The atmosphere of slaughter enveloped the domestic city, and the continuous Youzhou military camps outside the city surrounded the entire domestic city.

The people in the city were panicked, the residents hid their valuables and food cleanly, and the grain and oil stores in the city had long been looted by the residents, and some ruffians who did evil things took advantage of the fire to loot everywhere, and the Goguryeo soldiers and generals were all transferred to defend the city, and there was no one to maintain law and order in the city, so that these gangsters were unscrupulous.

The Goguryeo generals on the city wall had a tense atmosphere, as if facing a great enemy, and did not dare to slack off.

Outside the city, Zhao Junsheng walked around in front of the sand table with his arms in front of the Youzhou military camp, and the sand table was full of flags, and the Xuansu County and Liaodong County, which were originally occupied by Goguryeo, have all been planted with the banners of the Youzhou Army.

Guo Yi walked in and reported: "General, General Gao Xu, who has broken through Anping, and General Chi, who has broken through Gao Xianwei, have sent people to report that General Gao Xu has captured 11,000 Goguryeo generals along the way; General Wei Chi also captured more than 7,000 Goguryeo generals, and they asked the general, what to do with these prisoners? ”

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while and ordered: "Let Gao Xu send people to concentrate all the captives in Anping, and Ben Jiang will send someone over to escort the captives to the domestic city!" As for the prisoners on Wei Chi Yandong's side, let him be executed on the spot, the distance is too far, it takes time and effort to escort him over, and it is easy to have accidents on the way, so it's not worth the trouble! ”

"Yes!"

Zhao Junsheng then sent Li Yuande with 5,000 troops to Anping to escort the prisoners.

A few days later, all the parts and components of the heavy siege equipment arrived, and Li Yuande also escorted more than 10,000 prisoners from Anping.

Among the surrendered generals, a Goguryeo general was brought to the tooth tent by several armor soldiers.

"Get on your knees!" Behind him, a soldier pressed down on the shoulder of the Goguryeo general.

The general of Goguryeo was hesitating whether to kneel, and Zhao Junsheng raised his hand: "No need, General Wen is a general, not a prisoner!" Stand down! ”

The armorers clenched their fists and withdrew.

Wen Qi turned his head to look at the soldiers who pushed out, and then glanced at the generals and officials of the Youzhou Army in the tent.

"Wen Close, meet the general!"

Zhao Junsheng raised his hand and said with a smile: "General Wen doesn't need to be polite, I heard that you are the son-in-law of Gao Lian, the king of Goguryeo?" ”

"Yes!"

Zhao Junsheng asked, "Since you are a concubine of Goguryeo, why did you lead the army to surrender?" ”

Wen Yu said: "There is a saying in the Central Plains Celestial Empire that those who know the times are Junjie, and the last general thinks that this sentence is very reasonable, and continuing to fight against the Celestial Empire army can only be sent to death, which is a very unwise behavior!" ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded: "General Wen can think so, General Ben is very happy!" Now the defenders of the city in China refuse to surrender, it is said that there are nearly 5,000 defenders in the city, and the general wants General Wen to lead these surrendered soldiers to attack the city, I don't know if it is possible? ”

Wen Yan's eyelids jumped, "General, of course the last general is willing, but these soldiers are demoralized, and I am afraid that they will not be able to bear the war in a short time!" ”

"Demoralized? This is easy to do, General Wen Qi come with me! After Zhao Junsheng finished speaking, he got up and walked out of the tent.

Wen Qi had to follow out, and soon followed Zhao Junsheng to a large camp tent, only to see more than 20 wooden boxes piled up in the camp tent.

"General Wen, can these treasures be sent down to improve the morale of those Goguryeo soldiers?" Zhao Junsheng asked, pointing to the belongings in the tent.

Even Wen Yan, as a Goguryeo concubine, had never seen so many possessions, so he couldn't help but swallow his saliva, and nodded woodenly: "Yes, surely!" ”

Zhao Junsheng immediately said: "That's good, these treasures will be handed over to you to reward those Goguryeo generals, and this general wants you to take them to attack the domestic city tomorrow!" ”

“······ What about the soldiers' weapons? ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "Take your people to the quartermaster warehouse early tomorrow morning to get weapons!" General Wen Qi, General Ben is very optimistic about you, I hope you don't let General down! ”

"Yes, General!"

With these belongings, Wen Yu succeeded in subduing all the troops and prisoners and making them obey his orders.

Early the next morning, Wen and his Goguryeo army received weapons, but there were no bows and arrows.

The people of nearby Goguryeo fled to the city, and the Youzhou army could not catch anyone polishing the stone bullets used in the trebuchet, so the trebuchet could only be an ornament, and the only thing that could be used was the siege ladder, the well fence, the battering ram, and the ballista.

More than 10,000 surrendered troops lined up outside the city to prepare for the siege, and the Goguryeo defenders at the head of the city all widened their eyes one by one when they saw it, in disbelief.

A Goguryeo general said angrily: "How can they do this? ”

"General, they have defected to the enemy!"

"Damn, they all deserve to die!"

No matter how angry the Goguryeo defenders at the head of the city were, the generals outside the city still launched a siege under the command of Wen Guan, and the Goguryeo people defending the city were very angry when they saw these compatriots who had surrendered to the enemy, and they were not soft at all.

The generals were unwilling to attack the Goguryeo compatriots who defended the city, but they had to fight, in fact, they had some thoughts of not working, but the Goguryeo generals who defended the city were ruthless at all, which made the generals who suffered a big loss also hit the real fire.

After two days of fighting, the besieging troops suffered heavy losses, and they no longer kept their hands, and the two sides actually fought out hatred, and the fighting became more and more fierce, and more and more people died on both sides.

By the tenth day of the siege, half of the troops had lost directly, and only more than 5,000 people remained, of whom more than 1,000 were wounded; And the defenders of the city also lost more than half, and only more than 2,000 of the 5,000 people remained.

On this day, the spies came to report: "General Qiyu, a large number of Goguryeo soldiers and horses have come to Fanhan County south of Mazishui (now Yalu River), about 20,000 people, including 3,000 cavalry and more than 16,000 infantry."

Zhao Junsheng walked to the sand table and looked at it, grabbed a small banner and planted it in Fanhan, thought for a while and ordered: "Let Wen Qi's army concentrate on attacking Ximen; ordered Chang Kun to lead the army to attack the north gate; Set the main direction of attack of our Youzhou army at the West Gate! ”

Early the next morning, the army besieged the inner city on three sides, and the defenders in the city suddenly could not withstand it, and held in front of them for a day, suffering heavy losses.

That night, the defenders broke through from the south gate and rushed to the river, and one by one the Goguryeo soldiers who broke through the siege took off their armor and discarded their weapons while running, and some even ran bare-chested in order to lighten their loads, just to rush to the river and swim across the river earlier.

"Boom ······" In the darkness of the night, a large number of horses' hooves suddenly came from the direction of the upper reaches of the river.

The Goguryeo generals who were rushing towards the river couldn't help but stop when they heard the voice, "Where did the sound come from?" ”

The Goguryeo soldiers and generals looked around one by one, and suddenly, a large number of cavalry in the dark night collided at high speed, and the Goguryeo soldiers and generals standing on the river beach were knocked and trampled to death without exception, and no one could stop this kind of collision.

This round of collision lasted for more than three minutes, waiting for the cavalry to go away, a Youzhou army ran over with torches, and the corpses of Goguryeo generals were lying everywhere on the river beach, some of whom were not yet dead.

After dawn, Zhao Junsheng entered the city with a part of the soldiers and horses, and the large group of soldiers and horses remained outside the city.

The Goguryeo people who were hiding in the houses in the city were driven out, and there were even many Han Chinese, who did not have a high status here and only served as miscellaneous servants.

Zhao Junsheng instructed Li Yuande: "Yuande, the government affairs of this inner city will be handed over to you for the time being!" ”

"Yes, General!"

Zhao Junsheng remembered something again, and immediately instructed the master: "Report to the imperial court, just say that my army to conquer the east has captured the entire territory of Yan State, but Feng Hong, the king of Yan State, and his party fled to Goguryeo, and the king of Goguryeo provided shelter for him, and also killed Deng Tong, the other driver sent by the general to negotiate, the soldiers were indignant, and the general had to continue to march eastward, and now he has captured all the Goguryeo territories north of Mazishui!" According to the spies, Goguryeo King Gao Lian sent 20,000 troops from Pyongyang to Mazishui to stop our army from moving south! Please rest assured that if Goguryeo does not hand over Feng Hong and his party, it will never withdraw its troops! ”

After listening to Zhao Junsheng's words, the main secretary made his meaning clear, and immediately began to write hard, and soon wrote a report and handed it to Zhao Junsheng.

Zhao Junsheng felt very satisfied after looking at it, and the main secretary had already made it clear what he wanted to express, and handed it to the messenger: "Send 800 miles to the capital quickly!" ”

"Yes, General!"

However, just when Zhao Junsheng and the 20,000 Goguryeo army who were killing Xiang Ma Zishui were facing each other across the river and preparing to fight, Bai Long, a Shanhu man in Bingzhou, and several of his uncles led the tribesmen to launch a rebellion, and at the beginning, tens of thousands of Hu people in the Bingzhou area were gathered, and these Hu people were both Xiongnu, Qian, and Qiang, and the momentum was huge for a while.

Soon, Xue Yongzong of the Xue family in Hedong launched a rebellion in response, and Hedong was soon captured by Xue Yongzong's men.

The Pingcheng court was greatly frightened, and Zong Ai was preparing to issue an order to transfer Zhao Junsheng back to the court and seize his military power in Youzhou, but after the rebellion in Bingzhou and Hedong, he had to temporarily extinguish this idea, and he soon got a report from Zhao Junsheng that he had captured Yan and was on a rampage with Goguryeo.

In order to stabilize the overall situation, Zong Ai had to solve the problem of quelling the rebellion first, and at the same time stabilize the interior, on the one hand, he sent Bu Liuguli to lead an army of 30,000 to quell the rebellion, and on the other hand, he had to canonize it in order to stabilize Zhao Junsheng.

On the fifth day of the seventh month, Zhao Junsheng's army completely cleared Goguryeo's territory north of the Yalu River, and gathered 50,000 troops, including the surrendered army, to confront the 20,000 Goguryeo army across the river.

"General, the imperial court has sent an envoy, and he has arrived in Xiangping City at this time!" Guo Yi reported to Zhao Junsheng.

"Oh?" Zhao Junsheng looked calm after hearing the report in the tent of the military camp in Jiangbei, and asked, "Do you know the content of the edict?" ”

"Officials along the way have been tempted, which shouldn't be a bad thing!"

On the ninth day of the seventh month, the imperial envoy arrived in the inner city and read the decree of the imperial court to Zhao Junsheng, which was a canonized edict.

“······ Zhao Junsheng was the general of the expedition to the east, the governor of the military of Youliaohai, and the king of Liao, so he should end the Goguryeo war as soon as possible and return to Youzhou to sit in the town, so as to prevent small chaos······"

"Thank you, Lord Longne!" Zhao Junsheng took the edict.

The officials of the general school stepped forward one after another to say congratulations: "Congratulations to the prince, congratulations to the prince!" ”

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