Riding on the back of the black wind, Li Xu was embraced by the guards and marched eastward.

The army still took the same route that the grain protection team took last year to rush to Maqishui. Experience has proved that the journey from this road to Maqishui is the shortest, and the mountains on the road are the gentleest. The inconvenience is that several cities and cottages on the way are still controlled by the Goguryeo people, and out of fear of the Sui army's retaliation, the Goguryeo people inside share the same hatred and protect the safety of the city with their lives.

The Xiaoguo battalion put on an aggressive offensive posture and swaggered forward. Sometimes, they even deliberately relaxed their guards, luring the Goguryeo defenders along the way to attack out of the city. However, the Goguryeo guards were all veterans of the frontier, and from the smoke and dust brought up by the men and horses outside the city, they could judge that the number of enemy troops was at least 20,000 or more. In a field battle with 20,000 cavalry, which was in the limelight, the Goguryeo people would not make such a stupid choice. Therefore, from Liaodong City to Wugu River, Xiongwu Xiaoguo Camp is unimpeded all the way.

Zhong Xiaoguo was not a fuel-efficient lamp when he was in his hometown, and the first night of the march was due to the fear of being intercepted and killed by the enemy, and military discipline could still be maintained. When they passed by Baiya City in the afternoon of the next day, the Goguryeo defenders did not dare to go out of the city to stop them, so their vigilance was greatly weakened. On the third day, the whole battalion did not encounter half of the enemy from the forward to the rear, and the arrogance of the Xiaoguo immediately rose. By the morning of the fourth day, the stubborn nature of most people was completely exposed. Some people left a good road on the plains and deliberately trampled on the crops that the Goguryeo people would have time to harvest in the future. When someone passed by the deserted village, they easily demolished the door frames of the villagers and knocked down the courtyard wall. There are also man-made rice that does not lose the fire, and lights a large area of the surrounding crops. Military judges at all levels instinctively chose to turn a blind eye to all this.

Seeing that the commanders don't care how they spoil things, the Xiaoguo are even more capable of doing whatever they want. By the afternoon of the fourth day, there was often nothing left of the army, and from a distance it seemed ten times worse than a plague of locusts. On the fifth day, some low-level civil servants finally couldn't bear the torment of conscience, and asked General Yutakero to pay attention to restraining the behavior of his subordinates. Everyone reasoned with the young and ambitious Li Lang and told him that the whole world was not the king's land. Those Goguryeo people who fled were also the people of His Majesty the Great Sui Sage Emperor, and the teachers of benevolence and righteousness could not spoil them so much. This contrary advice was spoken, making Lang General nod his head again and again. Nodding his head, Li Lang will still turn a blind eye to the atrocities of the Xiaoguo. Some people were angry and directly reflected the problem to the Yuwen Prison Army, and the Yuwen Prison Army didn't seem to be willing to deal with this matter, but just stretched out his voice and asked, "Since you think that the people of Goguryeo are the people of the Great Sui, why don't they welcome Wang Shi in the middle of the road?" ”

Everyone who heard it was dumbfounded, they really couldn't answer Yuwen Jianjun's question. There were a few guys who took advantage of the gap to "make a difference" and were even extremely disappointed, they smashed their brains and couldn't understand why Lord Yuwen wore the same pants as the people of the Li family? Are the two sides obviously deeply hateful, why did they collude so tightly in secret?

Yu Wenshi and don't care what others think. He is not Li Xu, no matter what thoughts those middle- and low-level civil servants and military generals have, they can't move His Majesty the Emperor's son-in-law in the slightest. In fact, compared to the spoiled crops and cottages of the Goguryeo people, the Yu Wenshi and the Li Lang Shogun were more interested. After several days of observation, he found that Li Xu was much more mature than last year, and he was much older in dealing with problems. At least, so far, what General Li Lang has done has left no one else to handle. Although it is not much better than setting fire to the places that Xiaoguo has ruined, but the lax restraint of subordinates and the deliberate arson and mutilation of the people are two completely different concepts, and after this incident, even if the officials want to impeach Li Xu, the accusations fabricated cannot make him break his bones.

"This kid has finally come to his senses!" Looking at Li Xu, who was marching not far in front of him, Yu Wenshi was full of emotion. As the old saying goes: Shibei should be impressed for three days, but since he was selected as a prison soldier that day, he and Li Xu have only seen each other for a few hours, and the huge changes that have occurred in the other party make him unable to believe that he is facing the same person. Now this teenager is no longer the impulsive, enthusiastic reckless offspring, he has slowly become calm, sophisticated, and sleek. These mature manners did not overshadow his edge. "Maybe he hasn't learned to cover up yet!" Yu Wenshi and wishful thinking. The current Xuzi is like a steel knife that has been bladed in his eyes, and no matter how much he covers it, he can't hide the fierce light emitted from its blade.

For three days, Yu Wenshi observed Li Xu from all angles. Every angle made him feel that his family needed to increase the bargaining chips again. More than two months ago, the Yuwen family let the emperor promote the other party's official position through the way of guaranteeing, but the purpose was to make Li Yuan no longer able to control the young man. Now, what the Yuwen family needs to do is to put the young tiger that has escaped from Li Yuan's grasp back on the reins of the Yuwen family.

For three days in a row, Yu Wenshi found that Li Xu rarely spoke. In addition to explaining the daily tasks of a few henchmen and generals, and leaving five hundred to a thousand soldiers to garrison in several dangerous places, the mouth of the young general in front of him was almost closed. The expression on his face and eyes also showed that he was always in deep thought. Occasionally shaking his head, or a little excitement in his eyes, means that he has understood something else, or has some clever plan for this response. But what the other party thought of, Li Xu didn't say, and Yu Wenshi didn't want to ask.

If Yu Wenshi could see Li Xu's true thoughts in his heart at this moment, he would definitely be so angry that he vomited blood on the spot. In fact, in the past three days, Li Xu's time for thinking about military affairs has not added up to two hours. More often than not, he was thinking about what Samurai said before leaving, "She said she was never angry with you!" Although it was only a short sentence, it made Li Xu taste it repeatedly.

Xuzi knew that she had never blamed Wan'er. Even if he is 10,000 sure that he will be able to get ahead in the future, worship the general, and be the marquis of ten thousand households, he is not qualified to let a woman wait for the day when she will become famous with the happiness of her life. A girl's youth is short-lived, and she will grow old when she waits. This responsibility, Xu Zi knows that he can't bear it, and he can't afford it.

"Do I really like Wan'er? Like like Tao Kuo Silk? It took Li Xu a long time to give himself a complete answer. When he knew that he could no longer wait for Tao Kuo's figure on the shore of Crescent Lake, he remembered that he felt sad and wanted to die. That unforgettable taste is still unforgettable to this day. Every time I think about it, it is like being stabbed in the chest with a horse lance, and it hurts from the bottom of my heart to my whole body. But for Wan'er's marriage, Li Xu had a different feeling in his heart. It's not pain, there's no resentment, it's just a deep disappointment, like the disappointment of being snatched away from the candy you're looking forward to.

Wan'er was unlike any woman he had ever seen, she was from a wealthy family, generous, mature, and sometimes willful, but more often than not, she was as wise and decisive as his father, and her bearing was magnificent. Such a woman was destined to attract Asahiko who grew up in another class from the day she appeared, but at this time, Asahiko gradually understood that being attracted and having the ability to have are actually two completely different things.

On horseback, he gradually became free, and his eyes were no longer confused. He knew that he had to grasp what he had now in order to hope for the future. Until you really reach a certain position, there are some things that are destined to be a luxury.

But I am not too far away from this luxury, and in the autumn of three years ago, I looked at His Majesty the Emperor, the legendary general, and the Great Shangshu, just like looking up at the night sky that is gradually darkening, distant, and unreal. At that time, His Majesty the Emperor said something rebellious in his own eyes, and he was simply a loser and a fool. Manchao Huagon is also a fat guy, and none of them have wisdom and foresight. Now, I have gradually approached this starry sky, and I can see more clearly and more carefully. Those initiatives that were previously thought to be confused may not have been confused in the first place. And those seemingly mediocre behaviors often contain a lot of mysteries. It's just that these people's seemingly frivolous actions are life and death for the common people. Therefore, Xu Zi knew that he couldn't go back and be a common man, he wanted to break into that starry sky, just like Xu Dayan said back then, to establish his own family there. In this way, one's descendants will not be dissipated by the whims of a certain official, and the hardships they have experienced will never be repeated in their descendants.

After it was completely dark, Li Xu ordered the whole army to camp in a valley. He can't go too fast, the art of war is cloudy, and if he runs thousands of miles, he will pout the general. He is just a small general, but he doesn't dare to take his subordinates to take risks that only generals dare to take.

This order won him the cheers of the whole army, and until now, except for a few henchmen and generals, most of the Xiaoguo did not know what the ultimate purpose of their army's trip was. This kind of playful march over the past few days was very pleasant and very tiring. Therefore, it is their greatest wish to be able to walk and rest, and to play and walk at the same time.

The only person who disagreed with Li Xu's orders was Yu Wenshiji, who exercised his duties as a military supervisor for the first time, and after the army had completely settled, he was very angry and broke into Li Xu's military tent.

"Lord Lang, go like this, let's, are we a little slower?" Glancing at the low-level generals in the tent who looked a little dazed because they were disturbed, Yu Wenshi tried to keep his tone tactful. Whether it is now or in the future, the Yuwen family still has many opportunities to deal with each other, and as the younger generation in the family, Yuwen Shi does not want to provoke the contradiction too clearly.

Li Xu did not answer Yuwenshiji's question, he ordered someone to bring a stool for the overseer, and then moved the huge sheepskin map placed in front of everyone to Yuwenshi and under his nose. It was a magnified map of the situation in Liaodong based on a newly promulgated map of Liaodong by the Great Sui military. On the map, there is a black ink line drawn from Huaiyuan Town to Bo Shan Village, and then from Bo Shan Village to the northeast, and then in the north of the mountains and forests in a huge circle, and finally back to the Liao River. Anyone who participated in last year's operation to break the siege of Bo Shan Village knows that this black line was the march route of 300 brave men of the grain protection army last year. Every grass and tree on the way has carved an indelible mark in their hearts.

At present, Xiaoguoying is taking the first quarter of the same route, and has just left the Daliang Water Basin and arrived at the source of the Wugu Water. Further to the southeast, you can walk along the black bone water to the black bone city, and then keep killing the village. The next road was relatively flat, and there were not many Goguryeo cities and cottages along the way, and one of the most threatening was the Black Bone City, which Li Xu had already marked with charcoal.

"Are you worried that the defenders of Bone City will go out of the city to fight?" Yu Wenshi asked in a low voice. Last year, Liu Hongji and Li Xu used suspicious tactics to deceive the guards of the Black Bone City, and this time they played the same trick with the other party, and the other party did not have the possibility of being fooled.

Li Xu shook his head and did not answer, but stuffed the charcoal in his hand to Yu Wenshiji, and then asked: "If the prison lord is a Goguryeo guard, hears some uncertain news, and is unwilling to let the enemy army swagger away, where will he choose to intercept and kill?" ”

When he doesn't think about his family's interests, Yu Wenshiji's mind is very sharp. After a slight glance at the map, he immediately pressed the charcoal in his hand to an unnamed valley less than fifty miles from where the army was currently located. If you want to stop the Xiaoguo camp, the most favorable terrain for the enemy army is this nameless valley fifty miles away. Similarly, if the troops were to be withdrawn from Maqishui against this route, that nameless valley would also be a place where the army would pass.

The charcoal fell, and the Scholar and his anger vanished in an instant. If the news of the civil strife in the Great Sui had indeed been known to the Goguryeo, the Goguryeo would have seized this nameless valley in the distance anyway. Blocking this valley, the expeditionary army had to make a detour to the west, and the farther the road detoured, the lower the morale.

"The lower officials think," the marching commander Shi Zhao Ziming gave a salute to Yu Wenshi and slowly explained, "At present, the more hurried our march is, the more alert the Goguryeo people will be. Therefore, in the past few days, General Lang has not restrained military discipline, in order not to make the enemy suspicious! He has been in the officialdom for many years, and he very cleverly attributed Li Xu's connivance of his subordinates to the harm of the people to the auxiliary measures of military operations, "but the sailors did not land, and the army did not patrol the Maqi water, and the Goguryeo people were suspicious and ......suspicious."

There is no need for him to say what is going on, and none of you here will think that his analysis is unreasonable. His Majesty the Emperor's order to General Yuwen Shu to withdraw his troops had been issued before the Xiaoguo camp advanced eastward, and according to the speed of transmission of the military letter, the date when General Yuwen received the decree should have been yesterday or today. If he returned west immediately after receiving the holy decree, the Goguryeo people across the Ma Lishui would definitely not be able to follow the pursuit, and without the help of the terrain, the defenders of the few remaining cities in Liaodong would not have had the opportunity to block the 300,000 Eastern Expeditionary Army.

The only chance for the Goguryeo people to block the old general of Uwensu was in the Nameless Valley. And the first test faced by the Xiongwu Xiaoguo Battalion was also in the Nameless Valley.

The three teams of centaurs focused their eyes on one point at the same time.

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