This is the ancient city of Liaodong, Li Wenyuan sat on his horse and carefully looked at the newly built Liaodong City in front of him on the ruins of the ancient city. I heard Xue Ju say that this Liaodong city was abandoned in the previous dynasty, and a new Liaodong city was built east of Liaoshui, and later Goguryeo occupied it during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and last year Emperor Yang Guang built a new Liaodong city on this site in order to conquer Goguryeo to hoard grain, grass and military equipment. Affected by the emperor's great achievements, the entire city of Chenggao Chijian can withstand the siege of 200,000 troops if it is properly arranged.

According to the arrangement of local officials, Li Wenyuan and Xue Ju set up a military camp outside Liaodong City, and Xue Ju went out every day to entertain various officials.

As soon as the parade drill was over, Li Wenyuan returned to his tent, and just drank a few sips of hot soup to warm up his body, when he heard some commotion outside, he called the soldiers to ask what was going on.

The soldier said that a group of people had passed outside the camp because his cattle and horses had been killed and injured on the way to carry grain, and he hoped that the government would distribute food as compensation. But now the rice and grain in the entire Liaodong are military food, who dares to put it, so they have to prevaricate that the rice and grain have already been transported into Liaodong City, no, these people went to Liaodong City.

Li Wenyuan was silent for a long time after hearing this, the world died in the service and the family was injured in wealth, this is the sorrow of the troubled times. Suddenly, hearing the noise outside, there was a faint sound of horses neighing, and there seemed to be the wailing of people when they were about to die, so Li Wenyuan walked out of the camp with a bow and arrow.

Climbing the wooden wall around the camp, you can see the official road not far away covered with smoke and dust, and it seems that countless cavalry are running back and forth. Under the pergola with his hands on the pergola, Li Wenyuan was horrified, and those cavalry were chasing and killing the poorly clothed people.

Li Wenyuan called the soldier from before, stretched out his hand and pointed to the civilians who were being slaughtered and asked him, "Those people are the people you are talking about?" ”

The soldier also looked at it, nodded and said, "General Hui, exactly." ”

Li Wenyuan looked at the people who were slaughtered by the cavalry on the official road and had nowhere to escape, and he couldn't take care of it at the moment, and shouted while running down from the camp wall: "The cavalry gather, follow me out of the camp." ”

At this time, Xue Ju had just returned from Zhuo County, and when he saw Li Wenyuan's neat armor and red eyes, he hurriedly grabbed the reins of his horse and said, "What are you going to do, Brother Xian?" ”

Li Wenyuan said: "Big brother, do you see the people being slaughtered on the official road? At that moment, he picked up the important things and told Xue Ju to listen.

After hearing this, Xue Ju waved his hand again and again, pulled Li Wenyuan off the horse, waved his hand behind Li Wenyuan, dispersed the cavalry that had just gathered, and said: "Brother Xian, those people intended to storm the military warehouse, and they were killed by the soldiers guarding the warehouse as a chaotic people. ”

"But those are all people's husbands, they have brought military rations from all over the country, and now the cattle and horses are dead and wounded, how can they return to their hometowns!" Li Wenyuan said eagerly.

"You and I can't interfere in these things, this is Zhuojun, not Jincheng. What's more, His Majesty has already set off from Zhuo County, and he will arrive in Liaodong City in the near future. You have saved these 18,000 people today, but you have ruined the plan, and you have lost the opportunity to save the people of the world in vain! Xue Ju also said a little angrily. This virtuous brother of his own has a far-sighted vision of some things, but he is very impulsive on some issues, and it is necessary for him to explain it well, so as not to suffer losses in this regard when he is alone in the future. At that moment, he dissipated his anger and told Li Wenyuan a lot of secret stories about officialdom, and some things made Li Wenyuan gasp, saying that officialdom is a battlefield where people kill people without seeing blood, and it really deserves its reputation.

After listening to it for a long time, Li Wenyuan also understood that he was not a god, not a saint, and could not save the people of the world, so he could only make a painful choice between killing one person and killing five people. Xue Ju saw that Li Wenyuan had a vague understanding, so he stopped talking, and he also looked at the sky and stopped talking.

The cries on the official road became smaller and smaller, and the sound of the commotion gradually disappeared, and Li Wenyuan gradually loosened his clenched fists and said to Xue Ju: "What the eldest brother said is extremely true, if it weren't for the eldest brother's obstruction, I am afraid that I would have committed the capital crime of harboring the rebellious people, and even implicated the eldest brother's plan." But it is also extremely uncomfortable to watch these people expose their corpses in the wilderness, but keeping them will inevitably disturb the Holy Driver, and please allow me to lead five hundred people to collect their corpses. ”

Xue Ju saw that Li Wenyuan understood what he said, so he nodded. Li Wenyuan took 500 soldiers to open the camp gate and came to the official road, leaving 200 people to dig a huge pit in the wasteland by the roadside, and he took the other 300 people to collect the dead bodies.

At this time, the former cavalry captain stepped forward, stretched out his hand to stop Li Wenyuan and said, "Who are you?" Why do you collect the bodies of these rioters? Are you their comrade? ”

Li Wenyuan was sad in his heart, lamenting the fate of these people, and then he heard the captain ask why he wanted to collect the corpses of the chaotic people, and said angrily: "This colleague, I am not collecting the corpses of these people, but collecting the corpses of you." ”

As soon as the lieutenant heard this, he was about to whip Li Wenyuan, but he heard Li Wenyuan say: "The holy driver has set off from Zhuo County yesterday and came to Liaodong to drive the expedition in person, if Your Majesty is happy, I am afraid that he will arrive in Liaodong City today!" ”

Hearing this, the captain also noticed something, and slowly lowered the hand that raised the whip, only to hear Li Wenyuan continue: "And this official road is the only way from Zhuojun to Liaodong City!" If these corpses are left here, disturbing the Holy Driver, you will be safe and secure! ”

The lieutenant broke out in a cold sweat when he heard this, and he knew in his heart that he was a little reckless in what he did, so he hurriedly arched his hand and said: "What my brother said is very true, this matter is negligent on my part, I still have official business, it is inconvenient to stay for a long time, there is Brother Lao in the aftermath here, I am Luo Yi, the military attache in charge of the military warehouse in Liaodong City, I must come to Liaodong City to sit down if I have the opportunity in the future, I invite you to drink." After that, Luo Yi hurriedly led his troops and horses back to Liaodong City.

Looking at Luo Yi in the distance, Li Wenyuan was silent, no wonder at the end of the Sui Dynasty, whenever there was a peasant uprising, as long as the rebel army broke through the prefecture, county and county government, they would kill the Sui officials first, and there were also those who died, but more of them were cool officials of the fish and the people. Thinking of this, Li Wenyuan really admired the great man of later generations, just one move to encircle the city from the countryside shook the foundation of Zhongzheng's rule, how long can the sky pavilion without the foundation be arrogant?

After burying the people's husband, Li Wenyuan asked his soldiers to sprinkle soil and water on the official road to remove the bloodstains, and he carried a jar of liquor and sprinkled it all in front of the people's joint burial tomb, secretly swearing in his heart that he would kill all the cool officials in the world in the future and return the people to health.

Xue Ju stood on the camp wall, watched Li Wenyuan bury the body of the people, and brought wine to worship the dead, nodded, he loved the people, was kind and kind, and he really didn't see the wrong person.

Li Wenyuan returned to the camp with the soldiers, returned to his camp, and did not come out for a day, and no one was seen. The next day, Li Wenyuan appeared on time on the school field to train the soldiers, and he did not see the unhappiness of yesterday at all, as if nothing had happened yesterday.

Xue Ju returned to the camp early that day and said to Li Wenyuan: "Brother Xian, quickly put on your armor, the holy car is coming, and we will go to the official road to greet you." ”

Thousands of officials and generals gathered on both sides of the official road early, Li Wenyuan and Xue Ju were also mixed in, and the officials were talking to each other, Li Wenyuan also smiled at Xue Ju and said: "Big brother, most of the elites of the Great Sui are gathered here, if the Goguryeo people send a partial division over, they will definitely suffer heavy losses, and if they don't get it right, it will directly lead to the failure of this Eastern Crusade." ”

"Haha, if that's the case, Your Majesty will also recruit more people to lead the army, and the last thing that Dasui lacks is officials." Xue Ju said with a smile.

The Holy Driver has arrived!

With the return of the fast horse, everyone straightened their clothes, stopped talking, and waited solemnly for Yang Guang's holy drive.

Coming, someone whispered, far away has seen Yang Guang's view of the wind hall, this hall is ordered to skillful craftsmen to build a kind of special for patrolling the northwest of the four-storey building similar to the tower with a certain defensive ability, there is a female wall made of solid wood outside, once the female wall is lost, the guards can retreat into the tower, the entire inner tower only has a narrow staircase connecting the various floors, easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is said that some time ago, Yang Guang also showed this exquisite design to the envoys of Fuso, and asked them to go back and tell the so-called Son of Heaven in the country of the rising sun.

Since I saw the Guanfeng Xing Palace, it means that the emperor has arrived, and the welcoming crowds on both sides of the official road have knelt down and touched the ground with their heads, not daring to trespass in the slightest. In front of the road were twelve white horses, all of them well-dressed Xiaoguo forbidden army, followed by hundreds of honor guards, followed by the emperor's chariot, followed by thousands of Xiaoguo troops, bright armor, and extremely powerful.

Li Wenyuan peeked at the building car, he had only heard of this later life, there were only a few records in the history books, where could it compare to the joy of witnessing it at this time, even the most courageous people would be shocked by the majestic momentum of the building car.

Yang Guang's team passed, and everyone got up from the ground and stood up, looked at the team in the distance, dispersed one after another, and returned to their respective places, waiting for the summons of the evening.

In the evening of the same day, Yang Guang feasted all the generals in Liaodong City, during which Yang Guang got up and said: "Generals, Dongyi Goguryeo does not know the power of heaven, does not think of benevolence, and has been bullying all ethnic groups in Liaodong for a long time!" In response to the cry of the tribes in eastern Liaodong, I led 2 million heavenly soldiers to conquer Goguryeo. When the east is leveled, I should discuss the merits and rewards with the generals here. In this crusade, all the generals should perform their duties and act cheaply, and I am waiting for your good news! With that, he drank all the wine in his hand.

During the banquet, the generals hurriedly got up, raised their wine glasses, and said in unison: "Your Majesty Tianwei, the royal drive is personally conquest, this expedition to Goguryeo will definitely be a success!" With that, he also brought in the wine in his own glass. Li Wenyuan also drank all the wine in the cup, and secretly said that he still had to come, and he had to think carefully about how to help Xue Ju and his soldiers retreat.

The next day, the accompanying officials around Yang Guang counted and checked the number of troops in each battalion battalion by battalion, and checked the generals with the troops. Soon it was calculated that a total of 980,000 troops were gathered this time, divided into three provinces, and the armies of Li Wenyuan and Xue Ju were incorporated into the command of Yu Wenshu, the general of Zuo Yiwei, and prepared to cross the Liaoshui and attack the new Liaodong City, which was occupied by Goguryeo for no reason.

The other route was led by Yang Yichen to bypass Liaodong City and cross the Yalu River to Pyongyang, and the last route led by Xue Shixiong to the north to inspect the various departments of Zhenwei and Murwei so that they did not dare to go south to support Goguryeo.

"I'm going to cross the battlefield on the Liaoshui River tomorrow, are you afraid?" Xue Ju asked Li Wenyuan, who was brushing the horse with him.

"It's okay, if you have a wilderness battle with Goguryeo between the white mountains and black waters, you won't have anything to fear, but this Liaodong city is high and strong, and the Goguryeo people are known for their resilience, so I'm afraid they will suffer heavy casualties." Li Wenyuan said with a smile.

"It's okay, everyone in the military department knows that my northwest soldiers have been dealing with the Hu people for a long time, and they are not good at attacking fortifications, so this time our task is to bypass Liaodong City, hunt on the banks of the Yalu water, and attack the grain road of Goguryeo." Xue Ju said.

"That's okay, Goguryeo has always been ruthless to my Sui people, and in this national war, you can make up for it." Li Wenyuan remembered the man who died tragically yesterday, and the evil fire in his heart moved to Goguryeo, which was not a minister, and he also knew that he was a little unreasonable, but someone had to bear the sullenness in his heart.

This is easy to say, in the early years, Emperor Wen promised to reward all the gold, silver and beauties who broke through Pyongyang to the generals and soldiers. If you and I don't bring a few Yi girls back to Jincheng this time, we won't have any capital to brag about. Xue Ju said with a smile.

Li Wenyuan finished brushing the horse, touched the horse's head again, re-saddled the horse, put all the things that could be applied one by one, and returned to the camp with Xue Ju. The reorganization of the army is not a day to complete, the north and east of the two armies have been rectified and pulled, the time has come to the end of April, Yang Guang personally led the middle army to cross the Liaoshui, ordered Yuwenshu to besiege Liaodong City.

The war has begun, and the scouts of the Sui army have dispersed like a swarm of bees collecting honey, and there are dozens of cavalry teams like Xue Ju to rob and kill the grain transport team of the Goguryeo people, among which there is also a building annoying man named Liu Wuzhou, who even agreed with Xue Ju that when he can return to the camp to resume his life, he will discuss the amount of grain and grass seized.

Standing on the bank of Liaoshui, Xue Ju was not in a hurry to run directly in the direction of Yalu Water like other teams, and in his own words: "At the beginning of the war, Goguryeo also needed time to recruit people, mobilize grain and grass, and then transport. We are not far from the Yalu River, and if we walk at a normal pace, we can just intercept the bulk of the Goguryeo army's rations, and the rest of the small numbers are not of much use to the hundreds of thousands of Goguryeo troops in Liaodong. ”

Galloping between the white mountains and black waters, it is really a great joy in life, Li Wenyuan went out and pulled the reins of the horses with him, looked at the children of Longxi who came with him, and his heart was full of pride, and he began to fantasize about the scene of leading tens of thousands of cavalry to attack the enemy formation one day, and burst out the first foul language:

"Fuck it, hurry!"