Chapter 247. The navy fought fiercely
The cavalry of the Khitan army felt as if someone was coming in front of them, and because it was dark at the moment, they couldn't figure out how many enemy troops were coming, and they couldn't help but be a little frightened. Zhan Jin slammed into the middle of the Khitan army, the tiger roared again and again, the spear in his hand swept up only to see the cold light flickering, and the Khitan army cavalry turned on his back. The soldiers of the Khitan army were frightened in their hearts, and they waved their swords one after another, as if two armies were fighting in an instant. This good killing lasted until dawn. At this time, the soldiers of the Khitan army were surprised to find that after fighting all night, it turned out that they were all beating their own people! There are corpses all over the ground, and there are thousands of corpses that are all of the Khitan soldiers, and there is no one in the Yanyun army!
The soldiers of the Khitan army looked at each other, wanting to cry without tears. Immediately checked all the casualties and results, and found that in a melee last night, only more than 400 people of the Xuanjia Army were killed, and the number of casualties on his side alone exceeded 5,000, not counting the wounded.
Xiao Tiegan rushed to the big tent of Ya Yu Guanyin and knelt down to plead guilty. Ya Yu Guanyin sighed with emotion: "Xuanjia Army! Turning his head and glancing at Xiao Tiegan, "Get up." Xiao Tiegan stood up and said with a look of shame: "The incompetence of the last general has caused the military prestige of my Great Liao State to be frustrated, and I also ask the princess to punish the crime!" Ye Yu Guanyin said lightly: "The Xuanjia Army is a strong force that champions the world, and this result is not what I expected!" Although they failed to annihilate the Xuanjia Army this time, they also gave them a lot of blows, and I believe that they will not dare to easily come out and harass the rear of our army! ”
Zhan Jinguo led the Xuanjia Army to retreat into Yuguan and explained the situation to Liu Zhiliang. Liu Zhiliang said happily: "Fortunately, you have fought your way out of the encirclement!" Otherwise, I won't be able to explain it to my eldest brother! Zhan Jin said: "Let's rest for two days, and then go out to fight!" Liu Zhiliang waved his hand and said, "No, no!" This time I was lucky, and next time I am afraid that I will not have such good luck! The Xuanjia Army is the most elite army of our army, if it encounters an accident, it will not be able to fall second to the main bus, and it will hit the morale of the whole army as if it is the most feared! Rest well, you don't have to fight anymore for a while! Zhan Jinguo was a little unhappy, but Liu Zhiliang was the main general, and he was not good at disobeying military orders, so he hugged his fists and promised.
At this time, a herald rushed in and presented a letter to Liu Zhiliang, "General, General Xiao Chen sent someone to deliver an urgent summons!" Liu Zhiliang hurriedly took the book, opened it, took out the letter paper and shook it open to read it, frowning, "Juehua Island is in danger!" "It turned out that the 30,000 Khitan army under the command of Ye Yu Guanyin under the leadership of the general wolf poison stormed Juehua Island for several days, and the 5,000 Yanyun army guarding Juehua Island had already suffered heavy losses and was unsustainable, Xiao Chen sent someone to send this urgent message, one is to report the situation, and the other is to ask Liu Zhiliang for help.
Liu Zhiliang thought for a while, called Teng Huan, the commander of the Third Army, and ordered him to lead 5,000 foot soldiers and a large amount of gunpowder to immediately reinforce Juehua Island. At the same time, on the sea east of Changdao in the south, the Yanyun Navy made a little contact with the Goryeo Navy and then turned around and retreated. When the soldiers of the Goryeo Navy saw this scene, they even took the legend of the Yanyun Navy as a joke. Wang Ri, the governor of the Goryeo Navy, smiled at the generals around him: "The Khitans always say how powerful the Yanyun Navy, I think the Yanyun Navy's army is not vulnerable at all!" A subordinate general said: "It's not that the Yanyun naval army is powerful, it's that the Khitan naval army is too bad!" The short man is more short than the short man, and naturally the taller one is very different! ”
The crowd laughed. Wang Ri said with great ambition: "I don't think the Yanyun Army is anything great, our Goryeo Army will definitely be able to sweep Yanyun!" You don't need the help of the Liao Army! The crowd agreed.
Wang Ri ordered: "Pass the order, pursue the Yanyun Water Army, don't let them escape!" The standard-bearer immediately gave the order, and the huge Goryeo fleet pursued after the Yanyun naval army. Behind the Goryeo fleet was a huge fleet carrying 100,000 Goryeo troops.
The Goryeo army pursued all the way to the vicinity of Long Island, but the Yanyun naval army actually fled to the north. Wang Ri saw that Yan Yun's army was blindly avoiding the battle, so he didn't bother to chase it, and ordered the land and water army to enter Changdao to rest, and then attack Dengzhou.
The Goryeo army entered Changdao and found that the island had long been empty, and Yan Yunjun had left nothing behind. Wang Ri wrote a letter of success, and ordered the herald to send it back to China immediately. Wang Ri wrote in the good news: Our army has been advancing vigorously for several days, and has inflicted heavy losses on Yanyun's naval army, and has seized Changdao, an important island off the coast of Dengzhou. The minister decided to launch an attack on Dengzhou after two days of rest. I believe that more than 10,000 defenders in Dengzhou can take it in just half a day! The prestige of my Goryeo soldiers can be spread far away in the Central Plains, and the people of all ethnic groups in the Central Plains will tremble when they hear the name of my Goryeo army!
At about the same time, Yahu Hugo of the Central Plains ordered 800,000 Jin troops and the main force of the Goryeo army to attack the Yanyun army. The two sides divided into four ways to attack more than 100,000 troops, one route 200,000 Liao troops led by the general Xiao Gan Buli to attack the Chengtian army village, one way 200,000 Khitan troops plus 200,000 Goryeo troops led by generals Da Lan and Liu Lin to attack the Yellow River fork, one route was led by the general Liu Kui 100,000 Goryeo troops to attack Yingtianfu, and the last route was led by Ye Yu Xiuge himself to lead 400,000 Khitan troops to attack Cizhou.
According to Ye Hugo's prediction, the direction of Chengtian Junzhai and Yingtianfu was mainly to contain the Yanyun army, and the real breakthrough direction was the fork of the Yellow River and Cizhou. As mentioned above, the fork of the Yellow River is now guarded by only one Sixth Army Corps, and there are only 100,000 soldiers and horses guarding the Cizhou direction. There is no doubt that the battle in these two directions will be very fierce, and whether it can be held or not, even Yan Yunjun himself is completely unsure.
The 400,000 Yanyun troops in various parts of Hebei and Shandong were ready to meet the enemy. The Central Plains is covered with war clouds, and an unprecedented large-scale fierce battle is about to begin.
Han Bing handed over the responsibility of defending the Chengtian Military Village to Yang Jiumei, and she herself led 50,000 soldiers and horses to aid Cizhou. As soon as I came to Cizhou, I immediately felt the tense atmosphere of the approaching big war. All kinds of materials were constantly transported into Cizhou and then to the Zhanghe River in the south, and the troops were frequently mobilized, while the people of Cizhou were retreating north one after another.
Han Bing walked to the top, and all the generals greeted him together: "Meet the general!" ”
Han Bing raised his voice and said, "All generals are exempt!" Then he sat down and asked, "What's the situation on the Khitan army's side?" Chen Jie hugged his fists and said: "I just received a report from the scouts, the Khitan army is collecting civilian boats everywhere, and at the same time, it is also stepping up the construction of bamboo rafts and wooden boats, and it is estimated that it will be able to launch an attack within three days!" ”
Han Bing frowned and nodded, and asked again, "Is there any news from the direction of Puyang and Yingtianfu?" Chong Min hugged his fists and said: "I just received news not long ago, the enemy troops on both sides have already launched an attack on our army, and the direction of Ying Tianfu is fine, but the direction of Puyang is fighting hard!" There are only 60,000 defenders in Puyang, and the last general is really worried about whether they can hold it! ”
Han Bing said categorically: "Don't worry about the monk, he will definitely be able to hold it!" Han Bing's words made everyone very worried, and they immediately reduced by eight points. Han Bing looked at Chong Min, "Is there any news from Song Ting?" The generals frowned and glanced at each other, and the planter Min said: "I'm afraid Song Ting can't count on it!" According to the latest information, the envoy of the Liao State has arrived in Bianjing, and on behalf of the Liao State, he has agreed to negotiate peace with the imperial court, and is now negotiating with the imperial court on specific terms. The emperor and the ministers were full of only thinking about peace, and they had no intention of sending troops to the Northern Expedition at all! ”
Han Bing frowned and scolded, "The emperor is so stupid! Raising his head, "Regardless of them, we will deal with the Liao State ourselves!" The Khitan Army and the Goryeo Army are just our defeated generals, and this time will never be an exception! The generals couldn't help but be full of confidence. Han Bing immediately assigned the task, and the generals took the order to leave.
Look back at the port of Tianjing New Town. The Khitan army rested on Long Island for two days. On the third day, Wang Ri led a land and water army to pour out of the nest and approach Tianjing New Town. Immediately, Wang Ri ordered Jin Wanzai, the head of the land division, to lead 100,000 land divisions to land.
Immediately, countless large ships carrying the army crowded into the bay, and the Goryeo army landed one after another, which was very noisy, comparable to a vegetable market. At this moment, the Koreans saw an army coming from Tianjing New Town, the number was not very large, more than 10,000 people, all of them were cavalry, and the leader was a two-winged flying tiger war horse, and it was Yanyun cavalry!
Seeing this, the Koreans did not panic. Jin Wanzai ordered more than 50,000 soldiers and horses who had already landed to line up and prepare to meet the battle. The 50,000 Goryeo troops lined up with their backs to the sea. I have to say that the army of Goryeo is also extraordinary, and the army is very neatly arrayed. The six-story tower shield bearers are at the front, followed by the pikemen, and then behind are the longbowmen of the Goryeo army, whose sword and shield men protect the wings. The huge phalanx of nearly 60,000 troops is magnificent and extraordinary.
Yan Yun's fierce general Huyan Chijin led 15,000 war horses to gallop to 300 places in front of the Goryeo army and stopped. A Goryeo warrior galloped out of the military formation with a spear, came between the two armies, restrained his horse, and shouted: "I am the Goryeo general Jin Duo, who dares to fight me to the death!" ”
Huyan Chijin smiled coldly and urged the horse to gallop out. Jin Duo was very excited when he saw Huyan Chijin riding his horse, and hurriedly urged the horse to catch up. In the blink of an eye, the two horses intersected, and Jin Duo screamed and wanted to shoot with a spear, but Huyan Chijin was much faster than him, and the spear had already pierced into his chest! With a click, the Koreans saw that the fierce general in their minds flew into the sky with a whirl, and then fell heavily to the ground, and there was no movement!
The Koreans were stunned and shocked, they didn't expect the generals of the Yanyun Army to be so brave! Huyan Chijin reined in his horse, glanced at the corpse on the ground, and picked the corners of his mouth amusedly. He shouted at the Goryeo army, "Which one else is alive?" Come out quickly, General Ben will do a good deed to give him a ride! ”
Jin Wanzai frowned, he really wanted his generals to come out and kill him, but even Jin Duo was not his opponent, let alone others! What to do? Suddenly, his heart moved, and he immediately raised his head and said: "It's not interesting for the generals to fight alone, it's better for our two armies to fight to the death and divide the male and female!" Our army is an infantry army, which is used for defense, and you are cavalry for attack, so it is better for you to attack us! ”
Huyan Chijin felt very funny, thinking that these Koreans were fighting like children playing games? Jin Wanzai saw that Huyan Chijin did not answer, thinking that the other party was afraid, and he couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart, so he raised his voice again: "Do you Yanyun Army dare to come to attack the formation?" There was a hint of pride in his tone.
Huyan Chijin laughed, "Good! As you wish! Then he turned his horse and galloped back. Jin Wanzai saw that the other party agreed, and he felt that he was in the middle of it! Secret Dao: I will let you see the power of my Goryeo infantry army! After killing and wounding most of you, I will counterattack in an all-round way, and I will definitely be able to annihilate this Yanyun army in one go, and this will be the first to enter the Central Plains!
Huyan Chijin returned to his own army and shouted loudly; "The whole army listens to the order and prepares to charge the battle!" The officers and men of the whole army couldn't help but get excited, and the monstrous battle spirit made the Goryeo army hundreds of paces away couldn't help but be very frightened, but they told themselves in their hearts: Don't be afraid, this is an illusion!
"Break the formation, iron cavalry, out of the formation!" The cavalry immediately parted on both sides, and the Koreans saw only a few thousand different cavalry marching out. The cavalry was very majestic and tall, the men were strong men, the horses were dragons, and they were like a row of mountains; The soldier was dressed in iron armor and heavy armor, and his body was tightly wrapped up and down, revealing only a pair of cold eyes; The huge war horse was also wrapped in iron armor, and only four hooves were exposed to the ground.
When the Koreans saw such cavalry, their faces turned pale, and although they didn't want to admit it, they still couldn't stop feeling scared in their hearts. Huyan Chijin raised his spear, and the war drums rumbled loudly. These thousands of array-breaking iron horsemen equipped with King Yan's horses let out a shout and activated their war horses. I saw that thousands of iron horsemen who broke the formation slowly accelerated, and the earth shook, as if the mountains were surging, and the momentum of heavenly power enveloped the entire battlefield!
The iron cavalry that broke the formation rushed towards the Goryeo army with an indomitable momentum. "Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! Kim Wanzai hurriedly shouted. The Goryeo longbowmen hurriedly released their arrows, and the rain of arrows covered the sky and flew towards the Yanyun army. Falling into the middle of the Formation-Breaking Iron Cavalry, it was like raindrops hitting them, and it didn't have any effect at all! When the Koreans saw that the bows and arrows had no effect, they panicked even more!
After three consecutive rounds of arrow rain, the iron cavalry that broke the formation like a torrent of steel had already arrived in front of the Goryeo Army front! The Koreans widened their eyes and held their breath! Thundered...... A series of huge crashing sounds suddenly sounded, and I saw the tower shield hands of the Koreans flying up one after another, what it looked like, it was like a gust of wind blowing up countless dry grass and dead branches.
The iron hooves collided, and in an instant, the six towers and shields that the Koreans thought were unbreakable were shattered; The mace flew, smashing the Goryeo soldiers to the point that their brains were bursting, and the flesh was flying, and the ghosts cried wolf. The Iron Warrior is unstoppable!
The Goryeo army behind saw that Yanyun's war cavalry was so terrifying, and they turned around and fled. The Iron Cavalry of the Breaking Formation crushed over like a huge steel chariot, killing the corpses of the Goryeo army all over the beach and staining the water with blood; Those who were lucky escaped on the big ship, and thanked their ancestors and gods in their hearts.
The soldiers of the Goryeo Navy who were watching the battle from a distance were all stunned when they saw this, they had never dreamed of such a terrible war horse! In their senses, those warriors were simply not human, just like the legendary Demon God Iron Riders! Goryeo commander Wang Ri only felt his legs and stomach tremble a little, and his eyes clearly showed a look of fear, and he couldn't help muttering: "It's amazing! It's amazing! ……”
Huyan Chijin led the light cavalry to the seaside, looked at the Goryeo army that was fleeing in a hurry, and said angrily: "I can't help but fight ******!" Wang Ri was thinking about his next move, and the power of Yan Yun's battle horse far exceeded his expectations, which made him a little overwhelmed. It's better to find the Yanyun Naval Army first and eliminate them.
Before Wang Ri's thought was finished, a lookout soldier pointed to the sea in the northwest direction and shouted: "Northwest direction, Yan Yunjun!" "It's a wish-fulfillment! Wang Ri hurriedly looked in the northwest direction, and sure enough, he saw that the Yanyun fleet was heading towards this side at full speed. Wang Ri was not only not surprised, but overjoyed, and said excitedly: "It's a good time!" Zhengke wiped them out in one fell swoop! Then he ordered the whole fleet to meet the battle. As a result, Goryeo's huge fleet turned around and headed towards the Yanyun naval army. Wang Ri planned to let the fleet rush into the middle of the Yanyun Army's fleet and rely on the powerful power of the tortoiseshell ship to completely defeat them, this move was invincible in the past!
Soon after, the ships of both sides approached to a distance of only a hundred paces. The stone cannons and bed crossbows on the warships of the Goryeo Navy began to fire, and the sea on the side of the Yanyun Army immediately boiled, and occasionally stones and spears and arrows caused damage to the Yanyun Army.
To the surprise of the Koreans, the Yanyun warship on the opposite side did not attack like them, but turned the ship sideways. Just when the Koreans felt inexplicable, they suddenly heard a series of loud thunderbolts on a clear day, and before they could react, they were shocked to find that countless water columns rose to the sky on the sea surface where they were located, and many warships collapsed and broke their walls, and the whole sea seemed to be boiling.
The Koreans had never encountered such an attack, and they panicked. Many warships hurriedly turned around and tried to escape, but in a panic, they collided with their own warships and capsized, and the sailors jumped into the water to flee for their lives.
The Yanyun gunboats continued to bombard, and the Goryeo warships fled in a hurry. Seeing this, the Goryeo army dared to approach and fled towards the vast sea to the east.
The one-sided water battle continued into the afternoon. The wreckage of the Goryeo warship and the corpses of the Goryeo navy were floating on the sea for dozens of miles, and many of those who jumped into the sea to escape swam to the shore, only to be caught by the Yanyun warlord guarding the shore.
The Yanyun naval army was divided into two teams, and the first team of gunboats was led by Guanshan Guanping Lu Ming to pursue the naval army of Goryeo. The tortoiseshell ships of the Goryeo Navy were very slow, and they were buried at the bottom of the sea one after another under constant artillery bombardment. The tortoiseshell boats that the Goryeo people were rampant with were completely targeted at this time.
At the same time, Wang Hai, Wang Rong, Wen Ren, Shi Chong and others led ordinary warships to intercept the convoy carrying the Goryeo Army. There was no suspense at all about the warship against the transport, and under the constant bombardment of the warship's small stone cannons and chain bed crossbows, one by one the Goryeo transport ships sank into the sea with a full ship of Goryeo soldiers. It was a total one-sided slaughter. In the evening, the entire sea is filled with dense corpses, shocking, and countless vultures hover in the sky.
The Goryeo navy fled northeast until it stopped at the Cheongsan Islands. The Changshan Islands belonged to the territory of the Liao State and were under the jurisdiction of Zhenhai Prefecture, with only 2,000 Khitan defenders on them.
Yan Yun's water army temporarily retreated. The Koreans were shocked, and hurriedly checked the losses, and found that almost half of the 100,000 sailors had been lost, and the tortoiseshell warships that the Koreans valued most were gone, and the whole army was wiped out! Wang Ri wanted to cry without tears, and he was very panicked when he thought of the sanctions he would be subjected to when he returned.
But the bigger news is yet to come! That night, Wang Ri, who was waiting for the army to return, only saw a few transport ships staggering back. A bad premonition immediately rose in his heart, and he immediately asked the army officers who had fled back, and the army soldiers were shocked and said: "We, we were intercepted and killed by the Yanyun Water Army, and the whole army was annihilated!" When Wang Ri heard this, he almost fainted!
It was known that the next morning, in total, the army returned only more than five thousand people. An army of 100,000 people, there are only these frightened people left! However, the army commander Jin Wanzai escaped from his life!
The Liao garrison of the Changshan Islands, seeing that the Goryeo people had been defeated so badly, felt that the matter was serious, and hurriedly sent someone to Ya Yu Guanyin to send a message to the imperial court. Huyan Chijin and the generals of the water army returned to Tianjing New City to meet Yelu Hanyu. Yelu Hanyu was very relieved; "Generals have spared their lives to have such a brilliant victory! I will give you all the credit to King Mingyan! "Thank you, ma'am!" Then they all stood up.
Yelu Hanyu asked, "What is the loss of the various armies?" Huyan Chijin hugged his fists and said: "The cavalry has injured more than a dozen people, and no one has been killed!" Guan Shan hugged his fists and said: "The navy lost more than 200 people and wounded more than 300 people, but it completely annihilated the Goryeo army that fled to the sea and severely damaged the Goryeo navy!" ”
When Jeruhanyu heard that the loss was so small, he was very happy. After thinking for a moment, "Our army has won such a great victory, and the morale is high, and the enemy must have become a frightened bird!" "Raise your head," the order to go down, repair for a day, attack the Changsan Islands, and be sure to annihilate the Goryeo naval army! "Yes!" The generals agreed in unison.
A herald rushed in, kneeling with a letter in his hands and saying, "An urgent military report from General Liu Zhiliang!" A female guard immediately stepped forward to take the bulletin, and turned to present it to Jerutri. Yelu Hanyu took the letter, opened it, took out the letter and read it, and frowned.
Wang Rong asked curiously, "Madam, what's going on with General Liu?" Yelu Hanyu smiled: "Nothing! When the generals heard that it was all right, they were relieved. In fact, Yelu Hanyu did not tell the truth, the letter said two defeats, one was the loss of Juehua Island, the 5,000 defenders were annihilated, and the commander Xiao Chen was killed; And almost at the same time, Teng Huan, who led 5,000 infantry troops to Juehua Island to reinforce, was ambushed by the Khitan army, and the two sides had a bloody battle at sea, and the Yanyun army still failed to break through the Khitan army at the cost of 3,000 killed. In this battle, Teng Hu was hit by an arrow and almost died. The Khitan army won two victories in succession, so the army assembled and prepared to cross the sea to fight.
Yelu Hanyu pondered for a moment, spread out the letter, took a pen and wrote a letter, then sealed it, handed it to the herald, and ordered: "Send it to General Liu as soon as possible!" The herald stepped forward to take the letter, bowed to Yelu Hanyu, and hurried away.
Yelu Hanyu ordered the generals: "The rest plan is cancelled, and after dinner, the whole army will set off to attack the Changshan Islands!" "Yes!" The generals hugged their fists and promised, and the fish rushed out. "Huyan Chijin!" Jeruhanyu shouted. Huyan Chijin turned around and hugged his fists and said, "What do you want Madame?" Yelu Hanyu said: "The fifteen thousand cavalry under your command don't need to act with us, rush to Yuguan immediately, and obey Liu Zhiliang's command!" Huyan Chijin clenched his fists and left the big tent.
After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.