"Don't you throw it away?" The group of Goguryeo generals were extremely surprised.

"Sir, even if we don't look back and destroy the Tang people, we don't have to be afraid of them. We can slowly withdraw to western Liaoning with the spoils."

No one wants to give up a lot of spoils.

They didn't understand why Yuan Gai Suwen was so afraid of the Tang army. Even if Luhe lost in the battle, it was just because he did not encounter the Tang people's firearms and was caught off guard.

"Drop up all the Han prisoners, livestock, spoils, and march at full speed. This is a military order!" Yuan Gaisuwen's face was very bad. He ignored the doubts of his generals and directly ordered them.

It was getting dark and led the army to follow the Tang army behind the Goguryeo Army. Li Chao called Yuchi Gong.

He looked up at the dim sky.

"General Yuchi, I will give you an important task. In the darkness of the night, I will lead your three thousand cavalry to bypass the Goguryeo people."

"Where to go?" Yuchi Gong asked.

"Go to Yuguan!"

Yuchi Gong rubbed his hands excitedly, "Yuguan? It's so good."

As a veteran on the battlefield, he suddenly understood Li Chao's intention to ask him to go to Yuguan.

Yuguan was in front of the Goguryeo army, which was the only way for them to retreat to western Liaoning. Although Yuguan failed to defend against the Goguryeo raid last time.

But that was because there were few soldiers in Yuguan at that time, Goguryeo suddenly attacked, with many soldiers. The defenders of Yuguan could only retreat to the city and watched the Goguryeo people enter the pass.

"You can take the lead and enter Yu Pass to reinforce. Your mission is to defend Yu Pass and not let the Goguryeo run away again."

"Don't worry, Prime Minister, I will stop them." Yuchi Gong patted his chest and said. Although this task would definitely be very difficult, he did not hesitate at all.

Li Chao patted his arm.

"You only need to hold the Goguryeo for two or three days at most, and we will arrive at that time."

"The soldiers who were drawn from Huainan and Henan are on the way and they will be able to come soon. Then we will let these Goguryeo have no return."

It was not Li Chao's purpose to drive away the invading Goguryeo people. His plan was to prevent none of these people from leaving.

Yuguan.

Built on the Yu River, the Yu River originated from the eastern foot of the Yanshan Mountains. At this time, the Yu River was abundant and the water flowed rapidly.

In the third year of Kaihuang in the Sui Dynasty, it was built here based on the water and a pass was established.

This Guancheng is quite dangerous, and it borrows water.

But it is still far behind Shanhaiguan in later generations. Shanhaiguan in later generations is further east of Yuguan, which extends the Great Wall on Yanshan directly into the sea at that mountain pass. The city of Guan is surrounded by the mountain and ends with the sea, forming the momentum of Shanhaiguan City.

Shanhaiguan was cultivated in the Ming Dynasty. It was the true number one level in the world. Almost no one directly broke through it from outside the pass. It was mostly based on surrender and internal support.

In Li Chao's Nine-Border Plan, he wanted to move the east of Yuguan and build a truly world-class level at the location of Shanhaiguan.

But this Guancheng is still on paper planning now. Otherwise, it would be much easier to let Yuchi Gong lead his troops into the pass to reinforce the country and rely on the dangers of mountains and seas. One man should be the pass, and tens of thousands of men should not be opened. It would be much easier to close the door and beat the dog.

There were still some soldiers at Yuguan at this time, but not many, otherwise they would not have allowed the Goguryeo people to pass by the gate.

Yuguan relies on the dangers of the Yu River, but in the north, especially in places like Pingzhou, rivers have a long freezing period. Therefore, Yuguan, which is under the dangers of the water, actually has no dangers to rely on when it reaches the freezing period. Yuguan is on the plain, and it is not the kind of mountain pass that can only be opened by a man who can pass by tens of thousands of men.

Because of this, the Goguryeo people were able to pass by Yuguan in a swaggering manner.

It was difficult for Yuchi Gong to lead 3,000 people to go around in front of Goguryeo and rush to Yuguan in advance to reinforce. It was difficult for them to defend Yuguan.

"I will provide you with more grenades and gunpowder, and you will be able to have more combat power at that time."

"Yeah." Yuchi Gong was not polite either.

In fact, if he could, he would rather take Shenji Camp with him. However, although there are some mules and horses in Shenji Camp, they are all used to carry equipment, tents, food, gunpowder, etc.

After all, this is an infantryman. Only a few officers have horses, and the rest are mules and horses that are equipped with equipment. These horses cannot be ridden. Even if Li Chao asked them to ride, they could not bring equipment. What's the use of these soldiers and horses?

Besides, if the Shenji Camp was transferred away, Li Chao would have only seven thousand palace soldiers and twenty thousand volunteer soldiers in his hands, all infantrymen. If the Goguryeo people get a shot back, Li Chao would be done.

Yuchi Gong left.

Li Chao ordered to stop moving forward and start camping.

It was not yet dark, and it was a very dangerous thing to set up camp at this time. It was behind more than 30,000 Goguryeo cavalry.

Although it was twenty miles apart, the Goguryeo really wanted to fight back, so Li Chao had to fight on the spot. When there were cavalrymen, he was still somewhat sure to confront the Goguryeo.

But once Yuchi Gong led the cavalry away, the combat power of his troops and horses was greatly reduced.

"We are on a risk now. What if the Goguryeo people turn back and fight?"

"That's why I asked General Yuchi to leave while it was dark, so the Goguryeo people wouldn't know that we would have lost three thousand cavalry."

With Li Chao's current military strength, there are these three thousand cavalrymen. Even if the Goguryeo people turn back and Li Chao puts his Spanish formation again, Goguryeo will not have much chance to defeat the Tang army.

Li Chao could withstand the attack of the Goguryeo people, and they didn't necessarily want to ask for it.

As long as the Tang army resisted the Goguryeo and dragged him for a while, it would be very unfavorable to the Goguryeo people, because there were reinforcements behind Li Chao coming at night.

Every extra day of delay, the Goguryeo people were surrounded by the Tang army one more day.

This is also the reason why Li Chao calculates that Jue Yen Gai Suwen will run away. It will become increasingly unfavorable for them to stay.

"Prime Minister, why are we unstable? The Goguryeo people took the initiative to withdraw. Isn't this also good?"

"Hmph, the Goguryeo people come whenever they want, and leave whenever they want. Do I think there is no one in the Tang Dynasty?" Although the current actions are dangerous, this is also a rare opportunity.

The Goguryeo Army that invaded Hebei was killed by 6,000 and 44,000. Li Chao took some risk and had a great chance to intercept the more than 40,000 Goguryeo people, so that they could not escape. This is a very cost-effective thing.

Besides, if Li Chao did not pursue him, the Goguryeo people would be able to return to western Liaoning with the plundered people of the Tang Dynasty, livestock, wealth and goods.

Could it be that Li Chao would wait for them to return to western Liaoning to report to the court that he had repelled the Goguryeo people?

No, Li Chao can't do such a thing.

The Tang Dynasty had already started a war with the Goguryeo people, so it would be very necessary to destroy the 50,000 invading Goguryeo soldiers now. If this Goguryeo army could be left unreturned, it would be a heavy blow to Gomingli.

At least, in a short period of time, the Goguryeo people dare not make any more mistakes.

"The prime minister really wants to kill all the more than 40,000 Goguryeo people?" several generals asked in surprise.

"As long as we can stop them at Yuguan, we can kill them." Li Chao said confidently. Reinforcements were still coming. When the group of soldiers arrived, Li Chao was completely sure to destroy these Goguryeo people.

Although he is taking risks now, Li Chao believes that this risk is worth it.

Xiangyang.

Yuliangzhou, Ziwei Palace.

Li Shimin, Empress Changsun, Prince, Li Tai and Li Lizhi had a meal together.

Although Li Shimin has many children, there are only these three who are born with the Queen. The Queen is in serious condition recently, but the Medicine King has not been found.

I don’t know how many other doctors have found, but none of them can cure the queen’s disease. Without a good prescription, he can only call the three queen’s legitimate children and often have dinner with him.

"Isn't it too much for His Majesty to not be in charge of the court for a month and a half?"

The queen looked very bad, but she still remembered her husband.

"Although I didn't go to court, I didn't abandon government affairs, you know." Li Shimin said to the queen, saying that he would not go to court or go to the minister of the Central Secretariat, but in fact, he was not the kind of person who could really leave all this behind.

He just didn't go to court, but he just didn't go to the minister of the Central Secretariat for the time being, but he actually still had complete control over major events in court.

He did not see all the officials.

But in fact, I have always seen Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Changsun Wuji, and sometimes even Gao Shilian.

The government affairs handled by the Secretary of the Central Committee will be sent to him. He just trusted Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui without giving other instructions. Moreover, for some important matters, these two prime ministers will also go to the palace to ask for instructions first and deal with them according to his instructions.

Therefore, whether he went to court or to attend the Secretariat or not, for the time being, did not affect military and national affairs at all.

"I understand, but has Your Majesty considered the rumors outside? It is said that if your king does not go to court early, he will play in vain. The censors of the Censorate come to the palace gate every day to wait for invitations. Your Majesty really plans to go on like this?"

Li Shimin smiled bitterly.

"I don't want to do this, but now I can only drag it like this first. Once I leave the palace, those officials will force me to abolish the new policy, and will force me to demote a large number of officials who support the new policy, including Ma Zhou, Wei Zheng, Sun Fujia, etc.."

Before Li Shimin thought of a countermeasure, he could not show up at all. If he showed up, he could not hold on. He had to express his opinion and make a decision.

"The censors are still waiting in front of the palace gate every day."

"Let them live." Li Shimin played a rogue.

The queen didn't know how to persuade her. She thought that if Li Chao was still in the court, she would definitely not have made things so stiff. He always had many tricks.

"Your Majesty, I don't know how Li Xiang is in Hebei?"

"I guess he is dispatching troops in Hebei." Li Shimin said with a smile. With Li Chao in the north, he didn't have to worry about the invasion of Turks and Goguryeo.

Li Chao defeated all 400,000 Turks last time, but this time he still couldn't defeat the coalition forces of the 100,000 Turks and Goguryeo?

However, the North will definitely suffer a lot of losses this time.

These damn barbarians, when they recover, will surely conquer Mobei in the future, sweep across Liaodong, and destroy them all.

"His Majesty."

The eunuch Wang came in to report.

Li Shimin frowned. He didn't like being disturbed when the family was having dinner.

"The censors are asking for a visit outside the palace? Do they just need to eat?" Li Shimin said dissatisfied.

The eunuch Wang hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, it's not the censor, it's the Hebei good news."

"Good news?"

Li Shimin was surprised. Calculate the time, Li Chao must have just arrived in Youzhou, and he could not have led his troops to win the battle so quickly. Could it be that Yuchi Gong had won the battle before Li Chao arrived?

"What good news?"

"The good news from Hebei is just coming. Li Xiang fought with the Goguryeo army on the east bank of Rushui, Pingzhou, Hebei, and defeated 20,000 cavalry of Goguryeo and killed 4,000 enemies. The Goguryeo people fled, and Li Xiang has successfully rescued Pingzhou."
Chapter completed!