Liucheng ......

Li Kong doesn't know much about this city, but the basic situation is clear.

This city can be regarded as one of the oldest cities in the Northeast, from the Spring and Autumn Period was the activity area of Shanrong and Donghu, and the Yan Kingdom during the Warring States Period set up Liaoxi County here.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, the eastern part of the area was the activity area of the Xianbei people, and the western part also belonged to Liaoxi County of Youzhou.

Until the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Northern Qi Dynasty set up Yingzhou here, completely confirmed the name here, and when it came to the Sui Dynasty, it was renamed Liucheng, which has been used to this day.

However, Li Kong's impression of this city is still stuck in Chaoyang City in his previous life.

Compared with Chaoyang City in the previous life, the current place seems very desolate, although there is a towering high city in front of you, but the broken city wall has not known that no one has repaired it for hundreds of years, even the gate at the gate of the city has been decayed, the surrounding weeds are overgrown, and occasionally a few roe deer rush from the front, as if they are afraid of the momentum of Li Kong and others.

"Empty city?" Li Kong paused for a moment, muttered suspiciously, and then said: "Go to a few people to see if there are people in the city, and find out the basic situation." ”

By this time, the snowflakes were getting bigger and bigger, and their cavalry urgently needed a place to shelter from the wind and snow, which would be a good choice if there was really no one in the city, and they could also make a fire in it and eat some hot food, these days they were gnawing on cold dry food, and even if they could bear it, their stomachs would not be able to bear it.

Therefore, after Li Kong's order was issued, more than a dozen soldiers rode directly into the dilapidated city gate on war horses.

After about a quarter of an hour, they all returned, and as Li Kong expected, this was indeed an empty city, and it seemed to have been dilapidated for at least thirty years.

After confirming that there was no situation, Li Kong directly waved his hand and led people into the city, which was similar to what he imagined, although there were buildings in the city here, but in fact, there were not many, and this city wall may have been hastily built back then.

The huge city was full of dead grass, as tall as a man, but it was all crooked under the pressure of the heavy snow, which saved a lot of trouble.

In the center of the city, there are some dilapidated houses, but fortunately they can live temporarily, but Li Kong breathed a sigh of relief, and ordered all the war horses to be tied to the corridor outside the house, and everyone collected hay and dead wood in the city, there are many trees here, and more have died, mostly some birch trees living in the northeast.

The trunk of this tree burns easily, the texture is very light, and basically does not form charcoal to burn, so they need a lot of wood to maintain the temperature.

It took them nearly two hours to clean up all the places and light the bonfire, and then, Li Kong asked people to take out some of the things they had prepared for cooking, but in fact, it was nothing, just dozens of large black iron pots.

As for water, that thing is easy to handle, this era is still a pure natural and pollution-free era, there is nothing cleaner than snow, and the ground that has fallen overnight has already accumulated a snow layer of more than ten centimeters thick, which is enough for them to eat happily.

In addition, there are some war horse meat that died after killing the enemy, although this meat is a little dry, but in any case it is much better than those dry dry food.

When everyone was excited and ready to eat, Li Kong walked to a clearing outside with four lieutenant generals, and then drew a map of Liaodong according to what he knew in his previous life, but because most of what he knew was the regional division of his previous life, he was now a little vague about the area of this era, and only drew a circle on some important points.

"We are here now, continue to the northeast, five hundred miles later is Yingguan, where is Goguryeo's largest grain storage in southern Liaoning, the grain and grass reserves in it are at least twice as much as Shanhaiguan, but it is foreseeable that our current whereabouts have basically been exposed, and the enemy will definitely deploy a large number of troops in Yingguan waiting for us to throw ourselves into the net.

So we can't go there, so what do you think we should go to next? ”

Zhou Han, as the person with the highest position, had also learned some art of war before, so after Li Kong finished speaking, he spoke: "The general said that the main purpose of our coming here this time is to drag Goguryeo's southward movement and buy time for the Tang Dynasty, and now that the snow is falling, even the Goguryeo people who live here all year round will be afraid of the cold, so can we wait and decide?" If they retire now, we can keep some vitality and wait for the next year's army to conquer. ”

The other three lieutenant generals also meant the same thing, and after nodding, they looked at Li Kong with blank eyes, this broken weather is too cold, let alone going out to fight, just standing outside and shivering without moving, okay?

Li Kong glanced at the four of them, then drew a few circles on the map, and said, "Here are a few small cities that are not very important, but it is undeniable that with the snow, these small cities will become the strongholds of those Goguryeo soldiers, but what about the food and grass of those people?" ”

Zhou Han's mind was more bright, and he immediately said: "The general means that we are going to attack their grain route?" However, the distance between these small cities is almost hundreds of miles or more, and if we twist together, we will basically not gain anything, but if we disperse, the number of enemies is too large, and it is likely to lose too much, so ......"

"That's right, General, it's fine if there are only a few small cities, but the ground in Liaodong is so big, even if we double the number of people, it will be difficult for us to really pose a threat to the enemy's grain route."

The deputy general who spoke was called Han Jun, who was a captain in the original forbidden army, but he was a captain of the palace gate, and his status was a little worse than Zhou Han.

Although the other two did not speak, the meaning was there, and it was not cost-effective to go out and attack the grain routes, for the people of this era, they did not particularly know what guerrilla warfare was, in fact, as far as the combat methods of those nomads were concerned, they had already initially taken the shape of guerrilla warfare.

Li Kong pondered for a moment, and then said: "We can't come to Liaodong and do nothing, yes, we have killed thousands of enemies, but what's the use?" The enemy still has a large army stationed here, waiting for the beginning of the next spring to fight again? Yes, but at what cost? How much manpower and material resources?

Goguryeo is just a small and remote country in the east, how much grain and grass can they have? There must be a lot of defenders in Yingguan now, so we can't get in, but it doesn't mean that we can't destroy these grains and grasses from other aspects, once these grains and grasses are cut off, the entire Liaodong can't say that they can go down without a fight, and even cause civil strife in Goguryeo. ”

"......" The faces of the four people were all red.

Li Kong chuckled and patted the shoulders of the four people, and said: "This time I will divide the troops into four parts, each part of a thousand people, all of them will be dispatched, if you can kill, you will be killed, if you can't kill, you will withdraw, as long as you remember one sentence, I can keep you safe." ”

"Please also make it clear to the general!"

"The enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and disturbs, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase ......"