Chapter 307: Shocking
Li Dongsheng listened to Li Shimin's words, and he was also a little touched in his heart, and these words were also his heartfelt words, and they were also very reasonable. You Li Dongsheng is young and has a low title, although he has several outstanding battlefield performances, but these achievements are only so compared to the front of these founding generals of the Tang Dynasty. How can you, Li Dongsheng, prove that your words are correct? Just like Li Shimin himself said, no one can see the future, and everyone has no ability to predict the future, so why should Li Shimin listen to his own words, and if he doesn't accept his own advice, he is mediocre?
Li Dongsheng thought about it, but he couldn't find words and facts to prove his correctness, he couldn't say that he was a traverser, that is, a traverser, Li Shimin's words You came to this world, and it changed history. He couldn't say anything more, so he could only bow his head and say, "What Your Majesty said is that my vision is low." β
Li Shimin nodded: "You are the junior I value more, and you are the best choice for your literary and martial arts, but there is only one bad thing, that is, you are too soft-hearted." The ancients said that "mercy is not in charge of the army", this sentence not only says that the two armies fight on the battlefield, but also applies to the court and ordinary life, as long as you can achieve your goal, all the sacrifices are worth it. Looking at Li Dongsheng's disapproving eyes, Li Shimin sighed heavily: "You have to experience this sentence well in the future!" β
Early the next morning, after the Tang army had breakfast, Li Shimin gave the order to attack the city. The rumbling war machine was back in motion. This city where the Tang army had been disgraced for more than ten days was once again alarmed by the earth-shattering war drums.
In the rumbling drums, the black-pressed Tang soldiers carried ladders and pushed siege vehicles, and in the deafening shouts of killing, like black ants, rushed to the city wall of Liaodong City again.
The Goguryeo defenders on the city wall had already been prepared, and when the Tang army camp moved, the defenders at the head of the city prepared the corresponding equipment to defend the city. When the Tang army's siege team charged towards Liaodong City, the soldiers defending Liaodong City all looked at the enemy who was surging in the distance like a tide, and they all let out sharp shouts to strengthen their will to fight. Behind the women's wall, pots of boiling oil have been boiled, and there are piles of stones and rolling wood everywhere, ready to deal another heavy blow to these invaders.
But this time the Tang army attacking the city was a bit strange, after they approached the city wall, they did not use soldiers to board the siege vehicle as before, or use the ladder to climb the city, but used the siege vehicle to hold the city head, and they didn't know what to do at the city gate.
The guards at the head of the city did not care, because even if the city gate was knocked open, the door hole was filled with boulders, and Liaodong City was ready to fight a protracted war since the end of the Sui Dynasty, and the food, water and weapons prepared in the city were very sufficient.
However, it was not good to watch the Tang army make small moves below, and the Goguryeo defenders at the head of the city attacked this siege vehicle with bows and arrows, rolling wood, boiling oil, and fire oil, only to find that this siege vehicle was all wrapped in iron, and it was very tightly packaged, and even the fire oil burned for a while and was extinguished.
Jiang Xian, the defender of Liaodong City, who received the news, hurriedly came to the city, he was short and strong, his face was dark and full of armor, he looked down, there was no sound below, and he saw that there were people holding the shield formation of shields to go to the siege vehicle, and then immediately returned to the Chinese army, the situation was very strange.
But no matter how weird the situation is, it can't scare me Jiang Xian. As a famous general of Goguryeo, he also grew up in the war. Goguryeo has been at war with neighboring countries since the day it was founded, and it has been like this for hundreds of years, fighting with Baekje Silla, fighting with the Wa Kingdom, and what barbarians on the steppe, the biggest enemy is the Central Plains Dynasty, which is so big that people are afraid of it. The men of Goguryeo were born to take on the fate of going to the battlefield to defend the country, and no one from the king to the commoners could escape. And Jiang Xian is an officer who grew up in such a tough and fierce army of a hundred battles, and his determination can be described as rock-solid.
They also know the change of the Central Plains Dynasty, from the Great Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty. Although the name has changed, the country is still a big country, when today's son is also the hero, the famous generals under his command are like clouds, the army swept the world, never defeated, what Turkic, Tuyuhun were destroyed under his hands, and the surrounding countries trembled and gave him an honorific title "Tian Khan"!
But the Goguryeo people were not afraid of such a formidable enemy. This time, the Tang Army's Son of Heaven personally marched to Goguryeo with an army of 300,000 murderous spirits, and in the eyes of Jiang Xian and others, there was actually nothing remarkable. Back then, the Sui army came more than them, and the number of times was more than them, but what was the result? Hundreds of thousands of lives were left behind to build the Jingguan, and the Sui Dynasty is gone, but Goguryeo is still standing here. If it weren't for the fact that something big happened in the DPRK and China some time ago, this time the battle would definitely be more certain.
The Tang army under the city wall stood neatly outside the range of the bows and arrows of the defenders of Liaodong City, just standing silently, and the atmosphere was very weird. Except for the wind blowing the flags and the sound of brushing. There was no other sound.
At this time, I saw that the siege vehicle had slowly moved. The defenders at the head of the city were all nervous, ready to meet the attack of the Tang army, but the trajectory of this siege vehicle movement made Jiang Xian's eyes widen. The siege engine slowly retreated away from the city walls. He ordered: "All the personnel cheer up, the Tang Army must have prepared some action, everyone must not take it lightly." β
All the soldiers should say "yes", and then began to look vigilantly at the city, when a sharp-eyed fellow shouted: "There is a smoking line on the ground!" β
When Jiang Xian heard this, he immediately went to the city wall and stuck his head out to look. Sure enough, a line of fire emitting black smoke was rapidly moving towards the city wall, although Jiang Xian didn't know what it was, but he could clearly know that this line of fire was a great threat. Instinctively, he shouted, "All on guardγγγγγ β
Before he finished speaking, he felt his feet move, and then he heard a loud "boom" sound in his ears, and he felt that his body was very light, as if he was flying, and the people below were so small from the city wall. Hey, why is this city wall so familiarγγγγ this is Jiang Xian's last consciousness, and then his eyes are dark, and he doesn't know anything.
The defenders at the head of the city were also stunned by the loud sound, and the group of people near the city gate were immediately broken into pieces by the broken stones, and the people who were far away were also shocked to sit on the ground, and they didn't know what was going on, and they saw that the part of the city gate of Liaodong City had collapsed.