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Chapter 20

: The Imperial Front Reporting Goodbye (")

The Sui army had been besieging the city for more than 20 days under the city of Liaodong. The Sui army used a variety of siege equipment and methods such as ladders, bumping poles, flying towers, and authentic tunnels to siege Liaodong City, day and night. The Goguryeo also tried every means to deal with the siege army. The two sides fought for more than 20 days, and suffered casualties from each other. The Liaodong City had not been conquered.

Today, Yang Guang summoned all the ministers in the tent and once again discussed the method of siege. Yang Guang was very unhappy about the situation in front of him. Hundreds of thousands of troops were trapped under the strong city, and he could not conquer every day, but all kinds of materials and supplies were consumed continuously. I think he was compared to Qin Emperor and Han Wu, and his martial arts were unparalleled in the world. He forced the Turks in the north, destroyed Tuguhun in the west, captured Linyi in the south, and destroyed Liuqiu in the east. No one dared to inflict his troops so far.

But now a small Goryeo dares to refuse to bow to him, and even a small Liaodong city has left the Sui Dynasty's 100,000 troops unable to compete for more than 20 days.

"General Yuwen, what good strategy do you have to break this Liaodong City?" Yang Guang sat on the throne and said to Yuwen Shu, the general of the Zuo Yiwei below.

Yuwen Shu and General Yang Yichen led a 100,000 army to Pyongyang a few days ago, but they were ambushed as soon as they arrived at Yalushui halfway. Although they finally gathered the troops, more than a thousand people were lost. Facing the Goguryeo people who were guarding the river, Yuwen Shu and Yang Yichen had no choice but to return without success.

Hearing Yang Guang's question at this time, he couldn't help but sweat from his forehead. If it weren't for the Conglong merit and his relatives with Yang Guang, he would probably have been questioned by the emperor. At this time, facing the Liaodong City where hundreds of thousands of people were helpless, how could he have any good plans? He had to support him, "Your Majesty, I see that although the Goguryeo people cannot retreat, my army has hundreds of thousands and various siege equipment is fast. As long as I attack for a few more days, I will be able to fight down."

Yang Guang snorted dissatisfied with dissatisfaction at this result. At this moment, the eunuch Wang, who was beside him, walked to him and said softly, "Your Majesty, the general of Yingyanglang Chen Pojun defeated the Goguryeo people in Xincheng the day before yesterday, and had already taken down Xincheng. Now, the military officers of the army came to report the victory."

"What? He defeated the Goguryeo people and took down the new city?" Yang Guang suddenly said loudly to Eunuch Wang.

When many generals in the tent heard this, they were stunned for a moment and took down the new city. They were a little surprised and curious for a moment.

Seeing Eunuch Wang coming over again, Yang Guang immediately waved his hand and said, "Since it is such good news, I will naturally share it with all my dear friends. Bring people up here as soon as possible, I will see him in person."

After a while, Wang Lin was taken into the tent. He was just a military officer in Yingyang Mansion. Although he was in the rank of the rank, he was only a 18th-rank official. When did he have the chance to meet Tianyan? He walked over nervously with his head down and did not dare to raise his head. After kneeling down, he lay on the ground and didn't dare to get up.

"Prevently, tell me quickly what Chen Pojun sent you to tell me. I just heard that the people of Goguryeo and seized the new city? Tell me what the situation is." Yang Guang said anxiously. Not only him, but all the ministers in the tent looked at the man in disbelief.

"Your Majesty, a great victory! This time, I followed Lord Chen Pojun to Fuyu Road. In just two days, I met the Goguryeo mattress Sagaoqi, who was stationed in Xincheng for more than 20 miles away from Xincheng. He was also a prince. On that day, Gao Qi led 10,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry to fight against me. The Pojun camp was led by Lord Chen and fought to the death with the enemy. In just one day, I Pojun camp completely defeated the Goguryeo army, annihilated one thousand enemies, injured two thousand enemies, captured nearly nine thousand enemies, and captured commander Gao Qi."

The minister Pei Shiju shouted, "Don't be nonsense. Chen Pojun only leads 3,000 cavalrymen. Even if he defeats the Goguryeo people, it is difficult. How can he annihilate one thousand enemies, hurt two thousand enemies, and capture nearly nine thousand enemies? Do you know that lying about military merit is a death sentence? Don't think that killing some Goguryeo civilians is trying to cheat military merit?"

When Wang Lin heard this, he didn't care about rushing to the emperor. He raised his head and said to the minister who made a sound, "What Xiao said is true. The Goguryeo people have already strengthened their walls and cleared the country. Now all the Goguryeo people have been moved to various mountain cities. How can we cut off the heads of civilians? What's more, the new city is now under the occupation of my general. This time, the general asked me to bring Gao Qi to present it to His Majesty. As long as His Majesty announces that he will come to see him, everything will be clear."

Yang Guang waved his hand, "There is no hurry to defeat the Goguryeo army. How about the casualties of the Pojun camp? How did you capture the new city?"

Before coming, Chen Kefu had already explained to Wang Lin, asking him to exaggerate the casualties, which also made great contributions to this time. After all, he took down Xincheng so easily and defeated the Goguryeo people. No one would think that they were so rare this time.

"Go back to your Majesty, this time, under the leadership of the General, we swore to fight the enemy bloody battle to the death. The brave ones won when we met on a narrow road. The General first divided two teams to attack the enemy's wings, and then attacked the enemy's front with the main force. First, we broke the formation with bows and arrows, and then led the cavalry to keep circling and attacking outside the formation until the formation was broken, and finally led the army to cut the infantry continuously until the Goguryeo people were in chaos and fled. After one day of bloody battle, we fought bravely. Although we won, more than 100 killed, more than 100 seriously injured, nearly 1,000 lightly injured, and almost everyone had the rest of the small wounded."

"After Lord Chen Pojun captured Gao Qi, he learned that there were still five thousand infantry and four thousand cavalry in the city. He asked us to change into the armor of Goguryeo, so he took Gao Qi to open the city gate in the dark. Then he asked Gao Qi to take Gao Qi's subordinates to trick all the officers above the Goguryeo Banner to the camp. Later, he asked us to distribute wine and meat to the Goguryeo people in the Goguryeo camp. When the whole camp was drunk, he took the opportunity to take down all nine thousand Goguryeo soldiers in one fell swoop. When I came, the adults had completely controlled the new city, and it was estimated that the rest of the Goguryeo people in the city had not yet learned the news. When he came, the adults sighed that if the soldiers in the army had not suffered too much casualties and were exhausted, they would only take a few thousand horses to go to Nansu, Mudi and Cangyan in one day."

After hearing this, Yang Guang smiled and said, "Chen Pojun is really my Huo Cavalry. He defeated 20,000 yuan for 3,000 yuan and captured a heavy city. This is my first great achievement in conquering Liao. The person who came here will reward the warrior who won the victory of Pojun camp with ten taels of gold, hundreds of silk, one top-class war horse, and one official level."

The ministers under the tent were also secretly shocked after hearing this. This was not the last time. The last time Chen Pojun was braver, it was just a single man. There were no ten or three or five of them in each army. Yesterday, Xiaoguo Shen Guang climbed to the top of the stair rod and fought with Goguryeo in Lincheng, killing more than ten people in a row. Goguryeo soldiers knocked him down. Before they fell to the ground, Shen Guang grabbed the rope hanging from the stair rod, climbed up and fought with the enemy again. It can be said that he was completely more brave than Chen Kefu that day.

But it is different if you can bravely fight and kill enemies, and have the strategy of commanding troops, and be good at fighting and planning. For the ministers in this tent, they are all aristocratic families, and they have always been to win over those who can use me, and those who cannot use me will be suppressed. Now Chen Kefu has climbed too fast, which is not a good thing for them.

Wang Lin was also excited when he saw Yang Guang laughing. He had so many rewards when he came to report a victory. He was promoted to the eighth-rank official, which was equivalent to being promoted to the seventh-rank all at once. Thinking that his general had seized a large amount of supplies in the new city this time, he couldn't help but think that if he told His Majesty the good news, His Majesty should also reward him with something.

"Your Majesty, the young man has good news to report to Your Majesty. This time I broke into the military camp and captured the new city, and found that there were a large number of supplies in the new city. This time, nearly 10,000 war horses, more than 3,000 cattle, ten thousand armors, ten thousand grains, and countless other military equipment were captured."

When they heard that the Pojun camp had seized so much supplies, the ministers in the tent took a breath. Although capturing some war horse armor was precious, they could not move them. What really made them inhaled was the more than 200,000 stones of grain. At this time, an adult man consumed about seven stones of grain a year. The more than 200,000 stones of grain could basically provide 400,000 troops with a month of food, which would save a lot of food and grass transported from the Central Plains. It can be said that having these grains greatly alleviated the logistics problems of the Sui army.

Yang Guang stood up from the imperial throne with excitement, walked to Wang Lin and said, "Do you take this seriously?"
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