Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 534
In the Battle of Siping Mountain, the Sui army also suffered a lot of casualties. Although [-] enemies were killed and [-] were captured, the [-] Sui army also killed more than [-] people, most of whom were the Chinese army led by Luo Cheng to lure the enemy.

After hastily sweeping the battlefield, Luo Cheng immediately sent his troops back to the city of Anshi and joined the siege.

Under the city of Anshi.

Song Laosheng, Luo Cunxiao, and Wang Rengong were still attacking Anshi. When they saw Luo Cheng's troops coming and seeing the blood-stained appearance of the soldiers, they thought the army was defeated.

After hearing that Luo Cheng had actually fought against [-] Goguryeo troops and achieved such an impressive record, he couldn't believe it.

"It doesn't take much time, otherwise, I wouldn't have made such a bad move and lost three thousand soldiers, what a loss." Luo Cheng sighed.

Wang Rengong swallowed a mouthful of saliva and almost choked on it.

3000 against [-], from luring the enemy to winning the decisive battle, it took only three days. To achieve such a great victory and lose only [-] troops, Luo Cheng actually said it was a loss. This is nothing to say.

"How is the attack on Anshi City going?"

Sitting there, Luo Cheng asked the doctor to bandage the wound.

"The city of Anshi is strong and dangerous. It is easy to defend and difficult to attack. We have been attacking for several days, but we have not made any progress. The defenders of Anshi are very tenacious, and they are not afraid of death."

Luo Cheng just snorted.

This is the case most of the time in sieges. If you want to shout a few words, people will open the city and surrender, or you can break the city after just three or five days of attack. This is almost impossible.

The most important thing in a city offensive and defensive battle is the morale of the army. If the defenders want to defend to the death, especially if the people in the city are willing to help with all their strength, it will be very troublesome.

Some famous siege battles can even be fought for several years without being broken.

Generally speaking, the bigger the city, the longer it can last, because the bigger the city, the more the population, and the more money, food, firewood, etc. it needs, and it is impossible to keep it for a long time.This kind of big city often had to surrender or was breached because of the lack of food in the city.

On the contrary, there are some smaller fortified fortresses. Sometimes there may be thousands of defenders, but they can often defend for several years.

During the Anshi Rebellion, Zhang Xun led thousands of people to defend Suiyang. Facing the siege of 20 rebels, with no outside reinforcements and no food inside, they still held on for ten months.

When the rebels finally entered the city, they found that there were only a few hundred people left in a big city, and all the edible food in the city was eaten up, grass roots, bark, mice, birds, and even people.Before the war, [-] people in the city died in the end.Zhang Xun even killed his concubine to share food with the soldiers, and another general Xu Yuan also killed his servants to share with the soldiers.

Although it is said that not all the [-] people were eaten by the defenders, in the end, many people did starve to death after the food ran out, or changed their children to eat, or ate corpses.

This kind of determination not to surrender is not uncommon, even common, in many siege battles in history.

Although An City is only adjacent to the plains, the building is located in a dangerous place. Three sides of the city are on the cliffs, and only the west wall is built on flat land.

So now Song Laosheng and the others are attacking the city, and they are also mainly attacking the west city wall.

But the Goguryeo people also defended the west city with all their strength, which made it difficult to capture it for a while.

"Avenue of piles of fish beams!"

Luo Cheng has captured more than [-] prisoners of war this time, and he has no shortage of people. He plans to copy the tactics used to break through Wu Liluo back then, and build a big earthen mountain under the west city to climb up the west city.

The emperor also used this method to break through Liaodong City before.

The only disadvantage of this method is that the amount of work is relatively large. After all, the city of Anshi is very dangerous and the city walls are high. It is not easy to build a dirt hill leading directly to the top of the city.

Fortunately, there are [-] captives now, and Luo Cheng has many buildings, arrow towers, catapults, ballistas and other equipment brought from Liaodong, which can suppress the Goguryeo defenders at the top of the city together with bows and crossbows, and can pile up mountains with all their strength. .

After readjusting his tactics, Luo Cheng deliberately set up the commander-in-chief flag a few hundred steps below Anshi city, and then placed his elite cavalry at the gate of the west city.

If the Goguryeo defenders dare to go out of the city to destroy earth hills or building cars and other equipment, then beat them hard.

He also transferred a large number of infantry to the city, all of them suppressed the city with bows and arrows, and helped build the Yuliang Road.

Luo Chengshuai's flag was erected, and more than [-] troops and [-] prisoners launched a full-scale attack on the city. The Sui army did not forget to spread the news of Yuangai Suwen's defeat to the defenders on the city.

Multi-pronged approach.

The Anshi defenders panicked.

When Anshi reinforced Beisha before, the city lord was captured and [-] soldiers and horses were lost.Although the last time the Sui army retreated, the Goguryeo people transferred another army from the east to reinforce Anshi.

But there are only 3 horses in Anshi City.

Now [-] are fighting against [-], and Yuan Gai Suwen's [-] army has suffered a disastrous defeat, which makes the people in the city panic.

Of course, what they were most afraid of was the various siege equipment of the Sui army, there were too many of them.

And now, Yuliang Avenue is being repaired in front of them.

Seeing that the huge earth mountain continued to extend down to the city wall, the Anshi defenders were restless, and finally had to send troops out of the city, trying to destroy the siege equipment of the Sui army and destroy the earth mountain.

But Luo Cheng had been waiting for them a long time ago, with a total of [-] cavalry guarding outside the south gate. It would be very difficult to go around the other gates, but Luo Cheng also sent cavalry to guard them.

The defenders of Anshi went out of the city several times, even at night, and they were beaten and ran away every time. Several times, they almost let the cavalry of the Sui Army take the opportunity to chase them into the city gate.

After going out of the city several times to attack to no avail, and losing thousands of troops, the Anshi defenders were desperate, and they dared not make such useless counterattacks again.

We can only continue to strengthen the defenders on the south city, but the Sui army's archery towers, cloud carts, and countless catapults, plus the tens of thousands of Sui army crossbowmen below the city, take turns attacking day and night.

The defenders of the city suffered heavy casualties.

But they can't stop the growth of the earth mountain.

Five days later, [-] Goguryeo captives carried heavy loads of soil on their backs, and they were forced to pile up on the head of Nancheng City from bags of soil.

The Anshi defenders tried to make a final resistance, but the Sui army formed a shield wall with large shields, and climbed to the top of the city step by step.

Anshi City is broken.

Luo Cheng came to beat the dog behind closed doors, and caught the turtle in the urn.

The Goguryeo people had no hope of escaping, and finally launched fierce street fighting, but they were eventually wiped out one by one by the Sui army.

Although Anshi is dangerous, it is not as dangerous as a new city. Although Anshi is large, it is not as big as Liaodong City.

After Luo Cheng defeated Yuan Gai Suwen who came to aid with [-] troops, An City, which had long been a lonely city, was destined to fall.

When Luo Cheng stepped into the city of Anshi, he had mixed feelings in his heart.

"Commander, Yuan Gai Suwen is newly defeated, and Anshi is going down again. Shall we take advantage of the victory to pursue and go down to the domestic city?" Wang Rengong said a little excitedly.

Luo Cheng just shook his head.

"No, now you can send someone to talk to Yuan Taizuo."

"What are you talking about?" Wang Rengong was surprised.

"Naturally, it is about how he surrendered, about how he returned my 20 Sui army captured soldiers, about letting them collect the bones of 20 soldiers who died in battle and return them, and about the relocation of counties in Goguryeo."

"Talk about peace? We have won a big victory, why do we need to talk about it? Naturally, we should destroy them in one fell swoop."

"It's not the time yet, and we don't have the ability yet. Let's wait for the next time." Luo Cheng was sober, defeating Yuangai Suwen, and taking down Anshi does not mean that he has the ability to destroy Goguryeo now.

Luo Cheng now only has 7 to [-] people in his hands, and there are hundreds of miles and hundreds of mountain cities on the way to the country, not to mention that the country, black bones, and stone cities are still strong fortresses. Luo Cheng couldn't even guarantee the food, grass and military equipment to march into the domestic city, so what to fight?

It's going to snow now, so it's really not the time to march.

"Then we are resisting the decree and fighting bloody battles. What's the point?"

"Of course it makes sense. Before Yuan's talk of surrender was just a false surrender, but now we have pulled out his tendons. Although he is not dead yet, he can't jump up anymore, let alone pose a threat to us. Now the right to speak It's all in our hands, we can choose to fight, or we can choose not to fight, Yuanshi has to act according to our eyes, even if you believe it or not, I will ask Yuan Taizuo to send Yuangai Suwen back now, and he has to do it .”

"Impossible?" Wang Rengong was dubious.

Luo Cheng chuckled, what is impossible? After this defeat, Yuan's North Korea has an estimated [-] soldiers in the whole country at this time. How dare he resist the power of the Celestial Dynasty?

Surrendering as a minister, handing over the hostages, and returning the captives, these are his only options. Even if the Sui Dynasty wants to cut his title of king, set up a county in his Yuan Dynasty and make him a prefect, he can only be obedient The first should come down.

As for when the final battle will come, that is a matter of the future.

In short, after he resisted the edict and fought this battle, Liaodong is now safe.

I just don't know if the emperor will be satisfied with the result.

(End of this chapter)