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Longtan Mountain, where Jili Mountain City is located.

Longtan Mountain is twenty miles from north to south, the mountain is more than 80 zhang high, the mountain peaks are steep on the north, south and west sides, there is only a mountain pass in the southeast, Jili Mountain City is located on Longtan Mountain, it is only 60 miles away from Liaodong Bay in the northwest, it is 50 miles away from Wanjialing Goguryeo Mountain City in the northeast, it is 30 miles away from the mountain city of Gaoli City in the southeast, it faces each other with Deli Mountain City in the east, and the mountain pass that enters and exits the hinterland of the Northeast Mountain Area together.

These mountain cities are the mountain cities that Gao Dexin can still control at present, and these mountain cities are ancient city fortresses that have been around for hundreds of years, and the stone cities built by the Goguryeo people on the dangerous mountain peaks.

Zeng Yuanyu and Zhao Li, as the vanguard of the front army, each led the headquarters of 5,000 soldiers and horses first, and Zhao Li was very satisfied with joining the Zhenguo Army and taking up the post of commander of the Flying Bear Army. In this Northern Expedition, Li Jing handed over the post of the right vanguard of the right front army to him, which made him feel that he had made the right choice.

There are so many generals in the Zhenguo Army, but Li Jing alone let him and Zeng Yuanyu be the vanguard, which made him feel Li Jing's trust. Seeing that Zeng Yuanyu, the former Zuo Sancai Standing Attendant, was carrying the headquarters of the 5,000 Forbidden Army, Zhao Li was still very envious. However, he only brought his three brothers, two sons, five nephews and more than 30 children of his own family to join, which is still very different from Zeng Yuanyu's ability to directly bring 5,000 soldiers and horses to join. Although the military discipline of the Flying Bear Army is very good, Zhao Li still feels that they don't trust him so much as the new military master.

After all, Zeng Yuanyu's family is a family of the Divine Forbidden Army, and the Zuo Sancai Chang is much higher than his Chen Zhou Ya general. As soon as he joined the Zhenguo Army, he became the commander of the First Army. undoubtedly made the soldiers below suspicious.

In particular, the military system of the town state. Although the military envoys were only located at the level of the Zhenguo and the Second Army of Pinglu. However, according to the system, his Flying Bear Army still has a large number of military-level officials such as teaching envoys, deputy army commanders, marching horses, marching staff officers, judges, military marquis, and instructors. Among them, the authority of this teaching envoy is not under him, which makes him feel a little uneasy.

And what made him a little unaccustomed was that his brothers, sons, sons and nephews were not included in the Flying Bear Army, but were transferred to the 22nd Army under Zhenguo and Pinglu respectively. Before sending out the army, he asked to see Li Jing once. proposed to let his brothers and nephews follow him and use the command, after all, they are all used to it. Unexpectedly, Li Jing agreed to several other things, but he directly shook his head and refused to do so. and told him about the appointment of the generals of the Gao family in the Zhenguo Army to the positions in each army.

Other than that, everything else went well.

Zhao Li is in his early fifties this year, and he is also very excited to lead the army again. The point will march, everything is in order. Originally, many generals and colonels in the Flying Bear Army who were still skeptical were also quickly convinced.

The third day of the expedition. Zhao Li's right forward army was the first to reach the southernmost city of Langgu Mountain under the new control of Gaodexin in Goguryeo's Jili Prefecture.

The envoy sent to Jili Mountain City has not yet returned, and there are 500 armored soldiers in Langu Mountain City, about 3,000 young and strong, and more than 20,000 people. When Zhao Li's troops arrived, the guards in the city had already closed the gates of the mountain city.

Qin Zong, the deputy commander of the Flying Bear Army, looked at the winding and steep and dangerous mountain road leading to the mountain city, "Do you want to wait for the arrival of the army master Zeng of the left vanguard before discussing it?" ”

"Five thousand against five hundred, even if the Goguryeo people are in danger of a mountain city, they will not have reinforcements coming, and their morale is low. Our army is new and the momentum is flourishing, and I think it can be done in one go! Zhao Li looked at the mountain city for a long time and said with a chuckle.

"The envoy sent to Jili City by the Great Marshal has not yet replied, and there are still seven days left before the ten-day period, shall we wait or not?" The Instructor also proposed.

Zhao Li put down the clairvoyant mirror in his hand, and this clairvoyant mirror was still a treasure given by the handsome man before departure. Standing at such a distance at the foot of the mountain, you can see it with a clairvoyant mirror, the brick and stone battlements of the city on the mountain city, and even the armor and facial expressions of the Goguryeo defenders on the head of the city, can be seen clearly.

"The Goguryeo defenders are demoralized and have panicked expressions on their faces, and I think that with just one round of attacks, we can even break through the mountain fortress."

Qin Zongshou smiled and borrowed the clairvoyant mirror from Zhao Li, watched carefully for a while, and reluctantly returned the treasure to Zhao Li. Although he is the deputy military master, he is not qualified to have such a treasure. The Zhenguo Army is now only equipped with twenty-two military masters to configure clairvoyant mirrors, this thing is too expensive, at the beginning it was sold for tens of thousands of yuan, and even now, the selling price has been high, each of which is thousands of yuan.

"The military master is right, these guards are really warless!" Qin Zongshou was the former owner of the Langya Cottage, and he was also familiar with the relationship with the Gao family of Goguryeo, so this time he was also promoted from the owner of the box to the deputy head of the Flying Bear Army, and served as the right deputy vanguard of the former army. Only by fighting can there be military merits, and Qin Zongshou is actually very eager to fight this battle, and there are only five hundred defenders. However, he has just been promoted to the deputy military master, and on the surface, he still has to say a few words of safety first. Now that the new military master is attacking with all his might, he naturally immediately agreed.

Both the commander and the deputy commander decided to attack the city, and although the envoy was the second commander in the army, he was an officer who did not care about the military command, and he had no right of denial in this regard, only the right to suggest.

Jili Mountain City, the city lord's mansion.

The last time Gao Dexin fought against the Khitan, he was hit by an arrow in his body, and he has been bedridden since then. Although the Khitans returned to Jian'an Prefecture, Gaodexin's spirit was much better. But the whole person is also very thin, and in the hot days of July, he is still wearing a blanket.

In the battle with the Khitan, Jili Prefecture was completely defeated, although the Khitan people retreated, abandoned the captured cities and villages to the north, but the population, livestock, money and food of the mountain cities were empty. At present, there are only five mountain cities left in Gao Dexin, with a population of less than 100,000, and only 3,000 armored soldiers left.

The wolf went to the tiger, and although the Khitans returned to the north, there was still a strong enemy in the south.

The long-held fears became a reality, and after the Zhenguo army extorted them from them last year, taking away four mountain cities and thousands of military horses, they did not go north again. But now it seems that it is just Li Jing's sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight. Now that the Khitans had returned to the north, they were beaten and were unable to fight again, so they immediately went north again. And compared with last year, Li Jing can be said to be prepared this time.

The 500,000 army of the Northern Expedition, this number is too amazing, even if it is only 20% of the actual number, it can reach 100,000 horses.

Moreover, Li Jing fought not only by quantity, he only took 20,000 people, first captured their four cities, and then went to Youzhou to defeat the Lu Long army with 100,000 soldiers and horses in more than a dozen states. went all the way to the north and wiped out the Shatuo Crow Army in the world of Weizhen. returned to the Central Plains and wiped out hundreds of thousands of grass thieves. Wherever Li Jing goes, wherever he hits, he is invincible and invincible.

Now, he's coming north with a great army, and he has no choice!

Lying in the shade of the willow tree in the courtyard, Gao Dexin tightly wrapped the robe on his body, and it was noon, but he still felt cold in the ice cellar.

There was a rush of footsteps, Gao Dexin opened his eyes, and saw his son Gao Zhaokang, who was now in charge of the affairs of Jili Prefecture, hurriedly breaking in.

Gao Dexin's face showed a trace of unhappiness, and he said weakly: "Zhaokang, why are you so flustered?" ”

"Father, I heard that Li Jing's envoy has arrived in Jili City?" Gao Zhaokang's face was swollen and red, and he gritted his teeth and asked in a deep voice.

"That's right, my father has already met the messenger, and Li Jing asked us to surrender the city. The envoy brought Li Jing's promise that as long as we surrendered the city, he was willing to protect the property and safety of our Gao clan. ”

"Father must have rejected this unreasonable request?"

Gao Dexin's eyes widened a little, staring directly at his eldest son, "Why should I refuse?" ”

"Father agreed?"

"Well, my father has decided to agree, but there is no reply for the time being, I will write a table of surrender tonight, and make a book of Jili Prefecture's household registration form and treasury money and grain together and hand it to the messenger." When Gao Dexin said this, his tone revealed infinite emotion. When he was as young as his son, his grandfather completely handed over the small Goguryeo kingdom to the Balhae kingdom. Then it took more than 30 years for him to return to Liaodong, and then control Jili Prefecture step by step. But now, everything has come to naught in a blink of an eye, Jili Prefecture has been completely defeated, and there is no hope anymore. Surrendering at this time is just like my grandfather's surrender to the Bohai Kingdom, just to protect the Gao family, hoping that there will be a chance to rise again in the future.

Although all this is the right choice, after really making up his mind, Gao Dexin seems to have been sucked off his backbone all of a sudden!

Gao Zhaokang's face became more and more red, and even purple.

He roared angrily, "No, father, you can't do this, even if you surrender, no one can surrender Li Jing!" ”

"For what?" Gao Dexin asked in a low voice.

"For what? Doesn't my father know that when Yue'er returned to Longquan Mansion last year, she was looted by Li Jing when she passed through Weiba Mountain City. Now not only has she become Li Jing's woman, but she also gave birth to a son to Li Jing? The hatred of taking his wife, a great shame! Gao Zhaokang clenched his fists, and the green tendons on his neck were bursting out.

"It's just gossip!"

"Father, it's true, Er'er sent someone to Dengzhou, and reported that he did see Yue'er, and it was in Li Jing's mansion." Gao Zhaokang said bitterly and resentfully.

Gao Dexin glanced at his son in disappointment, "What's the case, it's just a woman." As a father, I plan to hand over the Gao family to you, but in your eyes, the entire Gao family is not as important as a woman who abandons her husband? ”

"Yue'er was robbed!"

"Is there anything between robbers and willingness?" Gao Dexin's voice suddenly raised a few points, and after roaring, he couldn't stop coughing. He took out a handkerchief to wipe his mouth, but on the handkerchief was a shocking bright red. Seeing these bloodstains, Gao Dexin's whole person seemed to be a little confused, and waved his hand weakly, "Let's go, since you don't want to surrender to Li Jing, then go and prepare immediately, let's go to Bohai!" (To be continued......)