Therefore, even if the field battle was lost, even if other cities were lost, most of the cities were still able to hold on, forcing the Sui and Tang armies to attack the fortified city by city. At that time, the natural conditions in the western Liaoxi region determined that the Central Plains Dynasty could only launch large-scale military operations in a limited number of months each year, and it was impossible to completely destroy Goguryeo in a short period of time simply by relying on numerical superiority.

The third is the command mistakes of the Sui and Tang armies. Sui made a mistake in Tuoda, not to mention Emperor Yang's blind command, and even Laihu'er was defeated in Pyongyang because of carelessness, which shows that the whole army despised the opponent too much at the beginning.

At first, the Tang army was also prepared for a quick victory, and the defeat of Goguryeo with one blow shows that the knowledge and understanding of Goguryeo is still not deep enough, and the strategy of attacking and harassing the enemy and fighting a decisive battle again is the best policy.

Secondly, on the grounds of the safety of the Son of Heaven, after annihilating the largest field force of Goguryeo, he gave up the plan of long-range attack and missed the opportunity.

In fact, it was possible to let Taizong stay in Liaodong City, and Li Ji, Li Daozong and others carried out the attack mission, and Goguryeo could not get enough troops to launch a large-scale attack on Liaodong while fighting Erli.

Kim Famin, the king of Silla who had Kuang Fu Woo in mind and unified the three Koreas, panicked in the face of a mere 40,000 Tang troops. I don't dare to think about expelling the Tang Army and unifying the peninsula, so let's get through the current difficulties first.

If you don't steal chickens and lose rice, and you will lose the old Ben Silla, then there will be no place to cry. In order to prevent the Tang army from attacking Silla, Kim Famin immediately strengthened the border defenses, relying on the mountainous and steep terrain of the border area to build defensive fortifications and send heavy troops.

Attempted to block the Tang army outside the borders. "Make the generals guard their key points" - "Records of the Three Kingdoms" Kim Yu Xinchuan's colleague in strengthening the military garrison, the great Silla Wenwu king Kim Famin bowed his head in front of the Tang Dynasty - after the "Answer to Xue Rengui's Book", he once again listed the "Book of Begging for Crimes".

This "Book of Begging Crimes" has no need and value for analysis, because Jin Famin is trying his best to flatter the Tang Dynasty, talking about what the Tang Dynasty is "holy dynasty" and "heavenly soldiers", and talking about himself as "ministers", "sudden" (kowtowing) for a while, and "capital crime and capital crime" for a while. There is nothing formal or specific in the whole article. Later, I will attach this "Book of Beggars" as well. Its superb flattery and shameless brazenness are enough to serve as a model for future generations to write the "Review Book" and "Apology Letter".

Of course, Jin Famin knows that it is not enough to just talk about it and not practice. Datang is not so easy to fool, in order to show a little sincerity, Jin Famin also took out a reparation gift, a total of 33,500 points in silver and 33,000 points in copper. 400 needles, 120 points for bezoar, 120 points for gold, 6 horses for 40 liters of cloth, 60 pieces of cloth for 30 liters.

I don't know what the unit of measurement this cent was at that time, but according to my understanding, 10 is divided into 1 coin, and 10 is 1 tael. Then this guy also took out 1 tael of 2 taels of gold and 335 taels of silver. 330 taels of copper coins...... It's shabby. We all feel shabby, and for a large country rich in natural resources, it is even more of a hair.

Jin Famin knows that this gift is not much, but he can only take out these, and the life of Silla has not been easy recently, and he has been fighting for many years, almost hollowing out the national strength of Silla, and catching up with this year's harvest is not good - "It's the year, the Gu nobles are hungry" - "History of the Three Kingdoms" But Jin Famin still has a trick, this is Kim Famin's real gift - 170 Tang Dynasty prisoners of war.

The 170 prisoners of war included Sima Yujun of the Xiongjin Prefecture, including the Marquis of Tong'er, who transported military rations, and others. In addition to the return of prisoners of war. Jin Famin also returned the seized Datang's grain ships and other military funds to Datang.

In short, in order to protect himself, Jin Famin has made a lot of efforts: repairing fortifications, sending gold and silver, and pretending to be grandchildren...... However, Kim Famin, you are too worried. At present, Datang didn't want to beat you at all. Because compared to your Silla, Goguryeo's rebellion suppression is the most important.

After defeating the Silla army, the Tang army, under the command of Gao Wei and Li Jinxing, continued to clear the Goguryeo rebels.

After all, if the Goguryeo rebels did not clean up, it was impossible for the Tang army to safely go south to attack Silla. Because there is always someone behind you with a knife, whether it comes to cut you or not, you are always worried in your heart, and this is also normal. The more important reason is that the Tang Dynasty did not have many troops, not enough to defeat Silla in one battle.

The Tang Dynasty destroyed Goguryeo and Baekje, and the troops invested were more than 100,000, and the commanders of the army were all Li Shichang and Su Dingfang, who had great military achievements and experience. Silla was able to deal with Goguryeo and Baekje for decades without being destroyed, which shows that its strength is comparable to that of the two countries.

Therefore, just with Gao Wei and Li Jinxing, and with 40,000 Tang troops, they want to destroy people? Datang is still self-aware – at least not now. Silla ran away, and the Goguryeo rebels once again lost external support and would face the Tang army alone.

This time, we replaced the protagonist with Li Jinxing, as I said earlier, Li Jinxing is very powerful, how powerful? Let's take a look at Li Jinxing's table xiàn, and hope not to disappoint us.

During this time, I have done some tasteless analysis work, and I haven't known even a Tang Dynasty general for a long time, and today, our story starts with Li Jinxing. "(Li) is respectful of his great appearance, and bravely covers the ,......, in the army."

—— "New Tang Dynasty Book" Volume 123 Zhuyi Fan General Li Jinxing Resume Name: Li Jinxing Nationality: Yan Ya Nationality Year of Birth: No Examination Year of Death: 682 A.D. Career Resume: 665 Year, Governor of Yingzhou; In 666, he was the general of the Left Prison Gate; In 670, he led the army to the right of the general of Wei; …… Major achievements: Previously, there were no obvious military exploits in the annals of history, and there were not many appearances, and the only few opportunities to show his face so far were either to clean up the battlefield behind famous generals (such as Li Shichang), or to suppress bandits with other lesser-known generals (such as the ongoing liquidation of the Goguryeo rebels), and nothing else.

After reading this resume, it is really disappointing - so that you can sit on the right leading army of the general of the sixteen guards?

There is no need to doubt, because Li Jinxing is a "second generation general", and his father Tu Diji was a tribal chieftain, a general of the right guard, and a duke of Qi Guo before his death, and this duke fought hard by his military exploits. As the saying goes, Jiangmen Huzi, this Li Jinxing has followed his father to fight Liu Heimin and the Turks since he was a child, and he can be regarded as growing up from the war, and the war is certainly not strange to him, and the experience is definitely not lacking for him.

In addition, Li Jinxing also has an elite army - a private army of thousands of people! History has not told us about the causes and consequences of this private armed force, but everyone knows that anyone who can support a private armed force is not to be messed with!

With the blood of the Devil on his body, behind the gate, with a private army, and stationed at the border, you say he can't fight. He may have been wronged. From his five-year promotion experience, it can be known that Li Jinxing has fought a lot in the border areas, but why is he not famous? There is not much ink in the history books?

There are two reasons, the first. Li Jinxing's previous battles may not have been fought on a large scale, at most they were "a certain clan is Koubian, and Li Jinxing is defeated" and the like; Secondly, in the Gaozong Dynasty, Li Shixian, Su Dingfang, Xue Rengui, Qibi He Li and many other famous generals are too beautiful. So much so that people like Li Jinxing can only live under the glory of famous generals, and there is no chance to show their hands. Now, Li Shiyun, Su Dingfang and others are dead, and the old ones have a chance for Li Jinxing to come out.

has been hidden in the snow for a long time, and now, it is my turn to appear Li Jinxing. Okay, with all that introduced, let's take a look at Li Jinxing's table on the Korean Peninsula. In the fourth year of Xianheng, that is, in the fifth month of 673 A.D. Yi Jinxing led his army to the city of Vanu near Pyongyang, and planned to use it as a base to attack from all sides to sweep away the Goguryeo rebels. Li Jinxing's plan is good, but there is one question that will determine whether this plan can be implemented, and that is that there is no one to use - who to send behind?

Therefore, the key to attacking from all sides is to be stable in this point, otherwise you will just get out of the city with your front foot. If the rear foot is occupied by the rebels again, then the Tang army will not do anything else, and only keep attacking the city.

In the era of cold weapons, siege warfare was still very difficult to fight. Li Jinxing led 30,000 soldiers. Everyone knows that the combat effectiveness of the soldiers is beyond doubt, but it is difficult to find good generals in thousands of troops. From Li Jinxing's appearance to the present, there has not been a capable subordinate who can share Li Jinxing's worries.

And we know from the Tang Army's military operations to suppress the Goguryeo rebellion that the rebels are scattered all over Goguryeo, and you can't sit back and wait for the rebels to take the initiative to attack - the rebels are not stupid. They still know their own strength - their strategy is to delay, wear, and grind, drag it out for a few years, and when the rebel army grows and grows to the point where the Tang army is helpless, it will be considered a victory.

Picking and choosing, Li Jinxing did not find a suitable candidate, so he made a bold decision - if you don't defend it, the Goguryeo rebels will not dare to attack the city. Therefore, Li Jinxing left a small number of troops and the old and weak women and children in the city, and personally led the troops out of the city to sweep away.

By the way, in order to reassure the left-behind personnel, he treated them equally and left his wife behind. The meaning is probably this: I left my wife here, which means that I firmly believe that the rebels will not come.

You are safe, stay safe. Li Jinxing is very confident! In this way, Li Jinxing led the main force of the army out of the city to find the Goguryeo rebels, and when the confident Li Jinxing marched in the hometown of Goguryeo, he did not know that a pair of rebel eyes were closely watching Li Jinxing's every move.

Since Silla was defeated by the Tang army at Shiseong and retreated to China, the Goguryeo rebels knew that they had lost their most powerful help and would now face the Tang Dynasty alone.

In the past, our forces were scattered, we suffered great losses, and we were broken by the Tang army. can't go on like this, otherwise sooner or later it will be cleaned up by Datang one by one, and the restoration movement will all fail.

Now they can only unite and resist the Tang army together, the rebels have gathered their maximum strength, and they have also brought in an army that does not obey the Tang Dynasty, ready to carry out the final blow. However, they were quite aware of the combat effectiveness of Li Jinxing's troops, and they could not directly fight with them.

Since you can't fight hard, then sneak attack, sneak attack your lone small force - God help me, Li Jinxing actually divided his troops, leaving only a small number of troops in Vanu City. Let's start from Vannu.

After the main force of Li Jinxing's troops went away, the main force of the rebels quickly attacked the city of Vanu - this is almost an empty city, if you can't even take this city, it will be really intolerable! The soldiers are small and there are no generals, and the city of Vanu is in danger!

The rebels knew that Li Jinxing was not in the city, but the rebels did not know that Li Jinxing's wife was in the city. Women are not easy to bully!

When it was discovered that the main force of the rebels appeared outside the city of Vanu, Li Jinxing's wife Liu did not panic, and immediately summoned all the people in the city to run to the city, waving their flags and shouting, pretending to be posturing, and creating a false impression that there were heavy troops stationed in the city. Sortie? Don't think about it. Just make a show at the head of the city.

In order to boost the morale of the defenders, Liu also put on armor and ran to the city in person to cheer for everyone!

At the same time, Liu strictly ordered no one to leave the city without authorization, after all, the virtual and real rebels in the city were not clear, but she was still very clear. Liu's organizational ability is still very commendable, and with these indiscriminate defenders, they have resisted several attacks by the rebels, making the rebels can only "look at the city and sigh".

The siege war is to fight quickly, and if it drags on for a long time, when the enemy's reinforcements arrive, it will not be able to fight, and you can't run away, so you can only wait to be dumpling. A city that is said to have no soldiers and no generals can't even be captured, not because the Tang army is too powerful, but because the rebels are too incompetent!

This is still quite a severe blow to the psychology of the rebels. So, the rebels collapsed, withdraw! When Li Jinxing comes back, they will be greeted by the big swords and spears of the Tang Dynasty soldiers, which is even more fatal!

However, they didn't go far before they encountered the last thing they wanted to encounter. Shi Zai: "For a long time, retreat!" —— Analysis of Liu Shi, the wife of Li Jinxing, in volume 202 of "Zizhi Tongjian": For Liu's military performance this time, what the history books should say is true.

Li Jinxing took his wife with him when he went out on the expedition, but it can be seen that Liu served by Li Jinxing's side every day, followed him to the east and west, and watched how his husband commanded the troops to attack the city and destroy the battle, and gradually understood how to march and fight. And as a woman, she actually has her own armor, and it can be seen that this woman doesn't want to do only women's things, and she should be one

A who shouts and kills.

This time, Li Jinxing left her in the city of slaves, but gave her a chance to become famous! After the war, Liu was named "Lady of Yanguo" for this merit! Okay, this is the end of Liu's story, then let's see what Liu's husband Li Jinxing is doing now.

Li Jinxing led a large army to search for the Goguryeo rebels everywhere, and finally, with good luck, encountered the main force of the rebels who had just retreated from the city of Vannu near the Gulu River (瓠, pronounced hù, known as the Falu River in Tang history, present-day Imjin River in North Korea). People are unlucky, even if they drink cold water, they stuff their teeth. (To be continued.) )