Goryeo, Baekje, and Silla were all small countries.
Su Mingzhe believed that even three to five thousand troops would be enough to conquer such a small country.
However, Su Mingzhe still wanted to wait for the conquest to leave enough power for the vassal king who was guarding the vassal to suppress the rebel forces.
Therefore, in this recruitment, Su Mingzhe recruited a total of 20,000 soldiers.
To serve a government soldier requires two to five laborers.
Therefore, the total military strength still reached more than 100,000.
There are over 10,000 people, and there are no boundaries.
A hundred thousand troops went out to fight, which could be said to be continuous, winding like a long dragon.
Cars rattled and horses rustled.
Pedestrians carry bows and arrows at their waists.
Ye Niang and his wife walked off to see each other off, but Xianyang Bridge was nowhere to be seen.
He held his clothes, stamped his feet, and blocked the road to cry, and his cry went up to the sky.
"Your Majesty, let's go."
As the general manager of the march, Li Jing coordinated the entire process.
It stands to reason that even Su Mingzhe, the Supreme Emperor, must obey his orders.
"lets go."
Su Mingzhe didn't want to watch these parting scenes anymore, so he got on his horse and galloped towards the front of the team.
"Your Majesty, wait for Lao Cheng."
Cheng Yaojin is only fifty years old this year, and he is also in his prime for fighting. He was appointed General Zuowei two years ago and is responsible for protecting Su Mingzhe's safety.
At the same time, Cheng Chusi, the eldest son of Cheng Yaojin, Qin Huaiyu, the eldest son of Qin Qiong, and Yuchi Baolin, the eldest son of Yuchi Jingde, were all in the army.
The army is marching forward, but it can't move more than a hundred times a day.
If you travel more than a hundred times a day, you will defeat the general!
The normal walking speed of the army is about sixty to eighty miles per day.
Of course, with all light cavalry and no heavy armor, the speed will be faster, but it cannot exceed one hundred and fifty miles.
This is all written in the military book.
Therefore, Su Mingzhe led the army meandering eastward for a month before arriving in Weizhou, Hebei.
Weizhou, later known as Daiming and Handan!
In Su Mingzhe's opinion, this kind of marching speed was so slow that it would kill people.
However, despite this situation, Fang Xuanling praised the great power of the Tang army.
"After marching for a month, we are still able to maintain high morale. This is all due to His Majesty!"
As the advance officer of grain and grass, Fang Xuanling had been waiting in Weizhou early. When he saw Su Mingzhe, he immediately stepped forward to greet him.
"Xuanling, you don't have to flatter me, right?"
Su Mingzhe laughed, pulled Fang Xuanling into Weizhou City.
When passing by the city, the army had to stay outside the city overnight, but as the Supreme Emperor, they could enter the city to rest.
Weizhou was once the capital of Dou Jiande's Xia Kingdom.
After Dou Jiande became the head of the country, he implemented benevolent governance, practiced frugality, shared wealth among the public, encouraged farmers to teach mulberry farming, and resumed agricultural production.
The people of Weizhou spontaneously built the Xiawang Temple and offered sacrifices every year.
The Tang government did not destroy it either.
Passed by this time.
Su Mingzhe let the army rest for two days, and then went to the Xiawang Temple and offered three sticks of incense to Dou Jiande.
Before leaving, at the temple's request, Su Mingzhe also casually wrote a plaque for "Dou Wang Temple" and a sacrificial text.
The plaque is hung in front of the temple door, and the sacrificial inscriptions are carved into stone tablets.
From now on these things will be cultural relics.
The army rested in Weizhou for two days and then continued to set off.
More than ten days later, the army passed through Youzhou (Zhuojun), which was not far from Khitan and Goryeo.
Before setting off, Datang had already issued a conquest edict to the Kingdom of Goryeo.
Therefore, when the Tang army came to the border, both Goryeo and Khitan hurriedly sent people to ask for peace and surrender.
In particular, Goryeo, perhaps accustomed to surrendering during the reign of Emperor Sui Yang, actually expressed its willingness to surrender, but asked the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty to abide by the etiquette of a great country and not to send troops across the border after accepting the surrender.
"What a joke. Do they think I am Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty?"
Su Mingzhe almost burst out laughing when he looked at the letter of surrender handed over by the Korean envoy.
When Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty conquered Goryeo, he had almost wiped out Goryeo.
I don’t know if Emperor Sui Yang felt that he couldn’t lose even if the flying dragon rode on his face.
Faced with the false surrender of the King of Goryeo, Emperor Sui Yang agreed to accept the surrender, and then began to arrange the withdrawal.
One says surrender, the other believes it.
In this situation, Goryeo played with Emperor Sui Yang more than a dozen times.
In other words, Goryeo pretended to surrender more than a dozen times, and Emperor Sui Yang believed it more than a dozen times.
The result of each false surrender was that the Sui army was stolen from the camp and suffered thousands or tens of thousands of losses.
Under this situation, the wealthy families who followed Emperor Sui Yang on his eastern expedition began to suspect that they were being played by Emperor Sui Yang and the King of Korea.
The final result was that the powerful family betrayed Emperor Sui Yang, making Emperor Sui Yang taste the taste of a subjugated king.
Now, Goryeo came to pretend to surrender to Su Mingzhe again. Su Mingzhe naturally felt speechless.
Just when Su Mingzhe was thinking about whether to drive the Korean envoy out directly, Fang Xuanling reminded him:
"Your Majesty, when attacking the city and conquering the country, integrity comes first. Since Goryeo has offered to surrender, we cannot refuse..."
More than half of the ministers in the tent nodded in agreement, feeling that Fang Xuanling was right.
Su Mingzhe frowned immediately.
After all, he was not an ancient, so after thinking for a moment, he said to the Korean envoy:
"Go back and tell you that the city lord of Anshi City wants to surrender. He will tear down the city gate before noon tomorrow as a signal. If you don't tear down the city gate after noon, you will bear the consequences."
Although Su Mingzhe wanted to start the fight directly, Fang Xuanling said that as a Celestial Kingdom, you must be magnanimous.
Then give them half a day to think about it.
The Korean envoy did not expect that not only did he not succeed in pretending to surrender, but he was only delayed for half a day, and he immediately left in tears.
The Korean envoy left, but the Khitan envoy stayed.
After all, the Tang Dynasty came to attack Goryeo, not the Khitan.
The Khitan envoy also wanted to ask if the Khitan cavalry was needed to help.
It was just an attack on a small Goryeo, and the Tang Dynasty would naturally not let the Khitan take a share of the pie.
In order to frighten the Khitan, Su Mingzhe also invited the Khitan envoy to accompany him tomorrow to watch the Tang army attack the city.
When the Khitan envoys retreated, the generals in the tent began to quarrel over the gifts brought by the two envoys.
The special products brought by the two envoys are not rare to the generals.
But those Khitan noble girls and Korean maidservants made the generals in the tents start to have troubles.
It has been nearly two months since the army left Chang'an City, and now they can't take their eyes away when they see a young and beautiful woman.
Su Mingzhe looked at the generals' performance and was speechless for a while:
"Xuanling, please distribute these gifts to everyone."
The Korean maids, the Kunlun slaves, and the Bodhisattva Man were the "three treasures" of the domestic slaves of the Tang Dynasty's dignitaries.
Among them, Kunlun slaves are black-skinned slaves.
There are two reasons why the powerful families like Kunlun slaves.
The first reason is that the Kunlun slaves are strong and their physical endurance exceeds that of ordinary people.
The second reason is that if the woman in the family dares to have an affair with the Kunlun slave, the child she will give birth to will have the same skin as the Kunlun slave, which is black and cannot be concealed at all.
Because of the above two important reasons, powerful families like to use Kunlun slaves.
Goryeo maidservants refer to women from the three kingdoms of Goryeo, Silla and Baekje.
Most of these Goryeo maidservants are the servants of Goryeo's powerful families. Not only are they gentle in character and charming in appearance, but they also speak the same language and do not require any effort to train them.
(Goryeo also spoke the Mandarin of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Moreover, Goryeo dignitaries were proud of being able to speak the most fluent Chang'an dialect.)
The Bodhisattva Man refers to the beauties with fair skin and blue eyes from the Western Regions.
Most of these Bodhisattvas are based on the beauties in the murals in the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang. They are like Buddhist Bodhisattvas and possess exotic auras.
Moreover, these Bodhisattvas are not only beautiful and fair-skinned, but most of them are good at singing and dancing, so they are naturally welcomed by the powerful people in Chang'an.
The number of these three types of slaves also represents the symbol of power and wealth of a wealthy family.
Su Mingzhe asked people to recruit those Khitan noble girls and Korean maids, and they were indeed quite good.
However, to Su Mingzhe, none of these women looked familiar, so they could not attract his attention.
Immediately asked Fang Xuanling to give everyone a point.
As a result, Cheng Yaojin, an old guy who relied on his high official position and was the most shameless, took the lead in grabbing the most beautiful Korean maid without even waiting for Fang Xuanling to be assigned.
Li Jing was reserved and did not rob.
Fang Xuanling was afraid of his wife and did not try to rob her.
The other generals took advantage of the situation and divided up the remaining beauties according to their positions.
After the women were assigned, Su Mingzhe asked the chamberlain to lock them up and take care of them.
If you want to enjoy these beauties, you have to wait until you conquer the city.
Most of Goryeo's cities are located near mountains and rivers, making them easy to defend but difficult to attack.
However, because most of these cities are located near mountains and rivers, the walls are only one or two feet high.
During the Eastern Expedition of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, he relied on the siege weapons from the Central Plains to advance all the way and almost wiped out Goryeo.
Now Su Mingzhe wanted to reduce casualties, so he told Li Jing to fire a few rounds with the new cannon to deter him.
As the military god of the Tang Dynasty, Li Jing naturally did not need Su Mingzhe to teach him how to fight.
However, Su Mingzhe said so, so Li Jing naturally would not refuse.
On the second day.
Thirty thousand troops surrounded the Goryeo City tightly, and the muzzles of the cannons were aimed at the city gate tower.
Just wait until noon before firing.
The defenders on the Goryeo City were panicked when they saw the boundless Tang army, but they also wondered why the Tang army had set up a formation but did not attack.
One of the lieutenants couldn't help but asked his city lord: "Master Liang, why do the people of the Tang Dynasty have to wait until noon to attack? Do they have too much military rations to waste?"
"This is called cleverness!"
Liang Wanchun, the lord of Anshi City, sighed: "Our city is high and the water is deep. We are not afraid of them attacking. I am afraid they will not attack."
The deputy general became confused again:
"Master Liang, wouldn't it be better if they didn't attack?"
"Besieging but not attacking must have a deeper motive. I suspect that the Tang people want to 'encircle the point and call for reinforcements'."
As the lord of Anshi City, Liang Wanchun was familiar with the art of war. After sighing in his heart, he said helplessly: "Now I hope that Mo Lizhi will not fall into an ambush by the Tang people."
Molizhi was the highest official of Goguryeo, similar to the prime minister of the Central Plains court.
The current Molizhi is Yeongae Suwen, who will be famous in Goryeo in later generations.
Yeon Gaesomun has been in charge of Goryeo for many years, and his abilities are naturally good.
Therefore, although he had already led an army of 50,000 people to a place thirty miles away from Anshi City, he did not rush over to rescue.
He is also waiting for the best time.
