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394 Goryeo 6

If the strategic goals are determined, tactical problems will be easily solved.

Xu Shiyang's general staff believed that to force King Goryeo to surrender, he must seize this guy who never stings with the people's strength, and it is best to join his heirs and the main members of the two squads.

If you can do this, you will not be afraid that Goryeo will not surrender.

As for plundering the population and wealth of Goryeo, it is necessary to annihilate the main force of the Goryeo army as much as possible, and then divide the troops to attack as wide as possible, so that it is easier to collect population and materials.

The most important tactical action of all these goals is fast!

It is necessary to avoid giving the King of Goryeo to escape at the fastest speed!

Therefore, the Qi army did not hesitate anymore. On the 28th, the army used three field brigades, Pingyuan, Jiyuan and Weiyuan, as well as the trapped camp troops and some dragon cavalrymen, a total of 7,000 people as the Southern Army, and Gongsun Sheng was the commander-in-chief, and operated along the south bank of the Han River.

With the three field brigades of Jingyuan, Jingyuan and Zhiyuan, the Central Army Guards, and the Blue Army Brigade, Xu Shiyang personally served as the commander and operated along the north bank of the Han River.

In the middle of the Han River, there are thirty-three small flatbed ships suitable for sailing inland rivers, and the three armies advanced side by side and land, and quickly marched towards the Goryeo King Jing.

At this time, there was chaos in the Goryeo King's capital. The Goryeo King just learned that the one who attacked from the sea this time was not the Japanese pirates, but the letters that had previously rebuked the Qi army who was most obedient to the Jin Dynasty!

However, although it is not a Japanese pirate, as long as it is not a life-threatening Tartar, the King of Goryeo believes that he still has the power to fight - after all, everyone is beaten up by the Jurchens very hard, right?

The ignorant King of Goryeo has never known the achievements of the Qi army in the past few years, which is quite strange.

However, there are always people who understand the two nobles.

Some Goryeo nobles who have been to Liaodong know very well that in recent years, the Jurchen Tatars have never gained any advantage in the rising Qi army.

However, more nobles believed that this was just because the Jurchens were careless.

At this moment when the enemy is in front of the great enemy, another dazzling party struggle has begun in the Kingdom of Goryeo.

For example, the Northern People's Party in the two squads believed that an agreement should be reached with the Qi army as soon as possible, even if the king could surrender to the Emperor of the Great Zhou - decades ago, Goryeo had been a vassal state of the Great Zhou.

However, the Western Party was in need of party struggles and constantly emphasized the king's dignity and authority, believing that the king should not compromise with the Zhou people who also surrendered to the Jurchens, not to mention that the attack was an affiliation of the Great Zhou.

The quarrels continued, but no one mentioned how to resist the Qi army's offensive. The king issued a soft decree, requiring Gyeonggi Province to gather troops and prevent the Qi army from advancing to Wangjing.

As a result, time belonging to the Kingdom of Goryeo passed quickly.

On the first day of December of the second year of Longdao, Dazhou, the Qi army of the South Road captured the important town of Tongjin, and the next day it conquered another important town of the Han River, Jinpu.

On the same day, Xu Shiyang's main force defeated the first Goryeo King's Army on the north bank of the Han River. This was an armed force pieced together by Goryeo's official soldiers and monks from nearby Buddhist temples. The total attack was about 2,000 people.

The 7500 Qi army wiped out this unit in just one hour, killing more than 500 opponents, capturing more than 1,200 people, and only a few survivors dispersed.

On the third day of December, the Qi army fleet carried more than 300 Marines. They attacked in the dark and captured Yanghuajin on the south bank of the Han River. This place was only more than thirty miles away from the Goryeo Kings!

At this point, King Li Nei of Goryeo felt that the situation seemed a little bad for the first time.

The Grand Secretary Xian (equivalent to the Censor of the Great Zhou Dynasty) and his brother, Jin Shangheng, who advocated a death battle with the Qi army, advocated a death battle with the Qi army, and Jin Shangrong summoned the rebels and monks in Gyeonggi Province, and prepared to cooperate with the regular troops to fight.

However, the Qi army's actions were too fast. Before the main force of the Goryeo Army had been assembled, Xu Shiyang personally led the Northern Army to launch a fierce attack on the Goryeo Army gathered outside the west gate of Wangjing.

With the support of artillery, the Qi army assembled all reconnaissance cavalry and dragoons to launch an assault on the flanks of the Goryeo Army.

The soft arrows of the Goryeo Army naturally could not resist the fierce artillery fire. After their long-range firepower was suppressed, the short spear and short sword could naturally not stop the cavalry's iron hooves. The Qi cavalry simply gave up the traditional tactic of dismounting and shooting, directly rode the horse and broke the formation in one fell swoop.

The Goryeo Army completely collapsed, more than 30 major officers were killed, and more than 20 generals were captured. In order to avoid being captured and humiliated, Kim Sang-rong, who had left the city to supervise the battle, swallowed medicine and committed suicide when the troops collapsed. The Goryeo Army lost more than 5,000 people, and the main force of Gyeonggi Province had completely dissipated.

This battle took place outside the west gate of the Goryeo King Li Ne and most of the two nobles met with their own eyes when the main force of the Goryeo Army was defeated within two quarters of an hour.

This was undoubtedly a very realistic and shocking education for them. At night that day, the King of Goryeo, who had several escape experiences, led several great lords (princes), princesses and a few senior officials of two classes of nobles to leave the city from the South Gate and try to escape to Nanhanshan City.

However, the Qi army was much faster than them. Under the command of Gongsun Sheng, the Qi army in the South Road captured Nanhan Mountain City in one fell swoop in the morning of the fourth day of the lunar month.

In theory, this fortress with 16,000 defenders, but in fact there are less than 1,500 people stationed. As Jin Yun said, it was just an unfinished low wall in the eyes of the Han people. Not only did the wall lack the cover of battlements, but there were even fewer shelter points for the defenders to rest.

After Gongsun Sheng attacked Nanhan Mountain City, he was shocked to find that although the fortifications had not been completed, the Goryeo Kings Palace here was built quite luxuriously and had been completed...

After the King of Goryeo arrived near Nanhan Mountain City, he found that the "fortress" they relied on to avoid hunting had fallen, so the fugitive team had to return to Wangjing under the pressure of Qi cavalry.

In order to annihilate the main force of the Goryeo army as much as possible, Xu Shiyang ordered the cavalry not to force too much, or directly eliminate this easy-to-success target, just to drive the Goryeo King back to the capital.

On the fifth day of the lunar month, the main force of the Qi army arrived, and 15,000 navy and army soldiers completed the encirclement of the Goryeo King Jing.

On the same day, the Qi army set up camps around the capital, blocking all the city gates, but left many gaps in the city walls.

The Goryeo Army thought that it had found an opportunity, so they immediately sent dozens of warriors to use hanging baskets to go down the city wall, and took advantage of the night to cross the Qi army's blockade line. With the will of the Goryeo King "Eight Ways to Rescue the King", they went to each of the Goryeo roads and summoned reinforcements.

Xu Shiyang deliberately let the Goryeo people run away, just waiting for an opportunity to surround the site to help.

Since the King of Goryeo has been buried in the city, he does not have to be too anxious to attack this fragile city.
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