Domestic city.

"King, Luo Cheng's mission has arrived outside the city."

"How many people are there, and who is leading the team?"

"About two hundred light horsemen, the person at the head is said to be called Li Shimin, it seems to be the brother of Luo Cheng's concubine, very young, less than twenty."

Yuan Taizuo breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

Luo Cheng defeated his son, and after breaking through Anshi, he did not continue to lead the army eastward, but took the initiative to send an envoy to come, which is a good thing.

Although the weather is getting colder and colder, seeing that the first snow is about to fall, the glaciers will freeze, and the mountains and rivers will be covered with snow, no one dares to guarantee what will happen to Luo Cheng, who has been in Liaodong for the past few years, and has become a bad hunger for the Goguryeo people.

At the beginning, he crossed the Liao River on the first day of the Lunar New Year and raided Xuansu City, who can guarantee that he will not come again.

As long as the Sui people are willing to talk, they are not afraid.

Even if they are newly defeated now, they will suffer a loss when they talk about it, but it is better than the killing god who killed them directly.

But to let a teenage doll be a negotiation envoy, this he is a little incomprehensible.

"Open the city gate and invite the Sui envoy to enter the city."

"The king, that Li Shimin is very arrogant and rude, and he actually said that he wanted the king to go out of the city to meet him in person."

Yuan Taizuo's eyes flashed with unhappiness, the teenage doll was really ignorant.

"Forget it, welcome it, even if this king folds his face, it's nothing, as long as he can reach a peace agreement with Sui this time."

Now Yuan Taizuo doesn't care about his old face, how much money can an old face be worth and a few soldiers? That Luo Cheng couldn't afford to provoke him, he asked Emperor Sui to surrender, and Emperor Sui agreed, and had already issued an order to dismiss the army, but this Luo Cheng resisted the order and continued to send troops.

It also hit him all at once.

Although the 50,000 soldiers and horses handed over to his son, as well as the 30,000 troops he gathered in Liaodong, most of which were former royal guards, these people are indeed unstable and have a low fighting spirit, but they lost almost 60,000 in the first battle, and the 80,000 army only went back to 20,000, and the Yuan family can't afford this loss.

Not to mention, the city of Anshi, which had high hopes, also fell so quickly, and not a single one of the tens of thousands of people in the city escaped.

Now in the entire Yuan Clan Korea, there are no more than 100,000 veterans that can be assembled, and even if some reserve soldiers and horses are recruited, they will gather at most 200,000.

But this combat effectiveness can no longer be compared with when the war first started a few years ago, let alone the glorious record of annihilating hundreds of thousands of them at once when the Sui army first attacked.

"This Luo Cheng, could it be that God sent me to torture me?"

Yuan Taizuo sighed.

As soon as Anshi was lost, now the entire Liaohe River, except for the large city of Fuyu in the upper reaches of the Fuyu River, and dozens of small cities, their painstakingly managed defense line of Qianli Mountain City has collapsed.

Even if there are more than 200 fortresses and mountain cities in the mountains, without the support of the big cities, this defense system is already full of loopholes and is very fragile.

Although his troops were dangerous, the mutiny killed Gao Jianwu, and in addition to Eulji Wende and other royalists, Goguryeo's national strength, which had already suffered a lot of damage, still suffered a lot of losses in this civil strife, and now Yang Wanchun's one-armed horseman is still opposing him in the Pyongyang area.

Standing in front of the life-size bronze mirror, Yuan Taizuo looked at his own mirror image.

Old and emaciated.

He's really old.

It's a pity that the eldest son's defeat this time made him feel more and more uneasy.

first lost Liaodong City, and then lost to Luo Cheng, the prestige of the eldest son could not stand up at all, and the second son Jiantu was captured by Luo Chengsheng a few years ago.

"Give me a change of clothes."

Yuan Taizuo looked at the king's crown dress on his body and frowned slightly.

"The King?"

"Just bring the set of purple robes and jade belts that the officials of the Sui Dynasty sent when they came to canonize before, and by the way, bring the gold seal and purple ribbon of the king of Joseon as well."

Everyone was surprised that the king actually wanted to wear the official robe of the Sui Dynasty to greet the teenage Luo Cheng envoy, but in the end he still didn't say anything.

After losing a battle, I always have no bottom in my heart.

Put on a new set of Da Sui purple robe and jade belt, wear a gold seal and purple ribbon, and specially bring the Shang Fang jade sword given by the emperor, Yuan Taizuo led people to the city gate.

City gates.

Li Shimin rode on a horse, not moving, and he didn't pay attention to how the Goguryeo people persuaded him to enter the city.

He only put down a sentence in front of the city, and asked the Yuan clan to come to greet him.

"The king has arrived!"

A Goguryeo eunuch shouted loudly.

But Li Shimin still sat on the horse and did not move, without the slightest intention of coming forward to pay respects.

Yuan Taizuo sat on a chariot, the curtain was lifted, and the young general of the Sui Dynasty could be seen from a distance.

Actually one eye is blindfolded.

"This messenger is quite handsome, but why is he blind in one eye?"

"Back to the king, this Li Shimin is the son of Li Yuan, the prince of Tang in the Sui Dynasty, who previously attacked Yang Wanchun who was stationed in the new city with Li Yuan, and he led the light cavalry to chase and kill Yang Wanchun, who was defeated and fled, was shot in the left eye by Yang Wanchun with a crossbow."

"So this Li Shimin is a bit brave?"

"Although he is young, he was awarded the title of Eagle Yang Lang General by Emperor Sui for his defeat of Yang Wanchun."

"Looks like I underestimated him before." Yuan Taizuo thought for a while, "Report the official title that Emperor Sui gave me!" ”

"The Son of Heaven of the Great Sui Kingdom has given the title of Kaifu Yi and the three divisions and the king of Joseon to arrive!"

The eunuch sang.

Li Shimin remained unmoved.

The eunuch had to sing again.

Li Shimin still didn't move.

The last three songs.

Li Shimin remained unmoved.

At this time, Yuan Taizuo had to send someone forward.

"This general, the king of my family is the king of Korea given by the emperor of the Great Sui, and there is also a first-rank official rank of the Great Sui, why don't you come forward to greet him?"

Li Shimin snorted coldly.

"Although Yuan Taizuo is a king given by my emperor, he is the king of a vassal state. Although I am only a five-pin general, I am here to represent Luo Cheng, the ambassador of Liaodong and Liaoxi, and the Duke of Chu. ”

The man said, "Luo Cheng is just a national prince." ”

"Luo Shuai is the marshal who was enshrined by His Majesty to comfort the counties of eastern and western Liaoning, and commanded the soldiers and horses outside the Guan, he represents the emperor and the Great Sui."

Li Shimin meant that he came on behalf of Luo Cheng, and Luo Cheng was the emperor's representative stationed outside the Guan.

Therefore, he is the representative of the emperor, although Yuan Taizuo is the king and has a rank, but he is only the king of the vassals.

"Let Yuan Taizuo come to greet the angel! Otherwise, it is a snub angel and rudeness to the Son of Heaven of the Great Sui! ”

Yuan Taizuo listened to the report.

Gritting his teeth, this little guy is really not an ordinary difficult one.

thought that wearing the official uniform of the Sui Dynasty and singing the title of Emperor Sui would always suppress this kid.

"Come on, welcome it."

Yuan Taizuo got out of the car and led the crowd out of the city gate.

"The Great Sui vassal and the king of Joseon, Yuan Taizuo, greet the angel of the suzerain!"

"Congratulations to Emperor Wan'an!"

Li Shimin nodded at this time, and accepted this etiquette on behalf of the emperor.

"I came this time to come on the order of Luo Shuai, the ambassador of Liaodong and Liaoxi of the Great Sui, I think Yuangai Suwen has already reported the purpose of my trip to you in advance, right?"

Yuan Taizuo saw that he was so young and aggressive, and he had to laugh bitterly.

"Wu'er has reported all the envoy's requests to Lone, please enter the city first, Lone has prepared a reception banquet in the palace to receive the wind and wash the dust for the angel!"

But Li Shimin didn't eat him at all.

"I came here on the orders of Luo Shuai to inform you of a few things. First, since you have surrendered to the courtiers, you should have the posture of surrendering and have to act as a vassal state, and Luo Shuai ordered you to immediately return the gifts of my Great Sui people in your territory, including but not limited to the soldiers captured in the previous expeditions, and the Han people who have been captured by you over the years, and all of them must be returned. ”

"Second, the bones of the fallen soldiers of my Great Sui in your territory must also be collected immediately and then returned!"

"Third, you and other border soldiers and horses will immediately retreat for a hundred miles, and immediately send Yuangai Suwen to Luoyang, Kyoto, as a proton."

"Fourth, as vassals, you are obliged to provide 400,000 stone grain and grass for my Liaodong garrison before the heavy snow."

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