What Li Shimin wants more is to win this war at the lowest cost, on the front line of Yanjin, Yuangai Suwen used heavy troops, he is actually not in a hurry to attack, and he can wait for the results of the middle road, or the lower road.

Yuangai Suwen wanted to use the victory of this war to make Li Tang flawless within ten years.

Because, even if he won this battle, it would take at least ten years for him to fulfill the promises he made to Silla, Baekje, and Wa in this war, and to restore Goguryeo's national strength.

Moreover, what he needs is a big victory, a small victory, and it doesn't end the fight.

No matter what kind of considerations Li Shimin and Yuangai Suwen had, they did not rush desperately as soon as they met, and after a few small frictions, the two armies faced each other under the city of Yanjin, and the Tang army, which had only more than 100,000 people, attacked the main attack, and the Goguryeo army, which numbered more than 700,000, was the main defense.

This is also something that can't be helped, a few small frictions, so that Yuangai Suwen clearly understood the gap between the Goguryeo army and the Tang army, even the Goguryeo army, which is not equipped with wooden armor and leather armor, once it clashed head-on with the Tang army, it was almost one-sided and slaughtered, those Silla, Baekje, and Japanese people, it was okay to fight a good fight, and when they really faced the Tang army with full body iron armor and armed to the teeth, they would uncontrollably want to retreat.

"Someone, please come over Mr. Wang Ming."

In Yanjin City, in Yuangai Suwen's handsome tent, Yuangai Suwen, who had just finished eating and drinking, shouted to his guards depressedly.

This Wang Ming is the middle-aged scribe sent by Wang Hao to send fierce fire oil to Yuangai Suwen and provide him with the news that Li Shimin himself was in the Tang Army on the road.

After a while, Wang Ming was taken by the sergeant to Yuangai Suwen's tent, as if he had expected it.

"Wang Gongzi sent Mr., in addition to teaching me how to use those fierce fire oils, don't you have some strategies to break the enemy to teach me?"

Wang Ming glanced at the leftovers on Yuan Gai Suwen's table, and said with a smile, "What the general wants is a quick victory!" ”

"Exactly, the number of my armies from all walks of life combined, more than one million, however, since last year, the country has been in the midst of war, the people can not cultivate the fields, this grain reserves, depleted too quickly, now, even a commander like me, can only eat some coarse grains to wrap his stomach, if he does not win, I am afraid that the strong defense line that has been painstakingly operated for so many years will be destroyed in one fell swoop."

Due to the three wars of the former Sui Dynasty, Goguryeo faced the road in the direction of the Tang Dynasty, almost five miles and one fort, ten miles and one village, where there are mountains, there must be fortifications, resulting in the Tang army even if it has a huge advantage in equipment, it is very slow to advance, and there is still a certain amount of damage one after another, and the consumption of stone projectiles and arrows is also very large, Cheng Chumo's logistics army has not stopped the escort work, so far, it has only opened the outer defense of several lines of defense, close to several core fortified cities on the border of Goguryeo.

Like Liaoyang City and Yanjin City, its walls are as high as five zhang, made of solid stones, as long as the soldiers defending the city hide behind the newly erected bunkers at the head of the city, the Tang army's catapults, bed crossbows, it is difficult to kill and injure them.

Then there is the Beisha City near the sea, the city wall is directly built on a small hill wall, the defenders are condescending, as long as the Tang army does not take a lot of lives to fill, it is difficult to attack it, in the case that the number of defenders in the city is still greater than the Tang army, Liu Hongji and Zhang Liang do not dare to attack at all, and do not dare to take the stone city directly behind them, because the stone city is also easy to defend and difficult to attack, once they go around, they may encounter several times their own army on both sides.

Therefore, they could only clear out some of the surrounding obstacle fortresses one by one, as a line of defense for the Tang army to prevent being attacked by surprise attacks, and then use some fires in the upwind of the city, set smoke, etc., so that the people in the city lived a very uncomfortable way, to slowly grind, and at the same time, cut off their supplies, specifically to attack their reinforcements.

The advantage of the Tang army is that there is enough food and grass, and there is no threat on the back road, and the military rations in the Laizhou base camp are enough for the army to eat for a year, and if you want more food, you can also transport it from the sea at any time, continue to grind, and it is inevitable to achieve final victory.

And the young and strong people of Goguryeo have all participated in the war, there are not so many people who grow food, and their food, eating a little less, the generals who defend the city are more anxious than the Tang army, it depends on who can't hold back first.

"It's not that there is no way to win quickly, but you have to be willing to give it up, general."

"Willing?"

"Yes, yes, willing to give up this Yanjin City, and the people in the city, willing to sacrifice a certain number of soldiers' lives."

As one of the important towns of Goguryeo, the people in the city are at least 30,000 or 40,000 households, with a population of more than 100,000 and a large army

Thinking of the situation Goguryeo is facing now, Yuangai Suwen gritted his teeth and said, "Please also ask Mr. for advice." ”

Hearing this, Wang Ming's face was overjoyed, it seemed that he could easily complete the task assigned by Wang Hao.

At midnight, outside the city of Yanjin, hundreds of carts full of jars and jars are transporting things to the city, if there are people with a sharp nose, they can smell that there are some special smells in these jars and jars, but not only these hundreds of carts, but also in the direction of other fortresses in the rear of Goguryeo, there is a steady stream of such altars and jars to Yanjin City, the number is extremely terrifying, the reason why they choose to transport in batches late at night is to keep it secret from all the soldiers and the people in Yanjin City.

Almost on the same night, escorting the third batch, more than 5,000 truckloads of goods to Shuzhong Shelong, after eating and drinking, he fell asleep, in the dream, he was fantasizing, the people of his tribe, one day will live a good life like the people of Guanzhong, however, danger, but at this moment approached them.

"Patriarchs, kill Shelong, all the wealth of the Bai clan is yours, whether you can be prosperous and rich depends on this battle."

Zhang Cheng held the sword in his hand, beside him, several richly dressed Yunnan tribal leaders had a greedy flame in their eyes, in the past two or three months, under the leadership of Zhang Cheng, they have seen Shelong's convoy many times on this road from Yunnan to Shuzhong.

The scene of 100 cars going, 1000 cars back, 1000 cars going, and 10,000 cars going back greatly stimulated them, and those cars that came back were all pulling very exquisite, expensive, and scarce goods in Yunnan.

Therefore, after some planning, they finally decided to make a move on Shelong, anyway, according to the Han man who led them here, the army of the Tang Dynasty was on an eastward expedition, and they could not take care of them at all.

Moreover, Shelong is just a nominal courtier of the Li Tang court, even if they kill him, Li Tang may not send a large army to retaliate, even if they come to retaliate, the total number of young and strong soldiers of their various ethnic groups is more than 200,000, as long as they are allies with neighboring Tubo, even if the Tang Dynasty sends an army, it may not be helpless against them.

"Kill, kill, kill"

The slogans of several leaders shouted, and tens of thousands of clan soldiers, under their leadership, frantically pounced on Shelong's convoy, and suddenly, in the camp, screams rang out one after another, and the completely unsuspecting Mengshe Zhao soldiers were killed before they could pick up their new weapons.

Shelong, who woke up in the shouts of killing, quickly grabbed the ceremonial knife of the town guard general that Li Shimin personally gave him in the camp tent, however, when he rushed out of the camp and saw clearly the number of people besieging his convoy, he no longer dared to think about killing the enemy to protect himself, because his convoy was only escorted by more than 10,000 people, and the people besieging him were at least seventy or eighty thousand, and most of his people had already been killed.

"Don't fight, follow me and run into the mountains."

Shelong's shouting, so that the soldiers of the clan to discern the direction, have moved closer to him, his military uniform, very conspicuous, after a while, the remaining two or three thousand people under his leadership, rushed to the direction of the dark primitive deep forest, they Yunnan people, not afraid of this kind of deep mountains and old forests, as long as they enter the forest, dispersed, there are always some people can live.

"Stop him, Sheron must be killed."

Zhang Cheng's voice, Shelong is very familiar, however, in the case of the black light, he can't see where Zhang Cheng's direction is, the Uzi steel war knife is out of the sheath, and there is almost no enemy in front of Shelong, it's not that his martial arts are so strong, just because, his knife is too good, with Shelong's brute force, every time he swings out, he can cut the tribal soldiers who stop in front of him, even people, with bamboo guns, short knives or something, and cut melons and vegetables in half.

The barbarians all admired the strong, and the invincible posture of the dragon made the barbarians of all races who surrounded him afraid, retreated, and saw that the encirclement was about to be torn open by him, Zhang Cheng, who was holding a steel sword, and the most elite warriors of each department finally caught up.

"Run to the forest, the living people, go to Shuzhong and report the news in the clan, the great wizard, Wang Hao, is not a good person."

Shelong's war knife swept away the last circle of barbarians in the encirclement, and behind him, the remaining more than 1,000 Mengshezhao soldiers fled to the woods, and many of the clansmen of various tribes chased after them, but more people died under Shelong's knife.

"Scandium."

A loud metal collision sound brought up a little sparks, and under the illumination of these sparks, Shelong saw Zhang Cheng's figure clearly.

"Sure enough, it's you, why did you kill me?" Shelong roared at Zhang Cheng.

He knows Zhang Cheng's ability, in terms of strength, he may be better than him, but in terms of fists and feet, he will lose to him, the collision of the two knives just now did not cut the weapon in Zhang Cheng's hand like when this war knife slashed at the weapons of other barbarians, then, under the attack of him and many barbarian warriors who surrounded him, it is unlikely that he will survive.

"Actually, I don't want to, it's just that it's Childe's order."

Zhang Cheng has been getting along with Shelong for more than a year, before launching this attack, Shelong has always regarded him, as well as Wang Hao, as a great benefactor of Meng Shezhao, usually, it is naturally courteous, thinking that he is now going to kill a person who is usually very respectful and friendly to him, Zhang Cheng's arm suddenly became a little weak, and in his heart, the uncontrollable sense of guilt made him hesitate.

He had time to hesitate, but Shelong didn't, after feeling the crisis, Shelong didn't give up trying to survive, he was not stupid, he knew that only by living could he thwart Wang Hao's conspiracy, otherwise, his son Xinuluo would probably still hold Wang Hao in a god-like position, so that Wang Hao could control the entire Mengshezhao.

After swinging a few knives and picking up several flesh and blood severed arms, Sheron took a frantic stride and ran towards the woods.