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"It's okay, when they all cross the river to fight, let's brothers who don't have to go to the battlefield have a good drink!" Liu Hongji nodded and said with a smile.

"Well, I hope that the army will conquer Pyongyang as soon as possible!" Li Xu sincerely wished.

Although he was not optimistic about the outcome of this war, he still hoped that the Great Sui would successfully sweep the Goguryeo Plough Court. It's not for the sake of being able to share some credit, but for the sake of Su Si's words in the Su Si Department back then.

"Would a coward who is unwilling to fight for his own people shed blood for someone else's tribe?" After a long time, Li Xu has forgotten the pain that this sentence has brought to him. In his heart, he agreed with the statement that the Central Plains was his own tribe. Although, this tribe is too big, and the hearts of the tribal elders are not aligned.

As he walked, he thought about his thoughts, and before he knew it, he had walked back to his tent. Just as he was about to push the door, there were suddenly a few annoying "crows" behind him: "Haha, someone is starting to worry." Today I saw two children digging in the sand, digging and digging and digging and digging and ”

There is no need to guess, Li Xu also knows who the person who is speaking. Except for the people of the Yuwen family, no one else has the habit of catching up with people to provoke people. He turned his head and glanced at the other party, Fang wanted to find an excuse and walked away, and listened to Yu Wenshi and continued to say with shame: "The two children desperately buried the corpses, and they didn't see anything to each other. But the corpse is there, in their hearts every day! ”

"Is there anything going on here, Lord Captain?" Li Xu frowned and asked unhappily. Liu Hongji once told him to be as patient as possible. Therefore, no matter how annoying he was, he didn't want to fall out with the people of the Yuwen family directly.

"I came to look for you early, and I saw you go to General Liu's camp. I waited outside for more than two hours before you finally came out! Yu Wenshi knew that he was not welcome, but he still came over and tried to squeeze towards the door of Li Xu's tent.

"Brother Hongji and I are good friends, so naturally we talk more to each other!" Li Xu smiled and replied. "The barracks will start eating soon, and the food that our big-headed soldiers eat, it is estimated that the Captain of the Horse is not used to it!"

"When there is no conflict of interest, anyone can be friends!" Yu Wenshi pushed open the door of Li Xu's tent and sat in.

"The people of the Yuwen family seem to have been beating Zhong Jian's idea recently!" Tang Gong Li Yuan's mansion, the eldest son Jiancheng reported to his father in a low voice. Li Yuan is a very conscientious father, and the children are usually involved in family affairs. In this way, on the one hand, everyone can sit together and feel the warmth of the family, and on the other hand, they can also cultivate the practical ability of several sons to deal with things after encountering them.

It is not easy for the Li family to get to where it is today, and it has taken several generations of hard work to get this result. Among the sons, there must be a successor who is stronger than the father's generation in order to maintain the glory of the Li family forever.

"Brother Zhong Jian is not a person who is easily co-opted, besides, he is so reckless, he may not have noticed that the emperor deliberately lowered his reward!" Without waiting for Li Yuan to speak, Li Wan'er preemptively said. mentioned Li Xu's recklessness, and she remembered a lot of funny behaviors of the other party. This boy with the same surname is different from all the children of the family he knows, sometimes silly, sometimes very likable.

"I'm afraid something happened to Brother Liu. The emperor clearly promoted his father's official, but in fact, he took away the last bit of military power in disguise. If Brother Liu is co-opted......" Li Shimin reminded his father with some worry. Li Xu is just a school captain, about the same age as himself, and his talent is not obvious, even if he is co-opted by the Yuwen family, he will not lose much to the Li family. But Liu Hongji is different, he is highly skilled in martial arts, sleek, and able to convince the public. Once he got into trouble, the Li family's efforts in recent years were lost.

The grain guards are not just a group of boys who eat and wait for death, many big families only care about the military power of the government soldiers, and don't notice the potential value of the boys. Although the family behind them is not huge, the number is as high as 1,200. With the support of 1,200 small and medium-sized families that are rising, the strength of the Li family is enough to improve a lot.

This is the real reason why Li Yuan connived at the grain guards, others can't guess, but Jiancheng and the people of the world will not fail to understand their father's thoughts.

"If the surname Liu doesn't know what to do, I'll kill him with one sword!" Li Yuanji interjected in a daze, attracting a lot of rolling eyes. He looked at his father's face and slipped into his mother's arms.

"Hongji is a person who knows how to advance and retreat, so you don't have to worry that he will betray our Li family." Li Yuan waited for the children to finish before slowly giving his answer. He looked at his two sons who had grown up, and a daughter who was not deeply involved in the world, thought about it, and continued: "Xuzi is a pure-hearted child, and it is estimated that it is useless to repay the kindness and repay the Yuwen family. His future achievements may not be under Hongji, but now he is with our family, but he has delayed his future. ”

"He's a country boy, and the future isn't all from you!" Li Yuanji poked his head out of his mother's arms, shouted, and then quickly retracted his head.

"What do you guys think so?" Li Yuan unexpectedly didn't scold his young son for talking too much, smiled, and asked the other children.

"Our Li family is indeed not thin on him, I think Zhong Jian also knows this in his heart, otherwise he would not frankly admit the relationship with our family in front of the Manchu Dynasty!" Li Jiancheng thought about it and took the lead in answering. He has always tried to treat the other party as a distant relative who came to join the Li family, and after more interactions, he did have a trace of family affection for Li Xu in his heart.

"He is grateful, so he does his best to repay our family." Li Shimin thought for a while and replied. Li Xu will not be co-opted by the Yuwen family, he has never doubted this. But Li Xu is considered a descendant of his own family, and he is also not very sure about this. Although this person is simple on the surface, he has some dead ideas in his heart, and it is difficult for others to persuade him to turn back.

"Brother Liu and Brother Zhong Jian are very talented, and their father helped him, so they have a chance to get ahead. If the father doesn't help them, they may come out on top, but it will definitely take more time! Li Wan'er's view is slightly different from that of her brother and younger brother, and she focuses more on the appreciation of Liu and Li's abilities.

"Neither of them is a cause of man, and if the father does not help them, they will be noticed sooner or later!" Li Yuan nodded and said quietly, "This expedition to Liao, dozens of subject countries followed the army to watch the battle. If he wins, he can also deter those barbarians. If the army is not good, I'm afraid" He sighed and shook his head: "I'm afraid there will be chaos in the world in the future!" ”

"Before the troubled times come, let's help one more person, and we will have one more friend in the future!" His eyes swept over the faces of several children who seemed to understand, and Li Yuan's words were full of worry.

It was torture to talk to the monk, and the man's tongue was like the letter of a poisonous insect, rolling red and fresh in his mouth, and every time he spit out, it was a "deadly" venom. If someone imitated a few more hissing sounds, Li Xu would never suspect that this person was the reincarnation of a thousand-year-old worm spirit, born to find him unpleasant. But he couldn't drive the other party away, and to put it lightly, Lord Yuwen took it as a deaf ear, and said that it was serious, and with the identity of the horse governor, the other party could create countless troubles for the grain protection army.

Facing the handsome face in front of him, Li Xu almost felt hopeless about his life. If he could choose between going to fight on the other side of the Liao River and accompanying Yu Wenshi and chatting, he would now rather go to the other side of the river to fight and die. At least then you will die a more painful death, and you won't have to endure the endless vitriolity of the guy in front of you.

Fortunately, it is impossible for more than a million troops to stay on the west bank of the Liao River all the time. On the first day of March (15th) of the eighth year of the Great Cause (612), His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Sui personally supervised the division and launched a strong attack on the east bank of the Liao River. The vanguard was more than 60,000 people in the vanguard of Zuo Wuwei, Zuo Tunwei and Zuo Yiwei, all of whom were elite soldiers, and there was not a single civilians who were temporarily recruited.

Shangshu Yuwen Kai of the Ministry of Industry was ordered to build a pontoon bridge for the army, and more than 40,000 people jumped into the icy Liao River before the army, carrying swelling livestock urine bubbles tied to their waists. Spring in the north is late, the water of the Liao River is in the spring flood, cold and urgent, half of the incense is not time, there are more than 100 craftsmen who participated in the repair of the bridge were swept away by the river. The others who gritted their teeth and persevered in the water were also frozen by the river and their lips turned purple, and the movements of their hands and feet became less and less powerful.

"Fetch the wine, let the craftsmen take turns to go ashore to rest, and drink two bowls of spirits each before going into the water!" His Majesty the Emperor did not want to be a tyrant, at least as far as he could see, he did not want to see his people frozen to death.

His order was quickly conveyed, and a moment later, Liu Hongji, the newly appointed general of the chariot and cavalry, led the brothers of the grain guard army to place the wine prepared for the celebration of the victory by thousands of altars of the army on the bank of the Liao River. Someone lit a bonfire on the shore and roasted the spirits hot in a clay pot. The craftsmen, whose faces were blue and black, came together, drank wine, roasted the fire, and then went down to the river. Go ashore, bake the fire, drink alcohol......

The pontoon stretched with great difficulty to the opposite bank, and when it was almost in the center of the river, the Goguryeo people on the opposite bank could not sit still. They are not Song Xianggong, and they do not understand the virtue of "benevolence and righteousness" to let the enemy land and fight again. Thousands of heavily armored warriors rushed to the shore and erected a wooden wall with huge shields. Behind the wooden wall, thousands of lightly armored warriors pushed more than 40 ballistae for urban attack and defense, pulled the bowstring with oxen horses, and put the crossbow arrows with the length of the staff on the crossbow bed.

The spring flood of the Liaohe River is urgent, the wind on the water is very strong, and when the distance is long, ordinary bows and arrows cannot cause trouble for the other party at all. Therefore, the coaches of both sides invariably thought of the bed crossbow, a long-distance crossbow battle, which took the lead in kicking off on both sides of the strait.

The sound of the rushing water was soon drowned out by the whistling of the crossbow arrows breaking through the air, and the first man fell into the river, where he was gently swept by the waves, and then disappeared in a circle of red ripples. Then came the second, and then the third, and the craftsmen and the people, who had no weapons other than wood in their hands, had nowhere to dodge and watched as one thick piece of wood flew after another, passing through the bodies of several people at the same time.

The craftsmen and the people were in a mess, trying to escape, but they were surrounded by turbulent water, and when they left the pontoon, they didn't know where they would be washed by the river. He wanted to retreat, but his retreat was blocked by his companions, and at the beginning of the pontoon, hundreds of overseers armed with leather whips and iron rods forced up viciously.