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Liaodong.

The three-day deadline has arrived, and Gao Anwu in Liaodong City still wants to resist stubbornly, but finds that he has betrayed his relatives and left. The generals of Goguryeo had already fled for their lives from the royal city.

After counting the battleable soldiers in the city again, Gao Huiwu was disappointed to find that there were less than 20,000 soldiers left under his command. Moreover, even these 20,000 soldiers are already demoralized and have no heart to fight.

The sun is rising, and three days have passed.

Outside the city, the sound of a continuous horn of gathering troops had already sounded, and Gao Anwu, who was half-drunk and half-awake, ordered to hold on with his unsheathed sword with red eyes, preparing to fight the Tang army to the end.

However, when the generals who were left behind heard this order, their faces all darkened.

For a long time, not a single general moved.

Seeing the generals' reaction, Gao Anwu was first annoyed, and then frightened.

When he understood what was going to happen, he could only look up to the sky and let out a big laugh.

After a few moments, the laughter stopped abruptly.

Soon, the gate of Liaodong City was opened, and a group of Goguryeo officers came to ask for surrender with Gao Anwu's head, military talismans, seals, and household registration books.

In the heyday of the army under the city, Li Jing did not seem surprised by the result of the Goguryeo people killing Gao Anwu and surrendering. In the face of the surrender of the Goguryeo, Li Jing was not embarrassed, but accepted the surrender of the Goguryeo with a smile.

On the same day, 20,000 Goguryeo people in the city disarmed and surrendered, and left the city to accept the reorganization.

Li Jing led his army into Liaodong City, the largest city in eastern Liaodong, a huge flat-land city located on the plain in the middle reaches of the Liaohe River. For hundreds of years, it has been the military and economic center of Liaodong. The Quartet City. Double city walls. Three gates.

Although the Tang army has besieged the city, Goguryeo soldiers and horses have continued to flee, the original 50,000 Goguryeo troops have fled 30,000, and 30,000 Khitan troops have withdrawn. But in the whole city, the old and young armies and the common people and merchants combined still exceeded the population of more than 200,000. In particular, Gao Degui has been operating here for many years, and it has always been the center of trading between Goguryeo, Bohai, Khitan, and even Murowei and Silla, and there is a granary in the city.

For Coco Li. After taking Liaodong City without bloodshed, the greater significance is to kill the two generations of kings of Goguryeo, who was restored less than a year ago, and seize the royal capital. The whole of Goguryeo is now completely deprived of unified command and military morale.

Although there are also important mountain cities such as Baekam, Xincheng, Gaimu, and Jinshan, and the strength of Goguryeo people from all walks of life.

But now, these people have become a plate of scattered sand, and they can no longer unite against the Tang army.

After capturing Liaodong City and killing Gao Anwu, Li Jing now has the ability to quickly sweep away the remnants of Goguryeo.

After Li Jing entered Liaodong City, he immediately issued two orders.

Ordered Zhao Li and Zeng Yuanyu to lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to march east along Daliangshui in the south of Liaodong City. Capture the cities along the north and south banks of the Daliang River, Goguryeo.

He ordered Lin Wu and Li Juyi to lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to march northeast along the Xiaoliaoshui to the west of Liaodong City, and capture the Goguryeo forces along the east and west banks of the Liaoshui.

Li Jing personally sat in Liaodong City. He presided over the clearing of the remnants of the local forces after the capture of the cities in eastern Liaodong, as well as the relocation of the people of Goguryeo and the people of the Central Plains, as well as the construction of roads, the construction of cities, and the division of fields in the newly occupied interior.

In order to be able to strengthen his thorough control over these newly occupied territories, Li Jing now strictly implemented the principle of immediately moving these occupied Goguryeo and other foreign people to the interior of the occupied territory, and then to Liaodong. But for the sake of long-term planning, Li Jing will never discount this work. Even these workers who are now building roads and cities in eastern Liaodong are basically resettled in the prefectures and counties of the Central Plains first, and after living for almost a year, they are recruited to build roads in eastern Liaodong.

The families of these people are all in the Central Plains-controlled areas, and they are also paid to build roads, which is not too hard, so it can greatly avoid such a thing as a local rebellion after the occupation.

The west bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Liao River is Liaoxi, which has been occupied and controlled by Li Jing years ago.

Now, after Li Jing captured the city of Liaodong, he began to attack the plains on the east bank of the middle reaches of the Liaohe River, as well as the hilly areas further east.

Daliang water is the Taizi River in later generations, and the most important cities in this river basin are Liaodong City and Baiyan City.

The Xiaoliao River, which is further north, is the Hunhe River in later generations. In this basin, there is a new city of Goguryeo Chongseong.

The areas still controlled by Goguryeo are basically concentrated in the valleys of the Taizi River and Hunheon. Its control area is equivalent to Liaoyang City, Benxi City, Shenyang City, Fushun City, Tieling City, and Kaiyuan City in later generations. Half of it is in the plain on the east bank of the Liao River, and half is in the hilly area of the Qianshan Mountains.

However, the west, south, and east of the Goguryeo-controlled area were already occupied by the Tang army, and the danger of the Liao River and the danger of the Qianshan Mountains was lost, and the remaining tens of thousands of remnants of the Goguryeo people were no longer to be feared.

"Goguryeo is finished!" Standing on top of the eighteen-story pagoda in Liaodong City, climbing high and overlooking the Liaohe Plain, Cui Yunqing couldn't help but sigh even if she was worried at this time.

Li Jing responded lightly: "This is the trend of the times, the Goguryeo people want to block it, but it is just a mantis arm blocking the car, and they can't do it themselves, and they can only be run over by the wheel of history at the end." ”

Cui Yunqing turned his head to look at his protégé, five years ago, when he accepted Li Jing as his protégé, he just felt that this was a bold and extraordinary scholar. Accepting him as a protégé is just the usual practice of the clan, and accepting those outstanding but unfounded commoner children as protégés is to strengthen the family's strength. It's just that he would never have thought that in just a few years of hard work, this young man who was just a little outstanding in his eyes at the beginning, has actually reached this point.

"Hebei has been reversed, and the four towns are kings, how does Ji Yu plan to deal with this matter?" The news of Hebei's anti-Hebei side was even known earlier than Chang'an. Cui Yunqing is also very concerned about this matter, and like many people, he also wants to know what Li Jing thinks now.

"What do I have to do about this?" Li Jing pointed to the vast plain and said with a sigh: "The imperial court has split the Zhenguo Army, and let Zheng Xianggong take over the command of the war in Liaodong. Originally, I was still waiting for Zheng Xianggong to come, and then I was going to Hebei to take office. But now, the situation is chaotic, but I don't know when Zheng Xiangguo will come. ”

"Why don't you stop attacking Goguryeo and immediately send troops to Hebei to quell the rebellion?" Cui Yunqing asked. Or rather, it's a temptation.

Regarding the teacher's question, Li Jing did not want to answer directly.

Seeing that Goguryeo's demise was imminent, Li Jing was willing to let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. What's more, the Hebei Rebellion was originally secretly provoked by him, in order to be unwilling to surrender military power, and not to want to rebel prematurely.

For Li Jing, under the banner of Datang, at this stage, the advantages actually outweigh the disadvantages.

As long as he can maintain his military power and territory, Li Jing does not mind being a courtier for the Tang Dynasty for a few more years.

However, he didn't want to talk about these topics directly to Cui Yunqing. Cui Yunqing is a representative faction of an aristocratic family, and their political idea is not to overthrow the Tang Dynasty, but to achieve a state where the aristocracy and the Son of Heaven rule the world together.

This is fundamentally different from Li Jing, who is ostensibly a king, but in fact, he is a warlord. Its purpose is naturally to replace Li Tang with the most reluctant.

"Now is the best time to destroy Goguryeo, if you miss it, if you wait for the Khitan to settle the civil strife, then you will definitely have to fight for Liaodong. will be outside, and the king's order will not be affected! Li Jing said lightly.

"Besides, the current rebellion in Hebei is shaking the world. Previously, the imperial court had split the Zhenguo Army and relieved me of military power, and now I am only temporarily leading the military power of Liaodong. At this time, if I lead my troops westward without a purpose, I am afraid that it will cause unnecessary misunderstandings. ”

Needless to say, Li Jing's words have clearly stated Li Jing's position.

He was not willing to go west to quell the rebellion for the imperial court, at least until the emperor's decree on the transfer of troops was issued, he did not have this idea.

And although Cui Yunqing has now served as the envoy of the Ziqing Festival, he still has 20,000 soldiers under his command for the time being, but at this time he only has 10,000 horses. And he also knew very well that these 10,000 soldiers nominally belonged to his command, but without Li Jing's consent, he could not command a single soldier or pawn.

Li Jing's words have been made very clear, between entering Hebei to quell the rebellion and exterminating Goguryeo, Li Jing chose the latter.

In the next few days, information from Hebei continued to be sent to Liaodong City, but Li Jing did not say a word about it.

The civil and military generals of the Zhenguo Army also seemed to be unaware of the rebellion in Hebei, and no one mentioned this matter at all.

The attack of the Zhenguo army on Goguryeo was also overwhelming and victorious.

Two days later, Zhao Li led his army to break through Baiyan City, which is Yanzhou City, an important town on the first line of Daliangshui. Two days later, Lin Wu and Li Juyi's troops broke through Xincheng, a military town in Xiaoliaohe.

Baiyan Fortress and Xincheng City were the two largest cities controlled by the Goguryeo people since the destruction of Liaodong City, and each city gathered about 10,000 soldiers and horses. The Goguryeo people also wanted to confront the Tang army with the fortified city, but the two cities failed to hold out for more than ten days under the onslaught of the Tang army, and the city was broken one after another.

After the fall of the two cities, it was a fatal blow to the Goguryeo people, and all the cities, villages and towns on the plain on the east bank of the Liao River fell into the hands of the Zhenguo army. The remaining Goguryeo people were forced to retreat into the hills and mountains to the east.

At the same time, the Zhenguo army swept the Goguryeo stronghold from the east and the black bone city to the west.

One after another, the good news continued to be transmitted back to Liaodong City, and nearly 100,000 Tang troops swept through the land of Liaodong. By the end of September, the mountain city defended by Goguryeo, which was at the bottom of the list, was broken by the troops led by Wang Yanzhang, Gao Siji, and Li Cunxiao.

Along the Liao River to the north to Jinshan City, southeast to the domestic city, the entire Goguryeo was completely destroyed.

Subsequently, Li Jing announced that the newly occupied land would be divided into five prefectures: Liaozhou, Xinzhou, Jinzhou, Yanzhou, and Gaizhou. (To be continued......)