Soon after the celebration banquet in Pyongyang was over, the Silla envoys arrived, conveyed to Li Yu the intention of Silla to apologize for the sins and ask for peace, said that they would go to Chang'an to ask His Majesty the Tang Emperor for their guilt, ask for forgiveness for the rude behavior of the lower kingdom, and ask Li Yu to send someone to escort the envoys to Chang'an. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Li Yu looked at the Silla envoy in front of him, who was only a little taller than his half-grown child, with a big pie face so ordinary that he couldn't find it when he threw it into the crowd, and waved his big hand and said: "The road to Chang'an behind this king will be opened for you at any time, but the soldiers and horses under this king's command are very heavy, and I really can't spare anyone to escort you." Wu Datang is not waiting for a group of bandits in the Dongyi barbarian country, and your envoy can leave with confidence. ”

The Silla envoy's face turned red, and he didn't know whether he was angry or ashamed by Li Yu, and left the former Goguryeo palace with a tangled expression.

"Your Highness, the envoys of Silla please make peace, so can we still fight?" Liu Shijiang asked.

"Fight, of course we have to fight, Silla please make peace, and it is not the Goguryeo rebels who ask for peace." Zhang Shisheng blushed and said: "Besides, there is no reason not to invite and achieve." Your Highness, you only need to give a certain 6,000 soldiers and horses, and a certain Zhang Shi will take Seoul within ten days. ”

"Your Highness's old minister has a request, I don't know if His Highness will agree?"

Li Yu saw Li Jinxing stand up, "I don't know what General Li Youling has requested?" ”

Li Jinxing smiled slightly: "Your Highness's group of elite soldiers and strong generals, all of them are young, strong and energetic, and they have made a lot of meritorious contributions in Liaodong in the past few months. Ke Mou and Gao Kan, two veterans, carried the emperor's order, and rushed to Anton with his 40,000 soldiers all the way, so we have to let us get some military merits and go back! At present, the main force of the Goguryeo rebels was annihilated by most of the troops and horses led by His Highness himself, and the Silla army was wiped out by 20,000, which can be said to have made the first contribution to Andong's rebellion. How about handing over the remaining small fish and shrimp to the minister and General Gao? ”

Li Jinxing and Gao Kan, two forty or fifty-year-old guys, looked at Li Yu with eager expressions, for fear that he would not agree.

"Hahaha!" Li Yu said with a smile: "The two old generals have the heart to serve the country for the rebellion of the country, how can I, the little king, chill the hearts of the two generals." ”

When the two veterans heard this, they were overjoyed, and they led the troops to fight for most of their lives. Since it is Li Jinxing, he is less than fifty, although he is no longer young, he is still full of energy, and he has to make a name for himself.

Since the end of the Shimen War, in contact with the young King Yan and his subordinate generals, Gao Kan and Li Jinxing discovered that Li Yu was deliberately using war to deliberately train dozens of generals under him.

They all have a common feature that they are young, and the oldest is only in their forties, and I heard that they are still the former soldiers of Yanwangfu. Other generals are generally in their twenties, relying on their youth and strength, most of them came from the founding generals and became famous generals of the dynasty, and they were taught by their parents to be superb in martial arts since childhood, and the only thing they lacked was the ability to command in battle.

In the Battle of Shimen, Gao Kan and Li Jinxing thought that after learning the truth, neither of them would be able to fight if either of them came under the command, and they were still in a stalemate with the Silla army under such heavy casualties.

Originally, he was worried that Li Yu would use the two veterans as deputies for those young generals under him to train a group of young juniors, but now it seems that although King Yan is young, he is not the kind of person who does not know things.

In the battle of Shimen, these young generals fought like this, and then let them lead the troops to attack the Goguryeo army in the south, and they would encounter a large reinforcement of Silla at any time, and it would not look good if they were incompetent and exhausted to death by the three armies.

Xue Ne, Li Shangdan and others looked at Li Yu eagerly, if these two veteran generals of the DPRK and China who had made great achievements in the war led the troops, then how could they have many merits to be gained. Everyone wants to unify the army alone to conquer the remnants of the Goguryeo army, which is not in trouble, to make enough military achievements, and to be rewarded by His Majesty after the war, then it will be a glorious lintel.

The victory of a war is often the greatest military merit of the commander in command, and no matter how great the military exploits of the generals who obey the order, they cannot compare with the commander. Who calls people to command well to win battles?

Li Yu saw the desire in Li Shangdan's eyes, but the performance of the generals in the Battle of Shimen and the Battle of the Domestic City commanded by Li Shangdan made him frown. Most of the Goguryeo army was annihilated, but there were not a few remaining men, and Silla would definitely send troops to help again, and the generals who commanded the army would not be incompetent. At present, Xue Ne's experience in marching and fighting is still insufficient, and the casualties of his subordinates after two major battles are not small, so they can't be allowed to lose so much in vain.

It just so happens that Gao Kan and Li Jinxing, the two generals on the battlefield, let the two of them command the south, it is much better than himself and Xue Ne, but there are fewer soldiers, and they can also send Li Shangdan and them to follow the two veterans to watch the eye model and learn how to command the battle.

Li Yu did not hesitate to order, with Li Jinxing as the main and Gao Kan as the deputy as the commander of the Goguryeo army in the south.

Except for Zhang Shi's Yanyun Iron Cavalry Right Guard, the Chaos Guard, which suffered heavy casualties, and the three armies of Zhendong, Feihu, and Pingyi, which originally guarded Pyongyang and nearby areas, the rest of the soldiers and horses were all commanded by Li Jinxing and Gao Kan to go south, and even the Qinglongwei were directly sent out.

Li Yu decided to stay in Pyongyang this time to wait for the triumph of the army, and took the subordinate officials of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate to arrange the governance of Andong after the pacification of Goguryeo.

Silla Shuishuai destroyed Li Yu's grain trough ship, but fortunately, Gao Kan and Li Jinxing led an army of 40,000 to Pyongyang, but they brought enough grain and grass to feed more than 70,000 troops for three months.

With three months, Li Yu will be able to calmly transfer grain from the granaries stored in Qingnipu and Anshi, and he can also send Jiaolong HNA to transport another batch of grain from Jiangnan.

The Tang army rested in Pyongyang for half a month, and Li Jinxing and Gao Kan commanded nearly 60,000 troops from Pyongyang and headed straight for Seoul.

Along the way, the defenders of various large and small cities in Goguryeo either surrendered or abandoned the cities and fled, and the soldiers took more than 20 cities without bloodshed, and also captured thousands of stone grains.

As soon as An Shun in Seoul heard that the Tang army was coming straight to Seoul, the six gods were frightened, and none of the Chinese generals had a strategy to retreat from the enemy, and neither the people nor the soldiers defending the city in Seoul were terrified.

Seoul is located in the upper reaches of the Zaeyong River, a tributary of the lower reaches of the Hunshui, and is located in the plain area of the lower reaches of the Hunshui Basin. But the terrible thing is that the north of Seoul is an open plain that leads directly to Pyongyang, and there is no danger to defend in the face of the Tang army coming from the north.

In the end, An Shun didn't say a word at the suggestion of his subordinates, and ran away again. But before he ran, this guy was much more sticky than the last time he fled from Pyongyang. All the young men and women in the city were collected and taken away, and the food that could not be taken away was also burned in a fire, and I wanted to burn Seoul as well, leaving not a house for the Tang army to live in.

However, Seoul did not encounter any war in the decades of war between Goguryeo and Tang and Silla, and the official defenders in the city were relatively intact. In the face of their strong opposition, An Shun had no choice but to give up, obediently led tens of thousands of people to the east, rushed east to Niuzen, and sent envoys to ask for help from Silla again.