Goguryeo now not only has to face the attack of the Tang Dynasty, but on the other side, Baekje and Silla have two stabs in the buttocks.

Since the main forces are defending Datang, they have also communicated with the two countries before, although there is no alliance, but they never imagined that the two countries would do it to themselves.

This is what Gao Jianwu can't figure out very much, everyone understands this simple truth, but I don't know why no one stopped the two countries, so that all the nobles will not become stupid.

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In the eighth year of Zhenguan, on May 18, Daji!

The Tang Dynasty Five Roads army gathered in the Liao River, the other side of the river is the domestic city, said to be the Liao River, in fact, it is a big river, the ships on both sides of the river have long been taken away and hidden by the Goguryeo people, and there are many fortifications built on the bank, arrow towers, horse rejections, trenches, horse traps, everything.

It can be seen that these have been prepared for a long time, and they should have been preparing all this after the defeat two years ago.

This is also the confidence of Yuangai Suwen to resist the Tang Dynasty, using the wide Liao River to offset the range of artillery fire, if you want to land, you can only attack, this is Yuangai Suwen's idea, for which all the troops in the city have been mobilized.

This is the failure that makes people progress, Yuangai Suwen is in Anshi City, he was pressed in the city by a steel cannon, and he has no backhand power at all, and this time he said that he would not dare to defend the city anymore.

"Not bad! Actually defended like an iron bucket. Li Shimin looked at the fortifications across the river and sighed in admiration.

"This is a hundred miles along the river, and there are fortifications all the way, and it will take at least a year or two to build it, and it should be that we occupied the new city and broke their Great Wall, and then built it again." Li Jing analyzed.

"Fortunately, with the steel cannon, otherwise I don't know how many people would have died." Li Ji shook his head and sighed.

"Hehe, I actually want to use the heavenly moat to fight against my steel cannon, the idea is good, but it's a pity that it's too naïve, can Wei Gong have a way to cross the river quickly after breaking through?" Li Shimin asked with a smile, his tone full of disdain for Goguryeo and complacency.

"Chen suddenly thought of the Battle of Chibi at the end of the Han Dynasty." Li Jing pondered for a moment and said with a smile.

"Serial boats!" Li Shimin immediately understood when he heard this.

"Shengshang is wise, since you want to use ships to carry steel cannons to attack, why not use ships to build pontoon bridges, connect the boats, lay wooden planks, and after breaking through, the cavalry can quickly cross the river, Goguryeo is not the state of Wu, but there are no fireboats to break it." Li Jing explained.

"Wonderful! I asked Zhang Liang to prepare, simply prepare two more pontoon bridges, anyway, there are many boats, and the enemy will be destroyed in one fell swoop, otherwise he will have to fight again if he escapes back. Li Shimin high-fived and admired, then waved his hand and said magnificently.

In order to confuse the other side, Li Jing constantly transferred troops upstream and downstream to investigate, probe, and make it look like there was no good way.

The defenders on the other side of the river were also competing for the right moves, intensifying their patrols, and further expanding their fortifications, so that they were eager to build a wall by the river.

A few days later, Li Jing deliberately dispatched more than a dozen boats to test along the riverbank, and every time he approached, catapults and bows and arrows would be fired, forcing the boats to stay away.

But what they didn't know was that Datang already had a telescope, and Anshang's every move did not escape the eyes of the other side, and the boats wandering in the river were also deliberately made for them to see.

Within a day or two, Li Jing would transfer a few more ships, pretending to be about to attack in a big way, attracting the defenders to concentrate their forces as well.

It has been delayed for more than ten days, and finally it is ready, from the fleet of Qinhuangdao wharf in western Liaoning to the Liaohe River, more than 300 medium-sized boats, forming three huge chain boats, across the river, full of half of the river, like a water village that suddenly towers.

The boats in the river had already alarmed Yuan Gai Suwen, and he led people to stare at it all the time, guessing how the Tang Dynasty would attack. In the past ten days, Datang has been tempting, and he has never really made a big move, so he can't eat or sleep, just like a beheading waiting for a sentence, but he has never been sentenced.

I have lived enough days of worrying, and seeing so many ships from Datang, Yuan Gai Suwen was faintly relieved in his heart. Although there are a lot of Datang ships, if they want to dock here, it is just a strong attack, even if they use human lives, it is difficult to attack ashore.

Since getting the news of his father's death, Yuan Gai Suwen has been silent a lot, and the whole person has become much more mature, and he has begun to step up the arrangement for the Datang action, especially the fire materials such as fire oil, he is also a person who has read poetry and books, of course, he also knows the battle of Chibi, and he also wants to try to burn the serial ship.

But something strange to him happened again, the Tang soldiers actually led the horses on the boat, and arranged the cavalry on both sides of the boat, with forty zhang in the middle, blocked by a giant shield, and I don't know what the shadow is hiding behind.

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"Enlighten the Holy One, everything is ready, whether to start the attack." Li Jing said to Li Shimin.

"Good! I've never seen so many steel cannons firing at the same time, so I'm here to admire it. Li Shimin said with great interest, and after speaking, he got up, found a conspicuous place, and waited quietly with a group of people.

Sixty steel cannons and ten taels of tanks were distributed on the platform connected by fifty boats, and with Li Jing's order, Duan Zhixuan excitedly let the shield array in front of him withdraw.

"Drip !!" A shrill whistle sounded.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "It was like one, and it was like many voices at the same time.

With a loud bang, the hull of the chain boat shook, and the huge platform felt pressed down, and then retreated violently, and the water in the river stirred up waves.

"Stop!" Duan Zhixuan heard a "crunch" from the hull of the ship, as if it was about to fall apart, and hurriedly stopped.

After checking it out, fortunately, there was nothing wrong, so he was relieved, just now he thought that the ship was going to fall apart.

It's just that he didn't know that this was because in the river, the river water shared the pressure, and if it was hard underneath, the wooden boat would definitely not be able to fire a few shots, and it would fall apart, and this chain boat was not only connected by iron chains, but also reinforced with wooden planks here, which was to be able to bear the weight of the tank, as well as the sturdiness.

Although the craftsmen of Taijia Village did not know about pressure and had not studied physics, they had their own methods on how to make the ship stronger and how to withstand the movement of the tank on the ship.

"Ten shots, one shot." Duan Zhixuan didn't check the effect of the shelling just now, and ordered to reduce the artillery by half at the same time, and just now twenty cannons fired at the same time.

The original plan was to fire 20 guns at the same time, forming a four-stage fire, so that the time for intermittent loading was reduced, forming a non-stop attack.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "Another burst of cannonball.

As the smoke and dust rose, the vibration of the ship was noticeably less, but it shook a little and sank downward, without feeling backwards.

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