Huaiyuan.

This once remote military town is now bustling with activity.

The emperor led hundreds of civil and military officials to arrive, and Huaiyuan City took 500,000 people to build a new and majestic Huaiyuan Palace in the north of this border military town.

Huaiyuan Xinggong is only nine miles and nine around, but the city is six zhang high, the moat is nine zhang wide, and the depth is three zhang and three.

It is almost a small Daxing Palace, with all the front and back halls.

When the emperor came, he was very satisfied with this palace, and he also greatly appreciated Yu Wenkai, who was responsible for building this palace.

At this time, it was already the end of April, and the nine armies that had gathered by land to attack Pyongyang had already set out one after another, and all of them had crossed the Liao River, and even the seven armies that swept Liaodong had already crossed the river.

The other five armies have also advanced to the end of the middle and north roads on the west bank of the Liao River, and are preparing to cross the river.

The six armies of the imperial camp led by the emperor himself also arrived in Huaiyuan.

As many as one million people gathered on the front line of the Liaohe River, hundreds of thousands more in Huaiyuan, Xiangping, Tongding, Wanghai, Liucheng, and Luhe towns, and more than one million people are still transporting grain, grass and ordnance on the road to and from Guanwai.

This extraordinary momentum shocked the northern Turks and was also very uneasy.

The emperor issued an edict, and the Turkic Khan came to watch the battle with 30,000 Turkic light cavalry, and the Khitan Khan Dahe Duluo also led 10,000 horsemen.

In addition, the chieftains of Kumoxi and Murowei also came one after another.

The chiefs were shocked when they saw such a majestic military might in Huaiyuan. They have seen the prosperity of Daxing and Luoyang, and they have also seen the might of the army, but the Sui army was able to gather millions of soldiers in the remote Huaiyuan and levy millions of people, which they could not imagine at all.

Even the Eastern Turks, who had regained strength after decades of recuperation, were secretly worried when they saw this situation. Shibi Khan continued for several days, happy on the surface, but secretly lamenting.

This time to conquer Goguryeo, after the fall of Goguryeo, the next will be the target of the Sui Dynasty.

Temple.

A huge map, drawn and spliced from dozens of sheepskins, was tiled in the hall, and Yang Guang carried a golden scepter in his hand and stepped on the map barefoot.

"The Ninth Army has been sent and the target is Pyongyang, so in order to ensure that the Ninth Army has no worries, the Seventh Army must immediately launch an offensive, sweep Liaodong, and capture Zhucheng."

"Li Jing's left 6th Luo Yi's right 6th army is responsible for capturing Xincheng, the left 7th and right 7th armies and the right 53rd army are responsible for capturing Liaodong City, and the left 8th army is responsible for attacking Buyeo, and the right 8th army is responsible for capturing Anshi."

The Sui army was numerous, so Yang Guang accepted Duan Wenzhen's plan and did not try to put hundreds of thousands of troops under one city.

Under the largest Liaodong city, Yang Guang only released three armies of 100,000 people, and 100,000 people besieged a city is enough, and any more is a waste of troops.

Seven armies of 200,000 people, Yang Guang divided them into three attack groups, respectively attacking the three major fortresses on the east bank of the Liao River, Xincheng, Liaodong City, and Anshi City.

And his own imperial camp of the Sixth Army, which will be used as the general reserve of the campaign, will then cross the river, sweep the east bank of the Liao River, and wait for the Seventh Army to capture the city, and the imperial camp will take over.

As for the seventy or eighty thousand horses of the Hu people Fanbang, Yang Guang didn't plan to use them at all, but just asked them to come over as spectators, and let them see how invincible the army of the Great Sui was.

However, this arrangement made the Hu chiefs hurt their self-esteem a little.

The beginning of the Khan out of the ranks.

Shibi Khan is also a relative of Yang Guang, when Shibi's father Qimin Khan was defeated in the battle for the Turkic Five Khans, and then defected to the Sui Dynasty, and was placed in the south of Yinshan by the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian also married a clan girl to him, and then the princess died of illness not long after, Yang Jian also married a clan girl to him.

Later, when the clan was married, she was given the title of Princess Yicheng, and after the death of Qimin Khan, according to the customs and traditions of the Turkic people, the successor Shibi Khan took Princess Kedun Yicheng as his wife and continued to respect her as Turkic Kedun.

Princess Yicheng is Yang Guang's cousin according to her seniority, so Shibi Khan can also be called Yang Guang's cousin-in-law.

Through the efforts of Qimin and Shibi father and son, by now, Shibi Khan has conquered all the eastern steppes, and can be regarded as the overlord of the vast Turkic steppe east of Jinshan.

After many years of recuperation, especially after owning the fertile pastures of Monan, the eastern Turks developed rapidly, and now they have 400,000 people who control the strings, and the eastern tribes such as Khitan, Xi, and Murwei, as well as the Tiele tribes in the north, are all subservient to him.

"Your Majesty, Great Holy Khan, why don't you use our fierce and loyal Turkic cavalry? Is it Your Majesty who looks down on us Turkic warriors? Shi Bi said loudly, "I, Ashina Ji, ask to fight for Your Majesty, and I am willing to lead 30,000 warriors from my headquarters to attack Fuyu City in the north, and if Your Majesty agrees, I can also transfer another 100,000 elite cavalry from the grassland tribes." ”

"Your Majesty!"

An attendant stepped forward with an excited look and a folding book.

"What?"

"Your Majesty, the good news that Liaodong just sent back, a great victory. Luo Cheng, the general of the Fifth Army of the Left, broke the new city on the way to Pyongyang. ”

"What?" Yang Guang's voice suddenly raised an octave.

The strength of the new city is very famous, and it can be ranked among the top three cities in Liaodong, second only to Liaodong City in terms of scale. Just now, he planned to use two armies and 70,000 people to besiege Xincheng, but now he has captured it?

Inner service on the good news of the chapter.

"After General Luo Cheng handed over the Xuansu Zhucheng to Li Jing and Luo Yi, and handed over the money, grain and population to Li Yuan, he led his headquarters eastward. A few days ago, he passed through the new city, and his troops came to the city, sending troops to sweep the surrounding area of the new city, and on the other hand, he sent a letter to persuade Yang Wanchun, the guard, to surrender. Yang Wanchun hesitated, Luo Cheng sent troops to attack the city, after a big battle, Goguryeo killed and wounded more than 10,000 people, Yang Wanchun was exhausted, did not dare to resist Tianwei anymore, so he had to surrender. ”

Yang Guang took the chapter and looked carefully, the chapter was Luo Cheng's meaning Wei Zhengrun's pen, so the writing was still very good, in the letter, Luo Cheng explained in detail the attack on Xincheng, and then finally briefly mentioned a few additional conditions for Yang Wanchun.

Luo Cheng said that he was going to stay under the new city and wait for the emperor's will, but the military situation was urgent and he had to rush to the Yalu River to assemble, so he could only hand over the follow-up affairs to the surrendered envoy Yu Wenshi, and also said that Yu Wenshi and go to Xuansu to find Li Yuan to preside over the matter together.

Let go of the recital.

Yang Guang laughed.

"Xiangyang Hou Luo Chengzhen is my blessed general, and on the way to Pyongyang, he also took the new city by the way. Now that Yang Wanchun, the defender of the new city, has surrendered, the six armies on the left and the six on the right can attack the cities of Fuyu and Jinshan in the north. ”

Yang Guang smiled and said to Shibi Khan Ashina Jiji, "Aiqing, I also know that you are loyal, but my Great Sui soldiers are strong and strong, popular all over the world, invincible, and conquering a small Goguryeo is naturally a matter of hand, and I will not work for the Turkic warriors." ”

"Hahaha!"