There is a city in the southwest of Goguryeo called Beisha City. For the secret recipe for winter capture, Beisha City was exchanged for the Tang Dynasty.

Nowadays, the coastal city of Beisha City belongs to the Tang Dynasty, but unlike other cities, this city, Datang only owns the right to the city walls and the docks, and other places are also under the rule of Goguryeo.

This is also the reason why the negotiation was successfully concluded. Goguryeo withdrew all its population and left an empty city for the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty did not intend to ask the people of Goguryeo for a city, but was specially used as a trading port city.

A large amount of goods were stockpiled in the city of Bessa, and then they were all exported to Goguryeo and the surrounding small countries.

The surrounding small countries are scarce in resources and have backward handicrafts, and are worried that they can't buy things, so they are very happy about this move, including Goguryeo. They originally planned to make trouble for Beisha City, but as the trade unfolds, they tasted the sweetness. Not only did they not make trouble, they also strongly supported their merchants to go to Beisha City for business.

As time goes by, more and more goods were hoarded by the Tang Dynasty. It was a small city, and it was filled in almost half a year.

The most daily necessities are included, followed by the fine white salt produced by the Tang Dynasty. There are about 10% of the rice and grain transported from the south. It seems ordinary, but it has been planned by the Du Family Chamber of Commerce for a long time and is all of them in short supply in Goguryeo.

Especially white salt, in this era when salt production capacity was extremely low, salt and iron can be said to be a strategic material that is more expensive than grain.

Of course, this problem has not been made since the Tang Dynasty had the salt-making technique given by Du Shaoqing. However, the salt-iron technology is the highest secret, and other countries do not have it, and they are still short of salt.

When a businessman in Tianbeisha City passed the city gate, he encountered a truck that accidentally overturned the Du family chamber of commerce. A group of bright swords and weapons rolled out from it. The eye-catching thing was even more than real gold and silver.

However, this scene was quickly covered up by the cargo man, and there were very few people who saw this, and at the same time, they claimed that the car was just ordinary goods.

But is it really an ordinary cargo? We all saw it as an excellent weapon, so it is not a sign of excitement.

In the following period, similar scenes continued to appear. Some people saw large quantities of copper coins, some saw large quantities of grain, some saw large quantities of salt, etc. There were even rumors that there were almost no daily necessities in Beisha City, and salt was almost filled with the entire city, enough to eat the entire Goguryeo for five years without shortage of salt.

The news gradually spread to the Goguryeo Palace, and I felt nervous about Lu Yuan and Gaisuwen. What did the Tang Dynasty want to do? It transported salt and iron to Beisha City in large quantities? It was not iron ingots but weapons, and it also transported grain in a hidden way. Is it necessary to increase troops in the next step? This is to stab us Goguryeo.

Soon, confidants of civil and military officials discussed countermeasures, and this is what we should do.

Some ministers with an impatient personality said, "Big Lu, it is said that goods are piled up in the entire city. It is like putting a large number of treasures at our doorstep. Who is not moved when you see it?

Otherwise, we will send troops to snatch them back, and not to mention anything else, just the salt inside can be regarded as our Goguryeo earnings for ten years."

"Break back? Our Gaoguli is not a robber. The Beisha City is now owned by the Tang Dynasty. Let's go publicly. The Tang Dynasty will inevitably raise troops to revenge. Who will resist at that time? Will you go?" someone retorted loudly.

The person who said the robbers stopped talking, but some people suggested that the soldiers and horses took off their military uniforms and pretended to be robbers, and were ignored by their colleagues like they were fools. Tens of thousands of robbers appeared in your Goguryeo territory? Is the Tang Dynasty a fool? So easy to cheat?

Another person said: "Since the opening of Beisha City as a trading port, our Goguryeo merchants immediately became active. All the goods in Beisha City are missing by the people. The goods that were priced but had not been sold in the market have become common.

It can be said that this city has greatly prospered our Goguryeo economy. If we take action against Beisha City, it is like killing a chicken to get eggs. Even if we get a little wealth by chance, it will not be of any benefit in the long run."

This person's words make people think deeply. It is difficult for the people of Goguryeo to make some money, but cutting off this trade route in less than a year is indeed not the right way to govern the country.

"Yes, it's great to Lu, Beisha City cannot move. With this city, many goods from the Tang Dynasty were transported from sea and then sold to various tribes in the north through our borders. We fattened the city-state army along the way through high passing taxes. If Beisha City is gone, these benefits will be gone immediately." A general also opposed.

The crowd gradually stopped arguing and looked at Lu Yuan and Gaisuwen. It was obvious that the side who was siege in the city was convinced, and it was still appropriate to maintain Beisha City for a long time.

Yuan Gaisuwen, who was sitting in the first place, had no words to say. Of course, he knew that opening a trading port would be of great benefit to his country, but he understood even more that the ambition of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty was definitely no smaller than that of the Sui Dynasty Emperor twenty years ago, and even farther beyond that. It can be seen from the Tang Dynasty's attack on the Eastern Turks.

He gave his intelligence officer a wink, and the other party took out a copy of the data and handed it out. At the same time, he said to the officials loudly: "Everyone, everyone seems to have forgotten that it is not that we took the initiative to think about it, but that the abnormality has been discovered in Beisha City, which has aroused our alertness.

The good trading port in Beisha City is doing business uneasy and steadily. How did you start hoarding weapons and food? Will these things be sold to us by the Tang Dynasty?”

So, the other party is hoarding military supplies, and is it time to attack us?

Everyone took a breath. Since the failure of the three expeditions of Gaoguli in the dynasty twenty years ago, the middle has been calm for twenty years. Neighboring countries, no matter how big or small, dared Goguli to invade actively. Could it be that the Tang Dynasty wanted to make a comeback and embark on the old path of the Sui Dynasty?

Goguryeo General Ezhi Wende pondered: "There may be something strange at this time. Beisha City is located by the sea. The Tang Dynasty occupied only a dry city, and even the garrison was pitifully few, not to mention that their navy was weak, so from a military perspective, Beisha City could not become a springboard for attacking our Goguryeo."

Yuan Gaisuwen nodded and said, "This is exactly what I doubt, but the Tang Dynasty never makes useless moves, so it must be their conspiracy."

"Maybe, they just wanted to attack unexpectedly? After all, hoarding weapons and food is a top secret. We accidentally discovered it. The Tang Dynasty didn't know that the news had been leaked." Someone guessed.

Sneak attack? Where to sneak attack? Do they rely on their navy?

All kinds of questions emerged in the minds of all officials and there were many discussions in the court.

Yuan Gaisuwen pressed everyone and said loudly: "We don't know how the Tang Dynasty will take action, but one thing is absolutely correct, that is, the Tang Dynasty's desire to perish me will never die, and she will never sit idly by and watch Goguryeo become stronger day by day.

Although there are many benefits to trade in Beisha City, there are still rumors that the Tang Dynasty took the opportunity to save money from us and was sucking the blood of a poor and weak country like our Goguryeo.

Some people also guessed that the Tang Dynasty saw that we were getting richer and richer, and this kind of wealth was also brought by them. They deliberately did this, hoping to wait for the opportunity to fatten us up, so that we could be killed and annexed directly."

What???

Yuan Gaisuwen's words were like a hammer and hitting everyone's hearts. This kind of thing is too ridiculous and terrible.

"After a word, the Tang Dynasty had bad intentions towards us, so we must be prepared for it.

No matter what they were planning to mobilize military equipment and food, and want to break the deadlock, then they can just destroy their preparations. Beisha City is our territory, and it is natural to get it back.

As for the war on the Tang Dynasty? Since we will face each other sooner or later, it is better to regret it at this time than to raise the butcher knife in the future."

Yuan Gaisuwen was a natural leader. He said everything without any loss. The Goguryeo court suddenly asked for battle. No one wanted to see his country swallowed up by other countries. At that time, everyone was a lamb to be slaughtered and was imprisoned.

Yizhi Wende said tenaciously: "Goguryeo is a great power in the east. The Sui Dynasty twenty years ago was so powerful that it was still rejected by us? Now, the Tang Kingdom in the west has been established for only twenty years, and its national strength is not as strong as the previous Sui Dynasty. If you want to destroy my Goguryeo, it is a fool!"

"Okay, since that's the case, General Yizhi will go to mobilize troops and secretly travel west. Taking advantage of the Tang Dynasty's unpreparedness, he took down Beisha City in one fell swoop, ate all the supplies, cut off their reinforcements from the sea, and then keep people to defend. The general turned north to Liaodong City to take charge, in order to prevent the Tang Dynasty from assembling a large army to attack and take revenge."

Yoon Gaisuwen made a decision and was about to take the initiative. After the court meeting, he also secretly discussed with several confidant generals that if he withstood the waves of revenge in the Tang Dynasty, then with all the supplies in Beisha City as support, Gao Guli could use the opportunity to draw out tens of thousands of troops to sweep Baekje and Silla in the east, and to unify the peninsula to become a real powerful country in the east.

If you can't do these things, you will never be able to withstand the powerful Tang Dynasty and will sooner or later be destroyed.

There is a way to attack the enemy's plan, and then attack the enemy's diplomatic relations and fight again.

The planning in the temple is the key to victory and defeat. What Gao Guli saw was exactly what the Tang Dynasty wanted him to see. The emperor and his ministers, who did not know the truth, made a misjudgment, but the action was exactly what the Tang Dynasty thought. This Beisha City was the bait given by Su Dingfang and Du He in Fuyu City. Only when Goguli swallowed this bait, the Tang Dynasty had a reason to send troops, and at the same time had a reason to borrow troops from other countries.

A few days later, the city of Beisha fell and returned to the hands of the Goguryeo people.

All this seemed to happen very suddenly, but it was like the plan of both sides. The attacking side was carried out with a steady and rapid attack, and the battle was decided quickly.

On the defensive side, more than a thousand soldiers above the head of Beisha City. When they saw the Goguryeo army roaring, they began to warn, then closed the east gate, symbolically shot arrows and rocks and other defenses, and soon sneaked away from the west gate and headed straight to the dock.

A trade transport ship was parked on the beach to the west of Beisha City, and it turned into a troop transport ship, taking away all the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. In the entire defense battle of Beisha City, a single soldier in the Tang Dynasty lost the city without any loss.

After seeing the results of the battle, Yizhi Wende was stunned. What happened? When did the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty become a stubborn person who escaped? What about their blood and courage? Didn’t they say that they were the most excellent soldiers in the world?

"No, I'm trapped! Get out of the city quickly and send someone to count the goods in the city. If there is any abnormality, come quickly..."

Before the Yizhi Wende military order was finished, a roar in the city made the city walls shaking a little.

All the Goguryeo soldiers had a blank mind and looked at the sound in a daze. They saw a black fire, and soon it was like autumn wind swaying fallen leaves. The fire accompanied by the sea breeze, and the entire Beisha City turned into a sea of ​​fire.

Yizhi Wende was stunned and fled in a hurry with his soldiers. However, even though he evacuated quickly, Gao Guli still lost 5,000 troops in the fire in vain, and they were all elite, which made this iron-blooded general of Goguryeo heartbroken.

"Quickly send a message to the big couple Lu. Our army was trapped and lost 5,000 battles. Beisha City was burned and nothing was found. Based on this, it is speculated that everything was a conspiracy of the Tang people, and deliberately set up a trap to attract us.

But they will never stop here for no reason. This is just the beginning. In order to prevent the Tang Dynasty from attacking, we will continue to garrison in Liaodong City."

The deputy general next to him looked at the ruins in front of him and asked, "General, what should we do about this Beisha City? Should we continue to send people to guard it?"

"A ruined land is worthless.

Send a team of thousands of people to be stationed at the dock to prevent the opponent's soft-footed navy from coming to the shore from now on. The battle is imminent, and we do not have much force to put it in such useless places."

Yizhi Wende was a good general who could fight tough battles, but his contempt for the Tang Navy made him regret it in the war later.

Yuan Gaisuwen, who received the news, was also puzzled, why did the Tang Dynasty do all this?

If it is to start a war with Goguryeo, then just start fighting from the west. What should I do if I take the initiative to give up Beisha City? Leaving Beisha City can also be used as a port for the navy to land, which is beneficial but not harmful.

No matter how he wanted to break his head, he would never have thought that the Tang Dynasty would not intend to use its own army to fight.

Of course, when I can't figure it out, Yoon Gaisuwen wouldn't bother to think too much. Just defend well. What he cares most about is the goods in Beisha City. Didn't it mean that salt and iron are full? Such a big deal in the Tang Dynasty? Use salt and iron from a city to exchange for the lives of thousands of soldiers in Goguryeo?

When he saw the military newspaper, he realized that it was all traps, so how could there be any salt and iron? He took the initiative to abandon the city, so how could he leave supplies for his opponents?

"It's hateful. I knew that the Tang Dynasty could not see Goguryeo's wealth and strength. This was a conspiracy to use this to cut off my way to wealth and prosperity in Goguryeo. It was really despicable.

But what is strange is that since you are afraid that we will be strong, it would be enough not to open this place before, so why do you have to go around in circles?”

Yuan Gai Suwen stomped his feet and cursed his mother. He couldn't guess what the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty did. He didn't know that this time it was a group of young people pushing him. The young people were always wild and wild. He didn't even know who the opponent was. Of course, he had to be led step by step.
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