After a long journey of half a month, the Han army entered Liaodong from Yuyang. After forcibly crossing the Liao River, they immediately captured the Liaoyang Prefecture in Tokyo, the Liao Kingdom. By mid-April of the second year of the Han Dynasty, the Han army had already invaded Bohai County like a broken bamboo.
, the Khitan people were unable to resist, and all the states and counties opened their doors to surrender. From Liaoyang, the Han army divided into two groups, and the Han army continued northward. After crossing the weak Luoshui River, the Han army moved to the south of the Mohe tribe in Heishui.
Another Han army led by Yang Ye went south from Liaoyang Prefecture and invaded the territory of Goguryeo. While Wang Jian, the king of Goguryeo, mobilized troops to resist the Han army's invasion, he sent envoys to Yang Ye's army to express his disapproval of the Han army's actions.
Angry. Goguryeo has already professed vassalage to the Han Dynasty and is also a subject of the King of Han. By doing this, the King of Han is hurting his subjects who are loyal to him. The whole country of Goguryeo is angry at this behavior, but in order to show his loyalty to the King of Han, Wang Jian is willing to
The annual tribute will be doubled again.
Goguryeo at this time had almost no connection with Goguryeo during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and more than 90% of the territory did not overlap. Goguryeo during the Sui and Tang Dynasties was a powerful tribe, no different from Mohe, Bohai, etc. Although the Goguryeo founded by Wang Jian had a different name.
It has not changed, but it has no inheritance relationship with the former. But this does not hinder Liu Ling's plan to send troops to destroy Goryeo, because the hostility to this place comes from Liu Ling's heart, not from the hatred inherited from the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
Yang Ye warmly received the Goguryeo envoys and arranged a sumptuous dinner. He told the Goguryeo envoys that the purpose of leading the army was to wipe out the remaining Khitan forces and conquer Shiwei and Heishui Mohe's troops.
At this point, we are just passing through, and our target is Bohai County in the Liao Kingdom.
Yang Ye told the envoy that since Goguryeo had surrendered to the King of Han, the King of Han would naturally treat his people equally. As long as the King of Goguryeo had no rebellious intentions, the mighty soldiers of the Han Dynasty would naturally not attack his own territory.
The envoy was very happy and sent his servants overnight to report to King Wang Jian of Goryeo that the Han army had no intention of attacking Goryeo. The next day, Yang Ye personally accompanied the Goryeo envoy to review the Han army and then went into the mountains to hunt. Yang Ye repeatedly persuaded the envoy to stay.
In the army, he marched eastward with the army to conquer the Bohai Sea. The envoy was not allowed to escape, so he had to stay in the army and set off with the army to attack Bohai County. Who wanted to get halfway, Yang Ye suddenly ordered the army to change its route and besieged Wugu City.
The envoy was furious and asked Yang Ye to argue, but was captured and tied up by Yang Ye's soldiers and held in front of the city to watch the battle. Yang Ye used the defenders in Wu Gu City to sneak attack the Han army camp and kill several Han soldiers to siege Wu Gu City.
.Order the garrison of Wugu City to hand over the murderer, otherwise the army will attack the city and no one will be left alive.
Yang Ye ordered his men to tie the Korean envoy to a wooden frame and pile firewood around him, waiting for the order to burn him. The envoy was so frightened that he lost the courage he had before and begged for mercy again and again.
"I treat you so generously, but I never thought that you would dare to collude with the thieves in Wugu City to attack and kill my Han soldiers! Since you despise the power of my Han Dynasty, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
The envoy was so frightened that he peed his pants and wailed and explained: "General Yang, please calm down. General Yang, please calm down. I have always been in the general's army, and I have never left even half a step. Moreover, the common people and soldiers in Wugu City cannot
Knowing that General Yang's army was passing by, he was so frightened that he didn't even dare to go out, so how could he attack and kill the Han soldiers? Please check with General Yang before taking any further action."
Yang Ye said angrily: "Are you saying that the governor framed you?"
He grabbed something from the hands of a soldier on his side and threw it at the envoy's feet. He said, "This is the weapon that the murderer abandoned when he fled in a hurry. It is exactly the weapon issued by your Goryeo army. Do you still want to make excuses?"
"Someone must have framed it, someone must have framed it. The general is aware of it. I hope the general is aware of it."
"check?"
Yang Ye grabbed the messenger by the front and said angrily: "Now that the governor has found out, you are still making excuses! Someone, please set fire to this ungrateful person!"
Several soldiers with torches came forward to light the fire. The envoy was so frightened that he shouted: "General, spare your life, general, spare your life!"
Yang Ye waved his hand to stop the soldiers, and then said coldly: "If you don't want to die, go into the city on my behalf to find the murderer! Go and call the city gate to open! I will personally lead the army to wait here. I will send three
Hundreds of elite troops will follow you into the city. If the murderer cannot be handed over, I will attack the city immediately!"
The envoy was too frightened to argue any more, so he was escorted to the city gate by 300 elite Han troops.
The Koryo Army garrison in Wugu City recognized the envoy. The envoy passed by here just a few days ago on his way to the Han Army camp. The two of them discussed it for a long time, one on top of the city and the other on the bottom of the city. They were not sure whether there was really a bold person.
Attacked the Han soldiers. Seeing that the Han army only sent 300 people, the guard didn't pay much attention, so he mobilized more than a thousand soldiers to guard the gate and ordered the city gate to be opened to let the envoy enter.
As soon as the city gate was opened, the leader of the Han army beheaded the envoy with a sword. Immediately, more than fifty people from the Shenji camp lit bags of gunpowder and threw them out, forcing the Koryo army inside the city gate to retreat. The Han army pushed the city gate away.
After opening, Yang Ye immediately ordered to attack the city.
The Han army swarmed in from the city gate, pushed back the Goryeo army and then attacked the city wall. The Goryeo defenders retreated steadily, and the battle lasted only two hours, and Wugu City was captured by the Han army.
After counting the prisoners of war, a total of more than 6,000 Goryeo defenders were captured. Yang Ye gave an order to kill them all under the city. Afterwards, Yang Ye ordered a massacre of the city, and more than 20,000 people in Wugu City were killed.
After conquering Wugu City, Yang Ye led his army southward and invaded Pyongyang in the name of Goryeo's attack on Han soldiers and the disobedience of the King of Goryeo.
After the massacre, Yang Ye stood in front of a mountain of dead bodies and sneered.
"The Koreans are fickle. How many times have you deceived us, the Han people, over the centuries? They surrendered, then surrendered, and then surrendered again. Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, no less than a million soldiers and civilians have been buried here. You have deceived us, the Han people, countless times.
I can also lie to you!"
"Pass the order, wherever the army goes, there will be people in Korea who can resist Tianwei. Take Wugu City as an example!"
The army marched forward with great success after conquering Wugu City in early April. At this time, the people who had brought Wang Jian the good news returned to Pyongyang. King Wang Jian of Goryeo held a banquet with his ministers to celebrate that he had finally deceived the Han people again. He ordered the army to continue to gather and block the Han people.
The way out for the conquest of the Bohai Sea. Hundreds of years ago, the Gaoyuan Dynasty had already set an example for Wang Jian by first surrendering and then hunting down the returning Han army.
After the Han army marched south from Wugu City, they massacred cities and areas, leaving no chickens or dogs behind. Every time they conquered a city, they massacred another city. So until the Han army was less than 300 miles away from Pyongyang, Wang Jian was still there.
He had a sweet dream of trapping more than 100,000 elite Han men to death in Liaodong. Little did he know that just four days ago, before the army he ordered to assemble had even set off, it was suddenly attacked by the Han army and blasted by more than a dozen artillery pieces.
After entering the camp, Han troops swarmed in. The hundreds of thousands of Korean troops who were suddenly attacked immediately collapsed and abandoned the city and fled with little resistance.
The defeated soldiers had only escaped for a few dozen miles before they were blocked by the Han navy that had just successfully landed. The Korean army was attacked from both sides. The defeated troops rushed into their own army formations, trampled on their troops, and killed countless people.
Wang Chao, the commander-in-chief of the Goryeo army, had no choice but to send people to the Han army to ask for Yang Ye, and proposed that as long as he treated the prisoners preferentially, Wang Chao was willing to lead tens of thousands of Goryeo soldiers to surrender.
Yang Ye agreed and asked the envoy to go back and tell Wang Chao that the Goryeo soldiers should put down their weapons and line up to wait for the Han army to surrender.
Wang Chao knew that resisting would lead to death, so he ordered his army to lay down their weapons and surrender.
Yang Ye sent people to escort Wang Chao and other Goryeo generals back to the army, and then ordered the army to execute all the Goryeo troops who surrendered. Dozens of continuous-fire ballistae, artillery, and heavy crossbows were madly pouring out the fury of revenge towards the Goryeo troops.
, more than 50,000 surrendered Goryeo soldiers were slaughtered. After this battle, Yang Ye got the nickname "Yang Beheaded".
At this time, Goguryeo was far less warlike than Goguryeo during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, with less than 100,000 standing troops. This time Wang Jian mobilized troops from all over the country, but he only managed to piece together 130,000 to 134,000 men. This is not the same as the suppression of the Khitans in recent years.
It doesn’t matter, Yelu Xiongji’s grandfather, Yeluyun Deshi, conquered Goguryeo and killed hundreds of thousands of people. The vitality of Goguryeo was greatly damaged. Within twenty years, Yelu Xiongji conquered Goguryeo again, killing corpses all over the Korean peninsula.
After more than ten years of recuperation, the strength of the Korean people is indeed not as good as before.
The navy landed in Pyongyang, joined Yang Ye's army, and then marched into Pyongyang. When he could see the fire dragon flag of the Han army while standing on the city wall of Pyongyang, Wang Jian woke up as if from a dream. Shocked, he summoned the army to defend the capital.
, only to find that his order could no longer leave Pyongyang. The Han army sealed off all directions, and killed all the soldiers and dogs along the way. Many places did not even know that the Han army had moved so quickly and had already reached the gates of Pyongyang.
The panicked Wang Jianli immediately sent his ministers out of the city to ask for an audience with Yang Ye and Zhaoxian. He first expressed his loyalty and then cried out, saying that he had never dared to despise the power of the Han Dynasty. Wang Jian was willing to use his wealth to compensate for the losses of the Han army and to be a vassal of the Han Dynasty forever.
Dare to disobey in the slightest.
Yang Ye repeated his old trick and asked the envoy to go back and tell Wang Jian that the army besieged Pyongyang not to destroy the Goryeo Kingdom. It was to avenge the killed Han soldiers. As long as Wang Jian handed over the mastermind, the army would return immediately.
Wang Jian cried and howled immediately after hearing the report. This asked him where to find the mastermind. Wugu City had been massacred. Even if someone really attacked and killed Han soldiers, they would not be able to recruit anyone. Besides, the Han army
The army came all the way and slaughtered at least 300,000 people. Just taking revenge, killing so many people was enough.
He couldn't name the mastermind, so he had to order people to empty out almost everything in the treasury and send it to the Han army, hoping to extinguish the anger of Yang's beheading. But the Han army, which had obtained countless gold, silver, food and cloth, not only did not retreat even one step but
The formation was pushed forward. Wang Jian had no choice but to send someone to plead for mercy. Yang Ye was just the mastermind and murderer he wanted. However, the envoy watched his words carefully and told Wang Jian when he returned that the gift might not be enough.
As a result, Wang Jian pulled out his hair in pain while searching for treasures.
Wang Jian sent his brother and son to escort the second batch of supplies out of the city. This time, Yang Ye was finally moved. In order to express his warm gratitude to Wang Jian, Yang Ye sent someone to chop off the heads of his brother and son as a return gift and threw them in the city.
Outside Pyongyang City. Then the siege was ordered, artillery blasted the city gates, and Goryeo ceased to exist. (To be continued)
