The distant horizon was white, and the orange-red rising sun gradually dyed the clouds in the horizon red. The egg-yolk-like sun gradually jumped, sowing light and warmth on the earth. The sky and the earth seemed to be shrouded in an orange-red and light yellow halo.

The city of Lulong was gradually becoming lively. The early-fried chefs went to the wells everywhere to fetch water and started burning firewood to make fire. They wanted to provide breakfast for the entire army, and if something went wrong, they would lose their heads.

Yan Fei, whose eyes were red, walked to the street yawning, looking at the Tang soldiers busy packing up various supplies, and looked a little haggard.

Yan Fei didn't want to cry, but was fumigated by insecticides.

In the modern world, there are almost no other insect creatures except for the occasional mosquitoes and flies. But in the ancient world, the fleas, cockroaches, lice, and bed bugs appeared in groups. After leaving Niu Jinda last night, Yan Fei did not return to the modern world, nor did he find a tent to stay, but chose a house.

Yan Fei regretted it after entering the house. This place is not a place for people to live.

Pests are breeding in old-style brick and wood-structured houses, and fleas and bed bugs are basically regular customers. As long as they are old houses, especially wooden houses, parasites are long-term residents. In this era when bed bugs can be crawled around in the head, Yan Fei was scared by the many bugs in front of him before he could sleep.

Since humans understood d.d.t and 666, all kinds of pests that had set off rounds of plague frenzy have disappeared from the city. Most cities in the world rely on these chemical products to get rid of the parasite problems that have plagued humans for countless years.

Yan Fei was stimulated by the bugs, and when he went back, he came to deal with them with insecticide. After smoking the entire room, he looked at the bugs all over the ground and nodded with satisfaction.

Afterwards, he packed up and threw it out of his sleeping bag to go to bed. Because the insecticide was blown away by the night wind, insects crawled from other places, and even jumped directly to his face. This annoyed Yan Fei, and the yard was filled with insecticides to catch the insects. The smell was so great that even the Tang army soldiers on the street outside were awakened and covered their noses.

Fortunately, these Tang army soldiers didn't know what biological and chemical weapons were, otherwise they would have to cause a big mess.

Yan Fei spent the whole night with the pests, and then he left the place with satisfaction as he saw the layers of various pests and piles of used up insecticides on the ground.

After breakfast, tens of thousands of Tang soldiers were ready. With the order of the command of the chief general Niu Jinda, the other Tang soldiers rumbled toward Yingzhou in the distance.

Yingzhou is the western county of Liao, and is located roughly in the Liaoning Chaoyang area of ​​the modern world. In the early years of Kaihuang, there was the Yingzhou General Administration here to shock the nearby Goguryeo and the Khitan and other nomadic peoples on the grassland.

However, after the Sui Dynasty collapsed, it was snatched away by Goguryeo, which took the opportunity to expand its power, and became the core stronghold in the western Liaoning area.

The city walls of Yingzhou are tall and have a moat of more than three meters wide. The city walls are complete with various fortifications. More than 25,000 defenders drawn from all over the country are gathered in the city, and tens of thousands of people gathered here. The food, grass and supplies are enough for the people in the city to eat for half a year to ten months.

Half a year later, the day when the severe cold will come. If the Tang army had not left at that time, the Goguryeo would definitely gather troops to borrow the power of the severe cold to fight the Tang army. Therefore, unlike the Lulong City, which almost gave up voluntarily, the Goguryeo was ready to defend Yingzhou.

At this time, the king of Goguryeo was King Rongliu Gao Jianwu. This king had the ability, and he knew that once the Central Plains dynasty was unified, his strength was not something that Goguryeo could fight against, so he had always tried to ease the relationship between the two sides by diplomatic means.

But the problem is that King Rongliu Gao Jianwu did not fully grasp the power of Goguryeo. The power of Goguryeo was controlled by his prime minister Yuan Gaisuwen.

This Yuangasuwen is the legendary five swords that the sticks use as their ancestors and are praised by them in various ways. It is said that because of his high martial arts skills, he is good at using swords, and when he is the best, he can use five swords at one go. Anyway, Yan Fei is not sure how a person with only two hands uses five swords.

Yuan Gaisuwen's old son Yuan Taizuo was also the prime minister. His ancestors almost monopolized the position of prime minister. During the Sui Dynasty, Yuan Taizuo and Yizhi Wende resisted the Sui Dynasty's conquest and made great achievements. However, when Yuan Taizuo died, because Yizhi Wende's military achievements were too strong and Yuan Gaisuwen was too young, so the position of prime minister was inherited from Yizhi Wende.

But Yizhi Wende died too early. Later, the scheming Yuan Gaisuwen successfully regained this right.

Yuan Gaisuwen controls the northern land of Goguryeo, and he holds most of the military power of Goguryeo. While the civil officials all support Gao Jianwu, there are constant open and secret struggles between the two sides.

With the Tang Dynasty's conquest, the two sides were finally able to temporarily unite to resist the Tang Dynasty. However, Gao Jianwu's military force remained in the south, which clearly wanted to sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight.

Because of its important location, Yingzhou not only has a large number of elite soldiers stationed, but also the commander is Yuan Gaisuwen's younger brother Yuan Pure Land.

Yuan Jingtu is not very old, and he is only eighteen years old this year. However, as Yuan Gaisuwen's younger brother, his noble status made him the highest commander in Yingzhou City, trying to use his elite troops to defend Yingzhou City to severely hurt the Tang army with his more than 20,000 elite troops under him.

In fact, Goguryeo at this time had already expanded his confidence in defeating the Sui army several times and annihilated millions of Central Plains troops, and even reached the point of despising the Central Plains troops.

Just like the young and energetic Yuan Pure Land, just wanting to rely on the more than 20,000 soldiers in his hands and the strong men in the city, he wants to defend Yingzhou City and drag the main force of the Tang army, giving his brother the opportunity to lead the main force to attack.

The characteristic of young people is that they are prone to impulsiveness and lack of scheming. This is especially true for Yuan Pure Land, which is the first time they go to the battlefield and has been a war of such a large scale.

When the young man heard the general report that the Tang army's vanguard appeared outside the city, he was in a state of interest and wanted to lead the army to fight to compete with the Tang army.

Yuan Putu was stupid, but the generals who were given to him were veterans who had been through the battlefield for a long time. They all spoke out and said that their task was to defend Yingzhou City. The Tang army took down Lulong City overnight, and their combat power should not be underestimated, and everything should be safe.

Although no one escaped when Lulong City was broken, the war strategy in the Cold Weapon Age was not bad, and various battlefields covered the battlefield and reconnaissance was endless. On the morning of the second day after the capture of Lulong City, the scout cavalry sent from Yingzhou City came outside Lulong City and saw the Tang army flag flying on the top of the city, so naturally they knew the news of the fall of the city.

At first, Yuan Putu reluctantly accepted the persuasion of his subordinates. After all, his brother gave him the order to defend Yingzhou City to the death. But when his subordinates said that the combat power of the Tang army should not be underestimated, Yuan Putu was angry.

‘Clang~’ Yuan Jingtu, who pulled out the sword from his waist, roared sternly, "What should we not be underestimated? The millions of former Sui army still died at the hands of my father? I don’t believe that the Tang army can be more powerful than the former Sui army. There are only thousands of vanguards and light cavalry outside the city. What’s wrong with me concentrating my troops to eat them first?"

"God relieve your anger." A veteran general of Xu Jibai hurriedly spoke out and persuaded, "Although the Tang army is not large and has come from afar, they have support, and it will soon swarm in. And our army guards Yingzhou, so there are only so many soldiers. Once the losses are too heavy, it will affect the city defense force."

"How many people are there in the Tang army? Have you ever seen their follow-up troops?"

"Returning to the general, the scout reported that the Tang army outside the city was roughly three thousand light cavalry. Their subsequent troops and horses would arrive in two or three hours."

"Hmph." Yuan Jingtu leaned on the sword with one hand and sneered repeatedly. "These Tang soldiers are too arrogant. Just three thousand light cavalry dare to show off their power outside our Yingzhou City. Their support will not arrive in two or three hours, and I have enough time to kill them all."

He waved his hand to stop the general who wanted to speak, "I know what you want to say, it's just because you are worried that damage will affect the power of the city defense. But you never thought that if we annihilate this Tang army, it would be the first great military merit in this battle! As for the losses, how can there be no immortals in the war? It's just to recruit people from the strong men in the city."

He lost Lulong City in one day. This was a huge shame for Yuan Pure Land. In order to save face, he was always thinking about how to severely damage the Tang army. Now a great opportunity is right in front of him, and he can't let go of anything he said.

For civilians and lowly martial artists who want to stand out, caution is a necessary condition, but they don’t care much about face or something. But for top nobles like Yuan Pure Land, face is more important than anything else. Even if all tens of thousands of soldiers in Yingzhou City are killed in battle, they are not as good as his face.

"I am determined to be eliminated." The young and energetic Yuan Jingtu mentioned his father to cheer him up. "My father was not afraid of the millions of Sui troops back then, and they killed them everywhere. Now there are only thousands of light cavalry. What are you afraid of? Let me fight!"

The Goguryeo people were extremely arrogant because they had defeated the Sui Dynasty several times. They also used the corpses of the Sui Dynasty soldiers to forge Jingguan to demonstrate their national strength. The small Goguryeo had 600,000 households and a population of millions. These were their confidence, and they were even arrogant enough to think that they could compete with the Tang Dynasty.

Yuan Pu Tu's confidence was the more than 5,000 cavalry around him. This was the family army built by their Yuan family with a lot of money, and it was extremely elite. Yuan Pu Tu soon personally led these cavalry equipped with iron armor to rush out of Yingzhou City to prepare to destroy the Tang cavalry who had just arrived outside the city.

"General Su, your chance to make achievements is here." Yan Fei, who was riding on the horse, looked at the Goguryeo people who were still lined up opposite him, and smiled at the cavalry general beside him. "Can I take the city gate, will General Su dare to enter the city?"

"Why don't you dare?" Su Dingfang waved the horse spear in his hand vigorously and shouted angrily, "Look, I will kill all these dog thieves!"
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