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"My lord, even if we don't turn around and destroy the Tang people, we don't have to be afraid of them, we can slowly withdraw to Liaoxi with the spoils of war."

A lot of loot, no one wants to give up.

They didn't understand why Yuangai Suwen was so afraid of the Tang Army. Even if he lost the first battle, it was just because he didn't encounter the firearms of the Tang people, so he was a little caught off guard.

"Throw away all Han prisoners, livestock, and booty, and march at full speed, this is a military order!" Yuan Gai Suwen's face was very bad, and he didn't pay much attention to the doubts of his generals, and ordered directly.

The sky was about to get dark, and the Tang army that led the army to follow behind the Goguryeo army, Li Chao called Wei Chi Gong.

He looked up at the dim sky.

"General Weichi, give you an important task, take advantage of the night, lead your 3,000 cavalry to bypass the Goguryeo people for me."

"Where are you going?" Wei Chigong asked.

"Go to Yuguan!"

Wei Chigong rubbed his hands excitedly, "Yuguan? That's great. ”

As a veteran of the battlefield, he immediately understood Li Chao's intention to let him go to Yuguan.

Yuguan was in front of the Goguryeo army, and it was the only way for them to retreat to Liaoxi. Although Yuguan failed to prevent the Goguryeo raid last time.

But that was because there were few soldiers at Yuguan at that time, and Goguryeo suddenly attacked, and there were many soldiers, so the defenders of Yuguan could only retreat into the city and watch the Goguryeo people go around the pass.

"You take the first step and enter Chongqing Pass for reinforcements. Your task is to defend Yuguan and not let the Goguryeo people run away again. ”

"Don't worry, I'll stop them." Wei Chigong patted his chest and said. Although the task must be daunting, he did not hesitate.

Li Chao patted his arm.

"You only need to hold the Goguryeo people for two or three days at most, and then we will be able to arrive."

"The government soldiers drawn from Huainan and Henan are on the way, and they will be able to come soon, and we will let these Goguryeo have no return."

Only driving away the invading Goguryeo people is not Li Chao's purpose, his plan is to make it impossible for any of these people to leave.

Yuguan.

It is built according to the Yushui River, which originates from the eastern foothills of Yanshan Mountain, and the Yushui River is abundant at this time, and the water flow is turbulent.

In the third year of Emperor Kaihuang of the Sui Dynasty, he built it here by the water and set up a pass.

This gate is relatively dangerous, borrowing the potential of the water.

But compared with the Shanhaiguan in later generations, it is still far behind. The Shanhaiguan of later generations is still more east of Yuguan, which is to extend the Great Wall on Yanshan directly into the sea in that mountain pass, and the Guancheng is based on the mountain and the sea, and the shape of the Shanhaiguan City is the trend.

Shanhaiguan was built in the Ming Dynasty, the real first pass in the world, almost no one has directly broken through from outside the pass, mostly relying on surrender, internal response and other passes.

In Li Chao's nine-sided plan, it is to move the Yuguan to the east and establish a real first pass in the world at the location of Shanhaiguan.

It's just that this Guancheng is still only on paper and planned, otherwise, let Wei Chigong lead his troops into the pass for reinforcements, with the danger of mountains and seas, one man will be the pass, and ten thousand people will not be opened, and it will be much easier to close the door and fight dogs.

There were still some soldiers at Yuguan at this time, but there were not many, otherwise they would not have allowed the Goguryeo people to pass through the pass.

Yuguan relies on the risk of Chongqing, but in the north, especially in places like Pingzhou, the river has a long freezing period, so Yuguan, which relies on water to borrow risk, actually has no risk to rely on when it comes to the freezing period. Yuguan is located on the plain, and it is not the kind of mountain pass valley mouth that cannot be opened by one man.

Because of this, the Goguryeo people were able to swagger through Yuguan.

Let Wei Chigong lead 3,000 people to go around to the front of Goguryeo and rush to Yuguan in advance for reinforcements, it is still difficult to rely on them to hold Yuguan.

"I'll give you a little more grenades and gunpowder, and you'll be able to fight a little more when the time comes."

"Hmm." Wei Chigong was not polite.

In fact, if he could, he would have preferred to take the Shenji Camp with him. However, although there are some mules and horses in the Shenji Battalion, they are all used to carry equipment, tents, food, gunpowder, and so on.

This is, after all, an infantry army, only a few officers have horses, and the rest of the horses are mules and horses that pull equipment, and these horses cannot be ridden. Even if Li Chao let them ride, they can't go with equipment, what's the use of these soldiers and horses.

Besides, if the Shenji Battalion is also transferred, then Li Chao really only has 7,000 soldiers and 20,000 volunteers in his hands, all of which are infantry.

Wei Chigong left.

Li Chao ordered to stop the advance and began to camp.

It was not yet completely dark, and it was also very dangerous to set up camp at this time, following behind more than 30,000 Goguryeo cavalry.

Although they were twenty miles apart, the Goguryeo people really wanted to kill the horse pistol, and Li Chao could only meet it on the spot. When there were cavalry, he was still somewhat sure that he could confront the Goguryeos.

But as soon as Wei Chigong led the cavalry away, the combat strength of the soldiers and horses in his hands was greatly reduced.

"We're in danger now, in case the Goguryeo people come back to fight?"

"That's why I asked General Wei Chi to leave while it was dark, so that the Goguryeo people wouldn't know that we had three thousand cavalry missing."

With Li Chao's current strength, there are these 3,000 cavalry. Then even if the Goguryeo people turned back, then Li Chao re-positioned his Spanish phalanx, and Goguryeo did not have much chance of breaking the Tang army.

Li Chao can completely withstand the attack of the Goguryeo, and they do not necessarily please him.

As long as the Tang army resisted the Goguryeo people and dragged him down, it would be very unfavorable to the Goguryeo people, because there were reinforcements coming behind Li Chao in the starry night.

For every additional day of delay, the danger of the Goguryeo people being surrounded by the Tang army increased by one more day.

This is also the reason why Li Chaosu will run away from Yuan Gai Suwen, and staying will be more and more unfavorable to them.

"Xiangguo, why aren't we safer, isn't it good that the Goguryeo people take the initiative to withdraw?"

"Hmph, Goguryeo people can come when they want to, and leave when they want, when I have no one in the Tang Dynasty?" While the immediate action is dangerous, it is also a rare opportunity.

The 50,000 Goguryeo army that invaded Hebei was annihilated by 6,000, and there were 44,000, and Li Chao took a risk, so he had a great chance to intercept these more than 40,000 Goguryeo people and make them unable to escape, which was a very cost-effective thing.

Besides, if Li Chao didn't chase after him, the Goguryeo people would be able to return to Liaoxi with the captive Tang people, livestock, and goods.

Could it be that Li Chao wanted to wait for them to return to Liaoxi and report to the imperial court that he had repelled the Goguryeos?

No, Li Chao can't do such a thing.

The Tang Dynasty has already started a war with the Goguryeo, so it is very necessary to have the opportunity to destroy these 50,000 invading Goguryeo soldiers. If this Goguryeo army can be allowed to come and go, it will be a heavy blow to Gomyeo.

At least, in a short period of time, the Goguryeo people did not dare to do it again.

"Sangkook really wants to kill all these more than 40,000 Goguryeo people?" Several generals asked in surprise.

"As long as we can stop them at Yuguan, then we can kill them." Li Chao said confidently that the reinforcements were still coming, and when the government soldiers arrived, Li Chao was completely sure that he would destroy these Goguryeo people.

Although he is taking a risk now, Li Chao thinks that this risk is worth it.

Xiangyang.

Yuliang Zhou, Ziwei Palace.

Li Shimin had dinner with Empress Changsun and the crown prince, as well as Li Tai and Li Lizhi.

Although Li Shimin has many children, there are only these three who are born with the queen. The queen has been seriously ill recently, but the medicine king has never been found.

I don't know how many other doctors have looked for, but none of them can cure the queen's illness. There was no cure for the disease, so he could only call the children of the three queens, and often ate with him with the queen.

"Your Majesty hasn't been in the court for a month and a half, isn't it too much?"

The queen's face is very bad, but she still remembers her husband.

"Although I don't go to court, I haven't abandoned government affairs, you know." Li Shimin said to the queen, he said that he didn't go to the court or go to the Zhongshu Gate, but in fact, where is he the kind of person who can really leave all this.

He just didn't go to the court, but he didn't go to Zhongshu for the time being, but he still completely grasped the major affairs of the court.

He didn't see any officials.

But in fact, I have always seen Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, the eldest grandson Wuji, and even Gao Shilian sometimes.

The government affairs handled by the Zhongshu Sect will be sent to him. He just trusted Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui and didn't give any other instructions. And there are some major affairs, in fact, these two prime ministers will also enter the palace first to ask for instructions and deal with them according to his instructions.

Therefore, whether he goes to the court or not, whether he goes to the Zhongshu Sect or not, for the time being, does not affect the military affairs in the slightest.

"The concubine understands, but has Your Majesty considered the rumors outside? They all say that your king is not early in the dynasty, and you are wasted and frolicking. The imperial historians of the Imperial Historical Observatory come to the palace gate every day to wait, Your Majesty really plans to go on like this? ”

Li Shimin smiled bitterly.

"I don't want to do that, but for now, I can only drag it out like this. As soon as I leave the palace, those hundred officials will force me to abolish the new policy, and will force me to belittle Ma Zhou, Wei Zheng, Sun Fujia and a large number of officials who support the new policy. ”

Li Shimin can't show up at all before he thinks of a good countermeasure, and if he doesn't show up, he can't drag it out, so he has to express his stance and make a decision.

"The imperial historians are still waiting in front of the palace gate every day."

"Just let them wait." Li Shimin played a scoundrel.

The queen didn't know how to advise, she thought of Li Chao, if Li Chao was still in the court, he would definitely not let things be so stiff, he always had a lot of ghost ideas.

"Your Majesty, I don't know what happened to Li Xiang in Hebei?"

"It is estimated that troops are being dispatched in Hebei." Li Shimin said with a smile, with Li Chao in the north, he didn't have to worry about any Turkic and Goguryeo invasions.

Li Chao repelled four or five hundred thousand Turks last time, but this time he can't defeat the 100,000 Turks and Goguryeo's coalition army?

It's just that the north will definitely suffer a lot of losses this time.

These damn barbarians, when they come to a halt, he will definitely conquer Mobei in the future, sweep through Liaodong, and wipe them all out.

"Your Majesty."

Eunuch Wang came in to report.

Li Shimin frowned, he didn't like to be disturbed when the family was eating.

"It's the imperial historians asking to see you outside the palace again? Don't they need to eat? Li Shimin said dissatisfied.

Eunuch Wang hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, it's not the imperial history, it's the good news of Hebei." ”

"Good news?"

Li Shimin was surprised, calculating the time, Li Chao should have just arrived in Youzhou, and it was impossible for him to lead his troops to win the battle so quickly. Could it be that Wei Chigong won the battle before Li Chao arrived?

"What's the good news?"

"The good news that Hebei just came, Li Xiang fought with the Goguryeo army on the east bank of the water in Pingzhou, Hebei, and broke 20,000 Goguryeo horsemen and killed 4,000 enemies. The Goguryeo people were defeated and fled, and Li Xiang had successfully relieved the siege of Pingzhou. ”

Li Shimin was dumbfounded and couldn't believe it.