From August 31 to September 3, the Taishan Army fought two battles with Goguryeo at Taizi River Bend.
During the two battles, more than 50,000 people in Goguryeo were dispersed, five domestic nobles and their king were captured, and only a few hundred dismounted knights fled back to the mountains.
At this point, it has been two hundred years since the founding of the country, and Goguryeo, which is connected to the mountains and forests, exists in name only.
Northeast Asia can be said to be decided in one battle.
No, we can't say that yet, at least now Xiangping is still in the hands of the Gongsun family, and they are also the finalists of the Taishan Army's expedition to Liao.
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In fact, when Zhang Chong led his entire army to attack Goguryeo, a big battle broke out under Xiangping City.
This was Gongsundu's last prayer to the Liaodong generals in the city, saying that this battle was Xiangping's last hope.
Originally, the generals of the Liaodong Army were unwilling to go out of the city to fight in the field, but when they saw Gongsun Du's old appearance, they were all speechless.
Gongsun Du had not appeared in front of the generals for some time, and this time he appeared so old that they could not recognize him.
At that moment, looking at their gray-faced and white-haired old boss asking them to fight for Liaodong again in a pleading tone, what could they do?
So, they really shed their last blood for Liaodong.
At that time, when Zhang Chong was gathering to annihilate Goguryeo, Gongsun Du personally supervised the battle in Beicheng, and more than ten thousand Liaodong soldiers marched out of the city to fight in the field.
And the result of this battle was undoubtedly a huge defeat.
The Liaodong Army was defeated, the dead were piled up, and the Hao River was completely red. From then on, the Liaodong Army never left the city to fight in the field.
When Zhang Chong returned to camp after victory, Yu Jin and other central guards asked Zhang Chong to fight and launched the final attack on Xiangping.
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Upstairs at the north gate of Xiangping, Liaodong general Yang Yi tried his best to defend the city.
Arrows were flying like locusts outside the city, and the soldiers of Goguryeo who had previously surrendered were attacking the city. These reinforcements who were supposed to be Liaodong had to complete their declaration of name here first at this moment.
At this moment, a burst of noise and curses came from the main road in the city behind him.
Yang Yi quickly looked down, only to see more than three hundred unarmored targets with swords and guns in their hands converging on the North Gate Avenue, and then without saying a word, they attacked the unsuspecting North Gate defenders.
The officials guarding the north gate focused all their attention on the outside of the city, and they did not expect such a wave of chaos to appear behind them.
Suddenly receiving this blow, the officials at the North Gate were unable to resist, and the North Gate soon fell.
Yang Yi, who was on the north gate tower, turned his head and saw this scene. His eyes were split and his teeth were split. Especially when he saw one of them, he even roared:
"How dare you make trouble, you little bastard, you are so courageous!"
That man was none other than Tian Shao, a wealthy man from Xiangping who had been scolded by Gongsun Du before. No one expected that this man would dare to have such courage and mobilize all his clansmen to backstab Gongsun's family.
When his name was called out by Yang Yi on the city tower, Tian Shaoli ignored him and killed all the Liaodong officials who were left at the north gate, and then opened the north gate with a group of tribesmen covering their heads.
Once the north gate was opened, Tian Shao breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the great achievement had been accomplished. The difficult decision-making for several days was finally worth it with this blow.
The ship of Gongsun's family in Liaodong has sunk. How long will it take if he doesn't change the ship now? Even though he knows the Taishan Army's consistent policy towards the powerful, he can only surrender to the Taishan Army at this moment.
After all, he has the ability to seize the door anyway, and no matter how mean Taishan Jun is, he will not be stingy with his wealth.
In fact, it is not that the people of the Gongsun family have not paid attention to the powerful families such as Tian Shao. After all, if any city defense wants to last for a long time, it must control these powerful families in the city. Because once these people cause chaos, the energy they stir up is not the same as other people in the market.
Lu Zuo can compare.
Take Tian Shao as an example. When he ascends high and shouts, he can gather three to four hundred people to fight him to the death to seize the door.
Why?
Because these people are either his clansmen or his tribe, they share the same glory and humiliation with him. If Tian Shao dies in rebellion, these people will not survive, so they can only grit their teeth and keep up.
Does ordinary Lu Zuo have such a binding nature?
Even if he pulled together a team of dozens of people, would these people risk their lives with him? It's simply impossible.
But the situation here in Liaodong is quite special. Not to mention Gongsun Du, even the powerful men in Liaodong themselves have never thought of rebelling.
Without him, do we need to say more about the fate of the powerful people in Youji and Hebei?
But Tian Shao just thought about it and did it.
People like Gongsun Du didn't know that it was precisely because no one thought about the powerful forces in the city causing rebellion that the cost-benefit ratio of causing rebellion was extremely high.
Tian Shao only sent out more than 300 people, and after a short battle, he captured the city gate, and gained a fortune that would last forever.
But Tian Shao forgot one thing, that is, there were trenches and moats in the section of his own gate. During many battles, although the trenches outside the north gate were filled up, the moats were never cleared.
This time, the Taishan Army attacked from all four doors, and no one expected that anyone would open the door to respond.
Therefore, when Tian Shao opened the door, even if Taishan Army saw it, it was too late to support him immediately.
Now Tian Shao was embarrassed.
The tribesmen of Tian Shao all use ordinary weapons. Except for Tian Shao who has an armor collar, the others are all without armor.
They were able to seize the city gate entirely by surprise, and now that the expected Taishan Army has not arrived, people's hearts began to fluctuate.
At this time, Yang Yi, who was already being urged by his subordinates to evacuate to the inner city, saw this scene and laughed like a night owl:
"Okay, great, Tian Shao, you behave like a dog, but I don't appreciate it at all."
After saying that, he pushed the men around him and walked down the horse slope with the knife in hand.
Seeing the general's bravery, other Liaodong officials rushed down with Jia Yong. After all, once the city gate was lost, they themselves were in danger.
When Tian Shao saw Yang Yi rushing down, the hairs on his hair stood up and he shouted in a high voice:
"Everyone guard the door, and your life's wealth will be here."
After saying that, he really took the lead and went up to him.
Morale is like this. If the leader is strong, morale will be strong.
With Tian Shao taking the lead, more than three hundred people howled and fought against the Liaodong Army coming down from the city. Hundreds of people were killed in this narrow corridor, with blood on the ground, and they fought to the death.
The bodies of the tragic victims were left on the ground with no one paying attention, and nameless officials were still killing each other.
Gradually, the situation became increasingly unfavorable to Tian Shao's side.
After all, their side is not a regular army, they are just a bunch of ragtag troops, and they have fought hard so far.
Just after he stabbed someone to death, Tian Shao took the time to look at the other side.
I saw more and more Liaodong officials roaring down the horse slope.
Just when Tian Shao was about to retreat when he saw the opportunity, suddenly there was a heavy sound of horse hooves from behind, followed by a loud shout:
"Get out of the way, Lord Naima. Anyone who doesn't want to die should get out of the way."
Tian Shao in the front was overjoyed when he heard these outrageous words. He tried to roll aside even though he was carrying a knife.
And when he raised his head in a daze, he only saw a back figure, but this back figure made him want to laugh out loud:
"My fate, Tian Shao, should not be cut off. I am destined to be rich and powerful."
What Tian Shao saw was Ma Chao.
When Ma Chao charged forward with his fine iron horse, it was like a drop of cold water splashing on hot oil, and it suddenly crackled, but the sound was the sound of muscles and bones collapsing, a cry of pain.
Along with Ma Chao, there were hundreds of horsemen who crashed into the city. Like wild beasts, they trampled a bloody path to the end of the inner city.
At this time, how can you still tell where the Yang Yi is? Maybe it’s here, maybe it’s there, maybe it’s here or there.
Whoever rushed into the north gate corridor was not a brave man, let alone Ma Chao, who really lived up to his reputation as a golden tiger.
This man was carrying heavy armor, had a sharp body, and had thorns like the wind. He killed more than ten people in a row, which was simply horrifying.
Originally, there were some archers above the corridor at the north gate, but they had to support the city with their swords and kill them, so hundreds of Taishan Army's assault cavalry wandered into the sea, unstoppable.
More and more Taishan troops entered from the north gate. They each had their own division of labor. Some followed the horse path to the top of the city, some went around to other gates to open the city, and some followed Ma Chao and other knights to attack the inner city.
city.
At this time, countless Taishan troops inside and outside Xiangping were shouting:
"The city is broken, the city is broken."
As a result, the Liaodong Army lost all hope, and more and more people took off their military uniforms and infiltrated into the Lu civilian area.
The outer city defenses collapsed.
After that, flags of various colors floated on the city gate tower one after another, and everything was colorful and in full swing.
Gongsun Du's face was as pale as earth. He had been standing on the gate tower of the inner city. When he saw the north gate shouting and shouting, he knew that the city was broken, so he hanged himself to death without hesitation.
This man, who was supposed to be the most worthy hero in Northeast Asia and the founding monarch who created three dynasties, hanged himself on the inner city tower of Xiangping.
As soon as Gongsun Du died, his servants who had already received his orders killed their master's wives and concubines, suffocated the young Gongsun Gong to death, lay on Gongsun Du's body and cried bitterly, and finally burned the building with them.
Return.
In another dimension, Gongsun Du was obviously a careerist and his appearance remained in the long history. But in this time and space, due to complicated reasons, he ended up becoming the last person in the entire northern Xinjiang to guard the Han Dynasty.
It is evident that the times have shaped people, and it is also lamentable.
After Gongsun Dului died, Xiangping ordered Gongsun Zhao to be captured.
Gongsun Zhao, in history, would be whipped to death by Gongsun Du a few years later. But here, he admired Gongsun Du for being able to die with integrity. He stood up without kneeling to Ma Chao, who had captured him, and spoke righteously:
"As a minister of the Han Emperor, how can I kneel down and kneel to a thief?"
Who is Ma Chao? What kind of temperament is he? He will spoil Gongsun Zhao. He hit Gongsun Zhao on the leg with a knife and cursed:
"It depends on whether your bones are stronger or my knife is stronger."
Gongsun Zhao cried out in agony and knelt down, but still refused to surrender. Instead, he faced the southeast and lamented:
"I am not strong enough to kill thieves, and I have no face to see the emperors of the Han Dynasty."
After saying that, while Ma Chao wasn't paying attention, he bumped into the blade of another soldier.
Ma Chao was stunned for a moment with blood splattered on his face, and finally murmured:
"It turns out that there really are bones stronger than knives."
On this day, Ma Chao grew up a lot, and he finally understood something that can shake people's hearts more than strength, and that is integrity.
In the second year of Taiwu, on September 4th, the Taishan army captured Xiangping.
In the city, the right and left gates of the city were decorated with colorful decorations and incense burned. They knelt down along the streets and the mountains shouted long live.
Yesterday, there was the governor's office in Pingzhou, the great Han Dynasty. Starting today, the Taishan Army acted as the government office to appease the people.
Since then, Liaodong has been settled.
And an unexpected cold wave also slowed down and rolled southward from Siberia in the north.