Chapter 219: Zhen Xuan who broke out in silence

"Fifty-eight thousand! Among them were 18,000 sailors, 8,000 cavalry, and 32,000 infantry. However, there are still many private soldiers among the nobles, and they should be able to mobilize twenty or thirty thousand people. If His Majesty recruits troops on a large scale, he can raise 300,000 troops like the Gong descendants, but I'm afraid Li Cunhuan won't give us the time to gather soldiers and horses. Ah Cilong's tone was the same as Zhen Xuan's, revealing deep helplessness. Their army was even weaker than Zhen Xuan's.

"In that case! We fought with Li Cunhuan! The widow went to Hanyang in person to defend it! You are doing your best to recruit soldiers and horses in the rear! Send people to harass the coast of Lulong! I don't believe it, you Li Cunhuan can spend your whole life in North Korea! Zhen Xuan said with a hideous and resolute face. Either destroyed in silence or erupted in silence, and Zhen Xuan was obviously forced by Li Cunhuan to explode.

Zhen Xuan mobilized 30,000 infantry, united 10,000 aristocratic private soldiers, and killed the white horse in front of all the soldiers and civilians in the Hanyang round, and swore to live and die with Hanyang City. Arousing the hearts of the army and the people to hate the enemy, the cheers of Hanyang Fortress shook the sky, and everyone was united in preparing to defend Hanyang City.

"Is this Hanyang?" Li Cunhuan carefully stared at the city in front of him. The war doesn't seem to have left much of its mark on him. The towering and quaint walls are not covered by the dark red blood stains left over from the war, and the gray and black marks left by the fireballs thrown by trebuchets. In the distance are patches of neat and fertile farmland. However, due to the advent of the war, wheat was not planted on the farmland during the spring planting period, and if there is no accident, there will be no grain harvest in the Han River area this year.

"Let's attack!" Li Cunhuan waved his hand in a high-spirited manner and ordered. Hanyang didn't let Li Cunhuan's feelings fluctuate too much, in his eyes, the army he led now can only be described as overwhelming.

However, the battle did not go as smoothly as Li Cunhuan expected, and the defenders of Hanyang broke out with huge combat effectiveness. Lu Long's army lost more than 500 people, but still did not attack the city wall. Li Cunhuan only found out at this time that Zhen Xuan actually ran from the capital Xiongjin to Hanyang. Not only did he defend the city in person, but he also had a posture of co-living and dying with Hanyang. Although I don't know if Zhen Xuan will have arranged a hidden back road early in the morning and slipped away when the city is broken, in front of everyone, Zhen Xuan is now in a posture of life and death with them and Hanyang.

"Interesting!" Li Cunhuan said with a smile, as if he admired the Gong Descendant, but Sha Cunke and Feng Dao, who were beside him, had clearly seen the green tendons on Li Cunhuan's forehead exposed because of anger.

"Set up camp!" Just when Sha Yuke and Feng Dao thought that Li Cunhuan would order a strong attack, Li Cunhuan gave a calm order. The army was stationed en masse in the northwest and did not choose to besiege the city.

In fact, it is not that Li Cunhuan does not besiege the city, but that Hanyang is located on the edge of the Han River, and it is impossible to complete the siege of Hanyang without a naval army. Although Lee Cun-hwan can surround the south, west, and north of Hanyang, what is the use of this? On the water surface of the Han River to the east, there is a Baekje naval army to transport supplies to the soldiers and civilians of the Han River, and they are not afraid of Li Cunhuan's siege at all.

For three days, Li Cunhuan's attack did not progress, and the search for ships only found a few fishing boats, and he was only able to transport 300 soldiers across the Han River at a time, and he could not resist the counterattack of the Baekje army that reacted at all. Li Cunhuan's long-term drive plan also failed. It took months to build siege engines, siege towers, and large trebuchets.

Zhou Dewei proposed to build a pontoon bridge, but was blocked by the Baekje naval army, failed three times before and after, killed more than 100 soldiers, and still did not build a pontoon bridge. Li Cunhuan had no choice but to build Tushan, and urgently transferred gunpowder from Liaodong City, preparing to crush Hanyang with an absolute advantage.

In the blink of an eye, it has been March to May, and under the small city of Hanyang, Lu Long's army has gathered from 40,000 to 80,000. Among them were 30,000 newly adapted former Goguryeo troops and 10,000 Bohai navy.

The 10,000 Bohai Navy was asked by Li Cunhuan to send troops to Bohai, so he even did not hesitate to risk the threat of opening the line on both sides, and mobilized Anton's only few troops, a total of 20,000 troops in Yalu Mansion, commanded by Li Cunxiao, to make an offensive posture. frightened the incompetent Da Weiying and forced the Bohai State to send 10,000 troops to help in the war.

In fact, there is a reason why Li Cunhuan asked Bohai to send troops, not because he is short of troops, nor is it that he is like Han Xin, and the soldiers and horses led by him are based on the purpose of the more the merrier. Instead, Li Cunhuan asked 10,000 Bohai soldiers as hostages. If Bohai dares to stab Li Cunhuan in the back, then Li Cunhuan will kill these 10,000 Bohai soldiers, and by the way, he will also send the head of the son of the Bohai king Da Wei Ying and the son of the prince Da Wei Ying to Da Wei Ying's table. By the way, these 10,000 Bohai soldiers were commanded by the Great Commander.

However, even with the gathering of 80,000 troops, Li Cunhuan still has no way to capture Hanyang City. Although Hanyang City is now helpless for Li Cunhuan, Li Cunhuan also came to block the entry and exit of the Baekje naval army by setting up forts in some narrow positions on the Han River. Of course, this kind of fort is not a cannon battery, but is built of yellow clay, with bed crossbows and trebuchets on it. Although it was not able to completely stop the entry and exit of the Baekje naval army, it also reduced the supply of Hanyang Fortress.

Hanyang Castle can only rely on a short stretch of water behind Hanyang Castle and use ferries to replenish it. But it was as good as having a navy freely entering the Han River, not only because of the large amount of supplies, but also because it could harass the enemy on land.

Casually mentioning the crazy harassment of the Baekje naval army, their actions still greatly affected Lulong's economy, and the Baekje naval army even approached Liaodong City for a time. However, Lu Longjun is not good on the water, but it does not mean that it is average on land, and as a result, this unknown water army was attacked head-on and was beheaded by the defenders of Liaodong City at the seventy-eighth level.

The corpses were crucified on the seashore as a warning, which frightened the arrogant Baekje sailors a lot. Only then did the arrogance subside, and the Pinglu army also sent troops to support, which blocked the Baekje naval army outside the Bohai Sea, otherwise the Baekje naval army would be arrogant for a while, but Zhen Xuan's plan to disturb Li Cunhuan's grain route had to be aborted.

(Note: This Bohai Sea is not a Bohai country.) ）

And at this moment, Li Cunhuan has an unprecedented desire to have a powerful water army, if he had a water army, then Hanyang City would have been trapped long ago. drove the army straight into the hinterland of Baekje, no matter how powerful Zhen Xuan was, he could only cry out in vain. However, history is not if, Li Cunhuan was finally blocked under Hanyang City for more than two months, and even longer.

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