Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 714 Autumn of 12
In the autumn of the 12th year of Daye, the north wind was blowing.

The long-awaited Zhongwu Army is fully prepared for mobilization.

After a busy autumn harvest, Luo Cheng mobilized [-] troops to participate in the crusade against the Yuan clan.

The three divisions of the Marshal's Mansion work together like a sophisticated military machine.

On the long front from the north to the West Liaohe River and the south to Lushun Bay, one hundred thousand soldiers and horses deployed in an orderly manner, and they showed their sharp edges slowly but orderly.

On the southern coast, Daliangshui, Xiaoliaohe, and Liaohe, the four major legions were divided into four groups.

The battle cry of recovering Liaodong and ending future troubles spread all over the country, burning from Bohai Bay to Fuyu River.

Luo Cheng personally sits in Liaodong Marshal's Mansion and is in charge of the overall planning, Luo Shixin is in command of the First Army, Li Jing is the marching staff officer, and Qin Qiong, Yu Chigong, Shan Xiongxin, Cheng Yaojin and other strong generals will cooperate.

The Fourth Army of Luo Cunxiao and Xu Shiji, the Third Army of Feng Xiaoci and Murong Changsheng, and the Second Army of Zhao Gui and Xue Wanche successfully made Yuan Shi think that this time the Zhongwu Army was going to attack from all four directions at the same time.Yuan Taizuo set up defenses in four directions, and each deployed heavy troops to defend.

Although in response to this attack, he mobilized all the [-] soldiers and horses of the Yuan family, and he also mobilized [-] young and strong servants again.But it didn't take long to disperse the various battlefields.

Not to mention, Yang Wanchun, the prefect of Le Lang, died of illness during the autumn harvest. Song Laosheng, a general of the Zhongwu Army, succeeded in taking over Le Lang by relying on the [-] soldiers and horses he originally had in Pyongyang and the [-] soldiers and horses he brought with him. county.

Therefore, the [-] Goguryeo troops under the former Yang Wanchun in Le Lang are now under the command of Song Laosheng. Although Song Laosheng took over as the prefect of Lelang County, he started to abolish about [-] Goguryeo old and weak soldiers, but the remaining ones are with him. Go, still set up a whole army.

Song Laosheng himself served as the envoy of the Fifth Army, Guo Xiaoke served as the deputy envoy, and Su Dingfang served as the marching staff officer.

The Fifth Army guards Pyongyang, with a population of more than one million and [-] soldiers and horses, directly threatening the inner city of Yuanshi's capital on the Yalu River.

For this reason, the Yuan family had to garrison [-] troops by the Yalu River.

In this way, he had to garrison [-] troops in the inner city as a general reserve.

In this way, the Yuan family has a total of only 10 troops on the four fronts in the west. Once divided, there are only more than [-] troops on each side, which is comparable to Luo Cheng's troops.And he has to divide his troops to garrison hundreds of mountain cities, so his strength is even more stretched.

But Yuanshi didn't know that Luo Cheng's attack was only aimed at Fuyuchuan.

In the other three roads, only ten thousand people are stationed in each road, stationed in the previously built castle to make a show.

On the Fuyuchuan battlefield, not only did the first army directly mobilize 2 troops, but the second and third armies each mobilized [-] people, and there were more than [-] tribal soldiers and tooth soldiers from the north.

If you add thousands of people to the navy's inland river fleet.

Then on the battlefield of Fuyuchuan, Luo Cheng actually mobilized a total of [-] soldiers.

At the beginning of the battle, Li Jing suggested to send cavalry to cross the river at the border, approach directly under the big city of Buyeo, and surround it.

Then the rest of the soldiers and horses followed up to prepare for the siege and rescue, and at the same time cut off the connection between Fuyu and other cities.

Immediately afterwards, more than [-] Fan-Han legions from the north led by Qin Qiong Yuchi went south, using the strategy of cavalry raids to attack villages and towns outside the cities of more than [-] cities in Fuyuchuan.

Seizing the population and food outside the city is not only attacking the enemy, but also supplementing the war with war.

Prior to this, the Chungmu Army did not do anything with the Goguryeo people's food in Fuyuchuan, it was for their own use during the war, and it would be a waste if it was burned.

Anyway, just after the harvest in autumn, it is impossible for all Goguryeo people to return to the city.

Yuan Jiantu huddled in Fuyu City, not daring to go out to fight.

He was also reluctant to give up the rest of the cities, so he just ordered all the troops to garrison the city, and be sure to guard against death.As a result, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were scattered among the more than forty cities of Fuyuchuan like beans.

Li Jing just built fortifications on several key river valley roads, and then divided up the troops to guard them, dividing these dozens of cities, and then he could besiege the big city of Fuyu with all his strength.

As long as Fuyu City has no soldiers to help, then it is a lonely city and a dead city.

Take Fuyu with all your strength, and the other cities are just a mass of scattered sand without support.

If it was during the first Eastern Expedition, it would be very difficult to capture a big city like Buyeo.It was because the Sui army at that time was not used to the climate in Liaodong, and many of their tactics were not suitable for the situation here, especially the emperor was always using remote control commands, and even sent envoys to each army.

But this time is different.

Luo Shixin was conferred by Luo Cheng as the envoy of the First Army, and he is also the main general of Fuyuchuan Battlefield this time, no matter whether he is from the First or Second Army or the Third or Fourth Army, or whether he is from the Tutuan of various counties, or As long as the township soldiers of the counties, or the soldiers and horses of the navy, came to this battlefield, they were all controlled by Luo Shixin.

Luo Cheng will not interfere in the war.

On the other hand, Luo Cheng's support for logistics, food, grass and military equipment was sufficient.As a frontline base, Tieling Town had stockpiled a large amount of grain, grass, ordnance early on, and the five forts on the front line were also full of grain, grass, and arms.

They even transported many catapults and siege crossbows through the Liaohe River.

The generals of several armies and horses gathered at the foot of Fuyu River.

In the tent of the Sui army camp, the young Luo Shixin was unbelievable. It was the first time he held such an important position as the chief general. In the past, he followed his elder brother and always commanded the heavy cavalry troops.Although he went from ten armored cavalry to commanding three thousand heavy cavalry, at most he could command three thousand heavy cavalry.

But this time, he became the commander-in-chief of the [-] coalition army.

Fortunately, he has a staff officer like Li Jing, a deputy commander like Zhou Dewei, fierce generals like Qin Qiong, Yu Chigong, Shan Xiongxin, Cheng Yaojin, and a warrior like Changsun Wuji and Li Xuanba.

"General, we have successively captured five small flat towns in the Fuyu River, beheading more than two thousand people. Now the soldiers and horses in the other cities of Goguryeo have shrunk and dare not go out. They are frightened. Next, how should we fight?"

Yu Chigong asked directly, he is Luo Cheng's Yajun deputy general, the deputy commander of the Ya army, and a Xiang-level officer.

But facing Luo Shixin, a young general, he was still a little unconvinced, after all, he didn't have enough record in the past to hold them down.

Luo Shixin noticed that many generals were looking at him, and he also knew that everyone did not trust him as the chief general.

"Originally, the commander should be in charge of this command, but now the commander, as the minister and marshal of the imperial court, handles a lot of things every day. The Wu Army, the Weiwu Army, the Zhenhai Army, and the Jiangnan's Xiongwu Army are therefore entrusted to me to command this battle. All of you here are older than me, and the generals are also better at fighting than me. However, since it is the order of the Marshal, Then I and all of you must obey."

After some words, Luo Shixin said directly, "Now that the Central Plains is in chaos, it is impossible for my loyal army to stay closed for a long time, but Yuan's will be a threat every day if he doesn't fight, so we must get rid of future troubles before sending troops. I didn't There is so much nonsense to talk about, the commander has already prepared everything for us, so what I need to do with everyone present is to take down Fuyuchuan as soon as possible regardless of everything."

"Three days, within three days, attack Fuyuchuan, please join me in fighting with your lives and attacking the city with all your might!"

The generals didn't expect Shi Xin to say such a thing, and all of them claimed that they would dare not die!

(End of this chapter)