Chapter 245: Night Attack on Chang'an
In the middle of the night, the first snow in eastern Liaodong fell silently.
The sky where the north wind called, and the feathers and snow drifted from the sky one after another, and soon the earth was covered with a layer of snow white. All of a sudden, the whole world seemed to be a snow-white world wrapped in silver makeup.
In the valley under the heavy snow, there are a bunch of small black sè dots, but if you look closely, a group of soldiers and horses are resting here. It could be seen that those soldiers were very tired, and many of them fell asleep in the snow directly in this snow.
In the snow, several people stood solemnly, and a lot of snow had fallen on the black sè's armor.
"It's snowing at this time, it's really unforeseeable, and we're in trouble!"
"No, God is helping us, and with this snow, we're done!" Another general on the side looked up at the sky and said with a happy face.
"Why did General Yu say this? With such heavy snowfall, I am afraid that tomorrow there will be thick snow everywhere, and our march will be difficult, why do you still say that God helps? The stout general at the front asked suspiciously.
Smiling, the general said, "Manager Zhang, you are also from a hunter, when you know that the prey will rarely appear in heavy snowy days, they are all hiding in the hole, this is a good time for us hunters to make a move." You have also seen the letter of the marshal this time, the Liao people actually attacked the city so fiercely, and Liaodong City suffered heavy casualties. That's why the commander urgently ordered us to wait for the cavalry to send troops and horses straight to Pyongyang, this time I will take the training battalion, you will take the reconnaissance battalion, and it will be extremely honorable for us to be sent to carry out this mission. ”
The previous strong man was Daniel Zhang, the commander of the reconnaissance battalion, and when he heard the battle of Liaodong, he also gritted his teeth, hating to tear up the Liao people in Liaodong City. "General Yu is right, damn the Goguryeo, this time they will go straight to Pyongyang, and they will definitely capture their king. However, the heavy snow is affecting the march. ”
The reconnaissance battalion was originally the soldiers and horses of the South Hunan Road cavalry, but the teaching battalion led by Yu Qinming was the soldiers and horses of the cavalry of Mao Yi's North Road. However, after receiving Chen Kefu's letter, the cavalry of the north and south immediately sent one of the most elite cavalry south. There were liaison officers from the Secret Service Division, and they soon met at Yalu Water.
"No, although a snowy day will affect the speed of the march, there will not be too many people outside on such a cold snowy day, and it will not affect our whereabouts. What we want is to rush to Pyongyang, otherwise, even if we have 6,000 elite horsemen, we will not be able to please Pyongyang. ”
Towards dawn, the six thousand elite cavalry who had rested briefly marched again, but this time, all of them had changed their costumes. All the horses were covered with a white leather coat, and the cavalrymen were all covered with a large white cloak.
This was prepared before Yu Qinming came, the weather in eastern Liaodong, and there was a lot of snow in winter. On the other hand, when marching in the snow, it is very easy to be violent. Yu Qinming, who is proficient in the art of war, is naturally like many generals, who can observe the sky and observe the sky. With these many white sè robes and cloaks, the whole army is like a layer of protection, blending in with the snow, and if you don't look at it carefully, it is very good to show this army.
Six thousand cavalry, light one sè light cavalry. And it belongs to the most elite part of the camp in Liaodong, one is the camp reconnaissance battalion, and the army is all elite cavalry. The other training battalion is a training unit given by a lieutenant colonel and lieutenant in rotational training. In addition to the 1,000 officers who were trained at the rank of captain, there were also 3,000 veterans of the government army in the army.
Most of the officers and men in the army, including Yu Qinming and others, were part of the Ninth Army that attacked Pyongyang during the Second Expedition to Liaodong. Where they fall, they will get up, they were defeated and captured last time, and this time they will swear to avenge this in any case.
With these thousands of soldiers full of vengeful flames who had already walked this road as guides, the entire 6,000 rushing cavalry did not take half of the wrong road. Along the way, they went out day and night, picking small paths,
Mountain road.
Every time the team marched, a large number of professional reconnaissance battalion cavalry were sent out to reconnoitre, and 6,000 marchers were ranked, horses and hooves were wrapped, and they marched secretly all the way.
However, after crossing the Sasui, even if you take the hidden mountain road, you will not be able to achieve complete concealment. On the side of the Yalu water, because it already belongs to the forward defense line from Liaodong. Therefore, the surnames, slaves, and nobles of the nearby mountain villages and manors have all withdrawn to the nearby cities, and the walls are clear.
But after passing Sashui, the war in Liaodong had little effect on them. They still live the same, among the countless mountains and forests, there are hidden villages and small tribes one after another, and even between some beautiful mountains and rivers, there are countless noble estates. ,
For everything that can't be avoided, even on the road that must be passed, it is just pedestrians, hunters, villages, and manors, Yu Qinming has only one word. If "kill" is two words, it is "kill all"
Anyone who stands in the way of progress will be killed when he sees people, and he will slaughter the village when he sees him, and he will never leave a trace of violence. In this cold and windy winter, a brutal special march unfolds. For countless nights, those villages that had fallen asleep suddenly rushed to the village with large expanses of swift horses' hooves, and countless Great Sui cavalry broke into the villages. Most of the young men in the village have gone to the front,
At this time, the rest were basically widows, old and young, but none of the Sui army showed mercy to them.
In the face of those weepings and pleading, the Sui army officer coldly ordered, "Don't let a single life go!" "After slaughtering a village, the Sui army would always set a fire at the end and burn it all to the ashes.
In the midst of countless dark nights, one village after another that stood in the way of Qinming's advance was drowned in blood and swallowed into a sea of fire.
Such a day and night army, after burning and killing Sashui all the way, Yu Qinming's troops also arrived in Beishui. And as long as you go downstream along the shell water, there is Pyongyang, the capital of the Goguryeo people.
Once here, it's already a rich plain. It was already very difficult for the Sui army to march as before, especially now that it was wartime, there was still a large population near Pyongyang, and there would always be countless people passing along the roads at any given moment. Even at night, there was a village manor not far away, which made Yu Qinming and the others a little big.
With such a dense population, it is not easy to get through it safely. And if they force their way through like this, then there is at least one day left before Pyongyang, and there is no doubt that all previous efforts will be in vain.
No one thought that it would snowing heavily at this time, and Yu Qinming had already prepared to bring this kind of white sè Fan...... After a whole day of rest in the valley, six thousand men and horses, all fed. In the twilight of yīn, they began to advance towards the city of Pyongyang. On a snowy night, the whole world is still vast and white, and in such a cold weather, everyone closes their doors early and takes refuge in the cold at home.
The six thousand light cavalry were all dressed in large white cloaks, and the war horses were covered with white sè coats, and as they marched, they looked like a large patch of snow moved by the wind.
More than five years after the founding of the country, Goguryeo was originally just a small tribe in Liaodong, but gradually grew stronger, and finally gradually moved south, occupying the Liaodong Peninsula and the southern part of the Samhan Peninsula. The native Samhan tribe was defeated one after another, and one branch that was split from Goguryeo finally formed the Jeguo.
They continued to move south, and almost wiped out the original peoples of Samhan Peninsula. Only Silla, formed by the Samhan tribe, was struggling in the end, and Silla was the ancestor of the Koreans.
Over the past five years, Goguryeo has grown with the development of Goguryeo, and a total of five capitals have been moved. Zhu Méng fled south from his husband Yu to avoid trouble, and in 37 BC (the second year of Emperor Jianzhao of the Han Yuan Dynasty), he established a state in Benchuan and became king. In the negative year of B.C., the city of the bones was built to be the royal capital, which was the first capital of Goguryeo. In 3 A.D. (the first three years of Emperor Ping of Han), due to the strong military pressure of Fuyu in the north and the need to further expand production, King Liuli Ming gave up the old capital and the city of Sugu and moved the capital to the domestic city.
In 209 A.D. (the fourteenth year of Emperor Jian'an of the Han Dynasty), when the king of Goguryeo Mountain was king, he moved the capital to the capital of Maru. However, Maruto Castle is near the domestic castle, and it is the acropolis of the domestic castle, and it belongs to a war fortress, so most of the time it is not called the capital.
In 427 A.D. (the fourth year of the Shiguang of the Northern Wei Dynasty), during the reign of King Changshou of Goguryeo, in order to avoid the threat of the Northern Wei Dynasty and consolidate its power on the Korean Peninsula, the capital of Goguryeo was moved to Pyongyang.
In 586 A.D. (the sixth year of Emperor Wen of Sui), the king of the Goguryeo Plain moved the capital from Pyongyang City to Chang'an City, which was more than ten miles away. Chang'an City is a small city built by the Goguryeo people in imitation of Chang'an Daxing City of the Great Sui
No. 1 knockoff. Within the establishment of the city, the entire palace and officials were moved to Chang'an City. However, Chang'an City is more like a palace than a capital. Therefore, in the title of the Sui Dynasty, the capital of Goguryeo was still called Pyongyang.
In the snowy night, after a day of galloping, six thousand elite riders rushed to the city of Chang'an at dawn. Looking at this city, which was dozens of sizes smaller than Chang'an City of the Great Sui, Yu Qinming smiled disdainfully, the Goguryeo people really painted tigers and did not become anti-dogs. Such a small barbarian country actually wants to imitate the lord of the Central Plains. ,
With a wave of the long knife, the six thousand cavalry Qiqile stopped the horses, and the soldiers who were the best at reconnaissance and special warfare in the reconnaissance battalion all came out of the crowd and quietly rushed straight to Chang'an City. At this time, there were not many people in Chang'an City in the wind and snow. This time, Yizhi Wende and Gao Jianwu sent out the whole army and poured out the country. Even all the soldiers and horses in Pyongyang City were taken away, and all that remained was the 5,000 royal guards in Chang'an City.
Although the city was very empty, King Gao Yuan and Da didn't care about Lu Yuanziyou and the others anymore. In their opinion, the whole army has been deployed to Liaodong to fight, and it is enough to keep 5,000 soldiers and horses in Chang'an City, if Liaodong is defeated, then what is the use of 10,000 or 20,000 more people in Chang'an City? It's better to send it to fight with the Sui people now, and if you win, then there is still hope for everything.
After the troops were transferred, Gao Yuan only symbolized xìng, and transferred 5,000 people from the two cities of Pyongyang and Chang'an to help defend the city. This is more just a procedure, Chang'an City is nearly two thousand miles away from Liaodong City, and there are big cities such as Domestic City, Black Bone City, and Dumaru City in front of it. Daliang water, Yalu water, Sashui, and Beishui are four rivers in a row, if this still allows the Sui army to rush to Chang'an City, then it must be the arrival of the army. If a large army can come, it will inevitably mean that the Northern Expeditionary Army has been destroyed, in that case, no matter how much defense there is, it is useless.
Even the king had this thought, and the soldiers in charge of defending the city were not much better. The Praetorian Guard of the Kingdom is famous, but in fact, there are more of them than those tribal lords and leaders of Goguryeo.
It is composed of the sons and daughters of the lord of the castle and the ministers of the court. First, the royal family is to show favor, and secondly, it is just to take the children of the noble lords of various places as a hostage, and if anyone dares to rebel against the royal family or something, it is also good for them to throw themselves into the trap.
Those elite aristocratic children, such as Gao Jianwu, Yuan Taidi, Yuan Pure Water, and Yuan Pure Land, are basically in their own critical places. Even those tribal leaders, none of them are willing to send the children valued by the family to Chang'an City, so those noble children in the Chang'an City Praetorian Guard basically belong to the kind of noble non-descendants who eat and wait for death, and have no ambitions.
Most of the Praetorian Guards on duty at the head of the city were dozing. The rest, too, were almost three or five together roasting over the fire and drinking and chatting, in their opinion, the war was too far away for them, so far away that maybe they would never have the opportunity to come into contact with it in their lifetime!
In a remote corner, rows of flying cables flew up and tightly buckled to the long wall of Chang'an City. In the vast snowy night, on the wall of Daxing City, one after another white dots are climbing towards the city wall.
The soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion who went up to the city shot crossbow arrows one after another, killing several of the guards on duty, and it was really responsible for more reconnaissance battalion soldiers to go up to the city. In a few moments, the soldiers of the previous reconnaissance battalion had already gone up to the tower, gathered their men, and they were dressed in white cloaks, and rushed straight to the city gate.
The sound of weapons in the snowy night finally sounded, and a miserable howl woke up the guards guarding the city, and countless Janissaries began to rush to this side. It's a pity that before they arrived, the north gate of Chang'an City had been opened, and the suspension bridge had fallen.
Yu Qinming, who had been waiting for a long time, waved his lance, and more than 5,000 elite horsemen shouted, and they rode their horses and galloped wildly, rushing straight to the north gate. On one side are all gentlemen with the name of the Praetorian Guard, and on the other side are the most elite cavalry of the Liaodong Battalion. There are also 3,000 veterans of the Sui army who were once captured and burned with the flame of revenge in the camp. The battle was fierce, but it was one-sided.
The Sui army charged and set fire to the palace at the same time. The raging fire was lit in the snowy night, and the kings built in imitation of the capital of the Great Sui trembled in the flames. Goguryeo King Gao Yuan and Wang Guoda Lu Yuanziyou and others all woke up in their sleep, panicked!
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