Chapter 204: The Great Victory on the Eastern Front
The so-called unpredictable world, it is precisely because of the emergence of a Lu Chang in this life that Li Shimin pulled his leg from the battlefield on the Western Front and entered the Central Plains, and was shot through by Lu Chang with an arrow, which caused Li Shimin's temperament to change greatly.
Li Shimin's entry into the Central Plains to contain Lu Chang's development was not wrong from a strategic point of view. But his plan was understood by Lu Chang, and then he planned to annihilate Li Shimin's army.
Li Yuan was not happy to lose the army, coupled with Li Shimin's abnormal behavior, which caused Li Yuan's disgust and sent him to far Shanxi.
This can be regarded as Li Yuan's self-destruction of the city wall, but he can't help it, it is indeed inappropriate for Li Shimin to stay in the capital, this guy is too noisy.
If Li Jiancheng is not worse than Li Shimin in leading the troops, it will be fine, but Li Jiancheng is not Li Shimin after all, he is still worse.
Therefore, Li Tang, who was originally very promising, is now declining.
This can probably be regarded as a butterfly effect, a Lu Chang has messed up the situation in the world, and he is no longer following the original historical trajectory.
Regardless of Li Tang's situation getting worse and worse, after Lu Chang urgently issued several orders, the army stood still, waiting for the opportunity to change the form.
Although Lu Chang's side did not move, it did not mean that Zhang Yu's side on the Eastern Front battlefield also stopped moving.
In the past six months, Zhang Yu has not been idle, and has searched the entire peninsula, and all men have been gathered into the auxiliary army.
After half a year, the 400,000 auxiliary troops were well trained and fully qualified for the next war.
Not counting the number of Jiangnan troops owned, there are 400,000 auxiliary troops alone, which is really terrible.
Zhang Yu took advantage of the fact that the ice on the river had not yet melted, and the auxiliary army under the command of the 100,000 Jiangnan Army crossed the Yalu River and entered Liaodong.
There weren't many Goguryeo troops in the Liaodong region anymore, and the troops originally stationed in this area were attracted to the south last year, leaving the Jiangnan army to serve a pot.
Now, Goguryeo's Youngliu King Goo Jianwu is dead, the Goguryeo royal family and ministers were all killed last year, and the Daelu Wongai Suwen, who was able to command the war, is also dead, a remnant of Goguryeo without unified leadership. Fighting separately, how can they be Zhang Yu's opponents?
What's more, the auxiliary army is like locusts pouring all over the world, and they are scared to death.
In the land of Liaodong, Zhang Yu destroyed the city and pulled out the village. The attack was swift.
Any castle that dares to resist will be slaughtered mercilessly after the city is broken.
For a time, wolf smoke was everywhere in Liaodong, and the wind was loud.
The remnants of the Goguryeo army in the land of Liaodong totaled only 10,000 people, and they were still scattered in the vast Liaodong, almost the same as none.
The surrendered castle is okay to say. The castle that did not surrender was besieged by a large army. Zhang Yu sent a shout and told them that if they did not surrender, they would slaughter the city.
Now is not the time when Goguryeo was trying to resist Yang Guang of the Great Sui Dynasty, there was an organization and an army, and there were not many troops in the castle now, and there was no other castle to support, what do you let the people in the castle do?
Standing on the castle and looking out, it was densely packed with troops. Resistance is certainly a dead end, and there may be a glimmer of hope for surrender.
Most of the castles surrendered, but not all, and there were always some that resisted.
In fact. The auxiliaries really wanted them to resist.
If the castle surrenders, the local auxiliary army will be considered to be busy in vain, and the Jiangnan army will not let them mess around.
However, once the castle refuses to surrender, I'm sorry, after the city is broken, the Jiangnan army will stuff it into the hands of the auxiliary army, and the Jiangnan army will not care about it.
The Jiangnan army has already unearthed the beastly nature of the auxiliary army, they don't care about life, and the small castle can't stop them at all.
The reason why the people of later generations are civilized. It is because there are moral and legal constraints, and then a world view is formed.
There was no law in the era of war, and Lu Chang broke the shackles of morality again, and the bestiality of these auxiliary troops was completely excavated.
Exactly. Lu Chang's approach is indeed very evil and a bit inhumane.
But Lu Chang also has his own reasoning, now is not a highly civilized future generation, if you don't do it, someone else will always do it, why can you only let foreigners kill Han people, and we can't do anything?
Lu Chang thinks that he is following the local customs. Adapt to the trends of the times.
The Americans killed almost all the Indians and occupied the North American continent. Have Americans ever repented of their sinful deeds? Human rights in the United States should not have such a thing as Indians, and regard North America as its own identity.
Later, it seemed that every American felt as if he was the owner of the land. Native American? Haven't heard of it. Hitler slaughtered the Jews, and the next generation of Germans repented.
Besides, Lu Chang didn't kill these captives on the peninsula, he just used them to serve himself.
Therefore, every time they arrived at a castle, almost all the auxiliaries stared at the castle like beasts, and at the same time, they hoped that the other party would not surrender, so that they could break through the castle and indulge in madness.
The Auxiliaries have become a true beast army, and they have nothing but the need to fight and indulgence in their hearts.
Such an army, and its incomparably large number, is really invincible and invincible in this vast land.
With the rapid advance of the auxiliary army, the reputation of their army soon spread throughout the Liaodong region, and continued to spread outward.
The vast white mountains and black waters, the territory is vast and sparsely populated, and the 100,000 Jiangnan army and the 400,000 auxiliary troops advance from south to north in order, leaving an empty land where they pass.
The ferocity of the auxiliary army frightened the Goguryeo people, so much so that those who were far away fled north with their families while the auxiliary army had not yet arrived.
Those who did not have time to flee had to surrender in order to save their lives, and most of them did not dare to resist in the city.
In this way, Zhang Yu's army fought more smoothly, and the speed of its advance to the north increased, and by the end of April, the northernmost area had reached the Great Khing'an Mountains.
If you go further north, you can't go forward, and the primeval forest is not a joke, and you may not be able to come out after entering.
At this point, there were no more major battles, and Zhang Yu began to consolidate the occupied areas and send troops to clear some remote places.
Probably even Zhang Yu didn't expect to take the entire territory of Goguryeo so smoothly, and originally thought that it would be good to occupy the Liaodong Peninsula in the past few months.
At this point, Zhang Yu stopped the military operation and sent the results of the battle to the hands of the general Lu Chang.
Although the military operation stopped, Zhang Yu was still very busy.
The large number of captives needed to be screened, and the foreigners were gathered and joined in the auxiliary army for training, so that the auxiliary army continued to expand, and it was estimated that an additional 200,000 would not be a problem.
And the civil affairs are a little unable to keep up, I didn't expect the army to go so smoothly, so the existing manpower is not enough, that is certain.
Zhang Yu doesn't care about these things, and it is not something he should be in charge of, and someone is responsible for it. (To be continued.) )