Sashui.

Qingchuan Riverkou in later generations.

Luo Cheng frowned. Although he had been delaying some time in Daxing City, his left five soldiers had horses, and his maneuvering speed was much faster than that of the Eighth Army, but now he could not catch up with the Eighth Army.

The forward scout came to report that Yuwen Shu and others had already won seven battles and had already killed Sashui.

After passing the Sashui River, it was already flat to Pyongyang, only two hundred miles away.

"Who is the coach of Goguryeo?" Luo Cheng asked.

"According to the tongue interrogation caught by our forward scout, we learned that the Goguryeo coach who lost all seven battles was Eji Wende. He led 20,000 to 30,000 troops to fight, but in the end, all seven battles were north and had already been defeated all the way to Pyongyang."

When Luo Cheng heard this name, he always felt familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it. Although he had known a little about the history of the Sui and Tang Dynasties in the past, he didn't know much about it. He often remembered it and forgot it. He knew very little about Goguryeo.

"Have you brought your tongue back? I'm going to interrogate it myself."

Luo Cheng felt something was wrong. There must be something wrong with the defeat of Yizhi Wende in all seven battles. After all, in his memory, Yuwen Shu's nine armies were defeated even if they failed to reach the city of Pyongyang.

Several Goguryeo soldiers were brought to the front, which was the survivor who finally caught the vanguard.

There was a general translator in charge of the translation, and Luo Cheng reviewed and asked questions one by one, and took half a day. In the end, he confirmed it with some parts of his memory, and then he got a terrible result.

"Hou Mo Chen, Wei Sima, there is no doubt that the Goguryeo people are deceiving defeat. And according to my speculation, the Yizhi Wende is the commander of the Goguryeo army that we have always wanted to look for."

According to the prisoner's confession, Yizhi Wende was the most famous general in the Goguryeo court's royal sect. He was the king's confidant and the southern mattress. At the beginning of the year, the king had already asked Yizhi Wende to be responsible for commanding all the forces in the Yalu River area and the Pyongyang royal capital, and let him be responsible for defending Pyongyang.

According to their explanation, a total of 150,000 troops have been gathered in Pyongyang.

The head coach was Yizhi Wende, but Yizhi Wende did not place all 150,000 troops in Pyongyang, but Pyongyang placed 80,000 and 70,000 in Sashui area.

"Everyone, there are two news now, one good and one bad news. The good news is that Lai Huer has already arrived near Pyongyang and is heading towards Pyongyang along the Beishui River. The fleet he led is carrying 100,000 troops from the palace. The bad news is that Yuwen Shu won all seven battles, and in fact he was defeated by Yizhi Wende. Yizhi Wende had already found out that the nine troops were short of food, so he deliberately lost consecutively, luring Yuwen Shu and others into depth, especially to prevent them from resting and constantly pursuing, which made the troops exhausted."

"Is the news accurate?" Hou Mo Chen Yi asked.

On the battlefield, especially in the heart of the enemy's territory, it can be said that it is a situation where you are in a dark state, and it is difficult to grasp the information outside in time.

Sometimes, the news you get may not be true.

Every decision requires sufficient intelligence to support it. If the information is wrong, the decision made based on it will naturally be wrong.

Many times, defeat is due to insufficient intelligence or errors.

Under the fog of war, no one can clearly see the situation and then make sufficient preparations. Sometimes, what they are afraid of is not lack of intelligence, but that there is countless intelligence, which is difficult to judge if it is true or false.

A smart and experienced coach must have enough experience to judge the true and false information, and be able to adjust and deploy decisions based on the situation at any time based on the situation and determine the situation.

"It should be almost the same as ten."

Luo Cheng couldn't guarantee that his inference was completely correct. Although he was inferring the process from the results, there were countless changes possible.

It can only be said that the possibility is extremely high.

The situation is now that there are five troops near Pyongyang.

The Sui army had a 100,000 army from Huer to the southwest of Pyongyang, and more than 260,000 troops including Yuwen Shu were located in Sashui, dozens of miles north of Pyongyang.

In addition, Luo Cheng's 30,000 people are at the Sashui River estuary, more than 200 miles north of Pyongyang.

The Goguryeo people had an army of 150,000, and they were divided into two groups, 80,000 in Pyongyang and 70,000 near Sashui.

Judging from the inference of military strength, the Sui army completely had an advantage, with a total of 400,000 troops.

However, the weakness of the Sui army is that the navy and land armies are still completely separated, unable to establish connections, and unable to effectively cooperate in combat.

Even Yuwen Shu and his eighth army had insufficient food and supplies, and they pursued Yizhi Wende all the way, and had become a tired soldier.

Although Luo Cheng's army has excellent soldiers and sufficient food, it has strong mobile power, but it has few soldiers.

On the contrary, this is the home court of the Goguryeo people, and this is their capital. The Goguryeo people are obviously superior in terms of geographical advantages and harmony, especially their grasp of the entire battlefield situation, which is obviously stronger than the Sui army.

"How far are we from Yuwen Shu and the others now?"

Luo Cheng asked.

"About 140 miles, Yuwen Shu and his team are only sixty miles away from the city of Pyongyang."

Luo Cheng calculated the time. Yuwen Shu and his friends have marched for 440 miles until now, and it has only been six days, with an average of more than seventy miles a day.

You know, it is a lot of 70 miles a day, especially now that the Ninth Army has no logistics supply, and it all relies on carrying food and equipment on its own, and is completely in the heart of the enemy's territory. It has seventy miles a day and seven battles in six days. This is amazing.

"Then we are still one hundred and forty miles away from them."

Wei Zheng shook his head, "It's too far away, I can't catch up."

"Yes, I can't catch up." Hou Mochen also sighed. Since Eji Wende was defeating, it was obvious that he was about to come to Pyongyang City, and it was time to fight back, with the back of Pyongyang City, and Pyongyang still had an army of 80,000.

Another thing is that Yuwen Shu and his team ran 440 miles in six days, and they were already at the end of their strength.

At this time, it's really time to fight back.

"I just don't know where Lai Hu'er is now. If they can appear under Pyongyang City now, at least the 80,000 people in Pyongyang can be restrained, even if they only contain half of them."

Luo Cheng also felt in trouble.

After thinking about it, he said, "First send a team of light horses and fast horses to catch up with Yu Zhongwen, tell him, just say that I got the information, Eddie Wende was defeated, and he was going to fight back with heavy troops. Let them not pursue, let them stop chasing first, rest on the spot, and say I was rushing over. Also, tell them that the 100,000 naval troops who came to Hu'er would be able to reach Pyongyang soon. We will contact them first, and then march together to join forces to meet at the city of Pyongyang."

Then Luo Cheng said again, "Send another team of people to Pyongyang to find the navy to Hu'er, find a way to connect with them, explain the situation here, let them help us share some pressure and involve Pyongyang's troops."
Chapter completed!