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"Tang Gong's move is deeply rooted in the way of using soldiers!" On the way back to the room, Liu Hongji commented in a low voice.

"The light is loose and the darkness is tight, and the proportions are just right!" Li Xu nodded in agreement. These words are not slapping Li Yuan's sycophants, what kind of virtue his colleagues are Lu Xu knows best, if Tang Gong showed a little nervousness just now, it is estimated that the military spirit has collapsed at this time.

"Alas!" Liu Hongji sighed, as if he was deeply worried about the fate of Huaiyuan Town. He is twice as old as Li Xu, and he has seen much more things than everyone else. It is a very strange arrangement to put the grain storage place on the border between the two countries. But through this strangeness, we can vaguely deduce a fact that cannot be told to others.

Seeing that the other party didn't speak, Li Xu was also a little gloomy. Last year, he abandoned school and left the country to escape the war. This year, he went to Huaiyuan Town to join the army, also to avoid becoming the unjust soul of Liaodong. However, the time to come finally came, and no matter how much I escaped, I didn't escape.......

The two of them walked in great strides, each thinking about their own thoughts. The distance from the school to the residence is a blink of an eye. But the two of them seemed to have forgotten the road, and went around diagonally, went around half a circle, and then went diagonally back again.

After being silent for a moment, Liu Hongji suggested in a low voice: "Brother, it's time for us to do something for Tang Gong!" ”

"Brother Liu, you say, what should we do!" Li Xu nodded, his voice was not loud, but it was very decisive. Tang Gong has the grace of knowing himself, and he should indeed reciprocate. Besides, the meaningful glance before he left was obviously expressed, and he couldn't guess Li Yuan's thoughts, but this question couldn't help the thoughtful Liu Hongji.

"Help Tang Gong defend Huaiyuan Town! If the army does not move, the grain and grass will be lost first, and Tang Gong will definitely be ruined! Liu Hongji stopped, looked at the dark sky and said. In an instant, the contempt for heaven and earth when they broke through together on the grassland returned to him.

This is the Liu Hongji that Li Xu knows, in the barracks for more than a month, Liu Hongji, who is drunk with everyone every day, and the tall and mighty man on the grassland are almost completely different people. Sometimes, Li Xu even wonders if Liu Hongji has a twin brother who is the same.

"How do you keep it?" Li Xu asked in a low voice.

"First of all, we have to stabilize ourselves and the brothers around us! The Koreans don't dare to confront our main force of the Great Sui, as long as the military spirit of Huaiyuan Town is not dispersed, we will have the opportunity to do our best! Liu Hongji thought about it and said.

"I'll do my best!" Li Xu thought about it carefully and solemnly agreed.

For Liu and Li, who have a humble position and only one month of military experience, stabilizing the morale of the military is not a matter of gratitude. The people who can rely on the relationship to come to Huaiyuan Town to serve in the army have a family background that is not too bad. At the beginning, everyone came to avoid going to the battlefield to die, including Li Xu and Liu Hongji, why didn't they have the same plan. Now that the place of safety has become a dangerous place, who has the heart to listen to two newcomers. Even if they are Tang Gong's descendants, they can't let everyone risk their lives.

But after nearly a month of wine and meat exchanges, everyone is friends, and friends can naturally communicate with each other, including exchanging judgments on the current situation.

There was no need for Li Xu to deliberately look for this opportunity to make friends, and when he and Liu Hongji discussed the countermeasures and went back to their residence in the army, a few friends who were reasonable were already waiting at the door of the house. Wang Yuantong, Qi Poning, Qin Ziying, Wu Shitong, Zhang Deyu ....... familiar faces are not missing.

"Two, I can hope you two back!" From afar, Qi Poning stepped forward to say hello.

"Brother Liu and I went to do some personal business just now!" Li Xu smiled and replied in a low voice. The first time he interacted with people purposefully, he felt particularly awkward.

This twisted expression became mysterious in the eyes of everyone. He is the nephew of Tang Gong, and everyone in the barracks knows about it. The two of them didn't return just now, and they must have been summoned by Tang Gong to discuss the matter. And the outcome of the deliberations involves everyone's net worth and life.

"Liu, Brother Liu, Brother Li, you, you're okay!" Qin Ziying salivated and stepped forward to greet him. He was usually weak and weak, and he suddenly became "fat", bulging from his neck to his knees, like a bad cow with enough autumn fat.

"Of course, don't you want us to freeze to death? What are you doing standing here, and you have something to say about it. Aren't you too cold? Liu Hongji hit the brother, twisted the door lock, and let everyone into the house.

"Yes, yes, let's go into the house and say, enter the house and say, Lao Qi, get the wine you got and find someone to bring it in!" Wang Yuantong agreed with a smile on his face, and took the lead in walking inside. Six or seven knives collided with each other all over the body, and with each step, there was a clanging sound.

Liu Hongji smiled, let everyone into the house in turn, covered the door, blew the fire in the charcoal basin, and hung a copper kettle filled with water above the brazier, and then slowly asked: "A few brothers don't go to bed so late, do you have something to do with us?" ”

"It's okay, it's okay, just come and see!" Wang Yuantong wiped the sweat on his face and said it in a hurry.

"Are you alright?" Liu Hongji asked knowingly. Since everyone didn't tell the truth, he was happy to go around in circles with everyone. Idle classes are better than patience, and he doesn't believe that anyone here can compare with himself.

"Brother Liu, we're all good brothers, right?" Qi Poning is the oldest person except Liu Hongji, and his concentration is also the worst, so he can't stand it anymore, so he is the first to lead the conversation to the topic.

"Of course, as soon as you enter the barracks, everyone is a lifelong friendship. On the battlefield, the only people who can save your life are the brothers around you! Liu Hongji replied briskly.

"Friendship over life, friendship over life!" Qin Ziying's face turned white in an instant, and she said again and again. He was too sensitive to the word battlefield, and when he heard someone say it, his heart beat breathlessly.

"Good brother has to say it straight, you can't hide it, right?" Qi Poning pushed Qin Ziying and continued to ask.

"Yes, friends are valuable. If you have something to say only half a sentence, then what kind of friend is it! Liu Hongji poked the charcoal fire with a copper skewer and replied with a smile.

There were already pink flames in the brazier, and the copper kettle was swishing. The temperature in the room was getting hotter, and everyone's faces were red by the firelight.

"Then, when does Tang Gong plan to take everyone to evacuate Huaiyuan Town?" Qi Poning finally mustered up the courage and asked the most crucial question. If the Great Sui had already started the war against Goryeo, Huaiyuan Town, which had hoarded grain and grass supplies, would undoubtedly be a safe rear. However, now that the Goryeo people crossed the Jiehe River and took the initiative to attack the Great Sui, it became the most unsafe place to deliberately select the grain storage area close to the Jiehe River for the convenience of the army's supply. Gentlemen do not stand under the dangerous wall, everyone is a gentleman, and try not to escape slower than others when you can escape.

"Withdraw, if you were Tang Gong, would you take everyone to withdraw?" Liu Hongji suddenly turned pale, staring at Qi Poning's eyes and asking.

Qi Poning was stunned, he had never imagined himself as the commander of a team of soldiers and horses. Suddenly, he changed his position, and his whole body stiffened under the violent impact of his thoughts.

"You, you mean, Tang Gong, Tang Gong doesn't plan to withdraw at all?" Wang Yuantong's upper and lower teeth kept fighting, his face was dripping with sweat, but his body seemed to have fallen into an ice cave.

The faces of several people beside the charcoal basin turned snow-white, they were all children of families who had read books and had been trained since childhood. The mind is not slow. According to Liu Hongji's suggestion, after thinking about it in a different position, the previous question became clear.

Anyone who puts himself in Li Yuan's position, he will not withdraw. The town of Huaiyuan has hoarded enough food for a million troops to eat for three months, and if the grain falls into the hands of the enemy without a fight, the Lord will be cut by a thousand knives, and it will be difficult to apologize for his crimes. But if you stick to this place, with the 1,200 brothers in the city who are waiting to die, I am afraid that they will not be able to support it for an hour, and they will be crushed into powder by the Koreans.

"Of course Tang Gong doesn't plan to withdraw, there is no need to withdraw at all! Although Huaiyuan Town is small, it is actually solid! Li Xu replied nonchalantly for Liu Hongji. The first time he lied, he was a little nervous. But in front of people who are more nervous than themselves, they seem extremely calm.

"Imsolidated?" Everyone's eyes swept towards Li Xu together. Li Xu's honesty and kindness are well-known in the barracks, although everyone always laughs at him for being wooden, but at this very moment, the same words are said in his mouth is much more credible than in the mouths of others.

"yes, can't you see it?" Li Xu looked at everyone disdainfully, and explained according to the rhetoric that Liu Hongji had taught in advance: "The more than 30,000 troops under General Xin's command are right next to us, and they are at odds with Huaiyuan Town. If the enemy attacks General Xin, we will attack him from behind. If the enemy attacks Huaiyuan, General Xin will cut off his flanks. And as long as the stalemate between the two sides lasts for a long time, our Liucheng and Lulong armies will arrive, and the Goryeo people will be encircled, and there is a danger that the whole army will be wiped out......"

This is an example of a battle told in the history books, and the army of Chu once resisted the Qin army for three months with this formation. The Great Sui is not weak, and three months is enough to send a million reinforcements.

"The enemy general is not a fool, so he will not take such a big risk to attack." Liu Hongji laughed and added, as if he had really just discussed the situation in front of him with Li Yuan. "Tang Gong thinks that after the river freezes, the enemy army will use sneak attacks and harassment as the main means, and will never fight us head-on."