Volume 3 Xiongjiu crosses that river with vigor Chapter 167: Besieged Goguryeo King City
Hearing that sentence, the atmosphere at the table suddenly changed. Li Bing put down the chopsticks in his hands in the surprised eyes of the two women, opened the door and went out, standing at the door and listening to the soldier whispering to him about the whole story: Yizhi Wende shook away the east army chasing behind him, but wasted a while, so he did not come here when Li Bing attacked the Goguryeo Royal City. However, he saw that time had been delayed a lot, so he gathered Goguryeo troops from all over the way, and finally assembled a large army of 300,000 to the Goguryeo Royal City.
When the Sui army stationed in the city saw the army attacking, they closed the city gate tightly. The crossbowmen were on the front of the city. The originally damaged city had been urgently repaired before. It was more fragile than other places, so the defense there was a priority. Yizhi Wende knew that the Goguryeo Royal City was easy to defend but difficult to attack, and the Sui army looked like they were ready for battle. Even if they had a strong attack, they would not get any benefits. Therefore, Yizhi Wende wisely did not adopt the strategy of strong attack, but sent a large army to tightly surround the Goguryeo Royal City.
Li Bing frowned tightly after hearing the soldiers' reports. He didn't expect that Yizhi Wende would come so quickly. He originally wanted to force Gao Yuan to write a surrender before Yizhi Wende arrived, but he didn't expect that the envoy sent by the Sui Dynasty court to negotiate had arrived. Before Gao Yuan arrived, Yizhi Wende's army had arrived. Although Gao Yuan was in his own hands, the army outside would make him feel relied on. Now things suddenly became tricky. In the face of an enemy twice as many as himself, Li Bing did not want to break through forcibly. After thinking for a long time, he had no good idea. He said to the soldier in annoyance: "You go down first, I'll go up the city tower to take a look!" The soldier responded and bowed and retreated.
After the soldier left, Li Bing returned to the room. He no longer had the interest in eating anymore. He simply instructed the two women to have a safe meal. Then he went back to the room to get the Fang Tian Hua Ji and hurried out.
When she learned that she was besieged here, no matter how open-minded Yuan Baoer was, she was also mixed with a hint of complaint when she looked at Princess Shuning. Princess Shuning was weird and was a person with a good mind. How could she not see the complaints in Yuan Baoer's eyes? But she couldn't say something, so she could only smile bitterly in her heart. Although Yuan Baoer's eyes were unhappy, it was clearly a complaint only when she looked at the family. The feeling was that this woman really regarded herself as the woman of that person. Princess Shuning didn't argue, and she knew that some things became darker and darker. Maybe the other party thought she was deliberately covering up when she argued. Let her think about it first, but Princess Shuning didn't notice it, and she still had a faint joy in her heart.
Li Bing took the Fang Tian Hua Ji out of the door, headed straight to the stable, took out his fire-stepped jade unicorn, and then rode his horse and spread his four hooves straight to the city gate. Before coming, Li Bing had sent the news to the other generals and asked them to hurry up to the city tower.
The fire jade kirin was very fast, and it arrived at the city gate in a short while. After Li Bing got off the horse, someone came to take his horse aside and tied it up, while Li Bing quickly went up the city tower.
Pei Yuanqing is now on the city gate. When he saw Li Bing arrive, he bowed and bowed to Li Bing with his fists. After Li Bing nodded, he went straight to the city wall and looked down, while Pei Yuanqing followed him closely.
Above the city wall, the Sui army's crossbowmen were divided into several groups, and the bows and arrows in their hands were tightly grasped in their hands, while the archers who did not come forward were waiting behind them consciously. They did not dare to be careless. When Li Bing looked down, the city wall was full of Goguryeo soldiers, but they were obviously extremely afraid of the Sui army's bows and arrows, and they were all far away from the city gate and did not dare to get close at all.
Li Bing took out the telescope he carried with him and carefully observed the Goguryeo team. From a distance, it seemed that there were many people and awesome. However, when you observed with the telescope, you would find that the soldiers were all tired and their armor was a little tattered. Obviously, they were always tired. This made Li Bing feel a little clear. It took the Sui army half a month to conquer the city with the help of many siege equipment, but with the team below, there was no other advantage except for the large number of people, and they would not pose any threat to them at all. The other coach obviously understood this truth, so he adopted the strategy of besieging the city. It was still interesting to see this.
If the enemy does not attack, Li Bing will not be so stupid as to take the initiative to go out of the city to attack the enemy's army. He just stood silently on the head of the city and looked down at the army below. In a short while, other generals hurried to the city tower after receiving the news. Li Bing just looked back at them, then turned his head back. Seeing this, they went straight to the front of the city wall and looked at the situation below.
"Listen, the people in the city, quickly escort our master out. I will not make things difficult for you. Be responsible. Don't blame my 500,000 army for trampling you into ashes!" A black horse and black armored general came out of the army below, holding a double-headed five-section pen gun in his hand. He saw Li Bing and others on the city wall, and shouted loudly at them. It was the Marshal of the Goguryeo Army, Ezhi Wende.
"Yizhi Wende, listen, Gao Yuan is in our hands, you'd better not act rashly, otherwise, I don't know what I will do!" Li Bing said to Yizhi Wende below with a smile. He was reminding Yizhi Wende that Gao Yuan is in his hands and told him not to have any ideas, but he did not dare to force Yizhi Wende too much, for fear that Yizhi Wende would take risks and no longer care about Gao Yuan's safety and become independent. Then his life would be difficult. Although he knew that Yizhi Wende was extremely loyal to the royal family of Goguryeo, in order to prevent it, he could only carefully play psychological tactics and delay time at the same time to see if he could get the envoys sent by the court to come over to discuss the specific matters of surrender.
"Despicable, do you Sui people only know these despicable tricks? Do you dare to fight me head-on!" Yizhi Wende was still unwilling to give up and said in a stimulating manner, but Li Bing just didn't fall for it. He just smiled and said, "Now it is obvious that I am the general has the advantage. The right to fight or not is in our hands. What can you do? Be good to be good, otherwise it will be bad for disturbing your king's rest!" After that, Li Bing took his people down the city tower, ignoring what he wanted to say, leaving Pei Yuanqing to pay attention to the other party's actions, and he needed to go to Gao Yuan to have a good heart-to-heart talk.
Sure enough, after listening to Li Bing's words, Yizhi Wende gritted his teeth and finally retreated unwillingly to the army. However, he was not discouraged and ordered the army to strictly pay attention to the movements in the Goguryeo royal city.
After Li Bing got down the city tower, he handed over the discussion and countermeasures to Changsun Wuji and others to think about it, and he took Li Yuanba to the palace together to find Gao Yuan.
He found a soldier and kissed Gao Yuan's current location. Li Bing and Li Yuanba went straight to that place. When he arrived at Gao Yuan's current residence, he saw that there were two people in the room. It was Gao Yuan and Princess Shuning Gao Xi. When Gao Yuan saw Li Bing, a spark of anger flashed in his eyes. He could not forget how Li Bing humiliated him in the hall. He had lived so much and had never been insulted like this, but Li Bing just smiled at him evilly.
After seeing the smile, Yuan immediately remembered his miserable experience and couldn't help but shrink his head in fear. Princess Shuning couldn't help but feel funny when she saw that her brother was so scared of this person. In the morning, he had already told her about offending her brother, so she didn't mind. Of course, fortunately, Li Bing did not tell her how she offended her brother. Otherwise, even if this little girl had a good temper, she might help her brother criticize Li Bing.
Gao Yuan had no idea from Gao Xi that when Yizhi Wende came to serve the king, he couldn't help but feel a little proud when he looked at Li Bing. Li Bing had expected this to be like this, and he didn't point it out. He just calmly asked Gao Yuan what he thought, whether he wanted to surrender or rely on the reinforcements outside the city to resist stubbornly. Gao Yuan was about to have confidence and say that they would not surrender, but he soon realized that he was still in the hands of others. If Li Bing suddenly became angry and turned against others, then his life would be impossible to save. Thinking of this, he quickly
He repeatedly told Li Bing that he had written surrender books since he had been waiting for the time and would never regret it. Seeing his swearing look, Li Bing knew that he had no courage to regret it at all under his control, so he shrugged at Princess Shuning. Princess Shuning gave him a blank look. Then Li Bing asked Gao Yuan to write a document to Yizhi Wende to let him retreat, so as not to let the envoys from the Sui Dynasty enter the city. Gao Yuan dared not to disobey Li Bing's words. He wrote quickly and finished writing in a short time, stamping his own private seal. Li Bing then went out with Li Yuanba.
Gao Yuan looked at his sister strangely. Princess Shuning was unnatural when Gao Yuan saw her. She asked him why he looked at her so much. Gao Yuan then asked the doubts in his heart. He didn't understand when his sister was so good with the evil Sui people. Princess Shuning smiled mysteriously at Gao Yuan and told him that this was a secret, which smoked Gao Yuan's seven orifices, while Princess Shuning made a string of silver bell-like laughter.
After getting Gao Yuan’s document, Li Bing and Li Yuanba quickly returned to the city tower, and then shouted loudly to the Goguryeo people below: "Where is the morality of Yizhi?"
After calling a few times, he saw the general wearing black armor coming out of the team again, tilting his head to Li Bing on the top of the city and answering, "I am here, what's the point of doing?"
"This is the order of your king, please take it and see it!" After saying that, a document was carried down from the city tower by a sharp arrow...
Chapter completed!