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Chapter 53 - 3

Because the Liao Kingdom intends to divide and govern, the various Jurchen tribes in the Yalu River, which live in the hinterland of the Liao Kingdom, have not been unified. This time, the Jurchen tribes learned that the Han army was attacking Baozhou, and each tribe sent warriors. When they arrived at Laiyuan City, each tribe also set up camp tents, but they were closer. The camp was not as strict as the regular army of the Jin Kingdom. After the camp was set up, those who practiced martial arts, herd sheep, and made rice, were doing their own things. The sound of barbarians drifted around at dusk, and the tone was sobbing and sad. It was heard from the Jurchen camp, like an elegy.

Many tribes stood beside the camp tent and watched the guard battalion carry the spoils with envy. The leaders of each tribe came to Zhao Xingde to discuss the next action under Wang Hengzhi's leadership. When they arrived at the central army tent, their personal soldiers told the lieutenant to patrol the injured camp. Wang Hengzhi and others came to the tent that the doctor bandaged the injured. This injured camp was an independent place in the camp. In addition to the wounded soldiers of the Chengying Eighth Battalion itself, some slightly injured Korean prisoners were also treated here.

The leader of the Jurchens, Eri, also envied: "If we had known that these Goryeo people were so vulnerable, we should have defeated Baozhou City long ago." The Jurchen tribes in the Yalu River and the Goryeo people were enemies. Since the Liao army withdrew, the Goryeo people took over Baozhou. The nearby Jurchen tribes were all as if they were pins and needles, so Wang Hengzhi invited him and Eri joined forces with other tribes and brought more than 2,000 soldiers to attack Baozhou.

"The Goryeo people are still honored even though they were defeated. They almost persisted until half of their casualties were injured before retreating. They were defeated because of their incomplete military branches. It was difficult to defeat the army with a complete army of infantry, cavalry and artillery by relying solely on the number of people and bravery." Zhao Xingde, regardless of whether his words were understood, turned to Wang Heng and said straight: "The main force of the Goryeo Army who came to Yuancheng has been wiped out of the city by our camp. There must be a lot of supplies and food in this city. If it is captured, how about the two families? "

As soon as he finished speaking, the blue veins on his forehead suddenly appeared. "General Wang, didn't you say that back then?" "We Jurchens were in vain?" He had fought with the Goryeo army many times, but knew that it was not easy to deal with. Zhao De easily cleaned up the Goryeo elite soldiers. He felt a little timid in his forehead. Even if he was dissatisfied with him, he would only ask Wang Heng to make noise.

Wang Hengzhi suddenly said embarrassedly: "General Zhao, the leader of the Eli Li came to attack Baozhou together, and he had a good intention..." He coughed and said in a deep voice: "No matter what, the three armies will join forces to defeat the far city, so that they will not lose their position. They will not let all their efforts be wasted."

His original idea was to bring three thousand strong men to hang out for 20 days of military rations, and then to take Zhao Xingde and other elite troops to besiege Kaizhou City. Wang Hengzhi had no intention of conquering Kaizhou City, but just wanted to attract the attention of the Liao Kingdom for Han Ningshuang to manage Guannan of Suzhou. The Han army has been hiding in the deep mountains and dense forests for many years. Except for the few new generals around Han Ningshuang, most of them lost the courage and confidence to attack the city and fight tough battles. Unexpectedly, the situation in Baozhou was beyond his expectations. The Xia State Camp not only blocked the Yalu River surface in this area with gunships, but also cut off the aid of the Goryeo army between Baozhou and Laiyuan. Zhao Xingde also defeated the Goryeo army three times his own.

"The Xia army is so powerful. No wonder both Song and Liao are so afraid." Wang Hengzhi and his forehead were not moved on the surface, but in fact they were both cautious and unwilling to show weakness. Wang Hengzhi saw that the distant city was small, and the Goryeo people could not station more than 3,000 troops, and the main force had been damaged. Even if they attacked the city with force, there would be no major casualties, so they were determined to pick up a slip of the way. Moreover, with the help of the Jurchen army, there would be a great chance of capturing the distant city.

However, Zhao Xingde did not look at Wang Hengzhi and his forehead, but kept bent down to check the injured soldiers. Seeing that many gunners were shot by the raid arrows, their arms and calfs were not protected, Zhao Xingde regretted putting all the archers on the flank camp and murmured: "If the Goryeo Army rushed forward, there would be a powerful archer suppressing the front line of the defense." Liu Zhijian was also looking at the gunners of our team next to him, shook his head and said: "Captain, don't blame yourself. Everyone has seen with their own eyes that it is best to place archers on the flank cannon to kill the enemy. If you want to be strange, it's a pity that our archers will be

There were too few hands, and all the soldiers in the garrison camp were used." He sighed and said, "The Guardians would never agree to cut scissors, shields and spearmen, and increase archers." Zhao Xingde nodded and sighed. The soldiers of the Xia Kingdom used various weapons, just like the various subjects of the scholars of the Song Dynasty who took the imperial examination, which affected people's chances of becoming an official career and could not be changed easily. On the other hand, increasing the proportion of archers is not beneficial or harmless. Compared with the Song Dynasty's archers in the infantry to a height of 80%, the Xia Kingdom's army emphasized the victory of the enemy by hand-to-hand combat, so the infantry camp was equipped with more heavy armored spearmen and sword and shield hands.

The two of them were discussing it as if no one was around here. Just five steps away, some slightly injured Goryeo soldiers were also wrapped up. Cui Xianxi was dragged out of the pile of dead people in the trench by soldiers. She was completely angry and had a look of disgrace. She sat on the ground with a wooden face. He heard that the enemy general was summarizing the gains and losses of this battle, and he felt ashamed to die. "I was used to being flattered by others. Today I realized that there were people above others, and there was a sky beyond the sky." He raised his head, carefully kept the appearance of the Han army chief in his heart, and made a secret decision, "If you survive by chance, Cui will come to ask you for advice again."

Zhao Xingde intentionally neglected the late Han army and Jurchen leaders, and was unwilling to let them come in and share the benefits easily. These people were not easy to deal with, and their foreheads were full of anger. Wang Heng smiled and said, "General Zhao, you have something to say. Your army won the first battle, so let's rest for two days first. Let our army and Jurchen army fight to the far city. The wealth and goods obtained will be divided equally by our three families. Do you think?"

"Our army fought for a long time. Although it defeated the Goryeo army, it suffered a lot of losses. That's right..." Zhao Xingde spoke with a embarrassed look. In the end, Wang Hengzhi and Erli continued to persuade him. Everyone discussed and decided that the Xia State Camp would be responsible for firing and bombarding the world city, and the Han army and the Goryeo army would attack the city. The Xia State Camp had gunships patrolling the river, and neither the Jurchens nor the Han army could defend this place. After the city was broken, the Jurchens were in danger of defending the place.

He seized the treasury of the Goryoi Palace equally with the Han army, but he was not allowed to plunder the people's property. Wang Hengzhi and Erli also made great calculations. When the Liao army withdrew, they must have plundered the people in Baozhou and Laiyuan City, and the Goryoi Army entered and scraped them again. The people living in the city must have been left alone, and the Goryoi Army stationed 3,000 troops in the small county of Laiyuan. Obviously, the two treasurys in the city were very rich. The Xia State Camp wanted the city and the people, and was willing to give some real benefits.

"General Zhao, what do you plan to deal with these Goryeo prisoners so as not to waste food. You either sell them to the Jin Kingdom to be slaves or kill them. Goryeo dogs and bastards are not good things, and they are covered with blood from our Jurchens."

Choi Xianxi kept pricking up her ears and eavesdropping. When she heard this, she trembled all over, and was full of worry, and was afraid that someone would see the clues.

Zhao Xingde looked at the pale Korean slaves, and many people could understand Chinese. He said lightly: "Save it first. This is not well built in the remote city. After the city is conquered, it will be necessary to build a new city." He paused and pondered: "It would be nice if he could exchange for more ransoms."

Using prisoners to build a building project is a common thing in troubled times. He also "humdled" in his forehead, as if he was a little dissatisfied with the good life of these Goryeo soldiers. Wang Hengzhi praised: "General Zhao is really a bodhisattva's heart." Building a city is a hard work, but it is much better than selling himself to the Jin Kingdom as a slave. Many Goryeo prisoners secretly breathed a sigh of relief and stayed in Laiyuan to build a city, at least they could see their hometown on the other side of the Yalu River every day. Children of nobles like Cui Xianxi, who had hereditary martial arts squad, had seven or eight points of hope for survival, and they could not help but look forward to the families in the country who rushed to rescue them and paid the ransom as soon as possible to redeem themselves. After this bloody battle, although they did not know the news of the death of the Dutong Jin Xianrong's battle, almost no one among the prisoners believed that the Baozhou army could reverse the defeat.

The battles in the following days were both expected and unexpected. The morale of the Goryeo army in Laiyuan City was low and lost foreign aid, so it was a matter of time before it fell. Zhao Xingde intended to test the strength of the Han army and the Jurchen army, and ordered the artillery gunners to shoot the Laiyuan city, without sending a soldier to help the city. Because Laiyuan City was low, the Han army used the method of siege of the city, and the strong men carried bags of earth piled under the city wall. The Goryeo army was on the city wall.

Arrows were fired to stop the earthen mountains from being piled up, but there were heavy casualties under the counterattack of bows and arrows under the city. The earthen mountains were piled up at an astonishing speed, and in just two days it reached the height of the city wall. The Jurchen army and the elite Han army stepped on the earthen mountains to attack the city head of Xicheng. In the face of the visible fruit of victory, the Jurchen army and the Han army fought very bravely. In less than half a day, they drove all the Goryeo that had finally resisted from the city head of Xicheng.

The remaining 700 Korean troops in the city surrendered to the Han army. When various materials such as grain, armor and weapons were brought out from the camp, even Zhao Xingde secretly regretted it. The Korean people clearly wanted to use Laiyuan Business as an important town west of the Yalu River. Although they only stationed 3,000 troops, they had accumulated enough food and grass for half a year, hundreds of thousands of arrows, and more than 1,000 iron armor. In addition, there were also the wood and stones needed to rebuild the city. The Han army and the Jurchen army shared these spoils equally and felt a little disgusted, so they generously gave all the prisoners to Zhao Xingde, but did not feed the prisoners.
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