Chapter 826 The same gene for recognizing one’s father
Author: Middle-aged paper tiger
Wang Jian can be said to be a natural-born hero given to the peninsula by God.
Without his arrival in the tenth century AD, the Korean Peninsula would probably have been divided into three or four pieces and continued to be chaotic.
Without Wang's Korea, the subsequent Lee's Korea would have been impossible to establish. It had neither legal principles nor vision.
Because before that, the northern part of the peninsula first belonged to Jizi Korea, then to Weiman Korea, and then to the four counties of Han and Goguryeo. It had nothing to do with the three Koreas of the peninsula in the south.
Even Silla could only advance as far as the south bank of the Daedong River, and not all of the peninsula.
Only Wang Jian, this tycoon who claimed to be a descendant of the Lelang Wang family, a wealthy Han Chinese family, turned his attention to the north after unifying the peninsula, and began to impatiently find a father for everyone on the peninsula.
As soon as the country was founded, Wang Jianli immediately patrolled the north and promoted Pyongyang to Xijing. He often said to the people around him, "The old land of Dongming is my home green carpet, and it will be swept away." He immediately changed the name of the country to Goryeo.
The so-called Dongming is the name of the ancestor of the Goguryeo people in legend. Wang Jian's words are to bring back the soul of Goguryeo, which had disappeared in the wind and smoke more than a hundred years ago, and give it to this group of hybrids on the peninsula.
Nation, I found a father who had some impressive deeds.
Goryeo and Goguryeo are actually the same word, but the translation is slightly different.
At this point, more than a thousand years later, the most disgusting reply that the North and the South threw at the Chinese people came into being.
Certain things, such as recognizing one's father and stealing culture, are really traditional! From this aspect, Wang Jianye is the true cultural ancestor of the Bang people.
But Wang Jian also knew very well that the name Goguryeo was not easy to wear on one's head, as it might attract the wrath of thunder.
So in his tribute letter to the Later Tang Dynasty, he said that he was a descendant of the Lelang Wang family, a wealthy family in Liaodong, and that his ancestors came from Jianghuai.
This made the later Tang court believe it to be true, and the edict praised him for showing the beauty of the magpie's nest. This was to praise Wang Jian for unifying the peninsula as the king as a Han, and considered him worthy of praise for occupying the magpie's nest for the Han people.
At home, in order to stabilize people's hearts and create a sense of identity, Wang Jian claimed to be a survivor of Goguryeo and said that his ancestor married Li Zhengji's daughter.
Li Zhengji is an orthodox Goguryeo remnant. His ancestors were moved to Shandong by their entire family. By the time of Li Zhengji, he began to rise. Among them, three generations of Li Zhengji, Li Na, and Li Shidao had occupied Ziqing Pinglu Jiedushi for a long time.
He even claimed to be the King of Qi, so he was very famous in the peninsula.
Wang Jian couldn't bear the surname Li, so he found a family from his maternal ancestors that still had a decent legacy.
In this case, after Wang Jian and his son tried their best to cover up, even though Wang Jian died twenty or thirty years ago, it is no longer clear who their ancestors were.
Wang Jian may be a descendant of the Han people from the four counties of Han Dynasty, or he may be a native of Bohai, Xunbao, and Sanhan. But one thing is for sure, he is a tycoon who knows how to survive.
Since he considers himself to be a descendant of Goguryeo, it seems natural to develop northward and recapture Liaodong.
Wang Jian did indeed do this. After he founded the country, Pyongyang and other places that had been occupied and abandoned by the Jurchens were gradually rebuilt.
He moved more than 100,000 people from the southern part of the peninsula to Shibian here, and transferred his younger brother Wang Shilian to Pyongyang to serve as a guard in Xijing.
After Wang Shilian took office, he actively organized the restoration of production, repaired the Jishui Great Wall from the Silla period along the Datong River north of Pyongyang, and built more than a dozen strategically located forts. The most critical one was that Murong Nobunaga was preparing to attack
Anbei Prefecture.
Anbeifu, near Jiechuan City in later Korea, was the most important anthracite coal producing area in Korea.
Jiechuan's "jie" should actually be this price, also pronounced as "jie", it has the same word as "value" but a different pronunciation. It means very big.
Therefore, Bichuan is the intersection of very tall mountains and rivers, and specifically refers to the Diyuoling Mountains and Miaoxiang Mountains in the northwest of Anbei Prefecture.
Among them, the name of the Diyuoling Mountains was translated by many people in later generations as the mountains that Chinese bandits climbed over, which is inaccurate.
Because North Korea has always regarded itself as Little China in history, it has always despised the Jurchen, Xie and other ethnic groups in the north of the peninsula, and called them Di Yi thieves.
The origin of the words Di Yuoling is not a mountain range that Chinese bandits climbed over.
But because the Khitan, the real Jurchen Jin Kingdom, and the fake Jurchen Jin Kingdom once became powerful, they all liked to climb over this mountain range to beat up the Koreans, so the name Di Yuoling came into being.
Although this Di is also Chinese, more specifically, it should refer to the various ethnic groups in Liaodong, China.
This time, the main force led by Murong Nobunaga also followed the Daning River and crossed the Di Yuoling Road southward.
Wang Shilian is a very visionary person, which can be seen from the fact that he devoted all his efforts to the construction of Anbei Mansion.
Among them, Anbei Fucheng is sandwiched between Diyuoling Mountains and Miaoxiang Mountains. The Qingchuan River rushing down along the Miaoxiang Mountains has become the natural moat of Anbei Fucheng.
This allows Anbei Fucheng to not only hide behind the river, but also block almost the only channel leading to Pyongyang from two steep mountains.
On March 22, after Murong Nobunaga decided on the march route, the army set off in three groups.
In fact, in the north of Anbei Prefecture, the Wang clan built many small fortresses in Korea.
They even took advantage of the Zhou-Liao War to capture a small piece of territory in Ding'an State, and brazenly established a Pinglu Town, which was a key stronghold in the upper reaches of the Qingchuan River.
It was as if the Wang family in Korea were not captives.
However, although I have the vision, my strength is still a bit lacking.
There are only 150 soldiers stationed in this Pinglu Town Fort, among whom there are dozens of Jurchens and Bohai people from the local mountains and forests.
Of course, the biggest function of Pinglu Town is not defense but warning, so it is also equipped with ten fast horses.
After discovering that the Zhou army was marching southward, the general of Pinglu Town immediately ordered several Tang horses to mount their war horses and run wildly downstream, and then ordered several other soldiers to climb up the mountainside and light up the smoke.
But Wang Jing was well prepared. Before the army arrived, he sent his son Wang Tingyi to lead a hundred cavalry. The cavalry under his command were all Hexi dragon horses, and their explosive speed was much faster than these peninsula mountain horses.
As a result, Tang Ma, who reported the news, was chased and hacked to death by Wang Tingyi's knights.
The soldiers who climbed up the mountain were caught and killed by more than a dozen Jurchen warriors in the forest. No one successfully climbed to the top and lit the smoke.
Wang Jing frowned, called Xiang Xun over and said, "I didn't expect there to be a fortress and a wolf smoke here. It seems that Wang Shilian is indeed a talent. Although he has died of illness, the riverside defense system left behind can still be used."
effect.
If we go down the river at the normal speed, I am afraid that the Korean army will be ready by the time we reach Anbei Prefecture."
Xiang Xun nodded, "Does the prince want you to ride southward day and night?"
"That's right, your Majesty is taking the Daning River. Although the water flow is gentle, the river is not deep. It is impossible for everyone to go down the river. Most of them still have to climb over mountains and ridges, and then cross the river. It will definitely be better than us.
It’s slow, so we can only take the first step.”
As he spoke, Wang Jing used a few pebbles to illustrate the terrain around Anbei Prefecture. "According to reports, the Qingchuan River passes around Anbei Prefecture. The north and west city walls are only twenty-three steps away from the river bank, and the army cannot gain a foothold."
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There is only one beach in the south that is very large and can accommodate more than a thousand people camping. The Star People can lead a thousand cavalry to seize this place first and protect the pontoon bridge on the river, waiting for the arrival of the army."
Anbei Fucheng's biggest reliance is the Qingchuan River. The Fucheng is backed by mountains and surrounded by water on three sides. Except for the south, it is impossible to establish a foothold on the riverside close to Anbei Fucheng.
If we cannot occupy this large piece of sandy land in the south, we will have no choice but to occupy the Qingchuan River, which is more than 200 feet wide.
Xiang Xun didn't hesitate after hearing this, he raised his hand directly, bit into a piece of dry biscuit, and went down to select the elite.
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Although the name of Anbei Mansion sounds domineering, like the Anbei Protectorate Mansion of the Tang Dynasty, for the Wang clan and Korea at this time, Anbei Mansion was basically the northernmost point of the country and was not a good place.
Although the geographical location is important, the population is very small. The surrounding states have only more than 10,000 households, a total of 70,000 to 80,000 people.
So in reality, Anbei Mansion is a purely military fortress, with three thousand troops stationed and seven or eight thousand family members of the officers and soldiers, totaling about ten thousand people.
The surrounding fields are basically cultivated by the families of the soldiers stationed there, and supplies are almost entirely dependent on supplies from Xijing and Pyongyang.
The guarding general of Anbei Prefecture is Park Seung-kyung, the second son of Park Shou-kyung, the founding hero of Goryeo and a relative of the Wang clan, who is now the key supporter of Goryeo King Wang So-neng's rise to power.
Although this person is not a second-generation ancestor, he is certainly not a cautious and prudent guard, and he is not even conscientious.
At least Park Chengjing did not seriously implement the Qingchuan River warning system carefully designed by Wang Shilian and the strict military discipline that accompanied it.
Xiang Xun went down from the Qingchuan River, breaking through the Goryeo military strongholds along the way, capturing and killing the generals responsible for warning in various places, and at the same time, he could travel hundreds of miles a day.
When he rushed to a place less than twenty miles away from Anbei Prefecture, the Korean defenders in Anbei Prefecture still had not received the warning.
Xiang Xun made a prompt decision. The original task given to him by Wang Jing was to occupy the sandy land south of the city and guard the pontoon to prevent the army from being unable to cross the river. However, seeing that the Goryeo defenders had neglected this, he looked at the more than a thousand soldiers behind him and said loudly:
"When we were in China, we followed the saints and great kings to conquer the four directions. The elite cavalry of the northern kingdom and the powerful soldiers of the Jianghuai River could not defeat me. Now that we are here in the wild wilderness of Haidong, how can we lose our spirit?
I intend to select two hundred people to ascend first, storm the north, drive away the thieves and slaves in the city, and show off the majesty of my heavenly soldiers from the Central Plains."
The officers and men under his command were excited by Xiang Xun's words and responded one after another.
Then Xiang Xun selected 200 people to board first, and ordered Zhang Jianxiong, the general of Xiao, to lead them, disguised as merchants, and rushed outside the city of Anbei Prefecture in the evening. Then they robbed the ships on the Qingchuan River and rushed straight to the north gate of Anbei Prefecture.
The North Gate was only about 30 steps away from the river, so only a small town was opened. In addition, the enemy could not deploy a large army here, so the Korean defenders did not pay much attention to it on weekdays.
Although Park Chengjing practiced martial arts diligently and was familiar with military books, he only talked about military affairs on paper and had no experience in battle.
When he saw two hundred strange soldiers suddenly appearing to seize the city, he was stunned for a while before he remembered to give orders.
The deputy general of Anbei Mansion beside him did not realize the seriousness of the matter.
Because there are three thousand defenders in Anbei Prefecture, among whom there are hundreds of people who are from the Wu Ban alone.
At this time, when Goryeo was first founded, the military system was in chaos. Each big family had a large number of private soldiers. The so-called king was just the one with the most private soldiers. It was not until fifty years later that a national military with two armies and six guards was established.
system.
This led to a situation where only the private soldiers of the King of Goryeo and nobles at all levels had combat effectiveness. The army, which was officially named the country, had no combat effectiveness and was just like the slaves of nobles at all levels.
Therefore, Wang's Goryeo army was not judged by the number of people, but by the number of nobles in the army.
Now Anbei Mansion has hundreds of the lowest-ranking nobles, the Wu Ban, and the general Pu Chengjing is from a noble family, so his military strength is not weak.
At this time, the Wang family had only founded Korea for thirty-four years, and these "elite soldiers" from the Three Kingdoms era on the peninsula had not yet completely decayed.
Hundreds of martial arts squads are made up of soldiers, and their subordinates range from three to five to as many as a dozen. The brave warriors they brought from their hometowns, plus Park Chengjing's one hundred soldiers, are quite elite in the Goryeo Kingdom.
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The lieutenant took a look from a distance and saw that although those who attacked the north gate looked majestic, they were wearing outer robes and it was hard to tell that they were not wearing armor.
But judging from the speed at which they ran, even if they were wearing armor, it was impossible for them to be in iron armor. His confidence suddenly increased, and he said to Park Chengjing:
"Since last year, there have been rumors that the Liao Kingdom in the north wants to invade the south. Now it seems that it is probably true.
This must be the vanguard sent by the Liao Kingdom to seize the border. Please don't give fifty martial arts squads and fifty soldiers to a certain family. They will definitely be able to repel the thieves from the north.
If you don't, generals, stick to the south city and cut off the pontoon bridge if necessary, it will be enough to defend it."
The lieutenant general was full of confidence, because he had never thought that there was any heavy armor in the world that only weighed more than thirty kilograms, let alone what kind of country could gather two hundred people wearing fifty or sixty kilograms of armor and walking as fast as flying.
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Pu Chengjing had never experienced a battle, and his heart was like beating a drum. At this moment, hearing that the lieutenant was so confident, Pu Chengjing breathed a long sigh of relief and immediately agreed to his request. Then he immediately sent people to Nancheng to warn Xijing and prepared to cut down the southern pontoon bridge.
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The deputy general's surname was Liu, and he was born in the Liu family of Zhenzhou, a wealthy family in Goryeo. He had a cousin who married Wang Jian, the founding king of the country.
However, because he was relatively far away from the Princess Hall, Vice Admiral Liu did not get much light. Therefore, when he saw that war really broke out, he was keenly aware that the 'opportunity' had come.
As long as he led his tiger and wolf soldiers to block the first wave of Beikou's attack, the credit would be great. Fortunately, the second son of the Pu family was a little timid, otherwise this great achievement would not have been his turn.
Asge suddenly put down the Changke ax in his hand, held an iron shield in one hand, roared wildly, and rushed towards the north city gate, because the Goryeo soldiers were about to close the door.
Asge weighs two hundred and ten kilograms. When he runs with all his strength and then bumps into him, you can imagine the force!
His physique was extremely rare in this era of insufficient food. The Goryeo soldiers on the opposite side were basically of normal size, about 1.6 meters or even lower, and weighed 1,230 kilograms.
With this kind of physical fitness, no matter how many people there are, how can they withstand Asge's collision? There was a clang, and then there was a scream.
Although the bull-like Asge was hit by three or four spears, the iron shield was strong enough and nothing happened to him. On the contrary, the Goryeo soldiers who were closing the city gate and using their spears were directly knocked to the ground.
Then, more Xianden Xionghu rushed over. They picked up their Chang Ke axes and cut a huge hole in the North City Gate, making it completely impossible to close it.
Asge did not stop after knocking over the Goryeo soldiers, but directly raised his iron shield and smashed it hard.
These were just the lowest-level soldiers and could not withstand a beating. There seemed to be dozens or even hundreds of them. However, under the collision of six or seven people from Asge, they were killed and ran around in less than a minute. The city gate was completely destroyed.
opened.
Lieutenant General Liu rushed here, accompanied by hundreds of soldiers and soldiers. But when he arrived not far from the north gate, Lieutenant General Liu's heart skipped a beat.
It's not because the city gate has been completely opened, but because the two hundred people on the opposite side are not easy to mess with at first glance.
Asge roared wildly, and the iron shield in his hand came out, whistling and spinning towards the Korean warrior on the opposite side.
With a clang, three or five people were knocked over. Then he picked up a long Ke ax that someone had dropped and rushed towards the opposite side.
At this time, more than a hundred people had already rushed in. After seeing Asge and others rushing in, the light-armored archers immediately occupied the roofs on both sides and shot arrows at the Koreans on the opposite side like raindrops.
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The Korean soldiers were actually quite elite because they could form a stable formation and knew that in this situation, those with excellent shooting skills should seize the high ground. But unfortunately, the armor gap between the two sides was too big.
At this time, the popular iron armor in Goryeo and Japan was a thing called hanging armor.
Although strictly speaking it is a type of nail piercing, they cannot create very flexible nails, nor do they have complicated weaving techniques.
Therefore, unlike hanging armor, which has higher hardness and tightly woven iron sheets, hanging armor just barely connects the nail leaves together.
This kind of armor usually looks like nothing, but on the battlefield, when attacked by weapons with armor-breaking capabilities or strong kinetic energy, the armor leaves will be punched out, so that even if the armor leaves are not penetrated, the armor can still be broken.
Case.
The arrows fired by the Goryeo archers turned Asgar, who was wearing two layers of cloth-covered iron armor, into a hedgehog, but did not really hurt him at all.
However, the arrows shot by the strong bows in the hands of the warriors who first ascended could kill the so-called Korean warriors.
As soon as the two sides came into contact, a verdict was made.
With flesh and blood flying all over the sky, Asge crashed into the formation of the Korean warriors. The Korean warriors who were relatively intact just now and could climb up side by side suddenly turned into a group of termites with their nests destroyed, rolling down.
Everywhere.
At the same time, although Asge's long-ke ax is not very fast, facing the Korean soldiers who generally can't even reach his shoulders, he can hit their heads with a casual ax, and blood will immediately spurt out from the iron armor.
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Most of the bones in the hands of the Korean soldiers could only penetrate Asgar's waist, abdomen and chest, which was the best place for defense. In addition, Asgar's collision was very fierce, so few people could get close.
The two sides fought for less than a quarter of an hour, and it immediately turned into a one-sided pursuit.
Asgar was fierce, and Zhang Jianxiong did not give in too much. He charged at the front with a pair of fine steel two-headed spears, and was surrounded by seven or eight people with long and short weapons.
Together with Zhang Jianxiong, these pioneers formed a very flexible small formation. As Zhang Jianxiong screamed strangely, they all rushed out with swords, guns, axes and hammers.
No matter who or how many people were in front of him, they were quickly beaten to a pulp amidst the strange screams.
Vice Admiral Liu was not a timid person, but the scene before him made him realize that resistance was completely unnecessary.
He faced more than a hundred people in duels, but he had no power to fight back. Until now, the soldiers on the opposite side were shot like hedgehogs, but none of them fell. However, the soldiers under him had been beaten long ago.
Killed hundreds of people.
Thinking of this, Lieutenant General Liu exchanged glances with several of his cronies, threw away the weapons in their hands, took off the cumbersome armor on their bodies, turned around and burrowed into the surrounding houses, and immediately disappeared.
Park Chengjing was still waiting for the good news from Vice Admiral Liu, but soon he heard heartbreaking cries with a Korean accent, and countless Anbei Mansion soldiers ran wildly throughout the city as if they were being chased by evil spirits.
Pu Shouqing told the generals sent by Pu Chengjing that there was no need to struggle anymore. He immediately ordered someone to lift Pu Chengjing up, turned around, and went down to the city to the stables.
Run! Anyway, his mission is to save Erlang Jun's life. As long as the head of the family is here, the crime of abandoning the city is nothing.
And here, after Zhang Jianxiong ascended first and captured the north gate, Xiang Xun immediately led the remaining 700 people to rush into the city, and immediately began a mass pursuit.
Although there were thousands of soldiers in the city, they were no match for Xiang Xun and them. In a short time, hundreds of them were killed, and the rest knelt down like quails and begged for surrender.
On March 28, Wang Jing led the follow-up army to arrive and completely took control of Anbei Fucheng.
On the third day of April, Murong Nobunaga arrived with his main force of 30,000 troops and tens of thousands of civilians. He was overjoyed to see that Anbei Fucheng, which was originally scheduled to be captured before April 12, was captured by Xiang Xun so quickly.
After conferring a large reward on Xiang Xun, he ordered Chen Sirang to lead a small force to clear out the forts in the Wang family's Gaoli scattered small towns north of Anbei Prefecture, and at the same time began to interrogate the prisoners to find out the enemy's situation.
On the seventh day of April, Murong Nobunaga left Wang Jing to guard Anbei Prefecture, and built this place where the two rivers converged into a rear area for the army to store grain and supplies.
He personally led an army of 50,000 and began to advance towards Pyongyang City, Xijing of Wang's Korea.
Almost at the same time, Zhe Deyuan led more than 10,000 cavalry to advance from the coastline very smoothly. The main cities of Wang's Goryeo here, Xuanzhou and Guizhou, had almost only established their names. There were not many garrisons or even civilians, and the city walls were not there.
They are all rotten mud walls.
After Zhe Deyuan captured Xuanzhou, he followed Murong Nobunaga's orders and began to repair the port and build defenses until the navy of Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Hui arrived.
The war to conquer Goryeo in the south has just begun at this time, and it is time to see the real story below the walls of Pyongyang.