Luo Shixin waited until the end of the military meeting before asking his brother, "Fifth brother, do you really want to guard Xuansu City here?" ”

Luo Cheng said with a smile, "The original plan was not to have this, but the plan didn't catch up with the changes." The most important thing in leading troops to fight a war is not to stick to the plan, but to judge the situation and seize the situation according to the changes in the situation. I didn't expect to be able to take Xuansu City before, so the original plan was to besiege the city and send reinforcements. ”

"It's fake to attack Xuansu, it's true to fight a few ambushes, do one or two votes, and then let's withdraw and fight guerrillas with the Goguryeo. But now that Xuansu City has been defeated, we have no casualties, and we have obtained a large amount of grain, grass and ordnance, so there is no need to run again. ”

Ambush and defend the city.

It was freezing on this day, and even if there was a sled and a plow, it would not be able to survive in the wild for a long time. This kind of season is actually a great bonus for the defenders.

Instead of laboriously going to maneuver guerrillas, it is better to wait for the rabbit.

Luo Shixin said worriedly, "But Fifth Brother, didn't you always say that we should avoid tough battles before?" ”

"This time, that time. We have to avoid fighting a tough battle, because if we fight a tough battle, we will definitely suffer a lot of casualties. But now that we're not ordered to cross the river, in that case, we must choose a more advantageous way. Don't worry, let's defend the city and fight, don't be afraid. ”

"What if the Goguryeo army comes to surround it?" Shixin was still worried, "Didn't you say before that on the front line of the Liao River, the Goguryeo people have enough 150,000 troops, and they can mobilize twice the number of reserve replenishments at any time." ”

Luo Cheng patted Shixin on the shoulder, "Little Liu, it's true that the Goguryeo people have 150,000 people on the front line of the Liao River, but in the previous battle of Wu Liluo, we have annihilated 13,000 of them, and this time we have destroyed another 500." They don't have 150,000 left, only 136,005 left. ”

"Besides, these more than 130,000 people are still scattered among the more than 200 large and small mountain cities scattered on the thousand-mile defense line of the Liaohe River. It is impossible for all the Goguryeo people to surround us, at most the Goguryeo people in the Xincheng area will come to surround us, and I estimate that they can send 30,000 or 20,000 soldiers and horses, as little as 20,000, and no more than 50,000. ”

For Luo Cheng, he now has 20,000 battle auxiliaries without any casualties, and he is guarding a city with sufficient weapons and food, and you have 20,000 or 30,000 people, don't you look down on him. Even if there are fifty or sixty thousand, Luo Cheng is completely confident that he will hold on.

Instead of running around in the snow every day, how can you wait for work and wait for the rabbit to be cool.

Attacking and defending is so domineering.

The side defending the city, in such a cold winter season, can completely defeat five enemies with one, or even seven enemies against ten.

Luo Shixin sighed, he and Luo Chengdao, the six hundred brothers they brought from Zhangqiu before, now more than 100 have been killed in battle.

"I know that every brother who has died in battle, I have it in my heart. I have written to my eldest brother-in-law and fourth brother-in-law, asking them to find suitable young men for us to adopt in Qi County and to be the stepson of those fallen brethren. I guarantee that every person who died in battle will have a successor. ”

The eldest brother-in-law wrote to him saying that he had adopted 300 teenagers for them, set up a Yizi Camp, also known as the Changbai Orphan Camp, and now taught them martial arts every day, and invited scholars to teach them to read and write. Rest assured, there are successors to the brothers who died in battle, and all of us will have successors. ”

The old brothers of Zhang Qiu are fighting less and less, but Luo Cheng's team is getting bigger and bigger.

There were 600 people at the beginning, but now there are 20,000 horses under his command, as well as 1,000 county soldiers and 2,000 township soldiers under his command. As long as he Luo Cheng does not die, then when this expedition to Liao is over, he will have enough capital.

Even if it is Yu Wenhua and such a guy, he has a bit of capital that is not afraid.

Presumably at this time, Yu Wenhua also knew that he had taken Xuansu City, and he probably regretted it in his heart, this opportunity, but it was he Yu Wenhua who helped him get it, and he had to thank him.

"Fifth brother, if you guard Xuansu City, then our heavy cavalry battalion won't have a chance to play."

Luo Cheng knocked Xiao Liu on a popping millet, "It's not really just a matter of shrinking in the city to defend Xuansu City, do you know what a real city defense battle looks like?" It has to be a three-dimensional defense, and you can't just shrink in the city, otherwise you will be passively beaten. Therefore, I will set up a few fortresses and camps on the periphery of Xuansu City, and station a few troops and horses to help defend Xuansu City. ”

Dividing troops out of the city to defend seems to be wrong, but in fact, this is the art of war that every general who has actual combat understands, which is the same as not blocking the city gate when defending the city.

"Fifth brother, then I'm going to go out of the city."

"Don't worry, I've already had this arrangement."

Luo Cheng's arrangement is to build a camp in the southeast and northeast directions of Xuansu City, which is a few miles away from Xuansu City to camp, and chooses a hill similar to Xuansu City, although these two places are not dangerous, but they are also two manors, which have wells and living water.

Each place was garrisoned, a cavalry regiment and an infantry regiment.

Because the northeast is a new city, Luo Cheng deliberately arranged Luo Shixin here.

"The front carriage will be led by Luo Siye to lead the front carriage headquarters, as well as the heavy cavalry group Luo Shixin, stationed in the Sifangtai camp."

"The rear carriage will be led by Qi Guoyuan to the rear compartment headquarters, as well as the captain Chi Liang of the heavy cavalry regiment, and stationed in the Shiligang camp."

There are more than 3,000 soldiers in each of the two places, 2,000 auxiliary soldiers, and 1,000 county soldiers and townsmen.

And Luo Chengqin led 6,000 Zhongxiang headquarters, 4,000 auxiliary soldiers, and thousands of people to guard Xuansu City.

Shixin's heavy cavalry battalion Luo Cheng was upgraded to a heavy cavalry regiment, and with spare equipment, it was expanded to 300 heavy cavalry. Three hundred horsemen, each of the three places stationed a hundred horsemen.

Regarding Luo Cheng's arrangement, the generals and colonels had no objections to the military discussion.

For everyone, although the next battle is to defend the city, no one wants to defend passively, and they all want to actively defend. To defend actively, of course, you must maintain the ability to attack.

One city and two villages, distributed in the shape of a product, watch and help each other, and can support each other.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Goguryeo people had not yet reacted, the vanguard army attacked in several directions, and every day they swept around the villages and manors on the outskirts of Xuansu City, and a large number of people were driven into the city every day.

For those who were Han people in the past, or Han people, Luo Cheng showed preferential treatment, after they entered the city, their personal property was guaranteed, and Wu Sanbao was registered on behalf of the county order, and they also implemented joint defense to protect armor and arrange their residence.

As for the other Hu people of the Khitan tribe, the Jin tribe, and the Goguryeo tribe, the treatment is almost bad. They were also registered, and they were also given a system of protecting their arm, and they were also segregated, all their weapons were confiscated, and their livestock and grain were temporarily registered and collected. Moreover, outside the place where they lived, there was also a fully armed Sui army guarding it, and whoever dared to make trouble would be cut first and then played.

After a few more days, the population and livestock outside the city had almost been harvested, and Luo Cheng asked these new Great Sui people who had been trained for a few days to be dragged outside the city to build fortifications.

If you don't work, you have no food to eat, and only when you work can you have food. If you do it poorly, you can't eat enough, and if you do it well, you can eat well.

Wei Zheng is now the foreman of the big fortifications outside the city, and he runs around with a group of scribes every day.

Seeing that the days passed, the periphery of Xuansu was already a scorched earth.

The fortifications of the three camps were also more and more complete, but the Goguryeo people never appeared.

It's already the Shangyuan Festival, and the barracks have already cooked Lantern Festival to eat, and they still haven't seen Goguryeo.

The Goguryeo never appeared, but the scout camp light cavalry arrived with a group of angels from the palace in Zhuogun.