Chapter 131 Lessons
When a few inexplicable edicts came to the Sui army in Mayi, they had already become military orders of the Weifu.
The entanglement in Li Po's heart disappeared at this moment.
There is no doubt that the emperor was constantly depriving the soldiers of their right to self-deprecation.
The direction of the battle of Liaodong, as far as Li Po is concerned, does not have to think too much.
If you continue to toss like this, defeat will be a matter of time.
Now the biggest enemy of the Sui army is not the Goguryeo people, nor the fortified city of Liaodong standing in front of them, nor the internal disputes such as the generals of the Sui army pulling each other's hind legs, but the weather in Liaodong.
One of the longest seasons in Liaodong is winter, and by mid-July, Liaodong has already begun to enter winter, and winter will last until February and March of the following year.
For almost half a year, Liaodong was covered with ice and snow.
Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty was apparently beginning to forget this, or, perhaps, he also had a very strong self-confidence to sweep away Goguryeo before winter arrived.
The sources of his confidence are many, one is the million-strong army under his command, and the other is the naval army from Laizhou, which is led by the general Lai Hu'er.
But Li Po, who was in the middle of the army, didn't care what the emperor was thinking, he only knew that the million-strong army was obviously gradually sliding into the abyss.
This feeling of his became clearer and clearer as the war progressed
The Goguryeo people really didn't brag about it, they built Liaodong City very well.
Of course, this is also because Liaodong City was the most important military town in northern Goguryeo.
The King of Goguryeo and the Sui Emperor Yang Guang are actually quite similar and like to build cities.
There were almost no villages and towns in Goguryeo, and they replaced the village and town model inherited from the Central Plains with castles one by one.
People live in stone forts, go out to graze and cultivate during the day, and return to live in the forts at night.
There are many advantages to this, in addition to being easy to manage and collect taxes, it can also defend against the attacks of some Tatar tribes.
Needless to say, Liaodong City was the focus of the construction of the Goguryeo kings in the past dynasties.
To this day, even Pyongyang City, compared with Liaodong City, is not half a point behind.
Obviously, this is not only for the sake of the powerful neighbor of the Great Sui, but also for the purpose of guarding against another powerful neighbor, the Turkic Khanate.
The Goguryeo generals who guarded Liaodong City had a very good psychological quality.
The previous field defeat did not seem to affect people at all.
When a million troops surrounded Liaodong City, he dared to send troops out to fight, which had to make people admire his courage.
Of course, the art of war is also considered ...... Well, right.
To defend the city, you often have to go out of the city to hold on to the enemy, firstly, to boost the morale of the defenders, and secondly, it can also make the enemy army afraid and dare not attack the city with all their might.
But those who cling to the art of war are often hit mercilessly.
The million-strong army is under the city, and you still dare to go out of the city to fight Well, people in small places have never seen the world, so forgive him for the time being.
For Sui Jun, a delicious appetizer, they said they liked it very much.
So, on the third day of the siege, the Sui army used a little tactics and made dumplings for the 30,000 Goryeo people who went out of the city to fight.
On that day, the commander of the battle was Tu Wanxu, the general of Zuotunwei.
Maybe he knew that the emperor was going to produce a moth again, so he didn't give the emperor this chance at all.
After commanding a large army and besieging the Goguryeo people, if in peacetime, he may hold off the attack and wait for a while to see if he can induce the defenders in the city to come to the rescue or something.
But this time, he didn't bother with that effort, but directly issued a military order not to leave prisoners.
As a result, 30,000 Koreans, under the siege of the Sui army, in less than an hour, all became headless ghosts, and by the way, they became military exploits in the hands of the Sui army.
Sure enough, the emperor's edict was belated, and all that was seen was the corpse and the blood flowing in Bobo.
The soldiers of the Sui army who participated in the war were happy, and the general Tu Wanxu was also more satisfied.
But the consequence was that the Goguryeo people were frightened, closed the city gates, and did not dare to come out to confront the Sui army.
Another consequence was that the emperor finally fell into a certain paranoia and competed with the generals.
At this time, the generals repeatedly begged to divide their troops, so they could only stay honestly under the city of Liaodong.
Thus, the most brutal and bloody siege war in the war finally began.
Li Po, who was fortunate enough to follow not far from the emperor's car cover, witnessed the siege of Liaodong.
It is no exaggeration to say that the first northern expedition created the later Li Po.
Because this battle with the army is the most important life experience in Li Po's life, and all the gains are enough for Li Po to benefit for a lifetime.
For many years afterward, he was still able to draw nourishment from this battle.
For example, now he is familiar with the structure of the Sui army, all kinds of ordnance, and the combat methods of the Sui army.
He learned the Shandong dialect, and the Henan accent couldn't stop him, and he was already able to talk to people in Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Kansai and other places smoothly, and won their favor.
And he finally clearly understood the power contained in the simple word of the gate valve family.
Imperial power, in the eyes of these gate lords, is both respectable and fearful, and sometimes, it is not worth mentioning.
That's not all, he has witnessed tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of battles again and again.
Although it's all a spectacle, he can't understand the essence of it, but this is the real big scene.
After seeing such a scene, the battle of hundreds, thousands, in his eyes, was like child's play.
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, why did the beacon fire burn so vigorously in the next few years?
One of the most important is that there are more people like Li Po who have seen big scenes, they have joined the rebels one after another, and they have brought into play everything they have learned in Liaodi, so they began to help the anti-kings, repeatedly defeated the official army, and made the world more and more chaotic.
It can be said that the battle of Liaodong created a lot of demons who have experienced a hundred battles and crawled out of the pile of dead people, and Li Po is just one of the more studious guys.
Because he is studious, he can go farther than others
The battlefield of Liaodong is a big melting pot, and those who can go back alive have all changed their appearance, and Yang Guang, the emperor of the Great Sui, will not be an exception.
And now, the tragic siege battle is Li Poxin's lesson.
Moreover, this lesson has been taught for a long time.
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