Chapter 40: Where to go
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For the Goguryeo soldiers, this trip north with Eulji Bundeok was a journey to witness the disillusionment of the myth of their idol in their hearts, the god of war. At the time of their initial trip north, they had traveled north with the excitement of wanting to witness the great victory of Sahu again a few years earlier.
However, they did not see the great victory, they saw the great defeat, and the Goguryeo military god Eulzhi Wendeok suffered the biggest defeat of his life. First, 3,000 pioneers were annihilated, and finally they were defeated by the heavy cavalry equipped with armored cavalry of the Sui army, with nearly 30,000 casualties.
After they had retreated twenty miles and reorganized their army, they attacked the camp and the two Sui troops that had retreated into the valley in two directions. The two attacks were fiercely attacked until noon and did not break through the defensive line, when the sun rose in the sky, most of the reinforcements of the Sui army finally arrived, and Yuwen Shuqin, the general of Zuo Yiwei in Liaodong, led an army of 100,000 to arrive first.
The commander of the Sui army defeated by Yizhi Wende in the last Sahu victory was Yuwenshu, and after the defeat of Yuwenshu last time, he was favored in front of the emperor, but in the end he was still shackled and stayed in prison for a while. This time the enemy met very red, especially since Yizhi Wendewei was still his son. Yu Wenhua, who led 100,000 soldiers and horses, and Yiwen Zhide, who only had more than 20,000 wounded soldiers together, were of course merciless, and led the soldiers and horses to directly charge.
The Sui army had been holding back under the city of Liaodong for so long, and they had no choice against the walled city, but if it was such a field battle with clear swords and guns, and it was still several times the attack, it was still the Goguryeo people who had broken their morale by breaking the military camp before. As a result, the Goguryeo people were defeated like a mountain, and they were directly pursued by the Sui army for dozens of miles, and finally Eulji Wende fled across the Yalu River with only more than 1,000 horsemen and returned to Pyongyang City.
Not long after Yuwen of Liaodong City mentioned this, Bae Renji of Xincheng finally led more than 80,000 soldiers and horses from the other three cities to launch a one-sided massacre against 40,000 Goguryeo people who were storming the military camp. The 40,000 Goguryeo people were even more unlucky this time, and the direction of their defeat was the battlefield in the morning. However, they failed to join up with Eulji Wende, who had already fled to Pyongyang, and they happened to meet Yuwenshu of the Hui army, and they were slashed and killed, and all 40,000 people were finally killed in Liaodong.
The total population of Goguryeo is only less than 2 million or 3 million, and the whole ** team is about 300,000, but Goguryeo is a semi-nomadic regime, which can basically achieve the whole country and the whole country, and can have an army of 600,000 at most. However, after many years of fighting with the Sui army, the Goguryeo people now have only about 300,000 men with armor, and this time they first lost 20,000 horses in Xincheng, and this Eulzhi Wende lost 80,000 soldiers, which can be said to be a great defeat for Goguryeo. The mobile forces of Goguryeo were basically eaten up in one fell swoop, and now they can only passively defend the major cities.
For the Sui Dynasty, this was also the first biggest victory since the Sui army's three expeditions to Goryeo. Three expeditions to Goryeo, millions of casualties, finally made decisive progress, as long as the Sui army took advantage of the victory to attack, and one or two more big victories, then Goguryeo was just around the corner.
In this great victory, the broken military camp can be said to be the most dazzling, first the new city victory, and finally the broken military camp heavy cavalry broke the tens of thousands of Wende troops, and finally the broken military camp also withstood the impact of 40,000 Goguryeo people with 2,000 soldiers and more than 10,000 people, and made great contributions to the final victory of the Sui army.
Even if someone wants to suppress such a great achievement, they can't hold it down. Pei relied on their two favored ministers in the court to move up and down, and in the end, they still managed to block the dazzling military exploits of the broken military camp. Especially in Chen Kefu's report to His Majesty the Emperor, Yu Wenhua and this scumbag were greatly bragged, and Yu Wenhua and He Gao Liang and others added a lot of credit, and after they also counted their share of the labor of breaking through the tens of thousands of troops of Yizhi Wende, Yuwen's gave full help to Chen Kefu who was so good at being a man. With the full efforts of Yu Wenshu, the number one favorite minister in front of the emperor, the credit of Chen Kefu and others is basically a certainty, and no one can cover it up.
For this great achievement, the major families, such as Yuwen Valve, Pei Valve, Li Valve, Xiao Valve, etc., are all going all out to make their own efforts, desperately seeking benefits for their own families. As for what alliances and concessions the major families have made in the middle, Chen Kefu doesn't know, and he doesn't want to know. After returning to Liaodong City, Chen Kefu asked the emperor to replenish the casualties and missing soldiers for the broken military camp.
Yang Guang was very interested in the fact that Chen Kefu was able to defeat tens of thousands of Goguryeo cavalry with 1,000 heavy cavalry, and after learning that Chen Kefu still had 2,000 pairs of armored cavalry in his hand, Yang Guang waved his hand and transferred the elite cavalry from various armies to the broken barracks, raising the number of soldiers in the broken barracks under the command of Chen Kefu to 10,000, and transferring 3,000 elites from them to form heavy cavalry, and the others were light cavalry for the time being.
Although the major forces in the DPRK and China are still fighting for the credit of this great victory, Chen Kefu has devoted all his energy to the integration training of these newly recruited more than 7,000 soldiers. In order to integrate these 10,000 people more quickly, Chen Kefu directly disrupted the more than 7,000 newly transferred soldiers and the original more than 2,000 veterans of the broken barracks. Mix all the veterans of the broken barracks into it, and let many veterans of the broken barracks serve as low-level positions such as captains and captains, in order to integrate this force into an elite cavalry unit like the old broken barracks in the fastest time.
The 3,000 heavy cavalry were divided into fifteen regiments, which were trained in formation in a formation of fifty people, and were divided into sixty squads. All the generals from top to bottom are the generals of the old broken barracks, and the old broken barracks soldiers directly account for one-third of the three thousand people, which is the real trump card unit built by Chen Kefu wholeheartedly. In this duel with the Goguryeo cavalry, Chen Kefu realized that although the hoplites had too many shortcomings and limitations, the role that could be achieved by putting the hoplites on the battlefield would also be decisive when the time was right. Such a force is a strategic force, and if it does not come out, it will be able to play a role in determining the outcome of the battlefield. For such a force, of course, he spent all his energy to form this heavy cavalry unit, anyway, now he is a red man in front of the emperor, what he wants, everyone also gives.
As for the other 7,000 light cavalry, Chen Kefu also scattered all the remaining nearly 2,000 soldiers from the broken barracks, from the grassroots to the middle, middle and upper class generals, all of whom were not from the children of the gate lord family. Although those family gate valves have a lot of opinions about this, Chen Kefu's behavior has been fully supported by Yang Guang. For Yang Guang, now Chen Kefu is the janissary by his side, such a military force, of course he doesn't want those aristocratic families to mix, if all those generals from poor families come to serve as his janitarians, it will make him feel a lot more at ease.
"My lord, all 10,000 soldiers have gathered in the school grounds, please go to the school for review." The old man Li Benlei has been in a very good mood recently, and in his opinion, after this battle, the destruction of Goguryeo is just around the corner, and he can finally avenge his family and country.
Chen Kefu smiled, "The old man has been in good spirits recently, and now I have handed over all the training work of these seven thousand light cavalry to you, and I have to rely on the old man to help in the future." β
"My lord laughed, as long as I contribute to the conquest of Goguryeo, even if I am tired to death, I am willing. However, my lord, now that we have broken the barracks to 10,000 people all of a sudden, and they are still so elite, I estimate that after this meritorious service reward, many people will definitely be placed in, and although there are many people in the barracks, they may not necessarily belong to our commanders. β
Chen Kefu nodded, and now he nominally belongs to the Zuo Beishen Mansion among the four mansions, and is exclusive to the emperor's guards. However, Zuo Beishen Mansion is the emperor's guard, and the emperor naturally can't let his broken military camp become his own broken military camp, and when the time comes, he will definitely send some generals of the same level as Chen Kefu to share his power. This kind of thing is the last thing he wants to accept, if he can't even command this broken military camp at that time, then how can he gain a foothold in this troubled world.
"Let's talk about this later, we can only see the tricks in this regard, if we show too much, it will be a big deal to be caught by Pei Valve and others at that time." For the old man Li Benlei, Chen Kefu never regarded him as an outsider, and Chen Kefu also said these words that were a bit rebellious.
"My lord, this time on the meritorious deeds, the adult must be the first in the meritorious service, the adult is now from the third grade, at least can be promoted to a real position from the third grade, if possible, the adult had better seek a general position of the twelve guards, so that it is much stronger than in the left body." Old man Li Benlei said softly. The four mansions are all guards who have been guarding the emperor's side, and the twelve guards take turns to guard the capital, so it is best to stay away from the core political circle like the capital with a young general like Chen Kefu who has no identity background.
Chen Kefu also agrees with this very much, as far as he knows, the peasant uprising in the Central Plains has caused chaos in the world, even if the Sui army defeats Goguryeo this time, it will not have much effect on the erosion of the Central Plains. The Sui Dynasty was going to fall after all, and at this time he already had some chips in his hands, and he was unwilling to play with Yang Guang no matter what. Now is the time to choose, only by staying away from the political inner circle of the Sui Dynasty can he possibly do what he wants.
"This time, I watched the situation of Goguryeo, although our army won a great victory, but after this defeat, the Goguryeo people will stick to the city even more. In the future, if we want to fight the Goguryeo people in the field, I guess there will be no chance. If the army returns to the court, I will ask Your Majesty to stay in Liaodong, and now we have also laid down a few cities in Liaodong, and it will be much better for us to stay here than to return to the court. β
The old man thought for a while and nodded, "Although it is a little dangerous to stay in Liaodong, it is also a good way, Liaodong is bitter cold, it is estimated that few of the generals from those families are willing to stay, and then the adults will pass through the activities of the Yuwen clan, and it is estimated that there is a great chance of staying." β
The old man is naturally very in favor of staying, he and the Goguryeo people have a great enmity for killing their sons and grandchildren, and if he stays here, he can find the Goguryeo people to continue to take revenge. And Chen Kefu is suffering from the fact that although the Central Plains is large, there is no place for him, the land of the Central Plains has already been carved up by the family lords, and even some barren land has become the territory of the peasant rebels, so it is better to stay in Liaodong, and no one here will come to compete with him, maybe it is a foothold for him.
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