Anju Fortress, the northern boundary of Goryeo, is the seat of the Anbuk Protectorate. Snowflakes like goose feathers are flying in abundance, like a gauze blowing in the wind, covering the city and the surrounding mountains and rivers.
Anzhou City, which used to be bustling and bustling, is now deathly silent.
There was a creaking sound, the heavy city gate was slowly pushed open, and there was a dull sound of horse hooves, and a group of people on horseback filed out, walking slowly on the road to the south.
Cui Hongzheng was walking in the middle on horseback. He was dressed in fish scale armor, fur, a fox fur around his neck, and even his iron helmet was surrounded by a mink tail.
The cold wind blew along the mountain ridge, like a hand, turning over the fine and shiny hair on the fox fur and mink tail. Wrapped in the fox fur and mink tail was Cui Hongzheng's livid face.
Deputy General Jin Yiyuan followed closely behind him and advised softly: "Prime Minister Cui, you are the commander-in-chief of the entire army. You must not move without permission. Please stay in Anzhou City to command and dispatch."
"Vice General Jin, what is there to command and dispatch in this situation? If the two roads between Pyongyang and Qiewo cannot be opened, 190,000 troops and hundreds of thousands of people will die, and you and I will not be spared. Now
The Huang Bingma Envoy (Huang Junshang) is in Wenzhou City, commanding the Eastern Route Army to besiege Qiewo City, and the prime minister is in charge of Pyongyang City. No matter who breaks through first, there is no way out. I can't sit still, I can't sit still."
"Prime Minister Cui, it's just that the Song Army has built a large number of fortifications outside Pyongyang. They are strong and dense. The soldiers in front have lost tens of thousands of lives, but they are still unable to do anything. Prime Minister Cui, please allow everyone to take a breath."
"Take a breath? God won't give us a chance to breathe!" Cui Hongzheng pointed to the gray sky. "It's getting colder and colder now, and our food is almost exhausted. It's freezing cold, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians are not.
To freeze to death and starve to death is to be captured without mercy."
Jin Yiyuan was speechless, and after a while he said angrily: "The food for hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the northern border for the winter happened to be gathered in Pyongyang City, ready to be transferred to the northern border. As a result, they didn't come early or late, and they made sure the time was right.
Come. Now all the food and grass are in their hands, the Song people are really vicious."
Cui Hongzheng squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, as if he wanted to see clearly the city of Pyongyang, which was a hundred miles away, through the misty sky and earth.
"Businessmen from the Song Dynasty traveled freely in Korea and bought many spies. Every move we made was clear to them. Pyongyang city grain and grass is an example. After they occupied Pyongyang, the northern boundary of thirty
There was a sudden commotion among the thousands of people, and more than 200,000 of them fled south, and were all taken in by the Song army. There must have been someone stirring up the chaos."
"Then they used the mountains of grain and grass piled up in Pyongyang City and drove the civilians to build fortifications for them. They used our people to eat our grain and grass to build fortifications for them, and then in turn killed and injured our people. The counselors of the Song Dynasty
He is truly extremely vicious, a poisonous person in the world!"
After hearing this, Jin Yiyuan's back felt cold. He was silent for a while. He felt that he was getting colder and colder without speaking, even to the bone. He sniffed his nose, which was red from the cold, and looked for a topic: "Cui Xiang, Huang Bingmao is here."
I wonder how the battle in Qiewo City to the east is going?"
"The Ronin Begins with Douluo"
"The road is blocked by heavy snow and there is no information. Now we both sides don't know each other's situation. But it can be imagined that it will definitely not be better than us. We are the main force of the Song Army here, with ships and firearms, and the Song Army is over there.
Qinglong Banner Army..."
"Qinglong Banner Army," Cui Hongzheng murmured, "a few years ago, the late king was ordered by the Lord of Liao to help quell the rebellion in the Northeast. In Haolandian, there were 170,000 of us, together with the rebel Liao Jurchen tribes
We fought fiercely for several months, with winners and losers. We are deeply aware of the Jurchens' toughness. They live in the land of white mountains and black waters all year round, endure the bitter cold, and walk as fast as they can in the snow. It is not easy to fight, it is not easy to fight.
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Jin Yiyuan said nothing.
The Battle of Haolandian lasted for two or three years, from the time of the previous king to the present king's accession to the throne. It is said that the victory was small, but in fact it was more defeats and less wins. The Jurchens were almost chased to Wenzhou Prefecture in the east and took away their nest.
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However, there was internal strife among the Jurchens and other tribes who rebelled against the Liao Dynasty. The Liao Kingdom took the opportunity to put down the chaos in the Northeast, and the king quickly used the steps to withdraw his troops from Haolandian.
Immediately following the civil strife in the Liao Dynasty and the Song Dynasty's invasion of the Liao Dynasty, the king saw that an opportunity had come. Under the "persuasion" of several important ministers who understood his thoughts, he raised troops again. But this time the target was the northern border, trying to attack from the Yalu River and beyond.
To the east, occupy a large piece of land.
At that time, the chaos was so chaotic that all forces failed to take care of it, so the Goryeo army "won a complete victory and made rapid progress" and quickly built nine cities, preparing to take advantage of the results of this frontier expansion.
Who knew that after the Liao pacification, the Song State would not agree and repeatedly sent troops to harass. Everyone thought that the Song people were just helpless and out of reach, so they didn't care. They also designed to lure the enemy into an ambush, teaching the Song people a big lesson.
Get out of trouble and don't get hung up on it anymore.
The result is this situation!
"Vice General Jin," Cui Hongzheng said suddenly.
"Prime Minister Cui, my subordinate is here." Jin Yiyuan quickly leaned over and waited for Cui Hongzheng's instructions.
After a while, Cui Hongzheng spoke.
"Isn't it too smooth to lure Wanyan's troops of the Song Army to go deep and annihilate them?"
Jin Yiyuan didn't understand the meaning of the words for a while. He thought about it for a while, and finally understood the meaning, and hesitantly followed Cui Hongzheng's words.
"Prime Minister Cui, my subordinates are also a little suspicious. We have fought dozens of times with the Qinglong Banner Army of the Song Army who crossed the river and harassed us. Every time they were as cunning as foxes and very vigilant. If anything went wrong, they would immediately flee away, leaving us with no openings.
None of them could be caught. Only that time, the Wanyan brothers seemed to have been drunk. They fell into our trap and were led into the ambush without knowing it..."
Having said this, Jin Yiyuan glanced at Cui Hongzheng's face and said cautiously: "My subordinate feels that it does seem to be too smooth."
"Yeah, it went so smoothly. And before we even finished celebrating, the Song army's counterattack and revenge came. More than 100,000 troops marched by land and water, and the east and west routes attacked at the same time. Without months of preparation, it would have been impossible.
.But they did it so quickly. It’s so suspicious, so suspicious!”
Listening to Cui Hongzheng's words, Jin Yiyuan knew that he had guessed it, but he just didn't want to say it himself. He was very likely to fall into Song Jun's trick.
After walking for two days in the wind and snow, on the afternoon of the third day, we finally arrived at Dongxiao Mountain, more than 20 miles north of Pyongyang. This was the former enemy headquarters of the Koryo West Route Army.
"Jin Bingma Envoy, how is the situation?" Cui Hongzheng asked as soon as they met.
Jin Dezhen, the commander-in-chief of the Western Army, was covered in smoke and had a dark face. He lowered his head and shook his head, "It's not good, it's very bad! We put in twenty or thirty thousand lives, and we didn't even see a single tooth mark."
"What's going on?" Cui Hongzheng was anxious. If this continues, everyone will die when the harsh winter comes.
"The final general is incompetent, and the Song army's fortifications are too strong to be chewed."
"Are you lucky and benevolent as a woman, and are reluctant to drive away soldiers and ants? You don't know what time it is now! No one can run away by then!" Cui Hongzheng scolded.
Liang Weicong, who joined the army, saw that the atmosphere was not right, and quickly advised: "Prime Minister Cui, why don't we go to the front and have a look, there will be an attack."
"Okay, let's go take a look!" Cui Hongzheng glanced at his confidant Jin Dezhen and agreed. This chapter has been completed!
