Chapter 146: Heavy casualties
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"British duke, since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has come to Liaodong, it is definitely not possible to stay in Liaozhou, and it is not good for His Majesty to know, so let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince go down! The prince of the Tang Dynasty can't always grow in a greenhouse, and he always has to experience the cruelty of war to understand that the country is not easy to come by, and he will be more benevolent in the future.
Letting His Royal Highness the Crown Prince participate in the battle is not only responsible for the court and His Majesty, but also responsible for the people of the Tang Dynasty. After Li Zhonghua thought about it, he persuaded him.
"That being said, it's too dangerous to do so." British Gong Li Tao was a little worried, and said reluctantly.
"Don't worry! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not weak, when he was assassinated by someone, he was safe, and there will definitely be no danger this time, at most, he will not be able to capture Jian'an City. Li Zhonghua persuaded with kind words.
"That's it, this prince is not a flower in a greenhouse, it's not blown, you find a few soldiers in the army to try it and see if you can win against this prince." Prince Li Ke said confidently.
The British Gong Li Tao was depressed and speechless, how can this Nima try? Who ate leopard gall bladder? Dare to make a move against His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and win against His Royal Highness the Prince, is it too long? Still looking for pleasure?
The war has to be fought, and the agricultural time can not be delayed, this place in Liaodong, the time suitable for planting crops, is very limited, and there is no way to compare with the south, if the agricultural time is delayed, then you can only wait for next year, and you will wait to eat the soil in the winter this year.
Although Li Zhonghua was not short of money, it was still very necessary to ensure self-sufficiency in grain.
Luo Tong was very anxious, Anshi had been taken, and the Black Bone City had also surrendered, but Li Zhonghua had assigned his task, but there was no progress, and Jian'an and Xincheng were still firmly in the hands of Goguryeo, which made him feel hit and shameless.
So Luo Tong was ruthless and decided to bring down the new city as soon as possible.
Luo Tong ordered people to storm the new city day and night, the bombs were like no money, and they kept sending stone-throwing trucks to the city head of the new city, and no one dared to stand on the head of the city when they were blown up, so he ordered people to use the siege ladder to forcibly climb the city head, and the Goguryeo soldiers who defended the city started hand-to-hand combat, seized the position on the city head, and let more people climb the city head.
After attacking the city gate, he finally controlled the city gate, and after opening the city gate, Luo Tong led the army into the city, and the defenders of the new city who were directly killed cried and called their mother.
It wasn't until the defenders of Xincheng gave up resistance and knelt on the ground and begged for mercy that Luo Tong still refused to give up, and killed a group of unresisting city defenders, venting the unhappiness in his heart, and then stopped.
As for the generals who defended the city, they were executed on the spot, beheaded and displayed to the public, and the surviving defenders and civilians of the new city did not dare to have any heart of resistance.
When Li Zhonghua received the news, Li Zhonghua couldn't help but sigh a long sigh, secretly sighing that Luo Tong's personality was too impulsive, before the other party surrendered, it was not too much to kill many soldiers and generals defending the city, after all, it was either you or I died.
But after all the enemies have surrendered, it would be irrational and even very excessive to kill people willfully.
In this way, once the news spreads, Jian'an City will be even more difficult to break, anyway, it will be a death, and the generals defending the city will definitely stick to the end and start a battle to the death.
As expected, the battle in Jian'an City was extremely tragic.
When the British prince Li Tao and the crown prince Li Ke rushed to the city of Jian'an, Luo Tong had already suffered a big loss, killing and wounding more than 3,000 people.
This figure has already exceeded the total number of casualties of the Tang army in Liao's expedition last year.
Last year, Li Shimin personally drove to Liaodong, and only more than 2,000 casualties were killed or wounded, and the most damaged horses were more than 8,000.
In order to defend the pond, Jian'an City has been defeated by all the people, because Luo Tong has sent people to shout before the battle, threatening Jian'an City to surrender within five days, otherwise, once the city is broken, the city will be slaughtered.
In this way, the residents of Jian'an City already know that once the city is broken, they will have no way to live, and those who do not swear to defend the city to the death, in order to kill the enemy, even their own houses are demolished, and the stones are transported to the city, and they are smashed down on the heads of the Tang army besieging the city. That's either death or injury.
He also heated the oil with fire and poured it down the city, which will breed thoughts on people's bodies, and it will not burn you to death, but also make you lose your combat effectiveness.
What's more, the feces were also heated and poured on the heads of the Tang army besieging the city under the city, which was really disgusting, and the Tang army besieging the city was called a miserable one.
When the British Duke Li Tao arrived at the city of Jian'an, he saw that the battle was like this, and he was also bitter, and the two sides were already in a situation of endless death, and there was nothing to talk about at all.
As for Luo Tong sending people to shout before the war and threaten the other side to slaughter the city, the British Duke Li Tao did not blame Luo Tong, nor did he think that Luo Tong had done anything wrong.
At the beginning, the attack on Anshi City was blocked, and the British Duke Li Tao once proposed to the emperor Li Shimin that after capturing Anshi City, he would slaughter the city.
So the British Gong Li Tao not only did not blame Luo Tong, but felt that the two had a bit of a similar smell and had a good temper towards him.
The crown prince Li Ke said: "How can you openly call out such words as slaughtering the city? Doesn't that add resistance to yourself?
After the subordinates attack the city, if the enemy surrenders, they can accept it later, let the subordinates kill one first, and then shout to stop after venting, forget it. ”
Before he started fighting, he had already killed and injured more than 3,000 people, exceeding the number of casualties when his father and emperor conquered Liaodong last year, and the crown prince Li Ke was also very depressed and unhappy.
Since it has been fought like this, if the war is stopped at this time, then the previous efforts will be in vain, and the more than 3,000 people killed and wounded will be of no value at all, so this siege battle must be continued.
However, since the crown prince Li Ke is here, he must not do nothing, at least let the people of Jian'an City know that after the Tang Emperor drove his personal expedition last year, this year he sent the prince to personally conquer Liaodong, and if Liaodong is not completely recovered, the Tang Dynasty will definitely not stop conquering Liao, and if it continues to resist stubbornly, there is absolutely no way out.
If he is willing to surrender now, then Li Ke, as the prince of the Tang Dynasty, announced that he would take back the order to slaughter Jian'an City after attacking Jian'an City.
If you refuse to surrender after six hours, you will be welcome, and the day the city will be broken, and the day it will be slaughtered.
Six hours, that is, only given to each other, one night to consider.
After dawn, if the city gate is not opened and surrendered, the Tang army will really launch a new round of attack from three quarters in the morning.
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