Chapter 175 Plans cannot keep up with changes

In fact, Li Shiji, like Chen Ying, was unwilling to accept Goguryeo's surrender like this.

They finally tried their best to smash Goguryeo to death with one punch, but their fists had just been raised, and Goguryeo raised their hand and said not to hit again.

Not to mention Li Shiji, in fact, no Tang army soldier could accept the surrender of the Goguryeo people from his heart.

Because the Goguryeo people were professional surrenders, as early as the eighth year of Daye, they successively submitted a total of 31 surrenders to Yang Guang, but they immediately turned against each other.

I believe that if Goguryeo surrenders, he will definitely suffer a loss.

Chen Ying was still eating mutton hotpot slowly. In fact, he was already full, but he was just looking at the red oil hotpot habitually, dazed and dazed.

At this moment, a messenger sang outside the tent: "The envoy of Gao Jianwu, the King of Goguryeo, asked for a visit!"

Chen Ying held a piece of meat and threw it into the pot with a lack of interest and said, "Release the tent!"

Su Dingfang naturally knew Chen Ying's meaning. In this case, Chen Ying should have set up the most elite troops to give Goguryeo envoy a warning.

However, since Chen Ying did not want to accept the surrender of the Goguryeo people, he must do the opposite.

It was not long before a group of crooked soldiers lined up outside the tent instead of Chen Ying's personal guards. These soldiers were poorly equipped. They held hunting bows that even the Xueyantuo people would dislike and wore ragged armors of unknown age. As for the soldiers, they were either scaryly thin, as if they were hungry in Africa, or they were so old that their teeth were half lost.

Whether it is the Anxi Army or the Andong Army, it is very easy to select elite troops. If you really choose these crooked dates, you will lose your strength. These armors were temporarily selected from the warehouse of the Servant Army, which had some taste. These soldiers were actually all Sui army prisoners rescued by the Andong Army since the Yalu River.

After more than ten years of torture, they have long disappeared.

Even with the weapons and watching the Goguryeo messenger arrive, I couldn't help but kneel down.

In fact, what they are most tortured is not their physical body, but their mentality. After more than ten years of inhuman torture, they have already accepted their fate.

The Goguryeo envoy originally came up and gave them a warning, but he didn't expect that the Tang army he saw was such an "elite soldier".

The messenger was secretly surprised and felt something was wrong.

The envoy looked at the "Tang Army" around him and couldn't figure out why they attacked Pyongyang from Liaodong and defeated tens of thousands of Goguryeo's troops. Just like these generals in front of him, they were even worse than ordinary tribal troops in Goguryeo.

"That person should be called "Chen Ying, the God of the Tang Dynasty." The envoy secretly envied himself when he saw it, thinking that when Goguryeo could have such a monarch and minister again.

He came to Chen Ying, presented a gift without being humble and arrogant, and shouted: "King of Goguryeo, extend your most sincere greetings to General Chen from the Tang Dynasty from the West."

And the name was reported.

Chen Ying did not understand Goguryeo, but Li Shiji has also recruited a large number of talents in the Anton Protectorate in recent years and cultivated a group of talents who are proficient in Goguryeo. At this time, one of them stood up to be the translator for Chen Ying.

Chen Ying smiled slightly and said, "Our Emperor, especially likes to watch Hu Xuanwu. Can Gao Jianwu dance?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the messenger's face changed drastically.

After capturing Jie Li Khan, Chen Ying gave him to Li Jiancheng to dance to cheer up Li Jiancheng during the state banquet. Later, Chen Ying sent Tubo Zampsongtsen Gampo, as well as Anxi, all 27 kings, to Chang'an, to be neighbors with Jie Li Khan. Now Chang'an has formed a singing and dancing troupe composed of kings or khans of various countries.

Of course, for the king of a country, this is simply rubbing their dignity on the ground.

The envoy said without saying a word: "Our king is not good at singing and dancing, and is afraid it is inappropriate and cannot be entertained by His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty..."

"Oh!" Chen Ying said with a sudden realization: "So that's it. You can't even dance or sing, why are you still there?"

The messenger's face suddenly changed drastically.

However, those who can be envoys are of course full of opportunity. He immediately smiled and said, "Dear General, my lord is very arrogant and declares to the general that for the sake of the people of both countries, I hope to quit the war!"

Chen Ying sneered, "Surrender if you surrender, don't cause so many troubles to this general."

The envoy wanted to explain again, but Chen Ying suddenly stood up and pointed at the envoy and said, "If you surrender, let Gao Jianwu join the camp by himself and enter the camp. If you fight, I will accompany you to the end!"

The envoy was startled. Gao Jianwu was about to surrender, and the whole of Goguryeo was already in full swing. In fact, no matter the subjects, they did not want to surrender so humbly to the Tang Dynasty.

Although Goguryeo has lost most of its territory and lost tens of thousands of soldiers, they still have the power to fight and tens of thousands of troops. If the whole people are soldiers, they can still arm at least 200,000 troops.

They were unwilling to accept surrendering like this.

However, Chen Ying was unwilling to accept surrender.

This big messenger accident, what is the hot face and cold butt, now Gao Jianwu is this!

The messenger suppressed his anger and said in anger: "Why?"

In the view of Goguryeo, there was no reason why the Tang Dynasty did not accept its surrender, because Goguryeo still had very strong strength. The reason why Goguryeo was willing to surrender was that Gao Jianwu, the real leader of Goguryeo, no longer had the will to fight.

To be more precise, this battle outside Pyongyang City was the most outstanding talent in Goguryeo, the son of Yuan Taizuo, Yuan Gaisuwen, who was beaten into a dog by Chen Ying with more than 4,000 infantry and cavalry.

Gao Jianwu has lost the confidence to continue fighting.

After a long period of psychological struggle, Gao Jianwu decided to surrender. In the eyes of the Goguryeo people, as long as Gao Jianwu abandoned his identity and was willing to surrender to the Tang Kingdom, the war should end.

Wasn’t war always like this in the past? What the Tang Dynasty needed was just a name.

The current situation is not good for Goguryeo. They need time to develop and rest. The surrender now is just for a better battle in the future.

Chen Ying was naturally clear that he was unwilling to accept Gao Jianwu's surrender. Once Gao Jianwu surrendered, he would still enjoy the title of the Tang Dynasty, and Lu Yuan Taizuo would even be promoted to the title. Yuan Gaisuwen would also become the Molizhi of Goguryeo, and even the Great Lu. Those Goguryeo nobles were still Goguryeo nobles.

And these conditions were absolutely unacceptable to Chen Ying. If Goguryeo was willing to surrender, at least the Goguryeo ministers, nobles, and generals who participated in the battle of the Sui Dynasty must die.

If they don’t die, millions of souls will not be able to rest in peace.

If they do not die, Goguryeo may surrender and rebel again at any time.

However, the court would definitely accept Gao Jianwu's nominal surrender.

Because the focus of the Tang Dynasty court was never Goguryeo, but Li Shimin who was far away in Fusang.

Then, Chen Ying could not accept Goguryeo's surrender.

Since Chen Ying had no intention of accepting surrender, he could only continue to fight.

...

After receiving the reply from the envoy, Gao Jianwu lost his mind for a short time.

The ministers of the entire palace were all excited and happy, especially Yuan Taizuo.

However, Gao Jianwu did not look disappointed at this time, but said excitedly: "In this battle, Chen Ying must die!"

Yuan Taizuo really didn't understand Gao Jianwu's brain circuit, so the battle did not officially start, so he surrendered directly. Now Chen Ying refused Gao Jianwu's surrender, and he even said arrogantly that Chen Ying must die.

The young general Hei Ya stepped forward and asked, "How can the king be so sure?"

Gao Jianwu sneered: "Before the battle, I am not sure whether the subjects across the country are willing to fight with me to the end. Now Chen Ying has rejected my surrender, so the only way to fight to the end. I will pass on my order and inform the whole country that in the battle of the fate of Goguryeo, I will not retreat if I fight to the death!"

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According to the established plan of Chen Ying and Li Shiji, this battle will revolve around Pyongyang, inducing Goguryeo to go to Pyongyang to serve the king, while the Tang army can use favorable terrain to surround the battle and fight aid to eliminate Goguryeo troops.

As the saying goes, plans can never keep up with changes. When Chen Ying’s strategic plan is implemented step by step according to the plan, unexpected news comes.

A leader of the vassal army, the Dahe Mohui, accidentally discovered a Tang army unit in Yingzhou (now Chaoyang area of ​​Liaoning). The Dahe Mohui transported a batch of meat to this Tang army as usual.

According to the past habit, the Tang army soldiers would give them gifts, either a knife or a few bills of money to them, but this time they gave them a batch of golden cakes.

This makes Daihama feel very strange. Although gold is good, it is not the same now.

In the past, gold was hard currency on the grassland and could be used directly as coins. However, now the caravans traveling to the grassland are unwilling to accept gold because they need transportation to return. The most important thing is that they accepted the money transactions from Tongli Money House and were used to using light money.

The leaders of these tribes all went to Lingzhou, Shuozhou, Yunzhou, Yizhou or Jizhou in advance to exchange for money. As for the soldiers of the Tang army, no one took the gold. Even if the gold seized on the battlefield, they would directly trade with the accompanying army caravans and exchanged more money for money for easy carrying.

One hundred kilograms of gold can be exchanged for ten thousand jin of coins. Only one hundred jin of coins of money can be put into my arms, and no one knows it, but if you carry a hundred jin of gold, you will never be exhausted.

This abnormal situation made Dahemo feel something was wrong. As a result, after approaching the reconnaissance, it was found that more than 99% of the so-called Tang army were a group of barbarians. They spoke languages ​​that Dahemo had never heard before. Now Dahemo immediately reported the situation to the Anton Protectorate.

When he learned that there was no troops outside Yingzhou City of Anton Protectorate, the Daha Mohui led his troops to surround the troops.

As a result, the troops immediately broke through when they saw that the situation was not good.

After all, the Dahe Mo Club was not an elite Tang army. They did not capture all the "Tang army", but instead ran away five or six hundred people. The Dahe Mo Club was killed and injured but more than 1,600 people were killed or injured. The hundreds of indigenous people captured were all damn enemies in the eyes of the Dahe Mo Club.

So according to traditional customs, the Dahemo Society was preparing to kill all these prisoners. However, at the most critical moment, a general in this army directly stated that he was Li Shiji's old friend and asked to see Li Shiji.

Dahe Mohe did not dare to neglect it, just take this Tang army general and rushed to the city of Pyongyang to meet Li Shiji.

When Li Shiji looked at the general who pretended to be Tang army, he felt a little familiar.

It seems like I have seen it from somewhere, but I can't remember it for a while.

As a result, the general of the "Tang Army" shouted to Li Shiji in a pure Lu accent: "Shiwang save me, Shiwang save me..."

Now, Li Shiji discovered that this general was actually Cheng Chusi, the son of an old acquaintance of Cheng Zhijie.

Li Shiji looked at Cheng Chusi in surprise and said, "How come you little bastard here?"

Cheng Chusi has not answered yet.

Chen Ying looked at Cheng Chusi with a sharp look and said, "Did you come from the overpass?"

Cheng Chusi was young after all, and he had never seen Chen Ying.

Of course, he had heard of Chen Ying's name and thought Chen Ying was just Li Shiji's general.

Cheng Chusi said in surprise: "How do you know?"

After saying this, Cheng Chusi immediately regretted it.

Chen Ying did not ask Cheng Chusi anymore, but instead looked at Dahe Mohui and said, "Does anyone else escape?"

Ogamohui said: "No..."

It was very uncomfortable to be stared at by Chen Ying's sharp eyes. Dahe Mohui immediately changed his words: "There are five or six hundred people who escaped!"

"Send someone to recover them immediately!"

After saying this, Chen Ying regretted it.

If the Dahama Club starts chasing them at the first time, or has a chance to catch up with them.

It's too late now.

Cheng Chusi's troops probably had already run across the overpass.
Chapter completed!