Great Tang Southern Emperor

The Hongnong Yang family was completely removed from the name, and the world was shocked...

Everyone was shocked by Li Zhen's handwriting, and even the aristocratic family who were about to make trouble for Li Zhen were frightened by Li Zhen's ferocity, and immediately stopped their small actions, preparing to wait and see.

When Hongnong Yang's extermination shocked the world, as the initiator of all this, Li Zhen didn't care about it, because he knew that as long as his order was issued, the people below would naturally carry out his order perfectly. Don't worry about it, besides, it's not the first time he's done this kind of thing, so there's nothing to worry about.

Ever since the birth of the child, Li Zhen seemed to be a different person. He delegated almost all the official duties in his hands. Except for some important matters that had to be decided by himself, the rest of the affairs were handed over to his subordinates. As for himself, he kept hiding In the back house, teasing two cute dolls.

It is said that the genes of the old Li's family are good, and Wu Meiniang is also a famous beauty in history, so these two children can be said to have gathered all the advantages of the two families. Although they are only two months old, they can already see from the eyes Come out, when they grow up, they will definitely be handsome men and beautiful women.

Although there is still some chaos here in Lingnan, the biggest source of chaos has been eliminated. The next step is to appease the people, and Lingnan will gradually recover.

And after this chaos, Li Zhen also saw clearly the situation in Lingnan's officialdom, and it was up to him to take action himself to completely clear up the chaos in Lingnan, and return Lingnan to a bright and clear sky.

When all this is completed, Lingnan will definitely enter a stable development period, and then it will be the best time to open up the era of great navigation.

As long as the age of great voyages is opened up, there is no need to worry about how much. It only takes three to five years, and the whole of Lingnan will change drastically. It will not be a problem to surpass Suzhou and Hangzhou. In another two years, a new Chang'an will stand in the Tang Dynasty. The south of the Tang Dynasty... No, to be precise, it is the central part. Because of the conquest of Nanyang, Lingnan is no longer the south of the Tang Dynasty, but has become the central south.

The situation in Lingnan is getting better and better, and the situation in Northeast China is not much worse.

In mid-February of this year, not long after Li Shimin celebrated his birthday, he launched a war against Goguryeo on the pretext that Goguryeo disrespected the Tang Dynasty and repeatedly invaded the borders of the Tang Dynasty.

The two sides invested a total of 50 troops in this battle, of which 40 belonged to Datang, and more than [-] were hastily summoned by Goguryeo Treasure King Gao Zang.

It is said that this treasure king is also quite unlucky. Last year, Goguryeo power minister Yuan Gai Suwen (in order to avoid the name taboo of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, also known as Quan Gai Suwen) launched a coup, killed King Rongliu, and supported the current treasure king. Bit, became his puppet.

Although the Treasure King knew his puppet, how could he be willing?As soon as he came to power, he tried to compete with Quan Gai Suwen for power, but the Treasure King was young and his talent was not outstanding, so how could he be the opponent of the treacherous and cunning Quan Gai Suwen?After just a few short confrontations, the Treasure King was pinned down by Quan Gai Suwen, and there was no room for him to stand up.

Even after Quan Gai Suwen died in 666 AD (this year name is really good), his three sons still fought for power, and King Baozang still did not control the country, which shows how mediocre he is.

Since he came to power, although he has the name of a king, both military and political affairs are in the hands of me, please tell me, there is no room for him to intervene.

For example, this time, even though the edict was issued in his name to call together domestic warriors who dared to fight against the Tang Dynasty, in fact it was Quan Gai Suwen who made the decision, and even the edict from the beginning to the end It didn't go through his hand, because even the signature was written by Quan Gai Suwen to imitate his handwriting.

It's just that Goguryeo's standing army is only 15 in total, and the remaining 25 are simply peasants with weapons. How can such a team be the opponent of Datang?I'm afraid that if Datang's two shots go down, these people will probably disappear as soon as they use it, right?

And what happened next was indeed the case. Anshicheng had already been captured before Li Shimin's imperial conquest, so this time Datang's main attack was Xincheng.

Goguryeo and the Central Plains are old enemies, so in order to guard against the Central Plains Dynasty and the former Turks, Goguryeo built many cities on the border of the Tang Dynasty, such as Anshi, Xincheng, Liaodong, etc., and Xincheng is second only to An The city is the second largest city on the Koguryo border.

Of course, although it is the second largest city in name, it is actually similar to some larger counties in Datang. How can such a defense be the opponent of Datang artillery?

Just two shots down, and all the people on the city wall ran away. After the fifth shot was fired, the city wall of the new city was completely in ruins. Datang directly stepped into the new city without encountering any obstacles at all.

It didn't take even an hour from Datang's departure to the new city to laying down here.

Chapter 640 Goguryeo War

Chapter 3 Goguryeo War

So far, the two major strongholds of Goguryeo, Anshi and Liaodong, have completely fallen into the hands of Datang, and Goguryeo has opened its arms to Datang.

However, after capturing these two cities, Li Shimin did not advance in a hurry, but stopped and ordered the troops to move the people in these two cities to the territory of Datang.

Of course, Li Shimin had his reasons for doing this, because he knew too well how Yang Guang failed back then.

It is said that when Yang Guang conquered Goguryeo for the first time, the early stage was also smooth sailing. Wherever the army went, the Goguryeo people almost surrendered.

However, as the army of the Sui Dynasty entered the territory of Goguryeo, the supply line was stretched too long, and the supply became more and more difficult.At this time, Goguryeo, which had surrendered before, immediately turned its face. It not only attacked the supply line of the Sui army from behind, but also regained control of the city, completely blocking the way back for the Sui army.

The back route was cut off, the supplies were exhausted, and the Sui army completely lost their fighting spirit. Although Yang Guang escaped with his life, the troops under his command suffered heavy casualties, and none survived.

This time Li Shimin absorbed Yang Guang's lesson and stopped rushing forward, but advanced step by step, steadily and steadily. Every time he conquered a place, he moved the people in the city back to the Tang Dynasty. If the war fails, Goguryeo will also suffer greatly - so many cities have no people, even if they are returned to them, what can they do?

Datang ravaged Goguryeo in various ways on land, and at sea, the navy also beat Goguryeo into a grandson.

Although Goguryeo also has a coastline, but because the coastline is too short (the part of South Korea does not belong to Goguryeo, but is occupied by Silla and Baekje), it has not developed any navy, only three or two big fish and small fish. The coastal defense navy only has dozens of large and small ships, but only nearly 1000 people. How can a navy of this size be an opponent of the Dengzhou fleet when facing the Dengzhou fleet?

Therefore, on that day, all Goguryeo people experienced the fear of being dominated by hot weapons.

In order to avoid the flames of war in the Central Plains Dynasty, Goguryeo moved its capital from the inner city to Pyongyang, which is closer to Silla, since the time of King Haotae. A coastal city, from here you can go to any place in Northeast Asia. It is the most important shipping cargo distribution center in Goguryeo. It is also the only line of defense on the sea surface of the capital of Goguryeo. Its status is similar to the relationship between Beijing and Tianjin. As long as Chicheng is broken , Pyongyang will become a naked girl, exposed in front of the strong man Datang.

At the same time, it is also the naval base of Goguryeo, storing more than [-]% of the warships of the Goguryeo country (the other [-]% are in Hamhung in the north).

It's a pity that these are still warships with trebuchets and crossbow arrows as their main combat weapons. How can they be opponents of warships loaded with artillery?

On that day, Chicheng, a coastal city in Goguryeo, was ransacked by the artillery fire of the Tang Dynasty. In the Dengzhou fleet, there were battleships of the third and fourth ranks, and small-caliber armed merchant ships, each of which had at least ten or twenty cannons. The number even reached seventy or eighty - and the Dengzhou Fleet dispatched a total of two hundred such warships.

For two hundred warships, each ship has twenty artillery pieces, and a round of volley fires at least four thousand rounds.The entire Chicheng was beaten into a sieve, and the defenders had run away after the second round of shelling. After five rounds of 2 salvos, the entire Chicheng had been beaten into ruins, and then it was easily occupied by Datang.

This time, Datang's navy not only dispatched 200 warships of various types, but also dispatched hundreds of troop carriers, each of which can carry 8 people. The Marine Corps, a total of [-] people, rushed into Chicheng in a swarm.

At this time, Chicheng had been bombarded by Datang's bombing, and all the defenders ran away without a trace. The city lord and the nobles in the city had already fled in a hurry when the Datang fleet arrived, so waited for the Datang army to enter. When I was in the city, I didn't even see a single person in charge, except for the devastated people, the people who were basically bombed out, and the gangsters who took advantage of the fire to loot.

As a last resort, Datang had no choice but to put up a notice of safety for the people, and at the same time set Chicheng as a military area, and temporarily controlled the situation in the city by military means, and made plans after the imperial court sent people.

However, the Tang Dynasty was not without gains. The nobles and wealthy merchants in Chicheng left in too much haste. Before leaving, they only took some gold and silver with them.Especially for gold and silver, Yuchi Baoqing cried the moment he opened the treasury of Chicheng—I have never seen so much money in my life, my life was wasted.

I saw that the entire treasury was full of white silver ingots. At a glance, there were at least 300 million taels.

After careful counting, it was found that in this treasury alone, there were as many as 350 million guan of silver, and if the money looted from the various noble mansions in Chicheng was added, it would be a full 500 million guan.

You must know that the total amount of money used by Datang to send troops to Goguryeo this time, from soldiers' salaries to food supplies, did not exceed 200 million taels. Even if the later consumption is counted, it will not exceed 250 million taels.

In other words, the capture of Chicheng alone is more than twice the consumption of Datang in this war. The profit was earned back.

Fortunately, this batch of money is not from Chicheng Prefecture, but a transaction completed between Goguryeo and Wa Kingdom some time ago.This batch of money was paid to Goguryeo by Wa Kingdom, and it was only temporarily stored in Chicheng. After a few days, the money would be changed into a carriage in Chicheng, and then transported to Pyongyang.But unfortunately, when the silver was delivered, Datang came back, and the money became Datang's spoils of war.

And this is just the spoils of Chicheng, if Datang can successfully capture Pyongyang...

As the capital of Goguryeo, Pyongyang is definitely the most prosperous in Goguryeo. There are countless nobles in the city, and the money is probably much more than that of Chicheng. It is not impossible that it is even two or three times more, plus other things The city was occupied instead, and Datang definitely made a bloody profit this time.

If Datang can really attack here, it will not only accomplish the feat of destroying the country, but also expand the territory.If Datang will make a lot of money in this war, not only will it not bring losses to the country, but it will also make up for it severely, allowing Datang to make a lot of money.

Chapter 641 Goguryeo War (2)

Chapter 4 Battle of Goguryeo (2)

In any case, Chicheng was occupied, [-] elites successfully landed, and formed a north-south pincer attack with the army led by Li Shimin himself in the north. As long as they fought steadily, within a few months, Goguryeo would undoubtedly be destroyed.

The news of Chicheng's fall also spread to Pyongyang. Pyongyang was shocked, and Quangai Suwen, who was furious, killed the escaped city lord to vent his anger and reassure the people.

But this is of no use to improving the current battle situation. Datang's north-south pincer situation has formed, and he has no way to recover.

What's more, in order to guard against the invasion of the north of the Tang Dynasty, 3% of the entire Goguryeo army has been dispatched to the north for defense by him. Now the entire Goguryeo army can be dispatched. The total number of troops will not exceed [-].

With 3 people against 8 people, Goguryeo is still in the minority. How will this battle be fought?

Facing the elites of the Tang Dynasty who were armed to the teeth, Quan Gai Suwen really couldn't think of a way to defeat the Tang Dynasty, unless...