When Eulji Mundeok received the news from the front and was defeated and Yeon Gaesumun died in battle, the troops of Li Jing and Han Qianxun had already gathered together and were approaching the inner city.

"Old General! Help me kill Zou Changfeng. The Yuan family will look to you in the future. If you say to go east, you will never go west. Even if you say you want to return power to the royal family, it's okay!" Yuan Taizuo seemed to become more and more fierce all of a sudden.

Eulji Wende became even older and said through gritted teeth.

"Alas! I can only say that I will try my best. After all, you also know the current situation. It is still unknown if you want to win." Understanding his pain of losing his son, Eulji Mundeok sighed and said.

"In order for Zou Changfeng to kill my Yuan family, I have nothing else to ask for. I just ask the old general to do his best! Please!" Yuan Taizuo said with a deep bow.

"I am obliged to do this!" Eulji Wende quickly stood up and helped Yuan Taejo up and said seriously.

"Please!" Yuan Taizuo bowed again and again, then staggered away.

"Alas!" Looking at Yeon Tae-jo's vicissitudes of life, Eulji Mundeok couldn't help but sigh again. He already had a premonition in his heart that Goguryeo might not be able to survive this difficulty, and even if it did, it would not recover.

"I wonder how many more years I can hold on?" Eulji Munduk murmured to himself.

"Old General, what did you say?" Yang Wanchun on the side asked confusedly, not hearing clearly.

"Wan Chun!"

"Old General, the last general is here."

"Remember, if you lose this battle, please immediately ask the king to surrender to Zou Changfeng." Eulji Wende warned.

"Why did the old general say that? We still have more than 300,000 troops, and they only have more than 100,000 people. Even if we can't defeat them, we can still defend them without any problem." Yang Wanchun said with a change of expression.

"Wan Chun, you are a famous defensive general, how can you not know our strengths and weaknesses? Half of the most elite soldiers have been killed in the battle. The family has at most 10,000 or 20,000 elite soldiers, how can you fight against 50,000 or 60,000 cavalry? Besides, where is the food and grass? Where is it?

They have brought so much food and grass to support us in the long war, and two months is already the limit! As time goes by, we will only be hungry," Eulji Mundeok said with a wry smile.

"We..." Yang Wanchun knew what Eulji Munduk said? He couldn't find a way? He opened his mouth and was speechless.

"Don't talk about the common people, the common people already only have coarse grains at home? What if we force the conquest again? I'm afraid they won't be able to survive, so how can they support Goguryeo?" Eulji Mundeok continued.

"The family still has a lot in hand? There will be no problem if it lasts for three to five months." Yang Wanchun said with a frown.

"Before calculating victory, calculate defeat first? Just listen to me." Ulji Mundeok shook his head and said.

"But your Majesty may not listen to what General Jin has to say." Yang Wanchun said in embarrassment.

"Is this a letter written by me personally? If you give it to the king, he will listen." Eulji Mundeok took out a confidential letter from the bookshelf nearby and said.

"Old General, this..."

"Needless to say, the enemy is coming fiercely? Starting tomorrow? I will lead 200,000 people to garrison outside the city; you lead people to guard the city, I am worried about the others." Eulji Wende stretched out his hand to block the way.

"Why don't you, general, guard the outside of the city? Old general, you can guard the city..."

"That's it. I don't have much time left. From now on, Goguryeo will only have to rely on you." Before Yang Wanchun could finish speaking, Eulji Wende interrupted him and said firmly.

"I... will definitely try my best to live up to the old general's love." Yang Wanchun said movedly.

"Go! Go!" Eulji Mundeok waved his hand feebly.

"Master Zhong! What should we do now?" There is another study room? Master Wu, Young Master? Zhong Zijin and the three of them are sitting together? Master Wu asked anxiously.

"Why don't you two go ask the head of the Xia Yuan family? After all, he has always been the one who has made the decision." Zhong Zijin picked up the tea bowl, took a few sips calmly, and said calmly.

Zhong Zijin looked unconcerned, as if the Liaodong tea set in front of him interested him more than the war.

"You..." The head of the Wu family was about to get angry, but when he saw the tea set, he endured it and continued: "You also know that now the only son of the head of the Yuan family is dead. He is disabled and has no other thoughts except revenge."

Zhong Zijin didn't care anymore and said with half-squinted eyes: "Now that the military power is in the hands of Eulji Munde, what can we do?"

"We can't just sit back and wait for death, right? At least we still have food!" said the young head of the family.

"No! You must not use food to manipulate Eulji Wende. If he gets angry, I'm afraid he will take the opportunity to confiscate our family." Zhongzijin quickly dissuaded him.

"In this case, wouldn't we just be at the mercy of others?" the young head of the family said in astonishment.

"It doesn't matter if you hand over the food, it's better if you don't have any rights!" Zhong Zijin said with a faint smile.

"Why is this?"

"Handing over food and rights means that we are just like bystanders. No matter which side wins the war, it makes no difference to us." Zhong Zijin said confidently.

"Why is this?"

"Eulji Wende won, do you think he will hand over the military power? Without military power, he can't just take advantage of us. As for losing, haha! Do you think Zou Changfeng can tolerate us?" Zhong Zijin sneered.

He asked rhetorically.

"Then what should we do?" the head of the Wu family asked in fear.

"It doesn't matter! Just relax and wait for the result! We'll talk about other things when the winner is decided! No matter what, just become a rich man in the future." Zhong Zijin waved his hand indifferently and said.

"Master, can we really only be rich in the future?" After the guests left, the housekeeper asked in a low voice.

"Yes! It's a good thing to hand over power quickly! Ah Fu, do you know? Only recently did I discover that doing business is more profitable than farming, and it's a lot of money!" Zhong Zijin raised his head and took a deep breath.

He said in a high-spirited tone.

"Sir, what do you mean?" the butler asked hesitantly.

"Whether it's Goguryeo or the Central Plains! Now I just want the world to be peaceful as soon as possible so that I can start my business as soon as possible!" Zhong Zijin said with a smile, without a trace of frustration on his face. Obviously he was not worried about it.

Wu and Shao told the truth, but they were just pretending.

One side of the inner city is surrounded by the Yalu River, and the other two sides are mountains, surrounded by a hundred miles of plains in the middle. This has contributed to the prosperity of the inner city.

Now it is very difficult for Zou Yu and the others to attack, because Eulji Wende has deployed heavy troops in Laolong Ridge and Longji Ridge near the domestic city, and they can harass, surprise, and attack at any time!

Although the other side is flat land, Eulji Wende has already set up a camp. Because he knows that Zou Yu and the others have many cavalry, he has set up horse traps, trenches, and horse traps; at the same time, the five-mile road between the camp and the inner city is

In between, there are archery towers and sentinel towers, with archers stationed inside. His intention is very obvious, which is to exchange human lives for the lives of Zou Yu's men.

"This is too much! This has become the construction of an outer defense circle for the domestic city." Looking at the marked sand table, Han Qianxun rubbed his forehead and said.

"In order to deal with our cavalry, Eulji Wende also took great pains!" Zou Yu shook his head slightly.

"They support each other and are separated by camps, which makes it impossible for us to devote excess troops to attack at once; the plains in this area must be full of horse traps. It's difficult! It's difficult!" Luo Cheng shook his head and said.

"Are you guys giving up now? In my opinion, this is not only a bad thing, but a good thing! You can completely turn your shortcomings into advantages!" Li Jing said confidently.

"What do you think, Marshal?" Han Qianxun's eyes lit up and he asked curiously.

Han Qianxun had always known that his cousin was very talented in military matters. Regarding this problem that he found difficult, he did not expect that he had already figured out a way to deal with it.

"Do you know where our advantage is?" Li Jing looked around and then asked.

"We are better equipped!" Xue Wanche said.

"The preparations are more complete, the soldiers are more elite, and the morale is also higher!" Luo Cheng continued.

"You are all right, but you're still a little short of it!" After waiting for a while and seeing no one to add anything, Li Jing said with a slight smile.

Seeing everyone looking at each other in confusion, Li Jing continued: "That means we have many invincible generals!

Their top masters have all died in the battle, and I can’t think of any of the remaining people who can be the opponent of the generals! Therefore, in this kind of small-scale combat, we have even more advantages!"

"That's right! Goguryeo doesn't have that many masters!" Looking at the many masters in the big tent with overwhelming strength, Zou Yu felt how lucky he was. Unknowingly, he had gathered most of the top masters in the world.

"Even if the generals are brave and invincible, how can we deal with the enemies on the mountains? You must know that there are many rolling wooden rocks and thunder stones on them. It is absolutely impossible for human beings to resist the huge rocks weighing thousands of pounds." Han Qianxun frowned and said.

"Haha, I want to make Eulji Mundeok trapped in a cocoon! He divided his troops and stationed them in various mountains, trying to consume our troops, but I couldn't do what he wanted!" Li Jing said with a confident smile.

"What does the marshal mean?" Zou Yu asked in confusion as he looked at the sand table.

"Since Eulji Wende has restricted cavalry, we don't need cavalry! The Mohe clan and Shiwei are both masters of archery, so we use them to guard the foot of the mountain, while the rest divide their troops to attack various places." Li Jing explained.

"With so many places, it would be difficult for them to defend them all, right? What's more, we have to be wary of the troops in the inner city." Zou Yu frowned and asked thoughtfully.

"My subordinates have a formation called the Six Flowers Formation, which can support each other. We only need to deploy troops at these key locations to defend several ridges of manpower! As for the domestic city! We can defend it with 20,000 infantry and cavalry.

!" Li Jing introduced.

Everyone followed Li Jing's pointing finger and saw that he was indeed able to block several mountains, and they couldn't help but become excited.

"You should be confident that you can defeat a hundred enemies with one against a hundred, right?" Li Jing then pointed to the small camps and arrow towers along the way and said.

These camps are built on some small slopes. They are mainly densely packed arrow towers, not far apart, which can support and shoot each other. Then hundreds of arrow towers form a large camp; behind the two large camps, there is

A larger barracks.

Three large camps constitute one defense point, and eight defense points constitute the entire defense circle.

"As long as you give me a thousand heavy armored soldiers, I will be sure to capture a camp!" Pei Yuanqing said confidently.

"Even the last general can do it!" Luo Shixin clasped his fists and said.

"Eight defense points! The largest one is located between the domestic city and the defense point. It can support everywhere. Even if it is not the main camp, it is also the place with the most separated troops. Judging from the size of the camp, one defense point should have 20,000 people. The front

There are five thousand in the arrow tower camp and ten thousand in the rear.

Therefore, in order to prevent them from supporting each other, we must defend the main camp, the domestic city and the mountains at the same time; and then attack the seven defense points at the same time!" Li Jing explained to everyone.

"I need one person to stop the troops in the inner city." Li Jing continued.

"I'll go!" Han Qianxun said after a moment of silence.

"You lead Buyeo City's 15,000 men and horses, plus the Mohe tribe's 8,000 cavalry! You must block the reinforcements from the domestic city for at least two hours before you can retreat to the camp." Li Jing said seriously.

"Yeah! Fight to the death and never retreat!" Han Qianxun said with forceful fists.
To be continued...