Chapter 561: Gongsun Kang
In Xiliang, after the Guanlong army set out, the troops suddenly divided into four routes, attacking the Western Xia Kingdom from Hanyang County, Anding County, Beidi County, and Shangjun on a large scale, compressing the sphere of influence of Li Yuanhao, the king of Western Xia, who had descended on Beidi County.
Li Yuanhao's Western Xia State had a sphere of influence east of Helan Mountain and along the Yellow River. The four soldiers and horses of the Guanlong Army formed a combined encirclement.
Lao Qin, Wang Qian, Meng Tian, and Wanyan Zongwang each led a large army and advanced steadily.
When he learned of the demise of the Ogedai Khanate in the Western Regions, he came to almost the same judgment as Chu Tian: "The Western Regions are becoming more and more dangerous, it seems that I can't slowly consume the national strength of the Western Xia, and capture Li Yuanhao alive as soon as possible." ”
Lao Qin immediately issued an order, ordering the three armies of Wang Qian, Meng Tian, and Wanyan Zongwang to advance as soon as possible and inflict heavy losses on Western Xia.
Chu Tian had already urged Lao Qin, thinking that it should take less than three months for the Guanlong army to defeat Western Xia.
With the combat effectiveness of the Guanzhong Legion, the battle was as fierce as Xu Fengnian was also driven away by Lao Qin.
Lao Qin's army, no better than the Northern Song Dynasty, fought back and forth with the Western Xia, and it was not a problem to suppress the Western Xia king with the ability to support the old Qin.
Under the orders of Lao Qin, Wang Qian, Meng Tian, and Wanyan Zongwang accelerated their strategy, quickly recovered the county occupied by the Western Xia, and suppressed the Western Xia to the area of Helan Mountain.
Li Dao and Guo Yan led the Flying Bear Army to advance along the Yellow River, chasing and killing the defeated Western Xia cavalry.
Since Dong Zhuo's death, Li Dao and Guo Yan have taken refuge in Lao Qin and become thugs under Lao Qin.
Li Dao and Guo Yan's ability to command the cavalry is not bad, so they can serve as generals under Dong Zhuo.
It's just that the reputation of the two is too bad, so it's easy to belittle their abilities.
Li Dao even has a special type of Flying Bear Army, which is extremely fast, and it has broken the Western Xia cavalry all the way.
"The whole army stops marching!"
Suddenly, Li Dao stretched out his hand to stop the advancing Flying Bear Army.
By the Yellow River, a heavy cavalry in full iron armor appeared, and the ground shook.
The Flying Bears felt inexplicably frightened.
"Could it be that Li Yuanhao, the king of Western Xia, has arrived?"
Li Dao and Guo Yan glanced at each other, probably knowing that Li Yuanhao, the king of Western Xia, was personally recruiting.
As the founding emperor of Western Xia, Li Yuanhao has the characteristics of a monarch, and he is not a small suppression of the Flying Bear Army.
Li Dao and Guo Yan may not be Li Yuanhao's opponents, and Li Yuanhao's command has the most elite high-level heavy cavalry in the Western Xia Kingdom-Iron Harrier.
The Western Xia Iron Harrier, the Jin State Tiefutu, and the Mongolian Cowardly Xue Army were all elite cavalry of a strong dynasty established by nomadic and fishing and hunting tribal civilizations.
However, Li Dao was not afraid of Li Yuanhao, the king of Western Xia.
The Flying Bear Army is king with speed, and if it can't be beaten, can't it run......
Guo Yan faintly heard the familiar sound of heavy cavalry marching, and said to Li Wei: "General Meng Tian's soldiers and horses have arrived, maybe we don't have to leave." ”
"Kill Li Yuanhao, the king of Western Xia, and we can seal the marquis of ten thousand households."
"The lord has an order, it is best to capture it alive, it is said that Li Yuanhao also has a little ability."
Li Dao and Guo Yan heard the sound of the horse's hooves when the golden fire cavalry arrived, and they were fearless.
They had been with Meng Tian for a few years, and they were already familiar with Meng Tian and Meng Tian's special class, the Golden Fire Cavalry.
The Golden Fire Cavalry is fully capable of contending with the Iron Harrier of Li Yuanhao, the king of Western Xia.
Sure enough, a cavalry galloped in from the other direction.
This cavalry is different from the black iron harrier, but the equipment is quite exaggerated, red armor, and some of the armor of the golden fire cavalry generals are even decorated with gold edges, symbolizing their military exploits and showing off their might.
Unlike the cavalry that adorns the façade, the equipment of the Golden Fire Cavalry is exaggerated, but this is the glory they put their heads on their belts and exchange their military exploits for glory!
Meng Tian held the halberd and looked coldly at the arriving Western Xia King Li Yuanhao and the Iron Harrier.
During this time, he has fought the Iron Harrier several times.
As a representative of the Western Xia civilization, the Iron Harrier is indeed not weak.
However, it is only not weak.
Even the Tiefutu of the Jin State, after 100% strengthening of the system, was still wiped out by the princes of the Han Empire, which shows the strength of the princes of the Han Empire.
"Many soldiers listened to the order, killed an iron harrier, and rewarded twenty taels of silver, which was counted as a battle merit!"
"Kill!"
The Golden Fire Cavalry heard that killing the Western Xia Iron Harrier could get a reward of silver and battle merits, and fought hard!
Thousands of golden fire cavalry launched a charge, and the scene was grand, like firelight, sweeping towards the Xixia Iron Harrier!
For the Qin State background, the combat effectiveness is often related to the rewards they can receive......
On the border between Buyeo and Xuansu County, Lu Xiangsheng, the general of Liaodong, set up an ambush with 5,000 Tianxiong troops to annihilate thousands of Buyeo soldiers, and the remaining Buyeo soldiers scattered in a hurry.
These warriors of the Buyeo tribe were only third-order troops at most, and they were easily suppressed in front of the special troops, the Tianxiong Army, like a peasant rebel army.
In order to avenge the more than 1,000 soldiers of the Tianxiong Army who died in battle and suppress the various tribes in Liaodong that were surging undercurrents, Lu Xiangsheng marched day and night, intending to take the lead in destroying the Fuyu Kingdom before Wuhuan and Xianbei responded to the call of the Buyeo people.
The territory controlled by the Liaodong Army was not strong, and Buyeo was only one of the threats, as well as the threat from the Goryeo rebels.
The Goryeo Kingdom was ruled by the Liaodong Army, but its Yiren united with some of the Goryeo landlords to rebel against the Liaodong Army and intend to restore the Goryeo Kingdom.
Lu Xiangsheng couldn't imagine how much impact the capture of dozens of villages, or even a few cities, would have on Liaodong.
The other tribes in Liaodong and the rebel army of Goryeo are not good at stubble.
According to the confession of the Buyeo people who were captured alive, the old Buyeo King was placed under house arrest by his son, and the new Buyeo King instructed his people to ambush the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army who came to patrol, so that people blocked the mountain pass with falling rocks, and then shot them with arrows. The general is really like a god. ”
Gongsun Kang, the guard general of Xuansu County, took the initiative to curry favor with Lu Xiangsheng.
The Gongsun family is also a big family in Liaodong at the end of the Han Dynasty.
In order to appease the family in Liaodong as much as possible and consolidate his rule in Liaodong, Mingguan appointed Gongsun Kang to guard Xuansu County and maintain local law and order.
The Buyeo country is under the jurisdiction of Xuansu County, so the Buyeo people rebelled, and the officials of Xuansu County had the unshirkable responsibility to at least lead the way for the Tianxiong army that crusaded against the Buyeo country.
In the face of Gongsun Kang's initiative to show goodwill, Lu Xiangsheng didn't pay much attention to it, and he focused on suppressing the rest of the people.
Gongsun Kang's face was displeased, thinking that Lu Xiangsheng despised him.
Another Xuanwu County official who came with him said: "Although there is a king in Buyeo Country, in our eyes, the status is not as good as a Taishou, I don't know what bear heart and leopard gall Buyeo people ate, and they dare to take the initiative to provoke trouble, they really don't know whether they are alive or dead." ”
"That's what makes it confusing."
Lu Xiangsheng ignored Gongsun Kang, not intending to underestimate him, his considerations were the same as most officials in Xuansu County.
Compared with the Mongol Empire and the Dajin Kingdom, the strength of the Buyeo State is hundreds of times worse, even in the fourth national war, the weakest Western Xia State, the founding emperor Li Yuanhao can press the Buyeo State to the ground and rub it.
The Xianbei tribe in western Liaoxi could also defeat the Buyeo people.
The Buyeo State was sandwiched between Liaodong and the Heilongjiang Valley, and their rebellion did more harm than good to Liaodong's control of the Heilongjiang Valley.
"Perhaps it was Wanyan Aguta of the Jin State who sent cavalry into the Buyeo State and instigated the Fuyu State to rebel."
Lu Xiangsheng deduced this possibility.
According to Mingguan's speculation about Wanyan Aguta's ability, Wanyan Aguta had a special attraction to the tribes of Liaodong.
The Buyeo people also belong to the eastern Liaodong tribe, and they may also be attracted by the Golden Emperor Wanyan Aguta, and driven by Wanyan Aguta.
If Wanyan Aguta sent a cavalry into Buyeo to assist the Buyeo people in resisting the rule of the Liaodong Army, then it can explain why the weak Buyeo people were able to ambush and annihilate more than 1,000 Tianxiong troops.
In Lu Xiangsheng's view, even if the more than 1,000 Tianxiong army was surrounded by tens of thousands of soldiers from the Fuyu Kingdom, it would not be completely annihilated.
"The center of Buyeo is the Buyeo King City, which is a circular wooden gate city, which is not difficult to attack."
Gongsun Kang explained to Lu Xiangsheng the information of the Buyeo Kingdom.
Muzha City, that is, the city wall surrounded by wooden fences, the royal city of Buyeo is only such a technical level, it can be seen that the degree of civilization is far less than that of the Han Empire, and the Buyeo people are indeed relatively weak.
The more this is the case, the more careful Lu Xiangsheng becomes.
"With 35,000 soldiers, you can easily break through the royal city of Buyeo, burn its royal city, and then the class can triumph."
Gongsun Kang thought that defeating the army of Buyeo would be an easy move.
"Don't be underestimated...... Still according to the plan, attack the Buyeo royal city, and be careful to ambush on the way. ”
Lu Xiangsheng and Gongsun Kang are different after all.
Just to deal with the Buyeo people, Lu Xiangsheng didn't even have to come in person, just arranged for the deputy general to command twenty or thirty thousand low-level soldiers, and he could burn down the Fuyu Royal City.
However, Buyeo may have a Jin cavalry, and Lu Xiangsheng must be ready for it.
"How many soldiers are there in Xuanwu County?"
"There are about more than 10,000 people."
"Send 3,000 men as a vanguard."
"The last general, Gongsun Kang, is willing to be a pioneer!"
Gongsun Kang, who was familiar with the local terrain, volunteered.
Under the command of Gongsun Kang, 3,000 Xuanwu soldiers joined Lu Xiangsheng's army, making Lu Xiangsheng's strength rise to 5,000 Tianxiong Army, 3,000 Xuanwu County soldiers, and 30,000 auxiliary soldiers.
Lu Xiangsheng continued to go north, with Gongsun Kang as the vanguard, and led the way with the captured Buyeo people, attacking the royal city of Buyeo.
In the Buyeo King City, there are about 50,000 young people of Buyeo State gathered, and the King of Buyeo glanced at the young people of Buyeo State, and this group of people is also a soldier of Buyeo State.
"The Liaodong Army levied harsh taxes on us, the tax was more than the civilian population in Youzhou, and it also required the young men of our clan to obey military service. At this time, it's time to rise up and capture Liaodong City! ”
"Capture Liaodong City!"
50,000 Buyeo soldiers raised their arms and shouted, and their morale was high.
But they did not know their king, intending to push them into the fire pit.
50,000 soldiers of the Buyeo Kingdom left the Buyeo royal city under the leadership of the king of Buyeo.
All the soldiers around the Buyeo King were replaced, and the Buyeo King wiped the sweat from his forehead from time to time, and his life was completely controlled by others.
The 50,000 Buyeo army planned to ambush Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army in the valley of the plain south of the royal city.
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In the Heilongjiang River Basin, Mingguan gathered the main force to sweep away the tribes conquered by Wanyan Aguta, and won one after another.
For Mingguan, this is also an opportunity to rectify the north.
He divided his sphere of influence into five regions, Liaodong, Liaoxi, Goryeo, Buyeo, and Heishui.
In the five places, there are aliens, native residents, and a large number of fishing and hunting tribes and nomadic tribes, which are intertwined.
Sweeping the Jin Kingdom is just the right time to completely conquer all the tribes and aliens in the Heishui region and strengthen the control of the Heilongjiang River Valley.
"Lu Xiangsheng used the Tianxiong Army to suppress the Buyeo Kingdom?"
Ming Guan weighed it a little in his heart and acquiesced to this action.
The strength of the Buyeo country is not strong, and there are many inhuman lords with villages or tribes within the scope of the Buyeo country, and they can use their power to destroy the Buyeo country.
Mingguan originally planned to break up all the tribes so that they could not be unified, and for the rebels, they would be directly exterminated.
"Issued an order to destroy the country, all the lords who sent righteous soldiers to attack the Buyeo country can be counted in the future for war exploits."
Myeongguan operated for a few years, concentrating on conquering the Goryeo Kingdom and the main cities, and had no time to control some villages, towns, and tribes controlled by the Inhuman lords, so he planned to use the power of this group of small lords to strengthen Lu Xiangsheng's army.
Myeongguan had destroyed the Goryeo Kingdom, and once again issued an order to destroy the country, and no one doubted that the Liaodong Army could destroy the Buyeo Kingdom.
As a result, within the sphere of influence of the Buyeo Kingdom, hundreds of small lords rose up to respond to Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army and destroy the Buyeo Kingdom!
Lu Xiangsheng entered the country of Buyeo for a few days, won more than 10,000 righteous troops, strengthened the army again, and there were also lords who donated grain, grass, gold and silver.
These Inhuman lords, the big ones, are equivalent to the family, and the small ones are equivalent to the squires.
The Tianxiong army gathered 40,000 or 50,000 troops to suppress the border, and the strength was not much inferior to that of Buyeo State!
Moreover, the combat power of the Tianxiong Army is not comparable to that of Buyeo Country!
"There may be an ambush here."
Lu Xiangsheng stopped the advance of the Tianxiong army, and he had already seen the tricks of the army of the Buyeo Kingdom.
"I'm going to catch a few alive!"
Gongsun Kang held a gun and led more than ten horsemen into the valley!
Lu Xiangsheng did not intercept Gongsun Kang.
Gongsun Kang is a platinum-level military general, or the historical Liaodong Taishou, if it is not for Mingguan, maybe Gongsun Kang will have a foothold in Liaodong.
Gongsun Kang entered the valley, and after a while, there was a shout of killing in the valley, and when Gongsun Kang came out, he was holding a captive of the Fuyu Kingdom and threw it in front of Lu Xiangsheng.
"There are indeed ambushes in the valley!"
"How many soldiers and horses are there?"
"About 50,000, which can be easily broken."
"The whole army will attack the valley and destroy 50,000 soldiers of the Buyu Kingdom!"
Lu Xiangsheng saw through the ambush of the Buyeo people and attacked along the foothills, but the Buyeo people saw that the ambush failed, so they had to come out to fight the Han army.
"Please let the last general lead the cavalry and break through the army of Buyeo Kingdom!"
In order to make meritorious contributions, Gongsun Kang repeatedly asked Lu Xiangsheng to lead troops.
Lu Xiangsheng knew that Fuyu was weak and Gongsun Kang was a cavalry general, so he temporarily handed over 3,000 cavalry to Gongsun Kang.
Gongsun Kang got the cavalry, and he was really brave, and he charged the Buyeo people head-on, with 300 heavy cavalry as the vanguard, and broke the Buyeo army!
Gongsun Kang's spear stabbed out, killing more than ten people in a row, and the Buyeo soldiers were not Gongsun Kang's opponents at all.
Gongsun Kang fought in the valley with only 3,000 cavalry, and the 50,000 Buyeo army was defeated!