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The bombardment of the Flying Thunder Cannon had been going on for about a day and a night, and the Goguryeo people in the city had suffered heavy losses. Of course, the heaviest damage was not the casualties caused by the explosion, but the houses and various wooden buildings that were set ablaze by the bombardments. And the fire is not the biggest problem, but the biggest problem is that the Tang Dynasty is still firing shells, infecting the Goguryeo people inside to fight the fire. In this way, in the case of constantly having new fire points, and the people are very unfavorable to fight fires, it will cause a large number of fires. The inside of Goguryeo City was red, apparently a quarter of the city was burned, and this wooden building material was obviously very unstable.

And many people have tried to break through, but the final effect is very small, or even no effect. Datang has already aimed many general cannons at the city gate, as long as anyone who breaks through will be shot back by the cannons. And Datang's purpose is also very obvious, that is, to trap them in the city and suffocate to death. If they don't surrender, then they will be roasted as suckling pigs.

And the reason why Datang did this was to prevent them from running to other places to continue to resist Datang and fight guerrilla warfare with Datang after they came out. In terms of ancient conditions, guerrilla warfare was a great headache, not to mention that I was still fighting in a foreign country and was not familiar with the terrain. Therefore, they must be forced to surrender all their high-level resisters at once, so that all the resistance forces can disappear. As for the common people, they either surrendered, and if they resisted a little, they were reduced to slavery.

"Your Majesty, the fire in the city has burned. Now a quarter of the houses have been burned down, what are we going to do? If this continues, our whole Pyongyang will be burned to the ground, and then we will all die without a place to bury! It's better to ask the king to surrender quickly, as long as Datang surrenders, he will be able to stop firing artillery, and then we can put out the fire. Gao Zang also said.

Although Gozang was a royal family of Goguryeo, he now knew that it had come to this point. It's better to surrender. After all, if he insisted on not surrendering, Anke would be demoted to slavery by the Tang Dynasty. As a royal family, it is naturally impossible for them to be slaves. Even if you surrender, you can still ensure that you don't have to worry about food and clothing. But once you become a slave, you really have no place to die. So Gaozang also wants to surrender, and now that it has reached this point, what can he do. A quarter of the buildings in the city have already been burned, and there will be more losses in the future, and then the entire city of Pyongyang will be burned to the ground, and the 100,000 people in the city of Pyongyang will also be burned to death. Do you want 100,000 people to be martyred in Goguryeo?

Takazo knows. If he surrenders, then with the prestige of the royal Gao family in Goguryeo, the Tang Dynasty will inevitably need the Gao family to help rule, and the Gao family can also rely on the prestige of the past to live well. But once 100,000 Goguryeo people were burned to death, the Gao family had no prestige among the people, and the people hated the Gao family to death at that time. When the time comes, let the Tang Dynasty let them help govern Goguryeo, that is, I am afraid that the first thing is to destroy the Gao family and calm the anger of the people of Goguryeo. After all, at this time, don't let the people in Pyongyang come to give Goguryeo a funeral.

"No, no, no. If we surrender, we will definitely die without a place to be buried! You get out of here, whoever dares to say surrender again, I will kill him! Gao Jianwu still said angrily.

Gao Zang couldn't, so he had to go out of the palace gate. And he saw a fire all around him. And not only did Datang not only fire cannons, but Gao Zang also kept sticking to the city wall. During this time, although Takazo found that these cannons were irregular, there was a dead end. That is under the city walls. This is a very important dead end. As long as they hide in a dead corner under the city wall, the cannonball will hardly hit them. So Takazo walked along the bottom of the castle walls, although it took a lot of time. But it's safe!

Takazo came to the top of the castle wall and raised the white flag, declaring that he wanted to continue to negotiate peace. When Datang saw this, they all stopped firing, after all, Jingwen thought they wanted to surrender.

"General, our Goguryeo is about to surrender, can you stop bombing? At least let us put out the fire in the city." Takazo asked.

Jingwen actually didn't expect that the wooden houses in this era would burn so badly, and a quarter of the city would be burned down at once. And this qiē also provided benefits to Jingwen's carpet bombing, which further dealt a blow to the Goguryeo people's will to resist. Anyway, Jingwen did not contact the Goguryeo people to fight, that is, through the means of long-range bombing such as guò, and the Goguryeo people had no way at all. Now I am forced to come to negotiate peace.

And Jingwen immediately said: "You must surrender!" ”

"I am willing to surrender on behalf of our Goguryeo, and I think many soldiers and people in the city will also be willing!" Takazo said.

However, Jingwen said: "You must personally sign the surrender edict of Goguryeo, and then we will stop the bombing." And you Goguryeo kings must come out and surrender in person, otherwise we are still in a state of war, then we will not stop bombing! ”

Gao Zang said directly: "Now that Brother Wang is crazy, we have no way to persuade him to surrender!" ”

"Then I can't help it! If it were not for your king's edict, we would not have recognized your surrender! Jingwen said.

After all, in ancient times, if there was no edict of surrender from a king, the surrender of the country would be illegal. Gyeongwen had to obtain a surrender edict from the king of Goguryeo in order to be considered a surrender. If they don't admit it, they will continue to bomb until the Goguryeo people surrender.

In fact, it is okay to accept the surrender of the Goguryeo people now, but Jingwen deliberately sat on the ground and raised the price, and deliberately let Gao Jianwu's edict surrender. If it weren't for Gao Jianwu's edict, then Jingwen would not have recognized their surrender, and the war would have continued. And Gao Jianwu naturally couldn't surrender, because he was already crazy. Jingwen just wanted to see it, and deliberately continued to bomb Goguryeo, so as to kill more people.

"Can we stop shelling for a while and let us put out the fire?" Takazo also said.

"No, we will only stop the shelling until you take out your edict from the king of Goguryeo! As long as the edict does not arrive for a day, then we will not stop shelling for a day. Jingwen said. (To be continued......)