Chapter 606: A Year of Change
A year flies!
In the ninth year of the Great Cause of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty transferred another million troops, as well as millions of soldiers and civilians, gathered in Youzhou and began the second expedition to Goguryeo!
In the ancient city of Liaodong, the Sui army's military flag covered the sky and the sun, and hundreds of thousands of Sui Dynasty military camp tents surrounded the entire ancient city.
One day, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty summoned generals above the fifth rank to discuss the strategy of conquering Goguryeo in the ancient city of Liaodong.
At this time, Lin Sha, who was already the general of the fourth grade Ying Yang Lang, cooperated with the deputy general of the fifth grade Ying Yang, and replaced it under the command of the general Jing Yuanheng, and participated in the military meeting presided over by Yang Guang himself.
At the military meeting, led by Yang Guang, the general Yu Wenshu, the general Jing Yuanheng, the general Yang Yichen and other important generals of the Sui army spoke one after another, and after three days of discussion, the strategy of conquering Goguryeo was finally decided.
In March, nearly a million Sui Dynasty troops set out from Youzhou and the ancient city of Liaodong, and the troops were divided into two routes, one to Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, and the other to directly besiege Liaodong City, an important town of Goguryeo.
Not to mention Yuwenshu, who had just been defeated in Sahe last year, plus a new force Yang Yichen, led hundreds of thousands of troops to Pyongyang with great momentum, Lin Sha, as a senior general of the Sui army in Youzhou, led tens of thousands of soldiers under his command, as well as several times the number of people, followed behind the general Jing Yuanheng, accompanied the Sui Emperor Yang Guang to besiege the Goguryeo town of Liaodong City.
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The Sui camp outside the city of Liaodong stretched for hundreds of miles, and hundreds of flags were raised high, dancing majestically with the wind.
A huge camp on the outskirts of Xicheng, with the word 'Jing' flying high, makes people familiar with the military system of the Sui army recognize at a glance, this is the general flag of Jing Yuanheng, the general of Zuo Xiaowei.
In the center of the camp stood a huge tent, which was where Jing Yuanheng's main tent was located.
With the beating of the rousing snare drum. The entire huge camp seemed to come to life suddenly, and a small cavalry team with an awe-inspiring momentum gathered one after another. The huge tent behind the three-way drum was already full of dozens of generals and colonels, and the atmosphere of the entire camp tent was solemn and depressing.
Lin Sha sat in the front right position. Behind him sat two Ying Yang deputy generals, a heroic young handsome face is very conspicuous in a middle-aged and elderly general.
At this time, the general Jing Yuanheng had not yet arrived, and the generals and colonels were looking for familiar colleagues to discuss in a whisper, and from time to time they raised their eyes and swept over Lin Sha, who was sitting silently, and the two deputy generals behind him, their eyes were full of very strange weirdness.
Especially the generals who were born in the family of gate valves and whose grades were lower than Lin Sha's, they looked at Lin Sha very unkindly, as if Lin Sha had robbed them of their things.
"Lang Jun ......"
After all, He Dalang was born poor, how could he withstand such attention, and he was uncomfortable and panicked for a while. I don't know when it was already a big man, and his face turned pale.
"Don't worry, just keep your mind calm!"
Lin Sha sat silently with a solemn face, and the eight winds did not move and spoke indifferently, turning a blind eye to the exploration and various eyes that came from all sides, and with his status at this time, he didn't need to be too polite.
One year is enough time to change a lot of things.
For example, the steamed grain liquor that Lin Sha made out had been sold far away from Saiwai at this time, even in Goguryeo, which was in a state of hostility. It is also famous.
While earning a large amount of money, ginseng, deer antler velvet, which is unique to Northeast Saiwai, as well as Korean ginseng, a specialty of Goguryeo. There is also a steady stream of precious qi-replenishing medicinal materials.
With the help of these precious medicinal materials that replenish qi and nourish blood, Lin Sha's qi and blood energy has really improved a lot in this year. With that, the functions of the whole body are enhanced a lot.
The already condensed qi and blood became more and more viscous, and there seemed to be signs of moving closer to lead and mercury.
There is a bond between the spirits that are very popular with the outsiders. The foreign trade he did with the Saiwai tribe was booming, and the trade volume of fur cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock became more and more large. His potential influence outside the Cypriot sector is also skyrocketing.
At the very least, to solve some small troubles outside the plug, there is no need to use the regular army at hand, just through the people of the trading house to spread the word, and give some benefits, many small tribes with insufficient strength are very willing to run errands for Lin Sha, so as to get more trade share from the trading house.
That's right, for the Northeast Cypriot Colony, Lin Sha is playing economic penetration and control, as long as it is not a year that cannot be encountered, there is a large number of trade support from Lin Sha's trade line, the Northeast grassland and the tribes in the forest are easily unwilling to use the sword soldiers, that is, there are those stunned and ambitious people, as long as there is no prestige of the entire tribe, there is no need for Lin Sha to personally lead the troops to take action, naturally there are tribes who want to tie the knot to take care of it.
This is also the main reason why the situation outside the northeast has been very stable over the past year, except for Goguryeo, where hostilities are serious.
It's a pity that although Lin Sha's contribution is great, the princes of the court and the court turned a blind eye, and they didn't expect that the situation outside the northeast would be stabilized by Lin Sha so easily.
Of course, there are still quite a lot of smart people in this world, and some people may also see that in a year, Lin Sha has gone from being unknown at the beginning to the military real power faction that all forces intend to win over.
This is also for a reason, Lin Sha's qi and blood energy has been very thoroughly condensed and improved with the assistance of a large number of regular medicinal materials, and his physical fitness and function have also been greatly improved, and his strength has risen steadily.
In the past year, against the strong enemy of Goguryeo, he was not bent on getting into the money and couldn't get out, but he still commanded his brothers to do a lot of practical things.
For example, after the integrated training and regular training were formalized, every few days he would lead one or several hundred-man cavalry teams to take the initiative to find trouble with the Goguryeo border army.
Because this is the world of high martial arts, he doesn't dare to let his generals lead the team, maybe one day he will be unlucky enough to meet a first-class peak master of Goguryeo, and they won't even have the strength to fight back, let alone escape.
But it was different with Lin Sha personally in charge, although he basically didn't make much moves, but the elite small force of the Sui army with his presence was confident, not to mention the trouble of finding a small patrol force of Goguryeo, and sometimes even daring to rush across the Liao River and show off his might outside the city of Liaodong for a while.
This hand really made Goguryeo angry enough.
If you want to take it seriously and send a large army to deal with it, the Sui army is too cunning, relying on the characteristics of few people and excitement and flexibility, one person, two horses or even three horses, and when the situation is not good, they immediately run away and slip away, and the Goguryeo army will inevitably move slowly, and when they go out of the city to adjust the formation, they can only look at the smoke and dust when the Sui army leaves.
If the number of men and horses dispatched is not large, a little more or less than the Sui army's attack and disturbance, the Sui army and horses are even more 'brazen' and rush up, and the crossbow arrows are shot and javelins, and the bow and arrow have become a cumbersome thing, often making the Goguryeo side sour, not to mention the loss of the army, and the small group of Sui army men and horses are helpless, and it has become a stepping stone for the Sui army soldiers to be promoted and rich.
Because Lin Sha has always been just 'standing by', and the Sui army is only 'making a small fuss', the Goguryeo masters sitting in the city of Liaodong can't lose their face like Lin Sha and directly act against the ordinary soldiers of the Sui army.
Of course, even if they make a brazen attack regardless of their cheeks, Lin Sha is not good-looking, whether it is fists and feet hand-to-hand combat or big swords and spears, Goguryeo is a master in the front-line army, whether it is a first-class level or a grandmaster level, Lin Sha basically only suffers.
In a year, Lin Sha's name of bravery has spread throughout the Goguryeo front army, and the deterrent power of the Goguryeo front line soldiers is greater than those high-ranking generals.
Not only does he have a great reputation in the Goguryeo front army, but also in the Youzhou Sui army, Lin Sha is also a famous number one master!
I don't know if it's because there are no first-class sects on the rivers and lakes in Youzhou, or because this is simply the barren land of the Great Sui rivers and lakes, in short, whether it is in the Youzhou martial arts or in the army, there are no famous bigwigs in the rivers and lakes, but because of the threat of Goguryeo, there are many masters in the army for the time being.
With Lin Sha's strong force, it is enough to quickly gain a foothold in the Youzhou Sui Army, and win a large number of fans, becoming a non-negligible existence in the Youzhou Sui Army.
With such prestige and strength, it will never happen easily to be pretended to lead the army, unless someone wants to fight Lin Sha and the thousands of men under his command.
Accumulate a lot, gather sand into a tower, accumulate small victories into big victories......
In short, a year's continuous small-scale conquest seems to be inconspicuous, but once the number of wounded and killed enemies is counted, it is a shocking number!
Thirteen thousand five hundred!
This is what Linsha and his brothers have achieved in a year's guerrilla warfare.
Lin Sha has experienced several martial arts worlds, and has been an emperor and a feudal town, so he naturally understands some twists and turns in the feudal army.
Therefore, he never reported it once in a battle, but waited for the number of enemies killed to accumulate a considerable number, and then reported it with great fanfare.
At the beginning, the imperial court was very happy, and the successes for half a year were frequent, although the number of enemies killed each time was not more than thousands, but it couldn't stand the frequent times, and in the end, even Emperor Yang Guang of Sui was alarmed.
It is rare to have an impression of Lin Sha, a rookie in the army who rose from the battle of Goguryeo because of his military exploits, and Yang Guang, who was in a state of drunken life and dreaming of death, and got his actions and merits on the border of Goguryeo, not only did he not have any displeasure but also rewarded him lavishly, but in half a year, Lin Sha was promoted by half a level because of his military merits.
However, such good news spread more, and the imperial court became numb, and the number of enemies killed by Lin Sha's men in the second half of the year increased significantly due to the familiarity with tactical tactics, but the imperial court did not continue to reward them.
It wasn't until Lin Sha's year-end summary report was sent to the court that he saw that shocking number that it finally attracted the attention of Emperor Yang Guang of Sui again......
d (To be continued.) )