"Goo-goo······"

In the upper reaches of the Qingchuan River, the crow of a hazel rooster sounded in a bush in the woods on the shore.

Immediately afterward, the cries of other birds rang out from nearby.

Then the snow returned to tranquility, but a closer look revealed that the place where the scream sounded from the bushes was actually sent by a scout of the Xia army in a snow camouflage suit, who stared left and right and found that there was no target, and suddenly rushed into a pine forest.

The clothes on the scout's body are all camouflage clothes with white backgrounds and green stripes, and as soon as they hide in the woods on this snowy day, they immediately disappear without a trace, and when they walk into the woods, they can find that there are dozens of tents hidden in this small woods, which is actually a hidden camp of the Xia army.

"Captain!"

In the blink of an eye, the scout came to a camouflage-colored tent, which was unbelievably hidden from a distance due to its snow camouflage color and the surrounding woods and bushes.

With the scout's soft call, a person walked out of this tent, and it turned out to be Li Biao, the captain of the Dryad Scout under Cao An of the Blue Wolf Army.

Li Biao walked out of the tent, and the scout of the nearby sentry signaled that no one was following nearby, and then he beckoned the newly returned dryad scout to enter the tent.

"Have the other teams found anything now?" Li Biao casually handed the dryad scout a bowl of piping hot broth, and asked softly, this broth is stewed with pheasants picked up in winter and some wild ginseng, which is the most nourishing, especially suitable for drinking in this icy and snowy land.

The scout soldier carefully warmed his hands with a hot bowl, and looked at Li Biao and replied softly: "Captain, the teams in charge of guarding the direction of Pyongyang City have not found anything yet, but some teams near the Qingchuan River and the upper reaches of Sashui say that recently, many young people sent by the tribe are moving in the direction of the domestic city in the upper reaches of the Yalu River!" ”

"Moving to the inner city?" Li Biao gently rubbed his beard, but his eyes were still purring, and his mind suddenly understood Goguryeo's thoughts,

"It seems that these Goguryeo people still feel that they have a chance to regain their country! When General Cao Wei's Muqiu Jian attacked and destroyed the capital of Maru, the Goguryeo people fled to the Changbai Mountains by relying on the Ju clan, so that Muqiu Jian thought that Goguryeo had destroyed the country and led the army back, but he didn't know that the Goguryeo people re-established the city of Marudu after he left! ”

"Captain, are we going to do something about it?" The newly returned scout soldier asked quietly.

Li Biao smiled and waved his hand and said: "Don't worry about these, our main task at present is to spy on the military situation in the direction of Pyongyang City, once an important Goguryeo figure escapes, we must do our best to intercept it, as for the Goguryeo people in the domestic city, they are destined to not be able to make any waves!" ”

Li Biao and the others had been stationed on the north bank of Sashui under Cao An, but after Yuan Dazuo sent 30,000 people to defend them strictly, they never attacked Cao An and them again, which made it impossible for Cao An and Meng Xian to watch Wang Ze and them fight in the south.

After some analysis, Cao An and Meng Xian believed that the defeat of Yuan Dazuo was inevitable, and there were only two directions to escape after the defeat, one was to flee to Liaodong City in the northwest through Sashui, where there were still more than 200,000 troops of Goguryeo fighting against the Xia army.

However, Gao Wencan, the supreme general who led the Goguryeo army in Liaodong, was eager to eat his flesh and sleep on his skin because Yuan Dazuo killed Gao Yangcheng, so that Yuan Dazuo would definitely not dare to flee in the direction of Sashui after the defeat, and the significance of Cao An and Meng Xian stationed in Sashui was not so great.

And the territory of the Yuan Yuan clan in the eastern part of Goguryeo has now been occupied by the Xia National Guard, and it is definitely impossible for Yuan Dazuo to flee there.

In this way, after the defeat, Yuan Dazuo could only go in the direction of the inner city due north, which had not yet been fully attacked by the Xia state, and was surrounded by a large number of mountains, which was conducive to the defense and concealment of the Goguryeo people.

If you go to the domestic city, Yuan Dazuo must go to the upper reaches of the Sashui and Qingchuan rivers, so Cao An and Meng Xian sent all the Dryad Scout troops under their command, and over the years, the Dryad Scout has actually become an independent jungle special force.

Cao An wants to cut off Yuan Dazuo's retreat, of course, it is impossible to only send tree demon scouts, but if Cao An and them send troops, the defense line on the north bank of Sashui will be too weak, and the Goguryeo army will be defeated, and Yuan Dazuo will not dare to flee here, which does not mean that others dare not flee.

If a large number of Goguryeo soldiers fled to Liaodong City through Sasu, it would greatly strengthen the combat effectiveness of Gao Wencan's troops, which would likely lead to the defeat of the Xia army in the northern battlefield, but fortunately, Sun Xing, who had no more war at this time, led the First Fleet to bring nearly 20,000 National Guard soldiers to solve their problems.

So Cao An and Meng Xian each left half of their troops to defend the Sasu defense line, and then these two men led 10,000 troops along the Sasu and Qingchuan rivers respectively, and they and Wang Ze's army on the south road actually formed a large encirclement of the Goguryeo defenders in Pyongyang.

"Captain, there's a situation!" Nine cakes in Chinese

When Li Biao was analyzing the situation of the Goguryeo people, suddenly the voice of a soldier came from outside the tent, Li Biao heard it and immediately ran out but saw that there was a tree demon scout from other squads waiting aside, and he asked carefully to know that the Goguryeo army in Pyongyang City had been defeated and fled.

"Looks like it's still a big fish!"

When Li Biao walked out of the woods with dozens of scouts around him, following the guidance of the messenger soldier, thousands of cavalry were walking in the snow seven or eight miles away, and around them were hundreds of dryad scouts sledding on sleds to harass them.

According to the strength of the Goguryeo people, there are not many cavalry in the Goguryeo army on the southern road, and those who can still have so many cavalry guards when they are defeated and escape are definitely not ordinary characters.

"Go and report to General Cao!"

Li Biao knew that this army was definitely not something he could deal with, he glared at these guys who were patronizing and watching the excitement, and quickly sent three scouts to inform Cao An dozens of miles away, and then Li Biao personally pulled out a long knife and said with a smile, "We haven't seen blood in this knife for many years!" ”

As he spoke, he sled and galloped towards the group of Goguryeo people, no matter what, these Dryad Scouts had to slow down the march of the Goguryeo army as much as possible, and dozens of other Dryad Scouts followed one after another when they saw this, how could such a good thing be left behind.

This cavalry unit was of course the capital of Yuan Daejo, who had escaped from Pyongyang City, and at this time, there were more and more tree demon scouts who knew that the Goguryeo people had fled, and there were already more than 100 soldiers attacking the vicinity, and these were all Goguryeo cavalry who were attacking the flank and rear on sleds.

In the face of the constant attacks of these dryad scouts, Yuan Dazuo didn't dare to stop and fight with them, because he also knew that since there were already so many Xia Kingdom scouts here, it meant that there must be an army of the Xia Kingdom nearby, and if he couldn't pass quickly, all of his people would be lost here.

However, how could Li Biao let them get their way, as the top general of the Tree Demon Scouts in Cao An's Department at present, he quickly gathered two or three hundred Tree Demon Scouts, although these Tree Demon Scouts were small in number, but they were all the elite of the Xia army.

Even if there were only two or three hundred soldiers, he had the combat strength of at least a thousand soldiers, and he commanded half of the soldiers to attack the two sides of Goguryeo, further slowing down the Goguryeo people's marching speed, and on the other hand, he led the rest of the soldiers to attack the soldiers at the back of the Goguryeo.

"Hurry up, don't worry about the back!" Seeing that some of the generals around him wanted to send some soldiers to deal with the Xia army who kept attacking the soldiers of the rear army, Yuan Dazuo severely reprimanded them, "The Xia army may come at any time, we can't entangle with the Xia army, and we will help these brothers avenge it in the future!" ”

These cavalry are all Yuan Dazuo's old team, because the fall of Pyongyang City was too hasty, he didn't even bring out Gao Yuan, who was the puppet emperor, and thought that he would at least flee to the domestic city or hold on and wait for the Turks to intervene, but he didn't want to encounter these Xia troops halfway.

Hearing Yuan Dazuo's reprimand, the Goguryeo generals were all dark, after all, those who were left alone behind were their own robes for many years, and they couldn't imagine that they were abandoned like this now, although they also knew that Yuan Dazuo's words were very reasonable, but they couldn't accept it ideologically.

Looking at the Xia army scouts who were still coming around, Yuan Dazuo was very indignant in his heart, if it wasn't for the sudden heavy snow falling yesterday, which greatly affected the travel speed of his thousands of cavalry, otherwise how could it be the turn of these infantry scouts to attack him.

"Mo Zhili, do we still have a chance?" A Goguryeo general looked at Yuan Dazuo with some frustration, "Now that the Xia Kingdom is clearly intending to destroy us, we have even failed to mobilize twice as many of its troops!" ”

"Don't worry," Yuan Dazuo pretended to be confident and said, "Our defeat this time is not because everyone is not fighting effectively, but because there are too many Han dogs in the army, if it weren't for these Han people who defected to the enemy and let the Xia army enter the city at night, otherwise how could our Goguryeo fail!" ”

Seeing that the generals' faces looked much better, Yuan Dazuo continued to cheer up: "Domestic City, that is where our Goguryeo people became strong, it was there that we gradually expanded and occupied the four counties of Han, which gave rise to our powerful Goguryeo!"

For hundreds of years, Cao Wei has broken through our pill capital city, and even burned it, so our ancestors built a domestic city again, and later Murong Xianbei also conquered our domestic city many times, but our ancestors built it again! ”

Yuan Dazuo said that even he was moved, and he said affectionately: "In history, we have faced so many disasters of national destruction, but our Goguryeo has continued, and then look at the powerful Cao Wei?" What about Murong Xianbei?

Therefore, everyone must have confidence in us, I have sent an envoy to the Turkic tent, with the character of the Turks, they will definitely intervene in the war situation in Liaodong, as long as the Turks can defeat the Xia army, even if we cede Liaodong, what is the problem of vassalizing to the Turks? ”

Encouraged by Yuan Dazuo, the Goguryeo generals finally had confidence again, and think about it, although the conditions of the domestic city are far inferior to those of Pyongyang City, the people living here are the foundation of the original Goguryeo beginning, although the population is small, but the combat effectiveness is very strong.

When the time comes, after they flee to the domestic city, the Xia army can escape into the Changbai Mountains if they really can't beat it, so the Xia army will definitely not be able to afford it, and after the Turks intervene, the Xia army will have no energy to deal with Goguryeo, so that Goguryeo can gradually rise again as it has been for hundreds of years.

It's just that things are often not satisfactory, when they fought against the surrounding attacking dryad scouts, and turned over a high post, they found that a large group of Xia troops suddenly appeared more than ten miles away.