Chapter 16: Brother and Sister Gap
Don't kill? In a foreign country, where is there enough profit if you don't kill people? Just as the herdsmen on the grassland never expect their cattle and sheep to provide their own skin and meat, if they want, they have to get it themselves. Li Wenyuan originally wanted to reject this proposal that was impossible to accept, but then he thought that if he rejected Yuan Gai Suzhen's proposal here, he didn't know what kind of mess he would make. At the moment, he nodded in the surprised eyes of everyone, but he had to send her back to the Sui army camp across the Yalu water first.
Li Wenyuan asked his cavalry to disperse the Goguryeo people and Goguryeo troops in the camp, but Yuangai Suzhen's personal guards refused to leave no matter what. Time was urgent, and Li Wenyuan was not procrastinating, so he directly ordered people to get down the weapons of these people and tie them up. After replenishing the supplies in the camp, he ordered a fire to be lit and burned the camp tent and the rest of the grain and grass. Yuangai Suzhen and his five female guards were tied with their hands tied, and they followed Li Wenyuan's cavalry team to continue walking towards the Yalu River in the northwest.
With a snap, a delicate teacup was shattered by Yuangai Suwen.
"You said my sister's team carrying grain is missing?" Yuangai Suwen said angrily.
"Yes, the big marshal, the grain transport team has horses and cattle, and it only takes more than ten days to get here from Pyongyang City, and now it has been nearly a month, and no team has seen the grain transport team." Said a lieutenant general.
"Plus send scouts to the south to find the traces of my sister, who found the third level of official promotion, and the bounty is 1,000 taels." Yuangai Suwen's face sank like water.
In the evening of the same day, 5,000 scouts went to the southeast peninsula to search for the traces of Yuangai Suzhen, but no one found that hundreds of cavalry had crossed the river not far upstream of the camp.
Xue Ju is hiding his whereabouts in the forest west of Yuangai Suwen's camp, and at the same time staring at the movements of Yuangai Suwen's army, as long as Yuangai Suwen leads the troops to Liaodong City, he will follow the order and lead all the troops to kill Yuangai Suwen, so as to delay the Liaodong army.
At this time, he saw Li Wenyuan coming back with his cavalry and a few women, so he asked curiously: "Brother Wenyuan, who are these people?" ”
"This is Yuangai Suzhen, the sister of Yuangai Suwen, these five people are her personal guards, because they refused to leave because of their loyalty, I took them back together." Li Wenyuan said.
"General Xue Ju is really majestic now, my young lady wants me to thank the general for saving his life." Without waiting for Xue Ju to speak, one of the female guards said to Xue Ju in fluent Chinese.
Xue Ju returned the salute, asked his subordinates to take these people into a larger tent, and told Xue Ju about these people.
At that time, Xue Ju had just inherited his father's title and became the captain of Jincheng, and according to common sense, he wanted to go to Beijing to report on his work and accept the reward from the imperial court. During that period, the rogues had not yet been cleared, and Yuangai Suzhen was captured by a group of thieves while enjoying spring outside the city. Xue Ju was young and vigorous at that time, and he followed with more than a dozen guards to kill the cottage and rescued Yuangai Suzhen, who was almost accepted by the King of the Mountain as the wife of the village.
Li Wenyuan smiled when he heard this, and said to Xue Ju: "I didn't expect you to have such an anecdote as Brother Xue. This beauty thinks of heroes, compared to that time, Brother Xue already had a family. ”
When Xue Ju heard Li Wenyuan's words, he hit what he thought in his heart, and his old face turned red, and he said with a smile: "Yes, my father held a wedding before I entered Beijing in order to further the relationship with his old friend. ”
The two fell asleep after chatting, and in the blink of an eye, it was already the next day. Xue Ju said to Li Wenyuan: "Originally, I was still anxious about how to use the 5,000 people in my hands to drag down the 200,000 Goguryeo army, but this time I have a way in my heart. ”
Li Wenyuan realized: "Big brother is talking about Yuangai Suzhen?" ”
"Exactly, I heard from the Sui merchants on the Goguryeo side that although Na Yuan Gai Suwen has some experience in marching and fighting, he can't escape the contenders of the rich children. If he asked his sister to persuade him to withdraw from the army, it would be the best, the arrogant Yuangai Suwen would definitely not withdraw the army, but his own sister helped the Sui Dynasty to oppose him, then his mood would inevitably be chaotic, and he would make a faint move when his heart was disturbed. Xue Ju said that he deliberately did not continue to say this.
"When the time comes, we will concentrate our forces to attack his Chinese army camp, so that he can't command all the army to encircle us, and these hundreds of miles are our battlefields." Li Wenyuan said without thinking.
Xue Ju nodded, and after the two of them had breakfast, they found someone to find Yuangai Suzhen, and Li Wenyuan said to Yuangai Suzhen: "You don't want to see Goguryeo people killed or injured, right?" ”
"That's right, so I can't understand why your emperor organized such two crusades that cost people and money." Yuangai Suzhen told the truth.
"Okay, I'll tell you. Your father, Yuan Taizuo, sent several envoys to contact the Eastern Turks, intending to join forces to go south to seize the counties north of the Yellow River in the Great Sui. How much will my Huaxia boy die at that time? You won't have much sadness at that time, and you'll just say that you shouldn't have so many dead and wounded. But these Chinese people, like you Goguryeo people, are living people with families. Li Wenyuan said it in one mouth, and the historical research came out, but it was still a top secret at this time.
After listening to Li Wenyuan's words, Yuan Gai Suzhen was stunned on the spot. She did know that her father often went to the Turks, and she had asked her father curiously, but her father only said that he had a good relationship with the Turkic Khan, so as not to be able to move back and forth.
"If you don't believe me, today I will take you to your brother's camp nearby, and you can ask him personally. If not, you come back and cut off my Li Wenyuan's head to receive a reward for your brother, if so, then how about you persuade him to withdraw from the army? Li Wenyuan said as he spoke, but he felt like a strange man who was inducing a little girl to do bad things.
Yuangai Suzhen nodded in agreement, then took his weapon, got dressed neatly, turned on his horse, and took five female guards to the outside of Yuangai Suwen's camp accompanied by Li Wenyuan. Someone had already informed Yuangai Suwen, and Yuangai Suwen hurriedly led his troops out to meet his brother and sister.
Yuangai Suzhen urged him to step forward immediately and didn't give Yuangai Suwen a chance to ask questions, and directly opened his mouth and asked, "Brother, let me ask you, what is my father going to the Turks several times for?" ”
"Didn't my father say that he had a relationship with the Turkic Khan...", Yuangai Suzhen interrupted his brother impatiently.
"Is my father going to contact the Turks to invade the Great Sui in the south?" Yuangai Su Zhenliu's eyebrows were upside down, a little angry.
"Little sister, don't forget, you are from Goguryeo! Don't forget your duty because of those years of life in the Central Plains! Yuangai Suwen also said a little angrily.
Yuangai Suzhen looked at his brother with angry eyes, and his heart was also cold, and he said to him: "You are so obsessed and go back to kill our Goguryeo!" ”
Yuangai Suwen could hear that she was accusing herself as soon as she opened her mouth, and she was still so worried about her, and she said angrily at the moment: "You get out, go to the Great Sui and be your Han with peace of mind, there is no one like you in Fuyu." After that, he collected his troops and returned to the camp, leaving Yuangai Suzhen to stand in a distracted position for a long time before returning to Xue Ju's headquarters under Li Wenyuan's persuasion.