"Zhong Jian, Mr. is also thinking about these people!" Yu Wenshi and while explaining for Yuan Wuben, he shook his head at Li Xu again and again.

"Humph!" Li Xu snorted coldly, turned around to inspect and comfort his wounded, and felt worse than eating a hundred flies. He admired the calmness and courage shown by Yuan Wuben after the defeat. But this man's attitude of treating the people like dogs is really annoying. In Xuzi's eyes, although those captives had poor courage and weak combat effectiveness, they were all innocent people like his uncle Zhang Baosheng. If it weren't for the great ambition of Yang Xuangan, Yuan Wuben and others, these captives were still farming at home at the moment, who would come to do the business of losing their heads!

Now that he has been defeated, Yuan Wuben also put on a lofty posture of a saint, as if he can take all the responsibilities himself, and with courage and wisdom, he can find a way to survive for the "gangsters" under his rule. But I don't want to think about how those people would have fallen into such a situation if it weren't for the fact that a few of them dared to start a hasty incident without even armor and weapons for the sake of fame and greed!

The other generals of the Xiongwu battalion also did not have a good impression of Yuan Wuben, and when they saw Li Xu coming to inspect the results, they immediately deliberately raised their voices. "Returning to the general, our army lost 212 men, 47 seriously wounded, and 600 lightly wounded. Those who are still able to fight, four thousand three hundred and fifty-eight! More than 3,000 enemies were defeated, and 20,363 enemy soldiers were captured. Among them, there are 60 captains, 11 lieutenants, and 11 generals. Lang Jiangyi," Zhao Ziming read aloud while holding the inventory. The rough statistics showed that the numbers were not so accurate, but in order to humiliate Yuan Wuben, he deliberately read the numbers to single digits.

"The puppet county shou Yuan Wuben surrendered, and he is waiting for the general to fall!" Zhao Ziming handed over the inventory, "aimed" at Yuan Wuben with the corner of his eye, clenched his fists, stood solemnly, and then turned around and stood aside.

"General, this battle captured 20 banners, 150 pairs of armor, more than 500 horizontal knives, 6,000 kitchen knives, 6,000 iron forks, and more than 14,000 wooden sticks!" Si Cang joined the army and Qin Xingshi deliberately stretched the reading of the wooden stick so that everyone present could hear it clearly.

The generals of the Xiongwu Battalion laughed loudly, but as if he hadn't heard the laughter of others, Motomoto continued to discuss military affairs with Yuwen Shi calmly. After a while, Li Xu finished handling the chores in the army, and Yu Wenshi also ended his move to ask Yuan Wuben for advice. Several core figures in the army negotiated slightly, leaving the long history Zhao Ziming and a thousand soldiers and horses, responsible for taking care of their wounded soldiers, and escorting the prisoners to slowly march towards Liyang. More than 3,000 other soldiers followed Li Xu and Yu Wenshi, led by Yuan Wuben, and went straight to Liyang.

The rebels who stayed in Liyang City had already learned the news of the annihilation of all the soldiers and horses from the mouths of the rout, and they were as anxious as ants on a hot pot. When he saw that the county guard Yuanwu was able to take the city with the enemy army, he couldn't muster any courage to resist, and obediently opened the city and surrendered according to Yuanwuben's order.

Li Xu and Yu Wenshi and Daxi immediately sent people to take over the city defense, settle the soldiers, seal the treasury, and rectify the law and order, and they were busy from the evening until midnight, before they remembered that they had won such a big battle, and they had not sent anyone to report to the commander. The two hurriedly discussed the rhetoric, unified their opinions, and wrote down the field battle during the day and the city capture in the evening, and divided them into two parts, one of which was ordered to report to the old general Yuwen. One was sealed with fire paint and returned to His Majesty the Great Sui Emperor at an expedited speed of 800 miles.

When the messenger was ordered to leave, the two remembered that at this moment, Li Anyuan was still feint with hundreds of soldiers and horses to Ji County. Hurriedly sent his own soldiers out again, intercepted Li Anyuan along the official road, and ordered him to quickly move closer to Liyang. Then, he sent Zhang Xiu to lead people to pick up Zhao Ziming, and ordered him to bring all the soldiers back to Liyang and place them in the military camp in the city to supervise. When all the miscellaneous things are done, the sky is already bright. The situation of the enemy and me was unknown, and the two did not dare to rest, so they got something to eat casually, and went out with their own soldiers to inspect the city defense.

Liyang City is located on the side of the Yongji Canal, which is the important place for grain and grass hoarding and operation in the Great Sui Dynasty, so the city wall is very tall. Urn city, horse face, enemy tower, arrow tower, a dry city defense building has everything. On the city wall, there are a large number of rolling logs, stones, nails, long hooks and other sharp weapons to defend the city. In the two tall gatehouses due east and north, there are still more than a dozen bed crossbows, but they are very old, and I don't know if they can be used.

The population of the city is small, so there are few dwellings. In the square city, every thirty or so steps, there is a granary made of bricks and stones. Each granary is five zhang round and more than two zhang high. Dozens of granaries add up, and the grain and grass inside are tens of millions of stones. As Yuan Wuben said yesterday, even if the 100,000 army eats for five years, it may not be able to exhaust these stored grains.

"So much food!" Yu Wenshi shook his head as he watched. At the beginning, it was decided to attack Liyang with light troops, and the battle was originally the idea of taking advantage of the rebels' unpreparedness and burning down their granaries. But now that he saw so much food and such a tall city, he couldn't help but be undecided in his heart.

"yes, so much food!" Li Xu sighed and reconciled. At this moment, he was not thinking about how tall Liyang City was, but about the wheat that no one had harvested in Shanggu County and the burned farmland around Liyang. The army of 300,000 hastily returned to help abandoned all the supplies on the road, and if the grain of Liyang was left, the army would no longer have to collect it in all directions. In the coming year, the life of the surrounding people will be somewhat better.

The two looked at each other, and they both saw reluctance in each other's eyes. Although they have different starting points, they rarely think of one place.

"This city is very strong, if it weren't for the Yuan Wu ability to enter the city yesterday, with our more than 4,000 brothers, it would be difficult to enter the city gate for a while!" Yu Wenshi nodded at Li Xu and said with a smile.

"That's natural, we came in a hurry, and there is no one to match! Even if you build a ladder, you can't build enough of them in three or five days! Li Xu nodded in response, his eyes full of smiles.

"We don't have the siege equipment we have in hand, and Yang Xuangan may not have it. Even if Han Shixu came in person, I didn't believe that he could climb to the top of the city with his bare hands! Yu Wenshi pointed to the mountains and rivers in the distance and said loudly.

"Old General Yuwen has received good news from us, and he will definitely come to the aid in the starry night. If Han Shixu dares to stay in the city for a long time, you and I will tell him to come and go. Li Xu slowly raised his head, full of pride in his heart.

The two looked at each other and laughed, deciding to stay the course. Whether it is Li Mi or Han Shicao, the fame is spread by others. The San Lang of the Yuwen family and the son of the Li family are not as famous as them and have more experience, but when they really fight, they may not know who will kill the deer.

Since they decided to defend the city, the two immediately began to discuss the deployment of troops. At present, there are only more than 4,000 soldiers in the Xiongwu battalion who can still participate in the battle, and it is obviously a foolish idea to arrange all of them on the city wall. In addition to their own robes, the two of them could also use the captives in the city. Right now, those people are being held in the barracks waiting to be disposed of, and after the blow of yesterday, everyone is as deferential as sheep. Zhao Ziming escorted more than 20,000 prisoners with 1,000 soldiers and horses, but no one tried to escape halfway.

"It will be the courage of the soldiers, and the officers above the captain will be replaced by our people! With these officers in the middle of it, they can't rebel even if they want to! Yu Wenshu took a stone and drew a string of numbers on the ground. 20,000 people, you need 2,000 gang commanders. Coupled with the team leader, brigade rate, and captain, more than half of our brothers in the Xiongwu Battalion are about to have an official addiction for the time being! ”

"Leave three regiments of cavalry on standby, if the enemy attacks too recklessly, I can also take people out to kill once!" Li Xu grabbed a branch and squatted next to Yu Wenshi.

"The third prince is becoming more and more like a ruffian!" Several generals of the Yuwen clan frowned, scolding in their hearts. "They were all brought by this wild boy, I don't know what the benefits of this wild boy are, and he actually let the third son fall in love with him so much!"

Slander is slander, and the generals still dutifully disperse and guard around, so as not to get close to the idle people and disturb the two adults to discuss military affairs. Yu Wenshi and Li Xu squatted under a huge granary, taking the ground as a case and picking stones as a pen, slowly outlining the general outline of the city defense deployment.

"Tell the captives that if they can make meritorious contributions in the defense of the city, they will be remembered and rewarded like the soldiers of the Great Sui Mansion!" Li Xu reviewed the results of the discussion between the two again, and added in a low voice.

"Well, the first evil is Yuan Wuben. Since the first evil is ambushed, the co-followers don't ask anything. After asking about the enemy situation tonight, invite Mr. Yuan to have a drink, and we will send him on his way! Yu Wenshi dropped the used stones, clapped his hands, and stood up, his face extremely relaxed.

"Isn't the strategy of using the soldiers to defend the city dedicated to you by Yuan Wuben?" Li Xu gently put down the branch in his hand, and asked with a surprise that could not be concealed. He originally thought that Yuan Wuben had offered the city and the plan, and for the sake of his deferential attitude, at least Yuwenshi would consider pleading with him in front of the emperor to save him from death. But he didn't expect that Yu Wenshi didn't care about Yuan Wuben's life at all.

"Of course, you see him rebelling against the enemy, but he also has the people in his heart. He said that the soldiers who followed the thieves were all forcibly captured by him, and there was nothing good or evil in his heart. I suggest that I reorganize them and hold Liyang with the brothers of the Xiongwu Battalion! Yu Wenshi sighed and replied. In his eyes, Yuan Wu instinctively handed over Liyang City after the defeat, and he was a downright celebrity. But the more famous the rebels, the harder it is to hide.

"But, but he has already done his work, and he has atonement for his sins?" Li Xu's eyes unconsciously glared at the boss again. He didn't like Yuan Wuben, in his opinion, this person acted strangely from head to toe, giving all the children in his family to others as slaves, and his own head was about to be cut off, but he seemed to be happy. But the behavior of Yu Wenshi and others while boasting about others while thinking about how to cut off people's heads is too unexpected.

"We, the Great Sui, will not hold the dead accountable!" Yu Wenshi patted Li Xu on the shoulder and explained to him like a little brother, "If I kill him now, the emperor will not destroy his clan in the future." Since his family has become the slaves of my Yuwen family, the Criminal Department will naturally not investigate it to the end. If we sacrifice him to the emperor as a prisoner, I am afraid that not only will he be Ling Chi in the future, but his wife and children, the old and young, as well as his brothers, children and nephews, will not be able to escape death! If a cool official tries this case, even Mr. Yuan's side branches and cousins will also be sent to the plug to defend the border, and this time they will never come back! ”

"Ahh Li Xu's mouth opened wide, and he could already stuff a whole egg. The laws of the Great Sui Dynasty about rebellion, he didn't understand at all. So I have always fantasized about being able to meet my mentor Yang Fuzi on the field, and then secretly hide my mentor and let him go when the wind is small. Now he realized how naïve it was, so naïve that it was laughable.

"There are rules in various parts of the Central Plains, and the nephews of non-local wang clans cannot be officials. Although Yuan Wuben is only a county lieutenant, the Yuan family is also a big family in the local area. The whole family of all ages adds up, to say the least, there are hundreds of people. When we killed him, we actually saved his whole family! Yu Wenshi's words were like thunder, and the sound exploded on Li Xu's head.

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