Late Tang

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There are many mountain cities in eastern Liaodong. When Goguryeo was destroyed in 700, there were more than 250 mountain cities in total.

However, in addition to countless mountain cities, large and small, Goguryeo also has many flat cities.For example, Liaodong City, an important town in the middle reaches of the Liaohe River, is a flat city, and a little upstream from the mouth of the Yalu River, the Wugu River flows south from Wugu City, where it merges into the Yalu River, and there are two cities at the mouth of the river.Among them, at the confluence of the Wugu River and the Yalu River is the Jiankou City of Pingdi City.Twenty miles to the east of Jiankou City, there is another Hushan Mountain City that occupies the commanding heights.

Hushan mountain city is also the boundary between Goguryeo and Bohai Sea. To the east of the mountain city is Bohai Sea, and to the west is Goguryeo.

The Yalu River leads directly to the sea.

The huge fleet has arrived at Jiangkou, and Pei You is standing at the bow.

Large ships such as Louchuan and Doujian were parked outside the river mouth, and Pei You led the walkers and yachts as the vanguard.

On a cold night in February, the river was filled with heavy fog.

Pei You turned to look at Gao Siti behind him, "How sure is Gao Yanei about this battle?"

It is impossible for an army of [-] to swarm up. They came from afar from the sea, and even bypassed Niangniang City, in order to surprise the Goguryeo people.The marshal and the large army stayed in Jiangkou, and the vanguard task of attacking the city was handed over to the nine yamen and the light boat troops of the navy.

Gao Siji smiled, his eyes full of confidence.

"The teacher often said that the navy led by Master Pei is invincible in this world. With Master Pei personally escorting us to land, why should we be afraid?"

When Pei You heard this, a look of admiration flashed in his eyes.The disciples that the commander-in-chief recruited are indeed very outstanding, but they are all famous at such a young age.Pei You liked Gao Siji more and more, he was a talented man with a white horse and a silver gun, and he had a good family background.Although the Gao family was a general in Youzhou at the beginning, after being attached to the general, the whole family moved to Dengzhou.The Gao family has dozens of children in the army, Gao Shunli is the leader of the army, and his brothers are all senior generals. What is even more rare is that among the younger generation, the three brothers Gao Siji are the most outstanding, all of them are officers above the battalion.

There is a characteristic of the town [***], from the commander-in-chief Li Jing, down to many high-level, middle-level and even low-level military officers, they are all very young, and even civil officials such as the governor and county magistrate are mostly young officials.It has to be said that this is because the feudal town of Zhen[***] is rising too fast.For example, Li Zhen, Li Lianggai, Yu Jingxiang and other civil officials, Li Juyi, Liu Xun, Gao Siji and other generals, most of them did not have families.

Now the marshal's wives are busy all day introducing targets to the civil and military men under the command of the marshal, especially Wang Wanjun and Xiao Yulou.Pei You didn't care about these at first, but he heard from his eldest daughter that this matter was actually entrusted by the marshal to the two wives.It is said that it was because Xiao Yulou had started to confront Wang Wanjun since Xiao Yulou entered the school. The two women fought openly and secretly, and the eldest lady Wang Guiniang was unable to control her, so finally the commander-in-chief had to come forward.The commander-in-chief gave them a task, asking them to help the senior civil and military unmarried officials in the town [***] to introduce their partners.At the same time, the brothers, sisters and children of these senior officials were also introduced.

At first, Pei You didn't care too much, but after thinking about it, she felt that this matter was not as simple as it appeared on the surface.In the few families that have been introduced, the backgrounds of the marriages are thought-provoking. For example, Li Chun's daughter married Jing Xiang, Li Liang married Wang Zhong's clan sister, and Xiao Kai married Zhang Hong's daughter.In these marriages, there are civil and military marriages, and there are also marriages between aristocratic families and the families of officials of ordinary origin.

These marriages almost all broke the very strict family relationship between families, not only civil and military intermarriages, but also wealthy families of aristocratic families intermarried with ordinary scholars and officials.In particular, these marriages were all the result of Li Jing letting several wives intervene in them.

It is not uncommon for the Lord to intervene in the marriages of the people below.For example, Emperor Gaozong even decreed that the five surnames and seven clans should not marry each other.Pei You's two daughters are all married to Li Jing, and they can be regarded as Li Jing's relatives. He discussed it carefully with his staff, and finally believed that it was indeed Li Jing's intention.The intention is also obvious. Li Jing intervenes in the marriages between subordinates. Through this kind of introduction and marriage between each other, it can not only strengthen the boundaries between civil and military, aristocratic families and ordinary families, but also increase the relationship between subordinates.At the same time, it can also prevent some important ministers from marrying each other, so as not to be emptied by subordinates forming a power alliance.

Since Pei You joined Li Jing, he has also studied Li Jing for a long time.He summed up a few things, Li Jing is a heroic figure, he does many things very well and boldly.For example, his self-righteousness, self-respect of the soldiers, and even through the relationship between foster father, master-student, marriage, and bribery, he created a big picture and built a super-strong force.But at the same time, he didn't want his subordinates to do what Li Jing himself did.He worshiped Song Wei as his foster father, but he himself did not accept a foster son.He married many rich and powerful families, but tried his best to prevent his subordinates from marrying each other.He bought a lot of court officials and supported his own self-respect, but he had a very strong control over the inside of the town, and even the generals had no actual military power in their hands, and even the civilian officials were also divided.

In the town [***], Li Jing has absolute control, but the other generals in the town [***], he does not give such power at all.

"I heard that Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xiao are going to give you a red line recently. How about it? Whose daughter are you talking about?" Pei You asked with a smile.

When it came to the matter of marriage, Gao Siji immediately felt a little shy, "Mrs. Wang introduced a niece of General Li Wei, who is about the same age as me. Mrs. Xiao introduced the niece of General Li Xu of the Navy."

Neither of the two wives introduced women from their own family. Whether it was Li Wei's younger sister or Li Xu's younger sister, they were all members of the Marshal's clan.In terms of seniority, she is Li Jing's niece, which is comparable to Gao Siji's seniority.However, it can be seen from here that what the two wives did was indeed controlled by the commander behind the scenes.

Marshal Li Jing originally lived separately from his family members, but when he became prosperous, all members of the Li family came to attach themselves to Li Jing.Li Jing has no objection to this. After all, the clan can be regarded as the most reliable force.However, over the past few years, although Li Jing has also arranged a large number of clansmen to enter the town [***], the positions they hold are not high.Only Li Chun, Li Wei, Li Xu and others have higher positions.

However, in the past few years, Li Jing has engaged in marriages with the civil and military families of his subordinates through his tribe. The men of the Li family married the women of the civil and military families of the subordinates, and married the women of the Li family into various families.Through such a marriage, Li Jing and many of his subordinates not only have a superior-subordinate relationship, but also have a clan-related seniority relationship.

Through such a marriage, they are not only Li Jing's subordinates, but also Li Jing's relatives.

"Brother Ling hasn't gotten married yet. There are quite a few juniors of the same age in my clan. If you don't dislike me, Pei, I'd like to act as a matchmaker, lead a red line, and be a moon elder." Pei You knew that Gao Siji was Li Jing's disciple, and Li Jing definitely wanted to promise him a woman from the Li family.However, he is also optimistic about the Gao family, and wants to marry the Pei family to the Gao family. No matter how you say it, his two daughters are married to Li Jing, and he has two nephews. a strong supporter.

Pei You was born in the Pei family of Hedong, although it is a side branch, but it is only a few generations from the main branch.The Pei family's reputation is now the same as the Xiao family, the Cui family, and the top famous families in the Tang Dynasty.Gao Siji was really moved after hearing this, thanked him again and again, and said that he would report to his father after returning home.

"Master, we will be at the mouth of the Wugu River soon!" the soldier reported.

After hearing this, Pei You nodded slightly to express her understanding.

He immediately raised his hand and sent an order to get everyone ready.

The lights on the boats had long been extinguished, and they were paddling up the river.

Several small boats were the first to approach the pier of Jiankou City. After a while, a few torches were shaking on the pier.

Pei You was overjoyed: "Good job, the enemy soldiers on the pier were unprepared, so they rushed to the beach and landed immediately."

The boats one after another quickly approached the pier. Pei You pointed to the location of the water gate of Jiankou City marked on the map earlier, and called the special warfare battalion of the navy, the navy land team, and sent the boat with the god fire up, directly to the water gate. exploded.Pei You ordered in a deep voice.

The Marine Corps is a newly-built special warfare battalion of the Navy, and they will go immediately after obeying orders.

At this time, Gao Siji had successfully boarded the pier with a thousand soldiers under his command, and the Goguryeo people in Jiankou City finally came to their senses and understood what happened.

"Fire the arrows!" Gao Siji yelled, and the thousands of people who had quickly formed an formation on the pier rushed down to the city. When they were fifty steps away, they stood still, squatted down and drew their bows to shoot arrows.

"Fire arrows!"

Following Gao Siji's order, after three rounds of arrow rain suppressed the defenders at the top of the city, the fourth row began to release rockets, and rows of rockets soared into the sky.

At the same time, the soldiers of the Marine Corps had already held the map issued by the Chief of Staff earlier in their hands, and launched an attack according to the location of the Water Gate of Jiankou City, which was accurately marked on the map.Several small boats loaded with gunpowder rushed to the water gate, reached the fence, locked the boats to the fence, and then lit the fire wire.

With a loud bang, the gunpowder that was full of several ships exploded suddenly, a huge ball of fire rose into the air, and half of the water gate was directly blown away.The fence was gone, leaving only a smooth waterway in its original position.

"Dive in!" After the explosion, the Marine Corps soldiers rushed over, jumped into the water one after another, dived into the canal, and dived into the city from underwater.

Gao Siji's archers suppressed the defenders at the south gate until they couldn't lift their heads. Wang Yanzhang, Li Cunxiao and other disciples of Li Jing rushed to the bottom of the city and attacked the top of the city.There were only [-] Goguryeo people in the city, and they rushed to the south gate after hearing the warning.

Just as the Goguryeo people had rushed to the south gate, suddenly there was a violent explosion at the southeast water gate, which shocked the Goguryeo people's faces.Immediately afterwards, bursts of shouts came from the southeast city, and a group of soldiers and horses had already circled to the east gate, rushed out from behind the defenders, captured the east gate, and cited Fu Cunshen, Yang Shihou, Gao Jichang, and Wang Tan Let the crowd rush into the city!

With the loss of the east gate, the Tang army's offensive became more violent, and they had an absolute numerical advantage. They quickly captured the entire Jiankou City in one fell swoop! (To be continued.)