Long Delay City.

Li Xiao drove the captives to seal the enemy's corpse as a Jingguan and built a huge skeleton platform.

Jingguan sealed the corpses of the enemy with loess and rammed them, and a row of corpses was made of a layer of soil. The Jingguan is built, and it looks like a terrifying ghost prison from a distance.

In that year, the Sui army's million-strong army conquered Goguryeo, defeated Liaodong, and left countless bones of the Central Plains soldiers in Liaodong, and the Goguryeo people built the Jingguan with the remains of hundreds of thousands of Sui soldiers.

In the Sui Dynasty of the Tang Dynasty, Taizong succeeded to the throne, and Li Shimin sent an envoy to Goguryeo, asking the king of Goguryeo to demolish Jingguan and let the envoy bring back the bones of the soldiers who conquered Liao back to the Central Plains for burial.

The corpses of 5,000 enemy soldiers were built into a Beijing Temple, which was very inhumane, but there was no mercy to the enemy. You're going to have to be fiercer and more ruthless than they are when you face those enemies.

When the Jingguan was built, the 20,000 captives knelt on the ground in fear and did not dare to get up for a long time.

A Jingguan is like a huge guillotine, permanently hanging above their heads, and may fall at any time.

"Marshal, there are a lot of Goguryeo troops among the captives, how to deal with them?" Xue Chuyu asked.

In this battle of Gyuchiseong, the Goguryeo people also participated, but they did not openly participate in the war. Instead, he sent a group of officers to the south with some elite soldiers in private clothes, pretending to be Baekje people to participate in the war. After the defeat, many Goguryeo people did not come and escaped and were captured.

What to do with this group of people is also a question.

Li Xiao thought for a moment, "Since their public identity is Baekje people who participated in the rebellion, then let's treat them as Baekje people." ”

Liu Boying said murderously, "Kill!" ”

Wang Fangyi had a different opinion, "You have to consider the reaction of the Goguryeo people, this time the Goguryeo people did not openly participate in the war, but they also participated secretly. If we kill all these people, we will provoke them to anger. If these people are provoked and really directly participate in the war, I am afraid that we will not be able to stop it. ”

"You can't just let them go, it's too cheap for them." Liu Jun believes that there is no need to be afraid of the Goguryeo people, they can fight if they want to, anyway, it is the real strength that really plays a decisive role.

"In this case, send someone across the border and send a message to the Goguryeo people that we have a batch of Baekje prisoners here to sell to them."

"Sell?" Liu Jun didn't understand it even more.

"What Third Brother Wang said makes sense, we directly killed these Goguryeo people at this time, just afraid that it would anger them. But we can't let them go, otherwise it will seem that we are afraid of the Goguryeo. We must make the Goguryeo people understand that we are not afraid of them, but we also save them some face. Li Xiao said, "We have about 100 Goguryeo captives here, let's exchange a thousand war horses with Goguryeo, if you want to agree, you can exchange them, and if you don't agree, we will send these people to Chishan as slaves!" ”

A hundred prisoners of war for a thousand horses, of course, this trade was done.

No captive of any value is worth ten horses, let alone war horses. Ten war horses, how can it be worth two or three hundred, this is still in the northern border area of the Tang Dynasty, if it is in Chang'an, a war horse is worth at least thirty or forty yuan.

Li Xiao's Andong Tutuan lacked war horses, and it was difficult to cross the sea from the Central Plains.

Exchanging a hundred Goguryeo captives for a thousand war horses is not a way to let the tiger return to the mountain, but to enhance one's own strength, and it is a great bargain.

"The Goguryeo people may not be willing to make such a loss-making business, right?"

"Then I can't care about that, anyway, I gave the Goguryeo people a chance to choose, if they care about their soldiers and generals, then even a thousand horses have to be exchanged. If they don't want to exchange a thousand horses if they think they're worth more, I don't care! ”

As soon as Li Xiao's words came out, everyone laughed.

Yes, it depends on how the Goguryeo people choose, but no matter how they choose, in short, the Andong Tang Army will not lose.

"To get back to the point, we still have to be prepared for the worst in case the Goguryeo people really go south." Li Xiao pointed at the ground with his sword, "Jiuchi City must strengthen its defenses. ”

There is also a reason why Baekje and the Wa people took Gyuchi Fortress as their first target, and Gyuchi is an important place in the northern part of Baekje, which was a military town where Baekje used to defend against the Goguryeo people in the south.

If the Baekje people take this city, they will be able to rely on Goguryeo, and even if the Goguryeo people do not know how to send troops, they can secretly give a lot of supplies and other reinforcements. Even in the event of an unfavorable situation, the Baekje people were able to retreat into Goguryeo.

"Jiuchi City is mine, please Dashuai still hand over Jiuchi City to so-and-so."

Although Liu Boying was not lightly injured, he was holding his breath in his heart at this time. I have never suffered such a big loss in my decades of fighting, and this time I almost capsized in this Baekje gutter.

Where the field is lost, it must be recovered.

"It's fine." Li Xiao thought about it again and again, and felt that Liu Boying was also experienced in battle after all, and at the same time, his morale was available. At the same time, he was originally the governor of the Mahan Governor's Office, and he was in charge of the northern frontier of Baekje, which was his defense area, and now that he was still alive, he naturally had to guard this place.

"I will pull out Cheng Boxian and Xue Chuyu, two generals, each with a thousand soldiers, to assist you in guarding this city!"

"Hahaha, that's enough, although I have folded more than 800 soldiers here, but there are still 4,000 villagers in the Mahan Governor's Mansion, and now that the war is imminent, it is not a problem for me to temporarily recruit a few thousand more people. It's ordnance, food, grass and medicine, and I have to pay some for me. ”

"No problem." Li Xiao agreed very happily, and at this time he should go all out and work together.

asked people to take out the map of Baekje, Li Xiao discussed it again with several generals, and finally decided to use Liu Boying to lead 3,000 people to defend Jiuchi City, Cheng Boxian and Xue Chuyu to lead 1,000 people each, to guard Coral City and Majin City on both sides of Jiuchi City, and then Qin Xiong to lead 3,000 people to guard Tangjin Port.

In this way, there were 8,000 soldiers and horses to the north.

The three cities of Jiuchi, Coral and Majin are laid out in a zigzag shape, relying on each other and helping each other.

Although Tangjin City is far away, it guards the harbor, which can be used as a place for logistics and arms transfer, and it is also a landing base for Li Xiao to reinforce from the sea at any time.

With Tangjin, then Li Xiao can reinforce Jiuchi Sancheng from the sea at any time.

As for Li Xiao, he will return to Sihyunseongseong, which was once the royal capital of Baekje after all, and is now the residence of the Xiongjin Governor's Office, which is the center of the Tang Dynasty in Baekje. As the head coach, he must sit in the center and command the overall situation.

Li Xiao's finger moved up and down the map, connecting the four river estuaries along the west coast.

"Pyongyi, Anwon, Naturalization, and Pyongwa, these four cities are all seaports on the west coast of Baekje, and they are also the fortresses of Baekje in the past, and we have few soldiers, so we must hold these four coastal forts to ensure our sea routes. If we hold these four forts, our sea routes will be preserved, and our sea mobile lines will also be preserved, so we can reinforce everywhere at any time by sea. ”

Li Xiao immediately appointed Wang Fangyi to guard Pingyi City in the northernmost part and Liu Wen to guard Anyuan City in the south.

He also guarded the naturalized city at the mouth of the Baijiang River with Liu Renliang, and Liu Jun guarded the southernmost Pingwei city.

"General Zhao Zhiman, the commander of the army and horses, is responsible for commanding my Andong Naval Division, and preparing for mobile preparations, so that reinforcements can be sent to various places at any time."

Anton did not have a sailor, so Li Xiao recruited his family and the ships of the nobles who came to Baekje from Chang'an, and temporarily formed a fleet of sailors, which was commanded by Zhao Zhiman himself.

In this way, there are four cities such as Jiuchi in the north, and there are four ports such as Pingyi on the west bank, and one city in each town of the eight generals, Li Xiao is in Si Xuan, and Zhao Zhiman leads the water division to maneuver.

There are also three other governors such as Liu Renyuan, each in charge of their own inland jurisdiction.

No matter how the situation changes in the end, Li Xiao has made more than 10,000 preparations, and then it depends on the choice of the Goguryeo people, the Japanese people, and the Baekje people!