Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 220 One battle determines the outcome (please subscribe!)
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Li Yan likes to defend the city, especially when his side is weak.

But not this time, this time Li Yan had to fight a field battle with the Koryo army, and the outcome would be determined in one battle.

Why?

Only because, only in the field, Li Yan had the opportunity to wipe out more than [-] Koryo troops in one fell swoop, and then marched towards Kaijing to take down the capital city in one fell swoop.

In the current situation, fighting a field battle with the Koryo army is really... How should I put it, it is actually no different from courting death.

Goryeo:

The Dragon Tiger Army, Shenhu Guard, and Jinwu Guard are all elites.

There are only these three troops, [-] elite cavalry and [-] elite infantry.

Plus Wangjun's 1 cavalry and [-] infantry.

The total strength of Goryeo: [-] cavalry and [-] infantry.

Liang Shanjun here:
The first horse army, the second horse army, and the personal guard battalion have a total of about 5 horse troops-after several battles, the horse army has also suffered some losses, so it has already been less than [-] million horses, not even [-].

Infantry, according to Li Yan's standards, the Liangshan Infantry has only 500 soldiers from Lu Zhishen's Second Infantry Army.

The fifth infantry army and sixth infantry army, which had no training and were mainly composed of Goryeo slaves, were actually a group of mobs, civilians wearing armor and helmets and holding weapons, and they were still very cowardly civilians.

Well, even if Li Yan didn't care about the fact that the fifth and sixth armies were mobs and added them in, the Liangshan army would only have 1 infantry.

Take a look at the comparison.

The Ma Jun on Koryo's side is three times that on his side.

Goryeo has five or six thousand more infantry than its own.

Ok!

Li Yan still has one thousand artillery troops and five hundred unconscionable cannons, and another [-] thunderbolts.

Therefore, this battle still has to be fought.

The question is, how to fight?
What Li Yan didn't know was that Jin An, the general in command of Goryeo, was also having a headache.

Do you know why?

As the most important port in Goryeo and the place where the royal families of the Goryeo Dynasty prospered, the city of Liseong was built large and strong. Not to mention its walls were three feet high, but the moat thirty feet wide was daunting.

That's all, the key is that among the more than 3 soldiers and horses he brought this time, only [-] were infantry, and [-] of them were state and county troops who lacked training.

In this case, how can he capture this strong city?
After Anhao set up his camp, Jin An looked at Li Chengcheng at a loss!
Recently, a staff member newly cast under Jin'an Gate is a descendant of Gong descendant of Goguryeo after the establishment. His real name is Gong Fu, and he claims to be Sun Fu.

Seeing Jin An's frowning, Gong Fu said: "The class leader is worried about how to capture this city of Licheng?"

Jin An asked, "Do you have a solution?"

Gong Fu said: "It may be difficult to win a strong attack, why not lure them out of the city to fight in the field."

Jin An asked: "Do you have a way to lure them out to fight?"

Gong Fu asked instead: "I don't know if the class leader knows the history of the Han nationality during the Three Kingdoms period?"

Jin An said: "I know a little bit."

Gong Fu said: "Then the leader must know about Zhuge Liang?"

Jin An thought for a while and asked, "Is it the prime minister of Shu Han?"

Gong Fu said: "That's right... When Zhuge Liang led the Shu army's fifth Northern Expedition, Sima Yi, Cao Wei's front-line commander, knew that the roads in the middle of Shu were difficult to transport food and grass, so he insisted on not fighting. Zhuge Liang asked the soldiers to call in front of Sima Yi's camp. , insults, and wanted to force Sima Yi to fight him decisively, but no matter how Zhuge Liang provoked him, Sima Yi just ignored Zhuge Liang, and Sima Yi waited for Zhuge Liang’s troops to get tired of scolding and eat a small amount of rations before heading back to Sichuan. Zhuge Liang also knew that such a stalemate would continue , it was not good for the Shu Han, so Zhuge Liang had an idea and sent someone to deliver a woman's clothes to Sima Yi when the battle was ineffective, which meant that Sima Yi, you are only worthy of being a woman, not a commander in chief."

After hearing this, Jin An's eyes lit up, and he said, "You mean, we also send someone to send a woman's clothes to the commander of the gang of thieves, forcing him to come out for a decisive battle?"

"ignorance!"

At this moment, a dusty civil servant came in from the door.

It turned out that those civil servants were still worried that military officials would lead the army. In the end, under the support of a group of civil servants, Wang Yu sent Pingzhangshi Han Anren to replace Jin An as Marshal of the Pingkou Army.

Speaking of it, this time can be regarded as a major victory for the royalists, because they finally have the opportunity to touch the military power. If Han Anren can lead the army to destroy the bandits who captured Licheng Port, then the strength of the royalists will definitely increase. , by then, it might be possible to compete with the Haozu faction.

This is also thanks to Li Ziqian who fell down when he went out this morning and did not come to court. If not, Han Anren would never have had the opportunity to be the marshal of the Pingkou Army.

The civil servants of other factions are also dissatisfied with Li Ziqian and his family's dominance. Moreover, the most unbearable thing for civil servants is the rise of military officials, shaking their superior status of civil servants. Civil servants from other factions helped the royalists somewhat.

This allowed the royalists to achieve this important victory.

Seeing Han Anren coming over, Jin An, who had a deep understanding of the status quo of Goryeo's superiority and military inferiority, immediately guessed that Han Anren was here to replace him as the marshal.

Jin An couldn't help being a little angry: "Could it be that military officials will always be suppressed by civil servants?"

Han Anren didn't care what Jin An thought, he sat directly on the main seat, and then said to Gong: "You only know that Zhuge Liang sent women's clothes to Sima Yi, but it was Sima Yi who won the victory in the end, and Zhuge Liang was dragged by Sima Yi Died in Wuzhangyuan."

Not to be outdone, Gong Fu said, "Master Han is not Zhuge Liang, who is sick from overwork, and the bandit in Licheng City is not Sima Yi, the warrior of the tomb, and this place is not Wuzhangyuan, which is thousands of miles away from Shu, but only thirty miles away from Beijing. Li Chenggang, why can't you give this method a try, or does Master Han have a better way to lure the enemy into battle?"

"This……"

Looking up at Licheng City's three-foot-high city wall and thirty-foot-wide moat, Han Anren couldn't do anything right now.

Seeing that Han Anren could only criticize, Jin An felt contemptuous in his heart, but he said: "Master Han, if we don't, if we don't succeed, we will only lose a piece of women's clothes."

Hearing what Jin An said, Han Anren could only say: "If you are willing to try, you can give it a try, but I can tell you right now that your method cannot succeed."

Han Anren's words were so full that Jin An and Gong Fu slapped his mouth loudly—not long after Han Anren said this, Gong Fu who sent the women's clothes to Li Yan When I came back, I reported: "When the leader of the thief saw the women's clothes sent by the leader, he was furious and said that it was a great shame. He not only tore up the women's clothes, but also kicked over the table in front of him, and threatened to fight us on the plain in front of him in three days. , They are in the east, we are in the west, a battle will determine the outcome."

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(End of this chapter)