Chapter 427: Overwhelming

Under the thick dark clouds, lightning pierced the sky. The earth lit up, and then quickly darkened.

In the midst of the mountain battlefield, countless corpses and stumps lay there, blood pouring out, staining the earth red.

Suddenly, I felt a chill on my face. Li Shimin raised his head and received a drop of rapidly falling rain. In his eyes, the raindrops gradually increased, pouring down the entire six mountains.

"Boom-" A blast of thunder resounded through the heavens and the earth.

The mountain wind howled, stirring the mountain air, filling the entire mountain with a smell of blood. However, the smell of blood faded in the rain until it disappeared. The blood on the ground was also diluted, and flowed down the valleys of the mountains and valleys, and I don't know where it went. When the battlefield is cleared and the bodies are buried, who will remember that a great battle broke out here.

The icy rain washed over every Tang sergeant. These soldiers, who had lost their minds in battle, gradually woke up under the stimulation of the rain. He glanced at the corpses all over the ground with an expressionless face, and then turned his head to look at his general.

Under Li Ji's dispatch, Li Daozong led nearly 20,000 troops to gather at the foot of the mountain to surround Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen, who were now on the mountain, while the rest of the soldiers were cleaning the battlefield in the rain.

And Gao Yanshou gathered the remnants of the army, got 40,000 soldiers, stood on the mountain, and put the Tang army under the mountain.

When the battlefield was cleaned up, the results of the battle were also counted. In this battle, the Tang army lost more than 1,300 people and beheaded more than 20,000 enemy soldiers, which can be called a great victory.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Li Ji continued to mobilize troops to surround Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen's troops, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to dismantle the bridge that led the six mountains to the outside world, and completely trapped Gao Yanshou here.

Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen stood on the top of the mountain, looking at the Tang Army below the mountain, saying that the entire mountain was surrounded like stray ants. In the rain curtain, a wave of frustration spread in Gao Yanshou's heart. He turned his head, looked at Gao Huizhen, and after a moment, said, "Either we will descend!" I heard that the Tang army treats the surrendered people very well, you look at the people of Baiyan City, after the surrender, this day is also very nourishing! ”

Gao Huizhen hesitantly glanced at the Tang army under the mountain, and said: "Lord Fusa, if it rains like this weather all the time, then the Tang army below will definitely be affected." When the time comes, I will wait to dig earth and rocks on the mountain, and with the heavy rain as a guide, I will break through the Tang army, at least there is no problem in breaking through! ”

Hearing this suggestion, Gao Yanshou couldn't help but feel a little moved, thought about it, and asked, "What if it doesn't rain?" ”

Gao Huizhen sighed: "If it doesn't rain, it means that tomorrow we want to surrender to Datang, and we will surrender!" ”

Gao Yanshou nodded, agreeing with Gao Huizhen's words.

Heavy rain fell from the afternoon into the evening. As it was getting twilight, the rain stopped.

Gao Yanshou and Gao Hye-jung stood on top of the mountain. In the winds of the hunt, the thick dark clouds in the sky were blown away to the west. Looking at this situation, the likelihood of rain is extremely low.

The two sighed and looked at each other. Gao Yanshou said softly: "Tomorrow, I will lead the crowd to surrender!" ”

On the second day, when the sun jumped out of the horizon and shone on the earth, Li Ji was about to send people to the mountain to carry out the final persuasion work, but at this time, he saw a Goryeo soldier holding a white flag on the mountain slowly walking down the mountain.

On June 28, the 18th year of Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty, 60,000 troops of Li Shimin's tomb and 150,000 Goryeo troops fought in the six mountains east of Anshi. Break it, behead 30,000, surround Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen on the mountain, break the bridges on all sides, and cut off the roads in all directions. The two were desperate, and led 36,800 soldiers and horses from their headquarters to ask Li Shimin to surrender and bow down on their knees. Enter the military gate and bow down and ask for help.

So far, the largest battle since the Tang Dynasty and Goryeo ended in a great victory for the Tang army. In this battle, the Tang army captured 50,000 horses, 50,000 cattle, 10,000 Mingguang armor, and countless other ordnance.

When dealing with Gao Yanshou and his subordinates, Li Shimin adopted a consistent policy of gentleness, selected 3,500 chiefs below the level of Fusa, conferred military positions, and moved to the mainland. As for the treatment of ordinary soldiers, they are all released. Li Shimin did this, but he wanted to spread the military prestige of the Tang Dynasty and the policy of treating prisoners through these routs, and break the morale of the Goryeo army. In addition to the ordinary soldiers, there were also 3,300 soldiers who surrendered. It is also one of the tribes under the jurisdiction of Yingzhou Thorn History. Now, this Shen Yan does not help the Tang Dynasty, but helps Goguryeo, and Li Shimin, who is angry, makes people trap them all.

After this battle, the whole country of Goryeo was shocked, and the defenders of Huangcheng and Yincheng all fled by themselves, and there was no population for hundreds of miles.

In order to commemorate this battle, Li Shimin changed the six mountains to garrison the mountain, ordered the general to make the "Broken Formation Map", and ordered the scholar Xu Jingzong to be the Wenle stone to record his merits.

When discussing the reward for meritorious deeds, the white-robed Tang General who impressed Li Shimin was found, but it was Xue Rengui, who was studying in the Cavalry Department of the Tang Military Academy. Li Shimin saw his bravery and ordered him to perform in front of everyone. After Xue Rengui's performance, Li Shimin praised him loudly, and gave him two horses and forty silk horses, and encouraged him to study diligently.

Xue Rengui was young after all, and when he heard Li Shimin's words, his face couldn't help but show a slight look of arrogance.

Now, having defeated the Goryeo reinforcements, Li Shimin led the army to Anshi City. He wanted to take the city in one fell swoop.

The city lord of Anshi City at this time is called Yang Wanchun, his people are brave, his soldiers and horses are excellent, and the terrain of the city is also extremely dangerous.

Li Shimin first sent people to the city of Anshi to lobby Yang Wanchun. But he was shot by the defenders, but fortunately the man ran fast, otherwise he would have given his life here. Li Shimin was furious when he heard this, and he wanted to immediately order the army to attack Anshi City, but Li Ji stopped Li Shimin, saying that the artillery had not arrived, and Anshi City, from the city lord to the soldiers, were all brave people, and they attacked rashly, fearing heavy losses.

Li Shimin had no choice but to order the army to camp outside the city and wait for the artillery to arrive.

Two days later, the artillery came.

Forming a position under Anshi Castle, the artillery began to bombard Anshi Castle.

Like Liaodong City and Baiyan City, the walls of Anshi City were quickly collapsed. Yang Wanchun lived up to his reputation of courage and organized cavalry to go out of the city to raid the artillery, trying to recover the decline.

The artillerymen operating the mortars immediately adjusted their range and bombarded the cavalry.

The whole battle situation was almost one-sided. The Goryeo cavalry used their flesh and blood to shock artillery fire, and the results speak for themselves. Even Yang Wanchun died in the chaos.

The rest is much easier. Because of Yang Wanchun's death, the morale of the defenders of Anshi City plummeted. In the face of the influx of the Don army, except for some diehards who resisted to the death and were shot, the rest surrendered.

The city of Anshi was officially captured by the Tang army.

In history, when Li Shimin attacked Anshi City, he encountered stubborn resistance and finally failed to step into Anshi City. On the contrary, when the weather gradually turned cold, he had to order the withdrawal of troops and return to China.

Li Shimin sat in Anshi City to pacify the people in the city, and Li Ji took 30,000 soldiers and horses south to Jian'an Prefecture, and will join Zhang Liang's naval army to jointly capture Jian'an Prefecture.

Not long after Li Shimin captured Anshi City, Xue Wanche's army on the North Road also received news of victory. After Li Shimin defeated the 150,000-strong army of Goryeo, Xue Wanche besieged Xinzhou for several days and announced his surrender.

Xue Wanche left 10,000 troops to garrison the new city, and he was rushing to Li Shimin with the rest of the army.

And Li Shimin stayed in the city of Anshi, recuperating and recuperating the army.

The reason why Li Shimin did not lead the army to continue the offensive was because the three lieutenant generals of the artillery battalion jointly asked to see Li Shimin, bringing bad news. Shells are running out.

Because the logistics supply line of the Tang Army was very long, it often happened that the supply could not keep up with the pace of the marching of the army. After the Tang army seized a huge amount of grain and grass from Liaodong City and other places, the Tang army's requirements for grain and grass were no longer so high, but the demand for military equipment such as arrows and shells increased. However, the officials in charge of logistics are also miserable. At the beginning, it carried a lot of grain, but now it is on the way to transport, but there is news that a large amount of grain and grass has been seized. However, the baggage team has already set off, do you want to let them transport it back?

It took a lot of time to get rid of the consumables such as arrows and shells, which could not keep up with the consumption rate. In this way, the shells were used without being replenished.

Knowing this situation, Li Shimin had no choice but to hold back the idea of suppressing Liaodong and temporarily resting in Anshi City, waiting for the artillery shells to arrive, and then attacking.

In this way, a few days later, Li Jifang came with the news of the attack on Jian'an Prefecture.