His Majesty the Emperor issued a mobilization order, and the war machine of the Tang Army quickly began to operate. The barracks was filled with the shouting of horses and the shouting of the officers, and the army was quickly organized and ready to go.

Li Dongsheng also followed the battalion, but received Li Shimin's order to stay in the Chinese army camp and stand by. The general of the Right Guard, Cheng Yanjin, was ordered to lead 100,000 troops to meet the Goguryeo reinforcements led by Gao Yanshou. At the gate of the barracks, the soldiers with high morale rushed out of the gate of the camp in full gear. Cheng Yanjin looked at the soldiers with a serious expression and walked past him with neat steps, and he was in a very dazed mood. This Eastern Expedition to Goguryeo was the most tiring and aggrieved of his military service for decades, His Majesty is no longer the wise and martial lord he was when he took refuge, and now he himself has lost his original self-confidence, has become suspicious, vain, and cannot listen to others.

From the beginning of the battle to the current reinforcements against Goguryeo, all the arrangements of the war were under his control, and generals like himself could only follow the strategy he set. Although this national war can be said to be very smooth now, Cheng Yanjin has always felt uneasy in his heart. I can't tell the reason for this uneasiness, it's just an intuition, but this intuition has allowed Cheng Yanjin to survive so many dangerous battlefields.

Li Dongsheng's arrival disrupted his thinking, and Cheng Yanjin turned around to see Li Dongsheng riding on a horse and saluting him.

Cheng Yanjin smiled: "You kid is finally willing to come to see me?" ”

Li Dongsheng said with a smile: "I learned that Uncle Cheng is going to fight, so here I wish you a victorious start and a triumphant return." ”

Cheng Yanjin laughed: "Thank you for your auspicious words, don't be so polite between us!" If you can really return with a big victory, when you return to Chang'an, you invite me to call your chef to the Star Picking Tower to cook a private meal, and it will be regarded as a celebration for the old man. ”

These are all trivial things, Li Dongsheng smiled, and then looked up at the soldiers passing in front of him and said, "Uncle, how are you going to fight this battle?" ”

Cheng Yanjin looked at Li Dongsheng's solemn face and asked, "What?" Is there something wrong? You kid has a lot of ideas, what good advice do you have? If only you had been by my side when crossing the river, the casualties would not have been so great. By the way, now I will go to Your Majesty and let you be my army commander. ”

For the sake of his own safety, Li Dongsheng quickly rejected his whimsical suggestion and said: "I just have something in my heart that I want to say to you......"

Cheng Biting Jin patted Li Dongsheng's shoulder heavily and said, "You kid is still hiding with me?" If you have something to say, hurry up. ”

Li Dongsheng tilted his body, almost fell off the horse, and looked at Cheng Yanjin with resentment in his eyes: "Uncle, you are a famous general who has been on the battlefield for a long time, and marching and fighting is your forte, I said that if you have any ideas, it is the class to get an axe, I just want to tell you one word, you must not underestimate the Goguryeo people." In particular, this lord will have a high life extension. ”

Cheng Yanjin listened to Li Dongsheng's words for a long time and was silent, and only said after a while: "How did you know about this Gao Yanshou?" ”

Li Dongsheng couldn't tell him that I had seen it from the history books of later generations, and now he can't explain it, so he can only say vaguely: "When I was a county magistrate in Laizhou, I heard from Silla fishermen that this person was said to be brave and good at fighting, brave and strategic, and he was a famous general in Goguryeo, and he had never lost a single defeat in the war with Silla and Baekje, so Uncle Cheng, you must be careful when you go, and you must not be careless." ”

Cheng Yanjin nodded and said: "Although I am usually very arrogant, but I have experienced a hundred battles in my life, and I never dare to underestimate any enemy when I fight, you have always been known for having a lot of ghost ideas, and I will definitely pay more attention to him if I remind me so solemnly like today!" You can rest assured, although he is a famous Goguryeo general, but I am not in vain, let me weigh him Jin Liang. ”

Li Dongsheng said: "Judging from past experience, this time Gao Yanshou came to aid Liaodong City, he may not be as head-on as we thought, he may choose to surprise the attack, use all kinds of harassment methods to fatigue, divide the hearts of our army, and wait for our army to be exhausted and chaotic before launching a fatal blow." I only hope that Uncle Cheng, you must be cautious and careful, don't think about a quick battle, just fight steadily. ”

Cheng Yanjin nodded: "You are the most important junior of the old man, I used to see you fighting in the chest, but after His Majesty wanted to go east this time, you were depressed from the beginning, do you think the battle of the east will be lost?" My Datang Dynasty has swept the world for decades, swept the surrounding countries, and now there are such big killers as grenades, it should be very easy to level Goguryeo? ”

Li Dongsheng wanted to tell him very much that fighting a war is not simply a comparison of equipment and numbers, and that the US troops in later generations will not be overwhelmed by guerrilla warfare, not to mention that everyone now has similar equipment. He said in a low voice: "Since the beginning of His Majesty's Eastern Crusade, do you think he is still the wise and decisive King of Qin back then?" Do you think he was right about his deployment and command? ”

Cheng Yanjin's face changed: "Be cautious, be careful that the wall has ears!" These words are rotten in your stomach, and you must not say them to anyone, understand? He said it in a loud voice, and turned his head to see if there was anyone next to him.

Li Dongsheng nodded and said: "My uncle is also a military general, I only said what was in my heart when you were your own parent, and I won't say it even if others ask me." ”

Cheng Biting Jin turned around and said: "Put away your worries, old man, I have also been on the battlefield for decades, this time let me go and see what kind of Goguryeo famous generals are on the Mingzhen Peninsula." ”

Li Dongsheng bowed to farewell: "I wish the general success!" ”

Under the city of Liaodong, the progress of the siege operation by Zhang Jian as the main attack is completely different from what the officers and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty imagined, the defender of the city of Liaodong is called Jiang Xian, he seems to have all the siege techniques of the Tang Dynasty in his chest, and he can quickly come up with a way to deal with every siege equipment, and the defenders of Goguryeo are very tenacious in their will to fight, they are ready to live and die with the city, when the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty attack the city, they all use the method of fighting for life, Zhang Jian has almost exhausted all the conventional siege methods that can be imagined, paid heavy casualties, but failed to capture Liaodong City.

This attack is five days, Li Dongsheng looked at the wounded soldiers and the corpses of the Tang army carried down every day, and he was very heartbroken, he wanted to rush to the tent and ask Li Shimin, is it so important to have a false name, for you to leave a name in the history of conquering Goguryeo, just to see so many good men of the Tang Dynasty die in a foreign country without value?

Even if you don't accept my opinion, you can always blow up the city gate with gunpowder if you attack the city with such a large number of casualties, right? What do you mean you can't even use grenades? You're fighting, you're not fighting, these are good men!