Chapter 365: Take Four Cities in a Row
The Goguryeo people were still secretly discussing during the day, whether the Tang Dynasty would retaliate next year after the failure of this expedition, whether they needed to flee secretly, and they didn't expect that the enemy would appear at night.
The Tang Dynasty soldiers, who were like terrorists, made the Goguryeo people tremble, and many of them were untidy, and they were killed by the Tang soldiers who rushed into the camp before they even got their weapons.
The fierce battle did not last long, because the entire new city was 10,000 soldiers, originally 50,000, and 40,000 were transferred to go, and they did not come back, Yuan Taizuo wanted to transfer people after the spring, and there would be known that the Tang Dynasty would send troops to attack in winter.
The new city was built on a hill, the place was not large, and the sporadic battles were gone before dawn.
After finding a war horse and having a meal, Li Tian was left behind, and Fang Yiai took 20,000 people to guard the city.
Through interrogation, it was learned that there were only more than 2,000 defenders in the three cities of Nansu, Mudi, and Cangyan, and they were the kind that selected the elite and left.
Feng Daiwen made a bold decision to divide his troops to attack, with Chen Hu, Li Zhen, and Feng Daihuo leading 10,000 people to attack Nansu City; An Xiuren led Li Dejian to lead 10,000 troops to raid Nancangyan City; He took Chen Xiong and led the remaining more than 10,000 cavalry to raid Mudi.
The plan is to deceive first, pretend to be a Goguryeo, and deceive the city gate, as long as the city gate is opened, it will be simply a beautiful woman with naked pants, let it be kneaded.
All three roads are cavalry, and they are in a starry night, and they will definitely arrive before the news leaks.
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Five days later, Feng Daiwen rushed to the farthest Mudi City, more than three hundred miles, five days and five nights, except when the war horse needed to rest, he would take a rest, and half of the night would be on the road, but fortunately, it was finally here.
This time, 30,000 people were dispatched, 20,000 of them were Turkic and Khitan soldiers, firstly, they could adapt to eating and sleeping on horseback, and secondly, Feng Daiwen also ordered that except for the things that were guarded by the city, everything else that was grabbed belonged to individuals.
Things went very well, after many days of traveling, changed into Goguryeo clothes, and suddenly became their kind, unclothed, haggard faces are also the same as their hungry appearance, Feng Daiwen saw Chen Xiong leading people into the city gate, immediately breathed a sigh of relief, waved his big hand, and rushed with the army.
"Ahh Enemy attack! ”
The Goguryeo defenders were so frightened that they shouted and shouted, some rang the bell to warn, and some hurriedly closed the city gates.
"Kill!"
Chen Xiong and the others, who had blended into the city, had originally approached the soldiers defending the city intentionally or unintentionally, and when they saw the attack outside, they immediately burst out, and they took out their weapons and cut down a lot.
"Kill!"
Chen Xiong shouted again, without a shield in his hand, he grabbed a guard, danced wildly at the enemy in front of the shield and smashed out.
"Follow me!" Chen Xiong grabbed a spear that had been stabbed, snatched it with force, and threw it at the guards who were closing the city gate, piercing the two of them at once, and nailing them to the city gate.
Seeing that the door was still closing, he shouted loudly and beckoned the soldiers to rush forward together.
"Kill!" Chen Xiong rushed over and slashed a person to death with an axe, grabbed the knife, slashed wildly, and the others behind him also swarmed up, quickly clearing out the guards.
Chen Xiong had just opened the door, and Feng Daiwen had already rushed to the front.
The soldiers at the gate of the city quickly dispersed, and Feng Daiwen led people on war horses and rushed into the city.
No sooner had the city defenders rushed out of the camp than they were slaughtered by the cavalry that rushed in.
"Chen Xiong stays!" Feng Daiwen shouted loudly, did not stop, and led people straight to the city.
Leaving Chen Xiong behind was also to quickly clear out the enemy army, and at the same time guard the city gate, leaving a way out for himself, just in case.
There were only more than 2,000 guards in Mudi City, where there were nearly 10,000 opponents of the Teng armor soldiers, and after an hour, the city had been breached and the four gates had been blocked.
Three thousand people were left on duty, and the others quickly ate and then slept.
slept until the next day, and Feng Daiwen, who had recovered his spirits, slowly arranged to clean up the city.
All the officials, merchants, and landlords in the city were all looted, and they were extremely bored, so Feng Daiwen ordered the people to be driven out, the city walls were dug down, the city gates were unloaded, and the city guards were burned down, and then they retreated with the looted materials.
Leaving a city full of devastation to Goguryeo, as for the people, Feng Daiwen didn't want any of them, it's winter, and there is so much snow, it's too troublesome to take the people, if it's summer, you can take it all away.
But it's okay to stay, there are still the people, Goguryeo has to clean up this mess by itself, if there are no people, the empty city will definitely be abandoned.
Just when Feng Daiwen evacuated, the other two groups of people also succeeded, but they were much more ferocious, they didn't even let go of the people's homes, they all looted, and everything that could be taken away was taken away, as for how many women in the people's families were ruined, this is not Feng Daiwen's business, after all, the troops were sent out in winter, and they had only experienced a major war, and there were not many trained recruits, so they could only use materials to stimulate them.
There must be some influence, but the problem is not big, they are all Turkic people, Khitan people, anyway, the Khitan people scourge Goguryeo for a day or two, and the ordinary people will not resent the Tang Dynasty.
The three people returned with a full load, taking advantage of the fact that the weather was acceptable and did not reach the coldest time, Feng Daiwen left An Xiuren, Li Dejian, and Li Tian with 20,000 people to guard the new city, and left all the materials that could be left, so he took people back.
Feng Daiwen did not go back directly, but made a detour to Liaodong City, took the opportunity to sneak attack, but was helplessly defeated, and was discovered by the Goguryeo defenders, and did not force the attack.
Just outside Liaodong City, he showed off his might before leaving.
Although he didn't capture the city, he also scared Yuan Taizuo a lot, he didn't expect the Tang Dynasty's revenge to come so quickly, and it was still in winter, after careful observation, Yuan Taizuo found that when his soldiers were shivering with cold, the Tang soldiers had no effect outside the city at all, and even the war horses were wearing clothes.
Yuan Taizuo was disheartened, the more he knew about Datang, the less confident he became, and even his ambition to replace Gao Jianwu was gone.
"Su Wen, I want to go back to Pingxiang for my father! Hello to the cultivation of life, Datang will not come to attack before the beginning of spring. After Feng Daiwen left, Yuan Taizuo returned to the City Guard Mansion and said to his son who was lying on the bed with a pale face.
Yuangai Suwen looked at this time, and his ten-year-old father even hunched his back a lot.
"Why did my father go back to Pingxiang? Beware of Gao Jianwu's poisoning of you. Yuangai Suwen said anxiously.
"Alas! The gap between us and Datang is too big, and we have a lot of grievances, and only by uniting can we ensure that the country will not be destroyed.
This time I went back for my father, I wanted to suggest that King Chen Liuwang go to the Tang Dynasty to be a minister and pay tribute, hoping that the Tang Emperor would look at this point and give up the idea of attacking us, so as to ensure the continuation of the country. Yuan Taizuo explained gently.
(End of chapter)