Anshi City... One of the important cities in Goguryeo is now April of the 19th year of Zhenguan. Li Shimin's frame set off from Liaodong City and arrived outside Anshi City (now Yingchengzi Town, Haicheng City, Anshan City, Liaoning Province).

Because Anshi City is important, the northern part of Goguryeo, and Huizhen led Goguryeo and 150,000 soldiers from the Marine City came to save Anshi City.

Yanshou led his army to a place forty miles away from Anshi City.

Li Shimin ordered Ashinasheer to lead a thousand Turkic cavalry to lure the enemy, but he pretended to retreat as soon as he fought. The Goguryeo army rushed forward and arrived at a place eight miles southeast of Anshi City, and lined up along the mountain.

Li Shimin personally went to high places with Changsun Wuji and others, as well as hundreds of cavalry to observe the situation of mountains and rivers, and could ambush the troops and places where they entered and exited.

Li Shimin ordered Li Shiji to lead 15,000 troops to set up a formation at Xiling, and Changsun Wuji led 11,000 elite troops to serve as surprise soldiers, leaving the valley north of the mountain to attack the enemy's rear. Li Shimin personally led 4,000 troops, holding drum horns, stooping the flag, climbing the north mountain, and ordered the troops to attack together when they heard the sound of drum horns.

Yanshou saw Li Shiji's formation and formed a formation to fight. Li Shimin saw Changsun Wuji's army rising, and ordered the drums and horns to raise the flag. All the troops were clamoring and advancing. Yanshou and others were very scared and wanted to divide their troops to resist.

The Tang general Xue Rengui shouted and rushed into the Goguryeo army formation, which was invincible. The Tang army attacked and the Goguryeo army was defeated. The Tang army beheaded more than 20,000 enemies. (Usually, the number of enemies killed is far greater than the number of beheadings. For example, the Ming army beheaded 800 hundred in the Battle of Pyongyang, but the loss of Xiaoxi First Army exceeded 10,000.)

Yanshou and others led the remaining troops to guard the mountain. Li Shimin ordered the troops to surround them. Changsun Wuji retreated the bridge and cut off the Goguryeo army's return. Yanshou, Huizhen led 36,800 people to surrender, entered the military gate, walked forward, and bowed and asked for his orders.

Li Shimin elected 3,500 Nothar and the 3,500 subordinate chiefs, moved to the mainland, and released the others and asked them to return to Pyongyang. They all raised their hands and vauntarily, and cheers spread dozens of miles away.

In addition, 50,000 horses, 50,000 cattle, more than 10,000 iron armor, and a large number of other weapons were seized in this battle. The whole country of Goguryeo was shocked and scared. Later, the Goguryeo people in Huangcheng and Yincheng all abandoned the city and fled, and there was no one in hundreds of miles.

Unfortunately, Anshicheng was not captured in the end. The main reason was that Li Shimin's personal expedition fully learned the lessons of Emperor Yang of Sui and compressed the size of the army as much as possible to reduce the burden on the people. Therefore, the total force of Li Shimin's personal expedition was only more than 100,000, less than half of the force of Goguryeo. It was a war of winning the more with less.

Although the number of troops is small, the elite Tang army that followed Li Shimin personally fought far better than the Goguryeo Army. Li Daozong defeated tens of thousands of Goguryeo Army for 4,000 Tang troops. Zhang Liang's Tang army was able to counterattack on his own and defeat the enemy if he was attacked and his brain was down.

Because of this, Li Shimin personally fought against Goguryeo and maintained a 100% field victory rate. However, when attacking Anshicheng, the Tang army's combat effectiveness advantages were greatly limited and the number disadvantages were highlighted. Since the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Goguryeo was best at turtle shell defense.

Coupled with the issue of supply, the war lasted until September. The cooler autumn caused difficulties in the Tang army's logistics supply. If he was like Emperor Yang of Sui and was willing to do whatever he wanted, the Tang army could have continued to attack Anshicheng, but Li Shimin was not Emperor Yang of Sui.

Li Shimin believed that increasing the burden on the people in order to attack Anshicheng was a mistake of missing the roots and seeking the end. Since this personal expedition had achieved great results and continued attacks were unfavorable, it would be better to stop whenever you see it. So in September of the 19th year of Zhenguan (645), Li Shimin ordered the army to return to the court.

However, Anshicheng was brought to the screen by Bangzi and became an epic blockbuster of his own YY. It was a movie released by Bangzi in 2018. It can be said that it has attracted considerable attention on the Internet. South Korea translated it into multiple languages, and seemed to want to make it a world-famous IP.

It cost 15 billion won. The story tells the story of the Tang Dynasty's 500,000 troops attacking Anshi City. The city lord Yang Wanchun then led the Goguryeo defenders to fight for 88 days. Finally, when seriously injured, he pulled a bow that even Li Shimin had never seen before, and then a arrow blinded Li Shimin's eyes.

The final subtitles of the video show that three years later, Li Shimin died of serious injury and made a will before his death, demanding that Goguryeo never be violated.

That's fart... It's really fart. I didn't want to complain about it, but Bangzi's self YY really opened my eyes. This time, Li Shimin personally conquered Goguryeo, conquered ten cities, and occupied a large area of ​​land in Liaodong.

Before, Liaodong was occupied by Goguryeo for more than 200 years, and Liaodong was a strategic location and an important economic support point of Goguryeo.

Since then, the Tang Dynasty invaded a heavy wedge in the Liaodong region, establishing a solid outpost for the subsequent military conquest of Goguryeo. Li Shimin personally conquered Goguryeo and also annihilated a large number of vital forces of Goguryeo's army. The elite troops of Goguryeo's army suffered a devastating blow. Moreover, this conquest caused the population of Goguryeo to plummet, the social productivity of Goguryeo suffered severe damage, and the national strength declined.

If you don’t have the same knowledge as a stick, you will know how to steal history. What you say to him is useless... Li Shimin ordered his troops to return to the court in September. After hearing the news, Li Zhi set out from Chang'an in person to welcome his father.

Li You was still under confinement at this time. Li Zhi went to greet Li Shimin this time to speak out to his fifth brother. After the three siblings cried together last time, no one of the people who made trouble would dare to touch Li You again.

But Li Zhi was still not worth it for his fifth brother, so he greeted his father in advance and wanted to ask for his fifth brother. However, after Li Zhi met Li Shimin, he realized that Li Shimin was sick.

A poisonous sore was developed behind Li Shimin, which refers to the toxic scars on the skin that are swollen and suppurated. It is also called ulcer disease. There is dampness and toxicity in the body. If it is not removed in time, poisonous sores will appear, which is very nauseous.

But Li Zhi didn't think it was dirty at all. He personally took pus from his mouth and followed him on the carriage for several days.

To be honest, people's hearts are made of flesh. When Li Shimin saw his son Li Zhi so obedient and filial, he was extremely moved in his heart and truly pampered his son.

Historical books record that Li Shimin's evaluation of Li Zhi was that the prince was kind and filial, and he was good at tutoring him! If you can be filial and loving, why would I hate him? Li Shimin's high evaluation of Li Zhi showed his importance to Li Zhi.

However, just when Li Shimin and Li Zhi were about to return to Chang'an together, Li You's Dunhua Fang welcomed an immortal guest. This uninvited guest was Li Yan. The purpose of Li Yan coming to Dunhua Fang was actually self-evident, because Li Yan had found evidence that Li You took in Lan Lian and Yu Changchang to assassinate Li Tai.

The evidence of Lan Lian is because Li Ke and others instigated a person from the Lan Lian organization, and the evidence that Yu Changchang was assassinating Li Tai was found by Yu Changchang's senior brother, the scar man...!

Li Yan came to Dunhuafang with this evidence, and he wanted to get the most important thing Li You has now.

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Chapter completed!