Chapter 390: Heavy Snow
The defender of the land, Gao Huizhen, died, and there was no one below who could fight. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info And the original hope of Mo Li support army is not at all news, the defenders sent two people to fall out of the city in the middle of the night, sneak to the Yalu River to see, how can there be any reinforcements! There is only the boiling river.
Not only did the people in the city not welcome reinforcements, but the people who went to visit the letter were nowhere to be found. The people in the whole city were panicked, and although they had rice and grain, they didn't even have the heart to cook. The one who used to hold the battlement every day and made noise was gone, and the city of Anshi was lifeless.
The emperor expected that the other party would abandon the city and flee, so he gathered the generals overnight and ordered Li Tao to lead 5,000 infantry cavalry to set up a formation in the mountains west of Andi. The eldest grandson Wuji led 5,000 elite soldiers out of the narrow valley in the south of Anshi, and the emperor asked Xue Li to accompany him, with 5,000 cavalry, sneaked to the north mountain of Anshi by night, and agreed with the armies to hear the sound of drums and march together.
In the middle of the night, a meteor fell into the city of Andy, shaking the ground and shaking the mountains, but there was no noise in the city. The Emperor said, "Be careful! As soon as the sky was bright, the 80,000 defenders of Andi opened the city gate and rushed out.
The emperor ordered the war drums to be beaten, and in the morning light, he could hear shouts and drums everywhere, and the men and horses of the Tang army were everywhere in the fog. The Goryeo army was confused, one head here and one foot there, like a pig blindfolded and injured on the buttocks, and it was already in chaos.
When he rushed to the west, he was blocked by Li Tao's army. When turning to the south, the men and horses of the eldest grandson Wuji rushed out of the valley with a large banner. To the north, the Tang Emperor took the lead, and Xue Li galloped down from the mountain. The Goryeo army was in chaos, leaving behind 20,000 dead bodies and crashing headlong to the east.
Ran out of the ten miles of road no one to intercept, was rejoicing that he had finally escaped, suddenly heard the four valleys and jungles shouting to kill the heavens, Li Jing and Li Daozong led the Tang army, Xi Department, Khitan Department a total of more than 130,000 people and horses to surround them. A total of 15,000 people from the three roads behind him were chasing.
This is a real clash of national powers! People's hearts, morale, planning, strength, no matter what point, the Goryeo army is no opponent. When they went out of the city, in order not to alarm the Tang army with the smoke of cooking, they didn't even cook, and by this time they were already sleepy and had no fighting spirit. Someone threw his weapon and knelt on the ground, but the Tang Emperor did not say anything to surrender. As a result, 60,000 Koreans were annihilated here!
During the Battle of Andi, the Goryeo garrison of Jian'an City not only did not have the courage to lead his army to help, but when he heard that there was a fight here, he secretly opened the city gate and slipped to the sea, and fled back to Pyongyang by boat.
The Tang army took advantage of the victory and overwhelmingly approached the city of Jian'an, and the people in the city did not release an arrow and surrendered the city. The emperor looked at the captives who were ambushed by the black pressure under his feet and said, "According to the army of Liaodong, Goryeo, where there are 400,000 people, do not block the 100,000 Tang army's efforts, God praises me!" The lieutenant general climbed into the gate, approached on his knees, and clung to the emperor's leg to ask for forgiveness.
The emperor asked, "Do you dare to fight with the Son of Heaven in the future?" If you provoke me again, I will pacify Pyongyang! ”
The general of Goryeo was panicked and sweaty, and he couldn't say a complete sentence. The Tang army only captured 3,500 Goryeo chieftains, chiefs, and their families, wives and daughters, and escorted them back to Chang'an. The remaining 30,000 people surrendered their swords and guns and rushed across the Yalu River, and only 3,000 of the 20,000 people who helped Goryeo attack the Tang Dynasty were killed, and the Tang army was captured with 100,000 horses and cattle and 10,000 Mingguang armor.
When it was dark, the Tang army scouts captured two people from Andi City who had fallen out of the city to contact the reinforcements in the dense forest, and they were tied up and taken to the emperor by Wuhuada, and even their shoes were missing.
The emperor ordered people to untie the ropes on their bodies, and when he learned that they had not eaten water and rice for two days, he gave them gruel and straw sandals, and said to them, "Go back and tell Gai Suwen that if you are not convinced, let someone send a letter, and I will personally lead the army to Pyongyang to fight him!" ”
Gai Suwen was horrified and ordered the defenders of several small cities on this side of the Yalu River to abandon the city overnight. In the middle of the night, all kinds of river-crossing tools are distributed on the Yalu River, such as large boats, small boats, bamboo rafts, door panels, wooden sticks, pig urine bubbles, and foot basins...... The Koreans each made a number, the eight immortals crossed the sea, and at dawn, there was no beacon smoke for hundreds of miles on the right bank of the Yalu River.
So, the emperor ordered someone to report the victory to the prince and issued an edict to the teacher. The defenders left by the emperor in Liaozhou City, Gaizhou and other cities were all withdrawn, leaving only the people in the state capital Yazhong to stay. Someone suggested, "Your Majesty, Liaodong has been decided, don't you leave some soldiers and horses?" ”
The emperor said, "The way of the first emperor, I will not work." I only build the hearts of the people, not the Great Wall. The sergeants were all thinking about going home and reuniting, and we asked if we should keep them. ”
When the army crossed the Liao River, the water was still very fast. The emperor stood on the side of the pontoon bridge left by Tianshan Mu, and saw that this pontoon bridge was connected by two long ropes, and the bridge deck paved on the top was all a whole log of thickness split in half from the middle, and the plane was densely arranged downward. The whole pontoon bridge is in the rushing river, although it rises and falls, but it is unusually stable.
The emperor sighed, "Tianshan Shepherd...... Actually brought such a long rope. It takes three to five days for these logs to be split apart! At this time, Xue Li had already given forty silk horses for his merits, and he was awarded the title of a low-rank guerrilla general from the fifth rank. After listening to the emperor's words, he said, "My righteous brother has a black knife in his hand, and it won't take half a day to cut and chop these logs." ”
"Tianshan Pastoral ...... Gao Jun ......," the emperor muttered.
When the army marched eighty miles in front of Liucheng in Yingzhou, heavy snow fell from the sky. It was already the middle of October, and the snow and muddy water overflowing from the Liao River flooded the wilderness, and there were swamps everywhere, and the large army vehicles and horses could not pass.
The eldest grandson Wuji, Li Tao and others led 10,000 people to cut down the wood to build the road, and the emperor also dismounted and carried firewood to assist. But the snow was heavy, the road was muddy, and only ten miles of the road were built in five days.
But when I turned a mountain beam, I saw that in the heavy snow, there were countless battalion officers and soldiers, old and young people in front of them, and even women and children were mixed in, and a one-car-wide dirt and stone path was paved in the mud from the direction of Liucheng. When the people saw the thunderous cheers of the victorious army of the Tang Dynasty, they stood in the mud and let the dry path pass for the army.
The emperor was very satisfied that he was able to mobilize the army and civilians all over the city in bad weather, and paved a seventy-mile road outside Liucheng to welcome the army, "Zhang Yan, the governor of Yingzhou, went out with the car, and you as the deputy governor can have such a plan, which is very comforting!" ”
The deputy governor said with trepidation, "Your Majesty, Yiwei Chen is stupid, and he doesn't know when the army will triumph, how can he have such foresight...... On that day, a man who had signed a customs clearance order signed by the king of Jiangxia told me that the Liao River was rising, and he had seen mud in the wilderness along the way, and asked me to send someone to repair the road as soon as possible. ”
King Jiangxia said, "That person must be Gao Jun!" ”
The deputy governor said, "This is the man." But the lower officials saw that he had no official credentials, no orders from the army, and he was dressed in white...... I just want to ......"
The emperor smiled and asked, "You don't want to do it, do you?" ”
The man was so frightened that he immediately bowed down, saw the sweat on his forehead and said, "How dare Weichen bully the king, that's exactly what he thinks." Weichen knows that His Majesty has always valued the people's strength, and there is no order, and he has never done it before to use so many soldiers and civilians! ”
The emperor was in a good mood and didn't blame him, "Then why did you do it again?" (To be continued.) )