At 15:00 in the afternoon, Wang Junlin led the main force to the outside of Daluo City and set up camp around the three gates in the southeast and west.
The escaped Goguryeo cavalry fled desperately. On the way, some of them were killed by the special forces led by Zhang Tiangang. Some of them lacked horsepower and left the official road to escape to the hilly areas on both sides. Others were chased by the troops led by Zhang Tiangang and Yuchi Jingde.
It was too close and they fled towards Annan County before they could enter the city. There were less than a thousand Goguryeo cavalry who fled into the city, plus the Zhongzhong who were originally preparing to assist but got the news later and fled back to the city.
The total number of infantry is only about 5,000, and each city wall can only be divided into more than 1,000 people.
Wang Junlin, surrounded by Zhang Tiangang and Yuchi Jingde, walked around the south wall and inspected the city. He found that the city of Daluo City was actually very tall, far from being comparable to a small city like Nanyang Village. The height of the city wall was as high as that of the Great Sui Dynasty.
Like the big city in the country, it is five miles and 216 steps around, three feet and five feet high, one foot and seven feet deep, and six feet and five feet wide. It is a big city in Annan County, Goguryeo, and its scale is far greater than that of Nanyang Walled City.
Wang Junlin secretly felt lucky that the Goguryeo general Jin Yibei was arrogant. If he could not retreat, it would be difficult to capture the Daluo City for a while.
In addition, the strategic location of Daluo City in Annan County of Goguryeo is very important. Controlling this place can radiate half of the southern part of Annan County, and if this place is controlled in the hands of Goguryeo, then the role of Nanyang Village will be greatly reduced, and Wang Junlin will not be able to
It is possible to attack Annan County by land. In that case, Wang Junlin's Goguryeo army will have to go ashore to fight guerrillas. There is no dock for sea transportation, so it is impossible to deliver a large number of cavalry, and the infantry is too mobile to move deep into the land.
In short, Daluo City is a very important part of Wang Junlin's battle plan against Goguryeo. By capturing Daluo City, Wang Junlin can even control nearly half of Annan County for a long time. In this way, Goguryeo will need to control a wider area.
Fortification. This will inevitably contain many Goguryeo troops, and play a huge role in encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao from Yang Guang's main battlefield in the west.
But Daluo City is more than a hundred miles away from the sea. If Wang Junlin gets too excited and Yuan Taizuo and the leader of Goguryeo, Gao Jianwu, take action and mobilize 100,000 troops, even if he resorts to digging trenches for siege again, the consequences will be unpredictable.
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Therefore, Wang Junlin is still hesitating. If too few troops are invested, there is no point in defending. The role of this place is to provide support, and the troops in it are the core of controlling the surrounding areas. If you just shrink inside the turtle shell, you will not be able to act as a fortress.
Function. The Goguryeo army will always have a way to bypass the city and harass the rear. And if there are too many troops stationed in Daluo City, it will be difficult to retreat. Once besieged by the Goguryeo army, the entire king will be passive.
In response to this situation, when Wang Junlin occupied Nanyang Village, he sent out two young guys, Luo Shixin and Li Xuanba. The two young men each commanded a thousand cavalry under Lu Han and Guan Xiaotong and formed an independent army.
Hidden in a deep mountain canyon in Annan County, there is a large amount of grain and grass that Wang Junlin asked Shen Guoer to quietly hoard in the past few days.
But even so, Wang Junlin was still a little worried. Of course, his main concern was Yang Guang's million-strong army.
Yuchi Jingde looked at Wang Junlin's expression, a little puzzled, and whispered: "Your Excellency, are you worried that we can't defeat the Goguryeo people? From my humble opinion, the main force of Goguryeo is in the west, and they can't mobilize too much to our side anyway."
The maximum number of people that can be mobilized is thirty to fifty thousand, and we can definitely deal with it."
Wang Junlin shook his head and said: "Actually, I have never told you clearly that His Majesty the Emperor will lead a million-strong army in the battle in the west. For some reasons, I have not been very optimistic about it. I have a vague feeling that it may be a disastrous defeat, and we may have to bear the main force of the Goguryeo people.
The pressure of the army.”
Yuchi Jingde and Zhang Tiangang were startled. The former lost his voice and said: "The emperor has an army of one million people. The country of Goguryeo has already reached its limit with 300,000 people. If we can contain another 50,000 people here, the emperor
The men and horses I face are only about 250,000. If we are still defeated by the Goguryeo people, we might as well jump into a manure pit and drown."
Wang Junlin was not surprised by Yuchi Jingde's rudeness to Yang Guang, nor did he mind. Yuchi Jingde was originally a bandit leader who was forced to go up the mountain by the government's excessive taxes, and Yang Guang, the emperor, was really a disappointment to ordinary people.
After all, it is strange that Yuchi Jingde can have the slightest respect for him.
Naturally, Wang Junlin would not take up the topic of Yuchi Jingde. Zhang Tiangang originally wanted to curse Yuchi Jingde, but when he saw Wang Junlin's heavy expression, he did not speak, but said: "Nanyang Village is one hundred and twenty-two miles away from Daluo City.
Ten miles away, I have nothing to rely on in the meantime."
"It doesn't matter. As long as Daluo City is captured, in addition to stationing a force of troops and horses in Daluo City, Zhang Tiangang and your special forces will be responsible for guarding the official roads. In addition, you will build a new building between Nanyang Village and Daluo City.
A castle, Yuchi's three thousand cavalry will be stationed in it, responsible for coming and going for rescue, and can defeat the enemy's harassment. If the enemy comes with more than 100,000 troops, we will abandon Daluo City and retreat to the castle. If we are still defeated, we will directly retreat to Nanyang Village by the sea.
, when we have naval warships to assist us, no matter how many Goguryeo people come, I am confident that we can defend this last city and make it difficult for the Goguryeo people to sleep and eat."
Yuchi Jingde pondered: "With such a garrison, it will be quite difficult to transport grain from Nanyang Village to Daluo City. I don't know how much grain and grass there is in Daluo City. When we break the city, will the Goguryeo people set it on fire?"
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"Guoer has now led a team of experts to sneak into the Daluo City. It is difficult for the Goguryeo people to burn grain and grass at the last moment of breaking the city." Wang Junlin sneered, raised his head and continued: "This is the plan for the time being, but the castle in the middle
It doesn’t need to be too tall and thick, it just needs to be used as a cavalry station to defend against the enemy’s cavalry raids.”
After a pause, Wang Junlin said: "After capturing Daluo City, I will give your army names based on the military exploits of each of your armies. You can ask me to give you a name, or you can name it yourself. In addition, in the official name of the Sui Dynasty,
Official titles will also be obtained for you."
Wang Junlin wanted to help the world and had his own ambitions, but everyone had his own ideas. He himself knew that the Sui Dynasty would perish sooner or later, but the people below did not know, so the Sui Dynasty was still orthodox in the eyes of the people below, so naturally he wanted to
Find opportunities for promotion for the people below, and give them fame, fame and fortune.
In the past, he was just a prefect and had no army under his name. He could only raise the army secretly. The few generals under his name were all shady. As time went by, Wang Junlin was worried that these people would inevitably have some ideas in their minds.