Wang Shichong nodded and said: "It depends on our joint cooperation, to make Yang Guang aware of the danger, this danger is to endanger his own life, not the lives of those soldiers who are like ants in his eyes, so that if he is afraid, he will flee, and in order for himself to escape, he will also pull most of the army with him." In this way, even if his army does not suffer many losses, it will be able to achieve my goal. ”

Eulzhi Wende's brows furrowed: "But if Yang Guang's army didn't suffer much losses, and just let him retreat for other reasons, what good would it do to my Goguryeo?" This time he retreated, regrouped, and will come again next time, and my Goguryeo is a small country after all, the whole country mobilizes, and the food for a year will be gone, this time in order to let the barbarians in the north help the war, we gave them the grain reserves of the first two years, and now our own food is difficult, plus the comprehensive requisition, this year's grain will also be greatly reduced, it is really difficult to block the second and third attacks of the Sui Dynasty. ”

Wang Shichong sneered in his heart, and said secretly, does your life or death in Goguryeo have anything to do with me? I wish you were finished with Yang Guang. But he had a sincere expression on his face, and said: "So this battle can't be fought for too long, if Yang Guang is allowed to slowly besiege the city, for a year or two, until he is short of food and grass, the army will collapse without a fight." ”

Yizhi Wende smiled: "After talking for so long, you haven't said how to achieve your goal, I think your idea is good, but it is too difficult to realize, just a little, it is not too easy to make Yuan Taizuo and Gao Taichu obediently listen to us, to arrange a field battle or defend the city." Gao Tai's soldiers and horses. Mostly barbarian servants. Discipline has always been a problem. On the battlefield of Liaodong, it is difficult to control, but I am afraid that when they see the military appearance of the Sui army, they will feel that it is unprofitable, so they will scatter in a hurry and run back to their tribes. ”

Wang Shichong laughed: "Indeed, this is almost the common feature of all nomadic cavalry. Therefore, these barbarian cavalry cannot be put into the Liaodong battlefield, the first one is. I want Gao Tai to lead the troops south, not to Liaodong, but directly to your Pyongyang city. ”

Yizhi Wende's brows furrowed: "There are millions of Sui troops in Liaodong, but you let Gao Tai come to Pyongyang with troops, I'm afraid it can't be said." Even if he gave an order in the name of the king, he would not obey it. ”

Wang Shichong smiled and shook his head: "Although I haven't seen that Gao Taichu, but human nature is the same, Gao Taichu, as a mattress in the north, first of all, considers the interests of his own tribe, whether it is Liaodong." Or your king's orders, it's just a reason for him to choose. There are millions of Sui troops in Liaodong, and if they go up to fight hard, they are afraid that they will run out of their capital, as long as Yuan Taizuo can last for a year and a half, he will never put his troops into the battlefield when the Sui army has not lost its sharpness. Not to mention that he and Yuan Taizuo are just brothers or good friends, even if they are biological brothers, it is impossible to do this. ”

Eulzhi Wende nodded: "You are right, but we Goguryeo people have always talked about faith and righteousness, and we are upright, not like you Central Plains people, even if Gao Tai wants to preserve his strength, but his subordinates, many of them have in-laws and intermarriage relationships with the city lords under Yuan Taizuo, these people will not think too much, their relatives are also in Liaodong, holding heavy troops, but sitting back and watching their relatives may die, we Goguryeo people can't do it." ”

Wang Shichong smiled: "But what if Pyongyang City is also in danger? That Gao Taichu led the army south in the name of King Qin, which was safe and famous, but he was afraid that even if his subordinates had opinions, they could only implement it. After all, the safety of the king of Goguryeo is more important than a Liaodong. ”

Eulzhi Wende's face changed: "How can the Sui army threaten Pyongyang City?" ”

Wang Shichong's face became serious: "I'll tell you another secret, this time the Sui army is not only a million troops on land, in Laizhou, 200,000 Jiangnan naval troops have already been assembled, and thousands of loach giant ships have been built, led by the famous future Hu'er and Zhou Fashang, and at the same time as the land army is on the march, it has also set sail to the sea, and the goal is to directly target your coastal town of Goguryeo, Jemulpo." Jemulpo, on the other hand, is only 60 miles away from the city of Pyongyang, so it can be said that it is almost there. ”

Ezhi Wende's face became ugly, and he muttered: "Sure enough, it's this set again, land and water are advancing together, and the navy has landed in Jemulpo, what you said is to protect you, I have heard that it is your famous general of the Great Sui, that Zhou Fashang, it seems that he is also a famous general of the Southern Dynasty in the past." Are they really 200,000 people? ”

Wang Shichong smiled slightly: "It seems that Brother Yizhi still has a clear grasp of the situation in the Sui Dynasty, even these two people are clear, yes, they are indeed famous generals of the Great Sui, and the relationship between these two people is good, there will be no situation in the army where the generals of Guanlong compete for merit, are not convinced by each other, and do not command each other." Their combat troops are about 120,000 to 150,000, and 50,000 are sailors, and they can also be put into battle in an emergency, so the size of 200,000 is no problem. ”

"Ten years ago, when Emperor Wen conquered your Goguryeo, he also sent the general Zhou Fashang to lead the navy from Donglai to the sea, but the sea encountered wind and waves, and the front army fleet was all lost, and the army collapsed because of lack of food, so it was in vain, do you have any good ways to deal with this trick?"

Eulzhi Wende snorted heavily: "Although there are a lot of 200,000 troops, our local defense forces in Goguryeo are also very strong, and there are 100,000 permanent troops in the royal capital of Wangyangcheng. ”

"In addition to the barbarian cavalry led by the northern Fusa Gaotai De, not to mention the destruction of your naval army, at least it is not a problem to defend Pyongyang, besides, it really can't be done, the troops used by the southern Fusa to defend Baekje and Silla can also be sent tens of thousands of people to help. But you're right, in this case, we have a good reason to raise the level of the Taichu to go south to Pyongyang, not to the west to Liaodong. ”

Wang Shichong's eyebrows raised: "That's it, if the reinforcements from the north don't come, Yuan Taizuo will only have to stick to the city, but this second problem will follow, that is, as we said earlier, we have to consume most of Yuan Taizuo's strength, that is, we still have to find a way to let him fight in the field." ”

Yizhi Wende's eyes lit up: "Do you mean to throw out a lone army of the Sui army, so that Yuan Taizuo feels that it can be eliminated, and then gather troops and go out of the city to fight?" (To be continued......)