Tang Dynasty: Taking the Empress Dowager to a brothel, Father Emperor, what a coincidence!

On the city wall.

Yeon Gaesomun looked at the flying iron bucket and laughed loudly:

"Hahaha! Li Chengqian, did you freeze to death in Liaodong?"

You think you can smash the city walls with a few broken iron buckets? Do you really think the walls of Pyongyang are made of paper?

Is this all the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty is capable of?

The surrounding Goguryeo soldiers also joined in the laughter.

Bang bang bang!

Dozens of large iron barrels smashed onto the city wall and into the crowd.

Upon landing, the metal bucket shattered completely.

The black liquid inside began to splatter everywhere.

The Goguryeo soldiers on the city wall, the bound Han prisoners of war, and even Yeon Gaesomun himself were all drenched.

Yeon Gaesomun wiped the black oil off his face, then smelled it.

"What the hell is this thing?"

He looked at Li Chengqian outside the city with a puzzled expression.

The Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty wouldn't think of disgusting himself by making himself feel disgusted by such things.

They'll just surrender on their own, won't they?

Outside the city, Li Chengqian looked at the Goguryeo soldiers on the city wall, their clothes covered in oil.

He slowly raised his right hand.

"Archer"

Cheng Chumo immediately roared:

"Archers, step forward!"

Thousands of archers stepped out of the army formation, drew their bows, and nocked their arrows.

"ignition."

Flames instantly ignited on thousands of arrows.

Li Chengqian sneered: "Release."

Whoosh whoosh!

Rockets rained down on the walls of Pyongyang.

Yeon Gaesomun sensed something was wrong the moment he saw the rocket.

He turned and ran down the city wall.

The Goguryeo general on the city wall roared:

"Raise your shields!"

However, the rockets didn't aim at anyone at all; they all landed on the city walls, along the parapets, and at the feet of the defenders.

boom!

Flames erupted instantly.

The Goguryeo soldiers on the city wall, covered in black oil, instantly turned into firecrackers.

They rolled frantically on the city wall, trying to extinguish the flames on their bodies.

But the fire just wouldn't go out.

"Water! Quickly, bring me water!"

The general on the city wall shouted.

Several soldiers frantically picked up buckets of water and poured them over the burning soldier.

But when water was poured on the fire, it didn't extinguish it.

Instead, the fire began to spread in all directions along with the water flow.

The entire city wall was engulfed in flames.

The excruciating pain of the burning flames was unbearable for the Goguryeo soldiers on the city wall.

He jumped directly off the city wall, which was several meters high.

Even though he was smashed into a pile of rubble, the fire on his body was still burning.

Yeon Gaesomun looked at the raging fire in the city and on the city walls, and his whole body began to tremble with fear.

"What...what kind of sorcery is this?"

He hadn't expected Li Chengqian to be different from the others he'd met before.

They are not bound by moral constraints at all.

And they were so ruthless that they set fire to the place knowing they had Han prisoners in their hands.

Amidst the raging fire, a truly awe-inspiring scene unfolded.

The Han prisoners and Sui veterans who were tied to the battlements were also consumed by the flames.

But none of them wailed.

No one begged for mercy.

An old Sui soldier with gray hair and one blind eye let the flames burn his hair and skin.

He roared at the 100,000-strong army outside the city:

"May Zhongyuan be victorious!!!"

The Han Chinese prisoners next to them also roared:

"May Zhongyuan be victorious!"

"Kill all these beasts."

"Your Highness! Don't worry about us. Charge in and avenge us!"

They laughed wildly in the flames, and faced death with smiles on their faces.

Decades of humiliation and torment have finally been relieved at this moment.

outside the city.

One hundred thousand Tang soldiers watched this scene with red eyes.

Everyone gripped their weapons tightly, eager to rush in and wreak havoc.

Outside the city gate.

Those Goguryeo people who had been driven out by Yeon Gaesomun to serve as human shields were now terrified.

They dropped their sticks and hoes, knelt on the ground, and frantically kowtowed towards the direction of the Tang army, begging for mercy.

"Spare me!"

"Don't kill us."

Li Jing turned to look at Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian sat on horseback, his face expressionless.

His eyes were now fixed only on the Han soldiers being consumed by the flames.

Wei Zheng clearly saw that Li Chengqian's hands were trembling slightly.

That trembling was caused by anger.

Under the scorching heat of the flames, the city gates of Pyongyang finally succumbed and collapsed with a crash.

The Goguryeo garrison inside began to scatter and flee for their lives.

Li Chengqian slowly drew the horizontal sword from his waist.

The blade was aimed directly at Pyongyang.

"All troops, listen to my command."

The city has fallen. Go and bring our compatriots home.

"Go and wipe out all the Goguryeo people in Pyongyang."

"kill!"

No sooner had Li Chengqian finished speaking than Cheng Yaojin, who had been unable to hold back any longer, roared.

He grabbed his axe and charged toward the city gate.

"Dad! Slow down. Leave a few for me."

Cheng Chumo followed closely behind, carrying a horse spear.

Changsun Chong and his gang of second-generation rich kids were all yelling and rushing into the city.

This is a feat that could destroy a nation!

Who would let such a good opportunity slip by?

Inside Pyongyang, the Goguryeo garrison was terrified by Yeon Gaesomun's escape and the recent raging fire.

Faced with the Tang vanguard rushing in, the Goguryeo soldiers couldn't even hold out for a moment.

Cheng Yaojin cleaved a Goguryeo lieutenant general who was charging at him with a sword in two with a single axe stroke.

Blood splattered all over his face, but Cheng Yaojin threw his head back and laughed.

"That feels so good! That's fucking awesome!"

Cheng Yaojin transformed into a meat grinder, rampaging through the enemy ranks.

Cheng Chumo and his gang of second-generation rich kids were not to be outdone and started vying for kills.

"That helmet is mine. Nobody can take it from me."

Fang Yi'ai swung a spiked club and smashed the head of a Goguryeo captain with one blow.

Although Changsun Chong did not have the martial prowess of these brutes, he was quick-witted.

He was accompanied by several trusted men from the artillery battalion, each with a dozen or so small palm-sized grenades tucked into their waistbands.

When encountering Goguryeo soldiers, if there were more than three of them, Changsun Chong would light a firecracker and throw it at them.

"Trying to steal my kills? I don't believe you can outrun Palm Thunder."

Changsun Chong looked smugly at the group of second-generation rich kids vying for kills.

The moment Yeon Gaesomun was about to be captured by the Tang army, he ran towards the royal city under the cover of his personal guards.

"Stop them! We can't let them reach the capital."

Yeon Gaesomun shouted as he ran.

"Da Molizhi, the city gates can't be held. There are too many Tang soldiers."

The guards grabbed him and shouted.

"Let's hurry to the palace. The palace walls are strong, and there are 10,000 royal guards inside."

Yeon Gaesomun glanced back at the city gates, now a living hell, and roared through gritted teeth:

"To the palace."

outside the city.

Li Jing methodically directed the 100,000-strong army to enter the city in batches.

"The Left Guard is to take over the four city gates, and no one is allowed to escape."

The Right Valiant Guard was sent to seize the armory and granary.

The remaining units advanced along the main street, dividing and encircling the enemy.

The military genius of the Tang Dynasty was on full display at this moment.

The originally chaotic battlefield was quickly transformed into an impenetrable net under Li Jing's command.

As the army advanced deeper into the city, the resistance within the city grew weaker and weaker.

The Tang soldiers, blinded by rage, noticed the Goguryeo civilians lining the streets.

The image of the Jingguan (a mound of bones) at Baiguyuan (White Bone Plain) involuntarily surfaced in my mind.

"Kill them all! Avenge our ancestors!"

One by one, Tang Dynasty soldiers raised their swords and began to swing them at the civilians.

Just then, a fast horse galloped up from behind.

"The Crown Prince has ordered! Spare his life!"

The messenger held up Li Chengqian's token and roared.

"Why not allow the killing? His Highness clearly ordered a complete and utter annihilation."

A captain roared at the messenger.

"His Highness the Crown Prince decrees: Those who surrender will be spared death."

The messenger dismounted and began to read out Li Chengqian's latest military order.

"Any man taller than a cartwheel who dares to possess weapons and harbors ill intentions shall be killed without mercy."

The surrounding military officers exchanged bewildered glances, all puzzled as to why Li Chengqian would issue such a strange order.

Li Jing, standing beside Li Chengqian, asked in confusion:

"Your Highness! Didn't you say before..."

Li Chengqian chuckled softly as he played with the jade pendant at his waist.

"I did say I would kill them all, but that was referring to those who dared to point weapons at the Tang Dynasty."

Uncle Li, hatred can indeed boost morale, but if we allow our soldiers to be dominated by hatred and turn them into beasts that only know how to kill, then this army will be ruined.

The massacre was a means to establish my authority. I intend to use bloody methods to completely shatter the backbone of the Goguryeo people, so that they will have the fear of the Tang Dynasty etched into their very bones.

But the Tang Dynasty did not conquer this land to obtain a dead zone.

Liaodong has iron mines, coal mines, and large tracts of land.

You can't dig a pit or farm a field when someone is dead.

I spared the lives of these surrendered soldiers and civilians so that they would have to repay the blood debt they owed to the Tang Dynasty for generations to come.

This is what true blood debts must be repaid with blood.

After hearing Li Chengqian's words, Li Jing was completely distraught.

Li Chengqian was too ruthless.

This Crown Prince's imperial cunning is even more formidable than that of Li Shimin.

"Your humble servant has learned a great deal."