There was no suspense in the battle of Huilong Town, more than 100 Goguryeo soldiers who were monitoring the sea in Huilong Town were completely annihilated, Wang Renshou ordered to light three blazing fires on the seaside, and the black smoke rushed straight into the sky, and not long after, dense black spots appeared on the sea in the distance, heading towards Huilong Town, which was 300 main warships of the Sui army preparing to land on the Liaodong Peninsula.

But the fireworks set off in Huilong Town also alarmed the city of Beixu, which had 5,000 garrisons, of which 3,000 soldiers were stationed in the mountain city and another 2,000 soldiers were stationed in the castle by the sea, to prevent the Sui army from attacking the peninsula from the waterway.

The main general of the city was called Ning Yihan, one of the eight fierce generals under Yuan Taizuo, he was appointed as the governor of the west, and led 8,000 soldiers to guard the Liaodong Peninsula.

At this time, Ning Yihan stood on the castle and looked in the direction of Huilong Town, only to see three thin black smoke appearing on the seashore in the distance, he was really puzzled in his heart, the humble city could not see the situation on the sea surface of Huilong Town, and there was no way to know whether there was an enemy attack, but in any case, the appearance of three puffs of black smoke was an abnormal phenomenon.

Ning Yihan's heart was full of confusion, and he immediately ordered left and right: "Hurry up and go back to Long Town to find out the situation!" ”

Several spies left the city of humble luxury, rode to the bottom of the mountain, but not long after riding down the mountain, they turned around and came back, they took a few soldiers to the gate of the mountain city, Ning Yihan saw clearly on the mountain, he was taken aback in his heart, hurriedly walked down the mountain, and when he reached the second mountain gate, several soldiers came forward and knelt down, crying loudly.

Ning Yihan was so anxious that he stomped his feet, "Don't cry, what happened?" ”

The leading sergeant cried: "The Sui army came ashore from nowhere and attacked our barracks at night, we were defenseless, suffered heavy casualties, and almost all the army was wiped out, and we were able to escape by luck by climbing over the wall." ”

Ning Yihan was stunned, is the three thousand army over? He reacted for a while, and asked again: "Is it the loss of Huilongzhen Harbor?" ”

"Probably not, there was no movement back to Dragon Town when we escaped."

At this time, Ning Yihan suddenly reacted, the Sui army must have gone ashore in a small boat, black smoke appeared in the direction of the beach just now, it must be the Sui army that notified the main force of the big ship to land, Ning Yihan realized that he still had a little time, he immediately ordered: "Raise the beacon fire, let the harbor army retreat!" ”

The defenders of Beilu City only have 3,000 people, if they do not concentrate their forces, the army will be annihilated by the Sui army separately, just like the annihilation of the garrison of Huilong Town, he has an agreement with the 2,000 garrisons of the harbor, as long as the beacon fire is raised on the top of the mountain, the harbor army must immediately retreat and concentrate its forces to defend against the Sui army.

Beacon smoke immediately ignited on the top of the mountain of Beixu City, informing the troops in the harbor to retreat, and at the same time, Ning Yihan also released three letter eagles and told them to go to Pyongyang to inform Yuan Taizuo that the Sui army had launched an attack on the Liaodong Peninsula

At noon, the main army of Laihu'er all landed, and Laihu'er himself, accompanied by Wang Renshou, inspected the battle situation last night, at this time, the barracks had basically been cleaned up, hundreds of large tents were stacked on top of each other, and there were a large number of armor and weapons next to them, and the dead Goguryeo soldiers had been dug and buried deep to prevent the epidemic from spreading, but pools of blood could still be seen on the land.

Laihu'er walked around, but did not see a single prisoner of war, he felt a little strange in his heart, so he asked Wang Renshou: "Didn't General Wang catch a prisoner of war?" ”

Wang Renshou calmly replied: "The scene was very chaotic during the night raid, and the lowly officials were afraid that the Goguryeo soldiers would surrender by fraud, so they did not accept their surrender, except for the soldiers who fled, the other Goguryeo soldiers were killed. ”

"What?"

Lai Hu'er was taken aback, of course he understood what Wang Renshou was talking about, that is, all the soldiers were slaughtered, he restrained the displeasure in his heart, and asked, "How many enemy soldiers have you killed in total?" ”

"About 2,000 people before and after."

Lai Hu'er finally couldn't restrain his anger a little, there were only 3,000 enemy troops in total, and more than 2,800 people were killed, isn't this a slaughter?

What's more important is that the Sui army only suffered less than 100 casualties, indicating that the Goguryeo soldiers were not prepared at all, it was a one-sided massacre, he glared at Wang Renshou fiercely, "Although I didn't say that I would accept prisoners of war, but the Qingzhou army can only kill the enemy army if His Royal Highness the King of Qi issues a killing order, and it generally has to accept prisoners of war, this is a custom, why don't you follow the practice of the Qingzhou army?" ”

Wang Renshou still said calmly: "During the first battle of Goguryeo, he saw the Goguryeo soldiers slaughtering the prisoners of war of the Sui army, and at that time, the lowly post swore that the general would never accept Goguryeo prisoners of war, and return blood for blood. ”

Lai Hu'er's face softened a little, and nodded, "I can understand your feelings, I am not a person who repays grievances with virtue, but we need prisoners of war to build fortifications for us, His Royal Highness the King of Qi also needs a lot of manpower to cut wood and mine on the Liaodong Peninsula, prisoners of war are the best coolies, it is easy to kill them, but it is a pity to lose so many coolies in vain, does the general understand what I mean?" ”

Wang Renshou hugged his fists and saluted, "The Lord will teach and keep his humble duties in mind!" ”

At this time, a soldier rushed to report, "General Qi, the garrison of the harbor of the city of Beifu has all been withdrawn, and the harbor is empty. ”

Lai Hu'er was overjoyed, and immediately ordered Wang Renshou: "General Wang can continue to lead the army south, go to the harbor of Beilu City to join the army, and be careful of the enemy's ambush on the way." ”

"Obey the order!"

Laihu'er then left a thousand people to guard back to Longzhen, the rest of the army re-boarded, the fleet sailed to the harbor fifty miles away, at the same time, Wang Renshou also led five thousand soldiers along the path to the harbor, in the afternoon, the Sui army occupied the harbor outside the city of Beiluxe, the Sui army did not immediately march into the city of Beixu, but in the harbor garrison rested for a night, the next morning before the camp set off, the army was mighty to kill more than ten miles away from the city of luxury.

At this time, Ning Yihan had made full defensive preparations, and the entire castle was built on the mountain, all of which were made of bluestone, which was very strong, while the humble city was condescending, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

General Zhou Meng asked Laihu'er in a low voice: "I heard that the old general once conquered the city of Beilu and annihilated more than 10,000 enemy troops, I don't know what strategy the old general used?" ”

Lai Hu'er smiled and said: "I didn't attack the city at all, I directly commanded 30,000 troops to besiege the mountain city, and after ten days they ran out of food, so they went down the mountain and surrendered. ”

Zhou Meng immediately hugged his fists and said: "I am willing to lead the army to attack the humble city, please ask the lord for permission!" ”

Lai Hu'er laughed, he glanced at Qi Liang, another general next to him, and said to the two of them unhurriedly: "General Zhou and General Qi, do you know why Your Highness has to wait for me to come before starting to attack the Liaodong Peninsula?" ”

Qi Liang and Zhou Meng glanced at each other, bowed down together and replied, "I don't know what I do!" ”

"The reason is very simple, the Great Sui attacked Goguryeo three times, I as the commander of the naval army stationed in the city of Beilu three times, my nephew came to be promoted to guard the city of Beilu for three years, although he unfortunately passed away, but he wrote me a lot of letters, so that I also know this mountain city very well, the capture of the city of Beilu is the key to seize the Liaodong Peninsula, except for me, I am afraid that no one can capture this fortified city built on the mountain at the smallest cost."

Everyone suddenly said, "I want to listen to the old general's dispatch!" ”

Lai Hu'er immediately ordered: "The army should camp at the foot of the mountain to rest, and wait for the night after dark to attack the city of humble luxury!" ”

The 20,000 Sui troops then set up a large camp at the foot of the mountain, and Laihu'er ordered that the camp should not be surrounded by a barrack fence or spear, so he casually set up the camp in the open space, and ordered a hundred soldiers to go up the mountain and build a brick platform with bricks one zhang square under the humble city.

The city is divided into three layers of defense, the outer layer, the middle layer and the inner layer, each layer is separated by a city wall, which is equivalent to three city gates, even if the Sui army captures the outer layer, the Goguryeo army can still retreat to the middle layer of defense, and then retreat to the inner layer, although the Sui army has many troops, but in the narrow part of the mountain road, it is impossible to attack the city on a large scale, as long as the city wall is covered with crossbowmen, how many troops will die.

At this time, 3,000 troops were deployed on the outer city wall, and the soldiers with bows and crossbows blocked the circling path up the mountain, they not only had enough food, but also a large number of rolling wood and stones and bows and crossbows and arrows that could equip 10,000 people, enough to deal with the siege of 20,000 Sui troops.

Ning Yihan looked at the Sui army at the foot of the mountain strangely, it is understandable that the Sui army is not guarded in the camp, there will be no third army here, but why the Sui army soldiers want to build a brick platform under him, he is puzzled, but there are a few big pine trees above the brick platform, so that they can not threaten the soldiers who build the brick platform, of course, this is also a position deliberately chosen by the Sui army, using a few big trees for protection.

As night fell, Lygoer began his distinctive siege campaign. (To be continued.) )