Chapter 358: The Great War Twenty-Two

"Mo Heshe, you have a great friendship with our emperor, and this official is naturally convinced, but fortunately, everything has passed." Li Jing comforted.

Later, Li Jing ordered a banquet to entertain Ashina Ni and his party.

Ashina did not refuse, and asked people to go back to report the news, and stayed to participate in the banquet by himself to draw in the relationship.

Early the next morning, Ashina said goodbye and left, made arrangements, and rushed to Chang'an by himself.

Under the guidance of Li Jing, Qibi He Li also led the army to Yinshan to attack Xue Yantuo's army.

Li Jing then also said goodbye to Zhang Gongjin and led the army to surround him.

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Yingzhou City,

Seeing that it was already November, the weather was cold, but fortunately, it had not snowed yet, and Yuan Taizuo had been attacking for half a month, but Yingzhou's defense was too tight, and he suffered heavy losses and could not enter the door, and there was no good news from Danzhou.

"Father, it's cold and it's about to snow, what should I do?" Yuangai Suwen asked anxiously.

Due to the war, all the border passes of the Tang Dynasty were under martial law, and Goguryeo could not find out the news of other battlefields, and after a long time, there would naturally be some anxiety in his heart, and Yingzhou and Danzhou could not be attacked for a long time, with more than 100,000 dead and wounded and no progress, which further aggravated the irritability in his heart.

"Panic, didn't you see that at least a lot of people died in Yingzhou? The number of crossbow arrows fired in recent days has been greatly reduced, and catapults have not been used for two days, and the city has been broken recently. Yuan Taizuo frowned and shouted.

"But don't you think it's not normal, father? Even if the grass is frightened, Yingzhou's preparations are too sufficient, it has been half a month, Datang has not seen a single support army, and the governor of Liaoxi has not seen a figure. Yuangai Suwen also asked with a bitter face.

"There are no reinforcements, I'm afraid that Datang simply doesn't have enough manpower, and it has been dragged down by other battlefields, and the same is true for the governor of Liaoxi, he must not be in Liaoxi, as for being well prepared, hum! You've seen that vast mining area, and it's not surprising that there are so many crops in such a huge place. Yuan Taizuo analyzed optimistically.

"Because the mine is so wide, don't you think there are a few people on the defensive, father?" Yuangai Suwen persuaded again.

"Less? The mine personnel were evacuated cleanly, and they should all be in the city, otherwise the attack would have been so long, why would there be no shortage of defenders at all.

Hum! Tomorrow to intensify the attack, you go and tell the Silla people and others that they must use all their strength, and after capturing Yingju, they will divide the ore mined into 30%. Yuan Taizuo trusted his own judgment very much, but even he didn't pay attention to it, he had changed his goal from occupying Liaoxi at the beginning to occupying Yingzhou.

From the heart, the subconscious is no longer confident, but the expedition is a multinational coalition army, if a city cannot be attacked, it will lose his prestige too much.

In this way, I am afraid that not only will I stay with King Gao Jianwu, but I will also think of taking other people's heads to make amends to the Tang Dynasty, and even Silla, Baekje, and the rule will give birth to a lot of chaos, so now it is difficult to ride a tiger, and it must be forcibly attacked.

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In the fifth year of Zhenguan, the third day of the first month of November,

The weather is cold, there are a few dark clouds in the sky, and according to experienced people, it should snow in the near future.

Yuan Taizuo saw that there were almost not many arrows shot out of the city today, and his frowning brows were relaxed.

Many coalition troops have already reached the top of the city, but the Tang army is too well equipped, wearing leather armor and cotton clothes, which makes it very difficult for the Goguryeo people to hurt, and the sharp steel knife can easily cut off the head of the rising soldier.

Yuan Taizuo was not far from the city, and when he saw all this clearly, he helplessly glanced at the soldiers who were poorly equipped and shivering in the cold wind, and his eyes flashed with jealousy, and then he ordered to increase the attack.

Zhang Liang strolled around the city with a knife, occasionally wielding a knife to kill one or two enemies who jumped into the city, and suddenly found a huge amount of dust rising in the distance, and couldn't help but smile, sweeping away the haze for many days.

Sure enough, the figure of the Tang cavalry appeared behind Goguryeo, and the huge Tang characters were waving in the wind, and at the same time, there were Feng, Zhiluo, Come, and other banners.

The Lai Heng Lai Ji brothers led the fanatics to take the lead like a sharp sword out of the sheath and inserted into the coalition army, and then Feng Daihuo led the Lux Legion to also enter, only Feng Daiwen and the rattan armor army did not move, and coldly watched the three teams of 25,000 people, rushing to kill the rear of more than 200,000 coalition troops.

Zhang Liang saw all this in the telescope, and couldn't help but be very puzzled, he couldn't understand Feng Daiwen's arrangement, even in the elite, he couldn't use 200,000 or 30,000 people to impact 200,000, and when the coalition army returned to defense, it would be an army of four or five hundred thousand.

Just when Zhang Liang was puzzled, more infantry appeared at the foot of the mountain, dense, continuous, and at first there were two bright yellow dragon flags representing the royal family, and the huge Li character stretched in the wind.

Zhang Liang was startled, thinking that it was Li Shimin's personal expedition, but after a closer look, he found that it was the Manglong Banner representing the prince.

Li Ke and Li Tai The two brothers stepped into the battlefield for the first time, although their faces were tight in the telescope, but it was difficult to hide their excitement, and next to the two appeared Xi Junmai, Chen Hu, Liu Renyuan, Zheng Yong, Xue Yan, Li Dejian, Li Zhen (Li Ji's son), An Yuanshou (An Xinggui's son), some of these were others who came over, and some of them were invited by Feng Daiwen.

Li Jing and Li Ji both guessed that Feng Daiwen had a big move, and just asked his son to come over to see it, Li Shimin was not at ease and transferred Liu Hongji, An Xinggui, and An Xiuren to be Feng Daiwen's deputy.

Originally, Feng Daiwen was still worried that there was not enough manpower to train and lead 200,000 young people, and it was enough for this group of people to disperse the guards around him.

The training is in charge of Li Ke, Li Tai, and the two brothers, according to Feng Daiwen's set, it is just training obedience and integrity, after all, the time is too short.

Fortunately, it is all simple queue training, as well as simple cooperation, and it is the training of two princes, and the people are very obedient.

Just when Zhang Liang was surprised that Feng Daiwen still had so many generals hiding and commanding so many people, he also reacted that these were the young and strong people he said.

At this time, Yuan Taizuo also found that the situation was not good, and looked at the crowd in the distance in surprise, and hurriedly withdrew the siege troops, leaving 30,000 people to defend the city.

200,000 young men trotted close to the battlefield, lined up in formation, waiting for the follow-up troops, and also waiting for orders.

Many people are experiencing the battlefield for the first time, and some are so excited that they can't kill them immediately. Some people were in a nervous mood, they couldn't stop swallowing their saliva, and the weapons in their hands were tight and tight, but fortunately, Feng Daiwen had expected it.

There are many Khitans and Turks in this group of young and strong, all of whom have seen blood, been on the battlefield, and killed people, and scattered them, using the old to lead the new, constantly imparting experience, and calming the emotions of the recruits, which made the whole army look decent.

(End of chapter)