Another of the biggest problems with the night siege was that the news was not good, and it was difficult for the soldiers to notice that the situation had changed.

The western city is still in a fierce battle, the blood is raining, and the shouts of killing are shocking, but the southern city has fallen, and the cavalry of the Sui army has entered the city.

Gao Jianwu, the king of Goryeo, had received news that there was an abnormality in the southern city, and there was an internal response in the Goryeo army to respond to the Sui army to go to the city, which surprised Gao Jianwu.

He led two thousand soldiers to rush towards the southern city, and halfway through, a general covered in blood stumbled and stumbled, and he cried: "Great king, the southern city has been lost, and the Sui cavalry ...... Killed in the city! ”

'Dangchang! Gao Jianwu's sword fell to the ground, and this news made him stunned, and his heart felt as if he had fallen into the abyss.

At this time, the bell of the Sui army was heard in the distance, and the Sui army attacking Xicheng withdrew like a tide, they turned the direction of attack and rushed to the southern city, and the Sui army surged into Pyongyang City.

The city of Pyongyang was blazing with flames and shouts, and Niu Jinting led 5,000 cavalry to gallop through the city, ordering Goryeo civilians not to go out into the streets.

But along the way, you can encounter the Goryeo people who are trying to resist everywhere, they are in groups of three or five, and attack the cavalry, but Yang Yuanqing gave a strict order, not to mention killing, the Sui army slashed with swords, and everywhere they passed, corpses were everywhere.

This time, Yang Yuanqing learned the lesson of Hu'er back then, after conquering the outer city, he did not indulge the soldiers, but divided the troops into two ways, Niu Jinting led 5,000 cavalry to control the whole city, and Luo Shixin led 10,000 troops to continue to attack the inner city.

The inner city is the core of the whole of Pyongyang, with a circumference of 12 li and only two gates, north and south, which are equally tall and strong, but unlike the outer city, there is no moat. There are also no drawbridges. This provided great convenience for the Sui army's siege.

In front of the south gate of the inner city, thousands of Sui soldiers held shields and torches, illuminating the front of the city gate as if it were day. There were 3,000 defenders in the inner city, led by Yi Yongming, the general of Yurim in Goryeo.

News of the fall of the outer city had already reached the inner city, and the city gates were closed. More than 2,000 soldiers in the city held bows and arrows in their hands, looking at the murderous Sui army under the city uneasily,

The Sui army's capture of the outer city made Li Yingming extremely nervous, he didn't know what to do, the king of Goryeo commanded the battle in the outer city, and now he didn't know whether he was alive or dead, Li Yingming had to order the gate to be closed and the inner city to be strictly guarded.

The inner city gate is made of pig iron and is unusually strong. It was difficult to attack with fire, so Luo Shixin ordered to look for the crashing wood and prepared to hit the door with a battering ram. Yang Yuanqing was escorted by hundreds of soldiers. Watching the attack on the inner city from afar, he also had a trace of worry in his heart. Worried that the Goryeo army would burn the jade and stone and burn the food in the inner city.

At this time, a soldier of the Sui army rushed to the scene and knelt down on one knee in front of Yang Yuanqing to report, "Chief Qiqi, the king of Goryeo has surrendered to our army. ”

Yang Yuanqing was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Where are the people?" ”

The soldier pointed back, only to see a large group of Sui soldiers surrounded by a dozen Goryeo officials walking forward quickly, led by a man wearing a crown on his head.

In the hunting firelight, Yang Yuanqing saw that this person was about the same age as himself, with three black beards, heavy eyebrows and deep eyes, not angry and arrogant, quite a king, Yang Yuanqing nodded secretly, is this the king of the Goryeo Plain?

Gao Jianwu could have escaped, but he finally chose to stay, he was the king of a country, and he would rather die by himself than let his countrymen be killed on his behalf, but at this time his heart calmed down.

He also saw the commander of the Sui army on a war horse, about the same age as himself, wearing a golden helmet, wearing iron armor, burly and tall, his eyes were sometimes cold, sometimes unfathomable, Gao Jianwu secretly sighed in his heart, Yang Yuanqing personally led the troops to arrive, and he didn't know how to fill his appetite.

Gao Jianwu led more than a dozen officials to kneel down in front of Yang Yuanqing, Gao Jianwu lowered his head and said: "The criminal ministers of the partial state do not know the power of heaven, and they failed to open the city in time to meet the heavenly army, please forgive His Royal Highness the King of Chu!" ”

Yang Yuanqing didn't get off the horse to help him, but said lightly: "Protecting the family and defending the country, what is the crime?" If you can surrender without leaving your subjects behind, you can be considered a dutiful king, and I will give you the dignity you deserve, and you don't have to worry too much. ”

Gao Jianwu kowtowed heavily and cried: "Thank you His Royal Highness the King of Chu for his mercy, but King Bei is willing to die, and beg His Highness to forgive innocent people and not kill them." ”

He came all the way and saw corpses all over the ground, mostly civilian men, which made him very worried, and he remembered that when the Hu'er army broke through the outer city, the soldiers burned and looted, and he was extremely worried about the recurrence of this scene.

Yang Yuanqing said: "My army has its own military rules, only surrender does not resist, soldiers will not kill indiscriminately, this time the Sui army just borrowed a little money and grain from your country, and has no other intentions." ”

Speaking of this, Yang Yuanqing pointed at the inner city with a whip, "Since you have surrendered, then order the defenders of the inner city to surrender, otherwise the Sui army will enter the inner city, and the defenders in the city will not spare a single person." ”

Gao Jianwu was helpless, he was already a prisoner of the steps, so he couldn't help himself, so he had to step forward and shout to the city: "I am the king of Goryeo, let Li Yingming come out to see me." ”

In a moment, a general appeared at the head of the city, it was Li Yingming, the chief general of the defenders, he saw the king of Goryeo, his heart was full of thoughts, and he said in a trembling voice: "The old minister is here!" ”

Gao Jianwu sighed secretly, and persuaded him loudly: "General Li, the general trend of Pyongyang City has gone, open the inner city!" to protect civilians from killing. ”

"The old minister obeys!"

Li Yingming stood up and ordered to the left and right: "Kaesong surrenders." ”

The gate of the inner city slowly opened, Luo Shixin was already impatient, and he gave an order, and 10,000 Sui troops rushed into the inner city......

Half an hour later, the Sui army took control of the inner city, and at this point, the entire city of Pyongyang fell into the hands of the Sui army, and the Goryeo treasury that Yang Yuanqing cared about was located in the inner city, consisting of hundreds of large warehouses, and the materials in the warehouses were breathtaking.

When Yang Guang went on an expedition to Goryeo, most of the materials left behind in Goryeo's piled up mountain, such as money and grain, soldiers' armor, tents, war drums and military flags, were concentrated in the warehouses in the inner city, but Yang Yuanqing paid more attention to stockpiling grain.

Yang Guang left millions of stone grains in Goryeo that year, and these grains could not have been stored for so long, but they were able to store Goryeo's own grain.

"Boss, please go this way!"

A partial general led Yang Yuanqing to inspect the grain depot, which is a huge warehouse as high as three zhang and covering an area of more than ten acres, this is a warehouse of 10,000 stones, and a warehouse can store up to 100,000 stone of grain, and there are dozens of such granaries.

At this moment, dozens of Sui soldiers stood in front of the gate of the warehouse, Yang Yuanqing walked into the warehouse, and in this huge warehouse, bags of grain were neatly stacked, piled up, breathtaking.

A civilian officer was leading more than a dozen soldiers to count the grain depot, and when he saw Yang Yuanqing leading a large group of officers in, the civilian officer hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "See the general manager." ”

Yang Yuanqing nodded, walked to a bag of grain, patted the sturdy grain bag, this bag of grain is the weight of a stone, from the gap in the grain bag poured out a handful of white rice, Yang Yuanqing reached out to catch it, put a few into his mouth to chew, it should be last year's grain and rice.

He turned back and asked the civilian officer: "How much grain is in this warehouse, has the inventory been completed?" ”

"Back to the manager, this warehouse has been counted, and there are a total of 93,000 stone of grain, which is consistent with the account books."

"How much grain is there in the entire granary group, have you counted it?" Yang Yuanqing asked again.

"I have roughly estimated that it is between 60 and 650,000 stones, and it should not be wrong."

This number made Yang Yuanqing's brows stretch suddenly, 600,000 stones, this adventurous expedition has obtained such a rich return.

Yang Yuanqing went to other warehouses again, piled up with armor, tents, saddles and war drums, these were all materials left by the Sui army back then, and as time passed, they returned to his hands, which made Yang Yuanqing feel emotional.

At this time, Cheng Yanjin was very excited and ran over and said, "Chief, go and see the palace treasury!" Guaranteed to keep your eyes open, oh my God! Those pearls and gems have dazzled my old Cheng's eyes, as well as countless white flowers and silver and yellow gold, steward, just seal Goryeo to me as Cheng Guo! I don't dislike it. ”

Yang Yuanqing patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I remember that you were reluctant to seal the country at the beginning, saying that you had no ambition and wanted to be a patriarch, why did your ambition swell again now?" ”

Cheng Biting Jin scratched the back of his head embarrassedly, "Actually, it's not ambition, it's just a little greedy." ”

Yang Yuanqing laughed, turned back to the marching Sima Li Minglu and said: "All the materials are registered one by one, half of the gold, silver and jewelry in the palace treasury, and all the copper coins are used to reward and compensate the brothers on this expedition. ”

"Obedience!" Li Minglu saluted and hurried down.

"Lao Li, wait for me, I'll help you take inventory." Cheng Yanjin was so anxious that he didn't bother to say hello to Yang Yuanqing, and rushed away.

Laihu'er next to him couldn't help but smile and said, "Chief, this General Cheng is quite interesting." ”

Yang Yuanqing snorted, "He has always been like this, his face is extremely thick, he can't see him when he fights, and he is the first to rush in front when he divides the money." ”

At this time, Lai Hu'er said in a low voice: "Chief, since Pyongyang has been taken this time, I have simply taken the nearby population captive, and I estimate that there are hundreds of thousands of people to enrich the Central Plains." ”

Yang Yuanqing shook his head, "This time is not the time, first, our army is too small, and more importantly, the world is undecided now, and the captivity of the Goryeo population into the Central Plains is easy to cause chaos in the Central Plains, have you forgotten the consequences of the population of the six towns entering the Central Plains?" Wait for the next time, and simply destroy Goryeo. ”

Lai Hu'er understood what Yang Yuanqing meant, after the Six Towns Rebellion was suppressed, the Northern Wei Dynasty sent hundreds of thousands of men and women from the Six Towns to the Central Plains for resettlement, and these hundreds of thousands of people caused the Central Plains Rebellion, directly forming the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty Two courts, the Goryeo people are difficult to attach, and now they are plundering into the Central Plains, which is indeed not appropriate.

Thinking of this, Laihu'er asked again, "What about the king of Goryeo, do you want to keep him?" ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled slightly, "I put forward three conditions to this person, if he agrees to cede Liaodong and declare himself a vassal to the Great Sui, it doesn't hurt to stay with him, otherwise Yuan Taizuo will have a chance to be regent." ”

Lai Hu'er was stunned, "The manager said something wrong!" It should be Gai Suwen, how can it be Yuan Taizuo? ”

Yang Yuanqing glanced at him, and said indifferently: "I'm not wrong, it's Yuan Taizuo, he is about to return to Goryeo." ”

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