Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 1274 Su Dingfang Megatron Baekje

If Silla could control the mouth of the Han River, it would be able to separate Baekje from Goguryeo.

On the other hand, it is very convenient to go directly to Dengzhou in Tang Dynasty through the mouth of the Han River, which is much more convenient than going around the island to the southeast.

It’s just that Goguryeo’s emaciated camels are bigger than horses, and Baekje finally got the nine cities such as Dongkou, so how could they easily give up to Silla?

The Silla people occupied the north bank of the Han River, and the Baekje people occupied the south bank of the Han River.

Ankou Island controls the mouth of the Han River, connects to the Yellow Sea in the west, and connects with Goguryeo. For Baekje, it cannot give up an inch. In the area where the later Seoul is located not far upstream from Xuekou Island, the two countries have gathered heavy troops to fight.

Su Dingfang was quick, precise and ruthless, taking him by surprise and attacking him by surprise.

Before dispatching troops, he intentionally released rumors that he would lead [-] naval forces to attack Baekje from the sea, and even revealed the specific combat strategy, saying that he would go straight to Sibi, the capital of Baekje.

This prevented Baekje from heavily defending the Unongjin River Estuary and the capital city of Sibi. As a result, Silla immediately increased its troops to Beihan Mountain, intending to open up the Han River Estuary and cut off the connection between Baekje and Goguryeo.

Baekje had no choice but to increase its troops to Namhan Mountain to attack and defend against the Silla people across the river.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Su Dingfang did not abide by martial ethics and did not go to fight Sibi in the south as agreed. Instead, he led his fleet directly into the Hanjiang Bay, and took advantage of a false attack on Xuekou Island.

Although Xuekou Island is big, it is an island after all.

At this time, the Baekje army had to defend the capital with heavy troops, and also divided up to fight against Silla, so there was no need to go to this small island.

Su Dingfang took the island easily, and then he sent troops to land in Incheon.

Incheon was called Mai Zhaohu at this time, which was also the name given when Goguryeo ruled. It was only a hundred miles away from the port of Ganghwa Island. Luo beat Baekje, but went south along the coast for a hundred miles and captured Mai Zhaohu.

It's not because Maizhaohu is very prosperous and important.

At this time, Maizhaohu was not the Incheon of the later generations, but a small town. The fundamental reason for landing here was to copy the back route of Namhansan Daying in Baekje.

When a famous general uses soldiers, he always seals his throat with a sword.

After Su Dingfang landed in Incheon, he quickly marched to Suwon and successfully cut off the retreat of the Baekje Army.When Su Dingfang personally led the Tang army's [-]-step cavalry to the Namhan Mountain camp, the Baekje army still knew nothing about it.

Taking advantage of Xiao Se's cover, Tang Jun launched a surprise attack.

In this battle, Baekje was caught off guard, not to mention the Tang army's elite and bravery, the dazzling bright armor, the sharp spears and horizontal knives, the extremely sturdy cavalry, and the unparalleled crossbows.

It took only half a day for the Baekje camp to be breached.

Tens of thousands of Baekje soldiers and auxiliary soldiers fled in all directions. The Silla Army of the Bukhansan Camp in Jiangbei also dispatched after being notified, beat the dogs in the water, and sent troops to intercept and arrest the Baekje people.

According to the results of the battle the next day, Baekje's 2 troops, plus more than [-] civilians, were wiped out, and almost no one escaped.

Next, Su Dingfang was not polite, and took advantage of the situation to send troops to occupy the nine counties from the south bank of the Han River to Niangzi Valley and Dangjin Bay. This is also the nine cities that Goguryeo ceded to Baekje for help. But in detail, this was Baekje at the earliest. The land was later taken away by Goguryeo.

Baekje and Silla snatched it back again, but later it was seized by the Silla people, and then it was taken away by Goguryeo and Baekje, and then given to Baekje.

Anyway, it is very complicated. These years, as the border of the three countries, it has been repeatedly contested.

The Silla people originally wanted to take advantage of it. Seeing that the Tang army's king had defeated the Baekje army, they wanted to take over the nine counties of Hannan, but how could Su Dingfang take advantage of them.

Regardless of the so-called nine counties in Hannan, in Su Dingfang's eyes, they can be regarded as nine backward counties at most, but they were fought by the Tang army. Although this battle was a great victory, there were thousands of casualties .

Silla people don't even think about the land that the soldiers shed blood and sacrificed.

He rejected the unreasonable request of the Silla people without hesitation.

The Silla people were very surprised, and came to argue with Su Dingfang, saying that the Han River valley had always been theirs.

As a result, Su Dingfang laughed a few words, and then gave them a good history lesson.

From the Jizi Dynasty to the Wei Dynasty, and then to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty destroying the Wei Dynasty and establishing the four counties in Liaodong, the Han River Basin has never belonged to the Silla Kingdom. In those times, Silla was only entrenched in the southeast corner of the peninsula. It's just a weak city-state alliance.

Jizi was established in the past when the Central Plains were enfeoffed, and the Wei family was a traitor in the early Han Dynasty who fled to Jizi North Korea, and later usurped Jizi North Korea to make himself king. justified.

Later, the Goguryeo people of the Fuyu species in the northeast rebelled against the Tang Dynasty and occupied Liaodong County, etc., all of which were nothing more than stealing when the Central Plains were unable to go east.

Now that the Lord has come back and defeated rebels like Baekje, it is only natural to take back the land. How dare the people of Silla fight for it?
do you have that face

Silla was able to occupy the Han River Basin because it stole the Goguryeo people while the Central Plains was attacking Goguryeo.

The Goguryeo people even stole the Central Plains.

Su Dingfang didn't want the southeast of Linjin River and the north bank of the Han River with the Silla people, that's because Silla is still loyal to the Tang Dynasty, otherwise he would directly clean up with the Silla people in North Hanshan , then the North Shore is also his.

For the time being, the territory controlled by the Silla people, whether it is to rob the Baekje people or the Goguryeo people's Han River basin or the banks of the Chuncheon River, Datang will not touch it for the time being.

After all, the two now have a common enemy.

However, the nine counties on the south bank of the Han River to the west of Namhan Mountain were taken by Datang from the Baekje people, and of course it was impossible to hand them over to the Silla people.

Of course, after a history lesson.

Su Dingfang also took some of the face of the Silla people into consideration, saying that the nine counties were assigned to Baekje by the Goguryeo people, and they were between the two countries.

Silla people can't even beat Baekje, and certainly can't beat Baekje and Goguryeo.

Su Dingfang didn't have time to entangle with the Silla people for the time being, and ordered all departments to guard the nine counties, and the navy patrolled the Han River. His attitude was clear. If the Silla people were ignorant, they would dare to think inhumanly and unrighteously towards the king of the Tang Dynasty. , then don't blame him for being rude.

Fortunately, although the Silla people were greedy and wanted to take advantage of it, they didn't dare to mess around after being taught by the general of Shangguo, and they honestly returned.

Su Dingfang won the victory, reported the victory to the court, and handed over his next battle plan.

"The army is divided into two groups. The north is at Pyeongtaek Tangze Port and goes southwest along the river. Try to capture Niangzi Valley (Cheongju), and then go down the Xiongjin River and directly attack its old capital Xiongjin City."

"The other route goes down the coast and lands at the mouth of the Xiongjin River. The waterways advance side by side and attack Sibi, the capital city upstream, along the river."

"North and South attack, destroy Baekje in one battle, capture its king and destroy its country!"

Su Dingfang's battle plan is still very good. He didn't plan to advance step by step, but planned to use a beheading tactic to directly attack the capital.

But the troops were divided into two groups.

Dangjin Fortress in Baekje, you can tell from the name that it was originally a port, a trading port leading to the Tang Dynasty. It is close to the sea and the river. It has a large bay to shelter from the wind and a rich estuary plain.

In this era, many countries had ports called Dangjin Port, including Goguryeo, Waguk, Silla, Baekje, and Imeup.

When the Tang army took Tangjin, it could quickly occupy the Tangjin Plain, obtain supplies from this rich grain-producing area, and reduce the burden of transporting grain from the Central Plains.

At the same time, from Tangjin Port to the west along the river, along the valley road, it is only a hundred miles away from Niangzi Valley, and Niangzi Valley is just in the upper reaches of the Xiongjin River, and Xiongjin and Sibi are located along the river. It is difficult for Tang Jun and Baekje to defend against each other.

Compared with the smoke bomb plan that spread the rumors directly from the Xiongjin River Estuary to Sibi, this plan is undoubtedly more practical and reliable.

"In terms of military affairs, none of us ministers have the skills of Duke Wei. Does Duke Wei think Su Dingfang's plan is feasible?" Changsun Wuji did not hide that he was not good at military affairs.

Qin Lang did not hesitate to praise Su Dingfang, "Su Dingfang uses soldiers like a god!"

They all used words like God, which shows how high the praise is.

The prime ministers didn't care about this. Qin Lang himself was called a soldier fairy, and he was recognized as better than his father, Qin Qiong. Although Su Dingfang was from Qin Qiong's generation, in fact, he was a Hebei traitor back then. Aberdeen, Dou Jiande died and followed Liu Heitai, and finally returned to his hometown to farm.

It was Qin Lang who recruited Li Yuan Wang Junkuo when he went to Hebei to deal with him.Since then, the relationship between the two has always been close. Everyone knows that Su Dingfang is actually Qin Lang's disciple of the art of war, and he has personally taught it.

During those years when Qin Lang went to the east to conquer the west, Su Dingfang basically followed him and made many great achievements.In terms of actual record, in fact Su Dingfang should be ranked among the top generals of the Tang Dynasty, but his background is not good, so he is not particularly famous these years.

But in fact, everyone knows that Su Dingfang must be better at fighting than Li Ji, Cheng Yaojinniu Jinda Xue Wanche and Liu Lancheng can only be regarded as fierce generals, but in terms of command, the ranking of the most outstanding people in Datang should be Li Jing and Qin Lang. They are equal, but Li Jing is older and more qualified, so Li Jing is the first and Qin Lang is the second. Chai Shao, Su Dingfang and Li Ji should be next.

But Chai Shaoshi's actual combat record should be inferior to Su Lie's, so Su Lie should be able to rank third in terms of military use.

It's just that there are too many generals with higher qualifications and merits than him, such as Qin Qiong's grandson Shunde, Liu Hongji, Yin Kaishan, Qu Tutong, Duan Zhixuan, Zhang Shigui, even Yuchi Gong, Li Daliang, Huang Junhan, Zhang Gongjin, etc.

The top three real military commanders are Li Jing, Qin Lang, and Su Lie, followed by Chai Shao and Li Ji, and then those Hu generals, Si Li, Simo, He Li, and Sheer.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Su Lie followed his father in his teens to set up a militia to fight bandits. Later, he was also a vanguard officer in the Hebei army. Conquering the party items, fighting the Turks and the Goguryeo people, and now conquering Baekje across the sea, there has almost never been a defeat.

(End of this chapter)