"I think you've been a little restless lately? Why? ”

Mo Chenyi, the Taishou Hou of Xincheng who came from Xincheng, asked Luo Cheng puzzled, in his opinion, Luo Cheng was only twenty-one years old and had just become a Ding, and now he is already a young upstart, and he has added two sons and a daughter this year, which should be a spring breeze.

"Brother Hou Mo Chen, what do you think of the situation today?"

"It's a bit messy, but it's okay." Hou Mo Chen said.

Hou Mochen is a Xianbei person, one of the Eight Pillars of the Western Wei Dynasty was Hou Mo Chen Chong, and even Yuwentai was able to become the lord of Guanlong back then, in fact, it was also because of another Hou Mochen. At that time, Hou Mo Chen Yue was provoked by Gao Huan to kill He Bayue, who was guarding Guanlong at that time, which made Yuwentai the new leader of Guanlong Group.

Hou Mochen is another branch of the Xianbei Tuoba clan, as a veteran Guanlong nobleman, Hou Mochen Yi feels that the current environment is still good, at least much better than when Zhou Qi was opposed.

But Luo Cheng doesn't see it that way.

"The Central Plains has been in turmoil, not only the rebellion of top nobles like Yang Xuangan, but also the rebellion of local heroes like Liu Yuanjin, not to mention the rebellion of countless Shengdou small people for a mouthful of food, and now the Central Plains is full of flames. As far as I know, His Majesty issued a mobilization order for the three expeditions before, ordering all the soldiers and horses to assemble, but now the government soldiers from all over the country are vying to escape, originally to recruit 400,000 government soldiers to assemble in Zhuo County, but it is said that now even 100,000 people have not been assembled, and countless people are fleeing. ”

"In order to avoid the service of Liaodong, many people even cut off their hands and feet, and they also called the broken hands and feet as blessed hands and feet, you can imagine how afraid the people are to escape from this expedition."

The government soldiers did not want to enter Liao to fight, and the people were willing to serve in the Eastern Expedition.

400,000 people were enlisted, but in a few months, less than 100,000 people were gathered.

The situation is very unoptimistic, which shows that the Sui Empire, which is powerful on the outside, has no longer been able to execute, and the prestige of the imperial court is no longer good.

When the regime can't even enforce the decrees, the regime is about to end.

And although Luo Cheng is now the commander of the soldiers and horses of the six counties of Liaodong, in fact, Liaodong is now completely unable to provide for itself, and all of them have to rely on blood transfusion from the Central Plains for supply, not only are the soldiers stationed in the Central Plains all the government soldiers recruited by the Central Plains, but even the grain and grass must be transported from the Central Plains.

They are lonely and out of the pass, once the Central Plains cut off the supply, these 100,000 soldiers and horses will have to be finished.

Food can't be self-sufficient, ordnance can't be self-sufficient, even the soldiers are all government soldiers in the Central Plains, how can Luo Cheng, the marshal, feel at ease, his current power, status, or even military power and strength, are all empty.

None of the dots are solid.

Although Luo Cheng thought of a way to divide the land among the soldiers and give them concubines, it was still too difficult to achieve results in a short period of time.

Without three or five years, it will be difficult for both the military and the people to achieve results and be self-sufficient.

But there are no three or five years left for him.

Luo Cheng has been thinking about a problem these days, that is, in the last few years of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Guang was trapped in Jiangdu and could not return, although there were hundreds of thousands of Xiaoguo troops around him, but these Xiaoguo, who were mainly children in the Guanlong area, were bent on returning to their hometowns, even if the emperor matched them with Jiangnan women as wives, divided fields and land for them, etc., they could not change their thoughts of returning home, and finally broke out Yu Wenhua and others led the Xiaoguo army to rebel and kill the king, and then returned to the west.

Now he Luo Cheng wants to run Liaodong as the foundation, but the soldiers under him are all soldiers of the Central Plains Government, will they be the same as Yang Guang in the end?

"If we can destroy Goguryeo as soon as possible, then the end of the Eastern Crusade, will the people of the world be able to rest assured?" Hou Mochen asked.

"The problem is, it's not easy to destroy Goguryeo." Luo Cheng was not as optimistic as the emperor, although the two Eastern Crusades had greatly damaged Goguryeo's vitality, but Sui was also greatly injured, and now it was the result of both defeats.

And Goguryeo still has at least 100,000 horses, and can even fight 200,000 soldiers.

There are still so many mountain fortresses, but it is difficult for the Great Sui to really send a large army to conquer Goguryeo.

"Brother Hou Mo Chen, I plan to attack An City this time to promote surrender."

"Knock down?"

"Well, it's unrealistic to want to swallow Goguryeo in one bite, although we have 100,000 soldiers in our six counties, but we don't have the logistical baggage ability to support the 100,000 army to destroy Goguryeo, while the Goguryeo people are still in civil strife, we will besiege the city, and then force Goguryeo to surrender, even if it is only a nominal surrender, we can always get a result that everyone is slightly satisfied, at least we can temporarily end this Eastern Crusade with dignity, otherwise this endless three and four crusades will really collapse."

For Hou Mo Chenyi, Luo Cheng didn't have much to hide, after all, they had fought side by side for many years, and now Hou Mo Chen was also one of his descendants on this mountain, and everyone was in a relationship of common prosperity.

"But will the Goguryeo people descend?"

"It's definitely not going to be for them to surrender now, we still have to win a big victory, to make the Goguryeo people feel that they are going to be finished, and then force them to surrender, that's the way to go."

Last year, Yang Xuangan's rebellion not only shook the ruling class, but also drained all the millions of stone of grain in Liyang, the grain and grass transfer warehouse of the Eastern Expedition.

It is not a matter of a day or two to re-accumulate full grain and grass.

On the other hand, now that all parts of the country are boiling, the emperor's three levy orders have been issued, and the soldiers are all dissatisfied, how to levy again next year?

Luo Cheng, as the supreme commander of Liaodong, must consider these situations in advance, and he can't wait until next year to collapse and scratch his head.

"From Liaoxi, Jian'an, and Lushun, 10,000 people were each transferred to surround An'an City, and Goguryeo was forced to send troops from Shicheng, Wugu, and China to help, and then we found a way to send reinforcements, kill him, beat the Goguryeo people, and then make them surrender."

"Of course, as long as they don't break through the domestic city, they will definitely not really surrender, but it doesn't matter, as long as we are willing to surrender, as long as they are willing to accept the imperial court to set up counties in Liaodong, even if they still rule the actual control of the territory, it doesn't hurt to give them positions such as guarding the county order, all we need is a decent step."

"And then?" Hou Mochen asked.

And then?

Luo Cheng said in his heart, and then, of course, you can get some calm development time, you can farm in the Liaodong military camp, immigrate here, find a way to turn the garrison here into the government soldiers in Liaodong, set up a military government here, move the families of the government soldiers, and run it here.

Only then can he have a chance to truly become the king of Liaodong.

A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall.

The building of Da Sui was about to collapse, and at this time, Luo Cheng didn't dare to think that he could help the building by himself, he could only think about making some plans as soon as possible and finding some foundation for himself, so as to have more strength in his hands when the troubled times came.