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Chapter 973: Carpet Bombing (Part 1)

"Your Majesty, are we planning to attack the Wenjian or the Wuwei next?" Jing Wen asked.

"What civil attacks the military guard?" Li Shimin asked.

Jing Wen explained: "The literary attack means using various means to force Goguryeo to surrender. Because the current people's hearts have almost been lost, it is not impossible for us to force them to surrender through huge pressure. As for the Wuwei, it means that we actively send troops to attack. The advantage of the literary attack is that it can reduce the number of casualties among soldiers, but the cost and cost are not small. At that time, the losses in the Goguryeo city will be quite large. If we take the initiative to attack, we will lose some of it. After all, the lives of soldiers must be cherished."

Li Shimin thought for a while and said, "Life is priceless. You can talk about how to attack the enemy first. If you can defeat others without fighting, that is the best strategy."

"The emperor is kind! The so-called literary attack, I plan to use our artillery fire advantages to carry out carpet bombing on the Pyongyang City in Goguryeo, so that we can force them to surrender!" Jing Wen said.

"Carpet bombing?" Li Shimin was puzzled.

Jing Wen continued: "Your Majesty, this is the length and width of Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo. Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, has another alias, which is Chang'an. Although their Chang'an is also called Chang'an, it is far inferior to Chang'an, the capital of our Tang Dynasty. The length of Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, is only about thirty feet long. If we use the calculation method of our artillery, it is only one thousand meters. The width is only about twenty feet, and the calculation of artillery is only more than six hundred meters."

"As their small city, I thought of a way, that is, to use cannons to bombard them so that we can force them to surrender!" Jing Wen said.

Jing Wen then pointed out how to carry out bombardment, that is, to take advantage of the artillery range advantage of the Tang Dynasty army's artillery range to attack. First of all, the effective range of the flying thunder cannon is about 400 meters, while the Tang Dynasty can push the flying thunder cannon to a distance of 100 meters from the city wall, and this distance is an absolute safe distance. Because the enemy's ten thousand arrows have been destroyed, there is no need to be afraid of anything. If you are still worried, you can also put some big shields on it, so you can block the enemy's arrows.

The range of the 400-meter thunder cannon is minus the 100-meter distance from the city wall to the cannon, so that it can have an actual effective range of 300 meters. The width of the capital Pyongyang City in Goguryeo is only 600 meters. If the width between the East and the West is exactly two batches of thunder cannons cannons be covered. At that time, some thunder cannons will be arranged in the East and the West, so that they can also have the effect of bombing. At that time, the whole city was bombed by thunder cannons, which would be very miserable. It is conceivable that the effect brought by so many powerful cannons is extremely shocking.

The flying thunder cannon can be said to be the most powerful weapon of this era, and even the city walls can collapse. If they are directly sent to the residential area, the power will probably be incomparable. As for the flying thunder cannon, it can completely carry out carpet bombing of all kinds of populations, civil facilities, and all kinds of things in the city. As long as every inch of land is not spared, these shells will be enough to make them dizzy. At that time, the Goguryeo people will suffer a lot of losses, so they can be forced to surrender.

Jing Wen's method imitates later American troops, and then defeats the opponent's will to resist through the bombing of the air force. This kind of non-contact combat can completely bomb a country with a small territory, so they will not be able to support it later. In the end, they can only surrender at the slaughter of others.

At present, Goguryeo has only one capital, Pyongyang, which is exactly in line with the situation where the territory is very small. So Jing Wen planned to use this method to use artillery bombing to force the Goguryeo people to surrender, so that they felt the threat. Once the will to resist is destroyed, it may be forced to surrender. This kind of bombing is actually non-contact combat, and both sides do not need to contact. It relies entirely on artillery fire to bomb until one side surrenders.

Li Shimin and Queen Jindeman soon understood this point, that is, they wanted to use fierce artillery fire to bomb. This made the Goguryeo feel that they would be bombed into scorched earth, and then they could only surrender in order to survive. This is the essence of carpet bombing, so Li Shimin and Jindeman also felt frightened. After all, if this is done, many innocent people will be damaged. Carpet bombing will inevitably affect innocent people, which is certain. Therefore, carpet bombing was notorious in later generations and was criticized by human rights organizations. However, the use of various precision-guided bombings later also made carpet bombing less and less. However, Jing Wen did not have any precision-guided bombings now, so he could only find a way to use carpet bombing to force the Goguryeo to surrender.

"Well, if you do this, many innocent people will suffer losses! How can you bear it when you let me do it!" Li Shimin said with some grief.

Jing Wen cursed secretly in his heart: "Don't cry here, rats are pretending to be merciful, who doesn't understand you! When you were in Luoyang and besieged Luoyang, the people of Luoyang were almost forced to death by you. The entire prosperous Luoyang City has since become only one-fifth of the population. You have never been so kind to your own people. Will you be kind to these foreigners? What a damn hypocrite, now that he becomes the emperor, he immediately has a face."

Jing Wen was very disdainful of Li Shimin, the number one hypocrite in the Tang Dynasty, but of course he could not be offended directly if he was the emperor or his future father-in-law.

"The emperor is kind and kind, it is a blessing for all people! I think that we can inform the Goguryeo military and civilians in the city by shooting arrows that we will use weapons of mass destruction so that they can surrender quickly. If they do not surrender, we will use it immediately. In this way, we can give them a chance, not to be punished without teaching. Therefore, the emperor can warn them that if they refuse to surrender, then we will not blame us! It is not that the emperor did not give them a chance, but that they did not cherish the opportunity. In this way, no one will blame the emperor!" Jing Wen said.

Then Li Shimin said with grief: "Since that's the case, that's it. I hope that the military and civilians of Goguryeo can understand my benevolence and not continue to resist. I am also for their own good!"
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