Wan Yanyong thought that he had just become emperor, so how could he follow the will of God and win a battle and establish his prestige as emperor.
But this is not the case.
On April 17, Wei Kexian led 30,000 Xuanjia troops to fight a road day and night, arrived near Yuguan, and sent someone to tell Su Jue the news.
Su Jue was overjoyed and told Wei Ke not to rush to the city to fight, but to directly attack the rear of the Jin army from the waterway. He would first conquer Laibin County and cut off the Jin army's access, and then attack Haiyang to break the siege of Haiyang and form a closed-door dogfighting system. situation.
Su Jue planned to use the troops at his disposal to eat up the invading Jin army in one fell swoop, causing heavy losses to the Liaodong Jin army.
At this moment, Su Jue didn't know that the enemy he was facing was Wan Yanyong, the emperor of the Jin Kingdom. He was busy fighting and had no time to have any contact with the Jin army. He also didn't know that Wan Yanyong had proclaimed himself emperor.
He only knew that the invading Jin army had a large number of people. He was busy dealing with it before and did not have enough troops to attack. Now he has enough troops and has water advantages. He is unwilling to use this advantage to make the Jin army suffer here.
This Jin army has a large number of people and must be the main force of the Liaodong Jin army.
If this army can be eaten here, then Liaodong will no longer be able to deploy enough troops to deal with the subsequent offensive of the Liberation Army.
The Liberation Army's Liaodong strategy will go very smoothly.
Wei Ke first received Su Jue's order and immediately arranged for his troops to cross the sea with him by boat and attack in the direction of Laibin County.
On April 20th, Wei Kexian led the first batch of 3,000 Xuanjia Army soldiers to successfully land in the coastal area of Laibin County. After resting for a while, he organized his army to launch an attack in the direction of the county seat.
When the Liaodong Jin Army attacked Yuguan, they used the county seat behind them as a food route. Wanyanyong and Wuyan Puluhun believed that this food route was very reliable, and had no idea about the strength of the Liberation Army's navy and the tactics of surprise attacks at sea. As far as I know, I didn't take any precautions.
This resulted in the Liberation Army's surprise attack force capturing Laibin County in broad daylight, defeating two Jin Army logistics units, capturing a large amount of grain and grass in one fell swoop, and cutting off the grain routes of Wan Yanyong's Jin Army.
At noon on April 21, the news spread with the defeated troops to Li Shi's location in Haiyang County, and in the evening to the Yuguan front line where Wan Yanyong was located.
Wanyanyong and Wuyan Puluhun were horrified when they heard the news. They couldn't figure out how the Liberation Army could appear in Laibin County and capture Laibin County.
This is a good time, the food road is cut off, and the frontline food reserves are only seven days. If the dilemma cannot be broken within seven days, the main force of the 50,000 Jin army in Liaodong will be annihilated.
By then, let alone talk about making the Kingdom of Jin great again, Wan Yanyong will soon be the king of the country's subjugation!
Wuyan Puluhun was at a loss of ground and panicked, not knowing what to do. However, Wanyanyong, prompted by his strong desire to survive, decided to immediately lead his troops to retreat and give up the Yuguan offensive.
"do not fight?"
Wuyan Puluhun asked in panic.
Wan Yanyong gritted his teeth and nodded.
"The back road was attacked inexplicably. Yuguan can't be attacked, and Haiyang can't be attacked. If we continue, I'm afraid something will happen. This time we are not prepared enough. If we can retreat unscathed, it will be considered a victory!"
"But……"
"There is nothing left! Prepare to retreat immediately! Retreat at night and don't let the rebels discover it!"
Wanyanyong and Wuyan Puluhun discussed the timing and method of retreat, and decided to leave camp while the night was dark and windy. They also informed Li Shi in advance and asked him to leave camp together so as not to attract the attention of the Liberation Army.
They did not attract the attention of the Liberation Army, but quietly broke out of camp at night. Although it was not easy, they were so busy that when it was almost early in the morning, the last person left.
Because there was not much time, Wan Yanyong led his troops to move quickly, forcing the entire army to march quickly, trying not to give the Liberation Army a chance to catch up with him.
As a result, when he arrived in Haiyang, he found that the situation was different from what he thought.
It's already a mess here.
It turned out that the siege troops led by Li Shi broke out in the middle of the night yesterday.
The reason was that the defeated troops who escaped from Laibin County brought the news that Laibin County had been captured and the grain road was cut off. Li Shi did not block the news immediately, so the news spread quickly, causing panic in the army.
He suppressed it forcefully, barely suppressing the turmoil, and sent his own soldiers to maintain order, thus forcibly stabilizing the situation.
But the impact of this panic was still too great for the feudal army.
So in the middle of the night, some soldiers quietly escaped and returned to Liaodong. If they didn't wait to die here, they would die with their families.
However, their actions were discovered by sentries from Yanyun. The Yanyun soldiers thought they had no way out, so they were very brave and scorned this behavior. For this reason, a fight broke out between the sentries and the deserters, which triggered a roar in the camp.
The roar of the Jin army camp was of course a great opportunity for the Liberation Army, so Lu Tang decisively led his troops to attack and defeated the 10,000 Jin army besieging the city.
After a violent beating until early in the morning, they happened to bump into the main force brought by Wan Yanyong and were preparing to cross the border quietly without being discovered by the Haiyang defenders. As a result, they collided with the Haiyang defenders.
When Lu Tang saw another Jin army coming, he thought it was reinforcements, so he immediately formed a formation to fight. However, Wan Yanyong did not dare to stay for a long time, for fear of being pursued by the Yuguan garrison behind him, so he left an army behind with the Haiyang garrison. The army fought, and he led the main force through Haiyang quickly.
He didn't find Li Shi and didn't have time to look for him. He could only pass through Haiyang quickly, thinking of leaving here and escaping back to Liaoyang as soon as possible.
However, his main force was once again blocked by the Xuanjia Army soldiers led by Wei Kexian in Laibin County. Wei Kexian led his troops to form a formation outside the city, looking after each other with the defenders at the top of the city, and blocking the Jin army's path.
In order to retreat as quickly as possible, Wanyanyong did not dare to fight for a long time, so he detached another force to stop Wei Kexian from fighting with him. He led his troops to violently attack the Xuanjia Army's defense line and broke out a way out.
The Xuanjia Army was small in number, only 3,000 men, and the follow-up troops had not yet arrived, so the fast-acting Wan Yanyong broke through the defense line.
However, Wei Kexian still worked hard to entangle a Jin army, and with the assistance of two thousand cavalry led by Su Jue who arrived quickly later, he annihilated the Jin army.
Of course, the army left behind by Wan Yanyong had also been completely wiped out.
Su was never willing to let go of the Jin army, so he continued to lead his army in pursuit all the way to Xingcheng, only to give up the pursuit due to exhaustion.
There was not enough food and water. The Jin army fled very fast. There were scapegoats left all the way to block the pursuit of the Liberation Army. As a result, the Liberation Army gradually fell behind and could not catch up with Wan Yanyong. .
It is now April 25th.
Although they failed to achieve full success, each of them had made good gains at this time, and the pursuit that could not be completed could only be put aside for next time.
In this battle, Su Jue cleverly used the advantages of the Liberation Army's navy and the information gap with the Jin Army to catch the Jin Army by surprise, forcing them to retreat and losing at least two soldiers on the way. Thousands of troops.
Wanyanyong suffered a huge defeat just after he proclaimed himself emperor. The morale he had just boosted was destroyed again. The process of making the Kingdom of Jin great again was interrupted. It is conceivable that his life will be absolutely miserable in the coming period. It won't be easy.
But Su Jue was very unhappy, very unhappy.
Because it was only when he was interrogating the prisoners after the war that he learned the news that Wanyan Yong had proclaimed himself emperor, and he knew that the person he was fighting with was the "emperor" of the Jin Kingdom.
"Emperor"!
The one who fought with him was the Emperor of Jin. He defeated the Emperor of Jin and almost captured the Emperor of Jin!
He was immediately annoyed to the extreme. He felt that if he had planned more carefully, given Wei Ke Xian more warships, or led the cavalry to pursue him earlier, he might have been able to catch the guy who made himself emperor.
What a great contribution!
But now this credit is gone!
Because of some of his tactical mistakes and untimely military actions, this credit was lost!
Su Jue was as dejected as a defeated rooster, complaining that he didn't react faster, and thinking about how his fame would increase if he succeeded in this feat.
But soon he felt a little better again.
Because his subordinates gave him a heavyweight prisoner - Zuopu She Li Shi, the new minister of the Jin Empire.
