The officers and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who were watching the battle on the other side of the river all shouted earth-shattering: "Ten thousand victories!" Wansheng! Then the soldiers continued to throw their bags into the river, and now they didn't have to worry about the attack from the other side, and the whole process was like a flowing stream, and the embankment was up with the naked eye.

Li Shimin laughed: "Pass the order, the Modao battalion will line up in place, go over the four cavalry battalions first, and cover the whole army to cross the river!" ”

Seeing the heralds running back and forth, and the orders passed down like a stream, the soldiers of the entire battalion began to move in an orderly manner.

When the army began to cross the river in an all-round way, Li Dongsheng took Daniel Zhang and them to walk over with the large army, Daniel Zhang rode a horse through the embankment made of cloth bags, and now it has been flattened by the army, and he said with emotion: "Young master, if you don't come up with this strategy, I don't know how many people will die when crossing the river." ”

Li Dongsheng said in a low voice: "What is my strategy, this is what Li Siwen came up with." Be careful when you speak, the favor has been sent out, if you are told by your own people, isn't it equivalent to making an enemy? ”

On the other side of the Liao River, the soldiers had finished cleaning the battlefield, and the wounded soldiers were also dragged to the medical camp for treatment. A bunch of people next to him were burying the corpses of our dead soldiers, the corpses of the Goguryeo people were a pile of rotten meat, which became a pulp of meat after being trampled by horses and the Tang army, and the people who cleaned it up frowned and wore masks and threw these things into a big pit. The battle flags and weapons of Goguryeo were divided into two parts, and some people counted them one by one, which were the evidence of the capture and the Tang Army's combat exploits recorded in the history books in the future.

At this time, he had not received the news of Cheng Yanjin and Zhang Jian, who went to cross the river upstream and downstream, and Li Shimin began to worry again. It was not until the next day that I received the news that the 60,000 people led by Cheng Yanjin encountered an ambush by the Goguryeo army when crossing the river upstream. Although the Tang army was mentally prepared for a sneak attack, it still suffered heavy casualties, because it could only be beaten passively and could not do anything.

Cheng Biting Jin could only rush forward against the rain of arrows, and after arriving on the other side, he was hit by the opponent's cavalry, so this army suffered heavy losses, with more than 2,000 dead and wounded, and barely insisted until the large army landed. Zhang Jian walked more than 200 miles downstream and did not find a place to cross the river, so he returned to the Chinese army and crossed the river with the large army.

After the fact, the marching chief of the army counted the casualties and the results of the battle, and the total casualties of the Tang army in this battle were more than 2,500 people, basically all of them were Cheng Yanjin's troops, and the counted Goguryeo army suffered more than 8,000 casualties, and the enemy's army also retreated from their camp, leaving behind a messy military camp.

It was just a battle to cross the river, and the Tang army paid such a heavy price, and the Tang army rested for two days in the camp left by the Goguryeo army, and there were many things to deal with after the battle.

After the meeting, Li Shimin still did not adopt Li Dongsheng's strategy of dividing his troops and advancing forward, and ordered to continue to march towards Liaodong City, the destination of the front.

Liaodong City is a fortress-like city built by Goguryeo to defend against the attack of the Sui army, between the Tang Dynasty and the border of Goguryeo. He was established to prevent the enemy's attack, mainly the attack of the Central Plains Dynasty. So it's like a hedgehog shrunk into a ball, just like that, on the only way to enter Goguryeo, and it is the first pass for the Central Plains Dynasty to attack Goguryeo.

If you adopt Li Dongsheng's strategy, that is, I will not follow the path you think I want, attack from Buyeo and Laiju, why bother to suffer heavy casualties for the sake of a false name, as long as I take Pyongyang, all these fortified cities can be broken backhanded. Just like the Maginot Line during World War II, it cost a lot of manpower and material resources, but the German army made a direct detour, and the painstakingly managed defense line was declared a failure on the spot.

After entering the territory of Goguryeo, the Goguryeo people were rarely seen along the way, because the Tang Dynasty was about to invade the territory, and the Goguryeo people moved all the people nearby to the city in order to achieve the clear of the wall.

In addition to being relatively dilapidated, the style of these villages is basically similar to that of the people of the Tang Dynasty, which shows the deep relationship between Goguryeo and the Central Plains.

Five days later, Li Shimin led the Chinese army to the city of Liaodong. The former army had already blocked the water surrounding the city of Liaodong, and not a single fly could fly out. They didn't dare to act rashly around them, and they were all waiting for Li Shimin's instructions.

Liaodong City is in the middle of two mountains, next to the Liao River, very steep, a bit like Tongguan around Chang'an City, easy to defend and difficult to attack!

When Li Shimin's tent was still being built, he sent someone to shoot a letter of surrender to the city.

After the letter was ejected, it was like a stone sinking into the sea, Li Shimin felt very faceless, I was a dignified son of heaven to surrender, and you didn't even have a reply, since you responded silently, that is, you don't agree to surrender, don't say I'm not benevolent in the history books, let's see the real merit on the battlefield!

Li Dongsheng has been looking at the optimistic soldiers and the anxious Li Shimin in the past few days, and his heart has become more and more worried.

In the first battle, Li Dongsheng's strategy was used to reduce casualties, the offensive momentum was like a bamboo, the morale of the Tang army was like a rainbow, and everyone was crying for battle.

But it's all going too well, is it really good for Tang Jun? Although he gave Li Dongsheng a credit in the front, saying that Li Dongsheng reminded him in time to be careful and not to underestimate the enemy, he did not feel that he paid attention to his orders and actions these days.

Until now, Li Shimin still grasps all the military power in his hands, so many people have besieged the city of Liaodong tightly, and it seems that he attaches great importance to it, but fighting a war is not a simple comparison of the number of weapons compared to people, and the famous "Battle of Wuchao, Battle of Weishui" and other famous "Battle of Wuchao, Battle of Weishui" and other thousands of people in China For thousands of years, there are many examples of thousands of enemies killed by more than a dozen people running around the mountains and fields.

Now the Tang Army is carried away by his own victories for so many years, and everyone is confident and even conceited. If the Tang army is blocked under the city of Liaodong, it will be sluggish at that time, and it will soon be hundreds of thousands of troops will collapse, because there are ready-made examples from decades ago, when the Sui army was also blocked under the city for a few months and then had to collect troops and return to China, there were three later Eastern Crusades.