Li Mao and Que Yi are old friends and not friends, but now there is a chance to join forces, more than ten years have not seen, Que Yi has aged a lot, there are many folds on his face, but the terrifying scar is much calmer than before, and the anger of his body has been worn out a lot because of the good life for a long time. Li Mao was sure that if it weren't for Jin Xiuzong's faint trick and forcing him to a dead end, Qi Yi would never have agreed to help so happily.

The help was conditional, and after the war, Jae-yi asked for an island in the southeast of Muju in Silla to be used as a transit point for goods, and at the same time asked Ri Mao to take out a part of the confiscated Silla royal property to compensate him for the property that was infringed by the mob instigated by Kim so-jong, and then in the future, his goods would enter and leave Silla to enjoy tax incentives and customs clearance convenience.

The island that Que Yi wanted was Jeju Island in the future, and Li Mao also wanted this place, so he said to him: "You can also have that small island if you want, I have no opinion on whether it will be used as a cargo transit station in the future, or whether it will be the founding of the country and the emperor, but you must allow me to occupy two harbors on the island as a naval base, and the base will be under the direct jurisdiction of our navy." ”

Qi Yi said: "Welcome, with your army stationed, I will not be a pirate." ”

Li Mao said: "If I remember correctly, pirates are your old business, and you will be afraid of pirates?" ”

Que Yi smiled: "I'm afraid of being young, I'm old, and I will eventually be replaced by young people, and washing my feet and going ashore in the future is the way out." ”

Li Mao said: "Don't you want to get a piece of land in Silla? ”

Qi Yi shook his head: "I have been in the rivers and lakes for many years, and I have already seen and understood, it's not that your things can't be forced, even if you send me a state, I can't keep it, and it's still someone else's in the blink of an eye." People are self-aware, how much food they eat, follow the captain to follow the work of dogs and horses, and the captain eats meat and I am satisfied with the soup. ”

Li Mao was very satisfied with Que Yi's statement, and it seemed that he was indeed cornered. With the help of Queyi, the Qing navy ships turned southward and cruised on the waters of Quan, Wu, Kang, and Liang prefectures in the south of Silla, attacking civilian, commercial and military ships, sending marines to land, and raiding towns and villages under the guidance of Queyi, turning the four southeastern states of Silla upside down.

Silla King Kim so-jong was greatly frightened by this, the regular army of Silla was average, not the opponent of the Tang army at all, and now rely on the people's army as cannon fodder to consume the enemy's strength, if the south falls into a panic, the people's army refuses to leave their hometown and go north, where does this cannon fodder come from, there is no consumption of cannon fodder, let the Silla army and the Tang army fight against Mai Mang, not to mention that there is no certainty of victory, that is, the capital of victory is gone, at that time, the tiger that went south is gone, and the wolves in the country must not take advantage of the situation and tear themselves alive?

After much thought, Kim so-jong issued the harshest gag order in the history of Silla, drawing the ground as a prison, strictly prohibiting the officials and the people from disseminating the true news, trying his best to downplay the losses of the southern states, and trying to demean the marines of the veteran general, comparing them with the pirates of Qiyi and the bankrupt samurai (ronin) of Japan, downplaying the pain of the heart as an itch of the skin, reassuring the army and the people not to panic, but to obey the commander's dispatch, and reinforcements from all over the country immediately went north to defeat the Tang army under the city of Hanju.

Jin Xiuzong also claimed to the magnates of the country and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty that if the people's army could defeat the main force of the Tang army under the city of Hanzhou, the naval army that attacked the southern coast would retreat without a fight.

It should be said that Jin Xiuzong's understanding is accurate, although the gag order is harsh, it does play a role in calming people's hearts, and the strategy of forcing reinforcements to go north to block the main force of the Tang army with Hanzhou as the fulcrum is also very appropriate.

Kim so-jong's only major blunder was the judgment of the strength of both sides.

When Li Mao held a military parade in Liaodong, Jin Xiuzong immediately got the news through special channels, and the military parade was a month earlier than originally scheduled, and Jin Xiuzong judged that the situation in Hebei was unstable, and Li Mao was anxious to return to Youzhou. Therefore, when Li Mao claimed that the people who participated in the military parade in Liaodong were the elites of various armies, Jin Xiuzong did not believe it at all, the Tang Dynasty had just changed its new emperor, and the new emperor was imprisoned by an ambitious eunuch in the splendid Daming Palace as a high-ranking prisoner.

This eunuch used the method of killing three soldiers with one peach, fanning the flames in Hebei, and provoking a scuffle, how could Li Mao transfer the elite to Liaodong to conduct a military parade, after all, the military parade is to deter the neighbors, and it is not really to fight;

Jin Xiuzong concluded that Li Mao was bluffing, and the purpose was to surrender without a fight, and warned him to be submissive, in Tang language, to shake him and coax him to take the bait.

Jin Xiuzong didn't take the bait, so he was angry and shouted to go south. The southern expedition was a temporary idea, not a long-term plan, and Kim so-jong judged that Li Mao's troops would not exceed 20,000 this time, and the main force was the Pyongyang garrison.

In the old days, when Kim Doan was guarding Pyongyang, he took very strict precautions against Silla and beheaded him immediately after catching Silla's fine work. Ma Hedong is different, Ma Hedong is a border general of the Celestial Empire, and he does not take Silla into account at all, and there are frequent personnel exchanges between the two places, and Silla's spies are all over Pyongyang and outside the city, and they have deep penetration into the garrison army. Without Pyongyang City as a barrier, Silla's spies also went deep into various parts of Liaodong to collect information extensively, so Kim so-jong was confident that he also had a deep understanding of the Liaodong garrison.

The brave and warlike Anton Army of the past no longer exists, and after Li Mao entered the customs, their elite entered the customs with them, and now they are stationed in Hebei and Ziqing. The current Anton Army is all recruits who are not familiar with the battle formation, and their equipment and training are first-class, but their combat effectiveness is not satisfactory. At this point, Kim so-jong believes in his eyes and will not be mistaken.

Sure enough, with Ma Hedong's Pyongyang garrison army as the main force, and the Andong army formed the Southern Expeditionary Corps, then there was nothing to fear, and Silla could barely fight a battle by virtue of its geographical advantage. Now people hate Tang, and they can also incite the people to fight for him, although these untouchables can't play a big role, but they can block a knife and consume an arrow of the other party, and the chances of winning will be one more point.

In addition, it is the end of August, and winter in Silla has come early, and it will snow and freeze in October.

The winter in Silla was also very cold, when the ice and snow covered the plains, the Tang army's battle line was too long, the logistics supply was not enough, and the collapse was ready at any time.

Thinking back then, he followed the generalissimo Jin Tiyong to lead 100,000 Silla disciples to the north to attack the Tang Dynasty, at that time Li Mao had no more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, there were Liaodong City Xue clan in the east, Khitan in the north, and Yingzhou Zhu clan in the east, the situation was precarious, I thought that the army would collapse once it arrived, who would have expected that the generalissimo Jin Tiyong, who was proficient in strategy and tactics, was dragged by Li Mao in the ice and snow, trapped alive, causing the Silla country to collapse, and the decline is still difficult to reverse.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is another reincarnation, this time the host and guest positions have fallen, if someone wants to be unlucky, it will be Li Mao's turn.

Based on this judgment, Jin Xiuzong forcibly ordered reinforcements from all over the country to immediately rush north to aid Hanzhou, giving the Tang army a head-on blow. He also sent Park Hyuk-chul, a veteran of Silla who was known as the "God of War of the Generation", to secretly go north to Hanju and command the 100,000 Silla athletes gathered in Hanju to fight against the enemy who invaded the south and defend the country.

By mid-October, the right wing reported that the elite of Silla was all under the city of Hanju, and there were as many as 300,000 military horses of all kinds.

The strongest was the 30,000 Wang army, followed by the state and county soldiers, about 70,000, and the rest were the township army, that is, the temporarily conscripted civilian army. Park Hyeok-chul, the commander of the Wang army, was a general of Silla, who led the army deep into the territory of the Bohai Sea many times, and also made an expedition to Liaodong, forcing the Khitan and Murwei to take Silla as the suzerain.

However, at present, Park Hyuk-chul is over eighty years old, and the octogenarian veteran has once again put on armor, indirectly exposing the dilemma that Kim so-jong has no generals available.

Silla's royal army is similar to the forbidden army of the Tang Dynasty, legally speaking, it is the king's private army, with the best treatment, good equipment, and well-trained, and it is a sharp knife and weapon to defend the royal power, and it is invincible and majestic in all previous civil wars.

This was the strongest fighting army of Silla, and it was the only army that could compete with the Tang army.

In addition to the Wang army, it is the state and county army, this kind of military horse is similar to the Tang Dynasty's feudal army, but because Silla has no local secession, the state and county army is only responsible for local security, and there is no need to go abroad to fight, so the actual combat experience is seriously insufficient, coupled with the limited local financial resources, the royal family restricts it, although the number of this army is large, the equipment is very poor, the training is insufficient, and the more fatal is the low morale.

The largest number of civilian army equipment had to be raised by themselves, and military rations had to be carried by themselves, and Silla was in great embarrassment for many years, and food and clothing were still a problem, so how could they have the financial resources to raise armaments? This army was the poorest equipped and poorly trained, but it was numerous and morale-boosting.