Chastity Layman

The location of Dingzhou is very important. It is in the middle of Hebei, and it is close to Taihang Mountain. Jingxing is not far away, and it can be connected to Bingzhou. The prince sits in Dingzhou and supervises the country, which is not only convenient for the transfer of grain, grass and equipment in Hebei, Henan and other places in Guanlong River, but also convenient for paying attention to the situation in Daibei and Monan.

After all, there is still Xue Yantuo in Mobei.

"Then I'll go to Dingzhou."

But Lao Niu pulled Qin Lang and refused to let go, "The crown prince is still on his way to Dingzhou. Now the sages ordered Xiao Yu and Li Jing to sit in Chang'an, Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng to sit in Luoyang, and the crown prince went to Dingzhou to supervise the country. Ma Zhou, Assisted by Li Daliang. You just arrived in Dengzhou, and you brought so many people with you, so please do me a favor first."

"What help?"

"I'm going to take advantage of the situation to take down Jian'an City, so you stand up for me."

Jian'an City is located to the west of Beisha City, between Beisha City and Anshi City, and is also close to the sea, very close to Changdao. This city is not small, especially after losing Beisha before the Goguryeo people, they had to strengthen the defense of Jian'an City and increase soldiers and horses.

"Uncle Niu, if I was willing to fight, wouldn't I have come back sooner?"

"I don't care about you, your Uncle Niu asked you for a favor, and you're willing to push back?"

"But the sage sent someone to assist the prince to supervise the country, and I have to rush to marry the princess."

"Don't worry, I won't delay your business. It won't be long before you build Jian'an City. After crossing the sea and taking down Jian'an City, I'll let Jianhu personally send you to Tianjin to land, how about it?"

Seeing Lao Niu playing helpless like this, Qin Lang had no choice.

"Okay, but I'm a little curious. Since you are the general manager of the Pyongyang Road March, shouldn't you lead the navy to kill Pyongyang? Why are you going west instead?"

Lao Niu chuckled, "Sanlang, are you kidding me? Although I am the chief of the navy, the purpose of both the water and land armies is to defeat Goguryeo. Now that there is a big operation by land, I must cooperate with them first. Lao Cheng is about to raid Tongding. I Fighting Jian'an at this time is also to contain and attract Goguryeo troops."

"After I take Jian'an, I will threaten Anshi. As for Pyongyang, what's the rush."

Lao Niu is worthy of being a veteran. He knows that the navy is a partial division. If he went to fight Pyongyang alone, he would definitely not be able to. Attacking Pyongyang is only to contain the Goguryeo people. Under the current situation, how can it be more direct and effective to directly encircle Jian'an and attack An'an?

"Sanlang, can you lend me the thunder that you captured Beisha City back then?"

Qin Lang thought for a while, "I've given this thing to the sage long ago. The imperial court has a Shenji battalion and a firearms prison. There must be a lot of things, but they are all with the sage. If you want to use it, you have to ask the sage to talk to me. It’s useless to open my mouth, I don’t care about these now, and I don’t have anything in my hand.”

At the beginning, Beisha City was as dangerous as a mountain city, but Qin Lang could easily attack it with a light army. Niu Jinda remembered it clearly. He has guarded Beisha for these years, and he knows that if he uses ordinary tactics, he will win such a city. Ten miles of strong and dangerous mountain city, it will take as many troops and elite casualties as possible to take it down by force.

Jian'an City is not as strong as Beisha, but Anshi City is not weaker than Beisha.

Lao Niu not only wanted to capture Jian'an, but also wanted to capture An City, but he had limited troops. Even with the 80,000 troops brought by Qin Lang, it would not be the best strategy to attack forcefully. He still wanted to use Qin Lang to capture Beisha The method of missing the mysterious sky thunder.

However, Qin Lang dedicated this thing to the imperial court a long time ago. In fact, when he attacked Beisha City, the gunpowder he brought was carried by the Shenji Battalion. Yes, it is one of the ten armies of the emperor's Beiya. It is very mysterious. Anyway, only the Eighth Army is open to the public in the Beiya, and the Shenji Army is a secret army.

This time Li Shimin personally conquered Liaodong, there must be a Shenji army on the expedition.

Qin Lang is not too clear about how far the Shenji Army and firearms have developed. Before that, he secretly managed this mysterious army for the emperor, but he has stayed in Guangnan these few years.

The old cow stroked his beard, a little disappointed.

He also fantasized about getting this secret and powerful Thunderbolt, and then sending an elite force to attack Jian'an and An City at that time.

Qin Lang didn't want to fight anymore, but Lao Niu didn't let go of him when he caught him.

Now Lao Niu and Xiao Niu are holding Qin Lang's arm, but they won't let him get off the boat.

When encountering such scoundrels, Qin Lang had no choice but to be his own. If other people dared to play tricks on him like this, Qin Lang would have turned his back on him a long time ago, but who made this old cow.

He didn't have any gunpowder. Although he had the formula, it was not as simple as making a firecracker if he needed the amount to take down a fortified city.

Lao Niu never left Qin Lang's side, and followed Qin Lang in a boat. On the same day, he asked his son Niu Jianhu to drive the 80,000 people away from Penglai Island, and sailed along the Miaodao Islands to the opposite Liaonan Peninsula.

The fleet sailed into Lushun Port.

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When I came here last time, it was still the territory of the Goguryeo people. It has been ten years in a blink of an eye, and now it has developed very prosperously. Lushun Port, as a military port of the Bohai Fleet of the Beiyang Navy, is indeed well-run. Ships, even those watchtowers and castles, you can also know how much energy has been invested here over the years.

In contrast, Dalian Port, which is a little north, is more lively, but it is not so heavily guarded. It is a large trading port. Although Datang only controlled the tip of the southern Liaoning Peninsula after Qin Lang took Beisha Yes, the farther north has not moved.

But the Haidong countries have surrendered to Datang after all these years, and the maritime trade between the two sides is also very prosperous, and the trade volume is increasing every year. As Datang's last big port on the Bohai Sea route, Dalian is naturally very prosperous.

In recent years, smuggling on the Bohai Sea route has become more and more serious, and Dalian Port has become more and more prosperous because of this.

"As soon as this route stops, my place will be deserted. Goguryeo must be eliminated as soon as possible, otherwise my Jinzhou will fall." Lao Niu pointed to the harbor road full of warships and transport ships.

Datang has long been preparing for the conquest of Liao. Over the years, the major shipyards along the southeast coast have received a large number of orders for warships, combat ships, transport ships, etc. from the imperial court every year. Historically, many ships were built in the Yangtze River shipyards during the Tang Dynasty and Liaodong, and some were even built in Bashu. Afterwards, sailors from Jianghuai and Lingnan were recruited to gather at the naval base of Donglai Peninsula.

Relatively speaking, those ships were not exactly combat ships, but troop carriers at most. They could sail along the coast and cross the East China Sea when the weather was calm, but they were definitely not as good as these new sea ships.

Combat ships with various functions, as well as troop carriers, grain carriers, and more.

"Sanlang, I will entrust you with the important task of commanding." Lao Niu was very unkind.

Qin Lang refused, but Lao Niu had a lot of reasons, saying that you got up, you are the school secretary, and you are also a captain. Here you have the highest official title, of course you have to be in charge, and you bring the most soldiers. .

Anyway, no matter what Qin Lang said, Lao Niu was playing a scoundrel. At that time, he really wanted to kick Lao Niu into the sea.

Forced to board the pirate ship of Lao Niu and his son, all the generals asked Qin Lang to lead him one after another, but he had no choice but to accept it.

A simple military meeting was held at the port to discuss the battle plan.

Lao Niu's opinion is to cooperate with the offensive of Cheng Yaojin's main force, so a surprise attack on Jian'an should be launched to contain the troops in the south of the Liaodong defense line of the Goguryeo people, and finally they can quickly take Jian'an and encircle the city.

"The people of Goguryeo built the Great Wall along the Liaohe River in these years, and managed it with the power of the whole country. Not only did they add more than a hundred large and small mountain cities on the basis of the original more than one hundred large and small mountain cities, but they also built them between each mountain city. Connected with the city wall, the line of defense in the line is indeed very strong."

"How many troops do they have?" Qin Lang asked.

"There are no less than 300,000 troops on the entire defense line, of which 200,000 are in the fortresses of the Great Wall that rely on the Liaodong City and other Great Wall defense lines. In addition, there are about 100,000 troops on the second defense line at the rear. These 100,000 troops It can be regarded as a mobile force, which can reinforce the front line at any time, and can also be used as a second interception in case there is a gap in the front line."

"Only two lines of defense?"

"Of course it's more than that. In Yalushui, the Goguryeo people also built a large fence along the river, stretching for hundreds of miles. Along the river, they built several fortresses and castles, such as Bozhuo and Daxing, with about 50,000 people stationed. This is Pyongyang. This is the last line of defense to the north. If we can break through this line of defense, we will be able to approach the city of Pyongyang."

Qin Lang said, "Then what if the navy directly kills Pyongyang from the sea?"

"Of course it's okay, but Pyongyang is also very strong, and they built a small Chang'an city on the mountain, which is even more dangerous. There are about 30,000 horses in Pyongyang city itself. In addition, Goguryeo and the south of Baekje and Japan must also be considered. If we reach an alliance early, if we attack Pyongyang directly from the sea, we will not only have to attack fortified positions, but also have to face the reinforcements from the north and south of Yalusu and Baekje, and these reinforcements add up to no less than 100,000 people."

Niu Jinda didn’t have much interest in going directly to fight Pyongyang. During the Sui Dynasty, Lai Huer, Zhou Fashang and others directly led the navy to cross the sea to attack Pyongyang several times, and even entered Pyongyang City, but they were all defeated in the end, and they were defeated badly. The main reason is that the navy is alone and helpless.

The closest success was when Yu Wenshu led the Ninth Army with 300,000 troops to attack Pyongyang thousands of miles away. At that time, the navy was less than two hundred miles away and was about to join forces in Pyongyang. , fail.

The biggest role of the navy attacking Pyongyang is to contain the enemy. It is too unrealistic to imagine that the navy will directly capture Pyongyang and destroy Goguryeo. Anyway, Lao Niu doesn't think so at all.

Lao Niu's plan is for the navy to cooperate with the main force of the land route. Thanks to the Beisha City that Qin Lang captured in a surprise attack, the navy now has this base camp in southern Liaoning, and there is no need to force a stronghold to have a stronghold. Sufficient food, grass and military equipment have been stored, and many warships have been built, let alone the deployment of the Goguryeo army in southern Liaoning.

These are all advantages.