Li Jing repeated his old tricks and successfully opened the south gate of the new city.

The Goguryeo people opened the door to steal and lure wolves into the house, not knowing that it was not the Goguryeo friendly army that had been mobilized from the central part to rush to Liaoxi to reinforce the emperor, but the Han Sui army that galloped from Liaodong City. Like the reenactment of Liaodong City, after the Sui army entered the city, it quickly captured the new city and captured the surrounding cities by the same means.

After dawn, Li Jing rode his horse into the new city in high spirits.

Since he left Chongqing, he first laid down a series of plans in White Wolf City, annihilated tens of thousands of Goguryeo troops, captured White Wolf City, and then boldly marched eastward, crossed the Liao River, and captured the important town of Liaodong City without blood, capturing 8,000 Goguryeo soldiers, tens of thousands of Goguryeo people, and seizing more than 500,000 stone grain and many equipment. Then, now, he took Jiancheng New Town, another important town in the middle of the Liao River, and still took the fortress on the north bank of the Xiaoliao River without losing a single soldier. More than 5,000 defenders and more than 40,000 civilians were captured.

"Report to the commander, the seven castles in the new city have all been controlled, and none of the five thousand defenders have been arrested."

"Well done!" Li Jing laughed and appreciated. Then he asked a few key questions, "What about the granary, send someone to control and protect it as soon as possible, how much grain is there?" ”

"It is still being counted, but according to the confession of the new city Zai Gao Nuzi, there are more than 400,000 stone of grain stored in the granary in the city. In addition, there are many granaries of grain merchants in the city, and the total amount of grain stored is no less than 200,000 stones, and the grain in the homes of those people is estimated to be no less than tens of thousands of stones, in addition to many cattle, sheep, horses, camels and other livestock. The master bookkeeper excitedly took his small notebook and reported it to Li Jingyu.

"All the grain was immediately controlled, and the merchants' granaries were also controlled. and the food in the hands of the people of the city. Li Jing thought about it and finally said. They also collected their food, and the captives were scattered and imprisoned in the camps. Divide them all and go to the South Acropolis. In addition, all the people moved to Xicheng, and they were to be organized into groups of ten households, and then we would ration food according to the amount, and they should be told that they should be supervised by each other, and if one family dared to flee or make trouble, then the ten households would be punished together, and the whistleblower would be meritorious. Money, riches, and rewards. ”

The chief bookkeeper was a little surprised, and asked, "It is necessary for the defenders to be imprisoned in the South Acropolis, but is it really necessary to move those people to the West City?" ”

"Of course it's necessary." Li Jing didn't feel that he was doing useless work at all, "These people are not of our same race, they are Goguryeo people, even if some of them are Han Chinese, they are already Han people of Goguryeo." We can't trust them too much. The prisoners and civilians were separated from each other in the other two cities for the sake of the stability of the new city. We moved all the grain to the new city, and the new city was secured. As for rationing food to the captives and the people, this was also to control them. Prevent them from making trouble. Without food, they can't get up. If we control their food, then we control their lifeblood. These are extraordinary times. Therefore, some extraordinary means have to be used. There is another point, which must be notified to the soldiers. We have to take all their food, but we have to register it. To compensate them after the war. In addition, for these people's private property other than grain and livestock, they are not allowed to rob, let alone rape women, and if anyone dares to openly violate military orders, then do not blame Ben Shuai for being ruthless. ”

"It's not good to be too strict, I have to give some reward to the soldiers."

"I will record their exploits truthfully and report them to the imperial court and His Majesty. In addition, I will also give a part of the government property seized in the new city to the soldiers, but all the rewards will be recorded in the army account for the time being, and will not be issued directly, and will be distributed uniformly after the war. What I need is the discipline of the soldiers. We are now deep behind enemy lines, once discipline is out of control, there will be extremely strict consequences, and then the morale of the army will be unsustainable, everyone only remembers money, who will still fight? Make this clear to the soldiers, and remember, it's not yet time for the final smoothness. We stole two Goguryeo cities in a row, again and again, and it is impossible to repeat them. Next, the Goguryeo people in Liaodong will know that we have come to kill, and it is even very likely that we will have to face the counterattack of the Goguryeo people next, and we must be prepared. ”

"We're not going on the offensive anymore?"

"No, it's enough to take the new city and the second city of Liaodong. Now what we have to do is to defend these two cities, as well as the millions of stones and grain in these two cities, and wait for the arrival of His Majesty's army, with these two cities and these grains, we have laid the foundation for victory in the capture of Liaodong City. Li Jing said with a smile, although he loves to take risks in war, he also knows when to go on and when to accept it, and now it is time to accept it when he sees it. 30,000 light cavalry, now guarding two heavy cities separated from north to south by 300 miles from 800 miles from Yuguan, the soldiers and horses are already a little weak, and then go to attack the city, not to mention that the enemy will definitely know their traces, and even if they are captured, it is difficult to defend. Now it's not about how to capture more cities, it's about how to hold on to what you've already won.

Li Jing now only hopes that the Songshan battalion can send troops to Liaodong City as soon as possible, and then Liaodong City will divide some troops to come over, of course, it would be better if the reinforcements from the imperial court could arrive soon.

At this point in the battle, Li Jing was finally satisfied. Pulling out the two important towns of Goguryeo in eastern Liaodong is equivalent to pulling out Goguryeo's two front teeth in the west. After the imperial court won the Liaodong City and the new city, it can be said that it can easily seize the Liaohe Plain, and no one can stop the victory of the imperial court. Especially the more than one million stone grain, it takes a lot of strength to transfer it from the Central Plains, but now, the granary is already full of grain, and the imperial court can advance to Liaodong lightly, and there is no need to worry about the transfer. It was only at this time that Li Jing began to calm down and think about his situation. Successively disobeying the orders of the imperial court, he has already committed a taboo of people and ministers. He knew very well that the emperor's plan and deployment were actually no problem, it was a steady strategy, and before winning, he would not lose it. It's just that when he is on the front line and finds that the fighter plane is rare, he always can't help but want to attack, even if he knows that if he wins the battle, he may be hated by the emperor in the end, and the gains outweigh the losses, he still can't listen to the advice of his subordinates and hold back.

Wait until this battle is over. How will he be dealt with by the emperor? Removal or dismissal? Li Jing also knew that the emperor had granted him the hereditary marquis title of Wuwei County, which was after the emperor reestablished the title. It's already quite valuable. However, Li Jing felt that in the end, the emperor would definitely punish him, but it might not be too heavy. After all, this battle was fought so beautifully, and the credit was not small, his title will definitely be kept, maybe he can be promoted to a higher level, and he may not be able to be a privy deputy envoy, maybe he will become a secretary of the military department? Li Jing shook his head and smiled slightly, so what? Do you care about that?

It would be self-deception to say that you don't care at all, but if you give yourself another chance to choose. I will definitely choose this step now, even now, and I have never regretted it. A military general, if he can make such a feats in the battle to recover Liaodong, and his name will be recorded in history, what is there to regret.

"Do you still have pigeons?"

"How many more, do you want to send a pigeon letter?"

"Well, immediately release two pigeons back to Chongqing. Send back the news that we have taken the new city, and let the imperial court immediately send troops and horses to speed up to stabilize the second city. In addition, send fast horses back to Liaodong City, and tell them that we will take the new city. Let Li Jing and Luo Yi strengthen the defense of Liaodong City, I expect that the Goguryeo people who have come to their senses will definitely have a wave of counterattacks, and. If Matsuyama's reinforcements arrive, send some reinforcements to the new city. Right now we only have 10,000 people. It was a little difficult to defend the new city. Li Jing confessed.

"Yes." The master book was taken down one by one, and he turned to write a letter.

Xijing. Yi Feng is considering the candidate to stay in Xijing, and the imperial court wants to move the capital to Luoyang, but Xijing, as one of the five capitals, is still very important, and the land of Guanzhong must send a competent person to sit in charge. However, this candidate is not easy to choose, Wujing is independent of the twenty-four provinces, the level is the same as the province, Wujing is called the government, and there is no political envoy but the government Yin, divided into left and right. After thinking about it for a long time, Yi Feng finally planned to serve as the left and right governors of Guanzhong Daxing Mansion by Su Xiaoci and Liu Xingben, and the two of them stayed in Xijing, and finally selected several descendants of the generals to serve as the guards of the five important cities of Tongguan, Wuguan, Sanguan, Xiaoguan and Pujin Pass.

The Guanzhong standard is no longer suitable for today's form, and if the Great Sui wants to dominate the world, it is natural that the capital should be set in the Central Plains, so as to reverse the situation of confrontation between the north and the south and the hostility between the east and the west. In order to make this internal contradiction as simple as possible, we must shift the world's attention to the outside, and the Great Sui must open up its territory and expand its territory, and it wants to make the world good.

The war in Liaodong also affected Yi Feng's mind, the sky has entered autumn, and before Liaodong enters the cold winter, he will recover Liaoxi and push the battle line to the Liaohe River, so that Li Jing has captured Liaodong City and is no longer in the enemy's encirclement, and it is necessary to connect Liaodong City with the Sui army in Liaoxi, so as to ensure that the Goguryeo people will not wait for the winter to take it back. After winter, Liaodong can leave tens of thousands of troops to garrison Liaodong City and Yingzhou, and the rest of the soldiers and horses have to be transferred back to Yuguan, otherwise, logistics supply is still a great trouble. Also, the weather is cold, so I have to prepare winter clothes for the army to send over. In the autumn of next year, the imperial court will almost be fully prepared, and it can fully enter Liao to attack and destroy Goguryeo, at least after having Liaodong City, it can take the Liaodong Peninsula. Then, it was only a matter of time before Goguryeo was destroyed.

There is also this Li Jing, it is also a problem, he has made such a great contribution this time, and he should be rewarded heavily, but this guy has repeatedly ignored the holy decree and military orders, and set a bad precedent, if he does not deal with it because of his meritorious service, then in the future, wouldn't the generals and generals have to follow the example and not be controlled by the emperor and the imperial court, this is an extremely dangerous thing. Li Jing, Li Jing, what should I do with you?

Just when he was in a dilemma, suddenly a rush of footsteps came, and Wang Hai's familiar male duck voice was already screaming.

"Majesty, great victory, majesty, great victory in Liaodong."

"What Liaodong victory?" Yi Feng asked, Han Seng Shou had just arrived in Yuguan, and his 100,000 army had not even been fully assembled, where did he come from at this time to win a great victory in Liaodong? Even the Xi and Khitan armies have not yet arrived at the designated position to intercept Gao Yuan.

"It's Li Jing, General Li Jing has made new contributions, he captured Liaodong City on the second day, he left Luo Yi and Li Jing two generals to lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to guard Liaodong City, and then he personally led 10,000 light cavalry to the north, a long-distance attack of 300 miles, in the western border of Goguryeo, when the guards of Xincheng did not know the news that Liaodong City had been lost, they took advantage of their unpreparedness and successfully seized Xincheng." Wang Haimei danced as he held the flying pigeon that had just been delivered to send the message, and his face was red with excitement. "The soldiers are bloodless, and the soldiers are bloodless again, General Li Jing is really a genius, and he fights too beautifully. Without a fight, a total of seven castles in Xincheng and its surroundings have been taken, and nearly 700,000 stone of grain have been captured, which is more than in Liaodong City. In addition, there were 10,000 horses, 5,000 captured thieves, and more than 40,000 people. ”

Hearing Wang Hai's excited report, Yi Feng was also surprised. He didn't need to look at the map to know where the new city was, and of course he knew how important it was. It can be said that Xincheng and Liaodong City are the two main teeth of Goguryeo in the west, while Buyeo City and Anshi City are the two fangs at the north and south ends of the west border. If you really want to attack Liaodong normally, just if you want to cross the Liaohe River, you have to have a big battle, not to mention that after the river, you have to face the defensive line composed of more than 200 castles of all sizes.

But now, Li Jing has actually knocked out the enemy's two front teeth, which is unexpected.

Liaodong City seized 500,000 stone of grain, and Xincheng seized more than 700,000 stone, which adds up to more than 1.2 million stone. According to the calculation of the annual consumption of seven stones of grain for a young and strong man at this time, the annual consumption of grain for a hundred thousand troops is only 700,000 stones, more than 1.2 million, saving a little, and even being able to supply for two years. The most important thing is that these grains are on the east bank of the Liao River, not in the granary of the Central Plains, and there is no need to transfer them at all, and it will not take half a point on the road. So much grain can almost support the 200,000 troops who conquered Liao in Liaodong for a year of wartime consumption. With these grains, Liaodong City and Xincheng can be safely maintained, and with grain and cities, the Sui army can easily break the Liaohe defense line of the Goguryeo people, and the Liaohe Plain has basically fallen into the hands of the Sui army.

The more I thought about Yi Feng, the more excited I became, this Li Jing, what a fucking dick, it was simply a dick explosion. Thinking about it, he had just ordered Li Jing to stay in Liaodong City and not move, but as a result, the decree had just been issued here, and Li Jing took the new city again.

"Li Jing is really the god of war!" Yi Feng couldn't help but admire.

As a result, this sentence did not go away, everyone knew that the emperor Qin named Li Jing as the god of war, since then, Li Jing has won the title of god of war, and has become the idol of millions of soldiers in the Great Sui. (To be continued......)