Prince of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 428 Impossible

Since ancient times, the siege of a city has always been a last resort, as the saying goes, "the first is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the army, and the second is to attack the city."

Because doing so requires bearing huge losses.

From a normal point of view, the number of people who attacked the city died more than those who defended it. If the defender was a powerful general, the number would be even more astonishing.

It is not uncommon in history that tens of thousands of people cannot conquer a city with thousands of people.

As a veteran of the battlefield, Hou Junji has experienced hundreds of battles, big and small, and has extremely rich experience in siege.

In his opinion, although Beisha City is only a small town guarded by a few thousand people, it is backed by the big city of Goguryeo, Jian'an, and can receive reinforcements at any time. Therefore, if you want to take it down, you must do one word-quick!

It is necessary to quickly capture Beisha City with a strong force, and then build new fortifications to prevent Jian'an Cheng from sending troops to attack. To do this, Hou Junji must have at least [-] people attacking the city!

Zhang Liang has already taken 5 people with him, that is to say, Gao Ming must take another 5 people with him, and he needs to cross the sea unscathed. The city of Beisha was captured within a few days.

But what did he hear now?Gao Ming actually said that he would only take 20 people there?
Is this going to give military exploits to the Goguryeo people?

At this moment Hou Junji really wanted to grab Gao Ming by the collar and give him two slaps to wake him up.

But in the end, he still didn't have the guts to do so, but grinned at Gao Ming with a half-smile.

"Prince...uh, general, just now you said to take 20 people there? That... Did the general hear it wrong? In fact, you mean to take 20 people there, right?"

Hou Junji felt that Gao Ming was a fool, so he wanted to give Gao Ming a step down, but what he didn't expect was that Gao Ming didn't intend to take his step down.

As soon as he finished speaking, Gao Ming shook his head seriously.

"No, you heard me right, I'm going to bring 20 people, and I also want to bring my tank, I'm afraid I won't be able to sit down if there are too many people."

"Uh……"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Hou Junji couldn't help but glanced outside the mansion, seeing the huge monster parked outside, the corners of his eyes twitched immediately.

"His Royal Highness, your... that tank probably weighs tens of thousands of stones. During this period of time, the sea is facing headwinds. These twenty people... may not be able to row the boat!"

Hou Junji had never seen a large steam engine ship, and his thoughts were still on sailboats and human-powered boats, so he said that.

After hearing his words, Gao Ming couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Hahahahaha, you don't have to worry about this, well, you don't have to worry about these things, Huzi, you go and get Lu Guogong for me, go!"

"Yes!"

Huzi agreed and went out, and walked in with Cheng Yaojin after a while.

As soon as Cheng Yaojingang entered the door, he cupped his fists towards Gao Ming.

"The last general Cheng Yaojin sees the general!"

Cheng Yaojin had also seen Gao Ming's blow to Hou Junji before, and he didn't want to follow in Hou Junji's footsteps.

Seeing Cheng Yaojin coming, Gao Ming immediately smiled and nodded.

"Mr. Lu is exempt from the ceremony. We are waiting for the generals to lead the army, so we don't have to care about these red tapes!"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Hou Junji's eyes twitched again.

Damn it, I just called you "His Royal Highness" before, and you gave me a big blow. Now Cheng Yaojin, an old man, calls you a general, but you say that you don't care about red tape. This difference in treatment is too obvious. Bar?

Hou Junji was filled with resentment, but he didn't dare to show it, because he also knew that he was now excluded from Datang's power center, and if he dared to blow up his hair now, he might have to retire early.

Therefore, Hou Junji hastily lowered his head, for fear that he could not help but show an unhappy expression and be seen by Gao Ming.

In fact, Hou Junji's expression had already caught Gao Ming's eyes, watching him lower his head with a wry smile, Gao Ming also secretly laughed in his heart.

"It seems that it is also useful to transfer Hou Junji to guard the frontier, at least let him understand the truth of 'people have to bow their heads under the roof'."

Thinking of this, Gao Ming suddenly smiled, and then turned his gaze to Cheng Yaojin.

"Lu Guogong, I plan to set off to cross the sea in a while, and I will cooperate with Zhang Liang to take Beisha City early tomorrow morning."

"what?"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Cheng Yaojin jumped up immediately.

"A small Beisha City, how can I ask Admiral Tiance to come out? Isn't this a sledgehammer? Let me go, I will take ten people with me, and promise to take Beisha City before noon tomorrow!"

Originally, when Hou Junji saw Cheng Yaojin jumping up, he thought he was going to persuade Gao Ming, but he didn't expect that he would volunteer to fight Beisha City.

He also said that he would only take ten people there. Did he think that the Goguryeo people in Beisha City were all made of mud?
If it is said that Gao Ming has never fought in battle before, then Cheng Yaojin is also a veteran general after all, how could he make such a mistake?
Hou Junji suspected that he saw a fake Cheng Yaojin.

Just when Hou Junji was in a mess, Gao Ming laughed again.

"Hahahaha, don't worry, Lu Guogong, I have more important things for you. I want you to lead the troops to Pingzhou now, and send troops to Liaodong City tomorrow morning. You take Liaodong City as soon as possible, and then we attack back and forth. Three days Take Jian'an City within a few days!"

Although Hou Junji had just heard Gao Ming talk about this idea before, when he heard this idea again, his face still couldn't help but twitched twice.

"Taking Jian'an City in three days? It's fantastic. I'm afraid you won't be able to take it in three months, right?"

It was normal for Hou Junji to have such thoughts. After all, Liaodong City was an important town in Goguryeo, and it was the first city to defend against the Tang Dynasty. It was easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Moreover, there are 30 troops stationed in Liaodong City, which can be attacked or defended. It is not easy to take it down.

But something he didn't expect happened again. As soon as Gao Ming's voice fell, Cheng Yaojin slapped his chest with a "bang bang".

"Don't worry, general, this time I will leave it to the old minister. The old minister will take ten cannons and go there. After three days, I will guarantee that you can sit in Jian'an City, drink and eat meat. The old minister dares to issue a military order!"

"Uh……"

Hearing that Cheng Yaojin even shouted out the military order, Hou Junji fell into a daze again.

As we all know, such words as the military order are not just shouted casually, they must be [-]% confident before they dare to shout.

Why did Cheng Yaojin have such great confidence?Could it be the so-called 'cannon'?
Hou Junji felt that only this explanation made sense, but a new doubt appeared in his mind again.

"What is a cannon?"

Thinking of this, Hou Junji frowned again.

(End of this chapter)