Xi Wanli, who was in the woods ten miles away, could see it clearly. He waved his hand and said, "The third army attacks!"
A cavalry of 5,000 people came out of the woods silently. They walked to low ground, and the undulating terrain blocked them. They appeared several miles behind the Japanese army, cutting off the Japanese army's retreat to Beijing.
Ten thousand Japanese cavalry rushed into the heavy armored infantry formation like dense locusts. The tall and powerful heavy armored infantry began to strangle. They wielded their swords and split the short cavalry into two pieces.
Xu Zongran was even more powerful. He roared and swung out the sharp Mo Dao, and more than a dozen heads were sent flying.
Blood splattered everywhere in the formation, and the pungent smell of blood quickly filled the air.
The heavily armored Modao Army can be called the pinnacle of the cold weapon era. With extremely sharp weapons, extremely powerful individuals, and a tacitly coordinated formation, the Japanese army has never encountered such a powerful army. They are like entering a huge minced meat.
Five heavy armored infantrymen formed a sword head, and a thousand sword heads were twisted at the same time. The ten thousand cavalry did not even scream. In just a quarter of an hour, they were twisted into a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
The heavy armored infantry formation advanced forward. The open space after they left was filled with broken limbs and piles of human organs. Human heads and horse heads were everywhere on the ground. Human corpses and horse corpses were mixed together, and blood flowed like a river.
, brains are overflowing, it is simply bloody and terrifying..
The 20,000 warriors behind had already collapsed, but they could not escape. After more than 7,000 people were also killed, the remaining warriors were so frightened that they turned around and ran away. The heavy armored infantry stopped advancing.
Fifteen thousand cavalry came from both sides and rushed into the enemy group instantly. They hacked and killed mercilessly. There was no confrontation at all. The Japanese samurai fought on their own and could not get close to the Tang army. They were pierced by the Tang army's spears without mercy.
He lost his body and died in mourning, but at least he could keep his whole body.
They killed and raped the people of the Bohai Kingdom like a group of demons, but when they encountered the powerful Tang army, they turned into a group of weak chickens, unable to fight at all, and it was a one-sided massacre.
At this time, Ren Tianling led 50,000 troops into Shangjing City. Their opponents only had 3,000 Japanese troops. The two sides fought like crazy in the streets and alleys. In less than an hour, the 3,000 Japanese troops were also killed. However,
They resisted tenaciously and fought tooth and nail with the Bohai Navy. The Bohai Navy also paid the price of 5,000 casualties.
The Tang army's cavalry suffered dozens of casualties and less than a hundred injuries, and the heavy armored infantry suffered no casualties.
In just half a day, the Tang army killed 38,000 Japanese troops. This speed shocked even Guo Ziyi. However, after learning in detail about the height, equipment and combat skills of the Japanese soldiers, Guo Ziyi understood that a man only five feet tall
How could a skinny soldier defeat a Tang army soldier with an average height of six feet on a cruel battlefield?
Guo Ziyi wrote in his second battle report to Emperor Li Ye: 'This is an army with no long weapons, no compound bows, no armor, no strong horses, no formations, no overall operations, and nothing good.
But this army, which could only be unilaterally massacred by the Tang army on the battlefield, destroyed the Bohai Kingdom. It is incredible, according to Wei Chen's investigation.
This army was treacherous, despicable and shameless. After pretending to gain the trust of King Bohai, they launched a sneak attack on Shangjing at night. All the soldiers in this army had a devil in their heart. They were ferocious and cruel, killing all the unarmed people.
Cunning, despicableness, cruelty, sneak attacks, coupled with the foolishness of the King of Bohai, and the Khitan army's attacks on the periphery, were the main reasons for the demise of the Bohai Kingdom.
The next step for Weichen will be to attack Khitan with all his strength and must destroy the country. The detailed plan is as follows."
Guo Ziyi had already received a letter from the Flying Eagle forwarded by the Emperor. The letter asked him to disband the Bohai Navy after annihilating the Japanese army, and send the main generals of the Bohai Navy to the Chang'an Martial Arts Hall for further training and other appointments.
That night, Ren Tianling handed over the general power to Guo Ziyi, and Guo Ziyi immediately sent hundreds of troops to send Ren Tianling and his thirteen men to Chang'an.
On the third day after Ren Tianling left, Guo Ziyi ordered that part of the money and food seized be distributed to more than 50,000 Bohai Navy soldiers, and each of them was given a hundred acres of land. He formally dismissed them all and returned to their hometowns. With the large number of people fleeing to other places,
When the people of Bohai returned, these soldiers would remarry and have children, becoming subjects of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
In the letter, Li Ye simultaneously changed Bohai State into Bohai Prefecture and Binhai Prefecture, appointed military commander Pang Huimin as the first governor of Bohai Prefecture, and appointed Gao Hongwei as the first governor of Binhai Prefecture. They were led by Zhang Hao, the magistrate and Huangmen Shilang.
The team, with Pei Shiyan, the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and Gao Shi, the minister of the household ministry, as their left and right deputies, led hundreds of officials to follow them to Liaodong to redraw the boundaries and arrange officials.
Li Ye also ordered Guo Ziyi in the eagle letter to reward the property captured from the Japanese soldiers to the three armies to boost morale.
Most of the wealth accumulated by the Bohai Kingdom was sent back to the country by the Japanese army. As a result, it was intercepted by the Tang army on the way. At least 30% of the wealth was robbed by individual Japanese soldiers. Basically, it was mainly copper coins. All gold, silver and jewelry had to be dedicated to the emperor. The Japanese soldiers only had copper coins in their hands.
There were 1.5 million guan of copper coins and pieces of cloth, and 600,000 pieces of cloth. Except for a small part used to house Bohai soldiers, the remaining more than 1 million guan of copper coins and pieces of cloth were rewarded by Guo Ziyi to all the soldiers who participated in the Liaodong Campaign.
For a time, the morale of the three armies was high and there was thunderous cheers.
Guo Ziyi also ordered the closure of various treasuries in Shangjing City, waiting for Zhang Hao to return to deal with it.
The first batch of goods shipped back from Japan were mainly gold, silver, jewelry and silks and satins. In fact, there were also second and third batches of supplies to be shipped. These were things that Japanese soldiers could not get and had to be shipped back to their home country.
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It mainly includes precious medicinal materials and precious animal skins. Among them, there are hundreds of ginsengs that are more than a century old, and there are even more than a dozen thousand-year-old ginseng. There are also hundreds of kilograms of precious ambergris. The precious animal skins mainly
Mainly tiger, leopard and bear skins, and there are also a large number of sheepskins, pig iron, copper ingots, etc. in the warehouse.
Guo Ziyi ordered Li Chengshi to temporarily lead the navy to guard Bohai Prefecture and Binhai Prefecture.
He also ordered a part of the navy to blockade the Yalu River, temporarily suppressing Silla to the south of the Yalu River.
Guo Ziyi immediately divided his troops into three groups. Nan Jiyun led an army of 50,000 people on the eastern front, Ma Lin led an army of 50,000 people on the western front, and Guo Ziyi personally led an army of 60,000 people on the middle line. Each army was equipped with 30,000 camels for logistics and food supplies.
A 160,000-strong army crossed the Songmo area and marched toward Fedi, where the Khitans currently live.
Feidi is the area around today's Ulanhot City in Inner Mongolia. It has always been the activity area of the Fei tribe, a branch of the Xiongnu. They lived here for more than a hundred years, but were eventually annexed by the Khitan tribe.
At this time, Yelu Salade, the supreme commander of the Khitan army, had been paying attention. When he learned that the Tang army had wiped out more than 30,000 Japanese troops with overwhelming momentum, and that the Xi tribe was also finished, he knew that the next target of the Tang army's attack must be
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But they had no way out. To the north was the territory of the Shiwei and Heishui Mohe people, and to the west was the territory of the Beyegu tribe.
However, the Khitan and the Shiwei tribe have a good relationship. If the Khitan tribe really wants to take refuge in the Shiwei tribe's territory, it is not impossible.
So Yelu Salade proposed a temporary retreat. Unexpectedly, when this idea was raised, it immediately caused a big stir. First of all, the Khitan tribes firmly opposed the continued northward retreat. Ningyuan and the Tang army would fight to the death and would never retreat again.
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But what really made Yelu Salade despair was the attitude of the Shiwei tribe. First of all, the Shiwei tribe flatly rejected the Khitan's request to borrow troops, and said that once a Khitan enters the Shiwei territory, he will be a Shiwei person.
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The implication is that once the Khitans cross the border, they can only join the Shiwei tribe and become members of the Shiwei tribe.
With no choice but to fight, Yelu Salade had no choice but to work hard and discuss with Su Khan how to deal with the Tang army.
"Khan, the Tang army marched north in three ways. Of course there are advantages and disadvantages to this. The biggest disadvantage is that the troops are dispersed, which gives us an opportunity.
We currently have more than 90,000 troops from each tribe. If we concentrate our forces and defeat the three Tang armies, then we have hope of counterattack. Not only will we regain Songmo Prefecture, but we can also seize the territories of Xi Di and Bohai Kingdom."
Su Khan also agreed with Yelu Salad's plan of concentrating his forces to defeat each one. He thought for a moment and said: "Which route does the general think we should take the initiative to attack?"
Yelu Salade said calmly: "The strength of the three Tang armies is almost the same, so we might as well concentrate our forces to defeat the Tang army in the middle. This is the army of their commander. As long as we defeat it, the other two Tang armies will be defeated!"