Chapter 473 Guo Daifeng's letter for help

The Tang army had won many victories against Goguryeo, and morale was high. Xue Rengui planned to take advantage of the victory and create another glory.

Xue Rengui led his troops to the city of Nansu of Goguryeo. When the defenders of Nansu learned that the Tang army had arrived, they did not dare to fight, and the commander abandoned the city and fled.

Seeing that the commander had already abandoned the city and fled, the defenders of Nansu opened the city and surrendered to the Tang army. Xue Rengui left a team of soldiers and asked Li Qinghong to stay and take over Nansu.

Xue Rengui led the army to Mudi City. On the way, he and Zhou Qing split into two groups, and Xue Rengui continued to march towards Mudi City.

Zhou Qing led a group of troops and turned to attack Cangyan City. After Zhou Qing arrived at Cangyan City, the defenders in the city opened the city and surrendered without saying a word.

Xue Rengui's side was not so smooth. When the Tang army arrived at Mudi City, they were resisted by the Goguryeo army and the two sides started fighting.

In the end, the commander of the Mudi City defenders was shot dead by Xue Rengui with an arrow. Mudi City gave up resistance and surrendered to the Tang army.

In one month, the Tang army occupied and conquered a large area of ​​Goguryeo and won a decisive victory. On

the other hand, Guo Daifeng led the army to Pyongyang from another road. Li Li sent Feng Shiben to Guo Daifeng to transport food, weapons and other logistical supplies.

Who knew that Feng Shiben's transport ship broke down on the way and could not reach Guo Daifeng's camp on schedule. Guo Daifeng's army was starving due to lack of food.

"General, our army's food and weapons are late. Now our soldiers are hungry. If food and weapons don't arrive, let alone fighting the enemy, I'm afraid they will starve to death!"

"I'm worried that if this continues, there will be a mutiny in our army. When that happens, the Goguryeo army will come to attack us, and we will all die here. That means we will die before we even start our mission." said the general under Guo Daifeng.

"Moreover, the weapons in our army are all old-fashioned weapons, most of them are rusty and cannot be used. Not only that, the army does not have enough weapons, how can the soldiers fight?" said another subordinate of Guo Daifeng.

Guo Daifeng is also in a dilemma! Food and weapons are not coming, and he has no choice, he can't conjure up food and weapons.

Who made Feng Shiben's ship transporting supplies run aground and unable to move forward, he can't do anything about it.

They are running out of food now, and the food in the army is now controlled to one meal a day. If this continues, they will not be able to hold on for a few days, and they will all starve to death here.

Guo Daifeng thought about it and wanted to write a letter to Li Zhen for help, but he was worried that the letter would be intercepted by the enemy, and the enemy would know the truth of his army through the letter, so Guo Daifeng decided to write a separation poem to Li Zhen.

"I will solve the problem of food and weapons. Change the food for the generals to two meals a day." Guo Daifeng said.

"What? General, now one meal a day can't last long. If it is changed to two meals a day, I'm afraid that by then, I won't be able to support it until the food arrives, and I will have starved to death." After hearing this, the generals under his command were horrified.

Now the food is already scarce, and eating one meal means one less meal. Now they have to change two days of food into one day, which is tantamount to suicide.

"What are you yelling about? Don't I know that you can make porridge by adding more water and less grain? Do I need to teach you?" Guo Daifeng said. "

But General, if you do this, won't the soldiers complain even more?" said his generals.

"This is the only solution! I know it's hard to explain to the soldiers, but if we don't do this, we will all be doomed. As long as we get through this period, everything will be fine. You all go down! I'm asking for help from the general manager." Guo Daifeng said. "

Yes!" Guo Daifeng's generals saluted and left.

Guo Daifeng immediately wrote a poem of separation and reunion and ordered someone to deliver it to Li Li.

At the camp of the general manager of the Liaodong Road, Li Li was discussing military operations with the generals when he heard the soldiers report.

"Report to the general manager, General Guo Daifeng, the general of the Left Guard, sent someone to deliver a letter. Please report it in person."

"We are here temporarily today. You can leave first!" Li Li took the letter and said to the generals.

"Yes!" The generals bowed and left.

Li Li hurriedly opened the letter and found that it was a poem. However, he couldn't understand it after reading it for a long time.

"In addition to this letter, did the visitor say anything else?" Li Li asked, fearing that his men had missed something.

"Except the letter, there is nothing else." The soldiers said.

"Got it, you can leave first." Li Li said, and the soldiers bowed and left the tent.

Then Li Li was furious and said, "The military situation is urgent now, and this kid is still in the mood to write a poem for me. Such a dandy boy deserves to be killed."

After saying that, he threw the separation poem given to him by Guo Daifeng to the ground, which happened to be seen by Yuan Wanqing, the military governor who came in from outside to report to Li Li.

Yuan Wanqing bent down and picked it up, read it carefully several times, and suddenly realized it.

"General Manager, this is the separation poem that General Guo asked you for help." Yuan Wanqing, the military governor, said.

"Oh! What do you mean?" Li Li asked, did I really blame Guo Daifeng wrongly?

"General, please read these words. These words together mean that our army is short of food and weapons. Please send food and weapons to us. Otherwise, the soldiers will starve to death." Yuan Wanqing explained the meaning of the poem to Li Li.

Li Li suddenly realized that there was a hidden secret! So Li Li ordered people to send food and weapons to Guo Daifeng.

Li Li's food and weapons arrived in time, so there was no mutiny in Guo Daifeng's army. The soldiers were well fed and well watered, so they could fight bravely.

"This time our army is attacking Goguryeo. Your Majesty and the whole court are looking forward to our victory. Now I order you to write a manifesto to boost the morale of our army and show our determination. We will not return to the court until Goguryeo is destroyed."

In order to better fight Goguryeo, Li Zhen asked Yuan Wanqing to write a manifesto to inspire the fighting spirit of the Tang army and undermine the morale of the other side.

"I obey your orders. Please rest assured, there is no problem in handing this matter to me." Yuan Wanqing said.

"Then go back and write it now. I will wait for your good news." Li Zhen said.

Yuan Wanqing said goodbye and left. After returning, he racked his brains and finally wrote a "Manifesto to Goguryeo". The words were passionate and secretly satirized Goguryeo.

Originally, with this manifesto, Yuan Wanqing should have been remembered for eternity.

But I don't know if he was stupid or something, he actually added a sentence in the manifesto, "I don't know the danger of guarding the duck green."

This reminded Quan Nanjian, who immediately deployed troops to guard the Yalu River, preventing the Tang army from passing through. When Li Chengqian learned about this, he was also at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

Li Chengqian did not punish Yuan Wanqing, but instead issued an imperial edict to reprimand him and deduct his salary for half a year.