Chapter 485: The Old Tree

Wu has Li Xiaoche, and Wen has Li Xiaolian

These two people used to be the hope of the future of the Li family in Li Yuanshan's eyes, Li Xiaoche is his son, and Li Xiaolian is his nephew, because the Li family has such a stunning descendant Li Yuanshan once lamented that there are successors to the Li family. But it was one of the Li family Shuangxiu who was regarded by Li Yuanshan as the hope of the future, and died in a small town called Sui County so easily.

The body was put in a sack and thrown at the door, and the people who solved it didn't even bother. In the past two days, Li Er, who was in charge of waiting for the patrol envoy, asked the rebel soldiers to carry the body away and find a place to bury it, and then nodded and flattered to follow the fake patrol envoy, and was extremely flattering.

The real patrol envoy was carried by two rebel soldiers for a while and then found a dry well and threw it in.

"Who is this man?"

One of the rebels muttered, "The big night won't let people live in peace, damn it, it's sticking to my blood." ”

"This is the person who was caught halfway by the patrol, I don't think he should be a tough guy, we didn't hear the sound of execution outside, it seems that he died very simply, it can be seen that he is a coward, I guess I have confessed, otherwise I wouldn't have been killed."

"I can't say that it was this person's accomplices who assassinated General Li and them, and also set up an ambush outside the city and shot dozens of our brothers."

One of the rebels spat at the dry well, found a stone and smashed it in: "Lao Tzu will cover you with a quilt again!" ”

Fang Xie asked Li Er to call in, he sat down next to the stove, pulled the big puff on his shoulder, and asked while fiddling with the fire: "Li Er, do you know why I came to you." ”

Li Er hurriedly lowered his head: "I don't know if I am humble, please give me orders." ”

Fang Xie pointed to the stool opposite: "Sit down and talk"

Li Er dare, so he hurriedly excused himself.

Fang Xie looked at the furnace fire and was silent for a while, and said in a calm tone: "I came to you because you are General Li Liao's personal army, and you know more about everything in the army than Han En." I won't say how Han En is, but you should understand one thing, so many generals above the fifth rank in the army have died, and the vacant positions have to be filled after all. I came to you alone because I saw that you were careful...... Han En wrote a list of people he recommended to fill vacant official positions...... I don't see your name on it. ”

Li Er's face changed, and he couldn't help but scold fiercely in his heart.

"Humble duties still need to be experienced......"

He hung his head, and in his heart he all the eighteen generations of Han En's ancestors, regardless of men and women.

"According to reason, it should be that you should take someone to escort General Li's family to Puyin City first, but I asked Han En to leave you behind, just to know that you are a manufacturable material."

"Thank you for your compliment!"

Li Er's heart jumped, knowing that his luck might be coming.

"It is precisely because of the affairs in the army that you know more than Han En, so I plan to directly promote you to the general of the fifth grade, if there is anything you discuss with Han En, on the surface he is the main general, but secretly you bother more, this person is impetuous and has no real talent, but you also know that Han Renzao is also very weighty in front of the prince. But I can give you a secret order, and you can do it...... I'll let me tell you a few things...... I'm afraid that it won't be long before you will have to fight with the Sui army, and above the battle array, it is taboo for the main general to be weak and indecisive, if Han En is difficult to take on the big responsibility, you can abolish him with the secret order I gave you. Li Er...... I trust you because you are also surnamed Li! ”

With a plop, Li Er fell to his knees and kowtowed a few times.

"The grace of reinvention of adults, I will never dare to forget it."

"Get Up"

Fang Xie stretched out his hand to help him: "It's all for the king of Dingxi, if you don't do things safely, I won't hand over this errand to you." You go back first, select people from the army to be your personal soldiers, and after dawn, I will transfer a few elite folding battalions from the army to your hands. Also, the matter of grain and grass is the top priority, and the army will go to Laixian, and you will have to keep an eye on the grain and grass with you. The half of the grain and grass left behind......"

Fang Xie glanced at Li Er, and Li Er immediately realized: "It's not half, it's three percent left." ”

Fang Xie pretended to smile with satisfaction, patted Li Er on the shoulder and said, "I didn't mistake you. ”

Li Erqian thanked him, Fang Xie waved his hand to let him out, watching the satisfied person leave, Fang Xie couldn't help but smile. This is more than 10,000 fine armor, although the 3,000 cavalry led by Fang Xie has a chance to defeat the other party in terms of combat power, but it is inevitable that there will be many casualties in the fight. Therefore, Fang Xie never planned to swallow this military horse, and of course he did not intend to make this team steady.

Han Eun and Lee Er......

hehe

Fang Xie stretched his body and went to bed to rest, and he will continue acting tomorrow.

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The rebels guarding Sui County left the county seat of Sui County after two and a half days of preparation, and when Han En and Li Er left, the other party was grateful to Dade. Both of them have a great sense of happiness in their hearts that they were hit by a pie falling from the sky, and they feel that Fang Xie is the noble person in their lives. Both of them can be regarded as making steady progress, especially Li Er, who was directly promoted from a pro-soldier team to a general of the fifth grade, which is no longer climbing up, but flying up.

Fang Xie smiled and waved goodbye to Han En, the smile on the corner of his mouth was so bright.

In the afternoon of the same day, after the scouts stared at the rebel army and walked out for dozens of miles, Fang Xie sent someone to contact Wanyan Chongde in Thirty Mile Fort and asked him to enter the county seat of Sui County with the cavalry.

Fang Xie himself didn't even feel it, and inadvertently he not only divided a rebel army and obtained a large amount of grain and grass, but also became the stone that made the wheel of history jolt a little, and the direction of the wheel was deviated because of the bump.

The grain and grass left by the rebels were enough for 3,000 people to eat for several months, and it was precisely because of the fatigue in the northwest that the rebels had the habit of stockpiling grain.

Although Sui County was still nearly five hundred miles away from Xiangcheng, Fang Xie still decided to stop here with the team. Relatively speaking, this place is better than Xingcang Mountain. Although Xing Cangshan is closer to Xiangcheng, deviating from the plain area is equivalent to deviating from the main battlefield. Since Li Yuanshan arranged the team to Sui County, it means that Sui County is in the middle of the battle although it is far away.

Zhuo Buyi swept the things on the table aside and laid out the map on the table.

"I know far more from Li Xiaolian's head than he said."

He drew a semicircle on the map with charcoal, Lezhen, Suixian, Duanyang, Qing'an, Zhuzhou...... More than twenty small towns are connected to form this semicircle, and when this line is drawn, the situation immediately becomes clear. The semicircle composed of these 20 or so small cities enclosed a plain with a radius of about 270 miles, and this fast plain was the place where Li Yuanshan had determined the decisive battle early on.

The gap in the semicircle is the direction of Xiangcheng.

Zhuo Buyi said: "Actually, Li Xiaolian came this time to arrange military affairs, so that the people in each city can be ready at any time...... If nothing else, Li Yuanshan is already about to give up Xiangcheng. We don't know much about the war, but what is certain is that although the imperial army won a big victory, the losses must be not small, and Li Yuanshan planned to withdraw, which means that the imperial court's strength has been weakened to the point that it can't struggle out if it gets into the pocket. ”

Fang Jie's face was extremely solemn, and he looked at the semicircle outlined by Zhuo Buyi: "Let's stay here, Li Yuanshan didn't know that we were coming, and he happened to drill a hole in this pocket...... Immediately send all the scouts out to the direction of Xiangcheng to investigate the battle situation, and, Chen Xiaoru, you personally take people to the side of the imperial army and find a way to sneak in...... Don't see the emperor, and don't mention our affairs here to anyone, try to contact as many people as possible with the Ouchi Guard, if nothing else, the Ouchi Guard has lost its previous power, but these people are useful. As for what you do next, wait for me to send someone to contact you, and remember, the more people from the Ouchi Guards gather, the better! ”

Chen Xiaoru nodded: "My subordinates will set off today." ”

Fang Xie snorted: "Now that we have the opportunity to become a piece of cloth for Li Yuanshan to arrange this pocket, it is a good thing for the imperial court, and it is also a good thing for us to participate in the war in the future to reduce losses." Now beware of a nearby rebel team sending over, and besides, everyone except the scouts tried not to go out of the city and be discovered by the rebel scouts. ”

"Whoa"

The generals clenched their fists and obeyed.

"Big Dog"

Fang Xie called the big dog over and said, "Take a few people, go south immediately, and investigate where Luo Yao's left guard is, and where is the rebel Yin Poshan who is fighting with Luo Yao." Li Yuanshan's bureau, in fact, the key lies in Luo Yao and Meng Yuanren. If Luo Yao didn't open the opening, the Meng Yuan people would not be able to go around behind the imperial army. Now I want to know when Luo Yao will get involved. ”

"Whoa"

The big dog answered, turned his head and went out, picked out a few powerful flying fish robes and left.

"Nie Xiaoju"

Fang Xie continued to instruct: "Find a way to contact the people left in the Southwest Provinces by the Ouchi Guards, nine out of ten of these people are actually exposed under Luo Yao's nose, once Luo Yao really rebels, these people will be eliminated, and a secret order will be issued, so that all these spies will come to the northwest." In addition, by the way, the news of the other horses in the left front guard will be probed in detail. Luo Yao led nearly 400,000 horses to the north, but no one knows how many of his soldiers there are in the southwest! Praying mantis catches cicadas and yellow finches in the back...... I always feel that what Luo Yao is waiting for is when Li Yuanshan and the imperial army fight to defeat both sides. ”

"Whoa"

Nie Xiaoju took the order and left.

"One more thing"

Fang Xie instructed: "Send someone back immediately to tell the military advisor, let him take the men and horses down the mountain, after the decisive battle, the Mengyuan people will retreat to the prairie." Kuketai Menglie is not a fool, he should know that as soon as the Great Sui Emperor dies, whether it is Li Yuanshan or Luo Yao, he will immediately detain this crime on Meng Yuanren. Even if Li Yuanshan is a traitor, he will raise the banner of avenging the Great Sui Emperor...... What the Mengyuan people want to see is the infighting of the Han people in the Central Plains, and they also know when to come in and when to go out. ”

"Tell the military advisor that the mountain collapse will block the canyon by pushing rocks, and the road for Meng Yuan's barbarian to retreat cannot be unimpeded. The reason why Kuktai Menglie left the 10,000 wolf riders of Baihuo in Fengcheng was to retreat, as long as the decisive battle on this side was over, the 10,000 wolf riders of Baihuo would immediately rush to Fan Gu to open the way for Kuketai Menglie. If the canyon can't be blocked with stones, it can only be blocked by people. Fan Gu and Qingxia are separated by dozens of miles, and they can't be lost, once the Mengyuan barbarians arrive, we hold these two places in our hands, like two nails wedged on the barbarian's return road, echoing each other, the barbarian will not feel good. ”

"It's coming!"

He took a deep breath.

"The decisive battle that everyone has been waiting for is coming."

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"Report!"

In the army formation of the Great Sui Expedition to the West, in front of the huge palace-like imperial chariot ran a herald with an uncontrollable herald full of joy and excitement, he ran to the front of the imperial chariot and knelt down, pointing in the direction of Xiangcheng and shouting: "Your Majesty...... Your Majesty! Xiangcheng is broken, the rebels are retreating from the northwest, and several generals are leading troops to attack Xiangcheng! ”

Because of his excitement and excitement, he was a little uncomfortable in speaking.

Compared with the joy on his face, His Majesty the Emperor, who was already thin and sad, leaned back in his seat and just nodded slowly, and the expression on his face did not change in the slightest. Because he was too thin, his forehead seemed to bulge outward, and his cheekbones were very high, even the momentum of looking at the world in his eyes in the past was much lighter.

"After the destruction of Xiangcheng, let everyone come here to discuss matters."

He waved his hand a little lazily: "Go ahead"

He was silent for a while and then asked Su Buxing beside him: "At the beginning, Yang Kai, the king of Xujun, asked Jin Shixiong, the general of Zuo Xiaowei, to come to me to ask for guilt, but I asked you to detain people and didn't give him a chance to explain, it's time to release them...... After a while, when the civil and military officials gathered, you asked Jin Shixiong to stand by my side and be with you. ”

Su Buxing's face changed, and then he bowed deeply.

I don't know why, but the old eunuch's eyes were full of sadness when he bowed down.

The emperor, reclining in his chair, looked like an old tree that had withered......