On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 339
Cui Che really cherishes feathers, even if he can work tirelessly to review manuscripts for historians after the incident, it will only deceive future generations.

If you want to have a good reputation in the world, you still have to be hypocritical like this.

Clearly, they have already made up their minds to attack Liaodong City to intensify the conflict between the grassland tribes and Goguryeo, and they have to send people to shout at the city, not to say that they are not predicting what they are playing, and intimidate them to surrender.

As for whether the defenders in the city would fight desperately because of this, Cui Che didn't care too much. Anyway, the infantry in the servant army was the main attacker for the coalition army.

The Goguryeo people drove away the clamoring coalition cavalry, and expressed their attitude to Cui Che clearly.

Cui Che was not surprised either, if he could persuade the defenders of Liaodong City to surrender the city with a few shouts, Gao Jiong would not have suffered such a miserable defeat.

After showing off his might in the city, Cui Che led the army back to the camp and temporarily built siege equipment.

Cui Che's preparations for this battle were not insufficient, but it was also difficult for him to march long distances outside the Great Wall with siege equipment.

The Sui army was not in a hurry to attack the city, and the Goguryeo people were not idle either. The sentinels of both sides fought fiercely, and each had a victory or defeat. The cavalry responded outside the city.

Now I don't know where to hide, just waiting to give myself a fatal blow.

Three days passed in a blink of an eye, the coalition forces built a large number of siege equipment, and the Goguryeo army also diverted the Liao River into the moat outside the city as a moat under the suggestion of the northern master Gao Puluo.

So far, filling the moat has become a problem for the coalition forces. Fortunately, this artificially dug trench is not spacious. It only took a day for the servants to fill up the so-called moat with arrows.

In the second year of Renshou (AD 602), on March 26th, after Cui Che ordered the whole army to break the city, he promised not to seal the sword for three days, and emphasized again that the ethnic group that broke through the city gate first can enjoy half of the spoils in the city. After that, the second offensive and defensive battle of Liaodong City officially started.

Cui Che chose to encircle the three gates, leaving only the east gate as a gap.

They also sent cavalry to support the infantry to prevent Ulji Mundeok, who was hiding outside the city, from attacking from the rear when the coalition forces attacked the city.

Outside Liaodong City, the sound of killing was loud. Even if the coalition forces launched a strong attack from three sides at the same time, the defenders with sufficient strength could calmly deal with it.

At dusk, another attack from the servant army was repulsed, and Cui Che, who led the cavalry in the rear, ordered people to ring the gong to withdraw the troops.

The soldiers who attacked the city supported the wounded soldiers and retreated, leaving only more than a thousand corpses.

However, the soldiers retreated, but Cui Che was unwilling to go back to the camp immediately. He called Mai Mengcai, pointed to the remains outside the city, and said:

"They all died for me. I can no longer let their corpses lie in the wilderness. Can you go down the city for me and get their bodies back?"

All the soldiers present were moved when they heard what he said.

Mai Mengcai agreed immediately. He took off his armor, dropped his weapon, and rode his horse towards Liaodong City.

The defenders at the top of the city were relieved when they saw the coalition forces retreating, but now seeing Mai Mengcai coming again, many people have habitually drawn their bows, waiting for him to get closer, and they will take Mai Mengcai together. Arrow shot to death.

"No shooting without my order!"

Gao Jianwu shouted.

Seeing that Mai Mengcai was only wearing a single shirt, he knew that Cui Che must have something to say to him when he came here.

If possible, Gao Jianwu still hopes to turn the fight with Cui Che into friendship.

A hanging basket was lowered from the city wall, and Mai Mengcai did not hesitate. He got off his horse, sat on the hanging basket, and was pulled up to the city wall.

As a result, Mai Mengcai became the first member of the coalition forces to ascend the city of Liaodong. Of course, this was only as an envoy, and it cannot be counted.

"Your envoy came here, but he was ordered by Duke Yan?"

Gao Jianwu asked.

His fluent Chinese surprised Mai Mengcai, but Cui Che's love for Mai Mengcai was not all because of his father Mai Tiezhang.

Mai Mengcai guessed that the young man on the opposite side should be the chief defender of the army, but he did not carry a weapon on his mission this time, and this man was very careful, shrunk in the heavy guards.

"Exactly. Under the order of Lord Yan, I come here to ask you the name of this general."

Said, Mai Mengcai asked.

Gao Jianwu did not hide it, he replied:

"I am the king's younger brother, Gao Jianwu."

Mai Mengcai continued:

"Duke Yan ordered me to come to discuss with General Gao and bring back the bodies of the fallen soldiers."

Gao Jianwu couldn't help showing a hint of disappointment when he heard the words.

Before he could answer, Guannu Jiacheng, the lord of the north, said angrily:

"Why do you give it, you have to give it. Those who died in the city are all animals that followed Cui Che to wreak havoc in Houcheng. They deserve to die without a place to bury them!"

Houcheng is Guannu Jiacheng's sphere of influence, and the guard is also his confidant. Hearing the bad news, Guannu Jiacheng has long been simmering with anger.

Faced with Guannu Jiacheng's sudden rage, Mai Mengcai was not flustered, his expression was calm.

Gao Jianwu frowned. He felt that as an important member of the royal family, he should be respected. Now that he hadn't spoken yet, Guan Nujia was yelling. Wasn't this a joke for the Sui envoy?

However, even if he is the king's younger brother, even if he is dissatisfied with a powerful figure like the Lord of the West, he cannot easily explode.

Only listen to Mai Meng retorted
"It's going to be summer now, the corpses are piled up outside the city, there must be a big epidemic, you have to go out of the city to deal with it, what if our army raids the city gate while you are opening the city to transport the corpses.

"It's better to allow us to bring the body back without bothering you."

Guan Nujia became speechless for a moment.

He also knew that what Mai Mengcai said was reasonable, and when Gao Jianwu heard about the epidemic, he also panicked.

The epidemic has always been fair, and it will not treat you leniently just because of your noble status.

In the end, the two sides agreed that after the battle every day, the coalition forces would send 500 people to come empty-handed, without armor, and transport the corpses of the coalition forces away from the city.

Mai Mengcai let out a long sigh of relief, when the bamboo basket he was sitting on was put down, he couldn't help but feel scared.

He also saw the archers on the city wall aiming at him before, but in order to marry Cui's daughter, in order not to embarrass his father, and in order not to disappoint Cui Che, he could not retreat, so he could only bite the bullet and approach Liaodong City.

Back in the formation, the soldiers looked at Mai Mengcai with some respect.

After Cui Che heard Mai Mengcai's report, he immediately selected [-] soldiers and asked them to disarm and go to the city of Liaodong to carry them.

The first day's siege battle is over, Cui Che has no plans to fight at night for the time being, and when he returns to the camp, he summons all the generals in the command tent, and the first sentence he speaks is to Mai Mengcai:
"Tell me, what did you see when you entered Liaodong City?"

　I'm going home tonight, there's more to come

　　
　
(End of this chapter)