Chapter 263 Northern Expedition
After the Battle of Oma, Chen Xun waited on Danluo Island for more than ten days. During this period, Japan sent two more warships over without giving up.
The number of warships in the last wave exceeded 200, and Chen Xun specially sent several survivors back.
Since then, Japan has never sent a ship to it.
According to a letter from the military government trade manager who stayed in Feiqian Country, some senior Japanese officials kept coming to apologize for several days.
In addition, Japan also planned to send a ship to Danluo Island, but was worried that the ship would be sunk by the sea monster on the way, so it was reluctant to set off.
For this reason, the Japanese government also dragged the head of the trade in the military government to Japan to send Chen Xun a message, allowing him to order the sea monster to release the ship.
Chen Xun naturally ignored it.
This is the best excuse to counterattack Japan in the future. How can we give them the opportunity to apologize and admit their mistakes?
Now there is insufficient manpower. When you can free up your hands, you will naturally come to ask for an explanation.
Another half month later, news came from the north that Han Shizhong led his army to occupy several major passages between the eastern and western Goryeo, and then attacked Xijing.
Unfortunately, Wang Kai is worthy of being a person whose original name is "Gou". He actually inherited Zhao Paopu-Zhao Gou's talent from the air. When the Chen family army attacked the eastern and western borders, he decisively fled northward.
(It is purely coincidental, not aimed at book friends with the name "典".)
This escape was really a desperate attempt, and he fled directly from the border and fled to the Jin Kingdom.
"Damn, the government in exile, I don't know if it's the first step." Chen Xun was also a little surprised when he pinched the letter in his hand.
According to the current form, the previous battle plan to ask Han Shizhong to block the road was wrong.
Attacking the levels between the eastern and western worlds did block Wang Kai's way eastward, but it also played a negative role in "shocking the enemy".
Who would have thought that Wang Kai could be so decisive and escape directly to his father Jin's arms?
If he chooses to directly attack Xijing according to Han Shizhong's original plan, he will likely directly capture Wang Kai.
"It's really big in the forest, and there are all kinds of birds. Wang Kai, Wang Kai, you might have expected that our Chen family army would chase you to attack the Jin Kingdom?"
Otherwise, it will be a book without coincidence.
The Jin Kingdom did not send troops south to support Goryeo. Now that Wang Kai has fled into the Jin Kingdom, he gave the Chen family an excuse to chase and kill the remnants of Goryeo, which can naturally allow the army to invade the territory of the Jin Kingdom.
"Come." Chen Xun greeted the guards outside the door.
"Governor." The personal guard came in to salute.
"Let the pigeon breeder come over, I want to send a letter to the mainland." Chen Xun ordered.
After saying that, he came to the desk and picked up his pen to start writing.
The war has developed to the present day, going north to the Jin Kingdom has become the only choice, and it has to be quickly done so that the Jin Kingdom cannot react and return Wang Kai.
Although it is okay to force the Northern Expedition without reason, it is always shameless. Now that there is a good excuse, it is useless.
Chen Xun wrote several letters in a row, and gave them to Lai Qingyun, Gan Ping, Yue Fei and other generals.
According to the plan in the letter, Han Shizhong will directly enter the Jin Kingdom from the northern border of Goryeo. As long as the Jin Kingdom defends and resists, it will forcefully believe that they want to cover up Wang Kai and will naturally start a full war.
At that time, Lai Qingyun and Yue Fei's Hebei Army divided into two armies, attacking the Jin Kingdom from Zhending Prefecture and Cangzhou respectively. The Xuzhou Army in Ganping also divided into two armies, attacking north from the Liaodong Peninsula, and finally joined Han Shizhong's army, landed all the way from the Goryeo Peninsula, and cleaned up the stall left by Han Shizhong.
The main enemy of the last journey was the remnants of Goryeo. Some second-line troops could be used, but all the 20,000 elite troops under Han Shizhong were freed up.
On March 10, Chen Xun landed on the shore in Longzhou, the northeastern corner of Goryeo.
Longzhou is located at the mouth of the famous Yalu River in later generations.
This boundary river between China and North Korea in later generations is now all located in the territory of the Jin Dynasty.
This time, the Yalu River will become the main logistics supply line of the Northern Expedition Army.
"Pei Ren, where did Wang Kai escape?" Chen Xun asked.
"He has now hid in Liaoyang Prefecture-Tokyo City." Pei Ren came here quickly after receiving Chen Xun's order.
In the next few months, the Northern Expedition will be the main combat direction of the Chen family army, and naturally it also needs the highest level of intelligence support.
"Tokyo?" Chen Xun thought about the location of Tokyo.
The city of Liaoyang Prefecture was set up as Tokyo in the former Liao Kingdom and the current Jin Kingdom because of its important strategic position.
Located directly north of the Liaodong Peninsula, it can control the Bohai Bay in the southwest and the Gorye Bay in the southeast.
"Are we going there?" Pei Ren asked.
"No, let's face north, first take the south side of the Yalu River and the east side of Changbai Mountain in your hands, and then go to Tokyo after ensuring your defensive advantage over the Koryo Peninsula."
From north to south, there are basically no dangers to guard after crossing the Yalu River.
On the contrary, the Yalu River originates from the southern foot of Changbai Mountain and can connect to Changbai Mountain and occupy the south bank of the Yalu River and the east side of Changbai Mountain. If the attack direction is changed in the future, it will be easy for the Goryeo Peninsula to defend.
"I understand, I will arrange for the spies to strengthen the investigation in this direction." Pei Ren responded.
"Where is Han Shizhong, where has he been?" Chen Xun asked again.
"In Pengshan County, Pengshan County is the largest city on the west bank of the Daning River. After conquering Pengshan County, the land route from Xijing to Anbei Prefecture to Longzhou was opened up." Pei Ren replied.
"Okay, then we will attack Longzhou first. After Han Shizhong arrives, we will go north along the Yalu River and sweep all the cities along the river." Chen Xun ordered.
"Receive the order, governor."
Longzhou sounds very majestic, but in fact it is just a very small city. The permanent population in the city is less than 2,000 people, let alone the defenders, which can be ignored.
Chen Xun's personal guards took the small town with one charge.
Next, the army following Chen Xun to the north began to arrange the main base for the Northern Expedition logistics around Longzhou.
The people of Goryeo around Longzhou were "forced" to recruit them by spending money to level the land, repair roads, build wharfs, build temporary houses, etc.
With sufficient money and grain supply, all work progress is very fast, and what affects the progress is the shortage of manpower.
To this end, Chen Xun directly led his army to conquer Linzhou, Jingzhou, Tiezhou, Tongzhou and Xinghua Towns around Longzhou, bringing the number of young and strong women working in Longzhou to 20,000.
The more he entered the inland, the more Chen Xun felt the difficulty of this Northern Expedition.
The terrain of the Yalu River Basin is really too rugged, with mountains, rivers and few plains everywhere.
Those small towns are dotted in valleys and river valleys, and the roads are narrow and sparse, so it is too difficult to pass through the army.
No wonder Goryeo, a country, has been able to survive nearly a few hundred years in the northern regime.
It is barren and difficult to chew, and it is really useless.
In order to reduce the advantages of the Chen family army in the subsequent mountain war, Chen Xun had to search for gray wolf species everywhere, and asked Hebei East Road next to him to help.
Chapter completed!