Chapter 1329: Not an inch of land
Wei Yuntian's side took Fengshan City bloodlessly, but Lemon was still fighting hard with Anyue's defenders, and the losses on both sides were very serious in the half-month battle.
Even Lemmon's battalion was attacked several times by the Red Reserve Army's decisive assault charge, and if it weren't for the Yuji cavalry of Aguta to cover his flank, his 10,000 men would have been directly routed!
It was Wei Yuntian who sent a force to attack the rear of Anyue City, and under the attack from both sides, he finally captured Anyue City, and almost all the defenders in Anyue City were killed!
Xiao Chen also expressed his shock at the fierceness of the battle, although Yanyun County won the gambling game, he still gave a reward of one million taels of silver to Lemon's troops, rewarding them for their bravery and commemorating the fallen soldiers......
After Fengshan and Anyue City were taken, Xijing was no longer in danger to defend.
Wei Yuntian sent five thousand elites, changed into the battle clothes of the Namba army, disguised as Fengshan to break the army and went to Xijing City to cry and curse angrily in the authentic Namba dialect, and the defenders believed it was true, opened the city gate and let them in, so the capital of Gaojuli, Xijing, also fell.
But in the meantime, a heinous thing happened, those Dongying soldiers who were desperately resisting in the palace actually killed the prince Li Renzong and several of their princes in despair!
When the bad news came out, the entire Gaojuli was shaken, and many Gaojuli puppet troops who surrendered to the Dongying people also fought back in anger, and turned around and slaughtered the Dongying people under the banner of avenging Li Renzong!
Emperor Shenzhao was also extremely shocked by this incident, he had never given any order to harm Li Renzong, and in a fit of rage, he summoned the high-ranking military to scold.
But the military high-level people are also confused, and we haven't given such an order to the Xijing defenders, it must be those guys who are red-eyed and want to use Li Renzong as a hostage to blackmail Xiao Chen, so they can't do it, so they killed them......
Some people suspect that Li Renzong was not killed by our people at all, but by the Ross people, Wanyan Pingqiu, or even Xiao Chen!
This puzzle will never be solved, because all the Dongying troops in Xijing have been annihilated, and the composition of the troops that attacked the palace is very complicated, including the Yanyun army, the Rus army, the northern army of Wanyan Pingqiu, the Gaojuli rebel army, and the cavalry of the Yuji tribe.
Under the chaos, who knows who did it?
But one thing is certain, in the future, Gao Julio will either fall into the hands of the Rus, or in the hands of Xiao Chen......
In less than two months, Dongying was defeated on all fronts, and the first to be defeated was the army, almost all of the 200,000 troops in Gaojuli were wiped out, and only tens of thousands of people escaped by luck, none of which were organized.
The next to be defeated was the Naval Division, under the attack of the powerful Rus Fleet and the Yanyun Navy, the invincible armada, which had been built with great difficulty for decades, lost most of it, and the defeat was quite heavy, and its vitality was greatly damaged from then on.
Of course, the losses of the Rus fleet and the Yanyun navy were also quite heavy, but the whole battle was a big victory!
After this battle, the situation in the North Sea had changed dramatically, and the era of the Dongying Naval Division's hegemony had passed, and they had to be forced to withdraw all their warships to their home seas, changing from an expansion posture to a defensive posture.
As soon as the war ended, Marshal Alesek personally rushed to Xijing to discuss the withdrawal of troops with Xiao Chen.
As Xiao Chen expected, Alesek made several requests in very tactful terms that he felt were 'very reasonable'......
They paid a lot of casualties in this war, and they felt that if they didn't get a piece of the pie, they would lose too much. First of all, on the grounds that the Rus's soldiers and horses were very tired, they were required to rest in the garrison for a period of time, at least half a year, preferably a year.
In addition, the losses of their fleet are also very serious, hundreds of warships need to be anchored in the major ports of Goguryeo for maintenance, and it is expected that it will take a year to complete the repair.
In addition, if our fleet withdraws now, I am afraid that the Dongying Water Division will reorganize its forces to counterattack, and you have to consider this situation, Governor Xiao Chen.
Of course, we have already negotiated that we do not have any territorial claims to Khöguryeo, but for various reasons, it seems that the major ports on the east and south sides of Khoguri should be taken over by our Rus' fleet, and some standing army should also be stationed in case of accidents.
We are too far away from the mainland, and it is extremely difficult to transport materials, and we cannot ask you Yanyun County to provide logistical supplies, so we hope to be able to occupy or lease some of the fields in the southern part of Gojuryo, so that we can be self-sufficient.
Xiao Chen refused without hesitation!
And express deep regret and anger at these non-centrific demands made by Alesek!
Because this is a big departure from our previous agreement, it is tantamount to blatantly tearing up the contract I signed with Queen Angelina. If I hadn't considered the esteemed Marshal a friend, I would have even thought that you were trying to declare war on us!
All the Rus' soldiers in Koguryeo must be evacuated within a month, and if you don't have enough ships to transport them, we can help.
At that time, they could be transported under such difficult conditions, and now it is very easy to send them away, and the wounded soldiers can be left behind, and we will take care of the treatment, and then send them back one after another after they have recovered.
I can't give you an inch of Gojuyeo's land, because this belongs to the Gojuyeo people, and you and I have no right to dispose of it, otherwise what's the difference between us and the Dongying people?
Although Li Renzong is dead, in the future, I will follow the wishes of the common people of Gojuyeo and set up a new king for them, and then our Yanyun army will also be withdrawn......
Don't think you've suffered a loss, now that the entire North Sea is already your territorial waters, the Dongying people can no longer pose any threat to your east, isn't this the result you have always dreamed of?
"Marshal Alesek, please believe me, you Rus are really not suitable to garrison in Gojuryo, especially in the south, because you have killed too many local Gojuyeo, they are actually puppet troops who were forced to fight, but you treat them all as if they were Dongying people...... Xiao Chen sighed and shook his head.
I mean I have to wipe your ass for all the mess you left behind.
In addition, there are rumors in the market that Li Renzong was killed by your Rus soldiers, so now you Rus people are very angry in Gaojuli, and they hate you even more than Dongying people!
If you stay, there will be great trouble and hidden dangers.
It is greatly detrimental to the stability of Gao Juli.
Of course, I can open all the ports along the coast of Koguryeo, because we treat you as good friends and have no defense against you at all!
Xiao Chen finally made some concessions.
But this is not a concession, because the opening of the port is only for the Rus' merchant ships, and as for your warships, they will definitely not be able to berth at will without our permission.