Yang Wanchun retreated to the 'Zhuhan City' about twenty miles away from Danfeng City, by the Yalu River, thinking of the 10,000 troops he brought, and then looking at the lonely more than 100 horsemen, his eyes flashed with a thick hatred, he couldn't help but sigh, pulled out the sword and was about to commit suicide, and the guards who had already sensed that something was wrong with him burst out and knocked him to the ground, and the sword flew out a few feet away.

The commander of the guards said loudly: "General, if you die, how can you explain to the brothers who sacrificed, and if you die, who will avenge the brothers?" ”

Yang Wanchun sat on the ground in a daze, and after a long time, he got up, picked up the sword, cut off the thumb of his left hand, and said sharply: "The gods have verified, I, Yang Wanchun, swore by my fingers today, and today's shame will never be forgotten." The day of return will be avenged for this blood vengeance......"

After he had made his oath, he swung his horse into the city and shouted, "Go!" "Immediately, he did not bandage it, and he ignored the wound of his severed fingers, and led the troops into the 'Zhuhan City'.

"Don't leave the branch, big brother! The end will be a death penalty! On the top of the city tower, Yang Wanchun knelt on the ground and pleaded guilty to Yuan Taizuo and Yizhi Wende.

"General Yang, ...... are you?" Yuan Taizuo and Yizhi Wende glanced at each other, their eyes full of shock.

"The last general is defeated, defeated!" Yang Wanchun's face flashed with a thick look of despair, looked at the sky and murmured: "Sin will be wiped out!" Please punish the two adults. ”

As he spoke, he presented the bloody sword in both hands.

"Wan Chun, what's the matter with you?" Yuan Taizuo frowned and pulled him up.

Yang Wanchun suddenly told the story of the battle with a dead face.

Yuan Taizuo and Yizhi Wende were stunned for a moment.

Yang Wanchun is not well-known in Goguryeo, but no one who knows him dares to underestimate him. Yang Wanchun is from a very ordinary family, but he is studious since childhood, he has the ambition of a great bird at a young age, Yang Wanchun studied under the Han people who were exiled to Goguryeo, he studied Confucianism hard, he was very interested in military affairs, and constantly collected the art of war and strategy passed down by the sages of the Central Plains, and studied hard. He is particularly proficient in The Art of War.

When Yang Guang went on his first expedition to Goguryeo, Yang Wanchun was determined to join the army, performed well in the war, and was valued by Yuan Ziyou, and promised him a beloved daughter, speaking of which he was Yuan Taizuo's brother-in-law.

But Yang Wanchun did not become a member of the Yuan clan because of the importance of Yuan Ziyou, because he learned the way of loyalty and patriotism in the Central Plains, he got very close to the Goguryeo royal family, and intersected with Eulzhi Wende and became friends who forgot their years.

However, although Yang Wanchun is the core figure of the Goguryeo royal family, he has always been attracted by the Yuan family, and because of the identity of the son-in-law of the Yuan family, he has not been valued by Gao Yuan and Gao Jianwu, and has been unknown in Goguryeo.

But now, the characters that Yuan Taizuo and Ezhi Wende are jointly valued have actually returned with annihilation.

Yuan Taizuo glanced at Yizhi Wende, and then said to Yang Wanchun: "Wanchun doesn't have to blame himself too much, the defeat in this battle is not you, it is I who underestimated the Sui army, but I didn't expect to fight for more than half a month, the Sui army still has these strong cavalry, it is my main general's fault." If I encounter such tactics, I will not be able to resist them. Big brother! This is not a crime of war! What do you think you do? ”

Hearing this, Yizhi Wende's face immediately softened a little, and his mood calmed down, and a young man on the side glanced at Yuan Taizuo with admiration, the master, but first blame himself and then the people, so that everyone can be united.

This young man has a very great beard, a burly body, and his gloomy eyes are very similar to Yuan Taizuo, his name is Yuan Gai Suwen, and he is the eldest son of Yuan Taizuo.

"Su Wen, take your uncle to bandage his wounds!" Yuan Taizuo ordered.

"Whoa!" Yuangai Suwen gently picked up Yang Wanchun and walked out of the city tower.

"The Sui army held out for more than half a month, but today it suddenly came out of the city, it is estimated that reinforcements have arrived, and our army lacks cavalry, this battle is not very easy to fight! How do you think we should fight this battle? Yuan Taizuo said slowly.

Goguryeo's horse farm has been taken away by the Great Sui, and there is no horse farm in the territory, and it has been fighting in Silla for the past two years, and the war horses are nearly exhausted, and now the whole country can barely get together 10,000 horses.

Yizhi Wende bowed and said calmly: "Don't leave the branch lord, don't worry, now the confidant doesn't know the other, and I can't make a judgment, the two of us will go to see where the other party came from tomorrow, and then make a plan!" ”

"Good."

……

As the saying goes, a few families are happy and a few are sad, and the city of Zhuhan is in a gloomy and gloomy situation. The Great Sui Danfeng City was boiling with the enthusiasm to return from a great victory, and the Xuanjia Army led by Yang Tong was treated as heroes.

And Yang Tong was surrounded by a group of people and suffered a burst of complaints, especially Fang Xuanling and Du Ru were so angry that they almost jumped to their feet.

"What's this? Didn't you win yet? More than 10,000 Goguryeo troops were easily done. Yang Tong said nonchalantly, to be honest, this war with mental calculation and unintentional is really easy.

"The situation in Goguryeo must be very clear to everyone." When everyone had said about it, Yang Tong returned to the truth and preached: "Today's Goguryeo strength is not strong, especially after losing Ma Yuan, it has dropped a lot. But if I can shake the foundation of the Great Sui, it can be seen that it must be outstanding! ”

Although he understood that Yang Guang deliberately failed miserably in order to consume the Praetorian Guard, Yang Tong could only tell the lie to the end: "Therefore, we must not take it lightly and repeat the mistakes of the past." It is even more important to face up to Goguryeo and the places where they are difficult to deal with, only in this way can we be invincible. ”

Deng Wei bowed his head and said: "Your Highness is right, Goguryeo is indeed a difficult bone to gnaw, and this battle is to win steadily according to my opinion, and first establish yourself in an invincible position." Don't give Goguryeo a chance to take advantage of it and then win. ”

Zuo Tiancheng continued: "After the founding of the Great Sui, there was no decent threat in the surrounding area, and after the easy destruction of Nanchen, the only strong enemy of the Turks was also repeatedly divided by my Great Sui. ”

Seeing that when Zuo Tiancheng said this, he couldn't let go, Yang Tong said with a smile: "General Zuo, we don't have any concerns here, everything is for victory, it doesn't matter if you have any ideas." ”

"Whoa!" Zuo Tiancheng said: "Let's take Goguryeo, a small country, as an example. In terms of real combat power, it is actually not strong. However, my Great Sui was too smooth, so when Goguryeo tried to expand to Liaoxi, Emperor Wen did not hesitate to mobilize 300,000 troops to conquer. It can also be seen from the generals in charge of the army at that time that Emperor Wen did not take Goguryeo to heart at all. ”

Everyone also knows this period of history and agrees very much with Zuo Tiancheng's statement.

At that time, Yang Jian took Yang Liang as his commander and sent Gao Gong, Wang Shiji and the general Zhou Luohu to lead an army of 300,000 land and water to attack Goguryeo.

Gao Gong and Wang Shiji are both famous generals of the Great Sui who have experienced a hundred battles. Wang Shiji's destruction of Nanchen, Dingyuzhang, Luling, and Xunyang was also invincible and invincible.

However, when attacking Goguryeo, he made a rash advance, and drove straight into it with a large army of land and water. As a result, the navy encountered strong winds and waves, and many ships sank. The commander of the waterway, Zhou Luohu, had already lost his troops and suffered a great loss of vitality, and was just about to recuperate, but was defeated by Goguryeo in one fell swoop. After Gao Gong and Wang Shiji conquered the key fortresses, they simply abandoned them and went deep into the hinterland of Goguryeo, the battle line was too long, and all the grain and grass logistics could not be supplied, resulting in the rout of the army, and ninety percent of the soldiers and horses were left on the land of Liaodong.

In all fairness, if it weren't for the top-down contempt for Goguryeo at that time, even if Gao Gong and Wang Shiji couldn't win Goguryeo, they could have calmly retreated after achieving rich results, just like Li Shimin. However, because the previous wars of the Great Sui had always crushed the enemy with strong troops, everyone was careless and underestimated the enemy, and the result was a big defeat.

This kind of mentality of underestimating the enemy and being careless has continued until Zhang Xutuo, Xue Shixiong, Song Laosheng and other counterinsurgency generals, which shows that this is a matter of national conditions.

"As for Emperor Wu's expedition to Goguryeo... Let's not talk about it... In short, everyone despises Goguryeo! Zuo Tiancheng ignored Yang Guangzhi's expedition, paused, and concluded: "Goguryeo has a unique geographical advantage. And I am very good at taking advantage of the advantages of time and place, so I have repeatedly suffered big losses! ”

Yang Tong nodded, looked at the map of Goguryeo carefully made by Deng Wei and others, and asked: "To fight a war, you must know yourself and your opponent, so please ask General Deng to summarize Goguryeo's geographical advantages." ”

"Whoa!"

Deng Wei stood up and said unyieldingly: "Combined with the gains over the years, coupled with many demonstrations with General Zuo, we have summed up four major advantages for Goguryeo!" ”

"First, the road! The terrain of Goguryeo is high in the north and low in the south, mountainous and steep, and there are not many routes that can accommodate the army to pass through, and the best way to take is to go east along the seaside, but the climate is also impermanent, sometimes the sea breeze blows, and sometimes there will be landslides, so the logistics support task is arduous. ”

"Second, water! In addition to the high and steep mountains in Goguryeo, there are also large and small rivers, from west to east, there are Da Dye Shui, Ap Shui, Sa Shui, and Hyun Shui, and then they can reach its capital - Pingyao. ”

"Third, the city! The biggest characteristic of Goguryeo is that it is good at imitation, with a variety of city building techniques learned from the Central Plains, using its own topographical characteristics to improve, building a city by the mountain, nine out of ten cities are surrounded by steep mountains, only four big cities are located, respectively, the domestic city in the northwest of Yalushui, Xuansu City, and the 'Zhuhan City' to deal with Danfeng City, the Pingyao City east of Yalushui has been repaired for hundreds of years, and the city is strong, maybe not as good as Daxing and Luoyang, but it will not be much inferior, and the place where it is located is also easy to defend and difficult to attack! The northern part of Goguryeo is mountainous, which is not conducive to the movement of the army, and if we march, we can only advance along the sea around the sea. In order to prevent the back road from being cut off, the domestic city west of Yalushui and the city of Xuansu must also be restrained."

"Fourth, the people, refers to the people of Goguryeo!" Deng Wei glanced at the group of people who were listening carefully, and said: "The small people of Goguryeo are widowed, and they live in a harsh environment, all of them are brave and good at fighting and daring to die. In addition, Goguryeo was extremely hostile to my Great Sui. Don't expect their soldiers to surrender, only by killing them can they travel lightly. Their so-called surrender is all false, and once they are fooled, they will lose all their efforts. ”

"So......" Deng Wei said categorically: "If I want to defeat Goguryeo, I must overcome the four major advantages of the other party. ”

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