Chapter 372 Crossing the River
About half a month later, when Qin Hao persuaded General Hei Tooth to perform in Geling City, the Han volunteer army had already been formed in the Liaodong region.
Among these newly formed Han corps, there are even Goguryeo veterans who were just disbanded by the Tang army last month and who just put down their weapons.
These veterans may not be of any use to attack cities, but at least the Tang Dynasty doesn't have to bother with trivial matters such as public security. The troops that Li Shimin could call increased a lot.
The ethnic policy of the Tang Dynasty in Liaodong also changed fundamentally with this status quo, somewhat similar to the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, which divided the people on the peninsula into four levels.
The first place is of course the Tang people. These Tang people mainly lived in the concession in the future, went out to meet the third level of Guanda, and even saw small wooden signs that Fuyu people and dogs were not allowed to enter.
The second level is the original Han people. These Han people can be officials, do business with the Tang people, and can freely go to and from the concession to make a living in the Tang people's territory.
The third level is the ethnic minority people on this land, such as the Bohai people, Jie people, Khitan people and so on.
And the people of Fuyu have completely become the targets of exploitation.
Although doing this is not conducive to national integration in the long run, it is because it is simple and crude, and it will take the fastest results in the short term. However, the workload of rectifying the situation in the later stage is simply terrifying. However, Qin Hao is still a soft-hearted person and always feels that he has a sin here, and he will never worry about this in the next ten years.
It is natural that Anshicheng took it off after Li Shimin made up his mind. On the day when the city was broken, Gao Huizhen stood at the top of the city and cursed at the Tang army, and then committed suicide to the country. He was ordered to be buried with a grand ceremony by Li Shimin.
Xincheng finally had no ammunition and food, and if they continued to fight, they would only be able to eat people. Gao Yanshou was not Zhang Xun, so he led a suicide squad to attack Xue Wanche's strict military formation and never came out again.
The remaining troops of the new city surrendered to Xue Wanche. The poor black king Xue Wanche was finally liberated. The soldiers under their command walked around Jincheng, but they didn't even find a mouse. They looked at the big bags of universal coupons from other friendly troops and were so jealous that they were so jealous.
At the same time, Niu Jinda finally captured Juba City in Baekje and bet everything like the king and prime minister to Li Shimin. Baekje was temporarily destroyed.
Originally, there were more than 20,000 troops scattered in Baekje, and there was still a while to fight, but because Qin Hao and Heichi had already secretly met the Qubing, the scattered troops were all concentrated in his hands in about half a month, and persuaded his subordinates to give up their plans to seek revenge on Niu Jinda, and only fought against the Silla army in the north, and gave up Niu Jinda's route to cross the Han River to fight Goguryeo.
In short, Niu Jinda was ready and could go north to open a second battlefield at any time. When the news reached Li Shimin, he naturally felt happy again.
Now, only Baiyan, Houhuang, Hengshan, Momi and other small towns are placed in front of Li Shimin.
Like the new city, it is not a big problem to go around, just because they are afraid that they will attack the food road.
Originally, Li Shimin wanted to make a contribution to the battle and divide his troops into several groups to fight together. In his estimate, it would be almost done in seven or eight days, but Ma Zhou volunteered to attack the city by Fengyan Yamen.
How to attack the city by Fengyan? Of course, it depends on your tongue.
The ethnic conflicts in the land of Liaodong have become a chaotic virtue, and they have not deliberately siege the city and cut off their connection with the outside world, so they naturally cannot be unaffected.
So, within a few days, under the sting of the Tang Dynasty spies, the Han people and Fuyu people in the city started to make a fuss.
To be honest, when the war reaches this point, the soldiers of several cities have long lost their fighting spirit. The heroes who fought against the enemy in scorched earth are extremely rare in any era. When the enemy is in such a fuss, a few cities dominated by Han people directly exchanged their flags and went out to pay homage to Tian Khan.
The remaining two cities dominated by Fuyu people were not much better. Li Shimin felt that before they could warm up, the Tang army won.
Afterwards, he left the finishing work to Xue Wanche, who had been struggling, and he himself led a large army to set out towards the Yalu River.
On the river, Qin Hao's dozen large ships were lined up in neat rows to welcome the saint's inspection.
This is the first time Qin Hao has seen Li Shimin since he was thrown to Dengzhou. Although he is not uncommon for him, it is the first time that he appears in front of the army in front of the army with handsome appearance in silver armor.
Qin Hao went out alone and knelt on one knee. Li Shimin also drove his horse forward alone and asked loudly: "How is the enemy's defense line along the river?"
"When you go back to your Majesty, the defense line along the river has been abandoned by the enemy. The enemy only built villages on Changbai Mountain on the mountain. I found out that there are 131 arrow towers, sixteen feet high, and about 90,000 defenders. In front of our Tang Dynasty lions, they all sell their heads."
Li Shimin asked again: "Where is General Niu Da now?"
"General Niu Da and his 80,000 soldiers and 20,000 Silla friendly troops, a total of 100,000 people have been ready to go on the south bank of the Han River. Just wait for the emperor to give him the order, he can directly attack Huanglong and open up the second battlefield!"
Li Shimin naturally knew about these things for a long time. The reason why he asked at this time was mainly to ask the soldiers of the three armies to listen to them was considered a kind of encouragement.
After all the questions were asked, Li Shimin patted Qin Hao on the shoulder and said gently: "Thank you for your hard work. Although you have no persistent and sharp skills in killing the enemy in this battle, I know that most of the achievements of fighting like this are your contributions, and it is not an exaggeration to say that you have made the first contribution in this battle."
"The emperor has been too proud, I feel guilty and I really don't dare to take it."
"A good at fighting has no great achievements. My Tang Dynasty is considered a successor. Get up and take me on the ship."
"yes"
For the next half day, Qin Hao was busy transporting Li Shimin's army from one end of the Yalu River to the other end. Because Qin Hao had been harassing for so long, Goguryeo also realized that it was impossible to build fortifications on the Yalu River.
In desperation, Goguryeo had given up this natural danger and built a city pass in a valley dozens of miles away from the river.
In this way, the excellent terrain that the mountains and rivers wanted to connect naturally gave a big discount. Although it was still difficult to achieve, at least the Tang army could already unfold calmly.
This was the first time Li Shimin saw Qin Hao's ship. The powerful role of the navy in this battle was also a secret for him. He stroked the hull up and down, as if touching a charming concubine.
"This is really a powerful weapon of the Tang Dynasty!"
Qin Hao naturally smiled and said modestly, but Li Shimin said again: "When the court's finances are more abundant, the court will also allocate some funds. You, the navy, will at least double it. In the future, I will have more wars in the Tang Dynasty, and I cannot do without your country's important weapon."
"Thank you for your kindness."
"But I heard that although your people are invincible on the water, they can't even defeat the ordinary Goguryeo defenders when they go to the land. They missed many fighter jets in vain. How could this work? After this battle, I and the others sent another general to not seek to conquer the city and territories. At least the soldiers of our Tang Dynasty cannot lose to others in this field."
Qin Hao felt aware of it, but he could only agree with a smile on his face.
Among them, there is no meaning of decentralization. It seems that Li Shimin has realized that Qin Hao’s power is a bit too great.
Chapter completed!