The next day, Deng She summoned Yang Wanhu and inquired in detail about the military situation in South Goryeo.

The progress of the Haidong tribes is roughly as follows:

First, Zhao Guo took control of the Gyeonggi region. Second, the Wenhua Ministry of the Western Front is like a bamboo all the way, and it is expected that it will arrive in Wangjing within ten days. Third, because most of the troops in South Goryeo were concentrated on the eastern front, Monk Lee's troops had the greatest resistance. Despite this, firstly, because the king of Goryeo was captured, the heart of the Li army was shaken, and the army had no fighting spirit, and secondly, Wenhuaguo and Zhao Guo echoed each other from afar, which contributed to the momentum. Therefore, the progress of Monk Li's department is not too slow, and in more than ten days, three or four county towns have been conquered.

The situation in various parts of South Goryeo is as follows:

After the initial chaos, the important ministers and clans stationed in various places formed two different opinions. Some people thought that they should take advantage of the fact that the Haidong army had not yet met and Zhao Guobu's foothold was not stable, immediately gathered the army, played the banner of King Qin, launched a counterattack, and recovered Wang Jing.

Others believe that the Haedong army is now in full swing, and that the main forces of Goryeo are attracted by the Monk Lee, and that Jeolla and Gyeongsang provinces in the south are taking care of themselves because they are being harassed by the Japanese invaders. Relying solely on those hastily assembled new troops, lack of training and no experience, they are obviously not Haidong's opponents, even if they rush ducks to the shelves and fight Wang Jing hard, I am afraid that they will be more likely to die.

At the same time, since the king of Goryeo had fallen into the hands of the enemy, the snake could not be headless, so they proposed that a new king should be established again, and use it as a call to rally the scattered army, first to maintain the stability of Jeolla and Gyeongsang provinces, and then to talk about the restoration of the king's capital.

These two factions, one main offensive and the other main defensive, are-for-tat, and there is no room for relaxation. It can be expected that under the situation of the Haidong army's united heart and rapid advance, their quarrels with each other can only cause internal divisions and further weaken their remaining strength, which is of no other use.

In Zhao Guo's briefing, he also specifically mentioned the Japanese people. Combined with the secret report sent by Liu Yang earlier, the situation of the Japanese is as follows:

Soon after Zhao Guo conquered Wangjing, Shiro Nagano and Fujimitsuhide led their brigade south and joined the battle between the Japanese division and the main force of the Goryeo naval army. The Japanese did have a set of water warfare, especially the Songpu Party, which was famous in the Japanese country. If they did not destroy the Goryeo naval army, they would not be able to obtain the islands of Jeolla Province and Tamna, and their own interests were involved, and their battles were also very fierce. It won't be long before the final victory can be achieved.

In this regard, Liu Yang analyzed:

"At present, there are not only Japanese soldiers in the Japanese army, but also the participation of the Hizen Matsuura Party Headquarters. There is no lack of reason why they were able to win several battles against the Goryeo naval army. Moreover, according to the observation of the last general, in addition to the sailors in his army, there have been many foot soldiers recently, and many small islands in the southern seas have been occupied by him.

"Shiro Nagano is becoming more and more arrogant and uncontrollable. How to deal with it, please plan early. ”

What to do? Deng She didn't need to plan, he was prepared. It's just that the time is not now, so I can't bear it for the time being. After learning about the specific situation in South Goryeo, Deng She adjusted the original deployment slightly. Corresponding countermeasures have been taken.

He ordered, first of all, Monk Li to firmly attract the main force of Goryeo in front of him. Secondly, the Wenhua State Department should speed up the attack, quickly open the road with Wang Jing, and then, without going south, that is, turn to the eastern front, cooperate with Monk Li's army, completely encircle the main force of Goryeo, and strive for total annihilation.

At the same time, Zhao Guobu must firmly control the Gyeonggi region in his hands, and if the Li army comes to attack, it is only allowed to defend and not attack. After the Wenhua Ministry annihilated the main force of Goryeo on the Eastern Front, it could go south again and besiege the city to send reinforcements. In this way, once the main force of Goryeo is destroyed and the main battle faction is destroyed, the southern provinces will basically have no strength, and it will be determined in the near future.

On the whole, the Haidong army completely has the upper hand, and the situation is very good.

Deng She's gaze turned to Liaodong.

Unlike the frequent and invincible good news in South Goryeo, the Haidong army on the three fronts of Liaoyang, Luyang, and Liaoxi was in the midst of a bitter battle. Although Yao Haogu took the line of Shangdu and persuaded Cheng Sizhong through the envoy, after all, Shangdu was far away from Liaoyang, and he had to pass through a period of Mengyuan-controlled area in the middle, and his reinforcements had not yet arrived.

The Jurchen cavalry in Guanbei had just crossed the Yalu River a few days ago. Stimulated by this, Nahachu increased the intensity of his attack even though he didn't let them go, he had fought Liaoyang once before, and the terrain was very familiar. There are not many people in Liaoyang City, and Chen Hu has some difficulty coping with it.

Pan Cheng received the support of grain, grass and ordnance from Shenyang, and concentrated all his efforts to attack Luyang day and night. He wanted to open up the road to Liaoxi. If Luyang is captured by him, then the Liaoxi defense line in Yizhou and other places will fall into a situation where the enemy is on the back of the enemy. Once Liaoxi is lost, let Shijiabao's army enter Liaodong and go out with Pan Cheng and Naha, and their three forces will come together, and Liaodong will be in danger.

Guan Shirong, who took over from Qingqianxing to garrison western Liaoning, personally led a military horse back to Luyang. The defense of the front line in western Liaoning therefore fell on Guan Shirong's deputy and Li Ye, the commander of Anton.

Li Ye's Anton Command Division was one of the five officials in front of Deng She's account. In this decisive battle against Goryeo, Deng She transferred most of the five yamen to Haidong and allocated them to Wenhuaguo and Zhao Guo. However, because he was well aware of the importance of the Liaoxi defensive line, he basically did not use the Andong Command Division to defend this defensive line.

In other words, in the entire Liaodong battlefield, the most elite team is now Li Ye's department.

Li Ye's defense is divided into two lines. With Huihe and Wuping as the sharpest, the first line of defense was arranged, and after Wuping, between Sichuan and Yizhou, a second line of defense was arranged along the Daling River. So far, Sajiabao's army has not broken through Huihe. Li Ye personally went to the front line and commanded.

Huihe Chengtou.

With a "bang", a bucket of cold water fell down. Li Ye was shirtless, shook his head twice, shook off the water droplets on his hair, exclaimed, "Another bucket!" "The two soldiers built a small high platform out of bricks, stones, and wooden planks, and stood on it, carrying a large vat more than half a man high, and dumping it again.

It's March, and the morning in Liaodong is still cool.

The bucket was filled with well water, and the temperature was very low. The cool breeze after the rain blew and aroused goosebumps all over Li Ye's body. The soldiers on the side couldn't help but shudder when they saw it, but Li Ye didn't feel cold, it seemed like a rare enjoyment.

For some time, Sajiabao seemed to have gone crazy, and he continued to attack day and night. At most times, four or five attacks can be launched in a day. He hadn't closed his eyes much for five or six days in a row, and two hours ago, he had just repelled another night attack by Shi Jiabao. The cold water of the well flowed down his body, spreading in all directions, and the blood left on the head of the city by the blood of the enemy and our soldiers gradually turned from clear to dark red, like a bubbling red stream, which flowed into the drainage channel, soaked the city walls, and flowed out of the city.

Outside the city, the moat has long been filled with family treasures.

Just between the moat and the city wall, within a radius of one or two miles, the stones thrown by the trebuchet smashed into one deep pit after another, and inside and outside the pits, many corpses of soldiers lay horizontally and vertically. There were those of the Yuan army and those of the Haidong army. There are those who have died in battle, and there are those who have been dead for many days. Stumps and broken arms abound, and they are everywhere.

Swarms of flies, buzzing around it. If you get closer, you can even see maggots, crawling on the face and wounds of the deceased who have never looked at them. But that's not even the most horrible of all. On the four city walls, Li Ye ordered people to insert hundreds of bamboo poles, and at the top of each bamboo pole, the head of a Yuan soldier was hung, or a broken arm or a broken hand.

When the wind blows, the hair flies, and the blood is bloody, which makes people almost sick.

The vertical pole at the head of the city, the trick of hanging the head to deterre, Li Ye learned it from Deng She. In the previous battles in Haidong, Deng She collected a lot of Goryeo and Mengyuan prisoners, and he was often afraid of death and did not dare to go to the former before the battle. At this time, Dunshe would order the warlords to cut off the heads of those who had retreated from the battle, hang them high on poles, and place them in front of the charging army as an example.

The effect was very good, not only to inspire the fear of the soldiers, but also to fight out of fear; And it can give the enemy a great deterrent and disintegrate their fighting spirit.

Just imagine: an army charges, and it is not the soldiers who rush to the front, but the hideous-looking human heads. Moreover, the head is not the enemy's, but their own. What kind of impression does this make? Fugitive. Before the engagement, the opponent's courage weakened a little.

Most of the heads hung on the city of Huihe were fallen soldiers of the Yuan army, and some were taken prisoner.

You can't just defend the city, and there is no city without wilderness. Pure defense cannot last, and the morale of the army will be unstable sooner or later. In order to boost morale, Li Ye organized several small counterattacks, successfully touched the camp of Shijiabao, and captured some prisoners. He felt that leaving them would only waste food, and after torture, he cut them all.

After flushing several large buckets of cold water in a row, Li Ye took a towel and wiped it clean. The soldiers sent him armor and helped him put it on. He glanced in the direction of the big camp of Shijiabao outside the city, it was not too far away, the horn could be heard, and among the layers of camp tents, there were several large flags, which were fluttering in the wind.

This time, Shi Jiabao brought most of the troops in Daning City, about 20,000 people, and occupied an absolute advantage in terms of troops.

"On the Luyang side, hasn't Guan Shuai's messenger come back yet?"

"Nope."

Every morning, when there is no fighting, there are routine small military gatherings. The officers of more than 100 households in the city arrived in droves and gathered around Li Ye. Hearing the conversation between Li Ye and his own soldiers, someone had a worried face and said, "General." Guan Shuai has been gone for three or four days, and there has been no news. Our Anton Commander has ten thousand troops, and he took four of them. After one fierce battle after another, my Huihe's troops have gradually felt insufficient, if Guan Shuai can't relieve the siege of Luyang as soon as possible and come back in time? ......, the offensive of this Tartar is getting more and more fierce. ”

Anton commanded the Division, under the jurisdiction of ten thousand households.

Four were arranged along the Daling River, one each for Huihe and Wuping. The four that Guan Shirong took away were originally reserves. As soon as the reserve was taken away by him, there was no longer half of the army available for maneuvering on the front line of western Liaoning. In order to cope with Shijiabao's increasingly urgent offensive, Li Ye had already transferred Wuping's Qianhu Office to support Huihe.

"Wuping has become an empty city. General, if Huihe can't keep it, the first line of defense of our army will be declared lost, and we can only retreat to the second line. At that time, there is no way to retreat, and if there is a slight mistake,......, situation will be critical. ”

Li Ye was silent for a moment. There were two thousand houses in the city of Huihe, a total of twenty centurions, and four new faces came to participate in the military conference the day before yesterday, six yesterday, and nine today. The old face who didn't come was obviously dead. The new faces were replaced, some of them were originally deputy hundreds, and some were originally just ten masters. Because the 100 households and deputy 100 households of the team died one after another, they were promoted to fill their positions in the line of fire.

-- Haidong military system, the main post is killed, the deputy is replaced, the deputy is killed, the head of the first team of the headquarters is replaced, and so on.

From the loss rate of the officers, the casualties of the non-commissioned officers can be roughly deduced.

He asked, "What was the loss of your troops during the night attack of the Tartars yesterday?" ”

The hundreds of households answered one by one. the largest losses, casualties in the dozens; The losses were small, and there were two or three casualties. Up to now, there are more than 80 of the 20 hundred-man teams with the most complete structure, and only about 20 people are left who have died the most.

After several days of hard fighting, 2,000 men, nearly half of the losses were made.

"General, do you want to mobilize the troops along the Daling River?"

"The second line of defense must not be moved. Even if Huihe City is dead, he must defend it. The longer we guard, the more tired the Tartars on the other side become. The more tired the Tartars were, the more the defenders of my second line of defense were ready to work. You just said, 'In case there's a mistake,' as long as we guard it here, there will never be any lapses of Rausch!" ”

Everyone understood that Li Ye wanted to use Huihe to drag down the Yuan army. As long as the Yuan army is dragged down, then it doesn't matter if Huihe's army is completely destroyed and Huihe is lost. The 4,000 elites along the Daling River are recuperating and waiting for work, and if they fight well, they may be able to take the opportunity to counterattack.

Most of the hundreds of households are veterans, and many of them who joined the army in Yongping have fought vicious battles and tough battles, and they have not seen the world. However, after listening to Li Ye's words at this time, I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart. It's not that I'm afraid of death, it's because of Li Ye's tone. If Li Ye said these words viciously, it would be fine, but he would have downplayed it, and talked about the life and death of the whole city as if he had a cup of tea and a meal.

Such an attitude of indifference to life and death, how can it not make people feel cold all over the body? Fortunately, Li Ye has always been able to share weal and woe with his soldiers, and Baihu also knows that his plan is the only feasible choice at present.

Li Ye touched his waist knife, looked at everyone slightly, and said lightly: "No matter whether Guan Shuai can return in time to help, Huihe City will be guarded for at least ten more days." Within ten days, those who dare to retreat, and those who dare to raise reinforcements for the defenders on the front line of the Daling River, will be regarded as disturbing the morale of the army and beheaded! Rest assured, if you don't retreat, you won't retreat. As long as the fighting continues, Ben will never leave the city for half a step. ”

He took the bow and arrow handed by his own soldiers, set up the arrow to lead the string, compared the distance, aimed at a pole dozens of paces away, and shot the arrow. The face door of the human head on the middle pole shook twice. It's also his daily routine. He was very envious of Chen Hu's archery skills, so he practiced hard every day.

However, his method of practicing archery is slightly different from others.

Others use targets, he uses tartars. In his camp, a lot of Meng Yuan prisoners were imprisoned, and they were used for daily archery practice. Now in wartime, he can't raise so many prisoners, so he retreats to this time, and he switches to the head of a Tartar. A few of his own soldiers shouted hello, ran over, lowered their poles, and took the arrows back.

There are only a few arrows in the city, and they cannot be wasted.

Li Ye smiled slightly, didn't mind the blood stain on the top of the arrow, rubbed it on the armor casually, and drew the bow again, looking for a new target. Outside the city, the Yuan army camp, the sound of the horn suddenly loud, the drums of the base, faintly visible many soldiers running in line, trebuchets, ladders and other things, one after another.

In a similar scene, in the past few days, everyone has seen it many times, and they know that another round of offensive of the Yuan army is about to start. They saluted Li Ye one after another, and without waiting for orders, they ran back to their own team, erected flags, mobilized soldiers, pulled out the equipment to defend the city, and prepared for battle.

Li Ye's face remained unchanged, he found a new target, gently drew his bow, and the arrow was like lightning, and he shot steadily.