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Under the city of Liaodong.

The sound of gold sounded, and the Sui army retreated again without success.

It has been besieging Liaodong City for two months. The Sui army has sieged the city for no less than a hundred times, but it has not once entered the city. After fighting for so long, it has never even attacked the outer city.

After a long period of attack, the morale of the Sui army became increasingly sluggish.

Even Yang Guang discovered the sluggish morale of the Sui army, but he had no better way. With every failure of the attack, it would lead to thousands of new casualties, and these casualties brought about more morale declines.

Now Yang Guang no longer wants to capture Liaodong City immediately. He now puts his hopes on capturing Xincheng or other cities, and even looks forward to the Nine Army crossing the Yalu River, being able to join the navy, break through Pyongyang City in one fell swoop, capture the King of Goguryeo, and then force Goguryeo to surrender.

It was just drizzling, and the situation seemed to be as disappointing as the weather.

"Your Majesty, Liaodong City has been unable to capture it for a long time, and the soldiers have suffered heavy casualties and their morale is low. I request that the siege be temporarily suspended and let the soldiers ease up first."

Pei Shiju, the Minister of War who was responsible for attacking Liaodong City, had no choice but to ask for an order.

"Hmph." Yang Guang snorted, then shook his sleeves and returned to the Wheel Palace in Liuhe City.

The emperor who returned to the Wheel Palace burst out directly.

He scolded Pei Shiju for being incompetent.

"If Duan Wenzhen is still there and the Liaodong city has been captured, I have used Pei Shiju as the Minister of War, which is really the wrong person."

"If Luo Yi was used to attack the new city, the new city must have been captured at this time, instead of being like Guo Yan, who led two imperial camp troops and fought for so long, he could not even capture a new city that was damaged by Luo Cheng."

"And Yuwen Shu, Yu Zhongwen, come to Hu'er. What are these guys doing? Why didn't there be any news back?"

Time has dragged by day by day, and the situation has not improved at all.

It was originally planned that seven armies would sweep across Liaodong, and the sixth army of the Imperial Camp followed and then took over Zhucheng, and then the seventh army would advance to Pyongyang.

But now.

It's August.

The Seventh Army has not captured a decent city until now. Although it has also captured several small forts and villages, what's the use? The Seventh Army has 200,000 people, but only half of them are left.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been lost in Liaodong.

The six armies of the Imperial Camp had to share the tasks of the Seventh Army and sweep the surrounding areas, but until now, it was also very annoying. Xincheng sent two armies of the Imperial Camp, and two armies of the Liaodong city were added. The other two armies were also sent to cooperate in the attack on Anshi, Beisha and others, but there was no good news.

The news that comes every day is either the failure to siege here or the number of soldiers lost, or the failure to siege there.

After all, from the crossing of the seventh army of the Left, to the present, in just this period, the seventh army and the sixth army of the imperial camp, originally had a total of thirteen armies, a total of 400,000 troops.

But until now, 150,000 people have been lost without realizing it.

The most fatal thing is that the 150,000 lost are basically all combat troops. The 13 armies with a total of 400,000 soldiers have a ratio of three to two, and the total number of combat soldiers is only about 250,000. Now nearly 150,000 combat soldiers are reduced. This means that not only the seventh army was destroyed, but also the sixth army of his imperial camp was also destroyed.

There were only about 100,000 soldiers left in the thirteen army. Therefore, in terms of performance, there were 250,000 troops in the thirteen army, but its combat effectiveness had seriously declined.

This is also the direct reason why Liaodong City is getting harder and harder.

Although Pei Shiju suggested that each army directly draw people from the auxiliary soldiers to fill the losses of the war soldiers, this supplement will be difficult to achieve results in the improvement of combat effectiveness.

"Your Majesty, please be careful. Although the attack on the cities in Liaodong is unfavorable, there will be good news from the Ninth Army and the Navy. As long as Pyongyang is defeated, the problem here will be solved."

Empress Xiao comforted the emperor.

"I have no expectations for the 13th Liaodong Army now, but I am also full of concern for the Ninth Army and the Navy. I have a premonition, I am afraid that the Ninth Army may not be able to break Pyongyang City this time."

Yang Guang sighed.

"If the Nine Armys cannot defeat Pyongyang, this conquest of Liao will be defeated."

The emperor was already a little regretful at this time. He regretted obeying Duan Wenzhen's strategy and dispatching so many troops. Once Pyongyang cannot conquer and the troops cannot open up the passage to Pyongyang, the nine armies are afraid that they will go but never return.

"Your Majesty, I recently received a letter from my younger brother. The letter mentioned that wars are everywhere in the Central Plains, and bandits are constantly rising, especially in Guandong, Henan, Hebei, and this is even more so. Moreover, this summer, the Yellow River broke its dam and flooded more than 40 counties in Henan and Hebei. Millions of people were affected. After the flood, there were famines and hungry people everywhere. However, many local governments refused to open warehouses and release grain, and they also recruited disaster victims to transport grain to Liaodong, which even caused countless people to join the thief army." Empress Xiao was worried about Yang Guangdao.

"Impossible, those words were told by Xiao Yu? They must be exaggerating and exaggerating. Although I am in Liaodong, if there were such a major disaster in the Central Plains and so many bandits, why did Pei Yun, Yu Shiji, Pei Shiju, Su Wei and others know nothing about why they didn't report to me at all?"

"Su Wei and others told me that although the Yellow River was flooded this year, only more than ten counties were affected and the losses were not large. As for the local area, there were not many hungry people. The government treasury in various places was sufficient, so where did so many hungry people come from? Where did so many bandits come from?"

Seeing this, Empress Xiao knew that no matter what he said, the emperor was afraid that he would not listen.

"Your Majesty, why not send many officials from three platforms, including the censor, the censor, the governor, and other officials to visit. In addition, I remember that Luo Cheng's teacher Zhang Xutuo is currently the governor of Qi County. He is the governor of a county, mainly responsible for local soldiers and horses to suppress bandits, etc. Qi County is in the center of Guandong. Why not issue an order to ask Zhang Xutuo about the current situation of Qi County?"

"I want to ask, not only do I want to ask, but also investigate. Your younger brother Xiao Yu has always been a little dissatisfied with the court. I am not surprised that he said anything. Zi Tong, you are the queen, just lead the harem for me. As for the affairs of the court, it is better to leave it to me and the officials to take charge, so don't interfere."

In a word, Empress Xiao was speechless. If she said more, she would become a harem and interfere in politics.

"Your Majesty, I will leave. Your Majesty, please rest early. Don't work too much and hurt your body." Xiao Hou retreated.

"Call Concubine Wang Jie to serve you!"

Wang came on order.

Wang's massage skills were excellent, and Yang Guang closed his eyes and lay there for Wang to hold it.

"Why haven't you met my mother-in-law recently?" Yang Guang asked suddenly.

"When you go back to your Majesty, my uncle seems to be sick. Since he came back from Xincheng, he has become sick and has been lying in bed." Wang replied in a low voice.

"Is it sick? Will the disease die if it is serious?" Yang Guang snorted coldly.
Chapter completed!