Chapter 44 Chapter 44 Attacking An City and Asking the Emotional Scout Tun Jian An Breaks the Bravery to Scare Zhang Liang

Some Tang soldiers and Li Shimin suffered from such an arrow, and those who failed to receive timely treatment died of poisoning one after another.Those who feel better can survive, but the future will not be easy. When he murdered the Mohe people, Li Shimin must have done so to avenge his death.Judging from various circumstances, the toxicity of the toxin did not really kick in until several years later, and it made Li Shimin extremely weak.The Mohe people were murdered, which is bad news for the Korean people.The Koreans were frightened, and the whole country was horrified. Within a day, all the Koreans in the cities around the Tang army fled, and the whole area became a no-man's land.

Of course, except for Anshicheng. In the nineteenth year of Zhenguan (645), on the fifth day of the seventh month, autumn was breezy and crisp. Tang Jun, who was resting in the east of Anshi City, received a report from scouts saying that there was no need to fight again in Huangcheng and Yincheng.Because when the scouts carefully touched the vicinity of these two cities, they didn't even see a ghost. Later, when they went to look under the city, they found that they were all empty cities.Back in the camp, Li Shimin wrote letters to Prince Li Zhi and Gao Shilian who was assisting the government.

"With a radius of hundreds of miles, Gaoli fled to the peninsula after hearing the news, and I will be the general, how about it?!" Unwilling to be lonely, Li Shimin then wrote a condolence letter to Zhenzhu Khan of the Xueyantuo tribe: "Our Tang army is in Liaodong. If you want to rob Chang'an, come and rob it. There is nothing to be ashamed of! (Now my father and son are conquering Korea. If you can be a bandit, you should come here urgently!)" It is not difficult to imagine how shocked Zhenzhu Khan would be when he received the letter. He would never have imagined that Li Shimin would expect someone from Mohe to invite him to Chang'an to rob him.

Things have to return to the Mohe tribe who helped Goryeo and Xue Yantuo.It is true that the Mohe tribe helped Gai Suwen and wanted to bring down the Tang army, and it was true that they listened to Gai Suwen's words, but they did not really want to help others, but out of their own considerations.Everyone has ambition, but only ambition. People who are irrational will often be killed by their own ambition.In order to make the Tang Dynasty collapse, Mohe spared no effort. The Mohe messenger came to Zhenzhu Khan's tooth tent with the important task of launching Laxueyantuo into the water.

The Mohe envoys failed to meet Zhenzhu Khan, and they were rejected. Because at this time Zhenzhu had been frightened by Li Shimin, before the Mohe envoys came, Zhenzhu said that she would never meet them.The envoy of Mohe, who had been rejected by the door, left angrily, and Zhenzhu Khan also fell into fear. Two months later, he died of fear.After Li Shimin found out about the situation, he was mourned in the army.The Mohe envoy should not have returned to Korea, and it is too late to regret it now.Doing things is not flattering at all, if you want to blame, you have to blame yourself. In Chengdongling, Anshi, Li Shimin ordered Gao Yanshou to be the Minister of Honglu, and Gao Huizhen to be the Minister of Agriculture.

The army stopped for a few days, and the soldiers enjoyed this rare vacation.One day at noon, when everyone was resting, suddenly a big horse and a man tied up came to Gongya and asked Li Shimin to interrogate him.This is an enemy scout that the patrol found nearby. It took a lot of effort to finally catch him. At first, he resisted. Later, several people tied him tightly like a rice dumpling, and finally calmed him down. . In full view, Li Shimin glanced at this person and asked: "What's your name?" "Gao Zhuli." Li Shimin nodded, chuckled, and stepped forward, Gao Zhuli retreated subconsciously.

"Why are you so thin?" Li Shimin asked. "Sneaking on the road, I haven't eaten for several days." Suddenly, Li Shimin turned his head and said to his attendants: "Hurry up and prepare a meal for him, let's talk about it first!" Gao Zhuli suddenly felt a little weird, because Li Shimin had already walked up to him and untied him himself.The food was served quickly, Gao Zhuli devoured it hungrily, his mouth was full of rice, and suddenly he choked up.Li Shimin watched him eat, and said softly: "You are a secret worker, you have to go back and report. Mo Lizhi, who told you for me, if you want to know the news of our army in the future, you can directly send envoys to ask. Why do you need to be sneaky? Hard?"

Gao Zhuli's tear duct couldn't stop opening, he was still choking up just now, but now he let go of crying.Because he heard that Li Shimin was arranging a good horse for him and was going to let him go. After Gao Zhu left, Li Shimin immediately ordered the whole army to move from Dongling to the south of Anshi City. Li Ji, not Li Shimin, was the general manager of the Liaodong Road Army. It is indeed a question of whether to follow the general strategy of the battle, Li Shimin, the chief strategist, or Li Ji, the chief of the army.Although everyone has no disagreements, it will be a matter of time before the opinions are not unified.According to Li Shimin's analysis, Liang Wanchun, the lord of Anshi City, is not easy to deal with, and Jian'an City, which is further south, has weak soldiers and less food, so it is easy to attack, so we should go to Jian'an City first.

Li Shimin asked Li Ji in a tentative tone: "I think it's best for Yinggong to take Jian'an first. Once Jian'an is in his hands, he eats Anshicheng into his belly and forms a siege. It is often said in the art of war that a city cannot be attacked if it has something. It is best to bypass the defensive city." Li Ji obviously disagrees with Li Shimin's opinion: "Jian'an is in the south, Anshi is in the north, and our army's food and grass are all in the northwest of Anshi. Now we want to cross Anshi to attack Jian'an and let Goryeo cut off our food supply. What should we do?"

Here, it needs to be clarified that because of the mistreatment of Yang Guang's classmate in Goryeo, the food stored in the defensive areas is enough to feed the entire population of the city for a year.Therefore, if you want to win by starving them to death, it is simply a joke.If they are not fully sure of capturing them, it is best to go around and attack other cities.The problem lies here, go around and fight other cities, in case people are cut off, the army eats food quickly, the supply route is cut off, and you will be the one who starves to death.Li Shimin finally agreed to Li Ji's plan, and the Tang army continued to besiege Anshi City.

This is a conservative play. But you forgot. I hope you haven't forgotten. Comrade Zhang Liang, the general manager of the Pyongyang Road Army, had already recovered Beisha City (now around Dalian City), and sent his branch along the Yalu River to harass the Pyongyang reinforcements. After receiving the order, he led the Pyongyang Road Army and quickly touched Jian'an City!For Zhang Liang, this is really a relaxed and pleasant thing.It's different to have a boat. If you can beat it, you can fight it. If you can't beat it, you can escape by boat, without any worries. Hundreds of thousands of troops were stationed outside Jian'an City, revealing a harmonious scene. When the sea army was stationed outside the city, their behavior was a bit arrogant. First of all, the brothers who pitched the tents. They not only camped there brazenly with hammers, tents, and spears, but also chatted and laughed, not paying attention to the threat of Jian'an. The second is the horses transported by sea. The cavalry comrades saw that the horses had not had a full meal for a long time, so they led the horses and ran swaggeringly to the woods in the suburbs to feed grass as in peacetime. Finally, the comrades in arms of each group, in order to make fire and cook, they left the organization one after another and went around to find firewood. Soldiers can really afford it and let it go, and I believe that Comrade Zhang Liang is also the same.At least in the minds of the soldiers, Zhang Liang is a very good leader. The Koreans saw the lazy scene of the Pyongyang Dao army, and immediately reported it, and their superiors immediately gave instructions, deciding to launch a surprise attack while they were having brunch. Within a few minutes, Korean cavalry coming out from nowhere entered the middle of the Tang camp, and the barracks immediately fell into chaos.Tang Bing reported the situation to Zhang Liang in a panic, and Zhang Liang was overwhelmed with fright.In fact, Comrade Zhang Liang is a fierce general, and he has always been prepared for war, which is what we often say "do not fight unprepared battles".But don't forget one thing, once you are really unprepared, Comrade Zhang Liang will really cry.The restless Zhang Liang was pale, sitting on the bed, staring straight out of the tent. The soldiers were moved by Zhang Liang's performance! Zhang Liang's restless expression gave him the feeling that the god of death is coming. He stared at the messenger soldier expressionlessly, with a crazy murderous look between his brows.His face began to twitch uncontrollably, it was a cruel expression that only the most domineering general in the world would have... The soldiers looked at the domineering Zhang Liang, and they comforted each other. The chief executive is so calm, he must have a plan in mind, but what are we afraid of? ! Zhang Jinshu, the manager, was the first to comprehend Zhang Liang's ideological connotation, beat the drums to assemble the army, and the assembly was completed in an instant.Taking advantage of this overwhelming momentum, Zhang Jinshu led the army to break through the enemy army, turned defeat into victory, and killed the Goryeo soldiers to run around. Zhang Liang stood up slowly and took a long breath, the sweat all over his body betrayed Zhang Liang. Only then did everyone understand that the chief executive was frightened just now. (Liang Su is timid, sitting on the beard bed, looking directly at him without saying a word, the soldiers see him and feel more courageous.) In the south of Anshi City, under Lubo, Li Shimin, Li Ji, and Li Daozong are followed by hundreds of thousands of troops. Seeing the boss of the Tang Dynasty below, the defenders of Anshi suddenly became suspicious, even if you showed your butt to Li Shimin, would the Tang army be able to attack?The first person who discovered it was secretly delighted, so he pointed at Li Shimin and cursed.It doesn't matter if you scold me, the others see it's fun and start to scold me too.The people of Anshi also joined the ranks of scolding Li Shimin, the whole situation is very similar to watching monkeys.They didn't pay much attention to Li Shimin at all, and swear words in various accents came out. Li Shimin was furious, and Li Ji was furious. Li Ji asks: "Destroy Anshi City, and bury all the men in the city alive! (On the day of Kecheng, all men were buried.)" Li Shimin immediately agreed, and Tang Jun called Liang Wanchun the decision. Liang Wanchun held a mobilization meeting in the city. The meeting pointed out that after the Tang army captured Anshi, they would definitely slaughter the city. Therefore, the army and the people must unite now, otherwise everyone will never have a good life. In fact, I believe that after Anshicheng is captured, Li Shimin will definitely change his mind.But this decision truly united the military and civilians of Anshi like never before.Everyone contributes vigorously, and those who have rice produce rice, so that the army will have no worries.The battle against Anshi City continued, and the days still seemed so long. Finally, two people couldn't sit still.They asked Li Shimin to give them a chance to show off, bypassing Anshi City, picking up Black Bone City, collecting food and materials, and then plotting against Pyongyang. The people who made the request were Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen. They really need to show that the two of them are fully confident that they can destroy Black Bone City in a very short period of time.According to the two of them, the defense of Black Bone City is less than a quarter of that of An City, and the city's Nusa is an old-fashioned person, already in his eighties.The officials discussed and agreed that instead of spending all their time in Anshi City, it is better to send 100,000 people to Wugu first, cross the Yalu River, and go straight to Pyongyang. Li Shimin certainly agrees with this approach, but some people disagree. He said: "There are 100,000 enemy troops in Jian'an and Xincheng. Our army will go around and take the black bones. We will be restrained. The emperor's personal conquest is different from other generals. We can't take such a big risk." The person who raised the objection was Changsun Wuji, so again, Li Shimin did not act decisively like he did back then, and continued to fight An Shicheng to death.The situation became more and more unclear, and the armies from all walks of life stepped up their siege on Anshi.The two sides come and go, the relationship is stable, and no one has an absolute advantage. On an afternoon of orange sunshine, the situation changed. Gao Yanshou: I came quietly, just as I left quietly. I waved my dagger, leaving no one alive. Liang Wanchun: When is the bright moon?Look up by yourself.