Datang: Acting as a celestial mystery at the beginning

A few days later, Li Yi'an and the others finally arrived near Pyongyang City.

The cavalry was stationed in a valley outside Pyongyang, hiding their whereabouts without being discovered, and it soon became night.

During the day, Li Yi'an let all the soldiers recharge their batteries, just to wait until night to deal a fatal blow to the enemy.

"Sir, we are ready and we can do it at any time."

Su Lie gathered all the cavalry and stood in front of the valley, staring at the Pyongyang barracks ahead.

"Go!"

With Li Yi'an's order, [-] cavalry galloped out, with a mighty momentum, and quickly rushed outside the barracks.

"Kill!"

With Xue Li's shout, they quickly broke through the enemy camp and rushed in forcefully. As long as they saw Goguryeo soldiers, they would kill them, and even set fire to them when they were almost killed.

After a while, flames appeared outside the city of Pyongyang. The guards inside the city saw the commotion outside and hurried out to rescue them, but they were killed for a while, unable to stop Li Yi'an and the others. They could only stare wide-eyed at the cavalry of the Tang army leaving .

This time the commotion was equally loud, and Li Yi'an said with satisfaction: "Let's retreat quickly!"

After fighting out of the barracks, they fled to the north immediately, but after walking more than ten miles, the scouts in front of the road came back and said: "The general is not good, there are a lot of Goguryeo soldiers ahead, and they have blocked all the passes. We can't get through. .”

"Stop!"

Li Yi'an shouted, and all the cavalry stopped neatly behind them.

The enemy's reaction was so fast that they wanted to encircle them, and the next step could be imagined to be an encirclement and suppression of them.

Su Lie said worriedly: "Sir, Yuan Gai Suwen may have guessed our intention tonight, and will set up defenses and encirclement in the north, and I am worried that we will be unable to leave if we go north."

Before Li Yi'an could respond, another scout ran over and said, "General, the Goguryeo people in front have spotted us and are about to surround us."

"Sir, I think you can go west."

Xue Li said eagerly.

"Go west!"

Li Yi'an accepted this proposal, and the cavalry immediately changed direction.

The enemy rushing from the north happened to stagger with them at this time, but they couldn't go far to the west, and encountered another group of Goguryeo soldiers and horses to intercept them.

Yuan Gai Su Wen knew that Li Yi'an could not be found in the range drawn from the beginning, so he also began to guess and judge, and finally felt that Li Yi'an's target must be Pyongyang City, and immediately led the army back to encircle it.

This really made him guess right.

Seeing the enemy's encirclement narrowing, Li Yi'an couldn't delay any longer, and said loudly, "Get out!"

Going deep into the enemy's rear and attacking long distances, as long as they are discovered, they will be in danger.

They have all come, now it is too late to say anything and regret it, the only way to survive is to kill them.

Fortunately, most of Goguryeo's soldiers were infantry, and when they were rushed by their cavalry, they broke up and were unable to catch up.

Soon Li Yi'an took everyone out temporarily, but it was only temporarily, and it was certain that Yuan Gai Suwen would not let them leave so easily.

They ran from night to dawn, seeing the surroundings were quiet and there were no pursuers behind them, so they stopped to rest first.

By this time, the number of cavalry had not been as many as [-], and every time they charged, they would reduce some of them.

"Sir, the enemy locked our position ahead of time, General Li and the others haven't come in so quickly."

Xue Li said, "Shall we continue to fight them, or go north?"

Li Yi'an said: "Yuan Gai Suwen won't give us a chance to go north, he must be trying to kill us."

They spread out the map on a stone, pointed to the location in the northeast, and continued: "If we go out from the northeast, there is the Changbai Mountains, and it is not easy to go, but if we go directly north, we can only escape to the vicinity of the Yalu River." If we are lucky, there will be a chance to cross the river; if not, there will be a large number of enemies gathered in the middle and upper reaches of the river bank, waiting for us to throw ourselves into the trap."

Yu Wenyan leaned over and asked: "Then go to the south and continue fighting?"

Su Lie shook his head and said: "Continuing to go south is to die. I'm afraid we won't be able to pass through Pyongyang City, and we will lose more than half of it. Yuan Gai Suwen will completely trap us in this area, and then slowly consume us to death."

He drew a circle on the map, covering the location from the Yalu River to the city of Pyongyang.

Cheng Chumo worried: "Aren't we going to die then?"

"That's not necessarily the case!"

Su Lie looked at the direction of Dandong, and said with a smile: "Sir, I must be prepared to let those bandits go to Dandong. The next step is to try my best to cross the Yalu River near Dandong, and I will definitely be able to kill them."

Yu Wenzhan was worried again: "Those thieves will really listen to the master's arrangement to do things?"

Li Yi'an nodded and said: "Yes, the bandits are caught between Datang and Goguryeo. Judging from the current situation, Datang will surely win. If he dares not to do so, he must be worried that we will destroy Goguryeo and ask them to settle accounts. It can be seen that the advantage lies in Datang, and they dare not take refuge in Goguryeo."

Cheng Chumo asked: "Then they won't run?"

Su Lie smiled: "Because I can't run anywhere."

Li Yi'an explained: "They really can't escape anywhere. As long as they stay in this area on land, unless he hides in Changbai Mountain, they can't escape, and they can't escape Liaodong. If they go to sea, how dare they?"

In the current situation in Liaodong, the two countries are fighting with large armies. Those bandits cannot do without Liaodong. They can only obey Li Yi'an's arrangement and go to Beisha City through Dandong to wait.

"Absolutely not."

Xue Li said.

Not to mention those bandits, even many people who live by the sea and own big boats dare not go to sea rashly.

People in this era still have too little experience in exploring the sea and developing sea resources.

Li Yi'an said again: "It's almost there, let's go to Dandong first, hoping to get out of Dandong before they block it."

After resting enough, all the cavalry continued to set off, and encountered a small group of intercepted enemies on the road, but the problem was not serious, and they were quickly dispersed by them.

All the way to the south of Dandong, the south bank of the Yalu River, it is really safe here.

Li Yi'an asked those bandits to prepare the ferry, but they didn't know where they were hiding. Just as they were about to find it, a man suddenly rushed in front of them.

"General, I finally waited for you to come."

That man was also one of the bandits.

Gu Haizhou was quite cautious, knowing that there was only one person waiting for Li Yi'an and the others to arrive.

Li Yi'an asked, "Where's the boat?"

The bandit said, "General, please follow me!"

"Rengui, you go with him."

Li Yi'an said.

After half an hour, more than 300 ships appeared in front of them.

These ferries were of different sizes and shapes. It was easy to know that they were snatched from the boatmen who lived by the river, and some simple rafts were made by them to make up the numbers.

"Almost enough, cross the river!"

Li Yi'an didn't care about the origin of the ferry.

Now that Yuan Gai Suwen and others have not surrounded here, they must focus on the middle and upper reaches of the defense. If it is delayed, they will not be able to cross the river in Dandong.