Sasui.

The Cheongcheon estuary in later generations.

Luo Cheng frowned, although he had delayed a little time in Daxing City, but his left five soldiers all had horses, and their maneuver speed was much faster than that of the Eighth Army, but now he couldn't catch up with the speed of the Eighth Army.

The forward scout came to report, saying that Yuwenshu and others had already killed Sashui in seven battles and seven victories.

After crossing Sasu, it is already a flat river to Pyongyang, but it is only 200 miles away.

"Who is the Goguryeo boss?" Luo Cheng asked.

"According to the tongue interrogation caught by our forward scouts, the Goguryeo commander who was defeated in seven battles was Ulji Moondeok, who led 20,000 or 30,000 horses to meet the battle, but as a result, all seven battles were north, and he was defeated all the way to Pyongyang."

When Luo Cheng heard this name, he always felt a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it. In the past, although he knew a little about the history of the Sui and Tang dynasties, he didn't know much, and he often remembered here and there, and even less knew about Goguryeo.

"Did you bring back the tongue, I'm going to interrogate it myself."

Luo Cheng always felt that something was wrong, there must be something wrong with the defeat of Yizhi Wende's seven battles. After all, in his memory, Yu Wenshu's Ninth Army failed to reach the city of Pyongyang at all, and suffered a great defeat.

Several Goguryeo soldiers were brought to the front, which was a living mouth that the forward scouts had managed to catch with great difficulty.

There was already a translator in charge of translation, and Luo Cheng reviewed them one by one and asked questions one by one, which took half a day. In the end, he corroborated something in his memory, and then he got a terrible result.

"Hou Mo, Chen Changshi, Wei Sima, there is no doubt that the Goguryeo people are cheating. And I surmise that Eulji Mundeok is the commander of the Goguryeo army that we have been looking for. ”

According to the captive's confession, Eulji Mundeok was the most famous general in the Goguryeo court's royal faction, a confidant of the king, and a southern Fusa, and the king had already put Eulji Mundeok in charge of commanding all the forces in the Yalu River area and the royal capital of Pyongyang at the beginning of the year, and put him in charge of defending Pyongyang.

According to their confessions, a total of 150,000 horses have now gathered in Pyongyang.

The coach is none other than Eulchi Moondeok, but Ulchi Bunde did not put all 150,000 horses in Pyongyang, but put 80,000 in Pyongyang and 70,000 in the Sasu area.

"Ladies and gentlemen, there is now two good news and one bad news, the good news is that the sailors led by Laihu'er have arrived near Pyongyang and are marching towards Pyongyang along the Besu, and the fleet led by him is carrying 100,000 soldiers. And the bad news is that Yuwenshu won all seven battles, in fact, he fell for the trick of Yizhi Wende, who had already found out that the Ninth Army was short of food, so he deliberately lost in a row, luring Yuwenshu and others to go deeper, especially so that they could not rest, and kept pursuing, which made the armies tired. ”

"Is the message accurate?" Hou Mo Chen asked.

On the battlefield, especially in the heart of this thousand-mile enemy realm, it can be said that the situation of two eyes is dark, and it is difficult to grasp the information from the outside in time.

Sometimes, the information you get is not necessarily true.

Every decision needs to be supported by sufficient intelligence, and if the intelligence is wrong, then the decision made on this basis is naturally wrong.

In many cases, defeat is due to insufficient intelligence or mistakes.

Under the fog of war, no one can clearly see the situation and make adequate countermeasures. Sometimes, the fear is not that there is no information, but that there is countless information, which is true or false, and it is difficult to judge.

A smart and experienced coach must have enough experience to judge true and false information, and be able to adjust the deployment decision at any time according to the situation and seize the situation.

"It should be eight or nine and not far from ten."

Luo Cheng didn't dare to guarantee that his inference was completely correct, although he inferred the process from the results, there were countless possibilities for change.

It can only be said that the possibility is extremely high.

Now the situation is that near Pyongyang, there are five armies.

The Sui army had 100,000 troops on the Lai Huer Sea Road in the southwest of Pyongyang, and more than 260,000 troops including Yu Wenshu in Sasunan, dozens of miles north of Pyongyang.

In addition, the 30,000 people of Na Sung are at the mouth of the Sashui River, more than 200 miles north of Pyongyang.

The Goguryeo people had an army of 150,000 soldiers, divided into two routes, 80,000 in Pyongyang and 70,000 in the vicinity of Sasu.

Judging from the inference of troops, the Sui army completely dominated, with 400,000 horses.

However, the weakness of the Sui army lies in the fact that the two armies are still completely separated, unable to establish contact, and unable to effectively coordinate operations.

Even, Yuwen said that their Eighth Army, the army lacked food and grass, and pursued Yizhi Wende all the way, and it has become a tired army.

Although Luo Chengjun has enough soldiers and strong mobile strength, he has few soldiers.

On the contrary, this is the home of the Goguryeo people, and this is still their capital, and the Goguryeo people have obvious advantages in terms of geography and people, especially in terms of their grasp of the entire battlefield situation, which is obviously stronger than the Sui army.

"How far are we from Yuwen Shu now?"

Luo Cheng asked.

"About one hundred and forty miles, Uwen Shu said that they are only sixty miles away from the city of Pyongyang."

Luo Cheng calculated the time, and Yuwen said that they had crossed the Yalu River until now, and they had marched 440 miles, which was only six days, with an average of more than 70 miles a day.

You must know that 70 miles a day is a lot, especially now that the Ninth Army has no logistical supplies, it is all relying on itself to carry grain, grass and equipment, and it is completely in the heart of the enemy's territory, 70 miles a day, and seven battles in six days, which is unbelievable.

"Then we are still a hundred and forty miles away from them."

Wei Zheng shook his head, "It's too far away, I can't catch up." ”

"yes, I can't catch up." Hou Mochen also sighed, since Eulji Wende is cheating, then it is obvious that this will go to Pyongyang City, and it should be time to counterattack, with Pyongyang firmly on his back, and Pyongyang still has 80,000 troops.

Again, Yuwen said that they had run 440 miles in six days, and it was already the end of the crossbow.

This is the time to fight back, that's really the time.

"I just don't know where Laihu'er is now, if they can appear under the city of Pyongyang now, then at least they can contain the 80,000 people in Pyongyang, even if only half of them are contained."

Luo Cheng also felt troubled.

After thinking about it, he said, "First send a team of light horsemen and fast horses to catch up with Yu Zhongwen, and tell him, just say that I got the information, Yizhi Wende is a fraud, and he has a heavy army to counterattack." Let them stop the pursuit first, let them stop the pursuit first, rest on the spot, and say that I am rushing over. Also, tell them that the 100,000 sailors who come to Hu'er will soon be in Pyongyang, and we will contact them first, and then we will march together to join the city of Pyongyang. ”

Then Luo Cheng said, "Send another team of people to the south of Pyongyang to find the sailors who come to protect the children, find a way to connect with them, explain the situation here, and let them help us share some pressure and involve Pyongyang's soldiers and horses." ”

After speaking, Luo Cheng ordered the whole army to immediately pull out the camp, "advance at full speed and rush to Pyongyang!" ”

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