Wang Shichong's eyes flashed with joy, after analyzing so much today, he finally achieved the result he wanted, this time he could finally command an army independently, without looking at people's faces, he was restrained, he let out a sigh of relief and said: "The last general will be ordered!" ”

Returning to his tent, Wang Shichong gradually recovered from the excitement just now, how to choose next, when to attack, that is the question that comes one after another, to be comfortable in the hundreds of thousands of Goguryeo army, it is not an easy thing.

Wei Zheng opened the tent and entered, Wang Shichong stood up and was about to speak, but Wei Zheng saluted: "Congratulations to the lord for taking charge of the army independently, and you don't have to obey orders." ”

Wang Shichong waved his hand: "This time I was ordered to be in danger, and it was not as easy as you imagined." By the way, what are the movements of the Goguryeo people now? ”

Wei Zheng smiled, and said: "They sent 20,000 people forward, searching the woods, I got the news just before I came, they have crossed the woods, camped in the clearing in front of the forest, and kept a distance of fifty miles from our army, it seems that they don't want to eat us in one bite, but want to hold the main road to Pyongyang with a small number of troops, on the one hand, to monitor our army, and on the other hand, to prevent our army from raiding Pyongyang City." ”

Wang Shichong smiled slightly: "Sure enough, as I expected, Yizhi Wende didn't want to risk huge losses to attack our army and affect his next decisive battle with the main force of the Sui army, so we used this method to monitor, we can't let them live too comfortably, give orders, all of them are well nourished, and prepare for an attack, and I will attack the enemy camp at night in a few days." ”

Wei Zheng's brows furrowed slightly: "Lord, our army only has 20,000 people, isn't it too few, relying on this little bit of soldiers and horses to fight under the city of Pyongyang, there is a danger of being gathered and annihilated by the enemy." ”

Wang Shichong waved his hand: "I didn't say that I would fight Pyongyang and do a good job of exploration." If the enemy army did not ambush in the woods, then after our army broke through the Goguryeo camp, we would have withdrawn as a pretense, in short, the attempt of Ulji Wendeok to monitor our army with a small number of troops could not be realized, and he could not draw out the main force of the army to meet the army of Liaodong. ”

Speaking of which. Wang Shichong took a deep breath: "Our actions can't be too slow, probably in another four or five days, the Tang newspaper of the great victory over Gao Jian will be handed to Yang Guang's hands, and then I am sure that no matter whether Liaodong City is captured or not, Yuwen Shu and Yu Zhongwen will definitely lead a large army to grab the merit, whether this expedition to Goguryeo is successful or not, it depends on this hammer deal." ”

Speaking of this, Wang Shichong muttered to himself: "I hope they can fight for some energy." Capture Liaodong City early. ”

June, Liaodong City.

More than 600,000 Sui troops have been camped for hundreds of miles, besieging this Liaodong city to the ground, and thousands of trebuchets and rushing carts have beaten this fortress with a radius of more than 20 li, which can be called the first fortified city in the entire Goguryeo, and it is full of holes. Cracks abound on the three-foot high city wall. On the city walls in the west and south of the city, large openings have been opened that are more than three zhang wide, and if it were not for the urgent construction of three fences inside, I am afraid that they would have been breached long ago.

And the moat around the city wall, which is more than ten miles long and five zhang wide, has already been filled with sandbags. The corpses of tens of thousands of Sui and Goguryeo troops under the city wall have been piled up three or five feet high, burned down, broken attack vehicles, and ladders piled up on top of each other. The whole battlefield smelled of rancidity.

On a high ground in the west of the city, a wooden castle with a circumference of two miles and a height of two zhang has been erected overnight, and every Goguryeo person at the head of the city in Liaodong can clearly see the golden roof on this castle, which is where Yang Guang's temporary camp is, since Yang Guang's camp came here one day ago, overnight, this wooden city appeared in the sky, and the royal flag fluttering high was a shot in the arm for the Sui army soldiers who had been fighting hard day and night for more than a month, could not be attacked for a long time, and their morale was a little low, and the voice of long live was endless, the monstrous sound can almost knock down the walls of Liaodong City.

But Yang Guang was not happy at all, when he first arrived at Liaohe, hundreds of thousands of soldiers made him very useful by the sound of the tsunami-like long live of the mountains and tsunami, he used to tour the Turks and Tuyuhun, and even took the big dragon boat down the river, when he went to Zhuo County, although there was also this kind of imperial style that was embraced by the front and back, but only on the battlefield, such soldiers cheered to make him more in addition to the emperor, and there was a feeling of marshal, only this feeling made him believe that he was firmly in control of the army, so that he had a sense of security that he had never had, Even sleeping at night is much more steady.

But today's Yang Guang is not in the mood to enjoy this kind of mountain call long live, since the forced crossing of the Liao River, more than three months have passed since the war in Liaodong, thanks to those prisoners released by Wang Shichong to the cities, as well as the surrender envoys set up in each army, most of the small and medium-sized cities of Goguryeo, almost without a fight.

Although this made those brave people who were counting on the iron-blooded siege of the city, the killing after the city was broken, and the brave people who grabbed money, food, and heads, the benefits of opening the city without blood were obvious, and the process of conquering Liaodong was greatly accelerated, and in just over a month, the armies that divided the ways and plundered various places completed their tasks one after another.

In addition to leaving a small number of troops to defend the city, the main forces of the Sui army were drawn to the city of Liaodong after receiving supplies, and after defeating Yuan Taizuo's several counterattacks out of the city, the Goguryeo army was forced to retreat into the city to defend to the death, and the tragic offensive and defensive battles began.

But Yuan Taizuo did not have any way out, and the defenders of the other cities may be able to maintain a nominal independence by surrendering, but Yuan Taizuo, as the lord of Liaodong, can only fight to the death, and the Goguryeo Liaodong army that refuses to surrender from all over the country is also gathered in the city, which makes him have no less than 80,000 people in his hands.

In order to defend the city, Yuan Taizuo organized the people of the whole city, the strong men went to the city to help defend it, and the women and the old and weak were responsible for cooking every day, and the food in the city was distributed in rations, which was enough to support two years.

In addition, Yuan Taizuo also specially organized more than 20,000 craftsmen to repair the city wall damaged by the Sui army day and night, the Liaodong city was originally strong and abnormal, coupled with the efforts of the repair team, it miraculously maintained for more than a month, during which the Sui army broke through the city wall several times, and was desperately blocked by Goguryeo reinforcements, and failed to break the city in one fell swoop.

In addition, Yuan Taizuo also fully used Yang Guang's surrender order, every time the city wall was opened, he would send people to raise a white flag at the head of the city, and then send people out of the city to contact the Sui army commander Yuwenshu battlefield, expressing his willingness to surrender. (To be continued......)