Chapter 28 2 March to Anju

The arrival of Yi Yong changed the situation on the battlefield, but unfortunately the situation on the battlefield did not change in favor of the Goryeo army.

It stands to reason that although Li Yong fell into Chang Miao's ambush and suffered heavy losses, the troops at hand still had more than 13,000 people, but these people were theoretically defeated and exhausted after a long journey, and their combat effectiveness had been greatly reduced.

However, Li Yong's sudden arrival still caused some confusion for Huwei. Xue Boren immediately ordered to retreat, and unlike the soldiers, he had already understood that Li Yong must be defeated and retreated, and he would definitely not be able to hold it for a long time, and the defeated and fleeing troops might instead crush Lu Xuan's troops who still had the will to fight. However, the premise of all this was that his Tiger Guard Battalion was not defeated by the other party before the other party collapsed, so Xue Boren decisively ordered to retreat. This order to retreat had another consequence at the same time, as a result of which the collapse of the Goryeo army was accelerated.

The person responsible for this result is Wang Hanxin. When he received the order to retreat, he was fighting against Lu Xuan with Gao Dingbian, and the two cooperated tacitly with one knife and one gun, forcing Lu Xuan to only parry and not fight back. Hearing the order to retreat at this moment, Wang Hanxin was unhappy in his heart, but the military order was difficult to disobey, and Wang Hanxin did not dare to disobey. Taking advantage of Gao Ding's kung fu to force Lu Xuan to jump out of the circle, Wang Hanxin secretly found a fire gun and shot at Lu Xuan!

Lu Xuan suddenly saw the flash of fire in front of him and knew that something was wrong, and at the critical moment, he turned his head sideways, only feeling that his mouth was hot. The iron pellet shot through the mouth, shattered the front teeth and pierced through the cheeks! The force of the impact nearly broke his neck. Lu Xuan almost never fell off his horse, but fortunately he was a skilled horseman. Desperately clamped the horse's belly so that it didn't fall, snorted in pain, and walked away in the saddle.

Lu Xuan's departure, the morale of the Goryeo army suddenly fell to the bottom, and the originally cut formation was even more chaotic before it had time to reorganize and was rushed by Li Yong's defeated army, and at this time, Chang Miao's pursuers had also arrived at the battlefield, and the Goryeo army became more and more chaotic. Xue Boren also regrouped his formation and attacked again, which was simply the final blow to the dying Goryeo army, and finally the Goryeo army completely collapsed. Flee for your life. Chang Miao and Xue Boren's soldiers pursued and killed together, and the Goryeo army ambushed the corpses for dozens of miles, and there were discarded weapons and armor along the way. Chang Miao did not stop and pursued all the way, and did not stop until he was less than a hundred miles away from Anzhou City.

Li Yong finally found Lu Xuan, who was seriously wounded, in the chaos of the army, and the two barely collected some remnants of the defeated army and fled into Anzhou City. As soon as I entered the city, I got two pieces of news, one good and one bad. The bad news is that the two generals Che Zhengxian and He Qianbing learned of the withdrawal of the army in the country of Juan, and immediately led the troops in Anzhou City to rush out of the nest and go straight to the turtle city, but they were ambushed by Hua Meng and Zhonghe, He Qianbing was killed by an arrow, and Che Zhengxian was also wounded by an arrow. The department was almost wiped out. The good news is that at the critical moment, this unit was rescued by reinforcements from Hanwen and was finally able to break through.

What surprised the two of them the most was that Anju City was full of Goryeo Army soldiers, and sitting in the main hall of the government was actually Li Chenghui, the commander-in-chief of the Goryeo Army!

The two were surprised and delighted to see Li Chenghui, and hurriedly asked why. It turned out that Chang Miao had left White Wolf Mountain. After handing over the command to the veteran He Ling, Li Chenghui quickly felt that the attack of the Silk Country had changed. Although He Ling still continued Chang Miao's offensive plan, the nuances of actual combat command still did not escape Li Chenghui's eyes.

Soon after, another piece of news came that confirmed Li Chenghui's speculation. Originally, I thought that the enemy general Zhu Tianshun led 20,000 troops to attack Hamgyong Road. In fact, Zhu Tianshun led only 5,000 doubtful soldiers. They made a big stride, pretending to be a large army, although they captured a number of cities along the way. But their size is still revealed.

With these two points, Li Chenghui summoned Han Wen and explained the situation to him. While trying to convince Han Wen to join him on the Western Front, the attack of the Silk Country suddenly began to weaken, and according to the reconnaissance report, the number of stoves in the Silk Country had not changed, and there were obvious signs of withdrawal. From this, Li Chenghui judged that it was indeed possible that the country of silk was ready to withdraw its troops, but it was more likely that it would have sent troops directly to the Western Front, but here he deliberately did not reduce the number of stoves to confuse himself. Therefore, Li Chenghui left Li Meng to garrison White Wolf Mountain, and he rushed to the western front with Han Wen to lead the starry night.

Fortunately, Li Chenghui came in time, just in time for Che Zhengxian's troops to be besieged, Li Chenghui ordered Han Wen to lead the troops to relieve the siege, and he rushed to Anzhou City to prevent losses. In the end, due to the timely arrival of Li Chenghui, Anju City was unharmed, Chang Miao stopped the pursuit after encountering Li Chenghui's outpost troops, and the remnants of Lu Xuan and Li Yong were finally able to regroup in Anju City, and the focus of Goryeo's defense was adjusted to the western front. Although Chang Miao used strategy to conquer Dingzhou City, he faced the heavily guarded Anzhou City.

The two sides once again fell into a standoff on the front line of Anzhou City.

This time, the direction to break the deadlock appeared at sea, and Zheng Menglong's sailors annihilated the Goryeo sailors near Niuli Island.

Long before Chang Miao attacked White Wolf Mountain, Zheng Menglong's sailors had already set out from Uiju City and advanced south, but soon after their departure, they discovered the Goryeo sailors.

This time, the Goryeo Navy Division mobilized all the warships and all the civilian ships that could be requisitioned to form a large fleet to resist the Juanno Kuni Navy Division. But this sailor only has the advantage of quantity, and in terms of quality, it is very different from Zheng Menglong's sailor. Therefore, the Goryeo sailors relied on the line of Niuli Island, Gorge Island, and Gray Island, and used the islands and complex hydrological conditions there to block Zheng Menglong's sailors.

For this reason, Zheng Menglong fought more than ten consecutive battles with the Goryeo naval division, and all of them were defeated.

On the surface, Zheng Menglong lost more than ten games in a row, which greatly boosted the morale of the Goryeo sailors, but in fact, Zheng Menglong's losses were not large, and after more than a dozen water battles, he only lost a total of six small warships. Zheng Menglong had no intention of winning these battles, and he used these dozen battles to find out the topography and hydrological conditions of this island, and also found out the level of military equipment and training equipment of the Goryeo Naval Division. After everything was ready, Zheng Menglong launched a large-scale attack unhurriedly.

In this water battle, the Goryeo naval division lost its geographical advantage, and the formation they put out according to the hydrological conditions was scattered by Zheng Menglong's giant ships before they had time to exert their power, and the various departments lost their unified command, but were surrounded by Zheng Menglong's naval division in the narrow waters between these islands, and each was broken, almost all the regular warships of the Goryeo naval army were sunk, and only a few were saved because they were captured, and almost all the ships collected by the people were burned by Zheng Menglong, and there were hundreds of burning ships floating in the waters of Niuli IslandThe corpses of Goryeo soldiers were floating everywhere on the sea, and the scene was extremely miserable. Since then, the Goryeo naval army has been almost a literal force, and in fact it is equivalent to total annihilation. Until a few years later, it was not large enough to form a regular fleet, and could only conduct some harassment operations in the form of a few small fleets. And in such a beautiful battle of annihilation, the price paid by Zheng Menglong's troops was only the sinking of a loach ship and the varying degrees of damage to sixteen small warships, which can be said to be a completely one-sided victory. Zheng Menglong's name also spread all over the world.

After this battle, Chung Mong-ryong was able to approach Pyongyang, the capital of Goryeo, almost without any harassment. Along the Taedong River, they went upriver and landed in the area of the pine forest, and then divided their troops into two routes, one from the south bank of the Taedong River to Pyongyang City, and the other from the north of the river to the north, cutting off the road to support Anju City to the south.

When the news came, Li Chenghui was stunned. Now that Pyongyang is besieged, if you don't go to relieve the siege in time, I'm afraid that the Beijing division will not be protected, but if you transfer troops to the south, Chang Miao will never sit idly by, and when the city of Anzhou is not protected, his troops may still be sandwiched between the two armies.

And in the military camp of the Silk Country, there was an atmosphere of joy. Everyone was gearing up and waiting for Lord Du Hu to give an order to rush straight to Anju City, as long as Anju City was conquered, Pyongyang City would be exposed in front of them.

But at this moment, Chang Miao received a secret letter that plunged him into great pain and panic. Even the news of the death of Emperor Liu Yutong could not make him give up his plan to attack Goryeo, because the death of the emperor was an irrevocable reality, but the war against Goryeo had to win the advantage. But now the situation has changed, because this secret letter clearly reads: Liu Qian, the king of Jin who stayed behind in Taiyuan, rebelled! (To be continued......)