The End of the Sui Dynasty

After the eunuch made the decree, he called the guards from outside to come in. This time, the four guards who came in also brought two large boxes.

One of the strong men carefully took out a brocade box from the burden on his body and handed it to the eunuch Shen Yan.

When I opened the brocade box, there were several jade seals inside. For those with official seals, ordinary officials use copper seals, princes, princes, queens, etc. use gold seals, and the emperor's seal is jade, which is called seal. At this time, the seals inside are jade, gold, and copper.

Chen Kefu didn't say anything, just took the brocade box indifferently and took the seals in his hand to watch. The jade seal is a small jade seal twisted by a tiger, according to Shen Yan's introduction, this is the crown prince's seal specially engraved for His Majesty the Prince. And the golden seal is the generalissimo seal of the world's soldiers and horses, and the seal twist on it is also a tiger. The bronze seal is his other two official seals, namely the Shangshu Provincial Shangshu Lingyin and the Liaodong Dao Daxing Taixing Taishang Shuling.

After reading the seal, Chen Kefu put the quartet seal back into the box and handed it to Chen Lei.

Shen Yan was overjoyed when he saw Chen Kefu accept the seal. Busy let the four men open the other two large boxes.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, inside these two boxes are the seals that have not yet been engraved with official positions, as well as the blank seals of the imperial officials. The official positions of the lords of His Majesty's department, as long as His Royal Highness fills in their names and sends a list to Jiankang to the imperial court, everything is decided by His Royal Highness. ”

Looking at the two large boxes of seals, as well as the stacks of blank official documents, Chen Kefu sneered at the corner of his mouth. It seems that the court of the Chen Dynasty has not yet been chaotic, if they really dare to directly give the civil and military officials of the Liaodong Army, then it will not be so easy for him to agree.

After asking Chen Lei to accept these two large boxes of official seal documents, Chen Kefu did not give Shen Yan any clear answer, and directly asked Zhang Jin to send someone to send him south. For Chen Kefu, the sudden change in Jiangnan made him a little at a loss. Whatever the decision, he had to think it all over before he could decide.

After meeting Jiankang's envoy, Chen Kefu also immediately issued an order, asking Tang Jinyun of the Secret Service Department to come to see him immediately. He ordered an army of 50,000 to continue to Yanzhou to fight against Xue Shixiong.

The army marched forward, and as soon as it arrived in Liucheng County, there was already a group of cavalry hurrying south.

As soon as he saw Chen Kefu's handsome flag, he hurriedly came to meet him.

"Great marshal, Xue Shixiong's 150,000 army is extremely strong, and he has attacked many times in one day.

Vice Marshal Li led the headquarters to retreat seven times a day, and now it has retreated past Lushui and Xuanshui, and the army has withdrawn to White Wolf Water. ”

It came so fast.

Chen Kefu's first reaction was that Xue Shixiong had completely cleared the strength of Li Jing's department. If Li Jing's 100,000 horses really want to fight with Xue Shixiong's 150,000 horses, he will also have the power to fight. However, if the war is fought under the Linyu Pass, this is very unfavorable. Now Li Jing retreats without chaos, and retreats calmly step by step, which is the best policy.

After opening the map and looking at it for a while, Chen Ke took out his pen and ink and drew a circle on the map on the fortress of Luhe Town, the most dangerous fortress in Liucheng County.

"Immediately hand over this map to Marshal Li, and tell him that the marshal personally led an army of 50,000 to Luhe Town first, and let him lead the army to continue to retreat eastward, and arrive at Luhe Town, the troops are divided into two routes, with Mao Yi leading one to Liucheng on the left side of the Luhe River, and Lu Shishen leading one to face Haydn City on the right side of the Luhe River, so that Li Wushuai can come to Luhe Town to see me."

Chen Kefu is not afraid of Xue Shixiong's pursuit, Li Jing, Lu Shishen, and Mao Yi are all generals in the Liaodong Army today. With 100,000 soldiers in hand, although it is retreating, it will not be caught by the tiger Xue Shixiong, as long as it retreats to Luhe, then Chen Kefu can rely on the three cities of Luhe, Liucheng, and Wanghaidun City to establish a triangular defense line here. Xue Shixiong's army, which was far away from Linyu Pass, would face a situation where attack and defense would change hands.

For a long time, Chen Kefu stayed on the grassland, marching all day. Although the Secret Service would also have information to pass on to him, communication was very difficult, and it was usually only the most important cases that would be sent to him with great effort. At this time, returning to Liaodong, Chen Kefu needed too much time to re-familiarize himself with the current situation.

Luhe Town, together with Huaiyuan Town and Tongding Town, is known as the three major towns in western Liaoning. For these three towns, Chen Kefu also hoarded heavy troops, with 5,000 troops stationed in Tongding, 10,000 troops in Huaiyuan, and 10,000 troops in Luhe. As soon as Chen Kefu entered Luhe Town, it was the Jinwu general Luo Lin who was stationed in this town, and his first personal guard. Luo Lin has been with him for a long time, and although he is only nineteen years old now, he is a high-ranking general in the Liaodong Army. Not only because he is the general Jinwu from Sanpin, but also because he is the most trusted group of generals around Dashuai, and no one dares to despise him. …,

As soon as he entered Luhe Town, Chen Kefu saw that the city was full of busy soldiers at this time, and the city was already full of soldiers defending the city. Wearing armor, Luo Lin led a team of cavalry to arrive, "The last general greets the commander!" ”

"How far is Marshal Li's soldiers and horses from here? How long will it take for Xue Shixiong's soldiers and horses to arrive? ”

"The spies sent out from multiple channels reported that Marshal Li's soldiers and horses had already rushed to the left and right cities. Xue Shixiong was menacing this time, and the forward was less than twenty miles away from the Luhe River. They did not divide their troops to Liucheng and Linhaidun City, but led an army of 150,000 and went straight to our Luhe. ”

Chen Kefu laughed a few times: "It's good to come!" Xue Shixiong was anxious to save his son, and when he saw Lu Shishen and Mao Yi stationed on the left and right, he wanted to break through and go straight to the center. It's a pity that today's Luhe Town is not the Luhe Town of the past. ”

The Liaodong Army is not afraid of war, and there are two kinds of battles that the Liaodong Army has been best at over the years, one is the Yuncheng raid to do the war, which was how most of the cities of Goguryeo were won back then. There is also a kind of Liaodong Army that is good at defending the city, although the gunpowder weapons in the hands of the Liaodong Army today seem amazing, in fact, they are equivalent to the gunpowder level of the Song Dynasty at most. However, these five huā eight gates, and a very large number of gunpowder equipment troops, when defending the city, the power that can be exerted is very amazing.

The strongest armament of the Liaodong Army was the hoplite cavalry and the infantry of the Modao Army, and in addition, there were the engineering units of the Liaodong Army, and the massive amount of gunpowder and crossbows were incredibly powerful. On the contrary, the strong bow and crossbow that the Great Sui relied on to dominate the mainland for many years could only rank third in the strike force of the Liaodong Army. Such an army with a large number of long-range attack forces, of course, the most favorite is to defend the city.

In the afternoon, Li Jing led more than 100 horsemen to Luhe Town. As soon as they arrived, the observers on the high watchtower in the city had already called the police. In the direction of the White Wolf Water in front, the vanguard of Xue Shixiong of the Sui army appeared.

This is a light cavalry unit, everyone is dressed in light armor, and the horses are only covered in leather armor. The Sui army, which had been pursuing for most of the day, was dusty at this time, and even the banner of the vanguard was already full of dust at this time. At a glance, the number of this vanguard force was about five thousand.

Guo Xiaoke saw that these 5,000 people rushed directly to the bottom of the city, and they were still there with horizontal swords to show off their might, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask for orders.

"Marshal, let the rabbit cubs of our heavy cavalry go up and destroy them, there has been no war for a long time, and these little rabbit cubs are all itching one by one." Chen Kefu held a clairvoyant mirror in his hand and carefully looked at the military appearance of this vanguard Sui army. After watching for a while, Chen Kefu smiled and said, "I think it's your kid who is itching, okay, this marshal gives you this handsome order, Guo Xiaoke led 3,000 heavy cavalry out of the city to break the enemy's formation, and Luo Lin led 10,000 light cavalry to outflank and annihilate." Ben Shuai will only give you an hour, and within an hour, except for the dead, bring in all the remaining cavalry to Ben Shuai.

Guo Xiaoke and Luo Lin were extremely happy when they received the order. Shaking off the wind, laughing and running down to the city, the generals on the side kept asking to bring them one by one, even if they didn't bring their troops up, only their own personal guards. The Liaodong Army has not fought for more than a year, and for such a long time, only the last time Li Jing's troops fought a beautiful ambush battle under Linyu Pass, which was too enjoyable.

The first to arrive in the city was the vanguard light cavalry of Xue Shixiong's department, which was originally transferred from Linyu to Zhuojun with Xue Shixiong, and then came to Chongqing with police, and was hurriedly transferred back to Linyu. During this period of time, they were first transferred from Zhuo County to Linyu, and then from Linyu to Zhuo County, and then from Zhuo County to Linyu not long after. The whole day was marching on that dusty road, and they were not there when the Liaodong army attacked Linyu before. Therefore, he didn't know the true strength of the Liaodong Army at all, and this time he rushed to Luhe Town as a vanguard. The information they knew was that although Luhe Town was dangerous, there were only 10,000 garrisons, and it was commanded by Luo Lin, Chen Kefu's trusted general.

So along the way, he hurriedly marched to the city, and tried his best to challenge what he could, only hoping that in case he could jī, the nineteen-year-old boy in the city who had not yet grown up, would open the city to face it. As long as there is a fight, he doesn't believe that these elite generals who have been fighting at the border pass for many years will not be able to defeat the kid who only got into the hands of a city guard by serving Chen Kefu as a guard. If you can take Luhe before Xue Dashuai arrives, it will be a big long face. If the four handsome sons are in this city, then they will have a bright future in the future. …,

The vanguard cavalry commander Huyalang made Xue Ding's shoulders big and his waist round, and the big head was more like an infantry than a cavalryman. At this time, he looked at the Naluo character general flag on the head of the city, and the Liaodong rebels standing at the head of the city as if they were facing a great enemy, and his heart was extremely proud. Waving a big lance in his hand, he rode forward, and snatched the Xue Zi in the hands of a flag bearer and slapped the flag forward like a gust of wind.

The defenders at the head of the city saw him waving a banner and rushing to the city gate, and hurriedly shot arrows. However, although Xue Dingguo is big, he is extremely flexible on horses. He dodged left and right, and in a moment he had passed through the rain of arrows, and when he reached a distance of fifty paces in front of the city gate, he saw that he was on the horse, and with a fierce force of both hands, the flag embroidered with the word Xue had been firmly inserted into the ground.

After Xue Dingguo planted the flag, he hid in a kick, dodged several arrows, and returned to his own formation with a roar. In the vanguard of the Sui army, thunderous roars abounded. The hand of his own general just now was too beautiful, there were so many Liaodong rebels in the sky above the city, and they shot so many arrows down, but they didn't hurt the general at all.

Xue Dingguo's performance suddenly stabbed the five thousand vanguard Sui army into an incomparably high spirit, and their morale soared.

Chen Kefu stood on top of the city and watched the performance of the Sui general with a smile on his face. Just now, this Sui general was indeed extraordinary, and the army rushed in before, not only to avoid the crossbow arrows in the city, but also successfully planted the flag in front of Luhe Town, and it was indeed a fierce general.

"It is said that there are many heroes in the land of Youyan, and Ben Shuai agrees. Generals, who knows the identity of the general in front of you? Chen Kefu asked with a smile as he stroked the short beard under his chin that he had just grown up a little.

Generally, Li Jingdao, who had just come back, said, "Dashuai, this person is indeed extraordinary, he is Xue Shixiong's own brother, surnamed Xue Dingguo." He joined the army at the age of eighteen, and now he is in his early forties, and has been in the army for more than 20 years. Jiuzhen Zhuo County, Hebei Province, plugged the grassland departments did not dare to go to his defense area to graze, he and Zhuo County Luo Yi and the two called Youzhou double generals. The two are the most brave in battle, but they are both a little unruly and difficult to obey. In previous years, there were many people who invaded the grassland for no reason, pretending to be bandits and slaughtering small tribes on the grassland. Fortunately, he still has Xue Shixiong to govern him, otherwise, it is estimated that he is another Luo Yi. ”

Chen Kefu originally admired this general very much, but after listening to Li Jing's introduction at this time, he also felt a little complicated in his heart. In one sentence to describe this Schröding, it is an absolute thorn. It can be seen from the fact that he dared to often go into the steppe for no reason, slaughter small tribes, and plunder property. Although such people are good at fighting, it is even more of a big problem when they are put in the army.

With a chuckle, Chen Kefu said, "Now Ben Shuai is even more yearning for Xue Laohu's meeting, but I didn't expect the Xue family to be more powerful than the other." The four little cubs before were already surprising, and now there is another Xue Dingguo, okay, Ben Shuai likes it. Inform General Guo and General Luo that this Xue Dingguo must not be killed. Let them capture him alive! ”

Xue Dingguo under the city over there was even more proud after the armies of the two sides took a hand in front of him. Under an order, the Sui soldiers who had many officials arrogantly galloped back and forth around the city and shouted to kill, making all kinds of insulting movements by urinating and grimacing at the city. A few soldiers even took off their kùzi against the city, and their white buttocks were extremely provocative, causing the Sui army under the city to burst into laughter.

"Squeak!"

The closed gate suddenly sounded, and I saw that the gate wrapped in iron suddenly and slowly opened to both sides. The suspension bridge pulled up at the head of the city was also slowly lowered in the sound of slings. Xue Dingguo's eyes opened violently in front of the battle, and he looked at the slowly opening city gate with surprise on his face. He was just casually provoking the jī general, who expected that the hairy boy in this city would be so careless, and he would open the city gate so lightly.

Although there are only 5,000 people in their own country, there are 10,000 soldiers and horses in Luhe Town. However, Xue Dingguo didn't care at all, as long as he didn't let his 5,000 people attack the city, let alone 10,000 in the city, even if 15,000 people came out, he was not afraid.