Late Tang

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On a cold night in February, the late spring cold makes the whole night even colder.

On Tiger Mountain, the mountain city sits high on the top of the mountain, just like a fierce tiger lying on a square hill.

There is silence on the top of the city!

The defenders of Goguryeo hid in the gate towers, turrets, and caves of Tibetan soldiers. They gathered together in groups of three or four, and warmed themselves with hot wine over charcoal fires.

Hushan City bordered Bohai Yalu Mansion, and there were many soldiers and horses stationed there before, but now that Goguryeo has been restored and has become an ally with Bohai, Gao Degui dispatched a group of soldiers and horses from here to the Shaozi River.Although the Tang army repeatedly harassed the coastal grain transportation lines in the autumn and winter of last year, the above had already made a countermeasure, and abandoned the current grain transportation routes after the ice was frozen.After the Bohai people's food arrived at Jiankou City, they went north to Wugu City, and then transferred to the front line of Shaozi River.

In the silent dark night, several thunderclaps suddenly sounded, resounding throughout the world.

"Thunder?" The guard in the gate tower looked up in surprise.

"Nonsense, the sting hasn't arrived yet, where did the thunder come from?" the officer on duty shouted.

"Then what is that sound?"

"I heard that the Tang Army has Heavenly Fire and Divine Thunder. One blow is as powerful as thunder!" Another junior officer said nervously.

"The sound seems to be coming from the direction of Jiankou City at the foot of the mountain in the west."

"Could it be that Tang Jun is calling?"

Listening to the people below talking more and more mysterious, although the officer on duty also felt that this inference was credible, he still stopped everyone's discussion with a solemn expression: "How could the Tang army come down to Jiankou City without a sound? What about Niangniang Mountain City? Stop talking nonsense and disturb the morale of the army."

"Someone seems to be coming from outside the city!"

A soldier who had been scolded suddenly shouted loudly, drawing everyone's attention to the distance.Sure enough, I saw a line of fire coming windingly.

The officer on duty suddenly became nervous and shouted loudly: "Ring the alarm bell and defend the city!"

The alarm bells rang, and teams of guards stood on the top of the city holding their spears.

The team in the distance is getting closer and closer, there are about a thousand people, holding torches.However, these people were in a panic, and there was no way to march in line, as if they were fleeing for their lives all the way here.

"who!"

"We are under the command of General Gao of Jiankou City. Jiankou City was attacked and breached by the Tang army. We broke through with all our might. Open the city gate quickly."

In the ranks below the city, an officer on horseback shouted loudly.

The officers on the city looked down carefully. These people looked panicked, but they were indeed wearing the uniforms of the Goguryeo Army and carrying the banner of Goguryeo.He also knew the person who spoke. He was the brother-in-law of Jiankou City Guard General Wang Li, who served as Wang Li's personal guard.

"Where is General Wang?"

"General Wang fell into the hands of the Tang army and died among the arrows."

"How many people does Tang Jun have?"

"The Tang army came from the sea, at least tens of thousands of elite soldiers. Please open the city gate quickly, the Tang army will come to kill you if it is too late."

At this time, Zhao Sheng, the lord of Hushan City, had already heard that the police had boarded the tower, scanned the crowd, and asked, "What happened?" He glanced at it, "Kaicheng, let them in. His mother knew that the Tang army would come from the sea sooner or later. That idiot Wang Li couldn't even defend for a moment."

The officer on duty whispered: "General, beware of fraud."

"The guy below is Wang Li's brother-in-law. I know him. The others are also from Jiankou City. When the Tang army came, there were not many soldiers in Hushan City. Letting them free the city will help defend the city." Zhao said. After a pause, he continued: "Immediately send troops to report to Black Bone City and Yalu Mansion in Bohai Sea, telling them that the Tang army is attacking in a big way, let them come for reinforcements!"

The officer on duty wanted to persuade [-], but Zhao Sheng waved his hand impatiently, "Go ahead and do it."

He led people down the city tower and ordered them to open the city gate.

The gate of the city opened slowly, the drawbridge was lowered, and the defeated soldiers of Jiankou City who were trembling outside the city rushed into the city immediately.Many people even quarreled with each other because of the competition, and even fought.The city gate suddenly became crowded, more and more people joined the fight, thousands of people crowded inside and outside the city gate.

The officer on duty looked a little annoyed at this scene. These damned guys shouldn't be let in, let them all freeze to death outside the city.He kept shouting, but unfortunately at this time his voice was completely submerged in the sound of fighting.Instead, the scene became more and more chaotic, and the soldiers on duty at the city gate were all wrapped up inside.

At the foot of the mountain, a man in a Goguryeo military uniform strode down the mountain.

"Yanei, everything is going as planned, the city gate has been blocked by the soldiers."

Li Cunxiao slapped his thigh, the iron armor on his body clanged, and he said cheerfully: "Okay, fucker, what are you waiting for, go up the mountain and take Hushan City in one fell swoop."

Following Li Cunxiao's order, two battalions of [-] soldiers and horses under his command immediately charged from the foot of the mountain and headed straight for the mountain city.

Li Cunxiao held a muddy iron spear in his hand, and put on his battle armor, he rushed up the mountain with big strides.

The Tang army came out suddenly, and the Goguryeo defenders on the city didn't realize that the defeated soldiers in Jiankou City at the city gate had already been surrendered by the Tang army. They were still loudly ordering them to stop fighting and let them enter the city.

Seeing that the Tang army was getting closer and closer, those defeated soldiers who had gradually stopped fighting and were about to enter the city suddenly yelled, and then these people went crazy and chopped and killed everyone they met, hitting the city gate The defenders were caught off guard, and the city gate quickly fell.When Zhao Sheng in the city found out this fact, Li Cunxiao had already rushed into the city with a thousand subordinates wearing shields.

Li Cunxiao took control of the city gate, and Wang Yanzhang and Gao Siji's generals had also completed the control of Jiankou City and led their troops to reinforce it.Each of the nine yamen led elite soldiers into the city, rushing from left to right. There were no more than [-] defenders in the city, relying only on the fortification of Hushan City.Once the city gate breaks through, the Goguryeo people have no danger to rely on, and they will be swept away like fallen leaves in the autumn wind.

In the morning light of dawn, the twilight illuminates the earth.

Li Jing has already entered the Yalu River with a large army and drove to the wharf of Jiankou City.When Li Jing jumped off the Skywolf and boarded the pier, nine disciples stood in a row on the pier to greet him for a long time.

"Good job, took two cities in one night!" Li Jing happily patted his disciples on the shoulders, the battle went smoother than he expected.Jiankou City and Hushan City are very important, guarding the Yalu River Estuary and Wugu River Estuary.Taking these two cities is tantamount to cutting off the Bohai Navy's retreat route, and also blocking their food route, and it can even be said to directly threaten the Bohai Sea itself.

This battle completely caught the Goguryeo people by surprise.The eyes of the Goguryeo people were all focused on the area of ​​Liaodong City and Anshi Prefecture, as well as the area of ​​Xiaoshaohe and Jian'an City. They never expected that Li Jing would suddenly come across the sea in large numbers this time and hit them directly. behind.

Hushan City also has a name called Bocha City. Thirty miles northeast of Bocha City is Bochakou, which is the boundary line between Goguryeo and Bohai Sea.To the east is the Yalu Mansion of the Bohai State. The Yalu Mansions include Hengzhou, Zhengzhou, Shenzhou, and Fengzhou. Among them, Shenzhou is the seat of the Yalu River Mansion and Xijing, one of the five Bohai capitals.

To the south of Yalufu is Nanhaifu, which borders Silla, and there are Wozhou and Jiaozhou. Among them, Woju City in Wozhou is not only the seat of Nanhaifu, but also the city of Nanjing in Balhae.

At the same time, the coastal area on the south bank of the Yalu River has always been in the hands of the Goguryeo people because of the large number of mountain cities. The important town of Pyongyang is in the hands of the Goguryeo people.

After taking down Boqiang City, Li Jing now occupies a very favorable position in the whole chess game.

After entering Bocha City with all the generals, Li Jing looked out from the city and had to sigh that it would not be easy to attack such an important city if it weren't for the Goguryeo people who underestimated the enemy and raided by surprise soldiers.As long as the city persists for half a month, reinforcements will arrive from Black Bone City and Bohai Sea.And generally speaking, Niangniang Mountain City in Yalu Jiangnan, that is, Dahang City, has always been the acropolis of Boba City.It's just that they didn't expect that Li Jing would come from the sea, and with such a powerful force, he would take down the cities of Jiankou and Bobao in one night.

Li Jing was very happy to take down Boqiang City. With such a strong fortress behind the enemy, Li Jing could block the Bohai Sea and then encircle the [-] Goguryeo and Bohai Navy in the Xiuxian area.But what made him even more delighted was that the harvest in Jiankou City was even more astonishing.

"There are 50 shi of grain, and more than [-] sets of knives and guns. These are all shipped from Xijing and Nanjing in the Bohai Sea, and are going to be shipped to the Bohai Navy."

With so much food, Li Jing's 8 horses don't need to worry about food supplies for three months.

"What's the next step?" Wang Zhong asked.According to the pre-war plan, after taking Jiankou City and Bobao City, they would turn around and take Dahang City, and then go north to capture Black Bone City to form an encirclement of [-] enemy troops around the Shaozi River.

Of course Wang Zhong knew about this plan, and now he asked how to fight next, naturally because the current progress was much smoother than expected, and they had enough strength to allocate part of the troops to capture a larger The fruits of victory.

Li Jing glanced at the generals, seeing Wang Chongwai, Wang Pu, Lin Wu, Pei You, Liu Shouqian, Zhang Chengzong and other generals all looked expectant and smiled slightly.

"Do you have any plans?" he asked.

Wang nodded emphatically, "We have more than 8 troops. I think the soldiers and horses are enough for several big votes. First take Dahang City, and then leave part of the United Army and the Township Army to guard the three cities. Black Bone City On the one hand, [-] to [-] elite soldiers are enough. We can send out a group of troops to attack the Yalu Mansion and Nanhai Mansion in the Bohai Sea directly. Taking advantage of the fact that all the soldiers and horses in the two places have been drawn to Liaodong, we can attack their Xijing and Nanjing and force them to attack. They retreated. Maybe, if all goes well, we can take the two capitals in Bohai directly."

Li Jing smiled and looked at the others, "Do you all think so too?"

Pei You got up, "Marshal, our navy also has a battle plan."

"Tell me!" Li Jing was noncommittal.

Pei You said a little excitedly: "After discussing with Generals Li, Wu, Meng, Zhang and the two wives, I think our navy can directly go south along the coast and directly attack Pyongyang City. As long as we capture Pyongyang on the coast, Then we will recover all of these territories belonging to Goguryeo on the south bank of the Yalu River."

Li Jing tapped the table lightly with his fingers, thinking seriously about the proposals of his generals! (To be continued.)