The rout is blind, like a mad bull that cannot be dealt with by conventional methods, Li Wenyuan knows this very well, but he has no choice but to harden his heart and organize his three thousand cavalry to prepare the sharp blades in their hands and prepare to collect these routs.

Li Wenyuan ordered his subordinates to erect the Sui character flag, and then erected the Li character flag, Li Wenyuan selected a hundred people with loud voices, and shouted in unison at the rout: "The rout army stops, and those who rush into battle are killed!" ”

The hundreds of people who led the way were obviously soldiers, and at this time, in order to survive, they didn't care what Li Wenyuan's cavalry said, they just buried their heads and pushed away the cavalry and were about to climb onto the big ship moored on the shore. The cavalry, who had received Li Wenyuan's order in advance, did not hesitate, and directly cut off the head of the soldier with a wave of his saber, and the splash of blood sprayed the faces of several people behind him, and the few people behind him sobered up a lot, stopped the movements in their hands, and knelt on the ground to beg for mercy.

Li Wenyuan saw that although the armor of this group of defeated troops was scattered, the armor and weapons were still there, so he said to them: "Everyone, which officer came out to speak?" ”

A sturdy man with a scar on his cheek said, "Reply, I'm the commander of this team. ”

Li Wenyuan saw that there was still someone leading the team, so he nodded, this person was still affectionate and righteous, and he didn't run away alone. Then he flashed the general talisman to that person, and said: "I am the general of the expedition to the west personally appointed by His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Sui, and I was ordered by the emperor to receive the withdrawal of the army here. You need to know about this matter, and then you can sign up for an official position. ”

The commander heard that Li Wenyuan claimed to be the general of the expedition to the west, and he had a general's waist card, and he didn't dare to come close to confirm whether it was a real waist card, so he knelt down directly and said: "Make amends to the general, the villain is a thousand commanders under General Yuwen's account, surnamed Zhang's name is Juntai, just because there is this scar on my face that fell when I conquered Goguryeo the year before, and my subordinates jokingly call me a scar." ”

Li Wenyuan nodded and asked some other small details, only to know that the team of people led by this person was almost the entire team, except for the more than 100 people who died due to the epidemic caused by the unadaptation of water and soil, the rest were here, so he told Zhang Juntai: "It's okay if you evacuate slowly, but if you run like running for your life, the Goguryeo people will definitely chase them out, and how many people will survive under the pursuit?" ”

Seeing that Zhang Juntai bowed his head and was silent, Li Wenyuan looked around again and saw that the other soldiers were also bowing their heads, and then continued to say to him: "Give you a chance to atone for your crimes, now you will be promoted to partial general, and the soldiers under him will be promoted to captain, and the commander will be promoted to centurion, and so on, all of them will be promoted to one level, collect the rout, and set up a position in front of this ferry to prepare to meet his brothers across the river and resist the pursuing troops of Goguryeo." ”

Zhang Juntai nodded, and went to convey Li Wenyuan's order to his subordinates, and soon a group of routs came, Zhang Juntai saw the leader of the leader, and said to Li Wenyuan: "General, this person is the commander of the camp next door to me, and he is a serious veteran soldier, who will retreat in battle, and he is useless, but there are many good soldiers under him." ”

Li Wenyuan nodded, and shouted in advance, but this time it was no longer more than a hundred people but more than a thousand people shouting together, coupled with Rulin's spear, the deterrent power is not comparable, and this time the people who did not rush into the battle stopped under the scolding of the leading veteran soldier.

Li Wenyuan said to him: "I have been secretly ordered by the emperor to guard the ferry here, and the troops will be recruited on the spot. ”

When the soldier heard Li Wenyuan say that he wanted to recruit soldiers on the spot, he understood that he had to choose people from himself, so he said: "The general has His Majesty's secret order, and the villain should fully cooperate, and these brothers of mine can be chosen at will." ”

Li Wenyuan heard that person count himself outside the recruiting crowd when he heard a sentence, and he didn't think it was funny, this person was really a veteran soldier who had been in the army for a long time, but he didn't have the intention of recruiting him, so he asked Zhang Juntai to select more than 1,000 elite soldiers and incorporate them into Zhang Juntai's team. He also left all the equipment that the soldier had brought with him, and kept them as a backup.

The big boat was driven by the Jiangnan soldiers, carrying more than 1,000 people across the river, Li Wenyuan had an idea, and arranged for a Jincheng soldier to cross the river together and told Xue Juduo to collect the cart and transport the armor and weapons back to Jincheng. Li Wenyuan watched Zhang Juntai organize the training of the troops, so that the commander who led the troops and the soldiers became familiar with each other, and secretly praised in his heart how Zhang Juntai fought and did not know yet, but this training really has a set, it was originally a rout, and now there is already some orderly advance and retreat between the formation changes, and there is also a sense of winning over in his heart.

So Li Wenyuan seized a loophole, called Zhang Juntai and said, "Juntai, where are you from?" ”

Zhang Juntai sat on a horse sent by Li Wenyuan, and after communicating with Li Wenyuan, he found that Li Wenyuan did not have any shackles, but was very close to each other, and did not have the alienation of ordinary generals, so he smiled and said: "General, I am from Fufeng County." ”

"Seeing that you have a very good set of military training, it is better to serve under my account in the future, and I will send someone to your hometown to bring your parents, wife and children to live in Jincheng." Li Wenyuan said sincerely.

"It's an honor to be able to play in front of the general's horse. My parents are long gone, and because I want to serve in the army for my husband, I haven't said that I can marry a wife. Zhang Juntai said.

Li Wenyuan listened curiously, he had heard that Hua Mulan joined the army for his father, wouldn't this Zhang Juntai join the army for his father also be a daughter, right? Thinking of this, I couldn't help but look at Zhang Juntai a few times.

Zhang Juntai saw that Li Wenyuan did not speak, so he went on to say that his father was a thousand-commander of the former Chen, and after Chen was destroyed, he was still appointed as a thousand-commander to guard Lingnan. Later, his father was too old to come to Liaodong, which was thousands of miles away, to lead the troops to fight, so he took over his father's position in accordance with the Sui law and led his troops to participate in the last expedition to Goguryeo. Served in the Laihu'er army, and later Laihu'er's army was defeated, and his team under the leadership of Zhou Fashang repelled the Goguryeo pursuers, ensuring the safety of the Laihu'er army. The method of training the troops was learned from General Zhou Fashang and General Lai Hu'er.

Li Wenyuan nodded, knowing in his heart that this Zhang Juntai's life experience was definitely not as simple as he said, but he didn't want to break it, so he said to Zhang Juntai: "Don't worry, there will definitely be no heroes and useless places in me." ”

Zhang Juntai nodded at Li Wenyuan, and immediately returned to the ranks to continue to supervise the training. In addition to Zhang Juntai's team of 10,000 people, the other four teams of 10,000 people, including Li Wenyuan himself led a team of 10,000 people, were all expanded from the Jincheng soldiers, and in order to facilitate command, they were temporarily organized into five teams of A, B, C, D, and Wu, Team A was led by Li Wenyuan, Team B was led by Zhang Juntai, and the rest were led by the three commanders of the 3,000 Jincheng soldiers who remained.