"The Grand Marshal is so famous."

Wei Ting, who was in charge of food and supplies, was shocked.

Li Shimin looked at him, but just snorted, and Wei Ting lowered his head.

Cheng Yaojin personally led his troops to take over the city defense.

Although Baiyan City is not big, it is very dangerous. The military and civilians in the city have a total of less than 20,000 yuan, and most of them are people who have moved in from nearby villages by the sturdy walls and clear fields.

At this time, they surrendered with Sun Daiyin.

Sun Daiyin asked his subordinates to tie him up and leave the city to surrender. He knelt in front of the city gate, holding the city lord's seal guard, as well as the household registration, territory and other rosters of Baiyan City.

Lao Cheng accepted the emperor on behalf of the emperor, and then asked someone to send his grandson Daiyin to the emperor.

"Sanlang, you are better than 200,000 soldiers in one word."

Qin Lang just smiled, "Baiyan City is just an isolated city. I used to hope for the Wugu reinforcements. Now that the reinforcements have been defeated, what room for luck does he have? Surrender is a natural thing and has nothing to do with me."

"It's still a big deal." Old Cheng stroked his beard, "Sanlang, do you think this Eastern Expedition is a bit too smooth?"

"According to this situation, we can be surrounded by Anshi in less than ten days, and at most we can take Anshi in half a month, and then we can go to the army and go back to the court?"

"If nothing unexpected happens, that's the case!" Qin Lang said.

The weather was getting colder and colder. Although the Tang army had already brought winter clothes when they went to war, the cold winter in Liaodong could not be resisted by just a piece of winter clothes.

It snows heavily, and then the ice rivers are frozen and thousands of miles of snow are blocked, so there is no way to fight.

Therefore, the best result is to leave some troops to guard several of the captured cities, and then the remaining troops retreat to the Central Plains.

Fortunately, a lot of food and grass have been seized now, so I stayed at the brink of worry. Otherwise, if I failed to capture the city as a winter base, or if I captured the Goguryeo people burned all the food and grass first, then the Tang Dynasty would have to go to the whole army first and come again next year.

In this case, you may have to attack the city again next year. Although Goguryeo's military strength has been greatly reduced after this battle, it is still very troublesome to attack these cities.

This battle was indeed unreasonable. Lao Cheng, a powerful general who had fought with 120,000 points, thought he would encounter fierce resistance, but unexpectedly, it was just like his previous conquest of Gaochang Kingdom, which was easier than expected.

Dayou concentrated all his strength and punched him hard, but it felt like he hit the cotton.

Qin Lang thought this was normal.

War is often like this.

Looking back, we can find that there are many reasons for the current war situation. For example, the Tang Dynasty has been preparing for many years, and the emperor has personally led the expedition. The Tang Dynasty has taken over the important military town of Beisha as a base many years ago.

For example, the Goguryeo people carefully built the defense line of the Thousand Mile Great Wall in Liaodong, thinking that they were strong, so they were inevitably a little careless.

For example, in Goguryeo, the powerful minister Mo Lizhiyuan Gaisuwen and King Gao Jianwu had a relationship with each other, and the conflicts were fierce. The opposition between the Baowang faction and the Yuan clan also made Goguryeo a little confused.

The years of infiltration of the Tang Dynasty also played a lot of roles at critical moments. For example, although Gao Xinwen surrendered after being raided and captured, he did not have much desire to resist after being captured, and the people and merchants in Jian'an City did not have much will to resist.

At the critical moment, a coach like Yuan Gai Suwen escaped at the last minute, otherwise Liaodong City would not have been lost so easily.

Several important cities on the Liaodong defense line in Jian'an, Liaodong and Gaimu were lost, which led to a chain reaction, and the entire defense line was as if it were in vain.

Especially several major wars, Goguryeo had lost more than 100,000 troops, and only 300,000 total Liaodong defense line, so it has long been a sieve.

Compared with the situation during the Sui Dynasty conquered Liaodong, in general, Goguryeo was also seriously injured after the Sui Dynasty conquered and could not recover.

The construction of the Liaodong Great Wall defense line over the years has further depleted its national strength. The internal struggle between the Yuan clan and the royal family has intensified the internal friction between Goguryeo, and many of the Marine tribes that were originally dependent on Goguryeo have turned to the Tang Dynasty in recent years, which has weakened their strength.

When Goguryeo was in full swing, it could not defend against the Sui army's eastern expedition. The Sui army had captured Liaodong City, but because of Yang Guang's random command, after the city was broken, the defenders raised the flag and Yang Guang stopped the attack. As a result, they had rested and continued to resist, resulting in a failure.

All the troops and horses were still under command of Yang Guang, which also failed to play a role. They divided their troops to attack Pyongyang for thousands of miles and attacked on the sea and water. These were not wrong, but because of the main general's problem, they all underestimated the enemy and suffered a great defeat. It has to be said that it was a great regret.

In contrast, although the Tang army was also the emperor's personal army this time, who was Li Shimin? The real master of strategy was a top-notch military master, Niu Jinda, Cheng Yaojin, Zhang Jian, Qin Lang and others were all good.

Zhang Jian's feint attack on Huaiyuan, diversion of the tiger away from the mountain, and then Cheng Yaojin made another attack on the east and west, rushing to Tongding for 400 miles, successfully mobilizing the Goguryeo defenders and breaking through the Great Wall defense line.

Not to mention that at the critical moment, Qin Langniu Jinda made another surprise attack on Jian'an, and took the important town in southern Liaoning without any blood. Then another besieged the city to attack the reinforcements, luring and annihilated the strong reinforcements of 40,000 An City, resulting in An City being forced to repel the city and unable to reinforce Liaodong City.

The battle of Liaodong City is even more simple and crude.

The entire battle, from the opportunity of Li Shimin to take advantage of the Fengshan Mountain, choosing an abnormal time to send troops to the undeclared battle, all caught the Goguryeo people off guard, and the following step was a classic that could be included in the teaching examples.

When Goguryeo resisted the attack of the Great Sui Dynasty, there were famous generals like Yizhi Wende, but now there is only a commander like Yuan Gaisuwen who is powerful in internal struggles and cowardly in foreign wars. How could he not defeat?

The battle has come to this point, and Yuen Gaisuwen has disappeared.

Although Li Shimin hated Sun Daiyin, who was tied up and kneeled down to surrender, since he agreed to surrender, the gentleman would not be able to repent.

So he gritted his teeth and appointed him as a guerrilla general, and pardoned everyone in Baiyan City for resistance.

But even though the death penalty is spared, the living penalty cannot be escaped.

The Secretary of the Central Committee, Changsun Wuji, stepped forward to announce the final disposal of Baiyan City. Baiyan City was changed to Baiyan County and was under the jurisdiction of Liaozhou. All military and civilians in Baiyan City were moved to the Central Plains for resettlement, and they began to move immediately and took boats to Dengzhou and other ports in batches.

Sun Dai's face was ashamed.

"Your Majesty, the criminal has offered the city and surrendered. Please keep Baiyan City!"

Li Shimin snorted coldly and waved impatiently. Someone came over to pull Sun Daiyin away. Although he took the lead in surrendering and obtained an official rank, he was still in the rank of forced migration. The emperor did not need this swinging guy to stay by his side.

The emperor left Yan Guo Duke Li Jinxing to stay in Baiyan City, and then ordered a rest for a night before heading to Anshi City the next day.

From Baiyan City to An City.

On November 11, the emperor led his army to Anshicheng and arrived at the foot of Anshicheng on the 20th.

It took more than a hundred miles to walk on the road for ten days, and the main reason was that it was snowing.

At this time, the temperature in Liaodong dropped sharply and the snow was falling, which made the Tang army a little trouble. Although they made preparations in advance, the soldiers also changed into winter clothes and felt blankets, but the heavy snow in Liaodong still greatly reduced the speed of the march.

Even halfway through the way, Pingzhangshi, the Secretary of the Shangshu, and the Minister of Personnel, Li Daliang, died of illness in the army.

Li Daliang was only fifty-four years old at this time. He was originally a prime minister, but he suddenly died of illness in the army. Li Shimin was extremely mourning.

"The Duke of Liang is also a civil and military man, with ambitions and integrity, and his loyalty is at the Duke of his pride, and his reputation is far and wide. Alas!"

Before, he was sick halfway through the Hanlin Academy, Cen Wenben, and now he suddenly died of illness. Li Daliang, the emperor's mood was extremely complicated.

Before Li Daliang passed away, he persuaded the emperor to end the eastern expedition as soon as possible, saying that the snow fell in Liaodong and the soldiers were bitter and cold. He also persuaded the emperor to focus on managing the Central Plains of Guanlong and not to use troops too much in Liaodong.

Due to Li Daliang's death and sudden heavy snowfall, the Tang army suspended for three days on the way and only continued to march after the snow stopped.

Arriving at the city of Anshi, he met with Niu Jinda's 50,000 troops.

Fortunately, there were camps that Niu Jindajun set up in advance and many winter supplies transported from Dengzhou and Beisha, which finally allowed the Tang army, who came from the wind and snow, to have a hot meal.

"Am Anshicheng still unwilling to surrender?"

"The city lord Liang Wanchun of An City refused to surrender, and was very arrogant. He often sent troops to harass him. He had planned to send troops to reinforce Liaodong, Baiyan City, and led troops to intercept him. He only killed him back in several battles."

After hearing Niu Jinda's report, Li Shimin couldn't help but frown. This Anshi City was obviously different from Liaodong, Baiyan, Gaimucheng and others, and this guard was undoubtedly more stubborn.

"How are your casualties?"

"Our army fought against the Anshi Army several times, with a total of more than 3,000 casualties, but it also killed and injured no less than 5,000 or 6,000 people."

The battle between one and two was originally very good, but Li Shimin was not very happy after hearing this. Compared with the casualties ratios on other battlefields, the difference was huge.

Anshi's will to resist is indeed very tenacious.

Zheng Yuanchun, who was with the army, requested the withdrawal of troops, because the snow fell heavily today and the temperature in Liaodong dropped sharply, while Anshicheng resisted fiercely and the city was difficult to overcome, so it was better to withdraw troops first.

Changsun Wuji believed that although the weather was cold, the Tang army was well equipped and the troops were strong at this time. They should take advantage of the situation and take over Anshi in one go and completely destroy the Liaodong defense line of the Goguryeo people. In this way, they can send troops again after the spring of next year and recover the entire Liaodong in one fell swoop.

"Your Majesty, if you do not take down Anshi City at this time, if the Goguryeo people can replenish Anshi with reinforcements, it will be very difficult to conquer Anshi next year."

"Qin Lang, what do you think?" Li Shimin asked Qin Lang.

The weather dropped sharply, but the emperor was still stubbornly wearing the brown robe. He was so cold that he was rubbing his hands, but he refused to change his clothes.

Niu Jinda had no choice but to let someone give the emperor a few more pots of charcoal fires to heat up.

Qin Lang had already put on the sable fur and heard the emperor's question, "I heard the light cavalry report on military information. Yuan Gaisuwen had gathered 150,000 reinforcements and was rushing to Anshi. This is the last new force in Goguryeo and Liaodong."

"So what?" Zheng Yuanshu asked, "Shouldn't we withdraw our troops more?"

"Your Majesty, I think that if we can siege the city and attack the aid and annihilate these 150,000 Liao soldiers, there will be no resistance north of the Yalu River. If we seize this opportunity to annihilate these Liao soldiers, it will be much stronger than if we will attack the camp next year, right?" Qin Lang said.

"The weather is so cold, how can we fight?" Zheng Yuanshu still objected.

"If the Goguryeo soldiers are fighting, then our Tang army can also fight. Besides, the Goguryeo army is in a hurry to rescue and is rushing towards us, so the war will not be delayed for too long. We can withdraw most of the soldiers back to the Central Plains before the Bohai Sea is frozen and frozen after winning this battle."

"What if the Goguryeo soldiers deliberately delayed the battle?"
Chapter completed!