Two days have passed since the bloody battle on the north bank of the Prince River.

But now the floating corpses on the Prince Coast River are still floating on the water, dyeing the entire river red.

And because the Taizi River makes a big bend from here, and then goes north from there, and then goes west through the northern city of Xiangping.

So in this place of great turn, the corpses floating down from the middle stream directly blocked the river, densely packed. Patches of Wuya crunched over it, enjoying the feast.

The camp on the south bank of the Taizi River is also the exit of the Goguryeo people from the Changbai Mountain Valley, and the oppression envelops the camp, and even the flag is hoisted low.

Now the owner here is still a Goguryeo, but he is no longer Yuan Dayi.

Yuan Dayi and his son and a number of Goguryeo generals were killed on the north bank, after that bloody battle, Goguryeo killed 6,000 elites, countless people threw themselves into the water, and finally surrendered to the Taishan army, only a few less than 4,000 people, it can be seen how tragic this battle was.

And the biggest mistake in this battle was not that the army on the north bank of Goguryeo did not build a barrier, nor did the big horned deer attack out of anger, leaving the entire army on the north bank leaderless.

The biggest mistake in this battle was that Yuan Da Yidong followed suit and chiseled off the eight pontoon bridges. The consequence was not only to cut off the rear route of the entire army on the north bank, but also to be finally annihilated. More importantly, he intercepted the army of the former king of Chuan, who had just arrived here, to support the past.

Yes, the army of the king of the old country came quickly, and arrived at the Deshan Pass a day earlier than planned.

But no matter how fast they came, they were still a step too late.

Looking at the chiseled pontoon bridge and listening to the miserable cries of the people on the other side, the king of Goguryeo, the king of the former country, Sichuan screamed in pain and fainted.

In this way, the war could no longer be changed.

The 50,000 army when he left the mountain city had already lost 20,000 before he arrived in Xiangping.

Yesterday, the king of the old country Chuan woke up, and then he convened a military meeting of the whole country.

In the military council, the nobles in the army were divided into two parts.

Among them, the Buyeo god who accompanied the army shouted that the heavens would not pay attention to Goguryeo, and this defeat was a warning to us, and we should immediately withdraw our camp and withdraw to the mountain city.

In the words of this sacrifice, this hundred years is not the era of our Goguryeo people, our era will be in the next hundred years.

Goguryeo is a society that is not far away from ignorance, and the influence of sacrifice in the country is very deep, so when the Fuyeo God Grand Priest said these words, the determination of many nobles was shaken, so they persuaded the king of Guguochuan to withdraw his troops and return to the division.

At this time, the king of Guguochuan has been gloomy and does not speak.

The other priest, who was in charge of sacrificing to the high gods, understood the king's intentions and came out and said:

"The will of heaven is unpredictable, and mortals always use their own minds to speculate, so they often do wrong things. And this time is indeed a warning from heaven to Goguryeo, but it is also a test, and only by being able to pass this test can we prove that we have the ability to have this fertile land of Liaodong. ”

In the religious world of Goguryeo, there were two absolute factions. One of them sacrificed to the god of Buyeo, and the other sacrificed to the high god.

The sacrificial group of the god Buyeo came out with the ancestor of Goguryeo, Jumong, to establish a business. Therefore, these people were on an equal footing with the Goguryeo royal family from the very beginning. One of them represents the real world of the people, and the other explains the spiritual world of the people.

However, the confrontation between the secular and the religious never stops, and the former always tries to seize the latter's right to interpret the latitude and celestial phenomena.

Therefore, in Zhu Meng's grandson Dawu Wang, who was also the most outstanding martial artist of the Goguryeo kings, he promoted his grandfather Zhu Meng from a human being to a god and called him a high god.

Because in the past, the Goguryeo people also called themselves Gaomin because they lived on the high mountains, so the so-called high gods of Jumeng are the ancestral gods representing the Goguryeo nation.

Since then, the struggle between the priesthood of the Buyeo god and the priesthood of the high god has not stopped.

This quarrel over the interpretation of good and bad is nothing more than a repetition of the past countless times.

Then fierce quarrels broke out between the two sides, blaming each other, and even fighting in front of the king of the old country.

And at this time, the old king of Guochuan was still the old god, silent.

The three adults on the side couldn't stand it anymore, and one of them, a slightly older man, stepped forward and said to the king of the old country:

"Great King, whether it is fighting or leaving, the remains of the nobles of the Yuan Da Yi and other slave elimination departments still have to be returned. We've got to have people cross the shore and talk to the Han people. ”

The old man is the head of the slave department, and although his strength is not the strongest, he is highly respected.

And what this person said is very appropriate, because Goguryeo is a country that advocates thick burials, even if manpower is precious, it is necessary to use stone as a coffin, bury it with gold and silver, and then seal the tomb many times, and finally build a stone mound.

It can be said that death was an extremely sacred thing for the nobles of Goguryeo. And now, as one of the largest nobles in the country, and also the lord of the slave elimination department of the royal family in the past, it is impossible to say how he died in the war for the country and no longer gave him a generous burial.

Sure enough, when the old Cheng said these solemn words, the sacrificial groups on both sides stopped talking, but the face of the chief priest of Buyeo God was a little gloomy.

For though the words were serious, they were not good for him.

After all, he didn't think that the Han people would hand over Yuan Dayi's remains to them, and once the other side didn't hand them over, these nobles would not retreat to the mountain city anyway.

But he didn't dare to stop it directly, after all, he didn't want to bear the anger of the slave elimination department.

The king of Guguochuan, who had not spoken before, finally spoke at this time, and he said lightly:

"Then find someone who can speak Chinese, wade through the water, and negotiate with those Han people!"

After saying that, the king of the old country ended this military discussion.

And today is the day when the Goguryeo envoy returns, and surprisingly, those Han people really sent back the corpses of the nobles such as the slave elimination department.

In order to transport these corpses, the Taishan army also built a small pontoon bridge over the Taizi River, which was specially used for transportation.

The Goguryeo people didn't care about this, because on this narrow pontoon bridge, how many soldiers died when they came up.

After a little disposing of the corpses of these nobles, the king of Guguochuan once again convened a military council, and this time directly asked the people about the idea of this battle.

Obviously, the king of Guguochuan did not intend to go back like this, this time he proposed to go out of the mountain, if he went back like this, he would definitely not be able to sit on the throne.

Therefore, there is actually only one choice left for the king of the old country, which is to fight!

And now let's talk about how to fight!

As a result, many nationalities expressed their opinions, and some said that they directly issued war letters with the Han army opposite. It is said that it is possible to choose warriors to wade across and attack the enemy's food and straw.

In short, everyone is enthusiastic.

Therefore, the king of Guochuan saw that the old minister had not spoken, so he asked:

"What do you teach me to my Lord?"

The old minister pondered for a moment and said seriously:

"Why do we have to be obsessed with breaking through here? Could it be that I only have the Taizi River out of the Goguryeo Pass? So my suggestion is that we can set up suspicious troops here, and then send the rest of the people in the country south from the upper reaches of Xiaoliao River to the north. Those Han soldiers are gathered here, and it is just right for us to take their rear. ”

Then the old minister began to narrate:

"There are three advantages to this, one is that you can enter a no-man's land, and it is very easy to win. Second, you can expand the land and collect the people, take all the fertile land of Xuansu, and obtain supplies. Third, we can echo from the north to the south, and when the enemy is terrified, the enemy will be defeated! ”

It can be said that this suggestion is very pertinent from any way you look at it.

However, there is a shortcoming, that is, it does not consider whether the Gongsun family in Xiangping Castle can hold out until the Goguryeo people win.

When the king of the late country Chuan expressed this concern, he added:

"Even if we really attack and occupy Xuansu, if the Gongsun family is destroyed by the enemy army at this time, it will be useless. We, the Goguryeo people, would not be able to occupy this vast Liaodong by ourselves. ”

Therefore, the king of Guochuan had his own strategic arrangements for going out of the mountains this time, and he understood that the Goguryeo people alone were not enough to occupy Liaodong in terms of prestige and population.

At this time, it was necessary to support a puppet of the Han people to ease the difficulty of Goguryeo rule, and the Gongsun family of Liaodong was considered the most suitable candidate by the king of the late country Chuan.

This is also the reason why he wants to rescue Xiangping.

But when the old king of Guochuan said this, the old minister smiled contemptuously and said something like this:

"I am a small Goguryeo clan, the Han people are a big clan, and the small clan fights the big clan, I don't want to occupy a little bit first, but I affect the immediate interests for some impossible things, it's really stupid."

The old minister finally said unceremoniously:

"King, at this point, four out of ten warriors in the country have died, and they still want to occupy Liaodong, right? It took me a hundred years for the Goguryeo people to build the White Mountain, and another hundred years to expand the land to the coast and snowfields. But what about these places? Where is not sparsely populated, ten times can't withstand Liaodong alone. And just like that, we have all used it for two hundred years, does the king think that he is more wise than the king of great martial arts? ”

At this moment, the face of the King of Guguochuan was already quite ugly, but he restrained himself and said with a forced smile:

"What the old ministry said is serious, everything is done by people, if people today are not as good as the ancients, then my Goguryeo will not have the present, and I am still in the mountains."

But the old minister didn't give face at all, and said something even more piercing:

"King, the reason why I still suggest attacking Xuansu now is because I know that we can't retreat. Now that we have suffered heavy losses like this, not to mention how to explain to the people, even those Buyeo people will swallow us. At this time, our clan has actually reached the point of life and death, and the king should stop dreaming. ”

These words finally made the king of the old country Chuan break the defense.

His people flicked their sleeves and rebuked:

"You're old, old men, and this military event is beyond your knowledge. Step aside. ”

After speaking, let the palace guard drag him down.

The old minister who was pulled out saw that the old king of Guochuan was still obsessed, so he could only look up to the sky and sigh:

"Is my Goguryeo clan going to die here?"

Then a mouthful of blood spurted out, and he died.