Yang Guang said to Yuwen Shu that night: "Yuwen Aiqing, Yang Xuan felt that Liyang County had rebelled, and he had gathered tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to prepare to attack Luoyang, and I wanted to withdraw my troops back to the eastern capital, what do you think?" ”

Yuwen Shu groaned slightly, and said with a heart: "Your Majesty, at this time, Liaodong City is hitting a critical moment, and the soldiers can break it with their strength, so it is not appropriate to withdraw the army." ”

"Then Yuwen Aiqing means that I should abandon the families of the emperor and the ministers, and attack Goguryeo?" Yang Guang saw that Yu Wenshu did not pay attention to the words handed to him, but insisted on continuing to attack Liaodong City, and he was a little unhappy in his heart.

"The minister is stupid and failed to comprehend His Majesty's foresight, and I ask Your Majesty to forgive me." Yu Wenshu hurriedly knelt on the ground and touched the ground with his head, not daring to say anything else.

Yang Guang nodded and said: "This withdrawal will be handed over to Yuwen Aiqing, I personally led the Xiaoguo army back to the eastern capital to rescue, and let General Yang Yichen lead the troops to directly exterminate the bandits in the counties of Shandong, Aiqing and Xue Aiqing came quickly." ”

On the same day, Yu Wenshu sent a fast horse to contact Xue Shixiong on the North Road and Yang Yichen, who was stationed on the beach waiting for Liaodong City to go straight to Pyongyang City by water as soon as it was broken, and relayed the holy will. Then he handed over several of his lieutenants to be responsible for the specific evacuation matters, and withdrew alone with his own soldiers behind Yang Guang and in Linyu Pass.

The lieutenant generals knew that this trip to the east was no longer possible, and it was likely that they would die if they stayed, so they told the whole army to give up the attack on Liaodong City and evacuate to Linyu Pass, and then they also retreated to Linyu Pass with their own soldiers.

Li Wenyuan and Xue Ju had just returned with the team at this time, but they couldn't find Yu Wenshu, but instead saw groups of whispers in the camp. I casually found a soldier and asked, "What's the matter, why didn't you see General Yuwen?" ”

The soldier saw Li Wenyuan's outfit and knew that the person in front of him was also an officer, so he whispered: "If you reply to you, General Yuwen has already left the camp with his own soldiers and headed for Linyu Pass, and His Majesty the Emperor has also gone back early and wants us to retreat to Linyu Pass on our own." ”

Li Wenyuan was shocked, it turned out that the Eastern Crusade had ended unconsciously, and according to history, this should be the time for Yang Xuangan to rebel, in this case, this Liaodong would not be a place to stay for a long time. At that moment, he let go of the soldiers, turned over and hurried back to Xue Ju's camp, and said to Xue Ju:

"Big brother, the emperor has left the camp, and Yuwenshu has also left, it should be Yang Xuangan who has rebelled, it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time, let's also prepare to withdraw."

Xue Ju nodded and ordered the soldiers to pack up their things and prepare for the march, but did not say that they would withdraw to the pass. That night, the spies who were in charge of keeping an eye on the camp of Liaodong City of the Sui army sent back the news that countless soldiers poured out of the camp, each holding a large bag of grain and rice, but they did not want to attack Liaodong City, but ran down to the direction of Liaoshui behind him.

Yuan Taizuo held the battlements in the city and looked out, and he was also puzzled in his heart, the Sui army had not launched an attack for a day, and the defenders of the four city walls had come to report that the camp stoves in the Sui army's camp were much less than the previous day.

Yuan Taizuo frowned when he heard the news, could it be that the Sui army couldn't attack it for a long time, and turned to a strategy to reduce the stove to lure himself into leading his troops out of the city to rob the camp and relieve the siege of Liaodong City? If you don't understand the facts, take a look at the situation again. Then an order was handed down, and the troops defending the city were not allowed to go out of the city without their own orders, and the defense was strengthened to prevent the Sui army from retreating and paralyzing the garrison from stealing the camp.

On the evening of the next day, Xue Ju and Li Wenyuan came to the camp under the city with their Jincheng cavalry, and saw that there were more people fleeing with grain and rice, Li Wenyuan sat on his horse, looked at the soldiers who fled in the distance and said: "Big brother, the army's spirit has been dispersed, nothing can be done, let's come according to the plan." ”

Xue Ju looked at Liaodong City not far away, and said: "I'm not reconciled, so many Great Sui officers and soldiers fell under Liaodong City, and they were about to capture the enemy chief alive, but they wanted to retreat." ”

Li Wenyuan hurriedly enlightened Xue Ju and said: "Big brother, in fact, you can see better than me, Yuan Gai Suwen's army is stationed not far away, and the number is about the same as the middle route army of our expedition to Liaodong. Now they are standing still, all because Yuangai Suwen wants to borrow our hand and get rid of his father. If we really capture Liaodong City and capture Yuan Taizuo, Yuan Gai Suwen will use this to boost the morale of his soldiers. Let's recapture Liaodong City again, we are still a fierce battle, whether we can hold Liaodong City or not is a matter of two words. It is better to withdraw here, and come back sooner or later to destroy this Goguryeo. ”

Xue Ju gritted his teeth, and finally sighed and said, "What Brother Xian said is very true, let's go to the other side of Liaoshui according to the plan you set in advance." ”

Five thousand Jincheng cavalry followed Xue Ju and Li Wenyuan to Liaoshui overnight, and finally arrived at the ferry by Liaoshui when it was just dawn. This ferry port is called Dijin Port, which is a new ferry built by Yang Guang in order to conquer Liaodong.

Xue Ju and Li Wenyuan hurried to the edge of the Liaoshui, scattered scouts to search along the Liaoshui, and finally found three small boats, there was no one in the Jincheng soldiers who could handle the boat, fortunately, Xue Ju led a part of the cavalry to a group of routs, it was the Jiangnan soldiers.

Li Wenyuan was overjoyed, this was the most crucial step in his plan, and then asked the Jincheng soldiers to escort this group of Jiangnan soldiers to row to the opposite side in three small boats, and to drive back to the more than fifty big boats on the opposite shore. These big boats were also specially made by Yang Guang for the conquest of Goguryeo, each big boat can carry 500 people, and the hull itself is large, it is very stable in the river, and a little more than one or two hundred people will not capsize in the waves.

Xu gave each Jiangnan soldier who temporarily served as a boatman ten hangings per person, just asking them to transport the Sui soldiers across the river and ensure that they would not be sent to death, and after transporting 2,000 Jincheng soldiers led by Xue Ju on the opposite bank as a response, Li Wenyuan led 3,000 Jincheng soldiers on the side of Goguryeo to collect the future rout.

Li Wenyuan commanded his 3,000 cavalry to set up a formation, waiting for the retreating Sui soldiers, and at the same time playing with a waist card in his hand, this waist card was based on the Sui general's waist card that he copied when he visited the museum, and asked Xue Ju to find a cast iron master who made his own armor privately according to the drawings, and recast it countless times for today's use.

Yang Guang withdrew his troops suddenly, and some of the generals who were related to him had already withdrawn one step in advance, and those who remained were all low-level officers, and his own waist card, which could almost be fake, came in handy. There seemed to be smoke and dust drifting in the distance, and the soldiers besieging Liaodong City finally abandoned the military law that bound them on weekdays, and ran towards Liaoshui in order to survive.

Li Wenyuan signaled to Xue Ju on the other side of the river, asking him to prepare as well, while he reorganized his army and waited for it.