"The revenge of the Chinese revenge!"

On the bank of the Lishui River, Li Chao stood in front of the continuous military formation and shouted loudly. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Dad echoed loudly with a white-robed volunteer.

"I don't want to be rewarded with official honors, but I am willing to serve Liaodong!"

The momentum is like a tsunami in the mountains.

Wei Chigong, who had a black face and was as cold as frost all the way, couldn't help but be shaken by this atmosphere. Although he believed that Li Chao's sentence of revenge for China's Fuzi was true, it was definitely false that those volunteers said that they would not ask for official awards and awards.

These people came to participate in the war, didn't they just want to follow Li Chao and have a great chance to make meritorious service awards? But he was surprised not by these scenes, but by this scene.

These rabble of peasant guys in his eyes shouted with amazing momentum. This momentum, even if it is an ordinary government soldier, may not have it.

Before the battle, nervousness and fear were certain, but these rabble volunteers, like a group of newborn calves, were not even afraid of tigers.

He couldn't help but wonder in his heart, could he have been wrong before, these people were not a rabble, they were really a group of brave and loyal soldiers?

Li Chao listened to this response, and his face was happy.

"Morale is like a macro, and the military spirit can be used."

Wei Chigong rode to Li Chao's side, "Ling Gong, do you really want to cross the river to attack?" ”

On the other side of the river, the Goguryeo people set up defenses, and they used the method of besieging and blocking Pingzhou, some besieging the city of Pingzhou, and some of them fortified the city of Pingzhou to intercept the Tang army on the west side of the river.

It has just entered February, and it is still very cold in the north, and the ice in the river has not yet thawed, and it is still very thick.

This is a good thing for the Tang army, which is about to attack, if the ice melts in another two months, coupled with the spring flood, it will be very troublesome to cross the river.

However, although it is more convenient to cross the river now, on the other side of the river, there are at least 30,000 Goguryeo troops. There are 35,000 on his side, but there are still 20,000 white-robed soldiers in these 35,000 miles.

A peerless fierce general like Wei Chigong has little confidence.

The Goguryeo people are not easy to fight, and Wei Chigong also went to Liaodong back then, and he knows some about the Goguryeo people in Liaodong.

The mountains are high and the water is dangerous, and the Goguryeo people are building cities on the mountains, and there are mountain cities everywhere. The weather there is extremely cold, but there are many rivers and forests, so the Goguryeo people are a country that is half farming and half fishing and hunting. The Northeast Goguryeo tribes lived in a colder and more treacherous place, but many of them were attached to the Goguryeo people.

The Ya cavalry is the most fierce and barbaric cavalry, and now there are many Ya cavalry in the Goguryeo army opposite.

Li Chao looked back at the white-robed soldiers with high morale and smiled.

"Three thousand Yuejia can swallow Wu, my 20,000 volunteers plus 5,000 Shenji battalions, plus your 10,000 Youzhou soldiers, can't you destroy these sticks."

"But what can 20,000 pikemen do? Xiangguo, don't look at the sound they are shouting now, but when they really start fighting on the battlefield, I am afraid that these people will suddenly become grass chickens, and they will turn around and flee in fright. ”

Li Chao just shook his head, if he only had 20,000 volunteers in his hands, of course he knew that it would be difficult to succeed. But doesn't he still have 5,000 Shenji battalions and 10,000 Youzhou soldiers, these soldiers are all elite government soldiers, especially the Shenji battalion, when they were formed, they were the elite of the local government armies, they were the Beiya forbidden army, the emperor's pro-army.

With these 15,000 elites, it can definitely be stabilized, as long as the 20,000 soldiers are not allowed to take the lead as the main force, let them beat the side drums, it is still good.

Li Chao looked across the river.

"Liaodong old China has, since Wei and Zhou, put it aside. The fourth teacher of the Sui clan returned after losing the law, and there are countless goodies who killed China. ”

"Every time I think of hundreds of thousands of Chinese children who have wandered into a foreign land and cannot return, I can't sleep after thinking about them for a long night. This time, His Majesty appointed me as the envoy of Yanyun Festival, so that I could resist the invasion, and I would not only want to repel the Goguryeo people who would invade in the future, but also march eastward to recover Liaoxi and Liaodong, and plant the military flag of the Tang Dynasty on Pyongyang City. ”

"I want to destroy the Jingguan that the Goguryeo people built with the bones of my Chinese disciples, and bring back all the bones of my sons back to the Central Plains, even the bones of those fallen soldiers between the white mountains and black waters in Liaodong, so that their souls can return to their hometowns and sleep underground."

"No one can stop me, not the river in front of me, not the warriors on the other side of the river, and even more so the Goguryeo mountain cities, are you willing to march east with me and break through Pyongyang!"

A battlefield veteran like Wei Chigong couldn't help but be moved when he heard these words.

He thought of the time he went to Liaodong to deliver grain and grass more than ten years ago, and thought of the white bones that were everywhere along the road. Among the hundreds of thousands of Chinese children who died in Liaodong, there were his fellow villagers and clansmen.

The blood that had been silent in his heart for many years came up.

He never forgot to recover the land to avenge the blood hatred, Liaodong will always be the Liaodong of the Han family in the Central Plains, and every inch of this land is soaked with the blood of the Han people.

Even if Gao Jianwu doesn't provoke this war this time, Li Chao will kill Liaodong sooner or later.

"Gao Jianwu brought about his own destruction, look at these white-robed righteous men, they took the initiative to ask for battle, just to be ashamed."

The current king of Goguryeo is Gao Jianwu, the son of Gao Yangcheng, the king of the Goguryeo Plain, and the half-mother of the king of Pingyang.

In the first year of Wude, Gao Yuan died, and Gao Jianwu ascended the throne and was named the king.

Gao Jianwu's ability is still very strong, otherwise, it would not be his turn to succeed to the throne as an imperial brother.

At the beginning of the succession, Gao Jianwu was relatively cautious, and in the second year of Wude and the fourth year of Wude, he sent envoys to Chang'an twice to pay tribute.

In the fifth year of Wude, Li Tang initially unified the Central Plains, and at this time he had the spare strength to look at the surroundings. At that time, Li Yuan wrote a letter to Gao Jiancheng, saying that the Sui Dynasty had killed countless soldiers in Liaodong due to the attack on Gao Jutong, and many Sui lost prisoners left in Liaodong.

Li Yuan wrote a letter to Gao Jianwu, agreeing to ask Goguryeo to send the Han people who remained there back to the Central Plains, and Li Yuan also sent back the Goguryeo people who remained in the Central Plains.

At that time, Gao Jianwu agreed, and the two sides launched a prisoner exchange operation, and finally the two sides returned more than 10,000 people to each other.

In the first year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin ascended the throne and Gao Jianwu sent envoys to pay tribute again.

Li Shimin sent Shen Shu'an, the secretary of the Criminal Department, to Goguryeo and canonized Gao Jianwu as the Shangzhu State, the king of Liaodong County, and the king of Goryeo. He also sent Taoist priests to bring the statue of Tianzun and Daozang to spread the Taoist classic Lao Tzu to them.

At that time, Li Shimin had just become emperor, and he was unstable at home and abroad, and he didn't want to turn against Goguryeo. And Goguryeo was also greatly damaged in several battles with the Sui army, so it did not want to conflict with the Tang Dynasty.

In this case, Tang and Goguryeo have gotten along well for several years, and the well water does not interfere with the river water. Gao Jianwu even accepted the canonization of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, ostensibly respecting the suzerain of the Tang Dynasty and becoming a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin once said to Li Chao, "Goguryeo is a vassal to Tang, which is the most basic bottom line." Liaodong, the Zhou Dynasty was the monopoly store country of Jizi, the Xuansu County of the Han Dynasty, and the Wei and Jin dynasties were still in the old seal, and they could not be called ministers. Moreover, China and Yidi are like the sun and the stars, and they cannot be degraded. ”

At that time, Gao Jianwu accepted the canonization, and Li Shimin temporarily let go of the Goguryeo people.

Originally, the monarchs and ministers of the Tang Dynasty all reached an agreement to ignore the Goguryeo people who had already been proclaimed ministers for the time being, and to wait until the Turks were pacified, and then talk about Goguryeo, revenge, and recovery of their homeland.

It's just that no one expected that Gao Jianwu, who had been honest for a few years, would suddenly go crazy, listen to the words of Xintong Ye Hu, and make the move of sending troops to invade Tang.

Gao Jianwu has broken the peace, and the war has begun.

"Cross the river!"

Li Chao gave the order to cross the river, and the 35,000 Tang troops began to cross the river on solid ice.

The east shore of the water.

Goguryeo's detectives detected the movements of the Tang army and hurriedly reported it.

In the Goguryeo camp, in the tent of the Chinese army, the general of the Goguryeo army, Yuan Gai Suwen, was looking at the map. This time, he was the main battle faction, but although the dispatch of troops achieved a surprise effect, it did not go well in the end.

He chose to raid the Tang Realm after the Turks first sent troops to cross the Yin Mountain, which had a good effect, but after attacking the Tang Realm, he didn't even take down a decent city.

Not to mention the throat of Yuguan, even other cities such as Pingzhou Lulongcheng have not been captured. Although the Tang generals in Youzhou had few soldiers, they came to rescue Pingzhou several times, and he had to divide his troops to intercept them.

"That Wei Chigong is here again?"

"My lord, it's not just Wei Chigong who came this time, there are thirty or forty thousand horses, far more than the previous times."

Hearing about thirty or forty thousand horses, Yuangai Suwen was also a little surprised.

He knew how many men and horses there were in Youzhou in the Tang Dynasty, and he had to divide troops to defend against the Turks, and there were not many soldiers on the Hebei side. Even if the government soldiers were drawn from all sides, it was not so fast.

After all, most of the government troops in Hedong and other places in Hebei Province were already concentrated, and if they wanted to transfer more troops, they could only be mobilized from Huainan, Shannan, and Guanzhong.

"Where did this Wei Chigong get so many soldiers? Didn't you pull some strong people over and bluff? Yuangai Suwen thought as he stroked his beard.

Yuangai Suwen is not small in Goguryeo.

The Yuan family came from the Shunnu tribe of the five tribes of Goguryeo in the early days, and Yuan Gai Suwen's father, Yuan Daezuo, was the great pair of Goguryeo.

The position of the great pair of Lu is equivalent to the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, and he is in charge of military and political power.

And Yuangai Suwen, who was only in his twenties at this time, had already taken over his father's position as the lord of eastern Goguryeo, which was equivalent to ruling the eastern part of Goguryeo, and he was very powerful.

This time to send troops to the Tang Dynasty, Yuangai Suwen and his son were the firm main battle faction.

After Gao Jianwu decided to send troops, Yuan Dazuo let his son Yuan Gai Suwen take command of the army. Although he was young, he began to fight in his teens, and fought many battles with the Yasa tribe, as well as Baekje and Silla, and made great achievements.

"Let's go, let me take a look, I want to see how much ability this Wei Chigong has."

As soon as Yuangai Suwen came out of the military tent, he encountered another report from Tanmalai.

"The Tang army has already begun to cross the river!"