"Three years and three years, when will this Goguryeo be destroyed?"
The cold wind howled, and the snow drifted away.
The crown prince Chengqian, who was already as tall as Li Chao, stood on the firetower in the palace, overlooking Hanjing in the heavy rain.
Li Chao stood on one side in a mink coat.
In the cold winter, the moon is exhaled into frost.
"After all, it is a war to destroy the country, and it is not so easy.
In three years, His Majesty's achievements in Liaodong have been very impressive, and in another year or two at most, Goguryeo will be destroyed. ” "Is it going to be another year or two?"
asked Cheng Qian, "Your Majesty has not returned for three years." ” In February of the ninth year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin went out of Hanjing to Mount Tai to seal Zen, and in August, the emperor issued an edict to conquer Liao in Dengzhou.
The 200,000 troops of the Tang Dynasty attacked by land and water, and the 300,000 people were responsible for transporting heavy grain and grass.
There are also 100,000 horsemen from the Khitan, Xi, Murowei, Xia, and Xue Yantuo tribes.
The two kingdoms of Silla and Baekje on the Samhan Peninsula also sent 30,000 soldiers and horses each, and even Dongying sent a fleet of 20,000 men to the campaign.
When this army of 380,000 people launched an attack, the Tang Dynasty and the opposition at that time thought that the battle might be over in half a year, and maybe Goguryeo would be destroyed before the first day of the tenth year of Zhenguan.
Some conservative estimates also suggest that victory will be achieved in ten years at most.
But it's not so easy to really start fighting.
At the very beginning of the battle, it was very fast indeed.
After the offensive began, he also crossed the sea and moved to Beisha City in southern Liaoning, and personally commanded Liaodong.
The army was divided into three routes, the first line of the Liaohe River was commanded by Li Jing, the secretary of the military department, under the command of 100,000 Tang troops and 100,000 tribal coalition troops, and 200,000 troops attacked the defense line of the Great Wall of Liaodong of the Goguryeo people head-on.
On the front line in southern Liaoning, 50,000 Tang troops attacked from the south to the north, bypassing the thousand-mile Great Wall of Goguryeo.
The first line in southern Liaoning was commanded by Li Ji, the deputy privy envoy, and Chi Baolin, the commander of Anton, was the vanguard.
On the sea route, Li Shimin unexpectedly selected five generals, led by the privy deputy envoy Qin Qiong, the governor of the Chinese army, Cheng Yanjin, the governor of the right army, Su Dingfang, the governor of the right army, and the five generals Luo Shixin and Shan Xiongxin, the generals of the Southern Yafu Army, led 50,000 naval divisions and infantry to cross the sea to attack Pyongyang.
In this war, Datang can be described as a fierce general, and the elite gathered.
The fastest contribution was still the waterway led by Qin Qiong, the Goguryeo army gathered on the line of the Great Wall of Liaodong, and the area around Pyongyang was much empty.
When the Tang fleet arrived, the Goguryeo court was caught off guard, and Quangai Suwen and his son launched a rebellion in the city.
From arriving at the city of Pyongyang to attacking the city, it took only half a day.
Gao Jianwu had no way to escape, refused to surrender, and set fire to himself in the palace.
Pyongyang's royal troops died or surrendered, and this was the second time since the Sui that the Central Plains army invaded Pyongyang.
In those years, Hu'er also invaded Pyongyang, but at that time, it was the Goguryeo people who deliberately let the Sui army into the city, and Lai'er set troops into the city, looted on a large scale, and formed an army.
As a result, the Goguryeo ambush soldiers took advantage of the chaos to kill and defeated the Sui army, at that time, Laihu'er only led thousands of remnants to escape from the city, and the Goguryeo army pursued and killed to the place where the Sui warship was anchored.
Back then, Qin Qiong and Lao Tiegun participated in that battle under the command of Lai Hu'er.
After 20 years, the head of the Lai Hu'er personal army has become the privy deputy envoy of the Tang Dynasty, standing in the Goguryeo palace, looking at Gao Jianwu's corpse, Qin Qiong's heart is stirred.
When the good news arrived in Dengzhou, Li Shimin was very excited and personally crossed the sea to Beisha in southern Liaoning to take command.
Li Jing of the North Road led 200,000 Han and Tibetan coalition troops, step by step, steadily advancing, pointing directly at Liaodong City, sweeping away the forts around Liaodong all the way, and finally besieging Liaodong City.
The veteran Li Jing was not in a hurry, and it took a month to defeat many armies that came to aid Goguryeo, and finally opened the gate of Goguryeo with artillery and broke through Liaodong City, the strongest and largest city on the defense line of Goguryeo's Liaodong.
Qin Qiong broke Pyongyang, and Li Jing captured Liaodong.
I thought that this war would end quickly, but things did not go as expected.
Gao Jianwu died, and the news reached Liaodong, and the commander of Liaodong, Ezhi Wende, immediately set up Gao Zang, the son of Gao Dayang, the younger brother of Gao Jianwu, as the king, and supported him as the twenty-eighth king of Goguryeo.
King Gaozang is completely a puppet of Ezhi Wende, and Ezhi Wende is extremely stubborn in the face of the persuasion of the Tang army to surrender.
After taking Liaodong City, the war did not go well.
On the Liaodong line, the Goguryeo people spent three years here, and the reinforced thousand-mile Great Wall is not fake.
Liaodong City is a plain city, but many of the cities behind it are mountain cities.
Although Li Jing had an army of 200,000 troops, there was not much advantage in the terrain of Liaodong, and the Goguryeo people resisted stubbornly and did not surrender to the death.
It was very difficult to attack mountain cities and fortresses one after another.
Li Ji's attack in the south also encountered this situation.
Although it is said that the city was attacked all the way, the progress was slow, and when the cold winter of the ninth year of Zhenguan arrived, the Tang army captured many cities, but still did not attack the Goguryeo.
In the face of the severe cold in Liaodong, Li Shimin also had to order to stop the offensive and enter a winter recuperation period.
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Xue Yantuo and Khitan and other troops withdrew a lot of soldiers and horses to go home, but fortunately, the Tang army had cotton clothes and shoes, which were able to resist the severe cold of Liaodong and hold on to the previous results.
It was not until the summer that another round of the offensive began.
After a winter of rest, the Goguryeo people also stabilized their decline, and they also transferred cavalry from the northeast to help them.
The battle fell into a kind of predicament, the Tang army was attacking the city every day, but there were too many mountain castles on the front line of Liaodong.
Every time a village is captured, it is both time-consuming and exhaustive, killing a thousand enemies, and the Tang army also has to lose two or three hundred.
However, Qin Qiong's navy and army are progressing smoothly.
After the capture of Pyongyang, the royal army around Pyongyang had little resistance.
With the help of the three allied armies of Baekje, Silla, and Dongying, Qin Qiong was in Goguryeo south of the Daedong River, like an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.
And Quangai Suwen and his son also instigated their army in the east to raise troops.
In the tenth year of Zhenguan, the Tang army was very successful on the eastern front, and took all the Goguryeo lands south of the Yalu River.
But on the front line of the Liao River, the Goguryeo people, under the leadership of Eulji Wendeok, resisted desperately.
In winter, Li Jing and Li Ji captured more than 100 mountain cities of the Goguryeo people, but they still failed to defeat the Goguryeo people.
When the cold winter arrived, the fighting stopped again and entered a rest.
In the summer of the eleventh year of Zhenguan, the war began again, and it was fought for another half a year.
By this time, during the winter recuperation period, the Tang army had surrounded the east and west, trapping the Goguryeo people on the line of their thousand-mile Great Wall.
"We have already suffered 30,000 casualties, and if we fight for another two years, we will probably have a lot of casualties."
Undertaking the main road.
Three years have passed, and Cheng Qian is already 17 years old, and he will soon be 18 years old.
He grew taller and taller, and his eyebrows showed Li Shimin's demeanor.
Stayed in Hanjing for three years, supervised the regent, and Cheng Qian's performance was getting better and better.
The emperor did not return home for three years, and even swore an oath that he would not destroy Goryeo and return to Beijing.
Just last year, the emperor elevated Dengzhou Mansion to the eastern capital of the Tang Dynasty.
Datang is now a court in Dengzhou, the eastern capital, and then a court in Hanjing, the central capital.
For three years, the emperor only stared at Goguryeo.
"The destruction of Goguryeo, with 50,000 casualties, is also worth it."
Li Chao said.
The Tang Dynasty fought Goguryeo for three years, and there were not many casualties, mainly because the money and food consumed were considerable.
But when you calculate it carefully, Datang really doesn't lose money.
The Liaodong line has not yet been taken, but the northern part of the Samhan Peninsula and both sides of the Yalu River have been captured by the Tang Dynasty.
Li Shimin was also very ruthless about the captured territory of Goguryeo, and directly came to a strategy of moving his people to the fullest.
All the Goguryeo people in the conquered land, regardless of their ethnicity, became slaves, and all their property became the property of the Tang Dynasty.
In addition to the freezing period at sea, every day in various ports of Goguryeo, there are countless slave ships full of slaves back to Yangzhou, Dengzhou and other places.
Even the tribes of the Yan Dynasty, which had once submitted to Goguryeo, had been changed to attach the Tang Dynasty.
After the Tang Dynasty established states and counties in the occupied areas of the Samhan Peninsula, the three kingdoms of Baekje, Silla, and Dongying also surrendered to the Tang Dynasty even more.
This battle will not be lost, and now it is still one step away from the final consummation.
About a million Goguryeo soldiers and civilians were trapped on the front line of Liaodong, and these were hard nails.
But after three years of fighting, the Tang Dynasty had sufficient military strength and sufficient grain and grass, but the Goguryeo people were already running out of ammunition and food.
This is the fundamental difference between a big country and a small country, the 200,000 troops of the Tang Dynasty fought in Liaodong for three years and did not shake the national capital in the slightest, but Goguryeo was already in the midst of collapse.
"Taishi, next year will be the twelfth year of Zhenguan.
My three brothers are also fifteen or sixteen years old, and since Your Majesty is not coming back for the time being, then it is up to me to make the decision, and it is time for their kingdom to be vassalized. ” Li Ke, the king of Hanzhong County, is fifteen this year, Li Tai, the king of Qin, is fourteen this year, and Li You, the king of Yiyang County, is also fourteen this year.
The fifteenth country of the prince was originally the country that Li Ke wanted this year, but Li Shimin did not speak.
"Do you want to ask Your Majesty about this matter?"
Li Chao said with a smile.
Cheng Qian looked at the snowflakes flying in front of him, "You don't have to bother Your Majesty about this little thing, as soon as the New Year passes, I will send someone to send the three princes to the country of the Western Regions." 80,000 Jian'er have already gained a foothold in the Western Regions, more than a dozen military towns in the Tang Dynasty have also been established, and the nobles of the various feudal clans have also established their own castles and manors there, and recruited their own territorial knights.
Since Your Majesty has given them a fiefdom over there, the princes must not live up to Your Majesty's kindness. ” Li Chao smiled, this kid is getting worse and worse. t1706231537: