Li Shi's suggestion made Li Mu's heart move, this is indeed a method.
If Li Tao had prepared in advance, then deliberately losing the battle should not have hurt the vitality of the army.
That is, to arrange a prepared defeat.
In order to splash this basin of dirty water on Li Shimin's head.
But the problem still comes, if you implement this plan, you will have to give up the previous plan.
Originally, he wanted to hoard an army in Liaodong and destroy Goguryeo.
With the power of Xinsheng, he returned to Chang'an and forced Li Shimin to give way.
But if you follow Li Shi's plan now, you will immediately return to Chang'an after the defeat and take advantage of the resentment in the hearts of the soldiers.
Not to mention the fact that the opportunity to conquer Goguryeo was abandoned, and the previous achievements of this expedition with 400,000 troops were wasted.
Let's just talk about Li Shimin, he will not be willing to give way to the black cauldron.
Without the credit of pacifying Liaodong, Li Shimin still has a large number of troops.
In the end, a bloody battle could not be avoided.
This is completely inconsistent with Li Mu's intentions.
Li Mu shook his head and said, "No." ” Li Shi sighed helplessly: "Since this is the case, then you can only resign yourself to fate." ” Li Mu said: "Master Li, Lone's original intention was to pacify Liaodong and force His Majesty to abdicate second.
If you really can't get what you want, then you can pacify Liaodong first.
You don't have to worry about this anymore, think about how to expand the territory for Datang first.
Lone has already decided that tomorrow you, Xi Junmai, and Cheng Mingzhen will each lead 10,000 people to attack Hanzhou City. ” Master Li said, "The minister obeys." ” "However, the excerpts for help from the west and north roads have to be sent to the imperial court every two days.
Exaggerate the difficulties and say that the situation is miserable. ” "Ugh." 。
Next.
The three-way army came out together.
This time, Li Mu didn't have any thoughts of releasing water.
There are three reasons, one is that Hanzhou is an important town in the south of Goguryeo, and it is the established goal to take it, but now the time is slightly advanced, and Li Mu originally wanted to wait for the Goguryeo population south of Hanzhou to "evacuate" before taking this city, and then manage it carefully.
Second, Li Mu did fall into strategic confusion in a short period of time, Li Shimin did not send reinforcements or accept recruits so quickly, which made Li Mu hesitate and wonder if his previous plan would not be realized.
If the primary goal cannot be achieved, then the secondary goal of leveling Goguryeo will be progressively advanced, and the army will not be able to march north, just like Li Shimin before, it will be in vain Third, the Tang army's northern, western, and southern routes simultaneously "passively slacked off", which suddenly reduced the pressure on Goguryeo, and they had time to breathe to deal with the northward movement of the Silla army in the east, which greatly increased the pressure on the Silla army, and the Silla lost troops and lost two cities in two consecutive battles.
Kim Seung-man had already sent envoys to negotiate three times in a row, hoping that the Tang army would continue to launch a campaign against Goguryeo and reduce the pressure on the Silla army.
As an ally, Li Mu had to consider this request.
Therefore, combining the above three reasons, Li Mu advanced the time to occupy Hanzhou City.
The siege began.
Li Mu's mobilization work is very simple, four words, that is, "at any cost." ” Dare to say that, it is not that Li Mu has begun to change his thinking of always not giving up the casualties of the god guard.
But now the tens of thousands of enemy troops in the city of Hanzhou have completely become frightened birds after being attacked by mines in the wilderness before.
Not to mention the low morale, the point is that they already have "Tang phobia".
This battle is not so much a battle, but more precisely a drill.
No matter how Yuangai Suwen mobilized, the Goguryeo soldiers were already frightened.
When the Tang army approached, the arrows shot down from the city wall were all soft and fluttering, and they fell in front of the horses' hooves of the soldiers, and they couldn't even shoot into the soil.
Fell sideways to the ground.
Without any suspense, after blowing up the south gate of Hanzhou City, Yuangai Suwen led the army to retreat.
He walked in a panic, and he didn't even have time to burn down the granaries in the city and take away the contents of the storehouses.
Except for the destruction of the south gate, nothing else has changed.
It's just that the big king's flag on the head of the city has been replaced by the military flag of the god guard, fluttering in the wind and making a "slightly" sound.
Hanju City is one of the six major towns of Goguryeo, with a population of nearly 300,000.
Although it was conscripted by the Goguryeo court, it still has a population of more than 200,000, but the proportion of strong men is less.
And the domestic Ma Zhou letter, the construction of the straight road needed prisoners has been saturated.
So Li Mu no longer continued the work of "population transportation".
Recruit the people of Goguryeo to build a straight road from Hanzhou to Xiongjin, in order to quickly complete the construction of the straight road, the width of this straight road is only half of the Tang Dynasty straight road.
But for military use, it is enough.
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At the same time, Li Mu ordered Li Shi, Xi Junmai, and Cheng Mingzhen to lead 5,000 cavalry each to occupy the three small cities west of Hanzhou, Changdi, Lijin, and Zhangkou.
This causeway was later known by the name of Incheon.
Li Mu then ordered to build a port on the Long Causeway and build a straight road to connect with Hanzhou.
And he amassed troops on the south bank of the Han River, which was later known as the Han River, and confronted the Goguryeo army across the river.
Li Mu no longer took the initiative to attack, and Yuan Gai Suwen was newly defeated, and he also needed to breathe.
As a result, the southern part of Goguryeo officially stabilized and entered a strategic stalemate. 。
The occupation of Hanju by the Tang army boosted the morale of the Silla army.
With all their might, they attacked north again and recaptured the two cities that had been lost before.
It was only as the Tang army's battle fell silent again, and Goguryeo once again counterattacked the Silla court.
The two cities were gained and lost.
The 100,000 Silla army, which had lost 30% of its losses since the start of the war, had lost 30% of its strength to continue northward.
And Goguryeo did not have the ability to launch a new round of counterattacks.
The two sides invariably chose to stick to the occupied area, accumulate strength, and lick their wounds.
Geumseong, the capital of the kingdom of Silla.
Most of its buildings are vaulted, perhaps because of the queen.
It smells of fat powder.
At this time in the palace.
King Kim Deman of Silla is looking at her royal sister Kim Seung-man.
"The Tang army is stagnant, most of the pressure on Goguryeo is concentrated on our army, what does the Tang want to do" Jindeman was a little annoyed.
The contact with Datang over the years is not infrequent.
Countless ordnance and civilian biological resources were continuously transported from the Tang Dynasty to Silla.
Silla's gold, silver, and copper also flowed out like water.
Silla was indeed strong, especially in terms of military strength, but Kindman also found a problem.
That is, Silla is becoming more and more inseparable from Datang.
Whether it is military or people's livelihood, food, clothing, housing and transportation, the government and the opposition are all proud to have what Datang has created.
Silla went from being a farming and hunting people to an agrarian nation.
In order to use the rice produced to exchange for the goods of Datang.
There is always an end to gold and silver, but the rice is harvested every year, and there is no end.
Is Silla really going to become the grain producing area of the Tang Dynasty?