Liaodong at the beginning of June is the hottest time of the year.

The sun hung high in the sky, like a great furnace, and the whole earth was scorched.

The weeds and trees on the roadside are hanging their leaves, bowing to the wind before the sun.

In the distance, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded, causing a wave of frightened birds to fly around.

At this time, if you look down from the sky, you can hardly see anything on the road.

Because of the dust, it almost covered the sky.

"Your Majesty, the front is Liaodong City, in the past few days, after the Goguryeo people found out about us, they retreated almost without much resistance, and the last general estimated that they should all retreat to Liaodong City."

Li Ji and Li Shimin took the lead in rushing to the front of the team.

It's not because of how brave they are, how much they lead by example.

It's because you don't have to eat dirt in front.

"Hmph, Yang Guang suffered two big losses in Liaodong City in a row, and these Goguryeo people want to repeat their old tricks."

Although the war has been going well in the past few days, Li Shimin is not happy.

Liaodong City is a big city with a lot in Goguryeo, and it is still the kind of big city that takes into account people's livelihood, commerce, and defense.

When Li Shimin was in Yingzhou, he had a good understanding of the situation in Liaodong.

To put it mildly, if you want to take Liaodong, you must first take Liaodong City, otherwise it is useless to take all the surrounding cities.

"Your Majesty, this Liaodong City has fallen into the hands of the Goguryeo people since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and after more than two hundred years of construction, it can be said that the city is high and thick, and it is very difficult to attack. If the Goguryeo army nests in the city and doesn't come out, it will be really a trouble. ”

Soon, the outline of Liaodong City appeared in front of everyone.

Through his glasses, Li Shimin could also see the soldiers trained on the city wall.

Judging from the closed city wall, the guards of Liaodong City must have known the news of the Tang Dynasty's attack.

This battle is not easy to fight!

"Liaodong City as a whole presents a square shape, with two inner and outer city walls. Among them, the inner city is inhabited by Goguryeo nobles, and there are many two-story and three-story buildings; The outer city is a commercial area, where ordinary people and merchants live. Liaodong City is built on the mountain, and there are corner towers, pheasant moats, parapet walls and other buildings on the city wall, which are very conducive to defense, but it will be very troublesome for the attacking army. ”

Niu Jinda also followed Li Shimin to Goguryeo this time, and he followed Li Shimin all the way, which can be said to be deeply trusted.

"This time, our whole army is armored and has prepared a large number of hand crossbows and crossbow arrows, as long as the Goguryeo people dare to go out of the city to fight, no matter how many people come, it will be the result of going and not returning. Therefore, the top priority is how to lure out the enemy troops in Liaodong City and eliminate them outside the city, so as to reduce the pressure of our siege. ”

Liaodong City was getting closer and closer, but there was no smile on Li Ji's face.

It was not that he was not confident in taking Liaodong City, but he was worried that the siege would bring too many casualties to Datang.

Especially in front of such a solid city, if the defenders are relatively strong, they need at least twice the number of troops to successfully capture it.

"Just camp nearby to settle the bill, disperse the waiters, and then arrange some people to provoke them at the gate of Liaodong City to see how they react."

Although Li Shimin is good at using soldiers, he has no good ideas about how to take Liaodong City for the time being.

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However, on the city of Liaodong, the Goguryeo defenders did not panic at all.

Some generals have experienced the situation when Yang Guang led hundreds of thousands of troops to besiege the city, and they didn't pay much attention to the tens of thousands of Tang troops outside the city at the moment.

"Send someone back to Pyongyang City to report on the situation here. In addition, please rest assured that with my Quanfu Si in Liaodong, I will never lose our Goguryeo face. ”

Liaodong City is an important military town of Goguryeo, and 20,000 or 30,000 elite soldiers are stationed all year round.

Coupled with the soldiers and horses who retreated from the previous cities, there are now more than 30,000 soldiers in Chengji, which are used to defend the city, and Quan Fusi feels that it is enough.

"General, do you want to send a cavalry out to try the quality of the Tang Army?"

"No need to try! The first few cities will fall so quickly, and what we learned from the mouths of the retreating soldiers, the Tang army came from the elite, and well-armed, with a large number of crossbow arrows, we are in the field, not necessarily their opponents. But don't be afraid, what I'm best at is destroying the elite of the Han people! ”

Quan Fusi, who is nearly fifty years old, was just a small Wu Chang thirty years ago, but he has experienced several heroes of the Sui army, that is, with the head of the Sui army, Quan Fusi has come to today's position step by step.

Therefore, Quan Fusi is a typical hawk in the Goguryeo army, and he is not afraid of conflict with the Tang Dynasty at all.

It was really because his concept did not match Gao Jianwu's that he finally leaned towards Yuangai Suwen.

"The Tang army only sent tens of thousands of people this time, but I heard that it was the Tang Emperor's personal expedition, so I really don't understand what they think. The subordinates also arranged for the waiter to go to the vicinity to investigate, but they did not hear that the shadow of the Tang Army appeared elsewhere. ”

"Don't worry about it so much! No matter how many people the Tang army came and from which directions they attacked, as long as they wanted to advance further, Liaodong City was an obstacle that they could not avoid, and we just waited for them to come over and die on the city wall. ”

Quan Fusi has long passed the age of impulsively grabbing credit.

He sees the current situation very clearly.

As long as he does not go out of the city, this expedition of the Tang army is destined to return in vain.

Even when they retreated, I would give them another time, and it might be another great victory.

If even the Tang Emperor could be captured, then he Quanfusi would be a hero of Goguryeo.

……

That night, in Li Shimin's military tent, whale oil candles with the thickness of Xiao Er's arm were all around, and the main generals in the army gathered there to discuss countermeasures.

However, for a while, in the face of the Goguryeo army cowering in the city, no one could come up with any particularly convincing plan.

"Your Majesty, Captain Cheng Chuliang and Captain Qin Shandao ask to see you!"

Just when everyone was frowning, thinking about how to deal with the enemy in the turtle's shell, a Qianniu guard came in to send a message to Li Shimin.

"Let them in!"

Li Shimin didn't think much about it, and directly let Cheng Chuliang and Qin Shandao in.

The two of them, one is Cheng Yanjin's son, and the other is Qin Qiong's son, Li Shimin treats them like nephews.

This time, they will go out with them, mainly to test the combat effectiveness of the Datang Royal Military Academy.

Among the more than 30,000 troops led by Li Shimin, the 10,000 soldiers and horses commanded by Niu Jinda were all cadets in the Military Academy who held the positions of Lieutenant Zhichong and Lieutenant Guoyi, and even some brigade commanders were cadets of the Military Academy.

And Cheng Chuliang and Qin Shandao are even more special, although they only led five hundred people, they are the most mysterious and special team among the Tang Royal Military Cadets, and Li Kuan also gave it a special name called the Flying Tigers.

"Your Majesty, I have a way to take Liaodong City!"

Cheng Chuliang had just entered the big tent, and he didn't care that there were a bunch of generals inside, and he directly muttered that he could handle Liaodong City.

That look, and Cheng Biting Jin definitely came out of the same mold.

"Huh?" Li Shimin frowned, feeling that it was a bit inappropriate for Cheng Chuliang to say big things on such an occasion.

"This is a battlefield, not a military academy exercise!"