Chapter 613: The Chaotic Korean Peninsula

After nearly three days of sailing, the fleet finally arrived on the Korean Peninsula slowly.

To be precise, we arrived at a place called Doneunpo Kou, which is located in the middle of the Korean Peninsula.

The Marines stationed a regiment of troops here to defend the docks, protect incoming supplies, etc., while the rest of the troops were scattered around, but not on a large scale.

The troops that arrived at Tangenpukou in the early stage had only one division, and then in the second batch of troops that arrived, there would be three divisions, and the remaining one division was left in the Central Plains to continue to defend it.

And the commander of the army was Li Daoyan of the clan, and in the civil and military division, Li Daoyan was kicked out of the ranks of civilian officials.

Of course, the more important reason is that after Li Shentong's death, Li Daoyan needed to carry out a three-year mourning vigil, and after three years, many places had lost his place, plus he was edicted back to Chang'an on the way to Tuyuhun, and during the mourning period, Li Yuanji also reminded him many times to study more military books, and then when he came back two years ago, he was directly appointed as the deputy commander of the Third Army, and last year he was reappointed as the commander of the Seventh Army.

Although Li Yuanji has a relatively strict control over the clan, Li Daoyan is still a trustworthy person, and Li Daozong is a clan that is deeply trusted by Li Yuanji.

Both of them currently hold important positions in military and political circles, and Li Yuanji is not in a hurry to remove them from power.

"The situation has changed a little now!" Wang Xuance had a headache and explained the current situation to Li Daoyan.

Wang Xuance thought of all the circumstances, and even thought that the imperial court would order them to stop attacking, after all, during the state funeral, it was normal to come to this order.

But I didn't expect that the imperial court would take this opportunity to train troops, seven mobile armies, this strength is enough, but the problem is that each army only has half a month, and then it will have to be withdrawn.

You can do a lot of things in half a month, but what can you do in half a month?

Almost the troops have just started a battle, and even just finished a certain layout, and then they are about to evacuate, in Wang Xuance's view, this is not training, but a blind toss.

"Silla has also joined the battle, so now our troops are far from enough." Wang Xuance said.

Li Daoyan frowned fiercely, and Silla actually joined in.

But it was quickly relieved, and Silla joined the battle, isn't it a normal thing?

The Korean Peninsula has now been opened to the flowers above only three countries, Baekje, Silla, and Goguryeo.

One of them is gone, and the other is under attack, so if Silla is smart, it should unite with Goguryeo at this time to resist the invasion of the Tang army.

Only in this way can Silla survive, choose to sit back and watch, choose to watch, and Goguryeo's fate is their end.

There is no need to doubt all this, and it is already clear what the Tang army did after occupying Baekje.

Once Goguryeo also dies, then the next one will inevitably be Silla.

They don't have any choice, so they have to join in, even if there is little hope, they have to resist desperately, or they should surrender now.

But they are not willing to surrender like this, it is tantamount to giving up their country to the Tang people, how is this possible? Although they worship the Tang Dynasty, or the Sui Dynasty and the Central Plains Dynasty, that is not a reason for people to bow down.

The defeat of the combined forces of Goguryeo and Silla, Li Daoyan did not have any doubts about this, and he did not have any worries when he attacked Tuyuhun back then.

This was the case back then, not to mention now, the current Tang Army's strength has long surpassed that of the Tang Army back then.

Moreover, the way of fighting has also changed dramatically, as long as you are always cautious, the chance of defeat will be very small.

Of course, Li Daoyan also understood what Wang Xuance was worried about, the strength of an army, and it was an army with only four divisions, and at the same time facing the Goguryeo Silla coalition army, this was not the most important, the important thing was that they were in an awkward position now.

Tangeunpokou is located in the center of the western side of the Korean Peninsula, which originally belonged to Silla, the western part to the south belonged to Baekje, the eastern part belonged to Silla, and beyond here, it belonged to Goguryeo.

This is a strange geographical division, with Silla extending a piece of land that divides Goguryeo and Baekje in two, while Silla has direct territorial ties with the other two states.

In other words, now they either choose to concentrate a little bit to break through and attract the main force of the enemy army to come over for a decisive battle.

Either they could divide their troops into two routes, one going north and attacking Goguryeo proper, and the other going south to attack Silla.

What Wang Xuance is worried about is actually the problem of their lack of troops.

It seems that there are many armies, but if they are distributed in such a large area, it is difficult to say the real situation.

Moreover, the current Tang army relies on ammunition relatively largely, and the deployment of troops is too scattered, which is not conducive to their logistical support, once the ammunition in hand is exhausted, then the survivability of the troops will plummet.

In the past, as long as there was food, the troops could continue to fight.

"Looks like plans are going to change!" According to the current plan, Li Daoyan is confident that he will win this local war, but he will not be able to win this battle.

The reason is that the ones he just analyzed in his mind are not enough troops, and he doesn't have the energy to spread them too much, unless he can ensure that their ammunition is not affected in any way.

It is better to be cautious before solving the problem of ammunition.

"Yes, I have sent an update to Your Majesty and attached my opinion on the matter." Wang Xuance nodded and continued.

"Tell me what you think?"

"The first step is to change the current strategy, and there is no problem in focusing on military training, but the time that each army stays here for at least two months, otherwise, it will not have much effect.

Secondly, at least three armies should be engaged in the battle at the same time, with the mouth of Tangeunpo as the center, one army will go south to attack Silla, one army will go north to attack Goguryeo, and the other army will start to break north from here, and attack from both sides, if it goes well, within two months, it will be enough to destroy Silla, and then look at the situation in the north, if it goes well, the battle will be resolved within two months after the end of the battle here, and if it doesn't go well, the time may be longer. Wang Xuance found a map, the map was not detailed, only some general information, pointed to one place and continued:

"If Your Majesty agrees, I will send a brigade of Marines from here to conduct landing operations, open up a safe landing ground for the follow-up troops, and ensure that there is enough time for them to adapt."

What to adapt to?

Of course, it is to get used to their seasickness, so that they can have at least a day to recover after getting off the boat.

Otherwise, like the current Seventh Army, landing will be a direct battle? That's impossible, one by one dizzy, normal marching is uneasy, how can you take it out to fight?

And this plan, in fact, is not much different from the previous one.

It's just that some aspects have been fine-tuned according to the actual situation.

As for military training......

Hehe......

Wang Xuance only had these two words left.

"What was the quality of the Goguryeo and Silla armies?" Li Daoyan seemed to know what Wang Xuance was thinking, and then asked.

"There's nothing too clever about tactics, as long as we can keep the firepower dense, we can stand in a row and push it over. The only thing to note is that the Silla people were smarter than the Goguryeo when they fought wars, but that's all, in the face of absolute strength, their intelligence was completely insufficient. Wang Xuance said contemptuously.

It's not that he wants to take it lightly, it's not that he doesn't want to pay attention to it, but that's the reality of the situation.

What would happen to a modern unit with rifles and artillery against a unit that relied on broadswords, spears, bows and arrows? Do you need to say more?

Even if the other party is smart enough, he is not stupid on his side, he knows very well where his advantages are and where his weaknesses are.

In order to prove that he was not bragging, Wang Xuance continued: "The other party will sometimes sneak up to us in close combat, which is the only way for them to win. The solution is very simple, the fighters in the front row temporarily fight bayonets with them, and then each squad vacates two people to constantly throw grenades in front of them, blowing up a no-man's land, ensuring that the enemy behind can not follow up in time, and then these mixed enemies will soon be eliminated, and the grenade blasted out of the no-man's land, is our advantage, the use of rifles can quickly open the distance, and then there is a one-sided slaughter, advanced strategy and tactics do not play a big role here, the battle here is usually very simple. ”

At this time, Li Daoyan was a little speechless, because he found that what Wang Xuance said was very right.

In fact, in the exercise, they also conducted tests in this area, and the results were that the side with the rifle could easily crush the side with cold weapons.

And the reason is also very simple, if you use the previous muskets, you can't do this, but with the use of bullet rifles, the rate of fire is greatly improved, and it is easy to do this, and even a company of troops can suppress the siege of a thousand people, or even more.

Moreover, there is another very important reason.

Whether it was Goguryeo or Silla, their equipment was very poor.

They have a lot of spears, even those without iron spear heads, all of which are sharpened from wood, and bows and arrows, many of which also do not have iron arrowheads, and use the oldest method, a wooden stick of a suitable size, carbonize the arrow, and then sharpen it.

The advantage is convenience, and the more is that it can be manufactured at any time, but the disadvantage is that the shooting distance is not enough, and the lethality is insufficient.

And the reason for all this is simply because there is not enough raw materials here, they don't have enough iron to produce so much equipment, and in this place, before that, there is not much need for weapons and equipment.