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A seemingly violent mutiny was quickly quelled by more intense repression, and the soldiers did not have much support for the rebellion against the children of the family, and of course not many people would feel sad about their deaths, on the contrary, the soldiers seemed to have some joy when they learned that the rebels were soon executed.

If Dugu Zhenquan had knowledge, when he knew that Li Xian had used himself to take advantage of the situation to eliminate all the restless factors, he didn't know if he would have a feeling of dying.

In fact, from the beginning, Dugu Zhen has always wanted to grasp the military power in his own hands, but unfortunately, the soldiers often have more respect for heroes from poor families. He, a son of a family who has also killed people and contributed to his efforts by the Sashui River, obviously does not get as much respect as Li Xian. He has been forbearing, and he is very humble in front of Li Xian, when he thought that the opportunity had come, but he didn't expect that the opponent was actually waiting for an opportunity.

After eliminating those children of the family, Li Xian arranged for his cronies to be middle- and low-level commanders such as brigade captains. The reason why the team did not move fast on the way back was actually the most fundamental reason that Li Xian wanted to firmly grasp the control of the team. He's waiting for an opportunity, and if it doesn't come, then create it.

It seems that everything is going well, and he is competing with the army of the Great Sui Eastern Expedition. Of course, not faster than anyone. What he had to wait for was for the Great Sui army to withdraw due to the rout of the expeditionary force and the cold weather. And his team must be slower than the Sui army to retreat. Coupled with the incident he had already sent someone to arrange on the bank of the Liaoshui River, so that the team of more than 20,000 people could follow him with all their hearts.

But what Li Xian didn't expect was that his arrangement by the Liaoshui was useless at all.

Because the team had just undergone a purge, Li Xian, the big city of the Koreans fifty miles ahead, planned not to rush to fight first. There was enough food to eat for more than ten days, so there was no need to rush to attack the enemy's big city. Li Xian must let his cronies stabilize the team and spend a few days getting his subordinates accustomed to their new identities.

In order to calm the soldiers, Li Xian ordered the team to rest in place for a few days.

Unfolding the map, Li Xian pointed to the location of the big city fifty miles ahead and said: "After passing this big city, you can cross the Mazi water in two days, although the food is still enough to eat for ten days, but after the team returns to Yanshan, the food will not be solved." The grain and grass on Yanshan Village, nearly 30,000 horses eat and drink, and they can't hold on for even half a month. Therefore, this city of the Goguryeo people must be attacked, and they should bring more food back. ”

Luo Fu said: "Now Goguryeo is chasing after the rout of the Sui army, and it is almost to Ma Zishui." It is good to take this city and delay the trip for two or three days. If the team goes too fast and the Sui army has not withdrawn, it will be a trouble. ”

"I think that after the fight, we will rest in the city for a few days, anyway, the Goguryeo army will not come back for a while. After the Sui army retreats to the west bank of Liaoshui, it is not too late for us to set off. ”

Chen Qi'er said.

Li Xian thought for a while and said: "People who have no long-term concerns must have near-term worries, and the grain and grass must be prepared, otherwise when they return to Yanshan, the army's heart will be chaotic." After conquering this big city, let's not go to Liaodong City, then go north, and then west, from the grassland of the Xi people, at this time the cattle and sheep of the grassland people have grown fat, and it is the time when the fat is flowing. ”

"Haha!"

Chao Qiuge smiled and said: "I like to do this thing the most, the cattle and sheep of the grassland people are fat, just enough to be the winter food for our army to survive the winter!" ”

Wang Qinian has already admitted his fate after knowing Li Xian's true identity, it is impossible to escape, and Li Xian is really not thin on him, although he is still in charge of the baggage battalion, but in addition to having 1,000 soldiers, there are also 2,000 old and weak who have been eliminated from the soldiers. He felt that although he was a captain, he already had the rights of a general, and it was worth it to have such a glorious moment in his life.

At the beginning, he gave all his savings as a gift to seek the position of captain of the grain protection army, but was robbed by Li Xian. Now that Li Xian has given him a lieutenant, and he is in charge of so many soldiers, Wang Qinian has infinite pride in his heart, and he even thinks of an impressive sentence to pat himself on the back.

"The man is the one who pleases himself, and the woman is the one who is a confidant. The subordinates are appreciated and grateful by the general, and the general's orders are resolutely obeyed! ”

He said with a firm face.

Li Xian glanced at him and said lightly, "You said the opposite." ”

Wang Qinian's face was not red and his heart was not beating: "That's because every time your subordinates see you, they will feel that their hearts are surging and it is difficult to calm down." In fact, what I want to say is that if you really plan to loot the Xi people, the subordinate baggage battalion will take the lead in saying that no matter how much you take to rob the general, I can take it......"

Li Xian smiled and said, "You have a good appetite." ”

Wang Qinian said: "There are more than 20,000 mouths, and the subordinates have a bad appetite." ”

Li Xian hummed and said: "There should be a lot of grain and grass in the big city in front, and when the Sui army was on the eastward expedition, the city lords of Goguryeo collected all the grain into their respective cities, in order to make the Sui army unable to grab a grain of grain. Now that the city is empty, it is indeed a good opportunity to take this city. I'm not afraid that you have a big appetite, and as long as you take care of the baggage camp, I won't treat you badly. ”

Wang Qinian immediately came to his senses and asked, "What does the general plan to reward his subordinates?" ”

Li Xian said seriously: "You are already fifty years old, how can you do without a woman to take care of you." I'm going to give you a sturdy woman to take care of you when I get to the grassland, how about it? ”

The iron wolf also said seriously: "Well, the big ladies who have a sheep-scratching smell, make sure you are strong enough!" ”

Wang Qinian's face darkened, and he smiled wryly: "Subordinate...... My subordinates still think it's good to be single......"

Li Xian smiled and stopped joking: "In the morning, I have sent scouts to check the city of the Goguryeo people first, and I should be back soon." Chen Qi'er, after the scouts come back, you ask them to come directly to me. ”

The leader of the scouts, Chen Qi'er, nodded and said, "My subordinates understand.

"In addition, it's time to plan now, Yanshan is not a suitable place, it's barely enough to feed three or five thousand people, and now the team is nearly 30,000 people, it's time to find a place to move the nest. What do you think is the best place in the north right now? ”

He pointed to another map and said, it was the territory map of the Great Sui.

Everyone looked around the map, and for a moment they couldn't think of anything good.

It's no wonder that everyone can't think of it, although the world of the Great Sui is becoming more and more chaotic day by day, especially north of the Yellow River, there are no less than a dozen rebel armies from all walks of life, such as Wang Bo, Zhang Jincheng and others, all have tens of thousands of people, and the small ones are also thousands, but there is no doubt that the rivers and mountains of the Great Sui are far from being out of control. The counties of Hebei, although very chaotic, the rule of the Great Sui was still stable. It stands to reason that the most suitable place is Zhuo County, but Zhuo County is Luo Yi's territory, and the 5,000 tigers under him are too elite, although Li Xian's current 30,000 horses are mostly from the Great Sui Mansion, but there is still no chance of winning in the face of the 5,000 armored iron horses. Besides, Luo Yi's light cavalry and infantry are counted as a total of no less than 50,000 people, Luo Yi is the soil emperor of Zhuo County, although Zhuo County is big, but he is not willing to let out a place that is one meter big.

Li Xian doesn't have the confidence to work against Luo Yi now, he didn't want to lose the team that he finally obtained, except for Zhuo County, almost all the counties in Hebei have famous generals, and it is not so easy to rob it.

"Otherwise......"

Liu Man, the eldest of the crowd, said tentatively: "Go further south? Since we can't fight a tough battle with the Great Sui Imperial Court for the time being, it is better to grab territory with those teams on the green forest road. ”

Almost at the same time, everyone's eyes were fixed on one place.

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Yu Wenshi was in a hurry, starting from the Sui army camp outside Liaodong City, and the cavalry team of 20,000 people hurried to the southeast non-stop, following the route of the Great Sui Expeditionary Force to the south to meet Yu Wenshu. After only three hundred miles, Yu Wenshi's heart became heavier and heavier.

Within three hundred miles, there was not a single Sui soldier in the dangerous place! This is not common sense at all, according to his understanding, his father Yuwenshu has always been cautious in the use of soldiers, and there will inevitably be at least a few hundred men and horses left to guard the dangerous places along the road, in case the army returns and is blocked by someone. But all the way to the south, although Yu Wenshi and found a few places where there should be soldiers of the Great Sui, he didn't see a single living person!

His heart became more and more uneasy, and finally, after walking for a few more days, when he was about to reach Mazishui, he finally found five hundred corpses of the Great Sui soldiers who had been cut off in a place where the men and horses left by the Sui army were stationed. The heads were piled up one by one, and the corpses were piled up to build the walls. Although the weather has turned cold, there are still countless flies buzzing and there are dense maggots rolling back and forth on the corpses.

Yu Wenshi looked at the corpses that had been stripped naked-naked, and the anger and worry in his heart were so strong that they formed a haze.

Ordering the soldiers to bury the bodies, the Scholar Yu walked around the area. In addition to the corpses, he also saw the seedlings that had been drilled out of the ground and were still struggling to grow against the season. It was the grain that the soldiers had secretly buried in the soil when the expeditionary force was heading south, and now it had grown a foot taller.

Without stopping long, Yuwen Shi and the cavalry ordered to continue south, and the further south he went, the colder his heart became.

How did the expeditionary force fight? Why did so many Goguryeo cities stay along the road and not be taken? There are more than 10,000 people in these cities, and no less than 50,000 in the big cities! This city, which is left on the road like a nail, is simply a deep pit that can smash people to pieces! On the way back, how can there be so many misfortunes? How could my father be so rash with his soldiers?

In fact, this is not to blame Yu Wenshu, the weather has turned cold when the army goes south, if it is not quickly attacked to Pyongyang, city by city to attack, I am afraid that the weather in Pyongyang Liaodong will be so cold that he can't even pull out his sword. And later, Yu Wenshu couldn't move forward quickly, the food and grass were urgent, and if he didn't come to Hu'er with the general of the water division earlier, 300,000 people would face the situation of starvation.

Along the way of the expeditionary force, men and horses were actually left at every dangerous point. But after the expeditionary force passed, the Sui army of these squads was immediately killed by the Goguryeo people in those cities.

When the Uwen Scholar and his army passed outside the fortress of Goguryeo, he could feel the cold eyes of Goguryeo staring at the procession on the city walls. Of course, a Great Sui cavalry team of more than 20,000 people, no matter how bold the Goguryeo people in the city were, they did not dare to take the initiative to provoke.

After the army crossed the Mazi water, Yuwenshi's heart became even more urgent.

From the mouths of the captured Goguryeo people, he already knew about the fiasco of the Sui army.

"Father doesn't know what's going on"

Riding on horseback, Yu Wenshi muttered. I remembered that the young man surnamed Yan had mentioned when he was chatting with himself that the scouts were the eyes and ears of the team, and the farther the eyes could see, the clearer the ears could hear, the better it would be for the army. After remembering it by chance, he immediately ordered: "Come on, let the scouts double the area they search!" ”