Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 459 Catching Big Fish

In order to attract the Goguryeo army to help, Luo Cheng gave Beisha city a lot of face.

In Lushun Bay, fishing, hunting, repairing docks, building military camps and castles, staying for half a month.

"Did Goguryeo send reinforcements south?" Luo Cheng asked.

"More than a dozen mountain cities around Beisha are gathering soldiers and horses to help, but the big mountain cities such as Anshi and Shicheng farther away have not moved." Zhao Gui reported.

"Then wait, anyway, we have plenty of time."

Luo Cheng stood on the Baiyu Mountain in Lushun Port. Standing here, he could overlook the entire harbor.

"This is a good port." He sighed. This port is a natural deep-water port. It is located in the south of Baiyu Mountain, at the hub of the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea. It shares the throat of the Bohai Strait with Donglai's Miaodao Islands and Donglaitou. , this is the throat of the only maritime shipping channel leading to Liaodong, Korea, and Dongying in the Central Plains Dynasty in today's era of underdeveloped navigation technology.

The port is surrounded by mountains, with Golden Mountain in the east and Huhuwei Peninsula in the west. There is a long and narrow waterway leading to the open sea.

Especially since this is a natural ice-free port in the north.

Freeze-free ports are extremely precious in the north. Even Donglai Port will freeze in the severe winter, but Lushun Port will not.

In Luo Cheng's view, although Beisha City occupies the highest and most dangerous position in southern Liaoning, it is not the best position.

The key to guarding southern Liaoning is these two major ports, one is Lushun and the other is Dalian.It's just that the Goguryeo people don't have any decent navy at all, so they don't have the right to control the sea, so they can only give up these two good ports.

But the Sui Dynasty was different. Although the navy of the Sui Dynasty was actually very weak, and it was not bad to call it a sea transport team, but at least it still had the ability to fight a war. Regardless of the size or performance of the warship, it was still a well-deserved overlord. .

Since we have the ability to control the sea, we should of course rely on these two major ports, rely on the Miaodao Islands, connect to Donglai, and even treat Bohai Bay as an inner lake. From Lushun, we can go directly to Zhuojun, Hejian, Beiping, and Yuyang at any time. Wait for the counties in Hebei.

It is true that you can advance, attack, retreat, and defend.

As for the narrowness of Lushun, there is no need to be afraid. Anyway, there are seas and ships. With the command of the sea, the vast sea is the direction of attack and retreat.

Compared with the Goguryeo people who defended Daheisha and handed over the southern part of Liaodong, Luo Cheng valued the advantages of the combination of sea and land more.

"Marshal, are you going to let the reinforcements from the surrounding cities of Beisha enter Beisha City?"

"Those are just small fish and shrimps. Let them pass. We are here to catch big fish this time. Don't scare the big fish."

The mountain city of the Goguryeo people is actually very rigorously designed. After hundreds of years of operation and construction, the Goguryeo people in the mountain city of Liaodong are actually not built as they want, but they have an overall consideration of the layout, and the arrangement is quite reasonable.

It makes full use of mountains, rivers and terrain, and makes comprehensive selection and careful arrangements.

The common feature of mountain cities is that they are in the high and steep places beside river valleys, in the traffic channels of water and land, and in the high mountains and deep valleys where two rivers meet. Wherever the traffic arteries are guarded, mountain cities will inevitably be built.

Moreover, these mountain cities in Liaodong have been perfected by the Goguryeo people for hundreds of years, making them form a cluster of well-defined defensive mountain cities.

For example, in Liaodong, the mountain cities of the first echelon are all at the junction of the Liaohe Plain and the mountainous area behind. Such a mountain city faces the plain, backs to the mountainous area, is large and high, and has a large area inside the city. , and can take advantage of the plains.

Then around these big mountain cities, the Goguryeo people built many smaller mountain cities on the mountains beside the surrounding mountains and rivers. These mountain cities are relatively smaller and rely on the big mountain cities to survive. defense.

Then, between the small mountain towns, there are many fortresses and villages, and these rely on the small mountain towns to fill in the gaps.

Beisha City is one of those fortress-type core mountain cities, and it is the core point of an area.

Then around Beisha, there are about a dozen small mountain cities. These small mountain cities occupy some dangerous places around southern Liaoning to guard the passage, and then there are those smaller forts and village fortresses.

Now that Luo Cheng has landed in Lushun, Beisha City is asking for help from all directions. First of all, soldiers and horses from the surrounding small mountain cities are transferred to Beisha to increase the defense of the big city.

At the same time, they asked for help from several other big mountain cities, such as Liaodong, Anshi, and Shicheng.

Luo Cheng had already studied the system of the mountain city of Goguryeo when he conquered Liao last time.

So now that some small mountain towns around are coming to help, Luo Cheng is not moved at all.

He was waiting, waiting for Big Fish, Anshi, Shicheng, and even Goguryeo reinforcements in the direction of Liaodong City.

It would take a lot of effort to attack one mountain city after another. Because of the dangerous terrain, every mountain city would have to be attacked by force, and there would be a lot of casualties. In this way, every time Luo Cheng attacked a mountain city, he would lose a lot of troops. , Really knocked down southern Liaoning, it is estimated that the Fifth Left Army would almost collapse.

This style of play is undoubtedly what the Goguryeo people want, they just want to use this space to exchange time.

Luo Cheng was not fooled by them.

If you want to fight, fight a war of annihilation. As long as you wipe out the main force of the enemy army, those mountain cities are nothing but empty cities.

Originally, Qin Qiong and the others were still thinking about conventional tactics, and proposed strategies such as night attack and fire attack, but Luo Cheng refused.

He is not satisfied with just laying down a Beisha city.

Fishing takes patience.

If you are impatient, you will not catch fish.

The third day of March.

The Fourth Army and the Sixth Army also successively arrived at Lushun Port by boat from Donglai.

When Lai Hu'er and Zhou Fashang saw that Duliwan, which was once quite desolate, had turned into a busy port, they couldn't believe it.

There are not only a large number of warships moored in the harbor, but also a continuous permanent camp has been set up in the harbor, and there is even a castle with a circumference of four miles that has begun to take shape.

Of course, except for the Left Fifth Army.

In Lushun Harbor, there are at least two or three thousand fishing boats docked.

"What's the matter with these fishing boats? Could it be that the commander-in-chief recruited them temporarily?" Lai Hu'er asked suspiciously.

"I didn't recruit them. They just came to fish and sell fish. These fishermen include Donglai, Gaomi, Langya, Donghai, and Xiapi in the south, and Bohai and Hejian in the north of Donglai. , Zhuojun, Beiping, Yuyang, and even Liucheng and Liaoxi counties."

"They all came to fish?"

"You can say that."

On the Liaodong Peninsula, fishermen from the Central Plains did not dare to come here because of the Goguryeo people's occupation.The fishermen in the Central Plains have been afraid to come to fish for many years, which naturally leads to the particularly rich fishing resources here.Now that the god of war Luo Cheng is stationed in Liaodong, the fishermen naturally don't have to worry about those Goguryeo people.

Secondly, the fishermen who came here first found that they didn't need to go back after catching fish, and sold them directly to the naval barracks in Lushun Port.The fishermen will also settle accounts, there is no need to go back and forth, and the catch is not worrying about selling, who will not come?

Some thoughtful fishermen even sold various commodities from the Central Plains to Lushun Port to sell, making a lot of money.

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Lai Hu'er was a little stunned, he didn't expect Luo Cheng to send troops first, but instead of going to fight Beisha City for half a month, he built a city and opened a port here, and turned it into such a lively fishing port and commercial port.

(End of this chapter)