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In the evening, Li Jing led the four armies to the battlefield...

Guo Zhenshan and Lin Wu's generals had already cleaned the battlefield. Although the soldiers had just finished fighting, they were all in high spirits.

"In this battle, 6,000 soldiers and horses came from Yelu Dala, beheading more than 4,000 and captives more than 1,000. In fact, more than 500 seriously injured, and more than 1,300 prisoners were left. Yelu Dala was killed by General Lin Wu's formation, and the flag was also captured by General Lin Wu. In addition, we also seized more than 2,100 sets of leather armor, swords and guns, and more than 3,000 sets of ordinary sets of war horses. More than 2,000 horses were intact and several dry food." Guo Zhenshan held a hand scroll full of numbers to report to Li Jing.

Li Jing punched Lin Wu in the chest, "It is indeed worthy of being the leader of the army of the silver spear, and the mighty of the Left Yajun. Killing the generals and seizing the flag, taking the general's head among the ten thousand troops, and taking the head of the general, and being powerful!" Lin Wu was Li Jing's sworn brother, and he had a rare prestige in the town [***]. Although there are more than 20 armies under the town, there are still many gaps between the army leader. For example, although Lin Wei did not serve as the military leader, his position in his town was second only to Li Jing. The two sworn brothers of Li Jing, Lin Wu and Wang Chong, are also the most experienced and prestigious among the military leaders. Zhang Chengzong and Liu Shouqian, are also more trusted than Guo Zhenshan and other military leaders who later surrendered.

Lin Wu smiled: "Yan Yun's army fought very well in this battle and was the best!"

At the beginning, the Yanyun Army was just the deposed army in southern Liaoning, and later formed the united troops. After entering Youzhou, Li Jing took the opportunity to weaken it and was finally left in Youzhou. However, his performance was good later. Li Jing slowly began to change blood from middle-level officers, and finally enriched the non-commissioned officers, and later added a lot of elite troops. By now, this army has been transformed. Although I dare not say that it is as elite as the fifth yamen in Zhen [***], at least there is no need to worry about loyalty.

This time their performance was indeed beyond Li Jing's expectations. It can be said that the key point is Guo Zhenshan, the chief general and the officers transferred from the middle and lower levels.

"In this battle, all the soldiers were awarded the third-class merit once. Guo's commander was good, and he was the first to be the best. Lin's army commander killed the general and seized the flag, and he was the second to be the second to be the second to be the battle. Lao Hei and Monk Hua also made an indelible contribution to this battle, and he was recorded as the third to be the third. The generals in the marching record room recorded the merits and then rewarded according to the merits." Li Jing announced with a smile.

Then, let the four armies in this battle rest on site for the time being.

The next day, Li Jing left the Fourth Army to continue resting. He and Zhao Yuan, Zeng Yuanyu, Gao Zhaokang and others led Feixiong, Shenjie, Korean and Shengjie Army to set out north.

The 10th Army Peace Lu Army and the Five Armies, together with the Navy, Shenjie Army and the Korean Army, and the Six Armies, a total of twenty-four Armies. This time, Li Jing transferred fourteen armies, including three Unity Army and Navy Army. After three armies and one Unity Army were stationed in Pingzhou, Li Jing also stayed in Denglai and Ziqing counties, with a total of four armies and two Unity Army.

This time when entering Liao to fight, Li Jing also intends to test the training of the town [***] over the past year through actual combat. In terms of dispatching troops, it is mostly a rotational mobilization. Each army has the opportunity to fight, and the time for daily training is enough. Now this army still lacks only the tempering of swords, fire, blood and sand. As long as it is tested in actual combat, then this army is the real army.

At present, except for the navy and the Korean army that entered Liao, the other 12 armies still performed outstandingly.

Liu Shouqian and Zhang Chengshou were left behind in Shuangcheng to guard against other Goguryeo forces in the east, and together with the auxiliary army, protect the logistics civilian team, and assist in building a road north. After the battle, the fourth army led by Guo Zhenshan and others were temporarily stayed in Shuangcheng for rest, and then escorted food and grass north.

Li Jing led the four armies to the north with 20,000 troops. After Yelu Dachi and Yelu Dala were wiped out in the Shuangcheng, the Khitans in Zhucheng, Jian'an Prefecture had not received any news. Although there were still 3,000 troops left in Jian'an Prefecture, they were distributed among more than ten cities, and each city had only 3000 or 500 people.

Facing Li Jing's army swept over like a storm, no one could stop it.

Although the mountain city is dangerous, it has to be defended by people. Three or five hundred people have to defend a mountain city. For Li Jing, who has special forces, mountain infantry and mountain cavalry, it is simply vulnerable.

From the end of July to the beginning of August, Li Jing conquered more than ten mountain cities including Fenying Mountain City, Chengzigou Mountain City, Dongshuangtai Mountain City, Chishan Mountain City, Sunjiawobao Mountain City, Yantong Mountain City, Dongsheng Mountain City, Chaoyang Temple Mountain City, etc. Finally, the troops arrived directly under Jian'an City.

Jian'an City, also known as Goryeo City, is located fifteen miles northeast of Gaizhou City, Yingkou City, Liaoning Province, on the east mountain of Qingshiguanbao Goryeo City Village. Dongshan is also known as Shitouduo Mountain, also known as Goryeo City Mountain.

This is a steep mountain with a peak in the southwest, with an altitude of more than 100 feet. As you climb to the top of the peak, look west at the Bohai Sea, with thousands of blue waves, and you will see it with all your heart.

This mountain city was built nearly four hundred years ago. After the Tang Dynasty destroyed Goguryeo, it was changed to Jian'an Prefecture and was the location of Jian'an Prefecture, one of the nine governors' offices of the Andong Protectorate. Since the Sui Dynasty, it has been an important town where merchants gather. It is close to the mouth of the Liaohe River in Liaodong Bay, and is an important passage to the Liaohe River Basin north of the Liaodong Peninsula.

The entire Jian'an City has a circumference of more than ten miles. The city is in an irregular circle, with valleys in the middle. The surroundings are dangerous due to mountains. The city walls are built with stones, and some are rammed earth. The steep places are made of stone cliffs.

There are three city gates and one water gate in the whole city, and four watchtowers are located in the dangerous places. There is also a protruding hill in the center of the city, commonly known as Jindian Mountain, about seven meters high, and a watchtower is built on it. There are five springs around the hills and water storage pools. The springs do not freeze when they are cold and severe droughts do not dry up.

There are natural dangers, and there is water source in the city, and even when siege, you can farm in the city, which is very conducive to garrisoning troops.

Li Jing attacked all the way, and the news had already been learned in the city, and the three gates were closed.

Li Jing raised the thousand-mile mirror and looked at the city. There were soldiers guarding with guns and bows at the top of the city, but there were not many soldiers. There were also many people standing at the top of the city, but there were all teenagers and elderly people, and even many women. As Li Jing expected, the Khitans refused to surrender, but chose to stick to it.

"How did the Khitans in Anshizhou react?"

Li Jing turned around and asked Gongsun Lan because she was walking in the army. Gongsun Lan was wearing leather armor, a helmet, and a sword on her back. However, her leather armor was obviously not standard, and the whole leather armor was blazing and eye-catching. Moreover, the leather armor was completely slim and worn on her body, which made Li Jing feel like a uniform tempting.

Li Wei has been staying in the Khitan grassland. Now the Knights are hosted by Gongsun Lan most of the time. She likes this arrangement very much. Being able to stay by Li Jing's side makes her feel that she is even better than Li Jing's eighth wife. At least, they cannot follow the army. When Li Jing goes to war, they can only wait for him to go back at home.

"Report to the Grand Marshal, the Khitans in Anshizhou are also tribes of the Diela tribe, which is the same size as the Lianla tribe. They have 5,000 soldiers. However, some time ago, they ordered to send two thousand cavalry back to Khitan, and now there are 3,000 soldiers. They already know that we have attacked Jian'an Prefecture. According to the spies, Yelu Hao of Anshizhou has sent a thousand soldiers to support Jian'an Prefecture."

"Are there only one thousand soldiers? Plus there are only three thousand servants. Very good!" Li Jing smiled, "When will they arrive at Jian'an City as soon as possible?"

"I just received a return from the horse exploration. The three thousand horses sent by Yelu Hao have arrived in Yingchengzi Mountain City, only one day away from Dashi Bridge. However, from Dashi Bridge to Jian'an City, it is only eighty miles away, and it takes a short horse to reach in one day." Gongsun Lan replied.

“It’s coming so fast!”

Li Jing couldn't help but sigh that although there were only three thousand soldiers, this should be just a forward. Maybe there were a large group of troops coming behind him.

Anshizhou, that is, Haicheng. During the Han Dynasty, three counties were established in Xinchang, Anshi, and Liao. During the Three Kingdoms period, Wei occupied the north and belonged to Pingzhou, and later changed to Youzhou. From the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Haicheng was occupied by Goguryeo for more than 260 years. During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty, Goguryeo was destroyed and Anshizhou was established, which belonged to the Andong Protectorate. This place was later Haicheng, which belonged to Anshan City.

"Can we know who is the commander?"

"Yellow Shelu, the son of Yeluhao, was thirty years old and was named Khitan warrior."

Li Jing had no impression after hearing this. Li Jing didn't know much about the Khitans. However, since the Khitans came, he had to speed up the acquisition of Jian'an City. The location of Jian'an City was very important, blocking the passage from the Liaodong Peninsula to the Liaohe River Basin and even the northward major cities such as Liaodong. Similarly, taking Jian'an would be able to control the gateway to southern Liaoning.

If Khitan reinforcements were allowed to enter the city, then it would be a huge loss to take down Jian'an.

Li Jing couldn't help but shook his head.

"Why did the Grand Marshal shake his head?" Gai Yu asked out loud.

"Jian'an City is so dangerous, I didn't want to attack for force. After all, the news we received was that there were more than 1,000 troops in Jian'an City. Moreover, as a major city, Jian'an had about 30,000 Khitans and people of all ethnic groups in the city. If the Khitans defended to the death and conscripted the Qingshang City, we would have to suffer a lot of casualties in the attack. I wanted to surround Jian'an City, and then I was not in a hurry to attack the city, and I was preparing to find an opportunity to attack the surprise troops." Li Jing couldn't help but sigh, "But in the current situation, we must attack immediately. It would be worse than that in the future."

"Immediately notify the Master Zhao Army and ask him to lead the Feixiong Army around Jian'an City to Dashi Bridge. Be sure to occupy Dashi Bridge first, intercept Khitan reinforcements, and prevent them from reinforce Jian'an." Li Jing ordered and pondered for a moment. Li Jing turned to Gao Zhaokang behind him and said, "I have never sent General Gao to lead the Korean army to the field in several battles. I guess General Gao is itchy. Now, I will give you a chance to make contributions. After dark, General Gao will lead the Korean army to attack Jian'an City!"
Chapter completed!