After more than ten days of rapid marching, Li Wenyuan's army finally came to Loufan County. Lou Fujun went out of the city to greet him, and when he saw Li Wenyuan, he said as if he had seen a relative: "General, you are finally here." Your Majesty has been trapped in Yanmen County for half a month, and my colleagues in Yanmen County told me that the food in Yanmen County can only last for less than a month, and that it should be almost time to run out of oil and run out of lamps at this time. ”

"Yanmen County is now surrounded by Turks, how did this colleague of yours tell you the news?" After Li Wenyuan heard this, he frowned and asked.

"That's right, General. When the Turks were besieging the city, this colleague of mine was ordered to come to my Loufan County to take care of some business. Therefore, he escaped the catastrophe, just because he worked as the chief bookkeeper in Yanmen County, so he was very clear about some grain and other reserves in Yanmen County. Seeing that Li Wenyuan doubted himself, Lou Nu County Shou hurriedly explained.

"Oh, I see. It is only because I am in the midst of the war with the Turks that I must be cautious as the commander of an army, and any carelessness may lead to the total annihilation of the army I lead. Therefore, there are many offenses between words, and I hope that the county keeper will not be worried. ”

"General, what is this talking about? General, you guard the frontier so that I can serve as an official here for some well-being of the people, and we naturally have to cooperate with the general's requirements, where can we talk about offending? We are all colleagues, all of us are doing our part to ensure the perpetuity of the Great Sui. ”

"It's great that the county keeper could think like this. However, the current war is important, so I will not be here to be polite with the county guard, in addition to the lack of grain and grass hoarding in Yanmen County, does the county guard have any other information? If there is, I hope that there will be no concealment and that I will be informed of it, so that I can lift the siege of Yanmen County as soon as possible and welcome His Majesty back to court. ”

"The general forgives me for doing things unfavorably, at this time, except for the news brought to me by my colleague, I really don't have any other information, don't hide it from the general, the county soldiers of my Loufu County are less than 5,000 at this time, and it is not enough to protect myself in the face of the Turkic army, where is the ability to spy on the intelligence of the Turks on the other side?"

Li Wenyuan also knew that Yang Guang's configuration of his army had always been to deploy elite troops on the frontier to guard against the Turks and to deter the Goguryeo. On the contrary, the troops deployed in the interior are some troops with almost no combat effectiveness, and only in this way can the army with the imprint of the Guanlong nobles be as far away from their own capital as possible, so that they can slowly spend themselves in the war with the surrounding nomadic tribes.

This top-heavy arrangement certainly minimized the threat to the royal power of the Guanlong nobles, but it also made Yang Guang's work against the local rebels unsmooth. Just like during this period of time, the rebel armies in various counties in Shandong rose one after another, and the officers and soldiers who were responsible for suppressing bandits there were only tens of thousands of people in Zhang Xutuo's department.

After sending off the county guard, Li Wenyuan returned to his military camp outside the county town. This time, in order to rush to the aid of Yanmen County, Li Wenyuan's loss was really not small. Under the near-devilish training of the Udrus, the riders of the Fourth Legion were able to ride on a par with the most elite Turks. In order to ensure the speed of the rapid march, Li Wenyuan allocated three horses to each soldier, but nearly one-third of the horses died and fell behind during the rapid march of more than 2,000 miles.

You must know that these horses are not those folk horses that are casually pulled by the people and hurriedly go into battle, these horses are all high-grade military horses that have been carefully bred in the Shandan Military Horse Farm. Under Li Wenyuan's generous investment, and some lessons from later generations, after improving the way of horse breeding, each Shandan horse can be said to be worth a thousand gold. Now he has lost nearly one-third of his life before he has even met the enemy, which really makes Li Wenyuan feel painful. However, thinking that he could get the credit of being rescued by a diligent king and fighting for more interests for himself at the political level, Li Wenyuan could only grit his teeth and accept it.

After all, the military horse can be re-cultivated when it is gone, but the credit of this Qinwang to save the driver is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Since ancient times, Chinese people have paid attention to a famous teacher. Even when Li Yuan raised his army, he had to respect Yang Guang, who was thousands of miles away, as the emperor, and set up Yang Guang's heir as the emperor, until he unified the entire Central Plains before he officially deposed the puppet emperor and ascended to the throne himself. Moreover, Li Wenyuan, as a person who has crossed over, has been bombarded with information bombardment by the Americans' set of pretexts for declaring war with democratic characteristics in later affairs, and he attaches more importance to his reputation. If he hadn't taken advantage of this opportunity to increase his political base this time, he would have been no different from those peasant rebels who rose up because they couldn't have enough to eat.

But then again, all of this can only be established on the basis of successfully repelling the siege of the Turks and rescuing Yang Guang from Yanmen County. Once things go wrong and Yang Guang is not rescued from Yanmen County as in history, then Li Wenyuan will really lose all his money. You must know that it is more than 10,000 military horses, not more than 10,000 cattle and sheep.

The night owls and military owls that Li Wenyuan had always relied on the most during the war could only explore the information into a section of the interior of Yanmen County this time, and if they went deeper beyond this distance, they would be powerless to explore. Faced with this situation, Li Wenyuan also had an extremely headache. If Zhang Juntai is here, he will definitely be able to give himself a near-perfect method. But at this time, Zhang Juntai stayed in the Western Regions to guard against the attack of the Western Turks. Now he only has the Fourth Legion by his side, and although the commander of the legion, Uderu, is brave in battle, Uderu is only suitable to be a general, not a wise general.

At this time, the staff of the 4th Army Corps, submitted a report. According to the report, a rough analysis of the approximate distribution of the Turkic forces based on the intelligence provided by the intelligence services can be made, and then a risky attack can be carried out based on this guessed map of the enemy's troop strength. The code name of this risky attack is called Sharp Knife, just like the meaning of this codename, the core idea of this whole attack is to use the Fourth Army Corps brought by Li Wenyuan now as a sharp knife, directly tear through the Turkic defense line around Yanmen County, and fiercely plunge into the base camp of the Eastern Turk Khan under the city of Yanmen County.

(End of chapter)