Jiuchi City.

Li Xiao drove the prisoners and conquered the enemy's corpses into Jingguan, building a huge skeleton platform.

Jingguan was rammed with loess, and a row of corpses were rammed. The Jingguan was built, and it looked like a gloomy and terrifying ghost prison from a distance.

At that time, a million troops of Sui army conquered Goguryeo and defeated Liaodong. There were countless corpses of soldiers in the Central Plains left in Liaodong. The Goguryeo people built the Jingguan with the remains of hundreds of thousands of Sui army soldiers.

During the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong succeeded to the throne, Li Shimin sent envoys to Goguryeo, asking the King of Goguryeo to demolish Jingguan and let the envoys bring back the remains of the soldiers who conquered Liao to return to the Central Plains for burial.

Five thousand enemy corpses are built into a Jingguan, which is very inhumane, but there is no kindness to the enemy. When facing those enemies, you must be more fierce and cruel than them.

When the Jingguan was built, the 20,000 prisoners knelt on the ground in fear and did not dare to get up for a long time.

A Jingguan is like a huge guillotine, hanging permanently above their heads and may fall down at any time.

"Jing Zheng, there are many Goguryeo troops among the prisoners. How to deal with it?" Xue Chuyu asked.

In this battle of Jiuchicheng, the Goguryeo also participated, but they did not openly participate in the war. Instead, they sent a group of officers to go south with some elite soldiers and pretended to be Baekje people. After the defeat, many Goguryeo people did not have time to escape and were captured.

How to deal with this group of people is also a problem.

Li Xiao thought for a while, "Since their public identity is the Baekje people who participated in the rebellion, then we should think they are Baekje people."

Liu Boying said murderously, "Kill!"

Wang Fangyi had a different opinion, "We have to consider the reaction of the Goguryeo people. This time the Goguryeo people did not participate in the war openly, but they also participated secretly. If we kill all these people, we are afraid that they will arouse their anger. If these people are angry and really participate directly in the war, we are afraid that we will not be able to stop them."

"You can't just let them go like this, that's too cheap for them." Liu Jun believes that there is no need to be afraid of Goguryeo people, and you can beat them if you want to. Anyway, what really plays a decisive role is still real strength.

"Let me do this, send someone to the border and pass on a message to the Goguryeo people, saying that we have a criticism of Baekje prisoners here to sell them."

"Sell?" Liu Jun didn't understand even more.

"What Wang San Ge said makes sense. We will kill these Goguryeo people directly at this time, but we will be afraid of angering them. But we cannot let them go, otherwise we will be afraid of Goguryeo people. We must let Goguryeo people understand that we are not afraid of them, but we will also leave them a little face." Li Xiao said, "We have about a hundred Goguryeo prisoners here. Let's exchange a thousand war horses with Goguryeo. If you want to agree, we will send these people to Chishan as slaves!"

One hundred prisoners of war were exchanged for one thousand war horses, and of course this transaction was done.

None of the most valuable prisoners is worth ten horses, let alone war horses. Ten war horses are worth two or three hundred guan. This is still in the northern border area of ​​the Tang Dynasty. If it is in Chang'an, a war horse is worth at least 30 to 40 guan.

Li Xiao's Andong Tushiro was short of war horses, and it was difficult to transport horses from the Central Plains across the sea.

To exchange a hundred Goguryeo prisoners for a thousand war horses, this is not a way to let the tiger go back to the mountain, but to enhance one's own strength and a great deal.

"The Goguryeo people may not be willing to do this loss-making business, right?"

"Then I can't care about those. Anyway, I gave the Goguryeo people a chance to choose. If they care about their soldiers and generals, even a thousand horses will have to be replaced. If they think a thousand horses are more valuable and unwilling to change, I don't care!"

As soon as Li Xiao said this, everyone laughed.

Yes, it depends on how the Goguryeo people choose, but no matter how they choose, the Andong Tang army will not lose.

"Back to the point, we still have to prepare for the worst, in case the Goguryeo really goes south." Li Xiao pointed his sword at the ground, "Jiuchi City must strengthen its defense."

There is a reason why Baekje and the Japanese used the city of Jiuchi as their first target. Jiuchi is an important place in the northern border of Baekje. This was a military town in the past that Baekje defended the Goguryeo people from the south.

If the Baekje people take this city, they can rely on Goguryeo. Even if the Goguryeo people don’t send troops openly, they can secretly provide a lot of supplies and other reinforcements. Even if the situation is unfavorable, the Baekje people can retreat into Goguryeo.

"Jiuchicheng is mine, please give Jiuchicheng to someone."

Although Liu Boying was seriously injured, he felt a sense of anger at this moment. He had never suffered such a big loss for decades of fighting. This time he almost capsized the ship in this Baekje gutter.

Wherever you lose the place, you have to find it.

"Okay." Li Xiao thought about it again and again, thinking that Liu Boying had a long battle formation after all, and his morale was available. In addition, he was the governor of the Mahan Governor's Office, responsible for the northern border of Baekje. This is the jurisdiction of his defense zone. Now that he is still alive, he naturally has to guard this place.

"I will take down the two generals Cheng Boxian and Xue Chuyu, each leading a thousand soldiers to help you guard this pass!"

"Hahaha, that's enough. Although I have sold more than 800 soldiers here, the Mahan Governor's Office still has 4,000 township wars. Now that the war is imminent, it's no problem for me to recruit thousands of people temporarily. Even the military equipment, food, herbs and medicines must be paid for me."

"No problem." Li Xiao agreed very happily. At this time, he should do his best and work together.

After someone took out the Baekje map, Li Xiao discussed it with several generals again, and finally decided to lead 3,000 people to defend Jiuchi City with Liu Boying, Cheng Boxian and Xue Chuyu each led 1,000 people to defend the Coral City and Majin City on both sides of Jiuchi City, and Qin Xiong led 3,000 people to defend Tangjin Port.

In this way, there are eight thousand soldiers and horses in the north.

Jiuchi, Coral and Majin are arranged in a font shape, relying on each other and helping each other.

Although Tangjin City is far away, it guards the harbor. It can be used as a place for logistics and military transportation. It is also a landing base for Li Xiao to reinforce from sea at any time.

With Tang Jin, Li Xiao can reinforce the three cities from the sea at any time.

As for Li Xiao, he will return to Siqi City, which was once the capital of Baekje after all, and now it is the garrison of the Xiongjin Governor's Office, and is the center of the Tang Dynasty in Baekje. As the head coach, he must be in charge of the center and command the overall situation.

Li Xiao moved his finger up and down the map, pointing four river estuaries along the west coast.

"Pingyi, Anyuan, Naturalization, and Pangwu, these four cities are all the ports of Baekje's west coast, and they are also the fortresses of Baekje in the past. We have few soldiers and must guard the four coastal forts to ensure our maritime route. If we guard these four forts, our maritime route will be preserved, and the maritime mobile route will be preserved, so we can reinforce everywhere at any time at sea."

Li Xiao immediately appointed Wang Fangyi to guard Pingyi City, the northernmost part of the city, and Liu Wen to guard Anyuan City, the south of it.

Liu Rengui guarded Guihua City at Baijiangkou, and Liu Jun guarded Pingwu City, the southernmost part of the city.

"The soldiers and horse envoys in the Yaqian are the ones in charge of commanding our Andong Navy and mobile preparations so that we can reinforce the various places at any time."

When Anton had no navy, Li Xiao recruited the ships from his family and the nobles from Baekje to Chang'an, and temporarily formed a navy fleet, which was commanded by Zhao Chiman himself.

In this way, there are four cities including Jiuchi in the north, four ports including Pingyi in the west bank, eight generals in each town, one city, Li Xiaozong in Siqi, and Zhao Chiman led the navy to maneuver.

There were also three other governors including Liu Renyuan, each responsible for their own inland jurisdictions.
Chapter completed!