Not long after, rumors spread among the people in the Guardian City of Gaimu. It was said that the Tang Dynasty had gathered hundreds of thousands of troops to surround Gaimu City, and the defenders would be defeated in a short time.

This rumor spread to the army, causing many soldiers to believe that the Tang army would soon break through Gaimu City. In addition, the Tang army has been constantly smashing the city with stones and shooting arrows these days. Many soldiers are not full of food and sleep well, causing many soldiers in the army to become depressed.

The hillside a mile outside Gaimu City suddenly rolled in smoke and dust, and many flags appeared faintly.

When the spies in Gaimo City learned about this situation, they immediately reported to the chief general of the Gaimo City defender.

After hearing this, the head general of the Gaimu City defender changed his face and frowned.

He believed that the Tang Dynasty's army had indeed arrived and would attack the city at any time.

At the same time, the spy also reported that the Tang army ordered the large stone throwing cart and nesting car that were manufactured as supervisors to be used in a short time.

The chief general of the defender of Gaimu City began to restlessly. It seemed that it would be a matter of time before the Tang army broke through Gaimu City.

For some reason, many soldiers also knew about these things and their morale began to shake.

Not only that, these things have reached the ears of the people.

One pass, ten passes, hundreds of passes.

More and more people know about it.

Rumors were already everywhere in the city, but now it has been confirmed that the Tang army is under the city, and Gaimu City is no longer safe at any time, and the people are worried.

They did not want the Tang army to massacre them after they broke through the city.

Most of the people in Gaimu City did not want to be massacred and began to gather together and wrote a letter to the defenders, demanding that the defenders surrender or withdraw from Gaimu City.

Many defenders were already depressed. Seeing so many ordinary people who did not want them to continue fighting, they were extremely disappointed and had the idea of ​​surrendering or withdrawing from Gaimu City.

Some generals petitioned directly to the chief general of the Gaimu City defender, and abandoned Gaimu City, which was not worthy of continuing to stick to it.

After careful consideration, the chief general of the defender of Gaimu City decided to lead his army to withdraw from Gaimu City. On the one hand, he did not want the people of Gaimu City to suffer. On the other hand, he had already noticed that many soldiers were depressed and were unwilling to continue fighting.

However, the chief general of the Gaimu City defender ordered all the soldiers to evacuate Gaimu City without knowing it, and they must not be known by the Tang army, so as not to be intercepted and killed by the Tang army.

In the early morning, the sun rises.

A ray of sunshine shone into the tent of the commander of the Tang army.

Li Jie was getting up when a guard suddenly came to report that the front military post found the gate of Gaimu City opened.

After Li Jie received the news, he immediately stood up and walked out of the tent quickly.

He looked closely and saw that the gate of Gaimu City was wide open.

After watching for a long time, the deadly silence in Gaimu City, and the defenders on the city wall disappeared.

Has his plan been successful?

Li Jie was secretly happy, but after thinking about it carefully, he was worried that this was the empty city plan of Gaimu City.

I can't care about that much. Even if the other party uses an empty city strategy, even if there is an ambush ahead, I must try it bravely and not miss this good opportunity.

Li Jie immediately ordered Asunad to lead 500 cavalrymen to find out the truth.

Asunard took the order and led five hundred cavalry into the city of Gaimo with caution.

When Asunadul led his cavalry into Gaimu City, he found that there was no defender in the city, only the people were left.

After Asunadur confirmed that there were no defenders, he ordered two soldiers to go back to report to Li Jie.

After hearing this, Li Jie finally showed a long-lost smile.

He led a large army into the city, captured more than 20,000 people in the city, and seized more than 100,000 stones of food.

Li Ji ordered all soldiers not to kill the people in the city and to make proper resettlement.

The Tang army successfully captured Gaimu City not only opened the gates of Liaodong, but also seized a lot of food, laying a solid logistical support foundation for the Tang army's subsequent operations.

After the Battle of Gaimu City ended, the Tang army's next goal was Liaodong City.

Almost at the same time as the Tang army attacked Gaimu City, Zhang Liang and others led the navy to cross the sea to fight, raided the city, successfully breaking the city, and capturing more than 8,000 people.

Then he dispatched the general manager Qiu Xiaozhong to lead his army to point at Yalushui.

Two months later, various marchs gathered in Anshicheng, and Li Er personally directed the battle, hoping to capture Anshicheng in one fell swoop.

but!

Anshicheng had more troops deployed, the city walls were taller and stronger, the city defense was stricter, and there were more Goguryeo troops to support. The Tang army could not break through the city after several charges.

I fought for more than a month but couldn't conquer it.

This is the first time the Tang army encountered a real tough battle since it went to Goguryeo.

A general persuaded Li Er to give up Anshicheng and divert his way to attack other cities in Goguryeo, but Li Er thought that the Tang army was invincible and believed that there were almost no cities that could not be captured in his first half of his life. He insisted on capturing Anshicheng to prove that his sword was not old.

Two flowers bloom and one branch each!

Just as Li Er personally led his army to attack Anshicheng, Li Zhi in Chang'an City was almost assassinated.

Fortunately, the assassination of Li Zhi was not able to take action, but the killer who assassinated Li Zhi was taken down by the Tiance Mansion and the Crown Prince Right Guard.

Ten killers, five of whom were killed on the spot when resisting, two killers were injured and killed by suicide. The remaining three were seriously injured and captured.

Li Zhi ordered Li Zaigu to hear the case.

The three killers were cured, and Li Zaigu used his special means to quickly confess and tell the messenger behind the scenes!

When Li Zaigu knew about the instructor behind the scenes, he was even more surprised.

The one who assigned the killer to try to assassinate Li Zhi was not someone else, but Yinpin and Princess Changguang.

Yinpin is Li You's biological mother, former Yinde Concubine. She was implicated in Li You's rebellion and was demoted to concubine.

Li Zaigu reported this to Li Zhi.

Li Zhi was shocked when he found out. He never expected that the person who wanted him to die was actually the emperor's former concubine and the other was his aunt.

After being shocked, Li Zhi was both sad and angry.

After thinking about it, he ordered Li Zaigu to immediately capture Yinpin and Princess Changguang and put him in prison.

"Your Highness, be careful, please listen to what the emperor said." Li Zaigu's eyes turned and bowed to Li Zhi for advice.

"Please speak with the Grand Tutor!" Li Zhi looked at Li Zaigu in doubt.

"The official believes that Your Highness should immediately list this matter as a highly confidential and not allow anyone to disclose it." Li Zaigu said slowly.

"Why?" Li Zhi was puzzled.

"If Your Highness put Princess Changguang in prison at this time, there must be some ministers in the court who believe that Your Highness is taking advantage of the expedition of the emperor to deliberately retaliate against Yin and Princess Guiyang."

"According to the Taifu, how should we deal with this matter?"

"The lower officials believe that on the one hand, they should protect the three killers, and on the other hand, they should arrange for spies to secretly monitor Yin and Princess Guiyang to prevent them from being aware of anything, fleeing for fear of crime or committing suicide. At the same time, His Highness ordered people to report this matter to the Lord and the Lord will decide."

Li Zhi nodded slightly, and then thoughtfully said: "Okay, I will follow what the Grand Tutor said!"

After a pause, Li Zhi straightened his body straight and said very seriously: "The Prince's Tutor obeys the order, I ordered you to be fully responsible for handling this matter!"

"As for your order!" Li Zaigu bowed.
Chapter completed!