Huaiyuan Town is a military town, not far from Zhuo County, but more than ten days away, of course, this is also in the case of cavalry, Li Xin led the cavalry, and even Zhuo County did not enter, and directly killed Huaiyuan Town.

This is a small city, if it was in the past, the court of the Great Sui would not care about the life or death of this small city, but since the war between the court and Goguryeo, this place has become extremely important. Huaiyuan Town is close to the White Wolf Water, and it is Liaodong City to cross the Liaoshui River for 100 miles to the east. Therefore, Yang Guangcai set up the grain and grass base here. And sent 5,000 elite soldiers and horses to be stationed here.

"The last general, Luo Tao, led thirty-eight generals and officers of Huaiyuan, and the generals of each department have seen the generals." Li Xin's cavalry had just arrived at Huaiyuan Town, when he saw Hu Yalang's general Luo Tao leading Huaiyuan Town's martial arts at the city gate.

"No need to be polite, go to the barracks." Li Xin glanced around, and sighed slightly in his heart, Huaiyuan Town is a military town, although it has been repaired because of Yang Guang's attention recently, but it is still not as good as other military towns, not to mention the city wall for the time being, that is, these generals have some dishes on their faces, and this Luo Tao in front of him is probably also a poor disciple, otherwise, he would not have stayed in Huaiyuan Town.

"Yes." Luo Tao was stunned, but he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly led Li Xin and the others to the barracks.

To Li Xin's surprise, although Huaiyuan Town was dilapidated, the military camp was good, and the 3,000 troops and 5,000 defenders brought by Li Xin entered it, and it was much more spacious.

"The last general, Ying Yanglang, will Luo Tong have seen the general."

"The last general, Ying Yang, and the second general, Lu Jiuxing, have seen the general."

"The Last General"

"Cao Xujin, the subordinate warehouse, has seen the general."

"You're the warehouse Cao? In other words, you know how much grain, grass, and ordnance I have in Huaiyuan Town? Li Xinduan sat behind the handsome case, listening to the name and official position of the general of Huaiyuan Town, and when he waited for Xu Jin in front of him, he suddenly opened his mouth and asked.

Xu Jin was short in stature, had a dark face, and could still see some chilblains on his hands, which made Li Xin a little curious. I couldn't help but ask.

Xu Jin was stunned, but he only hesitated for a moment, and said: "General Huiyu, our army has 1.2 million stones of grain, 300,000 stones of high-grade black beans, 35 warehouses of forage, and the rest of 100,000 longbows, 1.3 million bows and arrows, and 50,000 long knives. The rest of the ordnance and cloth are innumerable. ”

"Oh, you remember it so well?" Li Xin was very surprised when he heard this, looked at Xu Jin in front of him, nodded, and said: "You are very good, prepare all the account books first, and when Tang Guogong comes, teach him all these military food and equipment, if there is the slightest loss, General Ben will want your head." "Li Xin is stationed in Huaiyuan Town and is responsible for the safety of Huaiyuan Town, but Li Yuan is supervising the transportation of grain and grass, and he is naturally responsible for these grains and grass.

"Luo Tao, Huaiyuan Town has 5,000 soldiers and horses according to reason, this general asked you, how many soldiers and horses are there, you know, this is only a hundred miles away from Liaodong City, if the enemy wants to kill, it will only take a day to get here." Li Xin looked at Luo Tao and said.

"Back to the general, the garrison is 5,000 people, but?" Luo Tao looked at Li Xin with some fear.

"But what?" Li Xin said with a frown. When he just accepted the order, Li Xin didn't know where Huaiyuan Town was, and later learned that this place was not much away from the front line, and the Great Sui went out to fight, and the momentum was huge, if Goguryeo wanted to force the Great Sui to retreat, the only way was to clear the wilderness and block its grain route, so as to force Yang Guang to retreat. Huaiyuan Town is a very important granary, and it will also become the first target of the enemy's attack. Before Yang Guang was in the future, Li Xin was in charge of this place.

"General, there are still a lot of remnants of the defeated soldiers on our side." Luo Tong hurriedly whispered: "They are all soldiers who fled back from Liaodong after the Great War last year. These people didn't dare to go home because they were defeated soldiers, so they all gathered in Huaiyuan Town, some time ago, repairing the city wall, the last general was still looking for them. ”

"The remnants of the defeated army are still barely surviving? General, these people should be killed. Before Li Xin could speak, Yang Ning snorted coldly.

"It's a shame for me." Du Ping said with a cold snort.

Luo Tao's face changed, and he was about to speak, but when he saw the shiny armor on the two of them, he suddenly stopped talking, and at a glance, he knew that the two were from a wealthy family, and it was not something that Luo Tao could fight.

"Humph! Every soldier will have a time of defeat, and it is called shame to flee from the battle, if after a bloody battle, it is still defeated, then it is not called in and out, the general is the commander of the battle, in the war, how to save the lives of the soldiers, to win a war, that is a general's ability. These soldiers used their lives and dignity to prove that they are soldiers of the empire, such soldiers are brave soldiers, General Yang, General Du, remember, they are not the shame of the soldiers of the Great Sui Empire, but the pride of my Great Sui soldiers. Li Xin glanced at the two of them with a cold snort and said, "Remember, in this case, General Ben doesn't want to hear it a second time, otherwise, don't blame General Ben for being ruthless." ”

"Yes." Yang Ning's face was angry, but looking at Li Xin's gloomy face and those murderous eyes, he was suddenly shocked and quickly put away the dissatisfaction in his heart.

"Luo Tao, from today on, those soldiers will be included in the regular army, and the degree of use will be consistent with the army, and when the emperor comes up, I will give the emperor the establishment of the regular army for these brothers and incorporate them into the army system. You must know that the emperor summoned the warriors of the world, thought that Xiaoguo, and set up Zhichong, Guoyi, Wuyong, Xiongwu and other generals to govern these Xiaoguo warriors, and those brothers who can escape back are the elite of the elite, if these people are used, not only can they inspire the morale of the army, but also increase the strength of our people, why not do it? Li Xin glanced at everyone, although these words were said to Luo Tao, they were actually said to the generals present.

The first Eastern Crusade failed, and the final one-tenth of the million army did not reach, and the rest of the people either died in the battlefield and were made into Jingguan by the enemy, or they fled in all directions, and the soldiers of the Great Sui Empire were killed and wounded, and almost all the military systems did not exist, which caused those soldiers who fled back to have no military system, either they were in the mountains and became thieves, or they fled back to their hometowns, and some of them stayed in Huaiyuan Town, living a life like pigs and dogs. I'm afraid those soldiers would have starved to death long ago. However, these remnants of the defeated soldiers did not have a good life.

Li Xin knew that in any era, any veteran was a treasure, especially these defeated soldiers, after being abandoned, if they were recruited under his command, they would definitely be loyal to him, and his loyalty was far above these fruits under his current command.

"General Luo, where are these defeated brothers, General Ben is going to see them." Li Xin did what he said, stood up and said loudly.

"Now?" Luo Tong was startled, looked at Li Xin and said.

"Yes, even now, if any of you don't want to go, you don't have to." Li Xin's tiger eyes swept over, and everyone dared not agree, and they followed Li Xin behind him and came out of the big tent.