Chapter 969: Heading South to Open Beijing

"King, Xijing is lost!"

Li Sung-gye, the king of Goryeo, led 200,000 reinforcements to the north, less than 200 miles away from Xijing, and received the bad news that Xijing had been lost, and the 300,000-strong army was only less than 200,000.

Li Chenggui's face was cloudy.

Xijing, which was defended by 300,000 defenders, was defeated by the Liaodong Army in advance because of ignoring the defense of the southern city gate, and the 300,000 defenders were defeated like a mountain, and at least 100,000 people were killed and captured.

In other words, the Goryeo kingdom had already lost more than 300,000 young men in the north.

For the Goryeo Kingdom, the loss of 300,000 young men and women greatly damaged their vitality.

"We have 10,000 people in Xijing, and if they are all wiped out, the commander of the Griffin Legion will probably laugh at me......"

The leader of the Fire Dragon Legion, Brand, carried a two-handed greatsword on his back, and his brows were furrowed.

The United States has more than a dozen legions, and the commander of each legion is in a high position in the United States, and the loss of 10,000 men by the Fire Dragon Legion will affect Brand's status in the United States.

Li Chenggui looked at Brand in the afterglow, and he was not very comfortable.

The various legions of the United States were not weak, but they did not pay much attention to the war of the Goryeo Kingdom at all, and only regarded the Goryeo Kingdom as a puppet to contain the Han Empire.

According to Li Chenggui's knowledge, there were thirteen legions in the United States, and the federal governor Marshall only sent a part of the troops of the Fire Dragon Legion to Goryeo.

200,000 allied troops approached Xijing, Adams and Jiang Handan retreated again and again, and when they saw King Li Chenggui, they were disgraced.

In the northern battle of Goryeo, the generals of Goryeo such as Yoon and Kwon Li were killed, and 300,000 young men died.

The Goryeo Kingdom had never experienced such a heavy loss and was facing the disaster of national destruction.

"Commander Brand, Xijing is lost, and Kaijing must be saved."

Adams was not very polite when he saw the leader of the Fire Dragon Legion.

Adams is Marshall's staff member, the equivalent of a military advisor, while Brand is the commander of the United States Fire Dragon Legion.

Brand clasped his hands on his chest and carried a giant sword: "How is the combat strength of the Liaodong Army?" ”

Adams replied: "The field combat capability of the Liaodong Army is greater than that of the siege city, and this time the battle of Xijing has collected a lot of useful data. ”

"If the Griffin Legion joins forces with our Fire Dragon Legion, plus the main force of the Goryeo Kingdom, it will be enough to defeat them in the wild. It's a pity that we have 100,000 people in the Fire Dragon Legion, and only 30,000 have arrived. ”

"Brand, your Fire Dragon Legion has a lot of slave soldiers, and the number of real firearms is not enough."

"Our Fire Dragon Legion is the second legion, second only to the first."

When Brand and Adams had an argument with the players in the two American civilization regions, Li Chenggui summoned Jiang Hanzan, the guard of Xijing.

Jiang Handan looked ashamed: "Xijing was lost, and General Quan Li was killed in battle, which is the crime of the minister." ”

Li Chenggui originally wanted to execute Jiang Handzan, but after thinking about it, the generals of the Goryeo Kingdom suffered heavy losses in this battle of the country, and there were fewer and fewer generals available.

"We retreated to Kaijing. The Liaodong Army newly occupied Xijing, and it should not be able to move south in a short time. ”

Li Chenggui announced the withdrawal of troops to defend Kaijing.

The northern provinces of Yiju, Anju, and Xijing were occupied, and the territory of the Liaodong Army was connected, and more than 300,000 young men and women were killed in the Goryeo Kingdom, and their vitality was greatly damaged, and Li Chenggui also had to rest.

In addition, the more than 100,000 defenders of the Goryeo Kingdom who had retreated from Xijing were demoralized and unable to fight again, so Li Chenggui thought it necessary to rest and recuperate, and wait for the more than 100,000 defeated troops to recover their morale before recapturing Xijing.

The 200,000 allied troops, including Li Chenggui and Brand, gathered more than 100,000 defeated troops and returned to Kaijing to reinforce Kaijing, wanting to divide the Goryeo Kingdom equally with the Liaodong Army.

Reinforcements such as the Fire Dragon Legion, the Tachibana family, and the Shimazu family were also unwilling to fight the Liaodong Army in the field, which was in high morale, so they went south with Li Chenggui.

"The Liaodong cavalry left Xijing and marched south!"

Just as Li Chenggui, Jiang Hanzan, Brand, Tachibana Daoxue and other allied forces announced the withdrawal of their troops to the south, after Le Yi captured Xijing, the commander of the Liaodong army drove straight in, and immediately marched to the Goryeo King City!

"The Liaodong Army is really crazy!"

Li Chenggui was furious when he heard the news!

The Liaodong Army did not rest, but in one go, wanted to capture the southern part of Goryeo and completely turn Goryeo into the fourteenth state of the Han Empire!

In Li Chenggui's opinion, the Liaodong Army did not take him seriously at all, and actually planned to flatten the entire Goryeo Kingdom.

For a time, the army of Goryeo was in a panic.

Especially the defenders of the Goryeo Kingdom who escaped from Xijing, they were all soldiers and feared the Liaodong army like tigers.

"The Liaodong Army is too arrogant, they have just experienced a tragic siege battle, and the physical strength and morale of the legion should be greatly reduced."

Adams is calculating the recovery time of the overall morale of the Liaodong Army.

"Since the Liaodong Army is chasing, then in the northern suburbs of Kaijing, the Liaodong Army will be encircled."

Brand of the Fire Dragon Legion decided to fight a decisive battle with the Liaodong Army in Kaijing.

"The Liaodong Army is aggressive, I will definitely destroy it!"

Li Chenggui was enraged by the momentum of Liaodong, and if he retreated again and again, then he, Li Chenggui, would not have enough prestige to serve as the king of Goryeo.

"Yes."

Tachibana Michiyuki and Shimazu Yoshihiro had the King of Goryeo and the Fire Dragon Legion as teammates, so they had the idea of fighting with the Liaodong Army.

Li Chenggui chose the location of the decisive battle with the Liaodong Army in the north of Kaijing, and set up layers of defense lines, once the Liaodong Army attacked Kaijing, it would inevitably fall into the heavy encirclement of the coalition forces.

Le Yi's Liaodong army was brave and good at fighting, and it marched south, approaching the Goryeo King City.

Le Yi was confident that he would go south immediately after the end of the tragic siege, and the reason was very simple, he got 200,000 cavalry from the steppe!

Prince Yan's Mobei cavalry and Li Mu's Monan cavalry are all good at riding and shooting, and they are almost invincible in the wild.

Li Mu brought Zhao Hao, Zhao Kuo and his son, as well as Hu Ma, Liu Hu and others as players.

"Goryeo will soon become the fourteenth state of the Han Empire, or a separate state."

Prince Yan joined Le Yi's army to the south.

After Le Yi captured Xijing, he left 100,000 guards and sent another 50,000 to suppress the Goryeo rebels in the mountains and forests around Yiju City, Anju City, and Xijing to stabilize the rear.

Le Yi's Liaodong Army of 150,000, combined with 200,000 grassland cavalry, a total of 350,000 people went south.

A powerful empire can continuously provide a steady supply of soldiers, horses, food, and grass for the commander of the front line, so Le Yi can let go of his hands and feet to attack the city, which is undoubtedly very easy for Le Yi.

The combined forces of Liaodong and the grassland crossed the Datong River.

Pressure was mounting in the southern part of the Goryeo Kingdom, with scout cavalry from both sides engaged in battle north of Kaegyo, and the Fire Dragon Legion of the United States and the samurai of the Dongying Shogunate had formed defensive lines in the north.