Chapter 527: Stormy oppression
The second echelon led by Wang Xuance was finally late on the eighth day after Huang Hui and their arrival, because the previous delay in the arrival of the ship was too long, so that the return time was delayed by nearly a day.
This was the last urgent increase in manpower to ensure that the fleet could reach Island 2 before dark, otherwise it would take another day.
"Huh!" After listening to Huang Hui and Liu Ju's reports, Wang Xuance just sighed and never made any other comments.
Now that this is the case, what else is there to say?
Training?
What kind of soldiers are you training?
At most, this can be regarded as a long-distance training, and at most it will test whether the expeditionary force can adapt after two and a half days of sailing.
As for the battle, forget it, how long has it been since the landing?
The first division directly swept the area with the wharf as the center and a radius of fifty miles, and everywhere it went, it was as easy as an eagle catching a chicken, this was not a battle, but a hurry, looking at the scenery.
Of course, the most depressed were the other divisions.
The First Division has landed according to the plan, but what about them?
Build a dock, and that's it......
Are you here for a tour?
Wang Xuance expected that there was no pressure in this battle, and he also knew that with the strength of the Tang army, the other party would have no power to fight back.
Even if only one first division is sent, it will be two months at most, and this place will be completely wiped out.
It is precisely because of this that Wang Xuance formulated such a plan to find an opponent who is not strong to train his troops.
There is always a sequence in everything, Jeju is only the first step, and the next one is Baekje, which is slightly stronger than Jeju.
Then, it is to attack Goguryeo from the north and south, and if it is not enough, it can also send a force from the sea to storm in, as long as it can bloom everywhere, Goguryeo has nothing to fear.
Wang Xuance understood the reasons for the failure of Emperor Yang of Sui's three expeditions to Goguryeo, and all of them were defeated by the complex terrain of Goguryeo.
The Sui army is strong, but the baggage can't be transported, which also leads to the fact that the Sui army can't attack farther away, and can only be trapped in one place, while Goguryeo can use the terrain advantage to fight guerrilla warfare with the Sui army, fighting locally, the advantage is naturally greater than the Sui army, and if it drags on for a few months, the Sui army will not be able to stand it, and if it can drag on for a year or two, the Sui army will definitely collapse directly.
These countries, plus a Yamato, this is a complete training program, a training step from weak to strong, as long as it can be completed, then this expeditionary force under his command will be invincible.
"The second division, advancing to the west, the third division advancing to the east, leaving one regiment in the first division, and the remaining two regiments going directly south." After understanding the current situation, Wang Xuance directly ordered.
He has realized that it is obviously unreliable to use Jeju to train troops, and since he can't train soldiers, then the previous plan should be abandoned.
Take control of the whole of Jeju as quickly as possible, then speed up Tunjeon, gather strength, and be ready to attack Baekje at any time.
And now in this situation, there is no need for the Tang Army to leave reserves or anything.
There are still twenty warships patrolling the sea, they can wipe out Baekje's reinforcements on the sea, and the enemy on land is not the opponent of the Tang army at all, and it will only be a waste of more time to continue to consume.
And what should have been done before, Yoo Ju has already done for him, although the cost is a little bigger, but it is better than stability, and it is better to be able to help them win the hearts and minds of Jeju.
This is very important, and at the same time, it also allows Liu Ji to add some points to Wang Xuance's heart.
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With the input of the second and third divisions, the Tang Army's control area increased exponentially, and it was conservatively estimated that it could advance a distance of more than 60 miles every day.
That is to say, on the afternoon of the second day after Wang Xuance gave the order, before sunset, the two regiments sent out by the 1st Division had already seen the Pacific Ocean opposite.
And by the fourth day, the 2nd Division had already converged with the 1st.
On the morning of the sixth day, the 3rd Division also joined up with the 1st and 2nd Divisions.
Up to now, the whole of Jeju has been completely dismantled by three divisions, and the communication between these areas has been almost completely cut off.
After all, the width of Jeju from north to south is only more than 70 li, and the width from east to west is only more than 150 forces, and the scope is so large, with more than 30,000 people in three divisions, with battalions as units, it can be quickly pierced.
In the back, in order to speed up the control of Jeju, two companies were used as units, separated by a distance of twenty miles, and a company was placed in the middle as an echo.
And on the morning of the ninth day after the 2nd and 3rd divisions were put into battle, two divisions of the third echelon also arrived.
A small Jeju Island has hoarded more than 50,000 elite Tang troops, and the number of troops is half of the number of troops on the entire Jeju Island, which is not a joke.
It was only at this time that Shaqiri and others truly realized the seriousness of the problem.
"We overestimated the will of the Tamna people to resist, and we also overestimated our influence and control over Tamna." Shaqiri and the others, who were hiding like rats crossing the street, discussed in a low voice in a dim wood.
The army is gone, they throw away their weapons, put on ordinary clothes, and pretend to be ordinary people here.
The plan is good, Shaqiri hopes to take advantage of the resistance of the Tamna people to arouse the anger of the Tang army, so as to launch revenge against the Tamna people, and then completely introduce the Tang army here, and get trapped here, so that at least Baekje's temporary safety can be guaranteed.
This is a good idea, but as Shaqiri said, they overestimate the will of the Tamna people to resist, and overestimate their influence and control over Tamna.
In the same way, the means of the Tang Army were too underestimated.
The smooth sailing in the past made them accustomed to the life of the emperor here, so that they forgot their estrangement from the Tamna people, and their crazy plundering made the Tamna people, who could have been self-sufficient, even have a famine.
And at this time, they even hoped that the Tamna people would send their lives to help Baekje attract the wrath of the Tang army.
Tamna has been affiliated with Baekje for 300 years, and the Eight Great Families have controlled Tamna for decades, but it only took more than ten days for the Tang Army to completely smash the Eight Great Families' decades of operation here.
At this moment, in the eyes of the representatives of the eight major families, apart from panic, the rest is only helplessness and worry, and there is no way.
"The Tang army is obviously prepared to send 50,000 troops here in less than a month, and according to the distance between here and Baekje, they have the ability to send these 50,000 troops to Baekje itself within seven days, and now, we have lost control of Tamna, lost the hearts of the Tamna people, and it is no longer feasible to rely on the Tamna people to make trouble behind their backs." Shaqiri continued, carefully analyzing the current situation.
And they have no capital to continue, and the 50,000 Tang army only needs less than ten days to completely turn over Tamna, and they have no place to escape.
The pressure on them from the Tang army was too great, and the Baekje army was as small as the dwarf ants in front of them.
"The army should not have been disbanded, and now we have lost everything, even the qualification to talk to the Tang Army." Yan Ji looked at Shaqiri with some unhappiness, although he had a high status, it was he who brought them to this point, and couldn't help but complain.
The other people's feelings are similar to Yan Ji, disbanding the army means that they have lost the last right to speak, if it weren't for the fact that there are still a hundred people around them, controlling the Gao Hou family, the current situation is really hard to say.
Of course, the situation is not good.
The 50,000 Tang troops landed in Tamna, and it was only a matter of time before they were lost, and it was only a matter of time before they were pulled out.
"If you don't disband, do you want to bring the war to the mainland? Once we resist, the anger of the Tang Emperor will definitely be transferred to us, and even if we resist, what can we do? What role can a thousand people play? Facing the Tang Army, which was armed to the teeth, the soldiers could only be sent to death in vain.
Only if we don't resist, or even pretend that we have never appeared here, can we not give the Tang Emperor any reason to attack our homeland, do you really think that we can stop the attack of these 50,000 Tang troops? Shaqiri glared at the others and scolded the idiots.
But now is not the time to get angry, they have already missed the last chance, if they don't come up with an idea, I'm afraid that even they will be trapped here and become prisoners of the Tang people.
"Now, we only have two choices, one is to leave here and find a way to leave, the other is to kill the Gao Hou family and stay incognito, and when the Tang army attacks the mainland, we will gather the disbanded army to cause trouble and completely disrupt their rear."
"Leave, of course, get out of here."
"Yes, before leaving, you can kill the Gao Hou family and blame it on the Tang people, in this case, the Tamna people should always turn against the Tang people, right?"
'These shameless fellows...... Shaqiri cursed secretly, but there was nothing he could do but scold.
The best choice should be the latter, so that it can help the local resistance to the Tang army at a critical moment.
The former, on the other hand, needs to leave the Baekje army completely behind and leave them to fend for themselves, obviously, without the command of the Baekje army, the chances of being discovered will be very high, and it is still unknown how many will survive in the end.
But the difference between the two is that the former can ensure its own safety to the greatest extent, but it needs to abandon this multiple lives.
The latter is more strategically significant, but it is possible to lose his own life, and killing the Gao Hou family is to hide their identity.
But these short-sighted, timid guys chose the most shameless plan.
Everyone chose the former, and Shaqiri couldn't change it, and he couldn't support the whole Tamna alone.
He was thinking about it for a long time, and then he spoke: "If you choose the former, the Gao Hou family can't be killed, and it will be helpful for us to keep them to fight with the Tang people." ”