There is a city in the southwest of Goguryeo called Beisha City, which was exchanged for Beisha City for the Tang Dynasty for the secret recipe of winter fishing.Nowadays, the coastal city of Beisha City belongs to the Tang Dynasty, but unlike other cities, the Tang Dynasty only has the right to the city walls and docks, and other places are also under the rule of Goguryeo.This is also the reason why the negotiations were able to be successfully negotiated at the beginning, Goguryeo withdrew all the population, leaving an empty city for the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty did not intend to ask for the people of Goguryeo, but used it exclusively as a trading port city.They hoarded a large amount of goods in Beisha City, and then exported them all to Goguryeo and the surrounding small countries.The surrounding small countries are scarce in resources and backward in handicrafts, and they are worried about not being able to buy things, so they are very happy about this move, including Goguryeo, which originally planned to make trouble for Beisha City, but with the development of trade, it tasted the sweetness, Goguryeo not only did not make trouble, but also vigorously supported its merchants to go to Beisha City to trade.In Beisha City, as time went by, more and more goods were hoarded by Datang, and it was not a big city, and it was full in almost half a year.There are the most daily necessities in it, followed by the best white salt produced by the Tang Dynasty, and about Mo Yicheng came from the south by sea of rice grain, which seems to be an ordinary thing, but it has been planned by the Du Family Chamber of Commerce for a long time, and all of them are materials that are in short supply in Goguryeo.Especially the white salt, in this era of extremely low salt production capacity, salt and iron can be said to be a strategic material that is more expensive than grain.Of course, Datang has not had this problem since it had the salt-making technology given by Du Shaoqing, but the salt and iron technology is a top secret, and other countries do not have it, so there is still a shortage of salt.On this day, when a merchant in Beisha City passed through the city gate, he encountered a truck that the Du Family Chamber of Commerce accidentally overturned, and a batch of bright swords and blades rolled out of it, and the degree of piercing of this thing even exceeded that of real money.However, this scene was quickly covered up by the guy who transported the goods, and few people saw this, and at the same time claimed that the car was just ordinary cargo.Is it really ordinary cargo?
We've all seen that it's a sophisticated weapon, and it's not trying to cover it up.In the following days, there were similar scenes, some people saw a large number of copper coins, some people saw a large number of grain, some people saw salt and so on, and there were even rumors that there were almost no daily necessities in Beisha City, and salt was almost piled up in the whole city, enough for the entire Goguryeo to eat for five years without shortage of salt.This news gradually spread to the Goguryeo Palace, and Lu Yuan Gaisu was nervous, what did Datang want to do?
Transporting salt and iron to Beisha City in large quantities?
It's not an iron ingot but a blade, and it's still vaguely transporting grain, is the next step to increase troops?
This is to stab us in the knife in Goguryeo.Soon summoned confidants to discuss countermeasures, which should be dealt with in this way.Some of the impatient ministers said: "Great pair of Lu, it is said that the whole city is full of goods in Beisha City, and it is like putting a large amount of treasure on our doorstep.Otherwise, we will directly send troops to snatch it back, not to mention anything else, just the salt in it will be able to make our Goguryeo income for ten years. ”"Grab it back?
Our Gao Guli is not a robber, that Beisha City now belongs to the Tang Dynasty, let's openly loot, the Tang Dynasty is bound to raise troops for revenge, who will resist it at that time?
Are you going?
”Someone retorted loudly.It is said that the looters stopped talking, but some people suggested that let his soldiers and horses take off their military uniforms and pretend to be robbers, and they were ignored by their colleagues like fools, and tens of thousands of robbers appeared in your Goguryeo?
Is Datang a fool?
So easy to deceive?
Another person said: "Since the opening of Beisha City as a treaty port, our Goguryeo merchants have immediately become active, and the goods of Beisha City are all things that the people lack, and the goods that used to have no price have become commonplace, it can be said that this city has greatly prospered the economy of our Goguryeo, and if we do anything to Beisha City, it is tantamount to killing chickens and eggs, even if we get a little wealth by chance, it will not benefit for a long time." ”This person's words make people think deeply, it is not easy for the people of Goguryeo to earn some money, and cutting off this trade route in less than a year is indeed not the right way to govern the country."
Yes, it's a big Lu, Beisha City can't be moved, with this city, many goods in Datang are transported from the sea, and then sold to the tribes in the north through our border, we fattened the city-state army along the way through high toll taxes, if there is no Beisha City, these benefits will be gone immediately."
One of the generals objected.Everyone gradually stopped arguing, and they all looked at the big pair Lu Yuan Gaisu, and it was obvious that the party that was attacking the city was persuaded that it was still suitable to keep Beisha City for a long time.Yuan Gaisu, who was sitting in the first place, did not say a word, of course he knew that the opening of a treaty port would be greatly beneficial to his country, but he also understood that the ambition of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty was definitely not smaller than that of the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty twenty years ago, and even far beyond, as can be seen from the Tang Dynasty's attack on the Eastern Turks.gave his intelligence officer a look, and the other party took out a piece of data and handed it out, and at the same time said loudly to the hundred officials: "Everyone, everyone seems to have forgotten that it is not that we take the initiative to want to do something, but that now Beisha City has discovered an anomaly, which has aroused our vigilance.Why did the good treaty port in Beisha City start to hoard armaments and food?
Will Datang export and sell these things to our Goguryeo?
”So, the other side is hoarding military supplies and preparing for the right time to attack us?
Everyone took a breath of cool air, since the failure of the dynasty's three expeditions to Goguli twenty years ago, there has been a calm for twenty years, and the surrounding neighbors, no matter how big or small, dare not take the initiative to attack Goguryeo, is it possible that the Tang Dynasty wants to make a comeback and embark on the old road of the Sui Dynasty?
Goguryeo General Ulzhide muttered: "Great Lu, there may be something strange at this time, Beisha City is located by the sea, and the Tang Dynasty occupies just a dry city, and even the garrison is pitiful, not to mention that their navy is weak, so from a military point of view, Beisha City cannot become a springboard for attacking our Goguryeo." ”Yuan Gaisu nodded and said: "This matter is also what I have doubts, but Datang never does useless things, and it must be their conspiracy again." ”"Perhaps, they just want to surprise them?
After all, hoarding weapons, grain and grass is a top secret, and we inadvertently probed it, and Datang didn't know that the news had been leaked. ”Someone speculated.Sneak attack?
Where to sneak up?
By their navy?
All kinds of questions surfaced in the hearts of hundreds of officials, and there were many discussions in the court.Yuan Gaisu pressed everyone and said loudly: "We don't know how the Tang Dynasty will do it, but one thing is absolutely true, that is, the Tang Dynasty's heart will not die, and it will never sit back and watch Goguryeo become stronger day by day."
Although there are many benefits to the trade of Beisha City, there are still rumors that the Tang Dynasty has taken the opportunity to take money from us and suck the blood of our poor and weak state like Goguryeo.There are also people who guess that Datang has seen that we are getting richer and richer, and this wealth is also brought by them, and they deliberately do this because they want to wait for the opportunity to fatten us up, so that they can be slaughtered and annexed directly when the time comes. ”What???
Yuan Gaisu's words were like a hammer hammer hitting everyone's hearts, this kind of thing is too ridiculous and too terrible."
In a word, Datang has bad intentions towards us, so we must be on guard.No matter what they are trying to mobilize ordnance, food and grass, if they want to break the situation, then they can be prepared, Beisha City is our territory, and it is only right to regain the territory.As for starting a war with the Tang Dynasty?
Since sooner or later it is going to be right, it is better to be at this time, than to repent when Datang raises the butcher's knife in the future. ”Yuan Gaisu was a natural leader, and his words were so clear that the Goguryeo court was instantly boiling and asking for war, no one wanted to watch their country be swallowed up by other countries, and at that time, everyone was a lamb to be slaughtered, and they were all prisoners.Eulzhide said tenaciously: "Goguryeo is a big country in the east, and the Sui Dynasty twenty years ago was so strong that it was still rejected by us?"
Now the Tang State in the west has only been 20 years, and its national strength is not as good as that of the former Sui. ”"Okay, since that's the case, General Yizhi will go to transfer troops, secretly go west, take advantage of Datang's unpreparedness, take Beisha City in one fell swoop, eat all the supplies, cut off their reinforcements from the sea, and then leave people to defend, the general will turn north and go to Liaodong City to sit in town, in case Datang gathers an army to attack and take revenge."
Yuan Gaisu made a decision, ready to strike first, and after the dispersal of the court meeting, he also discussed with a few henchmen and generals, if he withstood the wave of revenge of the Tang Dynasty, then with all the materials of Beisha City as support, Gao Guli could take advantage of the situation to draw tens of thousands of troops to sweep Baekje and Silla in the east, and unify the peninsula to become a real eastern power.If you can't do this, you will never be able to carry the powerful Tang Dynasty, and sooner or later it will be destroyed.There is a way to go to the army to fight, then to fight, and then to fight.The plan on the temple is the key to victory or defeat, what Gao Guli saw was exactly what the Tang side wanted him to see, Gao Guli Junchen, who did not know the truth, made a misjudgment, but the action was in the hands of the Tang Dynasty, this Beisha City is the bait that Su Dingfang Duhe deliberately gave out in Fuyu City, only if Goguryeo swallowed this bait, the Tang side had a reason to send troops, and at the same time there was a reason to borrow troops from other countries.A few days later, Beisha fell and returned to the hands of the Goguryeo.It all seemed to have happened very suddenly, but it was as if it had been planned by both sides, and the attacking side had a quick surprise attack with a large army.On the defensive side, there were more than 1,000 soldiers on the head of Beisha City, and when they saw the Goguryeo army roaring in, they began to warn, and then closed the east gate tightly, symbolically released arrows and stones to defend it, and soon quietly slipped away from the west city gate and went straight to the dock.There was a trade transport ship parked on the sea west of Beisha City, which turned into a troop transport ship, picking up all the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.After seeing the results, Yizhide was stunned, what is the situation?
When did the Tang Dynasty soldiers become a faction that fled from the wind?
What about their blood and bravery?
Didn't they say that they were the best soldiers in the world?"
Oh no, I've been tricked!
Quickly withdraw from the city, send someone to count and survey the goods in the city, once there is an abnormality, come quickly" Before the German army order was finished, there was a roar in the city, and the city walls shook a little.All the Goguryeo soldiers were blank in their minds, and they looked at the place where the sound came from in a daze, only to see a black smoke and fire, and soon it was like an autumn wind sweeping leaves, and the fire was accompanied by the sea breeze, and the entire Beisha City became a sea of fire.Ulzhide was dumbfounded, and fled in a hurry with his subordinates, but even if he evacuated quickly, in this fire and burning the city, Gao Guli still lost 5,000 soldiers and horses in vain, and they were all elite, which made this iron-blooded general of Goguryeo sad."
Quickly give the big pair of Lu Fa, our army is in the middle of the plan, the battle loss is 5,000, the city of Beisha was burned, nothing was found, according to which it is speculated that everything is a conspiracy of the Tang people, and deliberately set a trap to lure us here.But they will never stop here for no reason, this is just the beginning, in order to prevent the Tang Dynasty from attacking, we will continue to go to Liaodong City to garrison. ”The adjutant general next to him looked at the ruins in front of him and asked, "General, what should this Beisha City do?"
Do you want to continue to send people to garrison?
”"A ruined place, worthless.Send a thousand-strong team to be stationed at the docks to prevent the opponent's soft-footed navy from landing from here to sneak up on us, and the big war is imminent, and we don't have too many troops to put in such a useless place. ”Yi Zhide was a good general who could fight tough battles, but his contempt for the Tang Navy made him regret it in the later wars.Yuan Gaisu, who got the news, also wondered, what did Datang do all this for?
If it is to start a war with Goguryeo, then it is enough to start fighting directly from the west, and take the initiative to give up Beisha City, what should you do?
Leaving the city of Beisha can also be used as a port for naval landing, which is beneficial and harmless.No matter how much he wanted to break his head, he would never have thought that Datang would not plan to use his army to fight.Of course, when he can't figure it out, Yuan Gaisu won't bother to think about it, just defend well, what he cares about most is the goods in Beisha City, doesn't it mean that the salt and iron are piled up?
Datang is such a big deal?
Exchange the salt and iron of a city for the lives of thousands of Goguryeo soldiers?
When he saw the military report, he realized that it was all a trap, where is there any salt and iron?
People took the initiative to abandon the city, how could they leave supplies for their opponents?"
It's hateful, I know that the Tang Dynasty can't see Goguryeo rich and strong, this is a conspiracy to cut off my way to Goguryeo's prosperity, it's really despicable.But what's strange is that since you're afraid that we're strong, why don't you just open this place before?
”Yuan Gaisu stomped his feet and scolded his mother, he couldn't guess what the Tang Emperor did, he didn't know that this time it was a group of young people who were pushing, young people were always wild, and they didn't even know who the opponent was, of course they had to be led step by step.At the same time, upon learning of the destruction of Beisha City, Duhe also set off from Buyeo City and headed north, and his first stop was the Khitan tribe closest to Buyeo City.