Outside Pyongyang City, at the Tang Army's camp, Gao Jianwu's envoy came to ask for surrender. The general rhetoric was that all the sins were Yeon Gaesumun's fault. He was the big bad guy. The King of Goguryeo had always been loyal to His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
, I have never had second thoughts. The fault of this war lies entirely with Yeon Gaesumun. The King of Goguryeo is willing to surrender and pay homage to His Majesty the Emperor.
"Then what?" After hearing this, Xu Shiji asked the envoy, "You have offended His Majesty the Emperor. Now that our army is surrounding Pyongyang, you want to expose it just because you made a mistake because of Yeon Gaesumun. Are you oversimplifying the matter?"
The envoy seemed to have expected that General Tang would not relent so easily, so he said: "My king is willing to dedicate the land of Liaodong and hand it over to His Majesty the Emperor."
Gao Jianwu also knew that the Tang Emperor was greedy and wanted to enclose land everywhere. In order to save his own life, he decisively gave up large tracts of land in Liaodong cities.
"Are you serious?" Xu Shiji looked strange.
"Ah?" The messenger was puzzled.
Xie Shufang shouted, "Gao Jianwu is just farting. Our Tang army conquered Liaodong. It belongs to our Emperor. Whenever it is his turn to donate soil, he deserves it!"
"You bastards!" Li Junxian shouted: "You dare to amuse us and want to play the stupid strategy of surrendering repeatedly. Do you think we are the idiots from the former Sui Dynasty!"
The messenger hurriedly asked: "May I ask what the generals want?"
"Let Gao Jianwu go to Chang'an to plead guilty and kowtow to His Majesty the Emperor!" Xie Shufang smiled grimly.
The envoy of "this" was dumbfounded. How could he agree to this? The king went to Chang'an, could he come back?
Negotiations broke down.
Although Gao Jianwu knew that the possibility of successful negotiations was not very high, he was still extremely disappointed when he learned from the envoy that the negotiations were unsuccessful.
Everyone wants to live, no one wants to die.
The Tang army did not waste any time and began to attack the city.
It’s still the old rules, firepower coverage.
Qin Huaiyu and Xue Li acted as scouts and led their cavalry to reconnoitre the surrounding areas to guard against Gao Jianwu's sudden retreat.
The two looked at the artillery exploding in the distance and looked at each other, feeling very good.
"Actually, if Eulji Mundeok doesn't support Pyongyang, we can kill him." Xue Li said regretfully. He followed Xu Shiji to observe. There were also several artillery in use in the army. Eulji Mundeok's army was there.
There was a rookie in front of them. If he didn't run fast, he would definitely die in the 'domestic city'.
Qin Huaiyu said: "There is no need to feel pity, he has to die now. But for us, this trip is not in vain."
"Hahaha, that's exactly what you said." Xue Li said: "As expected, it's really difficult to understand all this without going to the battlefield in person."
"Um."
Both of them had heard about what the battlefield was like in the past, but now they had a real encounter, and only then did they understand what the battlefield was like.
Although Eulji Mundeok exploded his troops and prepared to fight to the death, the Tang Army's divine thunder was a dimensionality-reducing strike, especially when used in sieges. It was invincible. The Goguryeo soldiers who were directly bombed had no intention of fighting. In the end, no one even dared to attack.
City defense.
Because, the entire city wall was collapsed by the Tang Army's divine thunder.
"kill!"
As the gates of Pyongyang were opened, Xu Shiji ordered the entire army to attack Pyongyang.
The war lasted for one day, Eulji Mundeok was hacked to death, Gao Jianwu was captured alive, and all Goguryeo ministers surrendered.
After the war, Xie Shufang imprisoned all the noble ministers of Goguryeo and their relatives, preparing to escort them to Chang'an in batches and hand them over to His Majesty the Emperor.
After Goguryeo was destroyed by the Tang army, the Tang army took advantage of the situation and seized all the land of Goguryeo.
At this moment, the news reached Silla and Baekje. The two countries had different thoughts, but the same thing was shock and fear.
They did not think that the Tang army could not defeat Goguryeo, but they never expected that the Tang army would destroy Goguryeo within a few months.
Is this a dream?
Buyeo Yiji was still encamping in Sotu Dagaya and Aryang. Before he could capture Silla, Goguryeo was already finished.
"How could it be so fast?" He looked at Fuyuhe in disbelief.
"I don't know." Fuyuhe swallowed, and the whole person looked equally confused. It was not that they didn't know the news about the war between the Tang Army and Goguryeo, but all of them thought that the Tang Army was going to capture Goguryeo for less than a year and a half.
It's not possible, but Tang Jun told them with facts, I don't want you to think, I want me to feel.
In just a few months, Goguryeo was destroyed. The speed of death was simply unheard of and unseen.
How could anyone destroy Goguryeo so quickly? Were the Tang troops heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals?
Fuyu Yiji held his forehead, and he was in a very bad mood. Goguryeo died, and he died very cleanly. This was unacceptable to him, but it was impossible not to accept it, because Goguryeo was already dead.
Now he has to consider whether to continue fighting or to retreat.
Retreating is secondary, mainly because he doesn't know whether the Tang army will continue to attack Baekje. This kind of thing is not impossible. More importantly, will Silla help the Tang army attack Baekje?
He doesn't know and can't understand.
Before that, he was worried that the Tang army would pose a great threat to Baekje after destroying Goguryeo, but at that time he was considering eating Silla and then facing the pressure of the Tang army. But now, Goguryeo can't even stop the Tang army, and
He himself didn't capture Silla, which was very embarrassing.
It is not possible to advance now, nor to retreat.
Now he had to guard against both Silla and the Tang army, which was a headache.
If possible, he even thought of teaming up with Silla to deal with the Tang army. But he just thought about it, because this was impossible, and the Silla people would definitely not agree. They would only choose to join the Tang army and deal with Baekje.
"It's a disaster."
"Brother, what's wrong?" Fuyuhe was puzzled.
Buyeo Yiji explained: "With the Tang army's combat power, it can destroy Goguryeo so easily and so quickly. There is no guarantee that it will not help Silla attack us. Do you think we can stop the Tang army?"
Fu Yuhe's lips moved, but he couldn't say anything. In fact, he didn't know what he was feeling. Because Goguryeo died so quickly, it felt like rotten wood that died before he even exerted any effort.
"Brother, maybe things are not that bad."
"How to say?"
Fuyuhe said: "Gao Jianwu and Yeon Gaesumun have been fighting for many years, and the domestic soldiers and horses must have hurt each other. The Tang army may have taken this opportunity to capture Goguryeo in one fell swoop. This does not mean how powerful the Tang army was."
"Sigh." Fuyu Yiji thought that his younger brother had any great ideas, but it turned out to be nonsense. He said: "Have you never thought about it? Even if Goguryeo was originally weak and lost to the Tang army, what about us? Are we at the top?
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Fuyuhe stopped talking, because they were indeed not at the top. After being consumed by the long-term war with Silla, to a certain extent, they were actually as fragile as Goguryeo.
Especially in front of Tang Jun, they may really have no advantage at all.
"Then what should we do?"
Buyeo Yiji said directly without thinking: "Send envoys to see the generals of the Tang Dynasty, give them money, and ask them not to interfere in our war with Silla. If they refuse, we will withdraw our troops and tell them that Baekje will never
It is a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty."
"This" Buyeoha cannot accept.
Fuyu Yici sighed: "I know you don't want to accept it, but we can only do this. We have no chance of winning in front of Tang Jun."
Although I don’t want to admit it, the facts are there and it’s impossible not to admit them.