The Korean Peninsula in August, on the banks of the Bai River.

The city of Pyongyang was busy and lively, and the huge capital city of Goguryeo had turned into a hot construction site at this time. On the towering city walls and in front of the deep moats, there were people everywhere, and countless Goguryeo people were like ants.

"Pyongyang is known as Little Chang'an, since the capital moved here, after hundreds of years of construction, I don't know how much manpower and material resources were spent, before there is now this big city of more than 100,000 people. But now, more than 100,000 people are demolishing and destroying, but how quickly is it. Wei Zheng carried a wine jug and stood on the southern gate of Pyongyang, watching the sections of the city wall continue to grow shorter.

"It's hard to build a city, but it's easy to destroy a city, it's always been like this, and it's always easier and cruder to destroy than to build." Luo Cheng looked at the big scene in front of him and sighed.

A centuries-old city, under his command, is being destroyed little by little.

The captured Goguryeo soldiers and civilians in Pyongyang, as well as the Goguryeo people who were sent to the periphery of Pyongyang to sweep and capture, had a population of nearly 200,000, both old and young, men and women, all of whom participated in the demolition and destruction of the city under his Luo Cheng's order.

All the Goguryeo had to participate in the destruction of the city, and they were given the task of doing enough to receive rations, otherwise they would go hungry and be whipped.

For those who deliberately resisted, the Left Fifth Army did not hesitate to use a few heads to kill chickens and monkeys.

Pyongyang Fortress is similar to Liaodong Fortress in that it is a flat city, not a mountain city.

Flat cities are more suitable for capital cities because they are flat and vast, can accommodate a larger population, and are easier to live in. But there are also some disadvantages to the flat city, that is, it is definitely not as good as the mountain city in terms of defense.

Flat Cities are easier to build, but they're also easier to fold.

Only a few gates and urns of Pyongyang are clad in polished stones, while the rest of the walls are mostly made of rammed earth. And next to the city wall is a wide and deep moat.

Now, however, countless Goguryeo captives pried the stones and adobe from the walls, pushed them down, and then took wooden carts and transported them to the moats, where they were pushed down to fill the rivers.

Sections of the city wall were quickly destroyed.

And the houses in the city are also being dismantled.

If it can be completed, it can be demolished and filled, and it can be burned and burned, so that Pyongyang City will become a dead city.

It is even necessary to erase the city of Pyongyang from its original horizon.

All the cattle looted from Pyongyang and nearby were driven over, and the cattle, horses, donkeys, mules, camels, and other materials that could be used to haul the stones were kept for the time being, and all the rest of the livestock were slaughtered and processed into meat floss.

Countless treasures, money, and silks copied from Pyongyang City are also being transported to the seashore in truckloads and along the mouth of the Bei River.

"It's still a little too slow." Luo Cheng shook his head.

"It's not slow, you see it's only been three days since it was demolished, and all the gates of Pyongyang City have been demolished."

"It's not fast enough, the Goguryeo people could be killed back at any time, and we must not return Pyongyang City to them. Speed it up! ”

"No matter how fast it is, I'm afraid that a lot of people will die every day."

"Dead people don't have to worry." The fourth said with a cold face, "I will give the order to urge and increase the task." ”

Wei Zheng proposed, "Just in case, I think that after first destroying the urn cities and gates of the outer and inner cities, the city walls of each city should be broken one gap at intervals, and the entire Pyongyang city wall cannot be demolished at one time, nor can the entire moat be filled together, that would be too slow." We use this new method to destroy the city, even if the Goguryeo people really come in advance, we can withdraw at any time, this Pyongyang city cannot be demolished, but it is also demolished into a leaky city on all sides, and the Goguryeo people don't want to repair Pyongyang for a year or two. ”

Luo Cheng suddenly changed the topic.

"Lai Hu'er is also known as a famous general, although he lost 30,000 main soldiers in Goguryeo's plan to lure the enemy, but there is no reason to withdraw all at once."

"Maybe Lai Hu'er didn't retreat far away, but only withdrew near the mouth of the Beijiang River, but then maybe he heard the news of Yuwen's defeat of them, so he had to really withdraw." Wei Zheng reminded Luo Cheng worriedly, "If Laihu'er really withdraws, then we will retreat south, but it will be a little troublesome." ”

"It's a big deal that we withdraw to Baekje, or to Silla."

"The enemy of the enemy is our friend, haha, the general is so free."

August 15.

Mid-autumn festival.

Alone in a foreign land as a stranger, every festival is full of relatives.

The officers and men of the Fifth Army on the Left have been away from home for nearly two years, and when they encounter a day like the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone can't help but miss their hometown and relatives.

In Pyongyang City, the morale of the Left Fifth Army is clearly not very high today.

Many government soldiers who missed their relatives and were full of nostalgia were also particularly unhappy with those Goguryeo people, and in the early morning, hundreds of people were whipped to death because they were not serious about their work.

Luo Cheng once again inspected the destruction of Pyongyang City.

Thanks to their unremitting efforts, more than 17,000 officers and men of the Fifth Left Army and nearly 200,000 Goguryeo prisoners worked hard to demolish it for so many days.

The city gates before have become big gaps.

The urn city, the city gate, the sheep and horse wall, as well as the enemy towers, corner towers, and arrow towers have long disappeared, and even the high city wall has been demolished every hundred steps, and the deep and wide moat has been filled out with a big road every other section.

As for the houses, shops, yamen, and palaces in the city, they were all burned down and demolished.

Most of the wells in the city were filled up.

Another convoy is about to depart.

There were thousands of horse-drawn carts and ox carts, as well as countless trolleys, forming a long line, full of all kinds of money, food and supplies cleared from the city of Pyongyang.

"This is the last batch of supplies, although there are still a lot, but before the general said that you won't bring the same things, so I have people destroy them on the spot."

"It's a pity that everyone is distressed, such good cloth and grain, they are all burned, and there are so many furniture, farm tools, and utensils, it's a pity."

"Unfortunately, there is no way, we can't take that many things with us. Rather than leave it to the Goguryeo people, I might as well burn them all. Left to the Goguryeo people, that is the enemy, and we now have to do everything we can to weaken our enemy, and this is war. ”

Wei Zheng nodded.

"The materials have been transported, Pyongyang has almost been demolished, and the Goguryeo army has not yet arrived, will we continue to dismantle?"

Luo Cheng looked at the ruined city, "Take away all the 100,000 young and strong men of Goguryeo, and leave 100,000 old and weak women and children here to continue to urge them to destroy the city and supply them with limited food every day." Once it was discovered that the advance of the Goguryeo people appeared 200 miles to the north, the soldiers and horses who remained here immediately burned all the food and grass here, and then abandoned them and evacuated. ”

Wei Zheng let out a long sigh.

"I don't know what kind of expression the Goguryeo army will have when they arrive here and see the vanished city of Pyongyang, and I don't know how they will treat them after facing 100,000 old and weak Goguryeo women and children who have no home, no food and no clothes."

"That's their business."