In the eighth year of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty conscripted a million troops to conquer Goguryeo.
Facing the unprecedented huge offensive of the Sui Dynasty, Goguryeo's general Eulji Mundeok adopted the delaying tactic of repeatedly asking for surrender and dealt with the Sui army for several months.
Then, they secretly built a dam to store water at a place where the Sui army must pass through before returning to the army.
Later, when the Sui army was crossing the river, Goguryeo took the opportunity to open the floodgates and release the water. As a result, many Sui army soldiers were drowned on the spot and the morale of the army was in chaos.
Eulji Mundeok took this opportunity to lead the already ambushed Goguryeo army to launch a fierce attack on the Sui army...
Does this scene describing the Battle of Sa Shui look a bit familiar?
Is it particularly similar to the strategy used by Goguryeo to deal with the Tang Dynasty?
To be honest, these guys really underestimated Li Chengqian's IQ.
After much deliberation, I actually came up with an old trick to deal with him.
If he could really fall for such an old trick, he would be really stupid.
However, their plan also made Li Chengqian realize that Goguryeo had reached the end of its rope.
Now that you already know it.
How could Li Chengqian give them a chance to fight back?
Now, Li Chengqian is increasing his troops one after another.
The number of Tang soldiers gathered in the Goguryeo area of Northeast China has increased from the initial 50,000 Liangzhou soldiers to 110,000.
If we include the 50,000 navy troops brought by Li Xiaogong, the total number of Tang soldiers participating in the war now exceeds 160,000.
And after Li Chengqian gave the order.
The entire Tang Dynasty soldiers on the Northeast battlefield were mobilized as if they were running machines.
First, the Tang navy continued to attack Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo.
Next, the Tang Dynasty's former army set out again, continued to advance towards southern Goguryeo, and attacked various cities in southern Goguryeo.
Finally, it was the rear army of the Tang Dynasty, 70,000 soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, who took up a posture and confronted Mohe with a attitude of "I will fight if you dare to come".
In this way, Li Chengqian It has already expressed its attitude on behalf of Datang.
As long as Goguryeo has not yet negotiated peace with the Tang Dynasty, no matter how it asks for surrender or peace, he will turn a blind eye and ignore it.
Moreover, supplies from the ordnance battalion were continuously sent to the Goguryeo battlefield under Li Chengqian's order.
Previously, because the logistics line was too long and the mountain roads were rugged, many large siege equipment could not be transported.
This also forced Li Chengqian to use sky fire thunder to blow up the city gates when attacking the city.
It was also because the opponent didn't understand the power of the Sky Fire Thunder, so in the early stage, Li Chengqian was able to do it smoothly.
But later, the other party was obviously on guard against this.
They usually block the city gates with stones and wood before starting a siege.
In this way, even if the Tang Dynasty could use sky fire thunder to blow up the city gate, they would not be able to enter the city.
But it's different now. All the large siege weapons from the rear have been sent.
Five hundred trebuchets, two hundred army-breaking crossbows, and two hundred city-breaking crossbows.
These are all siege weapons improved by Li Chengqian.
And with the arrival of these weapons and equipment, Li Chengqian was no longer afraid of attacking the city.
Moreover, he was able to use Goguryeo as a whetstone to test the siege equipment he had improved.
Of course, what made Li Chengqian most happy was not these siege equipment, but the thousand sets of Mo Dao equipment that he had previously entrusted to the Ordnance Battalion to build, which also came with the logistics team.
Li Chengqian was really surprised by the super combat power displayed by Mo Daobing.
However, in the battle with Shi Wei, Mo Dao's soldiers were directly beaten into disarray and were unable to gain an advantage on the battlefield.
This also left him without a powerful weapon in his hand.
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Now, these one thousand sets of equipment have arrived, plus the more than one thousand sets previously collected from the battlefield.
It is completely possible for him to form another Mo Dao army again.
Although the newly formed Mo Dao soldiers may not be as powerful as before, they are definitely enough to give Goguryeo a drink.
Wait until everything is ready.
Li Chengqian did not hesitate, and immediately ordered the entire army to break out and march, aiming directly at Liaodong City!
The geographical location of Liaodong City was very important to Datang.
If Liaodong is successfully captured, Datang will be able to completely open up the Yanshan line.
In this way, the Tang Dynasty no longer needed to send grain and grass to the Northern Desert, and then to Goguryeo.
They can transport all the grain and grass supplies directly through the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain.
In this way, Li Chengqian no longer needs to worry about the problem of food, grass and baggage.
And if this lineage can be opened up, strategically the Tang Dynasty will also be in an invincible position.
Li Chengqian could immediately dispatch Li Tingxue's troops to launch the final siege on Goguryeo.
You can also use this as a stronghold to spread your power around, and then the entire Liaodong will fall under the control of the Tang Dynasty.
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Inside the Chinese military tent.
Li Chengqian raised his hand and patted the location of Liaodong City on the map: "Send troops immediately to capture Liaodong City!"
Following Li Chengqian's order, 10,000 Bingzhou soldiers, together with 2,500 Mo swordsmen, marched towards Liaodong City.
Only half a day later, the army arrived ten miles outside Liaodong City.
Now Goguryeo has been frightened by Li Chengqian.
No one dared to lead troops out of the city to confront Li Chengqian face to face, most of them huddled in the city and defended.
After all, Li Chengqian's Heavenly Fire Thunder is sharp.
But I have never heard that sky fire thunder can blast through city walls. > In their opinion, all they need to do is plug up the city gate and huddle up in the city to defend it.
It's just that the 30,000 Goguryeo troops guarding the towns in Liaodong this time never expected that Li Chengqian would give up his usual style this time and choose to use sky fire thunder to attack.
After arriving at the city.
Li Chengqian then sent an order to the whole army to rest for an hour.
Not only Li Chengqian knew how important Liaodong City was, but Goguryeo also knew it.
Nowadays, there are more than 20,000 soldiers in Liaodong City alone, and there are more than 10,000 civilians who can join the battlefield at any time.
Moreover, the commander stationed in this city was Gao Jianye, the younger brother of King Yeongliu of Goguryeo.
Gao Jianye is not an incompetent person, he is quite capable in leading troops.
He personally led the civilians and soldiers to be busy in the city, preparing rolling logs, rocks and various city defense measures, almost building the city like an iron barrel.
However, when he saw that Li Chengqian came to attack the city with only more than 10,000 people, he actually began to underestimate the enemy.
After all, you can only attack a city if you have three times the number of people. That means the number of people attacking the city must be three times the number of people defending the city. And there is no telling whether you can succeed or not.
Now just looking at it, Li Chengqian had only 20,000 people at all costs.
There are only 20,000 defenders on our side, and there are more than 10,000 civilians. Even if one person lifts a stone, they can still doubt their life...
Just when the Goguryeo soldiers and civilians in the city were observing the situation outside the city.
Li Chengqian's side has already begun preparing to attack the city.
After Gao Jianye heard the report, he also began to arrange for civilians to carry rolling logs and stones and other defensive equipment and pile them on the city wall.
But what Gao Jianye didn't expect was that Li Chengqian didn't directly form a battle formation to attack the city.
Instead, square wooden boxes were rolled out.
Seeing these things, Gao Jianye couldn't help but be startled, and asked suspiciously: "What are these..."