Chapter 174

The corpses on the Yalu River have long since disappeared, and if they were not, the decay of the corpses might have caused a plague.

The Liao army and the Fusang army confronted each other across the river, but did not start a battle for several months.

It is not that the war is really over, on the contrary, it has escalated, and it is now the calm before the storm.

After three months of training, the mud legs that had just been recruited from the fields had become soldiers, and there was nothing left to train again, because the best training was combat.

Toyotomi Shixu ordered Toyotomi Shouren to lead an army of 120,000 troops to forcibly cross the river and attack Tongzhou, which had quietly landed at that time.

And he led an army of 200,000 to cross the Yalu River and recover Laiyuancheng.

Leaving 130,000 troops to garrison along the river.

This is often the case in wars, when it is necessary to quickly assemble forces, and whoever is fast has the upper hand.

By the time the Fusang army had completed its training, the Liao army's newly recruited 200,000-strong army had just begun to assemble near Shangjing.

At this time, Toyotomi Shixu launched the second war to attack Liao in the north.

At the sound of an order, more than 300,000 Fusang troops quickly launched a battle to cross the river at Yizhou and Luzhou at both ends of the Yalu River.

Many of the soldiers of the Fuso Army did not have boats, so they used a few people to support a log or a door panel and swim across the other side.

Although the cavalry of the Liao army is strong, but with cavalry defense, the combat power is not good, although the arrows have caused great damage to the Fusang army, but the soldiers of the Fusang army are overwhelming, only 20,000 cavalry Yelu Jing Department and only 30,000 Yelu Wu Department have no strength to block the entire river.

And once there is a breakthrough somewhere in the middle of the river, it is only a matter of time before it collapses.

Jereh and Jeremiah understood this. So, after destroying a group of Fuso troops with arrows, the two immediately ordered the withdrawal of the army.

Yelujing withdrew to Liaoyang Mansion. And Yelu withdrew to Tongzhou.

Since then, the Fusang army has successfully crossed the Yalu River at the cost of losing more than 20,000 people.

Then he followed the Liao army and swept away.

In the pitiful city, 50,000 soldiers of the Fusang Army escaped alive, and the number was less than 8,000.

I have to say that the vitality of the Fuso people is indeed tenacious. And the willpower is even stronger.

Surrounded by enemy troops like this, he was able to hold out for months without surrendering, but. Perhaps they know that even if they surrender, they will still die.

Four days later, Yelujing successfully withdrew into Liaoyang City. The 8,000 cavalry of the Yeluwu Division successfully withdrew into Tongzhou City, but the more than 20,000 infantry of the Yeluwu Division were tightly bitten by the Fusang army.

Jeruya saw that he could no longer shake off the enemy. Only a strong man can break his wrist. He ordered the Liao army, which had been bonded with the Fusang army, to defend on the spot, and he withdrew to Tongzhou City with 10,000 Liao troops who had broken away from the Fusang army.

The defeat was like a mountain, and at this time, no matter how many cavalry there were, they could not stop the surprise attack of the Fusang army.

The battle was fought with momentum, and the Liao army that was left behind no longer dared to surrender to the Fusang army, except for desperate resistance, the only way out was to enter the field.

After only half an hour of resistance, more than 10,000 Liao troops, except for half were killed. The rest are scattered like birds and beasts, and they are submerged in the mountains and forests.

Thereupon. Toyotomi Morihito ordered the Fuso army to besiege the castle of Tongshu.

At this time, Toyotomi Shixu also surrounded Liaoyang Mansion and launched several attacks.

The two armies had their own injuries, and the casualties of the Fusang army were larger, which was normal, and the defenders naturally took advantage.

But it still couldn't capture Liaoyang Mansion.

The news that the Fusang army besieged Liaoyang and Tongzhou shook the Liao court in Shangjing, and the distance from Tongzhou to Shangjing and Liaoyang to Shangjing was the same.

It is a matter of the survival of the Liao State, and the civil and military ministers of the Liao State have united as never before.

Dropped the previous cup and began to be unanimous with the outside world.

Even the Empress Dowager Shuluping, who was sent to Zuzhou (now southwest of Inner Mongolia and Balin Zuoqi) for house arrest, also sent a letter to Yelujing, asking for the same hatred.

As a result, 200,000 new Liao soldiers were quickly assembled.

At this time, Toyotomi Shixu and Toyotomi Shouren launched a battle to the death against Liaoyang and Tongzhou respectively.

The so-called battle to the death is to die if you can't conquer it, to die if you don't do it, and to die if you retreat.

Human life, at this point, is just a number.

The minions still spare their lives, but the Fuso soldiers don't know what their lives are.

Tongzhou City, which was the first to be broken, although Yelu was an old minister with deep influence and prestige, his previous move of abandoning more than 10,000 soldiers had deeply indignant the Liao soldiers.

Toyotomi Shouren did not use any stratagem, nor did he need to use stratagem, what he wanted was to attack from all sides, he knew that his task was not victory, but the dead, the person who died the most, this person was a Liao person, and he was also a Fuso person, and only the most dead people could make the Liao State and the Fuso State make enemies, and form a mortal enemy that could never be broken down.

Therefore, the only order given by Toyotomi Shixu before the war was only two words: "attack".

110,000 Fusang soldiers poured into Tongzhou City like a tide from the four directions of Tongzhou City.

There were not enough ladders, so some soldiers of the Fuso Army used bamboo poles, long logs, or even ladders to climb towards the city wall.

Fortunately, the city wall of Tongzhou City is only more than one zhang high, otherwise, even if it is allowed to climb by the Fusang army, the Fusang army will not be able to climb it.

No one cares about people's lives or deaths, or even their own lives and deaths.

The only thing in the mind is to kill each other, kill each other.

In the city of Tongzhou, Yelu Wuzhi only had 8,000 cavalry and more than 10,000 infantry to defend the city.

In just half an hour, the southern city wall of Tongzhou was broken, and then, the south gate was opened, like mercury pouring into the ground, tens of thousands of Fusang troops broke into Tongzhou City in an instant, so the remaining three city gates were broken one after another.

In the dense Fusang army encirclement array, Yelu Wuzhi had no possibility of breaking through at all.

With the fall of Tongzhou City, Yelu was also captured.

And Toyotomi Morihito didn't even look at Yeruya and left.

As a result, Yelu Wuzhi didn't even have time to plead or beg for mercy, and his head was cut off by the soldiers of the Fuso Army who couldn't understand him at all.

The 20,000 Liao troops guarding Tongzhou City have not left a single living mouth so far.

Toyotomi Morihito ordered the Fuso army to rest at Tongju Castle for one night, and set out early the next morning to attack Longhua Prefecture.

And Toyotomi Shixu, who besieged Liaoyang, did not have such good luck as Toyotomi Shouren.

Liaoyang Mansion was originally a military town, and the city wall was as high as three zhang, and it was thick.

Although Toyotomi Shixu had prepared enough ladders, he was never able to break through Liaoyang City.

The Fuso army had launched eleven sieges in one day, with more than 30,000 dead and wounded.

Although there are only 40,000 cavalry in Liaoyang City, and after defending the city today, there have been many casualties.

Toyotomi Shixu had no choice but to order the siege to rest.

Toyotomi Shixu misses the mine gunpowder too much, if there were these at this time, Liaoyang City would have been blown up a long time ago, and now the problem is not the number of soldiers, but the inability to find a breakthrough. (To be continued......)