Three thousand Goguryeo captives were taken to the Liao River and beheaded.

The corpse was pushed into the Liao River to feed the fish, and the head was taken and built into a Jingguan.

"In this battle, our army killed more than 15,000 people and wounded countless people. The general of the Left Seventh Army, Mai Tiecane, was killed in battle, the second general Qian Shixiong was killed, and Meng Jincha was killed in the front compartment·······"

More than 15,000 people died in a single battle, not counting the thousands who were disabled.

It can be said that half of the army was lost in this battle.

Yang Guang's face sank like water, before in the rear, he always heard Luo Cheng playing a triumphant song all the way, and he was breaking the martial arts, and he was pulling out Xuansu City, annihilating more than 10,000 people on the left and cutting thousands of people on the right, he thought that the Goguryeo people were very weak.

But today's battle, the battle he watched with his own eyes, made him deeply realize that he still underestimated the Goguryeo people too much.

Goguryeo, which has been able to establish a country for 700 years and stand proudly in Liaodong, does still have some ability, they are not all relying on the mountain city to survive to this day, even if it is a large army in the field, they also have fierce combat effectiveness.

Today, although the Sui army has won, it is also a tragic victory.

100,000 to 50,000, two to one troops, the final battle loss ratio was about the same, and he also folded one general.

The Left Seventh Army was almost disabled.

The main generals and deputy generals were all killed in battle, and even the corpses were snatched away.

"If Luo becomes a pioneer in crossing the river today, I will definitely not have this loss." Yang Guang remembered that Luo Cheng was here at this time, thinking about Luo Cheng's attack on the city and the pond all the way, and repeatedly defeated Goguryeo, although he was a little clever before, but this did not affect the emperor's good impression of him.

was also crossing the river, Luo Cheng crossed the river without doing anything, and crippled the new city, and he personally led an army of 100,000 to cross the river, and the first battle was like this.

The Sui army cleaned up the battlefield, treated the wounded, and buried the bodies of the dead.

Then take advantage of the victory to besiege Liaodong City.

The envoys of the Sui Dynasty negotiated several times with Yuan Gai Suwen, the lord of Goguryeo's Liaodong city, and finally Yuan Gai Suwen put forward the condition of returning the body of Mai Tiecane in exchange for his brother Yuan Jiantu.

"Change!"

Under the city of Liaodong.

Yang Guang replied with a gloomy face.

Luo Cheng worked hard to capture Yuan Jiantu, so he was able to return to Liaodong.

Walking from the front of the Sui army to the city of Liaodong, Yuan Jiantu looked back, and a feeling of escaping and ascending to heaven arose.

Enter the city.

Yuangai Suwen personally came to greet his brother.

"Brother, you've lost weight."

"I thought I'd never come back in my life." Yuan Jiantu wanted to cry, and his nose was sour.

"It's good to come back, it's good to come back, the eldest brother has prepared more than a dozen young beauties for you, go back and wash up and enjoy it."

Yuan Jiantu wanted to speak and stopped.

"What do you want to say?"

"Brother, the strength of the Sui army is much beyond our previous expectations, I think we are only afraid that we will lose this time."

Yuangai Suwen was silent.

"Don't talk about that, you can go back and take a good shower first. I will hold a reception feast for you at night, and wash the dust for you. ”

Outside the city.

The body of the Iron Rod was returned.

Yang Guang stood in front of the corpse of the iron rod and wept loudly.

The emperor's cry caused the whole army to be solemn.

"The iron rod is strong and courageous, and he is known for his merits, this time he accompanied me to crusade against thieves, took the lead, charged into battle, and was noble and martyrful, although he died and survived, his oath was loyal and sincere, and he remembered his life, which made people sad. He should be given a special honor in recognition of his merits, and he can be posthumously awarded the post of Guanglu doctor, posthumously awarded the title of Duke of Suguo, and called Wulie. ”

Yang Guang issued another edict, so that the eldest son of the iron rod, Mai Mengcai, was demoted to the title of marquis of Liaodong, and awarded the rank of silver Qingguanglu doctor, and his younger brother Zhongcai and Ji Cai's two younger brothers were worshiped as the chief doctor, and each was awarded the post of Yinglang general. He also gave a huge amount of money to do funerals for the iron rod, gave the funeral car, and equipped with drummers, so that the officials and nobles below the prince could see off the iron rod.

For a few days.

Under the city of Liaodong, the Sui army did not attack, and the Goguryeo army did not come out.

The emperor discussed with Pei Shiju, Su Wei and others.

"Conquering Goguryeo is for the sake of hanging the people, not for fame." He said, "This battle across the river shows that although the Goguryeo people are remote, they are barbaric and fierce. In order to prevent the generals of each army from covering the lone army and fighting for fame and inviting rewards, I thought that each army should be divided into three ways, but whenever there is a military operation, the three lines should inform each other, each for support, and the light army should not be allowed to advance alone. Regardless of the progress or stop, you need to hear it to me first, and wait for a reply before you can act. ”

Yang Guang was afraid that all the armies would see Luo Cheng's repeated exploits, and thought that the Goguryeo people were really weak. And this time he personally supervised the battle, and he fought such a miserable victory against 100,000 to 50,000, knowing that the Goguryeo people were not weak. Therefore, he came up with such an order.

Su Wei, Pei Shiju, Yu Shiji, and Pei Yun discussed in front of the emperor, but none of them understood military affairs. Although Pei Shiju is currently the general of the Right Fifth Army, Su Wei also serves as the general of the Twelfth Guard, but he doesn't understand these at all.

They think about it and think it makes sense.

Anyway, the seven armies that are now responsible for sweeping Liaodong were originally divided into three routes, and then these three routes of soldiers and horses were divided into three routes, and it was good to support each other.

As for the emperor's statement that the actions of the various armies should be reported first, they felt that there was no big problem, after all, the emperor's imperial drive was under the city of Liaodong.

"If the Goguryeo people want to surrender, they should be appeased and accepted, and no more attacks should be made."

The Emperor added.

He believes that if you want to surrender, then accept it, and don't sacrifice casualties needlessly.

Thus the decrees were handed down to the armies.

He rested for ten days under the city of Liaodong.

Yang Guang sent people to persuade the city to surrender.

Yuangai Suwen said that he would think about it and hoped that Yang Guang would give him ten days.

So Yang Guang really gave him ten days, and ten days later, after Yuan Gai Suwen replied that he hadn't considered it, Yang Guang gave him another three days.

Three days later, Yuangai Suwen was still unwilling to surrender.

So Yang Guang ordered the right fifth, left seventh, and right seventh armies to attack the city.

Nearly 80,000 men of the three armies stormed for a day, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

Yuangai Suwen raised a white flag, said that he wanted to surrender, and then asked the Sui army to stop the attack, saying that he would send someone to talk about surrender.

So Yang Guang ordered to stop the attack.

"Your Majesty, Yuangai Suwen is just a fraudulent surrender, today our army attacked for one day, giving great damage to the defenders, and it looks like it will not be able to hold it in several places, if the attack is suspended now, the previous day's onslaught will be in vain." Yang Yichen, the general of the Right Seventh Army, spoke bluntly.

"Your Majesty, we can't let the Goguryeo people have a chance to breathe, the key to attacking the city is to make a big move, then decline, and exhaust it three times!" Zheng Guo, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, also admonished loudly.

But Yang Guang didn't listen.

Today, during the siege of the city during the day, the Goguryeo people suffered heavy casualties, and the Sui army suffered heavy casualties, and after the siege of the city in one day, there were already two or three thousand casualties, and people were falling every moment.

If the Goguryeo people really surrendered, it would have to be many fewer casualties.

"Maybe Yuan Gai Suwen surrendered, but I can't believe it, I gave him a chance. Order, stop the siege, retreat ten miles to rest! ”

Yang Yichen, Zheng Guo and others had blue faces, but in the end, they had no choice but to obey the order.

As a result, Yuangai Suwen sent people to discuss surrender with the emperor for three days, but after three days, he turned his face and did not surrender.

So the embarrassed emperor ordered another siege.