About five hundred miles east from Aolai City along the Duck River is Fuyuan City. It was originally the location of Jia'ali, one of the five kingdoms established by the Liao Dynasty. It was also the last one that Ma Renyu conquered when he marched eastward and occupied this city. Later, it was renamed Fuyuan City.
Fuyuan City is the most remote town under the control of the Anton Governor's Palace, and it is an important military town with very few civilians, even worse than Aolai City, but there are three thousand soldiers stationed there.
Although this place is remote, the situation is the most critical, and the sentiments of the surrounding tribes are also the most complicated. Except for the Chaali tribe, which was almost exterminated by the Han army, they were basically surrounded by the Jurchen tribe.
Different from the Mature Jurchens who were moved to Liaodong by the Khitan, there are countless Jurchens living in the white mountains and black waters. They are primitive, fierce and barbaric. The various tribes of Jurchens, ranging from thousands of small ones to thousands of large ones, are difficult to conquer. .
To the east of Fuyuan are the Jurchens of the Five Women Tribe and the Nvzhi of the East China Sea. To the north are the Wura Tribe and the Alimei Tribe. To the west, there is also the Bigude Tribe, a descendant of the Blackwater Mohe and one of the Khitan tribes in the past.
It can be said that the eastern region of Andong, centered on Fuyuan City, was the most turbulent place under Anton's rule. During the campaign against the barbarians, Fuyuan carried out three large-scale attacks, but they could not be completely quelled.
Due to the special situation here, heavy troops were stationed just now, and in addition to the three thousand active Han troops, there were also a thousand servants.
In the early autumn of this year, in view of the turbulent and bad situation in the Fuyuan area, the Governor's Office decided to carry out another purge of the surrounding Jurchen tribes in order to deter the barbarians. The target of the operation was the Wura tribe in the north.
Tian Qinzuo, the patrol envoy, personally led the army. The movement to the north went smoothly. The Wuji tribe was no match for the Han army. They did not have the strength to resist with all their strength. They fought several small-scale battles, fled in confusion, and were beheaded by the Han army. Three hundred and thousands of prisoners were recorded. Along the way, even Ali's eyebrows next door stayed far away and hid in the mountains. In fact, some Alimei people simply swam across the sea and across the strait to Sakhalin Island.
However, this time the Han army went on an expedition, it was still a failed military operation. The results were very small. They failed to eliminate the Wuji tribe. The most critical thing was that there was a fire in the backyard.
When the Han army attacks, Fuyuan City will inevitably be empty. After all, this is not Aolai City. Even if there are 500 soldiers left, it will not be safe. However, the Jurchens in the East China Sea took advantage of the courage of the bear and the leopard. The tribes united together and gathered nearly 10,000 young and strong tribesmen to come out of the mountain and attack Fuyuan City.
These girls were really poorly organized, poorly trained, poorly armed, and didn't even have decent armor. However, the ants killed the elephants. After all, the defenders were one against twenty, so they would inevitably suffer damage.
Although Fuyuan City cannot be defeated, although the city is small, it can be relied on. The Han army is also assisted by bows, crossbows, rockets and other sharp weapons. No matter how brave the Jurchens are and are not afraid of death, it will be difficult to attack it with bravery.
However, some settlements and villages outside Fuyuan City suffered. Even if the government issued warnings in time, there were always those who failed to evacuate and were almost plundered. Their fields were burned, their houses were destroyed, and hundreds of people were killed or injured. .
Tian Qinzuo, who was fighting against the Wuji people at the front, heard that there was a change in the rear. He was shocked, angry, ashamed and annoyed. He not only hated himself for causing this chaos, but also hated those Jurchens from the East China Sea. His Tian inspection was in An Dong had killed so many barbarians and natives, yet there were still those who dared to be so ignorant of his power as a deadly criminal.
Therefore, Tian Qinzuo directly withdrew his troops and returned to Fuyuan City to aid, regardless of continuing to pursue and beat the fleeing Wuja people. When the Jurchens under the city learned that the Han army had returned for reinforcements, they had suffered enough losses in the battles with the Han army in the past few years. They chose to retreat without hesitation, preparing to escape back to their home base.
However, they wanted to leave, but the Han army in Fuyuan refused to comply. They suffered a rare loss. Under the leadership of Gongma Huaiyu from Fufeng County, they decisively left the city, pursued and harassed them, and delayed their army to prevent them from retreating easily.
The purpose of not engaging in field battles before was to ensure the safety of the city and wait for reinforcements to avoid unnecessary field casualties, but this did not mean that the Han army did not dare to fight in the field.
In fact, even if it is a confrontation in the wild, the fully equipped Han army can still defeat these poorly equipped Jurchens one by one. During his years in Anton, Ma Huaiyu participated in many campaigns against the barbarian natives and accumulated a lot of military experience. He is a man who has been thoroughly trained. He was very brave, so he only brought two hundred cavalry out of the city, and flexibly dealt with them, forcefully holding back the Jurchens. The more eager they were to retreat, the less they were allowed to do so.
Ma Huaiyu's actions were valuable, and he was delayed until Tian Qinzuo arrived with the main force, launched a fatal blow, and won the battle of Fuyuan.
Although the name of the battle was "Battle of Fuyuan", the actual location of the battle was in front of Xihe Ridge, a hundred miles southeast of Fuyuan. The situation on both sides is not good. The Han army came here in a hurry, going back and forth for hundreds of miles, and after fighting against the Wuji people, they were exhausted. The Jurchens were not much better. They stayed under Fuyuan City for a long time, were attacked and killed by the defenders, and were eager to retreat. They were very annoyed by Ma Huaiyu's guerrillas. The only advantage was that there were more people.
But no matter how they were compared, the gap in absolute strength between the two sides was significant. After a fierce battle, the Donghai Jurchens were defeated and fled, then scattered into the mountains and forests in an unorganized manner.
In this battle, the Han army won a complete victory, beheading 2,000 people and capturing more than 3,000 people. Tens of thousands of Jurchens from the East China Sea came with great noise, and less than half of them escaped in the end.
However, the Han army also suffered certain losses. Even if they were armed to the teeth, they would inevitably be damaged in cold weapon combat. What's more, the Han army in Anton was basically light cavalry and light infantry.
Of course, the biggest advantage lies in the cavalry, which is a big killer for the savage Jurchens. It gallops across the battlefield, coming and going like the wind, assisting the infantry in fighting, and the Jurchens have no way to counterattack.
But even so, in the battle of Fuyuan, the Han army suffered more than 300 casualties. This is already a considerable loss for the Han army. In the past security operations in Anton, over the past few years, only a thousand casualties were lost to the Han army. More casualties occurred in those who were not included in the losses. Among the servants, there were not many casualties among the Han army, but this time, it was considered a breakthrough.
Therefore, even if he won the counterattack against the Jurchens in the East China Sea, the first thing Tian Qinzuo did after the war was not only to report the results of the battle to the Anton Governor's Mansion, but also to write an apology letter to the court in his own name.
Especially after seeing the messy Fuyuan City, Inspector Tian completely broke his guard. He had never suffered such a loss, especially in the hands of these native barbarians. More importantly, he felt offended.
On the other hand, the speed of development and construction in remote military towns like Fuyuan is already slow, the environment is more primitive than that of Aolai City, and the Han civilians are even scarcer than the Han army.
Just like this, the development results of several years have become negligible and have been completely destroyed by the Jurchens. Tian Qinzuo's face was greatly reduced this time. Even though he had won a great victory over the enemy and killed thousands of people, could the lives and property of those barbarians and natives be compared with those of the Han army and Han people?
Under such circumstances, King Qin Liu Xu, accompanied by his subordinates, rushed to Fuyuan City to conduct an inspection. In fact, there is nothing left to see in Fuyuan City at the moment. At most, it can comfort the Han people after the invasion by the indigenous people and reward the garrison who worked hard to suppress the bandits.
