Yuan Taizuo was besieged in Liaodong City, and the information had already been transmitted back to Pyongyang City, and at this time, there was already a lot of noise in the Goguryeo court. Yuan Taizuo has been in power in the court for many years, and most of the ministers in the court were pulled up by him, so he naturally wanted to show it at this time, so he wrote to King Yingyang to ask for troops. The King of Yingyang wanted to take the opportunity to get rid of this powerful elder, but he was afraid of arousing public anger and it was difficult to say it clearly, so he pushed it to Yuan Taizuo's own son Yuan Gai Suwen, who was elected by himself to replace his own position as a great opponent of Lu. The Infant Yang King knew too well that Yuan Gai Suwen wanted to replace his father, and it would be great if he could get rid of Yuan Taizuo with Yuan Gai Suwen's hand. In this way, you can not only get rid of Yuan Taizuo, who controls the government, but also lead Yuan Taizuo's faction to take revenge on Yuan Gai Suwen, and kill two birds with one stone, and your family can be pro-government again. At the moment, it was directly pushed to Yuangai Suwen, and he didn't ask anymore.

Power is a kind of poison that makes people fascinated, the deeper they fall, the more difficult it is to extricate themselves, and there is only one reason why people do not covet power, that is, they have not yet tasted the rights that power brings.

Yuangai Suwen was no exception, after he took over his father's position as the Great Pair of Lu, he found more and more that one person could decide the fate of countless people, he was deeply addicted to it, and at this time he received a letter from his father asking for help, and the ministers came one by one to ask for troops, and he couldn't help but be a little annoyed. After all, he is the current big pair of Lu, and he is the object of their allegiance. Although Yuangai Suwen was angry, he did not dare to say that he would not save his father, Goguryeo was influenced by the Central Plains Dynasty for many years, and the code of ethics was often deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The so-called father is the son, and his father is in danger, how can he abandon him as a son of man?

According to his father's statement, the Sui army besieging Liaodong City is no less than 300,000, if there are fewer troops to save their father, they will put themselves in, if they wait for the armies from all over the country to come and converge, it will be delayed for two more days, and the Liaodong City defended by the 300,000 army besieging less than 20,000 defenders should not last more than half a month. If all the grain and grass you are preparing are burned, and you have to bring grain from somewhere else, you have to delay it for a few days, and then... Thinking of this, the corners of Yuangai Suwen's mouth raised, and he ordered the troops from all over the country to converge in Pyongyang City, preparing to rescue Da Zheng Lu with all his might.

As soon as the decree arrived, the armies of the whole country did not dare to disobey the yang and the yin, and all the troops immediately set off and rushed to Pyongyang City. On the evening of the day the decree was announced, three large warehouses in Pyongyang caught fire for no reason, and even if they were put out in time, they burned down seven or eight out of ten. Enraged, he executed several officials in charge of night patrols in Pyongyang, and issued an order for the whole country to take half a warehouse of grain and transport it to Pyongyang to finance the army. In this way, it was delayed for two or three days, and Yuangai Suwen also led the army to the expedition and proclaimed himself the generalissimo of the march. At the same time, he also took away most of the courtiers who were loyal to the King of Yingyang, and almost all of them were his father Yuan Taizuo's henchmen. Yuangai Suwen was born in a family of power, and he is very familiar with the struggle for power, since he has already thought of using the hand of the Sui army to get rid of his father, he naturally has to guard against the king of Yingyang to get rid of himself by the hand of the Sui army, and take away those courtiers who are loyal to the king of the baby, which is equivalent to cutting off one of the hands of the king of the baby, and no matter what he does and thinks, he can't set off any waves.

When the king of Yingyang led the army to march for Yuangai Suwen, he said to Yuangai Suwen in front of everyone: "Aiqing, you must rescue Da Zhenglu this time, this king is waiting for your good news here." ”

These few words were kind words to encourage Yuan Gai Suwen to fight bravely, and they were actually saying to his henchmen who accompanied him: You must save Yuan Taizuo back, otherwise we will all die well.

The experienced Yuan Taizuo still knows that no matter how powerful he is, he will never be able to replace the Gao Dynasty of the Infant Yang King, so it is best to follow the Gao Dynasty to get a piece of the pie. But the young Yuangai Suwen did not think so, the young man had greater ambitions, wanted more power, and had enough time to suppress the instability of the country after his ascension. Judging from all the gains and losses, his best choice is to try his best to save Yuan Taizuo.

At this time, Yuan Taizuo had just led his troops to hold on for a day and repelled the first large-scale siege of the Sui army.

Yuangai Suwen led his troops to march towards Yalu Water, and suddenly found that one of the cavalry had his head bowed all the time, not like the other cavalry. Seeing that the man kept his head down, which was detrimental to the appearance of the army, he was furious in his heart and immediately stepped forward and said, "Hey, the cavalryman who bowed his head over there, you come here!" ”

The cavalryman hesitated, but obediently came to the front of Yuangai Suwen. Yuangai Suwen said: "You raise your head for Ben Shuai. After speaking, he waited for the cavalry to raise his head, but there was no reaction for a long time, and Yuan Gai Suwen raised the whip in his hand and pulled off the cavalryman's helmet, but he was shocked. I saw a piece of green silk sprinkled down like a waterfall, and a delicate face appeared in front of Yuangai Suwen.

Yuan Gai Suwen was taken aback, this person in front of him was not his sister Yuan Gai Suzhen or who was it? He asked, "Why are you here?!" ”

Yuan Gai Suzhen said stubbornly: "I also want to save my father!" And I sent some men to your house to find you, that you should take me with you, but you should not know it. ”

"My good sister, is this child's play? This is a battlefield of life or death, how can I take you there? Yuangai Suwen said anxiously: "You go back to Pyongyang City for me immediately." ”

"I don't want it, there is no one in Pyongyang to speak, and when they see me, they either put on a false smile or grovel and call me Miss, which is not interesting at all." Yuangai Suzhen picked up the helmet that fell to the ground with a spear, brushed off the dirt on it and brought it back to him, ignoring Yuangai Suwen and riding back to the queue by himself.

Yuan Gai Su trembled with anger, but he couldn't attack in the face of his sister, and his anger turned into a long sigh, which was trampled by the horse's hooves, and gradually dissipated in the ranks of the marching army.

Yuan Taizuo ordered the main book to write an official notice overnight, posted it throughout the city, recruited 8,000 people to help repair Liaodong City, and demolished some houses to use as materials to resist the Sui army, and then trumpeted the brutality of the Sui army, and the city would be slaughtered after the city was broken. With such means, the people in the city were finally stabilized and worked together to resist the Sui.

Yuwenshu's attack was frustrated yesterday, and the siege troops suffered heavy losses, especially the flying tower that was damaged by the giant crossbows of the defenders of the city, which made him really angry. Yesterday, ten siege crossbows were transferred from the ancient city of Liaodong overnight, and they arrived at the front line this morning, and they were being installed and debugged at this time.

Yang Guang came to the front camp at this time and listened to Yu Wenshu's report. Hearing that more than ten flying towers were destroyed by the Goguryeo defenders in the city with giant crossbows, I couldn't help frowning and asking where the Goguryeo people got their giant crossbows. Yuwen Shu replied: "Back to Your Majesty, according to the description of the ten centurions who participated in the siege, the giant crossbow of the Goguryeo people should have been lost in Liaodong when the army was withdrawn during the Kaihuang period. ”

Yuwenshu sent Yang Guang away, and immediately ordered the army to prepare for the attack again. In the rumbling of drums, the vanguard siege team of more than 1,000 people came out of the ranks, and launched an attack on Liaodong City again with the flying tower ladder. The defenders of the city also fired thousands of arrows like yesterday, shooting at the Sui army under the city. Yu Wenshu saw that the besieging army had begun to unfold in formation, so he said to an adjutant general: "Let's start, it's best to dig a section today and take Liaodong City as soon as possible." ”

The lieutenant general took the order and began to dig tunnels with the diggers, intending to dig directly into the city. The dark tunnel was relatively narrow, and everyone felt a little tightness in their chests and shortness of breath, and even the torches were a little weak and dim. A veteran of the Digger Army whispered to the lieutenant general: "General, the light of the fire is unknown, let's draw air through the hole upward." ”

The lieutenant nodded, and ordered someone to go through the hole upwards. After a while, the tightness in everyone's chests disappeared, and the brightness of the torches increased slightly. The crowd continued to dig towards Liaodong City.

"Da Zheng Lu, the urn listening team under the city wall has found that the Sui army seems to be digging tunnels into the city." A Goguryeo soldier ran up to the castle tower out of breath and reported to Yuan Taizuo.

The method of listening to the urn is also the law of defending the city from the Central Plains, the so-called urn listening is to bury a pottery urn in the cave at the foot of the city, the mouth of the Weng is covered with thin animal skin, there is a special person to put the ear close to the thin skin, you can hear the sound of digging the ground in the zhangxu, in order to prevent the besieging party from entering the city by digging the tunnel.

"Prepare a lot of firewood and fire-starters, as long as they raise their heads and set fire directly at the entrance of the cave." Yuan Taizuo ordered directly. He had already received a message from his son Yuangai Suwen, and he had already led his troops to Yalu Water, and he would arrive at the city of Liaodong in two or three days, or three or five days.

Yuangai Suwen led the army to the Yalu waterfront at night, directly recruited the boats along the shore and began to cross the river. Even though Yuan Gai Suwen was unwilling, he couldn't say it clearly in front of his subordinates, so with the joint efforts of Yuan Taizuo and the henchmen of the Infant Yang King, they began to cross the river.

Xue Ju and Li Wenyuan happened to inspect this area, there were only dozens of people around them, and a large number of cavalry were still resting and hiding in a forest not far away. I saw that there were more than 100 civilian boats of various kinds crossing the river on the opposite bank, and only more than 2,000 people were transported ashore. Yalu Water at this time to run back and forth for half an hour, Xue Ju and Li Wenyuan looked at each other and smiled, how could this kind of battle not be fought. So he released a carrier pigeon to send a message to the Liaodong battalion, informing them that the Goguryeo reinforcements were crossing the Yalu River, and returned to the forest of Tibetan soldiers.

When Li Wenyuan returned with his troops, the second fleet had just been offshore, and the 2,000 people on this side did not release scouts, but they were all resting on the shore, and some of them were collecting some wood on the spot to build a simple wharf. This time, Li Wenyuan rode the red Shandan horse, wearing a white robe and iron armor, and majestically led the five hundred cavalry behind him to rush to the two thousand Goguryeo troops who had just crossed the Yalu water.

The Goguryeo army had just crossed the Yalu River, and they were tired from the march for days, and they were sitting on the ground resting at the moment, when they suddenly heard a large number of cavalry approaching, and looked at the sound of the overwhelming cavalry galloping towards their side. Before the Goguryeo people could react, the Sui cavalry had already come to the front, and with the momentum of the charge and the advantage of the saber in their hands, as soon as Pu made contact, countless Goguryeo heads flew up, and the headless corpses fell to the ground and were trampled into pulp by the cavalry who came later.

Yuangai Suwen, who was on the east bank, was horrified, but there was no other way but to watch the Sui cavalry on the west bank chase and slaughter the Goguryeo soldiers. Subsequently, Xue Ju cut off the heads of Goguryeo soldiers according to custom, and built them with their heads in front of Yuan Gai Suwen on the east bank.

Yuangai Suwen's hand holding the reins of the horse was bruised, but he couldn't help the Sui army on the west bank, even if his eyes couldn't see who the main general on the west bank was, he could only barely see the Sui banner. Yuangai Suwen turned his head and said to the few henchmen of the Infant Yang King who had just crossed the river directly, "This is what you want to do?" Buried my Goguryeo man's life in vain? Ben Shuai has long said that you can't take carelessness in the face of the Sui army, but now it's good, we can't even collect the corpses of the warriors who died in battle, we can only watch them being thrown into the water by the Sui army on the other side! ”

Then Yuangai Suwen felt angry, and then said to his subordinates: "Push these Sui soldiers who missed the military plane to the river and behead me, and comfort the souls of the soldiers who died in the sky." ”

At this time, Yuangai Suzhen immediately stepped forward and shouted, "Slow down." Then he turned to Yuan Gai Suwen and said, "Brother, you can't do this, they are just anxious to rescue their father as soon as possible at the moment of national disaster, what is the crime?" As long as I'm here, I can't let you do such an unreasonable thing. ”

"Good, good." Yuan Gai Su said hello three times in a manner, then took out an arrow and threw it to his sister Yuan Gai Su Zhen and said, "The army has not moved, and the grain and grass go first." Grain and grass are the key to deciding this westward journey, and there is no room for error, and now I order you to lead your troops to be responsible for the safety of the grain route, and set off immediately. ”

Yuangai Suzhen saw that his brother was so faceless, and then looked at the ministers who were like ashes, sighed helplessly in his heart, and said hatefully: "Take the order." As he turned to leave, he heard the sound of his head falling into the water behind him.

Yuangai Suzhen knew her brother's ambition in her heart, but she couldn't do anything about it, so she could only try her best to save her father, believing that her father would be able to handle it properly. Then he gathered his troops and horses, broke away from the main army, and rushed to Pyongyang to prepare to receive the grain delivery team.

Yuangai Suwen looked at the busy Sui army on the other side, secretly happy in his heart, the anger on the surface was made for others to see, and he found various reasons to delay time all the way, this time he finally had a suitable reason, just thinking of this, he heard someone around him ask: "Dashuai, what should we do now?" ”

Yuangai Suwen pretended to ponder for a while, and said, "Wait for it to get dark, and you are forcibly crossing the Yalu water." ”