Tattata!

In the steep and undulating Marutou Mountain, a powerful cavalry team was quietly walking.

"Report——!"

Suddenly, a flying cavalry came towards him.

"Report to the general manager, the river ahead has frozen."

The general in the lead laughed at the person beside him and said, "It seems that the old man Li Ji did not lie to us!"

The man was also very excited and said, "It's time to destroy Goguryeo."

These two people are Qiben Heli and Asuna.

In fact, they were the first general manager of the Tang army to come to Liaodong. Before Li Ji's army arrived, Qibing Heli was the general manager of Liaodong Road, but they marched northward along the way, and their main opponents were the Fuyu generation in the northwest of Goguryeo, and a very important ally in Goguryeo, which is Baishan Maruhe.

They were also the most powerful cavalry team among the three armies, because their soldiers were mainly the garrisons and soldiers of the Songmo Governor's Office.

But they have not appeared for a long time and have even been forgotten. After all, the soldiers in the Central Plains are all on the Yalu River. Xue Rengui and the others think that Qibian Heli and Ashina Mischa have been fighting on Fuyu Road, so they don’t care about them and can call them the forgotten cavalry legion.

As the chief executive, Li Ji has never forgotten them.

Although Han Yi provided strong logistics to the Tang army to ensure that the Tang army could waste Goguryeo to death, Han Yi was not a general after all. He was just thinking from the perspective of a politician, or even from the perspective of a businessman. As long as Goguryeo was eliminated, this transaction would not be lost. But as the commander-in-chief, how could Li Ji wait and defeat Goguryeo with food? This is definitely not the style of a military general. Of course, Li Ji still wanted to defeat Yoon Gaisuwen himself. They were old opponents, but they had not yet decided the outcome.

Li Ji saw that Yoon Gaisuwen used his usual tricks again, and this time it was more thorough, so he felt that he had to find a way to go to Pyongyang City. It would be too difficult to fight like this line of defense. On the way of the attack, he learned from the local people that once winter began, the upper reaches of the Yalu River would freeze. After learning the news, he secretly informed Qie Heli and the others not to rush over and fight slowly in the north. At the same time, he took advantage of Pang Xiaotai's mistake to slowly transfer the main force downstream and concentrate his troops to attack downstream, forcing Yoon Gaisuwen to shrink the front line, so the defense of the upper reaches of the Yalu River must be empty.

When Qibi Heli and his friends came down from Baishan Hebei, they could directly reach the upper reaches of the Yalu River.

The defensive strongholds in Goguryeo in the upper reaches were mainly Marutou Mountain Castle, but the defense line of Marutou Mountain Castle was mainly concentrated in the southeast, while Kieba Heli and others came to the north. They quietly avoided the defense line of Marutou Mountain Castle and came to a relatively wide area of ​​the Yalu River. The crossing of the river was usually crossed to a narrow place and would not take a wide one. Yuan Gai Suwen never thought that the Tang army would cross the river here, and there were not even Tang army ships there. He only thought that winter would cause great trouble to the enemy, but he did not expect that this winter would also cost him his life.

At this time, the river surface here had frozen into a mirror. Qiheli and Ashinamis led 20,000 cavalrymen to lead horses and wear characteristic straw sandals to quietly cross the Yalu River from here.

Once this cavalry crosses the river, it will be very terrifying.

After 20,000 cavalry successfully crossed the Yalu River, Qiheli and Ashinamisha did not stop at all, and led the army to pounce directly towards Pyongyang.

There has been no battle in the upstream for a long time and has been concentrated in the downstream. This generation of defenders suddenly found a powerful Tang army cavalry appearing in front of him. Before he even started fighting, he was so scared that he was so scared that he dared not to fight. He immediately fled everywhere. Qibi Heli and his friends won the battle all the way. Goguryeo's defense line in the upstream seemed useless in front of Qibi Heli and his friends.

The news soon reached Yeon Gaisuwen. Yeon Gaisuwen couldn't calm down. Now Qibi Heli and the others can directly attack Pyongyang, or go directly to the rear of their main force, cooperate with Li Ji's army to attack on both sides. So he quickly ordered his second son Yuan Nanjian to command all the troops in the middle of the Yalu River, a total of 50,000 troops to resist Qibi Heli and the others.

However, Qibian Heli and the others were recuperating all the time, and the Khitan soldiers were cold-resistant to Goguryeo, and they were also used to fighting in winter. Although Yuan Nanjian had the advantage in military strength, they were tired troops. Moreover, Qibian Heli and the others were all cavalry. The battle may not work, but to fight an encounter, it was obviously Qibian Heli, and Ashinami's cavalry legion was even more dominant.

The two sides fought fiercely in the middle reaches of the Yalu River for several days, and finally ended with Qibing Heli defeating Yuan Nanjian.

Seeing that the Tang army was already unstoppable, the tombs were prepared for Yuan Gai Suwen, but at this critical moment, the court suddenly issued an edict asking Li Ji and Xue Rengui to quickly rush to the Tuyuhun battlefield to resist the Tubo attack, and ordered Qi Bi Heli and Ashinami to fire to the northwest battlefield.

This is really a slap!

But this is really no wonder Li Zhi. Li Zhi is the least willing in the court to withdraw troops from Liaodong at present, because he sent all the commanders here, and the court was full of civil officials. They have been putting pressure on Li Zhi these days and quickly withdraw troops from Liaodong. After all, Goguryeo is the territory of others. This is our own home, our own home is on fire, and you are still thinking about their territory.

Li Zhi has been holding on, and he even blocked the news. He was afraid of shaking the morale of the army. He hoped that Li Ji could destroy Goguryeo before winter, but Li Ji's strategy was to destroy Goguryeo in winter, which was very embarrassing.

Li Zhi learned that the Tang army had not yet made a breakthrough in the Yalu River and that winter had arrived, because the cold winter in Goguryeo is difficult to fight. Since you spend the winter there, it would be better to come back to spend the winter, so he ordered the withdrawal of his troops.

Li Ji looked at an edict blankly, and after watching for half an hour, his eyes were wet. He suddenly sighed to the sky, "I ordered the soldiers of the three armies to prepare for retreat."

As soon as these words were said, Xue Rengui and the others were already stunned. They were about to give Goguryeo a fatal blow, but why did they suddenly withdraw their troops? Is Mr. Li saying the wrong thing because he was too excited?

"Master, why is this?"

Gao Kan was puzzled.

Li Ji showed them the edict.

After seeing the soldiers, there was silence in the tent.

Military orders are like mountains, let alone the emperor's decree.

Although this will be unbearable to the outside king's order, the problem is that few generals who do this will have a good ending, and those who have a good ending will basically be successful in usurping the throne. Even if Goguryeo is already shaky and can be kicked with one kick, even if you win in the end, you will not have a good life. If you don't obey the emperor's orders, the more powerful you are, the more afraid of you the emperor.

Moreover, Li Zhi did not let them retreat for no reason. The situation in the country was really urgent, and they were transferred back without any means. They were not sure about the situation there. If Tubo invaded Chang'an, then this transaction would be a waste of money.

If Li Ji doesn't speak this, no one dares to say that we don't care about the emperor and destroy Goguryeo first. And Li Ji's words, if his identity disobeys the emperor's order, it will be very dangerous. If Li Ji wants to continue fighting and the generals agree, in Li Zhi's opinion, this is the rhythm of wearing a yellow robe, which is even more terrifying than Changsun Wuji.

Li Ji was able to survive to this day because of his loyalty. He made a quick decision to make the front army turn into the rear army, and the rear army turn into the front army, and prepare to withdraw his troops.

At the same time, Qibi Heli and the others also received the edict from Li Zhi. Qibi Heli and Ashimi were so depressed that they had just started, but they ended.

The Tang army's offensive stopped instantly.

As for Goguryeo, they were already scared and didn't know what to do, but suddenly they found that the Tang army did not advance any further.

"Haha, God helps me, very much!"

Yuan Gaisuwen had just received news from spies in Laizhou that Tubo launched a full-scale war against the Tang Dynasty, and immediately understood why the Tang army was stagnant, which was so happy.

"Father, the Tang army is eager to retreat. This is an opportunity for us. Our army should take the opportunity to counterattack, but we cannot let them leave easily. If their army is buried here and Tubo will further damage the Tang Dynasty, we can also take the opportunity to attack the Central Plains." Yuan Gai Suwen's four sons said shamelessly.

Yuan Gaisuwen nodded, and was about to issue an order to integrate the troops and counterattack the Tang army.

A general rushed into the tent, and did not care about any etiquette and shouted directly: "Mo Zhili, Pyongyang is lost." This Mo Zhili is the official name of the Prime Minister of Goguryeo, which was actually specially set up for Yoon Gaisuwen.

Everyone is stunned.

"You-what did you say?"

Yuan Gaisuwen stood up, walked to the general, and asked with wide eyes.

“Pyongyang is lost.”

"fart!"

Yoon Gaisuwen grabbed the man's collar with one hand and roared: "How could Pyongyang be lost if there are so few people in the enemy army?"

"It was King Gaozang who joined hands with the Pu family to incite the people, rushed into the military camp, tied up General Wen, and opened the city gate to surrender to the Tang army." The general said while crying.

It turned out that after the Tang army's flying troops sprinkled small cloth strips that day, the news quickly spread throughout the city. Although most people did not recognize words, some people also recognized words.

Whether it was the Tang Dynasty or Goguryeo, these civil officials were almost all deceiving the weak. Moreover, Yuan Gaisuwen was a military dictator. During this period, he killed many civil officials. Of course, the civil officials also held a grudge against Yuan Gaisuwen. Therefore, many literati in the city took the initiative to tell the people about the content of the white cloth strip and add fuel to the fire. If we do not surrender, we will be burned to death alive. People in Pyongyang were suddenly panicked, and the people who were originally united in unity immediately lost their fighting spirit. They had resisted firmly before, mainly because the Tang army killed too many people in Goguryeo, but now the Tang army has repeatedly promised that they would not kill innocent people indiscriminately. Under the deceived of those literati, the people in the city also believed in the Tang army. If the Tang army wanted to start a large-scale killing, it would be even more straightforward to burn them to death with fire. Why give this warning?

The flying army had just appeared, and the Tang army himself was not very clear about this mysterious unit. What's more, the people of Goguryeo, and no one knew how many fireballs the flying army could throw. In their opinion, since the Tang army could throw hundreds, it would definitely be able to throw thousands, or even tens of thousands, if not at one time, throw them a few more times.

Of course, Sharmony Wen would not surrender. He was extremely loyal to Yuan Gaisuwen, who was Yuan Gaisuwen's confidant general. When he saw this situation, he knew that he had only one way to go, that is, to go out of the city to fight the Tang army to the death. If he wins, he can prevent the Tang army from entering.

You should know that the Tang army did not even give him time to ask for help. Han Yi limited him to surrender within three days, but it is estimated that the people in the city would riot the next day, because the people also knew that this could not be played and could not stop the big birds in the sky. People could come over anytime and anywhere. So in the evening of that day, Wen Shamen sent a message to Su Dingfang, telling Su Dingfang, "Don't throw the fire, tomorrow I will send someone to you to talk about our surrender." But on the evening of that day, they led the main force out of the city secretly, preparing to attack the Tang army and fight with the backstop.

Su Dingfang and the others had already expected that the other party would come to make a secret move, so they had been ambushing a long time ago and were waiting for you to go out. With your virtue, you still wanted to fool us. The ancestor of fooling is now sitting in our tent. Not long after this Wenshamen went out, he was ambushed by the Tang army and was almost wiped out. Wenshamen also fled back to the city under the desperate protection of his subordinates.

This time, the Tang army surrounded the entire Pyongyang. Although the Tang army had few troops, they had already destroyed Pyongyang's defenders.
Chapter completed!