Chapter 130: The Confrontation of the Northern Expedition (Compensation for Debts)
"Crossbowman, !! arrows"
"Whoosh"
With the order of the generals of the Han army, the Han army suddenly shot out a steady stream of arrows in their hands, covering the sky like locusts in the sky, and like meteorites falling from the sky.
Although the Xianbei army was numerous, in the face of the well-equipped Han army defending the city, there was no way to storm Banyue.
After paying for thousands of corpses, the Xianbei army slowly retreated, and the Han troops in the city were all excited and cheered loudly.
Dong Zhuo showed a smile on his face when he saw this, since he retreated to this Yucheng, Dong Zhuo has been standing on this city wall, although he has not killed the enemy with his own hands, but it has made the Han army very stable in his heart.
However, Dong Zhuo was not as happy as he wanted to be on his face, the Xianbei army attacked for half a month, so that the Han army in this Yucheng was less than 10,000 at this time, although the Xianbei army lost five times the strength of the Han army.
But the Xianbei army is mostly a slave army, and the Xianbei people will not feel distressed as many as they die, but Dong Zhuo is not the case, the 50,000 South Vietnamese troops who originally went out to fight have become the real elite after a long time of fighting.
These elites are all capable of serving as commanders and backbone elite soldiers in the general army, and the death of a Dong Zhuo will feel heartache.
Fortunately, on April 5 of the third year of Jianning, good news came from the Han Dynasty, and the Han army formed the Northern Expeditionary Army to attack Goguryeo, and attacked the capital of Goguryeo in just a few days.
It has to be said that the strength of Goguryeo at this time was not as strong as it was later, the land area was also small, and the domestic army was sent to the north to participate in the war, so that the Han army succeeded in one blow.
I think it was the king of Goguryeo at this time, and he didn't seriously understand the Han at this time, and the Han at this time was no longer as rotten as before.
However, Goguryeo's war strength was also considerable, and when he learned that the Han army was about to attack the national capital, the king of Goguryeo immediately summoned the young people in the country and recalled the northern army.
As a result, the capital of Goguryeo had 80,000 troops in a flash, and the Han army that attacked the capital was only the two armies of Huben and Tiecai, and the unequaled army was stationed in Changqing to prevent the Goguryeo army from returning to the south.
If the 150,000 troops fighting in the north of Goguryeo want to return to support the national capital, they must pass through Rancheng and Changqing, and both of these places are now in the hands of the Han army, which means that the decisive factor in the victory of the war depends on whether the Han army is the first to break through the national capital of Goguryeo, or whether the 150,000 army of Goguryeo is the first to go south.
In this way, along with the good news, there was also bad news in Dong Zhuo's ears, if the Xianbei army continued to be delayed, the southern army of Fuyu Kingdom would go south to attack Goguryeo, and the northern front would naturally need the Han army to support it alone.
At this moment, a scout galloped to the city and shouted, "General, the Xianbei army has retreated." ”
Dong Zhuo heard the words and took three steps and made two steps, and came to the side of the city wall and said, "Is this true?" ”
"Don't dare to deceive the general, just after the Xianbei army retreated, it did not enter the Xianbei camp, but went all the way to the north, I went to its camp to check, and found that there was no one inside."
"Good, good, good." Dong Zhuolian said three good words.
The Han troops in the city all responded with huge cheers.
On April 8 of the third year of Jianning, the Xianbei army learned that Goguryeo had withdrawn its troops, and the Yu State of Fearful Fu took advantage of the situation to counterattack, so he immediately reduced his forces and stationed in the city.
After all, Xianbei is a nation on horseback, so in order to protect the city, it is necessary to prepare for the city as early as possible.
In this way, Dong Zhuo's originally impossible task was easily completed.
Compared with Dong Zhuo's happiness, Dong Chong was much more depressed, and easily captured the entire southern territory of Goguryeo, but was repeatedly frustrated in a lonely city in the capital of Goguryeo.
They attacked for several days, but they did not even attack the head of the city.
At this time, the Han army stopped the offensive, and Dong Chong, Jia Xu, Xu Rong, and Zhang Chun came to the high slope outside the capital of Goguryeo with a group of guards.
Dong Pet looked at the national capital city, which was full of holes but still standing, and turned to Jia Xu and said, "Wenhe, Zici." I heard that when His Majesty personally conquered and quelled Xu Zhao's rebellion, Yu Hang fought a battle, and basically ended the war with a catapult, but is it true? ”
Jia Xu bowed slightly and said, "The specific commander of that battle is General Xu Rong, let's ask General Xu Rong to talk about it!" ”
Xu Rong was not polite, and said, "General, Xu Zhao's army is completely incomparable with this Goguryeo army, then say, our army appeared under Yuhang City with lightning speed, to deter the rebels, and moreover, the rebels are all rebels, although Xu Zhao is the emperor, the soldiers under his command still think that they are rebels, so that the army of His Majesty will be vulnerable." ”
"And the army in the capital of this country, like us and other Han soldiers, fighting to the death to protect their families and defend the country, and behind them are their own wives and children, how can they give up resistance?"
Dong Chong nodded when he heard this, indeed, the big man in this war is the aggressor, but there is no way, where is there so much benevolence and righteousness between countries, and some are just naked interests.
Although Liu Hong does not know much about the history of the Eastern Han Dynasty Emperor Lingdi, Liu Hong also knows that the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty can be described as a continuous natural disaster, so it is the most important thing to have a good grain production place. In later generations, Grandpa Mao said well, don't panic when you have food in your hands!
Then Dong Pet spoke, "Everyone, I don't know if we can wait for the siege and not attack?" ”
Jia Xu shook his head without hesitation and said, "General, there are at least one million stones of grain in the capital of this country, how long will I besiege it?" At this time, the strength of our army was comparable to that of Goguryeo, and if it were not for the 30,000 iron cavalry of the Iron Cavalry, we would not be able to fight against the Goguryeo army at all. ”
In fact, as soon as Dong Pet spoke, he knew that he had lost his words, not to mention Jia Xu's reason, just the starting point of this war is not to fight a long-term war. Because this war is just to provide a place for the Han to produce grain.
Immediately, Dong Pet said helplessly, "If there is no other way, it is better to let this army go." ”
Although Dong Pet said unintentionally, Jia Xu's eyes lit up, and then he said, "General, what you said is very true, five hundred miles east of Goguryeo is the country of Wofu, and the lord of the country is the king of Shoucheng, if we can drive the lord of Goguryeo to the country of Wofu, the more than 100,000 Goguryeo army outside Changqing will also turn to the east, at that time, one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, there will be a vicious fight, and we can easily occupy the southern part of Goguryeo." ”
"Staff, what if Goguryeo gathers a large army to fight back?"
"The border between the Wofu Kingdom and Goguryeo is Mount Gaima, and we only need to garrison 30,000 troops to keep 200,000 troops out."
Dong Zhong was very tempted by this proposal, but still asked, "But how to drive the Goguryeo lord of the national capital out of the city?" ”
"It's easy to hear!" Jia Xu smiled confidently.
ps: There is a good yield land mentioned above, not that there is a lot of production here, but there is no more tax here than the family court, after all, the Han Dynasty collected taxes according to the capitation, and it took more than a thousand years to appear when the land was apportioned!
Two more chapters today.,The first chapter is at three o'clock in the afternoon.,The second chapter may be a little later.,Let's even read the chapter at nine o'clock in the evening!