Chapter 858: The First Step to Occupy North Korea
Gongsun Kang had to tear his heart out, because he listened to what Lu Xun and the others meant just now.
It was not enough to rob his entire navy and sack half of his eastern Liaodong county, but also to capture the four counties of Han, that is, the territory of the former Manchurian Korea.
How can this not make Gongsun Kang heartbreaking.
Because his navy has been completely destroyed, if he sets off from here and reaches the Yalu River, it will take at least half a month. In addition, not counting the time to mobilize grain and grass and infantry troops.
After all, if it is a protracted war, it must be assisted by foot soldiers and provided with food. On the contrary, Lu Xun and they have sea boats, as long as they turn a corner, they will be Lelang County.
If Lu Xun first captured Lelang County, then captured a small half of Xuansu County, and a small part of Liaodong County, he could cut off the Yalu River and use his infantry against his cavalry.
Moreover, since the Chu army is here, it will continue to come. With the strength of Yan Kingdom, how can it compete with it? Now let alone the capture of the large southern islands, even if it is the capture of Samhan, it is impossible to move the capital to Pyongyang.
How does this not tear Gongsun Kang's heart apart?
"Father, what shall we do now?" Gongsun Yuan next to him said.
"Raise troops, raise troops, we must not let the Chu army gain a firm foothold, even if there is a glimmer of hope, Lone will compete with him for the four counties of Han." Gongsun Kang's face turned hideous when he heard this.
"No."
Gongsun Yuan promised when he heard this.
Immediately, Gongsun Kang and his son led 50,000 cavalry back to Xiangping and prepared to go to the horse infantry army.
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On the other hand, after Lu Xun and Gongsun Kang's father and son staggered in Xiping, Yang Fan immediately came to Lelang County.
Lelang is the hinterland, and Gongsun Kang is not stationed here. Therefore, as soon as the army of Chu arrived, the cities along the road heard the wind and surrendered. Lu Xun and the others captured Lelang at a terrifying speed.
Joseon Town.
At this moment, it has been officially captured by the Chu army. The handsome flag of the word "Chu" was also hung on the head of the city, and this time it was definitely not a short capture, looting or anything.
It's a real occupation.
The forces of the Chu State will be centered on Joseon County, radiating a land of about four or five counties. Equivalent to a state.
At this moment, in the Taishou Mansion of North Korea County, Lu Xun had just appeased the Taishou and officials in this area, and summoned Lu Mengfang Dao to discuss major matters.
"Now North Korea has been taken. Lelang is basically occupied. The rest is to lead the army as soon as possible to capture the first part of Liaodong, the first part of Xuansu, occupy the Yalu River system, and Yang Fan to block the army of Gongsun Kang. ”
Lu Xun said in high spirits.
To be honest, it is also their luck, it is summer, the banks of the Yalu River are surging, if the cavalry of the ice and snow on the river can gallop through in winter, it will be a disaster.
And now the Chu army still has about 32,000 combat strength, and when it attacked Yecheng, it was 3,000 or 4,000 people who were injured. With just a little time, you can recover 34,500 combat strength.
Coupled with the nearly 20,000 troops that surrendered from Gongsun Kang, there were about 55,000 troops.
Therefore, after Lu Xun pondered for a while, he immediately said to Fang Dao: "General Fang, you should lead three thousand sailors to return to Chu as soon as possible with one hundred and fifty large ships and ask Lord Situ for help." ”
Both then and now. Lu Xun knew that according to their strength, they could only stop Gongsun Kang for a while, so mobilizing reinforcements was the first priority.
"No."
Fang Dao also knew this truth, so he readily agreed.
After answering, he turned and walked out. After seeing Fang Dao leave, Lu Xun turned his head to Lu Meng and said, "Ziming, please lead an army of 20,000 to capture the first part of Liaodong and the first part of Xuansu, and occupy the Yalu River." Then the troops were divided into three routes and armed. In the area of the Yalu River, build beacon towers. ”
The beacon tower transmits the news, as long as Gongsun Kang lands from somewhere, as soon as the beacon is lit, the army can hear the wind and resist.
"In this way, the general's army is only 12,000 left, but he has to control 20,000 surrendered troops?" Lu Meng was a little worried when he heard this.
"Don't worry about that.
I plan to divide the materials seized from Liaodong and Yecheng this time, including gold and silver, to those surrendered troops, and then buy land to collect their hearts. Lu Xun said with a smile.
"Promise heavy profits." Hearing this, Lu Meng nodded and put his mind at ease.
In troubled times, the general loyalty of the army is very small. For example, Liu Zhang's part, only Zhang Ren, Yan Yan and others can be regarded as loyal and brave generals.
The rest are much worse.
And they surrendered the Yan team, killed the main general, and then reorganized. In fact, it can barely be regarded as a Chu army, but after all, it has no military heart.
If they promise heavy profits, they will also work hard to protect the benefits they have obtained. There won't be any problems in the short term. And Lu Xun only needs to do it in a short time.
As long as this period of time is passed, when Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin and others are killed, Gongsun Kang will be a piece of cake.
Immediately, Lu Meng said goodbye and left.
After sitting alone for a while, Lu Xun waved his hand and said, "Beat the drum and accumulate the army." ”
"No." The soldiers made a promise, and after a few moments, the drums vibrated to the beating, but it was the army that had gathered outside the city. Lu Xun also put on his armor and walked out.
Outside the city, in a large open space, countless tents have been erected at this moment. Fang Dao and Lu Meng had already led their respective armies to carry out their missions.
Now there are only more than 9,000 Chu troops with complete combat strength, as well as three or four thousand wounded Chu troops, and finally 20,000 Yan troops surrendered.
It is indeed a little difficult to rule an army of 20,000 with an army of 10,000.
Soon, Lu Xun came to the school yard and stood on the platform, and for the first time, Lu Xun felt a little change in the army.
Although Fang Dao and Lu Meng each led the departure of the army, the deterrent power was reduced, so that the former Yan State troops seemed to have raised their momentum slightly.
There's a bit of unruliness.
Lu Xunq was already aware of it, so he was not at a loss at this time, but calmly turned his head and said to the soldiers next to him: "Bring the gold and silver money over." ”
"No." The soldier said yes and immediately went down.
In fact, Lu Xun's party looted a lot of baggage in Yecheng, which was not necessarily gold and silver money, such as cloth could also exist as circulating currency.
Normally, the king's reward of cloth would be given along with gold and silver.
But obviously Lu Xun didn't have confidence in these soldiers, and he still felt that he would use gold and silver coins as an impact force to impact these soldiers to serve him.
With Lu Xun's order, soon a cartload of gold, silver, copper coins, etc. was pulled over, and there was no box loading and no cover.
Just like that, a car full of gold and silver was transported.
The soldiers of Chu were quite calm, after all, a large part of the gold and silver was carried by them personally. But the soldiers of the Yan Kingdom were not so calm, and countless people's eyes glowed green.
"Our Chu State Kou Jun is not the Duke of Yan State, he has clear rewards and punishments, and he is bold and generous. I will definitely not treat the soldiers badly. Here's a bit of gold and silver. and so on captured the cities of Samhan and plundered their land, population, and women. I will play the king, and leave you a great inheritance. Lu Xun took a few steps forward, holding the hilt of the Chu knife at his waist with his left hand and said loudly.
Lu Xun is a royal person, and he generally does not kill Han people. Even if he ordered to rob the rich, he would stop at the end of the order. Lu Xun was originally from the scholar clan, of course he was not an enemy of the rich, he just didn't have enough baggage and didn't do it before he set up the army.
However, for the disposal of foreign races, at present, the whole Chu State is affected by Kou Feng, and most of them are mainly based on root extermination. Now in order to be able to rule the whole of Korea.
Lu Xun can also raise a butcher's knife and slaughter a large number of Sanhan men and women to supply these soldiers, forming a community of interests and rallying the hearts of the army in a short time. So as to obtain the capital to fight with Gongsun Kangying.
Lu Xun's voice just fell. The soldiers of the Yan Kingdom all started to talk about it.
Many soldiers couldn't believe their eyes, they had just surrendered, and they had gold to take? Moreover, Lu Xun also promised to destroy Sanhan in order to buy them an industry, women.
What a wonderful thing that is.
In the past, Gong Beikang was also a person who could lead the army to pacify some ethnic minorities, but what Gong Chop practiced was the way of benevolence and righteousness, and it was generally based on appeasement.
Never so naked to Lu Xun that he wanted to slaughter Samhan Fortress to leave women and land.
Most of the soldiers who eat food are bitter haha. Especially the army of the Yan State, they did not have a strong cohesion like the Chu team, and they were motivated by Aidai Kou Feng to carry out the conquest.
And when Kuhaha meets beautiful women and money, he loses his mind, and his cheeks change
Therefore, all of a sudden, the eyes of the army of nearly 20,000 people were red.
"I am willing to serve the State of Chu, and I am willing to be loyal to the King of Chu." I don't know who shouted first.
The words spread quickly, and finally formed a loud sound. The morale, which was originally sluggish, also reached its peak all of a sudden.
"Okay." Lu Xun shouted hello, and his face showed joy.
But the soldiers had apparently fallen into some kind of frenzy, and they kept chanting, chanting, and chanting, with no intention of stopping.
Lu Xun frowned a little, it seemed too much.
"Drumming." Lu Xun ordered.
"No." The soldiers agreed, quickly stepped down from the platform, and passed the order down. A moment later, the drums in the camp vibrate.
muffled the shouts of the soldiers and silenced them.
After a few moments, the beating of the drums stopped.
"Probably, the matter, as I said before, is by no means false, but there is one thing that should be explained beforehand. Before attacking Sanhan, it was necessary to attack Zhenban and Lintun two counties first, where most of them were Han people. There must be no offense in the slightest, or I will order them all to be killed, no matter how many people there are. In addition, after entering Samhan, he also let go of the Han people when he encountered them, and if he wanted to kill them, he only killed the people of Samhan. Lu Xun's voice sounded, not very majestic.
But it's a biting chill. At least these soldiers of the Yan Kingdom are very cold.
If you rob and kill Han Min. No matter how many people are killed, even if it is 10,000, 20,000. The soldiers of the Yan Kingdom did not have the slightest suspicion.
Because Chu Jun is such a strong pill
Although now the Chu army seems to have divided its troops, there are not many of them. But the two sides clashed, and these Yan troops were very clear that they were not opponents.
Therefore, these soldiers deeply remembered that Yu Hanmin wanted to fall without committing any crimes. The people of Sanhan are free to do so.