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Chapter two hundred and forty fourth triumphant return

Three days after the Battle of Gaimu City, the rainy season was over, and the whole of Liaodong was trapped in the humid and hot summer.

Thousands of Goguryeo cavalry stepped by, Lianghe, which had been dyed red. When they arrived at the city of Gaimu City, countless crows heard the sound of people, and flew into the sky with a loud bang, like a black cloud hovering above their heads. The air was filled with a smell of rotten smell, which could not be dispelled even under the sun.

With five swords on his back and riding a tall horse, Gaisuwen, the western part of Goguryeo, led the Liaodong City, Beisha City, and Goguryeo Marine soldiers, a total of 30,000 reinforcements, and arrived under the Liangshui River. Yuangaisuwen jumped off the horse suddenly. On the Liangshui River, arrow feathers were densely stinged on the ground, growing like grass by the field. The Liangshui River was extinct, almost cut off the flow, and the dead war horses and broken spears were everywhere.

The most proud elite cavalry of Goguryeo was trapped in the Liangshui River, and the bodies of the war horses were stranded in the shallows. The broken iron pole of the horns and iron poles showed a corner on the water surface. The warriors below were caught in several arrows and faced with faces.

A fly attached to the corpse, and a wild dog squatted by the river without restraint, eating half of his hand. Yuan Gaisuwen suddenly pulled out a knife from behind and threw it at the wild dog. He heard a whimper! The wild dog was killed immediately after being stabbed in the forehead.

Yuan Gaisuwen suddenly turned around, his face turned ashen. Behind him were Liangshuihe Plain covered with corpses, and Gaimu City, which was razed to the ground and burned into pieces. The big model on the side and the Goguryeo generals who were visiting the Mok all bowed their heads.

Yuan Gaisuwen said in a deep voice: "There is a large army of 10,000 in Gaimu City, how can it fall in one day? In just three days, my strategy of seducing the enemy can be realized. Thirty thousand troops attacked each other in front and back. This Gaimu City is the burial place for the Han people!"

Cui Ci, a Han general on the side, said, "The guards have a strong city but do not defend, but go out of the city to fight in the field. It is obviously a plan to lure the enemy by the Han people. I heard that although Li Chongjiu was established on the grassland for less than two years, regardless of Xi's army, Liaoxi's Marine, the Han people were under his command, and they won consecutive battles. This person will not be a strong enemy to us in the future."

Yuan Jingtu said, "Brother, I don't think there is any need to be afraid of this person. When Li Chongjiu attacked Shanggu, he was not defeated by Song Jingang. Later, he used a strategy to seize the entire Shanggu County. It can be seen that his military use is just like this. If he attacked him with great dignity, he would definitely not be the opponent of our Great Goryeo."

Yuan Gai Suwen waved his hand and said, "So what if Song Jingang defeated Li Chongjiu? In the end, he lost Shanggu County. The king was successful and the enemy was defeated. Li Chongjiu was good at using tricks. We must remember the lessons we taught today."

Cui Ci looked at Yeon Gai Suwen with appreciation, thinking that although this Western Jusa was young, his mind was not inferior to his father. However, Cui Ci frowned and said, "But this time the attack on the Liaoshui River will fail, I am afraid that the court will give us a statement to the emperor and the king. For the great Lu and the Lord Yizhi also hope that we can first fight Baekje and Silla, and then use troops to Sui. I am afraid that he will not speak for us this time."

After hearing this, Yuen Gaisuwen narrowed his eyes and said, "You don't know that the king is about to lose. I'm afraid there is no time to take care of our affairs at the moment."

Just when Yuan Gaisuwen was furious by the Liang River, Li Chongjiu was already leading a large army and rescued Han people, and rescued 30,000 prisoners of the Goguryeo people, 100,000 stones of food, and countless weapons and armor seized. He returned to the Liao River and returned to western Liaoning.

The army returned triumphantly, and the Han soldiers sang the song of victory. The wind flew and the flags were raised, and the horns were blowing and the swords and guns were sang on the banks of the Liaoshui River. The Xi tribes, the Western Liaoning tribes, and the Dingling tribes felt the tune were vigorous and they sang together.

The news of the return of the army had already been ordered to wait by the Liao River day and night. Wen Yanbo, who was waiting for the news, heard about it. At the moment, Wen Yanbo and the civil servants were welcomed by the ferry on the banks of the Liao River.

The voice of thousands of soldiers singing in victory came from afar. Wen Yanbo finally confirmed the news of the great victory of the army when he saw the high morale of the army, escorting Goguryeo prisoners of war and a continuous load of large chariots.

Wen Yanbo, who was originally a scholar from Taiyuan, did not have the prejudice to discriminate against poor families, but he finally felt condescending. Although Li Chongjiu was good at managing Huaihuang Town, this was not enough to make him sincerely awe. He firmly believed that he would be able to manage Huaihuang Town well if he had been. But today, he saw Li Chongjiu leading his army to capture Gaimu City, rescue the lost people, and defeated the Goguryeo army and returned victoriously, there was no last doubt in his heart.

No matter how prosperous the age is, if it is not protected by powerful force, everything will be gone. Li Chongjiu's ability to achieve this great victory in difficulties shows his courage.

When Li Chongjiu Khan's big flag was floating by the Liao River, Wen Yanbo immediately led his army's civil servants to come forward, bowed and bowed beside the road and said, "I wish you to defeat the Dongyi and return to victory. It is a blessing to be an official under the command of the envoy!"

Li Chongjiu immediately heard Wen Yanbo's words and was stunned. The Han people have always adhered to the distinction between Chinese and barbarians since ancient times. The world was divided into five parts, with China in the middle, and then divided into four barbarians. At that time, all countries regarded themselves as orthodox and regarded other countries as barbarians. For example, when the north and the south were separatist, they each held orthodox. The Southern Dynasties called the Northern Dynasties the "Suolu" and the Northern Dynasties pointed to the Southern Dynasties as "island barbarians".

If you live as orthodox, you will have a natural excuse to use troops to the four barbarians who do not accept the king's transformation. For Confucians who have always been particular about their masters and have no excuses to raise troops like this. Even barbarians from all directions were present. When Goguryeo was in good King, Goguryeo reached the largest territory, and at the time he also had the ambition of being called the two dynasties of the North and South dynasties. Although the Japanese were limited to the island country, they also had to make a Hokkien tribe to call the barbarians to attack from generation to generation to show that they were orthodox. Later, the highest power of the Wu family was called the General of the Conquering the Yi.

Wen Yanbo said this as if he regarded Li Chongjiu's orthodox Han people, and could conquer the four barbarians. At the same time, he also tactfully expressed that he hoped that Li Chongjiu would one day inherit the Han throne and rule the world.

One word can make a country prosperous, and one word can express one's ambition. Li Chongjiu recalled that the reason why Emperor Wu and Tangzong of Han and Tang Dynasty in history was better than that of Taizu of the founding country in history was that they defeated the surrounding four barbarians, rather than unifying the country. In such a great era, if they did not fight south and north, subdue the four barbarians and make great achievements, wouldn't they let down their lives?

Li Chongjiu got off the horse and helped Wen Yanbo up and said, "I understand it after Sima Wen has worked hard."

Wen Yanbo looked at the people in Tongding who returned to his hometown behind him and cried with joy. He stepped closer and said, "Your Majesty can save the people from water and fire, and he has the heart of a benevolent monarch."

Li Chongjiu thought to himself whether Wen Yanbo was hinting that he was the emperor.

The army crossed the Liao River and returned to Huaiyuan Town to station. Because Tongding Town had become a dead city, Li Chongjiu decided to give up and place more than 3,000 rescued people in Huaiyuan Town. In addition, the 800 defenders in Huaiyuan Town were obviously insufficient. Li Chongjiu decided to promote Wugu to Huaiyuan Town General, asking him to lead 700 soldiers of the two tribes of the Dingling tribes to station in the city. Liaodong County was temporarily abolished and Huaiyuan Town was placed in Liaoxi County.

Li Chongjiu of Liaoxi County decided to let Yang Linfu be the county magistrate, and Zhao Quer led 1,500 Han troops to station in Liucheng. Some of these 1,500 soldiers were surrendered from Liucheng, and some were Shanggu County soldiers. However, Tudiji was in western Liaoning, and the new city was almost completed. Cui Xu of Dingling's troops also planned to follow Tudiji and build a new city. In this way, Liaoxi County, plus Huaiyuan Town, had four cities, which were supporting each other. As long as it was not Luo Yi, Gao Kaidao, and Goguryeo jointly attacked, they would not be afraid.

After arranging the situation in western Liaoning, the following is to reward the three armies. A total of 100,000 shi of military rations were seized from Gaimu City, of which 50,000 were seized by the people of Tongding Town by Goryeo, and now they all fell into Li Chongjiu's hands. Li Chongjiu decided to divide the Dingling clan into 10,000 shi, and the western Liaoning Marines divided into 30,000 shi, and the remaining 60,000 were placed in Huaiyuan Town and Liucheng to prepare military rations.

When two thousand armors were seized from Goguryeo, Li Chongjiu still kept half of them, while the remaining Xi people divided 500 pieces, 500 pieces, and Ding Ling all divided 500 pieces. The remaining gold, silver and copper coins obtained from the city were also divided in this way.

In the end, there were 30,000 Goguryeo prisoners of war, and many generals advised Li Chongjiu to kill them all to avenge their children. However, Li Chongjiu did not agree, but killed more than 300 Goguryeo generals who went to Tongding Town to create bloody cases. As for the prisoners of war, they were selected by the three tribes of Marce, Ding Ling and Xi as slaves. As for the three tribes, they selected the remaining ten thousand people and planned to sell them to Turks, Tiel, or other forces on the grassland.

After a dispute, the three tribes of Xi, Dingling and Mohe finally got their needs, and they were all happy. The next day, the army left Huaiyuan Town and returned to western Liaoning with prisoners of war. When they passed Yiwulu Mountain, they decided to go to the temple to worship.

When Li Chongjiu brought Wen Yanbo, Yang Linfu, Han army, generals of the three tribes, and 300 soldiers into the mountain temple, Temple Zhu had already brought all his disciples down the mountain to welcome him.

"Congratulations to the Lord for his spring breeze, and he returned home victoriously! I am here to congratulate the prefect in front of Guangning Duke every day, and today I finally achieved my wish."

The imperial court conferred the mountain god in Beizhen as the Guangning Duke. Of course, no one knew the truth or falsehood of the temple's wishes every day. Therefore, all the outstanding generals sneered. Wang Mahan said directly: "I sacrificed my life and stayed with the prefect to fight hard and win. This is your credit."

The temple prayed for a moment and said with a smile: "General, don't be angry, don't be angry."

Li Chongjiu smiled and said, "Thank you, Master, I am here to worship the mountain."

The temple monk said happily at the sight: "I am so sincere, I am really happy to be the temple."
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