Chapter 285: Silla Advances North
Kim Dae-jung was defeated and led his people to shore and hold Ganghwa Island, and the remaining warships under his command were all stranded in the shallows. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
In order to completely annihilate the Silla naval division, so that there was no more warship to go to sea, and when the building ships could not get close, Wang Aoke sent his deputy commander Yu Ling to lead 50 Silla warships that were stranded in the shallows with Monchong, threw fire oil on the Silla warships, and then set them on fire with a fierce fire tank, destroying 87 Silla warships.
"Commander, should we go ashore and annihilate the Silla army that fled to the shore?"
Facing the inquiries of his subordinates, Wang Aoke said in a deep voice: "Don't pay attention to it, the task of our army is to annihilate the Silla Naval Division, and those Silla people who fled ashore are not considered to be naval divisions without warships, and whether they are annihilated or not will have no impact on the overall situation." What's more, our army is not familiar with the terrain of Ganghwa Island, and it is at a disadvantage for us to go ashore. ”
At this time, the battle situation in the northern part of the harbor also came to an end, compared to Wang Aoke's ease of fighting, Chen Keju can be said to have been almost taught to be a man by the Silla sailor at the beginning.
When the Silla naval generals Naimalu and Takechohe led their troops to fight against Chen Keju, they did not go head-on, but divided into two groups to surround Chen Keju's troops who were rushing straight into it, giving full play to the advantages of their large number of ships.
Chen Keju was a little panicked when he was encircled for a while, and Chen Chuan, the deputy commander of Nuofei, suggested that the Lou ships take the lead, and the rest of the ships followed closely behind, and attacked the surrounding Silla warships in eight directions, giving full play to the advantages of the Lou ships' tall, sturdy weapons, and all-round attacks, and tore open eight openings in the surrounding Silla warships and divided them into eight parts to attack them.
After half an hour of hard fighting, more than half of the 100 Silla warships were lost, and Naimaro, Takecho and saw that they were invincible and ordered to retreat to the harbor to join the commander Kim Dae-jung, but they did not know that Kim Dae-jung had already abandoned the ship in defeat, and when he returned to the harbor, he was directly blocked in the harbor by Wang Aoke's fleet that went north along the harbor, and was annihilated here by the two major fleets of the Tang Army.
Jin Dazhong stood on the hill on Ganghwa Island and saw that one-third of his fleet was annihilated by the Tang army in the harbor, and he burst into tears.
Although there were more than 3,000 sailors left, and the commander Jin Dazhong was still there, the lost warships were difficult to make up for within a year or two, not to mention that the southeast coastal area had long been plagued by the Tang army disguised as pirates, and there was no place to survive in the shipyard, and most of the shipwrights were taken captive. Kim Fa-min now wants to build a ship, rebuild the sailor, but he can't get it.
Jin Famin snorted: "Cut off all the official titles of Jin Dazhong, and still lead his troops and horses to the city, and the city lord will call to defend the city, and wait for the crime to make meritorious contributions." ”
The ministers in the palace thought that the king was going to kill the defeated Jin Dazhong again, but they didn't think that they would only cut his official title and still keep it.
In response to the questions raised by the puzzled colleagues, the people who knew the inside story quietly informed: Kim Dae-jung is the king's three-service inner kin, how can he kill at will?
Everyone was stunned, it turned out that this was related by blood.
Ten days later, Wang Aoke, who had returned to Nanhai Island from Ganghwa Island, went north with his troops, and successively plundered Dongnae, Dongan, Daeseong, Yichang, Yeseong, Youlin, Ulzhen, and Sansheo on the east coast of Silla, destroying 18 cities, beheading more than 10,000 Silla troops, and plundering the population and property. As a result, the east coast of Silla was full of gunsmoke, villages were destroyed, and fields were barren. The grain and cloth accumulated in the treasury of the broken cities were even looted.
Jin Yuxin, who was in charge of coastal defense and suppression of pirates, led 30,000 soldiers and horses to chase the pace of the pirates, and the whole army almost broke his legs.
Jin Famin, who had been insisting on patience, finally couldn't bear it anymore, and sent an envoy to Chang'an to complain to the king of Yan, Li Yu, who sent his sailors to pretend to be pirates and repeatedly plundered our territory, and plundered all kinds of evil, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries among the people of Silla. In desperation, he had to raise troops to seek justice for the suffering people of Silla, and even more to save the suffering of tens of thousands of people who were captured by pirates sent by King Yan. The ministers really can't use it to crusade against the king of Yan, and may the Son of Heaven be the lord of Silla with the truth of the kingdom......
Three days later, Jin Yuanshu, who had received Jin Famin's order, crossed the border with an army of 100,000 troops from the northern border pass and went straight to the cities garrisoned by Tang troops such as Dongbi, Niuyu, and Ajizhen.
Li Shangdan, the governor of the Seoul Prefecture Governor's Office, who had already received the order, ordered Gao Chongde to be stationed in Dongbi City, Liu Shijiang who guarded Niucen, and Su Mingxiu who guarded Azhu Zhencheng according to the order, and all the young and strong men in the local people's homes were conscripted for military service and escorted away, and all the grain and grass that could not be taken away were burned, and they returned to Seoul to hold on to wait for help.
Li Yu, who received the report from Li Sangdan, treated it indifferently, and after reviewing the three armies on the second day, he issued a document to discuss Silla, officially announcing that he would move his army south to conquer Silla.
At the same time, Hao Nanrong, one of the literature of the Yan Palace, was sent to Beijing to show His Majesty the disobedience of the northern fan of Silla.
In addition to the Yanyun Iron Cavalry Left and Right Guards, Qinglong Guards, Kunpeng Guards, and Dangdi Troops stationed south of Yalu Water, the Beihai Iron Cavalry Left and Right Guards, Qilin Guards, Hanqi Guards, Gluttonous Guards, Zhendong Army, Jiaolong Army, and Dingman Army stationed in Liaodong were stationed in Liaodong, plus 19 troops and horses, including the elite Liangyi and Ersheng Army, Chifengwei, Cormorant Guard, Bai Zewei, and Bi Fangwei, a total of 57,000 people, who were personally led south.
With the addition of 12,000 men of the 2nd Guard and 2nd Army, which were originally stationed in Seoul Prefecture, the number of soldiers and horses facing Silla this time reached 69,000, more than half of the total number of soldiers and horses including Andong and the United Army.
The Wufeng Qiling and the Xinliao Eighth Army, which were not in the sequence of the united soldiers who were not in the expedition, also received Li Yu's military order, and all guards and armies assembled on the spot to take over the task of garrisoning the soldiers and horses that were transferred.
Li Yu took the black tooth Changzhi as the vanguard, commanded the Beihai Iron Cavalry left and right guards to go south to Seoul first, replaced Li Shangdan to command the soldiers and horses of Hancheng Prefecture, and formed a vanguard corps with the Beihai Iron Cavalry Left and Right Guards, White Tiger Guard, Vermilion Bird Guard, Flying Tiger Army, and Tianshi Army to go to the front line to meet the rolling Jin Yuanshu 100,000 army.
When Jin Yuanshu learned that the Tang army had retreated without a fight, he laughed in front of the generals of the Tang army and ridiculed the Tang army as nothing more than that, "The soldiers and horses formed by Huangkou Xiao'er, where are the Tang Dynasty's hundred battle heroes who destroyed Goguryeo a few years ago?" It's just a group of farmers and market gangsters who pick up weapons and put on armor, so why bother? When I led the army to break through Seoul and approach Pyongyang, the yellow-mouthed boy who was scheduled to fight fled back to Chang'an crying and went to his father and mother to complain. ”
The Silla generals burst into laughter, and the voices of foul language ridiculing Li Yu were endless.
"General, I heard that although Huangkou's child is not very old, there are many beautiful women in his house, and they are all virgins. When attacking Pyongyang, the general can't let him run away with the women in his house, and I can kiss the beauty of the Tang Kingdom, hahaha......"
Jin Yuanshu snorted coldly: "Don't talk about the woman in his house, the Huangkou child will not let him escape, and he will definitely capture him alive and humiliate him." ”