After escaping back to Pyongyang, Yuangai Suwen immediately adopted Gao Jianwu's nephew Gao Zang as the new king.

After that, they swept the floor and frantically recruited Goguryeo's men, women, and children, and at the same time robbed them of all their food and goods.

When it came to the beginning of spring, I didn't mean to engage in spring ploughing at all, after all, even Goguryeo was gone after losing the battle, and what spring ploughing was still going on.

Through almost frenzied oppression and plundering, Yuangai Suwen cobbled together an army of hundreds of thousands in a short period of time.

At the same time, sufficient food and grass were gathered to supply these so-called armies for several months.

Yuangai Suwen also knew that the Tang Army had a secret weapon called gunpowder, which was not too secret, after all, fireworks were also available in Goguryeo.

It's a pity that there is no time now, otherwise Yuan Gai Suwen will definitely be crazy to study the secret of this thing.

He knew that he couldn't even carry a strong city defense like Anseong, and Pyongyang naturally couldn't do it.

So he distributed his troops and horses along the mountain from Yalu River to Pyongyang City.

These are stationed on the mountains, in the narrow valleys, and in the simple pass cities.

The order given to the defenders behind each line of defense was simple: kill whoever came over.

The Tang army crossed the Yalu water and headed south, and almost every hill and road would be blocked, and those men, women, and children who had come over threw stones, wood, dirt, and everything they could find from the mountains.

These Goguryeo people caused even more trouble than their regular army.

Li Jing suggested to Li Er to take the waterway and cross the sea to Pyongyang City.

If you take the waterway, you can avoid the endless mountains in the north and land directly on the west coast plain to attack Huanglong.

But this seemingly correct suggestion was rejected by Li Er without hesitation.

The reason for the refusal is simple, he is here to destroy the country.

The simple capture of Pyongyang City is not a complete achievement, and in the hundreds of years of Goguryeo's history, the capital has been captured many times, but Goguryeo has always struggled to survive.

Li Er knew very well that if he wanted to destroy Goguryeo, he had to arrange for all the people in this land to be disposed of, otherwise it would be useless to occupy the entire territory of Goguryeo.

Historically, after Li Zhi conquered Goguryeo, he migrated all the locals to Middle-earth, and there was no chance of recovering the country.

Li Er's plan is similar, but the means are more intense.

The Tang army began to fight for each hill and mountain road by mountain.

They dismounted their horses, wore armor and stomachs, held weapons and shields, and climbed up the hill step by step.

Resist the stones thrown with armor and shields, dodge the thick rolling logs, and climb with both hands and feet until they rush into the Goguryeo camp and kill them all.

Some Goguryeo people resisted fiercely and often fought to the last man.

Some Goguryeo people were terrified and would turn around and run away when they couldn't bear it.

The Tang troops of each department took turns to fight, and round after round of fighting broke through the defense line of the Goguryeo people.

When the killing is rising, Wei Chi Jingde, Xue Wanche, Xue Rengui and others will even charge into battle in person.

Yuangai Suwen used the terrain advantage to the limit, and also used the human resources to the extreme.

While inflicting considerable losses on the Tang army and extending the time limit for the Tang army's attack, the population of Goguryeo was also losing at an extremely high rate.

The time has come to May, and this year's spring ploughing of Goguryeo has been missed, even if the Tang army withdraws now, Goguryeo will inevitably have a famine after the autumn harvest, and more than half of the people will starve to death.

But Li Er didn't care about the losses of the Tang army at all, and still arranged for all departments to attack one by one.

By the end of May, the Tang Army, which had fallen into a rotten battle, finally broke through the face-faced mountain defense line and approached the city of Pyongyang.

In the countless battles along the way, how many Goguryeo people were eliminated, even the Tang army himself could not count.

After all, according to the military discipline of the Tang Army, ordinary people are not considered war exploits.

As early as after learning the news of Gao Jianwu's death, Yuangai Suwen had already made up his final decision.

He Gao Jianwu can die for Goguryeo, and Yuangai Suwen naturally has this awareness.

In the past few months, the entire city of Pyongyang and its surroundings have been transformed into a spiked fortress at the expense of the people.

The last of Goguryeo's forces were concentrated near the city of Pyongyang.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians drained the waters inside and outside Pyongyang.

After the siege of the city by the Tang army, the siege began.

First, the strongholds around Pyongyang City were uprooted one by one, and then the defenses outside the city were eradicated.

The two sides fought, and countless corpses were thrown into the trenches.

The golden horses were treated as livestock that could be discarded at any time, and they dragged the antler stakes desperately with ropes and arrows.

The strong men of the Tang Army wielded hammers and smashed the walls of sheep and horses layer by layer.

Every time you move forward, you will pay a big price.

After all, the armor of the Tang army could not cope with the pits that suddenly appeared under their feet, nor could they withstand the fire oil thrown by the Goguryeo people, and they could not block the bed crossbows shot from the city wall, etc., etc.

The most exaggerated time was when the Tang army was fighting fiercely with the defenders in a trench, and the Goguryeo people, who had been planning for a long time, directly released water to fill the entire trench as deep as a zhangxu, drowning themselves and the Tang army together.

It can be said that the Goguryeo people exhausted all the means they could think of.

In the face of the continuous losses of the Tang army, Li Er was not moved in the slightest like a piece of wood, and just kept sending sergeants up to clear the defensive facilities outside the city.

At his level, a commander has long been mentally prepared for losses on the battlefield.

When he was emperor, he cherished his people, because everyone had to pay taxes to him.

But on the battlefield, the sergeants are just the number of the battles he won.

After the Tang army paid thousands of losses, it finally broke a passage to the city.

Under the frantic shouts and attacks of the defenders at the head of the city, a large shield car wrapped with three layers of thick iron sheets was pushed towards the city wall little by little under the gaze of countless pairs of eyes.

The defenders desperately resisted with all kinds of equipment, and the crossbow of the bed shot aggressively, making a dull sound when it landed on the shield cart, but unfortunately it could not be shot.

The stones thrown by the stone thrower were smashed on the ceiling, and the stones were still impenetrable.

As the shield cart got closer and closer to the city wall, the defenders, who had gradually fallen into frenzy, even sent out death squads to rush forward desperately to block the shield cart.

Then the covering force of the Tang army will also desperately block it, and in the midst of the tragic killing, the shield cart finally approached the city wall.

As the dead men pushing the shield carts fled frantically, the defenders at the head of the city also began to flee.

The Goguryeo daredevils rushed desperately under the shield cart, but the fuse had already burned into the thick wall, and they didn't even know how to extinguish it.

Many of the brave men pushed the shield cart desperately, trying to push the shield cart away from the city wall.

But the ground hoe of the shield cart has been lowered, and its weight is extremely large, where can be easily pushed away.

With the sound of a thunderclap from the sky, all the efforts of the defenders were wiped out.

The soldiers of the Tang army rushed into the city, but they were surprised to find that the city had been transformed into a war fortress.

The junction was sealed, the courtyard wall was reinforced, and the ground was full of traps and moats, and countless Goguryeo people hid with various weapons, farm tools, and even wooden guns.

For this kind of scene, Li Er has only one order, and that is to fight!

Li Yunze is building a temporary wharf on the shore not far from Pyongyang, and the logistics and transportation lines will be mainly seaborne.

Li Er's envoy found him and asked him how best to attack in the face of such a complex environment.

"You brought so much gunpowder, you can't bring it back, can you?"

Li Yunze said slowly: "Don't go through the streets, just use gunpowder to open the way and blow up the courtyard walls and houses along the way." When you encounter a place that cannot be attacked, you can directly use gunpowder to blow it up. After capturing so many prisoners, he arranged to fill in the ditch and bury the pit to transport the soil. Use all the power in your hands, this

There is nothing to save at any time. ”

Li Yunze, who gave his opinion, no longer paid attention to the battle in the city, and was not even willing to go over, so he arranged logistics on the coast to do his own work.

It wasn't until half a month later that Li Yunze, who was taking a nap, was awakened by the cheers outside.

After coming out, I learned that the Tang army had finally captured the city of Pyongyang.

"Did you catch it?"

"Committed suicide, first killed his family and the king of Goguryeo, and then killed himself."

Li Yunze breathed a long sigh of relief, this battle was finally over.

There are no decent opponents around Datang, and there is no need for him to do any more logistical affairs.

Baekje had already been destroyed by Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui before Goguryeo, and Li Er redivided the four counties of the Han Dynasty into states.

Immediately, the people of Goguryeo and Baekje from all over the country migrated to Middle-earth, and then migrated from Middle-earth.

It was busy until the autumn harvest that the army began to return in batches.

Li Yunze, who was in charge of logistics sweeping, waited until winter to return to Lijiazhuang.

Back home, Princess Changle and Wu Meiniang each held their children to greet them.

"Will there be another war?"

"There will definitely be wars." Li Yunze teased the child, stretched his arms and hugged him left and right, "But I won't go again, I will stay at home with you in the future." ”

The Tang army's foreign wars did not stop, in addition to the perennial war with the Tibetan wheel to consume its national strength, the main targets of attack were the Lianghe and the vast steppes in the northwest.

In the twentieth year of Zhenguan, Li Ke, the king of Wu, went out of the town in the distant black soil of Ukraine.

In the twenty-third year of Zhenguan, Li Yun, the king of Jiang, went out of the town of Lianghe.

In the twenty-ninth year of Zhenguan, Li Zhen, the king of Yue, went out of the town of Tianzhu.

In the thirty-fourth year of Zhenguan, Li Shen, the king of Ji, went out of Persia.

Zhenguan...

With the blessing of Li Yunze and Sun Simiao's medical skills, he did not fall into the cycle of seeking longevity in his later years, and indiscriminately ate those elixirs containing a lot of heavy metals.

Li Er avoided dying at the age of fifty, but lived for a long time.

It was not until the forty-seventh year of Zhenguan that Li Er, who was over 70 years old, finally became terminally ill and lay on the sickbed to meet with the important ministers to arrange the funeral.

"You are indeed a fairy."

Li Er, who had arranged for the minister, met with Li Yunze, who had lived in seclusion for many years, alone.

Looking at his face, which had barely changed over the years, Li Er squeezed out a smile, "Can I seek immortality?" ”

Li Yunze shook his head calmly, "You are not a hanger, so you can't live forever." ”

The light in Li Er's eyes full of anticipation was obviously darkened.

After being silent for a while, Li Er asked again, "Will you stay and assist Prince Zuo?" ”

"Your Majesty has personally taught the crown prince for thirty years, and there is no need for me to assist him."

Li Er sighed lightly, "I am very fortunate to be able to get Zihou to help." Datang can get help from Zihou, great luck~~~"

Looking at Li Er, whose expression was rapidly declining, Li Yunze bowed deeply with his hand.

"Your Majesty, go all the way."

In the forty-seventh year of Zhenguan, a generation of male lord Tian Khan, Tang Emperor Li Shimin, who laid down the world's largest territory, died of illness in Hanfeng Palace, and was then buried in Zhaoling with the eldest grandson queen who lived in it many years ago.

The new emperor Li Zhi ascended the throne, honored the name of the great sage of civil and military affairs, the emperor of Guangxiao, and the temple name of Emperor Taizongwen.

It stands to reason that it should be Emperor Wu's, but in Li Zhi's opinion, Wen is better than Wu.

The Tang Dynasty has entered the era of Li Zhi, and the old ministers of Zhenguan have gradually withered.

After sending Li Er to Zhaoling, Li Yunze returned to Lijiazhuang and has been completely closed from then on.

waited until Princess Changle and Wu Meiniang died, and Li Yunze, who was respected as the living immortal of the Tang Dynasty, disappeared after arranging Wu Meiniang's funeral.

In the world of the Tang Dynasty, only his legends and stories have been left since then.