Chapter 891: Yizhou City Falls
When Gu Nanxi appointed Guo Xiaoyue as the Grand Marshal, Guo Kai, far away on the Yalu River, had already started fighting with the Korean soldiers on the other side of the river.
Gu Yunting's warships stopped at Incheon Port, aiming at Kaesong.
After receiving the news, Guo Kai hesitated for only half a day before deciding to cross the Yalu River and attack Yizhou, one of the six towns in Jiangdong of Goryeo, to tie up Goryeo's troops near the Yalu River and relieve the pressure on Gu Yunting.
Before rushing to Yizhou, Gu Yunting sent a small boat to deliver half a boat of kerosene and incendiary bombs to Guo Kai.
After trying one or two of them, Guo Kai was quite pleased and temporarily changed the plan to attack Yizhou.
He first sent a team of suicide squads to sneak into Yizhou City and throw incendiary bombs at important places such as government offices and granaries to create chaos.
The incendiary bombs were very effective and the city of Yizhou was in great chaos.
This city with only four gates was unaware that Guo Kai was lurking nearby with a large army, and was instead searching for thieves on a large scale.
What made the Goryeo Dynasty even more depressed was that after the evil fire was extinguished, they discovered that as many as eighteen generals had died in the fire.
The lord of Yizhou City immediately ordered the blockade of Yizhou City and the closing of the gates.
This fire came so strangely that it is difficult to put out with water. We can only wait for it to burn out slowly. It sounds like the situation in Incheon is exactly the same. Could it be that the people from Dayun have already arrived in Yiju?
A retainer told him that the Dayun warship was still staying in the Incheon port and it was possible that they had only sent some spies to cause trouble.
Where the couch is, there lurks a fierce tiger. How can the Lord of Yizhou City sleep?
Uiju Castle is divided into the inner layer and the outer inner layer.
Most of the people living in the inner city are Koreans, and the rest are wealthy businessmen with status.
The lord of Yizhou City suspected that the fire was set by people living in the outer city, but found nothing.
Is it a ghost?
Is there anyone who wants to use Dayun's hand, or in Dayun's name, to fight for the right to control the border?
After he turned his attention to the insider, the suicide squad lurking in Yizhou breathed a sigh of relief.
Another of their tasks was to contact the Central Plains people in the outer city of Yizhou and wait for the right time to attack the inner city.
The leader was Er Gou: "There are 53 shops owned by people from the Central Plains in the outer city, three of which are from Dayun, 20 are from the Great Zhou, and 30 are from the previous dynasty."
"We, the people of Dayun, will definitely cooperate with us to take over the inner city. It's just that the people of Da Zhou and the previous dynasty are a bit troublesome."
Another thin and dark man said, "It's easy to convince the people of the previous dynasty. Most of them are descendants of soldiers who stayed here after the Goguryeo War. We just need to acknowledge their Central Plains identity, and most of them will agree."
Once the previous dynasty was destroyed, the soldiers who remained on Goguryeo land lost their identity and could only stay there and could not return home.
But the Han people always have extremely deep feelings for their hometown. Even after several generations, they still remind their descendants that fallen leaves should return to their roots.
"Yes, what about the merchants of Da Zhou?"
"General Guo has already said that we should appeal to their emotions and reason with them. If anyone disobeys orders, they will be killed on the spot."
Everything is ready, just waiting for the final order.
This siege came very suddenly. When the lord of Yizhou City learned that Dayun’s army was attacking, his first reaction was to look at the river.
The river was as calm as ever, and no Dayun warships were seen. So where did these Dayun soldiers come from?
After thinking about it, he felt that it didn't matter where it came from.
"Haha, these ignorant Dayun soldiers, do they think they can break through our Yizhou City with just this little force and rape and plunder? As long as I am here, they will never get close to our Yizhou City!"
Immediately, he assembled thousands of infantry and cavalry to prepare to leave the city to fight.
He will step on the blood of Dayun's soldiers and tell the king that as long as he and his family are there, Yizhou City will be safe.
Guo Kai looked at the flag of the opposing commander and the soldiers that kept pouring out, and clicked his tongue twice.
Apart from anything else, these Koreans are quite good at stealing other people's skills.
Look at them, they are wearing bright armor and their military formation is strict, it seems that they learned the military formation from the previous dynasty.
The Lord of Yizhou City looked at the Dayun soldiers opposite and laughed out loud.
Dayun was just that, and only boasted about his strength. He actually only arranged a simple straight line, without any cover, no rules, and even no military formation.
He glanced at his soldiers proudly. In comparison, his soldiers were regular troops, while the enemy's looked like a group of bandits.
The Koreans only learn half of anything and are not proficient in anything.
In the Central Plains, wars are fought with verbal battles, psychological tactics, and then physical action begins.
The lord of Yizhou City was very rude. He didn't even say a harsh word and directly sent out the cavalry to charge over.
There was no trace of fear on Guo Kai's face. He didn't tolerate them at all and directly asked the soldiers in the front row to take out their crossbows.
After many improvements, the bows and crossbows carefully crafted by the Yunzhou Military Workshop demonstrated powerful power on the battlefield.
One crossbow arrow was like a string of candied haws, stringing up four Goryeo soldiers at a time.
Guo Kai clapped his hands: "It has indeed been improved. When fighting the Tartars, one arrow can penetrate three."
The rain of swords from the sky took away the lives of wave after wave of Goryeo cavalry.
After the powerful crossbow had finished shooting, the last row of crossbowmen had been reloaded, and the ones in the front retreated and moved to the back to reload the crossbow arrows.
The main feature is fire coverage, you can't touch me.
This kind of long-range shooting is the best weapon against cavalry. The ground was filled with the wailing of war horses and the screams of Koreans before their death.
Guo Kai showed no mercy to these Koreans. He ordered the soldiers behind him to take spears and finish off the Koreans lying on the ground.
There is no mercy on the battlefield.
Seeing how brutal the Dayun people were, the Goryeo soldiers who were lying on the ground pretending to be dead quickly got up and ran back like crazy.
However, before they could run a few steps, they were shot through by Dayun's crossbow arrows.
Guo Kai realized that the psychological defenses of the enemy commander and soldiers had been broken, so he waved his hand and said, "Attack!"
Counterfeit and shoddy products are counterfeit and shoddy products, they are always similar in appearance but not in spirit.
The lord of Yizhou City learned how to fight, but did not learn how to retreat.
The Koreans swarmed together and scrambled to retreat.
The Dayun people chased them like sheep.
The Goryeo soldiers guarding Yizhou City lowered the city gate after the lord of Yizhou City entered the city.
No matter whether they are from their own people or Dayun people, as long as they dare to climb up the city wall, they will swing their swords mercilessly.
Guo Kai was not afraid of these, he led the way, waving the sword in his hand, urging his men to climb the city wall quickly.
Faced with such brutal Dayun soldiers, the Goryeo people retreated.
The city gate was opened, Guo Kai led his men to rush in, and the original death squad also led the merchants to successfully break through the inner city.
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