At the beginning of the afternoon, Wang Junlin led the main force to the outside of Daluo City, surrounded the southeast, west and west gates and camped.

The escaped Goguryeo cavalry fled for their lives, and on the way they were killed by Zhang Tiangang's special combat team, and some of them were not strong enough, so they broke away from the official road and fled to the hilly areas on both sides, and some were chased too close by the men and horses led by Zhang Tiangang and Wei Chi Jingde, and fled in the direction of Annan County before they had time to enter the city, and the Goguryeo cavalry who fled into the city was less than 1,000 people, plus the infantry who were ready to help in the back, and then got the news and fled back to the city, the total number was only about 5,000 people, and each city wall could only be divided into more than 1,000 people.

Surrounded by Zhang Tiangang and Wei Chi Jingde, Wang Junlin walked around the south wall to inspect the city. It was found that the city of Daluo City was very tall, far from being a small city like Nanyang Village, the height of the city wall was the same as that of the big city in the north of the Great Sui, five miles and two hundred and sixteen steps around, three zhang and five feet high, one zhang and seven feet deep, six zhang and five feet wide, and it belonged to the big city in Goguryeo Annan County, and its scale far exceeded that of Nanyang Walled City.

Wang Junlin secretly congratulated himself in his heart that the Goguryeo general Jin Yibei was arrogant, if he couldn't shrink back, it would be difficult to defeat this Daluo City for a while.

In addition, Daeluoseong's strategic location in Goguryeo's Annam-gun was very important. Controlling this place can radiate the entire southern half of Annam County, and if this place is controlled by Goguryeo, then the role of Nanyang Village will be greatly reduced, and it is impossible for Wang Junlin to attack the county town of Annam by land, so Wang Junlin's Goguryeo strategy can only go ashore to fight guerrillas. If there is no wharf ashore by sea, it is impossible to project a large number of cavalry, and the infantry is greatly insufficient to move deep into the land.

In short, Daluo Fortress was a very important part of Wang Junlin's battle plan against Goguryeo, and by capturing Daluo City, Wang Junlin would even be able to control nearly half of Annam-gun for a long time, so that Goguryeo needed to be fortified on a larger scale. This will inevitably contain many Goguryeo troops, and play a huge role in encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao on Yang Guang's main battlefield in the west.

However, Daluo City is more than 100 miles away from the sea, and if Wang Junlin tosses too happily, and Yuan Taizuo and Gao Jianwu, the lord of Goguryeo, are ruthless and mobilize 100,000 troops, even if he uses trenches to besiege again, the consequences are unpredictable.

Therefore, Wang Junlin is still hesitating, if the number of troops invested is too small, there is no point in holding on, the role of this place is to provide support, and the troops in it are the core of controlling the surrounding area. If it's just shrunk inside a turtle's shell, it won't serve as a fortress. The Goguryeo army always had a road to bypass the city and harass the rear. Moreover, if there are too many troops stationed in Daluo City, it will not be easy to retreat, and once it is besieged by the Goguryeo army, the entire king will be passive.

In response to this situation, when Wang Junlin occupied Nanyang Village, he sent out Luo Shixin and Li Xuanba, two little guys, these two teenagers each commanded Lu Han and Guan Xiaotong under a thousand cavalry, formed an independent army, and hid in a deep mountain valley somewhere in Annan County, where Wang Junlin asked Shen Guo'er to quietly hoard a large amount of grain and grass a few days ago.

But even so, Wang Junlin was still a little worried, of course, the main concern was the million-strong army on Yang Guang's side.

Wei Chi Jingde looked at Wang Junlin's face, a little puzzled, and said in a low voice: "My lord, I am worried that we will not be able to defeat the Goguryeo. In the humble opinion, the main force of Goguryeo is in the west, and it is impossible for them to transfer too many people to our side no matter what, and the maximum number of men and horses that can be transferred is 30,000 or 50,000, and we can completely deal with it. ”

Wang Junlin shook his head and said: "Actually, I haven't told you clearly, His Majesty the Emperor led the battle of a million troops in the west, for some reasons, I have not been very optimistic, and I vaguely feel that we may be defeated, and then we may have to bear the pressure of the main army of the Goguryeo people." ”

Wei Chi Jingde and Zhang Tiangang were taken aback, and the former lost his voice and said: "Emperor Lao'er has a million army, and the country of Goguryeo has 300,000 people in the whole country, and it is already the limit for the country to contain 50,000 people, and the emperor Lao'er is facing only about 250,000 people, if he is still defeated by the Goguryeo people, it is better to jump into the dung pit and drown." ”

Wang Junlin was not surprised by Yu Chi Jingde's rudeness to Yang Guang, and he didn't mind, originally Yu Chi Jingde was the bandit leader who was forced to go up the mountain by the government's harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and Yang Guang, the emperor, was really disappointed to the ordinary people, and it was strange that Yu Chi Jingde could have the slightest respect for him.

Wang Junlin naturally would not take the topic of Yu Chi Jingde, Zhang Tiangang originally wanted to scold Yu Chi Jingde's words, but seeing Wang Junlin's heavy expression, he did not speak, but said: "Nanyang Village is one hundred and twenty miles away from this Daluo City, and there is nothing to rely on during this period. ”

"This doesn't matter, as long as you capture Daluo City, in addition to garrisoning a soldier and horse in Daluo City, Zhang Tiangang, you will take the special combat team to be responsible for guarding the official road at that time, in addition, build a castle between Nanyang Village and Daluo City, and garrison Wei Chi's 3,000 cavalry in it, responsible for coming and going to rescue, can break the enemy's attack, if the enemy more than 100,000 troops come, we will abandon Daluo City, retreat to the castle, if the enemy is no longer defeated, directly retreat to Nanyang Village by the sea, then we will have the assistance of sailors and warships, no matter how many Goguryeo people come, I am confident that I will defend this last city and make it difficult for the Goguryeo people to sleep. ”

Wei Chi Jingde muttered: "With such a garrison, it is quite difficult to transport grain from Nanyang Village to Daluo City, I don't know how much grain and grass there is in this Daluo City, and when we break the city, the Goguryeo people will burn it down." ”

"Guo'er has now led a team of masters to infiltrate this Daluo City, and it is difficult for the Goguryeo people to burn grain and grass at the moment when the city is finally broken." Wang Junlin sneered, raised his head and continued: "For the time being, this is the plan, but the castle in the middle does not need to be built too high, it can only be used as a cavalry garrison, which can defend against the surprise attack of the opponent's cavalry. ”

After a pause, Wang Junlin said: "After capturing Daluo City, I will give you the name of your army according to the merits of your army, and you can let me give it a name, or you can name it yourself." In addition, the official products in the official face of the Sui Dynasty will also be obtained for you. ”

Wang Junlin wants to help the world, and has his own ambitions, but everyone has ideas, he knows that the Great Sui will perish sooner or later, but the people below don't know, so the Sui Dynasty is still orthodox in the eyes of the people below, and he naturally wants to find opportunities for the people below to be promoted, and give them fame and fortune.

In the past, he was just too guarded, and he didn't have an army under his name, so he could only secretly raise the army, and several generals under his name were not visible, and after a long time, Wang Junlin was worried that these people would inevitably have some ideas in their hearts.