Chapter 65: Pingcheng
Zhou Hao's Chinese army was the main force of this expedition, with a total of 180,000 people. It took another five days for this huge team to completely cross Changqing Mountain and enter Goryeo.
The Chinese army has not completely turned over Changqingshan, and the selection battalion, as the vanguard, has already started its first battle. With the sacrifice of hundreds of soldiers, a small city was captured - Chushan City.
This Chushan city is close to Changqing Mountain, and although the city is small, it guards the transportation artery between Beiyan and Goryeo.
The Xuanfeng battalion was able to take Chushan City in one fell swoop, but fortunately, in Goryeo, war preparedness has always been relaxed, and the walls of Chushan City are just low earthen walls that are more than a foot high. After being occupied by the Fuso, it was not greatly repaired, and only 2,000 Fuso soldiers were stationed to defend it.
After a burst of ballistas and catapults from the selected battalion, the low earthen wall collapsed in an instant. 20,000 soldiers of the Xuanfeng battalion poured into Chushan City like a tide, like an autumn wind sweeping away leaves, killing the 2,000 Fusang defenders who resisted stubbornly, and won the first victory of the expedition to Goryeo!
Although the Fuso people have an army of one million, there are less than 300,000 elites who can really fight. After the destruction of Goryeo, the Fusang people burned, killed, looted, and did all kinds of evil in this land, forcing the Goryeo sticks to a desperate situation, and had to rise up against the brutal Fusang people.
As the saying goes, a rabbit will bite when it is in a hurry! The Koreans, who were on the verge of extinction of the country, had to show the courage to resist, and the voices of riots came and went.
The Fusang people, who were immersed in the destruction of the Goryeo Kingdom without much effort, were caught off guard by these riots and rebellions, and sent troops everywhere to suppress them. But the riots here have just been suppressed, and there is a resurgence elsewhere. The Fusang people, who were in a hurry and took care of one another, were completely unable to defend against the attack of the Northern Yan Kingdom for a while.
The Chinese army led by Xue Wanche entered Chushan City to rest for a few days, and the follow-up troops and baggage continued to arrive, and a small Chushan City could not accommodate it at all, and most of the soldiers had to camp outside the city.
In addition to the Central Route Army, the 70,000 Left Route Army attacking from the north and the 70,000 Right Route Army attacking from the south also came with good news. The Left Route Army had already occupied Maoshan Castle, and the Right Route Army had also occupied Yiju Castle.
At this point, all the three armies entered Goryeo and occupied the bridgehead.
The middle army was of course the main force of the expedition, and after resting for three days, Xue Wanche personally led an army of 180,000 troops, waved his army straight forward, and went straight to Pingcheng.
Although the kingdom of Goryeo was small, it had three national capitals, namely Pyeongseong, Kaesong, and Handu.
As the largest and most important castle in northern Goryeo, Pyongseong also attaches great importance to the people of Fuso.
If Pyeongseong is lost, it will be difficult for the Fusang people to gain a foothold in the entire northern part of Goryeo. After learning the news that the Northern Yan army had invaded Goryeo, the Fusang people hurriedly dispatched troops, abandoned the resistance of the Goryeo people, and mobilized heavy troops to defend Pyongseong.
The Chinese army led by Xue Wanche barely encountered any decent resistance along the way. From Chushan to Pingcheng, the journey of more than 600 miles, more than 10 large and small cities, all of which were broken in one attack.
In less than ten days, in addition to the 20,000 people who stayed in various cities, the remaining 160,000 troops had already killed under the city of Pingcheng and surrounded the Pingcheng group of Nuoda.
A series of easy victories filled the entire expeditionary army with the joy of victory and disdain for the Fuso people. This sentiment of underestimating the enemy gradually spread, and even many generals thought that within two months, they would definitely be able to drive the Fusang people into the sea!
And Zhou Hao, who has been following Xue Wanche, has not been able to fight at all in the past ten days. Often before Xue Wanche's handsome banner arrived, the striker had already captured the city and started to clean up the battlefield.
This made Zhou Hao a little anxious!
"If it goes on like this, where can I find my master's military exploits?" Zhou Hao stood in Xue Wanche's tent as a guard, but his mind had already drifted to where.
From the time of the expedition to the present, another month has passed. This month, Zhou Hao still hasn't put down his internal strength cultivation, and he has been practicing diligently every night. The internal strength in the dantian has grown from the thickness of a thumb to the size of more than half an egg, which has been doubled.
Now Zhou Hao can barely shoot two formation arrows, and he is a big step closer to launching the Heaven and Earth Three Talent Array. But he couldn't get a fight, which really made Zhou Hao a little depressed.
Xue Wanche sat in the tent, his face was calm as water, holding a military book, squinting slightly, looking extremely devoted.
If anyone who knows Xue Wanche knows, General Xue seems to be full of charlatanism, and his temper is even more explosive. But the closer the war approached, the calmer and more stable he became.
Sensing Zhou Hao, who was standing in front of him, frowning and having luck there, Xue Wanche said indifferently: "Haozi, haven't you made any achievements in the past few days, are you a little anxious?"
Zhou Hao grinned: "General, you can even see this?"
"Lao Tzu has been fighting for more than 20 years, how can you not see this little bit of caution?"
"General, you see that I have nothing to do if I stay by your side, you can just put me in the Xuanfeng Battalion!"
"You kid, you're still too young! This battle has just begun, and the big battles and tough battles are still to come, why are you in a hurry? When the time comes, your boy's exploits are naturally indispensable!"
"Oh, really?" Zhou Hao was overjoyed when he heard this.
"Ming said that we are going to attack Pingcheng, according to the report of the spies, there are at least 100,000 Fusang defenders gathered in Pingcheng, and most of them are elite divisions of a hundred battles! 160,000 against 100,000, although we have more people than Fusang, but we are the side that is besieging the city. Without a bloody battle, I'm afraid it won't be able to take it. Ming said that you only need to follow Lao Tzu to ensure that you have a lot of combat exploits!"
"General, do you have to go into battle in person?" Zhou Hao was stunned.
"It's been a long time since I've encountered such a strong enemy, and I can make Lao Tzu interested in going into battle to kill the enemy in person, how can I do it if I don't go up to the event?" Xue Wanche said with a flash of light in his eyes.
Listening to Xue Wanche's words, Zhou Hao was not worried but happy, and said that there was a big battle to fight, which was undoubtedly a good opportunity to make war achievements!
"Okay, it's none of your business here, you kid go back to sleep! Raise your spirits, don't lose Lao Tzu's face!" Xue Wanche said with a wave of his hand.
Zhou Hao smiled and walked out of Xue Wanche's handsome tent.
Taking a deep breath of cold air, standing on the hillside where the handsome tent was located, Zhou Hao calmed down his excitement a little.
Looking up, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse tonight, and I am afraid that it is a rare good weather in winter.
Then he turned his head and looked into the distance. I saw that under the night, above the snow-capped land, there was an endless camp tent, which stretched all the way to the bottom of the castle!
Countless bonfires burned in the night, adding a warm color to the cold winter night. Countless soldiers rubbed their hands, jumped their feet, and chatted around the bonfire to keep warm.
The flags fluttering in the cold wind include the violent bear flag of the Liaodong Army, the double-headed eagle flag of the Youzhou Army, the Panlong Flag of the Yizhou Army, the winged white tiger flag of the Jizhou Army, the Xuanwu Flag of the Lujun Army and so on.
And in the extreme distance beyond sight, Pingcheng lay on the side of the Datong River, like a monster in the dark, waiting for the sun to rise, it will devour countless flesh and bones.
The tranquility before the war was the most moving! The scene in front of him made Zhou Hao involuntarily feel a lot of pride in his chest.
It's just that I don't know, among the hundreds of thousands of Beiyan soldiers, which ones can kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and which ones can be shrouded in horse leather?