Chapter 1125 Invincible
Anshi City, the name of the city follows the name of Anshi County in the Han Dynasty, and Anshi County is one of the eighteen counties in the Eastern Liao County of the Han Dynasty.
In the Han Dynasty, Anshi County was built on a plain in the vicinity of the Dashi Bridge in Yingkou, but although the Goguryeo people continued to use the name of Anshi, Anshi City was a mountain city. Win the mountain.
This city is more dangerous than Jian'an City.
Following the mountains as the city, it is more than ten miles in circumference, high in the east and low in the west, and has an oval shape.
The city is about 6,000 mu in size. There are mountain springs in the city, which flow out of the city from east to west. There are one gates in the east, west, north, south, and north.
The east gate is located at the highest point of the mountain city, the east and west gates are two miles apart, and the north and south gates are one mile apart.
Around the city of Anshi, there are hills, each of which has a fortress, guarded by troops.
This city is the throat of the Liaodong Plain leading to the heart of Goguryeo. Therefore, it has been continuously strengthened for two hundred years and is very dangerous.
Liang Wanchun, the city lord of Anshi who guards this place, is not just waiting for nothing.
He was originally an aristocrat of the Juenu tribe, one of the six tribes of Goguryeo, and a confidant general of the king Gao Jianwu. When Goguryeo reformed the military system and established the twelve guards of the forbidden army after the Tang Dynasty, Liang Wanchun was the general of the left guard. Su Wen doesn't deal with it, and Yuan Gai Su Wen regards it as a thorn in his side, which is an obstacle for him to gain power.
So he was expelled from the court by Yuan Gai Suwen, the king defended him, and arranged him to be the general in Anshi City. Liang Wanchun brought the elite of the left and right imperial guards composed of Juenu and Guannu to Anshi, Liaodong. The city, where soldiers and horses are trained and people's livelihood is appeased, has outstanding political achievements.
Yuan Gai Suwen made trouble for him several times, and even engaged in military encounters before. In a rage, Yuan Gai Suwen led 100,000 troops to surround An City, wanting to take him down and punish him, but Liang Wanchun directly summoned his troops to defend the city. , ignore him at all.
Finally, the king came forward to mediate, and Yuan Gai Suwen was allowed to retreat.
Liang Wanchun has been operating in An City for many years, under his command are the elite left and right guards of the king, under him are Zou Dingguo, Li Zuosheng, Ou Fei, Ji Wu, and Zhang Housun, five generals, known as the Five Tiger Generals, guarding An City and surrounding cities. A total of 100,000 horses.
It can also be regarded as a strong soldier.
Therefore, Mo Li Zhiyuan Gai Suwen, the power minister, led a hundred thousand men to threaten him, but he was not afraid at all.
Although he was tricked and lost 40,000 horses by the city lord of Jian'an, he is still headstrong.
As the saying goes, a raging soldier will make a raging nest.
Yang Wanchun is a ruthless man, and the soldiers under him are naturally not cowardly.
Facing Gao Wenxin, the lord of Jian'an City sent by Qin Lang to persuade him to surrender, he cursed and beheaded the envoy he sent.
Persuading him to surrender failed, but Qin Lang was not in a hurry to attack the city.
The main reason is that Anshi City is indeed very dangerous, and Liang Wanchun is full of fighting spirit, and there are many small fortresses around it.
Qin Lang set up a battalion company under the city of Anshi, and stood still for the time being.
On the one hand, he sent people across the sea to Youzhou to report victory to the emperor, and on the other hand, he sent people to the north to contact generals Cheng Mingzhen, Zhang Jian, and Cheng Yaojin.
Li Shimin, grandson Wuji and others were dumbfounded.
"It was a beautiful battle!"
Yu Chigong slapped his thigh hard, blushing, "This kid is getting better and better at fighting, I admire him!"
Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia, who was almost blinded in one eye by Yu Chigong's punch, hurried away from him, "Qin Xiang is really good at using troops like a god. Jian'an and Anshi are two important cities in the south of the Liaodong defense line. They have hundreds of thousands of troops. There are many strong soldiers in the city, and it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Unexpectedly, Qin Xiang won such a great victory so easily!"
Joining the army at this time also told the emperor the good news. After taking Jian'an, they completely obtained the grain and grass supplies in the city, and obtained a lot of grain.
While annihilating the 40,000 reinforcements in Anshi, they also seized a large amount of livestock, cattle, sheep and grain.
After Qin Lang's victory, he immediately sent people to Dalian, Lushun, Dengzhou, Tianjin, Qinhuangdao ports to call for business, and captured slaves and captured cattle and horses in exchange for food.
Let merchants transport food in exchange for slaves, cattle, horses, etc.
Businessmen from all over the place moved after hearing the news, rushing here loaded with salt, grain, pickles, vegetables, winter clothes, etc. It is said that Jian'an City has now become a huge trading market.
The scene is hot.
Li Shimin and his eldest grandson all looked at each other in blank dismay. This Qin Lang was really courageous. He sold the prisoners of war as slaves as soon as he won the battle.
"Sold them as merchants to exchange food for slaves?"
"Not all of them."
"Those chiefs will wait for the captives, and they will be sent to Dengzhou for custody first, waiting for the saint to dispose of them. Other captured soldiers will be sold directly into slavery. For those who surrendered in Jian'an, they will not move to protect their personal and property safety."
Not only that, Qin Lang was also more polite to the Goguryeo people around Anshi, and did not send people to raid and arrest them, but even paid them to help build the camp.
Qin Lang is now building a stockade in front of Anshi City, and he also occupies a mountain. He wants to build a mountain city, and at the same time build a permanent camp at the foot of the mountain, as if he wants to fight the Goguryeo people to the end.
Li Shimin didn't know what to say.
Qin Lang not only wiped out half of the main force in southern Liaoning, but also seized an important town and besieged another important town to death. Not to mention spending no money and food from the court, he solved the problem of food and grass supply.
Even now, they are still starting to store food and grass under the city of Anshi to prepare for the next attack on Anshi and Liaodong City in the north.
Under normal circumstances, although the imperial court had stored a lot of grain and grass in Liucheng in Yingzhou, western Liaoning, it was still very far from Liucheng to the front line on the west bank of the Liao River, and it was difficult to transport by horses and carts. This also restricted the emperor's personal conscription. important reason for the number of horses.
The more soldiers, the more food and grass they eat, and the more civilians need to be employed, and the civilians also need to consume food and grass, and the more civilians consume more, this is like a cycle, and Yang Guang's million-dollar conquest of Liao was defeated because of this. .
Food and grass are too important for the Eastern Expedition.
Now Qin Lang is hundreds of miles north from Beisha, and has established a grain and grass base at the foot of Anshi City, 600 miles north of Beisha, which is only more than 100 miles away from Liaodong City.
How far is Liucheng, the original food and grass base camp, from Liaodong City?
The shortest distance is 500 miles, and you have to cross 200 miles to Daliaoze.
"Can Prime Minister Qin take Anshi?" Li Daozong asked.
And Changsun Wuji was also a little worried. It is impossible for the Goguryeo people to fail to see the benefits of Qin Lang's troops, so the Goguryeo people are likely to counterattack Qin Lang.
If it is untenable, or if the army is defeated, it will be dangerous.
"Qin Lang must be reinforced immediately."
Li Shimin quickly fetched the map, studied it and made the latest adjustments.
"Cheng Mingzhen and Zhang Jian, who were ordered in Liaoze, led more than 20,000 troops, and immediately went to the southeast to reinforce Qin Lang under the city of Anshi, and joined forces with him. After arriving, Qin Lang controlled them."
"Give Qin Lang Liaodong Xuanwei an envoy to recruit economic strategy!"
"Cheng Yaojin passed the decree, taking advantage of Qin Lang's attention from the Goguryeo people in the south, he hurried out of Tongding and bypassed the Liaohe defense line from the north!"
"We can't be idle either, the whole army speeds up and drives straight to Liaodong City!"
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Early November.
Liaodong was turbulent, and wars were everywhere. Goguryeo was guarded by the Great Wall, but it was also mobilized to run around, exhausted.
Mo Lizhiyuan Gai Suwen, who personally rushed to Liaodong City to take command, this Goguryeo official who likes to wear five knives, was also confused by various military alarms at this time.
One moment the Tang army appeared in Huaiyuan, another moment they retreated into Liaoze, another moment they left Yingzhou to go to Liaodong, another moment they said that Jian’an had fallen, and another moment the Anshi army was defeated again, and the Tang army was everywhere.
Yuan Gai Suwen couldn't even figure out where the main force of the Tang army was and where the target was.
After hearing the news that Anshi lost 40,000 troops and Jian'an was lost, Yuan Gaisuwen didn't care about gloating. Although Yang Wanchun had always been against him, guarding Anshi, controlling the southern Liaoning area, and holding 100,000 soldiers, It's a thorn in his side.
But he also knew that the defense line of the Great Wall in Liaodong was originally one. The loss of Beisha back then left a gap in the defense line of the Great Wall. Also alone.
Whether he wants to or not, he has to rescue An Shicheng.
It’s just that Yuan Gai Suwen is also a ruthless person.
After thinking about it for a long time, he finally sent people to Anshi City to let Liang Wanchun continue to stand firm, and at the same time sent people to rush to the king, asking him to transfer the northern Zaisa Gao Huizhen and the southern Zaisa Gao Yanshou to lead the Goguryeo Imperial Army and the troops of the Mohe tribe to reinforce Anshi. He himself still sits guarding Liaodong City and can't get out.
Gao Yanshou, Gao Huizhen, etc., like Liang Wanchun, are the king's confidantes. Yuan Gaisuwen wanted to use the hands of the Tang army to consume the king's twelve guards.
In this way, the king will no longer have the strength to contend with himself.
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Cheng Yaojin laughed several times when he heard the good news in Yingzhou.
"This old cow is really skilled. He actually abducted Qin Lang, and let this old cow show his face and steal the credit."
"Boys, we are the main force, we can't be ashamed."
On the same day, Lao Cheng led his troops out of Liucheng and turned to the North Express.
Driving 400 miles all the way, and raiding under Tongding Fort, the Goguryeo people had no idea how the Liucheng Tang army, who had already gone to Huaiyuan, would suddenly appear.
There were only a thousand defenders in the city, and they were surrounded by Lao Cheng's troops. After a fierce attack, they took it down.
After breaking the city, Lao Cheng left the wounded soldiers to guard Tongding Fort and guard the captives, then crossed the Liao River non-stop, and went directly to Xuanju City (Shenyang).
Another way.
The two generals Cheng Mingzhen and Zhang Jian who were still playing hide-and-seek with the Goguryeo army in Huaiyuan Town in Liaozeli also cleaned up overnight after receiving the order.
The sky was slightly bright, and the whole army pulled out of camp and went south.
All the way to the southeast for four hundred miles, leaving the Goguryeo people far behind, passed through their Great Wall defense line, successfully arrived at the city of Anshi, and joined forces with Qin Lang's army.
On the sixth day of November, Cheng Yaojin attacked Gaimu City (Fushun) after taking Xuanju.
At this time, there were not many guards in Gaimu City. Some soldiers and horses went south to reinforce Huaiyuan before returning, but they were suddenly killed by Lao Cheng. The two armies attacked and defended fiercely.
Old Cheng took three days to storm Gaimu City, captured 20,000 people, and seized more than 100,000 stones of food and grass in the city.
He successfully established a stable grain and grass base in the upper reaches of the Liaohe River, and stabilized the supply line from Liucheng to Tongding, Xuantu, and Gaimu in Yingzhou, Western Liaoning.
Gaimu City is a big city. Lao Cheng encountered fierce resistance in Gaimu, but Lao Cheng's army was sharply attacking at this time, and the offensive was fierce. The two sides fought fiercely for three days and broke the city, but they also paid 3,000 casualties. The first major casualty since the Eastern Expedition.
Fortunately, Gaimu City was finally taken, and the lord of Goguryeo Jiashi City led 20,000 troops to help, and it was only one step away. After all, Lao Cheng was the first to take down Gaimu City.
Jiashi City Lord had no choice but to turn back halfway, not daring to challenge Lao Cheng's edge.
Emperor Li Shimin took only five days to forcefully cross the Daliaoze, which was hundreds of miles away.
Li Shimin, wearing a brown robe, looked back at Liaoze, which had swallowed up hundreds of soldiers, and gave the order to demolish the bridge to show his determination to fight to the death and never retreat.
"March into Liaodong City!"
The emperor personally led the Beiya Sixth Army with 30,000 troops to rush to Liaodong City, and at the same time sent people to the north and south to summon Cheng Yaojin and Qin Lang to join forces in Liaodong City.
First go to Liaodong City, and then break Pyongyang!
Liaodong City is the most important city in Liaodong of Goguryeo. Yang Guang was unable to attack it in those years. Now Li Shimin will personally pull down this strong city and completely tear open the gate of Goguryeo.
Soldiers are expensive, and you can't wait for the Goguryeo people to react before dispatching troops to help.
Li Daozong, as Li Shimin's fanboy and a general of the clan, is willing to be the vanguard and is willing to be the first to attack the city of Liaodong.
Li Shimin gave him four thousand light cavalry and asked him to go forward as the forward.
(end of this chapter)