Chapter 178: Troops Arrive in Pyongyang
Under the city of Pyongyang, Goguryeo, 40,000 Xianbei wolf tribes have surrounded the city of Pyongyang. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć The 40,000 Xianbei wolf army is almost all of their soldiers, including the elderly, women, and children. However, the soldiers who actually participated in the war were actually 20,000.
Don't underestimate the 20,000 iron cavalry of the Xianbei Wolf Clan, whose combat strength is equivalent to 500,000 troops! This is just like the 60,000 iron cavalry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, which actually swept away thousands of miles of splendid rivers and mountains in the Ming Dynasty and defeated the 2 million troops of the Ming Dynasty! Including Li Zicheng's million peasant army. From then on, the Han people were forced to shave their hair and change their clothes, and they kept the ghost-like money rat tail, that is, the braids were thinner than the little fingers, and they had to be able to pass through the square holes in the copper coins. It's been like this for more than 200 years!
Judging from the current battle situation, the morale of the Xianbei wolf clan is high, while the morale of the officers and men of Goguryeo is low, and the last city of Pyongyang, which is also the capital of Goguryeo, is already in danger.
According to the consistent style of the Xianbei wolf people, once the city that is resisted is broken, it must be slaughtered! The king of Goguryeo is in the palace of Pyongyang at this moment, and when the city is broken, he will inevitably be in a different place, and Goguryeo will be destroyed!
In the royal city of Goguryeo, in the palace of Pyongyang City, King Xianlu (Goguryeo Kingdom was called Xianlu this year, and the King of Goguryeo was also called King Xianlu) urgently convened a court meeting, and the general Song Yi, the Tang Dynasty envoy Zhang Qi, and the ministers of civil and military affairs all came to the main hall early. King Xianlu also attended in full costume today, and he was usually reluctant to wear the Jiangnan Yunjin silk robe given to him by the Tang Emperor, maybe he had a hunch that his time was running out, and he would have no time if he didn't enjoy it!
The civil and military ministers stood under their heads and were silent, and King Xianlu glanced at the ministers, shook the ultimatum in his hand and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, are you going to give King Gu an idea? This ultimatum in Lone Hand is the third prince of the Xianbei Wolf Clan, King Dorada of Jingyi has sent an ultimatum from the messenger! Dorada asked King Lone to surrender unconditionally within three days, otherwise the siege will begin in three days, and the city will be slaughtered if the city is broken, and people and animals will not be left alive!"
When the civil and military ministers standing under His Highness heard this, they were all so frightened that they couldn't stand steadily. Pu Zhi, the Taifu and Minister of Internal Affairs, stepped forward and knelt down with shaking his legs and said: "Your Majesty, from the perspective of the old minister, the Xianbei wolf clan is extremely brave and bloodthirsty! If the king does not agree to their request, then once the city is broken, the Xianbei wolf clan will do what he says, and by that time, there will be no living creatures in Pyongyang!"
King Xianlu hesitated, he didn't know what to do. When Xianlu was left and right, the general said loudly: "The king must not listen to the villain's slander and mislead the country, the Xianbei wolf clan iron cavalry burns, kills, and plunders everywhere he goes, and there are no people and animals in the villages he passes! What's more, the young and beautiful women are used as dry food for the march, and they are killed at night and during the day to eat meat, which is not as good as a beast! Such a despicable clan must be eliminated, how can there be any reason to negotiate peace with the wolf? The king has heard that the evil wolf has sincerity? The evil wolf has had mercy? The Xianbei wolf clan's move is to break the city before the reinforcements of the Tang Empire come and kill our entire clan! The king has to think twice!"
Zhang Qi, the envoy of the Tang Empire who had just infiltrated Pyongyang City late yesterday night, followed up and said: "The general is very right! This envoy came to the royal city at the risk of dying to convey the will of His Majesty the Emperor, and the Emperor has decreed that 30,000 elite iron cavalry will be newly formed, and they will arrive at the royal city in half a year! Therefore, as long as the king holds on for another half a year, the Tang Iron Cavalry will definitely come and step on the wolf clan!"
The general Song Yi patted his chest: "Okay! I think the 100,000 soldiers and civilians in my royal city are not given in vain, my royal city has enough grain and grass to supply for two years, and it is never a problem to hold on for half a year!" King Xianlu has always had a question in his heart, and it is usually inconvenient to say that today it happened that the envoy Zhang Qi was also there, so King Xianlu simply said boldly:" King Gu has always wanted to ask the envoys, the Tang Dynasty and Goguryeo are separated by water, and the 50,000 iron cavalry of the Great Tang Empire's Beida Battalion are stationed in Jinshan, Yanjing, and if they travel day and night, they will be able to reach the royal city in ten days, may I ask the respected envoys of the Tang Dynasty, why didn't the Tang Emperor send General Wu Keji, the head of the march of the Northern Battalion, to lead 50,000 iron cavalry to come to support? Do you have to re-establish a new army of 30,000? Can you have time at this time?"
Zhang Qi said with a smile: "The king doesn't know, General Wu Keji's 50,000 iron cavalry is the Dinghai Divine Needle set up in the entire north of the Tang Empire, and it is not only responsible for the security of the northern part of the empire, but also has the responsibility of guarding the Beijing Division!
King Xianlu seemed to understand the truth, and he nodded and said no more. The Taifu and Minister of the Interior, Park Zhi, was a sleek and timid man who was afraid of death, and he did not dare to say anything more now, he was afraid that the general would strangle him to death in a hurry. Park Zhi has his own ideas, and he plans to send his henchmen to quietly contact the Xianbei wolf clan......
In the end, the opinions of the court were all in favor of the general, and the king of Goguryeo gritted his teeth and officially issued a document when he saw this situation, sternly rejecting the persuasion of the Xianbei wolf clan, and scolding the Xianbei wolf clan and the third prince Dorada by the way. The king of Goguryeo felt that he was particularly comfortable after scolding people today, and his courage was stronger, and his anger was also smoothed! He seemed to feel that his own image had also become taller in front of the civil and military officials.
After receiving the reply from the king of Goguryeo, Dorada, the third prince of the Xianbei wolf clan, was furious, and he ordered the wolf tribe iron cavalry to immediately attack the city! However, the soldiers and people of Pyongyang City resisted bravely and repelled the crazy attacks of the wolf tribe again and again, and more than 200 corpses of the wolf tribe iron horsemen were left under the city wall of Pyongyang.
The third prince, Dorada, could not bear such a loss, so he had to order the troops to be withdrawn. His heart was full of anger, and this suppressed and unvented anger made the third prince even more cruel. Behind the anger is the accumulation of incomparably cruel revenge! Dorada is not only brave and brutal, but more importantly, he has extraordinary military talents. Dorada is not short-sighted, he has a very broad vision.
The 50,000 iron cavalry of the Northern Battalion of the Tang Empire was like a sword hanging over his head! This sword would fall and pierce his head at some point. However, Dorada judged that this sword would not fall at least for the time being, because of the restlessness of the western Mengchong, the Tang Emperor must use the 50,000 iron cavalry of the Northern Battalion to contain the Mengchong. Once the Beidaying Iron Cavalry came thousands of miles to aid Pyongyang City, Mengchong would inevitably raise troops and smash the Tang Jingshi.
Yang Shu, the god of war of the Tang Empire's Nanda Battalion (marching chief), was a suspicious general like Sima Yi, although he once led 30,000 iron cavalry to sweep away the 500,000 heavenly lions of Nanyue! He also shot the king of Nanyue with a big bow and an arrow, but he could not have sent troops to King Qin before the situation was clear. The final result was that Meng Chong captured Jingshi, and the Tang Emperor was destroyed. Therefore, Dorada expected that the Tang Emperor would never use the iron cavalry of the Beidaying camp, so he would attack Goguryeo unscrupulously and besiege Pyongyang City.
Dorada is worthy of being the first wise general of the Xianbei wolf clan, and the current situation is exactly the same as he expected, and Dorada's excellence is also the reason why Xianbei Khan made him the crown prince. Doralda's military plan was to capture the city of Pyongyang at minimal cost, and then expand the army to rest after the massacre. He wants to completely erase Goguryeo from the map, and then wave his army south to eat the 50,000 iron horsemen of the Northern Battalion of the Tang Empire!
As for the 3,000 defenders of Jianzhou, Dorada never took them seriously. As long as he can kill the 50,000 iron cavalry of the Datang Beida Battalion, then the Datang Jingshi will be in his hands. As for Mengchong, you can recruit An, and if you can't do it, you will join forces with the Sichuan Fengjia army to kill Mengchong.
The success of this perfect plan depends on whether or not the city of Pyongyang can be successfully captured! The city of Pyongyang must not be attacked with too great losses, and it is necessary to besiege the city of Pyongyang for several months, so that its morale will be weakened, food and grass will be exhausted, and the army and people will be exhausted before taking it in one fell swoop. This was Dorala's whole set of military plans! Dorada ordered the whole army not to attack again, but to surround but not fight. The Goguryeo soldiers in the city and the Xianbei wolf soldiers in the city stared at each other every day, as if they could kill each other by looking at each other like this.