Guo Song led both land and water armies to the north. North of the Han River was the jurisdiction of the former Andong Protectorate. The residents were mainly Han and Goguryeo. After Silla expanded northward, the Han people retreated to Yingzhou and the northern area of Andong Protectorate.
The south of the Yalu River is mainly inhabited by Silla and Goguryeo people. However, after eight years of fierce fighting, most of the Silla and Goguryeo people were kidnapped and became slaves of Khitan, Xi people, Mohe and other tribes.
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As the Jin army went north, it was basically deserted. The farmland was overgrown with weeds. Desolate villages and dilapidated cities could be seen everywhere. The population was occasionally scattered and very sparse.
In the morning, the army arrived at the Yalu River. The Jin army's warships had already arrived first and blocked the western side of the river. On the other side of the Yalu River was Zhu Tao's base camp, including the Andong Protectorate and Yingzhou.
At present, Zhu Tao still has 30,000 troops and 10,000 border troops, which are basically Han soldiers. Among them, 10,000 border troops are deployed in the Andong Protectorate, which is the twelve military cities east of the Liao River.
Zhu Tao's key defense area was not the Yalu River, but the Western Liaoning Corridor. Yao Jin personally led an army of 50,000 people to cross Yuguan. The army entered the south of Yingzhou and faced off with Zhu Tao's 20,000 troops. However, Zhu Tao never dreamed of this.
Guo Songhui personally led the army to land in southern Silla and completely wiped out the army of his second son Zhu Ye.
The Han River blocked Zhu Ye's escape route and blocked the news from reaching Yingzhou. In addition, Qianli Aye to the north of the Han River meant that unless Zhu Ye took the initiative to send someone to Yingzhou to deliver the message, it would be impossible for Zhu Tao to know about Silla.
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The last news Zhu Tao received was that Donghu's army had captured the capital of Silla, and the destruction of Silla was imminent.
This made Zhu Tao extremely happy. Even if they were unable to defeat Yao Jin's army, they could abandon Yingzhou and retreat to Silla. They had a retreat.
There are three military cities on the other side of the Yalu River. One is called Dahang City, which is in today's Dandong area. It is close to the Yalu River. There is a military city a hundred miles away to the east called Baibi City. In addition, there is a military city on the tributary Wugu River.
There is also a military city called Wugu City. Each of these three military cities is a hundred miles apart and arranged in a "pin" shape. There are only a thousand soldiers stationed there.
Guo Song did not intend to make a sneak attack. His army could directly overwhelm these three military cities. Large ships sailed on the river outside Dahang City, and the alarm bells in the city rang loudly, 'Dang! Dang! Dang!'
Amidst the rapid sound of sirens, a thousand soldiers rushed to the top of the city. They saw hundreds of magnificent large ships appearing on the river outside the city. They docked one after another on the south bank. This made the defenders on the top of the city panic.
They were shocked, this was something they had never seen before.
General Geng Hunzhong said to himself: "This is... the Jin army, the Jin army is coming to kill!"
In fact, these hundreds of large ships are supply cargo ships. They are loaded with tents, food and grass, and are ready to provide supplies to the army heading north.
The real warships, loaded with 20,000 sailors and 10,000 cavalry, have entered the Bohai Sea, preparing to go north from the Liaohe River to cut off the retreat of the 10,000 troops stationed in the Andong Protectorate.
At this time, the soldiers on the top of the city pointed to the other side and shouted: "General, look at the other side!"
I saw a dark army on the other side, at least 70,000 to 80,000 troops, overwhelming the sky and the end as far as the eye could see.
The flags of the army were fluttering. Under the clear sky, a huge black dragon red flag inlaid with gold was clearly visible. Unfortunately, the soldiers did not understand that the black dragon red flag inlaid with gold was the royal flag of the Jin army. When it appeared on the battlefield, it was
This means that Jin Wang Guo Song is also in the army.
The army unloaded large tents from the large ships and camped on the spot. Rice and frozen mutton were also unloaded from the large ships and distributed to each camp. The soldiers cooked in pots and boiled broth, which was extremely busy.
As night gradually fell, the soldiers had a hearty meal and went into their tents to rest. Sentinels were patrolling all around, closely observing every move around them.
At this time, a speedboat came quickly from upstream and docked close to the camp. A man in his forties was led ashore by several soldiers and walked towards the camp.
After the patrol came forward to contact him, he took the man to the Chinese army's tent. At this time, Guo Song was discussing with several generals a plan to pull out twelve military cities.
Guo Song said to everyone: "The military city is full of Han soldiers, unlike the Donghu people. My principle is to try to persuade them to surrender. If those who refuse to surrender will be killed after the city is broken, the other soldiers will be forgiven."
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Zhang Yundao said: "Your Highness, I have an idea. I can use kindness and coercion. I will first use iron fire and thunder as a deterrent, and then send a letter to persuade the general to surrender. Of course, I don't need a personal letter from Your Highness, I or General Li's letter."
That’s all.”
Guo Song smiled lightly and said, "If necessary, it doesn't matter if I write a letter!"
Li Bing shook his head, "The commander of the military city is just a town general, equivalent to a general. Asking His Highness to write a letter to persuade them to surrender will bring disgrace to the brothers' faces. Your Highness must not make such a joke."
Guo Song was indeed just joking to ask the small military city to surrender. Of course, it was impossible for him to write a letter of persuasion to surrender.
Guo Song nodded, "Then use iron fire thunder as a deterrent!"
At this time, a soldier reported at the door of the main tent, "Your Highness, Bohai State has sent envoy Darenxiu to ask for an audience!"
The Bohai Kingdom actually sent an envoy, which was a bit beyond Guo Song's expectation. He ordered: "Please wait for the envoy in the side tent and let Du Sima go see him first."
During the years that Guo Song was in power, he had no contact with the Bohai State. The Bohai State sent envoys at this time, and of course they would not go to Hajj. What on earth did they want? Guo Song was a little interested.
Guo Song asked the generals to retreat first, and then sent people to find the businessman Wang Juxian. After a while, a middle-aged businessman was led in by the soldiers. He knelt down and kowtowed: "I pay my respects to His Highness the King of Jin!"
Guo Song waved his hand, "Get on your back! I have something to ask you."
Wang Juxian is a drug dealer and a native of Youzhou. He has been active in Liaodong for twenty years. He has good connections with all kinds of people and can basically be regarded as a jack-of-all-trades in Liaodong.
"Let me ask you, Bohai Kingdom sent an envoy named Darenxiu. Who is he?"
Wang Juxian said quickly: "This man is from the royal family and is also the prime minister of the Bohai Kingdom. He has great power in both the government and the public. Everyone says that if he wants to be the king, he can overthrow Daming Zhong at any time."
It turned out that the prime minister who held the real power came to negotiate with him in person. Guo Song felt that there was more or less an apology in this.
"How is the situation in Bohai Country now?" Guo Song asked again.
Wang Juxian shook his head, "The political situation of the Bohai Kingdom is unstable and there are signs of decline. In the past few years, they have fought many wars with the Khitan and failed miserably. They have frequent trade with Japan, but their national strength is still not strong."
"Why do you think Bohai's national power cannot become stronger?"
"Small people believe that the reason why the Bohai Kingdom cannot become strong is because of its small population. They are actually Baishan Mohe, while other large Mohe tribes, such as Heishui Mohe, Sumo Mohe, Shiwei people, etc., do not buy their account.
, so that although there are many people in Mohe, they all work independently and cannot hold a fist.
Moreover, the Bohai Kingdom is remote and lacks resources, which makes their army incomplete. If there are spears, there will be no sabers, and if there are swords, there will be no spears. Each soldier can only be equipped with one weapon."
"How many troops do they have?" Guo Song continued to ask.
"Reporting to your highness, they have less than 20,000 troops."
Guo Song pondered for a moment and then asked: "So Silla asked them for help, but they refused to send troops. Is it because they have too few troops?"
"You can think of it this way. In fact, we Liaodong merchants all know that the Khitan has been eyeing the Bohai Kingdom. If the Bohai Kingdom sends troops to support Silla, the Khitan will definitely attack the Bohai Kingdom in a large scale, and Heishui Mohe will also send troops to assist the Khitan. The Bohai Kingdom will never
I don’t dare to move.”
At this time, Guo Song saw Sima Du Yingxing appearing at the door of the tent, and said to Wang Juxian: "Thank you sir, let's go and rest first!"
Wang Juxian bowed and retreated.
Du Yingxing quickly walked into the big tent, bowed and said: "See Your Highness!"
"What did the envoy from Bohai say?"
"This Darenxiu is the prime minister of the Bohai Kingdom. He said that the Bohai Kingdom has always wanted to go to Hajj, but the road was blocked by Khitan and Zhu Tao. They could not go to the Central Plains. However, they still regarded the Tang Dynasty as their suzerainty. This has not changed for decades.
, they are willing to send troops to assist the Jin army in destroying the Khitan, that’s probably what they mean.”
Guo Song walked a few steps with his hands behind his back and asked again: "Does he know I'm here?"
"I didn't know it at first, but I just found out about it. I can see that he is very nervous. He said that if His Highness is willing to receive him, he is willing to donate soil to Your Highness on behalf of the Bohai Kingdom. He brought a jar of soil from the Bohai Kingdom."
In Guo Song's plan, the Bohai Kingdom will eventually be destroyed, but not necessarily now. Guo Song knows that the various forces in Liaodong are being pushed into a hurry. They will abandon their past grievances and join forces to deal with the Jin army, which is very troublesome. The best
The method is to divide and disintegrate, and after dealing with one group of people, go back and deal with the other group of people.
Bohai State took the initiative to come to pledge its allegiance, which was in line with Guo and Song's strategy of dividing and disintegrating the various forces in Liaodong, and it came very timely.
Thinking of this, Guo Song said to Du Yingxing: "Go and tell Darenxiu that I will formally receive him as the Regent of the Tang Dynasty at the Chinese Army's tent early tomorrow morning."