Night has fallen, but the entire Liaodong City is up and down, with a radius of dozens of jia, but it is not dark.

As if venting their anger, all the villages and thatched houses of the Goguryeo people outside Liaodong City, as well as the manors of the noble lords, were set on fire by the Liao. The blazing flames soared into the sky, and all the trees outside the city of Liaodong had been blown down, the large ones were left for siege equipment, and the small ones were sharpened to set up camps.

Piles of bonfires were lit, illuminating the entire Liaodong City as bright as day. In the firelight, the Liao front army is still encamping. Those who drive piles, those who dig trenches, those who install antlers. There were also groups of men and horses between Liaodong City and Liaoying, and began to dig horse traps one by one, and drove the sharp piles more than three feet long to the ground, leaving only a small tuǐ high sharp pile outside.

These are all special methods to prevent the cavalry in Liaodong City from going out of the city to attack the camp, and if it is a field battle, these fortifications can be said to be useless. But when besieging the city, this thing is a very powerful method. The dense tuǐ tall plum huā deer feet outside the city gates, and the countless horse traps, would definitely make any cavalry who wanted to come up with a cavalry attack camp cry without tears.

The entire south of the city seemed to have become a huge construction site all of a sudden, and countless soldiers were like ants, Ding, Ding The south of the city was bare, and all visible obstacles had been removed.

A huge wooden camp had been slowly built in countless bonfires, with high wooden fences and plank paths made of trees, and rows of archers covering it, tightly guarding the camp.

On all sides of the camp, there are more than ten lookout platforms with a foot of seven or eight feet, and the soldiers standing on them can clearly see the inside and outside of the camp.

After the battle at dusk, Chen Kefu inserted the remaining 140,000 soldiers and horses, and made detailed arrangements with 300,000 people. The remaining 20,000 cavalry in the city were not arranged to go to the city, and all of them remained in the temporary barracks near the four city gates.

Among the remaining 120,000 soldiers, there were 28,000 men from the logistics and engineer battalions, who were divided into three shifts and rotated every four hours to get enough rest and maintain their best condition. The remaining 90,000 infantry soldiers were also divided into three groups, with 30,000 men each time, and then led 100,000 people to the city to assist in the defense. If the Liao people attack the city, they will urgently dispatch troops to the city.

The trough leaders in the city also made arrangements, divided into two shifts, and took turns to guard the four cities.

After a small setback to the Liao army, Chen Kefu asked the armies to block the four gates and strictly forbid soldiers and horses to leave the city. It is precisely because the Sui army no longer fights that the soldiers and horses of Yuan Jingshui can complete the entire camp and the fortifications outside the city without interference.

That night, no one slept inside or outside the city. Although Chen Kefu has arranged to take turns to defend, none of the generals can go back to sleep with peace of mind. Just like a husband whose wife is giving birth in the house, every general stands silently on the head of Liaodong City, always looking into the distance.

The winter in Liaodong is very cold, but the hearts of the generals are equally heavy at this time. Although they have not yet suffered defeat all this time, it is only by various tricks that they win the battle. However, in the face of real strength, one force will drop ten, and no matter how many schemes there are, they will sometimes pale and powerless.

If the Liao people gathered 200,000 troops to besiege the city, then it would really be a battle of grinding meat.

There is nothing to be tricked into, only real strength.

"How long does it take for General Zhang Xutuo to arrive?" Chen Kefu couldn't help but ask the commander of the secret service department behind him, although the secret service department had to inform him of Zhang Xutuo's reinforcements once a day, but he couldn't help but ask at this time. Zhang Xutuo's reinforcements are the biggest reliance in their hearts.

According to Chen Kefu's judgment, if the allied Khitan, Sumo Shui mòhé, and Silla can help him get back the soldiers and horses of Murowei, Heishui Mòhé, and Ji. Then with his current strength, he is not worried about defeat at all. Only by transferring the three coalition armies of Goguryeo can he be sure of winning this war.

However, such a victory is not what he is willing to accept, such a big battle of hundreds of thousands of people, if he is allowed to fight in Chen Kefu's Liaodong camp, then no matter how good the outcome is, he will have to pay a heavy price. The soldiers and horses of the Liaodong camp are his biggest reliance, and he doesn't want his strength to be cut down at all.

From the time Yang Guang sent Zhang Xutuo and Su Weidong into Liaodong, he had already sniffed out a trace of bad feelings. Yang Guang was suspicious of him, he was not a loyal minister, and there was nothing to be frank about. Yang Guang has a guard against him, he has to be more guarded, and only with heavy troops in hand is the best way out. ,

He dared to be sure that if this war ended, the Sui army would win, and the Liaodong camp would lose its troops and lose its strength. Then it is very likely that Yang Guang will transfer him out of Liaodong as soon as possible,

Whether it was Mingsheng secretly descended back to the court to take up a vacant position, or transferred to other places in the Central Plains as an official, this was not what he was willing to accept.

Strength, maintaining strength, is his best reliance and way out. And the early arrival of reinforcements will give him the opportunity to retain more strength in his hands.

Standing behind Chen Kefu was Tang Shengyun, director of the Secret Service Department, who had just returned from the Central Plains, and when he returned to Liaodong, the Secret Service Department had already done several beautiful things in his absence, which were praised by the whole army. The entire Secret Service Division has changed from a situation in which he was in charge alone in the past to a situation in which the Secret Service is a two-headed snake. Walking in the dark, he naturally understood very well that this was Chen Kefu's counterbalance technique, and he didn't have much dissatisfaction in his heart.

It's just a matter of dealing with people, but it's more low-key and diligent. As soon as Chen Kefu asked, he immediately stepped forward and said softly, "The information from the Zhuojun Branch of the Secret Service Division every day has arrived today." According to the intelligence, General Zhang Xutuo has arrived in Beiping County, and he will be able to reach Liaodong in half a month at most. "Half a month!" Chen Kefu seemed to be talking to himself in a low voice, and asked again after a while,

"Is there any other situation in the Central Plains?"

"A few days ago, His Majesty in Gaoyang intended to send a large army east to Liaodong again, of which 300,000 troops rode out of Beiping County, and 200,000 sailors went out of Shandong, and increased the Liao tax on the rich people in the world. However, the ministers of the DPRK and China have written against it, and His Majesty has all stayed in the center. In successive court meetings, every time His Majesty mentioned the four expeditions to Liaodong, all the ministers stopped talking and were all silent. Chen Kefu smiled, it seems that Yang Guang is really angry. Within a year, no one wanted to conquer Goguryeo twice in a row, and no one was willing to accept such a move. The soldiers of the world have already delayed a year's cultivation and then set out to fight, so even next year's will be delayed. And the rich families in the world can't stand every time they levy Liao, Yang Guang doesn't actually raise taxes on those ordinary surnames, except for letting them bear the burden of conscription for transporting grain equipment.

All the money and food deficiencies Yang Guang directly levied from the rich families in the world, although these rich families have money, but no one's money is blown by the wind in the sky. There is no way to levy it once or twice, but again and again, no one will bear it.

For the ministers of the DPRK and China, the whole world is now in chaos, although Liaodong may be pacified. But at this time, all the ministers agreed that the outside must first be at home.

There is Chen Kefu in Liaodong, and he only needs to send a few reinforcements to the east. Even if Goguryeo can't be destroyed for a while, as long as the current situation in Liaodong can be maintained.

At the moment, the most important thing is to return to Beijing immediately by the emperor's car, whether it is Tokyo City or Xijing.

As long as the emperor returns to Beijing, he can stabilize the government at that time, and the two of them can also make the surname feel a little at ease.

Another one can also draw out a lot of elite soldiers and horses to dispatch various parts of the Central Plains to quell the chaos. Only by pacifying the Great Sui family can we talk about conquering the foreign lord clan again. Otherwise, if this continues, the entire Great Sui will be destroyed, and Mao will be attached, then they, the nobles and ministers of the court, will inevitably go away with their current power and wealth.

"The result?" Chen Kefu was also the most opposed to Yang Guangsi's expedition to Liaodong, but he was not loyal to the Great Sui, and he was afraid that the Great Sui would destroy the country and destroy the dynasty from now on. What he was worried about was the arrival of Yang Guang, Yang Guang to Liaodong, it must be hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses. At that time, how can he still be the master of the whole Liaodong, and now Yang Guang is already suspicious of him, it is very likely that the day Yang Guang arrives in Liaodong will be the time when he hands over his military power.

Tang Shengyun said softly, "For several days in a row, the ministers responded to the emperor with silence, and the emperor was furious and killed two ministers under the pretext of killing them. But this time, the ministers seemed to have made up their minds to fight against the emperor, and just a few days ago, the two generals Yujuluo and Tuwanxu, who were sent to suppress Liu Shiyuan in Jianghuai, suffered a big defeat in Jianghuai. Moreover, after General Zhang went north, the bandits in Shandong and Henan began to grow bigger, and Lu Mingyue, Dou Jiande, Du Fuwei, Zhai Rang and other bandits defeated the word army one after another, and the court and China were shaken. His Majesty had no choice but to agree to suspend the personal expedition to Liaodong, and to assign Gao Yang to accompany the troops and horses, and all the soldiers and horses in the world to suppress the rebels. Tang Guogong Li Yuan was appointed as the ambassador of Hedong, Lord Fan Zigai was appointed as the ambassador of Henan, and Wang Shichong was appointed as the ambassador of Jianghuai, and he was assigned to various ministries to deal with the suppression of bandits. As soon as he heard that Yang Guang had temporarily canceled his plan to come to Liaodong, Chen Kefu was also relieved. ,

However, when he heard a series of things that followed, he was silent for a long time. Lu Mingyue, Dou Jiande,

Du Fuwei, Zhai Rang and other rebel armies, except for Lu Mingyue, who died the earliest, it can be said that the remaining three roads of people and horses finally became the most powerful rebel army at the end of the Sui Dynasty. And now that the emperor has actually dispatched Li Yuan to Hedong, Chen Kefu couldn't help but be silent.

Historically, Li Yuan had been infamous in the early years, and it was not until he went to Hedong that he began to sprout ambitions, recruited troops, and finally seized the Yang family. At present, Li Yuan is still walking at the pace of history, so where will he go in the future?

As for Fan Zigai, a minister who is seventy or eighty years old and always likes to engage in massacres, Chen Kefu has no good feelings. It's a shame that he was still a civil servant, and he only knows how to counter violence with violence and stop killing with killing. It can be said that Henan, Shandong and other places have almost been suppressed by Zhang Xutuo, and Zhang Xutuo will be suppressed not only by Zhang Xutuo, but also appeased, and it will not be long before the rebel army in Shandong and Henan will be difficult to survive.

But now it can be imagined that this person who pays attention to the three-light policy everywhere goes to suppress bandits, and with his methods, in the end, he will definitely only suppress more and more, but will completely rot the entire Shandong and Henan.

Wang Shichong is a hero, and it is not surprising that he can get up so quickly. Yang Guang tossed like this, and the Central Plains was completely chaotic. The ministers full of ambition and the heroes in the peasant army are estimated to be difficult to pacify the entire Central Plains from now on. Thinking of this, the corners of Chen Kefu's mouth couldn't help but raise slightly.

The more chaotic the world, the better it will be for him. As long as he passes this hurdle, that is when he Chen Kefu will appear on the stage of the Central Plains.

"Shengyun, you asked the secret service divisions of Zhuojun and Dongdu to keep an eye on the situation in the Central Plains. Not only did the latest information from the imperial court come in a timely manner, but also the intelligence of people such as Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang Guo, Wang Shichong of the Huainan Army, the rebels Dou Jiande, Du Fuwei, and Wagang Zhai Rang should also pay attention to collecting. If the time comes, your Secret Service can also send Spies to these targets. Whether you buy them or go undercover, I hope that in the future, the Secret Service Department will have accurate information about them.

Remember, this is a top-secret mission, and you can only report all the information about this mission to me alone, understand? …，

The Central Plains is already in chaos, and heroes from all walks of life have begun to appear on the stage, since he Chen Kefu already knows the direction of these major events. At this time, we can't waste it, we will be able to start first, and then we will suffer, and take advantage of the current opportunity to start in advance, which will surely bring more help to the future.

Tang Shengyun nodded vigorously, the fact that the big man could give him such an important task showed that his position in the big handsome's heart was still very important.

"Don't worry, I will do my best to arrange it!" Central Plains! Central Plains! Chen Kefu silently recited these two words in his heart, only the Lord of the Central Plains is his goal. But now there is a big mountain in front of him, the Liao people poured their troops here, and he can only have the opportunity and qualifications to talk about the lord of the Central Plains if he defeats the Liao people first.

"Dashuai, in the east of the city, the Liao people have arrived again!" A lieutenant hurriedly climbed to the top of the East Gate and said loudly to Chen Kefu.

Chen Kefu hurried to the head of Dongcheng with the generals, only to see that in the endless dark night, sure enough, the fire was faint. In a few moments, a fiery dragon was already winding out of the darkness. At the end of the gaze, a bright band of light was formed, like the Milky Way in the sky. The countless torches got closer and closer, and countless flags could already be faintly seen fluttering in the ribbon of light. And behind that, it seems that the light belt has no end, and there seem to be countless soldiers and horses rolling in.