On April 27, the Imperial Dragon Guards rushed to Wugu City and caught the Goguryeo people off guard.

Wugu City is surrounded by mountains and rivers, easy to defend but difficult to attack, but the premise is that once a city with a radius of nearly ten miles is surrounded by the enemy, it must have enough manpower and material resources to defend the city. If either of them is insufficient, the city will be destroyed. After receiving an urgent report from Liaodong City and the Middle-earth people crossed the Liaoshui River again, Wugu City issued an urgent order of 100,000 to withdraw all the population of surrounding counties and townships into the city, and to strengthen the walls and clear the fields.

In fact, the Goguryeo people had entered a great famine as early as last autumn. Because the empire's two consecutive years of attacks, the Goguryeo people had to mobilize the whole country to fight. As a result, the fields were deserted, taxes were sharply reduced, and the economy collapsed. The war was not over yet. For this reason, the Goguryeo king had to exhaust all means to maintain his rule. He had to ruthlessly "plunder" innocent civilians and slaves. Civilians and slaves lost all the conditions for survival. He could only die in wail and despair, and buried under the snow in the howling cold wind.

In the first two wars, the kings, nobles, civilians and slaves of Goguryeo worked together to defeat the powerful Middle-earth imperial team in succession. However, after the victory, what the Goguryeo people gained was not hope, not glory and wealth, but despair, death, and the ruthless "killing" of the kings and nobles for civilians and slaves. This moral "betrayal" caused the internal contradictions of Goguryeo to intensify rapidly and explode in the great famine. As a result, various crises overlapped together, and the consequences were magnified unlimitedly. The Goguryeo people spent a tragic winter. The population of countless dead people dropped sharply, and the country was shaking.

At this moment, the Middle-earth people came to kill for the third time. What else did the Goguryeo use to block the attack of the imperial team?

The guard of Wugu City is Gao Ping, the uncle of King Gao Yuan of Goryeo. This man is ambitious and takes the strong Goguryeo as his life goal. However, the fact is very ruthless. Neither in the Kao Tang era nor the Gao Yuan dynasty, he failed to go far on the rise of Goguryeo, especially in the past two years, when the Middle Earth Empire launched an attack on Goguryeo with the power of the whole country, determined to kill the Goguryeo dream of a strong country in the cradle, such as Gao Ping, suddenly realized that Goguryeo was really vulnerable in the face of absolute strength. Although Goguryeo achieved great victory in the war two years ago, and fortunately won the victory last year, Middle Earth was too huge. The strength of the empire was too strong. Even if it was defeated in two battles, Middle Earth Empire still had the absolute strength that could easily destroy Goguryeo.

The war entered its third year. The Goguryeo people were not exhausted but dying and had no resistance at all. Therefore, from Pyongyang to the nobles, they were ready to surrender, but surrender had a prerequisite. This prerequisite was to preserve the Goguryeo Kingdom and the royal family and the entire aristocratic class. For this reason, how to surrender, when to surrender, and how to win great benefits in negotiations, all must be carefully planned and strive to be foolproof.

The Goguryeo people had some understanding of the current situation of the Middle Earth Empire. The secret soldiers it secretly sent to Middle Earth played a crucial role in the war, including the secrets provided by Baekje and Ro. Although Baekje and Ro did not hesitate to survive, they influenced the diplomatic strategy of the empire at all costs, tried every means to provoke the conflict between the empire and Goguryeo, and tried their best to use the power of the empire to curb Goguryeo's dream of a strong country, and then stabilized the situation on the peninsula.

When the empire launched an attack on Goguryeo, Luo and Baekje gave the empire nominally "cooperation", but in fact they were secretly helping Goguryeo in order to let Goguryeo be dragged down and even dragged to death in the war with the empire. Of course, Goguryeo knew very well, but in the face of the great enemy, it did not have much choice. It could only make peace with Baekje and Ronaldo in secret with the overall interests of the peninsula to escape the dilemma of being attacked by both sides. As for what in the future, we can only take one step and look at it.

In addition, Goguryeo also has some understanding of the situation of Central Earth and Western Earth, Central Earth and Northern Desert. In addition to part of this information, a large part of it comes from the secret soldiers sent by Goguryeo, a large part of it comes from the Eastern Turks in accordance with the alliance between Goguryeo and Eastern Turkic tents. Both sides have the obligation to help each other. For example, when Middle Earth fights Goguryeo, Eastern Turks threaten Lingshuo and Daibei in Middle Earth, and restrain the main force of the Northern Frontier Army in Middle Earth. On the contrary, if Middle Earth attacks the desert, Goguryeo attacks the flanks of Middle Earth to support it.

Because of the understanding of the internal situation in China and even the situation of Sino-Turkish vassals and its surrounding vassals, Goguryeo had great fantasies about the third year of the war Pyongyang inferred that Sino-Turkish might temporarily give up the Eastern Expedition due to the intensified civil strife, or perhaps he would have to end the Eastern Expedition because of the sinister domestic political situation. If the inference is correct, then Goguryeo's surrender can be exchanged for big benefits at a small price. In other words, the Goguryeo people actually achieved the final victory of this war.

Gao Ping also thought so, but the development of the situation was very different from Pyongyang's inference. The Middle-earth people not only launched a decisive attack in the spring of the third year of the war, but also changed the hesitation and sluggishness of the previous two attacks, and decisively left behind important border towns such as Liaodong City, and directly killed Pyongyang with the same degree.

The advantages of Wugucheng are very obvious. Since the Middle-earth people have decisively left Liaodong City, they will definitely decisively leave Wugucheng and kill to Pyongyang as never before, and then spend more time to attack Pyongyang. For Wugucheng, it is the gateway of Pyongyang, and it must bear the heavy responsibility of blocking the enemy. Especially this time, the Middle-earth people changed their attack strategy. If the empire's army was allowed to kill Pyongyang directly, then there would be too little time for Pyongyang to respond. Once Pyongyang was caught off guard and left fatal flaws in defense forces or materials, then Pyongyang would be in danger. Once Pyongyang fell, Goguryeo would be completely finished.

While reporting to Pyongyang urgently, Gao Ping discussed with his subordinates urgently. Everyone agreed that Pyongyang must be given more time. For this reason, we must find a way to drag the enemy under Wugu City. If we want to drag the enemy under the city and delay the enemy's attack on Pyongyang, the only way is to surrender, fake surrender, and use the entire Wugu City as "bait" to drag the enemy down.

In the eyes of Gao Ping and his subordinates, no general in Middle-earth could withstand such a huge "temptation" to take down Wugu City. What a great contribution? Who can refuse such a merit that is within reach?

The empire's army had just approached the city of Wugu, and Gaoping's envoy arrived. He wanted to surrender and negotiate.

The Long Guard Army's march was too long. Just when they reached the foot of Wugu City, the crowd of refugees flocked from counties and townships outside the city had not yet reached the "peak". When the news of the imperial team's arrival spread, the crowd suddenly surged. The "peak" came in an instant. Wugu City was like an embankment, and was hit by layers of "giant waves" and the situation was in chaos.

The Goguryeo people surrendered at this time, which was obviously to fight for time and delay the attack of the imperial army.

Everyone, including the Goguryeo envoy who was righteous and willing to die, thought that Galan wanted to behead with a knife, and then ordered an attack, massacre innocent people, and waited for an opportunity to find a good opportunity to attack the city. However, the fact was beyond everyone's expectations. Galan was kind and accepted the surrender of the Goguryeo with an angel-like face.

The Goguryeo envoy was full of heart and despised the young Galan. The young general must have come from a prominent and powerful family in Middle-earth. He relied on the beauty of his ancestors to get something for nothing, but he only talked about it on paper and talked loudly, but in fact he was not a big deal.

Traveling west, Buyi and other northwest wolf brothers, as well as Asina Dana, Asina Hebao and other Turkic people understand Galan's nature. Seeing the bright smile on his face, they all secretly were shocked that Galan was going to kill people. I don't know how he would kill people this time and how many people he would kill.

Galan ordered the Dragon Guards to enter a state of combat and slowly approached the city

The mountain outpost, the beacon tower was filled with fire, the smoke was rolling, and the sound of drums and whistles of alarms came one after another, further aggravated the chaos inside and outside the city. The officials in the city wanted to close the gates, while the people outside the city rushed in desperately. The conflict between the two sides was fierce, as if they were fighting, and the shouts were shocking.

The Goguryeo envoys to his tongue and uses all his strength to try to stop the imperial team from moving forward, but Galan is unmoved and chats with him without any words, revealing his extreme greed for fame and fortune without any concealment.

"If you want to surrender, surrender now." Galan finally said a useful word, "If you want to negotiate, start negotiations immediately." Galan raised the whip in his hand, and knew the sunset hanging high above the west mountain. He smiled and teased, "There is not much time. Before dark, I will see Gao Ping, otherwise..." Galan waved his whip again and made a beheading move.

The Goguryeo messenger ran back without saying a word

The Dragon Guard continued to advance, but it was very slow. The teams of elite riders rushed back and forth, raising the smoke and dust to the sky, with amazing momentum.

About half an hour later, the Goguryeo envoy came back, and this time, Gao Ping's close staff member brought a car full of gold, silver and treasures.

Jialan's face suddenly turned cold, and she winked at Ashina He Bao beside her. Asan He Bao understood it, suddenly rushed up and took a knife and cut off the head of the staff member with one knife.

The Goguryeo messenger looked silent and silent

Jialan sneered, "Since you surrender, you must show your sincerity before it gets dark. Someone must meet Gao Ping, otherwise he will be killed without mercy."

Very, the Goguryeo envoy is back and brings a letter from Gaoping, and meets you five miles outside the city.

"Who do you know Gao Ping?" Galan threw the letter on the ground, looked at the generals, and asked slowly.

Everyone shook their heads

"The Rat without Cowards" Jia Lan curled her lips contemptuously, waved her hand suddenly, and said proudly, "See you at a hundred steps outside the Xiwangcheng"

Liu Heita, Chai Shao, Huang Junhan, Wei Zheng and others were all shy. Wei Zheng was straightforward and wanted to dissuade him, but Fu Duanyi grabbed Wei Zheng's heart and was confused. Looking around, he saw that all the generals in the northwest had smiles, and even Feng Yi was very strange.

=To be continued)

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