On August 21, Li Baoyu led his army to set out, crossed the Yalu River, and passed through the area north of the Datong River controlled by the Tang Army.
After six days of marching, they arrived at Pyongyang City on August 27.
The dilapidated Pyongyang City was originally the seat of the Andong Protectorate.
After Emperor Xuanzong granted the area south of the Datong River to the Silla Kingdom, the Andong Protectorate withdrew to the Liaoxi County of the Liaodong Peninsula.
Later, The Anshi Rebellion broke out, and in 761 AD, the Anton Protectorate was abolished.
After a brief rest in Pyongyang City, the army began to attack the Hanzhou area controlled by the Silla Kingdom.
Li Baozhen had information on the troop deployment and military leaders of the Silla army in the Hanzhou area, and also had Kim Kyung-shin, a senior Silla official.
With the cooperation, the offensive momentum was unstoppable, and soon they captured Hanzhou, Mingzhou and Shuozhou.
These three states were the hometown of the former Goguryeo Kingdom.
After losing these three states, the strength of the Silla Kingdom was greatly reduced.
At this time, Wei Boyu had already led his troops to land in Xiongzhou.
However, because he was not familiar with the deployment of Xinluo's troops and did not understand the local conditions, the attack speed was slow and there were considerable losses.
However, Li Baozhen died quickly.
Yao led his army southward to open up the connection between the North Route Army and the South Route Army, allowing the two Tang armies to coordinate with each other and cooperate with each other from the north to the south.
At the end of the day, the 100,000-strong army on the territory of Silla brought unprecedented panic to the Silla government and the public.
Especially the Tang army on the northern route attacked quickly and fiercely.
It seemed that it could always find the weak points of the Silla army's defense and attack them.
Using roundabout tactics and taking the Silla army's retreat, several Silla armies were surrounded and annihilated in succession, which greatly damaged the strength of the Silla army.
The battle reports kept being sent back to Chang'an, and Chang'an kept sending the battle reports to Xinjing.
Zhao Ziliang was quite satisfied after receiving the battle report, and issued an order to the Chang'an court to ensure the supplies for the two armies for winter operations.
He also ordered the naval fleet to Destroyed the few poor naval ships of Silla Kingdom.
"Well, it's well written.
Just send it to Chang'an as it is."
Zhao Ziliang ordered Du Zongwen after reading the edict he had just drafted.
Du Zongwen agreed: "Yes, Your Majesty."
Du Zongwen was Du Fu's eldest son.
Zhao Ziliang saw that he had a quick mind, a photographic memory, and a fast writing speed, so he recruited him as a member of the Imperial Academy, where he was used to draft edicts and discuss current affairs.
Zhao Ziliang remembered something and sent someone to find Wang Can and asked: "How are things going in the Bulgar Khanate?"
Wang Can said: "It's in progress.
Autumn is the season when autumn is high and horses are fat.
Barbarians from the north usually choose this time to raid south.
I think we over there have officially started."
"If there is any news, please report it immediately" "Follow the decree" Eastern Roman Empire, Thrace, Adrianople.
After a hard battle, the Bulgars led by King Trilig of Bulgar Khan finally captured Adrianople after suffering more than 2,000 casualties.
This castle was originally a gathering place for the ancient Thracians.
The Roman Emperor Hadrian rebuilt a castle on the original site, called Adrianople.
Because it was built by Hadrian, it was also called Hadrian's Castle.
It is now Edirne, the gateway town in western Turkey.
In Adrianople, Trilig and his warrior leaders ate meat, drank wine, and told nasty jokes from time to time.
These people had disheveled hair, dried blood stains everywhere on their bodies, and the smell of blood. , they didn't care.
By late night, everyone was drunk, and they fell to the ground in a mess and fell asleep.
The confused Trilig suddenly felt someone tapping him.
He was extremely alert and immediately stood up.
In the process, he had already pulled out the waist knife.
He only heard someone holding his arm and whispering: " King Khan, it’s me” Trilig shook his head and finally saw the other person clearly.
Free novels bring you joy and joy ---> storyskyline.net
It turned out to be Fatli, one of the tribal leaders.
He frowned and said: "Fatli, weren't you drunk just now?"
"Shhh" Fatli put his finger to his mouth to signal Trilig to stop talking, then shook his head outside, and the two of them walked out gently one after the other.
There was a butter lamp hanging in the corridor outside the door, making crackling sounds from time to time.
The visitor walked through the stone corridor and came to a secluded place.
Fatli whispered: "King Khan, I have received news that we are sending troops."
The news was leaked two months ago, and now the Eastern Romans have already set up pockets in front to wait for us, and they have also sent an army to prepare to cut off our retreat."
After hearing this, Trilig lost all his drunkenness and broke into a cold sweat.
The wine continued to be discharged from the body along with the sweat.
He immediately pulled Fatli aside and asked: "Where did you get the news?
Who leaked it?"
News of our dispatch of troops” Fatli hesitated, looked around, and said hesitantly: "King Khan, I have spies in Constantinople, and it was the spies who passed the news over.
There is an underground passage to the outside in Adrianople.
It is very hidden.
The plan of the Eastern Romans is to wait for us to leave a small number of people here, and then the large group of troops will continue to attack the city to the east.
After the land, an Eastern Roman army will land from the Black Sea, then surround this place, fight in through the secret passage and occupy it.
In this way, our way back will be cut off, and in addition, the front will be attacked by the Eastern Romans.
The ambush will inevitably lead to heavy losses and the morale of the army will be weakened.
At that time, there will be no way forward, there will be pursuers behind, there will be no way to the sky, and there will be no way to the earth."
The cold sweat on Trilig's body kept flowing down.
He immediately remembered the secret passage and asked: "Where is the secret passage?"
Fatli looked around and said to Trilig: "King Khan, follow me."
The two of them walked towards the castle one after another, passing through corridors, narrow stone staircases, and fortresses and watchtowers.
Most of the Bulgar soldiers were lying on the ground wearing animal skins.
These people killed people, drank wine, and ate meat without delay.
They urinated and defecated everywhere.
When they were full and drunk, they lay down on the ground and fell asleep.
The sound of snoring kept coming.
All kinds of fishy and fishy smells are everywhere.
These people don't cut their hair, take care of their beards, or cut their nails.
They are all complete savages.
The two soon arrived at a dilapidated old wooden house full of debris in the northeast corner of the castle.
Fatli pushed the door in and moved away a pile of rotten wood.
He saw a square wooden board spread on the ground.
When the wooden board was lifted, a large dark hole was revealed on the ground.
The darkness seemed bottomless, as if endless dangers were gushing out at any time.
"This is right here," Fatli said, pointing to the black hole on the ground, and then asked, "King Khan, do you want to go down and have a look?"
Trillig nodded seriously: "Go down, you lead the way."
Without saying a word, Fatli lit two torches next to him, handed one of them to Trilig, and held a torch himself and walked down the stone staircase at the entrance of the tunnel.
The stone staircase was not long, only about ten meters.
After walking to the end, the two of them felt depressed and dull when they stepped on the tunnel floor.
The air here was obviously not very good, but one thing was that there was the fragrance of earth in the air.
Fatli walked in front and asked as he walked: "What did King Khan smell?"
Trillig said: "I can't smell other smells, but there is the smell of fresh earth here."
Fatli said: "Yes, it's the smell of fresh earth.
Free novels bring you joy and joy ---> storyskyline.net
It took the Eastern Romans two months to dig this tunnel.
You see, they are obviously not good at digging tunnels.
The digging is too rough.
Since they After hearing the news that we were going south to plunder, we started to send people to dig this tunnel here.
It took two months to dig.
I heard that they got the idea of digging tunnels from the Orientals."
There are no turning points in this secret path.
It leads to the end.
It took about ten minutes to walk to the end.
In the woods in the dark night, after a rustling sound, a piece of turf was lifted up, and a head was lifted up.
Emerging from the ground, there was a faint light from the ground, and then a torch stretched out from the tunnel entrance to disperse the surrounding darkness.
Fatli jumped out, followed closely by Trilig.
"Where are the woods?"
Trilig said in surprise, holding a torch and looking at the towering trees everywhere.
Fatli said: "This should be the woods northeast of the castle.
We just walked here for about a quarter of an hour, and the castle is exactly a quarter of an hour away from the woods northeast."
Trillig held a torch and searched around, but couldn't find anything, but he saw many footprints, which should have been left by the people who dug the tunnel.
"Let's go back along the original path and restore the exit to its original state."
Trilig said, turning around and walking into the tunnel entrance.
Fatli followed him in, then turned around and moved the turf-covered planks to cover the tunnel entrance, and it was dark.
It was enveloped again, and calm returned to the woods.
The two returned to the castle, restored the entrance to the sundry wooden house to its original state, and walked out.
Trilig stood still and asked: "Fatri, tell me, who betrayed us?"
Fatli hesitated and said: "King Khan, I know who this person is, but I have no evidence.
If I tell him, I'm afraid it will affect our relationship as brothers, so please don't embarrass me."
Trilig turned around and looked at Fatli and said coldly: "Fatli, I know you don't want us to kill each other, but you should also know that if we don't catch the mole, all our actions will They will be well known by the Eastern Romans, and more of our tribesmen and brothers will die.
I am the Khan of the Bulgars, and I must be responsible for all my tribesmen.
I cannot let my tribesmen suffer huge losses because of my stupidity and ignorance.
Tell me, who is this person?"
Fatli took a deep breath and said: "Grand" "It's him."
Trillig was immediately startled, and then his face became extremely ugly.
His chest rose and fell sharply, and he was obviously extremely angry.
The anger was suppressed by him, and it would be extremely terrifying if it broke out.
Trilig calmed down and asked: "Fatli, you always have many ideas.
You tell me what we should do now.
There are not many people I can trust now, but you are definitely one of them":