My father, Li Shimin, please call me Crown Prince

Chapter 215: Control of Liaodong City
The effect of the explosive pack was unexpectedly good.

Li Chengqian prepared 20,000 kilograms of explosives.

How much did it take?

Twenty crossbows and twenty catapults.

In total, they carried forty explosive packs, which weighed only forty kilograms.

Do you want to strike again?
Li Chengqian felt a little bit sorry.

Although he had tried his best to overestimate the explosive pack, the enemy completely collapsed after one wave of attacks.

This was something he didn't expect.

The main reason is that something like gunpowder has never appeared in this era.

The roaring explosion is a dimensionality-reduction strike that transcends the times.

Today, all nations in the world believe in gods to a large extent.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's population is illiterate.

No matter how strong a person is, after facing such an explosion, he will lose all his courage, his mind will be filled with fear, and he will completely lose his fighting ability.

Even if there are extremely rare one or two people, what use can they be in such a large-scale war?

Tang army camp.

Everyone's eyes were focused on the prince in the front.

I don’t know how many people have become fanatical because of the prince.

Li Daozon has come back to his senses at this moment.

The look he gave the prince became extremely complicated.

At this moment, he finally understood.

Why is the prince so confident, so sure, so arrogant, and so domineering?

If he had such a war weapon, he might be more arrogant than the prince.

Under such a fire thunder attack.

Is the city still useful?

Of course, the main reason why it can have such an exaggerated effect now is that people have never seen it before.

So I was scared.

At this moment, Li Chengqian drew out his sword and pointed it at Liaodong City from afar.

He shouted: "All soldiers, listen to my order, kill!!!"

The whole army chanted: "Kill!!!"

The soldiers on the front line were already starving. This might be the simplest siege in history.

The Tang army shouted and roared as they rushed towards Liaodong City.

This is the achievement that is right before our eyes.

At this moment, Liaodong City is like a beautiful woman who has taken off all her clothes and is waiting quietly on the bed.

On top of the city.

All the Goryeo defenders just wanted to escape and had no energy to care about these things.

Yuan Junyue had just come down from the city wall when he heard the shouting and screaming coming from outside and immediately reacted.

"No, I can't leave. I can't leave."

"If I leave, the city will be broken."

Yuan Junyue stopped and murmured.

"My lord, we can't hold on any longer. How can we resist the methods of the gods?"

"If you stay here, you will die."

The confidant hurriedly persuaded.

Yuan Junyue was stunned for a moment, then his face was filled with anger.

He drew the sword from his waist and shouted, "Those who disrupt the morale of our army should be killed!"

After saying this, he stabbed this confidant to death with a sword without hesitation.

The confidant looked incredulous.

You have to know that he was the first one to pull Yuan Junyue up and run away with him.

I was secretly happy in my heart that I reacted quickly, and that Lord Dongfang would definitely pay more attention to me in the future.

Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, he was killed by Yuan Junyue.

He is not willing to give in.

"Whoever dares to leave will be killed by this beast."

"All soldiers, follow me to defend the city and meet the enemy."

"Where is the supervision team? Anyone who abandons the city will be killed immediately."

Panic is instinctive.

But being able to quickly recover from panic is a skill.

Yuan Junyue was well aware of the consequences that losing Liaodong City would bring to Goryeo.

His mind was racing at this moment.

His eyes kept scanning the locations of the explosions.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that although the noise was very loud, it was not that exaggerated in terms of causing any harm.

Even the city walls were only partially broken.

As for the death toll, I'm afraid there weren't even a hundred. It's just that the deaths were horrific, and most of them were caused by fear.

Before the Tang army arrived at the city.

Yuan Junyue led the supervision team and killed nearly two hundred people, finally stopping the camp riot.

The stairs coming down from the city wall were very narrow, which also caused many Goryeo soldiers to remain on the city wall.

After those who came down were driven up, they were able to resist.

Li Chengqian frowned slightly.

He saw that the Goryeo soldiers on the city wall, who were originally in chaos, had now stabilized.

Many Goryeo soldiers even drew their bows and crossbows and shot arrows at the Tang army below to stop them from attacking the city.

"Stubborn."

"Order, trebuchet to fire."

This time Li Chengqian did not arrange a bed crossbow.

After all, the Tang army was already close to the city, and using crossbows to bombard the city would easily hurt their own people.

Second, with such a close-range bombing, the Tang army would be easily frightened.

Because they had been hiding for a long time, the Tang army itself was also very afraid of the explosive packs.

In fact, if you understand it well enough, you can use it better.

but not now.

The best way is to use catapults to suppress and crush the enemy's momentum.

Twenty catapults immediately started firing.

Carrying the explosive pack, he fell behind the wall of Liaodong City again.

This time when people saw the cotton bag again, no one tried to take advantage of it. They just ran away as far as they could.

Boom boom boom.
A series of explosions sounded.

The huge noise and vibration caused the city wall to shake.

In fact, the shock was not too strong, but the morale of the army that Yuan Junyue had organized with great difficulty was once again shattered by the explosion.

Originally, many people thought that the Tang army could only use this kind of heavenly thunder method once.

But the thought came again.

Not only my legs are weak, even my hands are weak.

The soldiers had no strength to draw their bowstrings and were completely gutless.

Seeing that the Tang army was already climbing the city wall, he didn't want to fight back, but thought about how to escape first.

"Don't leave."

"Those who retreat will be killed."

"The supervisory team is here to support us."

Yuan Junyue shouted anxiously.

however.

This time Li Chengqian had no intention of stopping.

Directly order the catapults to continue firing.

The third wave, the fourth wave, the fifth wave.
The sound of explosive packs exploding continued to ring out, and in Liaodong City, the sound of explosions was endless.

The shaking of the city walls continued.

In this situation.

Yuan Junyue had run out of options.

The panic of the soldiers could no longer be stopped by the killing of the supervisory team.

If this continues, there is a high possibility that the supervision team will be killed by these panicked soldiers.

They could only grit their teeth and give up the outer city first, defend the inner city, and stabilize the morale of the army first.

But the outer city is gone, can the inner city be defended?
The Tang army, as densely packed as ants, kept climbing up the city walls using ladders.

This is probably the easiest siege.

Strictly speaking, it is no longer a siege, but more like a climbing competition.

Climbing the city wall means victory.

The Goryeo soldiers on the city wall had now thrown away their swords and surrendered directly.

There is no need to resist anymore.

The Tang army only needed to accept the prisoners.

There were not many Goryeo soldiers left on the city wall, about five or six thousand.

When Li Chengqian arrived, the outer city had been completely controlled.

"How funny." "You still want to negotiate with me now?"

When Li Chengqian arrived, Yuan Junyue sent someone to ask for surrender.

At this time, Yuan Junyue was also very clear that if the outer city could not be stopped, the inner city probably could not be stopped either.

It would be better to surrender cleanly.

Li Chengqian did not read the letter of surrender.

Yuan Junyue mentioned some trivial conditions.

For example, treat the people well, treat the soldiers well and so on.

What’s the point at this point?
"Tell Yuan Junyue that I will not agree to any of his conditions."

"If the city gates don't open within one stick of incense, I will raid the entire city."

The Goryeo envoy hurried back to report.

Li Chengqian was also busy and asked someone to bring the explosives over.

There are more than 20 crossbows on the city wall that were used by Goryeo to defend the city, and they can be used.

The time of a stick of incense passes quickly.

The gates of the inner city remained closed, and it was obvious that Yuan Junyue did not agree to unconditional surrender.

In that case, Li Chengqian had nothing more to say.

He immediately ordered his men to pack explosives onto crossbow arrows and directly bombard the city gates of Liaodong City.

How could the wooden city gate withstand the power of the gunpowder explosion? It was instantly blown to pieces.

The overall situation has been decided.

The Goryeo defenders on the walls of the inner city just watched helplessly without any intention of resisting.

They knew that resistance now was meaningless.

No one knows how many fire bombs the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty can still use.

No climbing required this time.

Tens of thousands of Tang troops formed lines in an orderly manner and entered Liaodong City one after another.

All weapons and armor of the Goryeo defenders were confiscated.

Of the 50,000 Goryeo defenders, only a thousand were killed or wounded.

Just like that, all of it belonged to Li Chengqian.

It was almost sunset when the Tang army completely took over the city defense.

The entire main road was placed under martial law, including the City Lord's Mansion in the city, which was also cleared.

It was now time for Li Chengqian to enter the city.

"Your Highness, Yuan Junyue has escaped. Should we send someone to chase him?"

Su Dingfang came over to report.

As soon as he entered the city, Su Dingfang took people to capture Yuan Junyue, but the news he received was that Yuan Junyue had already fled when he sent the envoy to deliver the letter of surrender to the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty.

This is why there was no response within an incense stick of time, and the Goryeo defenders did not respond either.

"It's harmless, let him be."

"I want to see where he can run to."

Li Chengqian waved his hand, not caring at all.

Pyongyang?
So what? Can Pyongyang withstand the power of explosive packs?

Maybe they'll discuss countermeasures.

But unfortunately, for now, the explosive pack is invincible.

In today's urban buildings, all the buildings are made of wood. If hundreds of explosive packs are dropped, there is no city that will not surrender.

Not to mention that the Tang army is not just for show.

Li Chengqian rode on the Jade Lion Zhaoye.

Slowly and leisurely, he headed towards the city lord's mansion in the inner city of Goguryeo.

On both sides of the road were the Tang troops responsible for martial law.

The looks they gave the prince were filled with fanatical admiration.

Gunpowder brought fear to Goryeo, but in the eyes of the Tang army, the prince had become a true saint.

From today on, the people under Li Daozon have truly become Li Chengqian's soldiers.

The prince's reputation reached its peak.

It took a long time for more than 100,000 people to enter the city. It took almost half an hour for the Tang army to completely enter the city.

Li Chengqian gave the order to reward the three armies.

The material reserves in Liaodong City are very rich.

As the capital of eastern Goryeo, the entire city has a population of about 200,000.

In order to guard against the Tang Dynasty, Liaodong City has been storing supplies. Even when the city is under siege, it can at least provide the city's residents with food for half a year.

Historically, after Li Shimin conquered Liaodong City, he transported away 500,000 shi of grain and relocated 40,000 people.

The reserves in Liaodong City are naturally not limited to this. After all, it is impossible for Li Shimin to empty Liaodong City directly.

While rewarding the three armies, Li Chengqian also gave orders again.

Liaodong City has been under the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty, and the people in the city are all citizens of the Tang Dynasty.

The army was strictly prohibited from harassing the civilian population.

The crimes committed will be punished according to Tang law.

Now, Li Chengqian has regarded Liaodong City as his private property.

This is the city he conquered, and everything in it should belong to him.

The Crown Prince's decree now may be more effective than His Majesty's imperial edict.

The Tang army originally had strict discipline.

Once the decree is issued, everyone must obey it.

However, Li Chengqian would naturally not treat the soldiers unfairly.

The Liaodong city defenders were driven out of their barracks and instead lived in tents.

Their armaments will be used to arm the Tang army's militia.

The government soldiers have their own equipment, so naturally there is no need for this.

Evening banquet.

Li Daozon solemnly apologized to Li Chengqian.

"I misunderstood you earlier, Your Highness. Please forgive me."

After bowing, raise the cup and drink.

Li Chengqian smiled and said, "I think the emperor's uncle is thirsty, so he wants to use this as an excuse to ask for some wine."

There was a sudden burst of laughter in the lobby.

Li Daozon also understood that the prince did not take this matter to heart.

Yes, after all, the prince has such a magical weapon in his hand, so why would he care about some opinions?

Thinking of his previous actions, Li Daozon understood everything. Could it be that the prince was so powerful back then?

The next day.

Li Chengqian began to prepare to incorporate the Goryeo army.

First of all, it is about the priority of speaking Chinese.

Goryeo has its own language and writing system, which is an independent language system that is significantly different from Chinese.

However, Liaodong City is close to the Tang Dynasty and is an important transportation hub. The people here are familiar with Chinese and most of them can speak some.

The original 30,000 militiamen were now promoted in large numbers to become fire captains and team leaders, and were mixed with the Goryeo defenders.

Officials such as brigade commanders and colonels naturally came from Li Chengqian's more than 5,000 men.

A large number of Tang soldiers were directly promoted.

Not all of the Goryeo garrison troops were incorporated, only 30,000 of them. The remaining 20,000 or so would be sent to replace the civilian laborers.

The former civilians would be promoted to security forces within Liaodong City, similar to the yamen runners and military officers in Chang'an.

Liaodong City will serve as a new supply point.

A large number of civilians will be assigned to perform corvée labor to provide logistical support for the transportation of baggage.

Overall, there was no resistance in Liaodong City.

First, he was shocked by the Crown Prince of Tang Dynasty.

The appearance of fire bombs has attracted not only the Tang army but also many Koreans to worship the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty as a god.

Secondly, Goryeo was originally a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty.

Before the rebellion, the king of Goryeo had to be enthroned by the Tang Dynasty before he could officially ascend the throne.

Besides, there were already quite a few Han people in Liaodong City.

Many of them had fled here to escape the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and they could accept the fact that Liaodong City belonged to the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

For several days in a row, Li Chengqian was busy managing Liaodong City.

After adding 30,000 troops, Li Chengqian now has 85,000 troops.

Li Daozon looked on eagerly, hoping to be able to take control of the military power again.

After all, the prince had said that he would give him the military power once he captured Liaodong City.

But now, the prince seems to have forgotten about it.

at the same time.

The news that Goryeo's Liaodong City was conquered by the Tang prince in half a day spread in all directions like a thunderclap.

Especially the incident where the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty summoned heavenly thunder to destroy the city.

Many people subconsciously don't believe it.

It sounds like a fairy tale.

But as more and more detailed information came out, I had to believe it.

ps: The child is sick, only one update today.

(End of this chapter)