In the winter of the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, the army of the Annan Governorate led by Wang Xuance finally arrived at the royal city of Linyi, and so far, the Tang army has also completed the siege of Linyi.

"Brother Xian! The art of war: ten are to surround it, five to attack it, and to fight it if it is doubled, the enemy can divide it, if it is less, it can be defended, and if it is not, it can be avoided. Now that my Datang army is only tens of thousands, it is not as many as the opponent's troops, how can we besiege the city? After Lao Wang arrived here, he immediately met with Li Hao to discuss the war here.

He fought all the way, plus the leading party and the soldiers who surrendered on Lin Yi's side, and roughly collected 60,000 or 70,000 soldiers and horses, plus the 20,000 soldiers and horses in Li Hao's hands were only 100,000. And Linyi Wangcheng has gathered a large number of troops, and the number alone is much more than that of the Tang army.

"It's not easy to get troops? I can casually pull out a hundred thousand soldiers and horses, but these people are just used to make soy sauce, and it is our people who are really the main battle. Li Hao smiled after hearing this, this question is easy to say.

"Where did the virtuous brother get the troops? Is it reliable? Wang Xuance was a little curious after hearing this, he had fought a lot of battles along the way, and only then did he get so many troops that seemed to be more reliable, Li Hao hadn't fought any battles here, where did the troops come from?

When the two discussed the war in private, they did not call each other official positions. Although Li Hao's current official position is greater than Wang Xuance, he does not have any qualifications in front of Lao Wang, and the relationship between the two is there.

"You can go back and preside over the siege on your side, and I will send you a few cannons. Remember to keep some cavalry, just in case. Li Hao smiled, didn't explain, just let him go back and wait, the siege was not in a hurry anyway.

Wang Xuance returned to his camp with a stomach full of doubts, and when he came the next day, he found that there were suddenly many more camps on both sides, completely surrounding the capital of Linyi.

"Where did these people come from?" Wang Xuance asked Xiang Hao's students, and Li Hao's students came to help him. Many things, Li Hao's students handled more effectively and quickly than others.

"This is the people of Linyi, similar to the situation in Tubo. In the early years, the teacher had a discussion with the Taoist sect about this matter, and he sent a lot of people to preach here, and now these people are all people they have brought over. ”

There are some things that Li Hao is much easier to use, although Lao Wang has seen Li Hao use them, but the effect of using them himself is not very good. He didn't know that these things could still be used in this way, which was the difference between the ancients and the later generations.

No matter what dynasty, even in later generations, some things are very lethal to use. This is also why those people in the West will always use this thing to talk about the East, because this thing is not controlled, and once it is used by some people, it will be a very big scourge.

The capital of Linyi is much smaller than that of Chang'an, and it is also a regular quadripartite city, which is much more convenient for Li Hao and their encirclement. Because there were so many more troops around, the atmosphere around them also became solemn.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! As the teams from all over the place were in place, a few cannons began to be tentatively fired at the capital of Linyi. Wang Xuance is no stranger to these things, he has used bombs. I feel that this artillery is just firing bombs, and the effect is estimated to be similar.

It's just that what he doesn't understand is that it seems that the artillery on both sides of the side is much more powerful than the artillery on the front and back. "The people on both sides are not strong in combat, and if the people in the royal city break through once they break through, they will definitely want to break through to the place where the combat strength is weak. Now that there are so many artillery pieces on both sides, they will definitely not break through to that side, and if they go to the front, it will be exact. ”

This is Li Hao's explanation, although there are many people on both sides, they are used to scare people. In order to avoid danger, Li Hao specially prepared some more artillery for them, which was to make those people in the city feel that there were not only more people on both sides, but also more firepower.

Things were just as Li Hao guessed, after a few rounds of artillery bombardment, the people of the Linyi royal court prepared a lot of elephant soldiers to launch a breakthrough from the front and back. Then the elephants were tragic, and they had just rushed out of the city gates, and finally they were all pulp.

The bombs and incendiary bombs prepared on both sides taught these Linyi people a good lesson, and it didn't take half a day to wipe out all the most combat-effective troops in Linyi.

And after the artillery on both sides bombarded the capital several times, the walls on this side began to crumble. The soldiers of Linyi on the city wall didn't even see the besiegers, so they lost more than half of them, and they collapsed directly.

"Let those who lead the way go into the city!" When Li Hao saw this, he asked his subordinates to order the leading party to go to the city first. The gold and silver treasures of the city, the women of the city were too attractive to these people who had just escaped from slavery.

"Teacher, let them go in first, won't they take all those belongings by then?" Li Hao's students were a little puzzled after hearing this order, how to say that this is still the capital of Linyi, and there must be a lot of good things in it.

"They can't take it! Aren't we all out there? In addition, there are still a lot of Linyi troops in the city, and if these people want to break the palace of Linyi, they have to kill half of them. ”

For the people who are not Datang, Li Hao has always been very hard-hearted. Li Hao doesn't care how many people die in Linyi, the more people on this side die, the easier it will be for Datang to control this side, otherwise Li Hao will have a headache How to deal with these people.

The Tang army did not enter the capital, but watched the leading party rush in. As Li Hao thought, Lin Yi originally prepared various means to deal with the people of the Tang Dynasty in the capital, but unfortunately it was not the Tang army who came in, but they were Lin Yi people.

These leading parties thought that it was a paradise, and that the gold, silver, treasures, and beauties in it were left to be slaughtered by them, but in fact they were not. It's almost hell inside, full of death traps.

The people who entered the city burned it for three days and three nights, and finally stopped it on the side of the palace. At this time, whether it is the leading party or the people in Linyi Wangcheng, they are basically almost consumed.

"Let's go into town!" Li Hao saw that the situation was almost over, and took the Tang army into the city. However, he did not immediately attack the Imperial City of Linyi, but cleaned up other parts of the capital that had already been defeated.

There are not many people left in these places, and they have long been tossed and dying by those who lead the way. The arrival of the Tang Army was tantamount to their savior, which also made these people extremely disgusted with those leading the way.

While cleaning up the perimeter, Li Hao asked people to get a few artillery pieces to go over to the leading party to attack the imperial city. The buildings at this time, no matter how good the level, became scum in the face of the improved artillery.

The gates of the Linyi Imperial Palace collapsed after being bombed several times, and those leading the way rushed in excitedly one by one. Unexpectedly, they were greeted by another wave of bloody battles, followed by a fire, and the entire imperial city was set on fire.

"It's ruthless! Thankfully, our people didn't go in. Wang Xuance also entered the city at this time, and followed Li Hao to look at the fire in the palace on the side, and couldn't help but shudder.

"It's okay to save us the trouble of dealing with the follow-up. If the king of Linyi surrenders, it will be a big trouble for us. That's good, it's a hundred. "This plan of the Linyi Palace, Li Hao actually already knows.

Those people originally dragged the Tang Army to die together, but what they didn't expect was that the Tang Army didn't have the idea of going in at all. "It's just a pity that all the belongings collected by the Linyi Palace were buried in this fire."

"Not necessarily!" Regarding Wang Xuance's words, Li Hao smiled and replied. This Linyi Imperial Palace has also prepared an authentic one, which hides a lot of things, as well as those who are trying to restore the country.

It's just that what these people didn't expect was that Li Hao knew all these things clearly, how could they let them escape? In addition to looting their belongings, Li Hao Bei did not spare any of these people's lives.

The war against Linyi was fought perfectly at this time, and the Tang Dynasty killed Linyi without almost any losses. Li Hao divided a part of the land and property of the nobles here to those who led the way or rebelled against the party, and the rest was all the spoils of this war.

The soldiers and captives of Linyi were all taken as slaves, and Ryukyu and Qiongzhou and Oceania were divided into many places. Only a small part of the strong forces remained on Lin Yi's side, and the rest were all women and children. Li Hao asked his students to summarize the course of the war, and then sent a copy to the imperial court.

In the future, a large number of people need to be relocated from within the Tang Dynasty, and all these soldiers brought by Wang Xuance will stay here, and the entire Annan Governor's Mansion will move south.

In addition to cleaning up the other small tribes around the area, the soldiers are also tasked with spreading seeds here. Although these women in Linyi are a little darker and shorter, they can still reluctantly accept it. After communicating with the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty a few more times, the race here can be completely changed. Moreover, the people of Linyi were originally the Gushanyue people who migrated from the east, and there was not much difference in race.

"After the end of this war, the Andong Prefecture will be established. And you, the Annan Metropolitan Protectorate, will be the same as the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, which will be made into a separate system, and you will no longer need to be attached to Lingnan Road. If there is not much change, Brother Wang's official position will also be promoted. ”

After the war was completely over, Li Hao hosted a banquet to entertain Lao Wang on the side of the capital of Linyi. Although the capital here has been beaten to pieces, there is no problem in cleaning up and finding a place to have a meal.

"Compared with my virtuous brother, my promotion speed is still too slow. Whether it is talent or military merits, the virtuous brother is first-class, and even if he farms a land and treats a disease, he can be promoted, which makes people have to admire and sigh. ”

Lao Wang said this, naturally, he was not jealous of Li Haosheng's speed, but just sighed. Compared to Li Haolai, he is still an official from the imperial examination, if it weren't for Li Hao's care and taking them to brush up on military merits, how could he have risen so quickly?