Chapter 1343: Reorganization
Li Shiji originally came to greet Khdar in person, and in his opinion, Khudar made a correct choice.
But what Li Shiji didn't expect was that as soon as he arrived in front of the two armies, he received the news of Hudar's suicide.
Li Shiji, who heard the news, was silent for a moment, he didn't expect Hurdar to commit suicide.
For the sake of the lives of countless ordinary soldiers, he chose to surrender.
In order to maintain his dignity as a soldier, he chose to commit suicide.
"Order, let all the Goryeo soldiers be assembled, let them line up, go in and carry Hudar out with the highest courtesy, and choose a good cemetery here for burial." Li Shiji said seriously.
"Yes!"
When all the Goguryeo soldiers were lined up, Li Shiji ordered the Tang soldiers to announce the news to them.
All the Goguryeo soldiers were also silent.
They never expected their generals to commit suicide, and only after fulfilling them.
People are emotional animals, and for most soldiers, they actually don't have a very good impression of these generals such as Hudar, because these generals are really not good for them ordinary soldiers, and they can even be said to be bad.
But when he died, the feelings were still a little complicated. After all, the other party committed suicide after ordering the surrender, and if the other party wanted to fulfill his loyalty, he could have ordered them to resist.
At that time, the Tang army could only attack, and at that time, they were afraid that they would have to lose at least a third of their lives before they had a chance to surrender.
In other words, from another point of view, the other party saved their lives.
That's why their emotions are a little complicated.
"Salute!" When several generals in the Goguryeo army carried out Hudar's body with a wooden plank, with an order, not only the Goguryeo soldiers, but also the entire Tang army, including Li Shiji, gave Hudar a military salute.
There are many soldiers killed in the war, but there are not many soldiers who can be recognized by both the enemy and the enemy.
Hudar was buried on a mountainside on the north side of Tongyang Fort, and Li Shiji left a team of soldiers to take care of it, and he would be cremated, then a tomb would be dug and piled up with stones.
Let's make a mark for the time being, and when Datang completely controls this place, then set up a monument for him, which can be regarded as a well-deserved death.
As for the other Goguryeo soldiers, they also put this matter behind them soon after their grief, after all, the other party may just want to finally achieve a reputation, and on a daily basis, there are not many soldiers who died at his hands, and there are not many soldiers who died in non-wars.
Hudar is not a good general, let alone a soldier like a son.
The soldiers of Goguryeo were very similar to those in Liaodong City, they were a little confused about their future, they did not know what they should do, or what they would face in the future.
But their attitude towards the Tang army was not too hostile, or they were more complicated.
Because the Tang army is the one who spares their lives from a certain point of view, Hudar is just a last resort, and if the Tang army continues to detonate those city-breaking mines, and then attack with medium-sized bed crossbows, at most one day, all of them will have to die in battle.
But Datang didn't choose so, they chose the most dangerous path, if Hudar didn't surrender, then Datang really threw away all his most advantageous things.
However, Li Shiji naturally will not make any mistakes, the soldiers who surrendered are actually very easy to arrange, take away all the middle and high-level generals, and take away their war horses and weapons and armor for other treatment, in addition, it is to leave 10,000 Tang troops to reorganize them as a whole.
Then they led them to build houses and walls here in Tongyang Fort, because the houses and walls of the people here were damaged by them.
At this time, these Goguryeo soldiers realized that the Tang Dynasty had not killed these people or anything else at all, but only temporarily relocated them to other places.
Then they had to help these people who were originally Goguryeo build houses, and then they assisted them in farming.
There was no scolding, no bullying, Datang managed their soldiers to eat and live with them, and in their spare time, they also told them stories, chatted with them, and told them why Datang did not use the fastest and most straightforward method.
Rather, it is necessary to use this more dangerous, but also to use the method of preserving their lives to the greatest extent.
It is because of the mercy of His Royal Highness the King of Qin, because His Royal Highness the King of Qin said that no matter whether Goguryeo can be defeated in the end, the people in the occupied areas of the Tang Dynasty will be the people of the Tang Dynasty in the future, and the soldiers of Goguryeo are most likely the people of the Tang Dynasty.
They are all just cruel rulers who are under the control of the last resort.
The conversations, coupled with some stories told by Liu Zhao and some of the people they had already influenced, and some of the difficulties of being oppressed by those Goguryeo nobles, the speed at which these soldiers integrated was too fast.
Because these are their personal feelings, they don't even need to be deliberately substituted, they just need to tell the truth, and they are bullied countless in the army alone.
And even more so in other places?
At the end of the day, they're just ordinary people.
In the case of a squad of soldiers, for example, a dozen people sit together and tell each other about their pain, and then it expands to a platoon, a company.
In this process, some experienced Datang soldiers are constantly being asked to tell them why they are like this now, and then tell them what kind of changes they will make when Datang is in charge.
The truths are all those truths, but tell them in the most simple and straightforward words to ensure that everyone understands them.
By the time Li Shiji's army arrived in Wugu City, these Goguryeo soldiers who were still near Tongyang Fort had basically completely connected to the Tang Dynasty.
Especially when they knew that the Tang Dynasty had not harassed any village, plundered any village, or killed any common people since its march into Goguryeo.
The sense of identity in their hearts is naturally even stronger, because they have all done bastard things of robbing their own people under the instructions of their superiors before, and as for robbing the people of other countries, it is even more common.
In some grievance meetings, some soldiers even plucked up the courage and took the initiative to say all the wrong things he had done with shame.
When they can say this, it also means that people's hearts are here in Datang.
And the army led by Li Shiji has completely surrounded the entire Black Bone City, however, the current Black Bone City only has more than 10,000 defenders, and Li Shiji is not ready to leave too many troops, he only needs to leave 30,000 troops enough.
The rest of the people went straight to the mouth of the Yalu River, because there a special fleet of Datang had already arrived.