In the original history, the more than 300,000 troops led by Yuwenshu and others were only 2,700 people who could return to Liaodong alive after the defeat of Sashui.

And in this plane, because of Li Yin, there are a lot more survivors, Wei Wensheng and Wang Rengong's army has not been dispersed, and slowly gathered the rout, and the total strength once reached 80,000 people.

But if they want to return safely, it is still quite big, first, the morale of the whole army is low, second, Yizhi Wende is constantly chasing and killing, and most importantly, there is no food.

There is no food, so you can only rely on capturing the city to grab it, but in order to avoid being caught up by the Wende army, and there is not much time to attack the city, such a predicament is really not something that ordinary people can understand.

Therefore, due to many factors, Wei Wensheng and Wang Rengong's army, which once reached 80,000 people, also suffered heavy losses when they returned to Liaodong City, with only more than 40,000 people left.

But compared with other troops, it was considered to be too good, there were only more than 150 people in the Yuwen Shu Department, only 80 people in the Yu Zhong Wen Department, and Xin Shixiong's troops were all wiped out......

In short, when the whole army sent out 35,000 troops, when it returned to the city of Liaodong, a total of 43,000 people, although more than 40,000 more than the original history, but it did not help the whole battle situation.

After Yang Guang learned of the whole situation, he was immediately furious, and immediately came down to remove Yu Zhongwen, Yu Wenshu and others from their official positions, and all of them were imprisoned waiting to be released.

At this time, under the city of Liaodong, the Sui army only had a total of about 200,000, and the soldiers were tired, the morale was low, and the logistics were difficult to supply.

So, on the day of August 20, Yang Guang finally ordered the class teacher to return to the court!

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On the walls of Pyongyang City, Li Yin was looking up into the distance.

Sashui is relatively close to Pyongyang City, about thirty or forty miles, and when there was a major battle between the two sides, Li Yin suggested to Zhou Fashang to go out of the city to rescue the Sui army.

However, Zhou Fashang did not agree, because outside Pyongyang, there were more than 80,000 Goryeo soldiers gathered by Gao Jianwu, who were eyeing each other.

Gao Jianwu's 80,000 soldiers were composed of peasants, criminals, and local soldiers, and although their combat effectiveness was not high, they were strictly disciplined and should not be underestimated.

The Sui army occupying Pyongyang City is only 60,000, if all of them go out of the city, Pyongyang will be occupied by Gao Jianwu, cutting off the Sui army's back road, if the troops are divided to rescue, too few and afraid of being surrounded and suppressed by Gao Jianwu's army, too many Pyongyang City safety and no guarantee, it is precisely because of this consideration that Zhou Fashang did not agree to Li Yin's request.

However, Li Yin did not do nothing, the Sui army was defeated in Sashui, most of them fled in the direction of Liaodong City, but there were many people who panicked, Zhou Fashang asked Li Yin to set up a battalion outside Pyongyang City to gather the rout, so far, Li Yin has gathered more than 20,000 routs.

Li Yin sighed at this time, his status is not high, and in this big war, there is only so much he can do.

"Brigade Marshal, Deputy Chief Zhou is looking for you!" Wu Han hurriedly walked up to the city wall and shouted.

Li Yin came back to his senses, and then walked straight to Zhou Fashang's place, and after going to Zhou Fashang's place, he saw Zhou Fashang sitting there with a decadent face, and the whole person seemed to be much older, and sighed to Li Yin: "Alas, the emperor has withdrawn his troops, let us return to Donglai immediately." ”

Li Yin had already guessed this result, so there was nothing surprising about it.

The reason why Zhou Fashang was in such a bad spirit was because he wanted to take Pyongyang as the center, continuously transport soldiers and supplies through warships, and then gradually invade the territory of Goryeo, but now it seems that this plan was vetoed by Yang Guang.

If Yang Guang approved Zhou Fasang's plan, in time, Goryeo would have to decline even if it was not destroyed.

But Yang Guang never thought about destroying Goryeo, in his opinion, it is not a skill to destroy an enemy country, what he wants is to make this unruly Goryeo country obediently submit to himself.

This is the reason why he was repeatedly deceived into accepting the false surrender of Goryeo.

"You go and ask the soldiers to pack up their things, assemble in the south of the city, and prepare to evacuate!" Zhou Fashang instructed Li Yin.

Li Yin said: "Deputy Governor, we can't just withdraw this Pyongyang City, at least we have to ask for some benefits from Goryeo." ”

Zhou Fashang raised his head: "What benefits do you want?" ”

They had now emptied the royal palace in Pyongyang City, and had obtained countless amounts of gold and silver, and it was Li Yin who presided over the operation, and Zhou Fashang felt that Goryeo had nothing left for them.

Li Yin said: "In the Battle of Sashui, the Sui army captured many soldiers of our army, and we should take those soldiers away. ”

Zhou Fashang said hesitantly: "However, our warship can't carry many people anymore. ”

"As much as the ship can carry, you have to go!" Li Yin sighed.

A few days later, on the muddy water, the warship was in the sky, when the last Sui Dynasty soldier stepped on the warship, Zhou Fashang issued an order for the whole army to set off, the warship started, down the river, the speed was very fast, and in the blink of an eye, Pyongyang City became a small dot.

Gao Jianwu, who was outside the city, also immediately led his troops to re-enter Pyongyang City, but when he saw the palace and the palace of Rongliu that were almost razed to the ground, he was so angry that his body trembled, and after learning that this was presided over by Li Yin, he swore a poisonous oath that he must kill Li Yin in this life.

"Ahh Li Yin, who was standing at the bow of the boat, sneezed loudly, looking at the city of Pyongyang, which was almost invisible, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart, and wondered if the women and girls who had a lot of friends with him were now gritting their teeth against this brutal invader.

"Brigade Marshal, it's windy here, you better go back to the cabin and rest!" Zhou An walked over and persuaded.

Li Yin nodded, returned to the cabin where he lived, and gently closed the door.

On the bed in the cabin, Niuniu was sleeping soundly, while Cailian was shaking a fan to ward off insects and mosquitoes for her.

Li Yin was originally not too sure whether Cailian would leave Goryeo with him, after all, Sui and Goryeo had a deep blood feud, but after asking her, Cailian actually agreed.

It turned out that Cailian could not be regarded as a Goryeo, her father was originally from Silla, and when he was middle-aged, he fled to Goryeo with his wife and daughter, and then became a petty official, Cailian grew up in Silla since she was a child, and her feelings for Goryeo were not deep, so when Li Yin asked her if she would like to go with him, Cailian agreed without much thought.

Li Yin was lying on the bed, Cai Lian leaned her head on Li Yin's shoulder, Li Yin stroked Cai Lian's hair, and thought to herself: "No matter what, this battle full of blood and tears is finally over now!" ”