Less than a thousand Tang cavalrymen inserted themselves into the rear of the Goguryeo cavalry. Two rounds of arrows shot down dozens of Goguryeo cavalrymen. They stabbed with Tang knives and horse spears, and cut down dozens of Goguryeo cavalrymen with one strike!

Among the Tang army, a little soldier in white wielded Fang Tian's painted halberd with both hands and took the lead. Unwilling to lag behind Li Guang and Di Qing, he broke into the enemy's formation. The Goguryeo cavalry on the opposite side was unable to unite!

No one thought that a small soldier of the Tang Army could kill all the Goguryeo cavalry. Under his charge, hundreds of Goguryeo cavalry were killed and wounded, and 23 out of 10 of them were killed or injured!

A Goguryeo general led his own soldiers and tried to intercept the Tang army's white-robed soldiers, but was personally killed by the white-robed soldiers. The head was cut off by the white-robed soldiers and hung on the saddle, which shocked Goguryeo!

Di Qing pressed his left hand on the back of the sword and wounded a Goguryeo cavalryman.

He was slightly shocked when he saw the little soldier in white rushing faster than him.

Gao Yanshou personally led dozens of generals, hundreds of soldiers, and thousands of cavalry at the rear. At this time, he saw the Tang army's cavalry counterattack. A Tang soldier killed him less than half a mile away. He was so frightened that his liver and gallbladder broke.

Has the Tang army reached the point where even small soldiers can enter and exit seven times?

The white-clothed soldiers chased him all the way, even more fiercely than Li Guang and Di Qing.

Li Guang's close combat skills are really no match for this small soldier of the Tang Army.

When reinforcements from the Tang Army arrived, Chu Tian led a group of lords, Hua Mulan and others across the river to participate in the sudden battle.

Hua Mulan is equipped with a gold-level horse rifle exchanged from the Tang Army's quartermaster. This is the first time she has used a heavy cavalry weapon in actual combat.

Hua Mulan led hundreds of Xiacheng's light cavalry to pursue the Goguryeo cavalry.

A four-meter horse can easily pierce a Goguryeo cavalryman without iron armor.

Hua Mulan flicked her wrist, and the Goguryeo cavalryman who was stabbed to death by the horse fell to the ground, and was trampled by the horses behind him.

"That soldier from the Tang Army couldn't be Xue Rengui, right?"

Chu Tian just witnessed with his own eyes the small soldiers of the Tang Army showing off their might.

Obviously that was no ordinary soldier.

No matter how elite the Tang army was, it was impossible for even the tenth-level troops to be able to enter and leave the enemy's army seven times and to unscrupulously take the heads of the opposing generals in the chaos.

The only explanation is that this is a soldier who might become a general.

Chu Tian thought of Xue Rengui, the famous fierce general in the early Tang Dynasty who fixed three arrows on Tianshan Mountain!

No wonder he performed more fiercely than Li Guang and Di Qing. Xue Rengui was top notch in both melee combat and archery.

The Tang army once again drove the Goguryeo cavalry back to the main camp. In this battle, the Goguryeo cavalry suffered thousands of casualties, which was an unprecedented defeat.

"We lost to the Tang Army for the third time. Can the siege of Anshi City be solved?"

Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen returned to the camp with frowning faces.

The performance of the soldiers of the Tang Army made him completely overestimate the Tang Army, thinking that all the Tang Army were heavenly soldiers and generals.

Chu Tian counted his troops and suffered very few losses. Because of Li Guang and Hua Mulan's brave fighting, Chu Tian gained 1568 points of military merit.

In addition to the military achievements gained, there were also dozens of captured Goryeo war horses, several iron armors and dozens of other weapons.

What particularly surprised Chu Tian was that Hua Mulan also captured a Goguryeo heavy cavalry.

"I am willing to serve you, please don't kill me."

The Goguryeo heavy cavalry were obviously afraid of the prestige of the Tang Dynasty, and they surrendered allegiance to Chu Tian easily.

Li Shimin Tian Khan's influence was extraordinary, and later there were even many famous Goguryeo generals in the Tang army.

Chu Tian did not expect that in "Lord", soldiers from other civilizations could be directly recruited and surrendered if the other party's soldiers were willing.

A heavy rider doesn’t know how to hate the country’s subjugation.

Chu Tian checked the attributes of Goguryeo's heavy cavalry and wanted to know the opponent's arms.

[Arms]: Goguryeo Heavy Cavalry

【Grade】:Fourth level

[Level]: Level 50

[Description]: An ancient heavy cavalry active in Liaodong and the Korean Peninsula.

[Salary]: 2 taels of silver

Chutian temporarily placed this Goguryeo heavy cavalry under house arrest.

The first heavy cavalry in our territory turned out to be from Goguryeo and was a fourth-level unit.

And because of the foreign cavalry, only half of the salary was given...

But that's right. Isn't it normal to deduct the wages of foreigners and make them work on the front line, while the landlords enjoy the blessings in the rear?

"In the future, it is necessary to learn from the Tang army, recruit a team of cannon fodder, and charge into battle. You only need to pay half of your salary. But loyalty is a problem."

Chu Tian believed that unless he, like Li Shimin, could coerce other civilizations, he would be easily betrayed by foreign troops.

This is a double-edged sword, it depends on how you use it.

The Tang army pursued him for a while and then retreated. The Tang army soldiers in white carried the head of the Goguryeo general and went to claim credit. They were summoned by Li Ji.

Chu Tian and Prince Yan were each awarded 1,000 military merits for Li Guang and Di Qing's meritorious service.

"It's a pity that my general Pang Juan is an infantry general, so sometimes he ends up at a disadvantage."

The lord of Dongjun, Prince Wen, was a little depressed. The heavy infantry did not react quickly enough in such a fast battle and could not win much military glory. Generally speaking, the cavalry could expand the results.

Dahu, Lord of Jiuyuan, led eight hundred Bingzhou cavalry into the enemy formation, killed hundreds of enemies, and gained many military exploits. He was considered a ruthless man.

"It is already the fifth day. It seems that we are constantly winning, but in fact it is not the case. Killing hundreds or thousands of people is insignificant to Goguryeo's million-strong army. If we do not defeat the opponent's reinforcements as soon as possible, we will not be able to concentrate all our forces to attack Anshi City. ."

Chu Tian and the others returned to the camp with the loot, but Fang Xuanling and Zhou Yafu, who were holding on to the camp, thought the situation was not optimistic.

The attack on Anshi City was the most difficult stage of this battle. The Tang army was really not afraid of the millions of Goguryeo reinforcements on the opposite side.

"After all, it still depends on how Tang Taizong Li Shimin defeats the opposing Goguryeo army as quickly as possible."

Chu Tian could not order the Tang army to attack. He had tried his best to advise Li Shimin, so he could only look at Li Shimin's strategy.

Chu Tian reorganized the organization of the Second Army and ordered Zhou Yafu and Pang Juan to command the 10,000 infantry of the Second Army, Li Guang to command 5,000 archers, and Di Qing and Hua Mulan to command 5,000 cavalry.

As for the 5,000 free players, appoint a guild leader as the commander-in-chief, and Xue Yue as the deputy general, as a surprise soldier and reserve team.

Chutian did not dare to let the army composed of free players fight head-on, otherwise it would easily collapse and it would be a huge loss to the Eastern Han District.

Outside the city of Anshi, the elderly Li Shimin got on his horse, and Yuchi Jingde personally helped him.

"Jingde, you and I are already old."

Li Shimin saw that the gray-haired Yuchi Jingde was not as brave as before, and then thought about the death of the civil servants and generals who followed him to conquer the world. He was old and couldn't help but sigh.

"Your Majesty has not yet known his destiny, and the last general is already sixty years old, but it is still easy to deal with Goguryeo."

"Emperor Yang has repeatedly attacked Goguryeo to no avail. If this country is not eradicated as soon as possible, it will definitely become a scourge to the Tang Dynasty in the future. It must be destroyed before you and I are buried."

Li Shimin's somewhat vicissitudes of life gradually sharpened, and the sharpness that once unified the country reappeared. Even though he was old, he still wanted to eliminate the threat to the Tang Dynasty before his death. Goguryeo, which lorded over Liaodong and the Korean Peninsula, was not an ordinary nomadic tribe, but a powerful enough tribe.

It threatened the border powers of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Therefore, Emperor Yang Guangcai of the Sui Dynasty repeatedly attacked Goguryeo.

However, Yang Guang made many mistakes during his campaign against Goguryeo.

"Instruct the King of Jiangxia to supervise the pile of earth mountains, pile up the four earth mountains as soon as possible, and strictly guard the troops out of the city to occupy the mountains. What the foreign lords said may be true. The difficulty is not to defeat a million reinforcements, but to capture the fortified Anshi

The city. If the people's hearts can be used, even hundreds of thousands of troops can't take it out."

Li Shimin's oral military orders were recorded by civilian officials and passed to Li Daozong, King of Jiangxia.

Li Daozong, King of Jiangxia, led 100,000 Tang troops and 125,000 Han troops to carry out civil engineering work outside Anshi City, and four mountains rose from the ground.

Anshi City relied on the mountains and was surrounded by dangerous terrain. It was a mountain city. Because the number of soldiers on both sides increased tenfold, Anshi City was also stronger. The city wall was eight meters high. Coupled with the mountains, the Tang army needed to attack the mountain city from above. Personally

Force will not have much effect.

In field battles, the Tang army was almost invincible at this time, but its siege was limited by the terrain.

Jiujiu Lao Qin personally carried baskets of earth on his back and led his soldiers to pile up mountains of earth. He could also gain military merit by assisting the Tang army in piling up mountains of earth.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead. Anshi City was more difficult to attack than he thought.

There are very few records of the topography of Anshi City in history. Only when you arrive at the foot of Anshi City in person can you know how steep the mountain city is.

"The earthen hill must be at least twenty or thirty meters high in order to have a bird's eye view of the whole city."

"There may be more than 100,000 defenders in the city. With the help of the terrain, the Tang cavalry cannot take advantage of it and can only rely on infantry to attack, which will cause countless casualties."

"The Tang army is preparing siege equipment. We suggest Li Shimin prepare a hundred large trebuchets so that the defenders of Anshi City will know what Tianwei is."

The Han army was piling up mountains of earth, while the Tang army was making siege equipment.

Siege towers, ramming vehicles, trebuchets, ladder vehicles, catapult vehicles, and various siege equipment were quickly manufactured in units of ten.

Yang Wanchun, the lord of Anshi City, led a group of Korean lords and was observing the movements of the Tang and Han armies below on the city wall. Facing the Tang and Han armies who were fully preparing to attack the city, they were helpless.

He did not dare to go out of the city to destroy the mountains and burn the Tang army's siege equipment. Tang army general Li Daozong led 30,000 Tang army cavalry to watch him outside the city. If the defenders left the city, they would only be trampled under the iron hooves of the Tang army's cavalry.

The Tang army was eager for the defenders of Anshi City to leave the city.

All Yang Wanchun could do was to continuously reinforce and heighten the city wall and prepare fortifications to defend the city.

The Goryeo lord Kim Ik-jung's Xijing Corps and Lee Min-cheol's Kaikyong Corps were born in Ansi City and joined forces with Yang Wanchun.
To be continued...