Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 485
"Escape? Where else can I escape now?"

"Silla, didn't the people of Silla secretly recruit you before? If you flee to Silla, there is also a way out!"

"I just defeated the people of Silla, and countless of their fathers, brothers, sons and nephews died in my hands. Wouldn't it be self-defeating to vote for Silla now?" Quanyuan Nanjian sighed: "Besides, I am in this tent now. I am still the leader of an army, and if I escape, I will be a desperate prisoner. A simple man can capture me alive and send me to the Tang people to receive a reward. Instead of doing this, it would be more fun to beg directly to the Tang people! Go to the paper and pen!"

"Paper and pen? Do you want it?"

"Naturally, it is to write a letter of surrender!" Quan Yuan Nanjian said with a wry smile: "I hope that the people of Tang will see that for the sake of these tens of thousands of surrendered troops, let our brothers be happy in Chang'an for the rest of their lives!"

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Anshi City, Liaodong (in the area of ​​Nanyingchengzi, Haicheng, Liaoning).

The raised Anshi Mountain City looked like a giant crawling beast under the moonlight. It was huge and mysterious. Li Ji couldn't help but stop, his legs ached.

It's still the same as it was 20 years ago!Li Ji couldn't help but let out a sigh, and couldn't help recalling in his mind the past that he accompanied the late emperor to conquer Goguryeo in the 19th year of Zhenguan. Under the mausoleum, I have also changed from a middle-aged man to a white-haired old man. If I can't break through Anshi City and pacify Goguryeo this time, I'm afraid I won't have another chance.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help turning his head subconsciously, and looked at the giant monsters under the earth mountain behind him. The Thunderbolt Chariot presented by Wang Wenzuo was indeed very useful. The stone bullets fired by the emperor were three or four hundred steps away. If the first emperor could have this when he besieged Anshi City, it would not have been delayed until today.But even with such a terrifying combat machine, how long will it take to take down Anshicheng?

ten days? 20 days?Or a month?In order to exert the great power of this trebuchet, it must be placed in a suitable location. It will take a lot of time to disassemble and move it, and there are more than one mountain city on the road to Pyongyang!

Suddenly, Li Ji decided to climb to the top of the mound and see the situation of Anshi City with his own eyes. With the support of his grandson, Li Ji climbed up the mound with difficulty and looked towards Anshi City.

Anshicheng seemed to be right under his feet, engraved in the moonlight.Condescending, Li Ji discovered how stiff and empty the windowless fortresses and stone walls along the mountain slopes were, and how hollow the rubble-covered hillsides were.In the distance, he saw a series of raised hills, like rushing waves, winding roads appeared and disappeared between these solidified waves, and behind him was the vast plain and the rushing river running through the plain.Otherwise, the world is an endless barren of wind-battered hills, jagged rocks, and wilderness.

"A Weng, A Weng! There is an urgent military situation!" Li Jingye's voice was a little shy, no matter how he was outside, when he returned to Li Ji's side, he would always have an inexplicable fear.It seems that in front of Li Ji's dim old eyes, all his secrets no longer exist.

Li Ji let out a long breath, forming a white mist in the cold air. He turned his head, and his grandson was looking at him, with fear rather than concern in his eyes.He was a little disappointed in his heart. In all honesty, Li Jingye is already very good among the three generations of officials. He has ambition, a city, and a strategy. The perspective of the times, but without this perspective, those things in front of him would actually harm him.Among the late emperor's sons, Yingguo's talented ones died the fastest and suffered the worst. On the contrary, the mediocre ones were much happier.

"Ah Weng! It's an urgent military situation. The envoy is waiting in the tent for news about the southern front!"

Li Jingye's urging refocused Li Ji's scattered thoughts. He nodded and stretched out his right hand, and Li Jingye hurriedly reached out to help.He walked down the dirt hill and returned to his tent, feeling a sense of warmth. Li Ji sat comfortably on the brocade couch, let his slaves knead his sore and numb calf muscles, and asked, "What about the military situation? Arrived?"

The kneeling envoy took out a letter from his pocket and presented it: "Arrived at Chengshan Port five days ago, then crossed the sea and arrived at Beisha City (today's Dalian area), and then rushed straight to the front of the army!"

Li Ji nodded, calculating the mileage in his mind, he knew that the Tang army passed it at the fastest speed along the way, and even took the risk of being intercepted by the Goguryeo army—because it was only seven or eight days ago that the Beisha City area was captured by the Tang army. There are still quite a few areas around that are under the control of the enemy army. For the delivery of this letter, there are probably no more than ten lives lost.

Li Ji opened the letter and just read two lines. He seemed to have seen something scary and almost fell off the brocade couch. candle!"

Li Jingye quickly raised the candle and moved it to Li Ji's side.Li Ji approached the candlelight, stared at it for a while, and finally sighed: "Heroes are young! We are old! It's time to go into the soil and make room for young people!"

Li Jingye was itching to hear it, but he didn't dare to ask. Li Ji seemed to have seen his thoughts, and passed the letter over: "You should take a look too! The big event has been decided, it's time to prepare the class teacher!"

"The last general led his troops straight to the city of Pyongyang, just as Goguryeo King Gao Zang was in the city for a mutiny. He killed Quanyuan Nanjian and Quanyuan Nanjian's brothers and family members. They bared their faces in the city and begged for surrender to the last general. Now that the city of Pyongyang has fallen, the army Entering the city, the treasury, the arsenal, and the wives of the generals of the Goguryeo army are all in their hands, waiting for the army of the general manager—" Seeing this, Li Jingye couldn't stand it anymore, his mind was in chaos, as if the whole world had been turned upside down Come here, everything is tumbling and spinning and jumbled together.

"Ah Weng, is this the end of the Liao campaign?" Li Jingye asked.

"Otherwise?" Li Ji said with a self-deprecating wry smile: "Pyongyang City is already in his hands, and the King of Goguryeo is also in his hands. He is the one who eats the cake! Is there a way? No way!"

"Don't the two brothers Quanyuan Nanjian still have an army? The mountain cities like Anshi City and Black Bone City have enough savings, stretching for hundreds of miles!"

"These are irrelevant!" Li Ji sighed: "Didn't you read the letter? Goguryeo has a proton law. Generals who command troops abroad must stay in Pyongyang as a hostage. After Wang Wenzuo took Pyongyang, the first The first thing is to hold all these hostages in his hands. The family members of the Goguryeo generals are all in his hands. What else is there to do? If Brother Quanyuan Nanjian was smarter, he would surrender his troops and save his life; if he moved a little slower, It has become a proof for the subordinates to ask for credit! As for those mountain cities, no matter how steep the city is, it takes people to defend it. Now that Pyongyang has surrendered, why should these cities be defended? For whom?"

"Then there's no need to fight Black Bone City in Anshi City?"

"If this news is true, it will take half a month at most, or ten days at least, and we will know!" Li Ji sighed: "The unfulfilled wishes of the emperors of several generations and two dynasties, the great achievements that millions of people want to make, To be taken down so easily by him can only be said to be luck!"

"Luck?" Li Jingye chewed on this simple word. He had read this word countless times in books, but he had never experienced the feeling he had today. It was like a sour plum that had been chewed countless times. Tasteless, but also seems endless aftertaste.

"Professional!"

"Ah Weng!" Hearing his grandfather's voice, Li Jingye hurriedly restrained himself.

"You have to learn to accept!"

"Accept?" Li Jingye replied blankly, he didn't understand why grandpa suddenly mentioned this irrelevant word.

"Do you know who was the first person I followed in the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty?"

"Zhai Rang!"

"That's right, it's him!" Li Ji smiled, showing the expression that the old man had when he recalled the past: "I was not yet twenty at that time, and I said it was an uprising, but in fact it was just leading the people to plunder the nearby Imperial Palace. To put it bluntly, the merchant brigade in the river was a bandit. Later, Duke Wei also came. He reorganized the army according to the law of the Sui army, and set up an ambush to defeat Zhang Xutuo. He led us to capture the Xingluo warehouse, and used the food inside to help the people of the Quartet. The Wagang Army suddenly numbered 10, and at that time I felt that I had met the Lord Ming, and I made up my mind to serve him faithfully, even though Wei Gong killed Zhai Rang and cut me with a knife, I did not change my mind."

Speaking of this, Li Ji pushed back the hair on his forehead, and there was an obvious mark on his forehead. Li Jingye knew that his grandfather had gone through many battles, so he didn't pay much attention to the scar on his forehead, but he didn't expect that it was Li Mi who killed Zhai. left behind.

"Later, Duke Wei defeated many powerful enemies, and his power became stronger and stronger. The Sui army lost consecutive battles and could only defend Luoyang City. But at this time, Yu Wenhuaji killed Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty who was hiding in Jiangdu, and brought a hundred thousand warriors with him. The Guo army returned to the west. In order to avoid being attacked by the enemy, Wei Gong had no choice but to surrender to Luoyang, and joined forces to deal with Yu Wenhuaji.

Yu Wenhuaji is mediocre, but the [-] Xiaoguo army under his command is indeed very strong. The battle was very difficult. Many of us died, and Duke Wei himself was injured.In the end, we defeated Yu Wenhuaji with our tricks, but our vitality was also seriously injured.Soon after, Wang Shichong launched a coup in Luoyang, annulled the covenant with Wei Gong, and the war broke out again.I originally thought that we could win, Wei Gong was ten times more talented than Wang Shichong, and we had more troops than Wang Shichong, but what I didn't expect was that we lost this time.

Many people surrendered to Wang Shichong. I advised Wei Gong to follow me to Liyang, and then regroup. We still have a large number of counties in the east of Henan, so there is a great chance.However, Wei Gong went west to Guanzhong and attached himself to Li Yuan. He must not trust me, and he was afraid that I would betray him in times of crisis!You must know what happened after Duke Wei! "

"Later Wei Gong escaped from Guanzhong and was killed!" Li Jingye replied.

"That's right, Wei Gong, who is famous all over the world, died for no reason. He was only 37 years old!" Li Ji sighed: "Jingye, you are the best of my children and grandchildren. But luck is the most incomprehensible thing in the world." No one knows when he will be on your body and when he will leave. People all say that I am a British prince, a pillar of the Tang Dynasty, but I know that I am always the little robber on the side of the canal. This road is too difficult and dangerous, and I don't want you to walk it again!"

"Ah Weng!" Li Jingye's lips trembled slightly. In his memory, it was the first time his grandfather talked to him like this. He just felt his chest rolling, and he didn't know what to say for a while.Li Ji smiled and patted his grandson on the shoulder: "Anyway, it's a blessing that my old bones can finally see the fall of Pyongyang with my own eyes, so don't be unhappy!" Xinglao had tears welling up in his eyes.

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Pyongyang City.

"Nan Quanyuan proposed to surrender the whole army?" Wang Wenzuo frowned.

"That's right!" Igilein Bod took out the letterhead: "The messenger is outside, can you tell him to come in?"

"Wait a minute!" Wang Wenzuo took the letter, opened it, looked at it, and said with a smile, "No wonder, I was worried that he would lead his troops to surrender to Silla. It turned out that he had just defeated the Silla people, and he was worried that the Silla people would retaliate. , so simply surrender to us!"

"It's also the commander-in-chief, you should act decisively, otherwise the situation won't turn into this all of a sudden!" Ijilian Bode said with a smile: "Izumi Yuan has surrendered, so the small towns around Pyongyang probably won't be dragged down!"

"Yes, otherwise I always feel that there are needles under my buttocks, and I can't sit still!" Wang Wenzuo laughed and said, "I will disappear as a messenger. You go and ask Quanyuan Nanjian to dismiss all the troops, and then persuade the nearby city to surrender!"

"I don't see the messenger? Will this make Quanyuan Nanjian suspicious!" Igillian Bode asked.

"Don't be afraid, if the current situation is too enthusiastic about him, he will become suspicious!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "Let him do it! The rest is for Quan Yuannan to give birth. He is in Black Bone City, but this should be I'll just be lazy about the things that the British public is worried about!"

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Goguryeo military camp.

"What, you haven't seen the chief general of the Tang Army?" Nanjian Quan Yuan showed surprise.

"Yes!" the messenger said: "Only a Japanese guest minister came out to give a few instructions, and then let me go back. He was so arrogant! This is too much!"

"Hey, the defeated general, how can you speak bravely!" Quan Yuan Nanjian sighed: "The situation is like this, if we change places, I am afraid that we will be much more arrogant than him! But this is also a good thing, it shows that the people of Tang Dynasty should not set up a What a trap!"

"Yes!" The messenger replied: "Then what should we do now? Do we follow the instructions of the Tang people? Or simply flee to Black Bone City and meet with the general before making a claim?"

"Of course I obey orders! What's the use of going to Black Bone City? It's nothing more than tens of thousands more soldiers and horses, but it can't change the overall situation! The longer the time is delayed, the worse it will be for us. We should do as soon as possible as the Tang people said, lest Annoy them and cause disaster!"

(End of this chapter)