Tibet

The city gate was wide open. Gao Yuanbao, disheveled and dressed in white, came out with his wife, concubines and several grandchildren to surrender. He was followed by the Quan family, the Lu family and the Pei family. These were the four major families of Goguryeo in Pingzhou and belonged to the ruling family. Of course, there are some small and medium-sized families, but they have little influence. It is mainly these four families that rule the Goguryeo people in Pingzhou.

"The guilty minister Gao Yuanbao and his betrayal of Heaven's grace deserve death."

Gao Yuanbao's voice trembled. He had already guessed the fate of his two sons, which made him feel like a knife.

At this time, the general who came forward turned into Guo Ziyi. He said calmly: "On the shore of the leader, are you the royal minister? There is no Goguryeo in the world, only the people of the Tang Dynasty. It is indeed a serious crime for you to train the army without authorization and fight against the imperial court. I have no power." As a punishment, I have to send you to Chang'an to be punished by the imperial court. "

He waved his hand and said: "Take them down!"

Hundreds of soldiers came forward, put more than a hundred people from the four major families into carriages prepared in advance, and escorted them away. From then on, no one knew about them anymore. They may have died or they may have been exiled. to the far western regions.

The army entered the city and asked all Goguryeo people to pack up their things and assemble outside the city. They would be sent to Youzhou.

Guo Ziyi said slowly: "Don't worry about him, we will attack Yuyang County tonight!"

The battle plan for Yuyang County has long been formulated. This plan is called Burning the City with Fierce Fire. As you can tell from the name, it means burning Yuyang City with fire, forcing the enemy troops in the city to come out, and then using the cavalry to destroy them.

Alarm bells rang loudly in Yuyang County. At the same time, a second round of gunpowder arrows flew into the city. Sixty thousand gunpowder arrows had already entered the city, and fires broke out everywhere in the city.

Zhu Si was shocked and shouted: "Sound the alarm, everyone, get up!"

Guo Ziyi led 30,000 cavalry to the north of Yuyang.

Two days later, two armies of 30,000 men met south of Yuyang County, which meant that the final battle of annihilation was about to begin.

What's more, Zhu Si's idea of ​​expelling the people and replacing troops drove away most of the people and did the Tang army a big favor.

Finally, there is the 10,000 Khitan army, which is the vanguard of the Khitan people's attempt to invade Youzhou. Their joining Zhu Si's army also reflects the Khitan's support for Zhu Si.

Lai Yi was very sure: "In fact, all the official roads leading to Yuyang County have been blocked by the scouts of the Beizong faction. If they come back, they will definitely be discovered by the Beizong faction, and Fu Yuangui should not come back again. It is possible that they have gone Youzhou.”

But they were lucky. They met the kind-hearted Guo Ziyi. While adhering to his principles, Guo Ziyi also tried his best not to abuse these people, letting the elderly and children sit on the cart, and other young and middle-aged people. While walking, Tang troops distributed food along the way.

The Tang army's positions were spread out. It was night and the distance was far away. Even if the arrows could hit them 250 steps away, they were still too powerful and could not penetrate the armor and helmets of the Tang soldiers.

"No!"

Four thousand Khitan soldiers began to break through to survive. They ran desperately, and the rest broke through the blockade of the Tang army.

At two o'clock, 60,000 Tang troops surrounded Yuyang County from all directions. The cavalry was responsible for besieging the city gates. There were only two city gates in the north and south of Yuyang County, which had been completely blocked by the cavalry.

In fact, the fire was not the most terrifying thing, but the thick smoke was the most deadly threat. An hour later, the entire Yuyang County was shrouded in billowing smoke.

There shouldn't be too many Han people in the city.

This is the historical cycle of every city. Wave after wave, the old ones are cleared out, and the new ones come again. This is the so-called iron camp and flowing soldiers.

At this time, Zhu Si, who was sleeping soundly, was awakened by a fierce knock on the door.

Guo Ziyi's heart is as hard as iron and he has no mercy at all. He also knows that the problem of the Goguryeo people must be solved once and for all, otherwise disaster will happen sooner or later.

Don't expect that the city you live in will have traces of several generations of ancestors. In fact, it is only a few generations, and it may be a little longer now. During the war, human life is like a leek, one crop grows after another.

Zhu Si breathed a sigh of relief and said to the concubines sleeping beside him: "Hurry up and put on my armor, I want to go to the city!"

Guo Ziyi shook his head, "After Pinglu County surrendered, we did not encounter Zhu Si's officials. They should have left Pingzhou and returned."

The reason is very simple. The 10,000 troops who followed Zhu Si in the end were all Hu people, and then came the 10,000 Goguryeo troops, which were the Goguryeo troops in Jizhou. The main generals were Wang Siyi, the former Meihua Guard commander who fled back to Jizhou from Luoyang, and Wang Sili, the general. Brothers.

"Lord, the tens of thousands of Tang troops outside are about to attack the city!"

Guo Ziyi carefully looked at the county model. Yuyang County is at most a middle county and can accommodate only tens of thousands of people. Now it has squeezed in 30,000 troops, plus a small number of Goguryeo people living in Jizhou.

Groups of people supported the old and the young, holding large and small bags in their hands, and were driven out of Pinglu City. Basically all the Pingzhou Goguryeo people lived in Pinglu City. This was done by their ruling class to facilitate management. He took measures to drive away all the Han people in the city and move all the scattered Goguryeo people into the city.

"Do you have any specific information?" Guo Ziyi asked.

Lai Yi smiled in surprise: "He should be in Pinglu County! He followed his boss Wang Zuyou to Pinglu County for negotiations. Didn't the old general meet him?"

Guo Ziyi took the information and looked at it. There were less than a thousand Han people in the city, only a few hundred. They were basically the family members and servants of officials. There were no ordinary people left.

The procession moved slowly, with thousands of carts in which old people and children sat. They left their homes in despair.

Just a few days after the Goguryeo people were cleared out of the city, Han people living in Pingzhou rushed into Pinglu County to seize houses and search for property. Soon, they became the new masters of Pinglu County.

At this time, a string of bright red light flew up in the sky. Zhu Ci was stunned for a moment. What was this?

Then, fires appeared in the air from all directions and flew into the city. Groups of flames rushed into the city, and the city was set on fire everywhere.

Li Chenglie was Zhu Ci's deputy general, a Xi general, who was once a general of Shi Siming and had rich practical experience.

"Is this Fu Yuangui still in the city?" Guo Ziyi asked.

There was a sudden cry in the city. Some people cried for their sons and husbands who died in battle, and more people cried because they were driven out of their homes.

"He knows, he has already deployed defenses!"

The team rested for a night, and the next morning, 200,000 people continued to stagger westward. At this time, the only Tang army escorting them was the 20,000 troops led by Li Sheng.

When the whole city was ablaze, the only place to escape was on the city wall.

Thirty thousand Tang soldiers fired gunpowder arrows into the city in an orderly manner. Although the soldiers on the top of the city also shot arrows at the Tang army in retaliation, it was basically ineffective.

The women hurriedly put on clothes for Zhu Ci, and then put on the formalities. Zhu Ci went out of the house and got on the horse.

At this time, sixty large catapults rumbled forward, and their target was the defenders on the top of the city.

The south gate suddenly opened, and a large number of Khitan soldiers stumbled out, covering their mouths and noses. There were more than four thousand people. They would not suffocate to death in the city, nor would they obey orders.

Sixty large catapults also began to fire, and pottery jars filled with kerosene were thrown to the top of the city one by one. In an instant, fires broke out everywhere on the top of the city, and even the kerosene tanks stored by the defenders on the top of the city were ignited.

"Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang!"

Although this plan would harm the people in the city, there was no other way. This was war. War was the cruelest social elimination. Only the strong could survive.

In the end, it made it easier for the Tang army to clean up. There were more than 180,000 people in total, less than 200,000, about 40,000 families, and an average of one soldier per two families, forming an army of 20,000 people.

This sentence was like a basin of cold water poured on his face. Zhu Ci sat up and asked in horror: "Does General Li Chenglie know?"

Lai Zhen handed a piece of intelligence to Guo Ziyi, "This is an official named Fu Yuangui in the city who found a way to bring it out to us."

Two hundred thousand Goguryeo people lined up in a long line and were escorted to the Youzhou refugee camp.

"Yes!"

Now that all 20,000 soldiers were killed, there were only more than 10,000 young and strong men left, and the rest were almost all old, weak, women and children.

But what greeted them was the ruthless killing of the Tang cavalry.

Thirty thousand infantrymen approached the city wall, about two hundred steps away from the wall, and raised their crossbows together, aiming gunpowder arrows at the city.

On the table in the big tent was a model of Yuyang County, which was brought by Lai Zhen and sent to him by Li Ye from Youzhou.

"What's the matter?" Zhu Ci asked angrily.

These thirty thousand people were troops that the Tang army would not accept surrender and would definitely kill them all.

Xi Wanli shouted: "Send the order to the whole army, do not accept surrender, and kill them all!"