Seoul is one of the original Goguryeo Sanjing, the city is tall and strong, and after the Tang army repaired and reinforced, it is a majestic fortress in front of the Silla army. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The moat outside the city was dug twelve feet deep, and the trench was filled with sharp wooden stakes, which made people feel a deep chill when they looked at it.

Jin Yuanshu, who was outside the east gate of Seoul, was undoubtedly in the face of the well-defended Seoul. Due to the disastrous defeat of the vanguard army, there were only more than 51,000 soldiers and horses left under his command, and it was okay to besiege a small city, but in the face of a big city like Seoul, it was thin. The 20,000 men of the Southern Route Army were blocked in the valley south of the Jaeyeong Plain, and the plan of the two routes to attack Seoul failed.

What worries Jin Yuanshu even more is that he does not know the strength of the Tang army in Seoul, and the remnants of Goguryeo, who have been informant in the local area, said that tens of thousands of Tang troops came from the north to enter Seoul three days ago, and two troops and horses went out of the south of the city the day before yesterday. At present, the specific geometry of the Tang Army in the city has become an unknown.

For the sake of safety, Jin Yuanshu ordered the whole army to camp on a small hill ten miles away from the east gate of Seoul and set up a fortified position, with sentinels and scouts coming out. Reconnoiter the terrain around Seoul and whether there are any hidden soldiers and horses of the Tang army, go south to find out the whereabouts of the two Tang armies going south, and at the same time get in touch with the Southern Route Army, so that Pinri and Wenzhong led the army north to join him in Seoul as soon as possible, don't care about the Tang army barracks, it is safer for the whole army to withdraw from the North Road when the war is unfavorable.

After two days of reconnaissance by scouts and sentinels, one of the two Tang troops going south was camped more than ten miles southeast of Seoul where the mountain was backed by water, and a deep ditch was dug in front of the camp and a horse rejection pile was erected. The other road went south to the exit of the valley leading to the Zaining Plain and set up camps, making it impossible for the southern route army to leave the valley and make it difficult to contact Pinri and Wenzhong generals.

The news of the return of the sentinel cavalry made Jin Yuanshu really angry, and the previous Seoul, which was nine out of ten, evolved into a day when he could not advance or retreat, and suddenly regretted that he did not listen to the words of the generals and retreated in time.

Jin Yuanshu of the Tang army in the city is estimated to reach tens of thousands, and the specific number is not clear, but it is by no means that the 50,000 soldiers and horses in his hands can besiege and break through the city at present.

The art of war is cloudy: the siege of the city must be ten times the enemy!

Jin Yuanshu did not think that he had twice as many soldiers as the Tang army in Seoul.

Jin Yuanshu, who was constantly fundraising, decided to send troops to pull out the southeast Tang army camp that was on the corner of Hancheng, and ordered the general Zhu Zhi to lead 10,000 troops to attack, and the previous defeated official was the deputy, leading the more than 1,000 remnants of the soldiers he brought back as the vanguard.

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Since the Silla army was encamped ten miles away from the east gate of Seoul, Li Yu would climb the Dongseong Tower every day and hold a telescope on the situation of the Silla army outside the east gate.

Although the Silla army was camped ten miles outside the east gate, it could also set up a camp five miles away from the east gate, garrisoning 5,000 soldiers.

However, no matter how good the Silla people are scolding outside the city, most of the soldiers of the Tang Army must be able to understand it? I don't understand how fierce you scold, people only think you are a noisy chicken.

I don't know if Jin Yuanshu couldn't even find anyone in the army who knew Chinese, so he arranged such a stupid move.

Most of the Tang troops stationed at the east gate could not understand the Silla language except for a few people, but the Silla people came to make noise every day, and the Tang soldiers in the city were also angry and scolded.

As a result, every day, the stinking scolding of the Tang army and the Silla army in the upper and lower parts of the city of Dongmen was endless, and all kinds of foul words could come out.

Li Yu put down the binoculars and frowned, asking left and right: "The Silla people have no plans to attack the city yet?" ”

Guarding the east gate was the Suzaku Guard, Gao Chongde, who replied depressedly: "Except for the Silla people who come to the city every day to scold the battle, the troops in their two camps have nothing to do except send people out of the camp to cut firewood and practice in the camp. ”

"It seems that this Jin Yuanshu is a battlefield general! When they are all outside the city, they can settle down and stay in the camp and do nothing, which is obviously trying to brake quietly! This old fox. ”

Li Yu scolded hatefully, he set up a banquet for him, but Jin Yuanshu didn't come to the banquet, won't my table of good dishes be tossed in vain?

Xue Jun guessed: "Jin Yuanshu wants to fight this battle with static braking, then he must consider that the two sides are likely to stalemate and no one will move, just doing so much in Seoul." ”

Gao Chongde didn't understand, "It stands to reason that the Silla army of more than 50,000 people will inevitably consume a lot of grain and grass with our army, which is extremely unfavorable to the Silla army coming from the expedition......"

"Hah! I know that this Kim Wonshu must have brought a large amount of grain and grass with the army, and there was no need to transport grain and grass from Silla for a long time. Just like me, I led the army to Seoul and brought more than 60,000 soldiers and horses to eat the grain and grass for March. To save others, Jin Yuanshu will not do this. ”

"According to His Highness's speculation, my army may have to spend some time with the Silla army." Xue Jun said.

"In this way, won't our army be able to keep the Silla army's grain route?"

Regarding Gao Chongde's worries, Li Yu was relieved: "As long as we talk to Jin Yuan and don't give him a chance, no matter how much grain and grass the Silla army has, it will eventually run out, and there will inevitably be grain and grass from its country." At that time, how can our army be unbreakable? On the other hand, our army can get supplies through the nearby water transportation of the Ning River, and we are not afraid, and Jin Yuanshu will always be unable to sit still and make the first move. ”

A sentry rode up to the castle tower and reported: "Your Highness, the Silla army camp dispatched 10,000 soldiers and horses to the camp of General Black Tooth half an hour ago. ”

"Look, it's only been a few days, Jin Yuanshu can't sit still and make the first move, he wants to pull out the nail on his left side so that he can attack the city with peace of mind. We are waiting for the good news of General Black Tooth to come, and we will wait and see Jin Yuanshu's next move. ”

Li Yu ordered the attendants to set up a table on the city tower, beckoned Xue Jun and several generals to sit down, have a drink, and then taste the pastries made by Uncle Wang.

"Your Highness isn't worried about the safety of General Blacktooth? The Silla army had 10,000 troops, but General Hei Zhi could not lead more than 6,000 cavalry, and only built a fortress without a fortified city to defend it. ”

After sitting down, several generals were really puzzled by Li Yu's reassuring greeting them to eat and drink.

Li Yu took a bite of the osmanthus cake handed over by the maid, and said with a vague smile: "The promise of the black tooth Chang is defeated, that is, I saw the wrong person and learned a lesson by myself." However, in my opinion, the Black Tooth is always invincible. ”

Why is His Highness sure that the Black Tooth Chang will not be defeated? The generals were very puzzled, but Li Yu didn't say more, he couldn't tell them that the black tooth Changzhi was the three famous generals of the Tang Dynasty in the late period of His Majesty!

Zhu Zhi led 10,000 troops to the station of Heiya Changzhi, and saw that the Tang army was leaning on the mountain and setting up camp against the water, and a trench 12 feet wide and 15 feet deep was dug in front of the camp, and the fence and horse rejection piles were all over the side of the Tang army in the trench, forming a trend that was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

I didn't want the soldiers under my command to brave the arrows of the Tang army to rush to the deep trench in front of the Tang military camp and reject the horse pile, and the bamboo decree that wasted their lives in vain made people come forward to scold, and deliberately found the Baekje people in the army to scold, and turned out the eight generations of the ancestors of the Black Tooth Chang to verbally whip the corpse, in order to provoke the Black Tooth Chang to come out of the camp to fight.