Chapter 322: Ambition
PS: Anti-theft chapter, to be revised later
After breaking the Sevenfold City, Li Yu sent Xue Ne to lead 6,000 troops to capture Niangjian City, which was dozens of miles southeast of the Sevenfold City, in order to relieve the threat of the rear road when he led the army south along the Lulu River. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
When Li Yu led the army, the guard general Su Na refused to die like a small guard in the winter, closed the four gates, and sent an envoy to Jincheng for help.
Ada City is just a small city to compliment the Sevenfold City, Li Yu didn't take it to heart, and ordered Li Yeji to lead the army to pull it out.
From the beginning of the Tang army's catapult bombardment of Ada City to the occupation of the whole city, Li Yesi completed the task in only half a day. The defender of Ada City, Suna, was killed in battle, and the 2,000 defenders were all beheaded by the Tang army.
Xue Ne led his army to fight the city of Baniang's arm in one day, beheaded 3,000, and won a triumphant victory three days later.
At this point, the defense line of the northern Lilu River (Imjin River), which Silla had been operating for decades, was completely dissolved, and Li Yu led more than 30,000 soldiers and horses down the river, breaking the Shouva City on the east bank of the confluence of the Lilu River and the Hansan River, and converging with Li Shangdan's troops on the south bank of the Hansan River. Immediately along the Hanshan River upstream, the soldiers surrounded the north bank of Shixian City, pulled it out, and the county ordered Xianbo, Ximao, etc., to die in battle.
After Li Yu led his army to conquer Shixian City, he went east forty miles to Maixiao City on the south bank of the Hanshan River.
The defenders of the city were originally the generals of the A-Meal Datu, and the A-Meal Datu personally persuaded him to surrender, so that three days later, when Li Yu led 40,000 soldiers and horses to the Silla town of Bukhansan Fortress in the Hansan River Valley, the defenders in the city were shocked by the sudden arrival of the Tang army.
In the face of the Tang army's fierce attack as soon as it reached the city, the defenders in the city were poorly prepared to withstand the Tang army's offensive, and the situation was critical.
The guard general Sha Yan was greatly frightened, remembering that two years ago in Liaodong Da'an Mountain and Wugucheng was defeated by the Tang army twice, losing tens of thousands of soldiers, and finally rushed south in a panic. Today, there are 30,000 or 40,000 Tang troops outside the city, and their armor and equipment are better than those of two years ago. On the other hand, there were only 8,000 people, and the original 2,000 cavalry in the city were transferred by Jin Yuanshu and the whole army was wiped out outside Hancheng.
The news that the entire army of Jin Yuanshu was annihilated, the Southern Route Army was defeated on the west bank of the Yeesung River, and the news that all the 30,000 reinforcements who went north led by Ah Fan Datu and Zhu Zhi surrendered to the Tang army spread throughout Silla with the messenger sent by Xiao Shou Rudong, the garrison of the Seven Castles, before the city was broken.
Silla lost 110,000 soldiers before and after, and most of the elite soldiers in Silla were still the strongest generals in Silla, and the important places in the lower reaches of the Gunlu River and the Hansan River were lost.
After thinking about it, Sha Yu decided to surrender the city, and secretly sent an envoy out of the city to visit the king of Yan in the Tang army camp and deliver a letter of surrender and allegiance.
"Our old adversary, Sha Yan, is about to surrender!"
Li Yu grabbed Sha Lu's surrender letter with one hand and said with a smile to the generals in the account, for Li Shangdan, Xue Ne and others who defeated Sha Lu in Da'an Mountain and Wugu City two years ago, forcing them to flee overnight, this is undoubtedly a beautiful memory worth boasting about.
"It's a pity that during the ambush of Da'an Mountain, when blocking Sha Yu and retreating, Wang Hu, who was almost killed in battle, left Hokkaido."
Li Yesi was a little emotional, and when it came to the generals from the Yan Wangfu and the Tent Mansion, Wang Hu was the worst, and he was defeated in the battle against the Black Water Spirit, and was demoted by His Royal Highness to Hokkaido to open up the wasteland.
Talking about Wang Hu, Li Shangdan couldn't help but be happy, "I still remember that the crazy tiger has always been angry about the failure to intercept Sha Lu in the battle of Da'an Mountain and let him escape, and vowed to kill Sha Yan in the battle to destroy Silla to wash away his shame and avenge the soldiers who died that day." This time, Sha Yan took the initiative to surrender, and Wang Hunuo came back to find that he had returned to the same dynasty as him, which was a lot of fun. ”
"With Wang Hu's crazy tiger's fierce temper, it is estimated that there will be a fight when I see Sha Yan." Xue Ne also shook his head.
The generals smiled, remembering the past when Wang Hu, who left for Hokkaido, and was with him. To tell the truth, he was far away from the wilderness, and he missed this crazy tiger a little bit when he couldn't see him again.
Li Yu leisurely ordered the attendant to accept Sha Lu's surrender, took a knife to cut the roast deer leg on the food table, cut a piece of meat and put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly. Regarding Wang Hu, who the generals talked about, he smiled and said: "Wang Hu estimates that he will not have a chance to come back in ten years and eight years." ”
The generals were stunned, looked at Li Yu in a daze, and muttered in their hearts: Is His Highness worried about Wang Hu's defeat? Still angry? It would be too ruthless to relegate it to the wilderness for ten or eight years and not let it come back.
Your Highness promises that this is really the case, so won't all the generals who will be defeated in the future end up like Wang Hu?
Thinking of this, the generals had a chilling feeling in their hearts rushing to their limbs.
Xue Ne asked with an unnatural smile: "Your Highness has belittled Wang Hu in Hokkaido for ten or eight years, which is a bit too heavy." ”
Li Yu stopped the knife in his hand, a little strange, where is it heavy? Swallowing the venison in his mouth, he said, "Hokkaido is no smaller than Liaodong, with vast fertile plains and abundant mountains and rivers. Even if we do not develop the whole island in an all-round way, it is not possible to control the whole island with a point control surface, which cannot be done in two or three years. In addition, there is Sakhalin Island to the north of Hokkaido, a series of islands of various sizes to the northeast, and further north there is the country of Ryuki, which was explored by the Gensu Sea Expedition sent last autumn. These three places are to be developed into a place for the descendants of China to reproduce, and it will take several years to establish a city and immigrate to explore. Nuo Wanghu has done well in the development of the North Sea Island, and the task of developing these three places may be entrusted to him. In this case, ten or eight years may not be enough. What's more, to the north of the Wandering Ghost Country, there is an even more vast land......"
Looking at Li Yu's excited expression immersed in expanding his territory in the future, Xue Ne opened his mouth, and finally swallowed the words in his heart.
The generals were even more stunned by Li Yu's ambitious desire to expand the territory, and they didn't reflect it for a long time. I wailed in my heart, Your Highness, we are wrong to blame you, but you are not so enthusiastic about the land, are you?
Hokkaido has traveled far enough, and the generals have not figured out the location of Hokkaido in the northeast overseas in their minds, and His Royal Highness has proposed to continue north from Hokkaido, occupy Sakhalin Island, and then occupy the rarely heard of ghost country, which is not counted, but also go north to occupy the unheard of, even more northern.
PS: Anti-theft chapter, to be revised later
In the afternoon, the people in the city come and go between the two cities, and the streets can be crowded with people and goods. Not to mention that Xiaoyao Drunk and Mingyuexuan rely on exclusive good wine and good food to attract customers, but the usual small restaurants and restaurants are now overcrowded.
Chang'an City, as the largest city in the world, has a population of less than one million, but it is not much worse. As the only legal business place, the east and west cities only live in four squares in the Chang'an City, which is a bit narrow for the Tang Dynasty, Tiannan and Haibei, and the merchants from the surrounding countries gather in Chang'an.
Although there are small commercial establishments in each district, they are only a simple way to provide the living needs of the residents living in the district, and it is far from being comparable to the status of the eastern and western cities.