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For the first time in his life, Lu Xuan felt physically and mentally exhausted, and after he returned to Pyongyang on the order of Li Chenghui, he had to bear the situation of making a mess of porridge.

After he presented King Cui Wende, in the face of the king's doubts and the inquiries of the ministers led by Ah Yizhi, Lu Xuan used his eloquence beyond Li Chenghui to successfully persuade the king to issue an emergency mobilization order. Subsequently, he carried out the defensive deployment he conceived with great difficulty in all kinds of difficulties and shirking responsibility of the Ayi branch and the party, and the joys and hardships during this period were only known to him in his own heart. The subsequent mobilization of personnel, the evacuation of personnel on the north bank of the Datong River, and the work of clearing the strong walls and wilderness were all the results of Lu Xuan's racking of his brains and breaking his legs. During this period, he also had to appease the various discontents of the generals of the Ayi faction - now that the great enemy was present, he really couldn't compete with them for this old feud, and finally managed to organize a defensive belt south of the Datong River before the arrival of Chang Miao's Liaodong Army.

In fact, when Chang Miao's vanguard troops had just driven to the Datong River, Lu Xuan's defensive arrangements had not yet been completed, but Lu Xuan adjusted his deployment in time, creating an illusion and successfully deceived the vanguard troops of the Liaodong Army, thus winning a day and a half of preparation time. When Chang Miao's team arrived, the weakness in Lu Xuan's defensive formation had been filled. Chang Miao gave up the idea of attacking after seeing his formation. Instead, they confronted the Goryeo army on the north bank.

But Lu Xuan knew in his heart that although his formation was well arranged, it actually had fatal shortcomings. That is, there is a lack of elite soldiers who can be used as the backbone of the force. Almost all of Goryeo's elite troops were on the northern defensive line, and only a few of the king's guards guarding the capital could be called elite divisions, but unfortunately those soldiers were not under the command of Lu Xuan, and the rest were old and weak soldiers and newly recruited soldiers, who lacked training and had no actual combat experience. Moreover, the number of these people is less than 50,000, and the main force in the army is 270,000 troops improvised by the common people, and there are almost no young adults among these people. They just took up arms, as for how to fight, how to line up. How to cooperate with the action is almost all zero, and the only ones who have combat experience are those soldiers of the previous generation who are already dying, although they have combat experience, but their physical strength is no longer good. These armed militias are just a bunch. Let them be able to withstand the attack of the Liaodong army. It takes at least half a year or so to train. During this period, Chang Miao had already attacked. What Lu Xuan is most afraid of now is that Chang Miao is quietly observing, looking for the weaknesses behind his tight formation, and once he determines the direction of the main attack, whether he can mobilize troops in time to resist the opponent's attack, Lu Xuan has no bottom in his heart. Although the divisions of King Qin began to arrive in various parts of the south, first, their organization and march took time, and second, their main forces had already been transferred to the north. The soldiers who are coming now are still not elite.

After that, for more than a month, Chang Miao's army remained unmoved. However, according to intelligence, Chang Miao's logistics supply line does not seem to be smooth. Since it was impossible to collect grain in the areas south of the Qingchuan River and north of the Datong River, Chang Miao had to transport it from the rear, which caused certain difficulties in the supply of grain. In this case, Chang Miao will not be able to fight for a long time, so he will inevitably attack in the near future. After receiving this information, Lu Xuan immediately strengthened his vigilance to deal with the upcoming attack.

A few days later, Lu Xuan received a strange report that a considerable part of Chang Miao's army was gathering stones and cutting down trees, and it seemed that there was an intention to build a city. This puzzled Lu Xuan: Although building a city is a way to entrench in the land of Goryeo for a long time, if Chang Miao's military food supply is not smooth, how can he think of doing such a time-consuming and laborious thing as building a city?

There must be another reason for such an illogical thing. Therefore, Lu Xuan personally went to the riverside to investigate, and the results of the investigation made him even more puzzled, because the construction of the city should be mixed with stones and soil, but what Chang Miaojun took was a round stone, what plan was he thinking?

Everything was answered after the arrival of new information five days later, and Zheng Menglong's army drove into the Datong River! Lu Xuan suddenly realized that the reason why Chang Miao would spend all his time mining stones and cutting down trees despite the shortage of food was because he knew that Zheng Menglong's sailors would deliver food to him, and the stones he mined were preparing ammunition for the catapults on the battleship!

Lu Xuan, who figured this out, couldn't move, because although some of the current camp locations were within the attack range of catapults, if they were to adjust the deployment now, it would greatly mess up the overall structure and seriously affect morale. Therefore, he simply ordered that the camps that were in the position of attack be left vacant, and that it was enough to maintain the ability to enter the combat position in time for the enemy to cross the river. In Lu Xuan's conception, the enemy army would inevitably cross the river under the cover of heavy weapons, and it would be up to the soldiers to stop the other party's movements, so he set the camp so close to the river, in order to provide some protection for the camp and buy a little time for the assault team that was about to land and drive the enemy troops into the water.

According to Lu Xuan's judgment, Chang Miao's most likely landing site should be in the area of Songlin and Liupu, where it can be forcibly crossed by boat, and Pyongyang's back route can be directly cut off. As for the direction of the front of Pyongyang City, it is likely that it is only a feint. To this end, he mobilized troops to focus on the two areas, leaving an additional unit as a mobile force, ready to respond to possible crises in all directions.

But Chang Miaojun didn't seem to be in a hurry to attack, and he didn't know what he was busy with. It wasn't until ten days later that Roh Hyun suddenly received an urgent summons from King Choi Moon-deok, because the south of Hamhung, the capital of Hamgyong Province, was also invaded by the army of the country of Juan, which meant that the army of the country of silk might penetrate directly into the south of Pyongyang City to cut off the connection with the rest of Goryeo. Roh Hyun and Ah Ulji had a heated argument about this, and Roh Hyun tried his best to explain to King Choi Moon-deok that this was not something that could happen, and that it must not be used to disperse forces to reinforce it, and that the biggest crisis at the moment was Pyongyang.

Dissatisfied with this, he stated several times that according to reliable information, the number of enemy troops in Hamgyong Province was as high as 100,000, and if the defense was not organized in time, the consequences would be unimaginable if the enemy army penetrated deeply.

Lu Xuan had to explain to Cui Wende in detail that it was impossible for Chang Miao to let this army go south, because these troops were mainly composed of tribal alliances, and although they were strong in combat but lacked organizational ability and continuous combat ability, the reason why Chang Miao sent them to Hamgyong Province was to attract Goryeo troops, and if such an army advanced south, it would cause unprecedented pressure on the supply of the Liaodong Army, because the mountain road system of Hamgyong Province was really not suitable for the advance of the army, let alone the transportation troops? If such a large-scale army that is not good at attacking cities and conquering places is used to invade the south, then it will only be in vain, and Chang Miao will never do such a stupid thing. And there is a more important point that Chang Miao's purpose of the battle is to subdue Goryeo and capture the royal capital, so how can he give this honor to those armies composed of tribal alliances?

Lu Xuan's reason finally persuaded Cui Wende, but just in case, Cui Wende still appointed Choi Jianjiang, the blessed king of the Kaesong Shogun, as the generalissimo of Gangwon Province, and allowed him to recruit soldiers there to organize a defense on the spot to prevent the army of the Silk Country from continuing to invade south, for which Lu Xuan could only compromise, after all, it was already a hard-won success to allow him to deal with the enemy head-on.

But at this moment, a battle report suddenly came, saying that Chang Miao's Liaodong Army had begun to cross the river.

Lu Xuan hurriedly asked, "Is the enemy's main attack direction from Songlin or Liupu?" ”

"No, it's neither," replied the officer who came to report in a trembling voice, "the other side has launched an all-out attack, and it is all over the Taedong River from the front of Pyongyang!" (A pie-in-the-sky event, cool phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)