In order to reward Gao Yanshou's surrender to the city, Yang Yong specially allowed Gao Yanshou to select 3,000 Goguryeo soldiers to form a team of men and horses to assist the Sui army, and named Gao Yanshou as the official general of the Great Sui.

Looking at Gao Yanshou's back, Li Hun reminded: "Your Majesty, beware of this person's deception. ”

Yang Yong smiled: "What if there is fraud? I just want to use his reputation to weaken the will of the remaining Goguryeo people to resist, and the real key battle still depends on you, why, the main force of Goguryeo has been defeated, are you still afraid that his remnants will not succeed? ”

As soon as the emperor said this, everyone laughed, now the places occupied by the Sui army are under military control, from the dispatch of troops to the present, there have been more than 2 million Goguryeo people under the rule of the Sui army, the original plan, all the Goguryeo people will move out of their hometowns, become the laborers who are being built in various parts of the Great Sui, but now the war is not completely over, in order not to provoke all the Goguryeo people to resist, the Goguryeo people who are currently demoted to laborers are limited to the captured army and some Goguryeo are young and strong, if you want to rule steadily, It would certainly not have been possible without the cooperation of the Goguryeos.

After laughing for a while, Yang Yong turned his gaze to the two young generals beside Luo Shixin and asked, "Who of you is Qin Qiong and who is Cheng Yanjin?" ”

Qin Qiong and Cheng Yanjin glanced at each other in surprise, they didn't expect the emperor to ask about them, so they hurriedly stood up.

"Your Majesty, the last general will be Qin Qiong!"

"The last will be Cheng Biting Gold!"

Yang Yong looked at the two of them, merged with the image of the two in his mind, nodded and smiled: "Work hard, I hope that the two Aiqing can be crowned marquis and worship each other in the future." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone around looked at Qin Qiong and Cheng Biting Jin with envy and jealousy, this was the emperor's golden mouth, and Qin Qiong and Cheng Biting Jin were also surprised. Qin Qiong is okay, after all, she is over thirty years old and relatively stable, but Cheng Biting Jin is grinning, and she almost can't find the north.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

The two hurriedly thanked him, and seeing the envious and jealous eyes around him, Yang Yong couldn't help but cry out in his heart: "It's bad, it's not good if they are suppressed in the army in the future." Hurriedly remedied, raised his voice and said, "Well, that's true for all of you. I have a word, a soldier who does not want to be a marshal is not a good soldier, as long as the secretary and others make meritorious contributions, I will not hesitate to reward the marquis. ”

"Hooray! Banzai! Hearing the emperor's words, the Sui army, who was cleaning the battlefield, couldn't help but cheer again.

Luo Shixin took a step forward and said, "Your Majesty." General Yu pursued the Goguryeo army, only 18,000 horsemen, and the strength was a little weak, and the last general wanted to ask for battle. ”

Looking at Luo Shixin's young face, Yang Yong nodded: "Okay, I'm ready." ”

"Your Majesty, the last general asks to go to war."

"Your Majesty. The last general asked to fight. All the generals were enthusiastic and asked to go to war, Yang Yong agreed one by one, and in the end, only thousands of Sui troops were left on the south bank to monitor the surrendered Silla, the Goguryeo people cleaned up the battlefield, and the rest of the men and horses all went to war, even Yang Yong was among them.

An army was weeping through a plain, and this army was the army that Yuan Taizuo had quietly withdrawn, totaling 50,000 men, including 7,000 cavalry and about 43,000 infantry. Compared with the 90,000 troops when they came, they have lost almost half. The cavalry lost more than sixty percent.

Despite this, Yuan Taizuo still felt lucky, after all, they withdrew safely, as long as they had about three days, they could enter the mountains from the plains, and then they no longer had to be afraid of the Sui army's cavalry pursuit, there were more than 50,000 Silla plus more than 20,000 troops in the rearguard, and it would not be a problem to stop the Sui army for about three or five days. It's a pity that there are more than 20,000 people after the break. I don't know how many people will be able to escape.

After a day and a night's hurried march, Yuan Taizuo's army was already seventy miles away from the battlefield. This marching speed broke the record of the Goguryeo army's march, and people were always able to reach their potential when fleeing for their lives. On the second day, the army that had rested for the night continued to advance, but it was obviously slower than yesterday's, and today was the third day of the flight, and after two days, Yuan Taizuo's army had marched one hundred and twenty miles, and after another forty miles or so, it would reach the mountains.

Some Goguryeo people along the way saw the army leaving, and they also hurriedly followed behind the army, but fortunately, the place they were walking in the plain area did not block the road, and the Goguryeo army did not pay attention to the people who fled, as long as they did not block the road.

Behind these ordinary people of Goguryeo, who were dragging their children and daughters, there were several groups of more than a dozen people, dozens of knights mixed in and marching with difficulty, these people were like armies, they were like armies, they were like armies because they all had horses and weapons, they were not like armies because only a few people wore military uniforms, and the others were all dressed in a variety of ways and they did not fit well, as if they were robbed.

However, seeing that these people are powerful, ordinary people still subconsciously stay away from them at a distance, these squads of dozens of people are Princess Seondeok and her escaped subordinates, after leaving the battlefield, Princess Seondeok thought about how to return to Silla, from the waterway, that is not to be counted on, only to return to China by land, then at least to walk more than 400 miles in the territory of Goguryeo.

Princess Seondeok originally wanted to return to China in the name of Yuan Taizuo, but on the first day, Princess Seondeok and her party knew enough news to make them gnash their teeth, Yuan Taizuo actually led a large army to pass in front of them the day before, and they actually let the Goguryeo people betray, no wonder the other party did not save him after his camp was breached.

After knowing that there was Yuan Taizuo's army in front, Princess Shande and her party were cold in their hands and feet, obviously, as long as the Sui army would chase after her from behind in a day or two, if she joined up with Yuan Taizuo, let alone whether Yuan Taizuo would continue to use her as an ally, even if she still took her as an ally, once the Sui army was entangled, she couldn't leave if she wanted to, it was better to quietly change her pretence, in order to prevent the target from being too big, Princess Shande scattered hundreds of people, and then there was a team of dozens of people.

Silla and Goguryeo are basically spoken, and the two sides have been dealing with each other for hundreds of years, and they know the roots, taking off their military uniforms and mixing with these civilians, Princess Seondeok and her party really have no suspicions, and even if they do, they will think that they are Goguryeo soldiers.

Two black-clad knights emerged from the distant hillside, one of them raised the monocular in his hand, the queue of the Goguryeo march was clearly reflected in the glass lens, tens of thousands of Goguryeo troops were distributed in the wild grass for more than ten miles, and they were slowly moving forward, around them, there were cavalry escorts in front and behind, and behind them were even more powerful ordinary Goguryeo people, as for the Silla people mixed in the middle of the people, they naturally ignored the past.

After a look, one of them shouted, "Go." The two of them immediately turned their horses' heads and walked towards the back of the mountain, and the two of them disappeared from the hillside just now, as if there had never been a human figure there.

After the two men went down the mountain, they galloped on horseback, and soon crossed the figure at the front of the Goguryeo army, and traveled more than ten miles before they entered a dense forest.

"Who?" Drink steeply in the jungle.

"No. 11 of the rebuke camp, come back on the twelfth to pay the order."

A Sui soldier wearing red armor came out from behind the tree, picked up the tokens of the two, and then said, "Follow me." ”

The Sui army ambushed in the dense forest is the people and horses who robbed the grain before, they only handed over the bodies of the wounded and their own people to the big ship to take away after robbing the grain, and the people who were still intact continued to stay, because when the grain was robbed, the Goguryeo main general would rather die than surrender, and the Sui army was also quite injured, although most of the people could be cured, but in the end they reduced their staff by more than 1,000 people, and now there are only more than 3,500 people left in this team of 5,000 people.

On the first night of Yuan Taizuo's withdrawal, Zhang Shou's scouts found out, but Zhang Shou couldn't figure out what was going on, and saw that there were too many Goguryeo people, so he had to give up blocking it, and the next day when the Goguryeo army continued to flee in a hurry, Zhang Shou was sure that the other party was fleeing, but he didn't see his own people chasing in the rear, and Zhang Shou's more than 3,000 people didn't dare to act rashly, so they had to march with Yuan Taizuo, the Sui army was full of horses, and the march was of course much faster than Yuan Taizuo, and he often waited in front of him after walking for a while, Wait until the Goguryeo army is almost in the middle of the march before moving on.

The two scouts were quickly brought to Zhang Shou, who asked urgently, "How is it, how far is the enemy?" ”

"General, the enemy's forward is less than ten miles away from us."

"Did you see the shadow of our army?"

The scout shook his head: "No, the people behind are ordinary people of Goguryeo, there are too many of them, even if our army comes up, you can't see the dust and smoke when you get close." ”

Zhang Shou sighed in disappointment, if the other party has no cavalry, with the three thousand five hundred cavalry in his hands can at least drag the other party for a few days, but the other party's cavalry is twice as many as himself, if it is easy to fight, surrounded by the other party, tens of thousands of people drown over, his own three thousand five hundred cavalry does not know if it can block half a day, this time the army can catch up is good, even if they die, it is worthwhile, I am afraid that they sacrificed the army but did not catch up, then they are not sacrificed in vain.

Just if you don't fight, can you watch the other party flee into the mountains, once the other party escapes into the mountains, I'm afraid that the Sui army will have to spend several times the price to destroy the other party, to fight or not to fight, Zhang Shou couldn't help but desperately pluck his beard.