Chapter 357: A Scorched Earth
At this time, Qin Hao didn't know that he had been praised by Li Shimin inexplicably, and he had made a big mistake, and he was worried about what to do next.
All the battles that can be fought on the water have been fought, and now Goguryeo and Baekje don't even want to go into the water with a sampan.
So Qin Hao opened the map, looked at the harassment targets along the coast, and couldn't make up his mind where to go, this thing just wanted to bully people, and he was not willing to take the risk at all.
Pei Xingjian hesitated: "Or, let's ask the saint?" I heard that the saint has arrived. ”
Qin Hao immediately waved his hand and refused, Li Shimin's war was based on the overall situation, and he didn't care about the battle loss ratio, and finally took advantage of the barrier of the vast sea to allow himself to move freely, do you still want to find guilt yourself? The devil knows where Li Shimin will let him fight, and if he is allowed to land from Shicheng and go directly to Pyongyang, will he do it or not?
In fact, he originally planned to go to the Liaohe River to shout 666 to Li Tao, but he didn't expect people to be so fierce and directly break the Great Wall, this sudden crit made the battle situation west of the entire Yalu River completely chaotic, and the rhythm of Goguryeo's defense was completely broken, which is of course a good thing for Datang, but Qin Hao is a little afraid to wade into this troubled water.
In the end, Qin Hao still tried his best to defy public opinion, neither going to Shabei City nor to the Pyongyang area, but chose to go to the Yalu River for a walk.
Why? Because they don't have to go ashore, they are so cowardly, they are so shameless, and the worst result of walking around can also hit their momentum, why not.
This is really not untargeted, because the battle on the front line is too smooth, Qin Hao pondered, the defense line of the Yalu River may not be able to be defeated, what if it passes?
If you can slow down the speed at which they build a defensive line, wouldn't it be a great achievement?
There are basically three lines of defense in the whole of Goguryeo, one is the defense line of the Great Wall of the Liao River, the second is the defense line of Changbai Mountain on the Yalu River, and the third is the Pyongyang defense line of their royal city.
Among them, the vicinity of Pyongyang is full of plains, and there is no danger at all except for the Taedong River, so it can be said that as long as the Yalu River is broken, Goguryeo will not be far from the destruction of the country.
If this powerful neighbor can be destroyed in one battle, from now on, the Tianwei of the Tang Dynasty will inevitably be better than in the past, and then Silla's Kim Jinde will naturally have no room for calculation.
In fact, the battle on the front line was actually smoother than Qin Hao imagined, and Li Shimin had actually issued a strict order not to allow Qin Hao to go ashore to preserve his strength, just because of poor communication on the vast sea, the order had not yet reached him.
Because of Li Shimin's arrival, the morale of the soldiers was like a rainbow, Gao Yanshou was defending the new city, and it was quite difficult to bite for a while, Li Shimin decided to leave Xue Wanche to continue the attack, and the large army simply did not bird him, and went around the past and continued to advance.
This is very risky, the land supply base of the army is in Youzhou, and the new city is stuck on the supply route like a nail, and Li Shimin's hundreds of thousands of troops are advancing without logistical support at all.
In case the logistics are cut off, the consequences are really unimaginable, and Li Shimin's courage as a soldier is really very incomparable.
Of course, Li Shimin is just courageous, not stupid, his own Chinese army bypassed Xincheng and advanced towards Chifeng in a decent manner, sniping Gao Huizhen's reinforcements, but Li Daozong led all the Hu cavalry to rush south to fight Shabei City.
The geographical location of Shabei City is equivalent to the Dalian Black Mountain in later generations, and it is one of the best outlets to the sea in the north of the entire Central Plains, as long as it is laid here, the supplies and materials of the army can be continuously transported by sea, becoming the new supply base of the Tang Army, which is an insurance, anyway, Li Shimin knows that Qin Hao's sailors are invincible.
If Qin Hao broke the sailor because of his blindness, which affected his transportation capacity, Li Shimin would have to kill him.
At this time, Qin Hao, who was crookedly beaten, appeared on the surface of the Yalu River with a swagger, and the faction was like a leader inspecting, which made the Goguryeo soldiers on both sides of the Yalu River hate the roots of their teeth, but they were helpless.
The topography of the Yalu River is connected by mountains and rivers, the endless Changbai Mountain almost blocks the road from north to south, and there are two trails to attack from the land, which is better than Sichuan and Shu and can not go anywhere, and there are big rivers separated by each other, which can be called a natural barrier.
When Qin Hao arrived here, there were only 20,000 defenders on both sides of the Yalu River, and they were stepping up the construction of fortifications.
If Goguryeo had decided to abandon the land west of the Yalu River at the beginning and build the Great Wall built by the whole country with manpower and material resources, the Tang army would have been able to capture it in a few years.
It's a pity that there is no if, with Goguryeo's current national strength, building another Great Wall is tantamount to a fool's dream, and all they can do now is to build a few more arrow towers.
Gao Jianwu is also a ruthless man, after the Great Wall was broken, he soon realized that the west of the Yalu River must not be guaranteed, although there are still scattered hundreds of thousands of troops, but the war is like this, you dare not fight in the field, you can only divide the troops and hold on, sooner or later one by one, this is the same as the Ming Dynasty once Datong is broken, you can only ponder the defense of Yanjing is a reason.
"Big brother, it seems that they are planning to build an arrow tower on the top of the mountain, looking at this posture, I am afraid that there are no less than five hundred, what should we do, up?"
"Last fart, it seems that the saints are fighting very fiercely, look at the layout of this Changbai Mountain, this is going to play with life, listen to me, don't care about the arrow tower on the mountain, first burn the fortifications on both sides of the strait for me."
Now, the Goguryeo defenders west of the Yalu River have virtually changed their mission from retreating to blocking the enemy, buying time so that they can reorganize the whole country and prepare for the defense line of the Yalu River.
A large part of the reason why Li Shimin bypassed the new city was also because of this, of course, more of the soldiers were stimulated by the general coupons all over the land.
Li Shimin didn't dare to let them open up this time, and it was conservatively estimated that there were more than 80 million general coupons in the entire Goguryeo, and Datang couldn't stand it if these general coupons were snatched back to Datang.
So those soldiers robbed the general coupons, only thirty percent can be pocketed and taken away, and the rest are all handed over to the imperial court, counting the handling fee, in fact, it is only about twenty percent in their hands, which is similar to the situation of Niu Jinda them, although they can't get rich, but it's no problem to beat out the pension if you are brave.
Originally, as the attacking side, they should have clenched into a fist and focused on attacking one by one, but the soldiers didn't do it, in front of tens of millions of general coupons, Li Shimin, the emperor, was a little unable to hold it down.
No, except for Xue Wanche's troops besieging Xincheng and Li Shimin's Chinese army in the area of Baiyan City, hundreds of thousands of Tang troops scattered all at once, except for a few big cities bypassing, the entire west of the Yalu River is already a scorched earth.