"We're going to hold these cities." Li Daozong came back to his senses, and then stretched out his hand and dotted a few points on the map, the cities bordering Goguryeo were all Silla before.

Even the two cities that are now part of Baekje were Silla before.

And Datang actually knows far more about Silla than Silla himself, after all, Silla is also very famous in Datang, and in order to buy enough Silla women, it is very reasonable for Yuelai Trading House to enter Silla and choose to do business.

Since Yuelai Commercial Bank came in to do business, it was reasonable to record the population, location, transportation, and whether the surrounding terrain was dangerous in these cities.

After all, in order to do business, it is good to figure out that these are all good things, avoid encountering mountain bandits, etc., and avoid some dangerous positions.

Therefore, Li Daozong also has enough understanding of these cities.

With Li Daozong's gesture, they abandoned a total of three county towns on the border, and then concentrated their main forces on five cities.

Seeing these five cities, Jindeman was somewhat at a loss, to be honest, she really didn't know as much about this place as Li Daozong, but General Jin was a little stunned, because ...... Is this a famous Tang general?

This is not the most famous general of the Tang Dynasty, Li Jing, but the five cities pointed out by the other party include one in Baekje and four in Silla.

The five cities were all in that kind of terrain, built on the mountains or by the water, and it was difficult to completely block the entire city, unless tens of thousands of troops could enter.

But Goguryeo was unable to mobilize such a large number of troops.

And the area of the five cities is not small, the city walls are okay, if you garrison these cities, as long as you hoard enough supplies, then the enemy wants to conquer, but it is not easy at all.

But if the enemy wants to cross these five cities, it is impossible, because once they have crossed these five cities, the location here is very critical, and after cutting off the road, the army that crosses the city is the turtle in the urn.

With such a defensive line, if there are enough elite soldiers, it is almost impossible for Goguryeo to attack it.

"Everything is up to General Lee." General Jin directly spoke on behalf of him, he knew that the queen didn't understand, so he could just agree at this time.

"Well, but how many people are there in these two cities?" Li Daozong pointed to the three county towns that were about to give up and asked.

"That's about 10 to 150,000 people." General Kim gave an approximate figure.

"Can you get them all out?" Li Daozong glanced at General Jin.

"This ......" General Jin is stupid, if they don't care, when the war comes, these people will naturally run away, and they will definitely flee to the hinterland.

But the biggest difference between escaping and active evacuation is that if the imperial court organizes an evacuation, it needs to find a way to feed these people.

100,000 to 150,000 people, how can such a terrifying population be fed?

If they can't feed them, this is a huge hidden danger, and if they flee by themselves, the court only needs to maintain the most basic porridge and prevent them from starving to death.

The difference between the two is that the mentality of the refugees is different, if you take the initiative to evacuate you to eat porridge, it is estimated that many of these people would rather stay where they are, because even if Goguryeo occupies it, in fact, these people have nothing to grab.

And they also need people to grow food and the like, and for most people, the difference is not very big.

But the words of so many people...... We couldn't get enough food for a while. General Kim hesitated.

"Okay, if this doesn't work then, let's find a way, if we want to stabilize the situation, we need a large number of people to transport supplies." Li Daozong thought for a while.

"Well, it looks like the dock here needs to be expanded, and we will probably have to hire some local people to help with the work, because if we don't expand, our ships won't be able to keep up with the speed of supplies."

"The other thing is that our army can't go directly to the border, we need to slow down and give Goguryeo a false impression." Li Daozong said.

"Yes." For this aspect, Jindeman has no opinion at all, the Tang people are already here, they can set off at any time, or if they don't leave.

Anyway, the Tang Dynasty's army is near Jincheng, even if Goguryeo occupies other cities and can't occupy Jincheng, then it's not a big problem.

So Kindman doesn't care about that.

"Regarding the construction of the wharf and other aspects, if necessary, I can get the full cooperation of the local officials and the Ministry of Industry here." Kindman spoke.

"There is no need for this, as long as Her Majesty allows us to hire people to work in the local area, and we will design and hire people to work ourselves." Li Daozong said with a smile.

"Ah, of course that's fine, no, I'll sign the order, and it's okay to use conscription." Jinderman hurriedly spoke.

"No, I said it, Datang has the discipline of Datang, Your Excellency the Queen can rest assured, Datang is coming, Goguryeo's conspiracy will not succeed." Li Daozong said with a smile.

"Thank you, General Lee."

The conversation with King Jindeman of Silla ended quickly, and after that, Jindeman stayed here for a day before returning to the palace of Jinseong.

She had to return, there was no place for her to live, and it was very uncomfortable to live yesterday, but Li Daozong didn't care, he wanted to live with the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.

And on the first night after talking to King Jindeman of Silla, Li Daozong called Xue Rengui over.

"Xue Li."

"The end will be." Xue Rengui saluted.

"You did a very good job during the day, and you deserve to be a lieutenant who graduated with honors from the military academy." Li Daozong praised it.

"Thank you, General, for the compliment."

"I'm not complimenting, I'm going to add a burden to you." Li Daozong said with a serious expression.

"General, please." Xue Rengui's expression was serious.

"You've figured out our main strategic goal this time, haven't you?" Li Daozong said.

"Yes. Show the wealth, power, discipline and so on of Datang. Xue Rengui said seriously.

"Well, I know the discipline of the army, but this time because of the special task, so when it should be 'wasted', it must be 'wasted', although the waste of this little thing costs a lot of money, but in fact it is not much, and what it has in exchange for us, but thousands of times the benefits, can you understand?" Li Daozong said seriously.

"Of course, I can understand."

"That's good, you give an explanation to the people below, no one is allowed to say anything, if anyone violates the order, it is to leak state secrets, leak military secrets, and be severely punished!"

"In addition, you explain to all the political commissars below that you must do a good job in the ideological work of the soldiers and let them keep it secret."

"Yes!"

"Well, then the base of the entire dock will be handed over to you, and you will be responsible for it in the early stage. At present, I am planning to expand the construction of the pier here, steadily expanding the current pier, and building three more large piers that will allow our ships to dock. Li Daozong said seriously.