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Text Chapter 721: The Great War without War (Part 2)

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    With more than a thousand people, it would not be easy to attack them, but Luo Pengquan and the others were calculating with their wits, and there were steel slaves shipped from Dongping. Before the guards of the King of Goguryeo could surround them, many fell down with a random shot.  If you have a good steel sword, how can those Goguryeo people's cast iron swords or even bronze swords be able to hit hard?  After a knock, the steel swords of Luo Pengquan and the others were intact, with a small mouth the size of a grain of rice broken at most, while the Goguryeo swords broke in response to the sound and touched the glory of God!  Read all!

    Even the arrows of the royal guards of Goguryeo are basically stone arrows. It would be good to have one or two bronze arrows shot by the leader. The lethality of such arrows is far superior to those of Luo Pengquan, Pi San and others.  He was well prepared and wore light armor for defense. He could only penetrate one or two points into the flesh at most. Such a small injury was nothing to Luo Pengquan, especially to Pi San and other rangers who used to hang out on the dock.  A common meal.

    "In the end, it was very easy to capture the King of Goguryeo.  Pi San and Luo Pengquan's force of more than 1,000 men only lost more than a hundred. Another hundred were captured because they were outnumbered and outnumbered. However, when Pi San and Luo Pengquan escorted the King of Goguryeo, one on the left and the other on the right, they appeared.  At that time, the more than 100 people were released. Who dared not to let them go?  The steel knife that had pressed bloody marks on the neck of the King of Goguryeo was no joke!

    In this battle, the Tang Dynasty had 200,000 soldiers. The real war time was only more than two months. The remaining time was to implement the strategy formulated by Wang Kuang to completely defeat the fallen dog. It took more than four months.  It took only a few months to wipe out Goguryeo's scattered resistance forces, but the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty suffered no more than 10,000 casualties and less than 30,000 injuries.  No materials from the states and counties in Hebei were used, no people from Hebei were recruited to work as civilian laborers, and no trees or saplings of the people were harmed.  All materials, except those donated locally, were shipped from warehouses in Chang'an, Luoyang and other places.

    Donations are also voluntary, and the government didn¡¯t even say a word.  Not a single notice was posted, but local people spontaneously and enthusiastically donated money after hearing that Goguryeo was to be conquered, especially the wealthy households.  It's not that wealthy people are more conscious than ordinary people, but every time the Goguryeo people go south.  They are the ones who bear the brunt of the disaster. Only when nothing can be plundered from them, the people of Goguryeo will turn their attention to the poor households. Therefore, these rich households will certainly be able to do their best once and for all to capture Goguryeo forever.  No worries.

    The Goguryeo people were very clever in their calculations. They believed that they would only rob rich households and not rob poor households, or rob poor households less.  They can win the support of the poor, and the poor will not have much hatred towards them.  But they forgot that every time they looted, almost always during the autumn harvest, they galloped wildly without thinking about whether the crops under their hooves were at all.

    ??And the poor households have almost no other source of income except crops. Don't look at the latest chapter of the Goguryeo people who only rob the rich households.  But the rich households can survive the whole winter, but as for the poor households, many people directly run out of food, and many people starve to death or freeze to death in winter.  Therefore, in fact, the hatred of the rich against Goguryeo was a hatred of wealth, while the hatred of the poor against the Goguryeo people was a life-or-death hatred that would never end.

    Therefore, the rich households enthusiastically donated money, food, furs and coats, while the poor households had no money or food and could not donate, but they were also simple-minded.  Thinking that the soldiers had to go into battle to kill the enemy in the middle of winter, and it was not a problem for me to just sit at home and wait while the soldiers were sleeping in the open air, so they all spontaneously went to help the wealthy people, including some middle-aged men, escort supplies to the north.  When they arrive in the army, they just want to go into battle to kill the enemy and avenge their father or mother, brother, sister, or children. They don't ask for military honors, as long as they can kill the enemy with their own hands.  , it is enough to comfort the spirits of loved ones in heaven.

    In the end, it was Qin Qiong who persuaded these people to go back with his reputation, but this also shocked the morale of the soldiers at the front after learning about the people's spontaneous support. Among these soldiers, except for the Jianzhou Navy, they came from south to north.  In addition, the rest of the soldiers are basically descendants of Hebei. They understand that they are fighting for the future stability of Hebei!  On the one hand, the morale was in chaos, and on the other hand, the morale was greatly shaken. In terms of weather and time, the Goguryeo people lost their advantage, and in terms of geographical location, they disappeared because they were divided into several large pieces.

    Dealing with Goguryeo, the Tang army did not kill them all like they did with the Uighurs. For the Uighurs, regardless of men, women, old or young, as long as they did not surrender, they would be killed and their whole family would not be spared!  When dealing with the Goguryeo people, it doesn't matter whether you surrender or not, as long as you don't resist, even if your eyes are burning with fire, you will not be punished. You will be kidnapped, thrown into a prisoner camp, and escorted to the south together.

    The reason for the difference is that the Goguryeo people's looting behavior was different from that of the Uighurs. When the Uighurs came, they destroyed every village and people wherever they went. Many Uighurs even plundered the people of the Tang Dynasty.  Eat and be called a two-legged sheep!  It can be said that the Uighurs had no qualms about burning, killing, and looting, and although the Goguryeo people also looted, they could basically do it when there was no need to hurt anyone, as long as the people of the Tang Dynasty did not resist.It doesn't hurt anyone, and sometimes it even leaves some foundation for the people of Tang Dynasty to survive the winter.  They did this not because they had any good intentions, but because they had more exposure to the Chinese culture of the Central Plains than the Uighurs. Before the Sui Dynasty, they were nominally a vassal state of the Central Plains, so they also knew that it would be slow to cut them with one knife after another.  The truth is that if you cut slowly, you can't catch all the marshes.

    But no matter what, they rarely actively kill people. As for indirect deaths, they are not caused by their subjective intention to kill people. Therefore, their crimes are much lighter than those of the Uighurs, so the court tolerates them.  The degree of labor is much higher. After all, labor force is still precious now. It is better to demote them as slaves to work than to kill them and waste their labor.

    These Goguryeo people will be scattered and sent to various states for reconstruction. After more than a year, if they can work with peace of mind, some of them will be sent to the northern grasslands to engage in construction, and some will be sent to the south of Jiannan.  Nanna went to the continent that the emperor named Yuanzhou to reclaim wasteland. Although there were people on that continent, they were all based on tribes. There was no country or king. As long as the Tang Dynasty implemented effective rule on it, it would not invade it.  The interests of the indigenous people will naturally be integrated into the interests of the indigenous people as time goes by as they have more contact with the people of the Tang Dynasty. This is a process of time and does not require force. What is used is culture, food and food.  Yi guides it.

    However, the Battle of Goguryeo had just ended, and the aftershocks had not yet subsided. Suddenly, news came that Nanzhao had been defeated, the land of Nanzhao was divided among the other five imperial edicts, and the king of Nanzhao was also shown his head to the public, and the five imperial edicts were uniting.  After destroying Nanzhao, he formally petitioned the imperial court and asked the emperor to send Tang troops to garrison in the Wuzhao area. The local soldiers of Wuzhao were willing to obey the imperial court's dispatch and go to any place to guard the border. Following the orders of the generals of the Tang Dynasty was equivalent to ¡â  That is, the land of Wuzhao was officially merged under the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty, instead of just having the name of a state. All the affairs in the state were managed by the people of Liuzhao themselves.

    Just when Zhenla and An'an were worried after hearing the news, just over a month after Nanzhao was pacified, news suddenly came that a palace civil strife broke out in Tubo, Zanpu was killed, and Ludongzan was also killed.  The first thing that the new Zanpu did after escaping to death and seizing the throne was to go to the Emperor of Tang Dynasty and request that Tubo be divided into five states. The division of the five states was based on the five major tribes. The envoys of each state requested the imperial court.  However, Tubo Zanpu and the leaders of the five major tribes would rather settle in any place designated by the emperor and no longer manage the affairs of their own tribes.

    This news is even more shocking than the Tang Dynasty¡¯s destruction of Goguryeo. Was Tubo a regional power that dared to challenge the Tang Dynasty?  Why did you say it was lowered?  I still asked for it to be lowered.  You must know that Goguryeo is strong, but it does not dare to imitate Tubo and threaten the imperial court. After all, in name, Goguryeo is still a vassal state in the Central Plains, but it does not pay tribute or serve the king.  As for Tubo Zanpu, no matter whether he was in front of him or behind him, he always regarded himself as equal to the Emperor of Tang Dynasty.

    Especially for Zhenla, this is undoubtedly a disaster. The reason why it dares to ignore the Tang Dynasty is because there is Tubo in the north across the Tang Dynasty, and there are Tubo people blocking it. As long as Zhenla does not  The Tang Dynasty couldn't do anything to make things worse. Now that Nanzhao has been destroyed, Lin Yi seems to be in danger. Last time, more than a dozen large-scale ships from the Tang Dynasty stopped at Tanglin Port.  The people of Linyi were already frightened. Linyi has no depth. It is a long and narrow strip along the coastline and bounded by Changshan Mountain in the west. Moreover, the big cities in Linyi are close to the ocean.  Once the building ship comes, it will only be beaten, and there will be no danger to defend.

    Yes, Lin Yi could stop the Tang army by relying on the rain forest before, but now, they don't need to march from land at all. One ship can transport 3,000 soldiers, and a dozen ships can transport nearly 50,000 soldiers, one for each person.  In terms of spit, Lin Yi's mere 20,000 soldiers would not be enough to flood them.  The rain forest blocked the Tang Dynasty's land invasion route, but it also blocked Lin Yi's own reinforcements. On the long coastline, who knew which city the Tang army would appear outside?  How can we fight this battle?  How can you keep this risk?  Isn't it simply unfair?

    At this point, Wang Kuang understood what Qin Huaiyu was doing. In the past two years, this guy had been staying in Liuzhao and contacting the Five Zhaos. He was just waiting for the opportunity to mature, take down Nanzhao in one fell swoop, and then defeat the Liuzhao people.  With the help of him, he went upstream along the Yarlung Zangbo River and went straight to Luoche (today's Lhasa) where Zampu was located. How could Songtsen Gampo have imagined that the Tang army was clearly there?  Drills were assembled in the Qinghai area to lure him. The Tibetan soldiers did not dare to act rashly, but the rear was almost empty. There was such a long stretch of the highest mountain in the world lying there, so why did anyone need to send people to guard it?  Well, with such an empty situation, Qin Huaiyu only led a hundred Qianniu guards, and with the help of more than two hundred Liuzhao border residents, he easily surrounded Zanpu's palace on a dark and windy night.  He was beheaded easily. This was also influenced by Wang Kuang's original sentence, "Zanpu is a very human being. If you have the opportunity to behead him, you must eradicate him."

      It turns out that Li Laoer is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Originally, Wang Kuang planned to wait until Goguryeo was defeated, then deal with Nanzhao, Linyi and Zhenla, and finally clean up Anxi. Now it seems that it is a waste of time.  Wang Kuang has many hands and feet.

    At this point, more than 95% of the entire continent known as Asia in later generations has been included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty. The battles in this year have unfolded so quickly, and the situation has evolved so dramatically.  , one idiom can be used to describe the achievements of the Tang Dynasty: the war was fought without any regrets.  (To be continued., Vote for recommendation, monthly vote,,.(

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