In 2012, Li Wenyuan almost cried when he heard these characters coming out of Qiu Niang's mouth, he was only in Datang, he was about to forget what happened before he crossed over, this time he met Qiu Niang, who also crossed over, so that the loneliness that had been deliberately forgotten over the years came to his heart, and he stood aside blankly, and asked Qiu Niang after a long time: "What year did you cross over?" ”

"I can't remember exactly what year, I crossed over to be the original owner of this body during the serious illness, at that time I was already in the Xue Mansion in Longxi, after the illness was a few days before you came, during the recovery period I accepted all the memories in this body." Qiu Niang sat on the side by herself, and said with her hand stroking Qingsi.

"You already knew I was here in time?" Li Wenyuan's brain had stopped thinking.

"At least no one will be running around in the Sui Dynasty in cheap knock-off jeans." Qiu Niang said with a snicker.

"Then why don't you tell me directly, I won't..." Li Wenyuan blushed and remembered his previous training behavior.

"Huh? Isn't this your preference, master~" Qiu Niang got up and left her seat and said in a coquettish voice in Li Wenyuan's ear.

"Ahem." Li Wenyuan hurriedly coughed a few times and pushed away the chair where Qiu Niang was also sitting next to him, wanting to hide his embarrassment, but he didn't know what to say.

Fortunately, at this time, Mother Liu said outside the door: "Master, Master Xue sent someone to look for you." ”

Li Wenyuan was amnesty, so he put on his clothes and fled in the laughter of Qiu Niang's silver bells.

When he arrived at Xue's mansion, Li Wenyuan handed over his name post, and under the guidance of his subordinates, he came to the conference hall, saw Xue Juzheng pacing with a sad face, took two steps and asked, "Brother Xue, what's disturbing?" ”

Xue Ju heard Li Wenyuan's question, withdrew the subordinates on both sides, closed the door and hurriedly took Li Wenyuan's hand and sat on the chair next to him, and whispered, "Brother Xian, do you still remember what you talked about in the restaurant the day before yesterday?" ”

Li Wenyuan nodded, at that time, his disgraceful disclosure of history successfully made Xue Ju look at him differently and achieve his goal.

"The emperor's edict has really come down, and he wants to edict the world's soldiers to meet in Zhuo County." Xue Ju said.

Li Wenyuan suddenly said, yes, this year is the ninth year of the great cause, and he also heard a little bit of overtone: "Big brother is saying, there are still things waiting for me in this Eastern Crusade?" ”

Xue Ju nodded and said: "Last year, the Jincheng garrison went to Liaodong and died on the battlefield, and the thousands of sons and daughters who went with him did not escape back. Xue Ju swallowed his saliva when he said this, groaned for a while and continued:

"This edict has been issued, it is a capital crime not to send troops, this Jincheng is also far away from the emperor of the sky, there are many capable people around me, or simply raise troops against Sui."

"No!" Li Wenyuan hurriedly pressed Xue Ju's hand and said, "It's not yet time for Sui to lose its deer and the world will chase it away." Although there is a faint decline, it does not show it, if the eldest brother wants to gather against Sui, he must not do the kind of thing that Chen Sheng and Wu Guang did, and should follow the example of Han Gaozu and make up for the last kick when the enemy is the weakest. ”

"But if according to what the virtuous brother said, His Majesty has the determination to win this Eastern Crusade, then there will be no eyes in the sword and gun in the continuous battle to the death, and you and my brother will be folded in Goguryeo if they can't keep it, why not give it a go." Xue Ju was also a little anxious.

"Brother Xue, rest assured, there will be people in the gate valve family who can't sit still, and this Eastern Expedition to Goguryeo will be a farce." Li Wenyuan could only hope for the terrifying inertia of history, and gambled, he made a lot of bets on Xue Ju, and there was no chance to bet anymore when he bought and left.

"How many soldiers does the edict want us to send in Jincheng this time?" Li Wenyuan pondered for a while and said.

"Five thousand soldiers, grain and grass are collected on the spot, and after arriving in Zhuo County, grain and grass will be supplied by the ancient city of Liaodong, which was repaired last year." Xue Ju took the edict and handed it to Li Wenyuan and said.

The fine paper, the same seal as the unearthed object, is indeed the official seal of the Great Sui Military Department. As stated in the edict: Donghu Goguryeo, do not respect the power of heaven, offend the Celestial Empire, the emperor wants to cut it down to show heavenly punishment, so the edict of the world soldiers in Zhuo County, Jincheng near Hu, but also the duty of the border, 5,000 soldiers are enough.

Putting down the edict, Li Wenyuan asked Xue Ju how long it would take to send troops, Xue Ju calculated the days a little, and said: "Chidao was just repaired last winter along with the water conservancy, so if the weather is not too abnormal, it will be too late to send troops after the spring rain next month." "Last winter, Li Wenyuan told Xue Ju that if the hungry people were used to build water conservancy roads in winter, there would be enough reasons to help the hungry people, and there would be no need to open official warehouses, killing two birds with one stone.

Li Wenyuan thought about it in his heart, and said to Xue Ju: "Brother Xue, the younger brother said in the wine shop the day before yesterday that if my brother wants to go to Liaodong, I must follow my younger brother. ”

Xue Ju also thought of the strange power brought by Li Wenyuan's archery skills and strange diseases, and nodded at the moment, and said: "The future of this expedition to Goguryeo is uncertain, or you and Qiu Niang will marry first, and I will be the matchmaker." Although Qiu Niang was a slave before, I treated her like a sister. ”

When Li Wenyuan heard Xue Ju say this, he already knew in his heart that the matter of restoring Qiu Niang's free body was exposed, although it was no big deal, but after all, Xue Ju was Qiu Niang's former master, and he would be a little unhappy in his heart, not to mention that he now knew that Qiu Niang was also a traverser, and arranged marriages were absolutely indispensable.

After three years of getting along day and night, he already had a good impression of Qiu Niang, not to mention, the previous incident made him feel itchy in his heart, so he said: "Little brother, thank you brother for his kindness, but the eldest husband is determined to start a family, after starting a family, if this expedition can get an official and a half-job, it is not too late to marry Qiu Niang when he comes back." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Wenyuan regretted it a little, how does this sound like a strange flag, get married after this battle? shook his head, discussed the details of the next dispatch with Xue Ju, and then left and went home.

After leaving the Xue Mansion, Li Wenyuan did not go directly back to his home, but went to the tailor shop where the wolf skin cloak was made before. He accidentally saw that there was a crossbow machine in the workshop in the back room of the counter, so he forced the shopkeeper to ask the shopkeeper, and used his idle position in Jincheng to coerce and lure him to learn that his father was the craftsman of the former dynasty of the ordnance supervisor, and the Sui Dynasty fled to the ordnance superintendent, and opened a tailor shop in Jincheng to make a living. It is only because of the ingenuity and good manpower equipment that the spinning yarn is of good quality and fast speed, and it is gradually bigger in Jincheng.

This time, Li Wenyuan came to the store to find the shopkeeper not to make clothes, but handed the shopkeeper a few pieces of paper, on which was Li Wenyuan's Zhuge crossbow restored by relying on the memory of later generations, the shopkeeper looked at the drawings, and said with some surprise: "This is, Wuhou repeater?" ”

Later generations named Zhuge Lianxuan according to research, but Zhuge Liang was posthumously awarded the title of Zhongwuhou by Liu Chan, so in the mouth of the craftsmen of the Sui Dynasty, Zhuge Lianxuan was called Wuhou Lianxuan to show respect, so the shopkeeper blurted out after understanding the drawings.

Li Wenyuan nodded and asked, "A crossbow, plus twenty arrows, if you can make it, I will be rewarded with a lot of money." ”

"It can be made, in the previous dynasty, my father used to build an improved crossbow from Gu Qin for the forbidden army in the palace, and the process is far more complicated than this, although my craftsmanship is not as good as my father's, I can also make this thing." The shopkeeper hesitated, and said with some worry: "But my lord, it is a capital crime for the people to use a crossbow in the morning, and I can't afford it if the government finds out." ”

Li Wenyuan patted the shopkeeper's shoulder and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper, you don't have to worry about this, since you can hide one crossbow, you can hide another." As he spoke, he inadvertently stuffed another ingot of gold to the shopkeeper, which was obtained from his three years of savings and the sale of the remaining wolf skins to the merchant. After explaining the delivery date of the shopkeeper, Li Wenyuan left the tailor shop.

When I returned home, I just bypassed the entrance and saw Qiu Niang teaching Liu Ma's two little girls to be red, and the three girls were talking and laughing, and people who didn't know the inside story looked like mother and daughter, Li Wenyuan couldn't help but look a little stupid for a while.

It wasn't until Qiu Niang accidentally caught a glimpse of Li Wenyuan standing at the door that she put down the embroidery in her hand and let the two little girls play by themselves first. ”

Li Wenyuan also came back to his senses, holding Qiu Niang's slender jade hand and said with a smile: "I'm looking, why did these nine-day fairies fall in my poor little mansion?" ”

"Master, did you go to Master Xue's mansion and drink honey wine? How can you talk so sweetly to the slave family. ”

This sentence that he was used to hearing on weekdays made Li Wenyuan's heart itch again, and he stabilized his mind at the moment, looked at Qiu Niang's bright eyes like autumn water, and said, "Come with me, I have something important to tell you." Regardless of whether Qiu Niang agreed or not, he pulled Qiu Niang into the house and closed the door with his backhand.

Qiu Niang entered the room, saw Li Wenyuan close the door with his backhand, and didn't know what to close the door to say, she was shocked, could it be that he wanted... No way. In the middle of his thoughts, Li Wenyuan whispered to Qiu Niang: "You and I are both people who have crossed over, I will tell you directly, I don't know how you know about history, what I want to tell you is that I will lead my troops to Liaodong to conquer Goguryeo with Xue Ju before and after the spring rain next month." ”

Hearing Li Wenyuan say that he was going to Liaodong, Qiu Niang nodded and said: "In the ninth year of the Great Cause, Emperor Yang of Sui ordered the world to fight in Liaodong and conquer Goguryeo. ”

Li Wenyuan nodded, "I don't know the good luck and misfortune this time, but I want to keep Xue Ju alive as much as possible, I don't know if you have the ability to defend yourself, but the Hu and Han people live together in this neighborhood, which really makes me feel at ease, next month you send Liu Ma to the tailor shop at the corner of the street to find the shopkeeper, he was originally a craftsman of the former dynasty ordnance supervisor, I have asked him to build a deputy Zhuge crossbow, you should be able to make it." ”

Qiu Niang also nodded, she had heard of the godlike Zhuge crossbow in later generations, but it was not difficult to use, in order to recruit as many crossbowmen as possible, Wuhou had made a lot of improvements in the crossbow, so that women could shoot continuously, and it was also a weapon suitable for her own self-defense.

The next day, Li Wenyuan came to the Jincheng military camp, and took Xue Ju's approval to receive his armor and robes, according to Xue Ju's words, the Great Sui did not lack armor and weapons, but the early selection can avoid falling into the use of rusty old armor, those civilian officials are not familiar with military affairs, and they have always been how to save money and how to come.

After wandering around the warehouse for a long time, Li Wenyuan chose a pair of stainless steel armor, lined with soap robes, and a red tassel on his head.

When he arrived at the martial arts arena, he saw Udrud at a glance, and urged him to talk to him immediately. Uderu is also a Hu person, but he is a righteous Hu of the Great Sui in the south, and he was thrown out of the circle by Li Wenyuan in the wrestling and made friends with Li Wenyuan. As a Hu man, Uderu is a person who can rank in the top five in the whole Jincheng, Li Wenyuan has taken two hours out of his day to learn equestrianism every day for the past three years, but today he came to him to learn some practical equestrianism in the chaotic army.

"On the battlefield, equestrianism is only used to dodge enemy attacks, rely on personal reactions, make use of the various skills I told you before, and the most important thing is that you need a good horse, and the worst is the Hexi horse of the Great Sui." For more than ten years, Udrul's Chinese dialect is very good, and there is no place where the words do not reach the meaning.

After finishing the day's practice, Li Wenyuan suddenly had an idea and asked Uderu: "Do you want to go back to the grassland?" Replace the Ashina clan? ”

Udru was silent for a long time, and then said, "The eagle should soar in the sky, not peck at the rice in the flock." ”

Li Wenyuan patted Uderu on the shoulder and said, "Sooner or later, the eagle will return to the sky, and it will be in the flock just to avoid the hunter's feather arrows. With that, he turned over his horse and went straight to the Jincheng military camp.

Uderu looked at Li Wenyuan in the distance, stood up and stroked the mane of his mount, not knowing what he was thinking.

Li Wenyuan came to the Jincheng military camp, gave the horses to the sergeant who specialized in raising horses, sorted out some loose clothes by himself, and stepped into Xue Ju's camp.

Xue Ju was digging through the accounts, and when he heard someone coming in, he looked up at the tent door, and when he saw that it was Li Wenyuan, he quickly got up and took Li Wenyuan's hand and said: "Brother Xian, this time with the reason for the Eastern Expedition, I asked for more than 5,000 war horses from the county, and the horse keeper is my friend, and he also gave me two Dawan horses, let's take a walk, you and I will take a look together." After that, he pulled Li Wenyuan out of the camp and came to the horse breeding camp. Far away, I heard a loud neighing of horses in the air, and Li Wenyuan, who knew a little bit about the art of horses under the teaching of Udrus, knew that this should be the Dawan horse that Xue Ju said.

When they got closer, there were two tall horses, one red and one white, and there was a person dressed in brocade next to him, and when he saw Xue Ju, he greeted him, and waved his hands: "General Xue, the contemptible people were sent by Lord Liu to send two good horses to the general." ”

After that, he pointed to the white horse and said: "This is a pure-blooded Dawan horse, the horse is three years old, and it is a good time to be a war horse." Then he pointed to another red horse and said, "This is a Shandan horse with the blood of Dawan horses, and the age of the horse is also three years old." ”