Only three days after the victory of the Xia army in the southern battlefield, good news also came from the northern battlefield of Liaodong, and the Xia army of the northern route completely defeated the last army of Goguryeo led by Gao Wencan, and occupied all the cities of Liaodong City, Xincheng City, and Anshi City.

After Gao Wencan killed Gao Yangcheng and took power in a coup d'état, although he did not recognize Yuan Dazuo's Mo Zhili identity, and even wanted to kill Yuan Dazuo in Pyongyang City immediately, but in the face of the large-scale attack of the Xia army on the North Road, he still had to continue to organize operations on the battlefield in Liaodong.

In order to defeat the Xia army as soon as possible, he first used bribery to kill Gao Yanshou, the northern Goguryeo Raksa, and collected tens of thousands of troops in Gao Yanshou's hands, and then Gao Wencan used various means to persuade all the city lords of Goguryeo in Liaodong to hand over their military power.

Although these city lords were also reluctant to hand over their military power, the facts in front of them have shown that if they still only care about themselves, then Goguryeo will soon perish, so that the Goguryeo nobles who have killed many Han people over the years will inevitably not be able to escape the revenge of the Han people.

After collecting the troops in the hands of these city lords, Gao Wencan finally gathered an army of 250,000, and he faced Hu Bingchang, Ji Xiang, Jiang Chuan, and Xu Ning in the north, and the total army was only 140,000, in fact, the Goguryeo army was still worthy of a battle at this time.

However, Qu Liulang, together with Zhang Hang and Chu Honghang, set out by sea and quickly conquered Jian'an City at the mouth of the Liao River, and the troops pointed directly at Anshi City in the south of Gao Wencan's Liaodong City, which greatly threatened the back road of the Goguryeo army in Liaodong.

Although Zhang Hang and Chu Honghang's subordinates had only more than 20,000 people, after adding another 20,000 National Guards, their combat effectiveness rose sharply.

Although Chu Honghang is also the general of the Blue Wolf Army, he is the kind of fierce general who is good at charging into battle, and he is not good at commanding the battle array, so he is willing to obey the command of Zhang Hang and others, so that Zhang Hang, the Xia army, has both a general who is good at arranging the formation and a fierce general who charges bravely.

More than 40,000 troops attacked all the way, which can be described as invincible, and many improvised Goguryeo troops faced their attacks, and were often completely defeated by the Xia army with a single charge, which instead achieved the myth that the Xia army was invincible, and made Gao Wencan's troops panic.

Gao Wencan saw that the situation was not good, and his army was threatened to the back road, how could he calm down and fight with most of the Xia army, so he had to re-transfer another 50,000 people from the more than 200,000 troops in his hand to garrison Anshi City, and then cooperate with various cities, which was enough to delay for a while.

It's just that in this way, the army in Gao Wencan's hands is only 60,000 more than the Xia army, in order to delay the Xia army's marching speed, he sent out all the cavalry in his hand 50,000 cavalry, such a cavalry is already a very powerful cavalry even in Mobei.

However, Hu Bingchang, Jiang Chuan, and Xu Ning had already suffered a big loss from the concentrated attack of the Goguryeo cavalry, and this time Hu Bingchang and others no longer dispersed the cavalry, and even Ji Xiang, an independent cavalry division, began to accept Hu Bingchang's command again.

In this way, Hu Bingchang personally led a cavalry division, and the strength of Yan Xiaowu, Yang Wu, and Ji Xiang was already a powerful cavalry force of 60,000 cavalry.

When the 50,000 cavalry of Goguryeo came to harass the Xia army, they were instead ambushed by the Xia cavalry, and these Xia cavalry were not as simple as the Goguryeo people, they were not only equipped with high-quality sabers made of steel swords, but even each of them was equipped with crossbow arrows, and each of them had a variety of long and short weapons.

The most unexpected thing for the Goguryeo people is that these cavalry are also equipped with a large number of thunderbolts, rockets and other weapons, when the Goguryeo cavalry launched an attack, but they were beaten by the Xia cavalry in turn and did not know the east, west, north, south, and middle, which made the Goguryeo cavalry aggrieved, who was the one who attacked!

Soon, this team of 50,000 cavalry had to flee back to Xincheng under the counterattack of the Xia cavalry, but when it went out, it was 50,000, and when it came back, there were only more than 30,000 cavalry.

But at this time, he couldn't take care of it so much, Xia Jun still continued to approach the new city unhurriedly, the new city is different from Anshi City, it is only about dozens of miles away from Liaodong City, it can be said that they are already in the corner.

Gao Wencan was ready to rely on these two fortified cities, especially Liaodong City, as a battle to resist the Xia army, after all, the Xia army had limited troops, as long as it suffered serious casualties in the attack, it would inevitably withdraw, and then Goguryeo could have a chance to continue.

Jiang Chuan, Hu Bingchang, Xu Ning and others discussed how to attack the Goguryeo army in Liaodong, and they agreed that these two cities were tall and strong, especially Liaodong City, and the terrain was even more dangerous, so if they wanted to conquer them all, they could only concentrate their forces.

In the end, they decided to adopt the strategy of concentrating their forces to conquer Xincheng first, and then besiege Liaodong City with a large army, so that when the army besieged, it was even possible to attract the Goguryeo army in Liaodong City to attack, and Hu Bingchang could also lead the cavalry to kill these Goguryeo troops.

Gao Wencan quickly knew Xia Jun's idea, although he also knew that Xia Jun had some advantages in besieging the city and sending reinforcements, but he still couldn't sit idly by, after all, many of these armies were the forces of the city lords and the sas, and they had not been concentrated in their hands for a long time, in case they saw that they did not go to rescue and surrendered angrily, wouldn't it be bad? Zero Long Literature Network

After some consideration, Gao Wencan sent Bai Wenli, the most powerful general under his command, to lead all the cavalry to continue to attack, disturbing the offensive of the Xia army, and also had the intention of attracting the cavalry of the Xia army, so that Gao Wencan could lead the infantry to attack.

Throughout the winter, the cavalry of the Xia army was engaged in battle with the Goguryeo cavalry, but the Goguryeo cavalry was much weaker than the cavalry of the Xia army, and they lost 20,000 cavalry because they did not know the battle situation before, so they could not resist the Xia army at this time.

Gao Wencan not only had to rescue the new city in the north, but also had to meet the defenders of Anshi City in the south from time to time, and these cavalrymen became firefighters for more time, until they were finally completely surrounded and annihilated by 45,000 cavalry led by Hu Bingchang himself.

With the fall of these 30,000 Goguryeo cavalry, Gao Wencan's support for the Goguryeo defenders in Xincheng became more and more unable to keep up.

Soon, the Xia army used 20,000 cavalry to completely cut off the communication between Xincheng and Liaodong City, and then Jiang Chuan and Xu Ning immediately waved their troops to storm Xincheng.

The new city was originally garrisoned by sixty or seventy thousand people, if there was the assistance of Liaodong City before, they could still hold on, which involved a morale problem, in ancient times, cold weapons were the most important thing to morale, even if the number of troops was small, the weapons were not good, as long as the morale was high, there was a great chance of winning.

When the Xia army was attacking before, the Goguryeo defenders in Xincheng suffered great losses, and at this time, in the face of the cutting off of the rescue direction of Liaodong City, the Xia army began a full-scale attack again, so the morale of the Goguryeo defenders in the city quickly declined.

Especially after the Xia army suddenly used observation balloons, the morale of these Goguryeo defenders was even lowered, so in the next ten days, the Xia army outside the city used the night to dig a tunnel in the north and east city walls at the same time.

After digging out the tunnel, the Xia army buried tens of thousands of catties of black powder in the tunnel, so in an earth-shattering explosion, the city wall of the new city was forced to blow up two wide gaps, tens of thousands of Xia troops quickly entered the new city through these two gaps, and the Goguryeo defenders in the new city quickly broke out and fled in all directions.

In the end, when Gao Wencan learned the news and came to the rescue, he only rescued less than 20,000 people, and after losing the horn of the new city, the southern Anshi City was too far away from Liaodong City, and it was impossible to echo each other, so the Liaodong City defended by Gao Wencan was already an isolated city.

When the Sui Dynasty attacked Goguryeo for the first time in history, it was blocked by the Liaodong City, which was built on the Great Black Mountain, although the terrain was very dangerous, but this was definitely not an excuse for the Sui army to attack the city under the fortified city.

At that time, the main reason why the Sui army besieged Liaodong City with millions of troops was because Emperor Yang of Sui was so happy, although Yang Er's buddy was indeed talented, but marching and fighting are all things that generals should do, and you have to take the harem to drive the army to conquer in person, which is simply a mess.

However, in order to declare his authority in front of the kings and envoys of various countries, Yang Er insisted on using the most naked strength to deter these kings and envoys, and wanted to use the most powerful troops to subdue Goguryeo.

Originally, the Sui army was about to conquer Liaodong City many times, and he didn't want to be blinded by Yang Er's command, even if he knew that the Goguryeo people were taking the opportunity of fake surrender as a delaying tactic, but he still insisted on asking the Sui soldiers who were supposed to conquer the city to retreat.

As soon as the Sui army retreated, the Goguryeo people immediately turned their faces and refused to admit it, so the Sui army attacked again, and when the Goguryeo people couldn't stand it, they asked to surrender again.

From this point, it can be seen how similar the Sui army attacked Liaodong City at that time and the Northern Qi Gao Wei led the army to attack Pingyang City.

After knowing the reason why the Sui army was unable to conquer Liaodong City in the first place, Wang Ze equipped the Xia army on the northern route with a large number of weapons, gunpowder, and even hundreds of craftsmen, who also made hundreds of giant trebuchets like the southern battlefield.

And these trebuchets use not only one hundred and fifty catties of round boulders, but even a giant explosive bag of hundreds of catties, in order to ensure the victory of the Xia army, Wang Ze can say that nearly half of the gunpowder storage is sent to Xu Ning and Jiang Chuan.

After Jiang Chuan and Xu Ning inspected, they thought that the city of Liaodong was strong and tall, so they simply continued to strengthen the trebuchet and fired a huge explosive bag of 200 catties.

It is conceivable that even black powder, when the weight of this explosive package reaches two hundred catties, what kind of power can burst out.

Under this kind of tragic attack, the city wall of Liaodong City was quickly destroyed a gap of dozens of steps, with this gap it was easy to attack, let Gao Wencan organize the elite army to counterattack many times, the Xia army still slowly but firmly attacked the interior of Liaodong City.