Chapter One Hundred and Five
Bailikang's intention of ordering Li Jianxun to hold Luzhou was to prevent the 30,000 Bohai Navy from going south.
On August 15, the day of the meeting between Baili Wuji and Chai Rongyanzhou, Baili Kang led 50,000 Liao troops to attack Kaizhou, which was by no means a tentative attack, but a decisive battle. This is in line with the character of Bailikang, if you don't make a sound, it will be a blockbuster.
When Bailikang led the army to cross the Yalu River, Liaoyang Prefecture had already detected that there was an abnormality in Goryeo, and the 40,000 Xi troops stationed in Liaoyang Mansion were stationed in Kaizhou with 20,000 troops to prevent the Goryeo army from attacking.
This is often the case in wars, where the first to strike will always take advantage, and those who fight in someone else's country will also take advantage.
If the 40,000 Xi army does not divide the army, Bailikang is really not easy to get, the combat power of the Xi army is by no means inferior to Yelu Jing's leather room army, but the tribe personnel are not as prosperous as the Khitan people, and they can be placed under the rule of the Khitan people, which is like the Su Mo Ya tribe, which is the ancestor of the Jurchen tribe in the future, and it is also because the people are not prosperous that they are ruled by the Khitan people.
Although the predecessor of the Liao Army was the reorganization of the Ming Army stationed in Goryeo and Dongying, Baili Wuji did not equip the garrison with muskets and artillery, and only equipped the garrison with grenades and mines for the sake of safety.
Therefore, the ordnance of the Liao army was not much higher than that of the Xi army.
Fortunately, because of the strength of the Ming Kingdom in these years, Baili Wuji has added enough war horses to the Bailikang Department, and after the whole training of Bailikang in recent years, the Liao army can carry out this decisive battle with the Xi army.
Bailikang led an army of 50,000 to the outside of Kaizhou, and the Xi army was already in array.
There are no second words. The two sides began a fierce fight.
Bai Likang first asked the 20,000 Liao army to fiercely attack the Xi army in array.
At the beginning, the Xi army only had 10,000 people to fight, and 10,000 people stayed in Kaizhou City, but they could face the attack of 20,000 people from the Liao army. Obviously, he couldn't stand it anymore, so he had to attack with the whole army to hold the line.
The battle lasted from the morning until dark, when both sides withdrew their troops. It was almost a life for a life, and on the first day, Bailikang's Liao army suffered 6,700 casualties.
After the truce, the Xi army felt the strength of the opponent and sent a letter of help to Liaoyang Mansion. After receiving the police, Liaoyang Mansion sent 10,000 troops on the one hand, and asked for help from Shangjing on the other.
At night. Bai Likang calmly faced the battle damage figures reported by the generals, and gave the order for a night attack.
Kaizhou City was a small city that could not accommodate too many Liao troops, and Bailikang seized on this. Fang Cai ordered the 20,000 troops of the Liao army to carry out a fierce attack on the Xi army during the day. In order to consume the body of the soldiers of the Xi army.
Now, the price of 6,700 casualties has been paid, and the night attack is the opportunity for Bailikang to harvest.
He ordered the army to rest during the day, and Bai Likang personally led 20,000 Liao troops to carry out a night attack on Kaizhou City, in addition to the war knife, he ordered the soldiers to carry only grenades and gunpowder, Bai Likang decided to break through Kaizhou City.
Ugly for three moments. It is the time when people need sleep the most, after the order for the night attack is given. The 20,000 Liao troops did not advance in secret, but slowly advanced with great fanfare, each holding a torch, and lined up in a thousand columns and twenty rows of phalanxes, all advancing towards Kaizhou City.
It's a momentum, an overwhelming momentum. Bai Likang knew that the defenders in Kaizhou City were tired, so he chose to use momentum to defeat the enemy.
The soldiers of the Xi army were already familiar with their sleep, and after the vigilant sentries and the patrolling defenders gave warnings, they all blinked with relief, got up reluctantly, and finally finished the formation.
At this time, the Liao army had already advanced to the city.
When the commander of the Xi clan sees the appearance of the soldiers, how can he go out of the city to fight the enemy again? had to order the city to be defended to the death, and the enemy was repelled with bows and crossbows.
This gave the Liao army the opportunity to blast the city gate, which was in the hands of Bailikang.
The corners of Bai Likang's mouth, which was caught in the team, twitched slightly, and a sneer flashed, and he ordered the Liao army to organize the destruction of the city.
Blasting with gunpowder was the strength of the Ming army, and the predecessor of the Liao Army was the adaptation of the Ming Army, so a landslide broke the ground and broke the city again.
Bailikang is not afraid of the honor of a famous general, he has won more with less and stronger with the weak several times, and has also caused controversy several times, and was even named a "fierce general" by the soldiers of the Ming army. But his record will always be a benchmark that the generals of the Ming State cannot reach.
The battle of Bailikang's fame was the first battle of the Jianning Gorge of the Chu State, and more than 7,000 soldiers, a wheel artillery battalion, and a cavalry battalion under the jurisdiction of Bailikang completely annihilated the 30,000 Jingjiang troops of the Chu army, captured more than 18,000 people, including more than 6,000 wounded, and beheaded Ma Xizhan, the envoy of the Jingjiang Jiedu. He lost 3,700 of his own casualties, 900 seriously wounded, and more than 100 lightly wounded, and the whereabouts of the rest are unknown.
In the end, the special operations captured more than 18,000 people of the Jingjiang Army with more than 1,100 people.......
Now Bailikang led 50,000 troops to conquer the Liao, and once again annihilated the 20,000 Xi army, which was known for its toughness, at the cost of 6,700 lives, and none of them slipped through the net.
With his usual ruthlessness, he killed every Xi soldier who was still alive in the city.
Bailikang is not a person who likes to kill, but as he said, my dream is to live a quiet and humble life, but if someone wants to stop me from living like this, then kill all the people who stop me, and then live a quiet and humble life.
Bai Likang ordered to repair in the city of Kaizhou in the whole army, he is not as radical as Yunyang, nor as calm as Ma Jiyun, he has the characteristics of a Confucian general, and likes to grasp human nature. Bai Likang believes that although the city of Kaizhou has fallen, the Liao army will never be afraid because of this, and will definitely fight back to Kaizhou.
Brilikang was right. In the afternoon of the next day, an army of 10,000 sent from Liaoyang Prefecture came to the outside of Kaizhou City.
Bailikang immediately opened the north gate and met the Xi army with 10,000 Liao troops, and privately, the 20,000 troops of the Liao army, which had already been ambushed in the east and west five miles outside Kaizhou City, quickly closed to the rear of the Xi army.
As a result, the 10,000-strong Xi army was easily annihilated again.
At this time, Bailikang issued an order to immediately march to Liaoyang Mansion. He knew that since Liaoyang Mansion only sent 10,000 troops to reinforce it, presumably Liaoyang Mansion's troops were already stretched, and he took advantage of his illness to kill him.
More than 40,000 cavalry of the Liao army marched day and night, and after a day, except for a small number of soldiers who fell behind, the rest were all assembled outside the city of Liaoyang.
At this time, the Xi army, which had never had a conversation with the Ming army, made the same mistake again and defended the city.
But then again, if you don't defend the city, you can't escape the fate of the fall of Liaoyang Mansion, after all, with 10,000 against more than 40,000, such a battle can only be fought by a ruthless person like Bailikang. (To be continued......)