In the first battle of Sipingshan, the Sui army also suffered a lot of casualties, although 8,000 enemies were killed and 50,000 enemies were captured, but 50,000 Sui troops also killed more than 3,000 people, most of which were the Chinese army led by Luo Cheng to lure the enemy.

After hastily cleaning up the battlefield, Luo Cheng immediately waved his troops back to the city of Anshi and joined the siege.

Under the city of An.

Song Laosheng, Luo Cunxiao, and Wang Rengong were still storming Anshi, and when they saw the arrival of Luo Cheng's department, they saw the soldiers stained their robes with blood, and they looked very miserable, and they thought that the army was defeated.

When I heard that Luo Cheng actually fought 80,000 Goguryeo troops and achieved such an impressive record, I almost couldn't believe it.

"There's no time to waste, otherwise, I wouldn't have made this hard move, losing my 3,000 soldiers." Luo Cheng sighed.

Wang Rengong swallowed a mouthful of saliva and almost choked.

50,000 to 80,000, from luring the enemy to winning the decisive battle, it only took three days before and after, and he achieved such a great victory, with a loss of only 3,000 men and horses, Luo Cheng actually said that he had lost, which was simply speechless.

"How's the attack on Anshi City?"

Luo Cheng sat there and was bandaged by the doctor, while asking.

"Anshi Castle is strong and dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and we have been attacking for several days, but there has been no progress. The defenders of Na'an City are very tenacious and not afraid of death. ”

Luo Cheng just snorted.

This is the case most of the time in siege, if you want to shout a few words, people will open the city and surrender, or say that you can break the city in three or five days, which is almost impossible.

The most important thing in the offensive and defensive battle of the city is the morale of the army, if the defenders want to defend the city, especially the people in the city are willing to help with all their might, it will be very troublesome.

Some famous sieges can even be fought for several years.

Generally speaking, the larger the city, the longer it can hold out, because the larger the city and the more populous the city, the more money, food, firewood, etc. are needed, and it is impossible to hold it for a long time. Such large cities often end up being surrendered or breached because of the lack of food in the city.

On the contrary, there are some smaller, more fortified fortresses, sometimes with a few thousand defenders, but often for several years.

In the Anshi Rebellion, Zhang Xun led thousands of people to defend Suiyang, facing the siege of 200,000 rebels, there were no reinforcements outside, no food and grass inside, and finally they still held on for ten months.

When the rebels finally entered the city, they found that there were only a few hundred people left in a large city, and all the food in the city was eaten, grassroots, bark, rats, birds, and even people. Before the war, 30,000 people in the city finally died. Zhang Xun even killed his own concubine to share the food with the soldiers, and another general, Xu Yuan, also killed his own servants to feed the soldiers.

Although not all of the 30,000 people were eaten by the defenders, many did starve to death or eat their children or corpses after running out of food.

This determination not to surrender to the death is not uncommon, and even commonplace, in many sieges throughout history.

Although the city is only near the plain, it is built in a dangerous place, and three sides of the city are on the cliff, and only the western wall is built on a flat land.

So now Song Laosheng is attacking the city, and they are also mainly attacking the west city wall.

But the Goguryeo people also defended the western city with all their might, which made it difficult to capture it for a while.

"Heap Fish Liang Avenue!"

Luo Cheng captured more than 50,000 prisoners of war this time, and there was no shortage of people in his hands, and he planned to copy the tactics of breaking through Wu Liluo back then, and build a big earth mountain under Xicheng to climb Xicheng.

Before the emperor broke through Liaodong City, he also used this method.

The only disadvantage of this method is that the amount of work is relatively large, after all, this city is very dangerous, the city wall is high, and it is not easy to build a dirt mountain that leads directly to the head of the city.

Fortunately, there are now 50,000 prisoners, and Luo Cheng has many building carts, arrow towers, catapults, ballistas and other equipment brought from Liaodong, which can suppress the Goguryeo defenders at the head of the city together with bows and crossbows, and can pile up the earth mountain with all his strength.

After readjusting his tactics, Luo Cheng deliberately set up the handsome banner hundreds of steps away from the city of Anshi, and put his elite cavalry at the gate of Xicheng.

If the Goguryeo defenders dared to go out of the city to destroy the earth mountain or the building carts and other equipment, then they would be beaten hard.

He also transferred a large number of infantry to the city, all of whom suppressed the city head with bows and arrows, and assisted in the construction of the Yuliang Avenue.

Luo Chengshuai's banner was erected, more than 70,000 troops, and 50,000 prisoners launched a full-scale siege of the city, and the Sui army did not forget to publicize the news of the defeat of Yuangai Suwen to the defenders of the city.

A multi-pronged approach.

The defenders of Anshi panicked.

Previously, when Anshi reinforced Beisha, the city lord was captured, and 20,000 soldiers and horses were lost. Although after the last retreat of the Sui army, the Goguryeo people transferred a force from the east to reinforce Anshi.

But there were only 30,000 horses in the city.

Now 80,000 is fighting 30,000, and Yuangai Suwen's 80,000 army has also suffered a crushing defeat, which makes the people in the city panic.

Of course, what they are most afraid of is the various siege equipment of the Sui army, there are too many.

And now, in front of them, he is repairing Yuliang Avenue.

Seeing that the huge earth mountain continued to extend under the city wall, the defenders of Anshi could not sit still, and finally had to send troops out of the city to try to destroy the siege equipment of the Sui army and destroy the earth mountain.

But Luo Cheng had been waiting for them for a long time, and a full 20,000 cavalry guarded outside the south gate, and it was very laborious to bypass the other city gates, but Luo Cheng sent cavalry to guard them.

The defenders of Anshi went out of the city several times in succession, and even out of the city at night, each time they were beaten with their heads in the head, and several times they almost let the Sui cavalry take the opportunity to chase them into the city gate.

After several fruitless attacks out of the city, and thousands of men and horses were lost, the defenders of Anshi were desperate, and they did not dare to make such a useless counterattack again.

can only continue to strengthen the defenders on the southern city, but the Sui army's arrow towers, cloud carts, countless catapults, plus the tens of thousands of Sui army crossbowmen under the city, take turns to attack day and night.

The defenders of the city suffered heavy casualties.

But they couldn't stop the growth of Tushan in the slightest.

Five days later, the 50,000 Goguryeo captives carried the burden of soil and piled up on the head of Nanseong City by bags of dirt.

The defenders of Anshi tried to make a final resistance, but the Sui army formed a shield wall with a large shield and climbed the city step by step.

The city of Anshi is broken.

Luo Cheng came to close the door and beat the dog, catching turtles in the urn.

The Goguryeo people had no hope of escaping, and finally engaged in fierce street fighting, but in the end they were swept away by the Sui army one by one.

Although Anshi is dangerous, there is no risk of a new city, and although Anshi is large, it is not as big as Liaodong City.

When Luo Cheng defeated the 80,000 soldiers and horses of Yuangai Suwen who came to help, Anshi, which had already become a lonely city, was destined to fall.

When Luo Cheng stepped into the city of Anshi, he had mixed feelings in his heart.

"Dashuai, Yuangai Suwen is newly defeated, and Anshi is going down again, are we taking advantage of the victory to pursue and kill the domestic city?" Wang Rengong said with some excitement.

Luo Cheng only shook his head.

"No, now you can send someone to talk to Yuan Taizuo."

"What are you talking about?" Wang Rengong was surprised.

"Naturally, we are talking about how he surrendered, how he returned the 200,000 captured soldiers of our Sui army, about letting them collect the bones of 200,000 fallen soldiers and return them, and about Goguryeo's relocation of counties."

"Peace? We have a big victory, why talk about it, naturally we should destroy them in one fell swoop. ”

"It's not time yet, and we don't have the ability to do that right now, so let's wait for next time." Luo Cheng was very sober and defeated Yuangai Suwen and took Anshi, which does not mean that he has the ability to destroy Goguryeo now.

He Luo Cheng now has these sixty or seventy thousand horses in his hands, and from here to China, hundreds of miles along the way, there are hundreds of mountain cities, not to mention that the country, black bones, stone cities, etc. are still strong fortresses, let's just say that he Luo Cheng can't even guarantee the grain, grass and ordnance to march to the domestic city, what to fight?

It looks like snow is about to fall, and it's really not the right time to march.

"Then we are resisting the decree and fighting a bloody war, what's the point?"

"Of course it makes sense, before the Yuan clan said to surrender, it was just a fraudulent surrender, but now we have pulled out his tendons, although he is not dead, but he can't jump up, and he can't pose a threat to us, now the right to speak is all in our hands, we can choose to fight, or we can choose not to fight first, the Yuan clan has to act according to our eyes, and even believe it or not, I now let Yuan Taizuo send Yuan Gai Suwen back, and he has to do it."

"Impossible, right?" Wang Rengong was skeptical.

Luo Cheng smiled, what is impossible, after this defeat of the Yuan Clan, the soldiers of the whole country are estimated to be 100,000 at this time, how can he dare to resist the might of the Celestial Empire?

Surrender and be a vassal, hand over the proton, and return the prisoners, these are his only options, and even the Great Sui wants to cut his king's title, set up a county in his Yuan's North Korea, and let him be a taishou, he can only obediently come down first.

As for when this last battle will come, that's a matter for later.

In short, after he resisted the order and fought this battle, Liaodong is now safe.

I just don't know if the emperor will be satisfied with this result.