When Yang Yichen and Li Yuan received the holy decree one after another, the Turkic Shibi Khan led the army south again, and it was only a year since the last battle of Yanmen.

At this time, the Chinese New Year is less than two months away, and the first snow on the grassland has not yet arrived, and now seems to be the best season for autumn winds.

It seems that the ambition of Shibi Khan is also the same, and in just a few days, the Turks have an army of 300,000 soldiers in the north of Dingxiang County.

When Li Yuan got the news, he was both happy and sad.

As Li Shimin expected, Li Yuan had long planned to cause Yang Guang's rebellion, but he didn't wait until the time was ripe, but the holy decree he received a few days ago seemed to be a signal. -- Yang Guang already had doubts about himself.

Li Yuan has been struggling for the past few days whether to raise the banner of rebellion immediately, if he really wants to rebel at this time, he will become a bird; If he did not rebel, Yang Guang would soon deprive himself of his military power.

And now, Shibi Khan has come, and Li Yuan has a reason to continue to hold the power of the army, but he is also worried that if he rebels at this time, will he be attacked from both sides by the Great Sui and the Turks?

On this day, it was the tenth day of the first month of October, and the fleet that came to Yanbei slowly sailed into the mouth of the Han River, less than ten miles away from the city of consolation.

As early as half an hour ago, Lai Yanbei had already received news from the scouts, and the offensive and defensive battle of Comfort City was still continuing.

With a radius of nearly 30 miles and more than 30,000 residents, the scale is far larger than that of Jinseong, the royal city of Silla. If the city of Comfort is the second most prosperous city on the peninsula, the city of Baekje will be ranked fifth.

Half a month ago, Goryeo's 30,000-strong army easily took Baekje with siege equipment, but now the Goryeo army attacking the city of Comfortery only has 8,000 soldiers and horses and 3,000 or 4,000 Baekje prisoners.

Is the Goryeo Army really here to rob the Comfort City?

They don't even have the most basic siege equipment such as catapults!

The current situation in Comfort City was not unforeseen by Su You and Yanbei before, but in the face of the most unwanted situation now, Lai Yanbei still couldn't help frowning.

The most fundamental purpose of coming here is to enter the city of consolation, which is based on the fact that the Goryeo army has already conquered this city; Of course, it is not difficult to come to Yanbei to capture this city with the weapons on the ship.

But now

After receiving the news from the front, Lai Yanbei immediately summoned several important generals such as Fuyu Hui and Zhao Hu to discuss the battle plan.

For the current situation, Goryeo and Silla are obviously still fighting each other, but in this tepid battle, it is obviously impossible to come to Yanbei to profit from it.

The most terrible thing is that in the snow that can be surplus, it is really reluctant to use artillery in Yanbei; In other words, the only troops that can play the battle are only 1,000 heavy cavalry.

The five thousand guards of Fuyu Hui were originally intended to protect the artillery, and they did not have any attack ability.

Not only that, but there was also an important issue, that is, there were more than 3,000 captives captured from Baekje in the army of Goryeo; If the troops coming to Yanbei were to fight with Goryeo, the first people to die would be those Baekje captives, and would Buyeo Hui be able to see it?

What to do?

After asking questions one by one, Lai Yanbei, who left Su You, finally felt tangled for the first time.

After being silent for a while, Fuyu Hui asked a question sharply, "What do you think is the purpose of these people from Goryeo attacking the Comfort City?" ”

What purpose? It will definitely not be to capture the Comfort City, but more likely to contain the army in the Comfort City to reinforce Jincheng.

Isn't the second purpose of coming to Yanbei the same?

After coming to Yanbei to this battlefield, it is likely to promote a tripartite balance.

The Goryeo would not have been able to flee easily, and if they did, their strategic purpose for coming here would have failed, and they would likely have been pursued by the Silla and the Northern Army of Raeyan.

Whether it is Goryeo or Silla, the last thing they want to see must be the newcomer to join the northern army of Yanbei.

In fact, the initiative still lies in the side that comes to Yanbei, but the selectivity is also the only one.

In such a snowy day, it was difficult to use artillery in Yanbei, so there was no strength to attack the city in a short period of time; Even with this strength, Lai Yanbei did not dare to do it easily, because the attack on the city of Comfort with artillery was likely to lead to the union of Silla and Goryeo.

The Silla people may not have known that the Goryeo had attacked their capital, and they probably chose to form an alliance with the Goryeo in order to be able to survive a few more moments.

In fact, what you can do when you come to Yanbei is to attack the Koreans, or confront the Koreans.

If they attacked the Goryeo, the first thing they had to face was the captives of Baekje, so Lai Yanbei and the others began to discuss eagerly how to save those captives.

Before Lai Yanbei and the others could discuss the results, Su You's army finally slowly sailed into the dock outside Jincheng, the capital of Silla.

The specific location of Jinseong is in the easternmost part of this peninsula, and the straight-line distance from Baekje King City is actually not much different from the straight-line distance between Comfort City and Baekje King City, and the three cities are almost on an isosceles triangle.

The distance in a straight line on land is far from the distance that the fleet needs to sail.

The distance that Su You's fleet needed to sail was almost twice that of the fleet that came to Yanbei, and if it weren't for the fact that Yanbei could slow down the sailing, the difference in the days of their arrival would be at least a day and a half.

When Su Yu's fleet entered the bay of Geumseong, it was ten days after the Goryeo people left Baekje Castle.

It took the Goryeo people four days to get here from Baekje Royal City, and it took only three days for Su You.

On the way to Jincheng, Su You was always worried that he would encounter a fleet of Koreans returning with a full load on the sea; If this is the case, it should not be difficult for Su You to destroy them with artillery, but the difficulty is that after these ships are sunk, the spoils they plundered from Silla will also sink into the sea.

If such a situation really arises, Su You will certainly not be stingy with his shells, after all, if he fights a naval battle with Goryeo, it is very likely that he will win a complete victory with zero casualties.

If the location of the battle was a dock or inland, Su You would not dare to guarantee that the Goryeo army would be completely annihilated, and there would be no casualties on his side.

According to the people-oriented policy, the best way for Su You to do so was obviously to intercept and kill the Goryeo army at sea.

But the problem is that Su You doesn't have much time to wait for the Goryeo people to throw themselves into the net, after all, his main purpose is still the royal city of Goryeo; And the destruction of the invading army of Goryeo, which may return to the royal city at any time, is obviously the first step in attacking the royal city of Goryeo.

Faced with nearly a hundred Goryeo warships parked in Jincheng Bay, Su You also thought about listing them as trophies, but after a little thought, he gave up this idea.

Su You's current number of warships has reached one hundred and fifty, and it is not a problem for these ships to transport thirty or fifty thousand soldiers and horses, but the cross-era artillery in his fleet no longer needs to use crowd tactics.

There are too many warships, which slows down the speed of the fleet, and it may not be able to be used.

"Prepare to open fire, destroy their ships first!" Su You lightly gave the first order after entering Jincheng Bay.

When Su You's order was given, the Koreans obviously also saw nearly a hundred ships larger than their own side slowly sailing into the harbor, and the soldiers guarding the ships immediately rode fast horses in the direction of Jincheng.

The supreme commander of Goryeo, Wongae Su-moon, was fighting on the front line of the siege battle at this time, and he had been fighting for six consecutive days, and today he had made a great wish - before dark today, he vowed to take Jinseong!

Geumseong is the fourth largest city on the peninsula, with a resident population of over 30,000 households, which is on par with the royal fortress of Baekje and the height of the castle walls.

But how did it take only three days for the Goryeo people to take Baekje King Fortress, but it took six days to take the Golden Fortress?

In terms of time, it was a sunny day when Goryeo attacked Baekje King's Castle, but when the Goryeo people arrived at Silla's Castle, it was already snowing heavily.

Geographically speaking, it seems to have something to do with the time of day; Due to the heavy snowfall, the difficulty of climbing the golden fortress is not the same as the difficulty of climbing the walls of Baekje King Fortress in the first place.

Because of the heavy snowfall, the Silla people were able to repair the destroyed city walls with just cold water, and the repaired walls were hard and slippery

In the end, it is necessary to compare people and aspects, if the Baekje people were attacked by the Goryeo people in a hasty and hard battle, then the current Silla people are waiting for work; Moreover, the Goryeo people had 8,000 fewer men than when they attacked Baekje that day, and more importantly, these soldiers who had just plundered from the Baekje capital no longer had the enterprising spirit of that day.

Therefore, although Yuangai Suwen made a great wish at this time, it was not a simple matter to take Jincheng.

What's more, Yuangai Suwen was in the middle of the siege when he suddenly heard the news from the messenger on the dock that there was another fleet, and these ships were bigger than his own ship.

"This is a ship from the Celestial Empire? Or is it from Fuso? Yuangai Suwen was stunned for a moment, and immediately remembered that he had attacked the fleet of the Great Sui Seven Seas Trading Company at the mouth of the Baijiang River a few days ago.

But he quickly shook his head again, now that the Emperor of the Celestial Empire was in dire straits, how could he send a fleet to Silla?

And Fusang is even more impossible, it is said that Fusang is now more chaotic than the Great Sui.

Where did this fleet come from?

No matter where he came from, Yuangai Suwen knew that this fleet was friend or foe, and if he let this fleet dock, he would be pulled back.

Yuangai Suwen sighed, "Mingjin, stop the siege!" ”

When the soldiers heard the order to suspend the siege, they were obviously relieved, in such bad weather, it was too cold to hide in the bed, this war was really too guilty.

The soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, and the order of Yuangai Suwen came again, "Pass my order, the archery troops are prepared with bows and arrows, ride to the dock, and urgently remove the three hundred catapults from the front line."

Listening to Yuangai Suwen's order, the soldiers were puzzled, and secretly rejoiced, "Remove the catapult, is this the rhythm of an armistice?" ”