Chapter 57 4 A fire in the backyard

Wang Hanxin immediately adjusted his deployment after sensing the possibility of Goryeo reinforcements approaching, although he did not know the number of Goryeo reinforcements at that time, and did not know who led the army, but with the instinct of fighting, Wang Hanxin sensed danger. Therefore, he immediately divided the army into two groups and sneaked to the southwest, and at the same time sent a dozen cavalry to move around to blind the enemy's sight, Wang Hanxin's purpose was to get closer to the Oushan landing point, and then act according to the enemy's action decision. After all, the intelligence information of the army of the Silk Country behind enemy lines is very poor, and the Tiger Guard Battalion can do this step today, to a large extent, it depends on Wang Hanxin's intuition, or his shit luck.

While sneaking south, Wang Hanxin gathered intelligence. When he learned that Lu Xuan did not continue to search for his whereabouts, but went all the way south, Wang Hanxin immediately understood that he was going to Gaoding. After learning Gao Dingbian's action route, Wang Hanxin was scared into a cold sweat, based on the same reason as Lu Xuan, Wang Hanxin sensed the danger, and naturally Wang Hanxin also saw the value of the old badger's mouth, so he ordered most of the people to stand by to keep the road to Oushan unblocked, and he led a thousand light horsemen to attack the old badger's mouth.

Later generations of war historians unanimously believe that Wang Hanxin's ability to seize the old badger's mouth one step ahead of Li Meng is definitely a shit luck. This statement is not far from the truth, but it ignores an important issue, that is, Wang Hanxin's cavalry rode well-trained war horses, and each soldier had two horses to change with each other, which gave full play to the mobility of the cavalry. This also fully reflects the power gap between the Goryeo Kingdom and the Silk Kingdom, which is the final decider of the victory or defeat of the two countries.

There are also historians who mistakenly believe that in this battle, if Wang Hanxin did not defend desperately. Then Gao Dingbian will be surrounded by Lu Xuan in the mouth of the old badger, this statement is untenable. Because Gao Dingbian was already aware of the danger at that time. It's just that after he sent troops to seize the old badger's mouth, Wang Hanxin rushed to the battlefield first, and as a result, this battle evolved into Li Meng's nearly 1,000 people attacking the old badger's mouth with more than 1,000 troops.

Lu Xuan's siege network had failed before it could be deployed.

However, Wang Hanxin and Gao Dingbian were not very happy, and after barely escaping from Lu Xuan's encirclement, the two gathered together again to analyze the current battle situation: Lu Xuan's cavalry followed, and Cheng Yun's infantry brigade had also been deployed on the south bank of the Qingchuan River, and it would be very difficult to continue the raid between the two armies. Unless they can defeat one of them, but doing so will inevitably cause heavy casualties, which they cannot accept. Moreover, the Tiger Guard Battalion suffered heavy casualties after the first battle of Wild Bear Ridge, and a considerable part of the current troops are newly recruited soldiers, and their combat ability cannot be compared with the previous elite soldiers, and it is obviously not possible to fight hard.

Judging from the results of the plunder, due to the heavy losses caused by the harassment and warfare for two consecutive years, the people on the south bank of the Cheongchon River reacted much more quickly, although it was the first time that they were plundered by the Silk Country. They quickly scattered and fled, and most of the food was hidden, so the Tiger Guard Battalion really didn't have more time for them to consume, plus it was winter. It was difficult to replenish the forage for the horses, and the small amount of looting had already caused a burden on the supply of the troops. Therefore, the two decided to take the initiative to retreat before the Goryeo army marched to Ousan, after all, this operation had already disrupted most of the area south of the Cheongchon River. also burned the grain and grass in Suzhou City, which was worth the trip.

In view of the fact that Wang Hanxin has been running for many days. Gao Dingbian asked Wang Hanxin to return to Oushan to organize boarding of the ship first, and cut off the rear himself. Wang Hanxin did not shirk. Immediately led a group of men and horses to Oushan.

As soon as Wang Hanxin arrived in Oushan, he found that something big had happened in Oushan.

It turned out that in the past few days of his own actions, Zheng Menglong has been presiding over the construction and reinforcement of Oushan and Lu villages, and the Oushan village has been quite large-scale, but at this time, the news of a large-scale attack by the Goryeo naval army came.

Since the Goryeo Navy was greatly injured in the First Battle of Wuhuhai, it did not dare to fight head-on with the Navy. However, in the past few years, the Goryeo Navy has not relaxed the pace of reconstruction, and so far, although the Goryeo Navy has not been able to return to its pre-war size, it has also reached 60% of the original number of ships.

However, these naval forces are mainly small ships, and there is a lack of large combat ships, and even if there are large ships, they cannot be compared with the ships of the Silk Country. This time, the commander of the Goryeo navy, Liu Naishun, was only thirty-three years old, and this talented young general was once favored by the commanders of the Goryeo navy, and they all agreed that this man could become the supreme commander of the Goryeo navy after the age of forty. Thanks to Zheng Menglong, a large number of officers of the Goryeo Navy died on the battlefield, which allowed Liu Naishun to quickly raise his head and serve as the commander of the Goryeo Navy at the age of thirty-three.

In the face of the enemy's massive attack, Zheng Menglong did not panic - the combat power of his fleet was enough to be proud of the entire Goryeo Kingdom. On the contrary, the attack of the Goryeo army stimulated Zheng Menglong's battle**. Originally, his mission this time was to transport the cavalry of the Tiger Guard Battalion to fight deep behind enemy lines, but Zheng Menglong knew in his heart that Goryeo's national strength had begun to fail, and the Liaodong Army would soon launch a full-scale war against Goryeo, and if Goryeo failed, then his task as a naval army general would end. Now that the Goryeo Navy has taken the initiative to send it to the door, isn't it a pie in the sky to send him a credit? For this reason, Zheng Menglong decided to seize the opportunity given to him by fate and destroy the last main force of the Goryeo naval army here in one fell swoop.

After making up his mind, Zheng Menglong lined up his formation: he arranged the main force of his fleet in a zigzag formation, and with the advantage of quantity and quality, he put on a semi-encirclement posture and pressed towards the approaching Goryeo naval army.

If the Goryeo naval army is brave and good at fighting, it will never lose to Zheng Menglong's naval army, but unfortunately the water war can not be won by being brave and good at fighting alone. In the face of Zheng Menglong's impeccable fleet linkage and the powerful combat power of the Silk Country fleet, the Goryeo naval army was quickly defeated. Zheng Menglong led the navy to brave the wind and waves, divided the front of the Goryeo navy to the fullest, and buried the Goryeo ships into the sea one by one, and the Goryeo navy endured the wanton destruction of the enemy army and retreated to the rear with difficulty. It took two full days and three nights for the tenacious Goryeo navy to get rid of Zheng Menglong's pursuit, and the newly formed Goryeo navy lost seventy percent of its ships in this battle.

However, this is exactly the result that Liu Naishun of the Goryeo Navy wanted, and he successfully led Zheng Menglong's main force to the south of Oushan Fortress for two and a half days at the cost of his own heavy casualties.

When Wang Hanxin arrived at Oushan, the main ship group of the Goryeo Navy was less than 30 miles away from Oushan Water Village, and the ships in Oushan Water Village were only small boats used to transport soldiers, grain ships, a small number of medium-sized ships, and two loach ships repaired in the village due to serious water leakage. (To be continued......)