After nightfall, Wang Shichong's army of 50,000 quietly retreated westward, and only slowed down after crossing the canal, and after resting for a night on the east side of the canal, the army began to march towards Pengcheng.

After walking for less than two hours, Wang Shichong saw the scouts rushing towards him, and said urgently, "Report!" There are thieves ahead. ”

Wang Shichong didn't feel too surprised, and after reining in his horse, he asked, "Lu Mingyue?" How many people are there? ”

"It's Lu Mingyue's banner, but the number of people hasn't been found yet." The scout looked down in response.

"Haven't been at war with the thieves yet?" Wang Shichong then asked.

The scout shook his head, "No, the forward army has not moved so far according to the general's orders. ”

"Very good, pass on my general order, and order Guo Shancai must not take the initiative to attack, and those who violate the order will be engaged in military law." Wang Shi nodded meaningfully, and after watching the scout take the order, he ordered, "Set up camp!" ”

When Wang Shichong set up camp to resist Lu Mingyue, Sanshan City, which had been occupied by Su You for more than ten days, was already small in scale thanks to the hard work of more than 14,000 Goryeo captives.

Sanshan City is built according to the topography, surrounded by mountains on three sides and water on one side, and the side of the water is Sanshan Wharf, which is also the first place built after Su You landed.

When the Goryeo captives began to burn bricks, lay foundations, and dig moats under the watchful eye of the soldiers, Su You naturally sent a prospecting team, but unfortunately no iron ore was found on the peninsula except for the rich limestone clay and a small amount of coal

In just two days, brick, lime, cement and glass furnaces were built and then put into production.

With a large number of raw materials for making cement, with familiar with the process of making cement and a large number of labor, dozens of tons of cement will be manufactured in a steady stream; Because of the cement aid, the house was also built faster than in the first place.

In just ten days, hundreds of houses have been erected in Sanshan City.

With these houses, there was no need to send those Goryeo captives back and forth to the ship every day, and the speed of the construction of Samsan Fortress was much faster.

Su You was still very satisfied with the speed of the construction of the city, and while he arranged for the captives to continue to build their own houses, he began to have people paint the walls of these houses with lime, and removed the heating pipes of the stoves from the ship, and began to set up stoves for these houses.

When the coal miners had enough coal to burn the building materials, they began to bring the excess coal to the city and began to make honeycomb coal with the coal hammers that had been prepared for a long time.

Everything went in an orderly manner.

The reason why Su You chose to build a city here was not because he wanted to "face the sea and bloom in spring", but to turn this place into a strategic rear, but to turn this place into his own grain depot, arsenal and arsenal.

Su You, Lai Yanbei and others stood on a high place, looking at the hot labor scene below from a distance, and couldn't help but smile with relief.

If she hadn't come to Yanbei to see it with her own eyes, she would never have believed that only 20,000 or 30,000 people could build so many houses in such a short period of time, and at this moment, she couldn't help but admire, "It's incredible." ”

Su You shook his head and said with a smile, "The fly in the ointment is that there is a lack of popularity here. ”

Coming to Yanbei, of course, she knew that he was talking about civilians, and she naturally knew that it would be a pity if this city was only operated as a fortress.

There is a lot of land around Sanshan City that can be cultivated, and there is no problem with these lands to feed two or three hundred thousand people. How many soldiers can be recruited?

Su You didn't wait for Yanbei to express his opinion, so he said lightly, "Let's start tomorrow, I'll send a message to Pisces, and let them handle this matter." ”

Lai Yanbei nodded, and then said, "Do you use the caravan's ship to go to the Central Plains to save people?" It's just too dangerous."

"Not only the Central Plains, but also the people of Silla Baekje who want to move here, it is not impossible. Let the Pisces and them gather here first, and I want them to go to the plains, Linji, Donghai, Gaomi, Donglai and other seashores to bring people back, and a fleet of ships is equipped with 20 guns and 200 guards. Su You crossed his fingers and counted the desperate poor people in the Central Plains.

"With so many fleets dispatched at the same time, I'm afraid our whereabouts will soon be exposed." Lai Yanbei was a little worried.

"I know. This is also a matter of no choice, now that the Central Plains is in dire straits, if we don't save them, who will save them? Besides, we need them to enrich the city. Only then will the city have a future to speak of. Su You's first few words were passionate and generous, but when he said the back, he revealed his true nature.

Lai Yanbei smiled, but calculated in his heart how much food would be needed to feed these people once a large number of hungry people from the Central Plains arrived.

Su You looked at Lai Yanbei and was silent, probably guessing her thoughts, and couldn't help laughing, "Are you worried about our lack of food?" Rest assured, there are only more than 40 ships in the caravan, and each ship accepts 300 people at a time, and one trip is only more than 10,000 people, and it is good to be able to receive three trips in a month."

Lai Yanbei nodded and said with a smile, "I know, our current food is enough to feed 200,000 people for half a year, and we can still go to the sea to fish."

"No matter how bad it is, we can still go to Goryeo to ask for relief," Su You added, and said, "I was thinking of having a meeting in the evening to discuss the plan to break Goryeo." ”

"We don't have to rush to break through Goryeo now, right?" I was a little stunned when I came to Yanbei, if it was for food, it was obviously not the most ideal choice to fight Goryeo.

In the past few years, Goryeo has been subjected to the conquest of the Great Sui, and their grain reserves are obviously not as good as those of Silla Baekje, otherwise the grain depot in Baekje King Castle would not have been emptied after the Belyeo army broke through Baekje King Castle.

Another reason that is not conducive to the current attack on Goryeo is that the Yunzhong army has captured a large number of Goryeo troops in Jinseong, Comfort Fortress and Beilu City one after another; Today's Goryeo royal city must be rumored to be in the dust, and the grass and trees are all soldiers.

Su You shook his head helplessly, "I don't really want to fight Goryeo, in fact, as long as you use commercial means, you can squeeze Goryeo out and squeeze the poor, but if you don't fight, you can't do it, now the weather has warmed, and this is also a political war." Team battles can be destroyed, but Teemo must die"

The weather is not warm, and I didn't feel it when I came to Yanbei, but it was not far from Lichun.

"Teemo?" Lai Yanbei was a little puzzled by the words that Su You said in vain, stared at Su You and asked.

Only then did Su You realize that he had said something inexplicable, and immediately became serious again, "The attack on the Goryeo Royal City was planned by us a long time ago, and this will not change." As for why he was in such a hurry to attack him, it was mainly because there was no iron ore around Samsan Fortress, and Goryeo had very good iron resources, and steel was the foundation of industry, and without good iron, there would be no sharp weapons and sophisticated armor."

Although she didn't know why Su You was so familiar with the iron ore in Goryeo, after thinking about it, she also felt that it was a good choice to conquer Goryeo now.

Because after Sanshan City accepts the displaced people from the Central Plains, it will definitely be exposed, and then it will have to leave the necessary armed forces to defend it

Now the walls of Sanshan City have not yet begun to be built, but there will be no external forces to discover here, and now the safety factor of Sanshan City is the highest.

In the afternoon of the same day, Su You ordered someone to go to the city of Beifu to recall Zhang Long and a thousand heavy cavalry, leaving only a thousand people to guard here, and the southern cape Duli Town simply left a few sentry posts that could burn beacon fires.

The one who stayed in Sanshan City was naturally led by Yanbei, and the more than 6,000 guards she led, of which 4,000 were cannon fodder regiments brought by the Nanyang countries, and the remaining 2,000 were auxiliaries brought from the clouds.

The men of the Nanami Trading Company would soon come to Samsan from Silla Baekje, and there were six or seven hundred of them, including sailors and escorts.

In addition, there were 100 artillery pieces that Su You stayed behind to follow the cargo ship of the Seven Seas Trading Company back to the Central Plains, as well as 300 gunners as standard.

As for the troops that followed Su You to conquer the royal city of Goryeo, they included 900 artillery pieces installed on the ship and 2,700 gunners as standard, as well as 2,000 heavy cavalry led by Zhang Long and Zhao Hu, 3,000 Western and Eastern Guards led by Zhu Ziheng and Wang Bodang respectively, 200 guards of Su You, and more than 2,000 auxiliary soldiers.

Of course, Su You did not forget to bring all the high-ranking generals of Goryeo such as Yuangai Suwen.

Early the next morning, Su You led more than 10,000 people to leave Sanshan Wharf on 120 warships and headed for Nanpu, the mouth of the Hunjiang River.

The Hunjiang River, also known as the Wangcheng River, is the Datong River of later generations.

In fact, the royal city of Goryeo, Pyeongseong, bears some resemblance to the eastern capital,—— with Naksu running through the city in the middle of the eastern capital, and the royal fortress of Goryeo also straddles the Wangseong River.

The Wangchengjiang River facilitated the commercial transportation of Goryeo, as well as the fleet of Su You; After two days of sailing, Su You's fleet arrived in Nampo at noon on the fifth day of December as planned.

As Su You expected, there was no ice floes on the Wangcheng River, so Su You naturally waved his troops north and went straight to Pingcheng.

Twenty days ago, when the king of Goryeo looked at the fleet that had returned from Baekje King's Castle, he could not be happy,—— because all the credit and most of the harvest belonged to the great pair of Lu Yuan Taejo,—— the leader of the army was Yuan Taejo's son Yuan Gai Suwen, and the spoils were distributed by Yuan Taejo, and the most beautiful beauties and the most valuable goods were also detained by him.

Even so, Gao Jianwen has no reason to be depressed, after all, he won the battle, and the emperor also gained a little when all the people were happy.

After the looting/plundering of Baekje, the water gate of the Goryeo royal city has not been opened again in the past 20 days.

The news that Gao Jianwen got was that the armies that attacked Jincheng and Comfort City and the guards of the Humble City were captured one after another, pushing others and himself, and Gao Jianwen soon had the consciousness of being the lord of the dead country.

The person who was most reluctant to believe these news was obviously a big deal with Lu Yuan Taizuo, not only because there was his son among them, but also because he didn't believe the exaggerated rhetoric of the soldiers who had escaped.

Is this a mysterious weapon that can spew out tongues of fire and black iron balls that can make a thunderous sound and shock people to death and injury?

Even so, Yuan Taizuo still ordered people to increase patrols on the Wangcheng River, and more than a dozen defensive positions full of catapults and archers were also placed along the river.

As soon as Su You's fleet entered the Wangcheng River, the secret sentry that stood at the mouth of the river ignited a beacon fire, and the defenders by the river suddenly became nervous.