On both sides of the river, a large number of civilian ships were forcibly confiscated by the Sui army and burned in a concentrated manner. The Sui army's tactics were very clear, and the water power of the Goryeo Army was completely destroyed and the safety of the Lingluo Island Logistics Base was ensured.

On the surface of the Shuishi River, Sui army warships could be seen patrolling the river, searching for all hiding ships.

Although the navy was still busy on the river, the Battle of Goryeo had changed its protagonists. As the main force of the Sui army began to land, the navy had transformed into supporting roles.

The main force of the 30,000 Sui army landed about five miles from Pyongyang. On the north bank of the Shu River, there were teams of Sui army lined up neatly. This was the most elite 30,000 army of the Sui army. If it were not for the purpose of occupation, then this army could sweep across Goryeo.

Five thousand cavalry, three thousand shamans, three thousand shamans, three thousand powerful crossbows, ten thousand spearmen, three thousand swords and shields, and one thousand scouts.

Yang Yuanqing wore a golden helmet, iron armor, and a battle knife in his hand. His eyes were sharp and sharp. He patrolled his men who had been trekking under the escort of dozens of generals.

Teams of Sui soldiers were brightly armored, with spears like forests, and murderous intent. They had already lined up and were waiting for the order to set off. Yang Yuanqing's eyes turned to the east, and he saw a huge city standing on the plain in the northeast direction.

At this time, his first sneak attack plan was no longer possible. More than two hours had passed since the beacon was ignited, and the Goryeo army must have known that the Sui army was attacking.

In fact, the second plan for quick battle and quick decision is no longer realistic. Even if the Goryeo Army cannot clear the walls in just over two hours, it is still possible to go to the city and mobilize the people to cooperate in defense.

More importantly, there are a large number of weapons in the warehouse of the Goryeo Army. In addition, the popularity of folk weapons in Goryeo has made it possible to mobilize 70,000 to 80,000 young and 80,000 people to wear battles.

Yang Yuanqing also knew very well that it was not so easy to seize the capital of the Goryeo people. He had to pay a certain price to plunder a large amount of supplies.

Yang Yuanqing pulled out his sword and rode his horse in front of the army. His voice echoed in the air. "This is a battle to avenge shame, and a battle to avenge revenge. The failure of the Sui army will become a stern sound under our iron hooves. Let us put the Great Sui Red Banner on the top of Pyongyang!"

The morale of the 30,000 Sui soldiers was high, and the crowd was excited, and they raised their arms and shouted: "We will win! The Sui army will win!"

Yang Yuanqing held down his war horse and turned to the soldiers. He shouted sternly: "I promised the soldiers of the three armies in the name of the commander of the Great Sui Dynasty. The first person to attack the city will be rewarded with 5,000 taels of silver, promoted to three levels, and won the city of Pyongyang. Everyone will be rewarded with a generous reward. Those who are killed will be given double the pension!"

With a heavy reward, the morale of the Sui army began to rise. Yang Yuanqing waved his sword at Pyongyang, "Start!"

A group of Sui soldiers began to line up towards Pyongyang. Infantry was in the middle, cavalry guards were on both sides, and the formation was neat. The swords and spears shone in the sun, and the prelude of the war gradually opened, and the clouds of war enveloped the sky above Pyongyang City.

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Gao Jianwu, the King of Goryeo, stood above the city and looked at the Sui army soldiers coming from the plain below the river from afar. The Sui army formation was full of murderous intent. Accompanied by the sound of marching drums, the lineup was majestic and powerful.

Further away, on the wide surface of the river, warships are like a long city wall, and masts gather into a dense forest, covering the sky and the sun.

Gao Jianwu's face was pale, and there were waves of trembling between his two hips. Although the Sui army had only 30,000 people, the strong combat power they showed during the march made Gao Jianwu, who had ascended the throne for less than a year, start to be scared.

He even thought of his fate if he was captured by the Sui army, and even the tragic situation after the Sui army entered the city.

But he is the king of Goryeo after all, and he cannot lose the dignity of a king. He cannot affect his morale because of his fear.

He also shouted to the Goryeo defenders: "Prevent the city strictly, our reinforcements will arrive soon!"

His shouting did not attract echoes, not because the morale of the Goryeo Army was low, but because his shouting was too small, only more than a thousand people around him heard it, and his slogans were not inciting, and they could not arouse the echo of the Goryeo defenders.

The desertedness on the top of the city made Gao Jianwu even more uneasy. At this time, his clan brother, General Gao Jiande of the Pyongyang City Defense, stepped forward and persuaded: "Your Majesty, please go back to the palace for the time being! It is not safe here. If the situation changes, the humble official will report it immediately."

Gao Jianwu nodded and was about to go down the city, when suddenly, a Sui cavalry rushed to the distance, rushed to the city wall, shouting in Goryeo dialect: "According to the order of His Highness the King of Chu, I will send a letter to Goryeo!"

He took an arrow and a letter arrow shot to the top of the city. A soldier picked it up and ran to Gao Jianwu, knelt down and submitted the letter.

Gao Jianwu took the arrow letter and pulled the headless arrow away. The letter was written in Chinese characters, with the front saying, "Yang Yuanqing, the King of Chu, the Regent of the Great Sui Dynasty, to His Highness the King of Goryeo Plain."

Gao Jianwu had just heard the cavalry's call and looked at the letter in front of him. He felt even more frightened. It turned out that it was Yang Yuanqing who was personally expeditioning.

He tried his best to restrain his inner tension and prevent the soldiers from seeing his inner fear and anxiety, but his hands were still trembling slightly. He opened the letter, and Yang Yuanqing was very frank in the letter and directly offered three conditions:

First, Goryeo compensated 500,000 stones of grain, 100,000 taels of gold and 300,000 pieces of silk as a prerequisite for the withdrawal of the Sui army.

Second, Goryeo ceded the Liaodong Peninsula to the Sui Dynasty.

Third, Goryeo officially praised the Great Sui Dynasty, and King Goryeo accepted the title of the Sui Dynasty.

If these three conditions are agreed, the Sui army can not attack Pyongyang and withdraw its troops to return to the Central Plains. Otherwise, the Sui army will break through Pyongyang and will wipe out Pyongyang City.

At the bottom of the letter, Yang Yuanqing wrote a deadline, with a reply within two hours.

Gao Jianwu couldn't accept any of these three conditions. He finally understood that it must be because of the financial difficulties within the Sui Dynasty that the Sui army had the idea of ​​Goryeo and sent an expeditionary force to loot Goryeo.

He sighed deeply, turned around and walked out of the city, life and death are all the way! He no longer wants to be in charge of defending the city.

Thirty thousand Sui troops were divided into ten square formations and arrived in Pyongyang Xicheng, and arranged a formation two miles away from the city.

Pyongyang is divided into inner city and outer city. The inner city is a city with a circumference of twelve miles. Palaces, government offices, government warehouses and military camps are all concentrated in the inner city. In addition, the official residences and many wealthy families also live in the inner city.

A large number of civilians were concentrated between the inner city and the outer city. In the seventh year of Daye, the army of Huer captured the outer city. The military discipline was dispersed and the soldiers plundered the houses on a large scale. Only then were defeated by the Goryeo army ambushed in the inner city.

Therefore, for the Sui army, breaking through the outer city was only the first step. The food and food they needed were concentrated in the inner city. Only by breaking through the inner city could they seize the spoils.

Yang Yuanqing immediately looked at the city on a low and high slope. Judging from his years of experience in siege and defending the city, Pyongyang City is a heroic city, with a strong overall strength and almost integrated, and it is difficult to capture it by taking advantage of tricks.

The moat is two meters wide, and a protruding horse city is built every ten meters. The suspension bridge is high and the city gate is strong. It is difficult to use a hammer to attack the city. The only way is to climb up the city and use a cloud ladder to attack the city.

The key is that the Sui army had only 30,000 troops, and it took a lot of casualties to capture the city, but these were his elite troops, and he was unwilling to suffer too much casualties.

After staring at it for a while, Yang Yuanqing had no choice but to do anything at all. At this time, the Asian general Chen Guang came forward to report: "Master, you might as well attack the city at night, which is more effective than siege during the day."

A sentence reminded Yang Yuanqing that he ordered the Liaodong Army to send a scout team to mingle into Pyongyang City. I wonder if this scout was successful. If there were really Sui Army scouts in the city, they would find a way to contact the Sui Army.

Thinking of this, Yang Yuanqing had another glimmer of hope in his heart and asked Chen Guang: "You participated in the attack on Liaodong City back then, how did you conquer Liaodong City in the end?"

Chen Guang has been serving as a local garrison in Jiang County. This time he attacked Goryeo, Yang Yuanqing specially transferred him to him because Chen Guang had represented the Fengzhou army in the Battle of Goryeo and made great contributions when conquering Liaodong City. He was very familiar with the situation of the Goryeo army.

Chen Guang sighed and said, "The biggest characteristic of the Goryeo Army is tenacity. The general manager must not expect them to surrender. Only by killing them and not thinking about capturing is the right way to attack. And you must never believe them. Their so-called surrender is false. Once the Sui Army is deceived, all the previous efforts will be wasted. This lesson was too profound back then."

Yang Yuanqing nodded and immediately ordered: "Order the soldiers to camp three miles away and rest on the spot!"

The Sui army did not rush to attack the city, but instead set up camp three miles away from the west city. The tents rose up one by one. The soldiers buried the pots and cooked, raising their energy, and waiting for night battles.

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Night battles have always been the traditional strength of the Sui army, and everyone knows in the Central Plains. In order to deal with the Sui army, the Tang army and Li Mi and Wei army followed suit and carried out night battle training, but the Goryeo army may not know, and they may not be able to defend at night.

So in the first battle, Yang Yuanqing chose to go at night.

As night fell, the sound of drums under the city of Pyongyang was loud, "Dong!Dong!Dong!Dong!Dong!Dong!Dong!Dong!Dong!Dong!Dong. The Sui army threw in nine thousand troops, including four thousand siege soldiers and five thousand soldiers used bows and arrows to assist in defense, and began their first tentative attack.

The four thousand-sword shield soldiers held the shield in one hand and the battle sword in the other hand, and rushed up like a tide. There were ten siege ladders among them, heading towards the west wall.

The Goryeo defenders on the city did not dare to slack off. They were always paying attention to the movements of the Sui army. When the Sui army drums sounded, the Goryeo army immediately invested 10,000 defenders and 20,000 temporarily armed young and strong men, and intensively deployed defenses on the top of the city.

The siege finally broke out, and arrows on the top of the city were like rain, shooting at the Sui army overwhelmingly. Five thousand archers of the Sui army also launched a counterattack, and dense rain of arrows shot towards the top of the city, forming a net of arrows on the city and hundreds of Sui army vanguards with three-meter-long wooden boards on their heads, galloping down the city in the rain of arrows.

They quickly built a temporary bridge on the moat with wide and thick wooden boards. There were huge iron nails on both ends of the wooden boards, which were firmly nailed into the soil.

The first ladder was pushed by the soldiers and slowly approached the city wall. The ladder arm turned, and with a loud bang, a heavy ladder was placed on the top of the city. Dozens of Sui soldiers jumped up and raised their shields to rush towards the top of the city.

.............(To be continued...)
Chapter completed!