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409 The Battle of Longren 1

Xu Shiyang originally planned to wait four months, and after the Goryeo new army was basically formed, he would use absolute military strength to eliminate Wanyan Yinshuke with a thunderous force.

However, this world was not fully interpreted according to the script he planned.

Just when the Qi army had not yet begun to assemble and the new Goryeo Army had just been formed and started to conduct initial training, Wanyan Yinshuke suddenly led his subordinates to dispatch their troops, and the troops were divided into two groups to move south from Goryeo Pekan Road and Hamkyung Road at the same time, and headed straight to Goryeo Wangjing.

At this time, Goryeo King Jing had only five thousand soldiers who had not arrived at all weapons and equipment and had not officially started training.

Although the military advisers of the One Hundred Qi Army were commanded, this unit still failed to create miracles and was defeated by Wanyan Silver Technique on the Linjin River.

More than 1,000 people in the Goryeo Army were killed, more than 3,000 were captured, and most of the rest fled.

More than half of the military advisers of more than one hundred Qi army lost, and the remaining people led the remaining 300 soldiers of the Zheng Soldier Brigade to cover the Goryeo King Li Neng, two squads of Goryeo nobles and their families to flee to Jianghua Island.

On the eighth day of the fifth month, Wanyan Yinshu led his troops to conquer the Goryeo King Jing.

Now, the only thing Li Ne can count on is Xu Shiliu who formed a training brigade in Jeolla Road, and Xu Shiyang can abide by the contract and send troops to aid Goryeo.

Of course, Xu Shiyang didn't want his newly formed Jurchen encirclement net to be pried open so easily by Wanyan Yinshu.

On May 12, 2018, the third year of Longdao, after receiving a letter of help from Goryeo, Xu Shiyang immediately began to conduct an emergency mobilization in Qi Province.

Since he did not expect that Silver Skill would dare to take the initiative to attack, all the new army units are currently in scattered rest and rest in various garrisons, Xu Shiyang could not immediately mobilize any integrated brigade.

Therefore, he gave up the idea of ​​assembling superior troops as planned and directly drew troops from the left-behind troops of each brigade to form a temporary combat group.

This unit includes an infantry battalion from six field brigades in Qi Province and southern Liaoning, Xu Shiyang's own central army guards are gathering and training 10 new hunting cavalry companies, 5 heavy cavalry companies and 5 Dragoon companies.

A total of 6,000 people rushed directly to Jianghua Island on a naval ship on May 16th.

Li Nei and the two nobles who were hiding under the protection of the Qi army on Jianghua Island, the two nobles did not expect that the reinforcements would come so quickly. They were ecstatic, as if the desperate travelers finally saw a trace of light in the dark.

The King of Goryeo and the nobles eagerly hoped that Xu Shiyang could help them drive away the Jurchen invaders - at least to help them recover Wang Jing so that they could go back and continue to call themselves lonely on their own acre of three-point land, as if they had completely forgotten that just five months ago, Xu Shiyang was also their enemy.

Fortunately, Xu Shiyang's idea is basically the same as that of the Goryeo people. He cannot allow the Jurchens to enhance their strength by robbing Goryeo - even Wanyan Yinshu, this Jurchen traitor cannot do it.

Since Wanyan Yinshu took the initiative this time, Xu Shiyang did not plan to let him go back alive.

On May 19th, the Goryeo surprise brigade led by Xu Shizhen arrived in Suwon. At this time, in addition to the 5,000 surprise brigade, he also had more than 3,000 volunteer soldiers in the south of Goryeo, Chungcheong Road, Jeolla Road and Gyeongsang Road.

The total force is 8,000, and the combat power is not strong, but the number is large.

After Wanyan Yinshu heard the news, he immediately led his army south to fight - at this time he didn't know that the main force of the Qi army had arrived at Jianghua Island.

Before the war, Xu Shizhen gave a Jurchen head-level one stone of food, and after the war, all the slaves who participated in the war were eliminated from their anger to inspire morale. The morale of the poor and destitute Goryeo soldiers was greatly boosted.

In the face of a beautiful future, even the vicious Jurchen Tartars seemed not so terrible.

On May 20th, the Goryeo Army encountered Wanyan Yinshuke's horse probing horse in a place called Wen Xiaoshan. The surprise brigade team shot and killed a Jurchen cavalry. After losing three people, both sides retreated.

Xu Shizhen believed that the main force of Silver Skill was not far away. Because he was afraid of being raided, he camped in a highland called Guangjiao Mountain in Longren.

Xu Shizhen defended the left wing with two thousand righteous soldiers and two thousand strange soldiers defended the right wing. He led three thousand strange soldiers to defend the middle formation and set up a defensive formation.

The commander of the Goryeo New Army's surprise brigade knew very well that the main force of the Qi army was nearby. As long as he could restrain Wanyan Yinshu, he could take a while. When the Qi army cut off the enemy's retreat, this battle would be a great victory that directly wiped out the enemy's troops.

So Xu Shizhen insisted on his determination and immediately started to build fortifications after setting up camp in Guangjiao Mountain.

He ordered the Goryeo soldiers to set up a wooden fence in front of the formation to prevent the Jurchen cavalry from stepping directly on the formation. Archers were deployed behind the fence. A trench was originally planned to dig in front, but before digging was started, Wanyan Yinshuke's main force appeared.

First, a large number of Jurchen rangers appeared around the Goryeo Army. Dozens of Goryeo auxiliary soldiers responsible for cutting wood and harvesting water were killed. The rest had to retreat back to their positions and passively wait for the enemy's attack.

At dusk on May 20, Wanyan Yinshuke's main force suddenly launched an attack on the left wing of the Goryeo Army, and more than 1,500 Jurchen cavalry howled and rushed to the Goryeo Rebel positions.

The Goryeo Army immediately fired a large number of arrows, but this light arrow was as difficult as ever to penetrate the Jurchen armor. The Jurchen armored cavalry rushed to a distance of about fifty steps under the rain of arrows. With the order from several leaders, Mouke shouted, the Jurchen armored soldiers with superb riding skills stood up on the horse's back with stirrups, with their hands off the reins, and only used the power of their waists and legs to control the mounts. All the cavalry used their cavalry bows to shoot light arrows at the Goryeo.

The Goryeo soldiers in the front row also had fences and wooden shields to defend, while the back row had only one torn clothes. The protection that was so low that it was not as vulnerable to the sharp arrows. The Goryeo soldiers screamed and fell down, and the left wing front was in chaos.

Taking advantage of this short opportunity, the most elite Jurchen armored soldier in the front row suddenly jumped off the horse and rushed directly to a position within ten steps of the Goryeo people as he dismounted.

These old Jurchen hunters skillfully replaced the infantry hard bows and drew heavy arrows to shoot flat on the soldiers holding shields in front of the Goryeo Army.

The heavy arrows rubbed the gaps in the fence and penetrated the simple wooden shields, stringing the hands of the Goryeo Yishang and the shields together. The heart-wrenching cry of pain resounded through the sky, but everyone who wanted to discard the shield would pay a greater price - the Jurchens' heavy arrows could always seize the opportunity to hit their vital points in the blink of an eye.

After three heavy arrows, the Goryeo soldiers holding shields were almost wiped out. Subsequent Jurchen armored soldiers shouted in unison, waving heavy weapons such as big swords and one-handed axes, rushed up, and instantly chopped the thin wooden fence in front of the front into pieces.

Losing the cover of this obstacle, the left wing of the Goryeo Army, with low melee ability, quickly fell into a state of collapse. The defense line that the army of more than two thousand people was actually broken through by the Jurchens within a quarter of an hour!
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