Chapter 71 4 Inducements
As a result of this attack by the Goryeo army, the only remaining peace talks between Goryeo and the country of silk may have come to naught, but it is incomprehensible why Goryeo would launch such a thoughtless move at such a time. This move was even called the biggest mistake since the succession of King Choi Jiangang of Goryeo, because such an act would inevitably lead to a strong retaliation from the country of Juan.
But the truth of the matter is not as simple as people see, behind it is a well-planned conspiracy, and this conspiracy was planned by Wang Hanxin and carried out by Gao Dingbian.
Long before Wang Hanxin returned to Beijing, he had already discussed with Gao Dingbian about the resumption of the war with Goryeo, although Wang Hanxin had not yet released a specific implementation plan, but Gao Dingbian thought so, so Gao Dingbian has been secretly planning in the past few months, ready to look for opportunities.
Judging from the operation carried out by Gao Dingbian, it can really be called a typical combat example. From this point of view, Gao Dingbian is not the type of brave general as people think, but a good general with both wisdom and courage, but when Wang Hanxin works together, the strategy is often planned by Wang Hanxin, which makes others have this illusion. In fact, if it weren't for Gao Dingbian's courage and resourcefulness, how could he cooperate with Wang Hanxin and cooperate seamlessly without news?
Gao Dingbian first determined the point of the incident in Pingshan. Pyongsan is located in the area controlled by Goryeo, which is a strategic area, and if it breaks through here, then the new capital of Goryeo, Kaesong, will be opened, and it is one of the important strategic support points of Goryeo. There is another reason why Gao Dingbian chose Pingshan, that is, Goryeo's guest general Chengyun is not stationed here. The military generals guarding here are young generals promoted by Cui Jianjiang, and their blood is just easy to be impulsive. And there is a lack of real combat experience.
For the Goryeo defenders of Pingshan, the country of silk will naturally not take it lightly. Therefore, the garrison on the border also maintained a high level of vigilance, especially the general Hua Meng, who was in charge of guarding the area, personally patrolling the place every day, and often sent rangers to patrol at night to prevent the Goryeo from infiltrating the territory. Even the Koreans are well aware of this habit of Hua Meng, and Gao Dingbian took advantage of this.
On the day of the accident, Gao Dingbian, who was Hua Meng's deputy general, led a group of men and horses from the Tiger Guard Battalion to cross the border and rush directly towards Pingshan at night. The Goryeo military commander who was guarding Pingsan learned of the situation almost immediately. That, of course, was because Gao Dingbian deliberately wanted to reveal his whereabouts.
Faced with this sudden situation, the first reaction of the general of Hirayama was that the country of silk launched a surprise attack, intending to capture Hirayama and open the gate to Kaesong. However, he made a mistake, that is, with this bit of troops and horses on the Gaoding side, he could only disturb the Pingshan defenders at most, and he was unable to capture Pingshan at all. However, the town general thinks that there are always soldiers in the Silk Country these days who have been frequently mobilized just to hide from the world, and they may have been ready for a full-scale attack. At this time, his distrust of the Silk Country caused him to miscalculate, so he ordered a small force of cavalry to intercept it, in order to buy some time for the defense of Hirayama. This is exactly the decision that Gao Dingbian wants him to make. When this small group of Goryeo cavalry attacked, they found that their enemy was as elusive as a ghost—they could sense that the opponent was nearby, but they could not catch the opponent, and occasionally encountered a small number of enemy troops, but the cavalry of the Silk Country did not have a good momentum. Escape now. The Goryeo cavalry could not help but become agitated after several quick attacks in the dark of night without encountering the main enemy force, because their mission was to intercept the enemy and buy time for the rear. Now it is true that the main force of the enemy army has not been found for a long time, which means that the enemy army is likely to send a small number of troops to hold them back. And the main force has already gone straight to Pingshan. Just as they were about to retreat, they discovered the whereabouts of the main cavalry of the Silk Country. They immediately chased after it. However, in the dark of night, they made a mistake, that is, under the guidance of Gaodingbian, they had crossed the border of Goryeo and entered the border of the Silk Country.
At the same time, a ranger unit of Hua Meng's department was patrolling the border when he suddenly heard someone shouting "enemy attack", and this ranger immediately formed a battle formation. Sure enough, it wasn't long before they were attacked by the Goryeo cavalry, and this Goryeo cavalry was the one lured by Gao Dingbian.
The Goryeo cavalry thought that they had finally caught up with the cavalry of the Silk Country, and immediately threw themselves into battle, desperately blocking the enemy army; The fierce rangers thought that the Goryeo cavalry was sneaking up and fought with all their might. However, the number of Hua Meng's cavalry troops was too small, and they soon couldn't resist and began to retreat, at this time the Goryeo troops also found that the other side was too small in number, not like the main force, at this time, Gao Dingbian led the cavalry to join the battle group, successfully repelled the Goryeo cavalry, and rescued Hua Meng's ranger troops.
Therefore, Hua Meng believed that it was outright treachery for the Goryeo army to try to infiltrate the country and launch an attack during the peace talks, so he sent an envoy to negotiate with the Goryeo side, and made this clear on the same side. However, the Goryeo side believed that it was the Silk Country that invaded the border first, and tried to fight back, imposing the charge of starting the war on Goryeo's head, and refused to admit Hua Meng's accusation. This angered the fierce general Hua Meng, and Gao Dingbian fanned the flames on the side, and without waiting for Anton's reply to protect Yang Lian, he led the troops to attack directly towards Pingshan.
Because Goryeo had been prepared for a long time, and Hua Meng's operation itself was only a momentary anger, and there was no clear strategic goal, it returned in vain, and many people were damaged out of thin air. The Goryeo won a small partial victory, the morale of the people was lifted, the soldiers became more and more unwilling to give in, and the two countries faced off in a full-scale confrontation on the border, and things became out of control.
Because Gao Dingbian's small actions were well-planned and handy, there were almost no traces of things done, and no one got the proof that he was behind the scenes, and as a result, the country of silk and Goryeo were so made by this small action that they wanted to meet again.
Liu Yan was furious when he learned of this, and he was originally very dissatisfied with the Goryeo mission's deliberate delay in the trip in order to gain a respite, and the incident proved his worries. Therefore, he detained the Goryeo envoy and asked the deputy envoy to return to China to inform Choi Jianjiang that there was no need for reconciliation between the two countries, at least until Goryeo sincerely surrendered, and the Silk Congress would continue to use force against Goryeo.
In order to re-employ troops against Goryeo, the country of silk had to readjust its strategic posture, and as a result of discussions with the military department and generals, Wang Hanxin's original proposal became the best choice. The Silk Kingdom used its main force against the Turks, and with the forces of the Andong Protectorate, they carried out uninterrupted, limited-scale operations against Goryeo, strategically dragging down Goryeo's weak economy.
In terms of the existing forces and generals of Andong Duhu, it was still slightly insufficient to complete this task, so Liu Yan was ready to transfer some troops from Qingzhou, Xuzhou and Yuzhou to supplement them. But at this time, a major event happened in the Silk Country, which made Liu Yan have to temporarily dispel this idea: Wang Hanxin's prophecy was unfortunate. What is even worse than what Wang Hanxin said is that three major events occurred almost at the same time, the first is that the people in Weizhou have no way out of life and are forced to rebel. Immediately after that, the cults in the Yingzhou area also rose up, and the cultists who swarmed up attacked the official yamen, burned, killed, plundered, and poisoned the party. These two things are not over, there is a more bullish person in Shu, this person is named Zhongyi, he gathered thousands of barbarians to capture three county towns, and then openly proclaimed himself the emperor of Dashu, and fought against the country of silk.
Faced with these three situations that suddenly appeared, the country of silk became a little scrambled for a while. (To be continued.) )