The first thousand two hundred and sixty-one chapters are precisely interspersed
After Guo Song met with Darenxiu, the prime minister of the Bohai Kingdom, he reached an alliance with the Bohai Kingdom, and the two parties agreed to attack the Khitan together.
The army immediately built three pontoon bridges on the Yalu River, and 80,000 troops crossed the Yalu River in a mighty manner.
Guo Song divided his troops into three groups to attack Daxing City, Wugu City and Baibi City respectively. The first battle was Daxing City. Li Bing personally led 10,000 troops to the city.
Li Bing waved his hand, and dozens of soldiers moved a wooden house a hundred steps away from the city wall. The garrison commander Geng Hunzhong and more than a thousand soldiers on the top of the city looked puzzled. They didn't know what the Jin army was doing.
Dozens of soldiers lit a match, turned around and ran wildly. This made everyone on the city's top excited. I wonder what unusual things will happen?
The soldiers ran a hundred steps away, threw themselves on the ground, and covered their ears tightly. At this moment, a red light flashed, followed by an earth-shattering explosion. The ground shook, and all the soldiers on the city wall
They covered their ears in pain and squatted on the ground. Many soldiers screamed in pain. The strong explosions made many people temporarily deaf. There was a buzzing in their ears, as if their hearts were about to stop beating.
A thick black smoke rose into the sky, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke. After a long time, some brave soldiers slowly stood up and found that the cabin had been blown to pieces, and a large pit several feet deep appeared on the ground.
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Such powerful firearms frightened all the soldiers. They all realized that if the city was bombed, the city walls would have collapsed long ago, or the city gates would have been blown to pieces.
At this time, two cavalrymen rushed over. One of the cavalrymen was holding a flag for delivering a message. After a moment, the cavalrymen rushed to the city. The soldiers raised their bows and arrows and shot an arrow letter towards the top of the city. The two cavalrymen then turned around.
The horse's head is gone.
A soldier picked up the letter in the city, ran up the city wall and handed it to the general Geng Hunzhong. On the cover of the letter was written: 'General Hussar, General Zhendong, Duke Li Bing of the State of Lu sends a message to all the soldiers of Daxing City.'
Geng Hunzhong opened the letter and read it, and he couldn't help but let out a long sigh. The letter severely criticized Zhu Tao for colluding with the Donghu people to oppress the Han people. He hoped that the officers and soldiers in the city would take national justice as their priority, open the city and surrender, and not lose their lives for Zhu Tao.
Don't let your descendants be ashamed of you.
Of course Geng Hunzhong was not Zhu Tao's confidant, otherwise he would not have been sent to guard Dahang City. To Yingzhou, they were just frontier troops guarding the border.
He handed the letter to his subordinates for review, and a literate captain read it loudly to a group of middle- and low-level generals. Everyone looked at Geng Hunzhong, and everyone's eyes were full of expectation.
Geng Hunzhong sighed and said: "The Jin army has extremely powerful siege weapons. Dahang City will definitely not be able to defend it. I, Geng Hunzhong, have not brought you any benefits, but I will not let you lose your order here."
, let alone let our descendants be ashamed of us."
He shouted loudly: "Pass my order, Kaicheng surrenders!"
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The same thing happened in Baibi City. They were shocked by the iron fire thunder of the Jin army. The soldiers opened the city and surrendered, but something unexpected happened in Wugu City.
The general Duan Zhong did not want to betray Zhu Tao and refused to surrender. Under the unanimous persuasion of all the generals, he was not moved. That night, more than a dozen generals could not bear it anymore. After secret consultation, they rushed in with troops led by three captains.
Duan Zhong was sleeping in his tent, and he and a dozen of his soldiers were all killed. Two thousand soldiers from Wugu City surrendered overnight.
Wugu City was the main defensive city on the Yalu River. Its surrender caused all the small towns to surrender.
But the core main city of the Andong Protectorate is Liaodong City on the east bank of the Liao River. There are 3,000 garrison troops. The chief general is Zhu Tao's son-in-law, named Wei Chao'an, who is also the chief general of the Anton Protectorate.
When Wei Chaoan discovered a large number of warships appeared on the Liao River, he was immediately shocked and sent a pigeon letter urgently to inform the prince of Liucheng County...
But Liaodong City could no longer send the message out. On the river west of Liaodong City, dozens of messenger eagles were circling in the sky, and hundreds of sharpshooters were scattered in the woods, waiting for the enemy's messenger pigeons to appear.
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In fact, this was something Luo Ziyu, the navy commander, had no choice about. As soon as his warships blocked the Liao River, they received an order from the King of Jin, asking them to intercept the connection between Liaodong City and Liucheng to buy time for Pei Xin's cavalry.
It was easy to intercept the cavalry delivering the message, but what to do if they intercepted the hawk or pigeon delivering the message? Fortunately, according to the intelligence they had, Zhu Tao used the messenger pigeon to deliver the message, not the messenger eagle, which gave them a glimmer of hope.
In a forest about ten miles away from Liaodong City, thirty hunters were already deployed. They were hiding in big trees and looking at the sky intently.
By the end of the day, they had shot dozens of birds, but none of them were homing pigeons. In the early morning, on a big pine tree, a soldier was sitting on a branch eating breakfast. The soldier's name was Yang Quan, from Yangzhou.
He is not yet twenty years old and has only been in the army for two years. He has good water skills and good eyesight. He has been serving as an observer on a warship, so he has a unique piece of equipment, a monocular telescope.
As soon as he put a piece of dry biscuit in his mouth, he suddenly saw a small black spot hovering in the sky. He quickly picked up the telescope hanging around his neck and looked at the sky in the distance. He suddenly yelled, loudly and loudly.
Shouted: "Coming! Coming! The carrier pigeon is coming!"
The soldiers dropped their breakfasts one after another, set up their bows and arrows, and looked for targets in the sky. Not long after, a black homing pigeon fluttered its wings and flew over the woods. The soldiers fired arrows into the sky at the same time. Dozens of arrows were shot from all directions.
Towards the pigeon, the pigeon hurriedly fluttered its wings and was about to turn around, when an arrow shot "whoosh!" and hit the pigeon's wing. The pigeon let out a mournful cry and fell from the sky.
The soldiers were overjoyed and climbed down the tree one after another and found the downed homing pigeon. Sure enough, there was a mailbox tied to its leg.
At this time, Yang Quan shouted again: "Here comes another one!"
The soldiers who had not yet had time to get down from the tree quickly climbed back to their original position, bows and arrows ready. Not long after, the second homing pigeon that was about to fly through the woods was shot down by the soldiers again.
After a while, the third pigeon came. This time Yang Quan showed great bravery. Before anyone could draw his bow, he took the lead and shot down the slower flying pigeon with one arrow, and got the third pigeon's letter.
Important information usually involves sending three pigeon messages in a row. If three pigeons are shot down, there should be no more.
Luo Ziyu was overjoyed when she learned that the trappers had shot down three homing pigeons. She immediately rewarded dozens of trappers and promoted the watchman Yang Quan to the rank of team leader.
At the same time, Pei Xin led 10,000 cavalry to advance westward and entered Yingzhou. They traveled day and night, bypassed three guards, and arrived at Bailangshui that afternoon.
Bailangshui is a medium-sized river. It is located eighty miles southwest of Liucheng and about seventy miles away from Zhu Tao's military camp in the south. It is right between Liucheng and Zhu Taojun's camp. Pei Xin's cavalry inserting Bailangshui is equal to accuracy.
The ground cut off the passage between Liucheng and the main camp of Zhu Tao's army.
Zhu Tao was of course in Liucheng, and his eldest son Zhu Ling, military advisor Li Bochang and other civil servants were also in Liucheng. Liucheng's military strength was only 3,000, and it was impossible to defend the city. It was only enough to maintain order in the city.
The 30,000-strong army confronting the Jin army in the Bailang Mountain area was led by Zhu Tao's adopted son Zhu Quanbin. This was a loophole that was bound to appear. Of course, Zhu Tao would not allow the Jin army to approach the city, or even allow the Jin army to enter the hinterland of Yingzhou.
So they set up camp at the dangerous Bailang Mountain, one hundred and fifty miles away from Liucheng, to intercept the Jin army's northward march.
But in this way, his main army was far away from Liucheng. If Zhu Tao had enough troops, it would be okay to deploy his troops like this. However, he only had 30,000 main troops, plus 10,000 border troops and 3,000 militia troops.
In total, there are only 43,000 people.
With 10,000 frontier troops stationed in the Andong Protectorate, there were only 33,000 people left in Yingzhou. To confront the 50,000 Jin troops, at least 30,000 troops would be needed to deal with it. The loophole of his insufficient strength was revealed.
Only three thousand people guarded Liucheng.
It was precisely because Guo Song saw Zhu Tao's flaw in his lack of troops that he ordered Pei Xin to sneak in secretly and cut off the connection between Liucheng and the main army before Zhu Tao discovered the crisis.
A group of cavalry escorted a grain convoy coming from far and near along the official road in the direction of Bailangshui. This grain convoy consisted of a thousand carts, all pulled by healthy mules, and was fully loaded with 20,000 carts.
Stone grain, go to Bailang Mountain Camp.
There are 30,000 troops in the camp, and each soldier is given only six measures of food, which can only feed the soldiers for 20 days. However, it is not easy to raise 20,000 measures of food. They exploited it from slaves.
All the grain was used to support Zhu Ye's conquest of Silla, and there was not much left for Yingzhou. Once it entered a wartime state, the food consumption doubled, and Yingzhou's grain stocks began to be stretched thin.
There is a pontoon bridge on the Bailang River. The cavalry crossed the bridge first, followed by the carts. At this moment, a burst of arrows suddenly shot out from the woods nearby. The cavalry who had just crossed the river were caught off guard. They were shot and fell off their horses. Five hundred
There was a great chaos among the cavalry.
"Woo!"
The horn sounded in the woods, and the ambush cavalry came from three directions. Thousands of cavalry quickly divided the 500 Zhu Tao army cavalry into countless small pieces. They had no way to go except surrender.
The carts on the other side also panicked, and the cart drivers jumped down to escape. More than two thousand cavalrymen who were ambushing on the other side came and surrounded the cart drivers and grain carts. The cart drivers were so frightened that they knelt down and begged for mercy.
A quarter of an hour later, thousands of soldiers escorted the prisoners and thousands of carts to the Jin army's temporary garrison. Zhu Tao's food convoy arrived just in time, which just solved the food shortage problem of Pei Xin's army. Each of them only carried them for ten days.
dry food, and if the main army has not arrived in three days, they will have no choice but to retreat temporarily.
The large amount of food supplies sent by Zhu Tao was enough to allow them to stay for two months without shortage of food...