The moonlight in the sky is very bright, and the moon stars are rare, which is a good time to enjoy the moon. At this time, the emperor of the Great Sui and a minister and guests sat on the palace tower, lit a palace lamp, drank and watched the battle, and there were beauties singing and dancing on the other, which can be said to be very happy.

Yu Wenshu drank a lot of wine today, and said with a red face at this time, "Your Majesty, at this time the moon is in the treetops, has our army begun to prepare for the 'Yuliang' Avenue?" ”

Yang Guang got up and walked to the railing of the palace building, holding the gold bottle in one hand and patting the railing with the other, looking at a torch in the distance. At this time, the Sui army was attacking the city at a critical juncture, not to mention that without the order of His Majesty the Emperor, which general would dare to withdraw his troops without authorization. All the generals gave the order, lit torches, lit bonfires, and fought in Liaodong City at night.

At this time, standing on the top of this high palace building, the bright moon in the sky is in the sky, and the torches on the ground are as brilliant as the starry sky. At this time, Yang Guangzhen felt that he was above the Nine Heavens, and he was full of pride for a while. "My warriors are so brave, and I have given them this opportunity to make a difference. I should be an upright army and defeat the barbarian chieftain in one fell swoop. ”

The courtiers were naturally flattered immediately, and even the guests such as Chuluo Khan slapped a few sycophants, Yang Guang was even more sensed, and turned to Gao Qi, who was sitting in the last seat, and said, "Gui Shun Hou, what do you think of the soldiers of the Great Sui?" ”

Guishun Hou is the Goguryeo prince Gao Qi who was captured by Chen Kefu in Xincheng, since he arrived at the camp in Liaodong, Chen Kefu also kept his promise, and said a lot of good things in front of Yang Guang, Yang Guang is not bad for the first Goguryeo prince who surrendered to himself, and he also made a lot of efforts when he attacked Xincheng, and rewarded him with an empty title of Guishun Hou without a real food seal. Although the name is not very good, it can be regarded as putting down a lot of Gao Qi's heart.

Since then, Yang Guang will always call him to a banquet, Gao Qi is also smart, and he will flatter Yang Guang very much every time, Yang Guang is very comfortable with sycophants, and he often rewards him more. At this time, when Gao Qi heard Yang Guang ask him, he hurriedly got up and knelt on the ground and said respectfully, "Goguryeo used to live in the Far East, so I didn't know the division of the Great Sui Tiger and Wolf at all, and the Goguryeo people were just frogs at the bottom of the well. Your Majesty, the subordinates only discovered after entering the Sui camp in Liaodong that this Great Sui is really the co-master of the world, and this Great Sui division is also the strongest soldier in the world, and the pacification of Goguryeo is just around the corner. ”

"Well, that's right, it seems that the Goguryeo people have lived in a remote place for a long time and have been closed for too long. This time, I broke through Goguryeo and decided to move the people of Goguryeo to the Central Plains, so that they, the people of the bitter cold land of Liaodong, could also see the prosperity of the Central Plains of the Great Sui! After arriving in the Central Plains, I will reward you with another manor, so that you can enjoy the rich life of the Central Plains. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, I am grateful, this cheap body is driven by Your Majesty, but there is a life, and there is nothing to fear in the sword mountain and the sea of fire!" Gao Qi kowtowed to the ground, and put down a lot of money, and when Yang Guang called him up, his head was already bleeding.

"Your Majesty, Hu Benlang will ask General Sima to see you! It is said that there is an emergency report of 800 miles in the eastern capital! A chamberlain walked up to the palace and knelt down to report.

Yang Guang couldn't help but be surprised when he heard that it was an eight-hundred-mile urgent report from the eastern capital Luoyang, although the capital of the Great Sui was in Chang'an, but since he ascended the throne, he had not been in Chang'an for a long time. Basically, after he succeeded to the throne, he made Luoyang a new capital. Today, Luoyang is not only the political center of the Great Sui, but also the economic center. The families of the Wenchen generals who followed him on this expedition are basically in Luoyang, and if something happens to Luoyang, it will affect the ministers.

But Yang Guang thought about it for a while, what could happen to Luoyang? This time, he personally conquered Goguryeo and deliberately chose a very old minister to stay behind. This person is Dr. Jin Ziguanglu, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the Eastern Capital stayed behind Fan Zigai, this is an old courtier who is nearly seventy years old, and he is careful and cautious in his work, and his official conduct is also very good, not greedy or corrupt. Yang Guang couldn't think of what was going on, and this careful and cautious left-behind guard actually sent an urgent report of 800 miles.

"Let Hu Benlang bring Sima Dejiao up with the messenger!" Yang Guang returned to the couch and said to the inside.

In a few moments, Hu Benlang will bring the messenger Wang Gui. After Wang Gui saw Yang Guang, he hurriedly took out the mailbox containing the urgent newspaper from his arms and handed it over.

Yang Guang took the bamboo tube of the emergency report presented by the chamberlain, and carefully looked at the seal on it, it was indeed intact and no one had touched it, so he hurriedly opened it and took a look, only looking at the first line, his face changed. He hurriedly looked down with the letter, and in a short time read the entire urgent report.

After reading the letter, Yang Guang's whole body trembled, his face turned black all of a sudden, his face was gloomy and scary, and his teeth were clenched even tighter.

"Bah", Yang Guang kicked over the small few in front of him, and shouted angrily, "All the palace maids go down, the banquet is over, and the ministers in the camp from the third rank and above to my imperial account are summoned to see me." Another order was issued to immediately withdraw the troops. After saying that, he turned around with a black face and went down to the palace building, leaving a full seat of civil and military ministers and guests, and everyone was confused, not understanding what important things had happened, why His Majesty was suddenly so angry. What makes them even more puzzled is that now that Liaodong City is about to be breached, why did His Majesty suddenly order Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

Although I was puzzled in my heart, the emperor's words could not be violated, and at this time, how could I still have the heart to guess this, and they got up one by one and rushed to the imperial tent.

As soon as the emperor gave an order, the Sui army began to collect its troops in front of the formation, and a big gong was sounded, and the sound instantly spread throughout the battlefield. The Sui army is a division of a hundred battles, although all the soldiers, including the generals, do not understand why they will withdraw their troops at such a critical moment, but the military law has a saying, and it is forbidden to obey the order. Under the shouts of the generals, the Sui army began to retreat neatly.

Fortunately, he retreated when he was victorious, but he was not worried about being killed by the enemy, and the retreating Sui army even calmly pushed back the siege equipment that was still intact under the city.

At the beginning of hearing this voice, Qin Qiong and others thought that the Goguryeo people were overwhelmed, and they were ready to retreat to defend the inner city, and happily launched a wave of charges against the Goguryeo people, killing the Goguryeo people and constantly retreating.

After a long while, he heard clearly that the sound of the gong was coming from in front of his own house in the city. The sound of the gongs made Qin Qiong a little overwhelmed, why, why did he withdraw from the army? The soldiers of the Sui army who have been fighting for a day on the head of the city, the comrades of the Sui army who fell on the head of the city, why is this?

Before he could figure it out, the team leader Wang Da Niu shouted loudly, "Uncle Bao, withdraw, collect the troops." Come back quickly, those who don't retreat when they hear the gold will be decided. ”

Qin Qiong held a horizontal knife in one hand and an axe in the other, ran to Wang Erniu's side, and said a little stunned, "But as long as it takes a while, we will be able to capture Liaodong City, and now we will retreat, isn't everything back to yesterday?" Why is that? ”

Wang Daniu shouted the name of the same team's Xiaoguo, and after a good group, the whole team's Xiaoguo gathered together. Of the fifty people who came up, there were only twenty-eight left, and they were basically all wounded, and everyone was red with blood at this time, and they had been fighting for a day, and all of them were tired and hungry. Everyone followed the retreating Sui army to the back, where there were already rows of ladders, and all the soldiers at the head of the city would retreat from there.

Qin Qiong couldn't believe that the army ordered them to retreat, and even those Goguryeo people at the head of the city couldn't believe it. There were not many Goguryeo soldiers left in the city, and they were basically Goguryeo civilians, old and young, men and women, and even some little boys who were a little longer than horizontal swords followed behind with bows.

At this time, the Goguryeo people watched the Sui army retreat, and none of them went up to intercept and kill, and all the Goguryeo people just watched them retreat in a daze, feeling like they were dreaming. Everyone has a feeling of not dying and the rest of their lives. Too many people died on the west wall today, although they finally held the west city, but the corpses were everywhere on the city, and even the ground on both sides of the city wall was full of corpses, which fell in the melee, and some were cleaned up by both sides. There was no way, there were so many dead that there was no place for the soldiers on both sides to stand on the city walls.

In this short day, Goguryeo Liaodong City had 50,000 troops and 150,000 people, and at this time there were less than 10,000 troops left, and the people were killed and wounded. 100,000 of the 150,000 people went to the head of the city to defend the city, and 60,000 people in the west city alone were requisitioned and transferred to the city, and at this time there were less than 10,000 people left in the city, except for the 10,000 people who were injured and sent down the city, in less than a day, 40,000 people in Goguryeo defending the city died.

In addition to Xicheng, although the other three city walls did not attack as fiercely as Xicheng, they also fought for a day, and nearly 10,000 Goguryeo people on the three city walls also died, and thousands of people were seriously injured and disabled.

Of the 200,000 people in Liaodong City, less than half of them can still stand at this time. And even the most elite Sui army, because it was a siege battle, although it consumed a lot of strength of the Goguryeo people in the previous month, but today it also killed nearly 10,000 people, and more than 10,000 people were wounded. It can be said that it was a battle in which too much blood was shed on both sides.

But at this time, except for the Goguryeo people who sat on the ground and silently rejoiced in their hearts that the Sui army had retreated, all the soldiers of the Sui army felt a little unwilling. Conquering Liao again and again, in order to destroy his country. This is already the third expedition to Liao, and in the face of such a broken city, they have to retreat, and all the soldiers are unwilling.

A Xiaoguo who lost an eye in today's city-head scuffle said, "The last attack on Liaodong City was the same, I almost took Liaodong City several times, but as soon as the Goguryeo people said surrender, Your Majesty asked to stop the attack." This time, maybe it was the Goguryeo prince who said he surrendered, so the generals asked us to withdraw our troops. The Xiaoguo, who simply covered the injured eye with a coarse cloth, said helplessly.

All the soldiers could hear the disrespect in his words, but no one said anything about him.

Wang Da Niu sighed and said, "Maybe the Goguryeo people really surrendered this time!" ”

"Maybe!" Everyone comforted themselves in their hearts.