: The virtual reality in the city

After receiving Chen Kefu's order, not long after, all the officers under Liaodong City who were qualified to attend the meeting had already arrived in the tent.

Everyone didn't understand that the general suddenly summoned everyone to a meeting. Now Chen Kefu has created a military lecture hall in the camp. Basically, officers who are qualified to attend the meeting now have to attend the lecture hall class at night. It can be said that if it was not a particularly important thing, Chen Kefu could notify everyone in the evening. Now that he is summoning everyone so urgently, something important must have happened.

After everyone arrived, Chen Kefu asked Luo Lin to send the letters to the officers to watch.

After reading it carefully for a long time, Li Jie looked up and said, "General, are these letters true? It has been a while since we captured the new city Zhucheng. Those Goguryeo people cannot yet know it. Could this be their trick?"

"These letters were intercepted by General Li Benlei's men near the new city. There were about a hundred Goguryeo people who delivered the letter. They were discovered by General Li and surrounded and attacked them. So the truth in this letter is very high, and the Goguryeo people were surrounded by us so tightly before that it was possible that it was possible that they could not know the news outside. If the army had not retreated this time, we were short of manpower and could only bluff, and these Liao people would not have run out of the city quietly."

"What does that mean when the lord asks us to come?" Li Jie asked.

This time, the army was divided into five units. Although the main force of the army was still in the Liaodong camp, most of the veterans in the army were divided into various places. Now there are really few generals who can stand on their own in the camp under the Liaodong city, except for Chen Kefu, Li Jie and others.

In the past, these military intelligence staff judged things were basically done by generals such as Li Benlei, Hu Hai, Zhang He, Mao Yi. Every time they would conduct a detailed screening and analysis based on the information they obtained, and finally confiscating the information. Chen Kefu only needed to make a decision based on the situation.

But now, all this has to be judged by him, which makes him feel a little difficult.

I glanced at the many officers in the tent, but found that apart from Li Jie and the generals under him, there were not many who were really experienced. Even Chen Fu, Chen Gui, and Shen Guang were just recently assigned and had no experience at all.

"The first thing we have to do is to analyze the information we have obtained. The current situation is that the Goguryeo people in Liaodong City don't know that we have taken down the new city, but they know about the rebellion in the country, and guess that Your Majesty will withdraw his troops within the next few days. And we have also obtained the plan of Liaodong garrison to mobilize troops to set up an ambush in the Liaoshui River. Not only that, we also have their orders and letters and tokens. Everyone, these are the situations we have obtained now. Let's discuss them to see how we should deal with the situation in front of us?"

Hu Hai had just returned from the camp at the Liaodong City, covered in rain. He said in confusion, "General, do you know if you know the situation in Liaodong City now?"

Chen Kefu nodded, "Although I don't know yet, General Li Benlei sent over the dozen people they captured and letters. He is currently being interrogated, and I believe that we will know the situation in Liaodong City in a short time. No matter what, we need to pay attention to one thing. Since Liaodong City doesn't know where to get the news that His Majesty is going to withdraw his troops, the messenger sent to the new city may not be the only way."

"What does the general mean?"

"Now we have occupied the city of Xincheng and besieged Liaodong. But don't forget that in this Liaodong, Goguryeo has more than 200 large and large mountain cities. There are also Fuyu, Beisha, domestic, Wugus several cities. These are all big cities, all with tens of thousands of soldiers. Now we have blocked the messenger to the city of Xincheng, but how can we know whether the Liaodong guard has sent people to other big cities?"

Chen Kefu said with some concern, "This country, Beisha City and Fuyu City are too far from Liaodong City, so they can be ignored for the time being. But Wugu City is not far away. If the reinforcements of the Liao people come up at that time, then our previous strategy of pretending to be the main force of the army and bluffing will not work. Although there are hundreds of thousands of people in our camp, it is okay to recharge. If the real Liao people attack, even if there are only 20,000 people, our victory or defeat will be unpredictable."

This is not that Chen Kefu is exaggerating, but that he did think of this possibility. Since it has been exposed, they have to change their strategies.

Mao Yi pondered, "General, why don't we take action first? There are dozens of secret passages under the city of Liaodong. Why not let us go into the city through secret passages tonight when the enemy is unprepared? At that time, as long as we take down Liaodong City and have a strong city like Liaodong for defense, even if the reinforcements from Goguryeo come up, we don't have to be afraid of him."

Li Jie shook his head, "But your Majesty has an order, and I will let us wait until the army retreats for seven days before we can take action? It's a bad idea to attack the city now. Once we attack the city, our reality will definitely be known by the Liao people. If the Liao people gather troops to pursue Your Majesty, how can we take on such a responsibility?"

"I have written a letter to send someone to inform Your Majesty of the matter here. Now that things have changed, we cannot just stick to the original plan. In any case, it is a very dangerous situation for us to defend the city of Liaodong like this. If we are defeated by the Liao people, then there will be no one to defend Your Majesty's retreat. Besides, the Liao people only know that we will retreat, but they do not know that Your Majesty has retreated. At that time, we will capture Liaodong City at night, and this Liaodong defender may not know our reality. Maybe when the Liao people see the city of Liaodong, they will think that the army has not retreated."

For Chen Kefu, he was eager to capture Liaodong City. After all, hundreds of thousands of people are under their strong city now. If the Liao soldiers come soon, he will really cry. As long as they occupy Liaodong City, even if their troops are small and hundreds of thousands of people help defend the city, they can still gain a foothold with this strong city.

Li Jie was not willing to argue too much about Chen Kefu's thoughts, anyway, it would be useless to argue. But thinking about what Chen Kefu said makes sense. If the Liao soldiers and horses really surround them, then they will definitely not be able to defend a Liaodong camp by relying on the main force of the 7,000-strong army camp and the more than 20,000 newly formed new troops, plus hundreds of thousands of civilians. There is no need to have too many people, and they can eat them. Even if they can't eat them, they will still suffer heavy casualties and will not be able to gain a foothold in the future.

Thinking of this, Li Jie said, "The general's idea is correct, but we don't have the situation in Liaodong City yet, and we don't know how many soldiers there are in Liaodong City now. Although we have secret ideas, don't forget that this Liaodong City has an inner city. What should we do if we can't attack? Once we can't take it down in one fell swoop, our reality will be immediately known clearly by the Liao people. At that time, we will be in a difficult position to advance and retreat."

Chen Kefu nodded. Li Jie's words made sense. Now the key is to look at the situation in Liaodong City. He turned to Luo Lin and said, "Go and see how the prisoners interrogated there. If there is any progress, bring the situation."

After a while, Rollin walked in with a piece of paper.

"General, we have interrogated all these prisoners separately as you told us. These are the results of the interrogation. Those who have drawn circles on it are confessions that can be compared with each other. Those who have not drawn circles have not been verified by each other. Those who have crossed are confessions that cannot match each other. There is only so much that we know, and the guards are still interrogating. I believe that we can ask all the information they know."

Chen Kefu took the densely painted paper and looked at it, and couldn't help but grinned happily. It seemed that these guards were experts in interrogation. He just told them to interrogate separately and verify their confessions. They actually did so well.

The first line on the confession is a circle, with the handwriting on it scribble, saying that the Liaodong City guard King Rongliu, Gao Jianwu, had a total of 100,000 guards, 30,000 cavalry and 70,000 infantry. However, the Sui army had been besieging for so long, and there were about 10,000 guards in the city. King Rongliu had 5,000 elite cavalry, about 5,000 infantry, and about 100,000 people in the city, but there were less than 20,000 young and strong people.

The second article was also verified, saying that it was because a Sui Dynasty official suddenly ran to Liaodong City and descended to Goguryeo at night two days ago. It was because of his intelligence that Gao Jianwu learned that the Sui army was about to withdraw within a few days.

The third article is that the Liao people sent several teams of messengers to send orders, but they have not yet verified it. The rest are the situation of food and grass in the city. As a result, the city has abundant food and grass, which can provide hundreds of thousands of people with three years of persistence, and even various equipment is also abundant.

After reading it, Chen Kefu asked Luo Lin to pass it on to the generals below, and he was both excited and worried. What was excited was that Liaodong City was so rich in food and equipment, and there were enough hundreds of thousands of people to eat for three years. It was really worthy of being the number one fortress of Goguryeo. What made him a little worried was that an official of the Sui Dynasty surrendered to the Liao people. Although he did not know the specific identity of the other party, the identity of the Sui Dynasty officials had already made Chen Kefu worried.

If the situation is really true, then their reality is really very likely to be known to the enemy, and even the secret passages under the city of Liaodong may be known to the people.
Chapter completed!