Five days later, that is, on November 20 of the twelfth year of the Great Cause, the Liaodong Peninsula was already in sight.

The Liaodong Peninsula is still part of the territory of Goryeo, and the moment Su You landed in Dalian, it means that Su You officially declared war on Goryeo.

According to historical records, Dalian was still a small fishing village in the early Han Dynasty, called "Sanshan", and the name "Sanshan" actually refers to Sanshan Island outside Dalian Bay.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Dalian was called "Sanshanpu" again, in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, it was renamed "Qingnipu", and in the early Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty, it was called "Qingnipu". In the late Qing Dynasty, after the Tsarist Russia forcibly leased Dalian, it was called "Dalini" (meaning: distant place); After that, the Qing government called it "Dalian" according to the Russian homonym.

When Su You's fleet landed on Sanshan, it did not encounter any obstacles, and in fact the Goryeo people only had two gathering places on the Liaodong Peninsula.

One of them is the town of Duli, which is 90 miles south of the three mountains, which is Lushun in later generations.

Lushun was the military fortress of Yan during the Warring States Period, and was called "Shepherd City" in the early Han Dynasty, and later changed its name to Yujin, Mashijin, Duli Town and other names; Due to Yang Guangsan's expedition to Goryeo, this fortress has long been abandoned.

Even so, after Su You disembarked, he still sent Fu Ziheng with his three thousand soldiers to raid the fortress to the south.

Another famous fortress is the humble city sixty miles north of Sanshan Castle.

"Shining on the sun, Guanshan turned reckless. will be the top of the ridge, and the sea and the sky will be long. This majestic poem describes the profundity of the humble city in the twilight of the sunset, as the confrontation between Goryeo and the Great Sui has experienced many wars.

The humble city has a radius of five miles, with the mountains and the sea at its back, and is built with water and land to rush and steep mountains.

From the southernmost part of the Great Black Mountain in the south, to the north side of the main peak in the north, the city wall is made of stones along the ridge direction, undulating on the ridge of the Great Black Mountain, like a strange python winding and coiling. The city wall is surrounded by cliffs and cliffs, which are difficult to climb, and only the south gate is built with large stone bars.

Yang Guang conquered Goryeo three times, and Beisha City was also one of the important battlefields, and when Lai Hu'er invaded Goryeo for the third time, he led an army across the Bohai Sea from Dongnae County, raided the city, and beheaded a thousand ranks.

In fact, the city was permanently garrisoned by more than 5,000 soldiers.

Su You is ready to establish his own springboard to enter the Central Plains in Sanshan, and he is obviously determined to win the city of Beiluxury, as long as he captures this fortress, he does not have to worry about Goryeo in the north coming to Sanshan to sabotage. Of course, Su You didn't want to be attacked by the defenders of Humble City when he was building Sanshan City, so he decisively chose to strike first.

After arriving at Sanshan, Su You assigned the guards of the ship to the 1,000 heavy cavalry and all the artillery men led by Zhang Long, and of course, Su You left the people to come to Yanbei to personally control the 4,000 people.

Su You personally took 1,000 heavy cavalry and 5,000 cannon fodder troops, as well as Wang Bodang's 3,000 people, a total of 9,000 people, to the city of humble luxury.

The sun was shining on this day, but the snow that fell more than half a month ago showed no signs of melting at all, and there were basically no too steep slopes on the mountain road, but Su You's army still didn't dare to let go of the pace.

When he arrived at the south gate of the Humble City, Su You spent more than an hour.

At this time, there were 6,000 Goryeo defenders stationed in the humble city, and when they saw Su You's army from far and near, they closed the city gate without any hesitation, and then urgently reported to the supreme commander in the city.

The city is a stone city, although it is more than three zhang high, but this city is surrounded by mountains on three sides and the sea on one side, it is obviously impossible to use siege equipment to climb the city wall, in fact, Su You did not bring any siege equipment.

The only way to enter the city is to break the door.

The guards guarding the city gate obviously knew this, so although they were a little surprised when they watched Su You's army arrive, they were still fearless when they looked carefully at their lack of siege equipment.

When he arrived at the south gate of this humble city, he immediately ordered Wang Bodang's soldiers to assemble, and then 3,000 soldiers used crossbows to shoot at the head of the city.

The first pawn at the head of the city obviously did not believe that those who did not have any siege equipment could take the gate with a bow and crossbow, so it was only natural that the hundreds of first pawns chose to shrink their heads into the battlements, waiting for the crossbowmen below to shoot their arrow boxes.

Then the guards heard the sound of horses' hoofs, but they were equally confident that the enemy would not be able to break through the gates, even if they were riding on iron horses.

More than a dozen fast horses came to a place less than three feet away from the city gate in an instant, and when some of the brave soldiers poked their heads out to look down, they saw that they were still picking up stones and parcels in the direction of the city gate for some reason

Seeing more than a dozen people riding on horses and moving together, the Goryeo guards thought contemptuously, "Do they want to block the door?" What is the use of blocking the door? ”

The Goryeo soldier was about to tell the soldiers around him what he thought, but he heard a "boom" sound, and then he felt a strong force coming from the city wall, causing him to be thrown off the city as if he had been kicked in the ass.

The feelings of this soldier were also the feelings of almost all the soldiers in the city, but many more people were shocked by the sound of explosions of unknown origin, and felt that the ground under their feet was also shaking.

After listening to the report of the city guard, the supreme commander of the city of Humble Luxury, who hurried to the original, also heard the explosions one after another, and felt the shaking of the earth and the heat wave coming from the south gate; When the horses under his crotch trembled and returned to normal, he saw that the gates of the city had been wide open, and countless heavy horsemen of the enemy countries armed to the teeth had rushed into the city.

The troops seen by the supreme commander of Beilu City were obviously a thousand heavy cavalry brought by Su You, and behind them were Wang Bodang's army, who had just put away his bow/crossbow.

When Su You finally led 5,000 cannon fodder troops into the city of Beiluxe, he could already start surrendering and cleaning up the battlefield.

It took Su You's army less than a cup of tea to enter the city, but it took a whole hour to screen the prisoners and clean up the battlefield.

In the first battle of Su You's entry into Goryeo proper, he annihilated 883 soldiers defending the city and surrendered more than 5,000 enemies; In the course of the battle, Su You's side also lost dozens of people and injured hundreds of people.

In any case, it was a great victory, not only to take the most important fortress that choked Goryeo, but also to capture five thousand people and enough food for these people for half a year.

Su You's next thing to do was to leave Zhang Long and his heavy cavalry and 2,000 cannon fodder troops here to defend the city, while he and Wang Bodang brought these newly acquired captives back to Sanshan overnight.

After returning to Sanshan, Su You immediately watched over the more than 10,000 captives in his hands to build a dock, and then began to build the city.

Sanshan City is an important harbor, and in Su You's plan, this city should be at least more than twenty miles in radius; Of course, the most important thing Su You needs to do now is not to build a city wall.

The city of Humble Luxury was in his own hands, and it was impossible for Goryeo or other forces to attack the mountains from the north by land; As for those who came from the sea, whose fleet in this era could fight against Su You's fleet equipped with artillery?

The most needed building right now, apparently, is the house.

As a result, most of the Goryeo captives, under the supervision of Su You's soldiers, began to cut wood, dig kilns, and burn mud and bricks, and a few began to lay foundations

On the third day, Fu Ziheng took the three thousand soldiers who went to raid Duli Town and turned back to the three mountains, but as expected, they did not gain anything.

At this time, Wang Shichong, the newly appointed general of Zuotunwei, led an army of 50,000 to leave Jiangdu and went to the northwest to meet the Wagang army expanding southward.

Xue Shixiong, who received Yang Guang's order, immediately left 3,000 soldiers to Hu Benlang to guard the city, and he personally commanded his five sons and 20,000 troops to kill Jindi Pass.

Gao Shida, the owner of the village in Gaojibo, Hejian County, has become a frightened bird after being hit by Yang Yichen three times and twice some time ago; It wasn't until he heard that Yang Yichen had passed away that Gao Shida had just breathed a sigh of relief and was about to recuperate for a period of time, when he suddenly heard the news that Xue Shixiong was going south.

In addition to being frightened, Gao Shida immediately gathered all the leaders together and got straight to the point, "I just received a report that Xue Shixiong led an army of 20,000 to the south, I'm afraid this guy is going to be unfavorable to us."

Dou Jiande, who was sitting at the bottom of Gao Shida, did not agree with the opinion of the big leader, and immediately explained, "Now that Zhang Xutuo and Yang Yichen have passed away one after another, the younger brother expects that this Xue Shixiong is going south this time to rescue the Eastern Capital. Xue Shixiong is menacing, and the soldiers are full of food, so we had better avoid his edge. ”

Everyone in the audience immediately started to discuss, most of them thought that what Dou Jiande said was reasonable, and a few of them did not mean Xue Shixiong.

Gao Shida looked at the chaos of everyone, and he didn't have any constructive opinions at all, so he immediately waved his hand and said, "Hugh wants to grow the morale of others, when Yang Guang returned from Goryeo last time, wasn't he robbed by us of a lot of horses?" ”

What Gao Shida said was when Yang Xuangan rebelled a few years ago when Yang Guanger conquered Goryeo, and now it is actually some Chen Guzi rotten sesame.

Dou Jiande obviously didn't want to bring up the matter that was suppressed by Yang Yichen some time ago, so he had to laugh and say nothing.

"Li Mi surrendered Pei Renji and killed Zhang Xutuo in Dahai Temple, which shook the world for a while; If we kill Xue Shixiong at this time, there will definitely be more people to vote! Gao Shida looked at Dou Jiande speechlessly, and said in an undoubted tone.

Now that Gao Shida, the big boss, has set the tone for today's meeting, the next thing to discuss is not whether to fight Xue Shixiong, but how to fight Xue Shixiong.

Speaking of Xue Shixiong, Dou Jiande was still a little afraid, "Xue Shixiong's five sons, all of them have the courage of ten thousand people, we can't underestimate the enemy." ”

"Come on, you can stay in the camp, and I will personally lead the army to fight it!" Gao Shida looked at Dou Jiande a little forward-looking, and he really wanted to fight a battle to prove himself.

"I respect the order!" Dou Jiande listened to the eldest brother who seemed to have misunderstood him, but he couldn't explain it at the moment, so he had to take the order to stay behind.

Gao Shida then led 80,000 people and ambushed Xue Shixiong with four times the strength of Xue Shixiong in the road that Xue Shixiong had to pass south.