Chapter 688: Come to Jiankang to hold the overall situation
Due to the overcompletion of the task ahead of schedule, Gu Xifeng naturally wanted to express his praise to the Japanese Taizheng Fujiwara Hirohiro on behalf of the imperial court, and Fujiwara Hirohiro was also extremely excited and proud of this.
The 80,000 troops assembled in Goryeo and the 100,000 allied forces of the original Song and Japanese were almost close to the 200,000 troops.
Therefore, Gu Xifeng began to make some arrangements in the battle plan.
First of all, the 80,000 recruited Goryeo soldiers were handed over to the deputy general Quan Guangwu to lead himself, and then Fujiwara Hirohiro and 50,000 Japanese sailors cooperated with Quan Guangwu to go north to the Yalu River.
At the same time, the 30,000 Song troops who had been defending the Yalu River were secretly transferred back to Kaegyo, the capital of Goryeo, to prepare for the implementation of the follow-up strategy.
After discussing the military policy, Quan Guangwu and Fujiwara Hirohiro led an army of 130,000 and began to march to the Yalu River.
The Yalu River is a natural river border between Goryeo and the Jin Kingdom, and after the Song-Japanese coalition army captured Goryeo, Gu Xifeng's urgent order was to transfer 30,000 Song troops from his headquarters to the Yalu River for strict fortification.
Because Goryeo had already sent a signal to the Jin State for help at that time, in order to ensure that the Jin soldiers were blocked in the Yalu River, Gu Xifeng dispatched elite troops to fortify along the river, which played a precautionary effect.
At the same time, this move is also a kind of suppression of the Jin country, which makes the entire northeast of the Jin country begin to be restless!
However, after the Jin soldiers received the distress signal from Goryeo, the attitude of the Jin State changed from the beginning of the Yalu River to cross the river to vent the anger of Goryeo, and it did not take long for the arrogance to gradually subside, until finally the strategic policy of turning to the defensive.
This kind of change from offense to defense is naturally very clear to the general manager of the army of one side.
His army is inseparable from Ye Yu's army in the northwest, and the two armies seem to be thousands of miles apart, but in fact they are inextricably linked.
Gu Xifeng's army was able to destroy the entire Goryeo, deterring the self-righteous Jin State, and at the same time opening the eastern gateway of the Jin Kingdom.
Gu Xifeng's army can directly clamp down on the strength of the entire Northeast Jin State from the land, because crossing the Yalu River is a smooth way to the Northeast.
On the water, there is a strait between Goryeo and Jin, and you can cross the strait to go straight to Daxingfu, that is, Yanjing (Beijing), the central capital of Jin.
The sailors of the Jin State naturally showed an advantage against countries like Japan and Goryeo, but for an army like the Southern Song Dynasty, which was accustomed to water warfare, its military strength was much weaker.
Therefore, it was the sudden appearance of Gu Xifeng's army that fully contained one-third of the entire Jin Kingdom's troops!
It was precisely because of this containment that Liu Qianfan and Fengling Kerate and 100,000 troops were destroyed, and it was not that the Jin State was unwilling to send troops to rescue at that time, but that the Jin State had no troops to send at all.
Whether it is the grassland peoples or the fishing and hunting peoples, for them, the availability of food is not as stable as that of the Han people, and the population does not reproduce as quickly as the Han people.
Therefore, for the regular army of the Jin Kingdom, it is already an astronomical amount to be able to break through 400,000!
At that time, the Jin Kingdom was known as the 600,000 troops of the Three Routes, but in fact it was only 400,000, most of which were composed of Han Chinese.
Gu Xifeng's clamping in Goryeo gave Ye Yu the opportunity to exterminate the Jin soldiers and annex the Western Xia, and on the contrary, after Ye Yu successfully pacified the Western Xia, the deterrent force formed also began to contain the Jin State's troops.
Chen Bing's heavy troops of the Jin State on the Yalu River originally wanted to cross the river to recover the land for Goryeo, but in order to defend the original western border between Western Xia and the Jin State, the Jin Emperor Wanyan Yunzhong had to transfer troops to heavily fortify the border, just to block Ye Yudi's troops!
For Wanyan Yunzhong, even though the Song army stationed in Goryeo was brave, it had the Yalu River and the sea as a barrier, and it could still defend the defense line of the Jin Kingdom.
But Ye Yu in the northwest is too terrifying, and the fact that the country's 100,000 elite troops have been wiped out has already tensed Yan Yunzhong's nerves.
As a result, the pressure on the Song-Japanese coalition army led by Gu Xifeng has also been sharply reduced!
This kind of plan to contain each other and solve each other's difficulties, in addition to the rapid news of the Flying Eagle Transmission, must also have a mutual tacit understanding and trust between each other, otherwise there will be a little loan suspension and difference, and the two-line army may be wiped out.
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On the third day of the departure of the army led by Quan Guangwu and Fujiwara Hirohiro, Gu Xifeng received a belated holy decree in Kaijing!
Then he stopped in Kaijing for two days, and then directly led 50,000 Song troops to cross the sea from Kaijing to the west, and the battleships that covered the sky and the sun approached Daxingfu!
At the same time in Jiankang Mansion, Ye Yu had already met Yu Hangkun, Wu Xi and others in the palace.
"You mean, Liu Qianfan is not dead?" Ye Yu picked up the teacup and asked Yu Hangkun with a look of surprise.
"Exactly!"
"Oh, hehe, it's really nine lives, and you can still survive!" Ye Yu smiled to himself, "That's fine, it's a big pity to not be able to see the difference in this person's head in person......"
"Hang Kun, how is the arrangement of the army?"
Yu Hangkun's expression was straight, and he said solemnly: "Everything has been arranged, and the three armies are waiting for His Majesty's dispatch!" ”
"Well, that's good!"
"Your Majesty, when will I cross the river to fight?"
Wu Xi on the side is now grinding his fists and palms, and he can't wait to lead the army across the river to fight a decisive battle with the Jin soldiers at this moment.
Ye Yu glanced at Wu Xi meaningfully, and then said softly: "Since I am personally driving, this battle will never return to the dynasty if there is no result, so when this battle will start is only a matter of time, so why rush for a while?" ”
"Yes!"
"Hang Kun, the firearms secretly developed by the imperial court, you have to let the generals in the army practice more, and you must not hurt your own people when the time comes!"
"The last general obeys the order, so go down and continue to train the soldiers!"
"Well, go ahead!"
Yu Hangkun withdrew from the palace with interest, leaving only the deputy commander to keep Wu Xi in the hall.
Quietly in the hall, neither the monarch nor the minister spoke, and Wu Xi felt the most depressing feeling.
He secretly peeked at Ye Yu sitting on the dragon chair, but he was a little uneasy in his heart, as he survived under the surveillance of the capital back then, the depth and precociousness of his mind were no less than Ye Yu.
Therefore, he was as careful as a hair, and from the look in Ye Yu's eyes, he had already noticed something unusual, not to mention that it had come from the southwest recently......
Just when Wu Xi's mind was turning, Ye Yu opened his mouth without warning: "Do you have something to say?" ”
"The last general...... What is the dispatch of His Majesty, it is not too late to die! ”
One asked for no reason, and the other answered inexplicably, which made Wu Yuechan, the commander of the guards who guarded Ye Yu's safety, confused and puzzled when he heard it outside.
"After all, you are still too young, you should learn more from your father, what to say, what not to say, think twice before exiting, you must know the truth from the mouth!"
"陛xià......"
"You brothers and sisters haven't seen each other for a long time, and now that we meet, you might as well catch up more, let's go!"