Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 383 Victory across the River
In command of the Chinese army, Li Fangyuan looked at the sand table and fell into deep thought.

How to do?
easy to do.

withdraw!
Before the encirclement circle of the Ming army was formed, I had a chance to retreat. With the left and right wings riding behind the army, I led the Chinese army to get away and retreat southward. The Ming army was powerless to pursue and kill.

After all, at this moment, the main force of the Ming army has not yet broken through the Wubao formation, and is still firmly restrained on the frontal battlefield.

It's just that with my own withdrawal, the so-called Linjiang defense line collapsed without a fight.

Li Fang looked to the north and sighed heavily.

"Order, withdraw!"

After blocking Chang Mao on the Yalu River for more than a month, Li Fangyuan finally left the Linjiang defense line camp created by himself and poured confidence into it, and retreated in an orderly manner with [-] Chinese troops.

The cavalry on the left and right flanks were behind the palace, protecting Li Fangyuan and retreating southward.

"Chang Shuai, Li Fangyuan has retreated."

Chang Mao waited for the news, and smiled contemptuously without surprise: "He is a smart man, and killing himself is his only way out now."

"Do you want to hunt down?"

"No need." Chang Mao strode out of the command tent, looked at the battlefield where there were shouts of killing everywhere, and pointed out: "The whole army stops attacking, and this general encircles all the fortresses, and let the enemy troops who are entrenched inside surrender. !"

The moment Li Fangyuan chose to retreat, it meant that the North Korean King Jing'an personally gave up the tens of thousands of soldiers who were still standing in the Wubao formation, waiting for their end, either dying in battle or starving Died in the dock.

With no reinforcements outside and no food and grass inside, more than [-] Korean troops chose to walk out of Wubao and surrender to the Ming army after persisting for three days.

The battle of crossing the river ended with a complete victory for the Ming army.

"This battle lasted 37 days, and killed more than 1 enemies and captured 1000 people. It can be called a great victory."

The marching secretary took a pen to write down the victory report, faced Chang Mao with a smile and said: "Chang Shuai has made a good start. This time the victory report is sent to the capital, and the grand master will definitely reward him."

"It's just less than [-] captives, what a victory."

Chang Mao didn't like the result of the battle very much, and he revealed the matter after only one sentence: "Notify Yu Yifeng and ask him to organize some manpower and craftsmen. Isn't there still more than 3 North Korean prisoners? Take Wubao Once the formation is dismantled, it is enough to build a bridge over the Yalu River to ensure that our army's logistics supplies can be continuously sent to the Korean battlefield."

"In this battle, our army lost a total of more than [-] people. The name of this bridge should be Baqian Bridge."

The marching clerk thought for a while and then said: "Eight thousand, eight immortals, each of the eight immortals has shown their magical powers across the sea. In the end, Chang Shuai has great magical powers, and you are better than that Li Fangyuan."

Chang Mao laughed silently. He didn't expect any homonyms, but the praise of the marching documents still made Chang Mao's heavy mood a lot better.

In the next few days, Chang Mao led the army to repair in place for a whole number of days. After Yu Yifeng brought people to take over the prisoners, the former continued to lead the army southward.

Although not many prisoners were killed in this battle of crossing the river, it still severely damaged Li Fangyuan and the North Korean side. The latter had to lead the army back to Pyongyang for repairs.

Wherever the Ming army went, there was no longer any resistance.

"Strictly order the three armies to commit no crimes wherever they go. In addition, before we sent our troops to plunder and burn the fields, we must hate the people's sentiments. All the military rations transported by the logistics must be scattered among the people to ensure that they will not die because of lack of food. starve."

Chang Mao has already regarded North Korea as his own foundation, so he is not in a hurry to continue to attack, but has started to restore people's livelihood and relieve disasters. In this way, it is a large amount of military expenditure.

However, the advantages of doing so are also obvious. In the area occupied by the Ming army, the resistance of the Korean people was not so fierce, and the occasional sporadic attacks were quickly extinguished.

This shows the importance of the degree of Sinicization.

North Korea was the first opponent carefully selected by Chen Yunfu, and it was the least difficult to conquer. Changmao won the battle on the battlefield, but it was equally easy to fight off the battlefield.

After the rear was completely stabilized, Chang Maocai led the army to continue southward, forcing the Rang Mansion.

"We were delayed for a month and a half this time. Li Fangyuan got a chance to breathe. He not only repaired it in Pyongyang, but also built a large number of fortifications. It seems that it is another fierce battle."

Chang Sheng appeared next to Chang Mao, looked at the blurred city of Pyongyang to the south and said with emotion: "Our opponent is still a master of defensive warfare."

"He is good at defending, we are good at attacking, it depends on who is better at it."

"This Li Fangyuan is still Li Chenggui's son. Otherwise, if he is a handsome outsider, we can use countermeasures to get rid of him just because he lost the Linjiang defense line."

Chang Mao nodded, did not answer, but asked instead: "Is there any movement in Kaijing now?"

"I heard that Li Chenggui has sent tens of thousands of elite troops to Li Fangyuan, and is speeding up the deployment of reinforcements from various provinces. It is expected that within a month, hundreds of thousands of troops will gather in Pyongyang."

Chang Mao didn't feel any pressure, but instead smiled: "Hundreds of thousands, doesn't that mean that this Pyongyang battle is expected to become a decisive battle on the Korean battlefield?"

"That's right." Chang Sheng followed up with a smile and said, "If we take down Pyongyang, no enemy can stop us anymore."

"Shall we give Li Chenggui some time?"

"good idea."

Chang Sheng instantly understood what his elder brother meant, and laughed and said, "Let them focus their defense on Pyongyang. In this way, when the Southeast Navy captures Jeju Island and lands on the coast of Gwangju, they can go straight in and fight with our army." A strategic situation of two-way attack from the north and the south was formed.

At that time, let Li Chenggui focus on his head and ignore his back, let's take down the old land of Samhan first, and leave only Gyeonggi Province for him. "

"When Tang Taizong Li Shimin conquered Goguryeo, he also set the strategy of cutting off the wings first, wooing Silla and attacking Baekje, and finally blossomed in Liaodong and Baekje's north and south battlefields at the same time, greatly weakening Goguryeo's national strength. Finally, Tang Gaozong During this period, Goguryeo, which once defeated Emperor Sui Yang and became invincible, was completely wiped out."

Recalling the history, Chang Mao was full of praise for Li Shimin's achievements: "Tang Taizong left a very good practical example for our descendants. Even today, this is also a very good strategic policy. Let's follow the example of the gourd. That's it."

"Will Li Chenggui also guard against this?"

"He wants to defend, but does he have the strength?"

Chang Mao said confidently: "It has long been said in the Art of War that fighting is based on power, what is power, it depends on national power, and the small country of North Korea is more than ten times worse than our Ming Dynasty.

The law of using troops is to encircle them in ten ways. You see, Sun Wu and Li Shimin are teaching us how to fight. Don't we know how to fight? "

"Big brother wise."

(End of this chapter)