Chapter 201 Wang Yuexue Attacks Liaoyang at Night
Indeed, if you want to fight, just hit the big one!
What's the point of beating those fish? If you want to fight, just go directly to Liaoyang!
In the long wind and snow, the huge cavalry army attacked again. In fact, they had only been resting in Jinzhou for less than two days, and it had already started to snow. Even natives like Han Qingmin did not recommend that Wang Yue raid on Liaoyang under such circumstances.
This is obviously crazy.
Even if Han Qingmin's subordinates were added, he had only collected less than 30,000 cavalrymen.
There are nearly 20,000 of these less than 30,000 cavalry, and they have marched for a thousand miles in fourteen days and have experienced a great war.
Then they were asked to rush another 400 miles to attack the Jurchens' ruling core in this area?
This is simply crazy!
However, Wang Yue, who comes to reinforce, dares to do this, and Han Qingmin cannot retreat. After all, if Wang Yue really attacks Liaoyang, the Jurchens' rule in the lower reaches of the Liaohe River will likely collapse. After all, they occupied this land for a few years. The Liaoyang area was dominated by Han people and Bohai people. Gao Yongchang first opposed Liao and then Jin. It was not until six years ago that he was killed by Aguda. The Jurchens completely controlled Liaoyang. The west bank of the Liaohe River was conquered one after another after the defeat of the decisive battle between the Liao Kingdom of Tribulus Mountain five years ago.
It's only been five or six years.
Moreover, Wang Yue also has a huge advantage, that is, the majority of his main refugee troops fled in this area.
Most of the most elite resentful soldiers are in the Liaoyang area.
The initial formation of the resentment was because of Gao Yongchang's rebellion. When this guy rebelled against Liao, he formed an alliance with Aguda and the north and south to fight. The Bohai and Jurchens' purge of the Han people led to a large number of Han refugees. The Liao Kingdom convened these refugees to form a resentment army. However, the purpose of Gao Yongchang's rebellion was not to rebuild his big Bohai Kingdom, but to rebel with Aguda, so he turned against Aguda. This area turned into white bones exposed in the wild in the continuous melee between the Khitan, Jurchen and Bohai families.
The Han people caught in it could only keep running.
Then these fled Han people fled to Yanshan Prefecture and became Wang Yue's current main thugs.
They are familiar with everything here.
So although Wang Yue's trip seems crazy, it is not a nonsense...
Uh, it's just nonsense!
"Yan, Yan Gong, why is it so cold here?"
Miao Fu wrapped in a fur coat on the horse's back and said tremblingly in the wind and snow.
"Is it still cold? It's minus twenty degrees, good weather for the Eskimos!"
Wang Yue stood in front of the Iron Throne, waving his axe and howling as if he was squirting.
In fact, it is not that serious. It is already February at this time. The area along the Liaodong Bay coast is only around zero degrees during the day, but it can reach more than ten degrees below zero at night. However, it is mainly snowing today. If he really goes straight to Huanglong, he would not dare to choose such a season.
His subordinates could withstand such temperatures.
Most of the ever-winning troops were from this area, so this problem did not exist. Even Zhang Rong and Chi Zhanhui's subordinates had similar environments. The Shanhaiguan area in Hebeidong is as minus ten degrees Celsius this season.
It is normal for Miao Fu to bear it.
He used to live in Xingtai, where he was almost ten degrees above zero.
However, what surprised Wang Yue was that Han Shizhong and his group could still hold on. Although it was mainly because everyone changed into furs along the way, this was still very surprising. But it was normal to think about it. Although the latitude of their place was indeed far lower than here, the problem was that the terrain was high!
"But it's very cold, but it's not much colder than Longshang!"
Wu Jie wrapped in fur and watched the snow all over the sky on the horse's back.
His family is the Shuiluo City of Deshun Army, which is the modern Gansu Zhuanglang, with an altitude of 2,000. It is almost ten degrees lower than the coastal area of the same latitude. This season is estimated to be minus ten degrees.
"That's right, it sometimes snows in April!"
Li Shifu said in agreement.
It is not surprising that it snows in April in his hometown in Suide, northern Shaanxi.
At this time, a faint trumpet suddenly sounded in front of him. A soldier beside Wang Yue immediately raised his trumpet and kept blowing loud trumpets. This thing is not an exaggeration. It was included in the Ming Dynasty. Among the antiques of the Ming Dynasty exhibited in Britain, there was a bronze trumpet used by the Mu family. Wang Yue was only slightly improved than the Ming Dynasty version. Anyway, it was farther than the Niuke. Then the trumpet sound was gradually approaching. Soon a team of cavalry appeared in the wind and snow. After seeing them, they ran over and stopped by the carriage to salute...
"Master, Sancha River is ahead."
He saluted and said.
"Why can't anyone see this ghost place?"
Wang Yue said in confusion.
He did not see anyone along the way, and he had never seen any living people even from Jinzhou to here. Instead, he saw a few dead bodies, just a few sporadic herders, who were wiped out by his forwards.
"When I returned to Da Zheng, there was no one in this area. It was winter, and it was frozen everywhere, and even the coasts to the south were frozen. If it thawed in spring, this area would immediately flood, and even the sea water would rise and return back. It was a nomadic place for herders to settle down and farm here. It was not until after crossing Sancha River that people began to be truly inhabited, but it was incomparable to Yanshan. Not far from the other side was Linming County, Haizhou, and there were only more than a thousand households in total.
This area is a few stations on the post road.
There is the Liaoshui Museum in front of it, and there are only a few postmen in the museum, which have been solved by subordinates."
The officer said.
“Where is going forward?”
Wu Jie asked.
"Haizhou is the main road to Tokyo, the first stop is the Hezhuguan, and then to Xingliao County. However, this area is full of plains. Although the rivers are dense, it can be directly passed by this season, so you can take a detour, but it is difficult to keep the villages along the way."
The officer said.
"Is there a large population along the Liaohe River from here?"
Wang Yue said.
"Almost no one is there, this is like this. In spring and summer, flooding, the tides are pouring backwards, and the nomadic land of herders and herders is Changlinzi. There are large tracts of trees and also nomadic land of herders. However, these herders are all Khitans. At this time, they were killed by the Jurchens, and the remaining ones were forcibly moved. They could go straight to Liaoyang after turning east in Changlinzi."
The officer said.
"Then go north!"
Wang Yue said.
"But go north and end up facing the counties outside Liaoyang?"
Wu Jie reminded him.
“But what if we were going south from the north?”
Wang Yue said.
Well, Wu Jie looked at the pile of furs around him. This image was simply Jurchen. Since the Jurchen uncle who was heading south from the north, no one would pay attention. Even if someone reacted, he probably wouldn't have time to notify Liaoyang.
"Go to the north, turn east to Changlinzi, and insert between Liaoyang and Shenzhou."
Wang Yue said.
This command is immediately passed backwards.
It is difficult for nearly 30,000 cavalry to pass orders in the wind and snow, especially with their subordinates. In fact, the entire team stretches for dozens of miles, even if it stretches across a width of more than ten miles. Fortunately, all the troops follow the contact officers of the Changsheng Army. These contact officers have compass in their hands, otherwise it would be impossible for them to maintain a consistent direction of advance in such a weather. This is also the main reason why Han Qingmin and others think that Wang Yue is crazy. It is not easy for such a huge cavalry legion to march in the same direction.
It’s okay to say it’s sunny, but it’s almost inevitable that you will get lost in the wind and snow.
The messengers who followed Wang Yue immediately activated the war horses to go backwards, and kept blew the special military horns in his hands along the way, and then looked for the cavalry that was advancing in the wind and snow.
The liaison officer who follows the latter will respond with the same bugle.
These liaison officers also followed the guides, all of whom were born and raised in Liaodong. They would take these people to Changlinzi.
In fact, it is the area around Liaozhong.
At this time, the situation in Liaodong was actually not much better than that in the Ming Dynasty. The line from Liao to Dalian belonged to the farming area, heading north to Huanglong Mansion. Leaving this line is a nomadic area, but the width of the entire Liao River is at least 100 miles.
The main herdsmen were Khitan, and not many of them were killed at this time.
Therefore, this area is even more sparsely populated. It can be said to be a wild snowfield. In spring and summer, it will become a nightmare for cavalrymen. Just like the unlucky Commander Liao and his American Armed Forces, it is difficult to move forward. However, in this season, all rivers and swamps are almost frozen into ice. The cavalry just let go of horses and don’t get lost with the main force. This is the responsibility of those liaison officers and guides. When they are assigned to the battalion, they will find long forests in the wind and snow, and the deputy immediately brings enough food for people and horses, and there is no need to find food.
It's a total blitzkrieg legion.
Although it was still cloudy the next day, the wind and snow stopped, and Wang Yue's carriage finally arrived at Changlinzi.
This is actually a large forest on the bank of the Liao River in the south of Liao, where Wang Yue began to summon his subordinates...
This project is relatively large.
So he stayed for a whole day before summoning the 30,000 cavalrymen.
Immediately afterwards, the army crossed the Liaohe River and began to go east and south to Liaoyang. In order to hide their whereabouts, they simply set off in the evening. At this time, the sky was clear. The snowfield under the moonlight did not need light at all. There was no barrier on the completely empty plain. All frozen rivers could pass through directly...
The ice layer had to run half a meter thick, not to mention the cavalry, even Wang Yue's carriage was unobstructed.
This journey is only sixty or seventy miles, almost the 30,000 cavalry sweeping through the wilderness, like the shadow of death, constantly moving forward almost without any notice along the way. Even if you see it, you will only think that this is the Jurchen cavalry.
It was midnight that they finally saw the city of Liaoyang standing in the distance.
This is a real big city. At this time, Tianfu City, Liaoyang, Tokyo, was 30 miles in circumference, almost at the same level as Yanshan City.
"How to break the city?"
Wu Jie asked.
The height of the Liaoyang city wall is three meters.
"Of course I've prepared this for a long time, blasting team, go!"
Wang Yue waved his hand at the back with an evil smile.
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Chapter completed!