A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 549: The storm on the Xia-Zhao-Yan border, North Korea’s Dingxia army is fierce

October
Later Zhao Qin Gong Shi Tao planned to cross the Yellow River from Linjin at night and attack Puban.

However, Bai Lin, the general of the Xia Kingdom who conquered the west, saw through this. As a result, thousands of Zhao troops who had crossed over at night were forced to stay on the east bank of the Yellow River by the Xia army. Many of them fell into the river in panic.

Thousands of casualties made Shi Tao's body hurt so much that he had no choice but to stand still and wait for his army to march eastward after the Yellow River froze.

At the same time, the Zhao generals in charge of Leling were Pengcheng Gong Shi Zun and Zhenwei General Zhang Jack.

In order to seize the opportunity, they divided their troops into two groups. On one side, Zhang Jie led 50,000 troops and entered Nanpi.

Yi Yianshi Zun led an army of 70,000 troops, captured Ban County, and laid siege to the plains.

Unexpectedly, Bai Ji, the defender of Pingyuan, could stop his 70,000-strong army from attacking for a month with only 20,000 troops.

Not only that, the 50,000 people led by Zhang Jacky on the other side were actually defeated by Nanpi guard Bai Hai with a inferior force of 30,000 people, and retreated to Leling.

At this time, reinforcements led by Bai Qian, the white king of the Xia Kingdom, arrived. Shi Zun was afraid that he would be attacked from both sides by the Xia army. In addition, Bai Hai sent troops to attack his retreat, resulting in the annihilation of the entire army, so he had to retreat.

Bai Qian met Bai Ji and Bai Hai, and the three of them discussed that their own troops were small and scattered and garrisoned in various places, so they decided to switch from defense to offense and send troops to attack Leling.

November

Xia's 90,000-strong army arrived at Leling and were held back by Zhao's 120,000-strong army at the city gate.

Although Zhao's army was large, Xia's army had many cavalry, so Zhao's army was still slightly at a disadvantage.

December

Murong Chui of Yan State led 30,000 troops to attack Anping in Xiaping Prefecture. Ma Xie, the governor of Xiaping Prefecture, led the Pingzhou army to resist steadily.

Finally, in Qingning, the Yan army was slowed down, and the two armies fell into a tug of war.

In addition, Pingzhou garrison Bai Gu led three thousand Xia cavalry to assist the Korean royal family and defeated more than 100,000 three-Korean coalition forces outside Seoul.

It is a pity that the Xia army has few soldiers after all and cannot completely annihilate the three Korean armies.

Not long after, Cui Dazhong, Jin Kaicheng, and Park Wendou of the three-Korean coalition regrouped their defeated troops and approached the city again.

However, he was always worried about the Xia army's cavalry on the side, so he had to defend himself in the stronghold, intending to wait until the Yan army broke through North Korea, and then attack the Yan army from front to back.

What I didn't expect was that the Xia Navy arrived with reinforcements.

After much thought, Xiahoubo sent letters to Ma Xie and Bai Yu many times, and finally decided not to directly rush to help Seoul and Qingning.

Instead, it bypassed the Korean Peninsula and directly attacked Busan in Guoqingzhou, North Korea.

December 15th
The Xia army warships arrived in Busan, North Korea.

Three or two patrol water boats in Gyeongju tried to stop them, but they were knocked over by the Xia boat.

Ten thousand Xia troops quickly landed at Busan Port and easily defeated the more than a thousand defenders left by Park Mun-dou in Busan.

They also captured more than a hundred members of Park Mun-doo's family.

December 16
Xia Jun, led by Busan guides, marched towards Jeonju.

Beiding thirteen years

New Year
There is no quiet place along Daxia's long border.

However, with Xia Jun's best efforts to defend, the front was finally stabilized.

In the west, the Xia and Zhao armies faced each other across the Yellow River. In the east, the Xia and Zhao armies fought fiercely outside Leling City for nearly four months. Both sides suffered heavy losses.

In the north, the two countries of Xia and Yan continued to compete on the northern border. Yan general Murong Xuan and Xia general Hu Yanying launched extremely extensive cavalry operations with Xia She Six Towns as the core.

In a few months, no more than 10,000 cavalrymen from Xia and Yan were lost on this front.

As for Linyu, King Murong of Yan had already realized that Emperor Xia had arrived at the front line of Linyu, and knew that if he continued to forcefully attack the city, he would only lose his troops and lose his generals. Since October last year, the Yan army had stopped attacking the key points and switched to attacking outside Linyu Pass. fortification.

Furthermore, the Three Kingdoms War between Xia and Yan Dynasty overseas also came to its final conclusion.

The Xia army sneaked into the rear of the Three Koreas from Busan, which greatly reduced the morale of the frontline troops of the Three Koreas and wanted to withdraw into the country.

Unexpectedly, Bai Gu seized the opportunity and the army was defeated.

In the end, Jin Kaicheng and Cui Dazhong surrendered, Park Wendu was beheaded, and Gyeongju, Jeonju, and Naju were all captured by the Joseon royal family.

Under the instructions of Bai Gu, Wang Jian, the king of Korea, pardoned Jin Kaicheng and Cui Dazhong of their crimes, but demoted Jin Kaicheng and Cui Dazhong to marquis and expelled them to Chenzhou.

The North Korean royal family completely occupied 90% of North Korea's land.

February
The Xia State asked North Korea to gradually increase its army to assist the Xia army in resisting Yan.

Wang Jian ordered North Korean General Zheng Zhong to lead 50,000 troops to the front line of Qingning to assist in the battle.

Murong Chui saw that the Xia army was strong and retreated to Anping to garrison.

The Korean battlefield has stabilized.

Same month
The middle reaches of the Yellow River were frozen, and the fog had not cleared in the early morning. Zhao general Shi Tao and his 40,000 soldiers marched on the ice to directly attack Xia Kingdom Puban in an attempt to seize this important place on the east bank of the Yellow River.

Bai Lin, the general of the Xia Kingdom's expedition to the west, was not afraid of danger and ordered the trebuchets that had been prepared in the city to attack where the Zhao army was concentrated.

Huge rocks smashed large ice holes into the solid ice surface, and as time passed, the ice surface began to crack.

Zhao Jun, who was already halfway ashore, found Xia Jun's tenacious resistance.

Under Bai Lin's order, thousands of Xia cavalrymen marched along the river bank and divided the Zhao army into two halves, those on the bank and those on the ice.

As the trebuchets continued to hit, the ice finally began to fragment, leaving almost no intact area. Countless Zhao soldiers lost their footing and fell into the ice water.

The Zhao army who stayed on the shore saw that their way back was cut off, their morale collapsed, and they began to surrender in an organized manner.

Seeing that the situation was over, Shi Tao hurriedly led dozens of his bodyguards on horseback and fled downstream, escaping back to the west bank through an unbroken ice surface.

On February 15th, the Xia army marched east of Hedong, beheading 1,500 people, and captured more than 10,000 Zhao soldiers. More than 30,000 Zhao soldiers fell into the icy water and died.

February 23rd
Bai Gu followed Shi Tao's strategy and crossed the Yellow River from another ice surface to the west bank of the Yellow River.

February 24th
Thirty thousand Xia troops began to attack Linjin City.

Since the Zhao army was almost completely wiped out a few days ago, the garrison of Linjin City had less than 5,000 troops.

Shi Tao was frightened, abandoned Linjin, and fled to Beidi County.

March
The Xia army occupied Feng Yi's entire county.

Just as Baigu marched into Beidi County and reached Fuping City, General Zhao Guanjun, Duke Yao Yizhong of Xiping County, General Cheqi, and Gong Puhong of Lueyang County led more than 50,000 Qiang and Di cavalry to support them. .

Looking at the overwhelming Qiang cavalry in the distance, although their armor is not as sophisticated as the Xia cavalry, but they are large in number and have superb riding skills, they know that nothing can be done, so they retreat to Linjin to garrison.

The Qiang and Di cavalry were not good at attacking the city and just kept wandering around Linjin City. Finally, after plundering Fengyi County, they retreated to Wannian County to rest and resisted the Xia army in Linjin.

April
The climate in the north is getting slightly warmer, and Xia Jun has enough time to make the northern expedition.

April st

Bai Shu vowed to fight for the Northern Expedition in Jizhou, and a hundred thousand troops marched to Linyu Pass in a mighty manner, preparing to leave the pass and plow the courtyard to sweep the holes.

April 25
When the Xia army arrived at Linyu Pass, Bai Shu took the rookie general Wang Meng as the vanguard general and led 30,000 troops to attack the Yan army camp outside Linyu Pass.

After Wang Meng arrived at the Yan camp, after careful observation, he believed that the Yan army was good at riding and trapped themselves in the territory, which was a sign of defeat. This battle may be called the turning point of the war.

So instead of attacking rashly, he asked his men to camp outside the camp, and he personally led several cavalry back to Linyu Pass to meet Bai Shu.

"Your Majesty, the Yan army is currently building a city to imitate Linyu, with the intention of building the southern gate of the Yan Kingdom. However, the Yan army is good at cavalry but not good at infantry. It knows nine things out of ten and knows nothing about city defense.

This is a good time to kill the Yan army. Please give the last general more infantry and siege equipment. I can keep at least half of Yan's 70,000 soldiers.

This will be very beneficial to the upcoming war. Please understand this, Your Majesty. "

Bai Gu looked at the heroic and confident Wang Meng and admired him very much:
"Sure enough, I was right about you. As early as in Qiyang, I saw that you have great talent.

I will grant you all the conditions and at the same time allocate the most elite guards to you. I hope you can do what you said. "

Wang Meng was overjoyed, kowtowed in thanks and said:

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will definitely offer Murong Huang's head."

April 27
Wang Meng arrived outside Yan Camp with 10,000 imperial guards and joined the forward army.

Under the command of Wang Meng, all the cavalry in the army were gathered. Liu Meng, the Sima in front of the palace, was the general. He led 6,000 cavalrymen, bypassed the Yan camp and ambush behind the enemy camp.

A large number of powerful siege equipment such as trebuchets, bed crossbows, and well lanterns were built, and the elite infantry camp was used as the blade to attack the Yan camp from the west, east, and south.

April 28
Wang Meng used the siege equipment used to attack Dacheng and Guancheng to attack the Yan army's camp.

Not long after, the walls of the Yan army's camp were knocked down by trebuchets.

Then, Wang Meng ordered the trebuchets to be extended to the Yan army camp.

So the Xia army continued to fight through the collapsed camp walls with the Yan army, and the rocks above their heads roared towards the Yan camp.

The Yan army was mostly cavalry that galloped on the grasslands all year round. How could they have seen such a powerful attack? Even when the Xia army attacked Linyu, it would not have been so terrifying.

In fact, it was also because the Yan camp was not as strong as the stone city wall of Linyu Pass, so the Yan army had no sense of security. Wherever the huge trebuchets of the Xia army hit, there were ruins, broken walls, and corpses of flesh and blood.

It seemed as if the entire Yan Army camp was made of tofu.

In just one day, the Xia army broke through the camp and started a melee with the Yan army inside the camp.

Limited by the narrowness of the camp, the Yan army was unable to exert its inherent combat power and was defeated by the Xia army.

Xia's country is strong and powerful, and everyone is strong and strong.

However, the greed of Murong Huanguo of Yan State caused trouble, and he wanted to raise both cavalry and navy.

As a result, the armor rate of the army was less than half, and they were all captured from the arsenals of Liaoxi and Beiping counties after breaking through the pass in early ancient times.

The Yan cavalry that Murong Huang had built with a lot of money was destroyed in a small camp by him in such a cruel way.

Those horses that were supposed to gallop on the vast grassland were easily captured by the Xia army in the stables.

When there was still a trace of afterglow in the sky, tens of thousands of Yan troops had been pushed to the north of the camp by Xia Jun.

Since most of the stables in the Yan camp were occupied by the Xia army, these Yan soldiers had to flee on foot. However, the camp gate, which was usually wide, seemed narrow at this time, hindering the Yan army's escape.

However, as the king of Yan State and the supreme commander of this army, Murong Huang definitely has a horse.

Murong Huang finally broke out of this cage with the help of his personal guard "humanity".

Surrounded by more than a thousand cavalry, Murong Huang headed towards the capital, Longcheng.

Just when passing by a hill, a group of Xia Army cavalry emerged from the hills.

Liu Meng looked at the large group of Yan Army cavalry below. Those who passed by before were defeated soldiers and sporadic cavalry.

Such a large group of cavalry must be Murong Huang.

Liu Meng drew out his sword and pointed it at Murong Huang under the hill:

"The one who wears the powerful armor and brocade clothes at the head is Murong Huang. Brothers, the time has come for you to make great achievements and be granted the title of Marquis Enyin. Follow me and kill!"

Thousands of Xia army's cavalry roared down from the hills, cutting Yan Qi in half.

Even though he was Murong Huang's personal cavalry, he was unable to defeat his four-handed opponent with two fists, and was eventually left under this unknown hill.

No, from now on this hilly area will have its own name because of Murong Huang and Liu Meng.

(End of this chapter)