Chapter 66: Fight, don’t fight?

In order to reward Gao Yanshou's enlistment in the city, Yang Yong specially allowed Gao Yanshou to select 3,000 surrendered soldiers from Goguryeo to form a team to assist the Sui army, and appointed Gao Yanshou as the official general of the chariot and cavalry of the Great Sui army. If the surrendered soldiers made enough contributions and promised that they and their families could obtain the status of the people of the Great Sui people, Gao Yanshou immediately thanked him.

Looking at Gao Yanshou's back as he went down, Li Hun reminded: "Your Majesty, beware of this person being cheated."

Yang Yong smiled and said, "So what if there is a fraud? I just want to use his reputation to weaken the remaining Goguryeo people's will to resist. The real key battle still depends on you. Why? The main force of Goguryeo has been defeated, are you still afraid that his remnants will be successful?"

When the emperor said this, everyone laughed. At present, the places occupied by the Sui army were under military control. From the time of sending troops to now, more than 2 million Goguryeo people have been under the rule of the Sui army. In the original plan, all Goguryeo people would move out of their hometowns and become laborers being built in various parts of the Sui Dynasty. However, the war has not yet ended yet. In order not to arouse all Goguryeo people's resistance, the Goguryeo people who were demoted to labor are limited to the captured army and some Goguryeo people. If they want to rule firmly, it would be impossible without the cooperation of Goguryeo people.

After laughing for a while, Yang Yong turned his gaze to the two young generals beside Luo Shixin and asked: "Who is Qin Qiong and who is Cheng Yaojin?"

Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin looked at each other in surprise, but they didn't expect the emperor to ask about them and quickly stood up.

"Report to the emperor, it is Qin Qiong the last one!"

"The last one will be Cheng Yaojin!"

Yang Yong looked at the two of them, merged with the images of them in his mind, nodded and smiled, "Work hard, I hope that the two beloved ministers can be granted the title of marquis and ministers in the future."

As soon as this statement was spoken, everyone around him looked at Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin with envy and jealousy. This was the emperor's golden words. Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin were also surprised. Qin Qiong was fine. After all, he was over thirty years old and was relatively stable. Cheng Yaojin grinned and almost couldn't find him.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

The two of them quickly thanked each other. Seeing the envious and jealous eyes around, Yang Yong couldn't help but scream in his heart: "It's bad, it's not good for them to be suppressed in the army in the future." He quickly remedy and raised his voice: "Well, all of you are like this. I have a saying that soldiers who don't want to be marshals are not good soldiers. As long as you make contributions, I will not be stingy to be a marshal."

"Long live! Long live!" Hearing the emperor's words, the Sui army, who was cleaning the battlefield, couldn't help but cheer again.

Luo Shixin took a step forward and said, "Emperor, General Yu pursued the Goguryeo army, with only 18,000 cavalry, and his strength was a little weak. The last general wanted to ask for a battle."

Looking at Luo Shixin's young face, Yang Yong nodded: "Okay, I'm sure."

"Report to the emperor, the last one will ask for a war."

"Report to the emperor, the last one will ask for a war."

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All the generals were excited and asked to fight one by one. Yang Yong agreed one by one. In the end, only thousands of Sui troops were left behind on the south bank to monitor the surrender of Silla. The Goguryeo people cleaned the battlefield, and the rest of the troops went to fight, even Yang Yong was among them.

An army was trekking forward tiredly on a plain. This army was the army that Yuan Taizuo quietly withdrew from, with a total of 50,000 people, including 7,000 cavalry and about 43,000 infantry. Compared with the 90,000 army at that time, the loss was almost half, and the cavalry had even lost more than 60%.

Despite this, Yuan Taizuo still felt lucky. After all, they retreated safely. They could enter the mountainous areas from the plains for about three days. At that time, there was no need to be afraid of the cavalry of the Sui army. With more than 50,000 Silla and more than 20,000 defenders, it would be no problem to block the Sui army for about three or five days. Unfortunately, more than 20,000 people behind the rear were cut off, and I don’t know how many people could escape.

After a quick journey for a day and night, Yuan Taizuo's army had already been seventy miles away from the battlefield. This marching speed broke the record of Goguryeo's army. People can always realize their potential when escaping. On the second day, the army that had rested overnight continued to advance, but it was obviously slower than yesterday. Today is the third day of escape. After two days, Yuan Taizuo's army had already marched 120 miles, and could reach the mountain area after another forty miles.

Some Goguryeo people along the way saw the army leaving, and hurriedly followed the army. Fortunately, the place they were walking was in a plain area, so they would not block the road. As long as the people who were fleeing, the Goguryeo army ignored it.

Behind these ordinary Goguryeo people, there were dozens of people, and dozens of knights mixed in, and they were struggling with difficulty. These people were like the army but not the same. They said they were like the army because they all had horses and weapons, and they said they were not like the army because only a few people were wearing military uniforms, and the others were dressed in various ways, and they were extremely dissatisfied, but they seemed to have been robbed.

However, seeing that these people are powerful, ordinary people subconsciously get a distance from them. These teams of dozens of people are Princess Shande and her escaped subordinates. After leaving the battlefield, Princess Shande thought about how to return to Silla. Don’t expect to go from the water. Only by returning to China by land can you walk at least 400 miles on the territory of Goguryeo.

Princess Shande originally wanted to return to China under the name of Yuan Taizuo, but on the first day, Princess Shande and her group learned the news that was enough to make them grit their teeth. Yuan Taizuo actually led a large army to pass through them one day, and they actually made the Goguryeo betrayed. No wonder the other party refused to save him after his camp was captured.

After knowing that Yuan Taizuo's army was ahead, Princess Shande and her group were all cold. Obviously, the Sui army would definitely chase after him in just one or two days. If she had a fool with Yuan Taizuo, let alone whether Yuan Taizuo would continue to treat her as an ally. Even if she still treated her as an ally, once the Sui army was entangled, she would not be able to leave. It would be better to change her costume quietly. In order to prevent the target from being too big, Princess Shande dispersed hundreds of people, which was why there were these teams of dozens of people.

Silla and Goguryeo are basically common. The two sides have been in contact for hundreds of years. They are only aware of their roots and have taken off their military uniforms and mixed them among these civilians. As expected, no one doubts about Princess Shande and her group. Even if someone doubts, they will think they are Goguryeo soldiers.

Two knights in black were exposed from the distant hillside. One of them raised the monocular telescope in his hand. The queue of Goguryeo marched clearly reflected into the glass lenses. Tens of thousands of Goguryeo army were distributed among the weeds of more than ten miles, slowly moving forward. There were cavalry escorted around them, and behind them were ordinary Goguryeo people with even greater momentum. As for the Silla people mixed with the people, they naturally ignored it.

After looking at it, one of them shouted, "Let's go." The two of them immediately turned their horses and walked to the back of the mountain. The two of them on the hillside just now disappeared without a trace, as if there had never been anyone there.

After going down the mountain, the two of them ran on horseback, and soon they passed the figure in front of the Goguryeo army. After traveling for more than ten miles, they entered a dense forest.

"Who?" He sniffed in the dense forest.

"No. 11, No. 12, come back to pay the order."

A Sui army in red armor came out from behind the tree. After picking up the tokens of the two, he said, "Come with me."

The Sui army, who was ambushed in the dense forest, was the one who used to rob grain. After they robbed the grain, they just handed over the bodies of the wounded and their own people to a large ship to take them away. The people who were still intact continued to stay. Because the Goguryeo general would rather die than surrender when he robbed the grain, the Sui army was injured. Although most of them could be cured, they had reduced their staff by more than 1,000 people. Now there are only more than 3,500 people left in this 5,000 team.

The scout of Zhang Shou discovered the first night after Yuan Taizuo retreated, but Zhang Shou couldn't figure out what happened. He saw too many Goguryeo people, so he had to give up blocking. The next day, when the Goguryeo army continued to flee in a hurry, Zhang Shou confirmed that the other party was running away, but no one was chasing him in the rear. Zhang Shou did not dare to act rashly, so he had to march with Yuan Taipo. The Sui army was full of horses, and of course the march was much faster than Yuan Taizuo. He often walked for a while and waited in front, and then continued to move forward when the Goguryeo army was about to move forward.

The two scouts were quickly taken to Zhang Shou, and Zhang Shou asked anxiously: "How is it, how far is the enemy?"

"Report to General, the enemy's vanguard is less than ten miles away from us."

"Did you see the shadow of our army?"

The scout shook his head: "No, there are ordinary Goguryeo people behind them. They are too many, even if our army comes up, there will be no dust or smoke when they are close."

Zhang Shou sighed disappointedly. If the other party had no cavalry, the 3,500 cavalry in his hands could hold the other party for at least a few days, but the other party's cavalry was twice as high as his. If they were easily engaged and surrounded by the opponent and tens of thousands of people were flooded, they would not know if their 3,500 cavalry could stop for a long time. It would be fine if the army could catch up during this period. Even if they died, they would be valuable. They were afraid that they would sacrifice the army but did not catch up. Then wouldn't they have sacrificed their 3,500 cavalry.
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