Chapter eight hundred and seventieth doubts of various forces
Half a month ago, Hu City was stormed by the army from Dali with thunderous force.
Although the defenders of Goguryeo struggled for five days, the city finally changed hands to the prince of Dali who personally conquered the city.
After receiving the news, all the forces were shocked by the strength of Dali's army and quickly accepted this unacceptable reality.
Afterwards, he continued to pay attention to the movements of the Dali army that occupied Hu City.
On the first day, the Dali army did not leave Hucheng immediately, which was not surprising to all parties.
After the war, regardless of the casualties, the army must undergo certain adjustments to return to its best condition, and Hu City, which had just been captured, also had many problems to deal with.
On the second day, Dali's army still did not leave Hucheng.
The forces on all sides also didn't think so. After several days of fighting with 30,000 troops, just one day's rest time was too little, and the problems of a city could not be solved in one day.
The third day, the fourth day, the fifth day...
On the sixth day, all forces found out from the scouts stationed around Hu City that Dali's army still had not left Hu City, and finally noticed something strange.
No matter how serious problems Hu Cheng left in the previous battles, as long as after the most turbulent first two days, at most a few people were left to guard the city, the army did not need to waste too much time on this.
The reason why some barbarian forces did not choose the option of paying tribute after realizing that the strength of the Dali army was terrifying was that the Dali army must send people to guard the captured territory in order to avoid surprises from the rear.
An army of 30,000 people may be more than enough to fight a war, but if it is dispersed to guard different places, this number will be a bit embarrassing.
After capturing a certain amount of territory, the prince of Dali who led his army to conquer the territory would inevitably face a dilemma.
Either give up guarding the territory and risk the possibility of unrest in the rear, gather the army and continue the expedition; or you can only hold on to the captured cities and slowly digest them, and give up the plan of the expedition.
According to their estimation, if they divided their troops to defend every city they conquered, then at most the capital city of Goguryeo would be captured, and then the prince of Dali would be in a situation where he could not separate his troops.
In other words, if Dali's army for this expedition only has 30,000 soldiers from northern Xinjiang, then even if it needs to be sacrificed, at most it will only be Goguryeo.
If you can drag down the energy of this immortal army with the destruction of Goguryeo, then all the other barbarian forces included in the target of the crusade will be happy to see this happen.
But that's for later.
The confusion among all the forces now is that even if they rest slowly, three days should be almost done, but now the army that has passed Dali on the sixth day still has not moved at all.
It seems that after capturing Hu City, the prince of Dali was satisfied.
But everyone knows that this is impossible.
Although Hucheng is easy to defend and difficult to attack, its geographical location is not suitable for caravan trade, and the surrounding terrain does not have much suitable land for planting.
As for the size of Hu City, if it were placed in Dali, it would be considered a small city at best.
For Goguryeo, Hucheng was the gateway to resist foreign enemies, but for Dali, such an enclave had little real value at all.
At the very least, it is not worthy of a prince personally leading an army of 30,000 people, setting out from neighboring borders, and traveling across mountains and rivers to specifically attack.
The most important point is that the prince in the northern border of Dali, before leading his army on the expedition, made a slogan to pacify the many surrounding barbarians who had intruded on the border of Dali, so he could not be satisfied with a mere barbaric city.
But the prince of Dali really couldn't leave after capturing Hu City.
No matter how long you stay in Hucheng, it will have no more significance for the subsequent expedition. Instead, it will leave more time for Goguryeo and more forces behind it to deal with it.
After all, the Immortal Army is not truly immortal. Now that its trump card is exposed, other forces may not be able to find a specifically targeted method after a period of research.
Therefore, continuing to stay will put Dali's expeditionary force into an increasingly disadvantaged situation.
Another biggest feature of the Cold Weapon Age is that there are not many seasons suitable for fighting. If it can be delayed until the weather turns cooler, Dali's immortal army must consider withdrawing its troops even if it no longer looks around.
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The summer solstice has just passed, and there are still a few days left before the minor summer heat. The hottest day of the year has not even arrived yet. It will take several months until the weather gets cooler. It may be too early to say this now.
But it is too early to refer to several forces such as Goguryeo and the Uighurs in the past.
No matter how fast and powerful the Immortal Army is, even if the problem of dividing the troops is solved, it will still take a lot of time to completely conquer a force.
And when the forces were defeated one by one, perhaps the farthest forces had not yet arrived, and they had to return to the court due to the weather.
For various reasons, almost all the forces were willing to watch the prince from Dali waste time in Hu City.
But compared to that, sometimes the unknown is the scariest thing. They want to know what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd of the prince of Dali.
And half a month after the day of siege, Dali's army finally made some changes.
The Dali soldiers, who were called the Immortal Army by all parties, finally left Hu City after resting in Hu City for ten days and leaving two thousand elite troops to garrison Hu City.
When the various forces obtained the marching route of the Dali Expeditionary Force after leaving Hu City, they were a little confused at first.
After capturing Hu City, the prince of Dali rested for a longer period of time than normal, but instead of leading the army to invade Goguryeo, he chose to take a detour along the border of Goguryeo.
Could it be that the prince planned to bypass Goguryeo and directly attack the Uighur clan behind him?
The Uighurs are a tribe separated from the Turks. They are also a typical nomadic people. The characteristic of the nomadic people is that they do not have a fixed settlement, but constantly change their grazing locations with the changes of the seasons.
The nomads did not have cities, which meant that after the Uighurs were pacified, the Dali army did not need to divide its troops for defense.
Although the problem of dividing troops is still unavoidable when attacking other forces, attacking nomads like the Uighurs first can be delayed for a while, and then use this time to think of ways.
However, they instinctively feel that nothing is simple.