In order to find out the situation of the Silla army that went north to support Goguryeo, Li Yu sent hundreds of elite scouts scattered in the east and south of Pyongyang, lurking and reconnoitring in various major roads, and finally learned of the Silla military situation. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

According to the scouts, it is estimated that there were 20,000 soldiers and horses in Silla going north, and it was enough to threaten Pyongyang from the south.

Li Shangdan led his army to Pyongyang, and Gao Kan and Li Jinxing's troops went to 80 miles north of Pyongyang.

Li Yu ordered Zhang Shi to lead the Yanyun Iron Cavalry Right Guard Army and Chaos to defend the hills northeast of Pyongyang to pull out Han Shicheng, and Qin Jingqian and Qin Tong brothers led the Beihai Iron Cavalry Left Guard Army and the Pingyi Army to advance upstream along the Hunshui River to Bamayi City. It lasted two days and annihilated nearly 10,000 enemies.

The two cities were immediately down, and the threat to the northeast of Pyongyang and the safety of the Tang army's rear roads were lifted, Li Yu immediately led the army out of Pyongyang to Baishui City, and Zhang Shi and Qin Jingqian led the army to Baishui City to converge.

For a time, the Tang army under Baishui City waved its flags, which shocked the Goguryeo defenders in the city.

Jian Mu Cen ascended the city and overlooked the Tang army camp more than ten miles away, his face was extremely gloomy. The two cities of Han Shi and Mayi were lost, with nearly 10,000 soldiers, and the Tang army occupied Pyongyang lost all its geographical and military superiority, and its own strength was also severely hit. If the Tang army is surrounded by Baishui City, it will be too late.

In the Tang Army camp outside Baishui City, dozens of generals of the Twelve Guards under Li Yu sat in Li Yu's Chinese army tent.

"Your Highness, Baishui City is right now, and you should take it as soon as the Silla army arrives." Li Yesi proposed.

"Your Highness, the last general is willing to lead the White Tiger Guard to attack the city first and test the city defense of the Goguryeo army."

The generals enthusiastically pleaded for the army to attack the city first, Li Yu smiled and raised his hand to press down, signaling the generals to be quiet, and said: "Our army does not need to rush to attack when the army is approaching the city, it is the best policy to rest and recuperate first." ”

Seeing that the decisive battle was imminent, Li Yu was quite confident that he would no longer be so eager to launch an attack, and after waiting for a day or two, Gao Kan and Li Jinxing's troops would be able to rush to the battlefield in preparation for the Silla army that would appear at any time, and Li Yu would be able to go all out to attack Mou Cen.

The generals who have been with Li Yu for several years know his mind better, and seeing that Li Yu is not in a hurry to attack, he will not bother to speak.

The Goguryeo army and the Tang army confronted each other under Baishui City, Baishui City was a small city after all, and tens of thousands of troops could not be stationed in the city, so more than half of Jian Mu Cen's soldiers and horses were camped close to Baishui City, and the two armies faced each other more than ten miles apart.

On the surface of the Yellow Sea southwest of Pyongyang, 30 flat-bottomed tankers flying the banner of the Datang Yanwangfu Jiaolong Maritime Navigation Osprey are heading for Pyongyang.

The tanker was loaded with 18,000 stone of military rations needed by Li Yu's tens of thousands of troops in January, as well as 600 stone of cured meat and fish, as well as some ordnance.

The fleet departed from Yueju in the south of the Yangtze River, and then sailed to Qingnipu in Liaodong as planned, and when Li Yu entered Pyongyang after arriving in Dengzhou, he ordered the trough fleet to transfer Pyongyang and transport it to Pyongyang from the mouth of the sea to Pyongyang.

In charge of leading this fleet was Zhang Qin, from the prominent Wu County Zhang clan of the Southern Dynasty, and since the Hou Jing Rebellion, the Zhang clan, like other Jiangnan families, was massacrated by Hou Jing and declined. By the time of the Sui and Tang dynasties, almost no one from the Zhang family of Wu County entered the court as an official, and Zhang Qin's house was engaged in maritime trade for three generations, and later suffered heavy losses due to typhoons when taking sea trade.

At the time when Yan Wangfu founded Jiaolong HNA in Hangzhou to engage in maritime trade, the desperate Zhang Qin recruited Jiaolong HNA as the head of a fleet by virtue of his many years of overseas trade.

Zhang Qin was in charge of transporting the grain purchased by Jiaolong HNA from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to Liaodong, and now it has been diverted to Pyongyang. All the way from Dengzhou, Zhang Qin was very fortunate that the sea was calm and calm. In the past, the end of summer was a typhoon-prone season, and it was very easy for ships to go out and kill people when they were sailing at sea.

Typhoons are frequent in summer and autumn in East Asia, and when Li Yu launched his attack, it was the typhoon season, so he had a planned navigation route for Yanwang. In order to avoid the loss of typhoons caused by the Jiaolong Naval Fleet's transportation of grain and grass from Jiangnan to Liaodong, it was clearly stipulated that it should stick to the coastline to Dengju, then follow the islands between the SD Peninsula and the Liaodong Peninsula to Liaodong, and then go to Pyongyang along the coastline of Liaodong.

This route can not only dock in time to avoid ship destruction and death, but also avoid the Silla sailors to ensure safety.

In the previous life, Silla attacked more than 70 Tang Cao ships, and the Marquis of Lang and 100 soldiers were captured, and I don't know how many soldiers died in the sea. The road to the Tang Governor's Mansion was cut off, thus delaying the movement of the Tang army. Taking advantage of this gap, Silla continued to attack the ancient provincial capital of Baekje, Garinseong and other places, and the forces of Xue Rengui and Heizhi Chang were defeated and retreated to the Tang Dynasty, and Silla captured the Xiongjin Governor's Mansion.

This time, Zhang Qin did not follow this route according to the regulations of King Yan, and this was the first time he led a fleet to transport military rations from the south to Liaodong. In order to leave an image of his ability in front of King Yan, he decided to take a dangerous path and sailed northeast from Dengju to the sea from the Yellow Sea to the waters near Pyongyang. The typhoon that Zhang Qin feared along the way did not appear, which made him happy and ambitious.

I think that back then, the Zhang clan of Wujun was a prominent family in the south of the Yangtze River, followed Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty to rise with military exploits, and after three dynasties, he controlled the military power of the DPRK and China and ascended to the extreme. If it weren't for Emperor Wu of Liang's mediocrity that caused the Hou Jing Rebellion, his Wujun Zhang family would now be the number one among the world's wealthy families. It's a pity that in the Hou Jing Rebellion, most of the Zhang clan were killed, so that the Wang clan declined.

Zhang Qin has been in Jiaolong HNA since he entered Jiaolong, and after several years of observation in it, especially this year, Yan Wang's soldiers sent Liaodong, and his plan is not small. For Zhang Qin, a former son of a wealthy family, he hoped to seize the big tree of King Yan and revitalize the Zhang clan of Wu County just as his ancestors followed Emperor Wu of Song.

He ventured across the Yellow Sea and transported grain and grass to Pyongyang in a short period of time, just to show his talent in front of King Yan in the hope that it would be reused.

But Zhang Qin was only a maritime merchant before, and although he learned a lot of knowledge passed down from the ancestors of the former wealthy families since he was a child, he did not know enough about the situation in Andong at this time. Datang's tank fleet sails in the eastern waters of the Yellow Sea, and in addition to natural disasters such as typhoons, there are other dangers.

After four days at sea, the crew of the entire fleet was a little tired, and Zhang Qin came out of his cabin and looked at the sea, full of ambition and confidence in the upcoming future.

"Chief Guest, I saw a small boat haunting my fleet before, and after following it for a while, it left." Zhang Mao, who was at the helm, said.

Zhang Qin didn't care and said: "It may be that the fishing boats nearby have never seen the world, and they are curious to see such a large group of ships like ours appear nearby, so they don't have to care." ”

"Oh, well!" Zhang Mao replied with some uncertainty, looking at the direction where the boat disappeared, and his heart was always up and down.

"A large number of ships are coming towards us in front of you!"

Zhang Qin saw the coastline of the Korean Peninsula appear in front of him, and the bow sailor suddenly shouted. Zhang Qin rushed to the right side of the ship and looked into the distance, and dozens of ships were coming straight towards them, and the speed was extremely fast, only a dozen miles away from the fleet.

"The captain of that fleet is not good, we should hurry away." Zhang Mao rushed up and asked eagerly.

"Maybe they just happened to meet us, so why should you be nervous."

"When two fleets meet at sea, it is impossible for one to sail in the direction of the other and chase the other side all the way, only pirates or Silla sailors who are hostile to the Tang Dynasty." Zhang Mao's eyes were anxious, and his voice became a little louder.

"Alright, tell the ships to speed up." Zhang Qin was a little scared in his heart, as Zhang Mao said, he was still cautious for safety.

There were seventy or eighty ships rushing towards Zhang Qin's fleet, and when the distance between the two fleets was only a few miles, Zhang Qin and the others finally saw clearly who the other party was—the Silla Naval Division.

The other side was all blue and blue warships, flying the Silla battle flag, and the Silla sailors on the ship were shouting and cheering at Zhang Qin. The speed of the Silla warship increased even more, and the distance between the two sides was narrowed closer, and Zhang Qin could see the faces of the soldiers on the other ship with the naked eye.

Zhang Qin couldn't do it if he wasn't in a hurry, and the Silla sailor was obviously not good, and kept urging the helmsman to hurry up. However, its fleet is a flat-bottomed tank ship produced in Jiangsu and Zhejiang dedicated to transporting goods, which is suitable for sailing at sea but very slow, where can it compare with the speed of the Silla warship.

Seeing that it was only a few miles to the coast, he was forced to be picked up by the Silla sailors. Jang Qin's fleet was rammed by sturdy Silla naval ships, and ten ships were sunk on the spot. The Silla sailors kept shooting arrows at them and throwing canisters of fire and oil, and the entire tank fleet suddenly burst into flames, and the sailors who were not dead on the ship jumped into the sea to escape, and were shot by the Silla sailors with arrows, and I don't know how many could survive!

Zhang Qintan sat on the deck and wanted to cry without tears, thirty trough ships full of military rations were destroyed in one fell swoop, not to mention that he was appreciated by seeing King Yan in front of him, and now I am afraid that he will be cut off without even seeing King Yan's face.

"Jump into the sea, Boss."

Zhang Mao saw that the tank fleet was destroyed by Silla, and the ship was about to jump into the sea when he saw Zhang Qintan sitting on the deck, hurriedly rushed over and took his hand, and jumped into the sea with a pop.