Tang Taizong Li Shimin left a large army in Mashou Mountain, galloped hundreds of horses to the city of Liaodong, rewarded Li Daozong, worshiped Ma Wenju as a Zhonglang general, and rewarded meritorious soldiers, and beheaded Zhang Junyi, the chief manager who retreated from the battle.

Liaodong City for Tang. The army is of special significance, and the three expeditions of Emperor Yang all stopped at Liaodong City, so for the Tang Dynasty. For the army, Liaodong City is a hurdle that must be crossed.

After repelling the Goguryeo reinforcements, Li Tao immediately commanded the Tang Dynasty. The officers and men of the army "filled the trenches with soil" and prepared to launch an attack on Liaodong City. Tang Taizong Li Shimin also delivered the land immediately, so the entourage officials and the soldiers carried the soil to the city.

Within a few days, the ditches under the city were filled. Then, Li Tao ordered to attack the city with a throwing cart first. The siege car is huge, can throw a boulder weighing more than 300 catties out of a mile, and it will be destroyed everywhere, and the Goguryeo defenders are very afraid. In order to defend against the boulder attack, the defenders built a war tower covering the city with huge logs and used thick rope nets to intercept the flying stones, but they were still routed by the boulders thrown by the carts. Followed by Don. The army also used a crash to clear the auxiliary buildings near the left side of the main city of Liaodong, and all of them were dumped. That's it, Don. The army besieged the city for ten days in succession, day and night.

Li Tao and Zhang Jian led Xiaorui and Khitan and other ethnic minority soldiers to attack the south of Liaodong City. Li Daozong and Zhang Shigui and others, attacked the west of Liaodong City, Li Hongji and others led troops to fill their trenches, and Tang Taizong Li Shimin also led the six armies under his command to help, surrounded Liaodong City dozens of hundreds, the water was impassable, and the sound of noise shook the heavens and the earth.

On August 7, the south wind blew strongly, Tang Taizong Li Shimin fired a salvo of fire crossbows, set fire to the southwest city tower, the fire burned to the city residences, the fire soared to the sky, and then ordered the elite soldiers to climb the top of the chong pole, and climbed the city wall in one fell swoop.

The Goguryeo defenders raised a large shield and counterattacked with short soldiers, trying to recapture the city wall. The army attacked in a spear formation, and the Don behind them. The army smashed down with stones on the city wall, and the Goguryeo army finally could not resist, and was annihilated by more than 10,000 people, captured more than 10,000 Goguryeo troops, captured more than 40,000 men and women in the city, and obtained 500,000 stone of food.

Tang Taizong Li Shimin then placed Liaozhou in Liaodong City, and raised a beacon into the fortress, announced the good news to the country, and sent a telegram to the eldest grandson Empress who lived in Chang'an City. Xia Xue was excited when she heard the news.

On August 9, Don. After resting for a while in Liaodong City, the army advanced to Baiyan City. The next day, Li Simo, the general of the right guard, was hit by a flowing arrow, and Tang Taizong Li Shimin personally sucked blood for him. The officers and men of the army were all moved, so everyone fought to the death and was not afraid of life and death.

Yuangai Suwen sent more than 10,000 defenders of Wugu City to rescue Baiyan City. Tang general Qi Bi He Li led 800 horses to meet the attack, and rushed into the enemy formation, and the iron cavalry clashed, invincible. The Goguryeo army resisted with spears, and for a time the spears were stabbed in the battle array, and the Khibi He Force penetrated deep into the enemy formation, and was stabbed in the waist by the enemy, and the blood flowed like a note.

Shang Yin was sent to Xue Wanbei to ride alone to rescue, and in the midst of all the people, he Li was rescued. He Li's courage was exerted, slightly bandaged, and the sores were fought again, and the cavalry around him fought, and the Goguryeo reinforcements were defeated. The army pursued and killed for more than ten miles, beheaded more than 1,000 and returned.

Later, when He Li's wound deteriorated, Tang Taizong Li Shimin personally medicated him, and captured the Goguryeo soldier Gao Tubo who stabbed He Li at that time, and disposed of it with any force.

However, the minority general of Qibi He Li did not casually deal with Gao Tubo because of personal grudges, but said: "He is the master of the white blade assassination minister, he is a loyal and brave man, and he does not know each other at the beginning, so he has no grudges." So he let him go. Among the famous generals in the early Tang Dynasty, although Qi Bi He Li was not famous, he was by no means inferior to other generals in terms of military merits and virtues, and could be said to be the "best deputy general" at that time.

On August 13, Li Tao led his troops to Baiyan City. The city is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and is dangerous on all sides. But the city lord Sun Daiyin was as timid as a mouse, and when he heard the news that Liaodong City was broken by the Tang, he immediately sent an envoy to ask for surrender.

But when Don. After the army arrived at the White Rock Castle. He felt that the terrain of his city was dangerous, and there were reinforcements from the Black Bone City, so he repented of his original decision and tried to resist by risk. However, the reinforcements of the Black Bone City were easily broken, and Li Tao led the army to surround the city, and attacked the city with throwing cars and crashing cars.

Soon, Tang Taizong Li Shimin also led the Sixth Army to the northwest of Baiyan, and was furious when he heard Sun Daiyin's repentance, and ordered the army: "If you get the city, you should know that you should reward the soldiers with characters." "So, Don. The offensive of the army became more intense. Sun Daiyin's wishful thinking couldn't be played now, and when he saw Tang. The army offensive was prosperous, the city was also crumbling, and Tang Taizong Li Shimin said first, and the fate waiting for him after the city was broken must be extremely miserable, so he hurriedly sent his henchmen to surrender. Agreed Don. After the army arrived in the city, it took "throwing the sword as a letter".

Tang Taizong Li Shimin then put Tang. The banner was handed to the messenger and said, "Whoever must fall, be on the city that is worthy of being built." But in this way Don. The soldiers quit, and they were still looking forward to a huge harvest from the city, but as soon as they surrendered, their previous efforts were in vain.

Therefore, dozens of soldiers from Li Tao said: "The soldiers are fighting for arrows and stones, ignoring their dead, and greedy for ears." Let the city hang down, but it will be surrendered even more, the heart of a lonely warrior. ”

Tang Taizong Li Shimin was an immediate emperor, so he naturally would not use the corrupt Confucian set of benevolence and morality to persuade his soldiers, so he said: "I can't bear to kill people and capture their wives and children." Those who have meritorious service under the command of the general will be rewarded with treasury goods, and the general will redeem this city. He appeased the dissatisfaction of his soldiers with a heavy reward.

Soon, Sun Daiyin really put Tang. The military flag was planted on the White Rock City, and the soldiers and civilians in the city thought that Tang. The army had already landed in the city, and the prime minister surrendered.

From this, Don. The army captured tens of thousands of men and women in the city. Tang Taizong Li Shimin set up a tent near the water to receive surrender, rewarded the people in the city with food, and gave brocade silk to the people over 80 years old. The soldiers of other cities in Baiyan were all comforted, given food and wages, and released as they pleased. It also takes Baiyan City as the rock state, and Sun Daiyin as the history of thorns.

Originally sent by Yuan Gai Suwen to aid Gai Mu City and was sent by Tang. The more than 700 Goguryeo soldiers captured by the army were moved by the preferential treatment of prisoners of war by Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and all of them were invited to serve in the army. However, Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, said: "You fight for me, and you will kill your wife if you don't leave the branch", so he was rewarded with food and salary, and all of them were dismissed.

Tang Taizong Li Shimin led the army from Baiyan and advanced to Anshi City. On August 20, they arrived in the north of the city and immediately sent troops to attack the city. The next day, Yuangai Suwen sent 150,000 people from Goguryeo's northern slave tribe to rescue Anshi, which was the famous battle of Zhuhua Mountain, which kicked off in history.

At the beginning of the war, Don. In fact, the situation in the army is extremely unfavorable. Before attacking Anshi Castle, Don. The army has already captured eight cities in Goguryeo, because most of the auxiliary corps are infantry, the march is slow, and the men and horses have not had time to keep up, and these captured cities can only be temporarily defended by the soldiers of the main army to prevent recurrence.

Tang Taizong Li Shimin had only 50,000 troops around him at this time, some of which needed to maintain logistics and transportation, and part of which needed to continue to surround Anshi City to prevent the enemy from attacking inside and outside, so that there were only 30,000 troops left to meet the battle. The ratio of enemy to enemy forces has reached the point of 5:1, and it is fighting outside the borders, which is extremely dangerous.

Faced with such a situation Don. The army from Li Shimin to the ordinary soldiers are very optimistic, Tang Taizong Li Shimin said: "Today is the longevity of the strategy of three strategies: to lead the troops straight forward, Lian'an City as a base, according to the danger of the high mountains, eat the millet in the city, the longitudinal descent to plunder my cattle and horses, the attack can not be sudden, if you want to return, the mud is blocked, sit in the trap of our army, the best policy is also; pull out the people in the city, escape with them, and the middle strategy is also; If you don't have intelligence, come and fight with me, and make a decision. Qing Cao Guanzhi, he will make a decision, and he will be captured in my eyes. ”

And ordinary Don. When the sergeants heard that 150,000 Goguryeo reinforcements were coming, they were not only timid, but they all drew their swords (like the streamers of swallowtails), and they were overjoyed. Visible Don. The army is full of confidence in its field combat capabilities.

And the Goguryeo side, apparently confused by its own overwhelming numbers, began to turn the Tang Dynasty. The army is not in the eye. Of course, there were not no people in the Goguryeo army who understood, and at that time, there was a person named Gao Zheng who said to Lu Guan: "I heard that the Central Plains was in turmoil, and heroes rose up. King Shenwu of Qin, invincible, leveled the world, the south is the emperor, the north is obedient, and Xirong contributes. Now the country is coming, and the fierce generals are sharp, and they are all here, and their edge cannot be taken seriously. Now for the plan, Mo Ruodun soldiers do not fight, protracted, dispatch heroes, cut off their feeding, but ten days, the army food must be exhausted, can not fight, want to return to no way, this does not fight and win also. This strategy is precisely the plan that Tang Taizong Li Shimin least wants the Goguryeo army to implement.

However, under the condition of having an absolute superiority in troops, it avoided a fight, and the 150,000 army refused to defend in danger, and the consumption of materials was even more amazing, so it was obviously extremely difficult to accept such a strategy from top to bottom, so the Goguryeo commander Gao Yanshou vetoed this strategy at that time and decided to take the initiative to attack and defeat the Tang in one fell swoop. The army, so he led the army straight forward and drove into a place only forty miles south of Anshi.

In order to lure the enemy deeper, Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, ordered the general of the Left Guard, Ashina Sheer, to challenge more than 1,000 Turkic people. As soon as I came into contact, Don. The army then pretended to be defeated and retreated. The Goguryeo soldiers thought that Tang. The army was vulnerable, and they pursued each other, and went straight to the six mountains 8 miles east of Anshi City, and formed a formation in the mountains, stretching for more than 40 miles.

Li Shimin, eldest grandson Wuji and others led hundreds of horsemen to climb the heights. Gang, observe the terrain. He knows all about the places where he can ambush and go in and out. At this time, Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia, thought that Goguryeo poured all the troops of the whole country to rescue Anshi, and the garrison of the capital was bound to be empty, so he allocated 5,000 elite soldiers to take the ping soil directly. But Tang Taizong Li Shimin did not agree. It was also reasonable for Li Shimin not to adopt this strategy, because at that time, Tang. The army is seriously insufficient, the soldiers are afraid that there are not many, at this time to divide 5,000 people to attack the soil is too risky, although Tang Taizong Li Shimin's life to fight and take risks can be said to abound, but now Tang Taizong Li Shimin has become the son of heaven, and there is a beloved wife eldest Sun Xue and son at home waiting for him to return safely, at this time the risk of risk and failure is too disproportionate, and finally did not agree.

That night, Tang Taizong Li Shimin made the following arrangements: ordered Li Tao to set up a formation in Xiling with 15,000 infantry and cavalry to lure the enemy to attack; The eldest grandson Wuji led Niu Jinda and other elite soldiers of 11,000 to think that they were strange soldiers, lying in the narrow valley in the north of the mountain, and when they launched an attack, they rushed out from behind the enemy. He personally led the 4000 foot rides, carried the drum horn, rolled the flag, and climbed the North Mountain. And ordered all the armies, with the sound of drums and horns as a trumpet, to attack together. He also ordered Yousi to set up a surrender tent on the side of the court, and said confidently: "At noon tomorrow, the captives will be surrendered here!"

It was night, maybe God couldn't bear the fate of the Goguryeo army tomorrow, so he dropped a meteor and fell into Gao Yanshou's camp, but Gao Yanshou was still unaware.

On the 22nd, Gao Yanshou found that Li Tao was arranging a formation on the opposite side, so he reorganized the sergeants and lined up to meet the battle. After Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, climbed the North Mountain, saw the dust and poplars flying in the narrow valley, and knew that the eldest grandson Wuji had led his troops to enter the designated place, and immediately ordered the drums and horns to sound in unison. So, Don. The army marched noisily.

Gao Yanshou was so panicked that he was surrounded, and hurriedly divided his troops to resist, but how could the arranged military formation be so easy to adjust? Confusion was created at the time of redeployment.

At this moment, the wind and clouds changed, the rivers and mountains changed color, the clouds were dense, countless thunderbolts were split from the air, and a white-robed Tang general jumped out with the thunder and lightning, holding a halberd, with a bow on his waist, shouting first, and the Goguryeo army was invincible but left, he was Xue Rengui, the general of the angel army under Xia Xue. Xue Rengui was injured in bed due to an accidental fall while riding a horse in March, and was unable to participate in the mission of the Angel Army to conquer the Southern Zhao Kingdom, but when Li Shimin personally conquered Liaodong this time, he was injured just right, so he asked to join the war, Xia Xue and Li Shimin agreed and let him stay under the command of the eldest grandson Wuji temporarily.

Li Tao formed a formation with a spear, advanced head-on, and the eldest grandson Wuji carried out a surprise attack behind him, Tang Taizong Li Shimin took the lead, led 4,000 cavalry to gallop down from Beishan, assaulting the flank of the Goguryeo army, and the Goguryeo army was defeated under the siege on three sides. The army beheaded 20,000 people.

Gao Yanshou retreated to the mountain, collected the remnants, and consolidated himself in the mountain. Tang Taizong Li Shimin led Tang. The army surrounded the remnants of the Goguryeo army. The eldest grandson Wuji dismantled all the bridges and cut off his way back. When Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen were desperate, they had to lead their 36,800 people to surrender and bow down on their knees. Enter the military gate and bow down and ask for help.

Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, selected 3,500 chiefs below the bed, awarded them military positions, moved to the interior, and killed 3,300 soldiers in the pit, and all the rest of the soldiers were released to return to the soil. The freed soldiers all raised their hands and cheered.

Tang Dynasty. The army captured 50,000 horses, 50,000 cattle, 10,000 armor, and countless other military equipment.

After this defeat, the whole country of Goguryeo was shocked, and the defenders of Huangcheng and Yincheng all fled, and there was no population for hundreds of miles.

Xue Rengui was brave and invincible in this battle, and after the war, Li Shimin gave two horses and 40 silk horses, and was awarded the right leading general, and gave ten slaves and maids, so Xue Rengui began to be famous in the world.