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At a glance, I saw that all the soldiers and civilians in the city were pouring to both sides of the street, cheering at Yuming and the officers and soldiers who had just withdrawn from the front line, with a look of madness.

Lin Mo put his lips to Yu Ming's ear and whispered: "Boss, I announced the results of your annihilation of more than 10,000 enemy troops to the soldiers and civilians in the city, and now everyone is enthusiastic, and many people have signed up to join the army these days." Not counting the people you have withdrawn, there are more than 20,000 new soldiers in our city alone. ”

Yu Ming's heart was also relieved after hearing this, these recruited recruits are estimated to be useless in field battles, but it is estimated that there is no big problem in throwing stones at the Goryeo soldiers on the ladder during the city defense war. And no matter how bad it is, it can scare the enemy.

As soon as he withdrew from the Yalu River to Liaodong City, there were only more than 15,000 troops of more than 22,000 troops, which was still in the case of so many traps and ambushes set along the way, which shows the ferocity of the Goryeo army. It seems that if it were not for the strong fortress of Liaodong Fortress, it would have been really difficult to defeat the Goryeo army in a field battle.

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Ten miles outside Liaodong City, the camp of the Goryeo army.

"Marshal Gao, the last general suggested that it is better not to attack Liaodong City, so far! Now that we have recovered most of the occupied territory in Liaodong, only a few cities along the line of the Liao River have not been recovered, and we can be regarded as having an explanation for Your Majesty and the people! Now we can completely besiege Liaodong City and not launch a strong attack. When the defenders in the city run out of food, they will naturally collapse, and at that time, maybe they will take the initiative to surrender. Gesu suggested. As the chief general of the vanguard unit crossing the river, he still remembers the tragic and bloody battle by the Yalu River before.

"General Gai, if we stagnate like this, won't it mean that we will not be able to avenge the heavy losses in the first battle of the Yalu River? Didn't the dead soldiers die in vain? "It was Yuan Zuo who spoke, in the battle of the Yalu River, more than half of his troops were killed and wounded, almost equal to being disabled, and his younger brother Yuan Ji also died at the hands of Yu Ming. He doesn't want revenge and blood hatred all the time.

"General Yuan, if we continue to attack, I'm afraid our losses will be even heavier! How strong Liaodong City is, we all know very well that we were guarding Liaodong City back then, blocking the ten thousand troops of the Sui army. Let the Sui army accumulate corpses under the city...... But if we blindly attack now, then we will repeat the tragic situation of the previous Sui army, and we will be the Koreans who are full of corpses. Gasu even objected.

Everyone was thinking about Gaisu's words at this time, they advanced from the Yalu River to Liaodong City, and encountered many traps and ambushes, and the Sui army was strong and cleared, and blocked all the wells on the first, leaving not a grain of grain, and all the villages and towns were ruined. The Goryeo army was unable to get supplies from the villages and towns along the way, and the soldiers were exhausted. In the past few days of pursuing Liaodong City, they have been attacked many times in a row, and although the casualties are not large, they have made the nerves of all the officers and soldiers very nervous.

But if it stops there, Emperor Yang Guang of Sui will lead his army back to the Central Plains, and he will calmly destroy Yang Xuangan. At that time, with his personality, he will definitely attack our Goryeo again. At that time, we won't have the same good fortune as we did this time. "It was Yizhide who spoke, he had a lot of contact with Hu Sizheng, and he still knew a lot about the situation in the Sui Dynasty.

"When the Sui army attacked my Goryeo last year, it was Yang Guang who was stupid and set up some envoys, and then he was forced to retreat because of the plague. However, when the Sui army attacked this year, there were no unfavorable factors, and under their all-out attack, our Goryeo was always in a passive situation due to the disadvantage of troops. If it weren't for Yang Xuangan's rebellion, it would have been impossible for the main force of the Sui army to retreat. Gao Jianwu's brother Gao Jian finally spoke at this time.

As the brother of the commander of the Goryeo Army, he naturally made all the generals of the Goryeo Army prick up their ears and listen.

"Therefore, if we do not take this opportunity to inflict heavy losses on the Sui army, so that they will not be able to attack Goryeo again for at least ten years, we will definitely move north again after Yang Guang has quelled the rebellion in the country. We all know very well now that under the condition that the Sui army is well prepared and does not make mistakes, our army will not be able to engage them head-on. Gao Jian's eyes were like a moment at this time, and he glanced at the generals of the Goryeo army present.

After a pause, he continued: "Therefore, we must win this battle, even if we can't annihilate the main force of the Sui army, we must take Liaodong City and defeat this broken rear army of the Sui army. In the future, the Sui Dynasty will take the Liao River as the boundary, and strive to compete with it with the help of the natural danger of the Liao River. ”

"That's it! Let's try to capture Liaodong City, so that we can decide the battle in one battle. Yuan Zuo even echoed.

"But how can it be so light? You see that the battle of the Yalu River was fought so hard, and the 5,000 elite troops who smuggled across the river from the upstream were actually cremated to ashes by the Sui army. Although this Yu Ming is young, he is not so easy to deal with! Gaisu still objected.

After Gao Jianwu heard this, he also frowned slightly, and he was also thinking in his heart at this time, how to achieve a decent end in this battle.

Gao Jianwu also knew that it was difficult to capture Liaodong City now, and many of his heavy siege equipment had not been able to cross the Yalu River.

And it is very difficult for these improvised siege equipment to be used to capture a fortified city like Liaodong City. But if he returns to the army and the Sui army chases after him, it is easy to be defeated when his own people are sleepy and lacking in food and water. At that time, the name of his famous Korean general will be in vain.

Alas, the Yalu River suffered great losses in the First Battle, not only losing the most elite 10,000 troops, but more importantly, losing morale and the confidence of the officers and soldiers in victory, but only making the morale of the Sui army high. This Yuming, at a young age, has really become my nemesis in Goryeo. I heard that it was he who came up with the method of "isolation" last year to extinguish the plague and save most of the Sui army. Gao Jianwu thought hatefully at this time.

Thinking of this, Gao Jianwu finally decided to give it a go, so he said: "I have heard all of your words, and everyone has their own reasons. The current situation is indeed not very favorable. But if we stop and return to Pyongyang, how will we explain to Your Majesty and the people? Xingshi mobilized the people to counterattack the Sui army, and as a result, they lost tens of thousands of people by the Yalu River, but failed to recover the occupied territory, especially for our country, the vital Liaodong City is still in the hands of the Sui army, such a result of the battle is making me wait for shame! ”

As soon as Gao Jianwu said this, all the Goryeo generals lowered their heads.

Ulzhide asked thoughtfully, "Then ......what does the marshal mean?"

"Ben Shuai means that there is still a battle, but it is best to lure the Sui army to the field for a decisive battle. We will strive to defeat them in a decisive battle, and then take advantage of this victory to recover Liaodong City, and use the Liao River as the boundary with the Sui Dynasty, so that we can have a decent result and report to Your Majesty. At the same time, I also had an explanation with Hu Sizheng, the envoy sent by Yang Xuangan, indicating that we cooperated in the battle according to their intentions! Gao Jianwu said.

"But Marshal, Yu Ming, the commander of the Sui army, is so shrewd, how could he be willing to go out of the city and confront us head-on?" Gaisu asked in surprise.

All the generals also looked at Gao Jianwu with doubts, after all, the Sui army was not stupid, it was clear that there was a strong city that did not defend, but it came out to fight a field battle with the Goryeo army with superior troops. This is really impossible.

"Hehe, I naturally have a way to get them out, but I need your cooperation." Gao Jianwu had a weird smile on his face.

"This method is to feed the war with war! It's just that doing so will have an impact on your reputation. But I don't think it's okay for an individual to suffer a little infamy for the sake of the country! Now, I'm starting to assign tasks to each unit......" Gao Jianwu said, and began to arrange it......

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A few days later, the Goryeo army began to launch a large-scale attack, which made the nerves of all the soldiers and civilians in Liaodong City tense up.

The Goryeo army dispatched a lot of men and horses this time, and they were all their elite troops.

At the risk of heavy casualties, after filling in the two trenches outside the city of Liaodong and the newly excavated moat at great cost, they began to build fortifications in the forward positions outside the city to prevent the Sui army from leaving the city to surprise their own army.

At the same time, the Goryeo army also drove the captured Sui prisoners, as well as the civilians recruited nearby, to start cutting down wood and building houses, posing as if they were going to besiege Liaodong City for a long time.

Then, Gao Jianwu, the commander of the Goryeo Army, sent a large number of troops, scattered to nearby towns to loot food and supplies. Due to the proximity to the Sui border around Liaodong City, many residents came to the Guanwai to beg for a living in order to escape the military disasters and bandits.

Although Lin Mo had already arranged the fortified walls and cleared the wilderness, he ordered the nearby residents, especially the Han people, to move into the city of Liaodong. But there are still many residents who are reluctant to relocate. Therefore, in the looting of the Goryeo army in the past few days, the losses were large.

As a result, the Goryeo army plundered a large amount of grain. After being robbed of grain, many Han residents in the vicinity took refuge in the city of Liaodong. And the Goryeo Army actually opened a passage to let these residents enter Liaodong City.

Although there was enough grain stored in Liaodong City, it was prepared according to the number of Sui troops and civilians left. After these surnames entered Liaodong City, Liaodong City's not very abundant grain inventory immediately became a little stretched.

Moreover, these surnames who fled into the city were burned, killed and looted by the Goryeo army, and the viciousness of the Goryeo army was widely promoted, so that the people in Liaodong City also had a fear of the Goryeo army, and then began to affect some recruits who were recruited from the people......

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