Liaodong City was originally the most important Xiongguan town in the west of Goguryeo, and in recent years, the Great Sui Imperial Palace and the imperial court had no secrecy at all, Yang Guang led a group of people to plan to conquer Goguryeo, as early as three years ago, Yuan Taizuo sent to the Great Sui spies to inquire about it.

Therefore, although Yang Guang made five years of preparations for the conquest of Goguryeo, the Goguryeo people also made several years of defensive preparations.

The thickness of the walls of Liaodong City was strengthened twice, and the height was increased by five feet, which was only a small aspect of the many preparations.

Today, the outer wall of this Liaodong city is covered with a layer of stone, and the inner wall is cast with triple soil and rice milk, even if the most powerful ballista shoots it, it can only smash first-class sparks outside the wall skin, and it cannot destroy the city wall at all.

In order to deal with the Sui army climbing the city, a lot of horse faces were built outside the city of Liaodong, and each protruding part of the horse face had a watchtower built of bricks and stones. Inside the watchtower, the defenders can use bows and arrows and stones to seal off any defensive corners.

In such a city, if the million-strong army led by Yang Guang wanted to break the will of the defenders in Liaodong City, the price paid would definitely be more than four or five times that of attacking an ordinary city under normal circumstances.

This was the first city that the Goguryeo people had prepared for His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Sui that they needed to conquer.

In the second battle of the Liao River, Goguryeo was chased and killed by the Sui army outside the city of Liaodong, in fact, this itself was a matter in Yuan Taizuo's plan, because he had long known that just a Liao River would definitely not be able to stop the millions of troops of the Sui Dynasty. In addition, within three hundred miles of Liaodong City, the clear of the strong wall has already been completely completed, and the Sui people cannot find a grain of grain.

Yuan Taizuo took advantage of the advantages of the defending side to the extreme, he knew that Yang Guang's millions of troops and millions of people came to their Goguryeo thousands of miles away, and the grain and grass that people ate every day was astronomical, so every day they delayed, they would have an extra chance of victory.

Therefore, Yuan Taizuo shrank all his troops and horses into Liaodong City, and how the Sui army challenged outside the city, the Goguryeo people just didn't pay attention, and the cost of attacking the city was too great.

A few days ago, after the great victory in the Liaohe River, Yang Guang said in front of the envoys of the Ninety-Nine Kingdoms that the soldiers and horses of the Great Sui Dynasty had come to relieve the people from hanging upside down. Therefore, Yu Wenshu and other generals proposed to dig up the girder water and pour it into Liaodong City, and drive the people as the vanguard, and these two unkind tactics were also stopped by Yang Guang without hesitation.

"I want Goguryeo, a small barbarian country, to experience the mercy of the Celestial Empire!" Yang Guang said to the civil and military officials, and even mentioned this sentence to the envoys of the Ninety-Nine Kingdoms every time.

"I don't know if one day we will be defeated, and the Goguryeo people will not be merciful to us!" Looking at Liaodong City, which had not been able to be attacked for more than ten days, Yuwen Chengdu, the Tianbao general who had always been loyal to Yang Guang, also had objections to Yang Guang's will, and secretly slandered himself in his heart.

In addition to Yang Guang in the Great Sui army, almost all of them have the same mind as Yuwen Chengdu, judging from the combat effectiveness shown by the soldiers in the battle of Liaohe more than ten days ago, it seems that it is not difficult to take Goguryeo, not to mention that there has been news from the sea that the commander of the sea of the Taishou Expedition Army of Fanyang County, Prince Junlin of Qin'an, has led people to capture three cities, and half of Goguryeo's Annan County has been defeated.

Everyone thinks that there should be no problem in winning Goguryeo, but the premise is that His Majesty the Emperor is willing to let all the soldiers do what they want, instead of always being elbowed by the name of benevolence and righteousness as they are now, the morale of the combat effectiveness is really weakened too much, especially with the passage of time, this weakening will inevitably be more obvious.

And a group of favored ministers around Yang Guang echoed and curried favor with Yang Guang, and then did some things that made Yang Guang convinced that he was right to do so.

Yu Shiji, the golden purple Guanglu doctor who was in charge of the government and was in charge of the imperial government, tried his best to find a giant whale about 20 zhang long and stranded on the seaside, killed it, and presented the whale bone to His Majesty the Emperor, and encouraged Yang Guang to build nine altars outside the city of Liaodong.

The official department is still in the book, Wenxi County Gong Pei Shiju is not to be outdone, and found two colorful giant birds on the seaside, with their wings spread about one zhang wide, and they roared day and night, and the sound resounded ten miles away.

According to Yu Shiji's explanation, the land of Goguryeo is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and the stranding and death of a giant whale naturally means that Goguryeo is about to perish.

According to what Pei Shiju said, those two giant birds should be the legendary phoenix and phoenix, which will only appear when the saint is alive. For this auspicious sign, His Majesty the Emperor hastened to Wanghaidn with most of the civil servants and recited a poem to remember it.

But the problem is that Yuan Taizuo and the Goguryeo army refused to accept the mandate of heaven, and Yuan Taizuo had been preparing for several years, and dozens of spies had already become Sui people and became part of the Sui army.

In response to the Great Sui Emperor Yang Guang actually giving such a benevolent and generous way of playing, Yuan Taizuo was ecstatic, and quickly led people to formulate and discuss the most beneficial and correct way to play for them.

Whenever the Great Sui soldiers paid a great price and gained the initiative in the siege battle and gained the upper hand, the Goguryeo defenders immediately raised the white flag, announced their readiness to surrender, and asked the Sui army to give a certain amount of time to restrain the rebellious people in the city.

When the Sui army withdrew from the city wall, Yuan Taizuo immediately ordered the gap to be repaired, replenished with stones and crossbow arrows, and when the agreed surrender time came, they once again raised the battle flag.

Within half a month, the Goguryeo people had already surrendered three times in a different way. Each time, he grovelled and pretended to be a painful confession. Every time he succeeded, after he had slowed down and was ready to defend, he immediately turned his face again, stood on the enemy tower and scolded the Sui soldiers for being stupid.

And no one dared to resist Yang Guang's will, and even if the generals of all roads were on fire in their hearts, they couldn't go into the city.

"It's been three times, and if anyone still believes in the Goguryeo people, he must have been kicked in the head by a donkey!" In the tent of the commander of the front army, Wang Rengong, the new general of Zuo Wuwei, complained in a low voice.

"It's up to Your Majesty to decide. Before His Majesty went to Wanghaidun to watch the phoenix dance, he had ordered that no matter what the situation, as long as the Goguryeo people asked to surrender, they were not allowed to attack without authorization. Yuwen Shu said expressionlessly.

"But you can't keep it like this!" Wang Rengong gritted his teeth and whispered.

Yu Wenshu sighed and said, "The old man has sent a messenger to report to His Majesty, and there will be news back in three days!"

Three days later, the messenger brought back from the rear a decree from His Majesty the Emperor, allowing the Goguryeo people to surrender for the fourth time. Your Majesty in the holy decree, teach the front line in the several generals to be generous, the heavenly monarchs and ministers, not like the barbarian clown. In the past, Prime Minister Zhuge once captured Meng Shu seven times and pacified the Nanban forever. Today, Goguryeo has only repeated it four times, and sooner or later they will have the day when they will be convinced.

After Yu Wenshu, Wang Rengong and more than a dozen other front-line generals waited for the eunuchs to leave, their faces suddenly became difficult to see.

In this way, they can listen to it, and they can tell the soldiers, and it sounds like a fantasy to ordinary soldiers, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is bullshit.

It is conceivable that after such a will was transmitted to the army, not to mention the defeat of the Goguryeo, the morale of his side would be greatly weakened in the first place.