934. Occupy the city of An
Not long after, the Tang army also announced the occupation of Anshi City, and Anshi fell into the hands of the Tang Army. And Yang Wanchun, the city lord of Anshi, left Anshi with the remaining more than 2,000 troops, and then ran in the direction of the east of the city. This is also a pity, after all, the Tang army was not able to surround Anshi, which gave them a chance to escape. However, in the end, Anshi was still occupied, so the Tang army could also prepare here to wait for the arrival of enemy reinforcements. As for whether the 100,000 Goguryeo reinforcements led by Yuangai Suwen will come, there is no way to know. Because the original purpose of those reinforcements was actually to let Yang Wanchun hold Anshi, and then fight with 100,000 reinforcements inside and outside. But now that Anshi has fallen, their plan will not succeed. Whether they will come or not, there is no way to know.
Jingwen sat on the seat of Yang Wanchun's City Lord's Mansion, tasted Yang Wanchun's tea, and said, "I didn't expect that this Yang Wanchun actually has this hobby. I knew that he liked to drink tea, so I, the first tea merchant in Datang, would give him some! ”
Dugumou wanted to laugh a little, Jingwen actually said cool things at this time, but this one was obviously laughing at this Yang Wanchun. However, Jingwen has the qualifications to laugh at Yang Wanchun, because Jingwen really defeated Yang Wanchun, so Yang Wanchun deserved to be ridiculed.
"Dugumou, how many soldiers have we lost this time?" Jingwen asked.
Dugu Mou replied: "About seven hundred!" ”
"More than seven hundred, with advanced tactics, is there still more than seven hundred casualties?" Jingwen was a little helpless.
In fact, this qiē is Yang Wanchun's insistence on this has caused the current result, if Yang Wanchun can take the initiative to retreat after the city is broken, then maybe there will be no current result. But Yang Wanchun just refused to take the initiative to retreat, which could only make both sides suffer a lot of losses. However, Jingwen used formations and tactics suitable for street fighting in a timely manner, which made the losses of the Tang army much smaller. The Goguryeo people lost seven or eight thousand, and they lost more than seven hundred, which was only one-tenth of the other party's. What's not to be satisfied with this? So Jingwen was also a little helpless.
"Gather the soldiers and send them back to China for burial!" Jingwen said.
"Okay!" Dugumou replied.
In fact, it was possible to conquer this city with only more than 700 people. What's not to be satisfied with this? You must know that in the original history, Li Shimin led hundreds of thousands of troops to besiege Anshi, but it was not fought for several months. Yang Wanchun, who is in Shou'an City, has also become a rare failure for Li Shimin. And now Jingwen has knocked down Anshi, which can be regarded as a reversal of the original history. Yang Wanchun's tactics of defending the city were fundamentally vulnerable in the face of Jingwen's absolute strength. And Jingwen's street fighting tactics can be said to restrain Yang Wanchun's city defense tactics, and the support and cover of various artillery fires allowed the army to easily conquer the city wall. This point was that Li Shimin in the original history could not do it, so the Tang army in this period was much stronger than the combat effectiveness in the original history.
As long as Liaodong City and Anshi are successfully conquered, it means that Goguryeo's first line of defense against the Tang Dynasty has completely collapsed. Now the Tang Dynasty can continue to attack at any time, and then attack the hinterland of Goguryeo. As for what's next. The hinterland of Goguryeo is not inhabited by many people. You must know that the entire country of Goguryeo is only a few million people, but it has almost half of the three northeastern provinces of later generations, as well as more than half of the Korean Peninsula, and such a huge land has only a few million people, which is enough to show that their land is vast and sparsely populated.
The population of Goguryeo is mainly concentrated on the Korean Peninsula in the capital Pyongyang, and as for the population of the defense line of Liaodong City and Anshi, they will arrange the population here in order to be able to resist the attack of the Central Plains Dynasty. Anshi also has the defense line of Liaodong, which is the most important line of defense against the Central Plains Dynasty. It is also a bridgehead for them to open up to the Central Plains Dynasty, so this is a place where the population must be arranged. However, the defense line of this generation of Liaodong Anshi has collapsed, so the next step is much easier.
As for the reinforcements of Goguryeo, they could only choose to fight in the field with the Tang army. But they fought field battles with the Don army. It will definitely not be the opponent of the Don Army. Goguryeo's army was only a few hundred thousand, and if Goguryeo's 100,000 reinforcements came this time, as long as they were defeated, their vitality would be greatly lost. Jingwen is not afraid of them coming now. On the contrary, I very much hope that these Goguryeo reinforcements will come and die by themselves, and then Jingwen can rely on artillery to bombard them, they can't hold it at all.
"Jie Shuai. We raided the rich families in the city and the wealth of the city lord Yang Wanchun. In the private treasury of the city lord Yang Wanchun, we found a lot of wealth. These riches are more than one million yuan, all of which have been looted by Yang Wanchun for officials over the years. And a Yang Wanchun city lord can loot more than a million guan, so how much can someone who is much taller than him scavenge? This is still some floating wealth, if the territory and land under their name are wrapped, then we don't know how much benefit we can get. With Liaodong, our people in the Tang Dynasty are enough to multiply millions of people! Lin Fei said excitedly.
This time it is a resumption of land for the country, although it is only a nominal recovery of the country, but it is no different from expanding the territory. And Lin Fei still Yan Zhan Zhòng underestimated the ability of this Liaodong. In the future, the three northeastern provinces will have a population of hundreds of millions, so if they occupy this northeast, it will be enough to support at least tens of millions of people, which is almost equal to several times the current population of Datang. Moreover, the Northeast is still in an undeveloped state, and it can not only be used for agriculture in the future, but also for animal husbandry. Moreover, the reserves of various industrial resources are also very sufficient. There are also a lot of forest resources, and there are countless resources that cannot be seen for a while.
Therefore, the northeast area is a "North Warehouse", and later generations have the saying that they beat the roe deer and scoop the fish, which is enough to show the richness here. As long as this land can be obtained, it is enough for the people of the whole country to provide for it. Although it is not possible to develop it for a while, it must at least be stored first, so that there is enough time to develop. That is, it is necessary to establish sovereignty first, so that there is no fear of losing it in the future, and even if it is lost for a while, there is a reason to want it back. Therefore, it is necessary to establish sovereignty, and then intensify the immigration policy to attract the people. (To be continued......)