As soon as Wei Chigong came in, he shouted in his broken voice, "When are we going to cross the Liao River!" ”

Li Chaozheng lowered his head and looked at the documents one by one, both those left by the Goguryeo people and the old household registration files left by the original Sui government. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, these things are too scattered, there is no clear and clear summary, and Li Chao who sees it is also big-headed, and his preference for many places is still repetitive and contradictory.

After the army entered Liucheng, the east went all the way to the west bank of the Liao River, and then it went down with a drum, and now the entire territory of Liaoxi has been recovered.

50,000 Tang Shu quickly recovered Liaoxi, and the smooth process was a little surprising.

For the next step, everyone in the army also has their own ideas.

Wei Chigong's idea was naturally to cross the Liao River, and while there was still ice on the river, he could cross it without building a pontoon bridge. The most important thing is that now the Goguryeo people on the east bank of the Liao River are the same as the western Liao, and they have not had time to react. At this time, kill them, kill them by surprise, fart and urine, and take Liaodong away.

Li Chao got up and beckoned Wei Chigong to sit down.

"Sit, drink some milk tea, it's just brewed, it's still hot."

Li Chao originally didn't like milk tea very much, and felt that this thing was a little fishy. However, in the military, it is hard to travel, and milk tea is more nutritious than ordinary tea, which is a good thing to replenish physical strength.

Yu Chigong sat down with his ass and stared at Li Chao with big eyes.

"What are you waiting for, the dog thieves in Liaodong can't react at the moment, it's a good time to march."

Li Chao smiled, but he was not in a hurry.

Fighting Liaoxi, he was in a hurry.

can fight Liaodong, he is not in a hurry now.

It's not that he wants to be in a hurry, but he can't be in a hurry.

After entering Liucheng and recovering Liaoxi, Li Chao's anger in Zhaozhuang slowly subsided, and he began to consider the problem more rationally.

He came to the conclusion that it was not yet suitable to fight Liaodong.

"I'm going to give the soldiers a rest first."

"Rest? What to rest, to take Liaoxi, it didn't take much effort at all, everyone is fine, what else to rest? ”

"Lao Hei, it's okay for me to call you like that, right?" Li Chao poured a cup of milk tea for Wei Chigong and handed it to him.

Wei Chigong shook his head, "It's okay, although you are not much older than my son, but you have the ability, the master is a teacher, and your official title is higher than mine." ”

"Lao Hei, in fact, I am the same as you in my heart, I can't wait to lead my troops all the way east, break through Liaodong, capture Beisha, break through Pyongyang all the way, and capture King Rongliu alive."

"But."

"We can't be rash and fight a war, it's not child's play. This is a major military matter, and we have to be responsible to the imperial court, and we have to be responsible for the tens of thousands of soldiers under our command. ”

"During the Sui Dynasty, the four expeditions to Goguryeo before and after were all defeated, why do you say?"

Wei Chigong also participated in the battle of Goguryeo back then, and he is very clear about these past events. In the eighteenth year of the emperor's reign, Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian conquered Goguryeo for the first time, and sent Yang Liang, the king of Han, as the commander, with the servant Gao Ying as the long history, and Wang Shiji as the deputy commander.

Sent 300,000 troops to Goguryeo.

This is the first expedition to Liao, this time although Yang Liang is the commander, but it is actually commanded by Prime Minister Gao Ying, and Wang Shiji is also an experienced general.

The army of 300,000 is also very rich in troops. Especially Gao Ying, although he is the prime minister, he is very good at planning the use of troops, and every time he follows the army in the name of long history, he is actually equivalent to the chief of the general staff. He has fought a lot of big battles, in fact, the two famous prime ministers of the Sui Dynasty, Gao Ying and Yang Su, are the kind of cattle who will enter the phase.

is such a bull man, and as a result, he came to a big defeat in Liaodong. In history, they entered Liao in summer, but as soon as they entered Liao, they encountered heavy rain, followed by plague, and died of countless diseases, and then destroyed the roads due to rain, and the grain and grass could not keep up. Before the battle with the Goguryeo people started, they had already lost seventy percent of their soldiers and horses.

In the end, this crusade came in vain. Of the 300,000 troops, only 20,000 or 30,000 can come back alive.

After this time, Yang Jian no longer proposed to levy Liao.

Later, Yang Guang made three expeditions to Liaodong.

The first expedition to Liao in the seventh to eighth years of the Great Cause, Yang Guang mobilized more than 1.1 million soldiers and auxiliary soldiers, known as the battle with the largest number of troops in history.

However, as a result, Yang Guang's command error led to the failure of this Eastern Expedition, not only did Liaodong City not be captured, but the Eighth Route Army of 300,000 horses and horses was sent to attack Pyongyang, and the enemy advanced lightly, and was defeated by the Goguryeo people, and almost the entire army was wiped out.

In the end, Yang Guang also had to withdraw.

In the ninth year of the Great Cause, Yang Guang once again led hundreds of thousands of troops to conquer in person. This time, when it seemed that he was about to succeed, Yang Xuangan, the son of Yang Su, who was originally in charge of food and salary in Liyang, the rear, launched a rebellion and fought all the way to Luoyang City.

As a result, Yang Guang had to abandon the Liaodong City that was about to be captured, and hurriedly returned to the court to quell the chaos.

After quelling the rebellion, ten years after the Great Cause, Yang Guang went east again, but this time the Great Sui had already risen in chaos everywhere, and the displaced people revolted everywhere.

The Goguryeo people were also greatly injured by the continuous attacks of the Sui Dynasty, so they had to beg for mercy and courtiers, and Yang Guang was no longer able to destroy Goguryeo at that time, so he had to withdraw after taking the surrender. But in fact, as soon as Yang Guang withdrew, the king of Goguryeo did not enter the court, and even the captured Sui troops were not released.

Although Yang Guang was angry, he had no choice, but he was helpless.

Within a few years, Yang Guang was killed by Yu Culture in Jiangdu, and he was never able to conquer Liaodong for the fourth time.

"Lao Hei, we fought very smoothly in Liaoxi, because it was still the territory of the Central Plains three years ago. The Goguryeo people occupied it for three years, but their roots were not deep and they had not yet established a firm foothold. But Liaodong is different, where the mountains are high and the water is dangerous. There are mountain cities everywhere, the danger is incomparable, and the Liao people are fierce. ”

"And the most important point is that when you get to Liaodong, it is the enemy territory. Although Liaodong has always been the land of my Central Plains, it has been stolen by the Goguryeo people for so many years, and it is quite strong. We have neither time nor land, nor do we occupy people. ”

Going to Liaodong to fight is different from going to the grassland to fight.

Because the Goguryeo people were a semi-agrarian country, they had cities. In particular, most of their cities are mountain cities, no matter how big or small, they are very dangerous. In addition, they are a semi-fishing and hunting country, so these Liao people are also quite strong.

In general, the Goguryeo people actually had both the Han people's city defense system and the cavalry and archery skills of the steppe people.

Again, Liaodong is very far away, far from the Central Plains.

This made it very difficult to replenish food and ordnance.

When a war is fought, it is still money and food, especially grain.

In some places in the south, transporting a stone of grain to Liaodong cost seven stones on the road, which cost the people to bear, and thus delayed the agricultural time.

It is precisely because of this that there will be chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty.

Wang Bo, who was the first to revolt in Shandong, played the banner at that time, which was a song, a song of death without Liaodong waves. The last two sentences in this song, such as Liaodong's death, beheading and beheading.

The meaning of this sentence is that if you go to the battlefield of Liaodong and die in vain, then what is the death of the rebel official army in comparison?

The Sui was not completely destroyed by the conquest of Liao, but the conquest of Liao really shook the national capital of Sui.

The Sui Dynasty has four times, which time is not three or five hundred thousand, or even millions of mobilizations, but it was unsuccessful, Li Chao only had 50,000 horses in his hands, so he fought like this?

Too naïve.

"Old Black, we don't have food and grass now, and we don't have enough ordnance."

"As long as there is enough grain and grass to go to Liaodong, we will get grain on the spot." Wei Chigong still refused to give up.

"It is easy to say that the enemy will have food, but no one wants to do it unless it is absolutely necessary. It is irresponsible to go to war without food. Besides, you know the situation in Liaodong, there are many mountain cities over there, especially on the east bank of the Liaohe River, Liaodong City, Anshi, Jian'an, Fuyu and other cities, are quite strong and tall, not to mention Pingliao, we 50,000 people may not even be able to beat a Liaodong City. ”

After Goguryeo devoured Liaodong, it made every effort to operate the Liaohe defense line, along the Liaohe River, all the way to the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula, and established a thousand-mile defense line, connecting hundreds of large and small mountain fortresses, of which Liaodong City was the center. At that time, Yang Guang's hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses attacked Liaodong, but they were never able to defeat it, so you can imagine the difficulty.

"We have gunpowder, doesn't it mean that gunpowder is good at breaking cities?"

Li Chao smiled, "Indeed, we still have this good thing." But it's about to be spring, and when the time comes, there will be a swamp by the Liao River, and we will pass, but we won't be able to come back for a while. There is no grain and grass, and there are no follow-up soldiers and horses, even if we can really take Liaodong City, can we defend it? ”

"Having said so much, you just don't want to fight Liaodong."

"Are you scared?"

Li Chao chuckled, "I'm afraid of Mao, but now is not the time, don't forget, although General Li Ji killed the Turks in Hedong, he hasn't returned to the grassland." ”

The Turks are the real enemy in front of them.

"Hmph." Wei Chigong drank all the milk tea in the cup, then slammed the cup on the table dissatisfiedly, and then got up and left.

Li Chao smiled bitterly, shook his head and let him go.

If you fight Liaodong, you must fight, but not now, at least not in the first half of the year.

He has to defend Liaoxi first, and manage this bridgehead for attacking Liaodong well.

He still had to wait for news from Li Ji's side, and only after the Turks were defeated could he talk about fighting Goguryeo.

Pingyang walked in, "I just saw General Wei Chi go out with a black face, what's wrong?" ”

"He's an old black."

Li Chao said, "Don't worry about him, it's just that he wants to fight Liaodong, but I didn't agree." ”

Li Xiuning said, "I originally wanted to persuade you, but it seems that you have already made a decision." ”

"I don't need your advice on this, I understand it myself. At the moment, the time to fight Liaodong is not yet right. He sighed as he flipped through the clutter of files in front of him. The amount of grain seized in this Liucheng is much less than I expected, and our top priority is to first raise a batch of grain on the spot, and then restore the local yamen here as soon as possible to re-establish order. ”