Inside Anju Fortress in Goryeo.

Lu Xuan looked at the deputy general sent to him by Ah Yizhi with a gloomy face, the general of the Silk Country, and now Cheng Yun, who is a guest general.

The 54-year-old guest looks much older than he did when he defected to Goryeo four years ago. Because of the smuggling of weapons to the Goryeo State was discovered by the Liaodong Protector Mu Yun of the year, the dog jumped under the wall and attacked and killed Mu Yun to become a rebel, and then united with Goryeo to fight against the imperial court, and was finally defeated by Chang Miao's army, and his generals, including the two sons, all died on the battlefield, and had to be exiled to Goryeo to become a guest general. Speaking of which, he can be regarded as a poor man with a broken family and a desperate person, but Lu Xuan does not have the slightest good impression of him, after all, Goryeo will fall into the current predicament It can be said that this person caused the trouble (although the king Cui Wende and the prime minister A Yizhi who contributed to the war between the Silk Country and Goryeo are also to blame), in addition, out of the cleanliness of military generals, Lu Xuan is always a little resentful of people like Cheng Yun who betrayed the old master and switched to other families. Of course, the most important point is that Cheng Yunzi has been taken care of by Ah Yi Zhi since he joined Goryeo, and now he is sent to himself, and it is obvious that he is the one who is sent by Ah Yi to monitor him and make trouble for himself by the way. This can be felt even by Li Chenghui, a veteran who is not good at politics, let alone a right-hand man like Lu Xuan who has always stood behind Li Chenghui and advised him.

Despite the mixed feelings in my heart, this should be an indispensable number of etiquette. After a simple greeting, the two sides took their seats, and Lu Xuan ordered a banquet to be set up to wash the dust for Cheng Yun.

After three rounds of drinking, Lu Xuan spoke: "I have heard for a long time that Lord Chengyun is a general in Liaodong and has a great reputation. It is a great honor to have the help of adults today. In the next presumptuousness. I would like to ask Lord Cheng what he thinks about the current military situation? ”

Cheng Yun put down his wine glass when he heard this, Ni looked at Lu Xuan and smiled: "Lu Dashuai is sincere?" ”

"What do you mean by that?"

Cheng Yun sneered. Said: "If the marshal is sincere in asking, the last general should say everything, but if the marshal is tempted by this word, or if he is worried that he will come to make trouble for you, then don't ask." ”

Lu Xuan was stunned in his heart: Although this Chengyun is not like Ah Yizhi, he is not a master who is easy to deal with. immediately said: "Master Cheng is too worried, and Ben Shuai has no other intention to ask for advice." If you have advice, just say it. ”

Cheng Yun nodded, and said with a straight face: "So please retreat from the left and right of the marshal, and you can say everything below." ”

When Lu Xuan heard this, he motioned to retreat left and right. After everyone retreated, Cheng Yun spoke: "Please forgive me for speaking bluntly, with the current situation, it is really difficult to win a battle with the Silk Country." Even a definite defeat. ”

Lu Xuan's face changed, what Cheng Yun said was exactly what he was worried about in his heart! Then he said: "So, please explain in detail to Lord Cheng." ”

Cheng Yun hugged his fists and said, "Starting from Pyongyang, the situation I heard and witnessed along the way is really not optimistic. There was peace and joy in the city. You don't feel the clouds of war at all, but when you leave Pyongyang City, you can see villages and towns. All industries withered, and the population was scattered; After crossing the Datong River, the situation was even more miserable. Refugees are everywhere, and villages and towns are almost everywhere. Years of fighting have caused almost all the young and middle-aged people in these places to be conscripted into the army, and only the old and weak women and children are left in the village to control the work in the farmland, which has dealt a huge blow to agriculture, and the grain production has been reduced year after year. There are so many mouths to be fed, but the grain collected by the government has not decreased but increased, how can the villagers feed so many mouths with their limited food reserves? Villagers and refugees are fighting for food rations, and this happens more and more as time goes on. In order to avoid the enemy's attack, the people all fled to the south of the Yangtze River, and the north of the river almost became a no-man's land, only the fortified towns and cities still inhabited, but these people were not peasants, and the soldiers alone could not support these people and the garrisons in the small farmland around the towns, so a large amount of grain had to be transported from the south to this place to maintain the daily needs of the troops.

However, by transporting grain in this way, our supply line has been greatly extended, so that it is like fighting in enemy territory far away, and it costs a stone of grain to transfer a minute of grain. The north did not have so much grain in stock, so it could only be mobilized from the south, but after years of war with the Japanese state, the economic production capacity of the south was far less developed than that of the north, and now it has become the main food supply area, which not only lengthens the supply line even more, but also makes it impossible for the south to develop at all. I heard that Hamgyong Province has also been attacked by enemy forces this year, and the situation there is not much better than here.

If this situation continues, it will not take two years for there to be no more grain in the treasury of Goryeo, and the people will fall into famine, and then there will be chaos in our own country without the enemy army attacking, and then the enemy army will attack on a large scale, and even the gods will not be able to save the country. ”

After hearing this, Lu Xuan couldn't help but stand up and said, "That's right! This is also the situation that Ben Shuai is worried about! However, the enemy's Tiger Guard Battalion was extremely cunning, and our army, which was dominated by infantry, could not capture them at all, and although General Li gave them considerable casualties after training into a cavalry unit, it was a pity that General Li Lao was unfortunately killed in battle, and now the cavalry has lost its main general, and the army is disheartened. If the Tiger Guard continues to behave like this, they really don't know how to deal with it. ”

Cheng Yun said: "Why don't you treat others the way they do?" ”

Lu Xuan waved his hand again and again: "We have tried this method a long time ago, but it doesn't work." Most of our troops are infantry, and if they want to attack and harass the enemy in Liaodong, neither mobility nor actual combat effectiveness are as good as the effect of cavalry, and what is worse is that the supplies cannot keep up. Moreover, the country of silk had already strengthened the defense work on the north bank of the Yalu River before attacking our country, and our army could not succeed in breaking through this defense line several times, and it increased many casualties in vain, not to mention fighting deep into the enemy's territory. According to detailed reports, in the villages and towns near the north of the Yalu River, all the personnel have already been relocated, and the agricultural land has been occupied by the army. ”

Cheng Yun nodded slightly, sat in the seat and thought for a moment before saying, "Has Lord Marshal ever thought about giving up these areas?" ”

Lu Xuan couldn't help but have a cold war when he heard this. It's not that he didn't think of this idea, but he had to give it up because of the importance of it, and now that Cheng Yun suddenly mentioned it, Lu Xuan suddenly sounded an alarm in his heart: He said such a big article in his generous statement before, did he actually want to persuade himself to give up this land? If he listened to Chengyun's advice and abandoned his land without a fight, then what kind of article would the Ayi Ward do with this? Could it be that the purpose of Cheng Yun's trip is to find a way to help Ah Yizhi remove his only obstacle?

What does this person want to do? (To be continued......)