Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 3060
Facing His Majesty Li Er's reprimand, Zhang Jian was silent, but he didn't take it seriously in his heart.

He doesn't know the emperor's mind, and he doesn't want to care about the balance. He is just a pure soldier, and he will win if he doesn't fight.In his opinion, it is extremely stupid to let the navy that crosses the sea be useless just to balance the interests of various factions in the DPRK.

Without the containment of the navy, how many people would need to die in vain?

Furthermore, there has never been a war that can be won in the world. In the Sui Dynasty, the national power was at its peak, the army was strong and the horses were strong. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was also a generation of heroes with great talents. In the end, the three Eastern Expeditions all failed and returned, and even caused the court to be in turmoil. The world is full of flames of war, thus ruining the country?
In every battle, you should do your best to use your own advantages to the extreme. If you still lose, there is nothing to say, but if you return home because you didn't do your best, wouldn't it be the biggest joke in the world?

Goguryeo has a vast territory and strong soldiers and horses, but it is not a soft persimmon!

Since its development, although the Tang army has driven straight into the land of no one, most of it is the result of Goguryeo's strong walls and clear fields, and the result of retreating step by step. In this Anshi City, Goguryeo will fight desperately to keep the city intact. The Tang army will encounter a battle. Extremely tough battle.

At this time, I still want to balance the interests of all parties, put the powerful navy aside and ignore it, what the wise don't do...

His Majesty Li Er looked at Zhang Jian with a displeased face, and he also had a headache. This person is too senior and has made enough credit. He couldn't reprimand him like he reprimanded Zhou Daowu, so he had to say: "The Duke of Wancheng County is in the army and has rich experience. It’s just that the strategy of the Eastern Expedition has already been formulated, and hundreds of thousands of troops are acting according to the plan. How can we change it rashly at this time? Needless to say, the army will rest for two days, and no matter whether the heavy rain stops after two days, the whole army will storm Anshi City!”

War is the best way to resolve all disputes. As long as the war starts, no matter who you are, you must obey the established strategy unconditionally. If you have an opinion, you can only keep it. If anyone argues about those strategies and tactics at this time, it will shake the morale of the army.

Zhang Jian naturally knew what His Majesty Li Er meant. Although he was dissatisfied and dared to argue with his neck, he was by no means an idiot. The city, the enemy's city is not broken, and the position is not set!"

His Majesty Li Er knew that this man was extremely brave. Even though he was a little older now, his blood was still not exhausted. He was angry with himself at the moment. If he agreed to his entreaties, he would surely fight to the death. If he failed, he would be benevolent!

So he shook his head and said: "There is no need for this, all the troops can perform their duties. Duke E is brave and brave, how can you use others to help? You follow me to watch the enemy for Duke E, and watch Duke E break the enemy's city! "

"Here!"

Zhang Jian didn't dare to say much, and stepped back with his hands folded.

His Majesty Li Er looked around the crowd, and said in a deep voice: "With gunpowder blowing up the enemy city, casualties can be reduced naturally, but when there is no gunpowder, why have we ever feared any fortified city in the world? The ambition of the Tang Dynasty has always been to sweep away All the enemies standing in front of us can only be defeated and surrendered in the universe! The general ordered me to attack Anshi City two days later. No matter what the cost of casualties is, this city must be pulled out. , the victory of the Eastern Expedition is unstoppable!"

"Here!"

All the generals responded with a bang.

His Majesty Li Er turned his eyes on the faces of Xue Wanche and Ashina Simo, and said calmly: "Recently, many military commanders have come to report to me, saying that some generals violated military regulations and should be severely punished! I think your expedition is not easy, so I have been suppressing it. But I want to warn you, don’t think that after two victories, you will get carried away and get carried away. Military regulations are not child’s play.

Xue Wanche was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "I will obey the order!"

Ashina Simo was most afraid of His Majesty Li Er, he was almost scared out of his wits in front of His Majesty Li Er's Huwei, knelt on the ground with a "plop", and said in a trembling voice: "I will be convicted, I will never dare again!"

In my heart, Xue Wanche, who tricked him to act recklessly and enjoy himself wantonly, scolded him half to death. What kind of nonsense "surrender general theory" is clearly harmful...

Everyone was taken aback, seeing Ashina Simo's reaction, why didn't they know that His Majesty Li Er was talking about him?It's just that I don't know what mistake this big sweat made, which made His Majesty Li Er warn...

His Majesty Li Er looked at Ashina Simo who was kneeling on the ground, and was also a little speechless.

I don't name or reveal my surname, it's just a warning to save you enough face.After all, you are all surrendered to me, and you will inevitably be out of tune with the other ministers. It will be difficult for you in the future, so you have not pursued it.

But when you kneel like this, my good intentions are in vain...

His Majesty Li Er was speechless for a while, so he stroked his forehead and said, "Okay, if you know your mistakes, there is nothing better than improving them. How can I be a mean and ungrateful person? Get up quickly."

Ashina Simo just stood up, wiped the cold sweat off his brow, drooped his head and didn't dare to say a word...

*****
After capturing Jian'an City, the army received a steady stream of supplies from the Navy. After a rest, some continued to go south to sweep up the remaining enemy strongholds between Jian'an City and Beisha City, and most of them set off eastward and went straight to Anshi City .

On May 21, 20 troops arrived at the Tang army camp on the bank of Yanshui outside Anshi City. The morale was high and the troops were ready. The whole army was waiting to storm Anshi City.

The heavy rain continued.

Although it is rainy in Liaodong summer, such heavy rains that have not stopped for many days are extremely rare, which inevitably reduces the morale of the Tang army.

After all, with such rare weather, sometimes it is inevitable that people feel that God is helping Goguryeo...

His Majesty Li Er didn't care so much. On May 22, the army began to attack the city.

Hundreds of thousands of troops surrounded Anshi City, and Yuchi Gong led his troops to launch a strong attack at the west gate.

First, they braved the heavy rain to try to attack and plant gunpowder under the city. As a result, the rain was too heavy, and the enemies on the city threw rolling logs and stones crazily. The loss was heavy, and the gunpowder could not be ignited even after being exposed to rain, so the idea of ​​blowing up the city wall had to be given up, and the whole army stormed desperately.

One after another, the ladders were carried by the soldiers and rushed to the bottom of the city to erect them. The soldiers held the horizontal knives in their mouths and braved arrows to climb desperately, but in an instant, the enemy soldiers on the city pushed the ladders with long poles and fell over. , The soldiers of the Tang army who had climbed halfway fell into the muddy water.

On the side of the Tang army, a tall nest cart was erected, and the soldiers climbed to the top of the cart, which was almost at the same height as the enemy army on the city wall, and frantically shot arrows over it.

Tang Jun's arrow clusters were more capable of piercing armor, and the enemy troops on the city wall fell like cutting wheat, but even if they were supplemented by their companions, they always maintained a suppressive posture against Tang Jun below the city.

There are more than [-] defenders in Anshi City, with plenty of troops, which means that the Goguryeo people have made a strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the fields, and waiting for help. Otherwise, so many troops are enough to start a large-scale field battle with the Tang army!
Of course, the reason why the Goguryeo people can’t shrink back is because they know the gap between themselves and the Tang army. Regardless of the military equipment or the quality of the soldiers, they are all lower than the Tang army. It’s not 01:30 points. There may be a little chance of winning if they stick to the city. Field battles are just asking for death...

As soon as the siege battle started, it fell into an extremely tragic and bitter battle.

The Tang army was not afraid of death, braved rolling trees, rocks, piercing the sky and raining arrows to charge to the death. The soldiers stepped on the corpse of Paoze trying to erect the ladder on the enemy's wall.The enemy troops on the top of the city also braved the arrow rain from the Tang army's nest car, and overturned the Tang army's ladders one by one with red eyes, because they knew that the quality of the soldiers on both sides was too different. Head, it means that a tough street battle is about to happen, and they can't resist Tang Jun who is as fierce as a tiger.

Tens of thousands of troops surrounded the east city wall, braving the heavy rain and storming against the sound of horns.

Yuchi Gong was riding on the horse with his helmet on and the horizontal knife on his waist in his hand, pressing down in the rear.

His gaze pierced through the heavy rain to the bottom of the city, where countless soldiers of the Tang army were crushed and shot to death by the enemy's rolling logs, rocks, stones and arrows, and the corpses had already been covered with a layer.The soldiers at the back had no time to collect the body of Pao Ze, they just stepped on the dead body of Pao Ze and continued to attack madly with gritted teeth.

Siege warfare has always been the most tragic way of war, not one of them.

"Ten to encircle, five to attack, double to divide" This is the strategy of Sun Wu, the sage of soldiers. Although the overall quality of the Goguryeo army is far behind that of the Tang army, Anshi City, where 20 Goguryeo troops stick to it, wants to It must pay a great price to capture it.

(End of this chapter)