Chapter 1392 Goryeo army, the scale of the national war
To the south of Baozhou City, thirty miles away, camps and villages stretch endlessly, with flags in the middle like clouds, and soldiers patrolling in front and behind. The scene can be considered majestic.
In the Chinese army's commander's tent, a Goryeo general was asking for orders from a civilian official sitting at the head: "Xianggong Jin, the rogue army who occupied Baozhou and other places really refused to surrender. It's so hateful.
They are some barbarians and bandits from Liaodong. They tried to shirk the blame before, but now they are expelling the envoys sent by our court. It is useless to talk more. We will march on later!"
The Goryeo general who was eager to ask for a battle had previously formed a quarrel with Xiao Tang. It was Jin Zhi who was beaten by Xiao Tang during a fist fight in Mizhou. Jin Zhi was also a general in the Goryeo family.
The elderly civil servant sitting at the head of the commander's tent was Jin Yuan, the prime minister of the Goryeo Dynasty. He was appointed by the King of Goryeo, Wang Ma, as the military envoy to the northwest.
"The Liao rebels occupying the three prefectures of Bao, Ding, and Xuan, judging from the confrontations some time ago, do not look like ordinary rogue bandits. I thought it would be best if we could induce them to submit without fighting, but
Now it seems... although we have no choice but to use force to capture it, I am just worried about sending envoys to the Jin Kingdom to persuade them not to lead the army southward to occupy Baozhou and other important military areas that the Liao Dynasty used to choke our throat. Now we are going to war.
, I’m afraid something will happen again in the Kingdom of Jin..."
Jin Yuan thought for a long time before sighing. General Jin Zhi, who seemed to have a favorable position, cursed fiercely in his heart when he heard this and said: After all, rotten Confucian scholars are still afraid of trouble! For those beasts like Liao and Jin, Di Yi
They had to endure humiliation and were obedient to the Song Dynasty. Now they are raising troops to attack the rogue bandits, but they still have many concerns, which has directly reduced the prestige of our great Goryeo Kingdom!
Today's Goryeo has not yet entered the era of military dictatorship that will be a few decades later, but the national policy of the Goryeo Dynasty also tends to emphasize civility over military affairs, which has led to the decline of the status of warriors and the deepening of conflicts between civil servants and military ministers. The hidden dangers have long been planted. The same is true for the Jinzhi family.
Coming from a hard-line military background in Goryeo, he was not used to seeing civil servants in the DPRK and China acting timidly and thinking too hard.
But now that Jin Yuan is the prime minister of Goryeo, Jin Zhi, a general in charge of a troop of troops, can only hold back his temper and continue to ask for orders: "But as Jin Xianggong said before, now the Jin people only focus on attacking.
To overthrow the Liao Dynasty and have no time to look eastward, the only way to seize Baozhou and Baozhou is during this period. Otherwise, the Jin people will surely control Baozhou and other places like the Liao Dynasty, and form a knife-axe-and-neck attack on our country, Korea.
Now there is absolutely no need to hesitate any longer!”
Of course, Jin Yuan also understood that "recovering" Baozhou and other places was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Goryeo Kingdom. It was an opportunity that could not be missed and would never come back. Moreover, after this battle, he captured Baozhou, Ding, Xuan and other states in one fell swoop.
Whether it is the Liao Dynasty in the past or the Jin Kingdom today, they can generally form a confrontation across the river. Then his name as Jinyuan will also be recorded in the history books of Goryeo for his contribution to the border expansion...
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Since the founding king of Goryeo, Wang Jian, launched a mutiny to eliminate the Gong people, he has been planning to expand his territory, and then destroyed Baekje, and finally completed the great cause of unifying the three Koreas, and in the fifth year of Qiantong in Liao Dynasty and the fourth year of Song Chongning (
1105) formally set up counties and counties on Tamna Island and incorporated it into the territory. Now the peninsula is almost entirely the territory of the Kingdom of Goryeo. Now it can only actively expand its territory to the north. However, the Liao Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom now
This huge country dominates Liaodong and suppresses Goryeo's momentum to look north. After several generations of warlords and wars, the border has now been roughly pushed to the line from the middle and upper reaches of the Chongcheon River to the lower reaches of the Yalu River. However, if you want to go further, you must
The war started again with the big country in the north. Even if the whole country could resist it for a while, it would only be a waste of national power and it would still be impossible to cross the Yalu River and gain an inch of land...
I originally thought that I was secretly communicating with the Song Dynasty, and planned to collude with the tiger and wolf countries such as Liao and Jin in the north, and wait for the opportunity to go north to expand the territory of Liaodong. There are treacherous parties in the court who are trying to seize power, slandering and trying to get away with it, and they are just trying to enjoy life and ease. Now they are even seeking skin from the Jin Kingdom and Hu to raise an army to attack the Liao Dynasty. Now we can only take advantage of the Jin Kingdom's nod and acquiescence to secure guarantees, establish the three states, declare the three states, and generals. All the land on the southeastern bank of the Yalu River was included in the territory of Goryeo. In order to protect against the great powers in the north, since the rebel troops occupying these cities did not know how to show their respect, I am afraid that it was inevitable to raise troops to conquer them by force.
Jin Yuan still has some concerns in his heart. Judging from the previous small-scale battles, it seems that there are many brave generals in the opponent's army, and the infantry are equally brave and good at fighting. They are definitely not a ragtag group that will collapse at the first touch. Hold on. The leader of the Liao people in Baozhou, Yi Laocheng, was a leader of the Khitan clan, but he had many armies and horses under his command, which seemed to include Han Chinese, Bohai and other ethnic groups. His Highness Jin Yuan secretly ordered me to be the army envoy to the northwest. , commanded 70,000 soldiers and horses to go north to capture Baozhou, and now they have to use force to conquer it. But can they really eliminate the group of rebels and successfully capture the three military states?
After all, Jin Yuan is a civil servant and has been a diplomatic envoy for a long time. If possible, he most hopes to make the other party surrender without fighting. But now it is obvious that the power of Goryeo is used to coerce the other party, but the other party is completely following this He treated you like nothing but a piece of shit, which made Jin Yuan even more angry and angry. Those bandits who rebelled against the party were showing contempt for the national prestige of our country, Korea!
For big countries such as Liao and Jin who were born from the Di Yi barbarians, our country had no choice but to submit. However, a few rebel armies and a few stragglers from the northern tribes gathered together in one place and dared to despise us. We had no choice but to move towards Goryeo. Use military force to teach those thieves to know the advantages of a great country's military force.
After thinking about it for a while, Jin Yuan finally spoke: "Instruct Li Fang to direct the four thousand naval troops north of Nanpu to advance by land and water with the vanguard of General Jin. While they are attacking the city to defeat the Baozhou bandits, The Qianshui Army marches into Baozhou Port and attacks from both sides. We must attack and capture the city here in one fell swoop. Then we can take advantage of the situation and mobilize our troops to seize Ding and declare the two prefectures in one fell swoop, wiping out the rebel army and thieves in one fell swoop!"
Jin Zhi was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately shouted to Jin Yuan to accept the order. He thought in his heart that now in our Goryeo Dynasty, Yin Guan, Wu Yanchong (a Hanchen who moved to Goryeo and became a naturalized country) and other famous generals have passed away one after another. Tuo Junjing, who has the military power of Zhimenxiasheng and Weiweiqing, is now mostly the young and strong sons of the two groups of military officials in the Goryeo army. If I can lead the army to attack Bao Ding and declare the loss of the three states, it will be such an unparalleled achievement. , but it was not done by Duke Yin Wensu back then. Once the merits are achieved, and with time and hard work, he hopes that one day he will send his army northward to annex the entire territory of Liaodong. I can teach you that the achievements made by Jin Zhi surpass those of the Goryeo dynasties. Above all warriors of all generations!
Jin Zhi, who was impatient to advance, immediately conveyed the command of Jin Yuan, the military envoy to the northwest, and dispatched all troops and horses in a mighty manner, and set off northward to Baozhou. He could not go more than ten miles, and wherever the dust rose, the enemy was already there. As they approached the military sentry road, at the sound of the luan bell, the Korean army immediately sent out light cavalry to patrol the sentinel. However, not long after, more and more soldiers and horses came from the direction of Baozhou City on the opposite side. The blocking trend stopped the Goryeo army from heading north.
When the Goryeo scouts came back to report, Jin Zhi gritted his teeth, but his eyes were full of eagerness to try. He shouted and said loudly: "The rebels who occupied Baozhou are so arrogant that they dare to take the initiative to go out of the city to fight! This
It’s also convenient. When the army arrives, it will be crushed and flattened. I’ll be able to take the first step to protect the state, so I can easily get it!”