Luo Zhaoyun led the troops to gallop back to Liaodong City, and it was already dusk. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Most of these people are injured, more or less hung up in the fight, the wounds are not treated in time, some inflammation, wind and cold invasion, there will be some fever.

After entering Liaodong City, he immediately sought treatment from a military doctor.

The soldiers who rushed back in advance learned that the young marshal had returned safely and successfully blocked the pursuing army behind, and they all cheered, after all, this matter had a great impact, if they had not sworn to die, hundreds of thousands of troops in the Great Sui might have to be scattered and defeated, and the corpses would be scattered all over the field.

Even so, in the past few days, Emperor Yang of Sui ordered all the generals to reorganize the army in Liaodong City, count the number of people, and there were less than 500,000 troops left.

A few days ago, it was estimated that there were still more than 700,000 troops, but now they have shrunk by more than 200,000 all at once, and they have either been killed or scattered, disappeared without traces, and fled everywhere.

Less than half of the million-strong army conquered Liaodong, which can be described as a fiasco.

If it weren't for Luo Zhaoyun's anticipation of the enemy's opportunity, he would have ambushed at the Longbow Ridge Gorge Pass and repelled the Goguryeo army that came to ambush here, then the Sui army would have been blocked and outflanked before and after, and it was likely that the entire army would have been wiped out, and it would be good to be able to escape back to tens of thousands of people.

It is precisely because Luo Zhaoyun is familiar with history and has long expected this outcome, so he will deploy in advance, seize the opportunity, successfully block the pursuing troops of Goguryeo, and keep the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Great Sui.

In the cold winter, Liaodong was extremely cold, and Emperor Yang of Sui was also infected with wind chill and coughed constantly, half because of the anger of defeat, ashamed and embarrassed, and half because of the weather, the water and soil were not adapted, and he did not go through such a cold day.

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty learned about what Luo Zhaoyun had done through some ministers and generals, and he valued him even more, and he also knew that if no one broke the queen, he would be chased and killed by Goguryeo all the way, and fled directly back to Beiping County of the Great Sui.

"Xuanluo Cheng Audience!" Emperor Yang of Sui learned of Luo Cheng's return and immediately ordered someone to summon him.

An old eunuch came out of the temporary palace, and soon, Luo Chengfeng came and met Emperor Yang of Sui in a hall.

In the lobby, there were many civil and military officials, whether it was Su Wei, Pei Yun, Huangmen squire Wang Hong, Cui Hongsheng and other civil ministers, or Li Jing, Xue Shixiong, Yang Yichen, Fan Zigai, Jing Yuanheng, Zhao Cai and other military generals, they were all a little solemn when they saw Luo Cheng coming in in iron armor.

This young general, who was only twenty years old, took a miraculous move this time, and defeated several pursuits of the Goguryeo army after breaking the army, but saved them all.

Although Yu Wenshu and others have a lot of opinions about Luo Cheng, they have to admit that this young man is very talented!

"Chen Luocheng, meet Your Majesty!"

Emperor Yang of Sui nodded, waved his hand, and said, "Flatten, get up and speak." ”

"Yes!" After Luo Zhaoyun got up, he looked up at Yang Guang.

Emperor Yang of Sui was a little tired, and sometimes coughed a few times, which was completely different from the feeling of being high-spirited and dominating the world when he came, with a hint of gloom on his face, and all the ministers did not dare to speak.

"I heard what you did, take precautions, and set up a military break on the road in advance, so that my Great Sui soldiers can smoothly get rid of the pursuing troops and retain the main army, this credit is very great, what happened in the past few days, block a few attacks, let's listen!" Emperor Yang of Sui asked, because he had not yet defeated Goguryeo's army head-on, and those few times were battles of siege, rather than conventional charge battles on the ground.

Luo Zhaoyun said: "When the minister saw the Goguryeo army coming to cover up, he immediately led his troops to fight against ......."

He repelled two Goguryeo armies, and took the initiative to attack, killing and repelling 70,000 or 80,000 horse troops head-on, blocking the pursuit of Eulji Wendeok's army, and withdrawing in the middle of the night, and ambushing the Goguryeo cavalry who came from the detour.

The lone action in the past few days can be described as thrilling, and the ministers present are secretly frightened, feeling that this Luo Cheng's courage is too much.

"Haha, very good, thirty or forty thousand people, you can defeat several times the strength of the Goguryeo pursuers, and retreat calmly, even the infantry is safely withdrawn, a distance of hundreds of miles, not caught up by the army, pit and kill the cavalry of Goguryeo, so that the army of Yizhi Wende, did not catch up with the main force of our army, every battle, is very thrilling, Luo Cheng, you send troops this time, it can be regarded as saving some face for my Great Sui, I must be rewarded and rewarded, say, what request do you have, you can put forward?"

Emperor Yang of Sui originally fought a defeated battle, returned in vain, and left half of his army to bury his bones in other places, but when he finally withdrew his army, General Sui fought such a beautiful battle, which made him suddenly save a lot of heavenly face, so that the ministers knew that the Goguryeo army was not a brave army, and it was still repelled by Luo Cheng with his troops, but this time he conquered Liaodong and lost in time and place.

He suddenly felt that next year's second expedition to Goguryeo would definitely succeed, and the first troops should be sent early, and the army should be marched quickly in the spring, so that it would not be like this time, when the cold winter and the moon were coming, he could not fight, and he was forced to withdraw. The second is to dispatch more soldiers, set up Xiaoguowei, and be more brave and good at fighting.

Luo Zhaoyun never imagined that his savior this time fought a beautiful turnaround, but it made Emperor Yang of Sui even more determined to send troops to Liaodong for the second time to crusade against Goguryeo, and his self-confidence and arrogance were restored.

"What kind of reward?" Luo Zhaoyun fell into hesitation, he wanted to say that this was a matter within the responsibility of the ministers, and he did not ask for a reward, which seemed to be righteous and awe-inspiring.

But what are the benefits of that? The more desireless and unwanted, the higher the merit covers the master, the more the monarch is not at ease.

It's like Wang Jian held 600,000 troops before he sent troops to the Chu State, but he was worried that the King of Qin would be suspicious of him, and he would be killed after his success, so he asked for many rewards in advance, such as land, gold, etc., just to reassure the king.

Most of the founding exploits of the Han Dynasty did not end well, because they were suspected by Liu Bang, and they were all uprooted one by one, and even Xiao He had to continue to defile himself with embezzlement of land and money after becoming the prime minister, so that Liu Bang could rest assured that he had no other ambitions.

Luo Zhaoyun thought of the promise he made to Princess Ruyi before the expedition, gritted his teeth, clasped his fists with both hands, knelt on one knee, and said sincerely: "The minister is already weak, he should be a marriage match, he has loved Princess Ruyi for a long time, and he does not ask for other rewards, but only begs His Majesty to marry Princess Ruyi to Weichen as his wife, I am grateful!" (To be continued.) )