Although the pursuit accelerated, a dozen or so clippers escaped the pursuit, and a few wounded Goguryeo people found a beach and jumped ashore. Seeing this scene, Zhang Liang's expression looked a little heavy. Constantly urging his soldiers to speed up. The news cast a shadow over the operation.

I frowned, Uncle Li finally gave us this task, borrowing the power of the water army to hope to achieve the goal, if at this time, we missed this opportunity and let the Goguryeo army notice the actions of our more than 10,000 people, then, what awaits us is very likely to be a real defeat.

Su Dingfang and Pei Xingjian had already endured the discomfort and squatted beside me, urgently discussing the current situation. "If our navy reaches the mouth of the sea at Huangshui, how long will it take us to reach the capital of Goguryeo?" Xue Rengui asked after looking at the map for a long time.

"More than one hundred and fifty miles." I took out a ruler, measured and compared it according to the scale on the map, and said with certainty: "The capital of Goguryeo happened to be on top of Huangshui, because Huangshui is about 25 meters wide and about 7 to 10 meters deep, and there is only a bridge, but there is no water gate to block it." ”

"You mean my navy can go straight in?" Manager Zhang also came closer. I nodded: "Exactly, originally the last general thought so, with our army, we went ashore only ten miles away from the capital of Goguryeo, and then, along the two banks, directly attacked its east and west gates, and the naval army drove straight in, and the battle was decided, but now that the Goguryeo people have discovered us, I am afraid that this plan is ......" I couldn't help frowning when I said this.

At this time, Su Dingfang spoke: "How many hours does it take for our navy army to reach the capital of Goguryeo?" ”

Zhang Liang stroked his long beard, and his face was worried: "If the wind is weak, it will take about eight hours, and if the wind is sick, it will only take five hours." Because according to the picture, we entered the mouth of Huangshui and had to travel about dozens of miles east before we could turn around and go due north. ”

---------------------------------------------------- "Brother Su, can you withstand it?!" "At this time, since such a change has occurred, if we continue to move forward according to the original plan, then it is very likely that the whole plan will be frustrated because those Goguryeo escaped from everyone, and it may even be in vain. I gritted my teeth and decided to change the plan temporarily, as the so-called plan can't catch up with the change, then we will follow the change, I don't want the Tang Dynasty to stop at the Sashui River across the river from the capital of Goguryeo, and finally return in vain, in any case, the focus of the Tang Dynasty will not be to squat here and play in the mud with the three big countries of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla, and there are more important things to do, the sooner the Goguryeo problem is solved, the more time we have to deal with Tubo and the Western Regions in the future.

Su Dingfang propped up his body and forced a smile: "Brother Xian, but what he said is, Lao Su is not a girl, didn't he just vomit a few times?" Anyway. ”

I turned my face to look at Mr. Zhang. "Uncle, where has our ship been now?"

Zhang Liang turned around and summoned a navy guide, and the eldest brother studied the map in detail for a while before pointing affirmatively: "Our navy is here now." ”

"Is there a landing place along this section of the rock?" I pursed my lips and asked again. The sailor guide was stunned for a moment, and pointed his finger forward: "Here, this is a Goguryeo wharf, and the small ones have been here before." ”

This is a salient that goes about a dozen miles before entering the mouth of the Huang River, and if we go ashore from here, our cavalry should be able to reach the capital of Goguryeo before the Goguryeo who abandoned their ships and fled. "At the end of the year, there will be an idea, my Tang Dynasty elite cavalry will abandon the ship and go ashore, we will leave all those heavy guns on the ship, only mortars and ammunition, and run on horseback, from here to the capital of Goguryeo is only more than 150 miles, fast horses, but two hours, even on the unloading boat, at most four hours can reach the capital of Goguryeo, will be able to hit the Goguryeo people by surprise, in addition, please the general manager still according to the original plan along the water, side to us, at least nearly 20,000 sailors on the ship by then, It can be of great use when we occupy its capital. I wonder what you and the chief manager think? ”

Liu Renliang nodded: "In this way, we don't need to look at the weather, with horsepower, we can go straight to the capital of Goguryeo, and we will definitely be able to rush to the capital of Goguryeo before those Goguryeo people who abandoned the ship and left to report to their army, but General Fang, with just a small cannon, can you attack the capital of Goguryeo?" If the Goguryeo army stationed on the banks of the Sasu River comes back, how will you get out? ”

I smiled confidently: "These two places in Goguryeo, the East Gate and the West Gate, both have people from my Tang Dynasty!" "I don't need to point out who is who, but I just need to let them understand that as long as we can arrive, there are two plans to enter the capital of Goguryeo, and we will prepare with both hands.

The first is to open the city gate with the help of the Tang Dynasty Jinju Yuan and a group of courtiers loyal to the former Goguryeo king Gaowu, and receive it peacefully without spending a single soldier, and the second is that if the fine and those courtiers can't get close to the city gate, then we will make a surprise attack, blast open the city gate as quickly as possible, go straight into the city, and then take over the city defense of Goguryeo Yanjing with the help of the fine work. To take full control of the Goguryeo capital, we need to use the manpower of the naval army to strengthen the defense of the Goguryeo capital and prevent the counterattack of the Goguryeo army inside and outside the city.

"That's it!" Manager Zhang Da was very decisive: "Disembarking is much faster than getting on the ship, Liu Changshi, immediately notify all the ships, let our Datang cavalry all get ready, and within half an hour, we will dock and let them disembark." Then, you attack directly along the river, our navy will try to speed up as much as possible, rush to meet you, as long as six or seven hours, we will definitely be able to catch up with the upper reaches of the Huangshui, and at that time, the capital of Goguryeo will become the meat on our Tang Dynasty board. ”

Finally, before the fall, the fleet arrived at the pier pointed out by the pilot guide, Su Dingfang's subordinates and my academy troops, who were all on standby, quickly left the ship and assembled on land, this is a small coastal city, Xue Rengui should first lead a group of elite cavalry to surround the city, and not let anyone leave, so as not to reveal our whereabouts, two hours later, more than 10,000 people of the Tang Dynasty have all arrived on land. And General Manager Zhang continued to lead the sailors to the mouth of the Huangshui Sea.

As for the ship, there was also a group of gunners from the academy, after all, the five cannons on it could not be put to make the sailors stare dryly, and with the artillery, when the time came to deal with the defenders of the Goguryeo capital, it would also allow the navy to have more means.

"The Admiral has already counted five guns and a large amount of scavenging weights left on the ship, so that if we advance lightly, the speed will be much faster, but the rations are only three days with us, and we have unloaded all sixty-five mortars, and have divided the horses to carry them. However, many of the soldiers had not yet recovered their strength because of seasickness, and the general was afraid of them......"

---------------------------------------------------- Su Dingfang took a sip of water, wiped his mouth, leaned over and asked, "How many people are there?" After Su Dingfang got off the boat, he kept drinking water, and his excited expression after stepping on the land made him think that he had picked up the gold ingot, it seems that this guy is just a tiger on land, and he can't be a dragon on the sea.

"About fifteen hundred people." Duan Yunsong's expression was a little gloomy. The troops we came here are just over 10,000, and there are more than 1,000 people reduced here in a non-combat manner, so there are less than 9,000 people left in the Tang Iron Cavalry that we went to the capital of Goguryeo this time.

"Let them stay!" After I glanced at Su Dingfang, I turned back to Duan Yunsong and said, "There are more than 1,000 of them, so they will stay here and rest for the night, but early tomorrow morning, they will immediately march to the capital of Goguryeo. Or retreat here and wait for help. As for us, tell the soldiers to give them half an hour to eat and rest, and today we must march by night, and be sure to reach the capital of Goguryeo at midnight, and attack the capital of Goguryeo at night! ”

"The last will obey." Duan Yunsong hurried away, and Su Dingfang also went to take care of his troops and mobilize before the march, and I turned my head to look at Bo Narjin. "How? If you can't stand it, if not, you can stay, and you can move forward now. ”

Bonarjin quickly jumped up from the ground and moved his body to signal that he was not a big deal: "No, I will follow you, respected master, we Turks are a people on horseback, sitting on a horse, all my sicknesses will disappear without a trace, as long as I can follow my master to make meritorious contributions......"

"Okay, okay, since you want to go, let's take a good rest now, early tomorrow morning, no matter what happens, our army of the Tang Dynasty must stand on top of the city tower of Goguryeo." I raised my head, and there was already a beautiful bright moon hanging high in the sky, and the soft and white moonlight was shining down, and rushing under such a night would surely save us a lot of trouble.

"Fang Cheng, let the person sent by the Jinju Academy come, I need to confirm the route with him." I turned around and said to Fang Chengyan.

(To be continued)