Chapter 203: Defeat of Hanyang
When Cheng Yanjin met Sheng Yanshi in Pyongyang, he was about to send someone to send an expedited military report to Cheng Yanjin. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
It turned out that Liang Shitai led 10,000 Dengzhou elites and a group of soldiers who were trapped in the formation to pursue the fleeing Gao Yuan; At first, it was smooth sailing, and the guards of Goguryeo Pass City encountered either fled or surrendered the city; They followed all the way to Hanyang.
Hanyang was the second largest city in Goguryeo, and in order to deal with Baekje and Silla, an army of 50,000 troops was stationed here and was garrisoned by the Goryeo general Wang Zhao.
This period became the Three Kingdoms period on the Korean Peninsula, similar to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the Central Plains. To the northwest, Goguryeo was the most powerful of the Wei Wu Cao Cao counterpart, occupying a large amount of territory in Baekje and Silla. Baekje is somewhat similar to Soochow, with developed maritime transportation and Silla equivalent to Western Shu, and although the two countries have differences and have been at war, they have the same goal against Goguryeo and maintain a weak balance.
The battle of Yangsan caused Goguryeo to be defeated and almost destroyed; Although Gao Yuan escaped, he was seriously injured and was in a dying state; It's already a long time to breathe. Lai Cheng also sent people to lobby the two countries, asking them to attack Goguryeo together and divide their land equally.
Silla had been in a wait-and-see state, but the king of Baekje, who was also the king of Mu, Buyeo Jang, readily agreed, and then summoned the eight nobles of the Sha clan, the Yan clan, the Jang clan, the Xie clan, the Jin clan, the Guo clan, the Mu clan, and the Su clan to gather an army of 50,000 to prepare to go north and attack the Goguryeo army of Hanyang with Yangsan.
When Goguryeo was at its most difficult, all the ministers panicked and did not pay attention, and Gao Yuan, the king of Pingyang, was unconscious again, when a 13-year-old child stood up; He is the late eldest son of Lu Yuan Taizuo, Yuan Gai Suwen.
Yuangai Suwen volunteered to send an envoy to Baekje to persuade Buyeo Zhang and help him to deal with the Great Sui together. These people really couldn't think of a way, so they had to pin their last hope on this 13-year-old child.
When Yuangai Suwen arrived in Baekje, he saw Buyeo Zhang, and first played the family card, starting from the ancestors of the two countries, telling that the two countries are of the same root and origin, and they are both descendants of Jumeng; We should support each other, and we can't do things that hurt relatives and make enemies happy.
Then he began to tell about the brutality and insatiable greed of the Sui Dynasty, and recounted the truth of the cold lips and teeth. In the end, he made a promise that after defeating the Sui Dynasty, Goguryeo would be willing to respect Baekje as his brother and attack Silla with Baekje, and the land of Silla would be returned to his brother.
I don't know if it was really persuaded, or if Emperor Yang of Sui was greedy and brutal and the daimyo really scared Baekje; Buyeo Zhang really agreed to fight against the Great Sui with Goguryeo.
Yongai Suwen returned to Hanyang with 50,000 reinforcements and was warmly welcomed by the ministers of Goguryeo. However, Yuangai Su Wenli defied public opinion and did not let the Baekje army show up, but let them hide in Namsan Mountain; He asked Gao Jianwu to lead the remaining Goguryeo soldiers to resist the Sui army.
Gao Jianwu and Lai Cheng were defeated as soon as they came into contact, they abandoned Seoul and continued to flee, Lai Cheng and Liang Shitai did not suspect fraud, and led the army to chase closely.
As soon as they passed Nanshan, Baekje's ambush troops rose up, and Gao Jianwu also led people to turn around and kill back; Only then did he and Liang Shitai know the plan; hurriedly led people to rush back to kill; They fought from morning to night, and then into the morning, charging the enemy several times, and finally their men were almost dead, and finally they fought their way out of the encirclement.
In this battle, only more than 1,000 people from the more than 10,000 troops in Liangshan came out, and even the chief manager Lai was seriously injured. The combined forces of Goguryeo and Baekje were still chasing after them, and Liang Shitai had to lead his troops and the seriously wounded Lai Cheng all the way back to the Xiongjin fortress to defend it.
This battle report made Cheng Yanjin take a beat, and he quickly ordered Zhang Ding to lead the Sui army from Zhushui to support Xiongjin, and he himself didn't care about staying in Pyongyang for longer, so he led the army to go straight to Xiongjin to rescue.
When Cheng Biting Jin and his people came to Xiongjin, Zhang Ding's reinforcements had arrived, and they and Liang Shitai should cooperate with each other, taking advantage of the disagreement between Goguryeo and Baekje, and robbing the camp in the middle of the night to repel the enemy army in one fell swoop, and even the Goguryeo general Wang Zhao and several generals of Baekje were successfully beheaded by Zhang Ding.
Yuan Gai Suwen was secretly annoyed, there was an element of discord among the coalition forces, and it was not caused by his young age?
At this time, news spread in Hanyang, Gao Yuan, the king of Pingyang, died of serious injuries, and Gao Jianwu inherited the throne and was called the king of Rongliu, so that Yuangai Suwen led the troops back to Hanyang to stabilize the situation.
When Yuangai Suwen heard this, he hurriedly returned to Hanyang with a large army, and the siege of Xiongjin was self-defeating; Baekje didn't get any benefit, and went home in disgrace.
"I'm incompetent, please punish the boss!" Lai Cheng and Liang Shitai knelt in front of Cheng Yanjin. Cheng Yanjin hurriedly got up and helped the two of them up, looking at the wrapping like zongzi, Lao Cheng asked him about his injuries.
After the greetings were over, everyone sat down, Cheng Yanjin said to the two: "Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers; The two of you don't have to be overly concerned. Besides, the responsibility for this defeat is not two, and it is because we made a mistake in formulating our strategy.
We only think of Yang Guang's three conquests of Goguryeo, which greatly damaged Goguryeo's strength; How do you know that the 600-year-old great power has its own reason for existence, and our 50,000-strong army wants to destroy Goguryeo.
Even if the battle has reached this point, it will be okay, and it will not be too late for us to go back and accumulate strength to take revenge. ”
The two bowed down again and thanked him, and Cheng Biting Jin said: "Come on, I want to give you another 10,000 men and horses, and let you garrison Xiongjin and fight against Goguryeo, are you willing?" ”
He stood up, but this time he was in a bit of a hurry, pulling the wound and grinning in pain. "I don't dare to ask for it! Please rest assured that I will guard Xiongjin and not let Goguryeo take a step. ”
Cheng Yanjin nodded and smiled: "Okay, let's settle it." However, we can't let Goguryeo and Baekje develop so peacefully and steadily, especially if Goguryeo fights the tiger and does not die, it will hurt people, but we can't let them ease this breath.
I am ready to send people to lobby the country of Silla; Goguryeo and Baekje joining forces is the last thing Silla wants to see, and they have no other way to cooperate with us. I am going to use the Silla Kingdom as the boundary of the Hunsu River and return to them all the 500 li of land that Goguryeo had encroached on them; Then work together against Goguryeo and Baekje.
If you come to garrison Xiongjin, you will have to cooperate well with Silla to curb the development of Goguryeo and Baekje, and when we have our hands free, we are cleaning them up. ”
Lai Cheng hurriedly bowed down and received the order, claiming that he would unite with Silla to fight Goguryeo and Baekje well.
Cheng Yanjin and the others stayed in Xiongjin for a few more days, and when they saw that Laicheng's injuries were basically stable, they left part of the army, and the others returned to Shandong by boat.
Yang Guang led an army of 500,000 to leave Taiyuan and slowly went straight to Yanmen, and at the same time, in the name of Jieli Khan's refusal to pay tribute, he asked Pei Lin to trap and kill Jieli Khan's adviser Shi Shu Huxi.
Jieli Khan was furious when he heard the news, and hundreds of thousands of Turkic troops wanted to attack Yang Guang, and it was Yang Guang's sister Princess Yicheng who sent someone to report to Yang Guang. Emperor Yang of Sui was frightened and hurriedly fled into Yanmen with his 150,000 troops; The rest were forced to flee into forty-one nearby cities.
Jieli Khan then united with Xue Yantuo, Murowei, and Tuyuhun Xingxing to encircle and suppress it, and within a month, forty-one cities were uprooted, and thirty-nine were uprooted. Only Yanmen, where Yang Guang was stationed, and Lao County, where Yang Guang's son Yang Ji, the king of Qi, was stationed, were preserved.
An army of 150,000 suddenly poured into Yanmen City, and the food was only enough for 20 days, and the situation was critical. Yang Guangda regretted holding his young son Zhao Wangguo and crying bitterly, and even his eyes were swollen from crying.
The Minister of Civil and Military Affairs was also divided into two factions, one faction led by Yu Wenhua and advocated leading the elite to break through the siege; However, Su Wei and Fan Zigai suggested rewarding the soldiers and summoning the soldiers around him.
The two parties expressed their opinions and quarreled; In the end, Yang Guang still adopted the opinions of Su Wei and others and decided to defend Yanmen, and he asked people to reward the soldiers heavily; On the one hand, the two tigers Yuwen Chengdu and Li Yuanba broke into the joint camp late at night and sent out the ministers who issued the edict.
Jieli Khan knew that some people in the Sui army had gone out to move troops, so he ordered Xue Yantuo, Murwei, Tuyuhun and his own Turks to surround Yanmen and send people to attack day and night. The Sui Dynasty also had an army of 150,000, coupled with the danger of Yanmen, it was finally defended without danger.
In particular, Li Yuanba and Yuwen Chengdu are two big insects on the battlefield are even more incomprehensible, as long as there is an enemy on the tower, the two of them will rush up, a hammer, boring down, the danger is immediately reduced. It was Timurkin, the number one general of the Turks, who rushed up, and was also smashed into a meatloaf by Li Yuanba's two hammers, and Timurkin's younger brother Timur rushed forward without waiting for Jieli Khan's order to pat the horse.
Timur danced two scimitars and rushed to Yanmen Pass, did not find his brother's murderer Li Yuanba, he angrily screamed in the city for a burst of slashing and killing like no one, and the Sui army that killed retreated again and again.
This can arouse Yuwen Chengdu's anger, and Yuwen Chengdu yelled: "You guys get out of the way for me!" "Then the dancing phoenix wings gilt boring rushed up." When Timur's scimitar almost flew out of his hand, he exclaimed, looked at the man in front of him like the god of war and asked, "Come and get your name!" ”
Yuwen Chengdu snorted coldly and said: "A certain Yuwen Chengdu, don't report the wrong name when you see Lord Yama!" As he spoke, he smashed down with a phoenix winged gilt boring, and Timur was also taken aback when he heard that it was Yuwen Chengdu, and he tried his best to parry.
"Dangdangdang" is four or five rounds, Timur knew that he was not someone's opponent, and quickly ran back. Yuwen Chengdu finally caught a big fish, where was he willing to let him go, and chased after him.
Timur saw that it was too late to climb the ladder, so he jumped from the gate of the wild goose. At this time, the corpses were already piled up under the Yanmen tube; Although the city was tall, Timur slipped and rolled after landing and escaped with his life.