Chapter 311: South to One
After careful inspection by the previously captured Silla generals, the man who took off his armor and clung to the clay pot in the watchtower was Jin Yuanshu, which really made Li Yeji sigh for a while. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info I didn t think that in the fire that lasted for more than three hours yesterday, it was Jin Yuanshu who persevered to the end, and the desperate laughter that lasted for a quarter of an hour now thought about it, and Li Yeji also felt a burst of shock.
After the Tang Army's cleanup, judging from the ruins of the Silla camp and the corpses that were taken away by wild beasts nearby, a total of more than 35,000 dead bodies were cleaned up, plus the casualties of the previous Silla Army were no different from the total number of people who learned about the Silla Northern Route Army this time.
Li Yeji compiled the results of the clean-up into a report and submitted it to Li Yu's case, and after reading it, Li Yu issued an order to bury all the corpses of the Silla army on the spot and build a Jingguan to deter the four emperors. As for the more than 2,000 Silla prisoners of war who were captured, they were all taken to the iron city to work as slave laborers, mining iron ore and coal mines, and working to death.
This time, the Silla Northern Route Army was completely annihilated, and in order to prevent the news from leaking, the Silla Army that was coming to help was retreated. Li Yu sent 3,000 sentinels out to block the news within a radius of more than 30 miles from Seoul, strictly check the passers-by, and only allowed to enter but not leave.
The whole army rested for three days, waited quietly in Seoul for 10,000 Silla reinforcements to arrive, and when they arrived, the whole army went out of the city to defeat them in one fell swoop, and then took advantage of the victory to march south to attack the fortress of Kuniwon.
In this big victory, Li Yu summoned the whole army to discuss the merits and rewards, because he was only the protector of Anton, it was definitely not possible to be knighted, and he could only ask for rewards according to the size of the merits written in the book of the Son of Heaven.
However, Li Yu was completely capable of making decisions about the rewards of money and land, and he rewarded a lot of fertile land in the Seoul Prefecture Governor's Mansion to the soldiers who had meritorious service in battle, and took out 200,000 yuan of money from the government treasury to reward them.
Among the generals, the black tooth Chang has the greatest merit, the most enemies are destroyed, under the two battles, 20,000 enemies were annihilated, and more than 1,000 people were captured, so that Li Yu appreciated it, rewarded 30,000 yuan, and gave 1,000 acres of land.
In this battle, the limelight of the Black Tooth Chang suppressed all the generals of Anton, and the high reward and Li Yu's appreciation undoubtedly made the generals of Andong depressed, and they were not satisfied with the pressure of a mere Baekje general.
For the next battle against the Silla reinforcements, the generals asked for battle, openly and secretly squeezing out the black tooth Changzhi, not wanting to let him make great achievements.
Hei Zhi Chang knew that his limelight was too strong this time, which made Anton generals dissatisfied. When Li Yu asked him if he was willing to lead the army to fight, Heizhi Changzhi wisely said that after these two battles, he was physically and mentally damaged and needed a period of recuperation, shirked his position as a pioneer, and asked Li Yu to choose another good general in the army to take over.
Li Yu knew that he was worried about the jealousy of the generals in the army, so he asked him if he was willing to lead the army to give him a chance to shirk his position as a pioneer. Li Yuhao got off the donkey and chose another general to be the vanguard to lead the battle, taking care of the emotions of other generals.
In order to prevent the Silla Southern Route Army from retreating after learning the news that the Northern Route Army was gone, Li Yu faced obstacles in moving south after annihilating the Silla reinforcements.
Yi Yuli ordered the Yellow Sea Fleet stationed on Ganghwa Island after the annihilation of the western naval division of Silla to blockade the Yeseong River, and not allow Silla to cross the river and return to Silla territory.
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At this time, after several days of rapid marching, 10,000 reinforcements led by Tiancun came to the north bank of the Jaeyeong River, 20 miles northeast of Seoul, and sent out to inform the three waves of messengers that Jin Yuanshu's reinforcements were about to arrive and had not returned.
There was no news of Jin Yuan's army, the military situation under Seoul was unknown, and Tiancun was suspicious that he had troops on the north bank of the Zaining River, and he never gave the order to cross the river.
The generals were puzzled, not knowing what the general was worried about, and came to ask when the army would cross the river to join General Jin.
After arriving at the Ningjiang River, Tiancun has been worried in his heart, and in the face of the generals asking for the date of crossing the river, he had to tell him about his worries, suspecting that Jin Yuanshu would be wiped out by the whole army, so no messenger came five days ago, and the messenger sent to contact him did not return.
As General Tiancun guessed, that big thing was not good, and the generals were also worried. According to the messenger sent by Jin Yuanshu before, the Tang army in Hancheng had no less than 40,000 or 50,000 troops, and Jin Yuanshu was defeated, and they were ordered to set off first for two days, and the 10,000 soldiers and horses became a lone army in depth. It was so close to Seoul that it was likely that the Tang army had already detected their whereabouts and was sending a large army to come.
Many generals had relatives and proposed to withdraw from the army, but this was strongly opposed by hawkish generals.
In their opinion, the situation of Jin Yuanshu's army is not clear, and it is really ridiculous to judge Jin Yuanshu to destroy the whole army and flee immediately just because the messenger sent has not returned. In case Jin Yuanshu's army is currently besieged by the Tang army, and is waiting for our army to go to Liying and Waihe to defeat the Tang army, and our army runs away now, won't it cause Jin Yuanshu's army to die? Who can afford this responsibility?
After some ridicule, the generals who advocated retreat had a look of shame on their faces and no longer said anything about retreating.
After a night of deep thought, Tiancun decided to lead the army across the river to find out, and at the same time sent Pegasus to report that there was a big vomit in the meal dozens of miles away, and there was a change in the front, so he invited his army to come.
Tiancun didn't know that Ah Fan Datu never thought of reinforcing Jin Yuanshu to win the Tang army from the beginning. The reason why he was sent to lead his 10,000 troops to set off first was to exclude him, an unstable factor, from other non-trusted generals in the army, so that he could calmly control the 20,000 army to carry out his plan.
Although in the past ten days, the soldiers and horses led by Ah Fan Datusu had only just arrived in Duogu City, and Haigu was only more than ninety miles from Haigu to Duogu City, and he walked for ten days, which shows the slowness of his march.
The Silla reinforcements paused for a day on the north bank of the Zainyeong River before crossing the river, and Li Yu sneered, presumably because the messenger sent to contact Jin Yuanshu, who had long been turned into ashes, was intercepted and killed by the sentry cavalry and did not go back.
However, this Silla army finally crossed the river, and even if he didn't pass Jiang Li Yu, he had a way to leave it in the Zaunyeong Plain.
The Silla reinforcements crossed the main stream of the Zaonyeong River and entered the inter-river plain between the tributaries, so they could find out the fact that the Jin Yuanshu army was destroyed after crossing the river and crossing the tributaries of the Zaeyeong River for more than 12 miles. (The east-west direction of the Jaeyeong River is the main stream, and the north-south direction is close to Seoul is the tributary, and the hill on which the Kim Yuanshu army camped is on the west bank of the tributary)
Li Yu immediately mobilized the troops and horses that had been rested long ago to encircle the 10,000 Silla reinforcements.
With Qin Jingqian as the commander and Li Wenbai as the deputy, he led the Beihai Iron Cavalry to bypass the northeast of Seoul, cross the river from the intersection of the main stream and tributaries of the Zaining River and enter the inter-river area, and copy the back road of the Silla army.
Li Yu took Zhang Shi as the vanguard and put the Qilinwei and Zhendong Army under his command as the vanguard of the first wave of attacks on Silla reinforcements.
Its soldiers and horses were led by Li Yu himself, with Xue Ne as the deputy commander of the whole army to assist him in coordinating the whole army.
The location of the decisive battle was chosen by Li Yu on the plain on the northwest side of the hill where the Jin Yuan Shu army was annihilated, which was only two miles away from the tributaries of the Zaining River. Li Yuke led the Chinese army to be stationed on the west side of this place, and originally built a camp on the hill on the west side of Jin Yuanshu during the confrontation with Jin Yuanshu.
Garrisoned on this mountain, Li Yu can directly overlook the vast plain to the east, and the battlefield below the mountain will also be in full view.