In fact, this can be regarded as unintentional. Although not all of the soldiers on the Liaodong front line of Goguryeo came from the Liaodong front line, most of them came from here. In other words, among the people managed by the Tang Dynasty, there were family members of these ordinary soldiers. .
In the process of the Tang Dynasty distributing two kinds of horses and iron tools, these captive soldiers were involved in transporting these things. They participated in the whole process.
Under such circumstances, how could these prisoners not feel the same way? The Tang Dynasty did not rob any of the people's property. Instead, they distributed grain, iron sickles, plowshares, draft horses, etc. to them.
Although they have to grow grain for the Tang Dynasty for a year, how much can the people sell their extra grain for a year? This money could not buy so many iron tools in Goguryeo, let alone horses.
This is true even if there are three or four households with one horse.
Datang provided these without any other conditions. If these people ran away with these iron tools, Datang would suffer a total loss.
How could these actions not touch these captive soldiers?
What's more, how did Datang treat their captives? Although they had to work, they were just helping to transport food, etc. The prisoners ate the same food as the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.
And they were treated after being injured. Even if they were accidentally injured while working after being captured, they would be treated and allowed to rest.
Which country would treat them like this? Although these soldiers have not read books, they have heard their superiors brag a lot, such as things about the former Sui Dynasty, and how the Tang Dynasty deducted soldiers before, etc.
But now, this is completely different from what they know and the history they heard before.
Not to mention being captured, even if the soldiers like them were not fighting, they would not be treated so well if they helped some generals or nobles.
Under such circumstances, when the middle- and high-level generals among these prisoners were all imprisoned separately, leaving only some low-level soldiers as prisoners, they had no desire to run away.
Even if you let them leave, they may not be willing to leave.
This is naturally why Li Shiji dared to use these low-level soldiers. He had tested them before using these soldiers. For example, he used a small number of Datang soldiers and a large number of prisoners to transport supplies to these villages, and secretly sent troops to protect them.
If these prisoners rebelled, although these Tang soldiers were wearing armor, the difference in numbers between the two sides was too great, and these prisoners were fully capable of rebelling.
But they didn't at all.
Not just one team, but dozens of teams released at the same time.
This is already very telling.
Therefore, Li Shiji can now safely hand over these prisoners to the auxiliary soldiers behind, and then the government soldiers will lead them to transport logistics supplies and so on.
Anyway, the Tang Dynasty has enough food, so if you don't worry about it being consumed on the road, just let them transport it. This can also consume the energy of these prisoners, which is much better than locking them in place. It can also increase the manpower for transportation.
If you have food, you can do whatever you want.
Moreover, many things can be tested during this process. If there are no problems with these prisoners until Wugu City is taken, we can even consider later, if manpower is not needed, we can directly release these prisoners home, or say Let some soldiers of the Tang Dynasty take these prisoners to manage the security of various cities.
This will draw out more elites from the Tang Dynasty.
All in all, Li Shiji is not in a hurry now. In just twenty days, Datang has almost taken over half of Goguryeo's territory, and the remaining half will be enough for another two months at most.
Pyongyang is not far from Wugu City, the straight-line distance is only four hundred miles.
Just when Li Shiji was about to send an army to surround Wugu City, a piece of latest intelligence made Li Shiji give up this plan.
"You mean Yuengaisuwen sent Hudar to lead an army of 50,000 to support Wugu City, and then with 10,000 cavalry from Wugu City, and finally support Liaodong City?" Li Shiji asked with an ecstatic expression.
"Yes! General, this is the information General Liu Zhao asked me to send. The army is only one day away from Wugu City at most. If you include the time to cross the river, it will only take three days at most to reach Wugu City."
It would take two days for an army of 50,000 to cross the river. After all, there is no bridge on the Yalu River now.
"In this case... I sent an order to Qibi Heli, asking him to lead eight thousand cavalry to the Wugu City for provocations day and night in the past few days. However, if the enemy planned to attack, they immediately retreated and called Hou Junji and other generals to hold a meeting." Li Shiji spoke quickly.
Their army is still about 150 miles away from Wugu City. If they have to march urgently, they can arrive in a day and a night.
But now it seems that this is no longer necessary. Sixty thousand troops support Liaodong City, which means that Yeon Gaesumun does not know that all the Liaodong front lines have fallen.
But this is normal. Even if Li Shiji was not a general of the Tang Dynasty, even if the Tang Dynasty had twice as many troops, it would be difficult to believe that the Tang Dynasty could conquer 200,000 elite soldiers and 50,000 auxiliary troops in twenty days. Multiple cities.
According to past experience, it sometimes takes several days to capture a city that is not a fortified city, but it is normal for some fortified cities to hold on for a month or two.
How could it be possible to capture more than twenty cities in twenty days?
It's just that Yuan Gaisuwen didn't expect that the current Tang Dynasty was far beyond his expectation.
When the city wall was like paper in front of Datang, it would only take a matter of minutes to defeat the opponent.
After Hou Junji and others came over for the meeting, Li Shiji showed them the information Liu Zhao had passed on.
After reading it, Hou Junji immediately looked overjoyed, "Great. Since they don't know the latest battle situation, it means that they must leave the wall protection of Wugu City. For us, as long as we find an excellent Ambush the terrain, which means we can wipe out the enemy!”
"It's not easy to find a terrain to ambush 60,000 people." Yu Chigong shook his head.
"Most of the areas between Wugu City and Liaodong City are mountainous, and there are always suitable places." Hou Junji said, "We passed through a lot of terrain along the way. And with such a large number of troops on the other side, In fact, the only choice you can make is the official way."
"As long as we follow the official road and search, we will definitely find a suitable place."
"It is possible, but the opponent has 30,000 cavalry, which means that it is possible for the opponent's scouts to be placed ten miles away. Even if the terrain is surrounded by mountains on both sides, it is not difficult to let the scouts climb the mountains. ."
