Chapter 1362: Fighting Step by Step

On the flat earth, looking far away, separated by several miles, were two sides guarding the city, with tens of thousands of people in the camp.

In the distant confrontation, yellow sand rose in the field, the sound of horse hooves shook the wilderness, and the sound of shouting and killing rose one after another.

"Kill!"

Cheng Yaojin rode on his horse, ignoring the officers he led behind him, rushing forward straight. He swung the giant axe in his hand, and in the terrified eyes of the Goguryeo soldiers opposite, he cut off one's head with one axe.

"Painful! Painful! Hahaha!"

Cheng Yaojin shouted and launched a charge.

"Brother, brother, slow down, can't keep up." You Junda held a long spear, followed behind Cheng Yaojin, helping to pick off the lives of Goguryeo people that Cheng Yaojin couldn't take care of.

"Old Cheng, let's see who kills more, hahaha!"

Wang Bodang also held a long spear, dancing the long spear nimbly and forcefully not far from Cheng Yaojin, rushing left and right, competing with Cheng Yaojin and comparing.

Xu Shiji, who had a bit of immortal style, looked at the reckless men rushing and killing in front, silently following behind the officers to pick up heads, very cunning.

The heroes had their own styles, but they were not disorganized or undisciplined. After joining the army, the first thing they did was memorize military regulations.

There were not only Wang Yan watching the battle, but also the law enforcement team. If they dared to mess around, they didn't doubt at all that Wang Yan would cut them off without hesitation. Coming over in the past two months, they had heard that Wang Yan had cut off many people.

They didn't follow their own squad to fight, but after killing out, they consciously formed military formations according to what they practiced. In this way, relying on their strong individual courage, fighting was still very fierce. It was a bit like special forces, very efficient.

As a result, the soldiers who were in the same group as them were all happily following behind them to pick up heads.

Fighting a war meant people would die. Not having to be at the front, and still being able to share military merit, naturally made them happy. Even the low-level officers who couldn't control this bunch of people just laughed and scolded, absolutely without extra words.

Because they knew these people were very strong, and they also knew the General valued them very much, and they would definitely go to higher places in the future.

On the other hand, the military merit of low-level combat units naturally had to be reasonably distributed by low-level officers. They had to take care of those who contributed more, take care of those who died in battle, and try their best to let everyone not play in vain and get benefits.

The more fiercely this bunch of people killed, the more merit fell on the whole team, and the greater the benefits for the low-level officers. Today, this bunch of people killed a fierce wave, and their promotion merit progress bar went a long way, and they were very safe, so how could they care that this bunch of people didn't listen to their command...

The heroes were very fierce, and the battle ended very quickly. Just after one round of hard-hitting charging, several hundred Goguryeo soldiers were killed, leaving less than 30%, and they fled in a panic following the sound of Goguryeo's retreat.

The bandit group also shouted and chased for a mile, until they saw the opposite side divide troops to meet them, only then did they rein in their horses, boasting loudly about their bravery just now, and returned to the city with a bunch of other soldiers without names.

Wang Yan personally welcomed their victory, getting his own high-degree wine to celebrate for the soldiers.

"Brothers, drink!" General Wang raised his wine glass high, paying tribute to the soldiers who fought bravely.

"Drink!"

The victorious soldiers responded in unison, drinking more than half a bowl of strong wine.

Slap~

Wang Yan's gaze swept over, only to see Cheng Yaojin smiling awkwardly and flatteringly.

He scratched his head: "General, I, Old Cheng, am a bit used to it. Just after winning a battle, I threw the bowl when I was happy."

"Change your bandit habits. Doesn't this bowl cost money? Everyone throws one, and it's enough for the brothers to eat a meal of meat. You wasteful thing."

Wang Yan glared at him, then waved his hand, "Disperse, coordinate military merit, battle damage, those who should be promoted should be promoted, and the arrangements and compensation should be implemented. Go."

Thus, a bunch of soldiers who had just won the battle dispersed, happily scattering, coordinating the military merit of their respective squads, and cursing the dead brothers for not having good luck.

Because in this battle, their side didn't die or get injured much, and even very few died, and not many were seriously injured. As everyone knows, minor injuries don't count as injuries.

So the dead indeed count as not having good luck, but fighting a war, someone always has to die, sooner or later.

The scale of future wars will expand even more, and from another aspect, it may not be a kind of blessing...

In the following days, Wang Yan was stationed here. Without waiting for the opposite side to provoke, he took turns sending people out to fight, but the scale was not large, only small-scale group battles of thousands of people on both sides.

At the same time, Wang Yan's military orders were sent out, and information was fed back, and all departments had basically completed preparations, just waiting for the scheduled time to take the initiative to attack and set off a great war between the two countries.

The friction here was still going on, fighting every day, people dying every day, and people being promoted every day. The bandit group's bunch were already squad leaders, and those who rushed and killed fiercely like Cheng Yaojin had all become deputy centurions.

On the battlefield, their light finally bloomed.

Wang Yan was very gratified. This bunch of people was still quite easy to use, all had destiny, and were very fierce, fighting like a broken bamboo, and could exert considerable effect.

In this battle, Wang Yan believed they would all grow up...

After fighting for twenty days, on the twenty-first day, other places had launched an attack according to Wang Yan's military order, but Beiping was very quiet.

This was the difficulty of ancient warfare. Communication could not be instantaneous, which would affect the commander's various judgments.

When news was received here and the commander judged the next step, it was said that the next step of a distant battlefield had already been completed. It could be said that they had occupied their pass and had inserted into their hinterland.

This was just the news of one location, and there were many battles happening synchronously, and the intelligence of various times before and after were all pressed in front of the commander.

How could the commander arrange troops and adjust generals?

The commander wanted to die...

This was the situation Goguryeo had to face, but it was not the situation Wang Yan had to face.

The genius was just dawning, Wang Yan appeared on the low city tower again, the personal troops were getting tea and roasting meat on the side.

Looking at the sky, estimating the time, Wang Yan waved his hand.

The next moment, a soldier on the city tower gathered his strength and blew the horn in front of him.

The sound of the horn spread far away, and gradually, more horn sounds joined in, connecting into a large piece.

On the defense line stretching for tens of miles, countless cavalry and armored soldiers rushed out, rushing toward the Goguryeo opposite.

The low sound of drums sounded, the drum beats became more and more dense, and the shouting and killing sounds of the soldiers also sounded densely, and the world was extremely noisy.

Wang Yan sat on the city tower, drinking tea, eating meat, looking at the fighting several miles away.

The part he personally led was naturally the main force, and the other several great armies, including the navy, were also providing assistance to his main army. Containing Goguryeo's military strength, providing cover for his attack.

Of course, emptiness is reality, reality is emptiness, and the other routes were not only responsible for cover and assistance. When necessary, they could also convert to the identity of the main force and gather superior forces.

The adjustment of war is flexible, not immutable.

Goguryeo was indeed not weak, and also made preparations to deal with the war, and at the same time gave Wang Yan, the commander with the title of invincible in the world, considerable respect.

But Wang Yan launched the attack too decisively.

Mobilizing troops for two months, they were always tense, dealing with the sudden attack from the Great Sui. But for two months, Wang Yan didn't launch an attack, but instead played small group battles with them.

Until Wang Yan returned to Beiping again, maintaining twenty days of happy friction, and still had no big movements. So the long-tense string, under hesitation and delay, inevitably had times of relaxation.

They had already been happily rubbing for twenty days, even if they suspected that they wouldn't be happily rubbing on the twenty-first day, but certainty was always greater than suspicion. This was the power of inertia.

Thus, on the twenty-first day, Goguryeo was not happy...

The main battle led by Wang Yan here didn't start at dawn, but earlier.

After entering the night yesterday, he had already sent troops to block the back. He was determined to collapse the 20,000 Goguryeo troops here, causing large-scale casualties.

At the same time, he also sent many troops to go deep into the enemy's rear, occupy favorable positions, destroy the connection between Goguryeo troops, strike logistics, and block Goguryeo's reinforcements.

This could not reflect Wang Yan's superb command ability. In the history of Chinese warfare, it couldn't be counted as anything strange, but just a routine opening.

More, it was to wait for the dispatch after the war started, and only then could Wang Yan's strength and terror in command be reflected.

The battle with Goguryeo just opened the curtain like this.

Wang Yan used a small number of troops to fight Goguryeo's large number of troops, fighting back and forth. Back and forth was on the surface, but in reality, the overall battle line was constantly compressed to the north. Goguryeo was overall in a defensive position.

This fact made Goguryeo unbearable. Especially the commanders and generals on the front line were even more unconvinced. They were played around by Wang Yan, and various strategies, ambushes, etc., had no effect. Even if they succeeded, they would be quickly pulled back, and many times they could be used by Wang Yan, taking advantage of the situation to resolve them.

After being beaten with a head full of bags, they didn't think Wang Yan was awesome, otherwise wouldn't they admit they were idiots? So they tacitly looked for various reasons, just not admitting they were vegetables, constantly requesting reinforcements.

Goguryeo increased troops, and Wang Yan's troops here were originally at a disadvantage, fighting more with less, naturally also increasing troops accordingly.

Thus, after fighting for less than two months, the troops on both sides changed from 100,000 vs 200,000 to 170,000 vs 300,000+. And this number was not the end, both sides were still continuing to increase troops, and the scale of the war was constantly upgrading and expanding.

At this time, the logistical pressure came up. Even if Wang Yan had reformed the logistical supply and had the navy's help. But the troops constantly approaching 200,000 were also a challenge for the entire logistical system.

200,000 troops, at least 400,000 people were busy with logistics behind. However, compared to Yang Guang's scale of sending a million-strong army and two million logistical personnel, it was still dwarfed.

However, even so, this was actually quite not easy. The Great Sui family background was indeed quite thick.

But now it was not the limit, and if it was not handled well, it would have to mobilize 300,000 or 500,000 troops. After all, Goguryeo was not white, the population was not large, but the military strength was not small, and it could produce 700,000 or 800,000 troops, which could be considered capable of fighting.

If they couldn't fight, the Han King led the team to do it once before, and it was also a battle of hundreds of thousands, wouldn't it make the Great Sui look very waste?

The Great Sui was also very combat-effective. After all, it was also fighting south and north, fighting down everywhere, and the army was not wasted...

Wang Yan could fight more with less, this was not wrong, but more was more, and the room for troop dispersion was relatively large. He also had to guard against Goguryeo stealing his rear.

Being stolen rear didn't matter, mainly it was the death of so many border commoners, which was not worth it. Not to mention that the border commoners were all serving the war, regardless of men and women, all considered to have served labor, and were mobilized.

The commoners also had no complaints, still insisting on believing in Wang Yan.

Of course, the more important reason was that Wang Yan mobilized the fleet to come, directly entering from Bohai to send grain. Wang Yan said that he would manage it until the end of the war, and then exempt taxes for three years.

However, the land here was not wasted. The garrison in the rear had nothing to do, and could not go out to participate in tasks such as escorting supplies, as there were specialized transport troops, so Wang Yan directly mobilized them to help farm, the speed was quite fast, and it didn't delay production too much.

The war continued, until winter, the intensity of the fighting decreased.

Because it was too cold, and weapons were freezing hands.

Although the Great Sui army was equipped with cotton clothes, cotton pants, cotton shoes, cotton hats, and gloves, staying outside for a long time would also freeze through. Coupled with marching, labor, etc., it was easy to sweat, and easy to have wind and cold, etc.

But overall, the Great Sui side was taking advantage. Although Goguryeo also had some cotton sold from the Great Sui side, it didn't supply the troops. So in winter, the Great Sui successfully broke through the Shanhai Pass and fought into the Liaodong region. This could be considered the key to the war. After all, as everyone knows, the northeast portal is the Shanhai Pass. Breaking through the Shanhai Pass, it was a smooth road for both north and south.

On the Liaodong Plain, they could run horses openly, and the Turkic cavalry that hadn't been dispatched for a long time also reached the time for large-scale dispatch.

Wang Yan fought steadily here, step by step, advancing steadily, constantly achieving rich results. The urgent messengers reporting to Daxing were connected, one message a day.

Yang Guang and the civil and military officials were satisfied with the results achieved by Wang Yan.

But at the same time, they were also very worried, because if Wang Yan destroyed Goguryeo, he would inevitably gather a large army to come for another round of catastrophe for the great clans of the Central Plains.

This point could be known from Yang Guang's red face. The more fiercely Wang Yan fought, the harder Yang Guang's waist became.

In this regard, the great clans of the Central Plains, just as Wang Yan thought, also had sufficient understanding...

They didn't live up to Wang Yan's expectations...

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