Chapter 65: The Dramatic End

The fire in Anshi City burned for a whole day and night, and when Li Er led his troops into the city, he could still feel the heat wave coming to his face.

There were traces of the fire everywhere, and there were charred corpses everywhere, and judging by the form and movement of those corpses, these people were all burned to death in pain because of the fire oil stuck to their bodies.

Most of the houses in Anshi City were burned down, but there were still some houses far from the river without traces of fire, Li Er ordered people to open these houses, wanting to see the residents in these houses, but what he didn't expect was that after opening the houses, he saw that all the people in the houses had stopped breathing, and according to the military doctor, they all died of suffocation.

Li Er saw along the way that the stone walls on both sides of the river had all been burned white, and some of the houses on both sides of the river were even burned to the ground, leaving only the collapsed stone walls and bricks.

The Goryeo army in the city was no longer able to organize an effective resistance, and only a few remnants occasionally came out to sneak attack, and were soon strangled by the men of the Chengguan garrison.

This impregnable city was finally breached in such a dramatic way, and even Li Er was a little embarrassed.

"Although I have read the art of war, I thought that I knew the art of fire attack, but I only saw it today, it turns out that the method of fire attack can be done to such a point, if I didn't see it with my own eyes, I really can't believe it." ……

Whether Li Erxiang believes it or not, Anshi City was breached, and Yang Wanchun's body was finally found. With a sword around his neck. It can be seen from his expression before he died. In his final moments, he seemed very helpless and decadent.

Li Er was very concerned about this person, ordered the soldiers to bury him alive, and then erected a monument to him with the treatment of a national general.

The next siege battle became like a bamboo, and the artillery reflected a strong siege ability, Fuyu City, Daxing City, Black Bone City, and Humiliation City, all of which lost the confidence to resist under the bombardment of Tang artillery. The surrender was announced in just three days.

All the way unimpeded, Li Er led the army to cross the Yalu River, and fought with the last group of defenders of Goryeo at Yalu Gate, and the result was also crushed, and the muskets and artillery of the Tang people could not be stopped by cold weapons in this era.

The white-robed young general Xue Rengui is famous, and his marksmanship of taking the head of the general thousands of miles away has been hyped by Li Er, and he has become a legend in the army.

In this Eastern Crusade, the Chengguan garrison team can also be regarded as shining. Especially in the artillery department, every artillery member was promoted three times by Li Er alone. Equivalent to six years of merit of a border sergeant.

The army crossed the Yalu River, leaving only the last city of Goryeo: Pyongyang City.

Yuangai Suwen is in this city, waiting for the final battle.

Li Er was very excited, he liked this feeling of conquering the city, it was like crawling under his feet, since the city of Anshi was broken, the problem of burning in his mouth naturally disappeared, and what made him even more excited was that after eating the penicillin sent by the imperial doctor, the carbuncle on his body also improved.

The shape is very good, Li Er is naturally full of pride, dressed in golden armor, and personally provokes Yuangai Suwen who is defending the city in front of the army.

100,000 people, lined up in a phalanx, surrounded the entire city of Pyongyang, turning it into a turtle in an urn.

At this time, the city of Pyongyang was dead silent, and no one took the initiative to go out of the city to face the battle, and only the black and oppressive defenders on the city wall seemed to be holding on to the last piece of Goryeo land.

Without the slightest mercy, Li Er ordered an artillery bombardment, and it was an indiscriminate and ineconomical carpet bombing.

The more than 1,000 shells brought by sea from Youju showed their last value, and all of them exploded into fireworks on the tower east of Pyongyang, destroying the bricks on the city walls.

With just two rounds of fire, Pyongyang's already thick walls were already in tatters, and nothing could stop the power of the artillery.

Under the bombardment of more than 1,000 artillery shells, the tower on the eastern side of Pyongyang has been moved to the ground.

Before Li Er excitedly led the army to attack, Yuangai Suwen took the female dependents in the city and the civil and military officials holding white flags in their hands, and the men, women and children in the city, and announced their surrender.

Li Er looked at Yuan Gai Suwen, who was dressed in armor, with a look of disdain on his face, and said with a victor's expression: "Come on, take all these people into the prison car and transport them to Chang'an!" ”……

On October 15, the fourth year of Zhenguan, from the moment when Yuangai Suwen went out of the city to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, since then, Goryeo has been completely destroyed, and Li Er is also happy to decide to return to the dynasty immediately.

Before returning to the court, it was necessary to make proper arrangements for Goguryeo to consolidate the fruits of victory.

Goryeo, especially south of the Yalu River, has exceeded the limit of the area that 100,000 soldiers can occupy, so Li Er, under the advice of the eldest grandson Wuji, specially appointed Gao Yanshou, who surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, as the new monarch of Goryeo, commanding the boundaries south of the Yalu River, and at the same time changing the name of the country to Han, as a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty, paying tribute every year, and obeying the orders of the Tang Dynasty.

Gao Yanshou was grateful to Dade for this, and swore allegiance to the Tang Dynasty.

Li Er was also interesting enough, left more than 10,000 people for Gao Yanshou, and rewarded a lot of cloth and satin, and then the class returned to the court......

The south of the Yalu River was divided, but the land to the north now belonged to the Tang Dynasty, and Li Er began to arrange the division of the city, and this time there were a total of ten big cities in the north. Xuantu City, Hengshan City, Gaimu City, Liaodong City, Baiyan City, Beisha City, Maigu City, Yinshan City, Houhuang City.

Of these ten cities, Li Er sent 3,000 soldiers to defend the city, and moved the people in these cities to Datang, and those soldiers were all sent to Chang'an......

The news of Li Erqin's victory in Chang'an spread all of a sudden, and the scholars and reporters of Nanshan Academy were already gearing up, and they couldn't wait to interview the veterans who had returned from the victory.

At this time, the weather in Liaodong had cooled down, and Li Er rushed through Liaoshui with the tail of autumn, and there was no case of freezing to death and frostbite among the soldiers because of the cold weather.

The vast migration crowd began, the people of Liaodong City and Gaimu City all moved to Youzhou, Cangzhou and other places, and Li Er led the army from Cangzhou to Chang'an by the Yellow River waterway......

"Husband, it's amazing, now Chang'an Street is talking about the news of His Majesty's victory." Kim Sung-man is in a good mood, and it's no wonder that a powerful enemy of Silla hangs up, so it's no wonder that she's in a bad mood.

"Hmm." Xu Yang snorted out of his nostrils, and saw the white mist, after two rains, it was only mid-October, and the temperature in Chang'an was obviously cold, fortunately Li Er finished the battle, otherwise it would continue to drag on, and when it snowed heavily in Boshui, hundreds of Tang soldiers were frozen to death in history.

"Husband, there are rumors on Chang'an Street now that it was Husband's fire attack technique that helped me to destroy Goryeo in the Tang Dynasty, why didn't the concubine stop Husband's body?" Liu Mengli also leaned over, women are not good at this, and their curiosity is like a cat.

"Hmm." Xu Yang shrugged his shoulders, "When I watched the sky at night, I saw that there was an obstacle to His Majesty's Eastern Expedition, so he sent someone to send His Majesty the oil to solve the problem and help His Majesty overcome the obstacle and win a big victory." ”

"Huh~" Liu Mengli had a skeptical expression, "Husband is not the one who slept first that night, the concubine and Sister Shengman are inseparable from husband all day long, when have you never seen husband watching the sky at night?" ”

"Ahem." Xu Yang was also choked by Liu Mengli's words, pinched Liu Mengli's fat buttocks, and laughed: "You have a lot of problems." ”

Unexpectedly, this pinch made Liu Mengli turn her head and glare at Xu Yang with silky eyes, so she gave up.

"Husband, since you have merit this time, will Your Majesty reward our family?"

"Yarn Reward, Safe Breastfeeding......" ...... (To be continued......)