The appearance of Liaodong City is blue-black, which contrasts with the surrounding environment of white mountains and black waters, which is particularly spectacular. The Great Sui Dynasty prepared for the conquest of Liao for two years, and the Goguryeo people also strengthened the thickness of the walls of Liaodong City twice in order to defend it. Today, the outer walls of the city are covered with a layer of stone, and the inner walls are made of three-fold earth and rice pulp, so that even the most powerful ballista can only shoot first-class sparks outside the wall, and it will not destroy the walls at all.

In order to deal with the Sui army's climbing of the city, a lot of horse faces were repaired outside the city of Liaodong. Each protruding horse face has a masonry lookout. The defenders were able to seal off any defensive corners with their bows and arrows and stones, and attackers would have to pay three times more if they wanted to break the defenders' will.

After the defeat of the first battle of Liaoshui, Eji Wenhui shrank all the soldiers and horses into the city of Liaodong, and the Goguryeo people did not come out of the way to challenge the Sui army outside the city. The soldiers and horses of the Great Sui came to relieve the people from hanging upside down, so His Majesty the Emperor harassed the nearby people with strict soldiers. The soldiers of the Great Sui were benevolent and righteous teachers, so the unkind tactics of digging up the girder water to pour water into Liaodong and driving the people as pioneers were also stopped by His Majesty the Emperor.

"Let the small barbarian country experience the mercy of the Celestial Empire!" His Majesty the Emperor said to the civil and military officials. The benevolent can be invincible in the world, and the Goguryeo people destroyed the pontoon bridge and sold the corpse of General Mai Lao, and they had already paid enough price in the battle of the Liao River. In the next battle, the Great Sui wanted to give both grace and might, and let the people of Liaodong feel nostalgic with grace.

"Whew! I don't know if one day we will be defeated, and the Goguryeo people will not be merciful to us!" Looking at Liaodong City, which had been under attack for a long time, Liu Hongji secretly muttered to a few friends.

"How can we be defeated by our million-strong army?" Qi Poning's eyes widened, and he loudly protested against Liu Hongji's irresponsible speculation. Although he didn't have the courage to go to the battlefield, he was a citizen of the Great Sui Dynasty after all. Cursing his own army for defeat, he didn't want to hear it anyway.

Most of the people in the grain protection army had the same thoughts about Qi Poning, including Li Xu and Li Shimin, who had always been unoptimistic about the war against Liaodong, and often hoped that their previous judgment was wrong. Judging from the combat effectiveness shown by the government soldiers in the deep leaves of Liaogen on that day, it was indeed a matter of day and night to take Goguryeo, and the front burden was that His Majesty the Emperor was willing to admit that everyone was willing to let go, rather than always being elbowed by the name of benevolence and righteousness as now.

"God will bless the Great Sui, hasn't it already rained an auspicious omen in Wanghaidun!" Wang Yuantong is not very good at military strategy, but he cares a lot about things like I Ching, gossip, folk songs, and heavenly signs. According to his reasoning, the Five Elements Bagua and the revelation of heaven all foreshadowed the victory of the Liao, but the Goguryeo people were ignorant and did not know how to adapt to the time of the day. (Note 1)

Liu Hongji scoffed at Wang Yuantong's words, "If God wants the Great Sui to win, why don't you make an earthquake and collapse the city wall of Liaodong." Otherwise, it's okay to let the guard general Yi Zhiwen Hui understand the shame of a martial artist!"

Everyone smiled helplessly, knowing that the two assumptions were never possible. God has recently given the Great Sui a lot of good signs, first someone saw a giant whale about 20 zhang long stranded in Wanghaidon, killed it, and presented the whale bone to the altar built by His Majesty the Emperor. Then, two colorful giant birds appeared on the seashore, their wings spread out about a foot wide, and they sang day and night, and their voices resounded ten miles away.

The land of Goguryeo is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and the stranding and death of a giant whale naturally means that Goguryeo is about to perish. And those two giant birds should be the legendary phoenix and phoenix, which will only appear when the saint is dead. For this auspicious sign, His Majesty the Emperor hastened to Wanghaidn with most of the civil servants and recited a poem to remember it.

The problem is that the Goguryeo guards refused to settle for the Mandate of Heaven. They resisted stubbornly with their fortified cities and cheeks. Whenever the Great Sui soldiers gained the initiative in a siege battle, the Goguryeo defenders raised the white flag, announced their intention to surrender, and asked the Sui army to give a certain amount of time to restrain the rebellious people in the city. When the Sui army withdrew from the city wall, the defenders immediately repaired the gaps, replenished stones and crossbow arrows, and when the agreed time for surrender came, they again raised the battle flag.

Within a month and a half, the Goguryeo people had already surrendered three times. Each time, he grovelled and pretended to be a painful confession. Every time he succeeded, he immediately turned his face and stood on the enemy tower and scolded the Sui soldiers for being stupid. And Liu Shilong, who is responsible for comforting the people of Liaodong, has the power to make the final decision, he doesn't nod, and the generals of all roads can't kill them in the city even if they have a fire in their hearts.

"The fourth time, if anyone still believes in the Goguryeo people, he must have been kicked in the head by a donkey!" A few days later, Mr. Li complained in a low voice.

"This matter has to be decided by the emperor. Before His Majesty went to Wanghaidun to watch the phoenix dance, he had ordered that no matter what the situation, as long as the Goguryeo people asked to surrender, they were not allowed to attack without authorization. Li Jiancheng has dealt with government affairs for several years, and knows that the reason why Liu Shilong has been fooled again and again is that he can't say that he has also defended him in a low voice.

"Then why don't you ask the emperor directly!" Li Shimin said angrily. He didn't believe that hundreds of officials were stupid, and the emperor followed suit. In the first battle of Liaoshui, His Majesty the Emperor repaired the pontoon bridge and secretly sent people to swim across the river from the downstream water, which fully demonstrated his extraordinary wisdom.

"Lord Yuwenshu has sent a messenger to report to His Majesty, and there will be news back in three days!" Liu Hongji replied with a sigh, his face full of helplessness.

An army of one million was dragged by Liaodong City for nearly two months, and everyone was bored. The Grain Guards are the most boring of them all. At first, everyone was interested in cheering for their warriors under the city walls, but now, they can't even raise their interest in watching the battle.

No matter how the battle is fought, the final result will be the same. As long as the Goguryeo people raised the white flag, the Sui army had to withdraw. As for the brothers who died under the walls, as if they were not their own robes, no one considered whether their previous sacrifice was worth it.

Three days later, the messenger brought back from Wanghaidon a decree from His Majesty the Emperor granting the Goguryeo people a fourth surrender. Your Majesty in the holy decree, teach the officials to be generous, the monarchs and ministers of the Celestial Empire, can not be like the barbarian clown. In the past, Zhuge Chui Xiang once captured Meng Shu seven times and pacified the Southern Barbarians forever. Today, Gao Baoli has only repeated it four times, and sooner or later they will have the day when they are convinced.

General Yuwenshu sent someone to send His Majesty's will into Dongcheng, and the guard general Yizhi Wenhui thanked Dade. In return for his gratitude, he opened the West City Gate the next day and shot the first wave of Great Sui soldiers and horses trapped in Weng City and shot them into hedgehogs. Yuwenshu was furious, waved his army to attack the city, and the army smashed the West Gate with a battering ram, and the Goguryeo people couldn't resist it, so they raised the flag for the fifth time.

"It was General Gao Qiang who forced me to do this, he is my king's nephew, and the ministers have to obey. The foreign minister has already killed him, and I hope that the anger of the general of the Celestial Empire will rest for a while!" Yizhi Wenhui personally climbed the city tower and apologized to the Sui army with a bloody head.

"Are you a fool to be an old man?" The old general Yuwenshu scolded angrily. Urge the army and continue the assault. Seeing that the plan failed, the Goguryeo people used all their skills to resist. The army attacked for a whole day, but failed to break through the gate of the urn city.

The city of Liaodong had been dyed blood-red, half of it was the blood of the Great Sui soldiers and half the blood of the Goguryeo defenders. The Goguryeo battle flag at the head of the city is still erected, and no one can predict how long it will be erected. General Wang Rengong, who was known for his bravery, rushed up with Zuo Wuwei, but was smashed down by rocks again. General Uwenshu, who was known for his wisdom, resorted to various means such as attacking the east and west, encircling three and missing one, and defrauding the city, but still did not make the Goguryeo people give up resistance.

The attackers climbed up to the top of the city and were cut down. The defender poked out his head and was shot into a thorn. When the game of surrender and appeasement was no longer playable, both sides finally exerted their full strength. The tragedy of blood and fire plays out every day outside the city walls, and the same story is repeated every day.

Slowly, Li Xu found himself starting to become numb. Pao Ze was killed under the walls, and he was no longer as angry as he had been when he first saw him. The enemy was shot down from the walls by crossbow arrows, and he was no longer as agitated as he was when he first entered the battlefield. Death and fighting seem to have become a part of life, and they can be encountered every day, and there is nothing new about it.

Sometimes, it suddenly occurred to him that the robes that had died in battle were like crops in the field, and that one day, they might crawl out of the dirt. The thought scared him, and he even wondered if he had lost his mind because of too much going on lately. But after seeing the performance of his companions around him, Li Xu finally put his mind at ease. He was not the only one who "went crazy" because of the long battle, many people began to be abnormal, but their own performance was different.

Wang Yuantong's performance was to repeatedly look through a book of "I Ching" that had already been rolled up, and after he studied it, various circumstances showed that the Goguryeo defenders could not support it until the end of this month. As for whether the I Ching in the Central Plains will become invalid in Liaodong because of the lack of adaptation to water and soil, there is no way to know.

Qin Ziying's performance was to repeatedly study what tactics to use to destroy Liaodong City as soon as possible, although with his position, he had no chance to propose to the generals. But this does not prevent him and Li Shimin from sketching on the ground every day. In his plan, the Goguryeo people had already been slaughtered three times, and the guard commander Eulji Munhui was chopped into minced meat and thrown into the river to feed the fish. And the fish disdain to eat the meat of this shameless fellow, only the turtle does not dislike its pickles.

The samurai spent their time gambling with the soldiers on whether His Majesty the Emperor would allow the Goguryeo garrison to surrender for the fifth time. General Yuwenshu's refusal to surrender this time and the storming of his city have been reported to His Majesty the Emperor by the Wenchen who advocated appeasement, but His Majesty's holy decree has not yet returned.

His Majesty's will was long overdue, and he could not bear it anymore and allowed the armies to attack. However, the rainy season also came with the arrival of the holy decree, turning the land of Liaodong into a muddy land.

In mid-May, it began to rain in Liaodong. The rain in Zhejiang and Zhejiang did not end at the beginning, and the wet weather greatly reduced the power of bed crossbows and catapults, and without the support of two siege weapons, no matter how well trained the soldiers were, they could not gain the upper hand in the strong attack.

The attacking and defending sides invariably stopped the fighting. While letting the soldiers recuperate, they waited for the arrival of sunny days. The generals on both sides understood that each other's morale was on the verge of collapse. Whether Liaodong City can be conquered or held depends on the first meeting between the two sides after the sunny weather.

"It's better to dig up the Daliang River, it's less than two miles away from the northeast wall of Liaoning!" Looking at the Daliang River, a tributary of the Liao River, which was getting wider and wider, Qin Ziying reminded everyone in a low voice.

This was a method that had been vetoed by Liu Shilong, the right man of Shangshu, two months ago, but that was two months ago, and everyone had not completely despaired of the credibility of the Goguryeo people at that time, and now, except for a few Wenchen, the whole of the Great Sui no longer doubted the enemy's determination to fight to the death.

Except for Liu Hongji, everyone in the grain protection army was soft-spoken, and they were not qualified to speak to the generals. Liu Hongji couldn't bear everyone's request, and took the detailed siege strategy written by Qin Ziying to visit General Yuwenshu. He went all day and finally returned to the barracks with a black face.

"The Emperor has returned north from Wanghaidon and will arrive ten days later. Your Majesty has an order that no attack on Liaodong City is allowed until he arrives!" Liu Hongji threw Qin Ziying's siege plan on the table and said hatefully.

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