Chapter 38 5 Crossing the River
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Lu Xuan still didn't fully expect Chang Miao's deployment.
The reason why Chang Miao has not moved for a long time is of course not simply in a state of confrontation. As early as after he saw the Goryeo position on the other side, he began to prepare everything for the battle across the river. First of all, in view of the fact that the north bank of the Datong River had been fortified and cleared, and the supply problem would be exposed sooner or later, he immediately ordered Zheng Menglong, who was at sea, to rush to the rear to transport grain. He then made a special trip to the North Shore to select sites for stone mining and felling trees. As Lu Xuan expected, the stone was mined to provide enough ammunition for the catapults on the battleship, and the timber was cut to build bridges.
After Zheng Menglong's grain fleet arrived, the grain was quickly unloaded ashore, and then Chang Miao used the battleships equipped with catapults as firepower points, and the rest of the small and medium-sized warships were all used to build bridges. After the boats were arranged horizontally and secured with iron locks, they only needed to be laid with wooden planks to become temporary bridges. These bridges have only one weakness, and that is the fear of fire attacks from the opposing side. In order to prevent Lu Xuan from succeeding, Chang Miao specially dispatched a special reconnaissance to start the attack at the perfect time for Lu Xuan to return to Pyongyang to resume his life, and the main attack force was naturally the Tiger Guard Battalion.
In the face of the grand battle situation of the Silk Country, the Goryeo army without Lu Hyun was panicked, and the reactions and actions of the various units were completely unified, which bought the Tiger Guard Battalion precious time.
As soon as you set foot on the land on the south bank of the Datong River. Wang Hanxin slaughtered the Goryeo military camp like a mad tiger, and at this time, the Goryeo soldiers were braving the rain of stones to rush out of the camp gate to prevent the landing of the army of the Silk Country, but in front of them was Wang Hanxin, who had turned into a god, and his army of tigers and wolves. How could these ordinary Goryeo soldiers resist it? After Wang Hanxin's sword split the head of the leading general, the Goryeo soldiers began to retreat, and the subsequent follow-up of the Huwei battalion expanded the retreat into a defeat, and soon the Huwei battalion had already attacked the first camp gate.
At this time, the Goryeo soldiers relied on their bows and arrows to block the Huwei camp in place, and after the Huwei camp, more soldiers began to cross the Taedong River.
By the time Lu Xuan received the news and rushed back to the front, more than 7,400 people from the Liaodong Army had crossed the Datong River. On the Goryeo side, due to the lack of unified command and the lack of reinforcements, the camp in front of Pyongyang City has been torn apart.
Lu Xuan immediately threw the Einsatzgruppen into the battlefield, but Lu Xuan knew that this Einsatzgruppen alone would not be able to prevent the Liaodong Army from continuing to land. At best, they could only delay the progress of the other side, and in order to drive the Liaodong Army back, they had to transfer back the troops that had been deployed in Songlin and Liupu. Now I just hope that God will bless me to hold out until the troops are mobilized and returned.
However, the truth was even worse than Lu Xuan expected, when more than a dozen warships of the other side resolutely rushed into the river beach area with a broken momentum. When the soldiers above jumped ashore like a swarm. Lu Xuan understood that Chang Miao had already spelled. actually forcibly ran aground his capital ship to transport soldiers, which undoubtedly told everyone that they only had a resolute attitude of advancing and not retreating, not to mention that Chang Miao's assault target was at the core of Lu Xuan's defense in this area.
Sure enough, the troops ashore responded to Lu Xuan's judgment with an almost frantic battle, and the Goryeo troops deployed here were already the best troops that Lu Xuan could mobilize, but they still looked vulnerable in front of these decisive Liaodong troops. After barely holding on for a while, the Goryeo army scattered like an avalanche, and was completely defeated before Lu Xuan could send reinforcements, of course. Lu Xuan no longer had any reinforcements that could be mobilized in the real sense at this time, and it was already thankful that the army that was cobbled together by the people could keep calm.
The battle lasted until the night. The Liaodong army that crossed the river has exceeded 20,000, and Lu Xuan tried his best to finally maintain the formation without breaking down, and the various departments gradually stabilized their footsteps and began to cooperate with each other's defensive linkage, but unfortunately the army of the country of silk has gained a firm foothold on the south bank, and it is impossible to drive the other party back.
That night, Lu Xuan ordered the rapid recall of the troops stationed along the coast and the rapid assembly of troops in Pyongyang—if they dragged on, Chang Miao would create a local superiority in forces, and if they cut off the way for the army to return to Pyongyang, the peasant forces would probably break up halfway.
The battle continued until the early morning of the next day, when Lu Xuan led his troops to support themselves and finally ushered in reinforcements from Songlin and Liupu at dawn. However, at this time, nearly 40,000 people of the Liaodong Army had crossed the Taedong River, and after hastily forming the army, they were put into battle in batches, and Lu Xuan ignored fatigue and fought with this group of men and horses for a whole day.
But early the next morning, Lu Xuan learned a bad news, the enemy general Gao Dingbian led a group of cavalry to attack the peasant soldiers who were retreating towards Pyongyang at night, the peasant soldiers panicked in the face of the enemy's surprise attack, resulting in a large area of collapse, more than 10,000 people were beheaded, the rest trampled on each other and the dead were countless, the rest of the troops were constantly attacked by this army in the process of rushing to Pyongyang City, and the troops who rushed back to the vicinity of Pyongyang at dawn were only more than 34,000 people, and the army that originally had as many as 100,000 lost nearly two-thirds.
In the face of such a heavy loss, Lu Xuan did not have time to regret it, after all, it was good to have more than 30,000 people back to defend Pyongyang, although the losses were heavy, it was impossible to gather the 320,000 troops scattered along the Taedong River in two days. Now that nearly 200,000 troops have been assembled under the city of Pyongyang, and the rest of the troops are scattered in various scattered areas, Lu Xuan only hopes that they can break up into pieces, organize resistance on the spot, and delay the march of the army of the country of Juan, everything is up to them. At present, what Lu Xuan wants to do is to rebuild the defense line of the 200,000 army in Pyongyang City, since the army of the country of silk has gained a firm foothold on the south bank, then the defense line along the river will be unable to withstand sooner or later, and it has become inevitable to hold on to the city of Pyongyang, so Lu Xuan sent the peasant soldiers into the city as much as possible to avoid being attacked by the army of the country of silk and caused a lot of losses, while continuing to strengthen the various strongholds along the river to delay time. Three days later, Chang Miao's main force completely crossed the Datong River, Lu Xuan knew that his defense had reached the limit, and if he continued to hold on, not only would the casualties become bigger and bigger, these soldiers had already experienced the baptism of this battle, and their combat ability had been improved. In fact, it was 10,000 times more difficult to complete the retreat under the attack posture of the Liaodong Army than it was to issue this order, and Lu Xuan's ability to complete this retreat at the cost of very few casualties was enough to show that he was a talented general who lived up to Li Chenghui's high expectations.
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