Chapter Twenty-Four: Leading the Troops to the King
After Li Wenyuan led his headquarters across the Yalu River, he set fire to the large ship transporting troops. Xue Ju asked Li Wenyuan what his next plan was, whether to go back to Jincheng with him to train the newly obtained tens of thousands of troops or what to do?
Li Wenyuan smiled and said to Xue Ju: "Big brother, don't worry, the Qiu Niang at home is still waiting for me to go back, and Juntai and I will take more than a thousand cavalry to meet Yang Xuangan for a while, and enter the king of Jingqin." ”
Xue Ju saw that Li Wenyuan already had a plan, so he didn't say more, but only said a word of cherishment and led the troops back to Jincheng. Li Wenyuan sent Xue Ju away, then turned around and asked Zhang Juntai thoughtlessly: "Juntai, when did you find out my identity?" ”
Zhang Juntai paused for a moment, and then said with a smile: "This is simple, this expedition to Goguryeo did not recruit the local Liupin generals to come. ”
Li Wenyuan laughed after hearing this, and said: "Juntai, you really didn't join the army for your father, you called yourself a general before, just to collect the rout, after all, fighting in a foreign country is life, and dividing is death." Then he said to Zhang Juntai: "Juntai, now that you know that I am not a general, just call me Wen Yuan, what are you going to do next?" ”
Zhang Juntai arched his hand with a smile and said, "Wen Yuan? It's better to call the general smoothly, let's call you a general, there are countless generals under Wang Bo in Shandong. No matter what the reason is, the general's courage to lead his troops to personally stop the Goguryeo army is admirable, and I respect the general's righteousness and am willing to stay in front of the general's horse to serve. ”
Li Wenyuan smiled and stopped talking, and commanded the soldiers and horses to advance along Zhuojun towards Xingyang. When Li Wenyuan was on the road, he racked his brains thinking about Zhang Juntai's life experience, and it was impossible for any dynasty founder to let the martial arts of the previous dynasty continue to take charge of the army. Unless, unless it's a character that can't be removed directly. So according to what he himself said, the people who are the former Chen, and those who can't be removed, can they be said to be royal figures?
No, if the royal figure is sealed in the capital and it is easy to supervise, and he can show his open-mindedness, why continue to entrust military power? Li Wenyuan was puzzled, so he didn't bother thinking anymore, and began to think about his next actions. King Qin must be, but he can't fight to the death with Yang Xuangan.
If Yang Xuangan, who had just raised troops in Liyang, there was nothing to fear, and Yang Guang was almost exhausted in Shandong, a populous county drawn in order to conquer Goguryeo. When Yang Xuangan raised his troops, he drew 5,000 young and strong people from Liyang County to fill the army, and then drew 3,000 sailors from the Cao transport fleet, and then drew troops from the surrounding counties and counties, and finally barely managed to gather enough 10,000 people.
Moreover, most of the military equipment in the treasury was transported to Liaodong, and Yang Xuangan gathered more than 10,000 people but did not have enough armor and weapons. At that time, each soldier had only a single sword, a wicker shield, no bows and arrows, and only a small number of them had armor.
However, with the text sent by Yang Xuangan after raising the army, all the counties and counties responded positively on the way to Luoyang, especially Yang Xuangan's sentence: "As a Shangzhu country, my family has a lot of money, and now I am breaking the family, and I am really the one who hangs upside down in the world." It also attracted the response of countless officials who still had a little conscience in their hearts.
Now Yang Xuangan is about to force Luoyang, and all the ordnance and materials in the county treasury along the way have been obtained by Yang Xuangan's army.
Because Li Wenyuan's troops were all cavalry, they had to drive much faster than Yang Guang's car, and finally met Yang Guang's car in Wei County. Yang Guang was discussing with Nayan Su Wei in the car of Guanfeng Building how to solve Yang Xuangan's rebellion: "Su Xiang, Yang Su, the Duke of Chu, said before his death that this Xuangan is a smart child, what should be done with this chaos?" ”
Su Wei said half-comfortingly and half-truthfully: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I used to see this little child in the Duke Mansion of Chu State, Yang Su once said that this child is wise and foolish, but in my opinion, he is actually stupid on the outside and stupid on the inside, more than clever, and slightly less bold, so there is no need to worry." ”
At this time, someone came to report: "Your Majesty, a team of cavalry has come from the rear, claiming to be the king of Qin from Liaodong." ”
Yang Guang frowned when he heard this, Liaodong left a million troops to evacuate first, and it was more or less unpleasant to say it. Originally, it was expected that the Goguryeo army would annihilate all the armies without the main general, but at this time, there was a group of cavalry claiming to be from Liaodong, and they were quite unhappy in their hearts.
Su Wei has been with the king for decades, where can he not understand the holy will, so he asked: "Which army is it, and who is the commander?" ”
"Back to Su Xiang, the general of that team called himself Li Wenyuan, who originally came to Liaodong with the Jincheng soldiers, and then returned to the eastern capital on the order of General Yuwen." The servant replied truthfully.
When Su Wei heard Li Wenyuan's words, he smiled and said, "It turned out to be this person." ”
Yang Guang seemed to know this person when he heard Su Wei speak, so he asked, "Su Xiang knows this person?" "After all, Su Wei is an old minister, and he still has to give face, not to mention that he has heard that there are countless troops in Liaodong, and it is also commendable to have an army withdrawn from Liaodong to directly ask King Qin to quell the chaos.
Su Wei saw that Yang Guang asked, so he said, "Your Majesty, this old minister only heard about it two days ago. This person is a partial general in the army of Xue Jujun, the captain of Jincheng, and the reinforcements of Suwen in two stations in Liaodong. Especially in the end, he led a lone army to defend the mouth of Dijin and saved the lives of countless people, which reached the ears of the old ministers. ”
Yang Guang frowned and thought about it, Luo Yi of Liaodong County did mention it in the song a few days ago, and he didn't pay much attention to it when it was all an anecdote, but when he heard that the deity had arrived, he was also curious at the moment, so he said: "Don't stop driving, Su Xiang went to call this person to see me." As for the accompanying cavalry, they followed behind my chariot and entertained me, and these people were all heroes of the Great Sui. ”
Su Wei received the order, got out of the Guanfeng Lou car, got on a horse with the support of his subordinates, and walked to the back of the team to find Li Wenyuan. Without the emperor's order, any army must stay half a mile away from the car, otherwise it will be regarded as an assassination, and the Imperial Forest Army can directly kill people without any responsibility.
Su Wei came to Li Wenyuan's team under the command of the Imperial Forest Army and asked, "Which one is General Li Wenyuan?" ”
Where is Li Wenyuan a general, who previously claimed to be the general of Zhengxi and was recognized by Zhang Juntai, and this time he was called by the person who drove in front of the emperor, and his heart tightened, but he still stepped forward and said: "I am Li Wenyuan, who are you this old gentleman?" ”
Seeing that he didn't know himself, Su Wei thought of the person in front of him who lived on the border of Longxi and had never entered the Central Plains, so he simply didn't get angry and said: "General Li, the contemptible person is the emperor who accepted Su Wei before driving." ”
Li Wenyuan heard that the person in front of him with white hair and beard called himself Su Wei, and hurriedly clasped his fists with both hands, and said with a deep salute: "Ah, it turned out to be Su Lao Xiangguo, the kid is unreasonable, Su Lao is not strange." ”