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    (Thanks to Feilong Zaiyun, Nickname Original Flavor, Xingye Shenfeng, ehanzi, Eternal Dream, okman, Shaoshuai Tears, and Ri hietu Wei for your support. Thank you all!) ¡ª¡ª Like a massacre, after dawn, Han Sengshou  The account was raised to allow the generals to report the results of the battle.  ¡÷, Nearly 10,000 of the 50,000 Goguryeo troops led by Gao Yuan died in the battle, and basically none of the remaining 40,000 people escaped. They were all captured. Even the King of Goguryeo, Gao Yuan, who changed his clothes and tried to escape over the mountains, was captured alive.  return.  Gao Yuan finally surrendered to Han Sengshou. Han Sengshou was overjoyed and immediately sent a report of victory to the rear to announce the good news to the emperor. At the same time, he did not stop, but took a short rest at the foot of Beizhen Mountain. After gathering the follow-up troops, he directly  Continue to attack eastward along the route Gao Yuan wants to retreat.  "Congratulations, Your Majesty, the 80,000 troops of Goguryeo that crossed the Liao River have been wiped out. In addition to the Goguryeo soldiers captured by Marquis Wuwei who captured Liaodong and Xincheng, the 100,000 Liao soldiers have been eliminated. Now the King of Goguryeo has also been captured and surrendered, and the destruction of Goguryeo is just around the corner."  Wang Bao congratulated Yifeng with great excitement.  Yi Feng was so excited that he was speechless. Although Beizhenshan's interception and encirclement plan was his own, he never thought that he could achieve such a perfect victory at that time.  Not only were Gao Yuan's men wiped out, but even the big fish Gao Yuan was caught in the net.  "Immediately send an order to Han Sengshou to cross the Liao River immediately, join forces with Li Jing in Liaodong, and then take advantage of the opportunity to sweep the cities on the east bank of the Liao River." Yi Feng knew that he really had a great opportunity now.  Although Goguryeo had no less than 300,000 soldiers, if mobilized, it could gather no less than 600,000 soldiers.  But it was impossible for Goguryeo to deploy all its troops on the Liaohe defense line.  Goguryeo's previous focus was even on dealing with Silla and Baekje on the Samhan Peninsula, and a large number of troops were deployed on the southern peninsula.  In addition, there are many soldiers and horses deployed in mountain cities throughout the country.  The last time Gao Yuan entered western Liaoning in a hurry, he asked that a few of his troops came from the capital.  The rest were directly mobilized and assembled on the defense line on the east bank of the Liao River. Now these 80,000 people are gone, plus the more than 10,000 people Li Jing captured when he captured Liaodong and Xincheng. The Goguryeo defense line on the Liao River is equivalent to all of a sudden.  There are no more than 100,000 troops.  As a result, Goguryeo's Liaohe defense line was almost full of sieves.  Even if the Goguryeo people wanted to mobilize more troops to fill the gap, it was too late.  Moreover, the king became a prisoner, and some important officials and generals on Goguryeo's original Liaohe defense line also entered western Liaoning during the Sui Dynasty and were killed or captured this time.  This will result in Goguryeo lacking sufficient commanders and dispatchers on the Liaohe defense line in the west.  One wrong step, one wrong step, Gao Yuan made a wrong step, and now he has to face consequences that are difficult to follow.  Not only was he defeated and captured, but the entire Goguryeo Kingdom was also facing a great crisis.  Things were just as Yi Feng expected. After Han Sengshou destroyed Gao Yuan and captured Gao Yuan in cooperation with Sanbo, he took a short rest and immediately seized this rare opportunity.  Move east quickly.  Han Sengshou did not go to Liaodong City or Xincheng first. He rushed northeast first and quickly reached the foot of Wuliluo City.  Wuliluo City was on the west bank of the Liao River, on the west bank of the later intersection of the East Liao River and the West Liao River.  It has always been a battleground for military strategists, guarding the extremely important Liao River ferry.  Goguryeo has been trying to cross the Liaohe River to compete for western Liaoning for many years. Wuliluo was Goguryeo's development to the west bank of the Liaohe River a few years ago.  A stronghold and fortress was established.  Although this city is not big, it is extremely strong.  The city has high walls and strong troops, and is heavily garrisoned.  A lot of food and grass were hoarded.  This city can be used as a bridgehead for Goguryeo. It can attack and defend, advance and retreat.  Under normal circumstances, it would be difficult to capture it.  But at this time, like Liaodong City and Xincheng, Han Sengshou took the fortress without any effort at all.  His method was also very simple. He asked Gao Yuan to write a handwritten letter, stamp it with the king's seal, and then sent a royal family member into the city.  The guard general was stunned when he received the letter and saw that it was actually a surrender letter handwritten by the king himself.  "Your Majesty is now a prisoner of the Sui Kingdom." Gao Yuan's disciple who sent the letter sighed.  The guard was silent for a long time, not knowing how to choose.  He was the guard general of Wuliluo, and he was supposed to never surrender. But now that the king had surrendered to the Sui State, the king sent a letter asking him to surrender in Kaicheng. Did he want to resist the order?  The guard weighed for a long time, and finally thought about the strength comparison with the Sui army.  There were originally 10,000 troops stationed in Wuliluo City, and now there are still 5,000, but the Sui army has more than 100,000.  In a real fight, an egg will hit a rock.  The king had become a prisoner of the Sui army. What morale could the defenders have?  Finally, after receiving a reply from the Sui army marshal that he would give preferential treatment to the Wu Liluo defenders and protect their property and safety from infringement, the Wu Liluo defenders surrendered.  Goguryeo spent countless efforts to finally build this bridgehead on the west bank of the Liao River, the Wuliluo Fortress, which surrendered without a fight.  After taking Wu Liluo, Han Sengshou led his army across the river and invaded the east bank of the Liao River.  New town.  After Li Jing read the military information that had just been sent to him, he excitedly slapped his thighs. It was so beautiful.  Eighty thousand people in western LiaoningJuli's army was wiped out, Gao Yuan was captured and surrendered, and Wu Liluo was also captured.  The entire western Liaoning has been recovered, and his uncle Han Sengshou has led an army of more than 100,000 into Liaodong.  "Immediately send an order to the soldiers and horses left behind in Songshan and Bailangcheng to move to Liao immediately. Next, we must take advantage of this great opportunity when the Liao River is leaderless to launch a wave of offensive and strive to uproot all the large and small mountain cities on the east bank of the Liao River.  "Li Jing is the Deputy Privy Envoy, as is Han Sengshou.  Li Jing is the marching marshal of Yanshan Road, and Han Senshou is the marching marshal of Liaodong Road. They have the same military rank, actual duties, and dispatches. They each command one hundred thousand troops. Without the emperor's special decree, they are equal.  .  The 200,000 troops currently in Liaohe belong to two groups, with two marshals who are not subordinate to each other. However, Li Jing and Han Sengshou both chose to take advantage of the situation to attack, and before the Goguryeo people could regroup to resist, they first  The Liaohe defense line was lifted.  Even if the Goguryeo people choose another king by then, they will never take back this line of defense that has been in operation for hundreds of years.  As long as the Sui army occupied this line of defense, it could in turn use it as a solid position to stabilize the Liaohe Plain, and in turn move eastward to attack the eastern mountainous areas.     October.  After entering Luoyang, Yi Feng issued the first edict.  Li Jing was appointed as the marshal of the Liaodong Road march, commanding 100,000 troops to sweep the central part of the east bank of the Liao River.  Han Sengshou was appointed as the marching marshal of the North Liao Road, commanding 100,000 troops to sweep the northern part of the east bank of the Liao River. Zhou Luohou was appointed as the marching marshal of the South Liao Road. Dou Jiande and Lai Huer were deputy marshals, leading a navy of 50,000 men and five battleships.  Hundreds of ships attacked the southern part of the Liaodong Peninsula from the Dengzhou sea route in Jingdong.  However, Yi Feng ignored the objections of the ministers and personally led 50,000 Beiya Imperial Guards northward to Youzhou to command and coordinate the three armies.  The war machine of Sui Dynasty was fully activated.  Use all your strength to destroy Liao.  In October, after Li Jing received 20,000 reinforcements led by Zhang Xutuo in Xincheng, he sent troops to capture Xuantu City.  That month, Yifeng arrived in Youzhou and moved from Youzhou to Yuguan to take up command, closer to the front line.  After Li Jing conquered Xuantu City, he successively conquered Gaimou City, Baiyan City, Maigu, Momi, Houhuang, and Hengshan cities.  The navy also successfully crossed the sea to the east and reached the Liaodong Peninsula. Zhou Luohou, Dou Jiande and Lai Huer led their troops to besiege Beisha City in southern Liaoning.  After conquering it in five days, the Sui Dynasty moved troops to besiege and capture Jian'an City, and then went north to besiege Anshi City.  The Northern Route Army led by Han Sengshou.  He also quickly swept across the northern part of the Liaohe River and captured Yincheng and Fuyu successively.  The three Sui armies marched together, like the autumn wind sweeping across fallen leaves.  Taking advantage of Gao Yuan's defeat in western Liaoning and being captured, the defense line on the east bank of the Liao River was empty.  There was no unified command, so they were under the Sui army's Lingli offensive.  Especially the King Gao Yuan's personal letter to persuade him to surrender. Finally, when the 19th year of the founding of the Emperor ended and the new year arrived, the three armies of the Sui Army had almost swept across the entire Liaodong Peninsula, leaving only  After landing in Wugu City, an important town, they still persisted in resisting.  The three armies captured more than 200 large and small cities in Goguryeo, and beheaded more than 40,000 people. A total of more than 70,000 Goguryeo troops were captured and surrendered, not counting the 20,000 killed and 60,000 captured in western Liaoning.  The three Sui armies plus the Tibetan soldiers totaled more than 300,000 soldiers who entered the Liao Dynasty. More than 8,000 soldiers were killed and more than 10,000 were injured in the battles. Among them, the losses of horses were heavy. Due to the continuous high-intensity fighting, the Sui army lost more than 50,000 horses.  , with no less than 100,000 horses, the loss of horses was the biggest loss in the Liaodong Battle.  On the New Year¡¯s Day of the first year of Kaiyuan, Yi Feng rushed back to Luoyang to hold the imperial meeting.  At this time, Goguryeo had elected Gao Jianwu, the son of Pingyuan King Gaotang and the younger brother of the captured king Gaoyuan, as king.  After Gao Jianwu ascended the throne as king, he immediately mobilized troops and horses to reinforce Wugu City and established a new defense at Yalu River. At the same time, he sent people to negotiate peace with Silla and Baekje, and sent envoys to Luoyang to apologize to the Sui Dynasty.  He offered ten beauties and asked for his own sister, the princess of Goguryeo, and the emperor of Sui, in the hope of a truce between the two countries.  Gao Yuan requested the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty to grant him a title, and also requested the Sui Dynasty to withdraw to the west bank of the Liao River. The two countries would cease their troops, and Goguryeo would like to be a vassal of the Sui Dynasty from now on.  It is impossible for Yi Feng to accept such a request.  However, it was cold in Liaodong at this time. It had snowed for a long time, and the rivers and seas were frozen. The siege of Wugu City was not smooth. Wugu City was flooded with troops who had retreated from the Liaodong Peninsula, and many from the Sanhan Peninsula.  The number of reinforcements from Goguryeo reached 50,000.  The weather was cold, and Ugu City was once the capital of Goguryeo. This important city, backed by the Ugu River and in front of the Yalu River, was very important to the Goguryeo people. It could be said to be the gateway to Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo.  The Goguryeo people refused to give up until death, and the new king and the new dynasty swore to defend the Ugu.  In this case, the Sui army's attack was not favorable.  Many ministers among the ministers have requested a temporary truce with Goguryeo. After the horse is strong and fat next autumn, they will send troops to attack Wugu and Pyongyang to destroy Goguryeo.  After all, the number of 300,000 soldiers and horses is huge, the daily consumption is huge, and it is difficult to attack the city in winter, so staying in Liaodong is useless and is a waste of supplies.  And the most important thing is, now the imperial court has almost taken over the Liaodong Peninsula, which has occupied hundreds of cities, millions of people, and thousands of miles of land. Such a large area still needs to be occupied and managed.  The imperial court needs time to stabilize all this. Once Liaodong is stabilized and then Pyongyang is attacked, everything will fall into place.  Yi Feng also praised the ministers' views. Winter is not suitable for attacking, and the army is quite tired after fighting for years. The soldiers are tired and horses and other losses are serious. The newly occupied area also needs to be stabilized. After various considerations, Yi Feng  Finally, he proposed his own truce conditions to Goguryeo.  "First of all, Goguryeo must surrender to the Sui Dynasty and become a vassal of the Sui Dynasty in the future. The succession of the King of Goguryeo must obtain the consent of the Sui Emperor and be canonized by the Sui Emperor before it becomes legal. Secondly, the land in Liaodong has always been occupied by the Han people.  Territory, but Goguryeo has been secretly devouring it. Now that the war is about to cease, yes, the Sui Dynasty and Goguryeo will formally demarcate the border, and the border will be the Yalu River. The east of the Yalu River belongs to Goguryeo, and the west belongs to the Sui Dynasty. "  No one mentioned the king.  Yi Feng wanted to propose letting Gao Yuan go back to cause trouble for the new king and court of Goguryeo, but thinking that Goguryeo would definitely not accept it, he didn't mention it for the time being.  The Goguryeo envoy found it difficult to accept Yi Feng's conditions, but in the end it had to be decided by the king and court of Pyongyang, so the envoy had to go back with Yi Feng's conditions.  After the New Year's Day, it is a new year, and the new year of the Sui Dynasty begins to be used. From this day on, the 19th year of the Kaihuang era is used. The second era of the Sui Dynasty begins to count, and the first year of Kaiyuan begins.  , and at the same time, it also records the year of Huangdi Xuanyuan.  After the Goguryeo envoy left, Yi Feng issued an edict, instructing Dou Jiande to stay as the Liaodong Road camp, Zhang Xutuo as the deputy, and Li Jing, Han Senshou, Luo Zhouhou, Lai Huer, Luo Yi, and Li Jing.  When 200,000 troops returned to the DPRK, 100,000 troops were retained under the command of Dou Jiande to continue to guard Liaodong.  Militarily, the imperial court has achieved a perfect victory in Liaodong, but what needs to be tested now is the imperial court's ability to defend the new land of Liaodong.  For Yifeng, he must not conquer Liaodong hard, but in the end, like the Tang Dynasty, he could not establish effective rule at all.  How to take over control and rule Liaodong well? This task was handed over to the Political Affairs Hall by Yi Feng.  For the time being, Yi Feng was too lazy to worry about how the Zhengshitang would take over and manage Liaodong. In short, the imperial court would establish two provinces, Liaodong and Liaobei, in the newly occupied area, and then divide prefectures and counties, select officials, etc.  Those matters will be left to the Political Affairs Hall and the Three Provinces and Six Ministries for the time being. What he has to consider now is the rewards for the soldiers in the First Battle of Liaodong, especially for Han Senshou and Li Jing. Especially Li Jing, who has made such a great contribution, not only  Rewards are impossible, but Yi Feng also has a headache when he thinks of his temperament that once he leads the army, he will be the boss and the second emperor, even if his words have no effect.  Moreover, Han Sengshou and Li Jing are nephews and uncles, and they both serve as deputy envoys in the Privy Council. This is extremely inappropriate.  Only one of the two in the Privy Council can stay. Originally, Li Jing was more suitable to stay because he was closer to him. However, this battle in Liaodong made Yi Feng a little afraid to let Li Jing go so easily.  Li Jing is a good marshal who can command the army, but he is by no means a good marshal who can reassure the emperor. After thinking about it, Yi Feng finally sat down in front of the case, picked up a pen and wrote down a line of words: Jin Junwei Guogong, Jia Zhen Feng Shi Yi  Five hundred households, granted the title of Shangzhuguo, Prince Taibao, Minister of the Ministry of War, Vice President of the Mangshan Royal Military Academy of Sui Dynasty, and exempted from the post of Deputy Privy Councilor.  "Come here, send this to the Hanlin Academy to prepare an edict for issuance." Yi Feng took this piece of paper and looked at it for a long time. Finally, he called his attendant and asked him to send it to the Hanlin Academy to prepare an edict and issue it. He hoped that Li Jing could understand his painstaking efforts.  .  (Stiff neck, so uncomfortable.) (To be continued)
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