Wentang

Chapter 708 Goguryeo Kingdom Extinction (1)

The surrender of Liaodong City was beyond everyone's expectations, but within reason.

The unprecedented blow to morale of the cannon is too great.

In less than an hour, the two or three thousand guards on the city wall were turned into flesh. Not to mention ordinary soldiers, even senior generals were frightened.

Surrender has become the choice of most people, and even if a few people have opinions, they dare not stand up to oppose it.

It can be said that Datang took down the frontline bridgehead of the two countries without a single soldier, attacked and captured more than [-] enemy troops, more than [-] civilians, and countless money, food and materials.

This is not over yet, Goguryeo's surrendered the seller very thoroughly, providing a very important military situation.

Before Datang surrounded Liaodong City, they received information from the rear that they would send [-] troops to rescue the siege.I don't want to be able to stop Tang Jun, but I want to delay for a while.

Calculating the time, the support army will arrive at noon tomorrow.

Li Shimin thought of a plan almost instantly, and continued to order the army to besiege the city and pretend to be attacking the city.At the same time, scouts were widely sent to prevent the spies of Goguryeo's reinforcements from approaching and being seen through.

Then Wanqi retreated so as not to scare the opponent away, and re-dispatched an army from Zhechong Prefecture to pretend to intercept, and then lured Goguryeo reinforcements into the encirclement.

Goguryeo reinforcements arrived the next day, and Datang's bait fought fiercely with the opponent and retreated after pretending to be invincible.

Goguryeo's reinforcements wanted to drive away the defeated army and attack the Tang army, so they hung behind this bait not too far away.

Seeing their cooperation, Datang felt embarrassed not to invite them to a meal of meat dumplings, and then the support army was made dumplings.

They still wanted to resist and break through, so Wanqi sent a cavalry from Zhechong Mansion to charge once.The 4 people immediately said that Datang's dumplings were delicious, and they happened to be hungry and wanted to eat them.

Such a great victory was achieved without any effort, and the Tang army rejoiced and boosted morale, especially the high-level officials were full of confidence in the demise of Goguryeo.

At the same time, he also affirmed Yue Shan's military ability... Maybe he is not very strong in tactics, but he is definitely a master in strategy and a commander-level figure.

Some people may think that it is just taking down a city with cannons. What does this have to do with strategy?
For generals, the simpler and more effective a combat method is, the more popular it is, which means that everyone can learn it.Therefore, everyone's evaluation of this combat method is often very high.

On the contrary, it is a very complicated combat method. After a big victory, everyone will marvel at your tactical command ability, but that's all.

Because this ability is related to personal talent, it cannot be copied, and there is no way for others to learn it.

Yueshan took down Liaodong City with cannons, which is too normal in the eyes of later generations, it is crushed by weapons.

But in the eyes of the people of Datang, it is a simple and effective method of warfare that everyone can learn, and it is a tactic that completely changes the mode of warfare.

The point is that the cannon, the core weapon that changed the way of warfare, was also invented by Yueshan.

I don't need to have high tactical command ability, as long as I have a clear understanding of the overall situation in my heart, and then accumulate national power, and use national power to crush you with dignity.

This is strategic capability.

Of course, in fact, they completely overestimated Yue Shan's ability, which was actually a misunderstanding caused by poor information.

They thought that all of this was discovered and summarized by Yue Shan himself. In fact, he did it all by using the foresight of the traverser.

If he really let him direct the battle from beginning to end, it would only be a mess.

But no matter what, after this battle, no one doubted Yue Shan's military ability anymore, which was considered a windfall.

Yue Shan himself is also very happy, it seems that after his death, he can have an extra label of 'military strategist'.

But he knew how much he was, so he returned the command to Li Shimin after he took Liaodong City.In the face of persuading him to stay, he flatly refused, claiming that he did not understand the art of war, and that he succeeded by luck thanks to the power of weapons, so he did not dare to make a fool of himself.

As a result, everyone thought he was being modest, and praised him as worthy of being a great Confucian in the world, and he was really a gentleman.

Li Shimin was also very satisfied. This son-in-law is so caring, and after a good start, he gave him the honor of destroying the country to his father-in-law.After going back, one of them wants to give him the duke of the state, and it's useless for anyone to object.

After determining the power of the cannon, the entire battle plan had to be readjusted.

Originally, everyone's plan was to concentrate their forces to take Anshi City, but this time they decided to divide the troops into two groups.

One way led by Li Shimin continued to attack Anshi City, and the other led by Li Ji to attack Mudi City.

Originally, soldiers should be quick, attacking the city before the enemy reacts, so that the enemy can be caught off guard.But this time Li Shimin and others decided to do the opposite after discussion.

Not only do I have to walk slowly, but I also have to tell the enemy where to attack with great fanfare.Attract as many enemy troops as possible, and catch them all in one go.

Then a miraculous scene appeared. The hundreds of thousands of troops in the Tang Dynasty rested at night, and they had to rest in the hot weather at noon.

Only during the period from dawn to ten o'clock in the noon and eleven o'clock in the afternoon can we walk slowly for a period of time.Liaodong City was hundreds of miles away from Anshi City, and it took a whole week to arrive.

This scene really confused both the enemy and us. What is this trying to do?Are you here for an outing?

But for the Goguryeo people, it doesn't matter what tricks Datang has. As the defenders, what they can do is to build a defense line in advance.

Taking advantage of the period of time given by Datang, they once again strengthened the defense of Anshi City and transported more supplies and troops in.Mudi City is also doing the same action, using all its strength to strengthen the city defense.

The battle between Datang and Goguryeo has attracted worldwide attention, and most of them are waiting for the final result so that they can adjust their attitude towards Datang.

But a small group of forces finally decided to enter the arena in person.For example, Mohe sent an army of 5 people to assist Goguryeo in fighting.

The 10 Mohe soldiers and the [-] people drawn from the north of Goguryeo formed a coalition army and went south to help.Originally they wanted to come to Anshi City, but when they saw that Datang had split their divisions to attack Mudi City, they split into two groups.

One side was led by a man named Yanshou to assist Mudi City, and the other side was led by a man named Huizhen to continue south to support Anshi City.

When Datang's army arrived in Anshi City, Huizhen's [-] troops also happened to arrive in Zuojin.

Li Shimin immediately decided to surround the spot to fight for aid, first to win Huizhen.

It was another simple trick to lure the enemy deep, and the Goguryeo reinforcements were duped into making dumplings.

Huizhen was much tougher than the generals who supported Liaodong City, and held on to the base for two days before leading the remaining 5 people to surrender.

Li Shimin inquired, and they were already the last bit of power that Goguryeo could draw.

Some of the other troops defended Pyongyang, the capital of Kyoto, some stayed to defend the main roads of various cities, and some went to Jili City and Kaicheng City to resist the army of Cheng Yaojin and Liu Rengui.

Then there is no more, a small country with few people has so many troops.Although it is still possible to force civilian husbands to join the army, it will take time, and it is too late now.

After hearing the news, Li Shimin didn't continue to wait, and directly bombarded Anshi City.

The defense generals of Anshi City were also much more tenacious than the defenders of Liaodong City. The top of the city was smashed by cannons and still refused to surrender.

Whenever Datang first boarded the camp and tried to climb the city, they climbed up to the top of the city to resist, it can be said that they are not afraid of death.

Li Shimin was furious immediately, and he no longer cared about whether the civilians were civilians or not, and directly loaded the bombs for extended bombardment.

This round of shelling lasted for more than an hour, and the entire battlefield was filled with a thick smell of gunpowder smoke and a disgusting burnt smell.

At first, everyone thought that the morale of the Goguryeo people should be completely disintegrated under this kind of attack. However, when Datang persuaded them to surrender again, they still got the answer that the city is alive and the people are dead.

This time Li Shimin gave up completely, and after sighing that Goguryeo has loyal ministers, he ordered the bombardment again.

But this time it was not just a simple shelling, but while using cannons to block the way for the Goguryeo people to support the city, while allowing the first to enter the camp to enter the city.

With the cover of cannons, the defenders of Anshi City hardly prevented any decent defense, and Datang easily occupied the top of the city.

There is nothing to say later, Datang successfully won Anshi City.

Seeing that there was nothing to do, the city lord and general of Anshi City issued an order to surrender, and then one of them chose to kill himself, and the other chose to set himself on fire in the city lord's mansion.

Li Shimin was also very emotional when he heard the news, and it made them burial.

Taking down Anshi City is equivalent to opening the door of Goguryeo, and the army of Datang can drive straight in all the way as if there is no one in the land.

Moreover, the people of Goguryeo never imagined that the fortified city they had devoted all their efforts to build collapsed without even being able to hold it for a day. There must be no defense in the country.

So Li Shimin had no time to clean up the mess, and immediately issued a new order: the 15 army was divided into five groups.Four of them attacked the important Koguryo military towns such as Jian'an City, Gaimu City, and Baiyan City respectively, and joined Cheng Yaojin's army.

And he himself led the fifth army of 8 people to rush straight to Huanglong to Pyongyang.

(End of this chapter)