Chapter 411: The Battle on the Southern Front
The battle in the Nanshui River Basin, which Xu Ning and Hu Bingchang were in charge of, was progressing smoothly, and the offensives of the other armies were basically not bad, and they all achieved extremely remarkable results!
After the First Fleet of Sun Xing and the Second Fleet of Qu Liulang completely wiped out all the naval forces of Goguryeo, the tortuous and long coastline in the western part of Goguryeo can be said to be a smooth road for the Xia army to attack everywhere, and Goguryeo fortified everywhere in order to resist the attack of the Xia army, and even diluted its defensive strength a lot.
With the assistance of Qu Liulang's naval army, the two divisions of Zhang Hang and Chu Honghang, the blue wolf army that attacked the Liaodong Peninsula, landed unexpectedly at the later Lushunkou, and then successfully captured the most important Beisha Port and Daheishan City in northern Goguryeo at night.
Because this tall and precipitous city is located near Dalian on the Liaodong Peninsula in the later generations, the existence of such an isthmus nearby makes it an easy place to defend and difficult to attack, and Changxing Island further north has long been stared at by Wang Ze and cannot be pulled out.
After the two of them led their troops to conquer the Great Black Mountain City, Qu Liulang led most of the fleet to Changxing Island, which had served as a temporary base for several days and would be another important base for the Xia Kingdom to conquer the Liaodong Peninsula.
On the one hand, Zhang Hang and Chu Honghang led their armies to attack the more inland areas of the Liaodong Peninsula, and on the other hand, they began to build fortifications on the isthmus to resist the counterattack of the Goguryeo army in the future.
As long as the Xia army defended this isthmus, it could easily defeat the Goguryeo army, and this land could not only garrison tens of thousands of infantry troops and cavalry troops, but also become the location of Qu Liulang's second fleet.
The peninsula south of Beisha Port is even more expansive, and although it cannot grow other crops because of the strong winds, it can grow a large amount of alfalfa and turn it into an excellent pasture, and Wang Ze is already planning to relocate thousands of herders here.
Unlike Zhang Hang and Chu Honghang, who were in the vicinity of Beisha Harbor, Cao An and Meng Xian led their troops to work closely with Sun Xing's First Fleet.
Although Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, was not conquered in Wang Ze's special instructions, several Goguryeo reinforcements who tried to reinforce Pyongyang were wiped out one after another, which greatly dealt a blow to the military forces loyal to the Goguryeo royal family.
If Wang Ze wants to start a war against Goguryeo, of course, it is impossible not to notice that almost half of the Han people in Goguryeo have been converted, although most of these Han people have been Goguryeo, but they still belong to the kind of power that can be won over.
Although Wang Ze had already arranged some underpins through Bo Haotu, Jian Yu, Lian Yucheng and others, Wang Ze felt that such strength was not enough, so Wang Ze thought of Sun Yu, who was his deputy in the Third Fleet of the South Seas.
If it weren't for Wang Ze's concern about Sun Yu's struggle, it was very likely that Sun Yu's troops would have been replaced from Nanyang to fight, but Sun Yu still wrote a letter to his family, after all, any big family must leave a way back.
Not to mention what kind of changes Sun Yu's letter would bring to the Han people of Goguryeo, the offensive of the Xia army was unstoppable and further expanded after all.
Compared with the results of the two armies of the Blue Wolf Army, the results of Zheng Kui's army, which was responsible for the attack on the southern part of Goguryeo and the hometown of Baekje south of the Han River, were even more incredible! It can be said that Zheng Kui's exploits along the way are second only to Xu Ning and Hu Bingchang, who won inexplicably.
Wang Ze wanted to attack Baekje's hometown, how could he ignore Buyeo Wang, the former son of the Baekje royal family, so Buyeo Wang, who had been serving as a county guard in Chishi County, was also pulled over by Zheng Kui under Wang Ze's order to take charge of the war in Baekje's hometown together.
When he heard the news that the Xia army was going to attack Baekje's hometown, Buyeo Wang became a little impatient, and he was a little restless there.
Although he also knew that it was impossible for Baekje, which had already been destroyed, to restore the country, and it was absolutely impossible for the hometown of Baekje, which was captured by the Xia State in the future, to allow a Baekje State to be established again, and this land could only be an inseparable part of the territory of the Xia Kingdom in the future.
Even the people of Baekje who lived in the hometown of Baekje in the past are still scattered all over Goguryeo, and the people of Baekje who still remain in the hometown of Baekje may not even have 30% of the past, but Buyeo Wang still seems very excited.
Defeating Goguryeo and recovering Baekje was the wish of many Baekje immigrants who survived in the Ha Kingdom in the East China Sea, and in the past few years when Baekje and the Ha Kingdom had frequent interactions, a large number of Baekje women came to the Ha Kingdom with merchant ships, and then married the people of the Xia Kingdom after passing the assessment and became the people of the Xia Kingdom.
Later, when Baekje secretly attacked Jeju Island with Silla, Wang Ze was furious and captured a large area of Baekje, and even conquered Sihyeon Fortress, plundering a large number of Baekje people as slaves, and at this time, nearly 70,000 Baekje craftsmen of various kinds were placed in various workshops by Wang Ze as civilians. The end of the world
A few years later, Goguryeo defeated Baekje, and after the defeat of Buyeo Wang's remnants in the fight against Goguryeo, he defected to the Xia Kingdom in desperation, and also relocated tens of thousands of Baekje people under his command to various parts of the East China Sea, and with Wang Ze's permission, these Baekje people also became the people of the Xia Kingdom.
Therefore, the influence of the Baekje immigrants is not small, and it is second only to the Han people in the entire Xia Kingdom, and after the Baekje people are the Ya people, especially the influence of the Heishui Ya people is greater, but because most of the tribal leaders of the Baekje people were purged at the beginning, and they themselves have no cultural heritage, so the Ya people led by the Heishui tribe are integrating into the Han group at an alarming speed.
After Buyeo Wang came to Zheng Kui's army, he also consulted with Zheng Kui to specially select hundreds of Baekje immigrant young men from various counties in the East China Sea, and these Baekje young men will serve as propagandists for Zheng Kui's army, not only responsible for leading the way, but also pacifying the remnants of Baekje, who are also known as the leading party in later generations.
Since Zheng Kui had a leading party led by Buyeo Wang, the prince of the Baekje royal family, he attacked Baekje's hometown extremely quickly, even though Goguryeo relocated most of the Baekje people to various parts of Liaodong in order to prevent the remnants of Baekje from returning to the country.
However, there are still more than 100,000 people left behind in the hometown of Baekje, and these Baekje people first suffered the great pain of separation from their relatives under the pressure of Goguryeo, and then they were deprived of most of their land by Goguryeo, and they were even humiliated by Goguryeo immigrants.
Even though a considerable number of Baekje people are descendants of the Buyeo people, like the Goguryeo people, they still have a great hatred for these Goguryeo people, and in the past, they faced the Goguryeo army, and there were more Goguryeo immigrants who dared to speak out.
Now the situation is different, the only remaining prince of Buyeo Wangshi in the royal family, led the army of Xia to attack, and immediately these Baekje people couldn't bear it anymore.
More than 100,000 Baekje people can still make up more than 20,000 young people, and they have risen up in various places, not only killing Goguryeo officials, but even beginning to take revenge on the Goguryeo people who moved to Baekje's hometown.
Of course, the Goguryeo people will not be fuel-efficient lamps, they rely on their own people to be outnumbered, and soon regain the upper hand, if it were not for Zheng Kui's timely reinforcements under the urging of Buyeo Wang, I am afraid that the people of Baekje in Baekje's hometown will be washed in blood again.
Unlike the offensives at Nanshui and Tongmen River, Zheng Kui had to seize all the land south of the Han River along the way, and it was impossible to maintain the occupation of Baekje's hometown by relying on Zheng Kui's more than 10,000 people along the way.
Therefore, at Zheng Kui's suggestion, it was still the same as the procedure for attacking the Japanese kingdom at the beginning, Zheng Kui led the army to attack the city and seize the land in the front, and the National Guard and armed immigrants who had already been prepared began to follow up in an orderly manner according to the earlier arrangement!
Some of these veterans of the National Guard, who had participated in the attack on the Japanese state, were familiar with this set, and they quickly defeated most of the remnants of Goguryeo in the mountains, as well as some of the people who were hiding.
After clearing these major forces, some remnants of Goguryeo could not have much impact on the subsequent armed immigrants, and in order to ensure that the remnants of Baekje would not cause chaos in the future, Wang Ze even relocated all the Baekje people here to the counties of Nanyang, Donghae, Begi and other places under the pretext of completely cleaning up the Goguryeo people.
Under the leadership of Zheng Kui, the mighty army first took Gwangju in the first battle, and then conquered the fortress of Sihyun, and successfully captured the important town of Xiongjin Fortress in the north of Baekje in the third battle, and in March of the 16th year of the summer calendar, only the hometown of Baekje south of the Han River was not captured.
It can be said that after this war, the entire hometown of Baekje has completely become the territory of the Xia Kingdom, and the land that has newly become the territory of the Xia Kingdom is the closest territory to the land of Sanqi, and it is very convenient to immigrate from other counties of the Xia Kingdom or from the land of Sanqi.
Because of the danger of the Han River, the terrain is excellent by the water and the mountains, and there is a part of the Goguryeo inland river army on the river, so Zheng Kui is not easy to attack for a while, just at this time Jong Li of the Jeju Island detachment led the naval army to arrive.
As the general of the Xia Kingdom who hated Goguryeo the most, Jong Li attacked like a madman after the war against Goguryeo, and he first led his fleet to help Han Zigao eliminate a relatively powerful naval army that Silla had been hiding in the Dongluo River.
Then he began to assist Zheng Kui in seizing Siyu City and Xiongjin City successively, and now he is also where he comes in to attack Comfort City.
First of all, Jong Li led his naval army to quickly expel and wipe out the Goguryeo naval army in the Han River, thus completely cutting off the internal and external communication of the Comfort City, even though they knew that the Comfort City had abundant supplies and was not afraid of siege.
Moreover, as a military center of Goguryeo against the Baekje and Silla armies, it was of course more dangerous than Baekje's Xiongjin Fortress, but no matter how dangerous the city was, it could not stop the power of gunpowder, although they had not yet conquered the fortress, but the fall of this city was already countdown.
Compared with Zheng Kui's smooth progress, Han Zigao's journey was a little unsmooth at the beginning!