introduction:
The chiseled door was first obeyed, and the battle began to be fought. The scales are leaping in the waves, and the wings are soaring in the wind. If you don't show the six magic skills, you will lose one of your skills first. Self-defense is not wise, martyrdom has more loyalty - Li Shimin's "Wounded Liaodong Killed in Battle"
This is Tang Taizong's poem after his expedition to Goguryeo, expressing his mourning poems for the fallen Liaodong soldiers, and it is also a portrayal of Tang Taizong's unwillingness when he was still retreating after the great victory.
A Shenwu emperor who has not used swords and guns for more than 20 years, in the last battle of his life, crossed a thousand miles of mountains, crossed a hundred miles of grassland, led 60,000 troops, repelled more than 200,000 enemy troops, killed 40,000 enemies and captured 10 cities, why did he withdraw his army?
All these problems, only a panoramic reproduction of the war, may give us a glimpse of one or two.
Just use this article to talk about Tang Taizong's famous name, and the last battle of his life, right?
One: The depressed emperor goes out on the expedition.
In 626 AD, Tang Taizong ascended the throne, and in 649 AD Tang Taizong drove the crane to the west, leaving countless legends after a generation of emperors ruled the Tang Dynasty for 23 years.
In this legend, there are young heroes, Jinyang soldiers carrying old father to make a revolution, the tiger prison before the roar, Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande are in ashes, and the first battle is decided. In the following years, the change of XuanwuMen made the Tang Dynasty change the day, first ascended the great treasure, endured humiliation and dormancy for four years, let the Eastern Turks disappear in ashes, destroy tuguhuns, and make the Western Regions submit, this series of outstanding martial arts, all verified tang Taizong's unparalleled courage.
However, even the most powerful emperor also has troubles, and this trouble is mostly for household chores.
In 643, Li Shimin's fifth son, Li You, rebelled, and the sad Tang Taizong said sadly that he was once my child, but today he is an enemy of the country, and then he killed his son with tears.
Whoever had thought that he had just died a son, and then received news that the crown prince Li Chengqian was also preparing to rebel, incidentally implicated the news that his younger brother Li Yuanchang, the chancellor Hou Junji, Du He, and others were also intending to rebel. Li Shimin, who was extremely depressed, looked at the children of infighting, the brother who did not understand things, remembered the change of Xuanwumen in the past, and was once heartbroken and wanted to commit suicide, if it were not for the obstruction of the minister, Li Shimin might have made a better reputation for suicide because of depression.
Just at this time, the prime minister of Goguryeo, Yuan Gai Suwen, came to cause trouble again.
They did not listen to the mediation of the Tang Dynasty, attacked the Tang Dynasty vassal state of Silla without authorization, and caused the Silla emissaries to cry and tell Li Shimin at the Daming Palace, and Tang Taizong, who was already unhappy, felt the threat of Goguryeo and rose up with the idea of teaching Goguryeo a lesson and fighting a war by the way.
(Sentimental Xuanwu Gate)
From this, in February 644, Li Shimin issued a decree to personally conquer Goguryeo.
In the following months, the Tang Began to mobilize, soldiers from all over the country gathered grain and grass, 100,000 Tang troops, tens of thousands of Turkic and Khitan armies gathered in Youzhou (Beijing) and Penglai (Shandong). When the army was assembled, Li Shimin, who was well versed in the battle front, did not forget the intelligence work!
On July 23, 644, Zhang Jian, the governor of Yingzhou, was sent to lead the soldiers and horses of Youzhou and Yingzhou to join forces with Khitan and Xi generals to go out to Liaodong to spy on intelligence.
On November 24, after the army was assembled, Li Shimin arranged for the crown prince Li Zhi to sit in Dingzhou (定州, in modern Dingzhou, Hebei) to oversee the state, Fang Xuanling to stay in Chang'an to govern, and Xiao Yu to sit in Luoyang to defend Chang'an, and began a two-way imperial conquest.
The First Road Army: Composed of 40,000 soldiers and horses from the four prefectures of Jiang, Huai, Ling, and Xia, with 500 warships, under the leadership of Zhang Liang of the Punishment Department (the commander-in-chief of the Pyongyang Road March), he crossed the sea from Laizhou to attack Beisha City. (present-day Dalian)
The second road army: commanded by Li Shimin and the general Li Shiji led by Zuo Wei, he started riding 60,000 and cooperating with the Hu soldiers and horses to attack Liaodong.
After several months of marching, Li Ji's vanguard troops successfully reached Liucheng through Youzhou in March 645. (Chaoyang, Liaoning)
The Battle of Goguryeo officially began.
(Arrow to Goguryeo)
Two: Li Ji slightly applied a sub-plan to solve the problem.
After a long march to Liucheng, the vanguard general Li Ji encountered a difficult problem after arriving at Liucheng.
That was the three-dimensional defensive line built by Goguryeo in the Liaoze area.
This defensive line has Liaoze, which is 200 miles wide and nearly a thousand miles long, and behind it is the Great Wall of a thousand miles built by Goguryeo.
The preparations for Goguryeo were not inadequate, but he met Li Ji, who was good at war.
After thinking about the possible route of attack, the clever Li Ji attacked the west with a loud voice, allowing the army to successfully cross Liaoze.
Only to see him arrange for the Tang army to first make a big publicity in western Liaoning, creating the illusion of crossing the river to attack Huaiyuan Town, which caused the Goguryeo army to hurriedly transfer the scattered troops to Huaiyuan Town.
After successfully mobilizing the enemy's army, Li Ji, who was overjoyed, immediately attacked in two separate ways.
(Tang Jun)
On the first road, he personally led the headquarters of the Tang army, and after driving 400 miles north, he unexpectedly attacked Tongding City (Xinmin).
On the other side, the Hu generals led by Zhang Jian to cooperate with the attack, went south 400 miles and then crossed the river and attacked Jian'an City (Yingkou).
The enemy's large army was transferred to Huaiyuan Town, so that the tang dynasty's two large armies attacked very smoothly.
After a long raid, on April 1, Li Jijun took Tongding City, and then crossed Liaoze to the goguryeo town of Xuanju (Shenyang), while another road Zhang Jian also crossed Liaoze on April 5, attacking Jian'an City (Yingkou) and killing thousands of enemies.
Relying on Liaoze's Back to the Great Wall, the Goguryeo Liaodong Defense Line was devastated by Li Ji's slight schemes.
The way of the art of war is valuable in flexibility and mobility, and li ji is undoubtedly well versed in this way.
After Li Ji crossed the Goguryeo defensive line, the Tang army broke through all the way, Li Ji's army captured Gaimu City and captured 20,000 prisoners, Zhang Liang's army crossed the Bohai Bay at night to attack Peisha City (Dalian) and captured 8,000 prisoners, Li Shimin's army entered Liaoze and built bridges all the way to pave the road step by step, and the army successfully crossed the Goguryeo natural barrier Liaoze.
After crossing Liaoze, Li Shimin also issued an order, that is, to remove the repaired pontoon bridge to show his determination to fight.
Liaodong City, which the Sui Emperor had worked so hard to still not take, was just ahead, and I wondered if at that moment, Li Shimin would remember his cousin.
(Goguryeo)
3: 10,000 attacks and 40,000 people.
Sixty thousand Tang troops crossed the river smoothly, the Goguryeo army did not react slowly, and 40,000 reinforcements were also in full swing.
Shortly thereafter, more than 10,000 men of the Tang army's vanguard encountered 40,000 goguryeo reinforcements, and when the enemy was outnumbered, Li Daozong, the king of Rencheng, did not have the slightest timidity, he refused the suggestion of sticking to wait for the follow-up army, but decided to take the initiative to attack Goguryeo.
Looking at Li Daozong's strategy, the 51-year-old veteran Li Ji was overjoyed, this old brother understands himself?
He gave Li Daozong the right to ride 4,000 to meet the 40,000 Goguryeo army.
Ten to one troops, according to the ten siege of the martial arts, this battle seems to be impossible to fight? But who was Li Daozong, the fierce general of the Early Tang Dynasty, and his men were not intimidated. At the first sight of the enemy army, there was a person who bravely asked for battle, and this person was Ma Wenju, the commander of Guo Yidu.
Only to see him shouting on his war horse: If you don't meet the enemy, how can you show your strength!
Rushing towards the enemy army in a hurry, it will be the courage of the army, the general is like this, and the generals will of course rise up!
This group of cavalry marched forward with strange knives in hand, slashed when they saw people, and killed them all the way, like gods and demons.
This is the early Tang Dynasty, and this is the proud general under Li Shimin.
After a fierce battle, in the process of confrontation, the Goguryeo army, from the panic when encountering the enemy, to the gradual stabilization of the position later, actually had the tendency to repulse the Tang army. At this time, Li Daozong drank the retreating cavalry and led a dozen people to the hillside to observe the enemy's situation and found the flaws of the enemy army.
The flaw is that the position is unstable and the formation is chaotic!
Seeing this, Li Daozong personally took the risk of leading dozens of cavalry under him and rushed to the enemy's air raid.
All the generals were on the battlefield, and the Tang army, who was ashamed to watch from the rear, and Li Ji, who had withdrawn, were red-faced, and thousands of anxious cavalry, led by Li Ji, also rushed out to slash and kill desperately, catching up with the generals.
Under the leadership of the main general Wang Ye, Tang's soldiers were greatly boosted and began to play for their lives.
One person plays for his life, ten people are difficult to fight, a thousand people play with his life, ten thousand people are difficult to fight, four thousand people play with his life, forty thousand people of course cannot win.
The madman-like Tang army, with a deadly charge, defeated Goguryeo and retreated.
They chose to retreat into Liaodong City!
Of course, the enemy must chase after the retreat? Li Ji and Li Daozong commanded the army to pursue, killing more than a thousand people before stopping under Liaodong City.
Forty thousand people fought by 10,000 people stood firm in the city and did not dare to fight, and the fierceness of the Tang army was thus seen.
(The fierceness of the Tang Army is rare)
Four: How was the army full of pride forged?
A few days later, Li Shimin's army finally arrived at the city of Liaodong Jian, and upon hearing about the achievements of the old brothers, Li Shimin, who was overjoyed, first rewarded Li Daozong, and then promoted Ma Wenju, the first to charge, and incidentally killed Zhang Junqi, the retreating commander of the march.
Such a clear distinction between reward and punishment made Tang Jun feel convinced and shouted long live the wisdom.
The morale of the Tang army, led by the decisive and courageous Li Shimin, began a new round of conquest.
Early the next morning, Li Shimin took hundreds of escort cavalry to the front line to investigate enemy intelligence.
Li Shimin, who was deeply afraid of his inconspicuousness, walked around the Liaodong City slowly and slowly, and clearly told the Goguryeo army, I am the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, I am waiting for you to come out to fight an ambush, come quickly, come quickly?
Unfortunately, none of the Goguryeo troops left the city, so they watched this Middle-earth emperor wander around and were not moved!
Seeing that the enemy was not hooked, Li Shimin, who hoped to lure the enemy with his body, was depressed, and after returning to the camp, he pondered for a moment and did a strange thing.
Only to see him come to the Tang soldier's room, carry the sack to join the ranks of the soldiers, lift the sack and fill the moat with the soldiers.
This move stunned countless Tang troops, His Majesty the Emperor, and Li Shimin of Shenwu actually filled the river with our big head soldiers?
Li Shimin, who led by example, practiced the first soldier with his own actions, and also gave Tang Jun the first reason to play with his life, why say the first, because there is a follow-up!
This is the style of the emperor of the ages!
Soon after, at the moment of attack, the Tang army, encouraged by Li Shimin, charged one by one without fear of death, attacking for more than ten consecutive days, although it did not conquer the fortified city, it also fought the Goguryeo army trembling and tired.
After more than ten days of onslaught, Li Shimin seized the plan, made a surprise attack on the night of the moon, selected more than a dozen elite warriors to climb up Liaodong City, and ignited the city tower in the southwest corner of the city, and the fire became more and more prosperous by taking advantage of the wind, and the Goguryeo army in Liaodong City was unknown and fell into chaos.
The enemy was in chaos, and of course the Tang army won in chaos.
After the ensuing onslaught, the fortified Liaodong City was conquered, and the Goguryeo army was beheaded, ten thousand were captured, and tens of thousands became prisoners.
(Tang army siege)
Liaodong City was also renamed Liaozhou!
At the end of May, about ten days after the capture of Liaodong City, Li Shimin and Li Ji led an army to attack Baiyan City.
The Tang army was still marching, and in the distance they saw the white flag fluttering above the head of Baiyan City, and the guarding general Sun Daiyin actually raised the descending flag, and Li Shimin, who was overjoyed, was ready to surrender, but he was deceived.
Li Shimin, who was fiercely fooled, was angry, and actually dared to deceive me?
Enraged, he ordered that after the destruction of the city, all the men, women and children in the city would be rewarded to the generals in the army.
This order raised the morale of the Tang army, and there would be brave men under the heavy reward, and the right guard general Li Sima was appointed as the vanguard to attack Baiyan City.
A day after the attack, he saw that he was about to conquer it, but he encountered an accident, Li Sima was injured in the middle of the arrow, affecting the Tang army's offensive, and goguryeo's 10,000 reinforcements were not far from White Rock City.
Looking at the seriously injured Li Sima and the Goguryeo reinforcements not far away, Li Shimin used an alternative way to arouse the morale of the Tang army, that is, like Wu Qi, sucking the blood for his generals, which was the second reason for the leverage of the Tang army's combat effectiveness.
The soul of the army is the inheritance of the general, and loving the soldiers like a son is never just talking!
Watching the king do this? If you are a soldier, what will you do?
(For the way to go)
The Tang army, which was unfavorable in the attack, restored its morale after Li Shimin sucked the bruises!
Li Sima, who was born of the Hu people, was treated like this by the Heavenly Khan, which touched countless Hu people, and the general born of the Tiele tribe, Qifu Heli, was excited and asked for orders to go out on a campaign, and with 800 cavalry, he rushed to the enemy's 10,000 reinforcements.
This is also a lifeless lord, who, after a lot of fighting, has killed countless enemies.
However, he was still seriously injured, and if it were not for Xue Wanche's younger brother Xue Wanbei's courageous rescue, it was estimated that he would have to be accounted for there. But qifu Heli, who was rescued, was not reconciled, and while bandaging his wounds, he shouted to continue fighting.
Having just finished treating the wound, he rushed to the Goguryeo army with his men without stopping.
These 800 people were stunned by the spirit of not being afraid of death, and beat the ten thousand Goguryeo reinforcements with a chill.
The cold-hearted Goguryeo army began to retreat, and 800 people chased and fought 10,000 people, killing more than 1,000 people before returning to the army because of the darkness.
Seeing that QiFu He Li was so desperate, Li Shimin was deeply moved, and personally gave him perfunctory, and in order to avenge him, he specially arrested the enemy general Gao Tubo, who injured QiFu He Li!
After hearing Tang Taizong's thoughts, he refused the emperor's kindness and said: Each of them is his master on the battlefield, and this man is also a loyal soldier, and then he let Gao Tubo go back.
This is the courage of Datang, right? This is the soul of the Tang Army, right? A top-down male arrogance was the norm in the Tang Army at that time.
And the source of all this is Li Shimin!
(Source of military soul)
Five: Keep attacking.
The unfavorable initial battle did not affect the morale of the Tang army, and on June 1, the Tang army continued to storm Baiyan City.
This time, Li Shimin and Li Jibing divided into two roads, Li Shimin personally visited the northwest of the city, and Li Ji sat in the southwest of the city.
The battle between the two made the already high morale of the Tang army even higher, and Sun Daiyin, who was holding the city, despaired and surrendered.
Looking at the surrendered Sun Daiyin and the retreating Goguryeo reinforcements, Li Shimin did not condone the plundering of the soldiers, but chose to appease the surrendered people in the city. In order to calm the soldiers' complaints, Li Shimin, who is well versed in the way of reward and punishment, told everyone that everyone has a reward!
Subsequently, White Rock City became Yanzhou, and Sun Daiyin also stabbed the history of the new Yanzhou.
The wise man was able to stand between the enemies and not avoid the race, and the Heavenly Khan was humble and vain, and at that moment it appeared again.
After conquering Baiyan City, Li Shimin rested for more than ten days and went out again, this time he sent more than 10,000 people to stay behind to guard the conquered city, and led 50,000 people to kill the last stronghold of Liaodong City, Anshi City.
After nine days of marching, on June 20, Li Shimin's army arrived at Anshi City and began to attack.
The last important town of Liaodong was attacked so that the Goguryeo army did not dare to slacken off, and Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen led an army of 150,000 to support the besieged city of An.
Li Shimin, who had already calculated everything, did not have the worries of the enemy's large number of soldiers.
The reason is that without him, the former general of tiance never relied on many people to fight.
Looking at the enemy's 150,000 troops, Li Shimin was very calm, and after some planning and analysis, Li Shimin said the three most likely operational strategies of the Goguryeo army, and after pondering for a while.
Li Shimin said: This high longevity will definitely rely on the superiority of troop strength and take the initiative to attack!
A few words made the Tang generals all convinced and said one after another: Heavenly Khan is wise, and His Majesty is far-sighted.
Seeing that everyone was empowered, Li Shimin began to line up his troops!
Looking at the 150,000 troops on the opposite side, Li Shimin thought that they should take the initiative to attack, so he sent the left guard general Ashina Sheer to lead more than a thousand cavalry to provoke the Goguryeo army, and when he was leaving, he also specially ordered Ashina Sher to lure the enemy deep into Ha.
(Ashina Sher stills)
Sure enough, as soon as the Tang army provoked, the Goguryeo army, which had already had the intention of attacking, immediately caught up.
As soon as he saw that the enemy army was coming, Li Shimin confidently asked the generals: Do you have any good strategies to break the enemy?
Seeing Li Shimin's question, Li Daozong said: The whole army of Goguryeo is here, and the rear of Pyongyang is empty, and His Majesty has given me five thousand elite soldiers to see me take Pyongyang.
Li Shimin looked at it, this Li Daozong was a little lazy? Five thousand people went deep into the rear, what was going to go wrong, their 45,000 people were not good to rescue, so they rejected Li Daozong's suggestion.
Afterwards, the crowd spoke in all tongues, and sun Wuji, the impatient prime minister, finally couldn't listen to it.
This group of old guys, one by one, have been dormant for more than twenty years, and their ideas are extreme, as if they are back to their youthful and vigorous days, and they really want to play according to this style, which seems to be very risky!
Then the eldest grandson said: Everything is up to His Majesty to decide.
Li Shimin listened, or do you understand me? After laughing, he turned around and began to line up!
(Li Shimin and eldest grandson)
This platoon is also very simple, that is, to take the lead in checking the enemy situation and observing the terrain.
After some observation, Li Shimin already had a calculation in his mind!
Early the next morning, the Goguryeo army bullied the Tang army, and with 150,000 troops lined up in a horizontal one-word long snake array, they arrived in front of the Tang army.
50,000 to 150,000, the general general is estimated to wonder if it is going to retreat!
But who is Li Shimin? At that time, 3500 Xuanjia elite soldiers before the Tiger Prison Pass dared to charge into the battlefield, defeating more than 100,000 people of Dou Jiande's troops, not to mention, and capturing Dou Jiande to break the fierce men of Luoyang.
Looking back at the past, today's 50,000 troops are on the side, how can Li Shimin instigate? If there is a difference, the only difference is!
At that time, Li Shimin was 22 years old, it was when he was a young hero, there was no imperial status of the Nine-Five-Year-Old, he could unscrupulously exert his bravery, and today Li Shimin was already forty-seven, although he was still brave, but he was young and crazy, and what followed him was no longer a group of twenty-year-old stunned youths, but a group of battlefield generals who had been in battle for a long time.
After more than twenty years of experience, Li Shimin has long been well versed in the art of war, in addition to hegemony, but also in planning!
Based on this, Li Shimin's plan came out.
After facing the enemy, Li Shimin sent emissaries to the Goguryeo army, deliberately leaked false news that the Tang army was not good at grain and grass, and expressed his willingness to reconcile the two countries through the emissary, and incidentally said that as long as the two countries were repaired, all the cities and pools conquered by the Tang army would be returned.
The cities and pools that have been laid down have changed their names, and there must be an element of deception in saying this? However, the Tang Emperor used emissaries to convey a message of goodwill and soft clothing, which still made the Goguryeo warlord Gao Yanshou ecstatic!
Yesterday, the Goguryeo army was still beaten by ashina Sheer, the vanguard of the Tang army, and today our army was instigated by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty?
Is Tang Jun just like that?
After this round of flickering, Gao Yanshou let down his guard and prepared to engage in diplomatic negotiations and strive for the withdrawal of Datang' troops!
(Goguryeo Army)
It can be seen from this that this high-life-extending leader is absolutely not at war, because he does not know a truth called knowing oneself and knowing the other.
What kind of person is Li Shimin? The only time in life to confess was the Weishui Alliance, after the confession took fourteen years to destroy the Turks, in the face of Goguryeo who would admit it? Sure enough, after successfully confusing Gao Yanshou, early the next morning, Li Shimin issued an offensive order!
This time, Li Shimin's troops were divided into four routes, 20,000 people stayed in the camp to guard against the enemy forces in Anshi City, 15,000 infantry cavalry horses followed Li Ji to Xiling to deploy the front, Changsun Wuji took 11,000 people to detour north of the mountain to bypass the rear of the Goguryeo army, and Li Shimin himself took 4,000 elites to beilin, sitting in command at the same time, incidentally preparing for a surprise attack.
After a platoon of troops, the Tang army attacked in three ways, and the movement was particularly large!
Paralyzed, Gao Yanshou was unconscious, but instead waited for the Tang envoys to come and negotiate, and the Tang envoys did not come to Li Ji's 15,000 elite soldiers.
Looking at the Tang Army, who was waiting in a strict position, Gao Yanshou finally reacted, is the person who came not good?
So they prepared to fight, and at the moment when the Goguryeo army was assembled, the eldest grandson Wuji, who had gone around to the rear of the Goguryeo army, surrounded by 11,000 horses.
Li Shimin, who was in command of the Beiling Heights, saw that the eldest son's army was in place, and immediately waved the flag to command the launch of a general attack.
For a moment, the drums sounded in the clouds, the trumpets continued, the shouts rose and fell, and the assembled Goguryeo army suddenly found itself under a surprise attack. Gao Yanshou, who had just woken up from a dream, ordered the division of troops to block the attack, but it was too late, and before the order could be issued, he was disrupted by the Tang army's surprise attack and fell into chaos.
The Tang army was full of momentum, and the Goguryeo army was in chaos, and just at this moment, Tiangong came to help in the battle.
The sudden heavy rain and thunder and lightning made the Goguryeo army more panicked, the Heavenly Princes were cheering, and the Tang army was of course more imposing.
Li Shimin, who was watching the battle at the Beiling Heights, was eager to try, wondering whether to go down the mountain to fight, and just when he was thinking, a general in the Tang army caught his attention.
Only to see this general, dressed in white, holding a halberd gun, carrying a double bow at the waist, shouting to charge the front, a halberd gun was used to divinely penetrate, and attacked the enemy's position, that is, God blocked the killing of God, Buddha blocked the killing of Buddha, looking at Li Shimin's heart was extremely itchy, turned around and asked the retinue, who is this person?
(Xue Rengui)
Not long after, people around the left and right informed him that this person was a big soldier who had just joined the army, and his name was Xue Li, and the word Ren gui was.
Not long ago, on the battlefield of Liaodong'an, he single-handedly rescued the trapped Lang general Liu Junqiong, and also took the head of the Goryeo general and hung his head under the horse, making a name for himself!
Looking at the brave Xue Rengui, Li Shimin couldn't help but sigh, is there a talented person in jiangshan generation? After the sigh, this 31-year-old young soldier made a deep impression on Li Shimin.
The battle after that was very smooth, the brave Xue Rengui cooperated with the brave Tang army, and the Goguryeo army scattered and fled, and the Tang army pursued and killed all the way. After the great battle, the Goguryeo army lost more than 20,000 people, losing 50,000 horses, 50,000 cattle, and tens of thousands of equipment.
The heavily wounded Goguryeo army abandoned its plan to confront the Tang army and instead held on to the mountain to prepare for a protracted battle.
Seeing that the enemy was preparing for a protracted battle, Li Shimin was not ambiguous, and sent 30,000 people to surround the high mountain regiment where the Goguryeo army was stationed, and surrounded the Goguryeo army with 30,000 people.
The tactics of the Ten Sieges made Li Shimin fight a Siege.
Not to mention the siege of the enemy, Li Shimin also destroyed all the bridges and roads around the Goguryeo army that could retreat, which was undoubtedly a way to kill the rhythm.
In just a few days, Goguryeo's 150,000 troops became 30,000 besieged and lonely, and the leader of Gao Yanshou collapsed.
After a battle between heaven and man, he consciously surrendered to the Heavenly Khan without shame, and together with Gao Huizhen, he came to the front of the Tang army camp, lowered his proud head, and obediently confessed his guilt and surrendered.
(Surrender day Khan is not ashamed)
Six: Men are teenagers until they die.
Looking at the surrendered pair of living treasures, Li Shimin laughed and said in contemptuous language:
Dongyi teenager, seaside jumping beam clown. Destroying the resolute victory, how to deal with the old man of Datang?
How clear-eyed people know the meaning of this statement, in addition to relying on the old and selling the old, Li Shimin is also a bit of a joke, too much to love children!
After the joke, what Li Shimin did next was really an implicit meaning of a big country.
After accepting the captives, Li Shimin selected 3,500 chiefs to relocate them to the interior, and then released most of the Goguryeo prisoners of war, and finally buried more than 3,000 Jing soldiers alive.
What is the intention of such a separate treatment? It's actually very simple!
The 3,500 chiefs were all leaders of various tribes and villages, and the migration of this group to the Central Plains meant that all tribes and villages had hostages in the hands of the Tang army, and in the future, when there was a dispute, they would also have to weigh the severity of the dispute, and there was a possibility of differentiation and disintegration. In addition to the lack of military food and grass for the release of Goguryeo prisoners, the release of Goguryeo prisoners also conveyed the meaning of giving preferential treatment to prisoners in the Tang Dynasty, which could incidentally break the hearts of the Goguryeo army.
As for killing more than three thousand Jing soldiers, it was a punishment for the betrayal of the Jing soldiers, because they had been allies of the Tang Dynasty and finally chose to help Goguryeo, which was intolerable.
After disposing of the captives, in order to show his military merits, the happy Li Shimin renamed the hill where he was stationed to Mount Zhao (in present-day Mashou Mountain, southwest of Liaoyang, Liaoning), and after changing his name, he was still unfinished, and he also gave Shi Jigong on the mountain, and incidentally sent two letters to his son Li Zhi and his wife And his uncle Gao Shilian respectively!
The letter did not forget to boast: How can it be so?
The implication is, as a general, how did I fight?
It is no wonder that there is a saying that describes men like this: men are teenagers until they die.
There must always be the drive not to accept defeat, not to succumb to age, not to status, only to the ultimate death.
(Dreaming back to adolescence)
Seven: Weak attack.
After li Shimin was satisfied, he turned back to God and found that this jiancheng an city had not yet been fought? Immediately led the Tang army to continue the attack!
Who would have thought that this Anshi City was really difficult to attack.
After fighting for almost a month, he was stunned that it was not broken, not only was it not broken, the defenders in the city actually dared to take the initiative to provoke the Tang army, but when they saw Li Shimin's banner passing by, they shouted loudly, which made Li Shimin very unhappy.
The boss is not happy, of course the subordinates have to be angry?
When Li Ji saw it, in order to boost morale, he said, take Anshi City, how to do it, how to cloud. (Harmony point good)
But who would have thought that this would have a counterproductive effect, Anshi City was more tenacious, not only more tenacious, they were also ready to plan a surprise attack after the Tang army was tired of attacking the city.
It was just that this raid, in a very funny way, was recognized by Li Shimin.
One night, Li Shimin was inspecting the Tang army camp when he suddenly heard the chickens and pigs in the city screaming.
Upon hearing this scream, Li Shimin suddenly felt bad and immediately ordered Li Ji to guard against death.
Sure enough, hundreds of Goguryeo troops sneaked out of the city with slings to sneak out of the city late that night.
Subsequently, he fell into the encirclement circle of Li Shimin, who had been prepared earlier.
Listening to the screams of chickens and pigs, you can think of the Goguryeo army rewarding death squads and organizing sneak attacks, Li Shimin's battlefield intuition is too terrible.
Subsequently, the Tang army and the Goguryeo army pulled a saw in Jiancheng Anshi for a long time, the Tang army attacked with a rushing car, the Anshi defenders blocked the mouth with wooden fences, the Tang army attacked with a natural road, and the Anshi defenders dug ditches in the city, and the defensive tactics of the various tricks made Li Shimin depressed.
This battle was fought too unhappily, and in desperation, he sent Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia, to build Tushan in the southeast corner of the city, and decided to use the construction of Tushan to approach the city step by step, and then use the advantages of Tushan to enter the city.
(Siege unfavorable)
When the Goguryeo army looked at it, it also saw the tricks, and the generals held double knives in their hands, machetes in one hand and scissors in the other, and repaired the city wall while fighting, which made the Tang army advance very slowly.
However, the stronger Tang Army still used earthworks that lasted for two months to repair tushan near Anshi City!
Everyone understood that victory was at hand.
Whoever thought that something was wrong at a critical moment, and Li Daozong, who was presiding over the Turkish offensive, was injured, so he asked his subordinate Guo Yidu Lieutenant Fu Fu'ai to garrison the top of the mountain and go back to recuperate himself.
Seeing that Li Daozong was injured, Li Shimin visited him again.
Just at this time, the front line had a change, the repaired earth mountain actually collapsed, directly crushing the city wall of Anshi, the Tang army on the mountain saw it, and was ready to attack the city in a hurry, but it was impossible to find Fu Fuai, the guoyi lieutenant who presided over the battle, and fell into the chaos of no one commanding for a while.
The chaos of the Tang Army, the Goguryeo Army looked in the eyes!
Hundreds of people immediately rushed out of the gap, and with a single blow, the Tang army, which had no command, was driven down from tushan mountain.
The situation on the battlefield changed suddenly, making Li Shimin angry.
Fu Fuai, a lieutenant of Guo Yidu who was not on the front line, was beheaded by Li Shimin and shown to the public, but a mediocre general ruined the overall situation.
Subsequently, the Tang army organized forces to prepare to retake Tushan, but encountered stubborn resistance from the Goguryeo army, attacking the city for three consecutive days and three nights, but still failed to break the last line of defense of the enemy army.
(Failure)
Eight: General Winter threatens, go or continue?
After a long-lasting battle, the time also changed from the spring of the expedition to the late autumn of October.
The heavy cold of the sky changed the situation on the battlefield in favor of the Goguryeo army, and the weather that quickly became cold made the Tang army a little unbearable.
Seeing that General Dong was going to threaten, the follow-up would only become colder and colder, and li Shimin, who was helpless, convened a meeting of former enemies to discuss the next step.
At the meeting, the most positive were Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen, who had just surrendered, and they said conclusively that His Majesty could bypass Anshi Castle and directly attack The City of Wukuo (present-day Fengcheng), and then take Pyongyang with a single blow.
This virtue is very good for people in a specific area today?
As soon as the plan came out, some people echoed that Zhang Liang's 50,000 water troops could be used to support him, and 100,000 people could gather 100,000 to raid the black bones and directly take the battle in Pyongyang.
Li Shimin actually moved when he heard it, thinking that he could try it!
At the crucial moment, Changsun Wuji reminded Li Shimin that if he could not defeat An Shi and Jian'an, what if the 100,000 enemy troops in this city were to sneak into the grain road?
After hearing this, Li Shimin suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
Yes, when the Sui Dynasty Emperor personally conquered Goguryeo, it was because he skipped Liaodong City and went directly to fight Pyongyang and finally lost, how could he make the same mistake?
After calming down, Li Shimin finally returned to the wise emperor and wisely chose banshi to return to the dynasty on September 18.
A moment before the class master, he also sent a hundred silk horses, rewarding the defender who insisted on holding on to Anshi Castle and making him suffer for several months.
This kind of temperament is still admired by Today's Thoughts, and Goguryeo also has warriors, and it is not all mediocre talents such as Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen.
After more than ten days of marching, on October 1, the Tang army arrived at Bozuoshui (the lower reaches of the Liao River) and encountered a blizzard, freezing hundreds of people, which also proved the correctness of the withdrawal from the side, or Li Shimin really became his cousin.
(Lessons of the Sui Emperor in the front)
Epilogue: What were the results of Li Shimin's last battle?
This was the last big war in Li Shimin's life.
A depressed emperor with court trivia interpreted his martial courage with a hearty battle.
When counting the results of the war after the war, the Tang army used a lot of sacrifices in exchange for a big victory with imperfect results.
Let us observe a moment of silence for our forefathers!
In this battle, the Tang army lost more than 2,000 people, of which 700 of the water army were killed (drowned) because of crossing the river, and another 1,300 were killed in the land battle, and the war horses suffered heavy losses.
In exchange, the result of the battle was that more than ten cities and pools such as Tongding, Xuanju, Jian'an, Hengshan, and Gaimu in Goguryeo killed more than 40,000 enemies, captured 50,000 horses and 50,000 cattle, and migrated about 70,000 people from liao, gai, and yan prefectures to the Central Plains.
This report card made Li Shimin, who was accustomed to winning a big victory with hundreds of thousands of people, extremely depressed.
After the war, Li Shimin said with chagrin: If Wei Zheng was still alive, he would never let me send troops this time!
To this end, he sent people to Chang'an overnight to arrange the sacrifice of Wei Zheng, repaired the tombstone of Wei Zheng that he had destroyed with his own hands not long ago, and comforted the first counselor of the Zhenguan Dynasty with words and deeds.
Subsequently, he personally went to Liaodong to bury the bones of the fallen soldiers in the southeast of Liucheng, where he had fought, personally wrote an article to lay the foundation for the battle soul, and cried bitterly.
Emperor Tang Dynasty, love and protect soldiers to such an extent, this may be the root of the explosive combat effectiveness, right?
The last battle of Li Shimin's life, still fought vigorously, turned upside down, can be described as the old man talking about juvenile madness, the death of a man is the ultimate expression of youth!