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"I still have the rest of the 300,000 troops, and I can choose the elite of the government soldiers!" Yang Guang shook his head lightly and secretly laughed at the recklessness of the ministers.

"Your Majesty wants to surprise behind enemy lines!" Yu Wenshu was the first to react and shouted in surprise.

"Yes! Gao Yuan clown, you won't see my clever plan! Yang Guang didn't hear the suspicion in Yuwen's words, and said very happily. Since he refused to hand over Liaodong City, I besieged it but did not attack it. I immediately sent a holy decree to General Laihu'er, ordering him to take the sailors to land near Pyongyang. You wait for the elite to go around from the land and cooperate with the sailors. When the three armies gather, they will take Pyongyang in one fell swoop. Gao Yuan's clown has been captured by me, what are the other thieves afraid of! ”

When the Great Sui army attacked Nanchen, they used such a clever plan. Nowadays, the Goguryeo clown is just another Nanchen Er! His Majesty the Emperor thought happily, his eyes shining with enthusiasm.

"Your Majesty Shengming!" The civil and military people praised in unison. Last time when crossing the Liao River, His Majesty cleverly deceived the defenders, and this time, it was His Majesty himself who took the lead in thinking of a strategy to break the enemy.

"Is this really going to work?" Yu Wenshu's expression was a little hesitant. He wanted to remind His Majesty the Emperor of the differences in the topography and climate between Goguryeo and Namchen, to see the eager expressions of his Manchu colleagues, and to see the smug posture of the sovereign. Secretly sighed and buried all the admonitions in his heart.

The sky after being washed by the rain is pure, pure like a whole piece of jade. Of course, this piece of jade is blue, so blue that it is impossible to look at. Under the blue sky, the reeds scurried up at a speed visible to the naked eye, stretching their waists in the breeze as thin jets of water erupted from between the leaves. Like a fountain, the nectar that fell from the sky is returned to the sky again. The dazzling sunlight transforms into seven colors, red, orange, yellow, and green ...... the cascading fountains, each of which contains a different artistic conception.

Li Xu likes this kind of quiet poetry, and the war has been far away for more than a month. Although the 600,000-strong army surrounded Liaodong City, and routinely waved flags and shouted a few times every day, everyone knew that they were making a show, and the Great Sui had already sent another main force to throw off Liaodong City and go deep behind enemy lines. Liaodong City Guard General Yizhi Wenhui also knew, but he couldn't send a letter, although the 600,000 troops surrounded outside the city were not many elites, but with sufficient numbers, it was absolutely guaranteed that not even a fly could fly out of Liaodong City.

More than a month ago, His Majesty the wise and martial emperor personally ordered to send Yu Wenshu, the general of Zuo Yiwei, Yu Zhongwen, the general of Zuo Yiwei, and Jing Yuanheng, the general of Zuo Xiaowei, to bypass Liaodong and attack Pyongyang. Along the way, the villages and towns and tribes looked down on the wind, and the guard of the Black Bone City, Gao Xu, tried to sneak attack the army from behind, but was calculated by the veteran general Zhongwen and broke on the bank of the Ma Qi water. The high-profile thief was beheaded, and more than 10,000 people in his department were wiped out.

Next, the expeditionary force sent back all the good news. The soldiers and horses of the Great Sui who crossed the Ma Yan River were bound to win every battle, and the vanguard had already pointed directly at Pyongyang. And General Ranggoor, who attacked by sea, also traced the river upstream, and broke the Goguryeo army sixty miles west of Pyongyang, and beheaded him.

The only thing that is slightly regrettable is that the Eastern Expeditionary Army let go of the Goguryeo Prime Minister Eulji Mundeok. The thief ran to the Sui camp to deceive him and surrendered, and Yuwen Shu and Yu Zhongwen secretly deployed warriors, preparing to capture him alive. Liaodong's consolation envoy Liu Shilong let Yizhi Wende go on the grounds that the two countries were fighting and not killing the envoys. The two veteran generals, Yu Wenshu and Yu Zhongwen, had a disagreement with Liu Shilong, a civilian supervisor, and sent the impeachment to the emperor on a fast horse. His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty angrily scolded Liu Shilong for being a woman's kindness, and had already sent the Commander Yu Wenshi and the Holy Decree to the army to reprimand him.

If the situation has been so smooth, in a month, the army will be triumphant! In the food protection army, many people speculated excitedly. It is almost everyone's expectation to be able to return home safely and make a fortune. Except for a few extremely utilitarian guys, no one wants to spend it in Liaodong anymore.

The news that made Li Xu even happier came from his hometown. The father revealed in a recent letter that because of his good godson, he has been promoted by the clan as a village elder and is qualified to participate in the decision-making of major affairs in the clan. Several main branches of the clan said that he had excellent knowledge, and since he could let his son be appointed as a captain by the current saint, he would definitely be able to lead the whole clan to regain the glory of his ancestors. My uncle's tavern business has gradually improved, at least the officials of the government will not dare to come to the door to extort money. According to my father's letter, a scoundrel in the west of the county town came to the door to pay the debt he owed three years ago, and wept bitterly and begged Uncle Baosheng to be magnanimous and not to be like a thief. After the tavern gradually recovered, some relatives who had not been in contact for many years also began to move around again, especially Zhang Wuwa's father, Zhang Guigui, since he learned that his son went to Li Xujunjun, he suddenly remembered that he also had a younger brother and a younger sister. visited Uncle Baosheng's house several times in succession, and specially put on a carriage to personally come to Li's house to pick up his sister and go back to her parents' house to save relatives. (Note 6)

"This is all thanks to the grace of Tang Gong, and my son must not forget!" In the letter, Lao Li Mao repeatedly told his son. He is a person who has experienced ups and downs, and he knows how to be grateful in his heart. Where the sudden return of family affection originated, the old man could see it more clearly than anyone else.

"My son will live up to the virtue of Tang Gong!" Li Xu assured in a letter to his father. Tang Gong Li Yuan's family is good to him, and the young man knows that he can't live up to the cultivation of others. What's more, now, Wan'er and Shimin are still good friends who can be said to be.

There was a commotion in the distance, drawing Li Xu's eyes away from the surrounding scenery. It was a group of friends in the grain guard army who played bow (polo) on the river beach, and the Li brothers and Liu Hongji were both good players. Since the departure of the expeditionary army, the bored guards have often looked for opportunities to fight on the riverside. This fist-sized rattan ball is more important than the war in Liaodong in the eyes of many people, and many people don't think about it. There were also generals in other armies who privately enjoyed bowing, and His Majesty the Emperor thought that bowing would help the soldiers practice equestrianism and cooperate with each other in battle, so he had always been tolerant of this game. (Note 7)

Twenty riders raced back and forth on the beach, and the scene was very lively. In Li Xu's view, Liu Hongji and Qi Poning's side had a big advantage, and Li Jiancheng knocked the ball out several times, but was intercepted by Liu Hongji diagonally halfway. Whenever Liu Hongji intercepted the ball, he immediately swung his staff to Qi Poning, and the distance between Qi Poning's position and Wang Yuantong was just one blow, so he didn't have to run continuously to hand over the ball to Wang Yuantong. It was Qin Ziying who answered Wang Yuantong, his movements were mainly feminine, and his moves were very ruthless.......

On Li Jiancheng's side, the best rider should be Li Shimin, who has a good vision and a flexible mind that can dispatch everyone. But because of his age, his riding skills and arm strength are not as good as people, so he can't play a lethal role. Therefore, although Li Wan'er was cheering for her brother and younger brother in the stadium, the Li family team still lost three times one after another.

"Zhong Jian, why don't you try it!" Suddenly, Zhang Xiu's voice sounded behind him, startling Li Xu. After a few months of dating, Li Xu discovered that his cousin had the potential to be a scout, he could appear almost anywhere you didn't expect him to appear, and he could do absolutely quietly.

"I won't!" Li Xu shook his head gently. This is a truth, when it comes to horse control, no one in the field can compare to him. But in terms of hitting skills, even Li Wan'er is much higher than him.

"What's so difficult, I'll teach you!" Zhang Xiu did not hesitate to recommend himself, and his eyes were full of surprise when he looked at Li Xu.

"I'm going to go and play by yourself, I don't like it!" Li Xu shook his head and turned to his war horse. He hated Zhang Xiu's surprised gaze, the same gaze he had just comprehended in Li Wan'er's eyes a few days ago. Hearing that he couldn't bow, Li Wan'er's eyes were almost as wide as an egg, as if she had seen a cripple running fast.

This kind of gaze hurt Li Xu very much, as if a thick wall was separating him from Li Wan'er and Li Shimin's sister and brother in an instant. When there are no high walls, everyone can talk and joke like friends. The presence of a wall immediately reminds people of how big the difference in status between them was.

"Only generals are qualified to play, and you don't know it!" Zhang Xiu muttered angrily at Li Xu's back. He didn't understand what kind of anger his cousin was all of a sudden, didn't he just not know how to play, who was born to play. Who can get off the field, I haven't spent July or August on the stick!

He admired his cousin's excellent riding skills, and thought that after his cousin learned a little, he would be able to win a hundred battles after bowing. I forgot that before leaving Yi County, my cousin rode a blue and white mule. How can a person who can't even afford a good horse at home have the leisure and money to play the bow game?

Li Xu ignored Zhang Xiu's complaints and rode slowly to the barracks. All the good mood today was ruined by Zhang Xiu's words, and now he just wants to go back to the tent and sleep with his head covered. But no matter how fast the horse ran, Li Wan'er's shouts outside the court still lingered in her ears.

Li Xu didn't know if he liked Li Wan'er a little, but he knew that he would never be distracted by the second miss of the Li family. The family backgrounds of the two parties are too different from each other, and Wan'er has already had a marriage contract with the Chai family.

Xuzi is still young, and he doesn't know yet, even if there is no damn marriage contract, the two are incompatible. At this time, although he had begun to grow up, he had not grown up enough to understand the things between men and women. Everyone has his own upbringing, like a bird and a fish, and may be curious about each other, but no matter which one walks into the other's world, it will not get the desired ending.

"If I can be a general...... Sometimes, Li Xu thought excitedly. But his dream was soon woken up by himself splashing cold water. is no longer the boy who was full of unrealistic dreams in his head when he was in Yi County, he feels that he has grown up and already knows that there is a gap between people and people who are born with each other. 'Fame but take it right away', this sentence sounds exciting at first glance, but the bloody battle in Liaodong made him know that among the 10,000 children of ordinary families, not necessarily one can live to achieve his dream. And those children of the family, their merits are piled up by the corpses of others.

"Even if she becomes a general, what can she do, I can't guess what she thinks!" Li Xu smiled bitterly and reached out to pat the back of his head. A young dream is a dream, and there is no possibility of it becoming a reality. Li Wan'er may be very good to herself, likes to play with her, and hopes to listen to her own strange stories. But she is just as good to others, in front of Liu Hongji, Wang Yuantong and others, she is like a little sister.

"Perhaps, she came to me just out of curiosity!" Li Xu smiled and comforted himself, his mouth suddenly felt a little bitter, and a sour taste surged from his heart to his eyebrows and to the bottom of his eyes.

"Woo-woo-woo!" A horn suddenly sounded in the four fields, completely interrupting his thoughts. 'Tang Gong will gather to discuss the matter! Li Xu was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized that the sound of the horn came from the grain protection army. This had not happened in a long time, and he slammed the horse's belly into the barracks at a gallop.