In late August, Wang Shi besieged Liaodong City with 100,000 people, and the emperor's camp was set up on Mashou Mountain. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Emperor immediately ordered to seize the fighter plane and immediately attack the city, without giving the other side time to breathe.

There is a deep ditch dug dozens of steps around Liaodong City, the ditch is too wide, people and horses can not cross, if you want to get close to the city, you must first fill the ditch. As soon as the emperor gave an order, the Tang soldiers were brave, scrambling to carry the soil with armor and helmets, or carrying boulders and running to fill the ditch. The arrows on the city were like springs, and the shield hand of the Tang Army immediately blocked it, but the momentum of filling the ditch decreased slightly.

When he saw it in the city, he organized a team of 1,000 horses to come out to interfere, but he was attacked head-on by Li Jing and retreated.

Suddenly, someone shouted, "Your Majesty is here too!" "Sure enough, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty was pulling a huge stone with his mount, weighing hundreds of catties, and was walking down to the city on horseback.

When the civil officials who accompanied the army saw this, they were so frightened that they rushed forward with their robes to carry the clods of earth and stones, and rushed to the front of the emperor with a hula. The Tang army was excited, and its fighting spirit rose again. The deep ditch around the city was unconsciously filled in section by piece, and the road to attack was cleared!

At this moment, the Tang army did not immediately attack the city with men, but drove more than 30 stone-throwing carts on each side of the city outside the city, flying big stones over 300 steps and straight into the city. The houses in the city collapsed as soon as they met, and the chaos became even more chaotic. Some boulders fell into the city, and the Goryeo defenders could not resist the protective platforms and guards made of solid wood at the head of the city, and were smashed to pieces by flying stones.

The emperor may have been stimulated by the bones of those Sui troops outside the city, and such an attack method had not been used for a long time. In the sky above Liaodong City, huge stones flew into the sky, and the destructive power was huge, making the defenders scattered. The city's inhabitants crawled out of their collapsed houses, covered in blood but with nowhere to hide.

Tang Jun was not in a hurry to enter the city, and only used a stone throwing machine to greet him every day, and the stone throwing was suspended at two hours at the afternoon and noon, so that the city had a respite to eat. The Tang Emperor said, "This is the greatest leniency for them, I will not fight with hungry enemies, let them also know the preciousness of life." ”

In this way, until the end of August, the Tang army threw stones every day, and sometimes the Goryeo people were smashed in a hurry, and they went out of the city to counterattack, and they were immediately wiped out by the heavy armored cavalry that Li Jing had already been waiting for.

After a long time, the Koreans did not come out, and they cowered in the city to wait for help. The Tang army shot the letter of surrender to the city, saying that as long as he surrendered immediately, he would have a chance to eat later. But the defenders stubbornly resisted and did not surrender, and the two sides faced each other for nearly half a month.

There is a temple in the city, which displays chain gold armor and sharp golden spears. Seeing that the army's heart was shaken, he pulled a beautiful woman and pretended to be possessed by a goddess, pointing to the chain gold armor and the golden spear and said, "These are two treasures, which fell from the sky during the former Yan Dynasty, and the great god Zhumeng will bless us, as long as we resist, we will be victorious, our reinforcements will arrive soon, and the Tang army will definitely not be able to enter the city." ”

In early September, the offensive of the Don army began. Li Jing in the north of the city sent 300 warriors to rush to the city, all of whom wore the golden Zhao armor and Xuanjin Wuwen armor that had been offered by Baekje before, and pushed the rushing car to hit the city gate, and the sound of impact could be heard in the distance. Rolling logs and stones fell under the city gate like raindrops, and the Tang army's attack was blocked.

At this time, someone came to report that the 40,000 reinforcements from Goryeo were about to arrive, and the emperor sent Li Daozong to lead Xi and Khitan 50,000 people to intercept it, so as not to distract the siege army. Li Daozong received the order, limped down, got on his horse and shouted, "Zhang Yijun, order two thousand people to go with me!" "Zhang Yijun is a captain in the Tang Army who has risen from the eighth rank to the top of the imperial army, and he is ordered to order people.

It's just that a total of 50,000 horses from the Xi and Khitan departments were temporarily put together, although the number was 10,000 more than the Goryeo reinforcements, but Li Daozong knew that these 10,000 people would not play much role on the battlefield, and there was no difference in numbers between the people on both sides. The key is morale, and he wants to take these two thousand people to be the backbone. Before leaving, the king of Jiangxia shouted again, "Xue Li will come with me!" ”

52,000 people rushed forward in the starry night against the enemy's approach, and Zhang Yijun led 2,000 Tang troops to open the way. Not far away, he encountered the Goryeo reinforcements in an open field, and looked at the black oppressive figures on the opposite side sweeping overwhelmed, Zhang Yijun felt that the chances of victory were not great, and waved his army back to ask for the support of the brigade.

However, the two armies should not retreat lightly, just because this retreat, it was dark again, and everyone in the army did not know the details, thinking that the defeat of the war would shake the entire army and set the prairie on fire. As soon as Li Daozong saw that he had retreated in front of him, he felt that something was wrong, and if he did not take action immediately at this time, these two thousand people would affect 50,000 people in Khitan and Xi.

It will be too late then! As soon as you retreat here, behind you is the Tang army besieging the city!! Seeing Xue Li on his side, he had an idea, and said to him, "Quickly gather the scattered pawns and counterattack, and make sure that the retreat stops for a while!" While shouting and ordering the Xi and Khitan troops not to move for the time being, and not to collide with the retreating Tang army, he just ordered them to tie up the horns and shouted loudly, "Kill." ”

Xue Li got the order of the prince, and the prancing horse rushed to the front, and met Zhang Yijun who was riding a horse and retreating. Xue Li said loudly, "Who called the retreat?" The prince has an order, return to the horse to counterattack, and the violator will be killed! ”

When Zhang Yijun saw that the person from the opposite side had no character and no job, he was just a soldier, and he couldn't help but say angrily, "Who are you, how do you know the mystery of the army, how do you know the mystery of the army, why don't you hurry up and wait for me to report the military situation to the prince, you will die if you miss a big event!" As he spoke, he kept going.

When the Tang army around him saw it, although he hesitated, he was even more puzzled in his heart, and he didn't know which one to listen to this military order. Xue Lima approached Zhang Yijun and shouted, "How are you a general?" Is there anyone like you who is asking for help? Aren't you afraid of stirring the hearts of the army! ”

Zhang Yijun was snatched by such an identityless soldier, and he scolded when he opened his mouth, "You and ......" At this time, the vanguard of the Goryeo soldiers behind the Tang Army was already in sight, and the situation was imminent.

Xue Li was furious, and without waiting for him to scold, he stabbed Zhang Yijun with a halberd, picked it off immediately, and shouted in the air with a halberd, "The Tang Dynasty is mighty, how can it be defeated in his hands, when did we let people chase after him from behind!" ”

"Brother, what do you say? Listen to you. ”

"Shout, kill back!" As soon as Xue Li's voice fell, he left Zhang Yijun behind and rushed out first. When the Tang soldiers behind them saw it, they knew that this was the real military order, and they shouted together to kill and return to attack.

When the vanguard of Goryeo saw the Tang army retreating, they thought that the enemy was cowardly and was chasing after them with a banner. Coldly, the other party killed a horse pistol, and they saw that there was only one cavalryman rushing ahead on the opposite side, and they didn't pay attention to it.

Who knew that Xue Li came directly at their banner, danced the halberd, and stabbed several Goryeo generals who grabbed the flag one after another. The Goryeo standard-bearer wanted to escape, but was stabbed to death by Xue Li with a halberd, and the flag fell to the ground.

The opponent's main general clapped his horse and came to grab the flag, and in just one round, he was killed, and the enemy army was in chaos. The two thousand Tang troops behind Xue Li had already gathered up and rushed up with a shout. Li Daozong saw it in the back, waved his spear and ordered, 50,000 horses and horses from the Xi and Khitan tribes rushed up, and the Goryeo reinforcements scattered after dropping 20,000 corpses.

After dawn, the fierce battle under the city of Liaodong was still urgent. Suddenly, a hurricane blew from the south! Covering the sky and the sun, they scraped the dry branches from the south of the city to the outside of the north of the city. The Emperor ordered, "Stop the siege and retreat and watch." The generals didn't know what they meant, and they heard the emperor say again, "Set fire to the south of the city." ”

People immediately understood, the siege of the south of the city quickly set the fire, first the smoke billowing into the Liaodong city, the Goryeo people saw the smoke, and then saw the sound of the attack outside the city, thinking that it was the manifestation of the great god Jumeng.

But soon, I saw a flaming bale of straw coming from outside the southern city, burning the fire all over the city, and I knew that something was wrong. It turned out that it was the Tang army who soaked the bullet pocket of the stone thrower in cold water and threw the burnt hay bales into the city.

All the houses in the city were burned down, and more than 10,000 people died in the fire. The Koreans were anxious, rushed left and right, coughed and opened the city gate to seize the road and fled, the Tang army was killed on all sides, but no one escaped.

In this battle, 20,000 Goryeo troops were annihilated, and no one escaped the net. After the fire, 40,000 households and 500,000 stone of grain were obtained. The emperor took his place as Liaozhou, and ordered the county to gather people, build a beacon tower for thirty miles, Liaozhou has something to raise a beacon fire, and one day can send a message into the fortress.

And the actual combat also proved that Xue Li had the ability to stop the chaos in the army, and the courage to rush into battle to kill the enemy, and at this time he had replaced Zhang Yijun to become a captain in the Tang Army who rose from the eighth rank.

So the army marched again. (To be continued.) )