Chapter 376: Great Victory
Those who have never been on the battlefield will never be able to imagine what it tastes like.
Yes, it's the taste.
The defenders of the city boiled the golden soup with dung and poured it down, and the stench was stinking.
The besiegers lit torches with dry wood and threw them into the city, and the scorching smell was scorching.
The blood of each other's battles flowed like a river, and the smell was stinking.
In a word, it stinks! Even if the stinky Qin Hao was far away from the front line, he was still vomited and diarrhead by the stink, but as the nominal commander of this siege, he couldn't run, and even had to endure it while pretending to eat very fragrant when eating.
Not to mention how painful it is.
As soon as you get out of the camp, it's even more painful.
There was blood all over the ground, and it was slimy when you stepped on it, and from time to time there were all kinds of intestines and stomach and other things, and if you accidentally stepped on it, some things that were half rice and half would burst out.
This kind of life is too torturous, Qin Hao swore to the sky that he would never fight again, playing with intrigues and tricks is what a person like him should do, this kind of killing and killing days is really not suitable for him.
This battle has been fought for so long, Qin Hao is homesick, Li Xin was already pregnant when he came, and he fell down, and he didn't know if the child was saved, and he didn't write a letter to himself for so long.
He didn't want to think about where he could run around in a small boat for so long, and where Li Xin would write to him.
Pei Xingjian has never commanded a siege battle, and it is inevitable that he will be a little nervous when it comes to the end, and it is inevitable that there will be some small mistakes in some places, but after all, he is the descendant of Li Jing, the original historical god of the Tang Dynasty, so he quickly adapted to the rhythm of the siege war, and he had already fought well on the second day, and finally, on the third day of the siege war, the stone city was broken.
If it is not broken, it will not work, the remnants of 5,000 Goguryeo soldiers want to block Pei Xingjian's tens of thousands of troops, isn't this a joke, the guard general is not a strong lord, and he surrendered in less than three days.
At this point, the fate of Goguryeo can enter the countdown.
On the twelfth, the stone city broke.
On the 13th, Li Daozong led his troops to attack the grain route from Pyongyang to Changbai Mountain, and so far, the defenders of Changbai Mountain have no new grain.
On the 19th, the Tang-Xin coalition army under Niu Jinda reached the southern front and fought with the Goguryeo defenders.
On the 20th, Li Daozong and Qin Hao annihilated Goguryeo, Jili, Huyi, Buyeo and other important towns on the northern front of Pyongyang, and joined forces with Niu Jinda, one south and one north, and it had become a trend of encircling Pyongyang.
On the 22nd, the defenders of Changbai Mountain asked the Heavenly Khan to surrender due to lack of food.
On the 23rd, the king of Goguryeo, Gao Jianwu, heard the news and vomited blood again.
The battle has been fought so far, in fact, it has basically been won, and the first thing Goguryeo's crown prince Gozang did after succeeding to the throne was to surrender to the Tang army outside the city, but Qin Hao and they didn't agree.
Niu Jinda, who seems to be the most honest of the three, is not a mallet head, and accepting surrender at this time is naturally a great achievement to destroy the country, but seeing that Li Shimin still has three or five days of hard work, he can't do such a stupid thing even if he is kicked by a donkey.
Li Shimin finally drove a personal expedition, and nine times out of ten it was the last time in his life, the Great Wall had nothing to do with him, and now Pyongyang didn't wait for him to come to break, as an emperor, don't you need face?
Therefore, not only could Goguryeo surrender, but they also had to cut down the envoys, as if there was no such thing at all, they had to fight how they wanted.
However, they were actually quite panicked, for fear that the defenders in Pyongyang City would not be able to open the city gate with one of them, so you said that they would not enter when the time came, so they all ordered the following, which meant that they must not enter it, otherwise whoever goes in will cut off someone's head.
The soldiers below all looked at each other, having fought all their lives, and it was the first time they had heard of such a rule.
Goguryeo also seemed to understand what Tang Jun meant, waiting for it was called a heart anxiety, when he heard that the Tian Khan had finally arrived, the teenage Gao Zang almost jumped up excitedly, this poor child, in a daze, took his father's class and became the last emperor of Goguryeo.
Finally can surrender, not only does the whole city of Pyongyang not share the same hatred, but also have a sense of relief, Tian Khan is benevolent, as long as he surrenders, at least he will not kill on a large scale, it is better than breaking in and slaughtering the city.
Li Shimin smiled and took over the big seal representing the royal power of Goguryeo, what Yang Guang couldn't do with a million troops, he did it with less than 400,000, and there were more than 100,000 Hu people among them, and more than 200,000 Tang people really went out of the block.
At this moment, Li Shimin felt that his life was complete all of a sudden.
Less than six years after he took office, Datang has changed from a little brother who was bullied by the Eastern Turks to a behemoth who can't find an opponent if he wants to bully.
The Western Turks are still fighting among themselves, and people's brains are beating dog brains, so if you take out the map and look at it, Datang is really eager to fight a war now and doesn't know who to fight.
At least before the unification of the Western Turks, Li Shimin's achievements now almost surpassed that of Qin Shi Huang, and only the later Genghis Khan could match that, that is, conquering all known opponents, all the lands that could be seen by the eye, were mine (at least nominally).
Gao Zang personally led the horse for Li Shimin, and the Tang Army followed behind with the rank of general and above, and walked into the city with high spirits.
Qin Hao was also fortunate to follow at the front, I heard that the old man who led the horse for him was still Uncle Wang, but he didn't mean to be happy at all, but he was still terrified, for fear that a cold arrow would come out of the city and shoot him to death.
The special general is so timid that he is estimated to be the only one in the world.
Soon, the royal city of Goguryeo arrived.
The gold seal was handed over by Goguryeo, the population and tax distribution map of the whole territory of Goguryeo, and the treasure trove that had been sealed, although everyone knew that the poor rats in it could not turn over anything.
Then came the moment of revelry, Qin Hao and other generals accompanied Li Shimin to officially enter the royal city, and the Tang army was going to hold a celebration party here in the evening. The harem beauties and princesses and maids lined up in several rows, trembling and waiting for the gang of robbers who broke into their house to decide their fate in the future.
Li Shimin only ordered three or four, and he took it with a pleasing look, waved his hand, and said behind him: "The soldiers have worked hard, one of you has a princess, two concubines, and forty palace maids, and you will divide them among the soldiers under your command." ”
Qin Hao was stunned, it was the first time he had heard that this thing needed to be divided, and he thought that Li Shimin would definitely be included in the Taiji Palace.
To tell the truth, Goguryeo is a place that is cold, and there was no developed plastic surgery industry this thousand years ago, so most of these women have big cake faces, high noses, small eyes, even if they are princesses, they may not have the most ordinary dancing girls of the Tiele tribe who are beautiful, but women are this thing, identity is sometimes much more important than appearance and figure, even if the princess grows into a dinosaur, I am afraid it will be cool to ride.
But in the end, Qin Hao still didn't go on, he came out to fight for several months, he was also panicked, but he didn't know the situation at home, Qin Hao finally chose to be cautious, in case Li Xin's jealousy broke out after returning home, and slaughtered the princess or gave it away, this is somewhat cruel, and with Qin Hao's character, he can't do the kind of bastard thing that he plays for nothing when he puts on his pants.
It's quite pitiful for the country to be ruined, so don't be reckless and accept the guilt.
So Qin Hao pushed the princess in front of Pei Xingjian and said, "Keep the promise, I gave you this princess, don't you feel moved?" ”
You must know that Pei Xingjian is also suffocated! Even longer than he held back, which man didn't want to ride a princess anymore, and said busily: "Moved, moved." ”
"Huh?"
Pei Xingjian looked up, and saw Qin Hao looking at him with a murderous face, so frightened that his hairs stood up, and then he remembered that this was still his brother-in-law, and hurriedly cried and laughed: "No... Don't dare, don't dare, let's reward Wang Fangyi, he is still helping Da Niu in Silla, I will ask the brothers to send him a bag when I go back. ”