"Is that useful? Come on, give me another bowl!" He Bayong put the empty bowl into Sancho's hand next to him: "It's true that we won the battle, but we didn't bring much food, but we didn't have much food in our mouths." Less. Less than forty miles around Sixi City, there are mountain gates of Baekje people everywhere. When you go out to chop some firewood for cooking, you have to send troops to escort, otherwise you will be ambushed by Baekje thieves. In order to keep warm, Liu Duhu has ordered We demolished all the unnecessary houses and used them as firewood. We are in Sixi City to be guarding Baekje at best, or to be under siege at worst."
"I thought that once the reinforcements arrived, the situation would be completely reversed. How could it be like this!" Wang Wenzuo sighed: "We can take advantage of the arrival of the reinforcements and attack the surrounding Baekje bandits' mountain gates one by one first!"
"Sanlang, you don't know that most of the reinforcements are Silla people. We only have more than 3,000 people. The Silla people ran away as soon as they realized something was wrong. The reason is very good. If there are fewer people, there will be fewer mouths!"
"Then why are you recruiting us back?"
"You should concentrate your forces to clear out the mountain fences around Sixi! You have thousands of people here anyway, and the messenger also said that you captured several mountain fences, but there were very few casualties. Liu Duhu probably also wants to take a look. how did you do it!"
"I finally have a situation here, but I'm about to give up halfway again!" Wang Wenzuo sighed. He could understand that Liu Renyuan wanted to recruit him back to Sixi. Building a mountain city can be said to be the racial talent of the Fuyu people. As early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, Fuyu The people took advantage of the danger and built cities on the mountains, becoming the first nation to establish hegemony in Northeast Asia. To this day, there are still a large number of ruins of ancient mountain cities in Northeast my country, the Korean Peninsula, and the Japanese archipelago, most of which are left by the Fuyu people and their descendants (the main component of the Torai people in Japan are Fuyu people).
Take ancient Pyongyang, the royal capital of Goguryeo, as an example. Its city was located in Dacheng Mountain, northeast of today's Pyongyang. The ruins of the ancient Goguryeo palace known as Anhak Palace were discovered locally. On the mountain near Anhak Palace, there is a palace with a radius of about one mile. The ancient city has solid stone walls built on the mountains on all four sides, and the slopes have been artificially cut to make it steeper. There are warehouses for storing weapons and food and soldiers' residences in the city. But usually the King of Goguryeo did not live in the city, but in the Anhak Palace at the foot of the mountain. If the enemy invaded, he would retreat to the mountain city to hold on.
This ruins coincides with the entry about the capital of Goguryeo recorded in the history books of our country (governing Pyongyang City. The city is six miles east to west and adjacent to the Xushui River in the south. The city only has warehouses and equipment. When the bandits arrive, the guards will stick to it. The king has his residence next to it and does not live there regularly. Outside there are the inner city and Hancheng, as well as the capital, Liaodong, Xuanyuan and dozens of other cities, all of which have official affairs to control the situation.) And the residential areas are Often in valleys near mountain cities, the mouth of the valley is protected by stone walls. There are several mountain fortresses on the ridge, connected by stone walls in the middle. Once the enemy arrives, the people will retreat into valleys or mountain cities that are difficult to attack, and abandon the streets and markets on the plains.
It is not difficult to imagine that a mountain city + flat city structure like this is very difficult to attack, because the barriers are made of stones instead of rammed soil, which are very solid, and the foundations are generally made of rock, so it is impossible to attack the city in caves; The steep terrain also makes it difficult to transport siege equipment such as battering rams, rams, and ladders, and it is difficult to get close to the city wall. Basically, the siege methods commonly used in the cold weapon era are difficult to work, and the hundreds of years of melee between the three countries of the Korean Peninsula have made it difficult to move. This makes such mountain cities everywhere.
Therefore, once the Baekje people revolted, the Tang army immediately fell into the dilemma of being trapped in the isolated city. Wherever they went, the people fled with their young and old into the fences and rock strongholds on the top of the mountain. It would be difficult for the Tang army to attack if they were surrounded. If they went around, they would be attacked. Attack from behind and cut off the return route. There is nothing to plunder and no basis to advance or retreat. If you are not careful, you will suffer a disastrous defeat. This is not because Liu Renyuan has no general strategy, but it is really beyond human power.
"The military orders are like a mountain!" He Bayong patted his bulging belly: "Sanlang, you have a lot of food here, right? As long as you transport more back, you will have done a great job! The Protector will definitely reward you heavily!"
"There is an abundance of food here. There are more than 30,000 stones in the warehouse, but we don't have enough pack animals and vehicles, so we can only transport back a third of it at most! The rest has to be discarded!"
"More than 30,000 stones of grain?" He Bayong was startled: "It would be a pity to burn so much grain in one go!"
"Burn it?" Wang Wenzuo opened his mouth: "You want to burn it?"
"You just said it yourself, the food can't be moved away! You can't leave the food to the rebels, right?" He Bayong asked back: "And this stockade must be burned down, otherwise it will be occupied by the rebels in the future. It’s also a big trouble!”
"There are nearly 2,000 people in Chaichuanzha. They have burned their grain and villages. How will they survive the winter? There are more than 20 surrounding villages that have already paid pledges. What will they think if we burn them like this? "
"Then what can we do? Who calls them Baekje people?" He Bayong spread his hands: "If they are not from my race, their hearts must be different. They are succumbing to you now just because the situation is forcing them. Once the situation changes, they will They will fight with swords again. Isn't that how it was in the first place? In my opinion, I should kill all the young men first, and then share the women's property with the soldiers. This will eliminate future troubles and boost the morale of the soldiers, killing two birds with one stone!"
"Sancho, you go out first and guard outside the door. If anyone comes, say I have something to do now and ask him to wait!"
Sancho knew that this was Wang Wenzuo who wanted to have some private words with He Bayong, so he responded and went out. As soon as the door closed, Wang Wenzuo said sternly: "Kill the people who have surrendered, how could you have such a bad idea! If not! After General Su took over Baekje, he allowed his soldiers to do whatever they wanted, will we end up in the situation we are in now?"
Acting wantonly? For a moment, He Bayong could hardly believe his ears. Wang Wenzuo must have lost his mind and gone crazy. That was the majestic General Zuo Wuwei, the general manager, and a senior official of the third rank. Except for a handful of people who stayed from the founding of the People's Republic of China, The veteran general who came down was already at the pinnacle of the Tang Dynasty warriors, yet he dared to criticize.
"Three, Saburo, are you crazy? How dare you—"
"Why don't you dare to speak to your own brother?" Wang Wenzuo sneered: "The general manager did two things wrong. First, he allowed his soldiers to loot, and he overly accommodated the Silla people. As a result, in the eyes of the Baekje people, Master Wang became the world's enemy of Silla. With human accomplices, wars were raging, but the Silla people only cared about encroaching on territory and defying the Tang Dynasty; secondly, they moved all the Baekje royal family back to the Tang Dynasty. He should leave one clan to serve as the governor, thinking that At least the people of Baekje will not be dragged away by Buyeo Fengzhang like now, and we don’t even have anyone who can sing the opposite role!"
