On February 10th, the army crossed the muddy water and entered Shuozhou, Silla Kingdom.
After actually entering Silla, Li Chengzhong realized the extent of the chaos in Silla. Silla was very mountainous, so the main force of the army's southern expedition was the infantry. The real cavalry only had a thousand cavalry from the Waiyo Allied Forces and the Yingzhou Cavalry Battalion.
.Going south along the Dafeng Mountains, all the villages along the way were burned to the ground by the rebels. Everywhere they passed were ruins and desolation. You could often see people hiding in broken houses, or people who fled immediately when they saw the army.
Rioters and bandits.
The Yang family of Shizhen Nanjing had already made an appointment with the Silla royal family. Kim Soon-gil, the war chief of Silla, had already secretly crossed the area controlled by the rebels and waited at the mouth of the Nishui River. At this moment, he was accompanying Li Chengzhong as a guide.
Jin Shunji sighed: "In the past two years, I went to Nanjing in the Bohai Sea to ask for help. It was peaceful along the way, but this year it has become like this. It is really unbearable to look at."
Yang Xuanen asked from the side: "Why is that so?"
Jin Shunji said: "This was caused by the fighting between Beiyuan rebels and Songyue rebels. At that time, Liang thieves raised troops in Beiyuan, and Gongyi surrendered to them. Later, Gongyi gained power with the help of Liang thieves and proclaimed himself the false king in Songyue. Liang thieves were not angry and rebelled.
The soldiers of the Northern Plains attacked, but Gongyi's troops were good at fighting and defeated the Northern Plains soldiers, and then pursued them into the Northern Plains. As a result, the people are now in dire straits and the people are in dire straits." Silla has never recognized Gongyi's claim to be an old prince, so it only calls him Gongyi.
descendants, not Jin Gong descendants.
Kim Soon-gil is a real noble of Silla, and the position of the Superintendent of the Ministry of War is equivalent to that of the Minister of War. There are two categories of Silla people, one is the Wangjing people, and the other is the local people. The entire Silla is actually ruled by the Wangjing people, starting from the center of the royal court
Up to the local governor, the chief officials were all Wangjing people, and the important secondary auxiliary officials were also Wangjing people - Wangjing people were the Silla people who lived in Wangjing ancestrally. Local people could only serve as inconspicuous petty officials, and they had to be local nobles - such as Beiyuan.
The thief commander Liang Ji raised an army.
Wangjing people are also divided into grades after birth. In Silla, Wangjing people are divided into three categories, namely, the real bones and the three-level nobles, the third-level commoners and the slaves. The real bones are the royal family and the big nobles, and the fifth and sixth-level nobles are the middle ones.
, small nobles, the first, second, and third rank are ordinary people. The real bones hold important official positions, and the third rank assists the real bones. As for the lower third rank, they are basically insulated from official positions. This is the bone system of the Silla people
, imitated from the gentry hierarchy in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, but the gentry official system has been abolished after the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but it is still used in Silla today.
What Jin Shunji was talking about was the civil strife among rebels in the north of Silla that started last year. Jin Gongyi's troops achieved a major victory and invaded the area controlled by Liang Ji. Now Liang Ji has been trapped in Beiyuanjing, and the entire Shuozhou is full of people.
The Songyue bandit soldiers held high the banner of "Goryeo". Soon, the army encountered one of them.
At the foot of Hufei Ridge, Jin Zhouyuan led 3,000 Mingzhou wealthy soldiers to form a battle array. He was from the Mingzhou wealthy family. When the Jin Gong descendants occupied Mingzhou as their capital, Jin Zhouyuan decisively led his descendants to join forces. Now he has
He was an important general who returned to Wang Jianjie, the commander-in-chief of the army that conquered Beiyuan. In this attack on Beiyuan, Jin Zhouyuan's troops were not the main force. Their mission was to bypass Beiyuan and take the northern land into their hands. Jin Zhouyuan listened.
He said that Bohai sent troops across the muddy water to intervene in the war in Silla, so he hurriedly led his headquarters to Hufeiling to stop them.
Jin Zhouyuan had heard some rumors about the Bohai Navy soldiers. It was said that these armies only had gorgeous armor and weapons, but they collapsed in battle, so he was very excited and wanted to "change clothes" for his subordinates. Songyue Thief
The army is mainly divided into three parts, one is the monk soldiers of Juishanmen led directly by King Jin Gongyi, the second is the rebel army led by Wang Jian, and the third is Jin Zhouyuan and other powerful soldiers from Mingzhou. Jin Zhouyuan once participated in the Jin Gongyi army.
During the crusade against the Silla Royal Court, the royal court's Hwarang Dao soldiers also came out to fight in neat armors, but they were completely defeated, leaving only armors and weapons all over the ground. These equipments were confiscated by Jin Gongyi and distributed to the rise.
Jin Zhouyuan was envious of the mountain monk soldiers. He longed to equip his wealthy soldiers with powerful armor, so he felt a little excited at the moment.
Of course, as a responsible general, he was more cautious and carefully asked his scouts about the number of enemy troops.
"There are many, a large area, occupying the exit under Hufeiling. The little slave saw that they are no less than us." The scout was a slave who gave birth to a son of Jin Zhouyuan's family. He inherited the Silla people's custom of fighting and used the word "a large area".
He did a good job of using different words to describe the number of enemy troops. At least he added "occupied the exit under Hufeiling". So Jin Zhouyuan was very satisfied with him and rewarded him with a piece of meat.
The scout left happily.
According to the scout's description, Jin Zhouyuan initially judged the size of the Bohai Navy in an instant, which was roughly between 3,000 and 5,000 people. Although it was slightly more than himself, Jin Zhouyuan was very confident in defeating his opponent. The source of his confidence
A very intuitive comparison: Silla and Balhae are equal countries that have existed side by side for more than 200 years. Since the king can defeat the 10,000 Silla Hwarang Dao soldiers with five thousand monk soldiers, then his own three thousand soldiers should also be able to defeat them.
Against six thousand to eight thousand enemy troops, not to mention there were eight hundred Alang among Jin Zhouyuan's subordinates. They were composed of warriors from the major wealthy families in Mingzhou who protected the fortress, and their combat power was even higher.
Therefore, Jin Zhouyuan confidently led three thousand Mingzhou soldiers to Hufeiling and blocked the passage south.
The Bohai Navy backed by the Yingzhou Army and the previous Bohai Navy are two concepts. The most important difference between the two concepts is that one has morale and the other has no morale. In the era of cold weapons, this difference was quite big, almost
This can lead to a difference in combat effectiveness between the two armies by more than one level.
The coalition forces were burying pots and making rice in an orderly manner according to the plan drawn up by the commanders at the headquarters. Suddenly, they received a report from the scouts in front: "There is a group of rioters blocking the south passage at the foot of the ridge, numbering three thousand." Later, the scouts came in.
After being asked by the commanders at the headquarters, the term "rioters" was explained in detail. The reason why they were called "rioters" was because the scouts in charge of the rangers at the front belonged to the Yingzhou Army Scout Department - Li Chengzhong did not dare to assign the key task of scouts to
Leave it to the Bohai Navy to complete, so according to the views of these elite scouts, the people blocking the road ahead should not be the army. They have no armor, no formation, and are in a mess with no military discipline at all. Even as long as a few of them have weapons in their hands, most of them
Some of them only have wooden sticks, iron rakes, sickles, etc., and it seems that some of them only have a few stones in their hands...
Li Chengzhong was drinking soup from a bowl without saying anything. He drank the soup very seriously. For him, Zhong Shao and others took care of these matters, and it was not his turn as the commander-in-chief to speak. This was also the case, Zhong Shao and others took care of it.
Shao immediately pulled up Kim Soon-gil, the chief supervisor of the Silla War Department, and rushed to the front to investigate. After a while, the two came back, and Kim Soon-gil introduced that this was one of the Songak rebels, known as the "Red Pants Army."
Zhong Shao asked Li Chengzhong whether to "disperse". Li Chengzhong had already finished drinking the soup. He originally just nodded, but suddenly he became interested and decided to go to the front of the formation to have a look.
Li Chengzhong took action, and the formation was naturally impressive. Tens of thousands of troops immediately packed up their equipment and poured out of Hufeiling in the order of each army.
Jin Zhouyuan has led his troops to wait at the entrance of the mountain for half an hour. Many of his subordinates have sat down on the ground to rest. They just make noises at the entrance of the mountain and sometimes curse. Silla is not like Bohai. Their levels are very different. Only Zhengu and
The third-rank nobles are qualified to learn Tang dialect and Chinese literature and regard it as "Guoxue" as a talent that nobles must master to hold official positions. As for the lower third-rank and local people, they are not even qualified to study "Guoxue", so they
The shouts and curses were almost ineffective - the Bohai Navy sergeant couldn't understand.
Just when Jin Zhouyuan was impatient with waiting and was about to launch an attack, there was finally movement in Hufeiling. He saw that the Bohai Navy who had been confronting him before was firing out one after another of sergeants from behind.
They lined up from left to right, completely filling the front. Looking around, not only did the "large area" stand under Hufeiling, there were more sergeants who continued to show up, covering the left and right hillsides. Countless
The banners were erected on the hillside and at the foot of the hillside, and countless swords and guns were lined up like a forest.
Not long after, Jin Zhouyuan was dumbfounded. Not only him, but also his three thousand subordinates were all stunned on the spot. We can't blame Jin Zhouyuan for his short-sightedness. With his three thousand men, he had already rampaged across the north.
There are almost no enemies in Shuozhou, Hanzhou, and Mingzhou. How have you ever seen so many troops? Three thousand people can be called a large army in Silla. What if it is 30,000? Jin Zhouyuan has never seen it.
There were so many enemy troops. When he accompanied King Jin Gongyi on his southern expedition last year, Wang Ting's Hwarang Dao soldiers dispatched 10,000 troops. In Jin Zhouyuan's eyes, it was overwhelming.
Suddenly, he heard a chorus of shouts from the opposite side, which shook the valley. Then a passage appeared in the middle of the enemy formation, and dozens of armored generals surrounded by a large flag appeared in front of Jin Zhouyuan. Jin Zhouyuan was from a wealthy family in Mingzhou.
, barely able to tolerate some Tang characters, he looked carefully and was shocked. He saw the characters "Li, the Governor of Datang Camp Prefecture" on the big flag swaying in the wind, which made him dizzy. Darling, it turned out to be Tang Jun.
Before Li Chengzhong came to the military formation, he took a look at the "rioters" on the opposite side. He couldn't help but be a little surprised. This ragtag group was what Kim Soon-gil, the war chief of the Silla Kingdom, called "one of the main forces of the Songak bandits"? He looked carefully again.
It suddenly dawned on him that the reason why they were called the "Red Pants Army" was because most of these rebel soldiers had no pants to wear. He also admired his opponents, and they were not too cold even in the winter.
"This group of rioters has quite a bit of courage." Li Chengzhong praised his opponent's courage in resisting the cold.
Zhong Shao misunderstood and nodded: "Yes, he actually dared to form a formation in the face of a large army. He is indeed quite brave." In fact, he not only misunderstood what Li Chengzhong meant, but also misunderstood the rebels in front of him as the Red Pants Army in the Sky.
How could they have the courage to form an array in front of a large army? First they were reckless and ignorant of the military situation, and then they were shocked after becoming familiar with the military situation. They were so shocked that they forgot to run away. The word "courage" has nothing to do with it.
Li Chengzhong was too lazy to explain his original intention to Zhong Shao. The more he looked at it, the colder his heart became. He couldn't help but shiver, then curled his lips and said to Zhong Shao: "Disperse."