Chapter 186: Hitting the Egg with a Stone

Due to the short journey, the front-line military camps generally do not store a large amount of food. They thought that the army would be able to maintain the rapid mobility of the army, and the important place where the Goryeo Army stored food was in Anbiancheng, with tight posts along the way. Once the Ming army attempted to attack grain, they would be discovered immediately. Therefore, the Goryeo Army was very at ease with the safety of Anbiancheng.

It was very regular to transport grain from Anbiancheng to the front line of the Goryeo Army. It was delivered every seven days to ensure that the front line barracks had half a month of grain storage. However, this time it was cut off for nine days. The Goryeo commander Li Bi began to realize that something was wrong. He immediately sent a quick horse to investigate, but the result he got almost shocked him to death. Anbiancheng was occupied by the Ming army ten days ago.

The situation was already quite serious. Only then did Li Bi understand the real reason why the Ming army was slow to attack. They were not waiting for the orders of their own emperors, but waiting for them to lose food. The Goryeo Army had only five days left for military rations. Li Bi immediately ordered the plunder of food in nearby villages. At the same time, he ordered the general Zheng Dongming to lead 10,000 troops to counterattack Anbiancheng and sent people to cross mountains and ridges to Kaijing to ask for help from Li Chenggui.

At the end of August, 10,000 Korean troops marched towards Anbiancheng in a hurry.

The road north of Anbiancheng is not smooth, most of which are covered with forests. The traffic here is difficult, and there is only a small path along the coast. Although it can be called a small path, the road is also rugged and bumpy. This is also because there are very few cavalry in the Goryeo Army. Although it can raise horses on Danluo Island, it has no place to use it.

Ten thousand Korean infantry rushed south at an unusual speed. Li Bi was anxious. In order to allow the soldiers to arrive at Anbian City as soon as possible and regain the food, he used a destructive strategy. Each soldier was only allowed to bring dry food for two days, which means that the soldiers had to arrive within two days. Otherwise, the food would be gone. This is no wonder that Li Bi was forced to have no choice. The sudden occupation of Anbian City left only five days of food in his army. Even if he went to the village to plunder and the food saved by these ten thousand troops, it would last for up to seven days. The more death was the Ming army in the north but did not fight, which obviously knew his embarrassment.

Li Bi knew in his heart that Li Chenggui had lost before the bet started this time. Not to mention that the strength of the Goryeo Army and the Ming Army were too far apart, and Li Chenggui was establishing a new country in Korea at this time. This news has led to serious confrontation in the army, and supporters and opponents are clear-cut. Doesn’t Li Chenggui know that not everyone hates Goryeo? Although Li Bi repeatedly explained to the soldiers this may be just a rumor, everyone knew that this was not a rumor. Many soldiers’ family letters have arrived, and the morale of the army is unstable, and coupled with the food crisis, this battle will definitely be lost. In order to win the last glimmer of hope, Li Bi had to burn his boats.

At dawn, ten thousand soldiers were exhausted after a day and night of forced marching, but they only walked less than half of the journey, and there were still 170 miles, less than half of the journey, but most of the dry food was gone, and the forced marching caused more hunger. In fact, many soldiers had only the last meal after breakfast, which means that the food was going to be out of food tonight. Some soldiers were smarter and secretly prepared some dry food themselves, but most of them only received two days of dry food. It was not until yesterday evening that the superiors told them that the target of the marching was Anbiancheng, and the soldiers were stunned at the time.

Everyone was so tired that they couldn't speak, but in the morning, who complained first, and the anger that was held in his heart finally broke out. The curses were terrifying. Is there something wrong with Li Bi's mind when he asked them to arrive in Anbian City in two days? Many soldiers no longer had any taboos. They directly pointed out Li Bi's name and cursed, greeting the 18th generation of women in his family. The officers did not dare to care too much, let alone say that they wanted them to fight the Ming army to fight desperately, but they just comforted them. When they arrived in Anbian City, they had a full meal. Despite this, the soldiers asked angrily: "What should I do tonight?"

Resentment is like the most powerful cold virus. In less than a quarter of an hour, the army of ten thousand people was infected, and even the officers began to complain that their destruction and destruction were just to sink the ship, and they didn't say they wanted to lose food! Who taught the general's bad idea? Complaint, Li Bi complained about Li Chenggui's misjudgment, and the lower complained that he was not good at learning Chinese, and his cursing sounded like a military song of Goryeo, loud and harsh.

"General Zheng!" An officer rushed from behind and called out to the chief general Zheng Dongming. Zheng Dongming was a famous family in Goryeo, the son of Zheng Daochuan, the Minister of Revenue. His troops were of average leadership, but Li Bi asked him to regain Anbian City. If he was defeated and held accountable, the final root was the loss of Anbian City. He asked Zheng Dongming to save the city and wanted to drag Zheng Daochuan into the water. Zheng Daochuan was Li Chenggui's confidant. In order to protect his son, he had to protect himself. This was a way out for Li Bi to seize Anbian City. As for seizing Anbian City, Li Bi received information that the Ming army had less than 2,000 people, and 2,000 people were against two thousand. Even if he could not completely wipe out the enemy, he could at least regain some of the food so that the Goryeo army could successfully retreat to the south of the Motianling Mountains.

Zheng Dongming rode on a war horse. When he heard someone calling him behind him, he knew what was going on. He couldn't help but sigh and stopped the horse. Of course, he knew very well that the army was already full of resentment, but he had no choice. Now it was halfway through, and the food was no longer supported, and the morale of the army would change, which made him in a dilemma.

"General Han, what's the matter?" he asked by holding his horse.

"Sir, I remember there was a big village nearby. Or maybe my subordinates would bring people to get some food, otherwise they would be out of food."

Zheng Dongming hesitated for a moment. He was guilty of privateing food, but the situation in front of him...

Zheng Dongming sighed again, even Li Bi did this, even if he did it, he would do it! He nodded and said, "Okay, you take three hundred brothers to get food, I'll wait for you here."

The general surnamed Han waved his hand and led three teams of soldiers to the west. Zheng Dongming saw a small river not far away, and the soldiers were exhausted, so he ordered: "Everyone, rest by the river! Let's set off after breakfast."

In fact, before he could order, many soldiers had already run to the river to drink water. After a moment, the river was suddenly filled with Goryeo soldiers. Zheng Dongming sat on a big rock, stretched tiredly, took another sip of water, and looked up at the terrain here. This was a basin, surrounded by mountains and dense forests. A small river crossed north and south. It was because of this river that a gap appeared in the basin and formed a passage. Although Zheng Dongming was unable to lead the troops, he also knew that this was the best place to ambush, but he was not worried. It was still 150 or 60 miles away from Anbian Town. Even if the Ming army wanted to ambush them, he would not run to such a long distance.

But things just go to the worst. The key is that Zheng Dongming and Li Bi don’t know that the Ming army came from the water. They all thought that the Ming army had taken advantage of the gap and crossed the Tumen River. Afterwards, they had strengthened the patrol to prevent the Ming army from catching their retreat. If he knew that the Ming army was coming by boat, he might not have been so careless.

Just as Zheng Dongming was preparing to have breakfast, several soldiers who were about to rob the grain just now stumbled over and ran away, covered in blood. They waved desperately, "General Zheng, something big is not good."

Zheng Dongming stood up, and suddenly a scream came from the riverside. Hundreds of Ming army musketeers rushed out of the forest on the other side of the river. They rushed to the riverside to open fire together. Although the range of the musketeers was not far, there were hundreds of bullets in one gun, which was a powerful weapon to deal with dense enemy formations. The riverside was filled with Goryeo soldiers drinking water and washing. There was a loud bang, and the blue smoke rose. The dense Goryeo soldiers on the other side of the river screamed everywhere. Large areas fell to the riverside. The Goryeo soldiers were so scared that they were desperately trying to escape from the riverside. They shouted wildly, pushing and trampling on each other. Everyone looked extremely frightened and the scene was extremely chaotic.

Zheng Dongming rushed to the river and shouted loudly, "Stay calm! Stay calm! Don't be confused."

But no matter how he shouted, only a few hundred people followed his command. The Goryeo Army was extremely frightened. At this moment, five hundred armored cavalry emerged from the woods. Chen Wanli took the lead. He received the order from Li Weizheng three days ago and ordered him to ambush the Goryeo Army in the middle. Chen Wanli, who was a smuggler, was brave, and did not play according to the rules. He only brought 800 people on a boat to more than 100 miles away to intercept the Goryeo Army. However, even these 800 people were also the elite selected by Li Weizheng from the three guards of Jinzhou, Fuzhou and Jianzhou. All the 300 musketeers could fire guns independently and were skilled. The five hundred cavalry were the elite cavalry of Jianzhou Guards. They could block ten with one. They were the nemesis of the Goryeo infantry.

Although the five hundred cavalrymen were not large in number, the momentum they set off was like a storm and rain, and like thousands of troops coming to kill, instantly defeating the hundreds of people that Zheng Dongming had just gathered. They rode their horses and slashed their swords.

Everyone was like a ferocious demon from hell. The Goryeo Army had no fighting spirit. Under the extreme fear of the Ming army, they collapsed. When the cavalry arrived, their heads rolled on the ground, corpses were everywhere, and blood flowed into a river. Ten thousand people either knelt down and begged for mercy or ran around. Seeing that the situation was destined, he turned over and fled. Chen Wanli had seen him, and he rode his horse and rushed to the back of his head with a lightning speed. He saw that a blood arrow flew up, and Zheng Dongming's head was chopped more than three feet away.

Zheng Dongming's death completely disintegrated the morale of the Goryeo army, and no one was willing to resist. They fled all over the mountains and fields. Five hundred cavalrymen entered the flock of sheep like tigers. They killed wantonly. The place they passed was like walking in a land of noon. They fought until noon. More than 3,000 Goryeo army were beheaded and more than 5,000 captured people, and only more than 1,000 people fled. However, no one in the 800 Ming army suffered casualties and won a complete victory.

This was the first time the Ming army fought with the Goryeo Army, and it was also a tentative attack. Although it was known that the Goryeo Army was backward and was a weak brigade, the cowardice and morale they showed were far beyond Li Weizheng's expectations, and he decided to let go and kill the chicken.
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