Zhao Zhiman rode away in the night, with a reconnaissance team of fifty people, a ruthless team composed of Guanzhong swordsmen, Shandong Xiangma and Jiangnan water thieves.

Three large ships were parked on the edge of a small island.

It's a small uninhabited island, but it's not small, it's just not inhabited.

The boat was parked in a bay on the island and hidden.

The crew, who had been rocking on the ship for a day, happily stepped on the solid ground. Some people have become accustomed to the shaking of the boat, but when they get off the boat and step on the ground, they still feel that the heavens and the earth are shaking, and they can't walk anymore.

As the supreme commander of the fleet, Li Xiao sent a team of mercenaries to search the island, and then arranged for other people to find water sources and collect dry firewood.

Lao Wang is very experienced, he took a few people to row a small boat and went out for half a day and came back.

"I know where this is, near the mouth of the Hunjiang River." The old king was very excited, and he rowed his boat close to the land shore in the night, and soon found a reference. As an old guy who has been running the Korean Peninsula route all his life, he immediately judged where he was.

Li Xiao also knew the location of the Hunjiang River.

In fact, many people in the Tang Dynasty knew about this mouth of the Hunjiang River, not because of anything else, but because the Sui Dynasty's 1.1 million troops had conquered Goguryeo for a long time to attack Liaodong City, so Yang Guang sent a detachment of 300,000 people to go around the city and go deep into the royal city of Pyongyang.

At that time, Yang Guang asked them to attack Pyongyang quickly, but the soldiers carried too much food and equipment, but the march with a lot of weight was faster, so many soldiers secretly buried food and equipment to reduce the burden.

Who expected that the cunning Goguryeo people would avoid the enemy without fighting, deliberately luring the enemy to go deeper, and the Sui army drove straight in, and finally encountered an ambush of the Goguryeo people at the mouth of the Hunjiang River, and attacked half-crossing, seeing that they were about to go to the city of Pyongyang, the Sui army could not help but underestimate the enemy, and was ambushed by the Goguryeo army.

The Sui army retreated in defeat, but there was a big trouble at this time, they came too quickly, they thought they could attack Pyongyang directly, so they all thought that the food and baggage they were carrying were too tired and all thrown on the road.

At this time, the Hunjiang River was blocked, and it was thousands of miles away from the base camp of Liaodong City, and the lone army was deep, there was no food available, and the army became a hungry army.

There was no hope of attacking Pyongyang, and the Hunshui River became a natural danger, and the Goguryeo army used the river as a block. In the end, the Sui army had no choice but to retreat, and at this time, the Goguryeo people began to follow the pursuit, and the Sui army ran out of food, and no longer had the will to fight, and the result was a rout.

In the end, the 300,000 Sui army collapsed, and the final retreat to the city of Liaodong was only a few thousand.

Xishui, and also became famous because of the war.

Later, the Sui and Tang dynasties conquered Liao several times, and the Sui and Tang dynasties sent sailors to attack Pyongyang several times, all of which landed at the mouth of the Hunjiang River.

Because the upper reaches of the mouth of the Hunjiang River are not far from the royal city of Goguryeo, this river is also called the Wangcheng River, and this river was later called the Daedong River in history.

It is also recorded in the Hanshu Geographical Chronicle that the Han Dynasty once set up Hunshui County, Lelang County, here, and the boundary is in the west of Hunshui to increase the land and enter the sea.

According to the Sui book of Goryeo, Goguryeo is in Pyongyang City, also known as Chang'an City, six miles from east to west, bending with the mountain, and facing the Hunshui River in the south.

In the history of the peninsula, the Han Dynasty once established Lelang County here.

More than 200 years ago, Baekje and Goguryeo had a large-scale battle in Hunshui, and the Goguryeo people completely occupied the area north of the Han River.

It was also after that war that Baekje no longer fought against Goguryeo alone, and began to form an alliance with the Wa kingdom, which had always coveted the peninsula, while Silla implemented a strategy of relying on Goguryeo, and the peninsula formed a confrontation between the two major groups of Goguryeo Silla and Baekje Wa for a long time.

Later, Goguryeo dominated the northern part of the peninsula, and finally Baekje confronted the Silla Alliance. Later, Silla was attached to the Tang Dynasty, and Baekje turned to Goguryeo, forming a new confrontational group, the Tang Silla Alliance, and the Baekje Japanese Alliance against Goguryeo.

The moon is nice tonight.

The moonlight is like mercury on the ground, and the breeze is gentle.

Li Xiao listened to Lao Wang's report while leisurely grilling a skewer of barbecue.

The meat is the venison that the people who searched the island just now, and the island is quite large, and there are many birds and beasts on it. Although the Hungang River has now become the heartland of Goguryeo, it is after all the sea outside the estuary.

According to history, when Goguryeo was destroyed by the Tang Dynasty in history, there were more than 690,000 households. Nearly 700,000 households, with a population of less than 5 million, sounds like a lot.

But you must know that when the Tang Dynasty was first established, there were actually only more than one million households in the country. At this time, the Tang Dynasty had been in power for several decades, and the number of households had recovered to 3.8 million, but it was still far from the 8.9 million households when the Sui Dynasty was strong.

Goguryeo has been established for hundreds of years and has a large population, but in the war with the Sui and Tang dynasties that lasted for a hundred years, a large number of people were lost. Only in the last years of Taizong Zhenguan's personal expedition to Liaodong, he broke through ten cities and obtained 60,000 households and 180,000 mouths.

In the wars of the Sui and Tang dynasties against Goguryeo, the population loss of Goguryeo was extremely large, and the losses were calculated in hundreds of thousands.

However, the territory of Goguryeo's thousands of miles is only a few million people, and the population is indeed small, and the mouth of the Hunjiang River was a necessary place for naval divisions to attack Pyongyang during the Sui and Tang dynasties, so the Jiangkou island here is basically uninhabited.

The venison is very fat, and I think that this desert island may have had many fishing villages and fishermen in the past, but because of the war, it eventually became an uninhabited desert island, and became a free place for wild beasts.

Big drops of grease dripped down, and the charcoal fire was more vigorous.

Li Xiao took out his barbecue packet, took out cumin powder, chili noodles, pepper, sesame seeds, fine salt, etc. and sprinkled them.

Lao Wang sniffed his nose vigorously, he used to run the old route, and he often only docked once every many days to replenish his supplies. Poor food on the boat is common, and even the water you drink is often green and smelly.

How can there be conditions as particular as Li Xiao.

"Ah Lang's condiment is so magical, after adding it, this venison is really fragrant."

"That's not it, I'm very particular about eating, what you see now is just a simple barbecue sauce, I have more powerful barbecue sauces on the boat, there are all kinds of flavors, just take the sauce to marinate the food to be grilled, and then grill, add more flavor."

There was a barbecue and some wine, it was really refreshing.

Li Xiao handed a skewer of roasted venison skewers that were charred on the outside and tender on the inside to Lao Wang, but this guy was not afraid of being hot at all, and he grabbed it to the end.

"Can you taste it when you eat it like this?" Li Xiao frowned and asked.

"It's delicious, it's delicious." Lao Wang's tongue stretched out, and he didn't forget to lick the oil off his lips.

"Lao Wang, I think this island is actually very good, you see, this is only about 100 miles away from the mouth of the Datong River, and the nearest coast is only 30 miles. The island is quite large, there are mountains and streams on it, there is no shortage of fresh water, there are even many wild animals to hunt, and there are good bays to park boats and shelter from the wind. ”

Lao Wang's eyes were still staring at the venison on Li Xiao's grill, and he didn't turn his eyes, "What does Lang Jun think?" ”

"Naturally, the idea is a little bit, I think the conditions of this island are good, it's only a five-hour voyage from Chishan, I want to build a village here, and then do a few more votes for him."

There is a cheap and not a bastard.

Although the Goguryeo people also had ships, they did not have real sailors, and even the Tang army did not have any real sailors. Although in history, the Sui and Tang armies have crossed the sea to the east several times, and the partial division directly attacked Pyongyang, but it was all by the summer monsoon, calculated that there was no wind and waves, and then raised the sails and blew the wind.

There were no real sailors on the ship, they were all army troops on board, and the way of fighting was to disembark the ship and fight ashore.

In this case, although the Central Plains army was able to cross the sea to the east in the past, it was easy to come and difficult to return.

The Tang Dynasty did not have a real navy, and the Goguryeo naturally did not.

Li Xiao also had no sailors, but because of this, Li Xiao thought that he occupied this island dozens of miles from the coast, and the Goguryeo people could not help him.

Not to mention whether the Goguryeo people can know that he is hiding on this island, even if they do, how can the Goguryeo people help him? How many small boats came to attack him?

It can't be blocked, it can't be intercepted, and of course there are not many conditions for a forcible attack, so Li Xiao occupies this island as his temporary base for a short time, and it is theoretically feasible to do a few more votes.

When the Goguryeo people figured out his location, the truth and reality, and really mobilized many ships and brought many soldiers and horses to attack, then he patted his ass and walked away.

"I think that's okay." Lao Wang is a bold man, and he is not bold enough to sail into the deep sea. "This desert island can't be operated for a long time, but it's still okay to use it temporarily. I'm willing to run a few more times, anyway, it's only five hours from here to Chishan, just run during the day, rest at night, go the first day and come back the next day. ”

Lao Wang now has a few nautical treasures, just like a child who has got a new toy, he can't wait to go back and forth to both sides of the Yellow Sea all day long, how can he be tired.

Li Xiao picked up a skewer of roasted venison and handed it to Lao Wang, who happily took it and took it off in one bite.

It is said that the Tang Dynasty was the peak of the development of slavery in Chinese history, and at its worst, the number of slaves in Chang'an accounted for a quarter of the total population.

The famous slaves in Chang'an City are Kunlun slaves, Silla maids, and many widows and Persian bearded women, rich and wealthy families, if there are not a few long black and succumbing Kunlun slaves and Silla maids, orchids, it will be faceless.

The status of slaves in the Tang Dynasty was also extremely low, and the law was higher than that of livestock. The law established their lowly status, and there were special slave markets in various places, where cattle and horses were traded.

Li Xiao is ready to grab some people and send them to Chishan to sell, Chishan is empty now, but if there are a large number of slaves for sale in Chishan, then Chishan will definitely be lively immediately.