Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 798

Goguryeo is a very illusory concept for people today.There are even many people who mistakenly think that they are talking about someone's so-and-so, saying that everything belongs to him every day, and the earth will not be able to hold other people.

But do we know how the real Goguryeo existed in the Sui and Tang Dynasties?In a nutshell, its territory includes today's Liaoning, half of Jilin, and half of the Korean Peninsula.This volume, hanging above the head, which emperor can sleep peacefully?

Moreover, Goguryeo is completely different from the regimes established by nomadic peoples such as the Turks and the Huns. It is a farming country.This determines that its "internal strength is endless", and it is by no means comparable to the grassland empire where "the wind never ends, and the rain never ends".The so-called "curse" of "Hulu has no luck for a hundred years" can't be put on Goguryeo's head!

Pushing forward, during the Warring States Period, Yan State was among the Seven Heroes only relying on Youzhou and half of Western Liaoning.Not to mention, today's Goguryeo with such a large size, if it is allowed to develop, the Liao Kingdom or Houjin in a hundred years will appear on the head of the Central Plains Dynasty in advance, which can make you breathless!
Among them, especially the Liaodong region, its richness is enough to become the foundation of the world's hegemony just like Guanzhong, Hebei, Jiangdong and other places.There were two rehearsals during the Three Kingdoms period. Cao Cao conquered Wuhuan and Sima Yi conquered Liaodong. Who would dare to underestimate them.

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty conquered Goguryeo three times, and he vomited blood, but the Sui collapsed and failed to win.Li Shimin is here again and has achieved great results, but why do you still say that I have failed?Because the country is not destroyed.

Tang Taizong Li Shimin also fought Goguryeo and failed in the end, so why didn't Li Shimin destroy Goguryeo?Except in terms of tactics, Li Daozong's strategy of "surprisingly attacking Pyongyang City from thousands of miles away" was not adopted (recognized by Li Jing as one of the reasons for the failure).The deeper reason is: because Goguryeo, like the Central Plains Dynasty, is an agricultural country, during its rising or stable period, if you want to complete all your achievements in one battle, unless you meet an emperor like Liu Chan.

Anyone with a little knowledge of Chinese history should be aware of this point, which is determined by the stability of the farming country.Just when Li Shimin went to war, Koguryo was in the heyday of its history, and there was a strong man: Yuan Gai Su Wen.

Therefore, even though Li Shimin defeated Li Shimin in Liaodong, he just refused to surrender and fought with you Li Shimin, one city at a time.They had no choice but to withdraw their troops before winter came.

After all, Li Shimin's strategic conception was wrong. He wanted to win it in one fell swoop, just like Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande, or the Eastern Turks, but ignored Goguryeo. It can be called a "small" Tang Dynasty , The war between the two farming countries is better than internal strength.

In this way, Li Shimin's battle of Liaodong ended. Although he said he failed, it was enough to make many emperors unable to hold their heads up.If you don't believe it, you can push it back to the Northern Song Dynasty. Zhao Guangyi took the prestige of destroying the Northern Han Dynasty to conquer the Liao Kingdom. Not only was he defeated, but he was also shot...
Comments from the elderly: This person (Zhao Guangyi) does not know soldiers.The comment on Li Shimin is: since ancient times, there is no one who can fight against Li Shimin, followed by Zhu Yuanzhang.

With Li Shimin's death, Li Zhi ascended the throne.The problem of Goguryeo has always been like a big rock.Fortunately, today's Tang Dynasty has basically reached a consensus: Goguryeo cannot be defeated overnight.So when Li Shimin was still alive, Datang started a war of attrition, constantly harassing Goguryeo with troops.

In 666 AD, Li Zhi granted Zen to Mount Tai.The so-called major events of the country are sacrifices and soldiers.This can be said to be the most important event in Datang that year.But this time Fengchan Taishan, there was a strange scene.

According to the "Old Tang Book": In the first year of Qianfeng, Tibet sent a son and a son, and the emperor Fucong granted Mount Tai, and Gai Suwen died when Gai Suwen died, and the son and son took the place of Mo Lizhi.

A simple translation is that during the process of Li Zhi enshrining Mount Tai, Gai Suwen of Goguryeo sent the eldest son Quan boy to follow the whole process, and Li Zhi even agreed.Gai Suwen died shortly after Dangquan boy returned to China.So Boy Quan took over Gai Suwen's official position as "Mo Lizhi" (the person with the highest real power).

Do you look confused?Datang and Goguryeo, while fighting non-stop, the highest levels of the two sides are also playing happily together. Why is this?There is only one explanation: Li Zhi had made long-term preparations for the extermination of Goguryeo.That's why he had to treat Gai Suwen's eldest son with such courtesy.

At the same time, Gai Suwen was also aware of this, so he dared to send his eldest son over there to contact Datang—of course, it can also be regarded as a special visit to find out the truth of Datang.In short, behind the smiling faces, although both sides are gnashing their teeth, they are even more helpless!

But no one thought that after only 2 years, the style of painting would change suddenly.

Li You suddenly asked for an edict to go to battle. You have to know who Li You is, King Qi of the Tang Dynasty, the leader of Hubenwei, and Li Zhi's fifth elder brother. The whole world directly named Li You as Tiance General.

Knowing what Tiance Admiral is, that is to control the world's soldiers and horses, and to allow the existence of his own officials.

When it was even more frightening, Li You was really too fierce. After becoming General Tiance, he immediately took over Su Dingfang's command and began to besiege Pyongyang City. At this time, Pyongyang City had been besieged by Su Dingfang for half a year. Su Dingfang was also troubled.

But just after Li You arrived, Li You brought a mysterious weapon. With the appearance of the mysterious weapon, the city of Pyongyang, which had been besieged for half a year, was directly captured ten days later.

According to the memories of the soldiers in Pyongyang City, on the eve of Li You's capture of Pyongyang City, there was heavy thunder and a large number of explosions pouring down crazily. In addition to the sound of explosions, there were also many huge stones of three hundred catties falling from the sky. into the city.

A stone weighing three hundred catties can directly destroy a house in Pyongyang.

As long as such a stone hits a person even a little bit, that person will die. You have no right to live at all, the sound of explosions, the roar of boulders hitting the ground, and the death of soldiers around you.

These tragic appearances made it impossible for the soldiers in Pyongyang to continue fighting.

After that, it took only ten days for Pyongyang City to fall directly, and Pyongyang City could be captured. There must be two kinds of weapons to be mentioned. The first one is the sound of explosion, and it is known to be explosives without guessing.

The reason why Li You asked for a fight was also because Li You fiddled with black gunpowder at the last moment. In the war of cold weapons, with the addition of hot weapons, it would be difficult for the opponent not to lose.

In addition to the addition of black powder, Li You also prepared a secret weapon, its name is Hui Hui Pao!
(End of this chapter)