Domestic city.

"King, Luo Cheng's mission has arrived outside the city."

"How many people, who are leading the team?"

"About 200 light cavalry, the leader is said to be Li Shimin, who seems to be the brother of Luo Cheng's concubine. He is very young and less than twenty."

Yuan Taizuo breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

Luo Cheng defeated his son and then captured Anshi again, but did not continue to lead the army eastward. Instead, he took the initiative to send envoys to come. This is a good thing.

Although the weather is getting colder and the first snow is about to fall, the ice is frozen and the mountains and rivers are covered with snow, no one can guarantee what will happen to that guy Luo Cheng. In recent years, he has become the hunger of the Goguryeo people in Liaodong.

He crossed the Liao River on the first day of the Lunar New Year and raided Xuantu City. Who can guarantee that he will not come again?

As long as the Sui people are willing to talk, they are not afraid.

Even if they lose new things now and they will suffer losses after talking, it is better than the one who kills the god of killing directly.

However, he couldn't understand how a teenage doll was used as a negotiating envoy.

"Open the city gate and ask the Sui envoy to enter the city."

"King, Li Shimin is very arrogant and rude. He actually said that he wanted the King to go out of the city to greet him in person."

Unhappiness flashed in Yuan Taizuo's eyes. The teenage doll was indeed ignorant.

"Forget it, just welcome it. Even if I lose face, it's nothing. As long as I can reach a peace agreement with Sui this time, it's fine."

Now Yuan Taizuo didn't care about his old face anymore. How much money can an old face be worth? Luo Cheng couldn't afford to offend him. He asked the Sui Emperor to surrender. The Sui Emperor agreed and had issued an order to stop the troops, but Luo Cheng refused to resist the order and continued to send troops.

He was beaten up all of a sudden and heartbroken.

Although the 50,000 troops he handed over to his son and the 30,000 troops he convened in Liaodong, most of them were the former royal guards. These people are indeed unstable and have low fighting spirit, but they lost almost 60,000 in one battle, and the 80,000 army was only 20,000. The Yuan family could not afford the loss.

Not to mention, Anshi City, which was highly anticipated, fell so quickly that tens of thousands of people in the city did not escape.

Now, there are no more than 100,000 veterans in the entire Yuan clan North Korea. Even if some prepared troops are recruited, at most 200,000 will be collected.

But this combat effectiveness is no longer comparable to when the war started a few years ago, let alone the brilliant record of annihilation of hundreds of thousands of them at once when the Sui army first invaded.

"Is this Luo Cheng sent by God to torture me?"

Yuan Taizuo sighed.

When Anshi was lost, the entire Liaohe line, in addition to the Fuyu City in the upper Fuyu River, and dozens of small cities, their hard-working defense line of Qianli Mountain City has collapsed.

Even though there are more than 200 fortresses and mountain cities in the mountains, without the support of the big city, this defense system is already full of loopholes and very fragile.

Although he was in danger and the mutiny killed Gao Jianwu, and in addition to the royalists such as Yizhi Wende, Goguryeo, which had already been greatly damaged, still suffered a lot in this civil strife. At present, Yang Wanchun's one-armed man is still rebelling against him in Pyongyang.

Standing in front of the big bronze mirror waiting, Yuan Taizuo looked at his mirror image.

Old and haggard.

He is really old.

Unfortunately, the eldest son's defeat this time made him feel more and more uneasy.

He lost Liaodong City first and then defeated Luo Cheng. The prestige of the eldest son could not be established at all, and the second son Jiantu was captured by Luo Cheng a few years ago.

"Change me in clothes."

Yuan Taizuo looked at the king's crown suit and frowned slightly.

"King?"

"Get the purple-robed jade belts sent by officials of the Sui Dynasty when they came to enthronement. By the way, bring the golden seal and purple ribbon of the King of Korea together."

Everyone was surprised that the king actually wanted to wear the Sui Dynasty official robe to greet the teenage messenger Luo Cheng, but in the end he didn't say anything.

If you lose a battle, you always feel unsure.

He changed into a new set of jade belts with a purple robe in the Great Sui Dynasty, wore a golden seal and a purple ribbon, and specially brought the Shangfang jade sword given by the emperor. Yuan Taizuo led people to the city gate.

City gate.

Li Shimin rode on the horse without moving at all. He ignored how the Goguryeo people persuaded him to enter the city.

He only said one sentence in front of the city, asking the surrender Yuan to come to greet him.

"The king is here!"

A Goguryeo eunuch shouted loudly.

But Li Shimin still sat on the horse without moving, without any intention of coming forward to pay homage.

Yuan Taizuo was sitting on a chariot, and the curtain was lifted, and the young Sui Dynasty general could be seen from a distance.

One eye is blindfolded.

"This messenger is quite handsome, why is he blind?

"Return to the king, this Li Shimin is the son of Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang of the Sui Dynasty. He previously followed Li Yuan to attack Yang Wanchun, who was stationed in Xincheng. He led the light cavalry to chase and kill Yang Wanchun who was defeated and fled. He was shot in the left eye by Yang Wanchun with a crossbow."

"So Li Shimin is a bit brave?"

"Although he was young, he was awarded the title of Yingyanglang General by the Emperor of Sui for defeating Yang Wanchun."

"It seems that I underestimated him before." Yuan Taizuo thought for a while, "reported to the title of the Emperor of Sui to me!"

"The emperor of the Great Sui Kingdom granted the title of Kaifu Yitong Sansi, and the King of Korea arrived!"

The eunuch sang.

Li Shimin remained unmoved.

The eunuch had to sing again.

Li Shimin still didn't move.

The last three sings.

Li Shimin remained unmoved.

At this time, Yuan Taizuo had to send someone to step forward.

"This general, my king is the King of Korea granted by the Emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty, and also has a first-rank official rank in the Great Sui Dynasty. Why don't you come forward to greet me?"

Li Shimin snorted coldly.

"Although Yuan Taizuo was given a king by my emperor, he was a king of vassal states. Although I was only a fifth-rank general, I came here to represent the ambassador of Liaodong and Liaoxi, and Luo Cheng, Duke of Chu, came."

Then the man said, "Luo Cheng is just a Duke."

"Master Luo is the commander who was granted and pledged by His Majesty to all counties in Liaodong and western Liaoning, and commanded the troops outside the pass. He represented the emperor and the Great Sui Dynasty."

Li Shimin meant that he was representing Luo Cheng, and Luo Cheng was the representative of the emperor stationed outside the pass.

Therefore, he was the representative of the emperor. Although Yuan Taizuo was a king and was awarded the first rank, he was only the king of vassals.

"Let Yuan Taizuo come to welcome the angel! Otherwise, it would be a neglecting angels and rude to the Emperor of Sui!"

Yuan Taizuo rewarded after listening.

Gripping his teeth, this little guy is really difficult to deal with.

I thought that wearing the official uniform of the Sui Dynasty and sing the titles granted by the Emperor of Sui could always suppress this kid.

"Accept, just welcome it."

Yuan Taizuo got off the car and led the crowd out of the city gate.

"The Great Sui vassal minister, King Yuan Taizuo, was appointed as the angel of the suzerain kingdom!"

"Congratulations to Emperor!

Li Shimin nodded and received this etiquette on behalf of the emperor.

"I came here this time by the order of Luo Shuai, the ambassador of the Great Sui Dynasty, Liaodong and Liaoxi. I think Laiyuan Gaisuwen has reported the purpose of my trip to you in advance, right?"

Seeing that he was so young and aggressive, Yuan Taizuo had to smile bitterly.

"My son has already reported the envoy's request to Gu, and asked the angels to enter the city first. Gu has prepared a banquet in the palace to welcome the angels to clean up the dust!"

But Li Shimin didn't like his trick at all.

"I came here under the order of General Luo to inform you of a few things. First, since you have submitted a letter to surrender, you should be the attitude of surrendering ministers and act as a vassal state. General Luo ordered you to immediately return the civil courts of the Great Sui people in your territory, including but not limited to the soldiers captured in the previous few expeditions. The Han people who have been plundered by you over the years must also be returned."

"Secondly, the corpses of the soldiers who fell into battle in your territory must be restrained immediately and then returned!"

"Third, the border troops and other troops immediately retreated a hundred miles and immediately sent Yuan Gaisuwen to Luoyang, Kyoto as a proton."

"Fourth, as vassals, you have the obligation to provide our Liaodong station with 400,000 stones of grain and grass before heavy snow."

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