"We have to defend these cities." Li Daozong came back to his senses, then stretched out his hand to click on a few points on the map. The cities bordering Goguryeo were all Silla's before.
Even the two cities that now belong to Baekje were formerly Silla's.
The Tang Dynasty actually knew Silla far better than Silla itself. After all, Silla maids were also very famous in the Tang Dynasty. In order to buy enough Silla maids, it was very difficult for Yuelai Trading Company to enter Silla and select them for business. Reasonable.
Since Yuelai Trading Company is here to do business, it is reasonable to record the population, location, transportation, and whether the surrounding terrain is dangerous and other information of these cities.
After all, in order to do business, it is a good thing to understand these things, to avoid encountering bandits, etc., and to avoid some dangerous locations.
Therefore, Li Daozong had enough understanding of these cities.
Following Li Daozong's gesture, they abandoned a total of three county towns on the border, and then concentrated their main forces on five cities.
Seeing these five cities, Kinderman was somewhat at a loss. To be honest, she really didn't know much about this place as Li Daozong did, but General Jin was a little stunned, because... is this a famous general of the Tang Dynasty?
This is not the most famous general of the Tang Dynasty, Li Jing, but the five cities named by the other party include one from Baekje and four from Silla.
The five cities are all located in dangerous terrain, built on mountains or water. It is difficult to completely blockade the entire city unless tens of thousands of troops can enter.
But Goguryeo was unable to mobilize such a large army.
Moreover, the area of the five cities is not small, and the city walls are okay. If these cities are garrisoned, as long as enough supplies are stored, it will not be easy for the enemy to conquer them.
But if the enemy wants to cross these five cities, it is impossible, because once they cross these five cities, the location here is very critical. After the road is cut off, the army that crosses the cities will be a turtle in the urn.
With such a line of defense, if there were enough elite soldiers, it would be almost impossible for Goguryeo to attack it.
"Everything must be obeyed by General Li." General Jin directly spoke directly. He knew that the queen did not understand, so he could just agree at this time.
"Well, but how many people are there in these two cities?" Li Daozong asked, pointing to the three counties he was about to give up.
"The total number is about 100,000 to 150,000 people." General Jin gave a rough figure.
"Can we evacuate them all?" Li Daozong glanced at General Jin.
"This..." General Jin was dumbfounded. If they didn't care, when the war came, these people would naturally flee, and they would definitely flee to the hinterland.
But the biggest difference between escape and voluntary evacuation is that if the court organizes an evacuation, it needs to find a way to feed these people.
One hundred thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand people, how to feed such a terrifying population?
If they cannot feed them, this is a huge hidden danger. If they flee on their own, the court only needs to maintain the most basic porridge and prevent them from starving to death.
The difference between the two is that the mentality of the refugees is different. If you evacuate actively and you give them porridge, it is estimated that many of these people would rather stay where they are, because even if Goguryeo takes over, these people actually have nothing to grab. of.
And they also need people to grow food and so on. For most people, the difference is not particularly big.
"But with so many people... we can't allocate enough food at the same time." General Jin hesitated and said.
"Okay, if this doesn't work then let's find a way. If we want to stabilize the situation, we will need a large number of people to transport supplies." Li Daozong thought for a while.
"Well, it seems that the dock here needs to be expanded. By then we may have to hire some local people to help with the work, because if it is not expanded, our ships will not be able to keep up with the speed of transporting supplies."
"The other thing is that our army cannot go directly to the border. We need to slow down and give Goguryeo an illusion." Li Daozong said.
"Yes." Regarding this aspect, Kinderman has no opinion at all. The Tang Dynasty people are already here, and they can set off at any time or not.
Anyway, the Tang army was near Jincheng. Even if Goguryeo occupied other cities and could not occupy Jincheng, then it would not be a big problem.
So Kinderman doesn't care about that.
"As for the construction of the dock, if necessary, I can ask the local officials and the Ministry of Industry here to fully cooperate." Kinderman said.
"There is no need for this. As long as Her Majesty the Queen allows us to hire people to work locally, we will design and hire people to work ourselves." Li Daozong said with a smile.
"Ah, of course there is no problem. If not, I will sign the order and use corvee labor." Kinderman said quickly.
"No, I said, the Tang Dynasty has the discipline of the Tang Dynasty. Your Majesty, please rest assured. When the Tang Dynasty comes, Goguryeo's conspiracy will not succeed." Li Daozong said with a smile.
"Thank you General Li."
The conversation with Queen Kinderman of Silla ended quickly. After that, Kinderman stayed here for a day and then returned to the Jincheng Palace.
She had to return. There was no place for her to live here, and her stay yesterday was very uncomfortable, but Li Daozong didn't care, he wanted to live with the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.
On the first night after talking to Queen Kinderman of Silla, Li Daozong called Xue Rengui over.
"Xue Li."
"The general is here." Xue Rengui saluted.
"You did very well during the day. You are worthy of being a captain who graduated with honors from the military academy." Li Daozong praised.
"Thank you for the compliment, General."
"I'm not complimenting you, but I'm trying to put an extra burden on you." Li Daozong said with a serious expression.
"General, please speak." Xue Rengui looked serious.
"You understand our main strategic goal this time, right?" Li Daozong said.
"Yes. Show the wealth, strength, discipline, etc. of the Tang Dynasty." Xue Rengui said seriously.
"Well, I know the discipline of the army, but this time because of the special mission, you must 'waste' when you should 'waste'. Although the wasted things cost a lot of money, they are actually not much, and it Can you understand that the things we exchanged for us are thousands of times more beneficial?" Li Daozong said seriously.
"Of course, I understand."
"That's good. You can explain it to the people below. No one is allowed to leak anything. Anyone who disobeys the order will leak state secrets and military secrets and will be severely punished!"
"In addition, please tell all the political commissars below that they must do a good job in the ideological work of the soldiers and ask them to keep it confidential."
"yes!"
"Well, then the entire base here at the dock will be left to you, and you will be responsible for the early stage. At present, I am planning to expand the dock construction here, and steadily expand the current dock, and build and expand three more to allow us to A large dock where ships dock." Li Daozong said seriously.
