The coalition forces moved southward, passing through various "ri" and passing countless "origins". Li Chengzhong became increasingly bored. The largest towns in Silla with "ri" and "origins" were only surrounded by a few earth walls.
, it is considered a big deal if it can accommodate a thousand people, and the smaller one is simply a village with only wooden walls for protection. In the words of Jin Shunji, the war chief of the Silla Kingdom, it has become a "major town".
For Li Chengzhong, the encounter at Hufeilingkou could only be regarded as "armed counter-violence" and could not even be called a battle. However, in the eyes of the Silla people, it was a great victory.
Li Chengzhong recorded this "great victory", and naturally exaggerated many twists and turns and thrills to show the majesty of the king's division. But Li Chengzhong was a little unhappy after reading it. Wasn't this comparing the coalition forces with bandits? His unkind expression immediately felt for Han Yanhui.
Upon noticing, Han Yanhui took the paper, glanced at it, and said coldly: "Burn it."
Kim Soon-gil had to burn it on the spot, but later he re-recorded it in the historical records of Silla and called it "The Great Victory of Hofeeling", and described the process more vividly and tortuously, which inevitably doubled the combat power of the Red Pants Army a hundred times.
Exaggeration. The reason for this is entirely due to the morbid pride in the bones of the Silla people - only by raising the image of the rebel army can we avoid the weakness and decay of the royal army from being criticized by future generations.
Similarly, regarding the Battle of Hufeiling Pass, which Li Chengzhong completely disdained, Jin Zhouyuan, who escaped with his life, exaggerated the story after he returned, exaggerating the "battle" and describing with tears how the Red Pants Army rose up to resist and acted bravely and unyieldingly.
He made up the whole process. As for the reason for the failure, he attributed it to the large number of enemy soldiers and complained to Wang Jian, the eunuch of Jingqi and the prefect of Tieyuan County.
Wang Jian was also frightened. As Jin Zhouyuan cried out, the total strength of the Tang and Bohai coalition forces reached 100,000. Although judging from Jin Zhouyuan's words, it seemed that the other party was not very capable of fighting - because Jin Zhouyuan led the Red Army.
The Trouser Army "beheaded ten thousand enemies in front of the battle line", but after all, he could not stop the opponent's large number of people, so he decided to withdraw his troops. He immediately lifted the siege of Kitahara Kyo, leaving behind more than 30 cities such as Kunoyuan that had been captured, and fled.
Return to Songyue and discuss with King Jin Gongyi how to resist.
The bandit commander Liang Ji who was surrounded in Beiyuan Jingzhong didn't know what was going on. When he saw Wang Jian withdrawing his troops, he didn't dare to open the city gate and guarded the city cautiously for three more days. Then he saw a scene that shocked him.
Countless soldiers with bright armor and neat banners came from the north and arrived at the city to form formations. They were so densely packed that it was hard to tell how many there were. I just felt that "they are everywhere in heaven and earth."
Bukwonkyung is one of the five capitals in Silla that stand side by side with Jungwon, Sewon, Namwon, and Gimhae. It surrounds the royal capital Wangjing Jinseong and is the largest city in the north of Silla. This city is known as the important town along with those that Li Chengzhong saw along the way.
"Li" is different from "yuan". It is a walled city. However, although it is one of the Five Capitals, it is only a small city as big as Huaiyuan Military City. Beiyuan Capital was besieged by Wang Jian for several months, and the people under the city had long been
They escaped without a trace, and only Liang Ji led thousands of dead men to garrison the city.
Liang Ji was still confused at first, wondering where the reinforcements came from, but when he saw the figure of Jin Shunji, the chief supervisor of the Silla Military Department, who came to persuade him to surrender, he became extremely frustrated. It turned out that he had just left the wolf's mouth and entered the tiger's den.
He hated himself for not taking advantage of these three days to open the city and flee, but it was too late to regret it. How could he fight with the few remaining soldiers he had? So Liang Ji planned to surrender. Naturally, he had to discuss the terms before surrendering. He asked at the top of the city: "
I want to lead my troops to join the army, I wonder if it is possible?" He also wanted to become a general.
"If you lose your weapons, leave the city and surrender, if you keep nagging, we will both be destroyed." Jin Shunji directly interrupted Liang Ji's sweet dream.
Seeing that this road was blocked, Liang Ji lowered his request: "Can you open up a little and let the common people leave with their relatives and servants? From now on, I will go far away from home and never fight against the king again."
"Don't let me say that for the third time, I lost my weapons and surrendered out of the city." How could Kim Soon-gil let Yang-gil escape? This was the bandit leader who had troubled the royal court of Silla for ten years. If he really wanted him to escape, pointed out
Maybe it will bring more troubles
"Can you spare this little man's life?" Liang Ji only wanted to survive and did not mention any relatives or servants.
Jin Shunji turned around and asked Han Yanhui beside him. Han Yanhui nodded. Jin Shunji then said to the city: "Captain Li of the Tang Dynasty said that if Kaicheng surrenders, your life will be spared."
With his life guaranteed, Liang Ji had no choice but to open the city. After he lined up his troops and left the city, even Han Yanhui couldn't stand it anymore. Where did these unkempt savages come from? He turned around and left in disgust, followed by Jin Shunji.
Hosted the surrender.
Han Yanhui came to see Li Chengzhong, frowned and said: "Captain, please don't enter Beiyuan. It's too smelly. When the city gate opened just now, the smell of fishy smell was so overwhelming that I almost fell down from my horse."
You don’t need to think about it to know that a group of rebels were besieged in such a small city for several months, and they pooped a lot of shit and urine alone. It’s no wonder that the smell was so good. Li Chengzhong also felt sick after hearing it, and didn’t dare.
Enter the city.
Later, Li Chengzhong saw the bandit commander Liang Ji in the tent. Liang Ji knelt on the ground, kowtowed and begged for his life: "The common people have seen the governor of the Tang Dynasty. It was helpless for the common people to raise troops. I really couldn't survive at the time."
Went down..."
Jin Shunji was not happy when he heard this and said angrily: "It's nonsense. You are a wealthy family in Beiyuan. Your family has countless fields and hundreds of slaves. How dare you raise the flag to rebel when the king treats you badly?"
Seeing that he couldn't be fooled, Liang Ji changed his words and said, "The Governor just promised that as long as the people surrendered to Kaicheng, the lives of the people would be spared. The Governor must keep his promise."
Li Chengzhong blinked and asked, "I told you? I have always been in the big tent and have never gone out. When did I tell you?"
Liang Ji was shocked. He pointed at Han Yanhui and said, "This general nodded."
Li Chengzhong angrily said to Han Yanhui: "When did I say spare his life? You dared to nod in agreement?"
Han Yanhui argued: "The governor must not have wronged Beizhi. Beizhi has never promised. Well, when we were at the city gate just now, Superintendent Jin asked Beizhi if he didn't understand what Thief Liang said. Beizhi nodded and said he didn't understand. They said there
How can you understand the Silla language in a humble position?"
Liang Ji was so angry that he almost fainted and kept cursing: "Despicable villain, despicable villain"
Han Yanhui sighed: "Actually, you know Tang dialect. Why didn't you speak Tang dialect at the top of the city just now? You have to speak your Silla language, otherwise why would you be like this?"
Li Chengzhong had seen this bandit leader who had caused ten years of chaos in Silla, and felt that there was nothing new about him, so he waved his hand to push him out and kill him, but Jin Shunji persuaded him: "Captain, can you send this man to me? This man has committed a heinous crime.
It is clear that formal punishment cannot police the people of the world. It is best to be taken to Wang Jing before being sentenced to death."
Li Chengzhong showed little interest in Liang Ji and nodded immediately. Jin Shunji happily ordered his men to take Liang Ji away.
Li Chengzhong did not want to enter the city, so he waited in the camp outside the city. Yang Yuequan, the son of Yang Xuanen, the Qianniu Guard of the Bohai Kingdom, led the troops to supervise the Liang thieves as they descended into the city, and brought out all the treasures that Liang Ji had collected during his ten years of running through northern Silla.
Then the army was sent to escort him back to Nanjing, and he was transferred to Liucheng. Although Liang Ji had worked hard for ten years, it was not enough in Li Chengzhong's eyes. In fact, the wealth of the entire Silla was concentrated in Wangjing, and there was a lack of local resources.
Quite frankly, this was also the main reason for the civil strife and wars in Silla - Wang Jing and the local people were completely living in two worlds, one was extremely rich and the other was extremely poor.
At this point, northern Silla had been pacified, and all that was left was to summon the refugees back to their hometowns and reset the government. Li Chengzhong was not interested in these matters, but he would not let the territory he had conquered return to Silla's hands. He asked Da Feng
Yi led his newly established left and right Xiaowei to stay behind the town, firstly to look after the rear route, secondly to organize the three northern states of Hanzhou, Shuozhou and Mingzhou, and thirdly to ensure the transportation of grain and fodder. There was no way, the Silla area was really
It was too poor and was almost deserted by the rebels. Food for the coalition forces could only be transported by the Bohai Sea.
After staying in Beiyuan for three days, Li Chengzhong ordered the army to set off and continue southward. Because they were about to encounter the real main force of the rebel army, the coalition's march was more standardized. The scouts of the Yingzhou Army rode forward with the help of Silla guides.
The Bohai Kingdom's Qianniu Guards Zhonglang General Yang Yuequan led 10,000 people as the front army, the left leader Wei Zhonglang General Gao Mingxun led 5,000 people as the left army, the right Jinwu Guard General Li Yuanguang led 5,000 people as the right army, and the left prison gate guard Zhonglang General Wu Ying led 5,000 people.
The army was the rear army, and the Yingzhou Army and the Huaiyue Allied Army were the center army. The armies were less than three miles apart, heading south along the Hantan River, and approached Songakfu, the capital of the puppet Goryeo king.
There were still more mountains than flat ground along the way. Li Chengzhong asked the army to slow down and at the same time increase the intensity of reconnaissance and cavalry to ensure that the army would not be ambushed. After receiving Li Chengzhong's instructions, the commanders of the headquarters studied a feasible reconnaissance plan and took action immediately.
Get up, increase the number of scouts, and incorporate the Bohai Navy scouts into the exploration queue. The Yingzhou Army scouts are further divided into groups of two, leading ten Bohai Navy scouts, and the direction of the army's advance is tightly covered.
In fact. Of course, this kind of exploration intensity is only aimed at those places where it is easy to set up ambushes. There are not many such places, so the coalition army's advance is not laborious. Many places seem to be excellent places to set up ambushes, but in fact they are not.
Setting up an ambush requires many conditions, and at least two points must be met: First, the place where the troops are hidden is close to the ambush battle, so troops can be delivered in a short time; second, the troops setting up the ambush must have strong combat effectiveness. Facts have proved that
, Jin Gongyi's army did not meet these two conditions, but they still arranged an ambush as a matter of course, which greatly exceeded the expectations of the coalition forces.
Jin Gongyi sent Wang Jian, the elite cavalry supervisor, to catch the coalition forces off guard. The ambush site they chose was at the Great Holy Mountain Pass. In fact, the first ambush site in Wang Jian's mind was the middle section of the Great Holy Mountain, where there is a relatively steep valley, but
Unfortunately, the coalition's scouts conducted an intensive exploration of this valley in advance, which frustrated Wang Jian's wishful thinking. He could only retreat to the Dasheng Pass to set up an ambush - he could not retreat any further.
It is Songyuefu, the capital of the country.
Wang Jian's ambush was very successful. As for Dasheng Pass, the coalition headquarters did not send scouts to investigate both sides. According to Zhong Shao, although the dense forests on both sides of the hillside were thick enough to hide troops, these two sections of hillside were
It's too long. If the enemy really sets up an ambush here, from the time they show up to the time they rush into the coalition army, they will need to run continuously on the hillside for at least a moment, not to mention whether they have the physical strength to fight after they run over.
This long period of time is enough for the coalition forces to prepare for the enemy.
Facts have confirmed Zhong Shao's words - it is also the unanimous view of all the commanders in the headquarters. When the pseudo-Korean army ambushed under the command of Wang Jian shouted and fought out of the dense forest on the high slope, the coalition forces immediately began to organize the response array. Of course,
, Wang Jian's ambush did panic some of the Bohai Navy in the coalition, but it didn't matter. With the desperate suppression of the officers of the Yingzhou Army, the panic soon passed, and the arrays were quickly deployed.
Then, after the coalition forces set up their array, the puppet Goryeo ambush soldiers still did not rush down - they had just finished half of the slope. As for the coalition forces, the Yingzhou Army, which had the best organization and adaptability, even had time to distribute a piece of gold to each soldier.
Dried meat, let them eat it as soon as possible. In the end, only 30% of the ambush soldiers ran down the hillside, and most of the rest stopped on the hillside to catch their breath. Most of the 30% ambush soldiers who rushed down had no energy to run anymore. They were already too tired to stagger.
, the legs and feet were sore. The reason for this serious consequence was that the senior officers of the Puppet Goryeo Army from Wang Jian on down had no idea of the physical strength of their subordinates, and they also obviously underestimated the difficulty of running on this slope.
Afterwards, Li Chengzhong learned in detail about the series of battles in Silla's civil strife from the war chief Jin Shunji, and then discovered that in all the battles, large and small, the two warring parties - whether it was the traitor commander Liang Ji, the false king Jin Gongyi, or even
The royal court's Hwarangdo army fought an upright battle. The so-called upright battle meant that the two sides signed a letter of challenge to each other, agreed on a flat and open battlefield, agreed on a sunny day, and then spread out their armies to fight.
.It is important to note that the fighting usually takes place in the afternoon, because both sides need a morning to send out troops and set up their formations.
This ambush became a classic farce. All the coalition forces had to do was step forward to capture the prisoners. The whole process looked like the ambush soldiers automatically appeared and then stepped forward to surrender, which made people laugh and cry.
Li Chengzhong couldn't bear it anymore and asked Jin Shunji who was standing aside with a smile: "Supervisor Jin, is this the bandit army that beat you to a pulp?"
Inspector Jin's face turned red and he muttered not knowing what to say.
In Jin Shunji's memory, this was the first time in ten years that the bandit army actively set up an ambush.
Li Chengzhong was speechless. What era was it in? Silla still used the tactics of the pre-Qin era in the Central Plains. Didn't the Tang army teach them how to fight when they destroyed Baekje and Goguryeo? He could only sigh and tell Jin Shunji -
- Setting up an ambush is not as simple as imagined. Without strict organization and advance planning, the so-called setting up an ambush can only be a laughing stock.