As soon as noon arrives!
Li Jing directly ordered that one hundred Tiger Crouching Cannons fire a salvo first.
Hundreds of guns fired!
Rumbling explosions kept ringing!
Tang Jun got so close that his ears felt like they were going to be deafened.
For the defenders in Anshi City, it was like the earth was turned upside down and the mountains were shaken by an earthquake.
The city lord Liang Wanchun was the most unlucky. Seeing the cannonballs coming from the sky, he actually asked his guards to block them with shields.
Isn't this a mantis trying to trick a car?
The unlucky Liang Wanchun was turned into minced meat by the bombing on the spot.
There were hundreds of defenders receiving the same treatment as Liang Wanchun.
Without the command of the city lord, the deputy general was also injured and was unable to take charge and lead the defenders to resist.
At this time, Li Jing seized the opportunity and beat the drum himself. The Tang Dynasty's 30,000-strong army could almost be said to have captured Anshi City without a single blow.
At the same time, Yeon Gaesomun, who was about fifteen miles away from Anshi City, heard the news that the Tang army had begun to attack, and immediately commanded the entire army of 150,000 to speed up, hoping to cooperate with the defenders of Anshi City inside and outside to attack the Tang army. Caught off guard.
It's a pity that Yeon Gaesumun didn't know that in less than half an hour, Anshi City had changed hands and passed into the hands of the Tang Army.
By the time he arrived at the battlefield with an army of 150,000, Li Jing had already taken over the city and moved the Crouching Tiger Cannon to the city wall.
Facing Yeon Gaesumun who was marching in a hurry, Li Jing did not give him a chance to rest and directly ordered the artillery battalion to cover the attack.
As the first battle of hot weapons in this world, the power of the Crouching Tiger Cannon was brought to its fullest.
The rumble of shelling was like a thunderbolt from the blue.
One by one, the explosive bombs fell on the Goryeo army and exploded instantly, clearing the surrounding soldiers several meters away.
Faced with the unfamiliar artillery attack, Yeon Gaesooon instinctively ordered the army to attack the dilapidated Ansi City.
In his opinion, the short distance of a few hundred meters can be rushed over quickly.
As long as the army comes into contact, the 30,000 Tang troops will be killed by him like the millions of Sui troops back then, like chickens and dogs waiting to be slaughtered.
It's a pity that even this short distance of a few hundred meters is like a death zone. His 150,000 troops charged for half an hour, but they couldn't rush through.
You know, the Tang army had more than a hundred tiger squatting cannons, and a musketry battalion with 3,000 musketeers, which was no less lethal than the artillery battalion.
The 150,000-strong Goryeo army was like a target, being rapidly harvested by the Tang army.
"Why are the Tang army's weapons so cruel?"
Seeing the heavy casualties among his troops, Yeon Gaesowun began to panic.
At this moment, the Khitans suddenly appeared on the flank of the Goryeo army.
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The Yeon Gaesomun family has been a member of the Goryeo Kingdom for generations. They are in charge of most of the Koryo Kingdom's military and are in charge of government affairs on behalf of the king.
In this case, the King of Koryo completely became the mascot of Koryo.
It was also under this situation that the King of Goryeo secretly sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty several times, hoping that the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty would help him get rid of Yeon Gaesumun.
When the news that the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty personally conquered Goryeo reached Goryeo, although the courtiers were mobilized by Yeon Gaesumun, they all clamored to resist the Tang army.
But the Goryeo royal family, especially King Yeongliu, was so excited that he wanted to "eat the pot of pulp to welcome the king's master".
On this day, the King of Korea was drinking in the palace. Suddenly he heard someone coming to report frontline intelligence, and he quickly let people in.
The person who came was a guard from the palace. He ran in with a panic look on his face, knelt on the ground with a plop, and eagerly reported:
"Your Majesty, the lord of Baiyan City, Sun Daiyin, sent a message that a Khitan army was suddenly discovered outside the city a few days ago!"
"Did the Tang and Khitan unite?"
The King of Goryeo was a little confused. If only the Tang army came over, he, the King of Goryeo, could still cooperate with the Tang people inside and outside to drive Yeon Gaesomun away.
If the Khitans also came in, could the emperor of the Tang Dynasty still promise to cooperate internally and externally?
Just when the King of Korea was confused, another guard suddenly came to report:
"Report to your Majesty, a Tang army suddenly attacked Shicheng, and the Lord of Shicheng was killed!"
"impossible!"
The King of Goryeo was frightened at this time: "How could the Tang army conquer Anshi City so quickly?"
The guards looked sad:
"Your Majesty, the envoy reported that the Tang army came from the sea."
"Is there a flanking attack between the land and water armies?"
The King of Korea was a little panicked.
Since the Tang Dynasty could attack Shicheng from the sea, it could definitely attack the capital of Goryeo.
After all, the capital of Goryeo was only over a hundred miles away from the sea by water.
What should I do?
He asked Tang Jun to help him get rid of Yeon Gaesumun, but he didn't expect to become a prisoner himself.
Just when the King of Korea was worried, another guard hurried over:
"Report to your Majesty, Mo Lizhi led his army to rescue Anshi City, but was defeated by the Tang army. He suffered heavy casualties. Only 20,000 of the 150,000-strong army escaped!"
"impossible!"
The King of Korea's tense nerves burst instantly, veins on his forehead jumped, and his eyes were red:
"Is Yeon Gaeso-moon a pig? Even if there are 150,000 pigs, it's impossible to kill them all in one day?"
That was a well-equipped 150,000 elite army, and it was also the foundation of the Goryeo Kingdom.
Now that they had been completely lost in the battle by Yeon Gaesumun, the King of Koryo could no longer imagine what the fate of the Koryo Congress would be next.
The guard also looked confused and replied:
"Your Majesty, the envoy also said that the Tang army seems to have the help of Thunder Lord, who can cause thunder from the blue. Thirty thousand of the 150,000-strong army were killed by thunder. In addition, Khitan people suddenly appeared and attacked the army from the flank. Mo Lizhi Unable to resist, he was defeated again and again, and had already fled to Jili City!"
"It's nonsense, these are all Mo Lizhi's incompetent excuses!"
How could the King of Goryeo believe in the rhetoric of "Thunder Lord helping the enemy"?
However, he remembered that someone had just reported that Shicheng seemed to have been captured.
Shicheng and Jili City are only a few dozen miles apart.
Now that Yeon Gaesumun has escaped to Jili City, he won't fall into the Tang army's trap, right?
Just when the King of Goryeo was guessing, Yeon Gae Suwen had been captured by Zhang Liang, the waterway manager.
"Is this the prime minister of Goryeo? He doesn't look very good either!"
Zhang Liang looked at Yeon Gaesumun who was tied up with ropes, curled his lips, and was about to send someone to hold him down.
At this time, a man in black robe next to him stopped him:
"Manager Zhang, Your Majesty has an order to capture Yeon Gae Su Wen and send him to camp immediately."
"Master Su, when did your Majesty give the order?"
Zhang Liang heard the man in black robe speak and subconsciously asked, but then he quickly explained:
"It's not that I don't believe Mr. Su, but the identity of Yeon Gae Su Wen is very important, so I have to be careful."
Unlike Li Jing who owns the Crouching Tiger Cannon, Zhang Liang is only in charge of the navy.
The artillery battalions and musketry battalions following the navy were all led by the black-robed general in front of them.
As we all know, the Tang Dynasty was characterized by water virtue and blackness.
Those in black robes are the emperor's personal guards.
Zhang Liang was as cunning as a fox, but he did not dare to cause trouble with the emperor's cronies.
After the man in black robe looked at Zhang Liang expressionlessly, he reached out and took out an imperial edict from his pocket, and handed it to Zhang Liang for him to read.
After Zhang Liang saw it, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly sent someone to hand Yun Gaisu Wen over to the care of the man in black robe.
The news of Yeon Gaesumun's capture soon spread throughout Goryeo.
Even Yeon Gaesumun was captured, and the other defenders of Goryeo naturally lost their will to resist.
Half a month later.
The Tang army attacked in three groups, attacking hundreds of cities and fortresses one after another, and finally met at a place less than fifty miles away from Goryeo.
The King of Goryeo, who could not bear the inner suffering, sent someone to surrender.
This time, Su Mingzhe graciously accepted the surrender of King Goryeo. He also named the King of Goryeo the "Marquis of Shunyi", rewarded him with a mansion in Chang'an City, and ordered all the prominent Goryeo families to move to Chang'an City.
As for the Kingdom of Goryeo, Su Mingzhe rewarded his third son, King Wu Li Ke, and changed the name of the country to Wu Kingdom.
Before Li Ke's arrival, Su Mingzhe lived in the palace of the King of Korea and helped Li Ke temporarily manage Korea.
After the former King of Goryeo, now the Marquis of Shunyi, welcomed Su Mingzhe into the Goryeo Palace, he servilely sent several of his princesses and a dozen noble ladies from the royal capital to the palace:
"Your Majesty, this is my eldest daughter Suyuan, this is the daughter of the former Molizhi, Yuan Gaisuzhen and Yuan Jingshu, and this is the prime minister Kim Mi-hee..."
A dozen noble ladies knelt down on the ground meekly, accepting the fate assigned to them by the Tang Emperor.
"Um?"
Su Mingzhe originally wanted to reward these women to the generals below, but he noticed the fierce murderous look in the eyes of several women.
As for the reward, naturally I can’t say it out loud:
"Just stay in the palace for now."
Su Mingzhe decided to work hard for himself. For the safety of his ministers, he decided to digest these noble ladies alone.
That night, more than a dozen women's screams of pain were heard in the Goryeo Palace.
On the second day.
Su Mingzhe, served by noble ladies such as Gao Shuyuan, put on his regular clothes, then came to the royal court refreshed and summoned Fang Xuanling, Li Jing and other ministers for a meeting.
Although the King of Goryeo announced his surrender, this did not mean that the Goryeo Kingdom had no resistance.
The population of Koryo was also in the millions.
As the saying goes: The strong wind recognizes the strong grass, and the rough wind recognizes the loyal ministers.
Although the King of Korea surrendered, millions of Koreans did not surrender so easily.
Next, Fang Xuanling was responsible for the naturalization education of the Korean people, that is, writing with the same text, cars with the same track, unified weights and measures, etc.
Li Jing, on the other hand, allocated part of his troops to quell rebellions in various places.
It was June in the blink of an eye, and it was raining continuously.
King Wu Li Ke rushed to the capital of Goryeo.
Su Mingzhe renamed the Kingdom of Korea to the Kingdom of Wu and handed Li Ke the title of leader.
Because it was an extra-terrestrial vassal state, after Li Ke became the leader of the Wu Kingdom, he could be regarded as defending the Tang Dynasty without conquering the vassal state.
Li Ke was naturally overjoyed when he heard that he could open a ancestral temple and become the true master of a country.
And Su Mingzhe gave him two more tasks.
The first task is to take over Fang Xuanling's naturalization education task, and the second task is to recruit soldiers.
Su Mingzhe prepared to recruit the young and strong labor force of Goryeo to help the Tang Dynasty continue its conquests.
In Su Mingzhe's plan, Baekje, Silla, Wa, Khitan, Mohe, Bohai and other countries will all become feudal states for the descendants of the Li family of the Tang Dynasty in the future.
In addition, there are the southern seas, the Western Regions, and so on.
There will be more and more members of the Tang Dynasty royal family, and Su Mingzhe will need a lot of land for enfeoffment.
Therefore, conquering Goryeo was just the beginning.
