Chapter 510: The Peninsula Lost The Turtle in the Urn
The deputy general left behind in Liaodong City is named Dong Kuan, about forty years old, born in Youwuwei, and has followed Cheng Yanjin for many years.
Three days after Cheng Yanjin led the team to leave, Dong Kuan went to the city to inspect the city defense as usual, and there was a war on the Liaodong Peninsula recently, and there were only 5,000 soldiers and horses stationed in the city at this time, so it could not be treated with caution.
Now the situation is tense, so Liaodong City is particularly careful to control the entry and exit of people, at this time there was a commotion at the north gate, which attracted Dong Kuan's attention, and soon went down to the city and came to the city gate to check the situation.
It turned out that a group of Khitan merchants had a conflict with the interrogating soldiers, Dong Kuan's face was not good, and he went up and scolded: "What's wrong?" Is the city gate a place where you are waiting for a noisy place? ”
The Khitan caravan steward retorted loudly: "We are the Khitan caravan, who came to deliver ingredients to the watchtower in the city, and they interrogated and inspected it, but they charged us double the entrance fee to the city. ”
When Dong Kuan heard this, his expression suddenly turned cold, and when he looked back, the team of city gate patrol soldiers all lowered their heads, and the leader seemed to have the intention to argue a few words, but he didn't say anything.
"Bastard, what time is it? Is it when you exploit and harm the merchants? You Wuwei's face has been lost by you, they are sending ingredients to the watchtower, and they have revealed it in front of Lantian Hou.
Alright, go in! ”
After scolding his subordinates, Dong Kuan let the Khitan caravan enter the city.
For the soldiers at the gate to exploit the caravan, there has always been, the generals are all blind and blind, and everyone knows what kind of goods the soldiers are in, and it is a fat difference to be a city gate guard, and the default can make some oil and water for the big caravan, but this group of people should not be at any time, and if they don't do a good security check at this time, they should be punished.
The captain of the city gate knew that it was not good, and he complained in his heart, in the past, this group of Khitan barbarians rushed to pay double, but somehow, today he was stunned and didn't give it, he asked for it, and he made a fuss, and provoked the general himself to be punished, so this gate captain also felt wronged, and he could only blame himself for his bad luck.
But before Dong Kuan opened his mouth to punish his subordinates, the sound of a large group of people and horses came from the north, and many years of military experience told Dong Kuan that the sound of horses' hooves at such a speed was obviously murderous, and I am afraid it was not good.
"Enemy attack, the whole army is on alert, pull up the drawbridge, and close the city gates."
At this moment, the Khitan caravan, which had not yet fully entered the city, took out a batch of weapons from somewhere, and suddenly killed the soldiers who were closing the gate and collecting the drawbridge by surprise.
Dong Kuan took a look, okay, it turned out to be an undercover agent, a damn Khitan, shouted, and took his guards to the Khitan business team and began to slash wildly, time is pressing, listen to the sound of the horse team is not far away, if the horse team is delayed to enter the city, it will be over.
But the reality is like this, everything is planned by others, and the garrison of the Tang Dynasty has always used the Khitan as an ally, who would have thought that these barbarians would stab themselves when they turned against them?
"General, hurry into the city, the enemy is coming!" One of the guards shouted.
Dong Kuan looked at it, it was over, a black torrent came from the official road in the north, how conspicuous it was outside this snow-white city, and at this time, more than half of the dead soldiers of the Khitan caravan had not been killed, and it seemed that they could not stop the enemy from entering the city.
"Liaodong City was lost to the enemy, and there is no shame to see the general again!
Sons, open the gates, and the five thousand defenders will fight with this team. ”
After giving the military order, as a veteran general defending the city, Dong Kuan instructed his henchmen to quietly retreat to preserve hope, to send a letter to Youzhou in the west, and at the same time to General Cheng in the south, and lead the defenders to fight with the enemy.
5,000 people, due to the relationship between the enemy and the outside, only fought for less than an hour, and all of them were killed by the enemy, and none of them exited the battlefield alive, and this group of enemies was the elite directly under the Khitan, the team of 50,000 troops, and only knew the butcher who killed, even if someone was alive, those who surrendered would be killed.
In the end, Liaodong City changed hands, and none of the defenders became prisoners, but fortunately, these Khitans did not slaughter the city, and they fought with the Tang Dynasty for many years, and they have developed the style of killing less people and plundering more, and they also know that all the spoils of war can be exchanged for money, so this group of Khitans has already planned that Liaodong City will be defeated, and the property will be robbed by themselves, and the population of the city will be sold to the Tang Dynasty or Goguryeo, but it is more likely to be sold to Goguryeo.
As for Anshi City and Jian'an City south of Liaodong City, the same tricks, the same encounter, and they were started at the same time, because the Khitan and Jian'an combined troops came with 130,000, Liaodong City went to 50,000, Anshi City and Jian'an City went to 40,000 respectively, and they took these three cities without much effort.
Then it took another day to capture Jili City, and at the same time, the messenger sent by Dong Kuan to the south to deliver the message did not have the luck of Deputy General Hu, and was taken down as soon as he walked to Anshi City.
Therefore, when Cheng Yanjin and Niu Jinda were just besieged in Beisha City, in fact, there was only this one city left in the five cities of Liaodong in the Tang Dynasty, and the soldiers had changed from 100,000 to only 60,000.
"The city is Cheng Biting Jin, the general of the Tang Dynasty's right military guard?"
Hearing that someone in the city came out to talk, Cheng Yanjin laughed and said, "Yes, it's your Grandpa Cheng, which unknown person in Goguryeo is below?" Dare to lead troops to besiege us? ”
"Your Grandpa Niu is here, dog thief, you attacked me with 50,000 people, and I didn't take it for eight days, can you just change it to 80,000 now?" Niu Jinda also mocked.
Although he was scolded by the two of them in person, he was not angry, but smiled disdainfully: "Are you still hard-mouthed when you die?" I'm not afraid to tell you Niu Jinda, I will know that you participated in the three expeditions to our country that year, and you don't share the sky with us, and last time you captured my five cities in Liaodong, our Goguryeo Erlang died in your hands.
Do you think Ben will not be able to capture you in a single part of Beisha City?
To tell you the truth, Goguryeo dispatched 110,000 troops this time, specifically for the two of you, I have 30,000 troops to cut off your reinforcements, and 80,000 but only 50,000, just to use you to attract the surname Cheng, and then use the two of you to catch turtles in an urn. ”
Cheng Yanjin scolded: "Phew! You're just 80,000 people who want to take our brother? Lao Tzu knows that you want to exchange us for the Goguryeo envoys detained by Chang'an, but the Tang people would rather not bend, and your little man can't stop us.
Even if we don't want this Beisha City today, we can't be your prisoners.
Lao Niu, go down to reorganize the army, and later we will lead the troops to rush out, and the two leaders of the right military guard have been kidnapped, and we can't afford to lose this person. ”
But without waiting for Niu Jinda to walk out, the following Yansa Yanshou laughed and said: "I'm afraid you still haven't seen the situation clearly, you don't know, the Tang Dynasty not only detained my Goguryeo envoys, but also the envoys of the Khitan and the Yan Dynasty, so our three kingdoms joined forces."
As early as when your General Cheng led his troops out of Liaodong City, the Khitan and the Yan Ya moved, presumably at this time, the five cities of Liaodong, except for Beisha City here, are already all ours.
The Liaodong Peninsula has been taken away by you for two years, it seems that the joy of victory has fascinated your eyes, do you really think that your Tang army can do whatever you want on the peninsula? Here, it's still my Goguryeo world. ”
As if to verify the words of the longevity of the gods, sure enough, a black torrent came in the distance not long after, and looking like that, there was a team of 50,000 people.
This time he panicked, knowing that it was not good, he no longer rapped with the people in the city, and immediately took Niu Jinda back to the Senate military plane, the Liaodong Peninsula has been lost, and he must find a way to inform Datang.
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