Liaodong City is the Xiangping City of the Han Dynasty, and after Goguryeo took Liaodong, it was renamed Liaodong City. www.biquge.info The city is still built in accordance with the construction of the time, the city is square, and the inner and outer walls are double. There are two- and three-storey buildings in the inner city, which are government offices; The outer city is a place of commerce and trade. The city gate is three, the east and west gates are opposite, and the double-storey gatehouse. The city wall has the buildings of corner towers, pheasant moats, daughter walls, etc., and there are two high-rise buildings in the northwest outside the city, the scale is magnificent, easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Li Tao had already joined forces with Li Daozong to build the city of Mu, and after breaking through the city, he came to Liaodong City as early as possible.

"Minister Li Tao, meet Your Majesty!" Li Tao was dressed in armor and made a sound, and saluted Li Shimin.

Li Daozong, along with the other generals of the former army in the account, also saluted Li Shimin.

"Two generals, don't be polite!" Li Shimin walked down, walked up to the two, and looked at the nail leaf on the two of them, which was damaged. Li Shimin stared at it carefully, raised his hand to wipe it, and said, "These places were shot by the strong bow...... These places look like halberds...... This piece is scorching, it's a fire! The former army broke through several cities in Goguryeo, and from this armor leaf, you can know the life of the soldiers! The general is still like this, let alone an ordinary soldier? Thank you! ”

In a word, even the generals in the tent were tearful and excited.

"For the sake of His Majesty's trust, for the sake of hundreds of thousands of Han family sons, and for the sake of Liaodong as the old land of Goguryeo, all the soldiers dare not serve the death force?!" Li Tao replied to Li Shimin's words on behalf of the generals.

Li Shimin nodded, and asked again: "The weather is already extremely cold, can any of the soldiers be cold?" ”

Li Tao shook his head and said: "Although it is extremely cold, all the soldiers have something to protect from the cold, and although they are thrown away by the cold, it is not serious, and it cannot affect the morale of the army." In addition, since crossing the Liao River, several cities have been broken in a row, and the previous time they won more with less, repelling the reinforcements of Goguryeo galloping to the Liaodong City, and the morale of the army is great at this moment. ”

"Hahahaha...... Good! Li Shimin nodded and said, "All the soldiers have worked hard! I have led the army of the Six Routes to this point, and from now on, everyone will not be alone. This time, I brought a large army, brought supplies, and brought countless firearms and ammunition, just a Liaodong city, no problem. ”

"Your Majesty, although the siege of the city with firearms is good, the damage caused by it is complete and difficult to repair in a short time. Especially now that the weather is extremely cold, if the city wall is destroyed, it is not easy to repair it in a short time. Li Tao said to Li Shimin: "The purpose of occupying these Goguryeo fortresses is to attract the Goguryeo army here, and then rely on firearms to defend the city, and trap the Goguryeo army here for a long time, so as to create conditions for the landing of the sailors." Therefore, the minister suggested that when attacking the city, it is better to use as few firearms as possible, so as not to cause irreparable damage to the city wall, so as to facilitate the defense of the city after our Tang army occupies this place. ”

Li Shimin nodded when he heard this: "What Manager Li said is reasonable. So, can the generals have any other way? If the city is attacked by the old method, this city is the main city of Goguryeo Liaodong, the wall is thick and the city is strong, and it is attacked by manpower, but I am afraid of considerable losses. ”

Xia Hongsheng listened beside him, but remembered that in the original history, it seemed to be attacked with fire? After rushing up the city wall with a ladder, he set fire to the city tower, and the Tang army rushed up from here and broke the city.

It's just that the casualties in the city wall can be imagined.

Sure enough, I listened to Li Tao say: "Your Majesty, Weichen has discussed with the king of Jiangxia and the generals before, in order to avoid destroying the city wall of Liaodong City, it is inconvenient for our plan to defend Liaodong City and drag down the Goguryeo army after the Tang Dynasty, so instead of using artillery, we will use fire attack." ”

"Fire attack ......" Li Shimin thought for a while, then looked outside the tent and asked: "I see that the wind has not been small in the past few days, it seems to be coming from the northeast and going southwest. The intention of General Manager Li was to send a few people to set fires, take advantage of the wind to the southwest and burn, the army was in the southwest of the city gate, and after the fire became bigger and burned the southwest tower, the city was broken from here. ”

"Back to Your Majesty, that's exactly what the minister meant." Li Tao and Li Daozong both nodded.

Li Daozong added: "Your Majesty, the army can divide its troops to feint and attack the northeast tower of Liaodong City, while the army is hidden in the mountains. The wind goes to the southwest, and those who feint to attack the northeast tower set fire to the city, and their defenders will be led away. At this moment, it makes people rush up to the southwest tower, set a fire, because the army defending the city goes to the northeast to the city tower, the southwest building is on fire and then it is scraped to the southwest, and the northeast building is not easy to find in the panic of the defenders. At this time, the army hiding in the southwest outside the city saw the fire and came out, stormed the southwest tower, and broke its city defense. ”

When Li Shimin heard this, he thought about it, nodded, and said, "This strategy is feasible!" I wonder if there are spies who have infiltrated Liaodong City? You can set fire to the city from inside the city, burn the city gates, and enlarge the army inside. If you storm the city wall, you will suffer many casualties. In the future, the defense of the city will involve the Goguryeo army, and it will still need to be fought hard, and the soldiers will not suffer many casualties. ”

"This ...... The ministers successively ordered several important towns in Goguryeo, and when Liaodong City was concerned, the city was fully prepared. Before it was settled, Goguryeo reinforcements were coming, and they were dealing with reinforcements, so the spies in the army had not yet been able to blend in. Li Tao said: "Please forgive your majesty!" ”

"Where, this is the common thing!" Li Shimin shook his head: "Goguryeo has several times the reinforcements of Er, and it is a great achievement for you to break it!" ”

"Your Majesty, regarding the fire attack, the old minister has some opinions." Li Jing next to him thought for a moment, and then walked out.

"Oh? Wei Gong, please make it clear! Li Tao hurriedly said.

The generals in the army were very respectful of Li Jing, and when they saw Li Jing open his mouth at this moment, they all listened carefully.

"Hehe, if you want to keep the city wall intact, this method of fire attack is also safe. The earth and stone of the city wall will not be damaged by fire, and after the castle tower is burned, it can be repaired and repaired very quickly. It's a real idea. Your Majesty thinks of the lives of all the soldiers, and can't bear too many casualties, and we all know the casualties of storming the tower. The old man thought to himself, there may be something that can make the fire attack successful, and reduce as little as possible in the army, and even, there are no casualties! ”

"Oh?!" Li Shimin was overjoyed and asked, "What is it?!" ”

Li Jing looked at Xia Hongsheng with a smile and said, "This method, General Xia has used it several times, and all of them have been successful, and there are no casualties. ”

Xia Hongsheng had already thought of this method, and at this moment he thought of one for Li Jing, so he laughed.

It was because he heard what Li Jing said, and saw that everyone looked at him, so he came out and said: "This method has been used many times when the last general conquered the Wa Kingdom with the king of Hejian County. It is especially effective in fire attack. At the beginning, there were more than 300 warships of the Japanese navy, and the last general used this method to burn all the Japanese sailors without spending a single soldier. ”

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