Beihai County Harbor is backed by a hill, the hill is not high, only more than 50 zhang, from the top of the hill you can clearly see the distant sea surface and the shipyard and Juyang Town, making the commanding height of the entire port area.

Therefore, a watchtower was built on the top of the hill, which could immediately sound the alarm if there was an enemy.

In addition, there is an eagle tower not far from the sentry tower, which was built in more than a month, and the letter eagles trained by the Sui army sent letters here from all over the country, and then transferred to Yidu County by this eagle tower.

A few days ago, the letter eagle that flew across the sea from Liaodong successfully arrived here, which was of great significance to the Qingzhou army, which meant that Qingzhou could grasp the information of Liaodong as quickly as possible.

On this morning, a letter eagle swept over the harbor and slowly fell on the eagle tower, and an eagle slave had already rushed forward, and he saw a red letter tube tied to the eagle's leg, and knew that this was a hundred thousand urgent news, so he did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly took off the letter tube, tied it to the other eagle's leg, and let the goshawk flutter its wings and fly south.

An hour later, this crimson letter tube appeared on the table of Zhang Xuan's official room, and Li Jing next to him recognized this letter tube, which was an eagle letter from the Humble City, and he immediately became nervous, not knowing what kind of news the Humble Luxury City would bring.

Zhang Xuan took a deep breath, he unscrewed the letter tube in a hurry, and took out the letter inside, which was a short report written on fine jute paper, about 100 words were written finely and densely, Zhang Xuan quickly read it, and laughed.

"The two generals of Zhou and Qi did not disappoint us, and captured more than 100 supply ships of Goguryeo, so that the 10,000 Goguryeo troops who killed the city of Beilu immediately fell into a desperate situation of running out of food, and in the middle of the night yesterday, the Goguryeo army had internal strife, the lord was captured, and most of the army raised their flags and surrendered."

Li Jing was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Then what is the next step for the big handsome?" ”

Zhang Xuan said lightly: "Let's just wait patiently." If I'm not mistaken, Yuan Taizuo will definitely let his son go to the city of humble luxury to check on the situation. ”

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In Pyongyang City, several messenger cavalry rushed from the official road in the distance, and they rushed to the city gate to raise an order and shouted, "100,000 fire and war report!" ”

The soldiers defending the city did not dare to stop them, and let them rush into the city. The messenger cavalry rushed all the way to the gate of Yuan Taizuo's mansion, turned over and dismounted, and galloped up the steps and said: "Urgent news from the Black Bone City, I want to report to Lord Mo Lizhi!" ”

The soldiers guarding the door hurriedly led them into the mansion, in the study, Yuan Taizuo was anxiously pacing back and forth in the room, nearly ten days have passed since the 10,000 army set off from the Black Bone City to the Humble City, but there is no news at all, which really makes Yuan Taizuo deeply uneasy.

As agreed in advance. If he captures the Humble City, Han Qiming will send someone to report to him as soon as possible, but there is still no news, is it that the siege is not good?

Yuan Taizuo is more worried about the problem of land and water transfer, the land route can not carry heavy grain and grass, can only be transported by water, if there is any accident in the water transportation, the soldiers who only carry dry food on the road will have serious consequences of running out of food.

Yuan Taizuo was worried. He just wanted news to come soon.

At this moment, there was a guard outside the door to report. "Lord Qiqi, Black Bone City sends urgent news!"

Yuan Taizuo was shocked in his heart, and hurriedly ordered: "Quickly let the messenger in." ”

A bad feeling suddenly rose in his heart, if it was to capture the city of Humble Luxury, it should be to send a victory report, not some urgent news. Is something really wrong?

After a while, a messenger soldier walked into the study quickly, knelt down and bowed, "Meet Lord Mo Lizhi." ”

"Don't be polite, what's the news?"

The soldier took out a scroll and presented it. Yuan Taizuo opened the scroll in a panic and looked at it in a hurry, he suddenly stiffened as if he had been struck by lightning, he couldn't believe what he saw, and after a while, he sat down and couldn't say a word.

At this time, the messenger soldier whispered again: "Only a dozen brothers fled back from the direction of the city of Beiluxe, and they said that they encountered a mudslide on the road and were forced to take a long detour.

Before he could finish speaking, Yuan Taizuo waved his hand, "I know, you go down!" ”

The messenger soldier saluted and slowly retreated, the door closed quietly, the room became dark, and Yuan Taizuo was completely in a state of panic and helplessness......

After a long time, there was a knock on the door, and then the voice of the eldest son, Yuan Gai Suwen, was heard, "Father, can the child come in?" ”

"Come in!"

Yuan Taizuo's voice was very tired, Yuan Gai Suwen pushed the door and walked into the room, only to see his father sitting on the couch, looking desperate, as if he had been hit hard, he was shocked, and hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down and asked, "Father, is there something wrong in the city of despicable luxury?" ”

Yuan Taizuo nodded, and said with a sad face: "The grain ship has been intercepted, the army has run out of food, and 10,000 troops have surrendered to the Sui army. ”

Yuan Gai Suwen was like a blow to the head, he was stunned, Yuan Taizuo handed him the express again, Yuan Gai Suwen hurriedly read it, and said hurriedly: "The children really don't understand, they also brought ten days of dry food, even if the grain ship is not available, they can quickly withdraw it, why didn't Han Qiming withdraw the army?" ”

Yuan Taizuo sighed, "Nothing will be as beautiful as imagined, they encountered a mudslide and were forced to take a long detour, it is estimated that the intensity of the march is too great, the food consumption is also twice as high as usual, and the dry food for ten days can only last five or six days, General Han is also a general with rich experience in actual combat, if he can come back, he will not choose a desperate situation." ”

"But what do we do now?"

Yuan Taizuo shook his head, "I don't know, I guess Quan Huan and Yizhi Wende are getting together to drink and laugh at me!" ”

Yuan Taizuo was thinking about the defeat of the court struggle, but Yuan Gai Suwen was thinking about the 10,000 army, which was the army of their Yuan family, and there must be no mistakes, he muttered, "Father, on the contrary, the child is the negotiator, it is better for the child to go to the Humble City to take a look at the situation, and then make a decision." ”

Yuan Taizuo pondered for a moment, he really needed to get accurate information before he could decide what to do next, Yuan Taizuo nodded, "You have to be careful!" ”

In the city of Beiluxe, an internal strife caused by the shortage of food wiped out the 10,000 Goguryeo army, and more than a dozen Goguryeo captains captured the main general Han Qiming and surrendered to the Sui army.

Of the 10,000 Goguryeo troops, 7,000 surrendered. The 3,000 soldiers who were unwilling to surrender fled into the forest, but in just half a day, these soldiers who fled into the forest were so hungry that they came out and surrendered to the Sui army, but more than 1,000 soldiers still fled to the Black Bone City.

On this morning, a large ship from Goguryeo slowly stopped in the bay under the watchful eye of more than a dozen Sui military sentry ships. Qi Liang, the general of the navy waiting on the shore, hurried up to meet him.

Out of the sentry ship came a young Goguryeo general, who was none other than Yuangae Suwen, who boarded the ship from Pyongyang and went straight to the city of Beixu.

"It's Yuan Gongzi! Under is Qingzhou Navy Lang will Qi Liang. ”

Yuangai Suwen originally bowed, "This time I was ordered to come on a business trip, and I annoyed General Qi." ”

"Where! Where! The war is the war, the envoy is the envoy, I received a military order from the marshal, asking me to receive General Qi well. ”

Yuan Gai Suwen was stunned. "Recruit the general to know I'm coming?"

"I don't know the specifics, I received a military order from the marshal the day before yesterday, saying that Gongzi Yuan would come to the Humble City, let me receive it well, Gongzi Yuan, please!"

Yuan Gai Suwen felt bitter in his heart, he felt like he was being played with by Zhang Xuan, their various intentions. Jae Hyun can see it clearly.

In desperation, he had to get off the boat. Follow Qi Liang towards the mountain.

In a room at the top of the mountain, Yuangai Suwen met Han Qiming, the commander of the captured Goguryeo army, who wore a white gown with a long beard and red eyes. His hands and feet were shackled.

When Han Qiming saw Yuan Gai Suwen, he immediately knelt on the ground and cried, "I have failed Lord Mo Lizhi in my humble position, and I deserve to die!" ”

Yuangai Suwen sighed and hurriedly helped him up. "General Han doesn't have to blame himself, it's not General Han's responsibility."

Qi Liang stood at the door, looking coldly at the two people in the room, and he heard everything they said.

Han Qiming had slowly calmed down, and told Yuan Gai Suwen what happened one by one, and finally he sighed and said: "I originally wanted to bring twelve days of dry food, but the soldiers really couldn't take it, and there were no war horses in the Black Bone City, I thought ten days would be enough, but the heavy rain and mudslides washed away the road, so we had to take a detour through the forest to the west bank, and it took seven days for us to arrive in Huilong Town, at this time, most of the soldiers only had one day's food left in their hands, and they couldn't go back at all, I wanted to capture the humble city, but without siege weapons, I really couldn't start, As a result, there was infighting the next night. ”

"What infighting?" Yuangai Suwen asked.

Han Qiming glanced at the general of the Sui army outside the door, and said in a low voice: "I'll tell the general later!" ”

Yuangai Suwen nodded, "Don't worry! We're not going to leave you here. ”

Han Qiming knelt down and said gratefully: "The grace of the lord! Qiming took it to heart. ”

Yuangai Suwen helped him up and patted him on the shoulder, "Take care of your life, I'll go visit the brothers." ”

Hundreds of big tents were set up in a wilderness under the humble city, this is the prisoner of war camp, more than 8,000 prisoners of war were held in a centralized manner, they had no weapons and armor, and even the wooden sticks for self-defense were also deprived, according to the standard of prisoners of war of the Sui army, each person had three rice and a little pickled vegetables every day, and the three rice was less than half a catty, and it was impossible to eat a full meal, so they could only save their lives and not be starved to death.

The prisoners of war were dizzy from hunger and weakened, and gathered in twos and threes in the open field to bask in the sun and discuss their fate.

1,000 Sui soldiers divided into ten teams, heavily armed to patrol back and forth in the prisoner of war camp, monitoring the movements of the prisoners of war. While! While! The brass bell rang for the opening of the meal.

For the prisoners of war, the sound of the bell was even more beautiful than Xianle, they gathered from all directions, quickly lined up in three lines, each holding a broken pottery bowl in their hands and waiting for the meal, some people found that there was a wild vegetable pie today, and they were overjoyed and eagerly waiting for the meal.

At this time, Qi Liang accompanied Yuan Gai Suwen to the prisoner of war camp, and some soldiers found out that the lord had arrived, and I don't know who shouted, "Yuan Gongzi is here!" ”

The soldiers suddenly didn't care about eating, and they all surrounded Yuangai Suwen and complained, "Childe, we want to go home!" Childe, we can't get enough to eat! ”

The more the crowd talked, the more emotional they became, and many soldiers began to cry, and soon there was a cry in the prisoner of war camp.

Yuangai Suwen felt a sour feeling in his heart, and said to everyone in a loud voice: "On behalf of my father, I have come to visit you, I hope you will cheer up, we will let everyone go home as soon as possible, and we will never leave the brothers behind." ”

(To be continued.) )