905、Get up where you fall down (Part 2)
On the tower of Liaodong City, Yuan Gaisuwen, who was released by the Tang Dynasty, looked at the camp of the Tang Dynasty army in the distance and sneered. After Yuan Gaisuwen heard where the Tang Dynasty was about to fall and get up, he obviously did not take it seriously at all. This time, he would be responsible for the arrival of Liaodong City, so he was of course very confident that he could defend the Tang Dynasty's attack.
Back then, Yizhi Wende was able to resist the millions of troops of the Sui Dynasty in this Liaodong city, and Yuan Gaisuwen himself thought that he should be able to do it. This time, the Tang Dynasty only had 100,000 troops, and he could completely defend it. Yuan Gaisuwen looked down on Yizhi Wende very much and thought he was just a lucky person. Now he thinks that he doesn't have to be bad at Yizhi Wende, so he also wants to resist the attack of the Tang Dynasty so that he can accumulate political capital for himself. Back then, Yizhi Wende was able to defeat the attack of the Sui Dynasty and then become the prime minister of Goguryeo, so he can do it himself.
As long as he can defeat the attack of the Tang Dynasty, Na Yuan Gaisuwen is the unquestionable heir of the Prime Minister Goguryeo. At that time, he can directly inherit the position of Prime Minister Goguryeo and even make him go further. If he can establish prestige through this war, he may be able to become the real and actual ruler in Goguryeo in the future, not just a prime minister. At that time, he will be the regent, and it will not be impossible to go further. All of this is to defeat the Tang Dynasty.
"General, the Liaodong City is better now than many years ago. The city walls are higher and all kinds of defense facilities are better. In this way, we can completely defeat the attacks of the Tang Dynasty!" said a Goguryeo soldier.
The current Liaodong City has learned from the experience of the Sui Dynasty and knew that it was necessary to strengthen the city walls and build various defensive facilities immediately. The current Liaodong City is even more solid and tall than when Emperor Yang of Sui attacked, which is simply incomparable to the past. The defense facilities of Liaodong City in the past were relatively poor, but now it has become a solid city. If the Tang Dynasty wants to break through, it will be impossible to break through without the national power.
"Hmph, unless the Tang Dynasty concentrates its national strength to attack, it will be impossible to break through. The Tang Dynasty currently has only more than 100,000 people, and it will not be able to break through Liaodong at all!" Yuan Gai Suwen said disdainfully.
Yuan Gaisuwen actually obviously underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Tang army. If it was to attack the city in the past, and if the Tang army was still a pure cold weapon army, it might indeed require national strength to conquer. At that time, the Tang army would inevitably have to pay a lot of money to conquer, after all, this is a strong city. And from the original history, it also shows that when Li Shimin personally conquered Goguryeo, Li Ji also concentrated the national strength to conquer Liaodong, and the next thing went very smoothly. Therefore, Liaodong City is actually a city second only to Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, and its defense ability is very strong.
This is what gave Yuan Gaisuwen the confidence, because the Tang Dynasty army had only more than 100,000 people. Therefore, the Tang army could not conquer the Liaodong city. Yuan Gaisuwen had no idea that the Tang Dynasty had been changed by Jing Wen, and had gradually changed from a pure cold weapon unit to a unit with certain artillery. Although artillery is not popularized now, there are still more than 30. In addition to the missiles in the Shenji Army, the Liaodong city is not as solid as imagined.
Inside the Tang Army Camp
"Okay, I order!" Li Shimin said.
Everyone asked for battle, obviously to take the lead. At this time, when he made the first contribution, no one wanted to make the first contribution, so that he could show a big face in front of the emperor! After all, everyone wanted to get the first contribution in this battle. If they could conquer Liaodong City, it would be really a great contribution. After all, Emperor Yang of Sui had not conquered the millions of troops. If he could conquer it, wouldn’t it mean that he could conquer it? So everyone wanted to seize the first contribution. It would be of great benefit to future promotion.
"You will fight this first battle between the Xi clan and the Marine clan!" Li Shimin said.
After hearing this, the leader of the Xi tribe immediately asked: "Why do we fight too?"
"Of course, don't you Xi tribe want to return to the land? Why don't you go out to fight?" Li Shimin asked.
The leader of the Xi clan was helpless. He originally wanted to let the Tang army attack and then get a bargain at the back. This would prevent him from losing too much, and he would even be responsible for some fighting and attacking things later. But now he actually wanted to attack the city. This obviously made the leader of the Xi clan very speechless.
"Emperor, this..." The leader of the Xi clan hesitated and wanted to say something.
"Do you go? If you don't go, then if the land is captured, you will have no share!" Jing Wen scolded angrily.
The leader of the Xi tribe immediately asked: "Didn't the Tang Dynasty want to return to the land for us?"
But Jing Wen said: "Didn't you send troops to help us? If you don't obey our command, why should we help you get back to the land?"
The leader of the Xi tribe gritted his teeth and immediately knew that this time it seemed that it would be impossible not to attack the city. After all, now everything depends on the Tang Dynasty as its backer. If it were not for the Tang Dynasty as its backer, how could they take the initiative to deal with the Goguryeo? The population of Goguryeo is millions and has hundreds of thousands of troops. The population of the Xi tribe is not enough for hundreds of thousands, even if the whole people have soldiers, it is only 70,000 to 80,000. Moreover, the population and resources of the people are not the opponents of the Goguryeo, so the Xi tribe and the Martreeo are not the opponents of Goguryeo. They are driven north by Goguryeo and have lost their habitat step by step.
If it weren't for the Tang Dynasty, they wouldn't have resisted the Goguryeo people alone. If they hadn't supported the Tang Dynasty and had lent them a few courages, they wouldn't have dared to stand up and resisted the Goguryeo. So if the Tang Dynasty did not support them, they wouldn't have to return to the land. Now the Tang Dynasty wants the Xi tribe to take the lead, which obviously means saving their own troops. It has to be said that the stronger the power, the more they save their own troops. This means that the richer they are, the more stingy they are. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty obviously wants the Xi tribe and the Maru tribe to be cannon fodder, but they have no choice at all.
"Okay, our Xi tribe and the Marine tribe first eliminated 5,000 people to take the lead. But please ask the Tang Dynasty to cover and respond in time!" said the leader of the Xi tribe.
Chapter completed!