The Goryeo monarchs and ministers pondered the abnormal behavior of pirates, and they were deeply superstitious about the times, and they were suspicious and speculated about various possibilities. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Could it be that this group of pirates is really good at demon magic, and there are magical masters who set up altars in the army to cast spells, and when the mana is unfolded, the power display can easily bewitch and control and subdue the hearts of the vast number of people on the peninsula? Or in the sacrifice to invite the gods or demons and monsters, ready to break through the capital with a thunderbolt?

If you really have that ability, you don't have to spend a lot of military money to grab two big islands, and then you can kill the peninsula and wait in Licheng Harbor.

It's really inexplicable, I don't know what to say.

Perhaps, something has happened inside the pirates that it is impossible to unify the arrangements for an immediate attack?

In any case, Kaijing City successfully assembled reinforcements, and the outer city received nearly one million young men to assist in defending the city. This is because there are many people, and there are always a lot of people who have insisted on setting up a large number of food emergency reserves in the capital, which can be described as a large number of soldiers and sufficient food, and the defense is really impregnable, and it can be consumed by competing with pirates. As long as pirates are not truly legendary, they are invincible.

The monarchs and the people of Goryeo breathed a sigh of relief and waited vigilantly for the day when the fierce battle would come.

Ten days have passed since the attack on Licheng Port, and there are only five days left before Zhao Yue took the capital of the peninsula in half a month set by the pre-war meeting. Even Luke attacked the city, how could he build a fortified city as high and difficult to climb as a cliff in just five days?

Just when the officers and men of the Northern Army were holding back their strength and preparing to fight the capital with a stick to destroy the country's addiction, and the generals of the Northern Army became anxious, worried that Prince Puji's plan would be lost, that the past battles would be invincible and ineffective, and that the god-like authority would inevitably be damaged, the long-awaited battle order of the General Headquarters was finally issued. The generals of the battalions were doing what they were doing, and when they heard the order, they all jumped up at once.

Finally got started. it.

The officers and men of the Northern Army were sensational from top to bottom, and they were as excited as a festival, screaming and starting immediately. The elites of the bandit rebel army, who were sandwiched between the battalions and teams of the Northern Army, were collectively responsible for educating and passing on the help with facts, and the elites of the bandit rebels under Harada Hu, Wang Qing, and Chao Gai, whose thoughts and behavioral habits had not yet been completely unified and integrated with the Northern Army, were infected by this atmosphere, and they could not help but be excited, and their morale was high.

Now the real military heart is available, and everyone is united, and they can fight a good battle.

For a time, the horn sounded in unison, gathered in the Licheng Port area of the cavalry infantry logistics soldiers, a total of 200,000 troops pulled out the camp and set up the village, the mighty slaughter rushed to Kaijing, unimpeded on the empty land all the way, came to Kaijing, immediately divided into four roads to block the city gate on all sides of the city wall, each road is 50,000 horses, five miles away from the city to go down to the village.

According to the pre-battle plan, the generals of all directions led the army in an orderly manner to quickly set up camp, arrange defenses and attacks, constantly receive news from horse reconnaissance, and be ready to meet them at any time.

It's a pity that the Kaijing defenders didn't move at all, not to mention the men and horses, not even a single hair flew out of Kaijing and floated to the northern army camp.

The field officers and men of the Northern Army, who were waiting for the battle, could not help but be disappointed.

It seems that the Goryeo imps have made up their minds to defend the city to the death, and they want to fight a war of attrition with the northern army with the best fortified wall Qingye.

At this moment, there is a commotion and chaos in Kaijing City.

When the northern army came, the high-pitched horn sound of one after another could be transmitted for more than ten miles, and it continued to enter the capital city from far and near with the march of the army, and a sound like a piercing knife instantly disturbed the hearts of the sticks. A bleak aura shrouded the sky over the capital.

How many years have you not heard this terrifying sound of the horn?

For the Koreans, if they hadn't known in advance that it was a pirate army that was attacking this time, they would have thought that the murderous and tyrannical Liao army had gone to the peninsula again after so many years to burn, kill, loot and do all the gruesome and vicious things.

In those years, every time the Liao army invaded, the fast horse scimitar wantonly slaughtered all the old and weak and children below the height of the wheels all the way, fell to death and tortured the baby, even the swaddling ones did not let go, killed all the adults and teenagers who dared to resist and did not obey, snatched young women and docile and honest young men as slaves, robbed all the property and food, after the people and horses, the house was no longer needed, all set on fire, leaving only pieces of corpses everywhere in the ash, the tragic scene caused by it was deep in the minds of the Goryeo people, even if the Liao army had never heard of it coming over the years, I have never experienced that kind of misery, and when the horn sounds, it still makes the Goryeo people tremble with fear in their bones like destroying their lives.

For the friendly and always generous Song Dynasty, the Korean people had no gratitude, let alone respect, and even disdain and mockery.

Because the ruler has been implicitly preaching and guiding for the sake of arrogance: although my Great Goryeo is a small country, it is also a strong country and an important country in the East, and it is precisely because we have the strength and play a pivotal role in the East, and the Great Song Dynasty needs the help of the Great Goryeo to fight against the Liao State, so it will be friendly and generous to the Great Goryeo to win it over.

The Great Song Dynasty is not good, the Great Song magnates are sinister, and they want me to work for the interests of the Great Goryeo for a small benefit, are we Goryeo people fools? Amusing. Let's see who is really smart and who suffers in the relationship.

Under this ideology, the Goryeo stick only had inner arrogance and disdain for the Great Song, how could he be grateful and respectful?

The Goryeo stick would not really ally with the Great Song Dynasty and go against the Liao State, and on the surface befriended the Great Song Dynasty just to take advantage of it.

Their thoughts are, I don't work with the more powerful Da Liao to clean up your Da Song, don't follow Da Liao to burn and rob your Da Song to destroy your Da Song, and support you verbally in private, this is already interesting enough, worthy of you, your Da Song is good to us, it is all necessary, you dare not be good to us, otherwise, if you offend us, we will turn our faces and ask you to pay a heavy price, and ask you to look good.

For Daliao, who blindly suppressed and looted Goryeo, the sticks were really afraid of being beaten and killed, but they were feared and obeyed in the deepest hearts of the sticks.

History has proven that carrots and sticks are the most powerful foreign policies. Showing kindness alone is like showing weakness, and it will not have the desired diplomatic effect.

There are also trivial things among the people, and there is a saying that he is fighting rice and fighting against him, not to mention that it is between countries.

The sound of the horn undoubtedly aroused deep fear in the hearts of the Goryeo sticks, including the Goryeo rulers.

As soon as the ferocity of the war soldiers really came, they immediately tore through the gorgeous coat decorated by this villainous nation with treacherous, hypocritical, arrogant cannons, and the sticks were all timid before fighting. The rulers' hopes that the pirates would have an accident, and that the infighting would stagnate, and that they would not be able to march into the peninsula and that they would not be able to attack the peninsula were shattered.

The lord of the country, Wang Mata, is a court ornament, a waste who steals his life, listens to the sound of a horn like a devastating life, hides in the deep palace and trembles, and relies on women's thoughtful comfort to gain courage.

Li Ziqian learned that the pirate army had been killed in front of the city, although he had already learned from the sound of the horn of the horse and the march that the war was finally coming, and he had a certain amount of preparation and self-confidence, but he was still so shocked that his hands trembled, and the tea he served almost fell and spilled on his crotch.

The city gates are besieged on all sides, isn't it surrounded by three missing one?

The pirates want to wipe out all the people who opened the capital! I don't know if it's confidence or arrogance.

He was calm and tried to calm his mind, and his cousin Li Zide, the commander-in-chief in charge of the city's defense, hurried to the city with a team of guards, to take a good look at what kind of opponent this mysterious pirate army was for the first time.

On the other side, the leader of the royalist party, Ping Zhangshi, Han Anren, also hurried to the city with people to meet with the Li family brothers, and maintained respectful and polite unity with each other.

The authorities of the sticks stood at the head of the city and looked out of the city, the northern army was encamped, five miles away from the capital, Li Ziqian and Han Anren were not clairvoyants, they could only vaguely see the black pressure in the distance, and they could not see the enemy's overall equipment strength and reality.

At this time, the Northern Army changed its previous activities of allowing stick sentry to carry out close reconnaissance, and the cavalry sentry went out to attack and intercept and kill stick in all directions. The stick sentry either died or was forced to run back to the capital in a hurry. There is no stick outside Kaijing City. There were only cavalry posts of the Northern Army who either stood on horseback and watched or rode on horseback to demonstrate and provoke.

Li Ziqian and Han Anren looked at the tall and majestic war horses that the enemy was riding, which was far from being comparable to the peninsula horses, and looked at the superb horsemanship and brave and fierce arrogance displayed by the enemy unintentionally, and their faces did not change, and they were both angry and frightened from the heart.

Not seeing the big picture.

Just by looking at the fact that the small guards in this area can have good horses that only a Goryeo general can have, you can imagine the strength of the pirate cavalry.

It seems that this group of enemies from the sea is indeed not only powerful in water warfare, but also extraordinary in land warfare, and it is no wonder that Geoje, Ganghwa 2 Island, and Reesung Harbor have many strong soldiers, but they are not opponents, and they fell easily. Goryeo is really in danger this time!

The magnates of the sticks looked at the towering city wall under their feet, and thought of the abundant food in the city and the nearly two million young men who could participate in the battle and defend the city.

Hmph, no matter how powerful your cavalry is, can you still leap your horse and fly up to the city to fight?

At that time, the fierce and powerful Liao army attacked the low and far less strong Kaijing city wall, killed more than 100,000 people, and injured even more, and it took several months, extremely ferocious, to barely break through a city gate and enter the city.

Nowadays, the newly built city wall is tall and strong I don't know how many times, and the passage of the outer city gate on three sides of the capital has been blocked, leaving only the city gate facing the direction of Licheng Port can still pass normally, so as to facilitate the entry and exit of relevant personnel such as intelligence in the city, and also prepared a large stone bag of mud and stone, with sufficient manpower, this gate can be blocked at any time. Everything is ready, even if you pirates are more brave than the Liao army, I see how you can take such a strong city.

The majestic castle made of cement, stone, and bricks has never been in a major war since it was built. Let the pirates taste the taste of hitting the wall, and use the pirate's life to test the strength of the Kaijing capital.

Li Ziqian looked at the huge shields equipped by the defenders at the head of the city, and knew that the defenders had prepared cotton and other things to prevent them from being frightened by the thunder, so he couldn't help but increase his confidence again, and snorted coldly: Even if you really know how to demon magic and thunder, there is a way to deal with it. Come on.

The Northern Army arrived in the morning, marching neither fast nor slow on the road, maintaining physical strength and a tight camp so that it could be ready for battle at any time. At this point, there were only three and a half days left before the deadline for Zhao Yue's plan to destroy the ruling center of Goryeo within half a month.

Faced with a precipitous fortified city and millions of defenders, the soldiers of the Northern Army no longer believed that the prince's oath-like plan could be fulfilled according to his promise.

Seeing that the pirates did not attack immediately, and that they could not see much of what they wanted to see, the magnates refused to drink and eat dust at the head of the city, and they all went back.

In the afternoon, 1,000 cavalry escorted some officials of the Northern Army to Kaijing.

Zhao Yue's father, Zhao Dayou, who has not been in charge of the war on the peninsula, appeared, Zhao Yue on the left, Du Bai, commander-in-chief of the Northern Army and commander-in-chief of the battle on the peninsula on the right, and the rest of the generals surrounded by angry horses.

After Zhao Dayou's illness recovered quickly, he did not return to Bay Island to play with cars and preside over state affairs as suggested by his son, and waited for this day to come.

Because the youngest son said some despicable things about the Peninsula people and was extremely disgusted with the Peninsula people, Zhao Dayou also had a bad impression of the Peninsula people. He really wanted to see with his own eyes the destruction of this small Lilliputian country on the peninsula that owed too much debt to China, and he wanted to see with his own eyes that this country would perish at the hands of his own army.

Li Ziqian and Han Anren sent a report that a pirate big man came to the city, and he immediately became interested, and immediately ran to this city wall to take a look.

The first thing that catches the eye is a strange big flag, multi-colored on a blue background, forming a kind of figure, fluttering fiercely in the spring breeze. The pirate's iconic flag, the eerie Bone Skull Banner, is gone.

The magnates didn't know that humans could still build satellites, that there was a technology called aerial photography, and that they couldn't scan the shape of the peninsula with their eyes. At this time, there was no accurate map of the world's topography, and the sticks naturally did not know that the long white leg under the huge banner of the pirates that connected the vast white area above was the peninsula where they were currently entrenched, and they did not know that the territory they had relied on for generations to survive and play with two sides would not be long before it became a no-man's land.

They only felt that the flag was full of bells and whistles, a little strange, but nothing really unusual, and they glanced at it after a few glances, and stared at the person with a pair of cunning and cruel eyes.

When Zhao Dayou saw the opening of the capital wall, he couldn't help but smile and sigh in surprise: "So high, wow? ”

The wall is nearly 20 meters high, and even if you sit on a horse and look at it from a distance, you have to look up to see the people at the head of the city.

Du Yan said with a smile: "The Goryeo sticks can't fight in the field, and what they are best at and rely on the most is to defend the city and fight a war of attrition." With cement technology, it is natural to build as high as the city wall can be built so that they can feel at ease, and they can build as high as they want. ”

The accompanying deputy general of the Chinese army, Du Bao's sworn brother Lao Sanyutai is a rough man, and he is a chatter, if he has the opportunity to speak, he must say two words. His words were not as civilized and restrained as the righteous brother, and he touched his beard like a steel needle and shouted: "The little ghosts on the peninsula are all cunning rabbits, who can only make nests, have no real skills, and are only greedy for life and afraid of death. (To be continued.) )