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Liaodong.

The three-day deadline has arrived. Gao Anwu in Liaodong City still wanted to resist stubbornly, but found that he had betrayed his relatives and relatives. The generals of Goguryeo had already left the royal city with their own men and horses.

After counting the battleable soldiers in the city again, Gao Huiwu was depressed to find that there were only less than 20,000 soldiers under his command. Moreover, even these 20,000 soldiers were already full of morale and had no desire to fight.

The rising sun is rising, and three days have passed.

There was already a continuous sound of gathering horns outside the city. Gao Anwu, who was half drunk and half awake, held a red eye and held a sword out of the sheath, ordered to hold on, ready to fight the Tang army to the end.

However, after hearing this order, all the soldiers who were left behind looked dark.

After a while, no general moved his steps.

Seeing the reaction of the generals, Gao Anwu was first angry and then frightened.

When he understood that everything was about to happen, he could only laugh loudly to the sky.

After a moment, the laughter came to an abrupt end.

Soon, the Liaodong city gate opened wide, and a team of Goguryeo officers came to surrender with Gao Anwu's head, military talismans, seals, household registration books, etc.

In the prosperous military formation under the city, Li Jing did not seem surprised by the result of the Goguryeo killing Gao Anwu's surrender. Faced with the surrender of the Goguryeo, Li Jing did not make any embarrassment, but accepted the surrender of the Goguryeo with a smile.

On that day, 20,000 Goguryeo people in the city took off their armor and surrendered, leaving the city to accept reorganization.

Li Jing led his army into Liaodong City, the largest city in Liaodong, a huge flat-duty city located on the plain in the middle reaches of the Liao River. For hundreds of years, it has been the military and economic center of Liaodong, four-sided cities, double walls, and three gates.

Although the Tang army has been siegeing the city, Goguryeo soldiers have been fleeing. It turns out that 50,000 Goguryeo troops have fled 30,000, and another 30,000 Khitan troops have withdrawn. However, in the entire city, the army of old and young and old, and the merchants of the people still have a population of more than 200,000. Especially Gao Degui has been operating here for many years, and this place has always been the center of Goguryeo, Bohai, Khitan, and even Shiwei and Silla transactions. There are granaries in the city.

For Li Jing, after he took over Liaodong City without bloodshed, the greater significance was to kill two generations of kings from the Goguryeo Kingdom that had been restored for less than a year and seize the capital. The entire Goguryeo now completely lost unified command and morale of the army.

Although there are also important mountain cities such as Baiyan, Xincheng, Gaimu, and Jinshan, as well as various Goguryeo forces.

But now, these people have become a mess and can no longer gather to fight against the Tang army.

After capturing the Liaodong City and killing Gao Anwu, Li Jing now has the ability to quickly wipe out the remnants of Goguryeo.

After Li Jing entered Liaodong City, he immediately issued two orders.

The two generals Zhao Yuan and Zeng Yuanyu were ordered to lead 20,000 troops to advance east along the Daliang River in the south of Liaodong City. They attacked the Goguryeo forces along the Daliang River in the north and south.

The two generals Lin Wu and Li Juyi were ordered to lead 20,000 troops along the Xiao Liao River west of Liaodong City to advance northeastward, and to attack the Goguryeo forces along the east and west sides of the large and large Liao Rivers.

Li Jing personally took charge of Liaodong City. He presided over the removal of local remnants of the cities in Liaodong, as well as the people of Goguryeo to move out of the country, and the people of the Central Plains to build roads, cities, and fields to divide the land.

In order to strengthen the thorough control of these new occupations, Li Jing now strictly implements it. Every time he occupied a place, he immediately moved the occupied foreign people such as Goguryeo to the mainland, and then moved the Central Plains people to Liaodong. Although it was very troublesome to make a fuss. However, for the long-term plan, Li Jing never gave a discount on this work. Even the workers who are now building roads and cities in Liaodong were basically placed in the prefectures and counties in the Central Plains. After living for almost a year, they were recruited to build roads in Liaodong.

The families of these people are all in the Central Plains controlled area, and they also have salaries for road construction, which is not too difficult. This greatly avoids the rebellion of the natives after the occupation.

The west bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Liao River is western Liaoning, which has been occupied and controlled by Li Jing after the New Year.

Now that Li Jing has captured Liaodong City, he has begun to attack the plains on the east bank of the middle reaches of the Liao River and the hilly areas further east.

Daliang River is the Taizi River in later generations. The most important cities in this river basin are Liaodong City and Baiyan City.

The Xiaoliao River, which is further north, is the Hunhe River in later generations. This basin is distributed in the new city of Goguryeo.

The areas still under control of Goguryeo are basically concentrated in the Taizi River and Hunhe River basins. The areas it controls are equivalent to those in later generations such as Liaoyang City, Benxi City, Shenyang City, Fushun City, Tieling City, and Kaiyuan City. Half is in the plain on the east bank of the Liao River, and half is in the hilly areas of Qianshan Mountains.

However, on the west, south and east sides of the Goguryeo controlled area are already occupied by the Tang army. Without the danger of the Liao River and the danger of the Thousand Mountains, the tens of thousands of remnants of the Goguryeo people are no longer afraid of it.

"Goguryeo is over!" Standing on the 18th floor pagoda in Liaodong City, climbing up to look out over the Liaohe Plain, Cui Yunqing couldn't help but sigh even though he was worried at this time.

Li Jing responded lightly: "This is the general trend. The Goguryeo people want to stop it. They just block the car with their arms, overestimating their abilities, and in the end they can only be rolled by the wheels of history."

Cui Yunqing turned to look at his disciple. Five years ago, when he accepted Li Jing as his disciple, he just thought that this was a brave and extraordinary scholar. Accepting him as his disciple was just the usual way of the aristocratic family. He took those outstanding but without any foundation as disciples to strengthen the family's power. But he would never have thought that in just a few years, this young man who was just a little outstanding in his eyes had reached this point.

"Hebei has been rebelled, and the four towns have claimed to be king. How does Ji Yu plan to deal with this matter?" Liaodong even knew a little earlier than Chang'an when it was rebelling. Cui Yunqing was also very concerned about this matter. Like many people, he also wanted to know what Li Jing thinks now.

"What good ideas do I have for this matter?" Li Jing pointed to the vast plain and said with a sigh: "The court has split the town and asked Mr. Zheng to take over the command of the Liaodong war. Originally, I was still waiting for Mr. Zheng to come, so I would go to Hebei to take office. But now, the situation is chaotic, but I don't know when the Zheng State will come."

"Why don't you stop attacking Goguryeo and immediately dispatch troops to Hebei to suppress the rebellion?" Cui Yunqing asked. Or rather, this is a temptation.

Li Jing did not want to answer this question directly about the teacher.

Seeing that Goguryeo was about to perish, Li Jing was not willing to miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. What's more, the Hebei Rebellion was originally initiated by him in order to neither willing to hand over military power nor to rebel too early.

For Li Jing, under the banner of the Tang Dynasty, at this stage, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

As long as he could maintain his military power and territory, Li Jing did not mind being a minister for the Tang Dynasty for a few more years.

However, he did not want to tell Cui Yunqing directly about these topics. Cui Yunqing was a representative faction of aristocratic families. Their political philosophy was not to overthrow the Tang Dynasty, but to achieve the state of aristocratic and emperor ruled the world together.

This is essentially different from Li Jing. Li Jing is the king on the surface, but in fact, he is taking the warlord route. His purpose is naturally to replace Li Tang in the end.

"Now is the best time to destroy Goguryeo. I missed it. If the Khitans settled the civil strife, they would definitely come to compete for Liaodong. If they are outside, they will not accept the orders of the king!" Li Jing said lightly.

"Besides, the rebellion in Hebei is now shocking. The imperial court had already split the town and removed my military power. Now I am just temporarily entrusting the military power in Liaodong. If I lead my troops west without an order at this time, I am afraid that it will cause unnecessary misunderstandings."

Needless to say, Li Jing's words have clearly expressed Li Jing's position.

He was not willing to advance westward to quell the rebellion for the court, at least before the emperor's imperial edict was issued, he had no such idea.

Although Cui Yunqing has now served as the governor of Ziqing and has 20,000 soldiers under his command for the time being, he only has 10,000 troops in his hands at this time. And he is also very clear that these 10,000 soldiers are nominally his command, but without Li Jing's consent, he will not be able to command one soldier or another.

Li Jing's words have already been clearly stated. Li Jing chose the latter between entering Hebei to suppress the rebellion and extermination of Goguryeo.

In the next few days, Hebei's intelligence continued to be sent to Liaodong City, but Li Jing ignored this.

The civil and military generals who were in charge of the ** also seemed to have no idea of ​​the Hebei rebellion, and no one mentioned this matter at all.

Zhen**'s attack on Goguryeo was also unstoppable and won one after another.

Two days later, Zhao Quan led his army to capture Baiyan City, a major city on the front line of Daliangshui, which is Yanzhou City. Two days later, Lin Wu and Li Juyi's troops captured Xincheng, a major military city in Xiaoliaohe.

Baiyan City and Xincheng are the two largest cities controlled by the Goguryeo people since the breaking of Liaodong City. Each city gathered about 10,000 soldiers. The Goguryeo people also wanted to fight against the Tang army with a strong city and a geographical advantage, but the two cities failed to hold on for more than ten days under the fierce attack of the Tang army.

After the fall of the two cities, it was a fatal blow to the Goguryeo people. All the cities and villages on the plain on the east bank of the Liao River fell into the hands of the town. The remaining Goguryeo people were forced to retreat into the hills and mountains to the east.

Two troops pursued the victory. At the same time, the town and the domestic city to the east and Wugucheng swept westward the last stronghold of the Goguryeo people.

One after another, good news continued to be passed back to Liaodong City, and nearly 100,000 Tang troops swept the land of Liaodong. By the end of September, the last mountain city guarded by Goguryeo was led by the three generals Wang Yanzhang, Gao Siji and Li Cunxiao.

Going north along the Liao River to Jinshan City and southeast to the domestic city, the entire Goguryeo was completely destroyed.
Chapter completed!