Chapter 61: Showing off your might

Gao Ming knelt down in front of Gao Jianwu, "Lord Wang, Liaodong City is important, everyone knows it." But Liaodong City is dead, and we are alive. No matter how important Liaodong City is, it is not as important as the prince. Now that Liaodong City has reached its limit, the soldiers can hold on to it at most. Lord Wang, it's time to make a decision. Do you really want to die with the city and do such a meaningless thing? ”

Looking at Gao Jianwu's eyes full of unwillingness, Gao Ming begged, "Lord Wang, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of running out of firewood." As you said, the rainy season is just around the corner, and then winter is coming. This Liaodong is not as good as the Central Plains, and in winter it is a heavy snow covering the mountains, and only in May next year can the Sui army march again. At that time, the Sui army will definitely have to retreat, and without the numerical superiority, how can these Sui troops be our opponents. Now let's give Liaodong City to the Sui people first, and then we'll take it back. ”

Gao Jianwu sighed, "I'm afraid that we will give Liaodong City to the Sui army, and they are not satisfied, in case they don't retreat at that time, relying on Liaodong, and advancing against us step by step, then what will happen to us?" ”

"Lord, after August in Liaodong, even the Goguryeo people who have lived here for generations do not dare to move troops at this time. If the Sui army really used troops against us at that time, then we would definitely be able to defeat the Sui army by relying on various strong mountain cities. And there is one thing that the prince should not forget, although His Majesty the King is the elder brother of the prince, but those nobles in the court control the government. The army in the hands of the prince now is the greatest support for the king. If the prince is broken here, then who will His Majesty rely on? Gao Ming said.

Although Goguryeo has undergone nearly 500 developments, it has now formed a centralized state. But in the 500-year-old dynasty, the domestic aristocracy also controlled most of the power. Not only did they control the local government, but each nobleman had a private army. Thinking of this, Gao Jianwu couldn't help but hesitate, although Gao Yuan was the king, he didn't have many troops in his hands, and the most elite troops loyal to His Majesty were now all in his hands except for the guards who stayed in Pyongyang. If these loyal troops were lost in Liaodong City, who would be able to guarantee that the nobles would remain loyal to the king.

Gao Jianwu closed his eyes in some pain and gave up Liaodong City, which was too painful for him. But now, he has to do just that.

After a long time, he opened his eyes, and his eyes were full of stoicism, "Gao Ming, you immediately dispatch three thousand of the most elite cavalry, and let them start resting now." Prepare another 10,000 horses and feed them all. In addition, you will pile up firewood and grass in each granary and ordnance arsenal in the city, and wait until the evening as soon as we break through the siege, and immediately let the people after the break burn all the grain and grass materials, since we have to hand over Liaodong City to the Sui people first. Then we can't let them get a grain of grain under any circumstances, and don't leave even a single horse grass for the Sui people. ”

Gao Ming nodded, a trace of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes, "Lord Wang, or we will simply burn the entire Liaodong City then, and don't leave a single tile or tree to the Sui army, so that they can get a city of ashes." Without food and grass supplements, the Sui people could not go south with peace of mind. ”

At this time, there were all the people who moved into the city in Liaodong City, and the original people in the city now have a total of nearly 150,000 civilians in the city, which is the largest city of Goguryeo in Liaodong and the city with the largest number of people. The city of Liaodong alone accounted for nearly one-twentieth of the people of Goguryeo.

If it is really as Gao Ming said, the entire Liaodong City will be burned down, then it will soon enter the autumn, and many of the more than 100,000 people will undoubtedly starve to death and freeze to death.

Gritted his teeth, "Okay, just do what you do, as soon as we get out of the city, we will immediately burn down Liaodong City, and then open the four gates, and let everyone escape by themselves." If these people want to blame, they have to blame the Sui people, they are the ones who hurt them and they are homeless. ”

"Yes, Lord Wang, then I will arrange preparations immediately, and you should be more careful in the city."

Gao Ming ran down the city wall with one hand, and after he went down for a while, the Goguryeo soldiers at the head of the city shouted, "Raise the shield, raise the shield, the archers of the Sui army are going to shoot arrows again." ”

Listening to the shout, all the Goguryeo soldiers lying crookedly on the head of the city immediately looked for shields everywhere under the shouts of their respective generals, all kinds of large shields and small shields, door panels, and tabletops.

For the bows and arrows of the Sui army, these people have a deep impression, and the formation and power of the ten thousand arrows are too terrifying. Every time the arrows are fired at that time, no matter how well they dodge, there will still be a large number of soldiers drowning in this rain of arrows.

Fortunately, after such a long day of fighting, all the Goguryeo soldiers also found a little pattern. Although the Sui people's arrow rain was powerful, it would only stop after shooting a dozen waves at most each time, and then there were those foot soldiers and various equipment that rushed under the city wall under the cover of the arrow rain.

Ten thousand arrows were fired, accompanied by the screams and howls of the Goguryeo defenders, and the soldiers of the Sui army, who had rested for a while, began to attack the city again. Although they attacked Liaodong City all morning and did not take Liaodong City, these experienced soldiers of the Sui army knew that the Goguryeo people were about to die.

In the past, if they wanted to rush to the top of the city, there was not necessarily one of the ten ladders on the top of the city, but before the morning truce, they had already rushed to the head of the city several times in a short period of time. And when they rushed to the city, they found that the city walls were full of people and hunters in armor and weapons, and the regular Goguryeo defenders were in the minority.

If it weren't for the sound of Mingjin coming from the final array, they believed that they had already taken Liaodong City by this time. The soldiers on the front line only regarded the emperor as sympathetic to the soldiers, and could not bear too many casualties. However, the generals of the broken army camp who were still lined up on one side understood what the emperor meant, although the soldiers of the infantry army once attacked the city wall, but Goguryeo had not yet collapsed, and now this rush is completely filled with life.

Not far from the city of Liaodong, there is the imperial camp of Emperor Yang Guang, who can be said to be very confident in this attack on Yang Guang, completely rejected the persuasion of those ministers, and directly sat in the Chinese army. If it weren't for the desperate persuasion of the ministers, he would have planned to go directly to the city to watch the battle.

Although there are still ten miles away from Liaodong City, and it is impossible for those Goguryeo people who are besieged in the city to go out of the city to attack His Majesty the Emperor, the Sixth Army of the Son of Heaven around the emperor is extremely serious, surrounding Yang Guang's banner of the Son of Heaven, surrounded by nearly 100 layers inside and out.

Among the guards of these most elite soldiers, there is a huge wooden palace, although it is located in the territory of the enemy country in Liaodong, but Yang Guanghao's luxurious habits have not changed at all. As soon as he arrived, he asked many craftsmen in the army to step up the construction of this wooden palace, which was also to be easy to move, and even to be able to watch the battle from the battlefield.

At this time, Yang Guang stood at the highest point of this wooden palace, the entire wooden palace cost nearly 10,000 craftsmen to build, although it was wooden, but after being painted, it was magnificent, and the real palace was not much worse.

The viewing platform up to nine floors is specially used for Yang Guang to watch the battle. At this time, Yang Guang sat on a jade couch, and many beautiful palace ladies and concubines sat on both sides. At this time, Yang Guang was not lonely and alone, behind him, in addition to a group of civil and military ministers who did not lead the troops, there were some more important guests.

If it weren't for the huge size of this pavilion, it would not be able to accommodate so many VIPs at all, at this time there were more than 100 VIPs on Yang Guang's left and right, but they were the envoys of various Sui Dynasty vassal envoys and small kings invited by Yang Guang, including the envoys of Luo Khan himself and Shibi Khan of the Western Turkic Division. Last year, he attacked Goguryeo for the first time, and Yang Guang was defeated, and Yang Guang couldn't come to power. This time he is already sure of victory, and of course he will not miss such an opportunity to show off his martial arts.

The surrounding kings, envoys, and khans of small countries were also very enjoyable to watch in the morning, and the siege battle of four or five hundred thousand people, especially the neat army array of the Sui army, the hundreds of thousands of arrows that covered the sky and the sun, and all kinds of siege equipment that they had never heard of before and had never seen, really opened their eyes and made their blood boil.

While watching the bloody battle of the army at the head of the city, there are many beautiful singers to accompany the wine, and there are beautiful palace maids to sing and dance. Drinking intoxicating wine, listening to the sound of mimi, and watching the hundreds of thousands of troops fighting bloodily, this can't help but make these envoys, kings, and khans in various places envious. This is the prosperity of the Central Plains, and this is the lord of the Central Plains.

Since the Turks were divided into two countries by the Sui Dynasty's minister Changsun Sheng, they began to fight each other, and the Sui army counted their hands from it, and finally the Western Turks were beaten and scurried, and there was no way out, and even the Great Khan Luo Khan surrendered to the Sui Dynasty.

At this time, Luo Khan was holding a fine wine, brushing his beard and said, "It's a pity, those Central Plains athletes almost won the head of Xicheng just now, just a little bit." If Your Majesty waits, maybe we will be able to drink and celebrate in Liaodong City in a while. ”

Yang Guang laughed, "Goguryeo is just a barbarian land, and last time I gave them a chance to surrender." It's a pity that these barbarians don't accept the king, this time I let them understand that the world is so big, I can go wherever I want. What I want, no one can refuse. The following are all the warriors of my Great Sui, I let them rest for a while, but it is just to give the barbarians of Goguryeo a dog to breathe. When my warriors are rested, if they want to take this Liaodong City, it is just like a backhand. Please drink and watch the battle with me here, and within today, my warriors will be able to take this Liaodong City for me. ”

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