Chapter 286 is really amazing
Luojin City was conquered by the Xia army!
Luojin City, which is located nearly three hundred miles southwest of the mouth of the Tongmen River, has now changed its appearance greatly, and there are still some traces of blood that have congealed on the walls of the city, and some of the almost black dark red blood stains have not completely dried up at low temperatures.
The snow outside the city wall was also stained red with a large amount of blood, and even the corpses of some Goguryeo soldiers could be seen in the field not far from the city, lying on the ground horizontally, and they were partially covered by the snow in the morning, only revealing part of their hands and feet, etc., which is very in line with the feeling of a horror movie.
That's because time is in a hurry, and the Xia army that captured the city did not immediately collect the corpses of the Goguryeo soldiers, anyway, at this time it is still winter, and the corpses will hardly decompose, even if there is no time to clean up, it will not spread the plague, and there are many wild beasts outside the city, and it is estimated that there are many carnivores who will be happy to accept such a gift.
Not far from the southeast outside Luojin City is the port of Luojin City, the originally small port has been filled with all kinds of ships, and there are more than ten sea shark-class warships patrolling around in the sea area outside the port.
They cruised in the open sea not only to free up berths for transport ships to load goods, but also to guard against the arrival of naval ships that were almost non-existent to the Goguryeo people, and of course, it could also be said to prevent the Goguryeo baggage fleet from escaping when the situation was bad, after all, everything on board could be sold for money, right?
Tens of thousands of Goguryeo young and healthy women, under the supervision of groups of Xia soldiers, were constantly transporting boxes of weapons, sacks of grain, horses of cloth, and a large number of cattle and horses to the ships anchored in the harbor.
From time to time, some Xia soldiers can be seen happily escorting some valuables such as gold and silver, as well as a large number of iron tools to the ship, which are all collected from the homes of wealthy families in the city, so they are all transported by more honest soldiers.
Although Najin Fortress is the most remote northeastern part of Goguryeo, and the city is small and sparsely populated, it is precisely because of the vast land and sparsely populated that all the gold and silver collected by many indigenous tribes around it are traded here, so that the gold and silver here are no less than those of Baekje and Silla.
However, compared to these high-value gold and silver goods, the soldiers were most pleased with the large number of iron weapons and some iron weapons seized from various parts of the city.
Now because of the extreme shortage of iron in the East China Sea, even the expectations of ordinary soldiers for iron products when they loot are about to catch up with gold and silver, I have to say that it is really an unhealthy phenomenon, which is also where Wang Ze is most anxious.
Thanks to the efforts of tens of thousands of Goguryeo youths and healthy women and thousands of Xia soldiers, the ships were quickly filled, and some transport ships that were already full of goods began to slowly sail out of the port, anchored in the offshore area and waited for everyone to set sail together.
Just when the Xia army inside and outside the city was busy, General Jianwu (partial general, middle rank) Yu Feng and deputy general Qin Yi, who were the main generals of the Xia army that captured Luojin City, stood on the somewhat dilapidated head of Luojin City and looked at the busy port outside the city.
"General Yu is really resourceful! If I were to do it myself, I would probably have to burn all these things! That would be a shame! As the deputy general of the Second Division of the First Army, General Zhenwu (junior general) Qin Yi admired Lao Dafeng with admiration.
Qin Yi was born in Donglai County, although he was a veteran of Wang Zejing's time in Tamluo, but at the beginning, he did not take the initiative to join Wang Yong's side, but felt a little forced to join.
Earlier, Qin Yi was the small leader of a group of bandits in a cottage not far from the southeast of Donglai County, because the cottage was close to the rich Donglai County, so a large number of merchants passed by nearby every day, which can be described as a lot of money.
Therefore, they don't need to farm their own fields at all, as long as they go down the mountain from time to time to rob the rich passing merchants, they can get a lot of money to buy roads, so that although they can't live a rich and expensive life because they have few people, they can also live a very comfortable life with Hemeimei.
Who knew that the good times would not last long, just when their cottage began to improve a little, Wang Yong, Cheng Chong and Zhu Rui, who were in Changguang County, began to lead the army to sweep away many small groups of bandits around their cottage because of the stimulation of the nearby bandits.
Originally, Qin Yi and several big leaders of the cottage also did not want to surrender, after all, the Chinese are the minority who are 'willing to attach the tail', but the majority are the ones who 'would rather be the chicken mouth than the cow', how cool is it to be the boss himself, why should he be the little brother of others?
Just when several people were about to ignore each other's ultimatum, Zhu Rui, the three-headed leader who didn't want to be in charge of his own way, was angered by a cottage that blocked him and had a bad exit, so he personally led dozens of ironclad soldiers to rush into the village in a fit of rage, and slaughtered the cottage without leaving a chicken and dog.
At this time, dozens of nearby cottages, including Qin Yi's gang, were suppressed, but they knew that the slaughtered cottage was not a harmless little white rabbit for humans and animals, it was a tyrant within a radius of dozens of miles, not only robbing merchants, but also taking some small groups of bandits from time to time.
But such a powerful cottage was slaughtered in less than an hour, and now Qin Yi and they didn't dare to be uncles anymore, so they immediately understood the current affairs and took the initiative to send someone to contact Zhu Rui to discuss the matter of taking refuge and attaching. Jushuku
In fact, they could also choose to leave Donglai County like some other bandits at that time, and it was not bad to develop in Qingzhou and South Qingzhou further west, but because Qin Yi and they were all natives of Donglai after all, they didn't want to leave this land, so they had to take refuge in Wang Yong.
I thought that if I was forced to take refuge with each other, I would definitely suffer a lot of abuse, but after I didn't want to defect to Wang Yong, their lives far exceeded their previous lives, and there was a tendency to get better and better.
Qin Yi, a little thief in the past, never dreamed that he would be able to become a general a few years later, although he was only the lowest rank among the lowest-level generals in the first level of generals, but after all, this is also a general, isn't it?
This time, when Zhang Hang asked Wang Ze for help, he also wrote Huang Rui's plan clearly in the letter, so when Jiang Chuan and Chu Honghang were heading for the Tongmen River with an army of 10,000, Yu Feng and Qin Yi also quietly set off by boat.
Before they set off, Wang Ze explained to them very clearly, that is, to directly end the general logistics base of the Goguryeo expeditionary army--Luojin City.
After all, the combat effectiveness of the Goguryeo army should not be underestimated, and Yang Er, Li Er and others in later generations have suffered a lot of big losses in the hands of the Goguryeo army, which shows that the Goguryeo army is strong, and a country can repel two super empires several times in a row, which is not something that only famous generals can do.
Therefore, before coming, Yu Feng and Qin Yi were a little apprehensive, after all, it was a city that could bear the general logistics base of tens of thousands of Goguryeo troops, and it was not too easy to attack anyway, and the equipment needed to attack the city should also be complete.
However, Wang Ze didn't give them much time to prepare, anyway, in addition to the west coast and Liaodong, there were some fortified cities in Goguryeo, and the cities on the east coast were not much better than those in the Wa Kingdom, so the two who didn't know much about the situation set off with some worries.
When the two of them came to the vicinity of the open sea of Luojin City at night, they found that the Goguryeo army did not have much intention to defend the sea, which may also be related to the fact that the navy of the Xia army had only made a lot of noise on the west coast before, but the east coast had not moved.
After the two of them quietly landed at night, when they lurked all the way to a place not far from Luojin City, they found that this was a simple and dilapidated small city, and the people in the entire city were at most thirty or forty thousand people, but anyway, Yu Feng and Qin Yi sent it.
After launching the offensive at night, the only less than 2,000 defenders in Luojin City could not resist the attack of tens of thousands of Xia troops, and the weapons of this army were so sharp and the armor was so fine, it only took less than an hour for this city, which was responsible for the logistics and storage of the entire Goguryeo Expeditionary Army, fell into the hands of Yu Feng and Qin Yi.
However, when Qin Yi cut down the last few Goguryeo soldiers who resisted looked out of the city, he suddenly found a group of cavalry galloping towards the mouth of the Tongmen River, and his face suddenly became nervous.
After all, Luojin City is less than 300 miles away from the mouth of the Tongmen River, and the Goguryeo army has a large number of cavalry, if the group of cavalry who left from Luojin City arrives to report the news, and then wait for the Goguryeo army to arrive, at most a little more than a day will have a Goguryeo brigade of cavalry coming.
In this way, the time left for Yu Feng and Qin Yi is only one day, if they can't withdraw in such a short time, then when the Goguryeo cavalry arrives and sticks them here, they will face the follow-up tens of thousands of Goguryeo troops.
Therefore, Qin Yi suggested to Yu Feng at that time to simply burn all the heavy supplies of the Goguryeo army in several large warehouses, and then the army retreated quickly, or went south along the eastern coast of Goguryeo, constantly destroying Goguryeo cities and other facilities along the way, because after all, they were only to let the Goguryeo army at the mouth of the Tongmen River retreat.
Faced with Qin Yi's suggestion, Yu Feng refused with a smile, and he asked rhetorically at that time: "Isn't it too wasteful to burn so many food and materials just like this?" It's better for us to move out, and sell it for some money when the time comes, so that we can share it with the soldiers! ”
There is a rule in Wang Ze's army that half of the rewards will be given to the soldiers after a unified auction of the money and other items looted by the army during the war, and the generals are calculated separately, so the soldiers are very hard at work during the war, and Wang Ze can also get a subsidy through such a plunder, which is really happy.
Therefore, Yu Feng's words are very in line with everyone's interests, but Qin Yi really doesn't know the arrangement in Yu Feng's heart, he said anxiously: "General Yu, we only have a total of 10,000 people, and it takes 30,000 people to move most of the materials in the city in one day."
I also know that it's a pity that all these materials in the city are burned, but we just have such a small number of manpower, and we have to set aside a certain amount of troops to watch the Goguryeo people in the city not make trouble, I really can't take care of it, I think it is better to restrain some expensive things, and the rest will be burned! ”
Yu Feng listened to Qin Yi's words and said with a smile: "How can we only have 10,000 people, aren't the tens of thousands of Goguryeo people in this city a ready-made labor force?" With the help of these Goguryeo people, I think I can move nearly half of the important supplies in a day at most! ”
Yu Feng just made Qin Yi stunned with just one sentence, and he was infinitely admired in his heart, this is really amazing, using other people's people to carry other people's materials can also make people's army unable to continue to fight with their own side, and at the same time, they can also make a lot of money by looting the other party's baggage materials, it is really amazing.