Chapter 413: Silla Raiders

Looking at the several expedited military newspapers that had been opened on the case in front of him, King Jinheung of Silla felt a little helpless! He will even feel a little aggrieved!

Didn't you mess with Baekje in the first place? As for not letting us go? At that time, we Silla and Baekje suffered more losses, and even our country was captured and looted by you, so why are you attacking Silla today? Can we Silla have an easy time today?

Looking back on hundreds of years, King Jinheung felt that the development of Silla was really not easy!

Slowly expanding from the first dozen or so small villages, Silla slowly but surely gradually annexed other tribes under the pressure of the powerful Mahan, Jinhan, and Donghae Wa kingdoms at the time, and became a small country with a population of only three or four hundred thousand two hundred years ago.

At that time, the newly formed Silla was still so weak, although it was already a country above the name, and had its own capital, but the tribal leaders who joined it still maintained strong power, in fact, it was just a more closely connected tribal alliance.

At that time, Baekje was so powerful that it not only occupied all the rich lands in the west south of Pyongyang City, but even Goguryeo was attacked by Baekje, the original king of Goguryeo was killed, and the Wa Kingdom was even more ambitious to expand its colonial palace in Kaba.

In order not to be swallowed up by the powerful Baekje and Wa kingdoms, Silla turned around and hugged Goguryeo's thigh, as a vassal state of Goguryeo, although he had to provide a large amount of money and grain every year, at least he kept his country.

As the power of the country grew, Silla began to form an alliance with the weakening Baekje, and gradually alienated Goguryeo, finally breaking away from the suzerainty with Goguryeo fifty years ago, and even turned around and united with Baekje as an ally to attack his own suzerainty, snatching a large area of fertile land along the Han River from Goguryeo.

Later, Silla treacherously threw aside the righteousness of its allies for hundreds of years, and then turned around and defeated Baekje, snatching a large area of fertile land in the Han River valley from Baekje, just as Silla was ready to betray its allies repeatedly and embark on a path to unification of the peninsula based on the traces of the original history.

As soon as Wang Ze appeared, he broke the booming momentum of Silla, first armed Baekje to fight Silla by surprise and retreated, and when Silla finally spent a lot of money to re-woo Baekje and prepared to unite with the Japanese kingdom to attack Wang Ze, at this time Wang Ze's strength was no longer what they could imagine.

Not to mention the destruction of the Silla and Baekje coalition forces that attacked Jeju Island and the Nagbato Waterway, even their own capital Jinseong was conquered and looted by the Xia army, and finally all the people and property in the entire Dagaya region were removed, which greatly damaged the vitality of the entire Silla at that time.

Silla, whose strength was greatly damaged, was unable to repel the Xia army at that time, and in desperation, King Jinheung had to take out a large area of land along the Han River that he had snatched from Goguryeo to sue for peace with Goguryeo and ask for Goguryeo's protection, which allowed the Xia army to quickly withdraw from Silla and Baekje.

Who knew that this was really the front door to send the wolf to the back door to welcome the tiger, the Goguryeo army was unwilling to retreat after the Xia army withdrew, and the gradual control of Silla's posture, all of which made King Jinheung extremely worried.

In order to defend Silla, King Jinheung humiliated himself to Goguryeo King Goyangsung, and at the same time secretly recruited a large number of young men from among the young people of Silla and rearmed an army of nearly 80,000 people.

Fortunately, because of Baekje, a weaker substitute for the dead, Gao Yangcheng was worried that Silla was strong and he could not destroy all two countries in one go, so he withdrew the troops deployed in Silla and went all out to occupy Baekje's hometown.

Although Goguryeo withdrew his army, King Jinheung was still frightened by Goguryeo's move to destroy Baekje in one fell swoop, and even though he had 80,000 troops, he still could not make him feel at ease.

After four or five years of continuous expansion, King Jinheung, with a small kingdom of Silla with a population of only one million, actually built a standing army of about 120,000 people.

Please don't compare Wang Ze's military-civilian ratio with Silla, after all, Wang Ze has a strong commercial ability to absorb gold, and there is also a strong fleet to buy grain from Nanyang and Nanchen, but Silla does not have the economic ability of Wang Ze.

With such an army of more than 100,000 people, almost every family member in Silla joined the army, and the burden on the people was extremely heavy.

King Jinheung could not see this, even though the people of Silla were becoming more and more sad in order to support this huge army, but King Jinheung felt that he was safe.

When Han Zigao, Liu Wancheng and others led a large army to the vicinity of Garo City in the south of the Great Jiaye region, King Zhenxing didn't know the news, he didn't pay much attention to this army with only 20,000 people, even if the Xia army was strong in combat, he could send out 80,000 people to die! Miao

However, in addition to Han Zigao's more than 20,000 troops along the way, Wang Ze allocated Silla's troops in order to further weaken the combat strength of Silla's army, and transferred Ling Cheng stationed there from Whale Island, and used him and the National Guard of Taizhou and Whale Island with a total of more than 10,000 people to attack and harass the eastern coast of Silla.

For a time, the entire Silla was in flames everywhere, and King Zhenxing had to receive more than a dozen military reports similar to the urgent reports in front of him every day, so that King Zhenxing was made into a soldier by Wang Ze's suspicious array, and he didn't know which way was the main force of the Xia army for a while.

Even if he knew that Han Zigao and Liu Wancheng had led more than 20,000 troops to land in the southern Dajiaye, he still didn't dare to send a large number of troops to attack, and after thinking about it, King Zhenxing only sent 60,000 troops to Dajiaye.

At this time, after several years of development, Silla has grown from a population of more than 900,000 to more than 1.1 million today, but the young people who can serve as soldiers and fight in the whole country are in their early 200,000s, which means that the army in the hands of King Jinheung accounts for half of the young people in the entire Silla.

Of course, if Silla reached the last critical juncture, King Jinheung continued to expand the army regardless of it, and could continue to expand Silla's current army from 120,000 to more than 200,000, but Silla's own weapons could not keep up at all.

Because he suffered a small loss at the beginning of the landing, and then Han Zigao analyzed the strength of Silla's army, so in the face of the Silla army, which is likely to be more than 100,000, Han Zigao and Liu Wancheng had to be cautious, after all, the deterrence of the 100,000 army was too great.

After considering this, Han Zigao, who did not know that King Zhenxing only sent 60,000 troops, finally decided that the more than 20,000 Xia troops would take the Nakdong River as the boundary and attack the former Dagyaye region west of the Nakdong River first.

It is also known as the Muhan region in later generations, and the sticks call it the Renna region, which not only has a Nakdong River in the east to block the reinforcements of the Silla army, but also connects with the Baekje hometown in the west that was attacked by Zheng Kui.

As long as Han Zigao captured this place, the Xia army in Baekje's hometown could form an east-west echo relationship with himself, which was more conducive to the Xia state's occupation of this place, so in just over two days, the city of Gara, which was close to the mouth of the Nakdong River, was occupied by the Xia army again.

Ten years ago, after Wang Ze conquered the city of Gara, he had plundered all the people in the city as slaves, so when the Xia army came again this time, even though he knew that the Xia army was only more than 20,000 people, and the reinforcements of King Jinheung of Silla were also on the way, the people of Silla in the city still couldn't help but flee with fear in their hearts.

With the residual power left by Wang Ze in the past, Han Zigao easily captured Jialuo City, but in the face of the 60,000 troops attacked by Silla, it was still difficult for Han Zigao to advance further.

Although Han Zigao carried a large number of gunpowder weapons with him before he set out, the Silla people had already learned a lot from past battles and had a certain understanding of these gunpowder weapons, so it was difficult to renew the phenomenon of the enemy fleeing as soon as the Xia army used gunpowder weapons.

Because most of the soldiers under his command are rookies, Han Zigao can only move forward step by step, not daring to make the slightest rash move, and in addition to more than 10,000 veterans who dare to fight, more than 40,000 other people are rookies.

The two sides were afraid of the wolf for a while, and gradually formed a confrontation at the great bend of the Nakdong River in the north of Kaye, although Han Zigao failed to achieve too good results for a while, but only used 20,000 troops to contain the Silla army of more than 60,000 people.

In the east of Silla, 30,000 or 40,000 people were restrained by Ling Cheng, so that Silla not only did not have the strength to support the war in Goguryeo, but also had to send letters to Gao Yangcheng for help one after another, so that Gao Yangcheng, who was far away in Pyongyang City, was also helpless to jump to his feet and scold his mother.

Facing the dilemma faced by Han Zigao, Wang Ze also began to know, but this kind of thing is also normal, and soon Zheng Kui successfully conquered the consolation city on the south bank of the Han River with the cooperation of Zongli's naval army, and after leaving a part of the army, Zheng Kui began to go up the Han River.

The Han River is divided into the North Han River and the South Han River 100 miles upstream of the Fortress, and it has long been the most contested area between Silla and Goguryeo, and now Zheng Kui can reach the northernmost border of Silla by following the South Han River.

In this way, the Xia State became a situation in which Han Zigao was in the south, Ling Cheng was in the east, and Zheng Kui was in the north, and the Xia armed immigrants who poured into the southern part of Baekan could gradually encroach on Silla's territory from the west and form a stronger pressure on it.

This is not counting, when the three-way army Silla formed a strategic encirclement, Wang Ze also believed that the conditions were ripe for the gradual armed immigration of the Silla territory, so the official uniforms of the counties in the East China Sea also began to mobilize the people of each county to actively participate in it.

This mobilization order of the county government in the East China Sea has been warmly supported by the general public, after all, as long as you follow the army in the past, you will have corresponding military merits, and even everyone is very likely to bring a beautiful Silla girl home, these years are gentle and obedient, and the Silla girl with good skin is becoming more and more rare, if you can take one home, it will be too cost-effective.