Chen Qingzhi is a famous general in the Southern Liang period, once defeated the 150,000 army of the Northern Wei Dynasty with thousands of people, it can be said that he has great achievements, because he likes to wear white robes, so his army is also known as the white robe army, at that time there was a nursery rhyme in Luoyang: "Famous teachers and generals do not self-prison, thousands of soldiers avoid white robes." ”

However, it is very interesting that although Chen Qingzhi has made countless military exploits, he is actually a very weak scholar, usually he can't even pull a bow and crossbow, but he is extremely strict in governing the army, and the white-robed army under his command is also a famous strong force in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Chen Qingzhi not only made great achievements, but also was extremely talented in governing the place, and even when he died, the people under his rule took the initiative to ask the imperial court to erect a monument for Chen Qingzhi to praise virtue, it can be said that he is not only a famous general, but also a capable minister.

In contrast, the current Xue Rengui can only be called a brave general, not even a famous general, and he is far from Chen Qingzhi, so Li Shimin calls him his own Chen Qingzhi, which is already considered an exclamation, but Li Xiu next to him knows that Xue Rengui's future achievements are only above Chen Qingzhi, not under Chen Qingzhi.

With Li Ji's counterattack, and the cavalry led by Li Daozong once again slaughtered into the army of Goguryeo, scattering the opponent's army, the whole battle situation has no suspense, Gao Yanshou has also given up the hope of counterattack at this time, because the army was cut off, he can only try to gather the troops around him, and then retreat to the hill next to him, hoping to block the attack of the Tang army with the mountain.

Gao Yanshou's retreat was almost already abandoning other Goguryeo troops on the battlefield, and after losing their command, these Goguryeo troops also became lambs waiting to be slaughtered, and finally some people couldn't stand it and began to lay down their arms and surrender, with the first one, there was a second, and more and more people finally surrendered, and the Tang army had no time to retract, and there was not even extra manpower to take care of it.

There were too many prisoners of war, and in the end, they could only be driven to an open space near the battlefield, and then their weapons were collected, and they were surrounded by ropes, like a sheepfold, and they didn't have to worry about them escaping, in fact, the back road had been cut off by Cheng Yanjin, and they had no way to escape, and if they encountered the Tang Army along the way, there was only a dead end.

As more and more people surrendered, the remaining Goguryeo army finally collapsed and began to surrender to the Tang army in an organized manner, only a few still resisted stubbornly, and finally could only die under the butcher's knife of the Tang army, and Gao Yanshou led more than 40,000 remnants of the army to retreat to the nearby mountains to hold on, Li Ji and Li Daozong joined forces at this time, and then surrounded the entire hill.

When it was almost dark, Cheng Yanjin, who cut off the back road, also sent people to meet Li Shimin, mainly to report his results, because he blocked Goguryeo's retreat, so many Goguryeo people chose to surrender in despair, and as a result, there were tens of thousands of prisoners of war alone, and the specific number has not yet been counted, but according to Cheng Yanjin's estimate, the number should be no less than 40,000, plus the people who surrendered on the frontal battlefield, it is estimated that the final Goguryeo prisoners of war may reach 60,000 or 70,000.

As for the Goguryeo people who fought to the death, there are no statistics, but according to Li Shimin's estimate just now, it should also exceed 10,000 people, and the rest of the people are either besieged on the hill with Gao Yanshou, or have fled into the mountains and forests, after all, although Cheng Yanjin has cut off the back road, but the Tang army has few people, and it is impossible to surround all the Goguryeo people, so at least tens of thousands of people have fled into the mountains and forests, but there are many fierce beasts in the mountains and forests in Liaodong, and I don't know how many of these people can escape alive in the end?

As night fell, the battlefield did not calm down, but there were countless Tang soldiers with torches to clean up the battlefield, mainly two things, one is to find their own side of the dead or wounded brothers, the dead in the war are carried to the back for burial, and the wounded soldiers are carried to the wounded barracks for treatment, and the other is to see if there are any injured Goguryeo people, it is much simpler for them, generally directly make up for a knife, after all, the medicine to treat the wound can not be wasted on these enemies.

In addition, Cheng Yanjin and Li Ji and others are also sticking to their positions, Cheng Yanjin needs to count the prisoners of war, and by the way, clean up the Goguryeo soldiers who fled around, and Li Ji will besiege Gao Yanshou's remnants to prevent them from rushing down, generally speaking, if Gao Yanshou wants to break out of the heavy siege, tonight must be the best opportunity, because the time is too short, Li Ji has no time to arrange, plus another day of fighting during the day, the Tang army soldiers are also very tired, so he has to personally sit at the foot of the mountain at night.

After receiving the battle report of Cheng Yanjin and others, Li Shimin also smiled, and immediately led his ministers back to the camp, and specially ordered the army to prepare meals and send them to the army of Li Ji and Cheng Yanjin and others, but although there was no shortage of meat in the meal, there was no wine, after all, it was not the time to celebrate the victory.

Originally, Li Shimin also wanted to summon Xue Rengui to commend his bravery on the battlefield, but Xue Rengui is now besieging Gao Yanshou with Li Daozong and Li Ji, and Li Xiu feels that it may not be a good thing to summon Xue Rengui alone now, after all, there are too many meritorious soldiers on the battlefield today, and only summoning Xue Rengui may cause others to be jealous of Xue Rengui, so in the end, he also persuaded Li Shimin to give up this idea.

That night, Gao Yanshou really took advantage of the cover of night to rush down from the mountain, but unfortunately Li Ji had already prepared, Gao Yanshou's several charges were blocked, and they didn't give up completely until the early hours of the morning, and when it was dawn, Li Ji immediately set up a tight defense under the mountain, as long as Gao Yanshou didn't surrender, then trapped them on the mountain.

And at noon, the detailed results of yesterday's battle were finally counted, in this battle Goguryeo people were captured more than 63,000 people, more than 20,000 people were killed, Gao Yanshou led more than 40,000 people trapped in the mountains, and the rest fled into the mountains and forests.

The casualties on the Tang army's side also came out, including more than 1,700 killed in battle, but the wounded reached an astonishing more than 5,000 people, and about one-fifth were seriously injured.

"Humph! Just one Goguryeo, so many soldiers were killed and wounded! When Li Shimin learned of the casualties on his side, he couldn't help but slap the table angrily and said angrily.

"Your Majesty is angry, although the casualties are greater, but it has also eliminated the main force of Goguryeo, as long as the city of Anshi is conquered again, then the entire Goguryeo will be at your fingertips!" Li Xiu opened his mouth to persuade at this time, but he also muttered to himself in his heart at this time, I'm afraid that the next Anshi City will be even more difficult to fight!