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Text 973. Carpet bombing (Part 1)

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    "Your Majesty, are we planning to use civil attack or military defense next?" Jing Wen asked.  "What do you mean by civil and military attacks?" Li Shimin asked.  Jing Wen explained: "Wen Gong is to use various means to force Goguryeo to surrender. Because Goguryeo's current people have almost lost their hearts, it is not impossible for us to force them to surrender through huge pressure. As for Wuwei, that's not the case.  That is, we take the initiative to send troops to attack. The advantage of Wen Gong is that it can save soldiers a lot of casualties, but the cost and cost are not small. By then, the losses in the Goguryeo city will be considerable, and we will suffer some losses if we take the initiative to attack.  Loss, after all, the lives of soldiers must be cherished. " Li Shimin thought for a while and said: "Life is priceless. You should first talk about how to attack. If you can defeat the enemy without fighting, that is the best policy.  "The emperor is kind! The so-called civil attack is to use our artillery superiority to carry out carpet bombing of Pyongyang City in Goguryeo, so that we can force them to surrender!"  "Carpet bombing?" Li Shimin was puzzled.  Jingwen continued: "Look, Your Majesty, this is the length and width of Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo. Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, also has another name, which is called Chang'an. Although their Chang'an is also called Chang'an, it is smaller than the capital of our Tang Dynasty.  Chang'an is far behind. The length of Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, is only about 30 feet, which is one thousand meters using our artillery calculations. And their width is only about 20 feet, which cannot be calculated by artillery.  "They are such a small city, so I thought of a way to use cannons to bombard them indiscriminately," Jing Wen said.  Jing Wen then pointed out how to carry out indiscriminate bombing, that is, using the Tang army's artillery range advantage to attack.  First of all, the effective range of the flying thunder cannon is about 400 meters, and Datang can push the flying thunder cannon up to 100 meters away from the city wall, and this distance is an absolutely safe distance.  Because the enemy's Thousand Arrows Pierce the Heart has been destroyed, there is nothing to fear.  If you are still worried.  Then you can put up some big shields, which can also block the enemy's arrows.  ??The 400-meter range of the thunder cannon, minus the 100 meters from the city wall to the artillery, gives an actual effective range of 300 meters.  The width of Pyongyang City, the capital of Goguryeo, is only 600 meters. If the width in the east and west is exactly the same, it can be covered by two batches of thunder cannons.  At that time, some flying thunder cannons will be arranged in the east and west, so that the bombing effect can be achieved.  At that time, the whole city was bombarded by thunder cannons, which was very miserable.  It is conceivable that when so many powerful cannons attack, the effect will be extremely shocking.  The flying thunder cannon can be said to be the most powerful weapon in this era, and it can even blow down city walls.  And if it is delivered directly to residential areas.  That power is probably unparalleled.  As for the flying thunder cannon, it can carry out carpet bombing on various populations, civilian facilities, and various things in the city.  As long as every inch of land is spared, these shells are enough to blow them up and make them dizzy.  By then the losses of the Goguryeo people would be very heavy, so they could be forced to surrender.  Jing Wen¡¯s method also imitates the U.S. military in later generations, through indiscriminate bombing by the air force, and then defeats the opponent¡¯s will to resist.  This kind of non-contact warfare can completely bomb a country with a small territory, so that they will not be able to support it later.  In the end, he had no choice but to surrender.  ??And Goguryeo currently only has one capital, Pyongyang, which is exactly in line with the situation of a very small territory.  So Jingwen also planned to use this method, using artillery bombardment to force the Goguryeo people to surrender, so that they felt threatened.  Once the will to resist is destroyed, I am afraid that it will be forced to surrender.  This kind of indiscriminate bombing is actually a non-contact operation, and the two sides do not need to make contact.  All the bombing was carried out by artillery fire until one side surrendered.  And Li Shimin and Queen Kinderman soon understood this, that is, they wanted to use violent artillery fire for bombing.  This made the Goguryeo people feel that they would be bombed into scorched earth, and then they had no choice but to surrender in order to survive.  This is the essence of carpet bombing, so Li Shimin and Kinderman also felt scared.  After all, if you do this, many innocent people will be harmed.  Carpet bombing will inevitably affect innocent people, that's for sure.  Therefore, carpet bombing will be notorious in later generations and will be criticized by human rights organizations.  However, the later use of various precision-guided bombs also made carpet bombing less and less common.  But now Jingwen doesn't have any precision-guided bombs, so he can only find a way to use carpet bombing to force the Goguryeo people to surrender.  "Well, if you do this, many innocent people will suffer losses! How can I bear it!" Li Shimin said?Said sadly.  Jing Wen secretly cursed in his heart: "Don't be here and pretend to be compassionate. Who doesn't understand you? When you were in Luoyang and besieged Luoyang, the people of Luoyang were almost forced to death by you. The entire prosperous city of Luoyang  Since then, only one-fifth of the population has been left. You have never been so kind to your own people. Will you be kind to these foreigners? What a fucking hypocrite. Now that you have become the emperor, your face has changed.  " Jing Wen is very disdainful of Li Shimin, the number one hypocrite in the Tang Dynasty, but whoever makes him the emperor and his future father-in-law certainly cannot offend him directly.  "The emperor's benevolence is really a blessing to all people! I think that we can use archery to inform the Goguryeo soldiers and civilians in the city that we will use weapons of mass destruction, so that they can surrender quickly. If they don't surrender, we will use it immediately.  In this way, we are giving them a chance, and we are not punishing them without teaching. Therefore, the emperor can also warn them. If they still refuse to surrender, it is not our fault that the emperor did not give them a chance.  It's because they didn't cherish the opportunity. Then no one would blame the emperor!" Jing Wen said.  Then Li Shimin said with a burst of sadness: "If this is the case, then it is good. I hope that the soldiers and civilians of Goguryeo can appreciate my kindness and stop resisting. I am also doing it for their own good!" Jingwen left quickly.  At the scene, he really wanted to vomit for a while, after all, he was disgusted by the fake mercy of this hypocrite Li Shimin.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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