Chapter 41 Chapter 41: Escorts drive a large army across Liaoze to prevent the reinforcements Li Ji from attacking the stubborn city

The Xuanjia army stretches for hundreds of miles. The big spears, horizontal knives, mo knives, long spears, bows and arrows, giant crossbows, Mingguang armor, heavy knives with broken handles, cowhide shields, nest cars, flying bridges, ladders, hitchhiking cars, hooked cars, trains, The goose falcon cart... actually occupied the entire outside of Liaodong City. Judging from the current situation, the equipment ownership rate of Tang soldiers is as high as 120%, and everyone has spare arrows and knives.Regular and dazzling, this is the impression of the Goryeo defenders on them. The follow-up army supported the car driver, and the journey was not so smooth.

The damned Liaoze blocked the way for large troops to advance. A small number of troops can take the easy road, but they can't drive.Liaoze is the swamp formed by the Liaohe River over the years, and it has been a natural barrier between the tribes since ancient times.Liaoze is more than two hundred miles from east to west, not to mention north and south.In the two hundred miles, apart from the mud that can swallow the whole person, it is an undercurrent that is half water and half a trap, and it cannot be pulled out if you are not careful. Mud was very useful when building a house, but now it has become the biggest obstacle to marching.

Li Shimin asked someone to test the average depth of the swamp, and found that the shallow part can reach the ankle, and the depth must be one foot. If you want to pass, you must ensure the passage of a car.Someone thought of using pontoon bridges and wooden planks, but he never thought that in the two hundred miles of swamp, if you accidentally sink into it, there is no way to save it. Li Shimin found a person and asked him to do everything possible to let the army pass through smoothly. This person is Yan Lide, a great engineer. The engineer did not draw a sketch, nor did he measure the compressive capacity of the mud, nor did he invite other experts to hold a joint trial. He just rested his chin on his hand and looked forward like a girl.In everyone's minds, this great engineer who was ordered to build the Mausoleum of Emperor Gaozu Li Yuan of the Tang Dynasty, this great engineer who once supervised the construction of the Cuiwei and Yuhua Palaces, built the Zhaoling Mausoleum, and presided over the construction of the outer gates and towers of Tang Chang'an City, must be Can come up with a unique and amazing method to help the army pass through Liaoze smoothly.

The engineer looked at Liao Ze resolutely, and suddenly he stood up. Everyone was excited, which meant that Yan Lide had already figured out a wonderful way to overcome the difficulty. "Yes," Yan Lide said, "my method is—" Let's take a look at the situation here a few hours later. The large army has already moved ten miles forward, and this speed is already very fast. In front of the troops were soldiers pushing earth carts, and there were many people digging the soil where the troops had been.The soldiers pushing the carts went back and forth here and there, loading and unloading, so we understood that this is called filling, and this is the idea that the great engineer came up with.Comrade Yan Lide, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, did a good job, so he smiled sheepishly.Facts tell us that the most difficult problems can often be solved with the simplest methods.

Yan Lide made one extraordinary achievement. Next, the troops moved forward at an extremely fast speed, and soon passed the natural danger of Liaoze. Liaodong City is the vital gate of Liaodong, and Gai Suwen is desperate to keep it. Li Ji is besieging Liaodong here, of course he will send reinforcements to break the siege.Li Ji also knew that this would happen, before the driver arrived, he sent Li Daozong to stop Gai Suwen's reinforcements.Although Qiu Xiaozhong's interference made the Korean side frightened, Liaodong was the most important thing.When Liaodong's 40,000 rescue troops bypassed the Yalu River and arrived at a hundred miles outside Liaodong City, they suddenly encountered Comrade Li Daozong's blocking troops.

The two sides launched a life-and-death contest, and the problem that plagued Tang Bing suddenly appeared-Goryeo had 40,000 soldiers and horses, while Li Daozong only brought 4,000 soldiers. Li Daozong's men were divided into two groups.Some people think that how can we beat the enemy's 40,000 army with only 4,000 soldiers?It's better to wait for the car to arrive before making plans.And another group thinks that the Goryeo soldiers still need the power of Emperor Lao?It's better to clear the obstacles for the car first, which can also be a great achievement. The person who proposed to wait for the arrival of the car was named Zhang Junyi.

Everyone asked Li Daozong what his plan was, and Li Daozong said calmly: "We have been waiting here for a long time, but they are rushing here. The rebels rely on their large numbers and have the heart to despise me. If they attack with one fell swoop, they will definitely be defeated!" After saying that, Ma Wenju, Captain of Guoyi, recommended himself, with generous words, and led the branch into the enemy's line first.He encouraged the soldiers and said: "If you don't meet a strong enemy, how can you be a strong man!" Ma Wenju was full of pride, took the lead, rushed into the enemy's formation first, rushed left and right, invincible.

The soldiers were infected by his emotions, and the killing sound shook the sky and entered the 40,000-strong army of Goryeo.This was a battle of one against ten. Ma Wenju's team of less than 2,000 people was heavily surrounded by the Koryo army.But we saw that Tang Bing didn't show any fear at all, and everyone had the domineering aura that would break the enemy's heart. In this way, a miraculous scene soon appeared. Ma Wenju's 40,000 troops were thrown upside down by Ma Wenju, and more than 1,000 people were hacked to death in a short time. An even more miraculous scene happened to Zhang Junyi. Ma Wenju, who was waiting for his fire support, waited until the flowers were gone, but Zhang Junyi insisted on not showing up.

Of course this guy won't show up, because his plan is to run in two hits.Seeing him run away, the subordinates he led ran away too, and the surrounding Tang soldiers saw Zhang Junyi's men retreating, thinking that something had happened, they also retreated immediately.In this way, the good situation was instantly reversed by Zhang Junyi, and Tang Jun was quickly defeated.Originally there were only 4,000 people, but they were chased by the cheap Koryo army. Almost all those who fought the enemy bravely and penetrated into the heart of the enemy army were killed in battle.Of course, this number is really not that big.

Seeing Zhang Junyi running away, Li Daozong didn't care about being angry, so he came up to direct him. He observed the situation first, and when he stood on a high place and looked down, he found that although the Tang soldiers were routed, the 2,000 men led by Ma Wenju had already messed up the Goryeo army.That is to say, Comrade Zhang Junyi didn't encounter any danger, so he led his part to retreat, and his ass was chopped off when he escaped.Li Daozong was so angry that he got off the high platform, shouted angrily and led the Jingqi to kill thousands of people. This time, Li Daozong was really angry, he only brought dozens of elite cavalry.

Dozens of fine cavalry pierced through the Goryeo army like a bullet that pierced the chamber.The many troops in the Koryo Army were caught off guard, and they ignored everything else and just ran. If they didn't even have a place to run, they would have to be stabbed.Dozens of elite cavalry, like lightning united together, opened the chest of the 40,000 army.The collapse of the Koryo Army was only a few minutes later. At this time, Li Ji, who had been squatting bored outside Liaodong City, led two or three thousand people from the flanks into the enemy's formation, causing the Koryo Army to collapse even more.When the Koryo army retreated desperately, more than a thousand people were beheaded. Finally, a good thing was done to welcome Che Jia, but when Li Ji and Li Daozong returned to Liaodong City, Che Jia still didn't come. What is the problem? The problem is that when the cars and the army passed through Liaoze, Li Shimin ordered that the bones encountered in Liaoze be buried.These bones were dropped by Yang Guang back then, and belonged to soldiers of the Sui Dynasty.In this way, the driving was delayed for some time, and when they crossed the Liaohe River, in order to boost morale, Li Shimin ordered the Liaohe Bridge to be demolished. And, he said this: "Wait for Liaodong to return to our country, and then build a good bridge!" A few days later, Che Jia and the follow-up army finally arrived, joining forces with Li Ji.The banners covered the sky, and they were stationed outside Liaodong City mightily.Li Ji and Li Daozong's thousands of soldiers and horses did not have siege equipment, so they could only rely on cursing and archery to maintain a deterrent to Liaodong City.Now that the large army arrived, Li Shimin's Yujia and Yuyi led the most elite army to come forward and surrounded Liaodong City by hundreds. Excited Tang Jun clamored, shaking the sky and the earth. Gai Suwen absolutely didn't dare to show his face, and what happened later also proved that during the whole war, this man hid in the peninsula and dared not come out.But Li Shimin did something he shouldn't have done at this time. The troops stationed at Mashou Mountain. Li Shimin first rewarded Jiangxia King Li Daozong and worshiped Ma Wenju as Zhonglang General.Next, Zhang Junyi, who recruited the following literati, said that he was "counting", but in fact it was "swearing", "jumping", "pouting" and "criminalizing". Subsequently, Zhang Junyi was executed. Li Shimin led hundreds of iron riders to the city of Liaodong to feel the atmosphere of twenty years ago.This visit has another purpose, which is to see how the work of filling the ditch is going. Siege pays attention to large-scale and large-scale surprise attacks, so that the defenders must pay attention to their heads and ignore their backs. Friends who have played "Plants vs. Zombies" can know that what we are most afraid of is not the zombies in red who are good at high jumps.What we are most afraid of is that "a zombie is approaching" after many high jumps, pole vaults, and the miserable screams of giant zombies. Although we waited a year and didn't see that zombie.However, zombies are coming from all directions, which always makes people in a hurry. Generally speaking, ordinary zombies are bothering your defense, and suddenly a few jumping elites and oversized giants jump out, and our defense will completely collapse.It can be seen from this that the most important thing in siege is to attack from all directions, and suddenly concentrate firepower on one place at a time to break through the defense of the city. Having said so much, it is actually just to illustrate that the moat must be completely filled to death. The workload was heavy, and when Li Shimin arrived at the construction site, the soldiers panicked.What made them even more panicked was yet to come. Li Shimin rode forward and rode his horse to the side of the mound full of sacks.Suddenly, he made an unimaginable move—bent down from the horse, grabbed one of the sacks with extremely agility, held it with his hand, rode the horse forward, and threw the sack into the moat. The thousands of people present were all petrified. Really, everyone said that Li Shimin, the king of Qin back then, was infinitely powerful. Now it seems that it is true! What moved everyone even more was that when Li Shimin completed this set of movements, the elites behind him bravely swiped the ground, dismounted and carried the sack in full swing.The entourage and all the officials were not far behind, they got off their horses to work one after another, rolled up their sleeves and started to carry.The soldiers were even more desperate. In the fiery scene where everyone was not to be outdone, the moat was filled with passages that day.Well, now, let's take a look at the scene. First of all, come to interview Mr. Li Ji, the general manager of Liaodong Road. "Yinggong, have you ever learned Korean? Can you say hello to the audience in front of the camera?" "Okay! Anihasai...chicken for Kara!" "Haha, Yinggong is really humorous. Then, Comrade Yinggong, what is the emperor doing now? What method are you using to attack the city?" "It's like this. The emperor has been condolences to the soldiers. Our soldiers are very touched. Now we are attacking Liaodong City with a hundred times of energy and using siege equipment." "So, can you briefly introduce what kind of equipment they are? How are they used? What are the effects? Are there any casualties in Tang Jun?" "It's like this. We first filled the soil, wiped out their moat, and then used the catapult truck. This kind of truck is huge, the size is like a two-story building, and the mechanism is not complicated. There is a rope at the back , more than two hundred soldiers pulled it hard, and placed a huge boulder of several hundred catties on the other end (it was confirmed to be more than three hundred catties). Once the boulder was bounced, it could fly for more than a mile. Everything will be smashed, of course, except for water and mud. As for the effect, it is like this, our boulders are enough to fly above their city walls. In order to block the boulders, they erected giant trees, and the giant trees were connected with thick ropes. They like this I can only say I am sorry, but you have seen the consequences, ropes, giant trees and boulders smashed down on the Korean guards, causing them to die and suffer injuries.” "Oh... Yinggong, what I asked was whether there were any casualties in the Tang army, and I didn't ask the Korean soldiers!" "That's right, Tang Bing, die, there is really no such thing. But some soldiers pimped, no, they got cramps when pulling the big rope, which made me understand the importance of calcium supplementation. Of course, I will have a celebration banquet in Chang'an Everyone can eat and drink as much as they want. After watching the show, the folks hope that our soldiers can eat more meat when they go home, and it is best to have bones. Only in this way is a good way to strengthen the body." "Okay, thank you Yinggong. It seems that the siege of the Tang army has achieved initial results. Yinggong has worked hard. You can continue to fight." "OK."