Li Gu was distraught by the arguing of the elders of the tribe, and he himself was still unable to decide whether to send troops after a night of chess.

Luo Yi thought that sending troops had no room for consideration for the Khitans, and he urged the number of hands in the first half of the night to no avail, so he had to go back to the account to rest. Utu came to Luo Yi's tent early in the morning, Luo Yi slept very lightly, and when he heard someone approaching the tent, he hurriedly got up, and saw that Utu's face was very unsightly, and he couldn't help frowning: "What, is it that your ministry is unwilling to send troops?" ”

Utu shook his head: "It's not true, it's just that the elders discussed it all night last night, and they haven't decided yet, and when it dawns, the elders are out of energy, and now they have all gone back to rest, and they will negotiate again in the afternoon." ”

"Afternoon consultation?" Luo Yi smiled angrily: "They don't know that the military situation is urgent, if the negotiation fails in the afternoon, will they have to wait until tomorrow?" ”

Regarding Luo Yi's questioning, Utu could only say: "The elders are serious, this is a matter of life and death for our clan, be cautious and ask Lord Luo for your understanding." ”

Luo Yi sneered: "Utu, when you attacked Gao Baoning, you took the initiative to ask to join, don't forget, Gao Baoning has the support of the Goguryeo people behind him, and now Gao Baoning is dead, and his grassland is occupied by the Japanese company, do you think that if you don't send troops to Goguryeo, you will let you go." ”

"This ......" Utu knew that what Luo Yi said was reasonable, but in the face of the Council of Elders, he didn't even have a chance to participate, so what could he do.

Luo Yi did not relax: "You tell those elders of the Rilian Department that unless you Rilian Department surrenders to Goguryeo now and withdraws from the grassland that has been occupied, you will be offended by Goguryeo, and the Great Zhou will remember today's events in the future, and if there is no result in the afternoon, the official will return immediately." ”

After speaking, Luo Yi shook his hand and walked back into his tent. Utu was in a hurry, and so that the Rilian tribe was tantamount to offending two strong men in succession, he stomped his foot and turned to walk towards his father's tent. As soon as he arrived outside the patriarch's tent, two guards stopped him: "Young patriarch, the patriarch has just fallen asleep, please don't disturb." ”

Utu pushed the hands of the two away: "Get out of the way, I have something urgent to see the patriarch." ”

The elders on both sides of the country quarreled with each other all night, and they were very distressed. I had just fallen asleep and couldn't help but be angry when I heard the quarrel outside: "Who is making noise outside?" ”

Utu ignored the two guards outside and broke in directly: "Father, why are you delaying the dispatch of troops, we have already offended Goguryeo, do we still want to offend the Great Zhou?" ”

Seeing that it was his son, Wu Ligu rubbed his troubled eyes: "Aren't the elders still discussing the matter of sending troops, as for offending Goguryeo, we need to be cautious about sending troops because we are afraid of offending Goguryeo." ”

"Father is bad. We have already offended Goguryeo if we send troops or not, and if we offend the Great Zhou again, the Rilian Department will immediately face the disaster of annihilation. ”

Wu Li asked puzzledly: "We didn't send troops, why did we offend Goguryeo?" ”

"Father, Gao Baoning is Goguryeo's pawn, since we cooperated with the Zhou army to attack Gao Baoning and took over his pasture, we still talk about what we didn't offend Goguryeo."

Wu Ligu fell silent, for Gao Baoning's identity, as a Khitan who had provided troops to him. knows better than the generals of the Great Zhou, because of this, after Gao Baoning returned from the defeat two years ago, no Khitan people dared to attack Gao Baoning, and now that Gao Baoning has been destroyed, everyone subconsciously puts the responsibility on the Great Zhou. As if there was no Khitan participation in the middle at all.

It is not that the Rilianbu has no chance of reconciling with Goguryeo, as long as the Rilianbu is willing to replace the role of Gao Baoning, Goguryeo has no reason not to accept it, but instead of this, it is better to take refuge in Dazhou.

"Father, the Han people have a saying: When the interruption continues, it will be chaotic, if the elders continue to fight like this, the child is afraid that he will not be able to fight for three days and three nights, and then the war between Goguryeo and Dazhou will end. Even if the troops are sent out, it is too late. ”

As soon as his son reminded him, Wu Ligu's sleepiness was suddenly dispelled, and the more he thought about it, the more reasonable it became, and he immediately walked out of the camp: "Summon, gather all the elders." ”

The horns blew again, afraid that some elders would sleep too hard, and Wu Ligu also specially sent his own guards to urge them one by one, these elders didn't sleep all night, and they were woken up just after lying down. They were all complaining, and it took more than half an hour to reunite.

"Elders. I reconvened everyone because I thought that our Japanese company must send troops this time. After Wu Ligu knew that the matter was serious, he did not let the elders discuss it again, but announced it directly.

Hearing the patriarch's words, all the elders were stunned, just now the patriarch was still because it was difficult to make a decision and wanted to stay until the afternoon to continue the discussion, why did the patriarch change his mind soon after, the elders who had agreed to send troops were immediately overjoyed, and praised one after another: "The patriarch is wise!" ”

Those opposing elders were stunned for a while and then jumped out, and one of them said with an unkind expression: "Patriarch Wuligu, whether to send troops or not is related to the life and death of our clan, this is still a major matter, and without the consent of the Elders' Council, the patriarch has no right to decide." ”

"Yes, the patriarch has no right to decide."

"It must be approved by the Council of Elders."

The opposing landers suddenly became violent, shouting loudly, and an elder who supported the dispatch of troops hurriedly shouted: "Silence, silence!" But no one paid attention to it, and the whole camp was suddenly in chaos.

Luo Yi followed Utu and the two of them to listen outside the tent, and when they heard a quarrel inside, Luo Yi was furious, opened the tent and shouted: "Who dares to oppose sending troops?" ”

The elders looked at Luo Yi blankly, they naturally knew that Luo Yi was an official sent by the Great Zhou, and those elders who were willing to send troops wanted to be tied up with the Great Zhou, so it was naturally not good to be rude to Luo Yi, and most of the elders who opposed sending troops were opposed because they were afraid of Goguryeo, but they didn't have the courage to confront the Great Zhou, and they suddenly became dumb in front of Luo Yi.

Luo Yi saluted Wu Ligu: "Patriarch, since there is no objection, the patriarch can announce the dispatch of troops, I hope that tomorrow I can see the Khitan and the Great Zhou fighting side by side." ”

Wu Ligu was stunned: "Okay, this patriarch announced ......"

"Wait, he is not an elder of his own clan, how is he qualified to break into the Council of Elders, according to the rules of the clan, what should he be guilty of breaking into the Council of Elders?" One of the elders couldn't help but jump out.

"This ......" Wu Ligu was speechless for a moment, if it weren't for the elders, breaking into the elders' meeting, even his own people would be killed, not to mention outsiders, an elder next to him was embarrassed to see the patriarch. Immediately: "This is the envoy of the Great Zhou."

A long invitation to watch the ceremony is not trespassing. ”

"Yes, yes." Wu Li Gu hurriedly descended the steps.

Anyone can see that the patriarch did not invite Luo Yi, but everyone knows it that if they really want to kill the young man in front of them, wouldn't they immediately declare war with Da Zhou.

The elder saw that everyone did not want to be with him, so he had to let it go, but he still insisted that no elders would pass it. Uli Gu has no right to send troops.

Luo Yi said coldly: "In that case, why doesn't the patriarch vote now?" ”

With Luo Yi watching coldly, the result of this vote was very smooth, a total of forty-eight elders were present at the day, thirty-nine agreed to send troops, and only nine insisted on refusing to send troops, but the general trend has gone.

Another day passed, and Goguryeo launched round after round of frantic attacks on this day, covering one spearman with several sword and shield men. The method of the archers approached the camp of the Zhou army and launched a confrontation with the Zhou army, compared to yesterday's sword and shield soldiers alone, the casualties were greatly reduced, however, except for the loss of hundreds of corpses, no progress was made, the Zhou army's ground position remained immovable, and when it was dark, Wenda had to withdraw his troops.

Wei Chong made a big circle with 200 Zhou troops and finally reached the place where the Goguryeo army crossed the river. The Goguryeo people built a simple pontoon bridge here, although the Goguryeo and the Khitan people took the Liao River as the boundary, but due to the ignorance of the Khitans, the Goguryeo people were not hindered when they crossed the river, and the Goguryeo people did not pay attention to this pontoon bridge at all. Only a hundred guards were sent.

The more than 100 Goguryeo people guarding the pontoon bridge did not expect that anyone would destroy the pontoon bridge, in their minds, General Wenda with an army of 8,000 defeated more than 1,000 remnants of the Great Zhou army easily, even if the Yingzhou defenders reinforced it would not help, who would have enough to eat and nothing to destroy the pontoon bridge.

Seeing the bonfires lit by the Goguryeo people, and the Goguryeo people scattered around the camp, not only did the Goguryeo people not have a camp, but also did not even have a guard sentry, Wei Chong was overjoyed and couldn't help but sigh his good luck.

"Rush!" Two hundred Zhou troops, led by Wei Chong, rushed towards the unprepared Goguryeo like tigers in the mountains. When these Goguryeo people heard the sound of horses' hooves, many people stood up one after another, thinking that they were their own people, until the Zhou army rushed into the flames and saw the Zhou army's lichen armor clearly, and the Goguryeo panicked.

"Kill!" Wei Chong was at the forefront, and the long lance in his hand stabbed. A Goguryeo man who bravely came up to him was suddenly thrown into the air by the powerful impact, and his chest was already dented. Before he fell to the ground, he was too dead to die.

"Kill!" The Zhou army also followed, whether it was the Goguryeo people who were attacking or the Goguryeo people who fled, under the impact of the 200 cavalry, they did not return the slightest call, and they were killed like chopping vegetables and melons in a while, and the Zhou army only paid more than ten casualties.

After annihilating the Goguryeo people guarding the bridge, the Zhou army directly ripped off the camp tent next to it and put it on the pontoon bridge, and sprinkled all the grease collected inside.

"Burn!" Wei Chong gave an order, and hundreds of torches were thrown onto the pontoon bridge at the same time, and the pontoon bridge, which was full of camp tents and other flammable materials, soon burst into flames, and in a short time turned into a sky-high fire, which could be seen for dozens of miles from far and near.

"Whoa." It was not until the middle of the pontoon bridge burned and the bridge deck fell directly into the river that Wei Chong retreated with his men and horses, and looked for ships along the way, and all those found were scuttled.

When the ground fire on the pontoon bridge was burning, the Goguryeo army that was resting was also alarmed, and one of the soldiers first shouted: "Look, what is that?" ”

More and more soldiers came out of their tents, observing the fire dozens of miles away, whispering, Wenda knew at a glance that the fire was the direction where his army crossed the river, and a bad premonition surged in his heart, such a big fire, it would not be the pontoon bridge burning.

Wenda comforted himself in his heart: "No, no, the Zhou army has less than 3,000 people, and it is useless for them to burn the pontoon bridge." "It's just that I couldn't settle all night.

Getting up early the next morning, Wenda did not immediately attack as he had done the previous two days, but first sent a horse to the pontoon bridge to check, and in less than half a day, the horse returned: "General, all the soldiers guarding the bridge have been killed, and the pontoon bridge has also been burned." ”

Wenda's face turned pale, and he looked at the Zhou army on the hill in the distance, the Zhou army still stopped on the mountain and did not move, he was suddenly confused, the number of the Zhou army was far from being weak, what were they going to burn the bridge for, if it wasn't done by the Zhou army, then who else would burn the bridge.

Wenda suddenly thought of something, and suddenly her face changed greatly, and she summoned the quartermaster and asked, "How long will our land supply last?" ”

The quartermaster returned: "The general can rest assured that the supply is enough for seven days." ”

"Seven days." Wenda muttered to himself, this time the army was in a hurry, it was already good to be able to bring ten days of supplies, everyone thought that the Zhou army could be defeated soon, naturally there was no need to worry about supplies, now that the pontoon bridge has been broken, if the Zhou army cannot be captured within seven days, the army will collapse without a fight.

Last night, the whole army saw the red light in the sky, and many Goguryeo soldiers couldn't help but speculate wildly, some people guessed that the country sent another army, but the fire did not look like the scene of the army crossing the river, and some people had guessed that the pontoon bridge was burned.

Although there are many of them, but the enemy who thought it was a soft persimmon was imagined to be much stronger, and there was no progress in the attack for two consecutive days, and now they heard that the back road was broken, and most people still thought that they could defeat the Zhou army, but their hearts were somewhat unsteady, and the attack was stopped today, and the soldiers' doubts increased a lot.

Yang Yong leisurely looked at the slightly chaotic Goguryeo camp on the mountain, although the army was in the mountains, but there was food and drink, there was a small river at the foot of the mountain, within the range of the Zhou army's bow and arrows, Goguryeo was surrounded for several months, the Zhou army did not have to be afraid, at most the livestock would be hungry and thinner, not to mention, Yang Yong was sure, if Luo Yi said to move the Khitans, at most a few days it would be the turn of the Goguryeo people to flee for their lives, even if the Khitans did not come, the pontoon bridge was broken, and there was no supply, the Goguryeo army would not last long.

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