Abandoning the city is an option after weighing the pros and cons.

The 20,000 soldiers and horses under the command of Li Ji stayed on the land of Goguryeo, Li Shimin did not let them stay to attack or defend the city, their task was to snipe the enemy, and the gains and losses of Gyeongju City, Quangai Suwen did not look at it, and similarly, Li Ji and Li Su did not see it in their eyes.

It can be said that the biggest gain from the capture of Gyeongju City is to solve the problem of food and grass for 20,000 soldiers, and it is excellent to be able to solve this trouble.

In the Gyeongju official office, Li Ji and Li Su quickly set up tactics.

Next will be a surprise battle, the strategic goal is the food and grass of the rear army of the Quangai Suwen Division, which is the same as the logistics of the Tang army raided by the cavalry, however, this is also an extremely difficult and dangerous battle, 20,000 soldiers and horses raided 150,000, no matter how sudden the attack was launched, the time for the enemy to be caught off guard was only a short stick of incense, when the enemy reacted, the 20,000 Tang army was faced with an enemy several times their own, they would be ready to fight, fight with each other's lives, how much the 20,000 Tang army would sacrifice in the end, Li Su did not know.

Walking out of the hall of the official office, looking at the soldiers standing and patrolling around under the corridor of the hall, Li Su's mood suddenly became very heavy.

The so-called most helpless time in life is the most powerless age to meet the girl who wants to take care of her life the most, this is just a little love in the world, at this moment Li Su feels the most helpless is that these lives are still alive in front of him, and it may not be long before they become a cold corpse, and Li Su clearly knows what will happen, but he is powerless to prevent the passing of these lives, including himself.

Fang Lao Wu hurriedly walked over, attached himself to Li Su's side and said softly: "Grandpa, that Goguryeo female captive has moved!" ”

Li Su's expression froze, and he lowered his voice and said, "What is her movement?" ”

"Since my grandfather said that he would let go of the surveillance of the Goguryeo female captives, our brothers all let her walk around the camp, just secretly spying on her, no matter where she goes, there are two or three brothers behind her who are quietly staring, these days have never interfered with her freedom, this woman probably feels that she is really free, and she has the ability to hide from the world, just now, this woman found that our battalion soldiers were packing up, so she asked, knowing that we were going to open a raid on Quangai Suwen, she pretended to go out of the camp tent to breathe, At the edge of the camp, he met a middle-aged man, and the two quickly talked a few words through the barracks, and then returned to the camp tent as if they were fine......"

Li Su's eyes lit up, after waiting for so long, Gao Suhui finally revealed her flaws.

"Did the man who met her catch it?" Li Su hurriedly asked.

Fang Lao Wu nodded: "Catch it, after the man talked to Gao Suhui, he immediately turned around and entered the mountain forest outside the camp, there was a horse tied to it, and after the man got on the horse, he stayed to the east to run, and our brother set up a tripwire on the path outside the forest and caught the man." ”

"Have you tried it?"

"Zheng Xiaolou is under trial."

"Gao Suhui doesn't know, right?"

"I don't know, our brothers avoided her when they arrested her, and her expression was still very calm at this time, obviously not knowing that the man she met had fallen into our hands."

Li Su smiled: "Tell Zheng Xiaolou to hurry up and interrogate, and you must take something out of that man's mouth!" ”

"Grandpa, what should you do with that Gao Suhui?"

"Let's stay quiet for now, let's see what Zheng Xiaolou can ask." The smile on Li Su's face deepened: "I said earlier, this woman's origin is not simple, she is definitely not a female assassin, when the assassination of His Majesty was captured alive by us, I still feel a little strange, and today it is finally going to come to light." ”

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When the 20,000 Tang troops were packing up and preparing to leave, Zheng Xiaolou brought bad news.

The man who was caught had a hard mouth, and Zheng Xiaolou's torture methods were too ruthless, and the man was killed by Zheng Xiaolou before he lasted half an hour, and he didn't take out a word.

Li Su looked at Zheng Xiaolou speechlessly, Zheng Xiaolou stood in front of him, and his face also showed a rare look of surprise, obviously very ashamed.

The two looked at each other and were silent for a long time, Li Su let out a long sigh and said, "Brother Xiaolou, can't you just start lightly?" This stick is very important to us, I don't object to you bending him, but you can't break him......"

Hey? Seems to have said something strange......

Zheng Xiaolou's face became darker, and he couldn't help but justify: "I only used two means, he couldn't stand it, and I was really surprised by the fragility of the people of the other country......"

Surprise your sister, you're just too perverted, okay......

Fang Lao Wu looked sad beside him: "What can I do about this?" We finally caught a clue, and now it's broken again, grandpa, it's a bane for that woman to stay, it's better to get rid of her to prevent future troubles. ”

Li Su pondered for a moment, and a murderous intent suddenly flashed on his face.

"My patience has run out, it's time for a final showdown, you two go with me, and stop to see my eyes for a moment."

Killing a woman, Li Su was very awkward in his heart, but now is the time when he is deeply trapped in the enemy's internal and external difficulties, Fang Lao Wu is not wrong, if this woman does not tell the truth, she can only get rid of it, Li Su still has the lives of 20,000 soldiers on his shoulders, and the heavy responsibility is on his shoulders, and he cannot be half merciful.

Gao Suhui was arranged to live in the camp outside the city, when Li Su and Fang Lao Wu Zheng Xiaolou walked into the camp tent, Gao Suhui was quietly kneeling in the tent doing needlework, seeing Li Su and the three of them entering the tent, Gao Suhui was stunned for a moment and hurriedly saluted. Then Gao Suhui was stunned, and it was only at this moment that she noticed that Li Su's expression was different from before, and she was looking at her with a murderous expression.

"Grandpa, ......," Gao Suhui asked.

Li Su waved his hand, interrupted her words, sat down cross-legged in front of her, then stared at her eyes, and said coldly: "I believe you already know that our army is about to be pulled, what are you going to do?" If you want to attack the Quangai Suwen Division, this battle is dangerous, and it is related to the lives of 20,000 people in our army, so before you start, I must meet you and talk to you about life, if nothing else, this should be the last time we talk about life. ”

Gao Suhui looked at him confused: "What the grandfather said, the slave doesn't understand." ”

"You don't understand, do you? It's okay, I said, listen, do your best to understand what I'm saying, it's okay if you don't understand, I don't care if you understand it or not, because I'm impatient. ”

Gao Suhui's expression moved slightly, and she hung her head silently.

"As I said just now, 20,000 soldiers and horses of our army poured out of the nest to sneak attack the rear army of Quangai Suwen, this battle is very important, it is related to whether the main force of our Tang Dynasty can safely withdraw to the territory of the country, and it is also related to the life and death of the 20,000 soldiers who sniped the enemy after the break, do you not understand this when I say this to you a prisoner? Or are you pretending not to understand? It's okay, I'll tell you one more thing, just after the general gave the order to prepare for the march, the soldiers were still packing up in the camp, but the movement of our army has leaked out, Miss Gao, guess how I know? ”

Gao Suhui's face turned pale when she heard this, and her whole body was obviously tense, obviously she was extremely nervous and panicked at this moment.

Behind Li Su, Fang Lao Wu and Zheng Xiaolou were expressionless, staring at her face coldly, quietly holding down the handle of the knife on the side of their waist, ready to attack.

Li Su's expression was very leisurely, and he actually smiled at her.

"Miss Gao, although you are my captive, but I have never abused you, since I caught you, I have always been very polite to you, I have not let you suffer the slightest punishment, nor have I starved you and froze you, these days you live in the camp, even if you are not at home, at least it should be a quiet time, eat well, you see, I am sincere enough to you, right? But you, Miss Gao, are not sincere to me......"

Gao Suhui said in a trembling voice: "Grandpa, what did you say...... The slave really doesn't understand. ”

Li Su stared at her face and sighed: "Qing Ben is a beautiful woman, why should you be a thief?" When you first caught you, you said that you were an assassin raised by Yang Wanchun in Anshi City, and now I ask you again, are you really an assassin raised by Yang Wanchun? This time I want you to answer clearly, because it could be fatal to answer wrong......"

With a bang, Fang Lao Wu behind him unsheathed his horizontal knife, pointed at her with the tip of the knife, and shouted: "Say!" ”

Gao Suhui trembled with fright, her face became more and more pale, but she still gritted her teeth and said: "The slave is originally a prisoner of the grandfather, if the grandfather wants to get rid of me, let me kill and chop me, why bother to find an excuse!" ”

Li Suyou smiled: "It's not easy, at such a time, you still bite to death and don't admit it, are you living in the play all day?" I've been acting with you these days, but now it's a critical juncture for our army, and I don't have the patience to play with you anymore, remember what I told you last time? If we are unlucky, when the whole army is about to be wiped out, I will cut you first and pull you to be buried with you, now, it seems that this is the time, Gao Suhui, don't blame me, born in troubled times, I have no choice, and you should also accept your fate. ”

After speaking, Li Su got up, sighed with a gloomy expression, and said to Zheng Xiaolou: "One sword kills, and the technique is neat." ”

Zheng Xiaolou nodded, and then drew his sword.

With the sound of the sword unsheathed, Gao Suhui's body trembled more and more, looking at Li Suhui's figure resolutely facing away from her, Gao Suhui's eyes were full of tears, she knew that this time Li Su really moved to kill.

A sad emotion instantly filled her heart, with a bit of resentment and ...... that even she hadn't noticed Grievance.

The sword in Zheng Xiaolou's hand slowly pointed at her neck, the tip of the sword was very stable, facing the veins in the neck, Zheng Xiaolou's eyes were cold, without mercy, he was never a person who cherished the jade, the tip of the sword slowly approached, and the next moment, it may be the time when Gao Suhui Xiang died of the jade, but Li Su kept his back to her, as if he couldn't bear to see the bloody scene of the jade man's corpse.

"Grandpa, I have something to say!"

Before the tip of the sword was about to touch her snow-white neck, Gao Suhui finally spoke, and tears rained down after speaking.

Li Su still turned his back to her: "Say, I'll listen." ”

Gao Suhui hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice, "Please turn around." ”

Li Su frowned and turned to look at her.

It's strange that the expression on a person's face can make a completely different difference in an instant.

Gao Suhui's expression in front of Li Su in the past has always been very cold, even in the process of serving Li Su's food, clothing, housing and transportation, she also has the unwillingness and humiliation of being forced, and slowly, in Li Su's impression, she seems to be just a subordinate prisoner who endures humiliation and steals her life.

But now, Gao Suhui's expression has slowly changed, I can't say where it has changed, her eyebrows and eyes are still the same, but just at that moment, there was a bit of awe-inspiring and inviolable nobility between her eyebrows and eyes, her waist gradually straightened, her eyes became cold and arrogant, and her whole temperament changed.

Li Su's expression remained unchanged, but his heart was overjoyed, Gao Suhui's instantaneous change showed that Li Su's guess was right, this woman's identity was really not simple, Li Su had stayed with her for so long, and the monarch and ministers secretly persuaded him to kill her, but he was unmoved, and it turned out that his judgment was correct.

"Gao Suhui, who are you? Perhaps, your name shouldn't be Gao Suhui, right? Li Su looked at her calmly and said.

Gao Suhui straightened her waist and looked at him directly, and said in a cold tone: "Gao Lingzhen, the third daughter of the Goguryeo lord Gaozang, the princess of Jian'an, has seen Li Su, the prince of Jingyang County, Tang Kingdom. ”

"Gao Lingzhen?" The corners of Li Su's mouth hooked up a smile, and his eyes looked her up and down.

Fang Lao Wu and Zheng Xiaolou behind them were stunned, they didn't expect that this woman was actually the daughter of the lord of Goguryeo, the identity of the female assassin who assassinated His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty changed in vain, she was actually the princess of Goguryeo, the plot was too exciting......

"Legend has it that the lord of Goguryeo, Gaozang, has three sons and four daughters, and since you are the third princess, why did you become the assassin who assassinated my majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty?" Li Su asked playfully.

Gao Suhui...... At this time, it should be called Gao Lingzhen, Gao Lingzhen's expression has been cold and arrogant since her identity was revealed, and she no longer has the previous submissive appearance, her gaze is very cold, and there are some complicated meanings in it that Li Su can't understand.

"Your Majesty Li County, now I am the princess of Goguryeo, even though I have become a prisoner of the Tang Kingdom, but the national prestige of my Goguryeo Kingdom cannot be disgraced, and I ask the county princess to treat me with courtesy."

Li Su thought about it, got up and made a long bow to Gao Lingzhen, straightened up and said: "You are a princess and a prisoner, the two countries are at war, forgive me for the number of courtesies." ”

Gao Lingzhen calmly and calmly accepted Li Su's salute.

Li Su sat down on his knees after saluting, stared into her eyes and said, "Your Royal Highness Princess, although your status is noble, I am sorry that you and I are at war, and you are still my prisoner at this time, so I have to ask you some questions." ”

Gao Lingzhen said: "You ask." ”

"Let's start from the beginning, first of all, why did you assassinate my Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and why did you lie that you were an assassin raised by Yang Wanchun?"

Gao Lingzhen said: "It was my father's idea to assassinate the emperor of the Tang Kingdom, and after learning that the Tang Kingdom led an army of 300,000 to invade our country, my father asked me to lead the dead soldiers in the palace to the camp of Jizhou City, waiting for the opportunity to assassinate the emperor of the Tang Kingdom." ”

"You are the daughter of the lord of Goryeo, the son of a daughter, and you can't sit down, why did he let you take such a big risk? Isn't he afraid that you will be killed on the spot when you assassinate the emperor? ”

Gao Lingzhen smiled bitterly and said: "Presumably, Li Xiangong should know that the real power in Goguryeo is not my father, but Quangai Suwen, he is self-proclaimed 'Da Mo Lizhi', and is in charge of the military and politics of a country alone, my father is just his puppet, the country is no longer a country, the monarch is not a monarch, the minister is not a minister, even the monarch of a country is so humble, you have to rely on the snort of the ministers to live, what is the life of my princess?" ”

"Before leaving Pyongyang, our father taught us that we had two preparations, one was to be killed on the spot by the guards around the Emperor of Tang, and the other was to be captured alive, in short, we never expected to kill the Emperor of Tang."

Li Su raised the corners of his eyes and said, "Your father is not willing to be a puppet, right?" So he wants to wait for an opportunity to make a move, is there another purpose for you to be captured alive? ”

"Yes," Gao Lingzhen hung her head, her long eyelashes trembled slightly, and when she raised her head, she returned to her cold and arrogant appearance, and continued: "If I am killed on the spot, it will be my bad luck, and everything will be over, if I am captured alive, I will confess and blame Yang Wanchun, the city lord of Anshi." ”

Li Su said curiously: "It was Quangai Suwen who turned your father into a puppet, and the person your father hated the most should be him, why did he blame Yang Wanchun for no reason?" ”

"Because the relationship between Quangai Suwen and the Tang State is already on the same footing, it is useless to blame him, but if the blame is given to Yang Wanchun, if the Emperor of the Tang State believes my confession, then the emperor's anger will first go to Anshi City, Anshi City is the first barrier of my Goguryeo facing the Tang State, if this barrier is eradicated by the Tang State, the most anxious person is Quangai Suwen, he must mobilize the army to set up a second barrier east of the Qianshan Mountain Range to resist the Tang State troops, as long as Quangai Suwen transfers troops to leave Pyongyang, My father can achieve great things in Pyongyang, so Yang Wanchun has no grievances with my father, but he is the person my father must get rid of, but I didn't expect ......"

Gao Lingzhen showed regret on her face, but she didn't say any more.

Li Su's face was hot, and she didn't finish her words, but Li Su knew what she was not done.

It is difficult to say whether the plan of the lord of Goryeo was a success or a failure, in fact, after Li Shimin captured Liaodong City, despite Li Su's desperate opposition, he stubbornly insisted on leading the army south to attack Anshi City, saying that the location of Anshi City is very important, if the army enters the east, he is afraid that Yang Wanchun will shoot behind his back, and put the Eastern Expeditionary Army in the desperate situation of suffering the enemy on his back, the statement is righteous and bright, but who knows what Li Shimin thinks? It is not impossible to say that because he believed in the assassin's confession, he hated Yang Wanchun for daring to assassinate him, and he couldn't bear the evil breath in his heart and resolutely raised troops to attack him.

And the unfinished meaning of Gao Lingzhen's words is that she didn't expect that the invincible Tang army would be ruthlessly planted under Anshi City, and she didn't expect Yang Wanchun to be so powerful and defend Anshi City as impregnable, and the Tang Army finally retreated in vain, and Anshi City became a hard bone that could not be bitten.

Li Su blinked: "So, your father's purpose is to get rid of Yang Wanchun, so that Quangai Suwen has to leave Pyongyang City and personally lead the troops to resist our Tang army, so that your father will have a chance to stay in Pyongyang City?" So, what chance does your father have? Is he going to mutiny? ”

Gao Lingzhen shook his head: "I don't know, my father's specific plan will not tell me, but later the development of the situation has changed, my father didn't expect that Quangai Suwen could borrow the cavalry of the six divisions of the Yan Dynasty, and hit the Tang army by surprise, and even had to withdraw because the grain and grass were burned, this is what my father did not expect in advance, and now Quangai Suwen has led the troops to leave Pyongyang for many days, and there has been no news of the incident in Pyongyang so far, obviously my father's plan has failed, he must have a threat in Pyongyang City, so he did not dare to act rashly...... ”