Wei Qing had crossed the Yellow Sea with Zheng Chenggong half a month ago, and led more than 100,000 soldiers to set foot on the land of the Goryeo Peninsula.
The Tang army was insufficient, so Li Sunsin could only abandon the empty southern region, concentrate the remaining 70,000 soldiers and horses on the island in Wang Jian City, and hold the city with Li Yuanba, Hei Manlong, Su Quanzhong, Su Dixin and others, and wait for the main Tang army led by Li Ji to return from Jizhou for reinforcements.
The 200,000 corps led by Bai Qi also crossed the Tsushima Strait from Kitakyushu after completely destroying the Wa Kingdom, set foot on the land in the southern part of the Tang Kingdom, and separated from Lu Xun's soldiers on two roads to conquer the Tang forces in various counties and completely purge the rear.
Looking down from the sky, the entire Korean Peninsula has been cut off by the Han army, Wei Qing and Zheng Chenggong led 150,000 soldiers to advance by land and water, and the spearhead was directly aimed at Wang Jian, the former capital of the Tang State.
The southern part of the peninsula was almost cut off from the central power, and each county fought its own war, facing the powerful offensive of Bai Qi and Lu Xun, and all of them hoped that the wind would surrender.
Wei Qing tried to storm Wang Jiancheng several times, but all of them were met with stubborn resistance from Li Sunsin, and thousands of soldiers and horses were lost in vain under the city.
As the capital of the Tang Kingdom, Wang Jiancheng has high walls and thick cities, and there are about 70,000 Tang troops in the city to defend, as well as Li Sunsin, a handsome commander, and Li Yuanba, a perverted general, is in charge.
Wei Qing didn't have a good idea for a while, so he could only wait for Li Cunxiao, the tiger general, to come to reinforcements, and wait for the two armies of Gongsun Qi and Lu Xun to join Wang Jian under the city and besiege the city after pacifying the southern part of the Tang Kingdom.
A few days later, Li Cunxiao came to reinforcements on Li Jing's order, and after meeting with Wei Qing, Yuwen Chengdu, Liu Wuji and others, he took the initiative to ask Ying: "Please General Wei allocate me a soldier and horse to fight against Li Yuanba under the city, Li Erfool is now the emperor of Tang State, as long as he is beheaded, the Tang State army will be in turmoil, and Wang Jiancheng will be broken without attack." ” Wei Qing bowed his head and said: "Li Sunchen is closed now, if a large army is coming to the city, Li Yuanba will not be able to fight."
Ben will allocate 3,000 elites to you, and order the general of Chengdu and the king of Lujiang to go to battle with you, and see if you can lure Li Yuanba out, but I will personally lead the army to prepare for battle, as long as I can take advantage of the opportunity, I will personally lead the army to attack the city."
Li Cunxiao received the order, and immediately ordered 3,000 elite soldiers, Yuwen Chengdu and Liu Wuji were also mixed in the team, and went straight to Wang Jiancheng to fight loudly: "Li Er fool, I heard that you became the emperor of the Tang Kingdom, can you dare to go out of the city and fight with me."
Li Sunsin ordered the black barbarian dragon to accompany Li Yuanba to eat and drink, and did not inform the Han general of the challenge by name, otherwise Li Yuanba would definitely not be able to hold back his anger and fight.
He also ordered Su Quanzhong's brothers to be fully clothed, shoot arrows randomly, and refuse to go out of the city to meet the battle despite the humiliation of the Han army.
Whether Wang Jiancheng can hold on to it is related to the life and death of the Tang State, Li Ji has already divided into two ways with Li Mubing, leading Li Siye and his son, Mao Dun, Mao Wenlong and other generals to raise 100,000 troops to return to the Tang Dynasty in the starry night to reinforce Wang Jiancheng.
Li Mu led four generals, Wang Bodang, Li Guangbi, Hu Luguang, and Yuan Chonghuan, to raise 150,000 troops to sit in Pingyuan County on the north bank of the Yellow River, and closely cooperated with Cao Wei to resist the Han army from crossing the Yellow River to the north.
Li Sunsin knew that the morale of the Han army was booming, and there was no chance of victory in the field battle out of the city, and only when Li Ji's army returned to reinforce, defended against the danger, fought a war of attrition with the Han army, and used time to drag down the Han army to have any hope of victory.
Li Cunxiao challenged from early morning to noon to no avail, so he could only lead his troops back and reply to Wei Qing, saying that the Tang army closed the city gate and refused to go out of the city to fight despite all kinds of insults.
At this moment, a flying pigeon sent a message from Jinling, saying that the Empress Dowager He had died, and the Son of Heaven ordered all legions to cease fighting for one month to show their memorials.
It was the hot season, and the Korean Peninsula was hot and humid, so I was sweating bare-chested when I woke up in the morning.
The soldiers were miserable in their helmets and armor, and many of them fainted from heat stroke and could not be rescued, and sacrificed their lives in vain.
After reading the holy decree, Wei Qing immediately ordered the whole army to retreat fifty miles, find a place with convenient water sources and abundant water and grass to temporarily station, and then use troops after the weather turns cold.
Li Cunxiao was eager for meritorious service, and said to Wei Qingjin: "The death of the Queen Mother is certainly heart-wrenching, but when our army destroyed Li Tang in one go, His Majesty issued an edict to stop fighting for a month, is it too long, if you wait for Li Ji to come to the rescue, I am afraid that it will be more difficult to break Wang Jiancheng."
Wei Qing stroked his beard and smiled: "Hehe, our army has been fighting for many years, and the soldiers are exhausted, and they are already war-weary.
His Majesty decreed a truce for a month, in addition to paying tribute to the Queen Mother's spirit in the sky, but also to show compassion for the soldiers, so that everyone can temporarily escape the scorching heat.
Although the Cunxiao brothers are optimistic, after a month's rest, the soldiers will definitely return to the battlefield alive.
When Li Ji arrived, the armies of Gongsun Qi and Lu Boyan also happened to be under the city, and at that time they could fight to the death with the Tang army, and if they win, they could go straight to Liaodong and pacify Li Tang. ” Liu Wuji learned that his grandmother was angry with his brother, and he came to see Wei Qing crying, planning to return to Jinling for the funeral: "The second brother has been smart and bold since he was a child, but he didn't expect to do such a thing, which is really unexpected."
My Han ruled the country with filial piety, and Xiao Wang planned to return to Jinling for funeral, so he came to bid farewell to the general. ” Wei Qing took out the letter and handed it to Liu Wuji and said: "Your Majesty explained in the letter, saying that the weather is very hot and the body cannot be left for a long time, so a state funeral will be held in the near future.
It is thousands of miles from the Tang Kingdom to Jinling, and it will take half a month and 20 days to arrive at the earliest, so His Majesty ordered the King of Lujiang to wear filial piety clothes to pay tribute to the Queen Mother on the spot, and there is no need to return to the capital. ”、 Since his father specifically stated in the letter that he would not allow him to return to China, Liu Wuji had to give up this plan.
From today on, in the army, why the queen mother has set up a mourning hall, dressed in linen and filial piety, and guarded the soul of her grandmother.
Guan Yinping and Ji Chang'e put on filial piety clothes as granddaughters-in-law and accompanied their husbands to guard the spirit.
In the early morning of the next day, it was the day of the state funeral of the Queen Mother, Wei Qing and Zheng Chenggong led all the soldiers to do their best, surrounded by Lujiang Liu Wuji and the princess Guan Yinping to the seaside, facing the direction of Jinling to worship the Queen Mother.
After the memorial was completed, the whole army was ordered to rest and recuperate, and then fight a decisive battle with the Tang army after the weather turned cool.
Compared with the Han army that hid in the shade of the trees to rest, the 100,000 Tang army led by Li Ji was miserable, braving the scorching heat day and night, and it took more than 20 days to finally arrive in Xiangping, and this is also the new capital of Li Tang, under the leadership of the empress's eldest grandson, the entire Li Tang court has moved to Xiangping to command.
"The whole army will repair outside the city for a day, and it will not be too late for me to march south after I have entered the court to pay homage to the queen and met with the ministers of the court."
Li Ji ordered the whole army to camp outside the city, and he took Li Siye and his son into Xiangping City, and went straight to the temporary "imperial palace" to pay homage to the eldest grandson empress who was temporarily in charge of the government, and met with several cabinet ministers. t1706231537: