Chapter 547: Uncle Li Ji of the Crow's Mouth (Summoning a Monthly Pass)
Three days later, that is, on the first day of the sixth month of June, the sixth envoy of Goguryeo arrived at the camp of our Tang army, and Uncle Li received the envoy in the tent of the Chinese army. In addition, the construction of the water, stone, brick and stone forts, so that the people who moved north at that time had a place to live, such busyness finally calmed down Uncle Li, but his determination to conquer Liaodong and pacify Goguryeo was even greater.
Therefore, this time, Uncle Li did not talk nonsense to the envoy for a long time as usual, but just let the envoy say what he meant, Goguryeo once again affirmed that he was willing to call the minister and pay tribute, and he would always be a subject country of the Tang Dynasty, and the land where the Tang Dynasty fought was all returned to the Tang Dynasty, and Goguryeo only left the land east of the Yalu River, and lived secretly, and did not commit a step towards the Tang Dynasty's Longwei, in addition, Quangai Suwen was willing to degrade himself to a commoner, and Gaozang was also willing to take the first king Gaowu back and worship him as the king of Taishang.
"Is this your sincerity?" Uncle Li raised his eyebrows and sneered.
The Goguryeo envoy said: "Exactly, our lord is willing to be a friendly gang with the Tang Dynasty for generations, and will always be a vassal country of the Tang Dynasty, and will never commit any more crimes against the Tang Dynasty." ”
"It's a good thing to say, but it's a pity that I don't want to hear a word now." Uncle Li stroked his beard for a long time and stood up: "This is my last espionage, either, Gaozang will surrender the country, hand over Quangai Suwen, the rebel of killing the king, and let me judge the Tang Dynasty, destroy the city defense, and not allow the army to be retained, and my Tang army will guard the border defense for you, or just wait for my Tang Dynasty's iron cavalry to step into your capital palace." ”
Quangai Suwen was furious, recruited the country's soldiers, and threatened to burn all the jade, even if Goguryeo fought to the last soldier, he would never do such a loss of country, and on our side, the announcement covered with the seal of the Liao Duke Gaowu was plastered all over the city east of Goguryeo's Yalu water.
---------------------------------------------------- proclamation wrote that the former king of Goguryeo denounced the rebellion of Quangai Suwen and the new lord Gozang, and announced to the people, soldiers and officials of Goguryeo that for the sake of Goguryeo's bright future and common prosperity with the people of the Tang Dynasty, he had decided to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, let Goguryeo become a part of the Tang Dynasty, and forever get rid of the troubles and worries of the war. Ordered all those who still regarded him as the monarch of Goguryeo to lay down their arms and peacefully welcome the takeover of the Tang Dynasty.
The effect is okay, at least, the three cities along the river took the initiative to surrender, and Datang took over the last three important towns by the Yalu water very smoothly. At this point, the last gate of Goguryeo slowly opened to the Tang Iron Cavalry, at this moment the Goguryeo King Gaozang and Quangai Suwen were already frightened birds, although the mouth was fierce, forcibly conscripted the people into the army, and ordered the Goguryeo people to the east of Yalu Water and the west of Sashui to abandon their homes and retreat, and wanted to make it difficult for the Tang Army to clear the wilderness with a strong wall, but the people were complained, and some simply fled into the countryside, and after the arrival of the Tang Army, they began to act as guides for the Tang Army.
It can also be seen from this that the personality charm of the former Goguryeo lord Gao Wu is quite good, and his appeal is also very strong, but he himself did not expect to be stabbed in the back by Quan Gai Suwen. And this time, after the death of his wife and son, he had already forgotten about the others, and only wanted the head of Quangai Suwen to sacrifice to his family who was copied and killed by Quangai Suwen.
Within a month, more than 10 cities were captured and more than 100,000 Goguryeo soldiers and civilians were captured. At this time, Uncle Li had already considered the long-term peace and stability in the future, changed his strategy, rewarded the people in the city with food, and gave brocade silk to the people over eighty years old. And all the soldiers who surrendered were given condolences, and they were given food and salary, and they were released, and they were left to their own devices. Uncle Li's approach made the ordinary people of Goguryeo feel the name of Uncle Li's benevolence, and even thousands of Goguryeo soldiers took the initiative to ask to join the Tang army to serve and overthrow Quangai Suwen, the source of Goguryeo's troubles, but Uncle Li politely refused, Uncle Li told them to let them return to their hometowns, and told their fellow villagers and friends that the Tang Dynasty brought them peace and prosperity, so that all Goguryeo people could eat and drink spicy food together with the Tang Dynasty, and there was no need to worry that the Tang Dynasty would enslave anyone, in the future, They will be as equal as the Tang people...... Blow, blow hard, my troops began to play a huge role at this time. These people are all military intellectuals of the Tang Dynasty who have grown up after a long period of brainwashing and cramming, and they have instilled in the prisoners of war the ideas and ideas that I have instilled in them, but more and more people's minds have gradually moved closer to the Tang Dynasty, at least, the vast majority of the Goguryeo people in the occupied areas no longer resist in vain, but take a skeptical attitude to wait and see.
In order to speed up the stability and tranquility of the occupied area, and in order to occupy the land east of Yalu Water and west of Sashui more quickly, Uncle Li was very satisfied with our actions, Uncle Li's thirst for new land has surpassed all else, and in order to speed up the stability and tranquility of the occupied area, and in order to occupy the land east of Yalu Water and west of Sashui more quickly, the forces of our Datang Military Academy have been scattered and divided into three divisions.
One third of them were led by Xi Jun, and went with Li Daozong to capture another strong city. The other third was led by Duan Yunsong, who followed Uncle Li, an old man who likes to show off, to invade another city, and our team was naturally left to me to lead, and half a dozen of the youth version of Uncle Cheng was lost by me to Xi Junmai and Duan Yunsong, and the two of them were divided equally. In my hands, only Li Yexu, Li Jingye, and Xue Rengui were left with relatively honest and obedient lieutenants, and the artillery regiment was also divided into three, and I personally led the remaining one-third of the artillery regiment, anyway, with these thirty or so artillery, it was enough to blast any city into a gap.
After fighting separately, the speed of occupation accelerated, Uncle Li commanded 37,000 troops, along the Yalu River to the south, along the coast and attacked, with the help of tens of thousands of naval troops, all the way to attack the city and pull out the village, and Li Daozong, the famous general of the prince, commanded 24,000 troops, and another 20,000 Hu cavalry, along the north, he wanted to pull out the nail of Goguryeo's last stronghold on the Yalu water: the domestic city.
As for our way, the number of people is the smallest, there are more than 13,000 Chinese infantry cavalry of Uncle Li Ji, more than 8,000 elite iron cavalry of Su Ming's brother, and finally one-third of the Datang Military Academy, 4,000 people.
At first, Uncle Li was ready to transfer 5,000 cavalry under his command on the grounds that the number of the middle route army was too small.
"No, Li Ji Aiqing, I don't believe you, but the number of troops you lead is too small, but don't forget, there are all Goguryeo troops around here, according to the general's words, there are tens of thousands of troops in the southern Goguryeo slave department, Gao Huizhen, who is eyeing the side, a little bit worse, I am really worried about you, if this is the case, deploy 5,000 elite cavalry from our army to ...... with you" Uncle Li said earnestly.
Uncle Li Ji shook his head and sternly refused: "Your Majesty, the minister has few soldiers, but he is fine, the military strength of Goguryeo has already lost all morale, if the minister has more soldiers, I am afraid that Gao Huizhen will not be able to be introduced, I am not afraid that he will not come out, I am afraid that he will not come out, he will not come out, my army will inevitably have worries, the land occupied, more need to divide a large number of troops to guard, the minister is confident, with the soldiers under his command, he will be able to take Gao Huizhen's head and dedicate it to His Majesty." ”
---------------------------------------------------- I have to say that what Uncle Li Ji said is reasonable, and Uncle Li Ji rarely loses, under his strong request, Uncle Li made such a distribution, but I couldn't have imagined that Uncle Li Ji is really a natural crow's mouth, saying that the good is not good, the bad spirit, and the spirit is very good.
On the seventh day of the division of troops, when we were attacking the third city we encountered, Changsheng City, Uncle Li Ji's crow prophecy was fulfilled, and the head snake of this territory, the southern Goguryeo slave tribe, raised all their troops and rushed towards us with murderous spirit, and the strength was not 50,000 as we originally imagined, but 80,000 troops.
In the southern part of Goguryeo, there were 58,000 Goguryeo infantry cavalry, and more than 25,000 cavalry from the Yan Dynasty came to the aid of Changsheng City.
And on our side, more than 2,000 people have been left behind to defend the city and prisoners of war, right now. In addition to Uncle Li Ji's Chinese army of more than 10,000 and Su Dingfang's elite cavalry of 8,000, there are also one-third of the Datang Military Academy's men and horses, 4,000 people. The total number was only 22,000.
"My lord, what should I do, the situation of our army is not very good, there are more than 15,000 Goguryeo troops in Changsheng City, and Gao Huizhen commands 58,000 troops, all of whom are the elite of the Goguryeo army, and there are more than 25,000 cavalry cavalry, my army adds up to a total of only 22,000 people, and the enemy of Goguryeo is four times that of me. Zhang Junyi, the head of the march, kept chattering on the side.
(To be continued)