Chapter 44: The Siege of Pyongyang City
The climate in the northeast is even when spring comes, it is later than elsewhere.
Until early February of the 20th year of Zhenguan, the ice and snow melted.
Li Yuanai has enough two months to prepare.
The most important thing in making siege equipment is wood. There is nothing in the Northeast, but there is no shortage of wood, and each of them is high-quality wood.
Goguryeo was the dominant Haidong and dared to provoke the Central Plains dynasty again and again. The confidence was that they had the innate geographical advantage. With the city building technology learned from the Central Plains, some innovations, and the characteristics of mountains and forests, it was extremely difficult to build the city on the mountain.
Therefore, during this Eastern Expedition, Li Shimin brought enough officials who were the chief supervisor to accompany him.
Li Yuanai arranged them all, using the method of sectional construction to let them take their own responsibilities, and also allowed the idle soldiers to collect cannon stones.
After tasting the sweet benefits, Fuyu Yici also specially arranged soldiers to help the Tang army collect cannon stones from the coast to win the favor of the boss of the Tang Dynasty.
Silla is no exception. How much money can this cannon stone be worth?
The three countries of Haidong are full of mountains and seas, and are all places where cannon stones are abundant.
In two months, the Tang army built more than 200 catapults alone.
There are also cloud ladders and ten siege towers. As for the collision car, Li Yuanai did not arrange to build any of them.
This time, Li Yuanai had no intention of rushing to the car.
On the first day after the Spring Festival, Li Shimin found Li Yuanai and asked him about the situation.
His Majesty, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, could not wait to return to the court to see his precious son and daughter.
When he learned that everything was ready, he immediately held a military meeting and planned to send troops to surround Goguryeo on February 6th.
When Pyongyang City was bullied by the Five Barbarians in China, it officially became the capital of Goguryeo. After twelve generations and two hundred years of business expansion.
Although Pyongyang City is located on a plain and has no danger of geographical location, it has become the most powerful city in Haidong without any hesitation with its strong fortifications.
Therefore, it was called the King of Goguryeo in all dynasties the city of Fortune.
This time, Li Shimin obviously wanted to show off his muscles in front of Silla again.
The focus of the future development of the Tang Dynasty will be in the Western Regions and will be slackened in the east of the sea.
At this moment, they were just giving them a deterrent, asking them to understand that they could fight in private, but just cross the line.
Therefore, Li Shimin dispatched an army of 120,000 in one breath.
Yes, the Tang army is fighting more and more.
This time, the Tang army had a total of 100,000 land and land troops, and more than 25,000 soldiers were seriously injured and unable to participate in the war.
However, when Gao Yanshou surrendered, the remaining 15,000 soldiers from the headquarters surrendered.
In the Yaluzha Battle, the Tang army defeated Goguryeo's 150,000 troops in one fell swoop, and more than 30,000 chose to surrender at the loss, not including the injured.
As a result, the Tang army's troops surged to 120,000 to 130,000.
These surrendered soldiers have limited combat effectiveness, but it is better to drive them to attack the city, and they can strengthen the army.
Tens of thousands of soldiers gathered densely in the north of Pyongyang, and there was no sight to see the edge, with a radius of more than ten miles full of people.
Queen Shande and Fuyu Yici walked among the Tang army's crowd, with a little shock in their eyes.
Only a small number of them are professional soldiers, most of them are people.
If they really want them to force out tens of thousands of soldiers like Goguryeo, they will not be able to pull out.
However, this use of such a large army will lead to missing spring plowing and autumn harvesting and not fighting for a long time. If the war is delayed for a long time, the people will not be able to eat enough, and the consequences will be serious.
Moreover, they cannot guarantee the soldiers' weapons, armor, and the armor rate of soldiers is extremely low.
However, the Tang army fought on the front line without any worries. Each soldier had armor protection, with armor-wearing rate reaching 60%, and the remaining 40% were wearing leather battle robes, and most of them were crossbowmen. The degree of luxury was extremely exaggerated.
Queen Shande and Fuyu Yici were not ordinary people, and they saw that Li Shimin was showing off his heroic soldiers to them.
But even so, the two were still full of shock.
"I've seen His Majesty the Emperor of the Celestial Dynasty!"
Queen Shande, Fuyu worships kindly and respectfully.
Li Shimin signaled to them to rest and said, "Are you soldiers from both countries already in their positions?"
Queen Shande took the lead: "Silla's 30,000 soldiers led by General Shichuan, were arranged in the west of Pyongyang City, and were only waiting for the emperor's orders."
Fuyu Yici also said immediately: "I, Baekje, have surrounded the south of Pyongyang City, and the soldiers are willing to die for His Majesty the Emperor."
Li Shimin smiled confidently and said, "You don't need to attack. You just need to guard two gates for me and don't let them break through. We will be responsible for the siege."
As he said that, he gave Li Yuanai a look.
Li Yuanai understood it.
As the war drums rang out, two hundred catapults slowly emerged.
At this moment, under the city of Pyongyang.
After two months of trimming, Yoon Gassuvin has recovered.
In the past two months, while Yeon Gaisuwen ordered his eldest son to recruit defeated soldiers, he asked his second son to seek Pyongyang to promote the terror of the Tang army and inspire the strong men in the city to receive training so that they can go up the city walls to resist the Tang army anytime and anywhere.
At the same time, he also knew about his emotions and used reason to gather the food and grass in the city, distributed food and made equipment for a protracted war.
Pyongyang city.
Yuan Gai Suwen looked at the terrifying military force of the Tang army like ant, with a hint of envy in his eyes, and thought to himself: "What's so great about Li Shimin? Isn't it just because of these invincible soldiers? If I had this army, Tang Tong's son would not be my opponent."
Seeing that the soldiers around him were all afraid of their eyes, Yoon Gaisuwen exclaimed loudly: "Don't look at the Tang army's power, no matter how many soldiers there are in front of our Pyongyang City, no matter how many soldiers there are, they are useless. You think, over the past two hundred years, have Pyongyang City been trapped? Didn't they think of themselves very high? Thirty years ago, the soldiers were divided into two groups to attack Pyongyang? The navy and army were all killed for us. Jingguan was demolished, and you will not forget the majestic scene, right?"
"It doesn't matter if we haven't seen it. As long as we hold on for a year or two, and when they run out of food and grass, we will be our chance to turn defeat into victory. At that time, they will be defeated like thirty years ago. We will cut off their heads and pile them up to see you..."
His domineering words also changed to cheers.
This is a battle for the destruction of the country. Although the Goguryeo country is small, it cannot escape the ten-household towns. There must be a law of loyal soldiers.
There are still many loyal people who do not want Goguryeo to perish.
Under the leadership of Yuan Gaisuwen, they resisted the Brutal Tang with unwavering belief.
"Dongdongdongdongdongdong!"
With the sound of drums.
Yuan Gaisuwen, Yuan boy, Yuan boy Jiandu looked at the Tang army outside the city with a solemn expression.
As they looked, their eyes suddenly became straight...
The Tang army did not arrange for the suicide squad to come up to fill the moat, but directly pushed two hundred stone throwing cars into front of the formation.
Chapter completed!