The Goryeo army was defeated, and it was like a mountain of defeat, and after this battle, the 70,000 soldiers and horses of the country and the 4,000 naval army were almost completely wiped out. Kim Zhi, Li Fang and other Goryeo generals were killed in battle, and the prime minister Kim Yuan, the secretary of the Privy Council of Tongzhi Choi Hongjae and other important ministers of the court and the central government were also captured.

After the victory, Xiao Tang was not idle, but successively sent troops and horses to attack the vast area south of Jiucheng (the area south of South Hamgyong Province and Lianggang Province in North Korea) where Goryeo and Sheng Jurchen attacked each other in that year, attacked and invaded Goryeozhuang Town, plundered grain and grass, and led the main force to conduct a sneak attack on the surrounding Goryeo officials and troops from time to time.

And Xiao Tang did this, of course, he also had his own strategic purpose.

During this period, Aliqi and Qiong Demon Nayan advised Xiao Tang of their own ideas. Considering that he could further put pressure on the Goryeo court, he agreed to their suggestion in the end. Therefore, in addition to the fact that it is still strictly forbidden to kill and rape ordinary innocent people, although the border with the Song State has almost disappeared in the middle and late Liao Dynasty, in the early days of the Liao Dynasty, the phenomenon of "beating grass valleys" in the border with other countries and garrisoning military brigades, and even plundering the grain and grass property of other countries when sending troops to conscript, was vigorously staged everywhere in the counties, counties, villages and squares in the northern region of Goryeo......

Xiao Tang knew that even if he restrained military discipline, such acts were indeed harassing and bullying the ordinary people under the rule of the enemy country. However, when the war develops to the scale of confrontation with a country, it is indeed the essence of the war is cruelty after all, and Ci does not command the army, which is completely different from the situation of gathering strong soldiers and horses in the mountains in the Song Dynasty, but strictly prohibiting the villages and villages from being washed and plundered by the people of the Song Dynasty. Xiao Tang's move is nothing more than to convey to the other party that I still have enough strength to cause more damage to your country, and also make the Koreans fully aware that the price they need to pay if they want to take Baozhou will be far beyond their expectations.

At the same time, the people of any ethnic group who have settled in the territory are fine, but for the concept of the country of Goryeo, for Xiao Tang, it is a real foreign race. So this time, the moral restraint in his heart and the quest to achieve the goal as soon as possible, Xiao Tang chose the latter.

As for the plan to gather all the forces to overthrow the Goryeo Dynasty in one fell swoop and establish a country on the peninsula as a base for attacking the Jin Kingdom from the rear, he planned to use the great victory as a base...... Xiao Tang never planned to execute it from beginning to end, because it was too unrealistic for historical considerations.

Although he won a complete victory this time, it was indeed the first of the Goryeo kingdom to underestimate the enemy, and he lacked sufficient understanding of the strength of his own soldiers and horses. However, if it is said that the comprehensive conquest of this country, not only the Mongols in the official history of the war against Goryeo have been fought for more than 40 years, but also when Aguta, who had long been anti-Liao, led the Jurchen tribes to kill Goryeo and defeated more than 10 victories, and recruited more than 30 Jurchens in the Changbai Mountain region to join the alliance, why didn't he, a generation of heroes with great strategic vision, strongly advise the tribe at that time to take the opportunity to destroy Goryeo, and postpone it for a few years before swearing to oppose Liao?

Wang's Goryeo is by no means different from the later generations of the country's military equipment was abolished, and the military affairs were not known for more than 200 years, and the Japanese conquered the royal capital in 19 days, and the three capitals were lost in only one month, and the eight provinces collapsed. Although the internal physique of the DPRK is also heavy on literature and light on military force in today's season, this country has been trying to expand its territory to the north since the establishment of the dynasty, resisting the Great Liao and the Jurchens, and there is no laxity in the armament of the war, and it is not difficult to win a few battles, but Xiao Tang also knows very well that the annexation of the entire country will inevitably be protracted, and Shamo will also have to spend decades of war, and speed up Goryeo in the time when the Jin State annexed the entire territory of the Liao Dynasty, which is not only too taken for granted, but also no different from a fool's dream.

Therefore, Xiao Tang doesn't want to spend a long time with Goryeo, but he must also let the other party understand: If you continue to fight with me, you can't afford it.

Not only did they lose more than 70,000 regular soldiers and horses, but now the enemy army occupying the Baozhou Prefecture even took the initiative to attack, and it had the potential to sweep through the counties and counties in the northern part of the territory, which was enough to teach the whole country to be terrified. After Xiao Tang urged Yi Lacheng, Xi Sheng, Yuan Lang and other leaders to guard against Rong Wei and continue to pay attention to the movements of Goryeo, he came to an annex not far from the Baozhou Mansion. But since I landed, I have been imprisoned here, what is the meaning of this!? ”

Cui Muyuan, a Goryeo scholar who was rescued by Xiao Tang from Haikou, has been imprisoned here since he arrived in Baozhou, although he is also good at eating, drinking, and hospitality, and his living and eating are even much better than those who were captured alive and captured by Jin Yuan, Cui Hongzai and other important figures in the Goryeo Dynasty, but he was only trapped in the annex and couldn't move around, Cui Muyuan was surprised by Xiao Tang's way of dealing with him, although he was indignant but helpless, and now that he met again, he naturally had to ask for clarification.

Xiao Tang sat calmly on the sandalwood chair in the study, and when Cui Muyuan asked, he replied: "I didn't expect to meet Mr. Cui at sea. But on the way back to Baozhou to meet Mr. Cui, except for my confidant brother, you are the only one who knows my true identity, this matter, at least your country still does not know the details, so I have to ask Mr. Cui to stay here for a while longer, presumably it will not be long, this confidential matter is no longer necessary to cover up, I will naturally put you back with all your mustaches and tails, and I must ask Mr. Cui to forgive me. ”

According to Xiao Tang's thoughts, after he officially declared war on the Jin State, who is the leader of these military states at that time, the truth will be revealed to the world. And now that Jiangnan La has been destroyed, as the most powerful anti-army leader in the Song Dynasty, he is the behind-the-scenes leader who occupies the Baozhou lands, and if this matter is known to the Song, Jin, Goryeo and other countries, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not arouse their conjecture and vigilance and cause extraneous branches. Since it was the Khitan beheaders who now nominally occupied the three prefectures of Bao, Ding, Xuan, and Haizhen of Phi Dao, it was only during this period that this secret could still be concealed until the time when the Jin State decided to invade the Song Dynasty in the south.

Although this Cui Muyuan is a decent person and has some friendship with himself, he is not a Goryeo tribesman who has fallen into his own realm and only seeks to settle down, but is still a serious Goryeo countryman of 800. Everyone comes from the position of their own country, and some personal friendships are okay, but they are not the same heart in major matters, so they can only control him temporarily, and there is no old friendship. Fortunately, he was only a weak scholar who was not treated well in the Goryeo Dynasty, and if he was detained, the Goryeo Kingdom didn't know that there was also a knife and pen official who was also captured by the other party, otherwise it was also within Xiao Tang's consideration to use some decisive methods to make a safe strategy.

And Cui Mu snorted coldly and said, "This is really Baozhou?" I originally thought that the Khitan nomadic tribes of the Liao Dynasty came to occupy my homeland of Goryeo, but it turned out that you were secretly plotting, not only rebelling against the Song court, but also gathering the rebel people and thieves in the north......"

Before Cui Muyuan could finish speaking, Xiao Tang interrupted him and said in a deep voice: "Goryeo homeland? As far as I know, the Great Liao raised troops to invade Goryeo several times, and it was not until the Liao Dynasty's civil and military Emperor Xiaoxuan (Liao Shengzong Yelu Longxu) gave hundreds of miles east of the Yalu River to Ru State on the condition of paying tribute to the Liao State, and Goryeo was able to temporarily expand its borders here. However, your country was treacherous, and still secretly corresponded with the Song court, and secretly encroached on the territory of the Northern Regions, and provoked the Liao Dynasty to control the troops and seize the east bank of the Yalu River to build Baozhou as a deterrent.

The Goryeo Kingdom of Baozhou was only controlled for a period of time, and then it was restored to the territory of the Liao Dynasty, so what is your Goryeo homeland? If Mr. Cui also wants to use strong words to quibble, saying that even the Bohai Kingdom is also your Goryeo Kingdom, you must have seen a lot of Bohai remnants, and they are of the same language and race as your Goryeo ethnicity? If you are of the same blood, why did you Goryeo first lure a large number of Bohai refugees into the country in order to encroach on the Northern Regions, and then slaughtered them after being discovered by the Liao Dynasty, this is how you Goryeo treated the so-called compatriots of the same race? ”

Xiao Tang's words are vibrant, although Cui Muyuan is also full of poetry and books, but he is familiar with his ears and eyes, and his cognition is still in line with the rhetoric of the main body of his country, but now Cui Muyuan is shocked to find that it is difficult for him to refute the other party's words, even if he can still argue strongly, but he has a little less confidence in his heart when he asks himself.

And at this moment, the window of the study was suddenly knocked gently, and Xiao Tang heard Xu Guanzhong say in the foreign report: "Brother, Gaoli sent an envoy over there to inquire about his intentions, and it seems that he is begging to meet and discuss peace. ”