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Bubble swamps, surrounded by rotting branches and leaves, and the massive bones of beasts and mossy human skulls. The pungent rancid stench rushes straight to the mouth and nose, giving people a feeling of dizziness.

"Boss, give!" The guard next to him handed a damp cloth to Luo Shixin.

Luo Shixin nodded and smiled, and handed the wet cloth to a big fat man beside him.

"You can find such a steep path, it's really amazing." Luo Shixin said with a smile.

Since Luo Shixin went to Changbai Mountain to find Sun Simiao for Pingyang for many years, he noticed that Goguryeo had a unique advantage in defense. Their ability to build a fortress may not be able to beat the Tang Dynasty, but with the treacherous geographical environment of Liaodong and the skills they have learned, the city they built is stronger than most of the cities in the Tang Dynasty. Goguryeo, on the other hand, is very close to the Central Plains and has been affected by the transformation for a long time, and the cultural level of the people in the territory is not low, and there are also certain talents.

Yuanbin's old man was a very strong man, and he was an extremely tricky person, who made Yang Guangda suffer hardships at the beginning, so that he conquered Goguryeo three times, and even Liaodong never won it. This old guy is getting older, but instead of being old and wise, he is extremely shrewd, and he has built the Great Wall just right, holding the main road from east to west. Either attack the Great Wall head-on, or capture Huaiyuan Town, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. In addition, there is only one lesser-known swamp trail to walk.

In the upper reaches of Liaoshui, there is a large swamp in the direction of Tongding, which is impassable for people and animals. If you fall into it, you will die, and everyone in Liaodong is afraid. For that swamp retreat. However, man dies for wealth, and birds die for food. In a dangerous and terrible place, no matter how good the chance of death, as long as there is enough profit, someone will take the risk.

The Changbai Mountains are vast and rich, and there are countless rare treasures, especially the thousand-year-old ginseng is the most famous. A thousand-year-old ginseng from Changbai Mountain is enough for a visitor to spend his life frugally. Because the thousand-year-old ginseng of Changbai Mountain is too famous, Goguryeo controls the ownership of Changbai Mountain, and the control of thousand-year-old ginseng is particularly strict. They deliberately increased their participation in taxes and squeezed the traders who came and went with super-high profits.

It is also because of this that the visitors in the Northeast did not hesitate to evade taxes by any means, and the swamp ginseng road was the early years of the ginseng king Qi Lao Liu in order to avoid the pass check. A desperate path that only a few people know.

Luo Shixin was lucky to know such a person...... Qi Hua's friend Shen Wang Qi Lao Liu.

Qi Hua was Luo Shixin's guide when he went to Changbai Mountain, and Senior Six was one of the oldest visitors. The old man was originally a person from Youzhou, but he relied on his gangster spirit and fierceness to become a businessman in Youzhou with smuggling ginseng, and later Luo Yi rebelled against Sui in Youzhou, and was in urgent need of military spending.

The old six escaped with his life. Settled in Xuansu in the territory of Liaodong.

The swamp ginseng road was first developed by him, and he also relied on the swamp ginseng road to enrich the first party. When Luo Shixin found the old man at first, the old man didn't plan to confess, but he learned that Luo Yi was killed by Luo Shixin himself. personally helped him avenge the blood revenge of the destruction of his family, and only then did he help draw this steep swamp passage on the map.

Liu Renliang is good at military strategy and military strategy. In view of the characteristics of Goguryeo's deep and strict garrison, the virtual and the real were proposed. The tactics of striking the east through various deceptive means. Let Goguryeo's Yuan Binzhi think that the Tang army intends to gather a land and water army to attack Huaiyuan Town, and transfer Goguryeo's soldiers and horses to Huaiyuan Town to defend it. In fact, another elite army was set up to cross the swamp and participate in the road from Yongdao to Tongding, and crossed the Liaoshui in unexpected places for the Goguryeos, making the Liaoshui barrier they relied on ineffective.

Liu Renliang's plan can be described as a plan within a plan, interlocking, and has been highly praised and recognized by Luo Shixin, Li Daozong and others.

Luo Shixin decided to adopt Liu Renliang's strategy, but he had a big heart, and the purpose was not only to cross the Liaoshui, but also to go one step closer, and to make certain improvements to Liu Renliang's strategy. In order to realize his plan, he secretly asked Wang Hu and Hou Jie to personally invite the old six to help their Tang army cross the swamp and join the road.

If you inhale it for a long time, it is life-threatening, and covering your mouth and nose with a cloth dipped in salt water is a necessary protective measure.

Seeing that Luo Shixin was so polite, he was a little flattered, so he hurriedly bowed down and took it and covered his face.

Regarding Luo Shixin's admiration, the old man showed a little deep thought, and said softly: "At the beginning, it was also to beg for food, and we did a lot of things that violated our conscience in the early years of this business. Luo Yi thieves almost wiped out my door, after this hatred, I think about it carefully, but there is a feeling of retribution. At the beginning, for the sake of wealth, there were no longer a few families I persecuted. I thought that this path would be buried with my old age, but I didn't want to help the Grand Steward. It's just ......" he said, looking back, looking at the dense crowd of nearly 30,000 soldiers behind him, and said with a bitter face: "This road is a hundred feet long, and the distance does not allow two people to walk side by side, and the road is slippery, so if you are not careful, you will be in danger of stepping into the swamp." In the past, we used to pass cautiously with 10 people and 10 people at a time, but this had to pass through 30,000 people, not to mention the time it would take, and I was worried that the road would not be able to withstand the force and collapse. ”

Luo Shixin listened to the old man reminiscing about the past, and also knew that this rich man also had his own story, and he didn't study it in detail, but seeing his concerns, he smiled and said: "Don't worry about this, we have our method, you can lead the way." As he spoke, he turned to Jiang Xingben, a master craftsman behind him, and said, "All success or failure depends on you!" ”

Jiang Xingben is a short and capable man, as a craftsman, Jiang Xingben can be described as infinitely beautiful. His master is Yu Wenkai, the most outstanding construction engineering expert of this era, and the current Chang'an City is planned by Yu Wenkai, and the famous Luoyang is also his handiwork. Jiang Xingben has been following Yu to learn craftsman techniques since he was a child, but he is not interested in planning cities and building palaces like his master, but in making military equipment such as catapults and siege engines, and how to build a military pontoon bridge for the army to pass through in a short time, etc., about military warfare. Because of his unique talent in this area, Li Shimin often took him with him when attacking cities, and he did not have the great merit of charging into battle, but the key credit was not small, and he also won the title of general.

Jiang Xingben smiled confidently: "Don't worry, the chief manager, thanks to the hint of the chief manager, we have made enough iron chains, as long as we can pass this road, not overnight, we can build a pontoon bridge to the other side." ”

Luo Shixin nodded to Jiang Xingben and asked him to let it go.

The last time Luo Shixin came to Goguryeo, he found that Goguryeo was poor and bad, the mountains were extremely steep, and the water was very fierce. The Goguryeo people were very good at taking advantage of their poor mountains and bad waters, and they had to pull up the mountains and cross the rivers along the way.

With your ass, you can imagine that Goguryeo will not keep a good bridge for the Tang army to cross the river smoothly, and during the war, guessing the bridge to prevent the enemy from crossing the river is the most basic tactic.

In order to prevent this, Luo Shixin adopted the method of building pontoon bridges in later generations, so that when the iron chains were forged by the supervisors, when the bridge was needed, the iron chains were directly connected and strung across the two banks, as long as the wooden planks were laid on the iron cables, a pontoon bridge for the army could be built in a short time.

This chain is also one of Luo Shixin's requests to Li Shimin.

Luo Shixin did not expect to use it at this time, and there was no difference between building a pontoon bridge over a swamp and building a pontoon bridge on the water.

Jiang Xingben's architectural attainments were indeed brilliant, and it only took him half of the night to build a pontoon bridge on the unwalkable swamp.

The old man was amazed and speechless.

"Cross the bridge!"

Luo Shixin's eyes flashed with excitement and he gave the order.

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Huaiyuan Town, the central official residence.

Yuan Binzhi's office was still brightly lit, and at the same time that Luo Shixin ordered the crossing of the river, the veteran who had guarded Liaodong for forty-five years was seriously analyzing the information in his hands, and as the Tang Dynasty army approached, the information he received became more and more accurate.

"Father-in-law!" The black-robed general Hu Xiegu knocked on the door, and after getting permission, he strode into the office and said, "I have sent patrol ships and ships on the sea, and I still haven't found any abnormalities, and there is no movement of the Tang Army's sailors at all. ”

Yuan Binzhi looked at the candle flame in front of him in a daze, his eyes jumped with the flames, and he said half-loudly: "Oh, continue to investigate." I have just received news from the front line here, just as we expected, the 60,000 foot soldiers of the Tang army are slowly approaching Huaiyuan Town. If they want to storm the Wall, they won't drift away from us. It can be seen that their ultimate goal is Huaiyuan Town. No matter what tricks the Tang army was playing, their sailors would definitely cooperate with the infantry to besiege Huaiyuan Town. Now the infantry is only two days away from us, and their sailors must be able to cooperate with the infantry within the scope of the battle within two days, so according to this, they will search little by little. I don't believe that their sailors can still fly to the sky. ”

"Yes!" Hu Xiegu led the order to go down.

Yuan Binzhi went to the information sent before again, and looked at the information showing that the 60,000 army was quietly changing the direction of the march and approaching Huaiyuan Town, and said to himself: "No matter what tricks you use, as long as I wait for work, I don't believe that you can endure me." ”

Yuan Bin had no sleep all night, and the next morning, he personally inquired about the defense line of Huaiyuan Town, and when he saw that everything was fine, he smiled reassuringly.

He had to wait for the latest information, and he had no intention of sleeping, and he was cheering up morale on the city tower, talking about how he teased Yang Guang and how he teased the Han emperor at the beginning.

Until the latest news of the Tang Army came >

"Big brother in soapy clothes, the Tang army suddenly accelerated its march and was rushing towards Huaiyuan Town."

Yuan Binzhi stood up solemnly, and then laughed and said: "They finally realized that everything is under my control, and if they can't use it, they plan to attack?" It's just that they can't hold their breath ......" ("Datang Tiger Ben" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 1oo% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "ddxiaoo" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued......)