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Chapter 50: Destroying Beijing View, Soldiers Pointing at Pyongyang

Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng once said: The emperor's wrath is a million corpses and bleeding thousands of miles away.

Although Luo Shixin was not so domineering, he was not easy. His anger directly led to the extermination of the Hei Shui Mohe tribe. The remaining elderly, weak, women and children in the Hei Shui Mohe tribe were not enough to survive in a harsh environment, and they directly annexed and annihilated other barbarians around them. The ancestors of the Jin and Qing dynasties who endangered the Han people in the Central Plains in the future were directly destroyed by Luo Shixin a thousand years ago.

Agulang did not lie, and the smelly feces are indeed the antidote to cure the poison of arrows.

Luo Shixin also drove Agulang out of the military camp as promised. Although Agulang was proud to survive, he had no face to survive. After being driven out of the military camp, Wuyan Hui tribe met his tribe and directly hit the giant rock at the foot of the mountain and died on the spot.

Luo Shixin shrugged indifferently. He couldn't stop Agulang from dying early. If he let him go, he would be very kind. He would care about his life or death.

After solving the problem of the soldier's arrow injury, Luo Shixin spent all his thoughts on forcing Gao Longevity and Gao Huizhen to reduce Gao Huizhen.

Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen led a hundred thousand troops this time, which were the only remaining troops in Goguryeo. Goguryeo no longer had the spare energy to rescue his own army trapped in the north. The only thing Luo Shixin had to do was to prevent Goguryeo from breaking through.

Faced with the siege of Li Daozong, Su Dingfang, Qibing Heli, and Luo Shixin's support in charge of the central army, Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen organized six breakthroughs within two days, and finally let the three generals fight back.

Two days later, Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen had run out of ammunition and food. Although they still had nearly 60,000 soldiers in their hands, they were all on a journey of defeat and had no fighting spirit. The two of them thought about it and had no way out, so they chose to abandon their weapons and surrender.

Luo Shixin loved his troops and did not fight meaningless wars, and accepted their surrender.

Going north to the military camp at the foot of the mountain, facing the Tang army's great military power. Gao Yanshou, Gao Huizhen bowed and walked into the military gate. He bowed and asked for his order.

Luo Shixin smiled and accepted their surrender letter, confiscated the weapons and horses, and accepted the ceremonies led by Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen.

Faced with the more than 60,000 additional people, Luo Shixin had a headache.

These more than 60,000 people were Goguryeo soldiers, too many of them, and it was difficult to control them. Moreover, taking them with them was an astronomical figure. They could not be of great use. Another group of foodies, carrying them by their side would do more harm than good.

Luo Shixin won a lot of prisoners this time. Luo Shixin saved the Tang army's physical strength by captives, arranged for them to do the most dangerous, hard and tiring work, and used them to reduce the unnecessary consumption of the Tang army. However, if there were too many prisoners to a certain extent, it would become a burden. In the past, Xiang Yu killed Qin soldiers, which was not necessarily because of his bloodthirsty and cruelty. In his situation at that time, the 200,000 Qin soldiers were not a helping arm but a burden, but a time bomb that could backfire.

Luo Shixin is also in this situation now, plus Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen's 60,000 prisoners. Luo Shixin's Goguryeo surrendered soldiers would be as high as 100,000, even more than the total number of troops he could use. The consumption of 100,000 soldiers would be a considerable expense even if Luo Shixin reduced their consumption of food, drink, defecation and sensation. Luo Shixin attacked Goguryeo not to conquer, but to turn Goguryeo into their territory of the Tang Dynasty, and he could not kill them like Xiang Yu.

Just when he was worried about these prisoners, Gao Shilian from Liaodong helped Luo Shixin solve this problem.

Because Goguryeo and the Sui and Tang Dynasties were enemies, the border between the two countries was no one hundred miles away, and it was very deserted.

Now that Liaodong has been recovered, Liaodong and Youzhou should start exchanges. However, there is no bridge of communication between the two sides, and the barren area separated by hundreds of miles is always a hurdle, hindering the exchanges between Liaodong and Youzhou.

Gao Shilian intended to build a town market between Youzhou and Liaodong, imitating the free market advocated by Luo Shixin in Shuofang to provide the needs of exchanges between the two places.

Youzhou is the same boundary as Liaodong and Goguryeo, even further northeast. Although Youzhou is located in the north, it is still quite obvious all year round. However, the regional climate in Liaodong is completely different, with obvious differences. All kinds of environments are much more harsh, and there are different special products and materials in different climates, especially the treasures of Changbai Mountain, and there are countless rare resources. In Youzhou, Liaodong has different environments and materials, and they have great room for development.

However, for hundreds of years, the two places belonged to different countries and had not developed well in trade. Gao Shilian saw this clearly and planned to rebuild a town market to open up exchanges between Youzhou and Liaodong.

What this town market needs is not houses, not land, but people. As long as there are people, everything will be available, but even if there is no one, it is useless even if it is a tall building.

The prisoners were filled in the newly built town fair, and gave them semi-mandatory land and houses to live in. Over time, they became the original residents of the newly built town fair.

"But General Manager Gao really looks down on me!" Luo Shixin smiled at the Liaodong Chief sent by Gao Shilian and said, "Go back and tell you General Manager that he can build a new city with peace of mind. I will never let his efforts be futile."

Liaodong has limited resources, which is well-known. The real treasure lies in Changbai Mountain.

The success of the hub connecting Youzhou and Liaodong is not about how much financial and material resources Gao Shilian from Liaodong invests in the new city, but whether Luo Shixin can take down Changbai Mountain. As long as he wins Changbai Mountain, even if the investment in the new city is small, as long as there is this market, he will not worry about prosperity. People in the world are not fools, and they don’t make money without making money.

Luo Shixin's simple words are undoubtedly a declaration of victory.

"But before conquering Goguryeo, I still need to do something important." Luo Shixin looked north and said lightly.

He gave all the 100,000 prisoners he had collected to Gao Shilian and continued to advance into the depths of Goguryeo.

If Luo Shixin conquered Liaodong, it caused a shock in Goguryeo. This captured Anshi City and Beishan forced Gao Yanshou to fall, Gao Huizhen really caused Goguryeo's panic...

After this great defeat, Goryeo was shocked, and the defenders of Huangcheng and Yincheng all escaped, and there was no more people within hundreds of miles.

Yoon Gaisuwen also ordered the domestic city defenders to withdraw from Pyongyang, abandon all surrounding defense lines, and defend Pyongyang to the death.

Luo Shixin had not encountered any resistance along the way. They first went to Beisha City to join the navy army led by Zhang Zhenzhou and Cheng Mingzhen.

The battle was so smooth this time that Luo Shixin was inseparable from Zhang Zhenzhou and Cheng Mingzhen's attack on Beisha City and threatening Pyongyang was because they had to eat and stay in Beisha City and stay in Beisha City, which made Yuan Gaisuwen have concerns and dared not use the whole country to come to Anshi City to fight Luo Shixin. After the two generals Cheng Mingzhen attacked Zhang Zhenzhou, Yuan Gaisuwen personally wanted to regain Beisha. However, facing Zhang Zhenzhou, Cheng Mingzhen's strict defense and defense, no matter how hard they could do anything, they could not do anything.

With the cooperation of the Tang Dynasty's water armies, and with the 20,000 soldiers from Qiheli, Luo Shixin's available troops once again exceeded 100,000, while Goguryeo had already allowed the Tang army led by Luo Shixin to bit by bit, and the available troops are now only 40,000.

The 100,000 army directly crossed the Yalu River and drove straight into the Sashui River...

There is a majestic building on the banks of the Sashui River... Jingguan, a building that is piled up with Han corpses to show off its merits.

In the past, because of Yang Guang's blind command, the Sui Dynasty could not capture the Liaodong city where Yuan Ziyou was guarded. Yuan Binzhi had to change its tactics. General Yuwen Shu led an army of 300,000 across Liaodong Zhucheng and advanced towards the Yalu River, and attacked Pyongyang from north to south. In Luo Shixin's opinion, his playing style was the idiotic and stupidest, which was enough to reflect how incompetent Yang Guang was in military affairs. Perhaps because he had been the nominal commander for many years, he wanted to be the veritable commander-in-chief, but he was proud and arrogant and didn't know how much he was.

Yuwen Shu's army encountered a big problem as soon as it was divided. It was all mountainous from Liaodong City to Yalu River, and it was extremely difficult to supply. Each Sui army not only had to carry weapons, but also carried tents, clothes and dry food for 100 days. The Sui army was not iron-clad. Under such excessive loads, walking on the mountain roads and marching on the Sui army became a serious problem: even the army that was a problem in rushing to the road normally would still be expected to win the battle?

In order to fulfill Yang Guang's order, the Sui Bing had to throw away the food and reduce his burden, but ended up in the dilemma of shortage of food halfway.

Under Yang Guang's command, the Sui soldiers had not yet encountered the enemy and could no longer bear it. The Goguryeo's military god Yizhi Wende saw through the weakness of the Sui army's shortage of food, fought and retreated, and led the Sui army into the Sashui in the hinterland of Goguryeo. Just when the Sui army crossed the Sashui, the Goguryeo army descended from the sky and launched a fierce attack on the Sui army. The hungry Sui army was unable to fight again, and each army was about to collapse and fled in panic.

In the end, the Sui army ran hundreds of miles until the Yalu River. It was not until the Yalu River that it escaped the pursuit of the Goguryeo army. The 300,000 troops crossed the Yalu River finally fled back to Liaodong, and the weapons and materials were all lost.

Goguryeo piled up the corpses of hundreds of thousands of Sui soldiers who died in battle and built them into Jingguan to show off their force. Jingguan was on the bank of Sashui River: the decisive battle location for Goguryeo to ambush the Sui soldiers.

Looking at the magnificent Jingguan, Luo Shixin gave an order with a bit of sadness, "Dismant Jingguan for me, be careful, and try not to affect the remains of the martyrs as much as possible. Carefully collect all the remains for me, and take them home after we pass by triumph!"

The atmosphere was not warm and very sad.

Especially the Sui army such as Zuo Tiancheng, Zhao Dezhu, and Li Yuncong, they dismantled Jingguan indignantly and carefully restrained the corpse: Jingguan was their pain, and the corpse was the chariot they valued most in their hearts.

"Soldiers, remember this scene well and record this Jingguan in their minds! If we fail, this is our role model... So, we can only go one way to victory!" Luo Shixin said in a low voice. His voice was not loud but very deep and could be spread far. The soldiers who heard his words did not shout, but showed their firm belief in victory. (To be continued)
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