One day in mid-August.

Sixty miles north of Pyongyang, on the way to Pyongyang, a Goguryeo forward cavalry was galloping south.

An hour later.

The light cavalry finally came to the city of Pyongyang.

It's just that, under the rising sun, these light riders all stood there in a daze.

Originally, if you turned around this hill and walked through this forest, you could see the majestic Pyongyang city on the bank of the Bae River at a glance at the intersection.

You can even go beyond the walls of the outer city and see the royal palace Chang'an Palace on the high hill in the center of the city.

But now, they wiped their eyes vigorously, but they still did not see the majestic city. It seemed that overnight, the city of Pyongyang disappeared, and the royal city of Chang'an Palace was also gone.

"What about Pyongyang City?" One of the light riders couldn't help but speak.

"I don't know, are we lost and going in the wrong direction?"

"Impossible, Lao Tzu grew up in the city of Pyongyang, I don't know how many times I have walked this road, how can I go wrong? The city of Pyongyang is there, right there. ”

"But there's nothing there."

Everyone wiped their eyes vigorously.

One of them said, "No, it's not that there's nothing there, you see, there's a lot of people there. ”

"Where?"

"There it is."

After the leading light rider finished speaking, he rode forward.

The closer you ride, the closer.

People say that Wangshan ran a dead horse, and in the past, you could see Pyongyang City from this intersection, but in fact, it is at least 20 miles away from Pyongyang. As they approached Pyongyang City, they became more and more frightened.

I saw that the once majestic city of Pyongyang has disappeared, it has really disappeared, they did not go in the wrong direction, they did not get lost, this was originally where Pyongyang City is, but now Pyongyang City is gone.

In its place, there was rubble and ashes in a land, and countless ruins and ruins.

There are also countless hungry women, children, old and weak.

Three days before the battle, when the Goguryeo advance appeared on the banks of the Sasu River, the last Sui army in Pyongyang began to withdraw. They burned the last bit of food, burned the old and weak shacks of Goguryeo, and then left a group of bewildered Goguryeo people and galloped south on horseback, leaving them to fend for themselves.

No one urged them to demolish the city and fill the river, no one to take care of them anymore, but no one to provide them with food.

They began to wander around, but the surrounding area had long been swept away by the Sui army.

Larger towns and villages were also taken prisoner by the Sui army and everything was burned down, wells were filled, houses were burned, and even crops that had not yet been harvested in the fields were burned.

Fortunately, it was only August at this time, the grass and trees had not yet withered and yellowed, and some grass roots and bark could still be found in the ground to satisfy hunger, but 100,000 old and weak women and children gathered together, and in only three days, they had already eaten all the food around them.

Many people's hungry eyes lit up.

When they saw the long-lost Goguryeo soldiers, they all shed tears.

They swarmed up, tearing off these light horsemen, and told them one after another about the barbarism and ruthlessness of the Sui army, and how they demolished the city of Pyongyang.

"What? The city of Pyongyang was demolished by the Sui army? ”

"What, the king was captured by the Sui army?"

"What, Pyongyang and its surroundings have been destroyed for hundreds of miles?"

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Unbelievable news.

The hungry Goguryeo people were already grabbing the dry food of the Goguryeo soldiers while telling about the barbaric acts of the Sui people, and in the end, the hungry people didn't grab anything, so they simply dragged their horses aside and killed them, and directly cut them up and grabbed raw meat.

The light rider who lost his mount was extremely shocked.

When they came to their senses, they walked on foot on the ruins of the once majestic Pyongyang City, looking at the capital city with only a piece of rubble and ashes left, and lost their minds for a long time, and finally couldn't help but fall on the ground and cry.

"Our Pyongyang, our Chang'an, our royal city!"

After weeping bitterly, the captain returned to the place where the mount had been slaughtered, and by this time the dozens of horses had been robbed by the swarming hungry people, and there was not even a bit of flesh left.

Looking at the terrible appearance of those people drinking blood, these light cavalry forwards couldn't help but feel cold.

"Where did the Sui army go?"

"O barbarian Sui army, they broke through Pyongyang, captured the king alive, and robbed all the treasures, money, and grain of Pyongyang City and Chang'an Palace, and then forced our 100,000 young men to go south. They must have gone to the beach, and it is said that they were going to the beach to take a boat back to the Central Plains Sui Kingdom. ”

Upon hearing the news, the captain immediately said to his subordinates, "We must immediately tell the news to the commander of the Yizhi branch, we must not let those hateful Sui people escape, we must catch up with them, rescue the king, and kill all those Sui people!" ”

"But we don't have any horses now?" One of the light riders pointed to a pool of blood on the ground, the blood of their mount, but now there were no bones left of their mount.

"Even if we run with our feet, we have to rush back to report this important news."

The Goguryeo light horsemen were furious, their hearts were about to burst with anger, the great city of Pyongyang was destroyed, and the king was captured, which must not be tolerated.

The angry light horsemen immediately threw off their legs, and hurried back at once, despite their exhaustion, to tell the marshal at once this important, terrible, and angry news.

They ran on two legs for a day and a night, and ran a full hundred and eighty miles, and at last they met another group of light horsemen who were going south, so they borrowed horses from those light horses, and ran another hundred and twenty miles, and at last they met Echiwende.

The 50,000-strong army led by Ulji Moon-deok had already crossed Sasu at this time, and it was still 300 miles away from Pyongyang City.

He summoned the tired light horsemen in the big tent of the Chinese army.

"What do you say? The city of Pyongyang disappeared? The king was captured? ”

Eokchi was shocked by the news like a fool.

He even thought that these light horsemen had lost their minds, otherwise how could they report such a piece of news.

"Dashuai, the news is true, we have seen it with our own eyes, Pyongyang City has been razed by Luo Cheng of the Sui Left Fifth Army, there is not a single house in Pyongyang City, a section of the city wall is gone, even the palace city has been demolished, and the moat has also been filled. Everything is gone, Pyongyang is gone! ”

Etozhi Wende only felt a dazzling turn of the sky, and then the person was unsteady on his feet and fell backwards.

"Order, the whole army is advancing at full speed and going straight to Pyongyang!"

was helped up by the guards, and Yizhi couldn't care about being dizzy, so he hurriedly ordered.

Three hundred miles.

Ulji Moondeok personally took 8,000 light horsemen, threw down his foot soldiers and galloped south, and it only took one day and one night to rush to Pyongyang.

When he stood in front of the ruined wall and looked at the vanished city of Pyongyang, he couldn't help but spurt out a mouthful of old blood.

"I, Yizhi Wende, swear to Tianming that I will kill Luo Cheng in this life!"