Hou Junji not only has a keen grasp of the battlefield situation, but also has a strategic vision for predicting the entire war situation.

Nampo is located in the rear of Pyongyang, as an important material transfer station and a reserve place for strategic materials, and it is inevitable that the Goguryeo people will come to fight for it.

As long as the Tang army controlled the city of Nanpu, it would be able to contain a large number of Goguryeo forces and plan the actions of the main force of the Eastern Expeditionary Army.

Nanpu City is surrounded by tall city walls on three sides, and there is a powerful naval fleet of the Tang Army in the Datong River behind it. Whether the Tang army held or retreated, it was very convenient.

The huge material reserves in Nanpu City provided material support for the Tang Army's long-term hold. As a result, Hou Junji decided to stick to Nanpu City.

After making the decision to hold on to Nanpu, Hou Junji ordered to strengthen the fortifications of the city. On the one hand, he organized troops to clean up the Goguryeo people in Nampo City.

Hou Yingjie, commander of the Sixth Infantry Division of the Tang Army, was Hou Junji's righteous son, and he was responsible for maintaining law and order in the city. He chose a courtyard of Goguryeo officials as his temporary headquarters.

While cleaning up the headquarters, he encountered an incident that made him very angry.

That day, as soon as he entered the courtyard, he heard a cry inside. Then he saw several young women dressed in common people's clothes.

The commander of the guard battalion saw the division commander coming in and hurried over to report to him. Hou Yingjie asked him to bring these women into the room for questioning.

Soon the women were brought in. Hou Yingjie saw that none of them were more than 25 years old, and although they were wearing Goguryeo clothes, their faces were all Han facial features.

As soon as they saw Hou Yingjie, they cried even more. Hou Yingjie guessed correctly, these people are indeed Han women.

They cried and cried, "General, I have come to look forward to you." Then there was another cry. They cried very sadly, and their cries were heartbreaking.

Slowly, their emotions calmed down and they began to tell what happened to them.

It turned out that these women were all Han women in Liaodong. After the Goguryeo people invaded the Liaodong region, they not only slaughtered the local people, but also insulted the ** Han women at will.

The Goguryeo people took a large number of local women and brought them back to Goguryeo. After these Han Chinese women were sent to Goguryeo, they were all sold as slaves.

After the Goguryeo people bought them, they did not treat them as human beings at all and disposed of them at will.

This official was a middle-level official in Goguryeo, and their family bought as many as a dozen Han women.

These women were humiliated. They had to perform all kinds of heavy labor during the day, and at night they became the ** subordinates of the Goguryeo people.

Some of the original dozen women here were killed or resold. The remaining six women were kept because of their good looks.

Just the day before the Tang army entered the city, there was a beautiful Han woman who was abandoned by her master after she got tired of playing. and reward him to one of his disabled men.

The woman was dead or alive. After the Goguryeo people took her **, they even wanted her to mate with their domestic dog. The woman could not bear the humiliation and committed suicide by hitting the wall.

For the Goguryeo people who were accidentally injured during the siege, Hou Yingjie originally had some regrets in his heart. After listening to the tragic accusations of these Han women, Hou Yingjie was furious.

He shouted, "I'm grass, damn Goguryeo." ”

He said to the guard battalion commander, "You go, pick one from the family of this Goguryeo dog official." ”

Soon, the guard battalion commander came in with a Goguryeo woman in her 20s.

The commander of the guard battalion said: "General, this is the most beautiful one in the Goguryeo dog officer's family. ”

Hou Yingjie saw that this Goguryeo woman had a good appearance and fair skin. He felt a little unbearable in his heart.

Unexpectedly, as soon as those Han women saw this Goguryeo woman, they pounced on her together, shouting and tearing with her.

It turned out that this woman was the eldest daughter of a Goguryeo official, and she was beautiful in appearance, but her heart was like a snake and scorpion. She often humiliates these Han women for no reason.

For these Han women, she completely relied on her own preferences and disposed of them at will. As far as they knew, at least three Han Chinese women died at the hands of this Goguryeo woman.

Gao Yingjie asked these Han women to be brought down for resettlement.

He pointed to the Goguryeo woman and said, "Take her to Lao Tzu's room." ”

The soldiers of the two guard battalions took away the crying Goguryeo woman.

Hou Yingjie said: "The other women in this Goguryeo dog official's family have been handed over to your guard battalion. What you want to do, you can do it yourself. ”

The commander of the guard battalion was overjoyed and said, "Thank you, General! ”

A total of 2,544 Han Chinese were found in the entire city of Nampo, and all but 4 were Han Chinese who were married to Goguryeo, and all of the rest were slaves captured by the Goguryeo people, most of whom were women.

For these Han Chinese, Hou Junji asked them to ask for their opinions, and except for those who voluntarily stayed, the rest were handed over to the navy, and they were sent back to Liaodong.

In order to better defend the city of Nanpu, Hou Junji disposed of the Goguryeo people in the city.

At this time, there were still 41,985 Goguryeo people who remained in the city. Hou Junji ordered 3,000 young and strong Goguryeo men to be left to do hard labor. Leaving 5,000 young women to serve the Tang officers and soldiers. Expelled all the remaining Goguryeo people from the city.

On the third day, the Tang army's preparations for holding Nanpu had been completed.

In order to contain the Goguryeo people to a greater extent, Hou Junji ordered all his subordinates to send small troops to attack and harass the villages and towns near Nanpu City.

The Goguryeo people came quickly. Soon after the Tang army troops left the city, they encountered the Goguryeo army, and they had to rush back to the city.

Reinforcements from the Goguryeo people have come to the city of Nampo.

For the counterattack of the Goguryeo people, Hou Junji was already mentally prepared. However, he still underestimated Goguryeo's determination to retake Nampo.

After the vanguard of the Goguryeo people arrived at Nampo Fortress, they did not immediately attack the city. They built a camp to guard against a sneak attack by the Tang army and waited for the arrival of follow-up troops.

Hou Junji's goal was to contain the Goguryeo army, and he didn't want to fight with the Goguryeo people. Therefore, he did not send his army out of the city to fight.

Over the next few days, reinforcements from the Goguryeo people arrived.

What Hou Junji did not expect was that the Goguryeo people had gathered 150,000 troops. On the east bank of the Daedong River, there was also a Goguryeo army of more than 50,000 people. In order to recapture the city of Nampo, the Goguryeo people actually mobilized 200,000 troops.

At this time, Hou Junji didn't know that there was a greater danger that was quietly coming towards him.