When these words came into the city, the defenders were very angry, but their fighting spirit was high, they were all not afraid of death, and they said that they would fight to the death, since they were all dead, and there was no way to live anyway, so what was there to be afraid of.

The enemy who is not afraid of death is the real terrible opponent, and the Tang army has not been able to overcome it for a long time.

At this time, Goguryeo's general Gao Yanshou offered advice and said: "The general of Goguryeo should be released to reunite with his wife in order to shake the hearts of the defenders of Anshi City, and then move troops to attack the fortress of Wugucheng, the defenders of the city are weak and small, and they can go to Xike, and finally the army goes south, and Pyongyang can be at your fingertips."

The generals also suggested that they should join forces with the naval army led by Zhang Liang, and make great efforts to pull out the black bones, "cross the Yalu River and take Pyongyang directly, and do this in this move." ”

After Li Shimin heard this, he also felt very reasonable. When he was about to adopt this suggestion, Li Daozong tried his best to prevent it.

He believed that if the troops were moved, the Goryeo defenders of Jian'an and Xincheng would definitely follow us, and our army would have to worry about the enemy.

Therefore, he advocated first breaking the city of An, then taking Jian'an, and then marching forward for a long time, "this is a foolproof strategy." Tang Taizong then dispelled the idea of moving troops to the bones.

Li Daozong's suggestion was of course a foolproof strategy, but this made the Tang army fall into the process of pulling out many "nails" established by Goryeo one by one in a frontal battle, and the war was bound to be protracted, and when the Tang army pulled out all the nails, how many troops could there be to attack Pyongyang, the capital of Goryeo?

Obviously, according to this policy, it will be an impossible task to defeat Goryeo in one fell swoop.

In the afternoon of the same day, the sound of pigs and chickens crowing was heard in the city of Anshi, and Li Shimin estimated that the Goguryeo defenders might attack the Tang camp at night, so he tightened his troops.

Sure enough, hundreds of Goryeo people descended the city in the middle of the night, Tang Taizong personally galloped to the city, and the army attacked sharply, dozens of Goryeo soldiers died, and the rest could only retreat to the city.

The next day, Li Shimin ordered Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia County, to urge everyone to build an earthen mountain in the south of Anshi City to force the city.

The defenders of the city also increased their elevation and resisted the Tang army. The soldiers of both sides fought again and again, and every day it took six or seven rounds. The soldiers of the Tang army used rushing carts and artillery stones to destroy the building walls, and the defenders in the city used wooden fences to plug the gaps that had been made.

Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia County, was injured in his foot when he was building Tushan, and Tang Taizong personally acupuncture for him.

Therefore, the mountain is built day and night, it has lasted more than 60 days, more than 500,000 people are employed, the top of the mountain is only a few zhang away from the city, and it is in the city.

Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia County, sent Guoyi Fu Fuai to prepare for the enemy on the top of Tushan Mountain. Because the top of the mountain was too high, the foundation was not solid, and there were too many soldiers, the earth and mountain collapsed, crushing a corner of the city wall.

At this time, Fu Fuai left his post without permission, and hundreds of Goryeo defenders killed from the lack of the city, occupied Tushan, and "defended it".

Such an excellent opportunity to conquer Anshi City was wasted so much, and it was turned into his own defensive barrier by the other party, how could Taizong not be angry?

So Fu Fuai was beheaded and shown to the public, and the generals were ordered to lead their troops to recapture Tushan.

But three days in a row were attacked, but all of them did not work. Daozong walked barefoot to the banner to ask for sin, and Taizong was pardoned for his merits in breaking Gaimu and Liaodong.

The war dragged on and on, and the weather slowly began to get colder, and once it became cold in Liaodong, the situation was extremely unfavorable to the Tang army that came back, and Li Shimin had to order the troops to retreat and return to the court.

Although the conquest of Goguryeo this time did not achieve the goal set by Li Shimin before the war, the gains were actually huge.

successively captured ten cities, including Xuansu, Hengshan, Gaimu, Momi, Liaodong, Baiyan, Beisha, Maigu, Yinshan, and Houhuang; It also migrated 70,000 people from Liaozhou, Gaizhou, and Yanzhou to the Central Plains; In the three major battles of Xincheng, Jian'an, and garrison, he won more than 40,000 Goguryeo troops.

In just the defeat of Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen, the Tang army captured more than 50,000 cattle and horses, as well as a large number of other war materials, and the gains in this battle were far greater than the losses.

But Li Shimin admitted frankly that this time the eastern expedition to Goguryeo was actually a failure.

As soon as Li Zhonghua saw Li Shimin, he planned to pat his ass and leave, and he didn't plan to ask for the captured city, because he couldn't hold it if he wanted it.

So Li Zhonghua found Li Shimin and strongly demanded to stay and defend the Tang territory that had been recovered in Liaodong.

Li Shimin doesn't look down on the bitter cold place here in Liaodong, but Li Zhonghua likes it very much.

The black soil of Liaodong is a fat oil! In Li Zhonghua's eyes, Liaodong is a treasure land that has not yet been developed.

Li Zhonghua brought 50,000 troops, but Goguryeo's defenders of Anseong and Jian'an were no less than 100,000, and Pyongyang was also close to Liaodong, so it could increase its troops in Liaodong at any time.

It can be expected that as soon as the Tang army withdraws, Goguryeo will definitely return and once again control these places in Liaodong.

Li Shimin also knew that Liaodong should send people to guard it, but if there were fewer people, it would not be able to defend it at all, and if there were more people, one was short of people, and the other would cost a lot of money.

Nowadays, there are only more than 2 million households in Datang, and there are many remote places where there is a lot of land that no one cultivates, and there are many places where there are no people for hundreds of miles.

The winter in Liaodong is too cold, to be honest, Li Shimin really didn't pay attention to the land in Liaodong, what he wanted was just an obedient Liaodong ruler, a Liaodong controlled by the Tang Dynasty.

As soon as Li Shimin said his worries, Li Zhonghua patted his chest and promised that he could definitely help the imperial court and defend Liaodong.

Li Zhonghua is willing to guard Liaodong, of course Li Shimin will not object, and asked Li Zhonghua, what are the requirements?

Li Zhonghua also said politely: "The grain seized by Your Majesty will be left for the minister!" In addition, I want some cattle, horses, sheep, just give tens of thousands of heads, and the people who are willing to stay in Liaodong, guarding such a big Liaodong, there can't be no ordinary people! ”

Li Shimin thought twice and agreed to Li Zhonghua's request, but among the people who were willing to stay, Goguryeo himself was not considered.

However, among the surrendered Goguryeo generals, Han Chinese could also apply to stay in Liaodong.

In fact, almost half of the people in the Liaodong region of Goguryeo were Han people who were displaced in Liaodong when Emperor Yang of Sui conquered Liaodong.

Even in the army of Goguryeo, there were a large number of Han Chinese, most of whom were captured by Goguryeo during Emperor Yang of Sui's expedition to Liaodong, or Sui soldiers who surrendered.

Most of these people are already old, they have lived in Liaodong for nearly 30 years, and many of them have already started a family here, and many of their parents and relatives in their hometown are basically gone.

I heard that I could choose to continue to stay in Liaodong, and many people were very excited.

Li Shimin also sealed Li Zhonghua a Liaodong Province festival envoy, turned around, Li Zhonghua changed from Songzhou Festival envoy to Liaodong Province festival envoy, and became a professional festival envoy of the Tang Dynasty.

As for Kangding's side, Li Shimin also asked Li Zhonghua who would be suitable to go over.

Li Zhonghua thought about it for a long time before proposing to Li Shimin that it was better to pass Li Zhi, the king of Jin, as the king of Shu, let Li Zhi go to his fiefdom, and also manage Kangding City by the way, and suggested that Qin Shoudao should be promoted to the governor of Kangding Mansion and shepherd one side.

Li Shimin felt that Li Zhonghua's suggestion was very good, so he decided to adopt it.

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