Chapter 1123 Accept the head and worship
The long-lost Tang Ship finally reappeared.
There are even more than before, and the white sails are dotted like clouds.
Huge treasure ships came cutting through the waves.
"Battleship!"
"Beiyang Navy."
Bohai Bay in Jian'an, Daqing River Estuary, where the Jian'an trade flourished, a row of wharves were built along the estuary along the coast, with warehouses everywhere, and shacks stretching for several miles not far away. These are the places where coolies on the wharf live. The prosperity of Jian'an trade and smuggling has also brought about the prosperity of this wharf. There are countless wharf laborers, and even many people who make a living at the wharf, who sell tea, soup, and rice, and who are dental intermediaries. wait.
These days, because the Tang boats are not coming, the place is much deserted.
The poor people living on the pier suddenly lost their source of income. Many people can only look forward to the return of the Tang boat.
When the ship owner came, there was cheers on the pier.
But immediately after, the cheers were mixed with panic.
Battleship.
The warships of the Tang Beiyang Navy appeared at the beginning. Bohai Bay has long been like the inner port of the Beiyang Navy, free to enter and exit without any restrictions, and the Goguryeo people have long given up the idea of the sea.
An offshore fishing boat, or a merchant ship running across the sea, never dared to provoke the Beiyang navy.
Even all Goguryeo ships, whether they are fishing boats or merchant ships, must report to the navy in advance as long as they go to sea. Every year, they must apply for a flag issued by the Beiyang Navy from the navy and obtain a fishing or business license. After that, you can go to sea.
Otherwise, the Beiyang navy can attack at will at any time without any consequences.
Of course, if it is a smuggling ship, you have to pay a higher fee.
In short, the ships of the Beiyang Navy often appear on the Jian'an seaside, and sometimes they even come here to inspect supplies and so on. Everyone is not used to it.
But the problem is that the light patrol boats usually come.
Grand warships will not approach Jian'an.
But looking around right now, all the big ships appeared covering the sky and the sea.
Fuchuan, Treasure Ship.
Watching these huge warships with three or even four masts slowly approaching, the people on the pier finally panicked.
Some people think of the beacon smoke before, and think of the Tang army attacking Huaiyuan.
"The Tang people are coming to attack the city!"
Someone yelled at the top of their voices, as if mourning.
Everyone started to scatter in all directions.
The poor people in the shanty town began to call for their sons and daughters, and ran to Jian'an City with the old and the young.
Qin Lang stood on the deck, watching the chaotic scene.
There is no need for him to command and dispatch. The mixed fleet composed of the three major fleets quickly landed on the beach.
All ships berth at the port in an orderly manner.
The light cavalry led their horses ashore and quickly formed a team.
The army filed down.
Not a Goguryeo soldier came to intercept.
I only heard the bell ringing loudly in a temple near the pier, which seemed to be an alarm.
When the second batch of ships began to dock, the first regiment of 200 Qingqi riders had already mounted their horses and galloped to Jian'an City.
An hour later.
More than 10,000 people have landed and occupied the Jian'an Estuary Wharf.
Half a day later.
Qin Lang accompanied the army to Jian'an Tucheng, which was twenty miles away. This city occupies a very large area and was built on the plain southwest of Jian'an Mountain City. Ten years ago, it was just a simple village. Because of the prosperity of trade in these years, There is no war, but here is developing rapidly, far surpassing the military city on the mountain behind, with a population of tens of thousands of households, and countless shops and workshops in the city.
However, the city defense is simple, with only a rammed earth city wall with a circumference of fifteen miles. There is a trench in front of the city wall, and there is no danger.
In fact, Goguryeo has occupied Liaodong for hundreds of years, and has long developed a set of defense methods to deal with the crusade of the Central Plains Dynasty. Dangerous, controlling the road, although dangerous and easy to defend but difficult to attack, it is relatively small.
The main garrison is to store troops and store food, and next to these mountain cities, a city is usually built on a flat land such as a plain or a river valley to accommodate the people.
Once the Central Plains attacked, they shrank their troops and supplies in the military city, and defended against danger until the enemy retreated.
For hundreds of years, this strategy has been relatively effective. After all, the Central Plains’ expedition to Liaodong is a long way away, coupled with the inconvenience of food and grass supplies, and the coldness of Liaodong, it only takes a few months to attack. Once the attack is lost, they have to retreat Otherwise, the winter in Liaodong will leave the attackers without food and grass supplies and no place to escape the cold.
The Goguryeo people only need to stay in the mountain city for a few months.
Maybe when the enemy has no choice but to retreat, they can follow behind and wait for a few bites.
Therefore, military cities and civilian cities have always been complementary, one mountain city and one flat city. The mountain city is small but dangerous, and the flat city is large but defenseless.
The forwards of the Tang army had surrounded Jian'an Tucheng long ago, and they encountered no resistance. Just like the Goguryeo people had always done, they had no intention of defending the flat city at all.
As soon as the alarm was heard, some scouts were sent to watch the Tang army from afar, and then began to organize the people of Pingcheng to retreat to the mountain city, but the time was short, and Pingdi city has also developed rapidly in recent years, there are too many people and materials, and they cannot be transferred in time .
Tang Jun Qingqi arrived quickly again. After Tang Jun's round of charge, the Goguryeo Army simply gave up all the population and materials in Pingcheng and left.
"About half of the people ran out of the city, and now about half of the people in the city are stuck inside."
Although the city gates were closed and the drawbridge was raised, there were obviously no guards.
Niu Jinda asked for a fight.
Qin Lang said to Lao Niu, "Send someone to yell to surrender, I don't think they have any intention of resisting."
Lao Niu nodded, "I actually arranged a lot of chess pieces here in Jian'an City, but it seems that they are useless. The key is the Jian'an Mountain City behind, which encloses a valley with a circumference of ten miles. There is also a city inside the city. It's not easy to fight."
Qin Lang smiled mysteriously, "That's not necessarily the case."
"Does Saburo still have arrangements?"
"Let's wait and see."
Sure enough, when Lao Niu sent a school lieutenant to lead a few sea merchants who used to go to Jian'an to shout out at the city, the city hesitated, and still hung a few baskets to pull them up.
Waited for less than half an hour.
The south gate slowly opened, and the name of Qin Xianggong, Duke Wei of the Tang Dynasty was still very useful. His handwritten surrender letter, the major Goguryeo families in the city finally decided not to resist.
Besides, the timing of the Tang army's attack today is very good. At this time, all the famous people in the city, no matter officials, nobles or powerful merchants, are basically invited to the hot spring villa 20 miles north of the mountain city to participate in the concubine ceremony of the city lord Gao Wenxin. .
The families in the city who are now at home are all side branches or housekeepers. Who has the courage to fight against the world-renowned Wei Guogong and Qin Xiangye?
They used a thousand guards back then, and borrowed the thunder of the Dragon King of the East China Sea to blast away Beisha City, the first fortified city in southern Liaoning. Now Qin Lang came with 100,000 heavenly soldiers, and they still resisted a ghost.
Besides, those Tang merchants in Chinatown in the city have blocked the entire Chinatown for a long time. They heard that these people have mobilized and armed, and if they really fight, let alone the 100,000 Tang troops outside the city, it is the Tang merchants in the city and their They may not be able to beat the servants of the guards.
So after some discussion, everyone chose to believe in Wei Guogong's promise.
The south gate opened, and Niu Jianhu was the first to lead the light cavalry battalion of the Marine Corps into the city to take over. Qin Lang met the representatives of the various families who came out to surrender.
Each person was rewarded with one or two things, which was regarded as a surrender.
With Qin Lang's military order prohibiting looting and random killings, Jian'an Tucheng was not rioted and looted. After Niu Jianhu took control of the gates and other vital points in the city, Qin Lang sent another 3,000 people into the city to take over the defense city, warehouses, etc., and sent People patrol the streets to prevent people from looting and so on.
There is a temporary curfew in the city, and everyone stays at home temporarily.
Fortunately, the Tang army had strict military discipline. Although the whole city was as quiet as a pool of stagnant water, there was no disturbance at all.
After having a lunch outside Jian'an City, Qin Lang and Lao Niu led the troops to move on.
A few miles away is Jian'an Mountain City.
"Wei Gong, Niu Shuai."
Wang Xuance came to see him, "The last general led Qingqi and successfully surrounded Jian'an city lord Gao Wenxin and other officials and generals at the hot spring villa twenty miles to the north."
"Gao Wenxin is willing to surrender!"
Old Niu looked at Qin Lang in surprise, "It turns out that a group of warships separated before, and it was Wang Dudu who landed first?"
Qin Lang nodded.
The trade between Jian'an City and Datang has been booming in recent years, and Datang has already infiltrated Jian'an City like a sieve. The intelligence departments of the navy, the Zhendong Governor's Mansion, and many other yamen have planted hidden stakes there to train informants.
The housekeepers, concubines, maidservants, and entourages of Jian'an City Lord Gao Wenxin all have hidden stakes of the Tang Dynasty, and even the temples with strong incense in Jian'an City, the monks, Taoist priests, nuns, and female crowns in Taoist temples, many of them are also Datang. Don's hidden stake.
Steward Tang was the person placed by the Beiyang Navy next to City Lord Gao. The information he sent was secretly transmitted to the slums of the wharf by the Tang merchants in Chinatown in the city, and then spread out.
After receiving the information from the navy general, Qin Lang immediately formulated a beheading plan and dispatched Wang Xuance, a Confucian general, to lead three thousand Qingqi to land in the southeast of Jian'an first, and then Qingqi rushed to the Hot Spring Villa.
When Wang Xuance launched a surprise attack, Gao Gaojia and that girl Gao had already secretly controlled Gao Wenxin, and Gao Gaojia sent his confidants to quietly open the gate of the villa to lure Tang Qi in.
All the guests in the villa gathered together, although there were many guards.
But after all, this is just a hot spring resort for leisure and vacation, and today is another happy day for the city lord to take concubines. No one thought that Tang Qi would suddenly kill him.
The dragons have no leader, and they are in chaos.
It didn't take much time for Wang Xuance to control the situation, and Gao Wenxin was quickly moved by Tang Steward's analysis of interests and finally agreed to surrender.
It’s useless not to surrender. He was **** in front of Wang Xuance by the senior executives. If he didn’t surrender, he would die.
What's more, Wang Xuance also told him that Wei Guogong promised that after the surrender, he would be sent to Luoyang or Chang'an at that time, and he would still be able to enjoy the glory and wealth.
City Lord Gao is a smart person, otherwise the business would not be so prosperous these years. People who can do business are more shrewd and calculating, and know how to analyze the pros and cons.
After some analysis, City Lord Gao finally decided that it was wiser to descend to Tang.
Lao Gao surrendered, and took the initiative to persuade other people in Jian'an who were still panicked and wanted to resist. This person spoke by himself, and soon persuaded all the interested partners in Jian'an who were already a grasshopper on a rope.
The few ones who were single-minded were taken down by Wang Xuance without hesitation, and in the end he didn't forget to hand them over to Gao Chengzhu and others to execute them personally, which can be regarded as letting them accept a vote.
So, when Qin Lang just arrived at the foot of Jian'an Mountain City, he was still waiting for the troops behind him to arrive at the designated position, ready to attack from all directions, and the good news came from here.
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Lao Gao rode his Qinghai dragon colt and led a group of subordinates to follow. When he saw Qin Lang, he bowed down.
"Can the mountain city open its gates and surrender?" Qin Lang asked.
Old Gao patted his chest with a bang.
"able!"
Lao Gao has guarded Jian'an City for many years, and he is still the hereditary city lord, that is, Jian'an City has always been the territory of their Lao Gao family. Jian'an City and the soldiers and horses in Jian'an City are all semi-private products of their Lao Gao family. It is a product left over from the tribal system era before Goguryeo.
It's like Yuan Gai Suwen's hereditary succession to the position of Lord of the East.
The head of Jian'an City was captured in the manor, and now the mountain city is actually full of small looters, and there are not many troops.
Lao Gao rode his horse and ran to the bottom of the city to shout, and the squad leaders on duty on the mountain looked at each other in blank dismay, and then looked at the formation of Tang army soldiers and horses with red flags waving at the foot of the mountain.
Well, since the city lords have all surrendered, what else are we going to do? Let’s surrender as well.
The gate of Jian'an city is wide open.
This time it was Wang Xuance's turn to take the lead, leading Du Zhenglun and Du Chuke into the mountain city to defend.
After entering, the two Du Sima looked left and right for a long time, and couldn't help but ask, "Is this the famous city of Goguryeo?"
"Hey, it's not as good as Xianglin Prefecture in the southern part of the Tang Dynasty. It's too simple. It's just a valley. It's almost a big village, and it's a big city."
"How dare this little earth bag be called the Golden Temple Mountain? How tall is this? The Golden Temple of my great Tang sage is much bigger than this!"
Everyone despised it.
Wang Xuance didn't care about complaining, he led his troops to quickly defend everywhere, many people who ran from Pingdi City earlier were a little confused, and ran away all day.
Running from the pier to Tucheng, from Tucheng to Shancheng, before he stopped to kick two breaths, he surrendered. Wouldn't it be a waste of time to run for a long time.
I knew why I was still running. After running for dozens of miles, I was as tired as a dog.
However, for Lord Gao to lead the crowd to surrender, everyone is still willing to raise their hands and support them with both feet. Who wants to fight.
Qin Lang enters the city and enters Jindianshanbao.
"I think this mountain looks like a big gold ingot, why not change its name to Jinding Mountain, and this castle to be renamed Jinding Castle."
Changing the names of Jindianshan and Jindianbao, which seemed a bit presumptuous, Qin Lang once again ordered the soldiers to be restrained, strict military discipline, and no looting is allowed.
Of course, everyone has worked hard, and there is hard work without credit.
"The victory of the first battle, the victory of the first battle, and the victory of Jian'an without bloodshed, all rely on the sage Longwei, which is also the strength of all the soldiers. Each of them will record one piece of merit and take the Jian'an treasury. Each person will be given two pieces of silk, and wine and meat will be rewarded!"
All soldiers cheer!
Gao Wenxin and the rest of the Jian'an generals sat there nervously, making smirks all the time.
But those Tang merchants in Jian’an, they all stood up generously at this time, saying that the Tang Chamber of Commerce is willing to spend a lot of money on food, meat, vegetables, etc. to reward my Tang soldiers.
Qin Lang smiled, ordered the soldiers to take notes, and praised them as righteous businessmen and good people!
(end of this chapter)