Yuan Taizuo rode on a white high-headed horse, watching the 100,000 army roll forward, the whole team emitted a murderous aura, and the team in front of him seemed to be unstoppable, and even the mountains and rivers could be destroyed together.

He was just over thirty years old at this time, and it was the time when he was full of energy, so young with heavy troops and monstrous power, he should be full of pride, but now his face was full of worry, Goguryeo was attacked by the Sui army in a short period of time, how strong is the Great Sui?

Although Yuan Taizuo has not personally been to the territory of the Great Sui, Yuan Taizuo has long heard that the Central Plains is ten times more than Goguryeo in terms of manpower and material resources.

Since the unification of the Central Plains by the Zhou Dynasty, Goguryeo has been worried about the relationship with the Central Plains Dynasty, and both monarchs and ministers are under pressure in their hearts, and they have been racing against time.

Now it really came, the Great Sui completed the unification of the Central Plains before Goguryeo, and Baekje, Silla still existed, when he received the news that Pyongyang was besieged, Yuan Taizuo was shocked, his worst fear really came true, he suddenly fell into a dilemma, if he immediately retreated, Baekje, Silla and the two countries did not collude with the Great Sui, I am afraid they would not let go of such a good opportunity, if they did not retreat, once Pyongyang was breached, even if he had more than 100,000 troops in hand, he became a rootless source, not to mention that the king was still in the capital, How can you not save it?

changed to a mediocre general, either he was too frightened to move, or he immediately raised troops to rescue him, but Yuan Taizuo has been commanding the army for many years, and he will not act recklessly, after careful consideration. He still made various arrangements, and on the one hand, he sued for peace with Baekje and Silla with the land southeast of the Hufeiling Mountains, and strengthened several passes on the Hufeiling Mountains in a row.

Now I don't know what the situation is in Pyongyang, with the solidity of Pyongyang. Maybe the Sui army has already bled under the city of Pyongyang? As soon as he returned to Beijing, he would be able to break the siege, and when Yuan Taizuo thought of this, his spirits finally lifted.

"Report, don't leave the branch. I met King Rongliu in front. ”

After receiving the scout's report, Yuan Taizuo was shocked, King Rongliu has been leading the naval army, how could he be here now? He shook his head. Could it be ...... I didn't dare to think about it anymore, so I hurriedly said: "Quick, please stay."

"Yes." The scouts went down shortly after. Grizzled. Gao Jianwu, who was in the dust, rode a donkey to Yuan Taizuo, and when he saw Gao Jianwu's appearance, Yuan Taizuo felt a bad feeling in his heart: "Lord Wang, what happened?" ”

Gao Jianwu sighed and told Yuan Taizuo the news of the destruction of the entire army of the Water Division, and Yuan Taizuo breathed a sigh of relief, it's okay. It's just that the water army has something to do. Although Goguryeo's sailors were much stronger than those of Baekje and Silla. However, compared to the army, it is not proportional at all, but Yuan Taizuo asked suspiciously: "Lord Wang, do you mean that the Sui army has not attacked the capital?" ”

"Lord Mo Lizhi, this king doesn't know if the Sui army is attacking the capital now, but this king is still in Beishui, and the Sui army has indeed not touched the capital at all."

Although the high walls of the capital city are thick, it just makes no sense that the Sui army Baibaitun has been under the fortified city for a month, unless the Sui army does not want to break through the capital of Goguryeo, if it does not want to attack the city, then why should the Sui army besiege the city? Yuan Taizuo's head was about to explode, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind: "Could it be that Sui Jun is targeting himself?" ”

The more he thought about it, the more he felt right, and he was suddenly shocked: "Send the order down, send the scouts twenty, no, forty miles, and report as soon as the Sui army is found." ”

"Yes."

Seeing that the scouts obeyed the order, Yuan Taizuo breathed a sigh of relief, turned to Gao Jianwu and said: "Victory or defeat is still the norm, the prince doesn't have to care too much, since the prince is here, you might as well stay with this official army for the time being." ”

"Thank you, Lord Molizhi." Gao Jianwu hurriedly thanked him, he naturally understood that although he was the prince, he didn't have to be afraid of him with the power of Mo Lizhi, not to mention that he was still waiting for the guilt at the moment, and as long as he could relieve Pyongyang from the siege, he would be able to share the credit to offset the previous crime.

Yuan Taizuo's suspicion was a dark ghost, and he became more and more cautious, marching only thirty miles a day, and it took seven or eight days to complete the three-day journey when Gao Jianwu fled for his life, and the more than 200 people left behind by Gao Jianwu seemed to be gone, which made Yuan Taizuo even more worried, but what was puzzling was that the army marched all the way to Beishui and did not find the figure of the Sui army, and the cities and villages of Goguryeo were safe and sound along the way.

However, when they arrived at Beishui, Yuan was too deceitful, Gao Jianwu and others were dumbfounded, the narrowest part of Beishui is also hundreds of meters wide, and the widest part is several miles, although Pyongyang is in front of them, how can they cross the river?

If it was in the past, there would naturally be no problem, just use the boat directly, and it would be easy to build a few temporary bridges in the water, but now their naval army is all wiped out, and where are the boats, the ships of the Sui army come and go on the water, and it is probably not so easy to build a temporary bridge, Gao Jianwu now understands why the Sui army wants to completely destroy his naval army, that is, to make them have no boat to cross, even if the army comes back, they can only stare at the south of Beishui.

Yuan Taizuo tried to build a bridge at night several times, trying to sneak across the river, but was soon discovered by the Sui army, and the blood of the people who built the bridge was shed into a river, and the things that built the bridge were also burned clean, and Yuan Taizuo's army had to look at the river and sigh.

In Pyongyang City, the soldiers of Goguryeo came and went on the city wall, and from time to time looked at the continuous Sui army camp under the city, everyone's face was tense, for fear that the Sui army would attack the city at any time, and the pedestrians on the street became more and more scarce, and the lively street scene of the past was completely gone.

The only thing that is still thriving is the grain store, many grain stores have sent a long queue in front of them, however, some grain stores have been sold out of signs, and the grain shops are still selling, the price of grain has risen by at least 50 percent compared with two months ago, and the supply is still in short supply, when the Sui army first besieged the city, many Goguryeo people did not care, Pyongyang after nearly 200 years of operation, the city is fortified with thick walls, solid and bitter gold, there are tens of thousands of troops in the city, and more than 100,000 troops in the Moli branch can also quickly come back to help, and in the north there are as many as more than 200,000 land

It's just that I didn't expect that Mo Lizhi's army was blocked in Beishui, standing on the head of the city, you can already see the military camp where Mo Lizhi is rooted, but the army has no wings, even if you want to fly, you can't fly, and the northern army has no hope, the two Sui armies are capturing one city after another in the north, and the bad news in the north is one after another, and they are also counting on the capital to send reinforcements and supplies.

Gaoyuan, the king of Yingyang, sent thousands of people to carry out a tentative attack on the Sui army, this attack made the Goguryeo army face to feel how strong the Sui army was, the Sui army first flew thousands of arrows, shot most of the Goguryeo soldiers out of the city, and then sent a combination of sword and shield hands, spear team, and Mo knife team to kill the remaining Goguryeo soldiers like chopping vegetables and melons, and the three thousand Goguryeo soldiers who went out of the city finally only fled back to more than 100 people.

Now two months have passed, and the Sui army still has not made an action to attack Pyongyang City, maintaining the siege, as if determined to trap Pyongyang City to death.

Pyongyang City has sufficient material reserves, before the arrival of the Sui army, relying on the water army to fight desperately, but also got most of the precious time to transport the materials from outside the city to the front line into the city, but Pyongyang City has more than 200,000 civilians, plus 30,000 troops, civil and military officials, the inner courtyard of the palace, a total of nearly 300,000 mouths, every day people eat horses and chew, once cut off from foreign transportation, no matter how much materials will be exhausted, now there are many poor people in the city can not uncover the disaster, even if it is rich, more and more cherished food, The soldiers and civilians of Goguryeo also became more and more anxious, worried, and scared from indifference......

Judging from the dense military camps of the Sui army below, the Sui army besieged the city with no less than 100,000 people, if Goguryeo has 100,000 troops fighting thousands of miles away from the country, like this for two months, I am afraid that the front-line soldiers will be short of food, the Sui army not only supports the siege of the 100,000 people, but also 200,000 people fight in Goguryeo, although each city can get some supplies, however, most of the materials still have to be transported to the rear, how rich is the Great Sui? Seeing that the city was not in a hurry to conduct drills every day, that is, the Great Sui army that did not attack, the Goguryeo monarchs and ministers were terrified.

The wharves on both sides of the shell water, countless ships dock every day, and the materials unloaded from the ships are piled up on the shore into a hill, now is the era of cold weapons, 100,000 horses, and the materials consumed every day need about 500 tons, if it is not possible to rely on the shoulders of the people, but a large ship of 5,000 materials is enough to transport it once, with the Sui army's familiarity with the sea and land of Zhuojun and Pyongyang, as long as it takes about ten days to go back and forth, the Sui army has 30 large ships of more than 5,000 materials, 72 large ships of 2,000 materials, and hundreds of ships of more than 800 materials. As long as one-tenth of the transportation capacity is allocated, it is enough to maintain the needs of an army of 100,000 people.

The Great Sui soldiers are full of fine food, rich in the world, but manpower is precious, attacking Liaodong City is a last resort, tens of thousands of dead and wounded are enough to make Yang Yong feel distressed, now Pyongyang City is far stronger than Liaodong City, if you want to forcibly attack, it is possible to kill and wound 100,000 people, Yang Yong has the idea, that is, to rely on the abundance of materials, he would rather consume Pyongyang City than let the soldiers attack.