Island in a hurry on a sailor ship to temporarily survive. The royal family of Silla was mistakenly killed by Liu Yi's troops during the battle, and Hua Jinman, who had fled back earlier, was captured at the last moment, but Liu Yi did not kill him, but sent someone to Chen Fan's headquarters overnight. He commanded his troops to continue to sweep away the remnants of Silla. Unlike Zhu Youjun's Liang because it was a foreign force, although Silla perished, Silla had a large population, so although Liu Yi laid down most of the territory, the resistance of the people still existed, and this situation was similar to that of Goryeo before, and it was very rich compared to Goryeo, so the rebellion basically came from the upper class of the nobles, and the Silla people basically came from the confrontation of the lower class people. This made Liu Yi extremely uncomfortable when he suppressed this kind of rebellion at the beginning, and even those soldiers of the Tiance Army felt that they had encountered something damn about it, how could the situation they encountered was completely different from the situation in Goryeo before?
However, after Chen Fan and Hua Jinman secretly talked about this situation for a long time, the commander of the Silla people suddenly announced that he would submit to the Tang Dynasty, and returned to Silla under the escort of the Tiance army, and began to call on the Silla people not to confront the Tang Dynasty, and promised on behalf of the Tang Dynasty that the life of the Silla people would get better and better with the support of the empire. With the support of Hua Jinman, a figure with great prestige among the people, Liu Yi also stabilized his position and gradually took the situation in Silla into his own hands.
Chen Fan, on the other hand, after summarizing all the results of the two armies, reported to the Chang'an base camp, although he led the command to return to Changkou and board the naval Izumo battleship. In this battle, the Eastern Expeditionary Army almost completed all the strategic objectives, leaving only Zhu Youqi and Tamna still hanging overseas, as long as the Eastern Expeditionary Army took here, it would be considered to have completed all its missions.