Seeing Lu Xuanping retreating left and right, and only one of them was left in the big tent, Cheng Yun lowered his voice and asked, "The marshal asked me to come down, what is there to discuss?" ”

Lu Xuan said slowly: "With the current situation, how long do you think we can support it?" ”

"Is this," Cheng Yun looked embarrassed. He glanced at Lu Xuan and found that there was a solemn look in his eyes, so he replied: "In my opinion, it will not be more than half a month at most." ”

Lu Xuan nodded: "I think so too." Have you ever thought about what happened after this? ”

Cheng Yun looked suspicious: "Back? The city of Pyongyang will be besieged, and it is estimated that Pyongyang will last for half a year at most, and then it will fall. At that time, no one knows whether His Majesty will flee or be martyred. Anyway, that's not something we're thinking about. ”

Lu Xuan shook his head and said, "I didn't mean that. What I want to say is, if the city of Pyongyang falls, will Goryeo be destroyed? I don't think so. His Royal Highness King Fu sensed the crisis in Pyongyang and refused to return to Beijing under the edict. In recent years, he has managed his power in the south and has won the hearts of the people. If my estimation is accurate, His Royal Highness King Fu should continue to resist the invasion of the Silk Country. ”

Cheng Yun touched his beard and muttered, "Yes." General Li's move a few years ago didn't come to an effect until now. Could it be that His Royal Highness King Fu refused to return to Beijing because General Li Lao had something to say first? Could it be that the old general he has long been "

Lu Xuan stretched out his hand to stop Cheng Yun's conjecture, although he himself thought that Li Cheng would have some kind of premonition a few years ago and made such an arrangement, but the point he wanted to say at the moment was not this.

"What I want to say is that one thing can be seen from the defeat and death of General Han Wen, that is, soldiers without training and combat experience, no matter how much they are, are not enough to call them combat effectiveness. Such an army is vulnerable to the regular army. Although in this kind of brutal warfare, it is possible to refine the rough and refine and cultivate troops that can really fight, but it is a pity that there are few villains in the Goryeo Kingdom. We cannot afford such attrition, and we cannot ignore the blow to the confidence of our people from defeat. Therefore, I think that if His Royal Highness King Fu wants to stand up against the Silk Country, he must have an army with real combat experience. And at present, there is probably a lack of such people in the armed forces owned by King Fu. ”

"So, Marshal, do you want to leave an army for His Royal Highness King Fu?" Cheng Yun understood what Lu Xuan meant.

Lu Xuan sighed and said, "Yes." Unfortunately, it can't be a big army. At the moment our forces are no longer able to do this. However, it is still possible to draw an army of 1,000 men. And with the experience of these 1,000 people, they can quickly pass on their combat experience to other recruits, which may be the limit of what we can do. Therefore, I hope that you can take on this responsibility and retain an elite army for the Goryeo Army. ”

Cheng Yun stood up abruptly and said, "Marshal! This is absolutely impossible! I'm just a guest. How can you take on such a heavy responsibility of rising and falling! ”

"It's because you're a guest that I chose you. Unlike us, you have not received much favor from Your Majesty, so you do not need to bear the responsibility of being loyal to Your Majesty. In addition, to tell the truth, when the ministers of Goryeo fall and scatter, no one can guarantee that there will be a traitor to the enemy, but you will not. I feel the need to leave a trustworthy military general for His Royal Highness King Fu. ”

"Marshal, I am but a treasonous guest general, who would believe the allegiance of a man like me? Aren't you the best person yourself? ”

Lu Xuan smiled slightly: "To be realistic, it is precisely because you betrayed the Silk Country. So you are the only one who will never bow to the land of silk again. As for me, I have been fighting with Lord Yi Sunghui for many years, and I dare not take my promise, but that is only when the Goryeo Dynasty still exists. If Pyongyang is bound to fall, then someone must die for it, otherwise the dynasty will be too worthless. Maybe he will die before the fall, which is not bad, at least he doesn't need to see this happen. Those of my comrades-in-arms. My colleagues have already achieved this happiness, and I want to take a good rest from the burden on my shoulders. So. I'm handing over this burden to you, which can be regarded as my personal lazy idea. ”

Cheng Yun sighed helplessly and said, "Lord Marshal, this kind of thing should be entrusted to the young man by the elders, but he is five years older than you." It's really the other way around. But now that you've opened your mouth, you won't excuse yourself. Although I, Chengyun, am not talented, as long as I still have a breath of air, I will never let Goryeo and His Royal Highness King Fu fall into the hands of the Silk Country. ”

"In this way, I have thanked you for the people of Goryeo." Lu Xuan took off his robe and knelt down.

Cheng Yun hurriedly stepped forward to support him: "The marshal doesn't have to be like this, let's hurry up and prepare for relevant matters." ”

The two of them immediately set to action. Judging from Lu Xuan's performance. He seemed to have been ready to stop for a long time, and he selected 1,250 soldiers from the Goryeo army, along with fifty officers and two adjutants. These people are veterans who have participated in at least two battles, and the officers and generals are in their early thirties, calm and sophisticated people, these people are both energetic and rational, and will be Cheng Yun's right-hand man. The news that the generals received was to move to other places, and the announcement to the soldiers was that they would follow Cheng Yun on a secret mission, and it was up to Cheng Yun himself to deal with it after learning the truth.

This group of people did not cross the Datong River to the south, because at this time there was already a navy of the Silk Country patrolling on the river, they took advantage of the night to sneak to the east and march towards the mountains, making the appearance of marching towards the east coast, but in fact turned south and defected to the Fu King Cui Jianjiang.

After Cheng Yun left, Lu Xuan's troops were almost completely encircled by the Silk Country, and the Shunlong area held out until the end, fighting until less than 2,000 men were left before being forced to retreat in the direction of Chai Jing, and more than half of them were intercepted and killed on the way to retreat. At the same time, the defenders of Castle Peak were completely wiped out, and the last Goryeo army to resist in the Shibijeong area was reduced to only 7,000 people, and nearly a third of them were wounded. Faced with a desperate situation, Lu Xuan still sat and commanded the whole army to resist the round of attacks of the Silk Country, because the number was too small, they had to retreat around a ferry on the bank of the Datong River, endure the rain of arrows from the army of the Silk Country and the baptism of flying stones from the battleships on the Datong River, protect their bodies with all the available covers and shields, and then fight to the death with the enemy troops who rushed up. Everyone knew that they would die here, and some were afraid because of it, but as soon as they saw Marshal Lu Xuan standing at the head of the formation calmly commanding with arrows, they would calm down, grit their teeth, and pick up their weapons with their hands that were already trembling from overwork.

Lu Xuan persisted for a long time than Cheng Yun had estimated, and even he himself couldn't believe that he had persisted for a whole month and twenty-two days! In the end, when the last Goryeo soldier fell, Lu Xuan's corpse full of feathered arrows from the Silk Country was still there holding the Goryeo banner tightly, allowing the soldiers of the Silk Country beside him to pass by, he had fulfilled Li Chenghui's entrustment to him, and shed the last drop of blood for Goryeo. (To be continued......)