[Wu Zetian] Queen's Road

Chapter 20 Conquer 06

The remnants of Silla fled all the way south and returned to Jincheng, and fought with the remnants of Baekje who occupied Jincheng.

There are mourners on both sides, and they fight evenly.

By the time Su Dingfang wiped out the remnants of Baekje and sent his troops northward, the two remnants of Jincheng had almost fought.

Su Dingfang, who likes to bully people who are not of my race, has reappeared. Taking advantage of Laiji staying behind in Baekje and no one can dissuade him, he will not stop doing anything, and personally lead people to the front of the battle, regardless of Baekje. It was still Silla, who killed the two remnant soldiers indiscriminately.

After that, Jincheng, the capital of Silla, also fell into the hands of Tang Jun.

After Su Dingfang told his subordinates to clean up the battlefield, he happily asked Laiji who was staying in Baekje to come over and ask him to write a victory report back to Chang'an.

Compared with Su Dingfang's fierce battle, Xue Rengui's battle was more difficult.

Of the three peninsula kingdoms, Goguryeo is undoubtedly the strongest. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty and Emperor Taizong made several conquests, but they failed to gnaw off this tough bone, which shows its strength.

Goguryeo was first seen in the Western Han Dynasty, and its original residents were mainly Han people in the Northeast, the natives of the Raccoon tribe and some of the Fuyu people who migrated.The government of the Han Dynasty established four prefectures in this area, including Lelang and Liaodong. This area was under the jurisdiction of the Han Dynasty for more than a hundred years.At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Goguryeo got rid of the rule of the Han government, annexed the four counties of the Han Dynasty, and established a unified regime, the Gaoshi Goguryeo Dynasty.

Since then, this regime has sometimes rebelled and sometimes surrendered to the Central Plains government, sometimes admiring and sometimes arrogant.

One of the most important reasons for Emperor Sui Yang's fall was that he had repeatedly failed to conquer Goguryeo, which resulted in the decline of the people's livelihood and the great consumption of national power.

After Tang Gaozu Li Yuan became emperor, he was not interested in Gou Gaoli's "sending envoys to proclaim his ministers", nor did he have the idea of ​​​​taking back his homeland.

Goguryeo had a relatively peaceful time during this time.

Until Taizong Li Shimin came to power, Datang first formed a suzerain-subject relationship with Silla on the peninsula, and then under the instigation of Silla, several wars of different scales occurred between Datang and Goguryeo, the most important of which were It is the three expeditions to Liaodong in the last years of Zhenguan, and the three unsuccessful campaigns...

The failure of the expedition to Goguryeo should be the stain and regret of His Majesty Li Er's life, and it was also one of the reasons that led to his sudden death in the end.

In Wu Xu's view, conquering Goguryeo should also be one of Li Xiaojiu's knots.

His Majesty Li Er used only more than 20 troops to conquer Liaodong in person, but Li Xiaojiu managed to summon 30 troops in the past few years despite natural disasters, corruption, and internal conflicts.

But still the same sentence, Goguryeo is a hard bone, not so easy to chew.

Now in power in Goguryeo Kingdom is Quan Gai Su Wen, a powerful minister who was born in a military and political family and has some talents.In the 16th year of Zhenguan, Quangai Suwen acted preemptively and deceived Gao Jianwu, the Goguryeo king who was trying to kill him, into his own territory. into the gutter.After that, Quan Gai Suwen proclaimed himself Da Molizhi (equivalent to prime minister), Gao Jianwu's nephew Gao Zang was appointed king, and he himself was regent.

So far, Quangai Suwen held the military and political power of the entire Goguryeo, and King Gaozang was completely a puppet in his hands.

Taizong's three crusades against Goguryeo were all repulsed by Quangai Suwen. Of course, there were factors of climate, geography and internal disharmony between the emperor and ministers of the Tang Dynasty, as well as Quangaisuwen's extremely high military talent.

In this crusade against Goguryeo, Li Xiaojiu placed two-thirds of his troops on Su Dingfang's side, while Xue Rengui only had an army of 15. Even with Cheng Mingzhen, the governor of Yingzhou who once defeated the Goguryeo army, the total strength is less than [-]. .

The only thing that is fortunate is that Xue Rengui's troops are dispatched in early summer, which can avoid the objective factors such as weather changes, cold and heavy snow caused by unfavorable marching, difficult food supply and other objective factors during the previous expeditions to Goguryeo. The cup of returning to the court.

Xue Rengui himself was relatively cautious, but this time Li Xiaojiu entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, he actually took a risk and made full use of the strategy of Binggui's swiftness.Xue Rengui's army did not spend too much time staying on the siege ground along the way. Instead, they captured more than a dozen cities bordering Goguryeo and the Tang Dynasty with lightning speed, and then took advantage of the Goguryeo border guards to gather in several fortresses. At that time, the army suddenly divided up and bypassed these big cities by small roads, passed through the hinterland of Goguryeo, and went straight to Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo.

This strategy has worked extremely well.

Since the main force of Goguryeo is fighting against the army of Silla in the south, the front line is very long, and it will not be able to transfer for a while.As for the Goguryeo army staying at several military fortresses on the border of the Tang Dynasty, although they are strong enough to withstand [-] Tang troops, they never thought that they would take Xue Rengui to break up into pieces, bypass them, and rush into the hinterland of Goguryeo. !

When tens of thousands of Tang troops suddenly appeared outside Pyongyang, even Quan Gai Suwen was shocked.

His old rival Cheng Mingzhen, governor of Yingzhou, was the vanguard of the Tang army. After arriving at the city of Pyongyang, he began to attack the city without saying a word.

All Goguryeo people are dumbfounded...

As the royal capital of Goguryeo, Pyongyang City is naturally not so easy to conquer, but the Tang army suddenly fell from the sky and attacked the city aggressively, which frightened the people of Pyongyang who had not seen a large-scale siege in N years!

The puppet Goguryeo King Gaozang almost wanted to kill Quangai Suwen and surrender, but within a few days, the tens of thousands of Tang troops who fell from the sky suddenly retreated quickly, as if the siege battle a few days ago was just an illusion.

And not long after the Tang army left the area of ​​​​Pyongyang City, the Goguryeo army that had withdrawn from the border of the Tang Dynasty to escort them arrived.

Quan Gai Su Wen was furious, and immediately ordered the frontier army to chase after the retreating Tang army, and the shame of besieging the city with snow.

Unexpectedly, the Goguryeo army chased northward for several days, but did not find the shadow of the Tang army. Instead, the army that received the order from the Xinluo division was suddenly attacked by the Tang army halfway.

There were about [-] Goguryeo troops who conquered Silla's squadron. They had just gone through a great battle with Silla, and were ravaged by Su Dingfang's army who came next. When people are tired and horses are tired.

I don't want tens of thousands of Tang troops to descend from the sky and block them in a canyon...

In this battle, the Tang army lost the lives of [-] Goguryeo's main force at the cost of [-] soldiers, and the battle was quite tragic.

In August of the second year of Xianqing, Xue Rengui's army and Su Dingfang's army successfully joined forces in Jincheng.

So far, the task of the Tang army sending troops to rescue the siege of Silla has been successfully completed!

In other words, didn't all the royal family of Silla die?Didn't the Silla Kingdom perish?

It doesn't matter, since the sages of the Tang Dynasty helped solve the Baekje people who harmed Silla, we will definitely help the people of Silla to choose a good leader and continue to lead the people to a well-off =. =

At the same time, His Majesty Li Xiaojiu, who was far away in Chang'an, wrote the "Inscription of the Great Tang Pingbaekje Kingdom" with his own hands, and ordered people to engrave it into a stone tablet to pass on to future generations.

The victories achieved by Datang on the Korean peninsula were somewhat beyond Wu Xu's expectations, especially the fact that they were able to win the Silla Kingdom without bloodshed was simply a surprise.

However, when Wu Xu thought of the impeachment letter Ji sent along with the news, he felt another headache.

This old boy Su Dingfang is not like a general, but like a bandit, almost every time he captures a city, there will be some incidents of connivance with his soldiers to plunder!

This time, this guy even ran to kill the last soldiers of the 'Allied Kingdom' Silla. If it wasn't for Lai Ji, who came to Jincheng later to wipe his ass, and did a good job of silence, he might cause another riot ==

It seems that this product still has to be brought back to China to be safer!

When Wu Xu frowned, His Majesty Li Xiaojiu, who was watching from the side, became nervous again.

"Awu, are you feeling unwell again?" The young man approached cautiously, wanting to reach out to touch Wu Xu's stomach, but he didn't dare.

"Don't read these rules, your body is important..."

Hearing this, Wu Xu couldn't help but glared at him, and said angrily, "It's not your fault!" She also said that she would not be allowed to suffer from childbearing anymore. How old is this fat man? Damn Li Xiaojiu stuffed her again! A bun is here!

hateful!

When the queen's wife got angry, His Majesty Li Xiaojiu immediately retracted, rubbing his nose and dared not speak.

Wu Xu had nowhere to vent his anger, and when he happened to see the secret document posted by the general Liu Renyuan who was stationed in Baekje, he was even more furious.

It turned out that Liu Renyuan’s secret book wrote that although Baekje was destroyed, there was a prince who was a hostage in the country of Wa. Not long ago, Goguryeo sent a mission of nearly a hundred people to the country of Wa, in an attempt to persuade the country of Wa to support the prince of Baekje to restore the country. The Japanese side seems to be quite moved by this suggestion. Recently, it has started secret shipbuilding training and frequently dispatched spies to swim in the waters near Baekje...

What a dead end!

Wu Xu couldn't help but hit the little girl in front of her, and said angrily: "There is a way to heaven, you don't go, and there is no way to hell, you come in! My day..."

His Majesty Li Xiaojiu, who was seated opposite, couldn't help but coughed. He carefully glanced at Wu Xu's abdomen, and reminded in a low voice: "Meiniang, prenatal education, prenatal education..."

And His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who was sitting on the sidelines assisting his parents with their work, also remonstrated with red ears, "Don't be angry, Auntie. These small barbarian countries are overthinking their own capabilities. When they are self-defeating... Auntie, you should take care of your health." !" For the sake of a big fart island country, it is not worthwhile to hurt the little brother in the belly!

Seeing the concerned father and son on the opposite side, Wu Xu could only suppress his excitement and said, "The counties on the Baekje side need to be built as soon as possible, and all mobs should be killed... As for the guarding officials... Who do you think is more suitable, Jiulang?"

When it came to business, Li Zhi's face also became serious.

Originally, Su Dingfang, who captured Baekje and Silla, should be the most suitable guard, but...

"This matter needs to be discussed in the long run..." His Majesty Li Xiaojiu lowered his eyes and said lightly: "The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, I plan to let Su Dingfang bring the Lord of Baekje back to Chang'an to offer captives..." It is the greatest honor for every general to offer captives to His Majesty the Emperor thing.

But Wu Xu heard Li Xiaojiu's unfinished intentions, and it seemed that he didn't plan to keep Su Dingfang in Baekje.

Wu Xu could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The author has something to say: Little Japan is also coming to intervene, and it will kill itself =. =