Chapter 661: Gathering Strength
The soldiers and horses of the Li family stayed in Youzhou for a few days before returning to Taiyuan Mansion.
Now the matter of Youzhou soldiers in Penglai has been spread, especially the matter of Emperor Sui Yang molesting women on the street, the content is very detailed.
In particular, Emperor Yang of Sui not only did not succeed, but lost his soldiers, lost his virtue, and lost his prestige, and at this time the nobles in Longxi were very dissatisfied with the emperor.
They didn't care about Emperor Yang of Sui's teasing, but they cared about the Northwest soldiers who went to Penglai to support, and now that so many soldiers and horses are gathered in Youzhou, things are different.
Such a powerful force is enough to threaten the imperial power and threaten their interests.
You must know that the nobles of Longxi can be the real pillars behind the Sui State, and even the emperor will be afraid of them.
Youzhou's soldiers are strong and strong, and they already have the strength to compete with them, which has to worry them.
Emperor Yang of Sui may have realized that he was at a loss but did not immediately publicize these things, because the affairs of Goryeo made him at a loss.
In the imperial palace of Goguryeo, King Rongliu originally planned to negotiate peace with the Sui State, but when Lu Fulin went to negotiate with the people of the Xiao Cavalry Guard, before he reached the palace, things suddenly changed.
The Su Gavin family knew about King Rongliu, and directly killed King Rongliu and a kind of minister within one day, and directly supported their cronies to ascend to the throne.
The entire capital was in chaos, and then Su Gavin took a large number of soldiers and horses in his hurry to defend the capital.
The matter of King Rongliu was not clear to Yuwen Chengdu and others at all, and he brought the delegation to negotiate but was resisted by the Goryeo soldiers, and the war had already started without negotiation at all.
Yuwen Chengdu already knew the other party's attitude, and after seeing that he couldn't attack for a long time, he was ready to go back to repair the soldiers and horses, and let Li Yuan send more soldiers and horses to act together.
When I returned, I saw an empty walled city, and all the ships had been taken with us.
Yuwen Chengdu, who has always been arrogant, did not run out of ideas at this time.
Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses disappeared like this, and soon sent scouts to contact the other side of the soldiers and horses, but fortunately, there were still two soldiers and horses left in the original three parties, and then Yuwen Chengdu led the soldiers and horses to no longer dispatch.
Guarding the shore, they really hate Li Yuan to death now.
Lu Fulin and the other people from the mission didn't know what was going on, so they could only help to give advice around Yuwen Chengdu.
Although Yuwen Chengdu is unruly, but in the current situation, he also knows that if they are not united, once they are surrounded, the enemy does not need to attack, as long as they are stopped, they can't or maybe they can be wiped out with food.
"General Tianbao, for today's plan, we can only wait." Lu Fulin calms Yuwen Chengdu's emotions.
He is very aware of the style of the great general beside him, if there is really any more chaos, I am afraid that they will really have no hope, the two sides are united, fortunately, the food in their hands is predictable, and they can resist for a period of time for the time being.
"Now there is not a single ship, and there is no way to know the will of the imperial court, and now it has become a trapped beast." Yuwen Chengdu Road.
"Even so, there are many soldiers and horses here, even if the high-ranking soldiers fight, we have the strength to fight, but we can't leak the news so quickly, and it's best to be able to hold on to time." Lu Fulin said.
After all, a civil official is a civil official, and his brain is easy to use.
Yuwen Chengdu really has no confidence now, and after listening to Lu Fulin's suggestion, he immediately arranged for people to act according to the daily search.
The only purpose is to confuse the other party and let them know that the soldiers and horses of the Sui State are still strong and nothing has changed.
In fact, Su Gavin was a little skeptical, because they did not choose to pursue after the Sui soldiers and horses retreated, after all, they were not sure enough to wipe out all the people after such a pursuit.
Now defending the city is planning to consume them to the end.
Just when they felt that something was wrong, the cavalry guards went out to search again, and if they said that the previous robbery was for merit and loot, at this time they were really trying to collect grain and grass.
This is also Lu Fulin's method, the grain reserves have been taken away by Li Yuan, if the troops do not move, sooner or later they will sit and eat empty, and now take advantage of the enemy's unknown reason to do more things that are beneficial to them.
Yuwen Chengdu was very cooperative, and his actions were even more ruthless, so that Su Gaiwen did not change his plan for a while.
Penglai City seems to be as usual, in fact, Penglai soldiers and horses have not come back since they took the initiative to pursue, at first Emperor Yang of Sui was very happy to hear that there were many soldiers and horses spontaneously pursued.
Three days later he didn't think so.
All the soldiers and horses in Penglai withdrew, the Northwest soldiers, the Li family, and some soldiers and horses all left after hearing about this, and the withdrawal of 500,000 soldiers and horses directly reduced 200,000 people.
The main thing is that they did not leave a grain of rice from the grain they had been allocated before, which is equivalent to not completing his task but taking advantage of it in vain.
This kind of thing is still going on in the past few days, and more importantly, there is also a shortage of grain and grass for 200,000 soldiers and horses, and the soldiers and horses in Goryeo have to consider the need for supplies.
Emperor Yang of Sui was really in trouble this time, and all the problems were concentrated together.
"Hurry up and transfer the ship from Jiangnan, and the lonely Xiao cavalry guard can't afford to lose." Emperor Yang of Sui said to an official.
Civil and military officials are working things out, coordinating ships and distributing food from various state capitals.
They all knew in their hearts that the rebellion of Laihu'er had taken all the ships away, and now their whereabouts were unknown, and without ships, the situation of the Sui soldiers and horses in Goryeo would become worse and worse.
But for now, there is no other way but to wait for the ship to come.
In order not to let things go down in chaos, the problems of Youzhou, Taiyuan, Northwest and other forces were automatically forgotten by them, so the rebellion was only passed on to the people.
None of these people in the court are fools, and now is not the time to deal with these things.
Being able to rescue Yuwen Chengdu is the most important thing, for this reason the nearest merchant ship has been requisitioned, and the fishing boat has taken the lead and carried a small amount of food to pick up people.
There is no way that the Yuwen family is not something they can offend, if they know that Yuwen Cheng was trapped and died in the Goryeo Kingdom, I am afraid that the court will be shaken.
Now the Yuwen family has such energy.
It is precisely because there are so many things to deal with that on the surface, the Sui State is still the same, there is no human body who rebels.
After Li Yuan returned to Taiyuan Mansion with his soldiers and horses, he was not attacked by forces, and the people of the Li family were not simple enough to know that they could not do anything well, so they began to sell their properties after returning home.
During this period of time, a large number of soldiers were recruited, and the selection of soldiers was not as strict as before, and the number of soldiers and horses of the Li family in Taiyuan Mansion directly increased to 80,000 in half a month.
After many people heard the gossip, many people chose to become soldiers and get paid.
After the forces of all parties got the gossip, they were not idle, and they also gathered a lot of strength in secret.