The city of Tiandi was captured, and the number of prisoners in the city exceeded 7,000, which was much more than the population of the towns that had been defeated before it combined.

By this time, half of Gaochang's towns had been breached, and half of the population had been captured or annihilated. Everyone can see that Gaochang is in danger and is about to be destroyed.

But the Gaochang people didn't know what their brains were thinking, and when Hou Junji sent a letter asking for surrender again, none of them surrendered.

Not a single one.

Hou Junji is not a good man and a woman, since the Gaochang people are so ignorant, then it is better to wait for death.

Hou Junji ordered the troops to divide into two routes, and Xue Wanjun, the deputy governor, led 100,000 people around the city and went straight to the remaining Gaochang cities.

Jiang Xingben, Niu Jinda, and Qi He Li led the remaining more than 100,000 soldiers to take over the attack, and with the assistance of less than 10,000 Xue Yantuo cavalry, they began to launch a fierce attack on the only two remaining cities that were blocking the Gaochang capital.

The sample is broken, the ice is broken, the machine groove is shot, and the thousands of stones are flying.

The use of siege equipment by the Xue Yantuo people is one thing, and the use of siege equipment by the Tang army is another, which is completely incomparable.

The catapult continued to fire the stones, and the overwhelming stones were hurled into the city in front of them.

The earth-shattering sound is endless.

Both cities were destroyed by the Tang Dynasty soldiers in close combat, and they were easily taken by relying on the aerial strikes of catapults.

When the Tang Dynasty army of more than 100,000 people took two cities in one day and marched into the wilderness outside the capital of Gaochang that night, the people of Gaochang, especially the upper echelons of Gaochang, knew what the gap was, what was the point of the soldiers, and they were invincible.

Gaochang hurriedly sent troops out of the city to meet the battle, but the Tang Dynasty only sent Zhonglang General Xin Fang'er to lead 5,000 cavalry to charge and kill the enemy who Gaochang went out of the city to meet the battle, and the two thousand soldiers and horses out of the city were crushed, and less than 500 were killed directly.

Ju Wentai's son, Ju Zhisheng, who had just become the king of Gaochang, was so frightened that his soul was so frightened that he almost died of fear like his dead ghost father.

Fortunately, the person is young and bears it, but he doesn't dare to scare the Tang Dynasty, so if he can't beat it, then quickly admit it.

So after discussing with the ministers, Ju Zhisheng wrote a letter and sent people out of the city to send it to the chief administrator Hou Junji.

"Those who are guilty of the Son of Heaven are also kings. The punishment of heaven has been added, and the body has lost its back. Zhisheng has not been on the throne for a few years, I don't know why I am sad, and I hope that Shangshu is pitiful. Hahaha, this Gaochang kid will shirk his responsibilities and put everything on his head Ju Wentai."

Hou Junji held the letter and read it out loud, and he sneered at the chief manager, and the deputy chief manager shook it, his words full of disdain.

"Boss, what are we going to do now?" Jiang Xingben asked loudly.

"What else can I do, it's all in front of the door, no matter what he says, continue to fight." Niu Jinda and Qi Bi He Li said almost in unison.

These two are both quick-tempered, they have been in Gaochang for so long, and Gaochang has been destroyed, and they haven't done it in person.

Now this Gaochang capital city is also regarded as a tall city wall, and there are many soldiers, well, let's just say it for the time being, the militia is also a soldier, and all the people who take weapons are soldiers.

Anyway, it's worth fighting, but you can't just give it back.

Hou Junji is different from them, Hou Junji thinks he is a cultural person, he fights by his brain, why should he fight if he can surrender without a fight, let a king obediently surrender and admit his mistakes, it is not better to count than to directly break the city and kill him.

So Hou Junji waved his hand: "Since he said that it was his father who was rude to His Majesty, and he himself had just succeeded to the throne without any fault, if you want our subordinates to show mercy, then we will give him a chance." Come, go and tell the Gaochang envoy to go back and tell Ju Zhisheng that if he sincerely repents, he will open the city gate and come out and surrender in front of the military gate. Otherwise, my Tang Dynasty soldiers will let him know what it means to be invincible."

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"Hou Junji really said that?" Ju Zhisheng finally waited for a reply in the palace, and he was a little incredulous when he heard the messenger say that he was going to surrender.

"Yes." The messenger nodded helplessly.

Poof

Ju Zhisheng sat on the ground with a dejected ass, his face was pale, his face was like ashes, and his heart was like a vegetarian.

Hell, liars, all liars. Doesn't it mean that the people of the Central Plains are generous and benevolent, and their hearts are generous? I admit that I am wrong, the dead ghost old man in my family who said the wrong thing is not me, and it has nothing to do with me. I whispered like this, and even asked Lao Tzu to go out and surrender,

Liar, bastard, fuck you god khan, god your sister.

Ju Zhisheng roared wildly in his heart, which was basically nothing more than that.

"Your Majesty, you can't surrender, once you surrender, everything will be over."

"Yes, we can't surrender, if we surrender, we'll die."

"Look at what happened to the Turkic Jieli Khan, what happened to Tuyuhun Fuyun, the king, you can't listen to the nonsense of the Tang people."

In an uproar, more than half of the Gaochang officials knelt down in an instant, and when the other half saw the situation, especially those who knelt down looked at them viciously, as if they dared to refute and kill them, they all kept silent, did not refute or agree, whatever you want, what do you like.

"Okay, don't talk about it, let me think about it, think about it." Ju Zhisheng waved his hand exhaustedly and motioned for Baiguan to retreat.

The night passed in a blink of an eye, the sun was rising, Hou Junji came to the camp gate with confidence and waited for Ju Zhisheng to come out and surrender, but the result was from the beginning of the sun to the third pole of the sun.

There was not the slightest movement to open the door in Gaochang City, but there were many more people with weapons on the city wall, and most of the clothes were ordinary people.

This is the rhythm of defending the city.

Groove.

Hou Junji's face turned black into the bottom of the pot, embarrassed, slapped in the face, he gave Ju Zhisheng a chance, but he seized the time to mobilize the people to defend the city.

Give the face shameless.

Hou Junji didn't know that Ju Zhisheng actually swayed between surrender and non-surrender for a night, but after thinking about it, he was still reluctant to give up the inheritance of his ancestors, of course, more importantly, when he learned that the Tang Dynasty sent troops, Gao Chang had already completely formed an alliance with the Western Turks Desire Valley, and the Western Turks promised Gao Chang that if he encountered an attack, he would send troops to help.

This ally gave Ju Zhisheng a lot of hope. He thought that Datang had stabilized himself first, and as soon as the reinforcements from the Western Turkic allies arrived, he would be safe, and Gaochang would be able to keep it.

The idea is good.

But he ignored it, the people who came were really military generals, there were no special civil officials, even if Hou Junji claimed to be a cultural person, he relied on his brains to fight, and he was still a civil official like the Ministry of War, but in his bones this guy is a military general.

How could such a person be in the mood to delay his efforts with Ju Zhisheng, and it was already unprecedented to be able to let him tie himself up and surrender out of the city.

Thereupon.

"Siege." Hou Junji gave the order when the sun was overhead.