Turbulent Times Chapter 1114: The most idiotic tactics in history
Liaodong City was originally the most important city in the west of Goguryeo. In the past few years, the Sui imperial palace and the imperial court had no secrecy at all. Yang Guang led a group of people to plan to conquer Goguryeo. As early as three years ago It was inquired by the spies sent by Yuan Taizuo to the Sui Dynasty before.
So, although Yang Guang made five years of preparations for the conquest of Goguryeo, the Goguryeo people also made several years of defense preparations.
The thickness of the city wall of Liaodong City was reinforced twice, and the height was increased by five feet. This is only a small aspect of many preparations.
Nowadays, the outer wall of this Liaodong city is built with a layer of stone slabs, and the inner wall is cast with compound clay and rice slurry. Even if the most powerful ballista is shot up, it can only smash first-class sparks outside the wall. The city wall cannot be damaged at all.
In order to deal with the Sui army climbing the city, many horse faces were repaired outside Liaodong City, and each protruding horse face has a watchtower built of bricks and stones. The defenders can seal any dead corner of defense with bows and stones in the watchtower.
For such a city, if Yang Guang's army of millions wanted to break the will of the defenders in Liaodong City, the price they would pay would be four or five times that of attacking ordinary cities under normal circumstances.
This is the first city that the Goguryeo people prepared for His Majesty the Sui Emperor to conquer.
In the second Liaohe battle, Goguryeo was chased by the Sui army to the outside of Liaodong city. In fact, this itself was part of Yuan Taizuo's plan, because he knew a long time ago that the Liaohe River alone would never be able to stop it. The million-strong army of the Sui Dynasty. In addition, within 300 miles of Liaodong City, the fortified walls and wilderness had already been completely completed, and the Sui people could not find a grain of grain.
Yuan Taizuo took advantage of the defensive side to the extreme. He knew that Yang Guang's army of millions and millions of civilians traveled thousands of miles to Koguryo. Astronomical figures, so every day they delay, they will have one more chance of winning.
So, Yuan Taizuo retracted all the soldiers and horses into Liaodong City, and the Goguryeo people just didn't care about how the Sui army challenged outside the city, and the cost of attacking the city was too high.
A few days ago after the great victory in Liaohe, Yang Guang said in front of the envoys of the ninety-nine countries that the soldiers and horses of the Sui Dynasty came to understand the people's upside down. Therefore, Yu Wenshu and other generals proposed to dig up the water in the girders to pour water into Liaodong City, and drive the people to be the vanguard. These two inhumane tactics were also stopped by Yang Guang without hesitation.
"I want Goguryeo, a small barbarian country, to experience the benevolence of the Celestial Empire!" Yang Guang said to all the civil and military officials.
That is to say, this sentence is mentioned every time to the envoys of the ninety-nine countries.
"I don't know if the Goguryeo people will show mercy to us when we lose the war!" Guang's intention also gave birth to objections, and he secretly slandered in his heart.
Except for Yang Guang, almost everyone in the Great Sui Army had the same thoughts as Yuwen Chengdu. Judging from the fighting power shown by the government soldiers in the Liaohe battle more than a dozen days ago, it seems that it is not difficult to win Goguryeo. What's more, there has been news from the sea that the commander of Fanyang County's conquest army, Qin Angong Wang Junlin, has led people to capture three cities, and half of the country in Annan County of Goguryeo has been defeated.
Everyone thinks that it should be no problem to win Goguryeo, but the premise is that His Majesty the Emperor is willing to let all the soldiers do whatever they want, instead of always being elbowed in the name of benevolence and righteousness like now. , especially as time goes on, this weakening will inevitably become more pronounced.
And a group of favorite ministers around Yang Guang agreed to please Yang Guang, and then did some things, which convinced Yang Guang that he was right to do so.
Yu Shiji, a doctor of Jinzi Guanglu who was highly regarded by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty and who was in charge of the government, tried his best to find a giant whale about 20 feet long and ran aground on the seashore. After killing it, he offered the whale bone. When he arrived in front of His Majesty the Emperor, he encouraged Yang Guang to build nine altars outside the city of Liaodong.
Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials, Pei Shiju, the Duke of Wenxi County, was not to be outdone, and found two colorful giant birds at the seaside, with wings spread about one foot wide, singing joyously day and night, and the sound resounded ten miles away.
According to Yu Shiji's explanation, Goguryeo is facing the sea on three sides, and the death of a giant whale stranded naturally means that Goguryeo is about to perish.
According to what Pei Shiju said, those two giant birds should be the legendary phoenix and phoenix, which will only appear when a saint comes to the world. For this auspicious omen, His Majesty the Emperor has brought most of the civil officials to visit Haydn, and wrote poems to remember it.
But the problem is that Yuan Taizuo led the Goguryeo army and refused to settle down, and Yuan Taizuo prepared for several years, and dozens of spies became Sui people and became part of the Sui army. , some of them, under the operation of a large amount of money, have become generals with high official positions. Any will and tactics from Yang Guang's side will always reach the ears of Neiyuan Taizuo in Liaodong City soon.
For Emperor Sui
Yang Guang gave such a benevolent and magnanimous way of fighting, Yuan Taizuo was overjoyed, and soon led people to formulate and discuss the most beneficial and correct way of fighting for them.
They relied on their fortified city and their face to resist. Whenever the generals of the Sui Dynasty paid a huge price and gained the initiative in the siege battle and gained the upper hand, the Goguryeo defender immediately raised a white flag and announced that he was ready to surrender, begging the Sui army Give a certain amount of time to restrain the rioters in the city.
When the Sui army withdrew from the city wall, Yuan Taizuo immediately ordered to repair the gap, replenish stones and crossbow arrows, and when the agreed surrender time came, they raised the battle flag again.
In half a month, the Goguryeo people have surrendered three times in different ways. Every time, he bowed his knees and pretended to be in pain and repentance. After each success, after slowing down and getting ready to defend, he immediately turned his back and stood on the enemy tower and cursed the Sui army officers and soldiers for their stupidity.
And no one dared to resist Yang Guang's will, the generals from all walks of life could not enter the city no matter how angry they were.
"It's been three times. If anyone still believes in the Goguryeo people, he must have been kicked in the head by a donkey!" Inside the camp commander's tent of the front-line army, the new Zuowuwei General Wang Rengong complained in a low voice.
"This matter must be decided by His Majesty. Before he went to watch Haydn and watch the phoenix dance, he ordered that no matter what the situation, as long as the Goguryeo people surrender, they are not allowed to attack without authorization." Yu Wenshu said expressionlessly.
"But it can't be like this forever!" Wang Rengong whispered through gritted teeth.
Yu Wenshu sighed and said: "The old man has sent a messenger to report to His Majesty, and there will be news back in three days!"
Three days later, the messenger brought back His Majesty's imperial decree from the rear, allowing the Goguryeo people to surrender for the fourth time. In the imperial decree, His Majesty taught the generals on the front line to be magnanimous, and the emperors and ministers of the heavenly court should not be as knowledgeable as barbarian clowns. In the past, Prime Minister Zhuge once captured Meng Huo seven times, pacifying Nanman forever. Today, Goguryeo has repeated it only four times, and sooner or later they will be convinced.
After Yu Wenshu, Wang Rengong and other ten frontline generals left after the decree **** left, each of them's expressions turned extremely ugly.
They can still listen to such words, but to the soldiers, it sounds like a fantasy to ordinary soldiers, and it is not an exaggeration to call it bullshit.
It is conceivable that after such a decree was spread to the army, not to mention beating the Goguryeo people, it would first of all weaken the morale of one's own side greatly.