The white tiger sent the battle report of the Southern Expeditionary Army sent by Cheng Biting Jin.

The battle report said that the Don army, under the guidance of Latif, quietly arrived at Fort Yislan after 16 days of secret marching. At night, they suddenly surrounded the barracks of the Praetorian Guard of the Feituo Kingdom outside the city, and completely annihilated the 13,000 Aryan troops in the barracks at a small cost of 328 casualties.

Subsequently, under the response of the internal response arranged by Latif, the western gate of Yislanburg was opened, and the royal palace of the Feituo dynasty was quickly surrounded. Soon after, the royal family of the Feituo Kingdom saw that the general trend was gone, and surrendered to the Tang army.

The whole battle began with the siege of the Aryan barracks outside the city to launch an attack, until the surrender of the royal family of the Feituo Kingdom, it took less than three hours, and the Tang army suffered a total of 612 casualties, ending the battle.

At present, the Tang army has incorporated the Feituo Kingdom, and the local army, mainly the Darobitu people, is marching to the whole country, and will soon take over the entire territory of the Feituo Kingdom.

Li Tongshan, Grand Chief Ganterboro and Latif invited Li You to Yislanburg to preside over the inauguration ceremony of the Bajistan Governor's Palace.

The Governor's Palace in Kabul was filled with cheers.

The good news brought by Ashinaqing is that Wu Xu is pregnant, and it has been more than two months.

Ma Zhou and Abu Hassan rushed to hear the news, but were told that His Royal Highness the King of Qi had left, and he ran to celebrate his wife's pregnancy.

Ma Zhou and Abu Hassan were a little puzzled, for such a big event as the next country, the King of Qi did not notify the Governor's Palace to celebrate, but ran to celebrate the pregnancy of a lady, which was really a bit of a public and private separation.

However, these are all happy events in the end, and it is inconvenient for Ma Zhou and Abu Hassan to go to the back house of His Royal Highness King Qi, so they simply go to arrange the celebration ceremony by themselves.

In the bedroom, Wu Xu was waiting for Li You to come over, and when she saw Li You rushing over, she was about to stand up to greet her.

Li You hurriedly said: "Xu'er sit still, be careful of the child!" ”

Wu Xu had already asked the military doctor, and now that the dangerous period had already passed, she was not so squeamish, but when she saw Li You's exaggerated surprise look, she still felt a burst of sweetness in her heart.

Li You came to Wu Xu, took her hand, and kissed her heavily on the forehead, making a crisp sound.

He excitedly said, "You're amazing, baby." ”

At this time, in the room, there were a few maids and military doctors, and everyone laughed when they saw His Royal Highness King Qi like this.

Wu Xu's face was blushing, and he said angrily: "Lord Wang, you are really good, and you don't look at the occasion." ”

Li You smiled: "What's this, old husband and wife, what is there to be ashamed of?" ”

As he spoke, he said to the people in the house, "The princess is pregnant, which is a great joy. Everyone has a reward, so go to the tent and receive the reward. ”

Everyone rejoiced and thanked them together.

Wu Xu was also very happy and said, "I still have a reward there when I go back, and I will give it to you later." ”

"Thank you, thank you, princess." The crowd retreated happily.

Liaodong'an City (now Haicheng, Liaoning).

Since the elimination of the Eastern Turks, Li Shimin has not personally conquered Goguryeo, and under the stimulation of Li You's continuous victories, Li Shimin has personally conquered Goguryeo.

This time, Li Shimin played an astonishing move, originally according to the plan to mobilize 160,000 troops to attack by land, he thought that this would be a bit of a waste of money and money, and he could not show his prestige. So, as in history, he mobilized only 60,000 troops and began the war against Goguryeo.

Li Shimin was a general-born emperor who had extraordinary strategic vision and extremely high tactical literacy.

Since April, the Eastern Expeditionary Army has been triumphant all the way, creating amazing results.

It took more than two months for Li Shimin to command the land army led by Li Tao and Li Daozong to capture Jian'an City (now Gaizhou, Liaoning), Gaimu City (now Fushun, Liaoning), the important Goguryeo towns of Liaodong (now Liaoyang, Liaoning) and Baiyan City (now northeast of Liaoyang), and attacked Anshi City.

In June, when more than 60,000 Tang troops arrived at Anseongseong, the northern Goguryeo chieftains Gao Yanshou and Gao Hye-jin led an army of 150,000 to urgently reinforce Anseong.

Goguryeo's 150,000 reinforcements, plus 40,000 Goguryeo people in Anshi, a full 200,000 army, although the Tang army at this time was only 60,000, Li Shimin did not take it to heart.

After inspecting the terrain, he lured the enemy into the depths, ordered the generals to lead an army of 30,000 to encircle the enemy's 150,000 reinforcements, and divided and surrounded the Goguryeo army with cavalry, beheading more than 20,000 people, and Gao Yanshou, who was encircled, had to surrender with the remaining 40,000 remnants.

After the reinforcements were destroyed, the whole country of Goguryeo was terrified, and the defenders north of Pyongyang abandoned the city and fled, and Anseong City had become an isolated city, surrounded by the Tang Army.

At this time, Li Shimin was so complacent that he waited to take Anshi City and forced the Goguryeo people to surrender.

But it was this Anshi City that had blocked the powerful Tang Dynasty army under the city for more than two months.

Anshi Castle is a sturdy castle with a stone wall that is 3 zhang high, a moat that is more than 4 zhang wide and more than 3 meters deep, and an urn castle built behind the only three gates. The food reserves in it are enough to support the soldiers and civilians in the city for more than a year.

Since the siege of the city, the Tang army has launched dozens of large-scale attacks, but not a single soldier has been able to climb the walls of Anshi City.

At this time, Li Shimin, accompanied by Li Ji, Zhang Liang and others, used a telescope on the mountain outside the city to observe the situation in the city.

Li Ji said: "Your Majesty, seeing that it has entered the end of August, and the winter in Liaodong is coming early, it is not a way to go on like this." The minister suggested taking advantage of Pyongyang's lack of troops to directly attack Pyongyang, as long as Pyongyang fell, the Goguryeo people in Anseong City would have no reason to hold on, and they would be self-defeating. ”

Li Shimin shook his head and said: "No need, I see that the defenders in Anshi City have begun to shake under the repeated attacks of the Tang army, and it will not take long to take it."

The terrain of Goguryeo is complex, and it is difficult to transport smoothly. The army marched long distances to Pyongyang, and if the grain route was cut off by the enemy, there was a danger that the entire army would be annihilated. ”

Li Daozong said: "Your Majesty, please give the minister 5,000 elite soldiers, take a sneak attack, you can succeed in a battle, please allow the minister to take a risk." ”

Li Shimin still did not agree.

In this way, Li Shimin missed a good fighter to destroy Goguryeo.

At the beginning of September, the Goguryeo reinforcement generals Gao Yeonshou and Gao Hye-jin saw that Anseong could not be attacked for a long time, and also advised Tang Li Shimin to stop attacking Anseong and lead the army to take Pyongyang.

This time, Li Shimin agreed, and all the generals were very happy, so Zhang Shigui was left to lead 20,000 troops to monitor the Goguryeo defenders in Anseong, and the rest of the men and horses marched to Pyongyang.

At this time, the eldest grandson Wuji received a letter, and he did not agree to march into Pyongyang, believing that Li Shimin was too risky to do so.

Li Shimin actually adopted the opinion of the eldest grandson Wuji, and turned around and continued to attack Anshi City.

At this point, Li Shimin once again missed the opportunity to destroy Goguryeo.

It was later learned that the Goguryeo royal family was ready, and once the Tang army approached the city, they would open the city and surrender.

Time blink of an eye to the middle of September, the temperature in Liaodong at the end of August was already cold, Li Shimin was too light on the enemy, he thought that before the arrival of winter, Goguryeo could be destroyed. Therefore, the army did not prepare warm clothes at all, the grain and grass were about to run out, and the city of Anshi was still unable to be breached, so Li Shimin had no choice but to decide to retreat.

At this time, the Tang Army's record was still very brilliant. In this battle of Goguryeo, ten cities were conquered, 40,000 Goguryeo troops were killed, and the number of Tang soldiers killed was unbelievably small - less than 2,000.

It can be said that in the history of Tang Dynasty warfare, Li Shimin's brilliant achievements in the early stage of this campaign can be ranked in the top ten.

However, it was when the Tang army returned to the dynasty in victory that a huge crisis came. I want to chat with more like-minded people about "{?$article_title?} ", WeChat pays attention to "excellent reading literature", chatting about life, looking for confidants~