On July 15, Zhao Junsheng led his army to Pyongyang with the power of great victory, attacking Fanhan and crossing Peishui (now Cheongcheon River in North Korea) along the way, and successively conquered Zengdi, Hunmi, Jihan and other places.

At its most, the army captured six cities in one day.

It only took six days for the Youzhou army led by Zhao Junsheng to come to the city of Pyongyang.

In the royal palace of Pyongyang, King Goguryeo Ko Lian sat on the throne, and although he tried his best to suppress his situation, everyone could see the fear in his heart.

The civil and military ministers kneeling on both sides of the hall lowered their heads one by one, many people were trembling, the weather was already very hot, and tens of thousands of Wei troops outside were approaching the city, and they might attack the city at any time, and all the Goguryeo ministers were anxious and fearful.

Kaga Mi Meng got up and knelt down to Gao Lian in the middle of the main hall and said: "Your Majesty, in the opinion of the ministers, it is better to hand over Feng Hong and his party to the Wei army, now that the garrison of the royal capital is empty, my Goguryeo is currently unable to compete with the Wei army, so I can only abandon Feng Hong and choose to protect myself!" ”

The sum is the official name of Goguryeo, which is equivalent to the minister of the country.

Gao Lian said: "Don't you know? It's just that now, I'm afraid that I can't solve the problem by handing over Feng Hong and his party! ”

Yu Zhiyan stood up and knelt down to Lu (official name) and said: "Your Majesty, the Wei army has come to the city, and in the opinion of the ministers, just hand over Feng Hong and his party, I am afraid that they will never agree to withdraw the army, it is better to cede some land, and promise to provide some money, gold, silver, mountain goods, ginseng, etc. every year to relieve the anger of the Wei people!" ”

"Bold, Yu Zhiyan, you are so daring, the land of my Goguryeo was obtained by the bloody battles of the previous kings and warriors, how can it be ceded to the enemy?"

Pei Zhi (title) Minglin stood up and pointed at Yu Zhiyan and scolded angrily, turned around and saluted Gao Lian and said: "Your Majesty, your subordinates think that our country can be a vassal to Wei and can pay tribute, but we must not cede the land, otherwise we will be scolded and criticized by the people, and please think twice!" ”

Yu Zhiyan glared at Ming Lin angrily and asked, "Do you know how many Wei troops there are outside the city?" At least 30,000! How many defenders are there in my royal capital? Five thousand! Can you stop the Wei army from attacking the city? ”

"Five thousand? Hahaha······ You say that there are only 5,000 defenders in my royal capital? That's right, it's 5,000, but the royal capital city has 50,000 people for me, and now when the country is ruined, they can all go to the city to kill the enemy, as long as we are united, even if they have a million lions, they can't break through the royal capital! ”

These words were more uplifting, and two of the generals soon stood up to express their support and vowed to live and die with the king.

But more ministers of civil and military affairs do not report optimism, young and strong? Commoners? Without training, you can't even use a knife, you can't pull a bow, so what's the use of having more people? In the eyes of the ministers of the main and faction such as Kami Menghe and Lu Yuzhiyan, these main battle factions are simply dizzy, knowing that they can't fight but still fighting, isn't this going to drag the entire Goguryeo to die together?

Gao Lian thought for a while, and said to Yu Zhiyan: "Yu Zhiyan, as a lonely envoy, you will go out of the city first to meet with the general of the Wei army, saying that our country is willing to hand over Feng Hong and his party to the Wei army, hoping that they can retreat, let's see what the general of the Wei army says!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty! It's just ······ If the Wei army asks us to cede land and pay tribute every year, I wonder how your subordinates will reply? ”

Gao Lian pondered for a while and said, "You tell him that this matter can be discussed, but they must withdraw first!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

In the Youzhou Army camp outside the city, Zhao Junsheng stood in front of the sand table, pulled out the flags representing Goguryeo on the territory of Goguryeo one by one, and replaced them with the Youzhou Army flags, representing that these cities had surrendered or been broken by the Youzhou Army.

"Lord Wang, the Goguryeo people in the city sent a messenger to ask for a meeting!" Mao Xiuzhi walked in and reported.

Hearing this, Zhao Junsheng waved his hand, asked the soldiers to withdraw the sand table, and sent people to summon the civil and military generals to meet with the Goguryeo envoy.

The Goguryeo envoy Yu Zhiyan passed through the guard of honor with swords and soldiers, and he was terrified along the way, lest the sword and axe above his head be cut down.

"Goguryeo envoy Yu Zhiyan visited the king of Liaodong of the Great Wei!" Yu Zhiyan greeted Zhao Junsheng in accordance with Goguryeo etiquette.

Zhao Junsheng asked, "Why did the envoy come?" ”

Yu Zhiyan said: "Back to the prince, the dispute between your army and my Goguryeo originated from Feng Hong, the king of Yan, and his party, and now my king intends to hand over Feng Hong and his party to the prince for disposal, and also ask the prince to lead the army to withdraw from my Goguryeo!" ”

"Hahaha······" Zhao Junsheng laughed, and his face changed: "At the beginning, this king sent a special person to negotiate with the king of Goguryeo, hoping that he would hand over Feng Hong and his party to this king, but not only did he not hand over people, but he beheaded the king's other driver, and if he was beheaded, he sent someone to give the head to this king, thinking that this king was easy to bully?" Isn't it too late for the King of Goguryeo to hand over Feng Hong to this king? ”

Yu Zhiyan had cold sweat on his forehead, he had long known that this matter would not be solved so easily, so he had to bite the bullet and say: "Lord Wang, this matter is indeed something that my Goguryeo has done a little wrong, and we are willing to make compensation!" ”

"Reparations? This king doesn't need to! Zhao Junsheng shook his head.

Yu Zhiyan had no choice but to ask: "I don't know what the prince's conditions are?" As long as the prince is willing to withdraw from the army, the conditions are negotiable! ”

"Conditions, of course there are, you go back and tell Gao Lian, let him lead the whole city to surrender unconditionally, you must give this king an answer within three days, after three days, this king did not get an answer and sent troops to attack the city, then this king will not be polite, once the city is broken, the whole city will be slaughtered! Someone, send off! ”

"Lord, my king will not agree to this condition, and the soldiers and civilians of the city will not agree, please ask the prince to change the condition······" Yu Zhiyan was put out by the armor soldiers in the midst of shouting.

After Yu Zhiyan was sent away, Zhao Junsheng said to the generals and officials with a serious face: "Pass the order, all departments prepare for the siege, and order the logistics to speed up, no matter how much manpower and material resources they use, in short, the siege equipment must be transported within three days!" ”

"Yes!"

Cui Hao stood up and arched his hand and said: "Lord, although there are not many troops in Pyongyang City, if the King of Goguryeo mobilizes the people of the whole city to help defend the city, I am afraid that it will not be too easy for our army to break through Pyongyang City!" ”

Zhao Junsheng asked his soldiers to carry the sand table out, he stood on the edge of the sand table and pondered, and asked, "I wonder if you have any good plans to capture Pyongyang City as soon as possible?" ”

No one stepped forward to offer advice, and it seemed that there was no better way than to storm it.

Zhao Junsheng walked around the sand table with his waist knife in his hand, stopped and asked, "Mao Xiuzhi, how many people can be levied around here?" ”

Mao Xiuzhi stood up and arched his hand and said: "Back to the prince, my subordinates have seen the household registration of the surrounding counties and counties in the past few days, and it should not be a big problem to collect and distribute 20,000 people within three days!" ”

Zhao Junsheng immediately ordered: "Send an order to go down and collect all the people in the vicinity who can be requisitioned, and let them carry hoes, shovels, baskets, flat burdens and other tools, and build a dam in the upper reaches of Pyongyang City for the king to intercept the flow of the muddy water, so that the muddy water can flow to the southeast of the Da Nan River!" There is no water in Pyongyang, and the king wants to see how long they can hold on! ”

At the request of the officers and soldiers, they carried hoes, shovels, poles, and baskets to the upper reaches of Pyongyang City to dig soil and fill the river to build a dam.

Thick trees were piled up on the river, all the nearby boats were collected, and in one day a pontoon bridge was built, on which the craftsmen reinforced and fastened.

Subsequently, after the distance of 20 zhang, a pontoon bridge is erected, the same pile, a large amount of wood is used as the pile foundation, one by one is driven into the bottom of the river, and a timber is connected and reinforced in the middle of the two rows of dense wooden piles, and then a large number of wooden planks are crossed on the outside of the wooden piles and blocked by wooden piles, so as to cut off the water flow.

A large number of people came and filled the earth between the two rows of wooden stakes to build the dam, and as the people filled more and more soil within the frame, the dam piled up.

The water was impounded, and the water level of the river to Pyongyang City quickly dropped at a rate visible to the naked eye, and in less than two hours, the riverbed was exposed, and countless fish and shrimp were bouncing on the dry riverbed.

"Let's go pick up fish!" Zhao Junsheng gave an order, and the people who had finished their work threw down their hoes and shovels, and rushed to the riverbed with baskets, picking up the fish and shrimp that were jumping around and throwing them into the basket.

"Lord Wang, why don't you let the soldiers go down to catch some fish and shrimp to eat, so as to improve the food!" Li Yuande asked.

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand: "No need, the soldiers want to maintain order, if they want to eat fish and shrimp, just take the money to find those people to buy it!" ”

The water was cut off by force, which made the hearts of the Goguryeo monarchs and military civilians who were originally going to defend Pyongyang City cold in half, the river dried up, how to solve the draft problem? There are tens of thousands of people in the city, and they can go without food for a few days without starvation, but if they don't drink water for a day, they can die!

In the main hall of the royal palace in the city, the faces of the Goguryeo monarchs and ministers were gloomy.

At this time, a soldier walked in quickly and bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, the Wei army outside the city has thrown in a large number of dead and rotting livestock corpses with unknown objects, and the smell is unbearable!" ”

Gao Lian thought it wasn't a big deal, but Ji Jia Mimeng's face changed greatly, "Your Majesty, the big thing is not good, these rotting livestock corpses will definitely bring plague, Wei Jun wants everyone in the city to be infected with the plague and die, so that the king will not attack himself!" ”

"Ahh

Yu Zhiyan hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, you can't hesitate any longer, surrender, the Han people said that they can stay in the green mountains without worrying about running out of firewood, if they surrender, the Goguryeo people still have hope of recovering the country, if they don't surrender, Goguryeo will only perish!" ”