"Hah! A group of frightened rats, even if the army is tightly organized? Wang Rengong is an unknown person, so he doesn't need to care,"

Yuan Taizuo snorted coldly, with a slight mockery on his face: "Dapei was in Pyongyang City before, and he was able to disagree with the public, with less than 50,000 troops, and fought a decisive battle with Laihu'er in the field. It is more able to go to the enemy camp alone and surrender. At this time, could it be that the Sui army, which is less than 10,000 people, will not succeed?"

"Xiaguan is not cowardly, but cautious. ”

Etozhi Wende let out a wry smile and moved his gaze to the opposite side.

I saw that on the opposite side of the river, there were about 10,000 Sui troops lined up on the riverside, facing the east of the river.

He found the Great Sui soldiers in the array, although their faces were obviously panicked and flustered. But these people held the hands of the weapons, and they were all firmly clenched, obviously the fighting spirit was not lost.

Especially the ink armor in the array, all of which are neatly and orderly arranged in the array, giving people a sense of calmness like a mountain.

The key point is that most of the two pontoon bridges on the river have been burned down, and it is not easy for the 220,000 troops gathered on the east bank of Goguryeo to cross the river.

At this time, the westerly wind swept in, making it almost impossible to open the eyes on the east coast.

"Lord Mo Lizhi, I heard that the Central Plains has a cloud of war, and those who are good at fighting since ancient times are invincible, and they will not lose the defeat of the enemy. Therefore, the victorious soldiers win first and then seek war. The defeated army fights first and then wins. If the time and location are favorable today, and they are all on the opposite side, how can they lightly advance the enemy? Between the lower officials, it is not too late to wait for the ferry to be ready, and then cross the river to pursue?"

"Since ancient times, those who have been good at fighting have been invincible? Is this from Sun Tzu's Art of War?"

Yuan Taizuo is still a mocking Xiao, he understands the meaning of this sentence, so a person who is good at fighting will put himself in an undefeated position and not let go of the opponent's mistakes. Therefore, the best strategy is to fight only when you have a chance of winning. The next strategy is to fight first and then try to improve the odds of winning.

In short, not to fight unprepared battles.

"But you can't help but look too high at the other side, just a group of frightened people! The people's hearts are not solid, what can they do if they have the right time and place? This commander only needs 5,000 elite soldiers to cross the river, and he will definitely be able to defeat them. What's more, the south of the tooth, the headquarters of the Ming Linchang, are all the internal army of the royal capital, and the armor is excellent. The ferryboat that is now being prepared can send the army of 10,000 people to the opposite side. ”

When he saw that Yizhi Wende still wanted to persuade again, he waved his sleeves impatiently: "I have made up my mind, and there is no need to persuade Dapei! Emperor Sui under Liaodong City has already retreated, and he will be evacuated from the east bank of the Liao River in a few days." But I, the small people of Goguryeo, are widowed, and if we can't hurt the vitality of the Great Sui in a war, we will be in a difficult situation in the future. That Great Sui Emperor, but he was famous for his great achievements, and this time he was defeated by my Goguryeo, and he lost face, so he would not give up. I expect that within a year or two, he will definitely make a comeback! Now the only way to plan is to cross the river as soon as possible, so that he can join forces with my son Yuan Gai Suwen to attack inside and outside and pursue the main force of the Sui army. ”

His eldest son, Yuan Gai Suwen, was holding on to the city of Liaodong at this time. With less than 100,000 soldiers and horses, it resisted the attack of hundreds of thousands of Sui troops for several months.

And when Yuan Taizuo said this, he looked at Yizhi Wende with a knife-like gaze: "Dapei, this war involves the national fortune of our dynasty, how can it be mixed with selfish intentions?"

Ezhi Wende was silent for a moment, speechless for a while.

He knew that there had been some dissent in the army recently. Many feared that after Yuan Taizuo's victory, his authority would increase and his authority would increase.

As Mo Lizhi, Yuan Taizuo was already in charge of the military and political affairs of the country, and if he won the hearts of the people in the north and south of Goguryeo with a great victory, it would definitely make the royal family restless.

And he Yizhi Wende, as the closest minister to the Infant Yang King, will be regarded by Yuan Taizuo as mixed with selfish intentions, which is actually normal.

But the problem is that his previous persuasion of Yuan Taizuo did not contain the slightest distraction, he was really worried that he would encounter a heavy setback if he crossed the river rashly.

Thinking of this, Yizhi Wende couldn't help but shake his head: "Please don't leave the branch and think again." ”

"The military order has been issued, how can the order be changed overnight!"

Yuan Taizuo didn't bother to pay attention to it, and waved his horsewhip to himself: "Let me collect the corpses of the Sui army again, I will build three Jingguan (Jingguan, in ancient times, in order to show off martial arts, gather enemy corpses, and seal the soil into a high mound)! Let those Sui people see what happened to those who invaded my Goguryeo land!"

Yizhi Wende couldn't help but be shocked again, and instinctively persuaded: "This matter is not appropriate! Jingguan's actions are too brutal, and they are the work of jackals and brute beasts. Once our country commits such atrocities, it will surely form an enmity with the Sui people, and there will be endless troubles in the future!"

"Brutality? I was about to use this atrocity to shock the people of the Sui people. This Goguryeo is not a good place,"

Yuan Taizuo snorted disdainfully: "As for the enmity that does not share the sky, isn't it now? I have made up my mind about this matter, and there is no need to persuade those who are in Dapei." ”

As he spoke, he looked at the other side again with deep meaning in his eyes: "There may be a legacy in this matter, but I have ordered all the people in the country to collect the weapons and ink armor left by the Sui people and transport them to Shandong. In this battle, I will make the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty dare not look east at my dynasty from now on!"

When Yizhi Wende heard this, he couldn't help but move, and he already understood Yuan Taizuo's intentions.

Use the Beijing view to deter the enemy's courage, and then use the armor of the Sui people to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle?

He had also heard before that now in the eastern part of the Great Sui Dynasty, due to the excessive conquest of the Sui Dynasty, there have been several thieves in Wang Bo, Sun Anzu, Zhang Jincheng, Gao Shida, and Dou Jiande, gathering hundreds of thousands, and now they are lacking in armor and equipment, and they are not able to compete with the Sui army head-on.

Thinking of this, Eulji Wende couldn't help but secretly praise, although he was quite dissatisfied with Yuan Taizuo's sole control of the military and political power of Goguryeo and the elevation of the royal family. But this person's strategy and resourcefulness made him admire it a lot.

At this time, many ministers in the royal city of Pyongyang thought that the reason why they were able to repel the Sui army was that he was a great contributor.

But if it weren't for Yuan Taizuo's trust and cooperation, he would never have been able to defeat the 40,000 Sui troops under the jurisdiction of Lai Hu'er in the field battle.

"It's a good idea, it's just-"

"Dapei is still worried, right? Those moth thieves in Shandong are actually difficult to become big. It is said that it is a strategy to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, but how much fire can be withdrawn?"

Yuan Taizuo didn't wait for Yizhi Wende to finish speaking, and then interrupted the latter's sentence again. As he spoke, he took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Etoji Bunde.

"But I think if Dapei had read this letter, I was afraid that he would not have thought so. ”

Etozhi Wende raised an eyebrow and took it in his hand. And when he unfolded the letterhead and looked at it carefully, he suddenly looked surprised and unbelieving.

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Outside the city of Liaodong, a wooden palace is slowly moving towards the Liaohe River under the guard of tens of thousands of soldiers with helmets and armor.

This is the 'Guanfeng Xingdian', a mobile palace built by Shangshu Yu Wenkai of the Ministry of Engineering on the spot, personally supervised the work.

——1,000 steps on Thursday, with the board as the dry, the clothes are clothed, decorated with danqing, and the building is prepared. The following is the clutch, the lower axle is applied, and the time goes by. It can not only accommodate hundreds of people, but also travel 200 miles a day, and can be easily disassembled into thousands of parts and taken away by horse-drawn carriages.

(Note: The Temple of Wind Viewing is real, and it is not as exaggerated as the author said.) Zizhi Tongjian records, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty toured the west, to Zhangye, the imperial view of the wind hall, the cultural relics are shengchen, the nine parts of music are played, the fish dragon Manyan is set up, the banquet Gaochang King, Tutun is set up in the palace, in order to favor it, its barbarians accompany more than 30 countries. It also made all the barbarian tribes stunned as gods, and every time they looked at the imperial camp, ten miles away, they bent their knees and did not dare to ride a horse. The real Guanfeng Xing Hall can accommodate about 200 people, but the world in the author's pen is different from reality)

At this time, in the hall of the Guanfeng Xing Palace, Yang Guang was furious,

"Waste! Waste! The 300,000 elites were all killed south of the Yalu River in a battle, are they all pigs and dogs? Slaughtered by others? This is not a useless southern soldier, nor is it an unarmed common man, this is my forbidden army! It is an elite of a hundred battles armed to the teeth!"

At this time, there were only a few people in this hall. Yu Wenshu, Yu Zhongwen, Xue Shixiong and others all knelt in front of Yang Guang's majesty with pale faces and cold sweat. And Pei Ju, the waiter of the Yellow Gate, and Pei Yun, the imperial historian, were standing on the side, and their expressions were difficult to see.

"Please put out the wrath of the thunder, this time it is useless to live up to the divine grace of the Son of Heaven! The 300,000-strong army was wiped out in a battle, and the army was humiliated and humiliated. ”

Yu Wenshu clenched his teeth, and his body trembled and prostrate on the ground: "The ministers are willing to be punished with swords and axes, so as to show that the military law of the Great Sui is ruthless!"

But behind him, Zhang Jin, the general of the right imperial guard, defended unconvincedly: "Your Majesty! After General Yuwen Shuai'er and I waited for the river, we won seven victories in one day, and beheaded 30,000 Goguryeo dog thieves, if it weren't for the defeat of the sailors and the inability to provide food and grass for the army, how could our army be selected into the dilemma of lack of food?"

But before he could speak, Yang Guang directly smashed a teacup down: "But come to Hu'er and let people report that it was you who lost the war, so that he commanded 40,000 soldiers, and almost completely wiped out Goguryeo under the city!"

"Your Majesty!"

At this time, Zhao Xiaocai, the general of the right martial arts, also did not dare to say: "The reason why we missed the deadline this time is because Zhongwen's old horseman fell for Yizhi Wende's trick and was delayed for three days on the way. There is also a prison army Liu Shilong, who was heavily bribed by Goguryeo and took Eulzhi Wende away. And Ulzhi Wendeok, who is the great pei of Goguryeo, whose authority is only under Moli Zhiyuan Taizuo, is also the unparalleled wise man of Goguryeo. When this person entered the camp and surrendered, he already saw that our army was short of food, so he was able to design and defeat our army in Pyongyang City. The reason for this is also to ask Your Majesty to be clear. ”

At this time, the generals who knelt in front of His Majesty also looked aggrieved.

The reason why Yu Zhongwen accepted the fraudulent surrender was, in the final analysis, due to the military order of the Son of Heaven, who had also issued a clear decree not long ago, saying that if all the military horses and cities of Goguryeo wanted to surrender, they should be appeased and accepted.

As for Liu Shilong, the overseer, he is a close minister of the Son of Heaven.

But Zhao Xiaocai is not a stupid person after all, and he doesn't dare to blame the Son of Heaven. can only shirk the responsibility to Yu Zhongwen and Liu Shilong as much as possible.