Andong Road.

The hometown of Baekje, the Tang Dynasty Xiongjin Governor's Mansion.

The west coast, the mouth of the White River.

The Baijiang River connects the city of Xiongjin with the sea, and the Tang army built a castle at the mouth of the river, along the coast of the river.

On the mound protruding from the Yangma City in the west of the fort, the two guards pointed in the direction of the city and talked to each other disdainfully.

"Damn the Silla people, they just slipped away like this."

Under the castle, a group of Silla people was passing by, and they withdrew from Kumajin Castle, passed through the castle, and arrived at the mouth of the Baekgang River, from where they would return to Silla by boat.

Or rather, rushing back to the rescue of the homeland.

The fleet of the Japanese people attacked Silla across the sea, and the Silla people defended the city, but they were defeated and retreated, and more than ten cities were captured by the Japanese in a row.

King Kim Chun-chun, the king of Silla, urgently transferred the Silla army in Baekje to return for reinforcements, and also requested reinforcements from the Tang army.

On the head of the city not far away, Deputy Anton protects Li Xiao from the distance of the city.

Andong Yamen knew that Zhao Zhiman, the envoy of soldiers and horses, persuaded him, "You can't let these Silla people go, at least let them leave one or two hundred thousand people." ”

"I don't want them to go, but they only listen to Kim Chunqiu, the king of Silla, and my words don't work."

"I have to think of a way, Su Shuai has returned to the Central Plains by boat with 20,000 sailors, and Xue Shuai has now taken over as the deputy capital protector of Andong and presided over the Goguryeo war. Now we have to take a boat to Liaodong to take over the defense, if the Silla people are allowed to withdraw again, then the whole Baekje, we are really isolated. ”

"Is it just the three thousand old, weak, sick and disabled?"

The three thousand old, weak, sick and disabled people that Zhao Chiman said were composed of the Central Plains mercenaries recruited by Li Xiao and the disabled soldiers left behind by the Eastern Water Division, and these people can be regarded as a favor between Xue Rengui and Su Lie.

3,000 people formed the Anton Army, which was currently Li Xiao's most trusted soldiers.

In addition, he also had 15,000 Andong Tutuan Xiangyong in his hands, but these Xiangyong were either Baekje prisoners of war or recruited Baekje poor slaves.

Now that it hasn't been a long time, Li Xiao doesn't know if this Xiangyong can really believe it at a critical time.

Across the vast sea, with this little manpower, it is difficult to guard 180 counties in 16 Baekje states.

Li Xiao also didn't want the Silla people to go, compared to the Baekje people, the Silla people were at least allies. But now that the Silla people themselves are being attacked by the Japanese people, they still want the Tang army to rescue them.

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The first year of Xianqing.

March.

After the Japanese army crossed the sea, they won successive battles and captured more than 20 cities in Silla.

King Jin Chunqiu of Silla repeatedly asked Li Xiao for help, but Li Xiao himself had no troops to send.

The situation is getting worse by the day.

During this time, Li Xiao guarded the hometown of Baekje, and he was also recruiting troops and horses every day, preparing for war, and accumulating grain and grass.

Li Xiao took the big city where the five governors were stationed as the fulcrum, and initially built a town defense network with the meridians of the sixteen prefectures.

The number of people recruited has also increased to 30,000, but it is still the same problem, they are all Baekje people, which makes people feel uneasy.

All the prefectures, prefectures and counties are stepping up the construction of the Tunpu Acropolis, checking the household registration, measuring the fields, collecting deed money, and stockpiling materials.

Because of the lack of manpower, most of the governors and assassins in various places were replaced by military generals who stayed behind, and they inevitably acted a little hastily.

From time to time, various localities reported incidents that were rude and caused anger and resentment among the people of Baekje.

Among the Baekje people, especially among the Baekje nobles and powerful landlords, whose interests have been greatly harmed, there is a resentment and anger that is constantly rising, and even a dark cloud is gathering.

Li Xiao knew, but he couldn't change it.

He could only hurry up and prepare for the battle.

A lot of information was gathered and told Li Xiao that a great rebellion of the Baekje people was just around the corner. But Li Xiao couldn't do anything, he was like a boat in the ocean, and the Tang army was too few, only 3,000 people.

He repeatedly asked the imperial court for troops, but now the imperial court is going all out to the west, and it is simply unable to send troops over. The imperial court just told him to guard the town, ask the Silla people to assist in the guard, and so on.

It seems that as long as Yi Xiao does not fight the Goguryeo, Baekje will be able to sleep peacefully.

But in fact, after Xue Rengui took the last 20,000 sailors from the south of the Korean Peninsula to Liaodong by boat, a military vacuum was almost formed in the Baekje region.

The siege of Pyongyang was lifted, and the Goguryeo people had begun to move troops south, and many even began to infiltrate Baekje.

"Marshal, I just got the military information."

Liu Jun strode in, "According to the latest military information, the old Baekje generals Monk Daochen, Onimuro Fushin and others supported the Baekje prince Fuyufeng as the king, and the rebellion started, they gathered many Baekje people, and now they have more than 10,000 people and besiege Liu Boying in Jiuchi City. ”

Liu Boying was the governor of the Mahan Prefecture, and the place where he was stationed was north of the Xiongjin Prefecture, close to the border with Goguryeo.

"Has the Goguryeo army gone south?" Li Xiao asked.

This is the issue he is most concerned about, before Cheng Yanjin and Su Lie led the army to leave, the king of Goguryeo surrendered to the court, and the two sides agreed to a truce and a halt.

So Xue Rengui withdrew his troops from the city of Pyongyang and went to Liaodong by boat.

Although everyone knows that this surrender is just a verbal statement, at least the Goguryeo people were also intimidated by the Tang army, and the Tang Dynasty accepted the surrender and withdrawal at this time, also because Cheng Yanjin and Su Lie were transferred to the Western Regions, Xue Rengui alone could not defeat Pyongyang, and if he continued to stay there, he might be surrounded by the Goguryeo people.

The imperial court accepted the surrender and temporarily suspended the army, but also wanted to temporarily maintain the situation on this side, so as to concentrate on fighting the Western Turks.

If the Goguryeo sent troops south to Baekje, then this fragile temporary truce would be broken, and it would be very bad news for Yi Xiao and the people who guarded Baekje.

"For the time being, we have not seen the Goguryeo army cross the border to the south, but it is found that there are many Goguryeo generals in the Baekje army, in addition to the Japanese generals."

This sudden appearance of Prince Buyeo Feng is the son of the previous king, and Baekje has always been friendly with the Wa Kingdom, and this prince was sent to the Wa Kingdom as a hostage.

Baekje was destroyed, and the Japanese people were the most unacceptable. If the Tang Dynasty occupied Baekje, then the Wa Kingdom would be cleared from Baekje, which was extremely unacceptable to the Wa people who had always wanted to get their hands on the Korean Peninsula.

For this reason, when the Tang army had just attacked Baekje, Emperor Qi Meimei, the king of the Wa Dynasty, called on the powerful people from all parts of the Wa kingdom to send troops, and he wanted to conquer Baekje himself.

Although the Wa Kingdom is said to be a family of all generations, the emperor was actually far inferior to the emperor of the Central Plains in this era, and their imperial court was not a country with high centralized power, and the local power of the Wa Kingdom was strong.

But this time, the emperor summoned troops from all over the country to accompany him on his own expedition, but he was responded. It's just that the preparation time has been a little longer, and by the time they have gathered soldiers and horses from all over the country and built ships, the Tang Dynasty has already destroyed Baekje.

Emperor Qi Ming accompanied his army to Kyushu in the west, but died of a sudden illness.

The eldest brother of the crown prince returned to Beijing to be called Emperor Tianzhi. Although Emperor Saimei died, he did not waver in his determination to send troops to Baekje, and Emperor Tenji sent Azumi Hirashi as the former general and Abe Hirafu as the rear general to lead the army to Baekje.

At the same time, Tenchi also sent Sakai Pinang with 5,000 troops to escort Prince Feng back to Baekje.

It was with these 5,000 Japanese troops that Onimuro Fushin and Monk Daochen were able to quickly call on many Baekje people to revolt.

At this time, the Goguryeo people had not yet sent troops openly, but they also sent many generals and colonels to quietly and privately serve in the Baekje army to serve as officers and staff officers.

Under the joint efforts of the three forces, this rebel army under the banner of recovering the country is still attacking fiercely.

Although Liu Boying is also a general, he has been fighting in the sand for a long time, but he is finally still a small soldier and is trapped in the city for a long time.