"Smack!"

In Pyongyang City, in the study room of the Goguryeo Palace, an expensive white porcelain tea cup purchased from Xingtai in the Northern Qi Dynasty was smashed by Gao Yangcheng, and he was furious and said, "It's too much to deceive people!" These Xia people simply treat me Goguryeo as if they are in a no-man's land! ”

Gao Yangcheng really couldn't help but be angry, Pyongyang City had been surrounded by the Xia army intermittently for two or three months, at the beginning the Xia army was still more afraid of the Goguryeo defenders in the city, and when attacking the reinforcements, they were still very cautious, and they all concentrated their efforts to eliminate those reinforcements.

Because there was an information exchange gap between the Goguryeo defenders inside the city and the reinforcements outside the city, several reinforcements were wiped out by the Xia army one after another, and now most of the reinforcements dare not come easily.

After more than 10 years of practice, Xia Jun has already become a professional in looting, and is nicknamed "three feet high", and in just two months, the Goguryeo people within 100 miles of Pyongyang City have been plundered at least 200,000 people.

At the beginning of this situation, the subjects of Goguryeo did not dare to tell Gao Yangcheng, who was still arrogant at that time, after all, at that time, Gao Yangcheng still pinned his hopes on the return of Gao Wencan's army, so Gao Yangcheng was kept in the dark, and when he found out, he was immediately furious!

"What do Gao Huizhen and Yuan Dazuo say?" Gao Yangcheng sent out a fire, trying his best to calm his mood, he asked Eulji Hui in front of him, "Gao Huizhen is just that, he not only has to face the offensive of the Xia army in the city of Comfort, but also has to respond to Silla, but why haven't Yuan Dazuo's reinforcements arrived yet?" ”

In order to solve the dilemma of Pyongyang City, Gao Yangcheng can only count on the rescue of Yuan Dazuo in the east, which is closest to Pyongyang City, and Yuan Dazuo is also the strongest among the five Gengsa Lords, if Yuan Dazuo is willing to send troops, at least more than 10,000 people can be transferred.

Facing Gao Yangcheng's anger, Yizhi Hui also had to face it carefully, after all, he was Gao Yangcheng's henchman, even if he was defeated in the Tongmen Jiangkou, but after a demotion to the official, he soon returned to Gao Yangcheng's side again.

Yizhi Hui said carefully: "Your Majesty, Yuan Dazuo has just replied that he was also attacked by the Xia army, so he had to lead the army to resist in person, and now he is fighting fiercely with the Xia army in Luojin City, so he can't send troops to help in the battle!" ”

"Humph!" Gao Yangcheng said dissatisfiedly, "Yuan Dazuo doesn't take me as a king too much, doesn't he say that we don't know, now the Xia army on the side of Luojin City has stopped attacking!" If you want me to say that he is taking the opportunity to preserve his strength! ”

"Your Majesty, what shall we do?" Yi Zhihui still respectfully obeyed his orders, so that Gao Yangcheng who saw his posture was very satisfied, after all, he was still his confidant, and he was still the most respectful to himself!

After thinking about it carefully, Gao Yangcheng finally decided: "You tell Yuan Dazuo that as long as he sends 10,000 reinforcements, I will reward him with half of the land near Yuanshan!" If he sends 20,000 reinforcements, I'll give him all that land!" ”

"Never! Your Majesty! Yizhi Hui was shocked, but he knew that this land was tens of thousands of acres, and it was the most rare cultivated land in the east, and if Yuan Dazuo owned these lands, he could at least expand his strength by almost half.

Gao Yangcheng waved his hand to signal Yizhihui not to object, "These lands are all dead things, if I hadn't insisted on not allowing the expansion of cultivated land in Liaodong before, I'm afraid General Gao Wencan would not have been so miserable because of lack of food!" In the future, the grain in the cities of Liaodong can be planted as much as it wants, and so much land is not inferior to the land in Yuanshan in the east! ”

"Alas!" Gao Yangcheng sighed and sat back on his soft couch weakly, he stared at the sky outside the window and said, "If only Gao Lao Aiqing was still here!" ”

At that time, Gao Shaocong, who offered advice to Gao Yangcheng, was considered a rare wise man in Goguryeo, but he had already died a few years ago, after all, Gao Shaocong was already sixty or seventy years old when he offered advice to Gao Yangcheng.

"Your Majesty!"

Etozhi Hui knelt down on one knee and bowed his head and sobbed, "Your Majesty, you still have us!" Gao Shaoming and Yidu Zhi in the court are all handsome talents, and generals Gao Wencan, Zhu Wei, Gao Wen, and Gao Yue are also brave men. In addition, the internal Lord Gao Yanyun and the western Plateau also support the king!

I believe that Xia Jun will be defeated! The soldiers in Liaodong and the south did not give up, and everyone was working hard to fight the Xia army! I don't believe that Yuan Dazuo will watch the Xia army break through the city of Pyongyang! ”

"It's hard to say!" Gao Yangcheng shook his head and said helplessly, "In the past, we had too many restrictions on the Goguryeo tribes, city lords, and the great Lu, but now we finally have the opportunity to take the opportunity to resist the Xia army and restore the forces in their own hands!" Ambitions are up! ”

Because Gao Yangcheng didn't notice the ambitions of these people at the beginning, it is impossible to punish these people now, he sighed: "Although Gao Huizhen, the lord of the southern army, also has selfish intentions, but in the face of the constantly attacking Xia army, he has to fight hard, and he will not sit idly by in the face of the ruin of the country!" fantasy

I still believe this, there are still 40,000 troops led by Gao Wencan in the northern Liaodong counties, and those city lords will listen to him and fight with the Xia army even if they are dissatisfied! ”

Speaking of this, Gao Yangcheng slapped the table viciously and said, "As for Gao Yanshou taking the lead in escaping, I will slowly settle accounts with him later, this time the Xia army has already attacked the other side of Sumoshui, followed by Gao Yanshou's territory, I don't believe he won't have a good fight with Xia Jun!" ”

Looking at Gao Yangcheng's vicious expression, Echizumi became more cautious.

Suddenly, a captain outside the main hall reported: "Your Majesty, the general, there is an urgent report from Liaodong!" ”

Gao Yang stood up suddenly, and he said excitedly: "Could it be that the Xia army outside the city has withdrawn?" "If it weren't for the Xia army's withdrawal, I'm afraid it would be difficult to have news reach Pyongyang, and many of the previous news were taken advantage of when the Xia army was dealing with other reinforcements.

The lieutenant bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, this messenger was deliberately put in by the Xia army outside the city!" ”

"There you go!" Ulzhihui immediately knew that this news was definitely not good news, after all, only news that was unfavorable to Goguryeo would be let in by the Xia army, so that it could better deal a blow to the confidence of Goguryeo's monarchs and ministers, and it was not conducive to the defense of Pyongyang City.

The lieutenant had originally come to deliver the letter, but when he saw that Otoshi Megumi was willing to take the initiative to take over this bad errand, he was immediately amnesty and quickly retreated and turned around and fled, as if he already knew that something bad was going to happen.

"Your Majesty!" Yi Zhihui asked Gao Yangcheng softly, who was a little weak and slumped on the soft couch, "Do you want to take a look at this news from Liaodong?" ”

"Forget it!" Gao Yangcheng waved his hand and said weakly, "You can read it to me!" It's not good news anyway! "During this time, Gao Yangcheng is simply used to the days when he has to receive a series of bad news every once in a while, which is simply not human.

"At the beginning of February, the Khitan Department raised 30,000 cavalry to attack Baicheng! The soldiers and civilians in the city were trapped for more than a month, and finally the city fell because of the exhaustion of food, and the soldiers and civilians in the city died for the country! Etozhi Megumi's face began to become embarrassed, and he didn't expect that even a small role like Khitan would be involved.

"Hehe, sure enough, the tiger fell in Pingyang and was bullied by dogs!" Gao Yangcheng laughed at himself, in the past, when Goguryeo was strong, it was enough to mobilize an army of two or three hundred thousand, and the Khitan only had thirty or forty thousand cavalry at most, which was good, and Goguryeo's strength was more than ten times that of the Khitan.

In the past, although the Khitan also coveted the rich Liaodong land of Goguryeo, after two defeats, they were cautious about Goguryeo each time, if it weren't for the Khitan hugging the thighs of Rouran and Turkic, Goguryeo would have eliminated them long ago.

Unexpectedly, such a small tribal alliance that Goguryeo looked down on would dare to fall into the well when Goguryeo was down, come to snatch Goguryeo's territory, and even slaughtered Baicheng!

"Sure enough, if it's not my race, its heart will be different!" Gao Yangcheng gritted his teeth and said, "It was the people who took the opportunity to integrate the entire Su Mo Water and Difficult Water before, and they were the first to escape on the battlefield, if it weren't for their high longevity, they might not have the courage to run!"

The Southern Murwei people also said that their tribe was attacked by the Northern Murwei people, and that's it, and now even the little Khitan has begun to bully us! It's hard to tolerate! ”

"General Otoji!" Gao Yangcheng shouted, and Yizhihui immediately bowed his head and said: "Please give orders from the king, your subordinates will definitely die!" ”

Gao Yangcheng paced slowly in front of Yizhi Hui, and walked back and forth three or four times before he opened his mouth and said: "If Yuan Dazuo does not send any reinforcements within five days, and reinforcements from other places do not arrive, you can contact the Xia army outside the city!" Say we're willing to make peace! ”

"Ahh Yizhihui looked up at Gao Yangcheng in disbelief, Gao Yangcheng was so angry before, he thought that he was going to let Gao Wencan over there in Liaodong expel the Khitans, but he didn't expect that Gao Yangcheng gave such an order in the end.

Looking at Eji Hui's puzzlement, Gao Yangcheng explained: "Now that our Goguryeo is completely underwhelmed after all, if the Xia army is willing to agree to our request for peace, then we can take the opportunity to gather the army and completely rectify the cities in Liaodong first!" In this way, we can have enough strength to deal with Yuan Dazuo, and we can integrate the national strength of the entire Goguryeo and continue to fight with the Xia Kingdom! ”

At this moment, Gao Yangcheng really felt the feeling that Zhou Yu met Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms, originally it was enough to have a Goguryeo as the overlord of the East China Sea, but he didn't expect that in just over ten years, such a powerful country as Xia suddenly appeared.

Gao Yangcheng couldn't figure it out, why did he have such a strong country so soon? Looking at the sky that had begun to clear in the distance, Gao Yangcheng sighed and said, "How can you be bright!" ”