Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 538 Angel Li Shimin

domestic city.

"My lord, Luo Cheng's mission has arrived outside the city."

"How many people, who is leading the team?"

"About two hundred Qingqi, the leader is said to be Li Shimin, who seems to be the brother of Luo Cheng's concubine, very young, under twenty."

Yuan Taizuo was relieved to hear that.

It was a good thing that Luo Cheng defeated his son and broke through Anshi, instead of continuing to lead his army eastward, but sent envoys on his own initiative.

Although the weather is getting colder now, and the first snow is about to fall, when the glaciers freeze and the mountains and rivers are covered with snow, no one can guarantee what will happen to that guy Luo Cheng. In the past few years in Liaodong, he has become a Goguryeo man's hunger.

At the beginning, he crossed the Liaohe River on the first day of the Lunar New Year to raid Xuantu City. Who can guarantee that he will not come again.

As long as the Sui people are willing to talk, they are not afraid.

Even if they are newly defeated now, it will be a disadvantage when talking about it, but it is better than that killing god directly killing them.

But he couldn't understand a teenage boy as a negotiating envoy.

"Open the city gate and invite Sui envoys to enter the city."

"Your Majesty, that Li Shimin is very arrogant and rude, and actually said that you want Your Majesty to go out of the city to meet him in person."

Displeasure flashed across Yuan Taizuo's eyes, a teenage baby is really ignorant.

"Forget it, greet me as soon as I greet, even if this king saves some face, it's nothing, as long as we can reach a peace agreement with Sui this time, that's fine."

Now Yuan Taizuo doesn't care about his old face anymore, how much is the old face worth?Then Luo Cheng couldn't afford to offend him. He asked the Sui Emperor to surrender, and the Sui Emperor agreed. He had issued an order to stop the troops, but Luo Cheng resisted the order and continued to send troops.

He was beaten so hard that his heart trembled.

Although most of the [-] soldiers and horses handed over to his son and the [-] troops he summoned in Liaodong were former royal guards, these people are indeed unstable now and their fighting spirit is not high, but they were almost defeated in the first battle. An army of [-] or [-] will only go back [-], and the Yuan family can't afford the loss.

Not to mention, Anshi City, which had been placed with high hopes, fell so quickly, and none of the tens of thousands of people in the city escaped.

Now in the entire Yuanshi Joseon, no more than 20 veterans can be assembled. Even if some reserve soldiers are recruited, they can gather up to [-] at most.

But this combat effectiveness can no longer be compared with when the war started a few years ago, let alone the brilliant record of annihilating tens of thousands of them at once when the Sui army invaded for the first time.

"This Luo Cheng, could it be that the heavens sent me to torture me?"

Yuan Taizuo sighed.

Once An City was lost, the entire Liaohe River now, except for the big city of Fuyu in the upper reaches of Fuyu River, and dozens of small cities, their painstakingly managed line of defense for a thousand-mile mountain city has collapsed.

Even if there are more than [-] fortresses and cities in the mountains, without the support of the big city, this defense system is already full of loopholes and is very fragile.

Although he was in a dangerous situation, killed Gao Jianwu in a mutiny, and excepted Ulji Moondeok and other royalists, Goguryeo's national strength, which had been seriously injured, still suffered a lot in this civil strife. Now the one-armed Yang Wanchun Everyone is still against him in Pyongyang.

Standing in front of the body-length bronze mirror, Yuan Taizuo looked at his own mirror image.

old, haggard.

He is really old.

It's a pity that the eldest son's defeat this time made him feel even more uneasy.

Losing Liaodong City first, and then losing to Luo Cheng, the eldest son's prestige could not be established at all, and the second son Jiantu was captured alive by Luo Cheng a few years ago.

"Give me a change of clothes."

Yuan Taizuo frowned slightly as he looked at the king's crown on his body.

"Your Majesty?"

"Just bring the purple robe and jade belt that the officials of the Sui Dynasty sent when they came to canonize. By the way, bring the golden seal and purple ribbon of the King of Joseon."

Everyone was amazed that the king would wear Sui Dynasty official robes to meet the teenage envoy Luo Cheng, but they remained silent in the end.

When you lose a battle, you always feel uncertain.

Putting on a new set of purple robes and jade belts from the Sui Dynasty, wearing gold seals and purple ribbons, and specially bringing the Shangfang jade sword bestowed by the emperor, Yuan Taizuo led his people to the city gate.

city ​​gate.

Li Shimin rode on his horse and remained motionless. No matter how the Goguryeo people persuaded him to enter the city, he ignored it.

He only said a few words in front of the city, and asked the surrendered minister Yuan to come and greet him.

"Your Majesty is here!"

A Goguryeo eunuch shouted.

But Li Shimin still sat on the horse and didn't have the slightest intention to come forward to see him.

Yuan Taizuo was sitting on a chariot, the curtain was lifted, and the young general of the Sui Dynasty could be seen from a distance.

One eye was blindfolded.

"This envoy is quite handsome, but why is he blind?"

"Returning to your lord, this Li Shimin is the son of Li Yuan, Duke of the Tang Dynasty in the Sui Dynasty. He followed Li Yuan to attack Yang Wanchun who was stationed in the new city. He led Qingqi to chase and kill Yang Wanchun who was defeated and fled. Yang Wanchun shot him in the left eye with a crossbow."

"So Li Shimin is a bit brave?"

"Although he is young, he was conferred the title of General Ying Yanglang by the Sui Emperor because of his achievements in defeating Yang Wanchun."

"It seems that I underestimated him before." Yuan Taizuo thought for a while, "Report the official title that Emperor Sui bestowed upon me!"

"The Emperor of the Great Sui Kingdom bestowed a seal on Kaifu Yitong Sansi, and the King of Korea has arrived!"

The eunuch sang loudly.

Li Shimin remained motionless.

The eunuch had to sing again.

Li Shimin still didn't move.

The last three songs.

Li Shimin remained motionless.

At this time, Yuan Taizuo had to send someone forward.

"This general, my king is the King of Korea bestowed by the emperor of the Sui Dynasty, and he has a first-rank official rank in the Sui Dynasty. Why don't you go forward to greet him?"

Li Shimin snorted coldly.

"Although Yuan Taizuo is the king bestowed by our emperor, he is the king of the vassals and subjects. Although I am only a fifth-rank general, I am here on behalf of Luo Cheng, the consoling ambassador of Liaodong and Liaoxi, and Duke of Chu. "

The man said, "Luo Cheng is just the Duke of the state."

"Luo Shuai is appointed by His Majesty to appease the counties in the east and west of Liaodong, and to command the troops outside the pass. He represents the emperor, the Great Sui."

Li Shimin meant that he was here on behalf of Luo Cheng, and Luo Cheng was the emperor's representative stationed outside the pass.

Therefore, he is the representative of the emperor. Although Yuan Taizuo is a king, he is only the king of vassals.

"Let Yuan Taizuo come to meet the angel! Otherwise, it would be to neglect the angel and be rude to the emperor of the Sui Dynasty!"

Yuan Taizuo listened to the report.

Gritting his teeth, this little guy is really not ordinary.

I thought that wearing the official uniform of the Sui Dynasty and singing the title conferred by the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty would always suppress this kid.

"Come on, let's welcome."

Yuan Taizuo got off the car and led the crowd out of the city gate on foot.

"The vassal of the Sui Dynasty, King Yuan Tae-joo of Korea, greets the angel of the suzerain to go to the country!"

"Congratulations to Emperor Wanan!"

Li Shimin nodded and accepted the ceremony on behalf of the emperor.

"I came here this time under the order of Luo Shuai, the consolation ambassador of Liaodong and Liaoxi in the Sui Dynasty. I think Yuan Gai Suwen has already reported the purpose of my trip to you in advance, right?"

Seeing that he was so young, vigorous and aggressive, Yuan Taizuo could only smile wryly.

"My son has reported all the requirements of the envoy to Gu, and invited the angels to enter the city first. Gu has already prepared a banquet in the palace to welcome the angels!"

But Li Shimin didn't like him at all.

"I came here under Luo Shuai's order to inform you of a few things. First, since you have submitted the form to surrender, you should act as a vassal and act as a vassal. Luo Shuai I order you to immediately return the people of the Great Sui Dynasty in your territory, including but not limited to the soldiers captured in the previous conquests, and the Han people who have been captured by you over the years must also be returned."

"Secondly, the bones of our soldiers who died in your territory during the Sui Dynasty must be restrained immediately and returned!"

"Thirdly, you and other frontier soldiers and horses immediately retreated a hundred miles, and immediately sent Yuan Gai Suwen to Luoyang, the capital, as a hostage."

"Fourth, as vassals, you are obliged to provide 40 shi of grain and grass to our Liaodong garrison before the heavy snowfall."

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(End of this chapter)