There is no benevolence or justice in foreign wars. In order to win the final victory and to exchange small casualties for great results, the enemy and we will use any means; and Yang Ji's attack on Goguryeo this time even combined "the soldiers are not tired of deceit" and "blitzkrieg". "The essence is brought to the extreme, but he also pays great attention to strategy and tactics.
The strategy is to take advantage of Gao Yuan's desire to attack but be afraid, so that the Sui army in western Liaoning can cover up on the west bank and solve the first line of defense of Goguryeo first. After successfully opening up the land channel, Youzhou will then attack with the navy to seize Gaimou City and In Anshi City, the three armies have clear priorities and do their own things.
The purpose of the specific tactics was false and true. He made a sneak attack and successfully annihilated the more than 200,000 troops on the first line of defense. He immediately divided his troops and went south regardless, attacking cities in various places. This method of warfare gave the Goguryeo army and people the illusion that they were enemies everywhere. It not only had the effect of shaking the enemy's popular and military morale, but also confuses the enemy's decision-makers, effectively avoiding the end of being defeated one by one by the enemy.
As an opponent of the Sui army, Goguryeo's mistake lay in the decision-makers' successive misjudgments of the situation.
Gao Yuan had no intention of a decisive battle with the Sui Dynasty, nor was he confident in defeating the Sui Dynasty. However, when Yang Guang decided to patrol the north, he deployed heavy troops on the border. His original intention was to let Yang Guang watch during the meeting. When Goguryeo has strong strength, don't underestimate Goguryeo, and don't have any ambitions for Liaodong. However, he neither realized that the Sui Dynasty was no longer the Sui Dynasty in the 18th year of the founding of the emperor, nor that the Eastern Turks were no longer the Turkic Khanate of the past, nor that the current emperor Yang Guang was far more powerful and warlike than Yang Jian. .
After interpreting the idiom "Yelang is arrogant", he finally "got his wish" and successfully attracted the ferocious tiger Yang Ji, but at this time Gao Yuan was scared; not only did he not dare to fight, but he also planned to imitate the old man. Yuan Zi traveled and met Yang Ji in the river, and then he smiled happily and settled his grudges.
When Yang Ji laid down their first line of defense, he rejected Yuan Ziyou and Yuan Zicheng's strategy of sending partial troops to guard Liao River and sending the main force north to defeat the Sui armies one by one; he adopted a layer-by-layer defense policy, and he Inadvertently, it gave Yang Ji a chance to breathe.
On the Goguryeo side, it was precisely because of Gao Yuan's repeated mistakes that his defense policy became a taboo "fuel tactic" for military strategists. His small-scale, multi-batch tactics not only Unable to concentrate on a decisive battle with the Sui army and achieve the goal of annihilating the Sui army, they suffered huge losses under the fierce attack of the Sui army and consumed a large amount of their effective forces in vain.
Immediately afterwards, Gao Yuan, eager to achieve the war goal, asked Yuan Zicheng to successfully withdraw the soldiers, civilians and materials in the "Xiaoliao River-Daliang River" area to the south. When the military forces were not fully assembled and effectively integrated, he once again moved Gao Dayang and Gao Sangluo threw themselves into the battlefield, resulting in the two armies being defeated even more miserably than before. When Yang Yichen reached the south of Daliang River and the west of Tanghe River, he was already in a dilemma with no troops to send.
Gao Yuan was so cooperative and gave face, and when Yang Ji was praised and praised by the generals, he always said, "Brother Gao Yuan gave face and cooperated well. If it weren't for him, our army would have been defeated long ago." "So it's not that I, Yang Ji, are excellent or that I'm great, but that brother Gao Yuan is worse than me!"
This is really not pretending, but Yang Ji's true words: His military style is very similar to the "Dugu Nine Swords" in martial arts. When he fights, he always advances without retreating, and every move is offensive. The enemy has been attacked to the point where he has to defend and rescue him, so of course he doesn't have to defend himself. However, when he is fighting, he feels a bit like the enemy is strong and we are strong, the enemy is weak and we are weak, and the enemy is dead and we are dead.
Since the Battle of Goguryeo, the Sui army has deviated from its original combat ideas and deployments several times due to his death, and has fallen into a very dangerous situation; the most typical example of which is his lack of troops and combat capabilities. After a sharp fall, Yang Lun has completed his mission and has become a completely alone army. If Goguryeo discovers it early and sends troops to attack, Yang Lun will surely die. However, Goguryeo faced such a great opportunity to defeat the enemy, but it was missed because brother Gao Yuan sent the eminent monk Luo Dongjin and Gao Dayang northward.
If this isn't "my bad enemy is even worse", what is it?
Yang Ji told the truth and what was in his heart. Not only did others not believe him, but they thought he was too modest.
When asked about Yang Lun's mistake, he was worried about shaking the morale of the army and never said anything; but in his heart, he was actually worried and scared to death. But all the generals thought that he had "the pearl of wisdom" and "everything was under control"; when things turned into the way they are now, the generals even thought that he was "making plans and winning the battle thousands of miles away", and he was worthy of being the leader of the world. God of war.
Since everyone needs the God of War, thinks he is the God of War, and honestly doesn’t believe him, then just be the God of War; as long as you know what you are doing and don’t lose yourself, otherwise sooner or later you will end up harming the enemy, others, and ultimately yourself, and harming the country and the people. The fate of eventually making a mistake.
The war in the western region of "Xiaoliaoshui-Daliangshui" did not deviate from Yang Ji's expectations. When the news that eminent monk Luo's 30,000 troops and Gao Dayang's 60,000 troops were wiped out reached Lishan City, Yuan Zicheng knew that the defense was over. It was meaningless. When Xue Shixiong, Yang Shidao, and Yu Chigong were confronting the 10,000 defenders of the Shichengshan camp, he immediately led 20,000 elite soldiers to abandon the city and flee. The army covered nearly 100,000 people all the way west, bypassing Bian Niushan, then change the route southward, cross Daliangshui from Dengtaocheng Ferry, and return to the ferry and wharf north of Liaodong City. Not long after he left, the remaining defenders in various places opened the city and surrendered.
There were not many Goguryeo defenders east of "Baiyancheng-Hengshancheng". Affected by the disastrous defeat in the cross-river battle and the fall of Baiyan and Hengshan, they also surrendered to Wang Xingben who moved eastward and Yu Zhongwencheng who moved southward.
At this point, the Liaodong Plain to the north of Daliangshui, the west of Qianshan Mountains, and the east of "Baiyan City-Hengshan City" were all owned by the Sui Dynasty. In a short period of time, Goguryeo's power was compressed by the Sui army into the "narrow" area east of the Liao River and west of "Baiyan City-Hengshan City". What made Yang Jida even more relieved was that armies from all walks of life had arrived at the camp one after another, which suddenly increased the number of troops in his hands.
However, the war in the south attracted Yang Ji's attention and attention. Although Gao Huizhen withdrew his troops in time and did not attack Gaimou City and Anshi City, Yang Lun did not let him go.
Yang Lun is a warrior who has experienced hundreds of battles. He understands that he is under great pressure to defend two cities. Instead of passively defending, it is better to take the initiative to attack. If he is a coward in Gaimu City and Anshi City, the two cities will be destroyed. On the contrary, it was easy to lose. When he heard that Gao Huizhen was invading, he took the initiative to attack. The two sides met head-on in the Maquan area on the south bank of the Haicheng River. He and Xue Wanche led 5,000 Jizhou elites and launched a fierce charge towards Gao Huizhen's Chinese army.
Gao Huizhen's army and Gao Yuan's family, who were guarded by Gao Xinggong, could not tolerate any mistakes, so he asked Gao Xinggong to retreat first and led the army to fight. However, Gao Xinggong and his two thousand elites withdrew, but Open the door that leads to defeat.
After a fierce battle, when the Chinese army could not defeat the Sui army, Gao Huizhen had no choice but to retreat to Haicheng, Hebei Province. However, his 20,000-strong army was defeated by the 10,000 soldiers and horses brought by Yang Lun. Before the Sui army encircled and advanced, Gao Huizhen and Gao Xinggong took more than 6,000 defeated soldiers and fled into another Lishan city to protect Gao Yuan's family.
There are two reasons why Yang Ji paid attention to Lishan City in the south: first, Gao Yuan's family was young, and second, Lishan City had an extremely critical and important geographical location.
This city is located southwest of Hengshan City and northwest of Anshi City. The three form a "
It is estimated that many people do not know the name Taigaoling, but if you mention its later name Motianling, you will suddenly understand. Motian Ridge is the watershed between the Haicheng River from east to west and the Dayang River from west to east; there is also a small river that meanders eastward from Motian Ridge and merges into the Cao River in the upper reaches of the Wugu River.
This means that in addition to the "Qianshan-Biliu River" road behind Anshi City, Gaoyuan also has the "Qianshan-Dayang River" road and the "Qianshan-Wugujiang River" road to choose from. As long as Gao Huizhen firmly controls Lishan City to the west of the Motianling Tunnel and the newly built Lianshanguan to the east of the Tunnel, they can completely escape to the north bank of the Yalu River through a closer shortcut, and there is no need to recapture Gaimou City and Anshi. City, there is no need to go to the Liaodong Peninsula.
In the large tent of the Chinese army in the Tanghe Sui army camp, there were many civil and military officials. Hao Yuan stood up and came out, saluted Yang Jishen, and said: "Your Majesty, this is a result of inconsiderate and careless dereliction of duty, which caused our army to ignore Li. Mountain City and these two shortcuts, please punish me, Your Majesty."
This is indeed a major mistake. Someone needs to reveal the cause and effect. Only in this way can the matter be revealed. Hao Yuan was an official of Prince Wei's palace who was eating from the public family. At this time, he still had a temporary position as a soldier. I wanted to come out and pack it.
Hao Yuan has good intentions and good intentions, and Yang Ji knows it; but Yang Ji is very protective of his shortcomings. If he were the kind of boss who would let his younger brothers take the blame whenever something goes wrong, there wouldn't be the King of Wei system where everyone is united and united today. , he waved his hand and said: "Hao Canjun does not need to blame himself. Things have changed like a vicissitudes of life. On the contrary, things have changed like a vicissitudes of life. Even the Yellow River can change its course twice. These two paths have gone from existence to non-existence and from non-existence to non-existence." If so, what’s there to be surprised about?”
Regarding these two roads, we really cannot blame Yang Ji and others for their negligence and mistakes: first of all, these two roads are wild and natural, and Goguryeo has never seriously developed them; until Gao Jianwu in history became the king of Goguryeo, When he was building the Thousand-mile Great Wall to defend the Tang Dynasty, he vigorously developed and expanded these two roads that could not only support Liaodong but also escape from Liaodong. But now, there are still undeveloped wild sheep intestine trails.
According to Hu Lujin, these two roads cannot be said to be roads at all, just because their sides are steep and steep, overgrown with weeds, and dangerous rocks. The river used as a road surface is winding, narrow, full of stones, and With flowing water, it would be difficult for the army to advance from here; but if Gao Yuan led a group of civil and military personnel to escape on foot, it would not be a problem.
Secondly, the Sui army was advancing too fast. Everyone's eyes were always staring at Liaodong City and the battlefield. They were always thinking about how to avoid being defeated one by one by the enemy while still attacking with fewer attacks. He has defeated his opponents so much that he still hasn't had time to think too much about the subsequent battles and battlefield situations.
Yang Ji knew that during Yang Guang's first expedition to Goguryeo, he personally supervised the troops to attack Liaodong City. At the same time, he ordered the Nine Route Army led by Yu Wenshu to cross the Goguryeo cities, advance to the Yalu River, and cooperate with the navy to attack Pyongyang. The route Yuwenshu took when he sent troops and fled back was the flat "Qianshan-Biliu River" road.
Before Li Shimin launched the siege of Anshi City, Goguryeo had 150,000 troops marching from the south to the north to aid, and were defeated and defeated by the Tang army. However, Yang Ji thought that the marching route of this supporting army was also the "Thousand Mountains" near Anshi City. -Biliuhe said. Little did they know that the road taken by the supporting army was the "Qianshan-Wugujiang" road that would be developed later.
If Gao Huizhen hadn't escaped into Lishan City with Gao Yuan's family papers and became a "gleaming guiding light", Yang Ji wouldn't have known that there was another Lishan City in the south; as for the two shortcuts behind Lishan City, it was even more No way of knowing.
"What the king said is absolutely true!" Marching Sima Pei Ju said with great approval: "Fortunately, we discovered it very timely, and it is not too late to make up for it. As long as these two gaps are filled and blocked in time, Gao Yuan will be the same." It’s hard to fly without wings.”
"Here!" Hao Yuan responded respectfully.
"Our army is now gathered here, and its strength is no longer weak to the enemy's. The next battle will be much easier than before." Yang Ji said to Hao Yuan: "I leave it to you to find out the enemy's situation and terrain. You must use this skyscraper The situation in the ridge must be investigated clearly. As for these two access roads, we must also find out clearly. If we attack later and take advantage of Lishan City and Lianshan Pass in Motian Ridge, we can send surprise troops to break into the enemy's territory and shake the enemy's military morale."
After the instructions were completed, Yang Ji said to Hu Lujin: "General Hu Lujin, your soldiers are far more familiar with Goguryeo than we are. Please find more soldiers from the army who are familiar with the terrain and landforms and give them to Hao Canjun to serve as our army's guides."
Hu Lujin responded solemnly: "General, I will obey your orders!"
Yang Ji nodded: "Without further ado, go down and make arrangements!"
"Here!" Hao Yuan and Hu Lujin bowed together and retreated.
Seeing the two people leaving, Yang Ji fell into deep thought. He knew that there was indeed a war between the Tang Dynasty and Goguryeo on the Motian Ridge, and it ended with the Tang Dynasty winning. But as for the course of the war, he only had the fantasy story written in "Xue Rengui's Conquest of the East" in his mind; as for the real course of the battle, he had no idea at all.
Even "Xue Rengui's Conquest to the East" can only be remembered in confusion. I only know that Xue Li has the halo of the protagonist, has the unwritten Bible, and has constant adventures. When the commander of the first army acts as a lone hero who goes deep into the tiger's den, the people on the Motian Ridge The main general seems to be Hong Manman and Orangutan Dan, who are known as the nightmare of the Tang Army. However, when these two nightmares faced the protagonist, they suddenly became wise. Not only did they want to become brothers with different surnames, but they also gave him all their military talismans.
Here Xue Rengui is simply a model of the protagonist's counterattack, but then again, the real Xue Rengui is indeed a model of successful counterattack. How does he look like Yang Ji? He was born to be the king of villain scripts. What is more "unfortunate" is that his title is "King Wei" rather than the "King Qi" who is a specialized villain.
Of course, Yang Ji also knew that the title of "King Wei" was the most senior among the princes of the Sui Dynasty; because the titles of King Qin, King Qi, King Shu, King Teng, and King Cai were just formulaic titles based on the names of the countries in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. However, "King Wei" is not a title based on the country of Wei, but a title that embodies honor. Generally, princes do not receive this treatment, and only those with extremely high merit can get this title.
However, when their father and son were awarded the title of King Wei, they had not received any credit. This also shows how much Yang Jian prefers and looks forward to them. But fortunately, their father and son lived up to the glorious title of "King Wei".
Others naturally didn't know what Yang Ji was thinking at this moment, but at this moment, Zhu Can walked in and said to Yang Ji with a strange look on his face: "Your Majesty, Mr. Zhang... Commander Zhang and Commander Murong. Ask for a meeting and say that you have discovered a big secret!"
"Oh! Let them wait for a moment!" Yang Ji nodded, thinking that they wandered around every day and never returned to camp. How could there be any big secret?
"Here!" Zhu Can responded and retreated.
"General Manager Yang, I have recently been out of tune with the climate and have been feeling unwell, so I am not suitable to take charge of the position of General Manager. From today on, you will perform the duties of the General Manager of March on my behalf, commanding the military affairs of the Eastern Expedition, and taking full responsibility for the next battle in Liaodong. "General Manager Yu, General Manager Li, and General Manager Cui, you three will assist you." The only deputy general managers around Yang Ji are Yang Yichen, Yu Zhongwen, Li Jing, and Cui Hongsheng, and Yu Wenshu has been arranged by him to be the general manager of the rear army. Now In charge of logistics matters in Changchun.
This seems to be targeted, but in fact, as long as Yu Wenshu ensures the security of the rear and the smooth flow of food routes, he will be a huge credit in itself. He will be a big contributor to the small amount of credit after the victory of the war. Otherwise, Yu Wenshu was most familiar with the Liaodong Plain, and he might not have been given this good job.
I heard Yang Ji say in a loud voice that he was "somewhat unwell", and saw that he was full of energy and radiant, and his civil and military expression in the tent was extremely wonderful. But the military orders are like mountains, and now that the coach has given them, they can only obey them.
"The last general takes the order." Yang Yichen, Yu Zhongwen, Li Jing, and Cui Hongsheng each took a step forward and bowed to answer the order.
Yang Ji then said to Pei Ju and Wei Jin: "Pei Sima and Wei Changshi, you are in charge of the military affairs of the Eastern Expedition Army."
"Follow the order!" Pei Ju and Wei Jin came out to receive the order.
"This big account will be left to you. As for how to fight, you have the final say. If you encounter anything difficult to decide, come back to me." After Yang Ji finished speaking, he stood up and left.
Yang Yichen, Yu Zhongwen, Li Jing, Cui Hongsheng, Han Hong and others are all famous marshals and generals, and Sima Pei Ju is even more of a monster. With such a lineup, sufficient troops, and high morale, the Sui army has no reason to lose to the turmoil of the people. , Goguryeo's military morale was shaken and its military strength plummeted.
Everyone: "..."
