Chapter 42 Chapter 42 Li Shimin Breaks Liaodong City Gao Yanshou Supports Liang Wanchun

It is inconvenient to say the exact number of Tang Jun's million-strong army, but judging from the momentum, there may be hundreds of thousands.But let's leave the actual situation until the end. Liaodong City encountered an unprecedented crisis. After Tang Jun finished shooting with a catapult, he immediately launched a new round of offensive.Countless giant crash cars with a height of more than ten meters drove towards the outside of the city wall of Liaodong. Because the main building was heavily guarded, Tang Jun's crash cars stopped at the auxiliary building near the main building.The power of the collision was fully exerted, and the auxiliary building was crumbling under the hammer of the giant wooden hammer.

Every time an auxiliary building was breached, a long pole would lift up the Lubu, and the hundreds of thousands of troops below the city would send out a shocking response.In ancient China, every time a small group had good news, they raised a pole more than ten meters high, with a traffic light-like dew cloth tied on it, to boost morale. This is also very helpful for hitting the enemy's confidence. The defenders of Liaodong City are crazy, they know that sooner or later they will be finished. But they didn't expect that they would end up like this... Li Shimin suddenly changed his attitude of not participating in the past, and summoned an elite army in Junya (command headquarters), and let them climb into the nest cart.What is he doing?Want to see the scenery in Liaodong City?Haven't you seen it before?If you understand Li Shimin's intentions in this way, you will underestimate him too much.When these soldiers climbed onto the nest cart and looked into the city from a high altitude, the hunting south wind was wanting to blow them down.

When the guards of Liaodong City saw the things in the hands of the soldiers sent by Li Shimin, they knew that their time of death had come. The soldiers held the bows and crossbows calmly, holding up the arrows with raging flames. By the time the Liaodong defender understood what was going on, countless rockets had already shot into Liaodong City.Now that it is on fire, putting out the fire is the first priority, otherwise it will be burned to death if it is not smashed to death by Tang Jun.With this in mind, the soldiers on the Liaodong City Wall began to fight the fire.Li Shimin waited until the result he wanted, and the order was passed, and all the troops were sent out.

It can be seen from the sky that countless ants-like Tang soldiers rushed up the Liaodong city wall, and they began to climb up with ladders. The defenders who were dazzled by the heat immediately understood a truth: If you don't escape at this time, when will you escape?When Tang Bing rushed up and stabbed down, he screamed in pain! The Goryeo soldiers retreated, and the Tang soldiers who rushed into Liaodong City were in high spirits, and the ladders and towers lit up the success stories one after another.Liaodong City, which had been torn open, changed from static to vivid, but everyone ran towards the city.The raging fire took advantage of the wind and burned into the city, and the people took refuge one after another.Among them, more than 10,000 Korean soldiers who did not know where to flee or were ordered not to flee were burned alive. Among the Korean soldiers, more than 10,000 were beheaded and more than 10,000 were captured. people.

Liaodong City was Gaisuwen's key point of defense, where Gaisuwen stored 500,000 shi of grain. The most important thing is that the 40,000 people in Liaodong were included in the name of the Tang Dynasty. On that day, Li Shimin ordered to take Liaodong as Liaozhou, raise a beacon to attack Baiyan City, and pass the news of success to Prince Li Zhi in Dingzhou. At this time, Yuan Gai Suwen entered the most stressful time of the year. In the past, he had to meet those generals from the front every day. He wanted to encourage and educate them so that they would unswervingly defend their country.Moreover, he repeatedly pointed out that the Tang Empire must understand that Goryeo needs a leader like Gai Suwen. Although he dared not go to the front line, he always remembered these warriors who fought bravely for Goryeo.Only a leader who always thinks about the people dares to hide himself and protect himself. When it is time to benefit everyone, he will stand up without hesitation!

He also asked the soldiers to rescue the Korean people living in dire straits as soon as possible, so he ordered to send 10,000 troops to quickly support Baiyan City. Baiyan City is close to Liaodong City, and it is also a strategic place to enter the heart of Goryeo. The first battle took place between Gai Suwen's 10,000 reinforcements and the general Qibi Heli of the Tang Dynasty. The eight hundred people led by Qibi Heli also suffered casualties.The Goryeo reinforcements were sent from the direction of Black Bone City, and they had no intention of winning from the moment they encountered Qibi Heli.That's right, I used 10,000 people to fight 800 people, but Tang Jun's leader is ahead, even if I win, so what?But when the Koryo Army surrounded Qibi Heli, their morale suddenly increased.

It's unbelievable. The Gaoli soldiers fought more and more vigorously. Someone cut Qibi Heli's waist with a knife, and bright blood spurted out from Qibi Heli's body. This foreigner who claimed to be from Tang Dynasty became the target of public criticism, and Korean soldiers flocked to him. Hundreds of people wanted to snatch Qibi Heli's body and put it on the chariot to enshrine Xue Wanbei (Xue Shixiong's son, brother of Xue Wanche and Xue Wanjun). Seeing this, he rushed in to rescue him on his own, and with one man's strength, he swept away thousands of troops and killed them all. Bleed out.

The retreating Tang soldiers were stunned. They saw that Xue Wanbei was like a crazy rhinoceros, falling down wherever he hit.Xue Wanbei pulled up Qibi Heli and was about to leave. Seeing that he had no reinforcements, the Korean soldiers who came up from the siege regained their spirits and rode forward one after another with weapons. A shocking scene is about to come. Qi Bi He Li couldn't stop bleeding, and suddenly let out an angry cry, his eyes became as fierce as tigers and wolves.He tore off the cloth towel, tied the wound tightly, and entered the enemy line again.After knocking down more than a dozen Goryeo soldiers one after another, the Goryeo army was dumbfounded. The Tang soldiers who were about to retreat saw that Qibi Heli was wounded and entered the field with injuries. They also became angry and followed Qibi Heli with a roar Enemy center.

The Koryo soldiers had probably never seen such a desperate style of fighting. After being knocked down by the angry Tang Bing, a large number of people had already started to face Tang Bing with their buttocks. Midsummer, June. Li Shimin specially visited Qibi Heli who was seriously injured. Before that, he had sucked blood for Li Simo who was injured by an arrow. He is Li Shimin, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. If it is said that he is pretentious, he can pretend for decades, and he can make the whole world willing to go to Chang'an. It is indeed not an easy task. The lord of Baiyan City, who was waiting for the reinforcements so much that he wanted to scold his mother, was dying. He thought that Gai Suwen was playing a cheating game again.Under the siege of Li Ji and the instigation of the soldiers in the city, he was determined to do a great thing.He came to the northwest gate of Baiyan City, let the messenger down, and sent a letter to Li Shimin.

This is a letter of surrender, signed: Sun Daiyin, Lord of Baiyan City. Sun Daiyin was not a reassuring figure. He surrendered once at the beginning, and Li Ji also delayed the attack, but it took him a long time to find out that this guy was playing tricks.Now that Gai Suwen's reinforcements were beaten away, seeing that the defenders of Baiyan City were about to be cut down, Sun Daiyin sent a second letter of surrender.Li Shimin expressed his disbelief in Sun Daiyin. He asked Sun Daiyin to show his sincerity. The envoy said that the city lord had a plan long ago. They pointed to the city wall and said:

"As soon as we send out the signal, the soldiers in the city will throw all the swords and axes outside the city! The reason why the city lord is so entangled is because there are people in the city who don't want to surrender. (Slaves are willing to surrender, and there are disobedient people in the city.)" Li Shimin nodded, and suddenly, he also pointed to the city wall and said: "If you really want to surrender, put these things in the city first!" A quarter of an hour later, Baiyan City was captured by the banner of the Tang army, and Baiyan City surrendered without a fight. But the most fatal thing right now is not the next city, but the Tang soldiers outside the city who have been waving their flags and shouting for several days.In order to boost morale, Li Shimin promised everyone that when the matter is completed, he will distribute all the property in Baiyan City as rewards to everyone.Everyone was very happy, after cheering, they waited for Baiyan City to be captured.But this damn Sun Daiyin didn't surrender early (of course the previous time was a lie), and didn't surrender late. When he was about to finish Baiyan City, he just wandered out, giving everyone the urge to beat him up. When you readily agree to others, you must consider the consequences.If you make a promise easily, you will make mistakes in advance and retreat. You must fully understand this point.The scheming and kind-hearted Li Shimin had already guessed what everyone was thinking behind their backs, since they were all scolding their mothers secretly, it would be better to spread the matter out. Li Ji was the most difficult to understand Li Shimin's behavior. He ran to Li Shimin with dozens of generals and asked: "The reason why the soldiers risked their lives to fight for us is because of this little treasure. Now, Baiyan City is about to be captured, but His Majesty suddenly accepts their surrender. Why is this?" Li Shimin was a little embarrassed, he dismounted and apologized: "What the general said is true, but I can't bear to let the soldiers kill people and take their wives and children away. Those who have made meritorious service under the general's command will be rewarded with treasury items. I should be satisfied with this, right?" After saying that, he started to give Baiyan City a generous treatment. Here, Li Shimin taught everyone a good lesson.Just as the good days were about to begin, something different appeared in Baiyan City. This is a group of soldiers stationed in Baiyan City transferred from other cities. For these people, Li Shimin adopted a more lenient policy.He distributed food to everyone, and personally consoled them, asking where they came from and where they wanted to go.Finally, he announced: "You can go wherever you want, if you have nowhere to go, or if you don't want to leave, you can stay in White Rock City and continue your life." Among these soldiers, more than 700 warriors suddenly appeared and knelt down in front of Li Shimin. Let me introduce their background first. They are the elite troops personally ordered by Gai Suwen. They used to defend Gaimu City desperately when Li Ji attacked Gaimu City.At this time, they were moved to death by Li Shimin, and asked to join the Tang army and serve the Tang Dynasty.It was really scary. Logically speaking, Li Shimin should be trembling at this moment when he was moved by his actions, and the seven hundred warriors should also be rolling all over the floor after getting their consent. But they didn't roll all over the floor. Li Shimin reminded them, "Your wives and daughters are still under the control of Gai Suwen. If you join the Tang army, your wives and daughters will definitely be cut into pieces." This group of people reluctantly left Baiyan City. From now on, they knew that Gai Suwen was really not a good person. At least from the propaganda to the emperor, it was enough to see that this person turned black and white.After sending these people away, Tang Jun set out from Baiyan City and marched into Anshi City in nine days. Anshi City is different from other cities, really different. The city lord of Anshicheng is a hero, and his name is not recorded in the historical records.According to Korean legend, his name is Yang Wanchun.It is said that his name is not Yang Wanchun, but Liang Wanchun. The common people's accent is too strong, so they pronounce "Liang" as "Yang".This Liang Wanchun's experience is very strange, Gai Suwen had always asked Liang Wanchun to admit that he usurped power, but Liang Wanchun refused to do it. So, Gai Suwen led the army and began to bombard Anshi City violently, but Anshi remained unmoved. In the end, Gai Suwen felt that he was the only city in the whole country that did not surrender, and that he used a large army to attack his own territory, which was a bit of a stick.Gai Suwen thought that Liang Wanchun would approve his clever plan, but he was wrong. Gai Suwen decided to use Liang Wanchun's ability to defend the city, and then mobilized Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen in the north of Goryeo to lead an army of 150,000 troops from Goryeo and Mohe to rescue Anshi. Gao Yanshou really came, and brought 150,000 troops.Li Shimin told Li Ji: "Judging from the current situation, Gao Yanshou has three choices: First, lead the troops straight forward, join forces with Anshi City as a base, occupy the high mountains, eat the food and grass in the city, and plunder our army's cattle and horses. It is difficult for our army to attack forward, and the retreat is blocked by a swamp. Army, this is the best policy; Second, pull out all the people in the city and flee with them, which is the middle strategy; Third, if you can't recognize the current situation, fighting our army alone is a bad strategy. " After speaking, Li Shimin comforted everyone with confidence: "Just wait and see, he will definitely choose a bad strategy, and we will capture him alive sooner or later! (Qing Cao Guanzhi, he will definitely make a bad strategy, and he will be captured in my eyes.)" And Gao Yanshou's side is indeed holding an extremely mentally handicapped summit meeting.