of the City

Yuan Taizuo rode on a tall white horse, watching the 100,000 troops rolling forward, and the entire team emitted a sense of terrifying and killing. The team in front of him seemed to be unable to stop it, and even mountains, rivers and rivers could be destroyed.

He was just over thirty years old at this time, and he was full of energy. He was so young and held heavy troops and was extremely powerful. He should be full of passion and ambition, but now his face was full of worries. Goguryeo was attacked by the Sui army in a short time. How strong is the Sui army?

Although Yuan Taizuo had never been to the Great Sui territory in person, Yuan Taizuo had heard of it for a long time that the Central Plains were ten times more human and material resources than Goguryeo. If the Central Plains had not been in chaos, how could Goguryeo be able to be safe in the past few years?

Since Zhou unified the northern part of the Central Plains, Goguryeo has been worried about its relationship with the Central Plains dynasty. Both the monarch and ministers are under a lot of pressure and have been racing against time. If they can eliminate Baekje and Silla before the Central Plains are unification, it would be fine to complete the unification of the entire peninsula, otherwise Goguryeo might be in danger of destroying the country.

Now it is indeed here. The Great Sui Dynasty completed the reunification of the Central Plains before Goguryeo, and Baekje and Silla countries still exist. When he received the news that Pyongyang was surrounded, Yuan Taizuo was shocked. The thing he was most worried about was indeed true. He was immediately in a dilemma. If he retreated immediately, even if Baekje and Silla countries did not collude with the Great Sui Dynasty, they would probably not miss such a good opportunity. If they did not retreat, once Pyongyang was captured, even if he had more than 100,000 troops in his hands, he would become a rootless source. Moreover, how could the king not save him?

If a mediocre general was replaced, he would either be so scared that he dared not move, or he would immediately raise an army to rescue him. However, Yuan Taizuo had been in charge of troops for many years and would not act recklessly. After careful consideration, he still made various arrangements. On the one hand, he used the land in the southeast of the Hufeiling Mountains to seek peace with Baekje and Silla, and strengthened several passes on the Hufeiling Mountains in succession. Now, regardless of Baekje, Silla and Silla agree to peace with each other. At least for the time being, there is no need to worry that the troops of both countries can cross the Hufeiling Mountains in a short time and attack the rear of the army. He can return to the rescue with confidence.

Now I don’t know what the situation is in Pyongyang. With Pyongyang’s strength, maybe the Sui army has already run out of blood under the city of Pyongyang. He can rescue the siege as soon as he returns to Beijing. When Yuan Taizuo thought of this, he finally felt refreshed.

"Report, Lord Mo Lizhi, I met King Rongliu in front of me."

After receiving the scout's report, Yuan Taizuo was shocked. King Rongliu had been in command of the navy. How could he be here now? He became famous in his heart. Could it be... he dare not think about it anymore, and hurriedly said: "Hurry, please invite King Rongliu."

"As for the order." Not long after the scout, Gao Jianwu, who was in a dirt and dusty manner, rode a donkey to Yuan Taizuo. Seeing Gao Jianwu's appearance, Yuan Taizuo felt even more unfair: "Prince, what happened?"

Gao Jianwu sighed and told Yuan Taizuo the news of the destruction of the entire naval army. Yuan Taizuo breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the navy was just a matter of matter. Although the Goguryeo navy was much stronger than Baekje and Silla, it was not proportional to the army. Yuan Taizuo asked in confusion: "Prince, do you mean that the Sui army has not attacked the capital, what is this?"

"Mr. Mo Lizhi, I don't know if the Sui army is attacking the capital now. However, I am still in Beishui, and the Sui army has not touched the capital at all."

The expedition was delayed for a long time, and it has always been beneficial to the defense. Although the capital city is high and thick, it is just unreasonable that the Sui army Baibaitun is under the strong city for a month. Unless the Sui army does not want to break through the capital city of Goguryeo, if they do not want to attack the city, then what will the Sui army siege the city? Yuan Taizuo's mind was about to explode, and suddenly a flash of inspiration in his mind: "Is it because the Sui army is putting its target on itself?"

The more he thought about it, the more he felt right, and was shocked: "Send the order and send the scout twenty or forty miles. Once the Sui army is found, report it immediately."

"Affect the order."

Seeing the scout obeying the order, Yuan Taizuo breathed a sigh of relief and turned to Gao Jianwu and said, "The victory and defeat are still the same as the military. The prince doesn't have to pay too much attention. Since the prince has arrived here, he might as well stay in my army for the time being."

"Thank you, Lord Mo Lizhi." Gao Jianwu hurriedly thanked. He naturally understood that although he was the prince, he didn't have to be afraid of him with Mo Lizhi's power. Moreover, he is still waiting for his crimes at the moment. He is in the army. As long as he can rescue Pyongyang, he can get some credit to offset his previous crimes.

Yuan Taizuo was suspicious of being a dark ghost, and became more and more cautious. He marched for only thirty miles a day. It took seven or eight days to complete the three-day journey of Gao Jianwu's escape. More than 200 people left behind by Gao Jianwu seemed to disappear, which made Yuan Taizuo even more worried. It was just that the army was marching to Beishui but did not find the Sui army. They encountered the city and villages of Goguryeo along the way.

However, when it comes to Beishui, Yuan is too deceitful, Gao Jianwu and others are stunned. The narrowest part of Beishui is hundreds of meters wide, and the widest part is several miles away. Although Pyongyang is right in front of you, how do they cross the river?

If it were in the past, there would be no problem. Just use ships to transport them directly. It would be easy to build several bridges in the water. Now that their naval army has been completely destroyed, where can the ships come and go? The Sui army's ships came and went on the water, and it would probably not be so easy to build bridges. Gao Jianwu now understood why the Sui army completely destroyed his naval army, which was to make them have no ships to cross. Even if the army came back, they could only stare at the south of Beishui.

Yuan Taizuo tried to build a bridge at night several times and wanted to smuggle across the river, but was soon discovered by the Sui army. The blood was flowing into a river by killing the people who built the bridge, and the things that built the bridge were burned clean. Yuan Taizuo's army had to look at the river and sigh.

In Pyongyang City, Goguryeo soldiers came and went on the city walls, looking at the Sui army camp that was constantly scattered under the city. Everyone's face was tight, fearing that the Sui army would attack the city at any time, and the pedestrians on the street became increasingly rare. The lively street scenes in the past were completely gone. Although it was broad daylight, many shops still closed the doors of the shops. Even if the shops had opened, there were more shops than customers in the shops.

The only thing that is still prosperous is the grain shop. Many grain shops have long queues in front of them. However, some grain shops have already sold out signs and are still selling grain shops. The grain price has increased by at least 50% compared to two months ago, and it is still in short supply. When the Sui army first siege the city, many Goguryeo people didn't care. After nearly two hundred years of operation, Pyongyang has a strong city and a thick wall, with a strong and bitter soup. There are tens of thousands of troops in the city. More than 100,000 troops from Moli can also return to aid quickly, and there are more than 200,000 troops in the north.

But I didn't expect that Mo Lizhi's army was blocked by Beishui. Standing on the top of the city, you could already see the military camp that Lord Mo Lizhi was stationed. However, the army had no wings and could not fly even if they wanted to fly. The northern army had no hope. Two Sui troops were capturing one city after another. Bad news in the north were one after another, and they were also counting on the capital to send reinforcements and supplies.

King Gao Yuan of Yingyang sent thousands of people to conduct a tentative attack on the Sui army. This attack made the Goguryeo army face how strong the Sui army was. The Sui army first flew with thousands of arrows and shot most of the Goguryeo soldiers who left the city, and then sent a combination of swords, shields, spears, and modao teams to kill the remaining Goguryeo soldiers like chopping vegetables and melons. Three thousand Goguryeo soldiers who left the city finally escaped only more than one hundred.

The failure of this tentative attack completely dispelled other ideas of the monarch and minister of Goguryeo in the city and obediently acted as a turtle. Now two months have passed, the Sui army has not taken any action to attack Pyongyang City and maintained its siege, as if it was determined to trap Pyongyang City to death.

Pyongyang City has sufficient material reserves. Before the arrival of the Sui army, it relied on the navy to fight desperately, and received most of the precious time to transport the materials to the front line outside the city into the city. However, there were more than 200,000 civilians in Pyongyang City, plus 300,000 civilians, civil and military officials, and the inner courtyard of the palace. There were nearly 300,000 mouths in total, and people ate horses and chewed every day. Once the external transportation was cut off, no matter how much material was, it would be exhausted. At present, many poor people in the city could not expose the disaster. Even the rich people were more and more cherished about food. The military and civilians of Goguryeo also became more and more anxious, worried, and afraid...

Judging from the dense military camps of the Sui army below, the Sui army besieged no less than 100,000 people. If there were 100,000 troops from Goguryeo to fight thousands of miles away from the country, in two months, the front-line soldiers would probably have to be short of food. The Sui army not only supported the 100,000 people besieged the city, but also 200,000 people fighting in Goguryeo. Although they could get some supplies for every city they broke, most of the supplies still had to be transported from the rear. How rich was the Great Sui army? Seeing the city doing exercises without panic every day, even if it did not attack, the Emperor and Minister of Goguryeo were extremely frightened.

At the docks on both sides of Beishui, countless ships docked every day, and the materials unloaded from the ships piled up on the shore and turned into hills. Now is the era of cold weapons. There are 100,000 people and the materials consumed every day need about 500 tons. If it is natural for civilians to carry the hand and hand, it is enough to transport a large ship of 5,000 materials at one time. With the familiarity of the Sui army with Zhuojun and Pyongyang, it only takes about ten days to go back and forth. There are 30 large ships with more than 5,000 materials, 72 large ships with more than 2,000 materials, and hundreds of ships with more than 800 materials, as long as one-tenth of the transport capacity is enough to maintain the operation of a large army of 100,000 people.
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