Chapter 157
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The person in charge of the plan to attack the North Korea of Jizi this time was not Zhang Jiashi, but the first fierce general of the current Left General's Mansion. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info.23txt. As the lieutenant of Liaodong and the commander of foreign conquests, at this time, he was appointed by Zhang Jiashi as the commander of the Qin army on the northern route.
As for why Zhang Jiashi didn't personally lead the troops?
Zhang Jiashi planned to personally lead the troops to fight, but the labor period of Ying Yuexi and Ying Yuelian sisters was only a few days, and in many ways, it was very inappropriate for Zhang Jiashi to lead the troops to fight at this time. Because even Chen Ping, Li Zuoche and Xiao He and others expressed their opposition very vaguely.
Therefore, before officially sending troops to fight, Zhang Jiashi made the following arrangements:
The Qin army was tentatively set at 20,000 troops, not including Su Teng's headquarters as a reserve.
In fact, according to Zhang Jiashi's idea, the vanguard troops should be the garrison troops under Su Teng's command rather than the mobile troops under the command of Su Teng. However, Li Zuoche opposed such an opinion, because once Su Teng's troops were mobilized, he was afraid that the problem would be solved more quickly in Jizi Joseon.
After thinking about it, Zhang Jiashi finally followed Li Zuoche's proposal, that is, to let the troops of Yujian move eastward from the garrison outside Dingxiang City and raid the defensive zone in the border area between Jizi Korea and Liaodong County.
This is also the reason why Yuma became the commander of the Qin army on the North Road.
As for the Qin army on the southern route, it was divided into two groups, and Qin Min's Lou Chuanshi troops carried out sea transportation and raided the key points of the road in the central region of Jizi Korea. In contrast to the situation of the Great Qin Empire, the infrastructure of Jizi Korea was relatively backward, and the main roads used for rapid mobilization of troops were not only small in number, but also had to rely on many mountains and valleys that were easy to defend and difficult to attack.
The combat mission of the Qin army on the southern route was to conduct guerrilla warfare in these areas and delay or destroy the opportunity for the reinforcements of the Jizi Korean army to go north.
Zhang Jiashi's order to Du Cong and Han Xin, the commander of the second batch of Qin troops with siege capabilities, was to let them act on their own rights.
Therefore, when Qin Min's Lou Chuanshi troops returned to pick up Han Xin's troops, Du Cong's troops had already begun to infiltrate the area near Wang Jiancheng and carry out corresponding surprise operations.
Of course, if Zhang Jiashi was really ruthless, in addition to the garrisons that could not be mobilized, Zhang Jiashi could send more than 32,000 troops to attack Jizi Korea, including most of the original garrisons in the eastern part of Liaodong County.
But Zhang Jiashi would not do such a move, because if it was possible, he would not want to transfer Su Teng's troops, which were more officers and soldiers of the reserve force.
Because in this case, Liaodong County is his foundation.
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In contrast to the situation in Minzi Joseon, Liaodong County also started spring plowing a few days ago. However, in contrast to the Jizi Korea, that is, the army under the command of Zhang Jiashi is basically a professional soldier, and the operations during the spring ploughing period have little impact on the troop movement of Zhang Jiashi, unlike the Jizi Korea, once it enters the farming period, the fact that the peasant troops occupy the vast majority will greatly weaken the temporary mobilization ability of the Jizi Korea.
Moreover, the mobilization of peasants and soldiers will inevitably have a great impact on the agricultural output value of the DPRK.
In a certain sense, even if Zhang Jiashi completes his combat goal before the autumn harvest, I am afraid that the Jizi Korea he gets will be just another "New Liaodong County" area that needs subsidies from many places.
In Zhang Jiashi's eyes, such losses are far less than waiting for a more suitable time, such as after the autumn harvest, the greater losses caused by the war.
This kind of combat time in exchange for money and life, Zhang Jiashi thinks that it is a very good time.
After all, money or something, as long as Zhang Jiashi saves some money, it is not a big problem to deal with the corresponding expenditures in North Korea. However, once the strength of the army is lost, then, in the following days, he will be controlled everywhere because of the lack of soldiers.
Under this premise, Zhang Jiashi is not worried about money, but compared with this kind of "things outside the body", reducing the losses of combatants is something that Zhang Jiashi believes must be done.
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The vanguard troops under the command of Nguyen Weng Thieu were under the command of Nguyen Ong Thao.
Nguyen Weng Thieu, commanding a vanguard of 2,000 Qin troops, led by a hundred crossbow chariots draped in horse armor, easily broke through the outpost area of the Korean army.
Many of the Qin cavalry had not even seen the enemy, so they directly crossed several fortresses on the Korean side and continued to advance along the road, towards the interior of the Korean region.
In order to break through this sentry area, Zhang Jiashi even mobilized Mojia swordsmen who were good at raid operations to form raid troops.
After a long period of training, the average strength of these Mo swordsmen is quite good, using various methods to carry out surprise tactics, basically many of the garrisons of the Korean army stationed in these sentry fortresses died under the swords of the Mo swordsmen before they could react.
Zhang Jiashi, who was still in Dingxiang City, of course would not have thought that in the agreement between Gonggong Xi and the current Mo family's great son Mo Hong, the Mo family's swordsman system would become a secret force loyal to him. This means that Zhang Jiashi was able to mobilize the Mohist armed forces, whose strength had already rebounded, except for a few people, to do many things that other people, or the army, could not do.
Zhang Jiashi would never have thought that his father-in-law would simply treat him as a "stallion". Well, if Zhang Jiashi knew that in the eyes of Father-in-law Xi, his role was only to give birth to a descendant with Mo Yan'er who would inherit the Mo family, should he cry or laugh?
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The defense system in the peripheral areas will greatly affect the subsequent combat situation. For example, this method of warfare, which basically perfectly occupied the outpost area on the outskirts of Jizi Korea, completely put Zhang Jiashi's troops in a very advantageous position.
Because even if it was half a day earlier to let the Korean center of Jizi know that the war had begun, it would also be very unfavorable to the Qin army troops who went out.
The troops under Nguyen Ong Thieu advanced more than 30 kilometers to the south before encountering effective resistance from the Korean army in Keizi.
Looking at the rising beacon fire in a city, Nguyen Weng Thiao simply ordered the troops to attack the city that had not yet closed the city gate.
It's not that the army of Jizi Joseon didn't want to close the city gate, but dozens of Mo family swordsmen even risked their lives to occupy the city gate passage. If these garrisons of Jizi Korea want to close the city gates, they must at least get rid of these Mo family swordsmen first.
"Kill, !!" Appearing to the northeast of the city was the Qin army of Nguyen Weng Shao.
After revealing the situation inside and outside the city gate, Nguyen Weng Thieu naturally would not let these friendly troops die in vain, or even sit back and watch the other party's entire army be annihilated.
Under his command, the Qin army's crossbow chariot quickly stopped after galloping to a suitable area, while the crossbowmen behind the chariot kept firing at the Korean officers and soldiers on the city wall.
Perhaps the density of crossbow arrows of several hundred people is of course much lower, but after many crossbowmen adopted the combat method of aiming and shooting, the North Korean officers and soldiers in the corresponding area continued to pay the price.
And because the armament of Jizi Korea was still relatively backward, the defenders on the city wall were still unable to effectively take the means of counterattacking the crossbow chariots of the Qin army, and they were easily suppressed by the crossbow chariot troops of the Qin army.
The cavalry units of the Qin army did not move, while the infantry units were divided into two groups, one group was dominated by a large number of shield soldiers, and they formed a formation and rushed directly to the city gate area.
The other group was a shield unit covering the crossbowmen of the Qin army, and came to the effective range area of the crossbowmen to strengthen the suppressive force on the city wall.
Some of the North Korean officers and soldiers of the Minzi, who were not afraid of death, constantly shot at these Qin troops.
The bows and arrows of both sides were constantly flying at each other.
From time to time, people screamed and fell behind the walls or the army.
The Korean army also had a considerable number of shield troops, but the Korean army, which was only a small round shield or a long flat shield, could not protect against long-range attacks more effectively like the square shield installed by the Qin army.
Although the shields of many Qin army shield soldiers were pierced by the enemy's arrows and crossbows, the level of armament on both sides as a whole was not at the same level at all.
It's like the North Korean army who was responsible for snatching back the passage of the city gate and quickly closing the city gate, after the weapons in their hands collided with the Mo family swordsmen, many people's weapons were collided with a gap, or even directly cut off.
The Korean army on the head of the city could not suppress the offensive of the Qin army at all, but many crossbowmen paid a heavy price in the counterfire.
In less than a while, the Mo family swordsmen who occupied the passage of the eastern city gate finally held on to the moment when reinforcements arrived.
The infantry of the Qin army who joined the melee was Zhang Jiashi's heavy infantry who spent a lot of money and equipped with trained heavy infantry. The hoplites, almost all armed with iron equipment, quickly drove the Korean army out of the city gate and spread out into the city.
After the officer of the Qin army behind saw this situation, Xun took out a rolled flag from his waist, and after untying the rope, Xun waved it a few times.
Seeing this, Nguyen Ong Thieu ordered the remaining troops to rush towards the eastern gate.
The North Korean officer, who was in charge of commanding the defense, gritted his teeth, and ordered the troops to break through to the south.
However, after losing a few hundred people, the North Korean army, which was originally a small number of troops, was able to break through from other directions. The Korean officer, on the other hand, was rushing towards the south gate when he met Nguyen Ong Thieu, who was leading a cavalry force to charge over. The North Korean officers, who did not expect Nguyen Ong Thieu to rush directly at him, and his personal guards, were slaughtered in less than two minutes.
The Korean army, which had lost its commander, had to surrender under the influence of the fact that Nguyen Weng Thieu provoked the rank of the officer and the Qin army had already controlled the city.
At this point, it can be said that Nguyen Weng Thieu's combat mission has come to an end.
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After receiving the battle report from the messenger sent by Nguyen Ong Thieu, the main force of the army silently pondered.
And was appointed by Zhang Jiashi as the military advisor of the Yuanjian Division, Li Zuoche took over the battle report, and after reading it, he frowned slightly.
Because although he had expected it a long time ago, an offensive like this would not be able to hide Wang Jiancheng's high-level North Koreans.
But if such a thing really happened, for Li Zuoche, he still had to accept it helplessly.
"Mr. Li, what should we do next?" he glanced at Li Zuoche and said his question.
"Captain Shidu, I'm afraid we're going to have a protracted battle with Miko Korea. However, such a thing is our opportunity. Li Zuoche is not worried about what will happen next, because in terms of the national strength of the Minzi Joseon, in the case of a field battle, in the face of two or three times the Mizi Korean army, their chances of victory will not be very low.
Unless, the Jizi Joseon will use the kind of spearmen mentioned in Zhang Jiashi's words, and they will be warned.
In fact, this kind of spearman unit is a characteristic unit left over from the Shang Dynasty, and the spearmen wearing sophisticated bronze equipment are indeed good in field battles, but there is one thing, such troops have long been abandoned by the Central Plains before the Warring States period.
Because such a force, in many ways, has too many shortcomings.
Corresponding to the hoplites now equipped by Zhang Jiashi, the equipment of such a unit is even heavier than the heavy infantry under Zhang Jiashi, and the defensive power is even less than that of the heavy infantry under Zhang Jiashi.
This incident is also unavoidable for the DPRK. Even if the technology of bronze smelting has already matured, the quality of the iron weapons used by Zhang Jiashi, who has basically been fully iron-weaponized, or the elite troops of the Qin army in other regions, is not comparable to the mainstream bronze equipment of Jizi Joseon.
In addition, in the case of the peasant soldiers of the Jizi Joseon army, these spear heavy infantry may be regarded as a small number of professional troops in the Minzi Joseon, but according to intelligence, the quality of the other side is completely incomparable to the regular army under the command of Zhang Jiashi.
The most important point, that is, such heavy infantry has an obvious drawback, that is, the insufficient shock capacity.
Compared with the Qin army that crossed the sea in the south, the army on the northern route, with 400 chariots and more than 1,000 strong crossbowmen, would be a nightmare for these turtle-shelled spear heavy infantry.
In a sense, if you want to play a regular military formation, Li Zuoche knows very well in his heart that there is no very good way for the Donghu people to take Zhang Jiashi's crossbow chariot battle array, and Jizi Korea is no exception. This is an innate advantage of an excellent civilization system over a backward civilization system.
Perhaps, the crossbow chariots will pay considerable casualties in the face of the elite Qin army formations in other regions, but this time, they are not facing the civil strife of "their own people", and they don't need to worry so much.
Finally, at the suggestion of Li Zuche, he ordered his troops to go to the Korean city of Minzi, which Nguyen Ong Thieu now occupies, to make adjustments before the next battle.
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In Wang Jiancheng, after the high-level civil and military forces of Jizhun and Jizi Korea received a surprise attack from the Qin army and broke through the border area, although they fell into a certain degree of panic at first, they still reacted quickly.
In the front hall of the palace, Ji Zhun couldn't help but get angry after looking at his subordinates and falling into a dead silence: "You all tell me how to do it now." The Qin people raised troops for no reason this time, so don't they take into account the relationship between us?"
After hearing Ji Zhun's words, many ministers of the Jizi Joseon Dynasty muttered in their hearts: "If the Qin people really take this into account, they will really not react at all, and delay here for so long with you idiot?" Moreover, the Qin people have obviously shown something, and those things you do, as long as you are not stupid, you can see who did it." ”
said so, but no one dared to say what was in their hearts, because they didn't want to be slaughtered by the furious Kei for such a thing.
Seeing that he didn't pay attention to him, Ji Zhun couldn't help but look at his own Xiangguo: "Xiangguo, you are the minister you rely on the most, I wonder if you have a good strategy to retreat from the enemy?"
In a sense, Ji Zhun asked the wrong person, after all, Ji Zhun seemed to have forgotten that if this person hadn't instigated him to attack Zhang Jiashi's caravan, I am afraid that Zhang Jiashi would have to send troops, and he really couldn't find a suitable excuse.
And this Xiangguo is bitter in his heart, what better way can he do?
In terms of military strength, people's strength, and even national strength, don't say that Daqin, which is like a giant for Jizi Korea, even a few large counties in Daqin with a rich family background will not be much different from Jizi North Korea in terms of average strength.
In this case, if Da Qin is really determined to be with Jizi North Korea, it is estimated that they will be more than auspicious in this matter.
Perhaps, apologizing to Daqin is a solution to the problem. But this Xiangguo will not say this solution when he is killed, because once he says this, he will definitely be the one who dies the fastest.
After all, he can be said to be the initiator of this disaster, and after thinking of the corresponding situation, Ji Zhun will definitely not let him go so easily.
Therefore, after thinking about it for a while, even if it was for the sake of his own life, he had to say in a firm tone: "King, we can't compromise with the Qin people, because the Qin people should have premeditated this matter a long time ago, otherwise, the other party's caravan would not have fled without too many casualties." ”
What he said was indeed a fact, because Zhang Jiashi had already ordered that if the caravan encountered a large-scale attack, then it would be the priority to survive.
Of course, this has been arranged for a long time, but more importantly, Zhang Jiashi does not want innocent subordinates to sacrifice because of money.
But in any case, after hearing his Xiangguo's suggestion, Ji Zhun finally chose a way to keep his position.
That is to let the Great Qin Empire, understand that his Jizi Korea, is also not a weak and bullying country.
As a descendant of Shang Tang, he wanted to let the Qin people know what it meant to be the backbone of the Shang Dynasty.