The Tang Dynasty is vast, and the farmers in the south have begun spring ploughing, but the north has always been frozen for thousands of miles and snow drifting. [This site has a new domain name. initials, previously registered accounts can still be used]

Due to the intelligence brought back by Li Jie, the offensive originally scheduled to be carried out in mid-May after sorting out the rear had to be hastily advanced, and after staying in Dingzhou for less than five days, Li Jie had to follow Li Ji's vanguard troops to step on the ice and snow and rush north.

Although I don't understand, but Li Jie's more than 40,000 troops requisitioned from the grassland, or divided into more than 20,000 Li Tai, Li Ji also brought more than 20,000 soldiers from Shandong, Hebei gathered in Yingzhou, in mid-March, plus Zhang Jian's more than 30,000 battalion state troops, Li Jie's headquarters elite soldiers originally stationed here, a total of more than 80,000, for a time the atmosphere on both sides of the Liao River was tense to the extreme.

As the commander of the vanguard army, Li Ji was not busy attacking, but as soon as he arrived, he reorganized the army on a large scale, and it stopped for more than half a month.

"Kill!"

The awe-inspiring shouts of killing resounded throughout the banks of the Liao River in Goguryeo and Chinese forms, densely covering the sky, and arrows also fell like raindrops, and even when they were intense, many arrows collided in the air.

It's a pity that the thunder is loud, the rain is small, the shouting is very fierce, the fierce battle has been fought for a long time, and there are not a few drops of blood, across the spacious Liao River, the arrows that can be shot over have a lot of energy, and more arrows fell directly into the river.

Although the Liao River does not completely melt until the beginning of April, when the war begins, people will always think of a way, as early as the beginning of winter, Gao Huizhen in the south has been stationed in a dam in the upper reaches of the Liao River to store water, waiting for the Liao River to melt just before it collapses in one fell swoop, rushing down with ice ballast, as early as more than ten days ago to break through the already unsolid Liao River ice.

This is also the reason why Li Ji did not start attacking immediately after he arrived.

"Kill! Kill Lao Tzu! When you see the big nose on the other side, shoot which turtle grandson to kill Lao Tzu! Standing on the boat, Scar Liu shook the horizontal sword shield like ADHD, shouting with emotion, excited as if he was really facing the Goguryeo people face to face, seeing this guy jumping around on the boat, the little white face behind couldn't help but yawn loudly, and he was so sleepy that he muttered helplessly.

"God, when will these boring days end?"

"Hey, Lao Liu, if you scold again, the guy on the other side is already scolding his ugly face or something."

"What, Turtle grandson, Lao Tzu is much more handsome than your father, what is a mighty man who understands, Goguryeo barbarian!" A sentence is like a lit cannonball, and it doesn't matter if the other party understands it or not, the shrew scolds the street, and the spit stars jumped to the center of the river, seeing the happy lord Li Jie behind him, Sheng Wenjian helplessly raised his head and stretched out his hand to cover his forehead.

"Sanqing Dao Lord, help me!"

The "fierce" battle lasted until the evening, tens of thousands of arrows were thrown into the river in vain, and even for more than one hour, the Tang and Goguryeo armies were sprayed through the water for an hour in order not to lose their momentum, until the sunset was slanting, and then they were exhausted and evacuated from the battlefield under the sound of the main generals on both sides.

Along the way, under the trampling of the two thousand troops, the already soft soil was even more muddy and sticky, and the Tang army wearing cowhide boots stepped into it, and it was very difficult to pull it out, listening to the curses of the subordinate troops, a wisp of melancholy bloomed on Sheng Wenjian's face.

"Your Highness, the weather will be warm, and the entire Liaoze will melt into a swamp again, if you don't force the Liaohe River at this time, it will be difficult to attack again!" With a clamp on the horse's belly, Sheng Wenjian simply rushed to Li Jie's side, and persuaded him with some worry.

Riding the second dog with a straight nose, Li Jie shook his head lazily, and said very leisurely: "What's the hurry, the general manager of the vanguard army is not in a hurry, naturally it is not time, anyway, there is a tall man on top when the sky falls, don't worry." ”

"But Your Highness, this will be a ...... in the future" Halfway through speaking, Xiao Bai's face stopped abruptly, and he watched vigilantly left and right, the army, which was mainly composed of Tiele prisoners of war, was still so lazy, which made Sheng Wenjian breathe a sigh of relief, and said in a low voice. Your Highness, as the head of the marching army, although your position is not as high as Li Ji, but your identity is not inferior to him, if Li Ji does not attack again, Your Highness, let's fight it ourselves! ”

"I'll talk about it later."

Seeing Li Jie's lazy appearance, Sheng Wenjian finally sighed helplessly, thinking that when he went back, he must find Yang Yi to join the army or Wang Xuance to join the army, and persuade His Highness well.

The Tang army camp is about ten miles away from the Liao River, and the barracks of thousands of troops are quite noisy at night, and it is no wonder that in addition to the five hundred Li Jie's own army, the remaining more than four thousand are all prisoners of war reformed by the Tiele people, and a few months of training only let this person follow the leadership of the Tang army, and he is still far from the elite soldiers.

At this time, Li Ji gave him the task of launching a harassment war against Goguryeo in the middle reaches of the Liao River, and he didn't have to go to the other side of the river to fight face to face with the Goguryeo people, so these people naturally became the first choice.

There is another such a big camp twenty miles north, cannon fodder is also a kind of soldier in the end, Li Jie did not give all the Tiele prisoner of war army to Li Tai, led the unconscious cannon fodder army back to the camp gate, and before he could get in, Li Jie first jumped off his horse in confusion and walked over to meet a few people at the gate of the camp.

"Send Zhi, why are you here?"

Wearing a heavy Tang helmet and a bright light armor, Wang Fangyi really has the temperament of a general, the problem is that Wang Fangyi is the chief general of the big battalion in the north, and suddenly appeared here, something must have happened, sure enough, as soon as he saw Li Jie, Wang Fangyi immediately walked up quickly, and arched his hand and said: "Your Highness, the general manager of the vanguard army has a call!" ”

"It's finally here!" Li Jie couldn't help but be shocked.

For half a month, Li Ji was reorganizing the army, adjusting the personnel of each unit, and then scattered and sent along the Liao River to constantly harass the defensive army of various sections of Goguryeo on the opposite side, and more than ten units were divided out on the front line of hundreds of miles.

Directly ordered a lieutenant to take over the battalion, not even dinner, Li Jie directly led the guards and Wang Xuance to converge, more than 1,000 horsemen went south overnight, more than 100 miles ran for almost two hours, only then rushed to the lower reaches of the Liao River, along the way passed through five or six military camps, most of them were already empty, it seems that I don't know when, Li Ji has ordered the withdrawal of the army.

Sure enough, Li Ji's camp, which is a hundred miles away from the mouth of the Liao River, has gathered more than ten miles of several military camps, about 60,000 people, and the troops of Zhang Jian, the governor of Yingzhou, are also among them, and some troops are also in a hurry, even if it is night now, the campfires of each battalion are still endless, and a breath before the war permeates the entire Guxin Ferry.

In addition to the more than 10,000 Tiele captives of cannon fodder, Li Jie's army actually had about 6,000 elite soldiers from Guanzhong and more than 4,000 cavalry from the Turkic tribes brought for the first time, although Ashina Simo also took more than 15,000 elite sweat tent cavalry to participate in the battle, and after 5,000 were divided, more than 10,000 people still formed an independent camp, led by Lu Fa, the commander of the sweat tent who had cooperated with Li Jie in Jinghu City, and the two camps were next to each other.

After another moment of greetings, all the more than a thousand servants and cavalry were placed, Li Jie still didn't care about having dinner, he was pulled into the tent by Yang Yi, outside the tent, the prince's mansion army Wang Fangyi was erected like wood at the door, and in the tent, under a big oil lamp, several black or white heads were all gathered in front of the map.

"Your Highness, this time it is estimated that the general manager of Li Ji is going to move seriously, and he has been attacking and harassing on the banks of the Liao River for more than ten consecutive days, and the situation of Goguryeo's troops is basically clear, and it is estimated that tomorrow will be the beginning of the general attack."

Pointing his finger at the bank of the Liao River, Yang Yi was full of solemnity, frowned and said: "After a while, the general manager of the vanguard army will definitely gather to discuss the matter, although stationed in Guxindu, it is basically to cross the river along the Liao pontoon bridge left by Emperor Min to attack Liao, but even if the Goguryeo troops here lack flat terrain, once the beacon fire is raised, the soldiers everywhere will definitely be crowded, and the first attacker will definitely lose and not be credited." ”

"Don't forget the lesson of the Great Sui Wheat Car, if the chief manager wants His Highness to attack first, His Highness must shirk!" The gray hair was rippling in the light, looking at Li Jie, Lao Yang Yi said solemnly.

"Uncle Yang rest assured, this king is not a fool, of course he knows how to shirk." Looking at the map, Li Jie also patted his chest solemnly.

Emperor Min is talking about Emperor Yang of Sui, as a branch of the former Sui Zong, until now Yang Yi does not recognize the name given to Yang Guang by the Tang Dynasty, wheat cart riding, is talking about the first Sui Yang Emperor to cross the Liao River and died in the car cavalry general Mai Tiecane, that time when crossing the Liao River on the first day, because of the calculation error, the pontoon bridge was put down and was still a few meters away from the river bank, the general of the cavalry Mai Tiezhu led his troops to cross the river first, and more than 3,000 people of the whole army died on the bank of the Liao River on the first day.

Although there were mistakes in strategy, the tragedy of the attack on the river was also visible, of course Li Jie didn't want to repeat his mistake, so let the martyrs be others.

was plotting, but there was a sudden noise outside the camp, and with a frown, Li Jie immediately turned out of the tent and asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?" ”

"The minister has already sent someone to investigate." Arching his hand, Wang Fangyi replied without humility, and waited for a while, sure enough, someone from Li Jie's personal guard camp reported, but after hearing it, Wang Fangyi's face became strange.

"Back to His Royal Highness, someone came to the door to provoke, Liu Baotao and Liu Sima let people beat them."

"What, Scar Liu can be beaten?" Without waiting for Li Jie to scream, the little white face had already come out in surprise, and with a blink, Li Jie tilted his head directly: "Look at it, I want to see who is so bold and dares to go wild under the lonely door!" ”

In the shouting, a large number of lieutenants and lieutenants all followed. Glancing at each other with a wry smile, they were not in the mood to discuss matters, and the two masterminds, Yang Yi and Wang Xuance, also followed with curiosity, and after a while, the entrance of Li Jie's military camp was brightly lit.