In fact, Su Mo not only has this 10,000 army, at the beginning of the beggar Zhongxiang boasted that his tribe had 50,000 or 60,000 elite soldiers, although it can't be true, but it can't be regarded as nonsense, after all, the nomads are all on horseback and can fight, if all the Ding Zhuang in the clan are gathered, there are almost 30,000 or 40,000, and what Li Xian is doing is to select the elite from them, and organize these elites to help him attack the Walled City of Goguryeo, and even take advantage of the fact that the main force of Goguryeo is fighting on the front line and the rear is empty, leading the troops to attack Pyongyang, Thus ending the war ahead of schedule.

Of course, if you can take the opportunity to subdue the other tribes of the Yan Ya, it will naturally be even more desperate, so after subduing the entire Su Mo Department, Li Xian immediately ordered Li Duozuo to rectify the soldiers and horses, a total of more than 20,000 cavalry, Li Xian selected 3,000 strong from them, included them under his command, and allocated to Xue Ne, Zhang Deyu each 1,000 people, these 3,000 people are all tigers and bears, skilled in bows and horses, I believe that as long as they are strictly restrained, they will definitely become a rare elite soldier in the world in the future.

"Once you have entered our army, you must strictly abide by discipline and do not contradict each other, otherwise you will definitely be engaged in military law, and you will be severely punished, but this king also assures you that as long as you follow this king, you don't have to worry about life problems, and your military salary will be paid by this king alone in the future, so that you and your family will have no worries, if you don't believe it, you can go and ask, what kind of treatment is the royal palace guards under my command?"

Li Xian said a word, Li Duozuo translated a sentence, and Li Duozuo secretly stumped while translating: "This week, the king actually promised to provide for 3,000 troops with his own strength, how rich should the financial resources behind it be?" This person deserves to be the emperor's favorite prince, alas, the Tang Dynasty is prosperous and rich, I can't imagine it, I, Li Duozuo, can be regarded as lucky, I can get this favor, I think that as long as I do my best, I will definitely be in the official position in the future, and my name will remain in history, right? ”

As for Li Xian's handful transfer of 3,000 strong men from his clan to form a private army, Li Duozuo didn't care at all, he suddenly had such a tough backstage, and he was thinking about how to show his loyalty, wouldn't it be a good opportunity now? As for the development of the ethnic group, he believed that although there were temporary obstacles, as long as he relied on Li Xian closely, he would soon usher in new vitality.

It is precisely because of this that Li Duozuo offered to give away five days of rations for the expedition army, and gave the best war horse scimitar in the clan to the three thousand strong men, Li Duozuo was also ready to follow Li Xian to go on the expedition, but Li Xian refused, because Li Duozuo had just obtained the position of patriarch, and he also needed to settle the tribe, and at the same time, he also had to prevent other tribes from taking the opportunity to attack, and he had to prevent Goguryeo from leading the army to counterattack, so Li Duozuo had to stay and guard the tribe.

Li Xian naturally also knew that Li Duotou reciprocated Li, so he was not polite, except for accompanying the battle, all other requests were accepted as ordered, and then the three thousand strong men were trained, and taught them to speak some simple Tang official words, and then left the end of Su under the send-off of Li Duozuo.

"General, after Li Xian arrived in my tribe, he asked for food and weapons, and took out the three thousand most elite strong men in my clan, this is to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, I don't know why the general still agrees? Is this the kind of bullying that I am at the end of the mill? ”

After Li Xian left, one of the generals beside Li Duozuo complained softly to him.

But he didn't expect Li Duozuo to be furious, and directly pulled out his saber to kill the general on the spot, and then shouted at the generals: "You have to remember, the end of my Su is the end of the Tang Dynasty, whether it is General Li Jinxing or my father, all of them are the ministers of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty is not thin on General Li and my father, and the King of Zhou is even more kind to us, so that we can get rid of the control of the **** beggar Zhongxiang and avoid a sword and soldier, so why not be so kind to us and have some returns?" Even so, I also think that the little reward we wait for is not enough to repay King Zhou's great kindness in case of emergency. ”

Li Duozuo's bravery is well known, there is no one in the clan who is his opponent at all, and the major patriarchs in the clan have been almost killed by beggar Meng Liang, Wuyan Chamu and others, and the new patriarchs are all cowardly people, where do they dare to resist? In addition, after Li Duozuo and his generals have been preaching and brainwashing for many days, these clansmen all believe that the beggar Zhongxiang started a war against the Tang Dynasty without authorization, almost causing the disaster of extermination, fortunately Li Xian and Li Duozuo decisively killed the beggar Zhongxiang, and Li Xian's generosity saved them from death, so they were all grateful to Li Xian, and now the slanderous general was killed, and everyone applauded.

It is precisely because of the above reasons that Li Duozuo made such a generous statement, but no one said a word.

However, it is said that Li Xian, under the guidance of the guide sent by Li Duozuo, led 3,500 troops from the end of Su to cross the Taibai Mountain, and easily entered the territory of Goguryeo, because the main forces of the front line of Goguryeo were gathered in the area of Fuyu River at this time, ready to compete with the Tang army for more than 40 cities such as Fuyu that had been occupied by Xue Rengui, he did not expect that the end of Su, which had always been friendly with him, had surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, which led to the emptiness of the northeast defense of Goguryeo, and was taken by Li Xian's army to attack the territory.

Li Xian led the army all the way close, such as into the land of no man, where the army of Goguryeo was encountered, as long as the number of small people gathered and annihilated, the number of people retreated, this way walked for more than 20 days, the Goguryeo army that he eliminated had 15,600 people, robbed more than 10 granaries, burned more than 100,000 stones of grain, robbed more than 30,000 horses in Liaodong, and burned tens of thousands of sets of winter clothes, in addition, Li Xian also lied that it was the reinforcements of the end of Su, and captured two important cities, but in order to avoid the siege of the Goguryeo army, After Li Xian destroyed the city defenses, he ordered to withdraw.

However, although Li Xian's army was cautious all the way, it still attracted the attention of the upper echelons of Goguryeo, because Li Xian's series of burning, killing and looting brought a lot of trouble to Goguryeo, first of all, because of the destruction of grain and grass, which led to the lack of support from Goguryeo, and the serious lack of grain and grass, and the loss of a large number of war horses also greatly reduced the mobility of the Goguryeo army, especially the large number of winter clothes were burned, which made the armor of the Goguryeo army thin, and many soldiers suffered from typhoid fever, and the combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.

It was only at this time that Goguryeo Da Mo Lizhi Yuan Nanjian, who was in Pyongyang City, received the news of attacks in various places one after another, and the angry Yuan Nanjian immediately ordered spies from all over the country to carry out operations to collect information, and it was necessary to find out the cause in the shortest possible time.

Under the personal interrogation of the actual rulers, the Goguryeo spies acted really quickly, and it took less than two days to find out that it was Su Mo Jin who betrayed Goguryeo, and took advantage of the battle between Goguryeo and the main force of the Tang Dynasty, crossed the Taebaek Mountain and came to Goguryeo to burn and loot, which made the chickens and dogs in Goguryeo restless.

When Yuan Nanjian heard this, he was immediately furious, and immediately ordered his younger brother Yuan Nan to personally lead an army of 30,000 to surround and surround the Su Mo Jin soldiers who broke into the territory of Goguryeo, and strictly ordered him to kill all the Su Mo Jin soldiers within three days, otherwise he would be severely punished.

When Yuan Nan heard his brother's order, he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately divided 30,000 troops from the front line to chase after the "Su Mo Yan Army", but this caused the front-line soldiers to no longer have the strength to compete with the Tang army for Fu Yuchuan, so they had to retreat on all fronts.

At this time, Li Ji didn't know what Li Xian was doing in Goguryeo, so he attacked Goguryeo very quickly for more than a month, but due to the cold weather, coupled with the desperate defense of the garrisons around Goguryeo, the progress was not too big, and then Xue Rengui proposed to lead 3,000 people to attack Fuyu City, which was garrisoned by tens of thousands of troops, and the generals in the army were shocked, thinking that Xue Rengui was crazy, and they dissuaded him, but Li Ji actually agreed with Xue Rengui's opinion, and then Xue Rengui led his subordinates to fight quickly and broke the defenders. More than 10,000 beheaded, and finally captured Fuyu City, so that more than 40 surrounding cities were shaken, and they hurriedly surrendered in panic, so far the Tang army has made significant progress.

But immediately knew that Yuan Nanjian would not be willing to fail easily, and would definitely raise troops to attack, so he had already prepared to defend, and after a few days, he saw that Yuan Nanjian led tens of thousands of troops to attack, but what made him feel incredible was that only two days later, Yuan Nan's army had not yet attacked, and suddenly withdrew.

Li Ji didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd of the Yuan boy, and he was shocked for a while, and couldn't make up his mind, so he discussed with the generals for a long time, but saw that the generals were divided into two factions, some were in favor of pursuit, and some were resolutely opposed, and they could not form a unified opinion.

At this moment, he immediately suddenly received a letter asking for help, which turned out to be written by Guo Beifeng, the head of the navy, but there was only one poem written on the paperwork, and Li Ji was immediately angry when he saw the poem: "What time is it?" The military situation is so critical, but this Guo Beifeng writes very bullshit poems, and when he sees this guy in the future, he will definitely be killed. ”

But when he saw Yuan Wanqing, the general secretary of the marching army sitting silently on the side, he suddenly said: "General Guo is not a fool, there must be a hidden secret when he writes poetry today, and he may not know if he is not a subordinate official. ”

Although Li Ji knew that these two people were the people of the martial arts, they would naturally sympathize with each other, but he couldn't help but listen to the advice of his subordinates, so he had to hand over the letter to Yuan Wanqing.

After a while, he heard Yuan Wanqing laugh and said: "This is a clutch poem, probably saying that Feng Shiben, the grain transport officer under the command of the chief manager, was originally hungry in the army because the ship was broken, and he was afraid that the thief would find out, so he wrote this clutch poem." ”

"In that case, then we will give grain and grass and send it to men." Li Ji saw that this was the case, and the anger on his face gradually subsided, so he issued an order to send grain and grass for Guo Beifeng.

At this time, Li Ji suddenly remembered something again, and said to Yuan Wanqing: "I see that Yuanshe is full of talents, and now there is a difficult thing to entrust, our army has pulled out the remaining cities, and now the Goguryeo army has retreated, it is a good opportunity for our army to march into Pyongyang, but it has been postponed until now, and the document has not yet been issued. ”

Yuan Wanqing immediately said when he heard this: "This is the duty of the lower officials, how dare you shirk it?" After finishing speaking, Yuan Wanqing immediately wrote a text, Li Ji did not read it carefully, so he ordered it to be released, but unexpectedly because of this piece of text and the Tang Dynasty army lost a great opportunity to attack Goguryeo, if it were not for the cooperation of Li Xian's army, the army would have to spend at least three more months of good time, and pay more than 10,000 casualties to capture Goguryeo.