Andong Road.

The former land of Baekje, Xiongjin Governor's Office in the Tang Dynasty.

The coast to the west, Baijiangkou.

Baijiang connects Xiongjin City and the sea. The Tang army built a castle at the mouth of the river, which is along the coast.

Looking up at the tower of the mound protruding from Yangma City in the west of the Fort, two guards pointed to the direction below the city and spoke to each other disdainfully.

"The damn Silla people just slipped away."

Under the city, teams of Silla people were passing by. They retreated from Xiongjin City, passed the castle, arrived at Baijiangkou, and would take a boat back to Silla from here.

Or rush back to rescue the local area.

The Japanese fleet attacked Silla across the sea. The Silla people defended the city, but they retreated step by step and were captured by the Japanese more than ten cities in a row.

King Jin Chunqiu of Silla urgently dispatched the Silla army in Baekje to return to the rescue and also requested reinforcements from the Tang army.

On the city not far away, Deputy Guardian of Andong Li Xiao looked out from the distance.

Zhao Chiman, the military envoy of Andong Yamen, advised him, "You can't let these Silla people leave, at least you have to leave ten or twenty thousand people."

"I don't want them to leave either, but they only listen to Silla King Jin Chunqiu, and my words don't work."

"We have to think of a way. Su Shuai has already taken the boat back to the Central Plains with 20,000 naval forces. Xue Shuai has now taken over as Deputy Protector of Andong and presided over the battle situation in Goguryeo. Although he is at the city of Pyongyang, he has few soldiers and no support and cannot conquer Pyongyang at all. Now he has to take a boat to Liaodong to catch up. If the Silla people are asked to withdraw again, then we will be isolated and helpless in the entire Baekje."

"Does it depend on those three thousand old, weak, sick and disabled?"

The three thousand old, weak, sick and disabled people mentioned by Zhao Chiman were composed of Central Plains mercenaries recruited by Li Xiao and disabled soldiers left by the Expedition of the East Navy. These people are a favor between Xue Rengui and Su Lie.

Three thousand people formed the Andong Army, which is currently the most trustworthy army of Li Xiao.

In addition, he also had 15,000 Anton Tutuan Township Warriors, but these township warriors were either Baekje prisoners of war or recruited Baekje poor slaves.

Now that time is not long, Li Xiao doesn't know if this local brave man can really believe it at a critical moment.

It is difficult to guard the sixteen prefectures and one hundred and eighty counties of Baekje through the vast sea with this little manpower.

Li Xiao didn't want the Silla people to leave. Compared with the Baekje people, the Silla people were at least considered Allied forces. But now the Silla people are attacked by the Japanese, and they want the Tang army to rescue them.

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The first year of Xianqing.

March.

After the Japanese army crossed the sea, they won consecutive battles and captured more than 20 cities in Silla.

King Jin Chunqiu of Silla asked Li Xiao for help, but Li Xiao himself had no soldiers to send.

The situation is getting worse day by day.

During this period, Li Xiao guarded the old land of Baekje, and he also recruited troops to prepare for war every day, and saved food and grass.

Li Xiao used the Dacheng, the garrison of the Five Governors' Office as the fulcrum and the meridians of the Sixteen Prefectures, to initially build a defense network.

The recruitment of the township hero has also increased to 30,000 people, but the same problem is still the same. They are all from Baekje, which makes people unable to rest assured.

All governors' prefectures and counties are stepping up the construction of Tunbao Cang, checking household registration, measuring land, collecting deeds and storing materials.

Because there are too few people, the governors and governors from all over the country are mostly left-behind military generals, and they are inevitably a bit hasty.

The reports from time to time in various places were rude, which caused the Baekje people to be angry and resentful.

Among Baekje people, especially among the Baekje nobles and powerful landlords whose interests were greatly damaged, a stream of resentment and anger was rising, and even a cloud was gathering.

Li Xiao knew, but he couldn't change it.

He could only hurry up and prepare for the battle.

A lot of information gathered together and told Li Xiao that a great rebellion from the Baekje people was right in front of him. But Li Xiao was powerless. He was like a boat in the ocean. There were too few Tang troops, only three thousand people.

He repeatedly asked the court for troops, but now the court is fully committed to the west and has no power to send troops to him. The court just told him to guard the guards, ask the Silla people to defend, etc.

It seems that as long as Li Xiao doesn't fight Goguryeo, Baekje can rest assured.

But in fact, after Xue Rengui took the last 20,000 naval divisions in the south of the Korean Peninsula to Liaodong to take defense, a force vacuum was almost formed in the Baekje area.

The siege of Pyongyang was lifted, and the Goguryeo people had begun to mobilize their troops south, and many people even began to infiltrate into Baekje.

"Jingshou, the military information I just got."

Liu Jun strode in, "According to the latest military situation, Baekje's old general Monk Daochen, Guishi Fuxin and others supported Baekje's prince Fuyufeng as king. The rebellion was infringed. They summoned many Baekje people, and now they have more than 10,000 people, besieging Liu Boying in Yujiuchi City."

Liu Boying was the governor of the Mahan Governor's Office. The place he guarded was north of the Xiongjin Governor's Office, close to the Goguryeo border.

"Have the Goguryeo Army headed south?" Li Xiao asked.

This was his most concerned issue. Before Cheng Yaojin and Su Lie led their troops to leave, King Goguryeo reported to the court that he surrendered, and both sides had made an agreement to quit the army.

So Xue Rengui withdrew his troops from the city of Pyongyang and took a boat to Liaodong.

Although everyone knows that this surrender is just a verbal statement, at least the Goguryeo people were also frightened by the Tang army. The Tang Dynasty accepted surrender and withdrawing troops at this time because Cheng Yaojin and Su Lie were transferred to the Western Regions. Xue Rengui could not defeat Pyongyang alone. If he continued to stay there, he might be surrounded by the Goguryeo people.

The court accepted the surrender and temporarily quit the army, and wanted to temporarily maintain the situation and concentrate on fighting the Western Turks.

If the Goguryeo people sent troops south to Baekje, then this fragile temporary truce agreement would be broken, which would be a huge bad news for Li Xiao and the people guarding Baekje.

"I haven't seen the Goguryeo army crossing the border south yet, but it is investigated that there are many Goguryeo generals in the Baekje army, and there are also Japanese generals."

The sudden appearance of Prince Fuyufeng is the son of the former king. Baekje has been having a good relationship with Japan before, and this prince was sent to Japan as a hostage.

Baekje was destroyed, and the Japanese were the most unacceptable. If the Tang Dynasty occupied Baekje, then the Japanese would be eliminated from Baekje, which was extremely unacceptable for the Japanese who had always wanted to get involved in the Korean Peninsula.

For this reason, when the Tang army had just attacked Baekje, King Qiming of the Japanese king called on the powerful people from all over the country to send troops, and he wanted to personally conquer Baekje.

Although Japan is a long line, the emperor is actually far inferior to the emperors of the Central Plains in this era. Their court is not a country with high centralization and power, and the local power in Japan is strong.

But this time, the Emperor summoned troops from all over the country and followed him to fight in person, but he received a response. He prepared for a while and waited for them to gather troops from all over the country and build ships, the Tang Dynasty had already destroyed Baekje.

Emperor Qi Ming followed the army to Jiuzhou, but suddenly died of illness.

The eldest brother of the prince returned to Beijing and was called the commander, which was called Emperor Tianzhi. Although Emperor Qiming died, he did not shake the Japanese's determination to send troops to Baekje. Emperor Tianzhi sent Amubira as the former general and Abebirav as the latter general, and led the army to Baekje.

At the same time, Tianzhi Tianchi also sent Naijing Bencai to lead 5,000 troops to escort Wang Zifeng back to Baekje.

It was precisely with these five thousand Japanese troops that the Ghost Seat Fuxin and Monk Daochen could quickly call on many Baekje people to uprising.

The Goguryeo people had not yet sent troops openly, but they also sent many generals and schools to secretly go south into the Baekje Army as officers and staff.

With the joint force of the three forces, this rebel army under the banner of restoration was still very fierce.
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