Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 390

On the Korean Peninsula in August, on the bank of Beijiang River.

The city of Pyongyang is busy and lively, and the huge capital of Goguryeo has now become a hot construction site.On one side of the towering city walls, in front of the deep moats, there are people everywhere. Countless Goguryeo people are like ants.

"Pyongyang is known as Little Chang'an, and moved its capital here. After hundreds of years of construction, I don't know how much manpower and material resources were spent, to have this big city with more than 10,000 people. But now, [-]+ people are demolished, but it is How fast." Wei Zheng stood on the south gate of Pyongyang with a wine jug in his hand, watching sections of the city wall getting shorter and shorter.

"Building a city is difficult, but destroying it is easy. It has always been like this. Destruction is always easier and more brutal than building." Luo Cheng looked at the big scene in front of him, and he was full of emotion.

A city that has been famous for hundreds of years is being destroyed bit by bit under his order.

The Goguryeo soldiers and civilians captured in Pyongyang, as well as the Goguryeo people who were captured by dividing troops to raid the outskirts of Pyongyang, had a population of nearly 20, regardless of age, men and women, and they were all participating in the demolition of the city under Luo Cheng's order. .

All Goguryeo people had to participate in the destruction of the city. They were assigned tasks, and they could only receive rations if they had done enough. Otherwise, they would have to starve and be whipped.

For those who deliberately resisted, the Left Fifth Army did not hesitate to use a few heads to kill others.

Pyongyang City is similar to Liaodong City in that it is a flat city rather than a mountain city.

Pingdi City is more suitable as a capital city, because the place is flat and wide, can accommodate more people, and is easier to live in.But the flat city also has some disadvantages, that is, the defense is definitely not as good as the mountain city.

Flat cities are easier to build, but also easier to fold.

Only a few city gates and urns in Pyongyang City are surrounded by polished stones, while the other sections of the city walls are basically built of rammed earth.And next to the city wall is a wide and deep moat.

But now, countless Goguryeo captives pried open the stones and adobe on the city wall, pushed down the city wall, and then took a wooden cart, transported it to the moat, and pushed down the moat to fill these rivers.

Section after section of the city wall was quickly destroyed in this way.

The houses in the city are also being demolished.

If it can be achieved, it can be dismantled and filled, and it can be burned if it can be burned. It is necessary to make Pyongyang a dead city.

It even wants to erase the city of Pyongyang from its original horizon.

All the livestock plundered from Pyongyang and its surrounding areas were driven over. Cattle, horses, donkeys, mules, camels, etc. that could be used to haul stone materials were kept for the time being, and all the rest of the livestock were slaughtered and processed into meat floss.

The countless treasures copied from the city of Pyongyang are also being transported to the seaside in carts and packs, along the Beijiang Estuary.

"The speed is still a bit too slow." Luo Cheng shook his head.

"It's not slow anymore. Look, it's only been three days since the demolition, and all the gates of Pyongyang City have been demolished."

"It's not fast enough. The Goguryeo people may come back at any time. We must not return Pyongyang City to them. Speed ​​up!"

"No matter how fast it is, I'm afraid many people will die every day."

"The dead don't have to worry." The fourth child said with a cold face, "I will order and urge you to increase the task."

Wei Zheng suggested, "Just in case, I think that after destroying the urns and gates of the outer city and the inner city, the walls of each city should be broken first at intervals, instead of breaking the entire wall at once. The Pyongyang city wall cannot be demolished at the same time, and the entire moat cannot be filled together. That would be too slow. We use this new method to destroy the city. Even if the Goguryeo people come early, we can withdraw at any time. The Pyongyang city cannot be demolished, but it is the same If it is dismantled into a dilapidated city with air leaks on all sides, no one in Goguryeo will be able to repair Pyongyang for a year or two."

Luo Cheng suddenly changed the subject.

"Lai Hu'er is also known as a famous general. Although he fell into Goguryeo's trick to lure the enemy and lost [-] main soldiers, there is no reason for him to withdraw all at once."

"Maybe Lai Huer didn't evacuate far at first, but just evacuated to the vicinity of Beijiangkou, but then maybe he heard the news of Yu Wenshu's defeat, so he really had to evacuate." Wei Zheng reminded Luo Cheng worriedly, " If Lai Huer really withdraws, then we will retreat south, which will be a little troublesome."

"At worst, we withdraw into Baekje, or retreat into Silla."

"The enemy of the enemy is our friend, haha, the general is so free and easy."

August fifteen.

Moon Festival.

To be a stranger in a foreign country alone, think of love every time during the festive season.

The soldiers of the Fifth Zuo Army have been away from home for nearly two years. On such a day as the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone can't help but miss their hometown and relatives.

In Pyongyang, the morale of the Left Fifth Army is obviously not very high today.

Many government soldiers who miss their relatives and are full of nostalgia are particularly displeased with those Goguryeo people. In the early morning, hundreds of people have been flogged to death because they did not work hard.

Luo Cheng once again inspected the demolition project of Pyongyang City.

With their unremitting efforts, more than 20 soldiers of the Left Fifth Army and nearly [-] Goguryeo prisoners worked hard to demolish them for so many days. The city of Pyongyang, once the largest and busiest city in Liaodong, has been completely destroyed. Hundred holes, no longer look like the past.

The previous city gates have turned into big gaps.

The urn city, the city gate, the sheep and horse wall, and the enemy towers, turrets, and arrow rests have long since disappeared. Even the high city wall has a big hole every few hundred steps. , and the deep and wide moat was filled with a road every once in a while.

As for the houses, shops, yamen, and palaces in the city, they were all burned down.

Most of the wells in the city were filled.

Another convoy is about to leave.

Thousands of horse-drawn carts and ox carts, as well as countless trolleys, formed a long queue, full of various money, food and materials cleared from the city of Pyongyang.

"This is the last batch of materials. Although there are still a lot of them, the general you said before will not bring the same things, so I have someone destroy them on the spot."

"It's a pity for everyone who burned it. It's a pity that all the good cloth and food were burned, and there were so many furniture, farm tools, and utensils."

"Unfortunately, there is no other way, and we can't take so many things with us. Instead of leaving them to the Goguryeo people, I might as well burn them all. Leaving them to the Goguryeo people is an enemy. We are now trying to do everything possible to weaken our enemies , this is war."

Wei Zheng nodded.

"All the materials have been transported away, Pyongyang is almost demolished, and the Goguryeo army has not arrived yet, should we continue to demolish it?"

Looking at the ruined city, Luo Cheng said, "Take away the [-] Goguryeo youths, leave a troop of soldiers and horses for the remaining [-] old and weak women and children, continue to urge them to destroy the city, and provide them with food in a limited amount every day. If the Goguryeo vanguard is found two hundred miles to the north, the soldiers and horses who stay here will immediately burn all the food and supplies here, and then leave them and evacuate."

Wei Zheng let out a long sigh.

"I don't know what kind of expression the Goguryeo army will have when they see the disappearing city of Pyongyang, and I don't know what they will do when they face hundreds of thousands of Goguryeo old and weak women and children who have no homes, food and clothes. Treat them."

"That's their business."

(End of this chapter)