"Go and prepare immediately. Take a few more of the horses captured yesterday to transport beans. Walk more often to maintain your horse power. Calculate the time. Yun Gaisuwen should have sent out reinforcements. You are likely to encounter them on the road. You
The scouts sent out in advance are very important."
"I understand my humble position." Zhang Tiangang saluted with clasped fists, turned and left.
"Send an order for Guan Xiaotong and Lu Han to return to the camp to rest. Luo Chunlai's 5,000 navy troops will enter the city and take control of the entire Daluo City."
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"Wang Junlin has made up his mind to nail Annan County to death..." In Annan County Mansion, Yuan Gaesumun frowned deeply. Faced with the bad news that kept coming back from the south, he could only do this.
judgment.
At this time, he frowned and his face was extremely gloomy. When Wang Junlin's naval forces were roaming the Goguryeo waters and their Goguryeo navy could not control them, Goguryeo had already fallen into a passive position.
Wang Junlin had as many as 10,000 naval troops on Dami Island and Bailing Island, and now he mobilized 10,000 army troops. In addition, Zhao Chen and Huang Shaoqiu led 30,000 naval troops to continuously harass the waters of Chengyang County.
As many as 50,000 troops came from the sea. Goguryeo had to deploy nearly 60,000 water infantry troops in Annan and Chengyang counties to barely ensure the stability of the defense line.
In order to gather 60,000 water infantry troops in the two southern counties, almost all the combat soldiers and auxiliary troops in the two southern counties of Goguryeo were exhausted, but it was obviously not enough.
In the current situation, for Wang Junlin, there is no need to make any dangerous plans or use any cunning tactics. He only needs to firmly defend Daluo City, and then let Zhao Chen and Huang Shaoqiu's 30,000 navy continue.
The raid in Chengyang County and the containment of a large number of Goguryeo troops put great pressure on both the officials and soldiers of Chengyang County and the people of Annan County led by Yeon Gaesumun.
"We in Goguryeo only have a total of 300,000 troops. To ensure that Wang Junlin's troops are suppressed in Daluo City, it will take at least 30,000 to 40,000 troops. The battle between the prime minister and the main army of the Sui Emperor is already very difficult. Right now, we only need 300,000 troops."
We were able to forcibly gather the private soldiers and guards of the nobles from the two counties together." A veteran general wearing scale armor stood beside Yuan Gaisuwen and said in a loud voice.
"Let's not talk about how difficult it is to get each family to give up their private soldiers and guards," Yeon Gaesomun said, "Even if we forcibly gather the private soldiers and guards of the nobles from the two counties, the extra 20,000 troops will only be enough.
Blocking Chengyang County's 30,000 navy troops and relying on them to attack Wang Junlin's army is simply a way to die...and Chengyang County cannot be lost at the moment."
Chengyang County is the most important grain-producing area in Goguryeo, with more than 3 million acres of paddy and dry land. It was severely harassed by the East China Sea pirates in the past few years, and farming has recovered rapidly in recent years. Although it cannot be compared with the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River during the Sui Dynasty, it has
In Goguryeo, which is "seven parts mountains, one part water, and two parts farmland", it is extremely precious, especially during the current all-out war with the Sui Dynasty. The frontline army consumes huge amounts of food and grass every day. For a country as small as Goguryeo,
Maintaining an army of 300,000 people is already the limit, not to mention that there are 50,000 troops each in the direction of Baekje and Silla.
For Yeon Gaesomun, if he wants to regain the initiative in Annan County, he must push his troops to Daluo City, or even directly recapture Daluo City. To achieve this step, he must maintain an absolute advantage in military strength.
, but it is not easy, or it is impossible in a short time at present, and we must also be prepared for Wang Junlin's army to continue to move north to attack the three counties in the north of Annan County.
Yeon Gaesumun lamented in his heart: "Wang Junlin controls the sea route and can assemble and transfer troops and various supplies at a very fast speed. They can't even figure out how many troops Wang Junlin has assembled in Daluo City."
For Yeon Gaesumun, he could only regain the initiative in Annan County by delaying the situation, waiting for his father in the east to lead the main force and the Sui Emperor to victory on the main battlefield, and then dispatching an army from the east to the south for support.
With the main force of Wang Junlin's navy at sea, and the 30,000 naval troops led by Zhao Chen and Huang Shaoqiu, Goguryeo had no chance of regaining control of the sea from Wang Junlin.
Ten days after the war began, the 30,000-strong navy led by Zhao Chen and Huang Shaolai became increasingly active. Goguryeo's garrison in Chengyang County had been completely reduced. The control of some seaside villages and towns and almost all islands in Chengyang County fell to Zhao.
Chen and Huang Shaoqiu are in control.
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After Wang Junlin occupied Daluo City, he immediately arranged for people to build a transit military stronghold between Daluo City and Nanyang Village.
Yuchi Jingde led 3,000 cavalrymen and returned to Daluo City after killing most of the Goguryeo troops who escaped from Daluo City. Only Zhang Tiangang's 500 special forces were divided into two groups and took turns operating between the north of Daluo City and Annan County.
During this period, it always put great pressure on the Goguryeo people.
After the situation in Daluo City was sorted out, Wang Junlin summoned Yuchi Jingde, Luo Chunlai, Lu Han, and Guan Xiaotong to hold a situation analysis meeting to further formulate a combat plan.
"According to the information sent by Shen Guo'er, although Yeon Gaesumun has made some moves, due to the lack of troops, in addition to recruiting more local warriors and forcing the nobles to hand over their private soldiers and guards to gather together
, and there is no sign of moving troops in from other places. In terms of military strength, plus Zhao Chen's 30,000 naval divisions, we are still in a superior position, and the enemy is defending many cities. We can concentrate our troops in Daluo City and Nanyang Village.
With two locations, the advantage will be more obvious." Wang Junlin first informed everyone of the overall situation.
"According to the plan, I will instruct Huang Shaoqiu to have 30,000 naval troops attack Chengyang County and attract Goguryeo's troops from the two southern counties to the front line of Chengyang County..."
The so-called strategy is basically to do everything possible to form a military advantage to suppress the enemy. This is true in strategy and tactics.
Even under forced circumstances, the purpose of using dangerous tactics is to avoid the enemy's superior strength and form a local strength advantage to strike at the enemy's weak points.
Open up the battlefields of Annan County and Chengyang County. Even if they cannot successfully attack these two counties, they will force Goguryeo to invest more troops in these two counties.
Now in eastern Zhejiang, Goguryeo has been forced to mobilize all the troops it can mobilize; if Goguryeo wants to ensure that Chengyang County, a major grain-producing county, is not taken away by the Sui Dynasty navy, it is bound to mobilize no less than three troops in Chengyang County.
As long as Goguryeo is forced to invest another 30,000 to 40,000 troops in Annan County, Goguryeo's overall strength in fighting against the main army led by Yang Guang in the west will be affected.
This is the advantage of controlling the sea. With less than 20,000 troops, Wang Junlin can contain at least three or four times the number of troops in Goguryeo to the south.
In terms of overall strategy, even if Wang Junlin knew that Yang Guang would probably be defeated at the hands of the Goguryeo people as in the original history, he still wanted to change the ending of history as much as possible, and at least let the Sui people die less in Goguryeo.