On a small hill ten miles away from the east gate of Seoul, in the tent of the commander of the Silla Chinese Army, Jin Yuanshu looked at several generals kneeling in the tent to plead guilty, and was so angry that he blew his beard and glared. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Today, his army was defeated twice in a row, losing more than 12,000 soldiers. Ling Zhuzhi led 10,000 soldiers and horses to uproot the Tang army camp in the southeast of Hancheng, but not only failed to conquer it in a few days, but only fled back with dozens of horsemen. More than 2,000 of the 5,000 defense troops and horses outside the east gate of Hancheng were beheaded under the attack of the Tang army, and all the grain, grass and ordnance in the camp were burned.

The generals who wanted to go to Seoul to demonstrate were even more taught to behave by the Tang army's city defense equipment, and retreated in embarrassment, by the way, Jin Yuanshu saw the benefits and disadvantages of the Tang army's city defense equipment, and he did not dare to storm Seoul with the current undominant forces.

What was even more annoying was that the commander of the Southern Route Army, Pin Ri, sent a messenger to report that his army had been blocked by the Tang army, and in order to prevent the rear road from being cut off by the Tang army and falling into the dangerous situation of being surrounded, he could only contain 12,000 Tang troops for him in the valley south of the Zaining Plain. At the end of the letter, he also wished him an early breakthrough of Seoul and solved the dilemma of his southern route army.

Jin Yuanshu looked at this letter, and felt that it was so ironic, since the expedition, he thought that he had lost three battles in a row and lost more than 20,000 soldiers, and the current soldiers and horses could not get together 40,000.

The retreat of the generals in the tent was even worse, and they advised our army that the king had captured the land within a radius of more than 100 miles on both sides of the Licheng River, and retreating at this time would not be regarded as a defeat and return, and most of the soldiers and horses could be saved.

"Can you still retreat calmly now?" Jin Yuanshu scolded angrily: "These mediocre talents have lost three battles in a row and lost more than 20,000 soldiers, which has caused the current morale of our army to be low. On the way to retreat, our army, which is dominated by infantry, has no danger and no walled city to defend, so how can we deal with the pursuit of more than 10,000 cavalry of the Tang Army in the city? ”

Because the army structure formed by Li Yu can be easily identified by the different banners held by each guard and army, and the strength of the Tang army can be obtained. After several days of reconnaissance, Jin Yuanshu found out the approximate strength of the Tang army opposite him and most of the troops participating in the battle.

Jin Yuanshu, the most elite Yanyun and Beihai iron cavalry under Li Yu, knew that the cavalry of the Tang Army alone had 12,000 cavalry, and Nuo added the cavalry of other guards and armies, which amounted to more than 20,000.

After Jin Yuanshu got this number, he was really envious and jealous, this time he led an army of 80,000 to the battle, and the total number of cavalry did not exceed 10,000.

The country of Silla is mainly mountainous, and most of the people live in the coastal areas and river valley plains, and there is no suitable place to raise horses, so there is an urgent shortage of horses. The total number of cavalry in the country does not exceed 20,000, and the quality of the war horses cannot be compared with the Qinghai horsetail that the Tang army generally rides.

Qinghai Cheng is a Persian horse and the local horse breed in the northwest area of the mixed breeding, the local horse breed actually has the Han Dynasty to introduce the sweat blood horse bloodline, is the Tang Dynasty the best quality war horse, than the Turkic horse is taller, endurance is not much inferior, can travel thousands of miles a day.

Because of this, most of the horse herding supervisors of the Tang Dynasty were set up in Hexi and Longyou, and the number of war horses cultivated was maintained at more than 500,000 all year round, so that Li Yu was able to equip the most elite Yanyun and Beihai Iron Cavalry under his command with Qinghai Cheng.

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Now that they could not withdraw and could not retreat, and they had no confidence to fight, the Silla generals sighed, which could not help but make Jin Yuanshu even more annoyed, and roared to drive them all out of the big tent.

Jin Yuanshu paced back and forth in the account, thinking of a solution. It suddenly occurred to me that there were only more than 60,000 soldiers in Andong's Tang Army, and more than 10,000 Tang troops blocking the Southern Route Army were among them, plus tens of thousands of Tang troops in Seoul. Isn't it, the Anton Tang Army has all the soldiers that can fight?

King Tang Yan's royal banners are all standing on the head of Seoul, and it seems that his expectations should not be bad. Jin Yuanshu estimated that Nuo would be able to annihilate the Tang army in the battle of Seoul, so wouldn't the vast Anton no longer be irresistible?

It's just that the soldiers and horses are not enough at the moment, and it is impossible to defeat the Tang army, so the king can only ask for more troops.

In order to seek the king's understanding and send reinforcements, Jin Yuanshu said that the battle damage was small in the book of the upper play, and at the same time drew a big round cake for Jin Famin. As long as he sent at least 20,000 additional reinforcements to win the battle of Seoul and completely annihilate the Tang army, Silla could easily take the entire Andong Protectorate of Tang, which had no more soldiers to fight.

This round cake is very large, and once it is really won as Kim Wonshu said, then Silla will become a more powerful existence than the destroyed Goguryeo, both in terms of territory and national strength, and there will be no need to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty.

In the battle of Seoul, Kim Won-su called it a decisive battle that would determine the fortunes of Silla in his recital to Kim Famin, and the winner would take Andong, and if he lost, he would lose all the territory he had gained from this expedition, and he bowed down to Tang and prayed for peace!

As for whether the defeat will lead to the destruction of Silla, Jin Yuanshu thought about it but didn't think much about it, let alone write it in the songbook, if the king was afraid and didn't increase his troops, he would have to be defeated and return, how could this work?

All things considered, I still try to get rid of the king's concerns and let him increase his troops well!

When the messenger brought Jin Yuanshu's carefully prepared recital to Jincheng and hurried it to Jincheng, Jin Famin saw that he summoned his ministers to discuss whether Jin Yuanshu's move was feasible?

Many wise courtiers resolutely opposed Kim Wonshu's suppression of Silla's national fortunes on a campaign, denounced his gambler mentality, and caused great harm to the country. Since Jin Yuanshu collected more than 100 miles of land on both sides of the Licheng River, and lost two small battles in a row under Hancheng, the king should keep the immediate benefits and accept them when he sees the good, send the envoy to the Tang Dynasty to apologize, and then send generous gifts and beauties to King Yan to seek reconciliation between the two countries.

Jin Famin's round cake drawn by Jin Yuanshu in the recital book was quite impressive, but the suggestions of the ministers were also very reasonable. For the small country of Silla, it is true that it should not compete with a large country like the Tang State with a territory of thousands of miles and a population of tens of millions.

Wanting to ask for the opinion of Xia Taijiaogan, Jin Famin remembered to send him to lead 30,000 troops on the east coast to prevent Tang Kou from going ashore and plundering, so he had to give up. But for the disaster of Tang Kou in the east and south coastal areas, there is no doubt that Jin Famin, who has calmed down, is sad and resentful.

In the hall, the lively-minded Ah Fan Da Tu had been observing Jin Famin's expression, and he realized something, and stood up and sang a counter tune with the ministers, "King, what Jin Yuanshu said in the book is reasonable. ”

The ministers were stunned, and they all turned their heads sideways to stare at Ah Fan and vomited, and Jin Famin asked with some surprise: "What's the reason?" ”

Ah Fan said respectfully: "My Silla lives in a corner and has become a vassal of the Tang Dynasty, all because the country is small and the people are small, the territory is mountainous, and there is very little land suitable for farming, and even the country is weak, which is despised by the Tang State. At the beginning, I sent troops and food to help the Tang State to attack and destroy Baekje and Goguryeo, and I paid so much and suffered from the people's livelihood. But after the destruction of the two kingdoms, the Tang State did not care about the feelings of our country at all, and occupied the land of Baekje and Goguryeo as his Tang State Prefecture, and did not have the idea of taking care of our country at all. Nuo is not the king of the brave and wise, against the public opinion to send troops to occupy the former Goguryeo counties in the north, and did not hesitate to offend the Tang State to take most of the old land of Baekje in the west, how can it be that today's territory is vast, with more than 200,000 troops? ”