Chapter 425, friend or foe
Yang Peng stood up, walked to the gate, looked at the night in the distance, and the battle between heaven and man was in his mind. As Yan Yun's thoughts, he naturally wanted to do everything possible to suppress the Japanese people, but his identity as the king of Yan made him wonder if he was doing the right thing? Just like Wu Xing said, the Japanese have never offended Yan Yun, but Goryeo once tried to take advantage of the fire to rob and help Goryeo to deal with the Japanese people, but I am afraid that in the eyes of the vast majority of Yan Yun's soldiers and civilians, it is an inexplicable and incomprehensible move. Yang Peng couldn't help but feel that he was too influenced by Yan Yun to make a wrong decision?
Then I thought: The Goryeo people were ambitious before, which posed a threat to Yanyun and the entire Central Plains, and it was natural to deal with Goryeo; Although the Japanese people have not shown hostility to our Yanyun, but the invasion of Goryeo has already exposed their ambitions, the annexation of Goryeo is obviously not the end of their ambitions, I am afraid that it will further fuel their ambitions, after the annexation of Goryeo, it will be the use of troops against the Liao State, and after the destruction of the Liao State, I Yanyun will naturally be their next target.
Turning around, he glanced at Ya Yu Guanyin, who was frowning slightly, and asked, "What does Guanyin think?" Ya Yu Guanyin raised his head and glanced at Chen Xiao, and said, "I have some opinions, but it is difficult to say with my identity. Yang Peng walked up to Ye Yu Guanyin and said with a smile: "If you have anything to say, just say it, what do you think about so much about your identity!" You only have one identity now, and that is my wife! ”
Everyone couldn't help but laugh, but Ya Yu Guanyin was overjoyed and said, "Since you asked me to say it, then I will say it." After a pause, he glanced at everyone, "The Japanese people, just a small island country, dare to invade Goryeo, it can be seen that its ambition far exceeds that of all countries!" Their desires will never be satisfied, after swallowing Goryeo, they will inevitably want to annex the Liao State, and after destroying the Liao State, it is naturally impossible to be satisfied, and they will only be more arrogant! Then their next target is naturally our Yanyun! Everyone couldn't help but feel a pang in their hearts.
Ya Kannon continued: "Although the Japanese people are not a scourge now, they are a hidden danger, and sooner or later they will become a great problem for our henchmen! On the other hand, the Japanese people, like the Mongols and the Liao State, have the heart to dominate the world, and we Yanyun naturally will not be willing to be subservient to others, so in this regard alone, we and the Japanese are friends and enemies! Now that the Japanese are at a critical moment of expansion, we should not sit idly by and watch them grow rapidly, but should try our best to hinder their growth, or even strangle them at this time! This is a struggle for hegemony between countries, which is related to the rise and fall of countries and the well-being of hundreds of millions of people! This kind of struggle is extremely cruel, there is no room for chance, Confucian good-neighborliness and friendship value peace, it is absolutely unacceptable, that can only harm ourselves! Ya Yin Guanyin thought that everyone was influenced by Confucianism, so they felt that it was not appropriate to be enemies of the Japanese people, so he added such a sentence at the end.
When everyone listened to the words of Ya Yu Guanyin, they were all shocked, and they only felt that these words were too right, and then they couldn't help but feel ashamed, only felt that their vision was too short-sighted, and they only saw the present, and they were calculating, but they didn't see the general trend of the world in the future at all. Xiang Danian said: "What my sister-in-law said is extremely true, we are really blinded!" The others nodded.
Yang Peng glanced at Ya Yu Guanyin approvingly, and smiled at everyone: "Your views can't be wrong, it's just that you look at the problem from another angle." Walking to the top, he turned around, glanced at everyone, and asked, "After such an analysis of Guanyin, everyone has no doubts, right?" Everyone looked at each other and hugged their fists together;" Without. ”
Yang Peng said: "Then we have to consider the next question, how to defeat the Japanese people?" Now that the Japanese people must not have paid much attention to us, we can concentrate all our current forces to attack Kaijing! ”
Everyone's eyes lit up, and Ya Yu Guanyin said excitedly: "There are not many Japanese troops in Kaijing, if you can break through Kaijing in one go, you will cut off the back road of the Japanese people, and the hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops will become turtles in the urn!" ”
Yang Peng walked to the middle of the hall and said, "It's not easy to do this. According to the information provided by Wu Xing, there are about 20,000 Japanese troops in Kaijing, and our army currently has only 7,000 cavalry in Haizhou, and the large army is still above the sea, and it will take a few days to arrive. If we wait for the arrival of the main force before taking action, the Japanese must have been prepared, and the surprise attack on Kaijing will inevitably turn into a storm, and the Japanese army will arrive later, then the situation will become unfavorable to our army. Therefore, it can only use the current 7,000 cavalry raid, but it is not certain that the 7,000 cavalry raid on Kaijing, which is garrisoned by 20,000 soldiers and horses. But this is not what I am really worried about, what I am most worried about is that after we pour out, the Japanese army of Jinchuan will come to raid Haizhou, if Haizhou is lost, it will not be the Japanese people who will become turtles in the urn, but we will become turtles in the urn. ”
After listening to Yang Peng's words, everyone couldn't help but think. When the Koreans saw Yan Yunjun enter the city from a distance, they couldn't help but worry that they would close the city gate and prevent them from entering the city, so they couldn't help but speed up their pace, and everyone ran out of breath, hoping to escape into the city before the city gate was closed. However, the city gate was never closed, and more than 10,000 Goryeo people dragged their families and mouths into Haizhou City one after another.
When the Koreans arrived in the city, they sat down on the spot, panting, and everyone's face showed a look of joy. Soon after, the Koreans saw many Yanyun soldiers walking towards this side, and they couldn't help but become worried. But soon this worry turned into emotion, and those Yan Yunjun brought a lot of food and water and distributed it to them. The Koreans took the food, and many people were left with tears of shame and emotion.
Look to the other side. The Japanese army was killed by Yanyun Xuanjia's army and suffered heavy losses, leaving only two or three thousand remnants to flee back to Jinchuan City. Nishino Chong, the deputy general of Kurai Mutuo, was shocked and inexplicably unbelievable when he saw the remnants of the defeated army who fled back to the city in a hurry. Hurriedly asked the officer in the defeated army, when he heard the news that the Yanyun army of the Central Plains suddenly appeared near Haizhou, he was very shocked, but when he heard the news that His Excellency the general Kurai Mutuo was beheaded by the opponent's fierce general, the shock turned into horror, he really couldn't believe that with the martial arts of His Excellency the general, someone could behead him with one move, what a terrible person it would be!
Xiye calmed down, then thought about it, and felt that the sudden appearance of Yan Yunjun in Haizhou was not trivial, and he must quickly inform His Excellency the General. As soon as he thought of this, Nishino Chong immediately ordered the herald beside him to report the news of the arrival of the Yanyun army to the general Samuro Nario who was marching towards Goryeo Seikyo as soon as possible. The herald let out a sigh of relief and ran down. (Seogyong, Goryeo, now Pyongyang)
Nishino Chong thought about it, ordered someone to call the scout captain, and ordered him to lead all the scouts to reconnoiter in the direction of Haizhou, and then ordered the whole city to prepare for battle. At this time, he thought that there were still thousands of Goryeo people in the city who had not had time to escape, and muttered, "These people are really a big hidden danger in the city!" As soon as he thought of this, there was a fierce look in his eyes, and he gave an order to an officer beside him, and the officer let out a sigh of excitement and ran down.
Soon after, wolves broke into the houses and drove the Goryeo people out of their homes from house to house, and the city was filled with the sound of wailing and wailing, and the Goryeo people stumbled towards the small square in the middle of the city. Soon after, thousands of Goryeo people were gathered in the square of the city, surrounded by thousands of fierce and vicious Japanese people, and the Goryeo people embraced each other with extreme fear, and the cries of children and women rang out.
I saw a Japanese officer wave his hand forward, and the Japanese sergeants who were surrounding immediately raised their swords and stepped forward, slaughtering the Goryeo people without saying anything, only to see the flesh and blood flying, the screams and cries rang out in one, and the flying blood reflected the hideous faces of the Japanese people, and the Goryeo people fell down one after another like slaughtered animals.
In less than a quarter of an hour, thousands of Goryeo civilians were slaughtered, and the small square was covered with a mountain of corpses, soaked the whole square with blood, and the air was filled with a disgusting smell of blood. The dead child was still tightly wrapped around his mother's neck, but the head of the strong man kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy was gone.
Eyes turn to Kaekyo.
The city of Kaijing, which was originally prosperous and made the Goryeo people extremely proud, and thought that it was comparable to Bianliang in the Central Plains, is now a scene of withering and dilapidation. Many buildings in the city were burned down, and the houses were empty, and the remaining Goryeo people were still gasping; Occasionally, there will be a noise, but it is not the movement of the Goryeo people, but the Japanese people drinking and carnivaling, and at this moment, in the capital of Kaijing, only these Japanese people are really happy.
After the Japanese general Samuro Nario easily occupied Kaikyo without blood, he led the main army to pursue northward, leaving only a general named Fujita Hiromichi and 20,000 soldiers and horses to guard the key choke point of Kaikyo. In Samuro Nario's view, the Khitans had fled, and the defeat of the Goryeo was not to be feared, leaving Fujita Hiromichi with 20,000 soldiers and horses was enough to ensure that Kaijing was safe.
Hiromichi Fujita sat in the lobby of the temporary camp and wrote a letter, called one of his subordinates, handed him the letter, and instructed, "Give it to His Excellency the General." The subordinate bowed to the promise, untied the letter with both hands, and retreated.
Just then, a burst of laughter came from a distance. Fujita Hiromichi frowned, stood up, walked out of the hall, looked in the direction where the voice came from, and asked a high-ranking samurai beside him, "Who is rejoicing?" The senior samurai glanced into the distance and replied, "Your Excellency the General, the direction from which the voice came from should be Fujita Mitsuko's camp." "Fujita Mitsuki, Fujita Hiromichi's nephew, originally studied art in the Iga faction, and this time the Japanese kingdom attacked Goryeo, so he followed his uncle Fujita Hiromichi to Goryeo and became a high-ranking samurai under Fujita Hiromichi.
When Fujita Hiromichi heard that it was his nephew, he couldn't help but be furious, and ordered: "Immediately pass my order and tell them not to make noise!" ”
The high-ranking samurai took the order and ran down. Soon after, the noise died down. Fujita Hiromichi sighed, shook his head, turned back to the hall, walked to the map stand hanging on the side, looked at the map and thought. He was considering whether there were any loopholes in Kaijing's defenses. If it were other Japanese generals, they would never consider this problem at this moment, after all, the Goryeo army was defeated, and the general was leading the army to chase the north, what could happen to Kaijing in the rear? However, Fujita Hiromichi is cautious and does not dare to be negligent and slack.
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After sunset, the earth was dark. It was not surprising that the Japanese army guarding the southern gate of the city saw an army appear in view, after all, in the past few days, there has been an endless stream of teams from the south to the north to transport grain, grass, baggage, and war booty through Kaijing, and everyone is accustomed to it.
The army came under the city gates. The high-ranking samurai who was in charge of guarding the city gate glanced down at the city by the light of the torches and the faint light of the stars and moon, and saw that it was a team carrying a large amount of grain and grass, about 3,000 people, no different from all the teams that had escorted the grain and grass before.
I could only hear someone shouting in the Japanese language: "We are the subordinates of His Excellency Ueno Shounao, and we have been ordered to escort grain and grass to the front of the general's army, and quickly open the city gate!" ”
The senior samurai turned his head and ordered his subordinates to open the city gate, but his deputy, a mid-level samurai, dissuaded: "Your Excellency, the general has an order, anyone who wants to enter the city must show the order arrow, otherwise the general will be dealt with by law!" The senior samurai's heart sank, and he said a little unhappily: "Your Excellency the general is also too cautious, what can happen here!" Having said that, he still raised his voice outside the city: "According to the general's order, the person who comes must show the arrow before he can open the city gate!" ”
I saw a person from the city walk out, and raised a long object in his right hand and shouted, "The arrow is here." ”
In the darkness of the night, the man on the city wall could not see what he was holding in his hand, and the high-ranking samurai asked him to put down the hanging basket, and the man put the thing in his hand into the hanging basket. The hanging basket was then pulled back to the city wall, and a low-ranking samurai took out the arrows in both hands and presented them to the high-ranking samurai. The senior samurai took the order arrow, inspected it, confirmed that it was correct, turned his head and said to the intermediate samurai: "There is no problem with the arrow, you can open the city gate!" The intermediate samurai nodded, and was about to give the order, when he suddenly remembered something and said urgently: "That's not right! As he spoke, his eyes were fixed on the arrow in the hand of the high-ranking samurai.
The high-ranking samurai didn't know what to do, and asked angrily, "What's wrong?" The mid-level samurai pointed to the arrow in the hand of the senior samurai and said, "This kind of arrow was issued by the general camp," and the senior samurai did not understand and asked, "So what?" The intermediate samurai said: "The grain transport team that came up from the south should be holding an arrow issued by General Ueno Shounao's camp, how can it be this arrow?" ”
The high-ranking samurai also thought of this question, and also felt a little strange, and asked, "What do you say is going on?" The middle-level samurai shook his head and said, "My subordinates don't know what's going on, but since His Excellency the General wants us to be cautious, let's be cautious." Adults might as well ask them again. ”
The high-ranking samurai nodded, turned his head and rushed down and asked, "Which part of you are from?" The man who had spoken to the senior samurai earlier raised his voice, "We are under the command of Ueno Mori-sama. The senior samurai asked again, "Your Excellency Ueno Morinao has three teams under his command, left, center and right, which team are you?" ”
The man under the city didn't know how to answer, and turned his head to look at the person behind him, the person behind him was covered with the clothes and armor of the Japanese people, but it was Yang Peng, the king of Yan. Yang Peng frowned and said, "The Japanese people asked this, obviously suspecting our identity. "So what now?" The person in front asked, it turned out that this person was none other than Yang Peng, who was sent by Yang Peng to Goryeo to observe the martial arts of the Japanese people. Wu Xing stayed in Goryeo for a long time, and learned not only the Goryeo language, but also the language of the Japanese people, and with his heart, his Japanese language was much more fluent than that of Goryeo, as if he was the same as the Japanese people.
"Why don't you just cover it and see if you can get it right!" Zhang Daniu said.
Yang Peng said: "The other party's words should be testing us, the so-called left, center and right teams are all wrong." He turned his head to Zhang Daniu and the others: "Pass the order to go down and raid the city gate!" Yang Peng saw that the other party was making a tentative remark and his own side could not answer, so he decided to launch a surprise attack before the opponent had confirmed his identity.
The high-ranking samurai on the tower of the city gate felt a little strange when he saw that the other party was slow to answer, and at the same time felt that something was wrong, so he prepared to order everyone under his command to prepare for battle.
At this moment, a sharp whistling sound suddenly came from under the city, and the Japanese soldiers on the city wall were stunned. Before they could react, many people fell to the ground on their backs, screaming loudly. The senior samurai was hit by an arrow in the shoulder, and quickly lowered his body to hide behind the battlement, only to see that the intermediate samurai who was still standing beside him just now had an arrow in his chest, lying on his back on the ground, blood flowing all over the ground, and there was no movement at all, and he couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart.
At this moment, I heard a lot of clanging sounds from the city wall, as if some metal object had been thrown onto the city wall. The high-ranking samurai immediately realized something, and hurriedly looked around, and saw that many people on the other side were climbing up the rope. The high-ranking samurai was shocked and shouted: "Prepare for battle, the enemy is coming!" Get ready for battle, the enemy is coming! Then he yelled at a low-ranking samurai: "Ring the alarm bell!" The low-ranking samurai hurriedly answered, and ran towards the alarm bell hanging not far away.
At this moment, another wave of arrows was shot from under the city, and many of the Japanese soldiers who had just stood up were shot down again, and the rest were startled, and hurriedly shrank back behind the battlements.
The Yanyun assault force climbed the city wall through ropes and slaughtered among the Japanese people. The Japanese people tried their best to resist in a hurry, but where could they resist the wolf-like Yan Yunjun, they were cut down in a pool of blood and retreated again and again. In the blink of an eye, the southern city wall was in danger. At this moment, the sound of the gong representing the enemy attack rang out loudly and reverberated over the city, breaking the silence of the city and appearing particularly harsh.
Fujita Hiromichi, who was patrolling near the South City Gate, suddenly heard a hurried alarm from the South City Gate, and was taken aback, and hurriedly led his men towards the South City Gate.
When he arrived at the south city gate, he saw that the figures on the city wall were in chaos, and his soldiers were about to be unable to resist, and the enemy was about to seize the city wall! Fujita Hiromichi was in a hurry, pointed to the city wall that was about to be lost, and hurriedly ordered the senior samurai beside him: "Quickly fire rockets at the city wall!" ”
The senior samurai was shocked and said urgently: "Your Excellency, there is a lot of oil and gunpowder piled up on the city wall, if you send rockets......
Fujita Hiromichi said: "I just want to ignite the gunpowder and oil, and launch the rocket quickly!" The senior samurai didn't dare to say anything more, and immediately turned his head and shouted at his subordinates: "Everyone listen to the order and shoot rockets at the city wall!" When the Japanese soldiers heard the order, they hurriedly took out the arrows and oilcloth-tied rockets from the quivers on their backs, and then two low-ranking samurai came up with torches and set fire to the rockets in everyone's hands. The soldiers bent their bows and arrows at the head of the city, and then they released their arrows, and saw a rain of fire fly up the city wall and fall on the city wall. The walls of the city were originally very dark, but now they are shining brightly.
Suddenly, a flame emerged from the city walls, striking in the darkness. The soldiers on both sides around were startled by the sudden burst of flames, and couldn't help but stop fighting and each took a few steps back.
Fujita Hiromichi shouted at his soldiers: "Keep firing arrows!" "The Japanese soldiers kept firing rockets at the top of the city, and saw the rain of fire fly up to the city in bursts, and a mass of flames surged on the head of the city, which was the scene of the ignition of the fire oil, which burned the earthen pots, and the burning oil flowed everywhere, igniting all the combustibles in the path; The flames burned more and more vigorously on the city, and from time to time there were explosions, that is, the earthen pots containing the fire oil were deflagrated, or the powder kegs were ignited and exploded, and the fire on the city was raging, as if a continuous furnace had been out of control; Yan Yun's army kept attacking the enemy despite the flames, but the flames that burned more and more made their attacks finally stop.
At this time, a short horn sounded outside the city, which was an order for Yan Yun's army to retreat. The Yanyun army at the head of the city was blocked by the flames, and it was difficult to make any more progress, and then he heard the order to retreat, and immediately withdrew from the city wall along the rope. At the same time, the Japanese also scrambled to escape from the city wall.
A moment later, the fire oil and gunpowder on the city walls. The brimstone and other combustibles burned completely, and the entire city wall burned fiercely, and the flames rushed up more than ten feet high, and every inch of the city wall was raging with flames, and the night sky was illuminated by the flames as if it were day.
Zhang Daniu led the attacking troops back to resume his life, and said with a ashamed face: "The subordinates are incompetent, and they have not been able to break through the city. Yang Peng asked, "How much has you lost?" Zhang Daniu said: "The loss is not big. Yang Peng glanced at the burning city wall in front of him and said with a smile: "I didn't expect this Fujita Hirodo to be so decisive, he is a rare good general!" He turned his head to the people around him: "The opportunity has been lost, and it is impossible to capture Kaijing, so pass the order and withdraw to Haizhou immediately!" Everyone clasped their fists and promised.
Fujita Hiromichi watched as the flames burned on the city walls, and after a long time, the flames were basically extinguished. Fujita Hiromichi couldn't wait for the flames to be completely extinguished, and urgently ordered thousands of men and horses to climb the city wall to garrison. Thousands of Japanese soldiers stepped on the hot ground to climb the city wall, and looked out of the city, only to see the thick night, but not half a figure. Fujita Hiromichi received the report and immediately climbed the castle wall, and sure enough, he saw silence outside the castle. However, Fujita Hiromichi did not dare to be careless at all, and still ordered the four gates to keep their eyes wide and guard strictly, and then ordered the herald to report the news of the surprise attack on Kaikyo and the almost loss of the Great General Samuro Nario.
After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.