Pyongyang City is the capital of the Korean capital established by the nobles of the Yin Shang Dynasty, it was the Lelang County of the Han Dynasty, and the Lelang County of Korea is in the south of the Daedong River, I thought that I could withdraw part of the army, but I did not expect that the naval army in the Datong River, the Han River, and the Yalu River was defeated, and the army distributed in the south could not continue to retreat north, and could only fight hard with the Silla army. When Jang Bojian landed from the sea, the city of Pyongyang was exposed to the eyes of the enemy like a lamb to the slaughter.

When the walls of Pyongyang City were blown open, the Goguryeo people repeated their old tricks and threw out a large amount of money in an attempt to attract the Sui army to loot; But when the city was full of fire, they woke up to the fact that the Sui people just wanted to destroy the city, but it was too late, and the soldiers in ambush fled. Jang Bojian did not want to occupy Pyongyang like Laihu'er did back then, but instead fought a war of attrition, mainly destroying materials, and turning the area around Pyongyang into a displaced area; More than half of the Sui army was born as pirates, and it was customary to do this kind of thing, and they began to withdraw after setting fire, without delaying time at all.

Silla followed the advice of the Great Sui and also dealt with residential areas, and across the Daedong River, it unhurriedly transported prisoners, residents, and supplies, and caused the Han River area, which had always been the backyard of Goguryeo, to suffer heavy losses. Only when faced with the flames of war did they know the pain of the war, and the royal family returned to Pyongyang, and the anger of the Goguryeo magnates was all poured on Eulji Mundeok and others, and letters of reprimand were sent to Liaodong one after another. At this moment, the scouts of Goguryeo had inquired about the movements of the Sui army clearly, Xu Shiji and Heishui Jin Ya had gone to the kingdom of Xi, and the battle was over.

The Bai Qi tribe was one of the fifteen tribes of Tiele, and later divided into two branches, one of which was founded separately with the support of the Turks, and its main activities were in the north of Huangshui, southwest of the Great Khing'an Mountains, east of the Heishui Mountains, west of the Turks, northwest of the vast grassland and the Gobi Desert; There are more than 20,000 tribes in the Turkic interior of the Baixia tribe, and 13,000 people control the strings, and the customs are slightly the same as those of the Turks.

Dulun, the leader of the Xi State, like the Turks, mainly controlled other weak tribes with his own tribe, a total of 40,000 households and 100,000 people in the country, and the customs were the same as those of the Xi people, not only could they raise livestock and hunt, but also planted some crops; Although the country is vast, covering an area of 2,000 li, more than half of the area is in the northwest, and the Dulun tribe mainly travels back and forth between Huangshui and Lengcheng Mountains, relying on the water and grass in the two places to graze livestock and recuperate.

Lengcheng Mountain is the south of the Great Xing'an Mountains, more than 200 miles northwest of Huangshui, can escape the summer, the water and grass are fertile, and it is suitable for the nomads of the Xia country to graze in summer; In winter, the people of the country returned to Huangshui to compete with the Khitan and Xi people. Tribes like the Sultan need the support of the Turks, and it is normal for them to stop and fight, because the Turks are neither interested nor able to manage them, and what is important is that the Sultan can provide supplies.

The Xi people and the Xi country have the same root and the same origin, and they have been very hot recently, and the envoys on both sides come and go frequently, and the Xi country has also sent some war horses to the source of the water; Now the passage of the source water head is in the hands of the Great Sui and the Black Water Spirit, and the movement of a thousand war horses cannot be concealed at all, since he guessed the collusion between Goguryeo and the Turks, Xu Shiji can conclude that this move of the Yan State is related to the big plans of Goguryeo and the Turks.

Naturally, the Heishui Sect agreed with Xu Shiji's plan, the space for the Heishui Sect to go south was limited, and no matter whether Liaodong was in the hands of Goguryeo or the Great Sui, it would not allow the Heishui Sect to expand indefinitely; However, the territory of the Xi Kingdom is different, and the Great Sui is not interested in garrisoning, and if it is captured, it will be a good opportunity for the tribe to develop in a big way. Cheng Mingzhen and Yang Yanshi's troops, under the cover of the Black Water Guard, rushed to the ambush on the road between Huangshui and Yuanshuitou.

An army of 15,000 people came to the country of Xia, but there were only 5,000 war horses, and the armor and equipment were even more miserable, and launched a fierce charge in the face of Yang Yanshi's 6,000 infantry troops, when all the 5,000 cavalry died under the crossbow arrows, the infantry army only lost more than 1,000 people and began to retreat, and was chased and killed by the 4,000 cavalry commanded by Cheng Mingzhen, more than 2,000 people were killed, more than 5,000 people surrendered, and only about 500 people fled.

Cheng Mingzhen and Yang Yanshi pretended to be the army of the Xia Kingdom and mixed into the source of water, and when the Xi people found out that something was wrong in front of the pass, the two airships that took off the sky and thundered to cover it, and Yang Yanshi only took an hour to capture the pass. Yuanshuitou is already a weak water county under the jurisdiction of the Great Sui Yingzhou, although the humiliation of the king and the Yuan Qian tribe used various means, but the Xi people all know the strength of the Great Sui; On the one hand, the king of Hufu sent people to ask for help from the kingdom of Xu, and on the other hand, he sent an army to try to retake the pass.

The country sent another 20,000 troops to Huangshui, and the great leader of the Black Water Empire, Amaza, understood that the opportunity had come; After the army of the Yan Kingdom crossed the Huangshui, the Heishui Jing attacked the backyard of the Yan Kingdom in five ways, and captured more than 20,000 people and 40,000 cattle, sheep, horses, and donkeys in one battle; When Zhang Jian and Ao Balie entered the source of water from the south road, Yuan Qian lost 7,000 people in the first battle, and under the attack of the Sui army, the Xi people were exterminated, and the king committed suicide, and 15,000 Xi people became prisoners.

The Dahe clan has been in a state of dissociation, although it has participated in the Northeast Alliance, but it has not sent troops, just waiting to see the final result and reap some benefits on the losing side; Knowing that Yin Naitler was attached to the Great Sui in Miyun County, the Xi tribe was destroyed, and the Xi Kingdom was stabbed by the Black Water Spirit, the Great Crane Mohui commanded the Great He clan to flee north again, and the Khitan tribe was 20,000 people, so don't be used as a way to make up for the losses by Tuli.

Now that the Turks have been defeated, the Xi people have been exterminated, the Khitan has fled to the Murwei region, and wants Goguryeo to kill to Liaoxi alone, starting from Eulzhi Wende, the soldiers of Goguryeo do not agree, but the voice in the court is too unified, so that Eulzhi Wende is under considerable pressure. This is the helplessness of war, as a weak party, I know that the Great Sui will ask for guilt if I slow down, but now the decisive battle requires courage; In the end, Eozhi Wende decided to try his luck in Liaoxi.

When Goguryeo's 100,000 troops gathered in Houcheng, Sofu Sun rushed to the barracks with a serious expression, and when he saw Eulji Wende, he asked: "Is the general going to send Goguryeo to the grave for the sake of his own reputation, regardless of the life and death of 100,000 soldiers?" ”

Gai Suwen and other generals were furious, this is also the husband and grandson, for another person, such an arrogant attitude, not to take the general in his eyes, he didn't need Yizhi Wende to open his mouth at all, and immediately chopped into meat in the tent. Yizhi Wende smiled awkwardly and said, "Old friend, I'm just going to explore the way, and I may not be able to fight." ”

(End of chapter)