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Duro shook his head, "I haven't noticed the movement of Goguryeo's soldiers yet, but now we have scattered the horses to a hundred miles away at most. Once we find Goguryeo people, they are only a hundred miles away from us. A hundred miles away can be reached in half a day. Father, our progress is still too slow. Don't rest at night. We have to hurry up and repair it overnight. At least we have to repair all the big and five small villages first."

"But everyone is very tired."

"There must be a brave man under heavy rewards. I believe that everyone can fight again." Duluo has been by the emperor for a long time and has learned some of the emperor's styles and never stingy on money. Making money at critical moments is always very effective and inspiring, even the Khitan nomadic tribes are the same.

"Do you think Gao Yuan really can walk the north road?"

"Liaodong City has been taken down by the Marquis of Wuwei. I believe Gao Yuan should have known this fatal news at this time. What would he choose after he knows this news? Should he retreat eastward and fight back to Liaodong City with Marshal Li Jing for Liaodong City, or change to the north road, go back to Xincheng or Fuyu first, reorganize his troops, and then regain Liaodong City?"

Mohui thought for a while, "If Gao Yuan was smart, he should change to the north road, return to Liaodong first with peace of mind, and then reorganize his troops and fight, instead of rushing back to Liaodong city in a hurry."

"What my father said makes sense, and my son thought so too. Therefore, 99% of Gao Yuan might have to go to the north road, not to mention that General Li Jing had sent tens of thousands of troops to set up a camp in Songshan on the bank of the Bailang Water to intercept it."

Mohui looked at the first-ever city wall at the foot of the mountain and smiled and said to his son. "This place has always been a pasture for us Khitans. This land is very good. Especially you see, if Gao Yuan is defeated this time, it will be difficult for Liaodong to compete for power in the Liaohe area in the future. This will be the territory of the Sui Dynasty in the future. Look at the Suzhi of the Xi tribe. Your father-in-law has followed the current Shang Dynasty and cooperated vigorously to allow countless Han people to enter the Xi territory, cultivate farmland, build forts and roads in various river valleys, open up shopping malls, and connect trade. He also asked the Sui people to help him build several cities, especially Songshan City. Look at how big it is, and now a large number of merchants have settled in and become the trade center in that area. Su Zhi only earned money by sharing the taxes from the court.

We have a lot of money and our strength has increased greatly. Our Khitan was always too far away from the Sui Dynasty, and Yingzhou was not prosperous. Now, when the imperial court defeated Goryeo, we will inevitably vigorously develop western Liaoning and Liaodong in the future. With the fertility of the land of the Liaohe Plain, there is great potential here. The land under our feet is very good. It connects Yingzhou and Liaodong Plain, and can even go east to Yingzhou and enter Songshan City of the Xi people. Lianghe Town of the Sui people, and finally reach Huaihuang, or turn south to Youzhou. If we operate here, within ten years, this place will definitely surpass Songshan of the Xi people and become a big city that is not inferior to Yingzhou. At that time, our Khitan and our Hebian tribe will inevitably become more prosperous because of this."

"Father. Khitan is already part of the Sui Dynasty. The ten Khitan tribes surrendered to the court and set it as the ten prefectures. After defeating Goryeo, this place may be the southern boundary of Liaobei Province, or it may be included in Liaoxi Province. In short, this place will be the territory of the court and the territory of the court." Duluo heard the unwillingness in his father's words, so he carefully reminded his father. The Emperor of the Sui Dynasty and the court did not intend to just submit a nominal submission, but to completely incorporate it into the rule. If they cooperate, the leaders of the tribe will definitely have a good result. If they have other plans, they want to continue to be independent from the court.

In addition, there are even further ambitions, and there will never be a good result at that time. Look at Goguryeo and look at the Turks. These extremely powerful giants have fallen one by one. Tribes like the Khitan can be considered as second-rate forces around the Sui area, how can they fight against them? This idea is absolutely undesirable. The longer Duluo follows the emperor, the stronger his awe of the emperor. He even doesn't want to be a leader of a tribe. He is even more indifferent to Chinese civilization. He hopes to be a nobleman of the Great Sui Empire, an official general, a Sui man, rather than a Khitan man.

Mo Hui looked at his son strangely, feeling that his son had changed more and more. He sighed in his heart and stopped continuing the topic.

Yingzhou, Liucheng.

Gao Yuan only received the news of the loss of Liaodong City very late, but he didn't believe it at first.

"What did you say?"

"Your Majesty, Liaodong City, lost!" The general who reported the news was panting, looking panicked, as if he was losing his parents. This news was really too horrible and hard to believe.

Gao Yuan changed color frantically, "Say it again!"

"After the Battle of White Wolf City, the Sui army's marshal Li Jing secretly evacuated White Wolf City with his main force. They rushed along the coast, advanced by leaps and bounds to the southern end of the White Wolf Water, set up camp in Songshan, and wanted to cut off our retreat. Then, then," said this, the general wanted to cry.

"And what happened?"

"Then we were unaware of their actions. Li Jing was extremely cunning. When he saw this, he divided his troops in an extremely arrogant manner, leaving 30,000 people to guard the Songshan camp, and took 30,000 people straight to Liaodong City. Then, he captured Liaodong City."

"How is this possible!" Gao Yuan asked angrily.

Liaodong City is so strong that even if he draws all his elite troops to western Liaoning, there are eight thousand defenders in Liaodong City alone, and there are many castles around it. As soon as the Sui army appears by the Liao River, it should have raised news for the beacon fire. Zhucheng on the east bank of the Liao River should prepare as early as possible. Then, as usual, the Liaodong City will send more troops to Liaodong City, and even withdraw the people into various cities to deal with this kind of raid. Goguryeo has been operating on the east bank of the Liao River for more than 200 years. Is it a joke? No matter how cunning Li Jing is and how fast he runs, can he run past the beacon fire? Can 30,000 light cavalry fly to the high walls of Liaodong City?

"Li Jing cheated the Liaodong city gate and seized the Liaodong city without a single soldier. The two inner and outer walls seemed to be useless, and the surrounding castles were even more unpredictable, and there was no warning message."

It was heard that Li Jing had captured Liaodong City with a long-distance attack with 30,000 light cavalry, and it was a soldier who had no blood to seize Liaodong City without any effort. Gao Yuan almost vomited blood. How much effort did he take to make Goguryeo cross the Liaohe River and how much effort did he take to grab a piece of territory on the west bank of the Liaohe River and establish the Wuliluo stronghold. Then he spent a lot of effort to take advantage of the chaos in the Sui country. He led his troops to cross the western Liaohe River, and finally he was out of touch with the host and killed Wei Chong and seized the Yingzhou in western Liaohe. However, the soldiers underestimated the enemy first, resulting in the defeat of Bailang City. Then he was preparing to defend Liucheng here and fight with the Sui army in western Liaohe. But who would have thought that the Sui people would kill his lair directly and seize his important city Liaodong City.

One Liaodong city is better than ten Yingzhou Liucheng, and even one Liaodong city is more important than the entire western Liaoning.

Yingzhou was lost again. They could also retreat to Liaodong. However, once Liaodong city was lost, a huge gap appeared in the Liaohe defense line that Goguryeo had been operating for hundreds of years.

Gao Yuan suddenly thought of an extremely important question.

"When was it that Liaodong City fell?"

"It happened more than ten days ago." The general replied frowningly.

"Waste!" Gao Yuan was finally furious and pulled out his sword to split an old case in front of him in half.

Such important news was only sent back more than ten days later. What did the generals eat? A bunch of waste. If you can't defend Liaodong City, you can at least report the situation back in time. Besides, the scouts and generals under him were all holding their heads, why didn't anyone find that Li Jing was no longer in Bailang City? He still sent people to stare at Bailang City, waiting for Li Jing to lead his troops from Bailang City and attack Liucheng along the Bailang Water. As a result, he had been waiting in Liucheng for so many days, but he had already taken away his Liaodong City, and he was waiting here like a fool for someone to attack.

"Call all the generals and come to discuss matters." Gao Yuan said this almost gritted his teeth. He was trying his best to restrain himself and calm himself down. Things have happened, and what we need to do now is how to make up for it. It's just that anger is useless.

The general went out, Gao Yuan sat alone in the tent with his sword standing on his knee.

This time, the loss was a big loss. Gao Yuan sighed in his heart. It turned out that he thought that the Sui country was in chaos. The kings fought for the throne, which was an extremely rare opportunity. It was an opportunity for Goguryeo to finally enter western Liaoning openly. When he decided to send troops, he comprehensively judged the situation of the Sui country and determined that although the Sui country had defeated the Turks before, he showed an extremely powerful strength. However, civil strife was not an external trouble. The stronger the power, the easier it was to be destroyed by civil strife. Especially when the situation in Sui country was in chaos at that time, the emperor's three sons each had troops and fought for the throne together. He felt that if this war was not fought for ten or eight years, at least two or three years, even if it was re-paced, it would definitely be severely damaged. If they did not send troops at this time, then when would they wait? When the internal chaos in Sui country was pacified, he would have swallowed western Liaoning into his mouth and stabilized.

It rose up. At that time, Goguryeo occupied the Liaohe Plain to stabilize the situation, and sent troops south to destroy Silla and Baekje, eliminating future troubles. Then, we would raise troops north and make every effort to stabilize the Liaohe Plain. At that time, after the troops of Mohe, Khitan, Xi, and Shiwei were wiped out one by one, Goguryeo would become the overlord of the East, and then wait for the opportunity. Once civil strife in the Central Plains arise, Goguryeo would be able to join forces with the Turks to destroy the Sui Kingdom, divide the Central Plains, and even Goguryeo entered the Central Plains. Didn’t the Tuoba family also first started outside the northern frontier and finally entered the Central Plains and established the Northern Wei? Why couldn’t Goguryeo? I thought that Goguryeo was not a pseudonym barbarian, but an orthodox Chinese Miao descendant, and one of the princes enfeoffed by the Zhou king. They Goguryeo was always defiled by the Han people as Donghu, which was slander, just like the Kanto countries always called Chu barbarians.

With a long sigh, Gao Yuan felt tired and powerless. Looking back now, he saw how beautiful the idea was, but how cruel the reality is now. But who would have thought that the chaos in the Sui Dynasty was calmed down for three months, and the three princes who finally took the throne were not the three princes, but the grandson of Yang Lin. Everything was beyond expectations, and then everything was in chaos. What we need to consider now is not how to establish an Eastern overlord country, but how to protect the plain on the east bank of the Liao River and the Liao River defense line to protect the five hundred years of Goguryeo's foundation.
Chapter completed!