The next day!
Inside the central command tent of the Tang Dynasty army camp!
Li Shimin, the supreme commander of this campaign, stood with a group of ministers beside him, studying the enormous sand table before them!
Bang...!
"This Liaodong City is fucking tough!"
"We launched an all-out assault for most of yesterday, and they actually held us off!"
Cheng Yaojin, standing to Li Shimin's right, wore an unhappy look across his bearded face!
Since setting out on this campaign, aside from Liaodong City before them, every other city had fallen completely within a single day!
Yet under the Tang Dynasty army's onslaught, Liaodong City had stubbornly held out for an entire day. That naturally left the generals feeling displeased!
"Zhijie, there's no need to be so angry!"
"Liaodong City is, after all, the greatest city in Liaodong and Goguryeo's gateway!"
"It is only natural that the soldiers within Liaodong City are tougher than those in the previous cities!"
"After our fierce assault yesterday, cries of misery are already echoing throughout the city, and we've crushed half their morale!"
"Give them another assault or two, and Liaodong City will fall!"
Unlike the martial generals, whose hearts were filled with frustration, Du Ruhui, serving as the army's strategist, merely raised a hand to stroke his beard, his expression still calm!
Liaodong City was Goguryeo's gateway, after all, a place into which generations of Goguryeo kings had poured years of painstaking effort. It was perfectly normal for the Tang Dynasty to fail to take it in a single battle!
As Cheng Yaojin and Du Ruhui spoke, Li Shimin, standing at the front, showed no expression at all. His eyes remained fixed on the Goguryeo royal city behind Liaodong City on the sand table!
To him, the fall of Liaodong City was only