Chapter Fifty-Six: Returning Home
Fleeing home in embarrassment, as soon as I got home, my father, Xin'er and I couldn't help but cry bitterly, the failure of the conquest of Goguryeo had already spread throughout the Sui Dynasty, and they naturally knew the news of the heavy casualties of our army, when they went, there were only 10,000 people, and everyone hoped that their people could return safely, but they also knew that the probability of such a situation was very small.
"We lost, so to speak, and we lost completely." I told my parents, but my tone wasn't very sad, as if I was talking about something that was normal.
"It's good to be back, it's good to be back!" Daddy said in a snort, "This has nothing to do with you, it's all Yang Guang's bent on going his own way." ”
"By the way, Dad, let me tell you how ridiculous Yang Guang is!" For the sake of safety, I gently closed the door to prevent the partition wall from having ears, "We crossed the Liao River to attack Liaodong City, and seeing that it was about to be captured, he suddenly issued a 'surrender order', so that we immediately stopped the attack on the surrendered city, and the Goguryeo army repeatedly surrendered and rebelled after knowing it, and the situation on the battlefield was reversed. I said angrily.
Xin'er took my arm and said softly: "Don't be annoyed, just come back, I'm very tired from fighting outside in the past few months, I see that you have lost a lot of weight." I'm going to cook for you, and you take a shower and change the armor on your body, it's so bulky that it's not comfortable to wear. ”
Xin'er didn't say that I didn't react, the bulky armor on my body hadn't been taken off yet, and I had been wearing it all day, and it felt like it was growing on my body, so that I didn't react to take it off for a while.
My father and mother helped me take off this heavy armor, and I suddenly felt much lighter and comfortable. During this period of fighting, I didn't have time to take a shower, and my clothes smelled rancid, and my sweat clothes were tightly attached to my body. Xin'er arranged for someone to help me fetch water, and I really want to take a good bath.
Xin'er was busy preparing to cook for me again, but her mother hurriedly stopped her, "Hey, Xin'er, you can rest on the side, just leave the cooking to me." ”
"Then I'll do it." Xin'er said.
"Oh, no, no, just let someone do it for me, don't be busy, hurry up and rest, don't move the tire."
Tire gas? Hearing this term, I instantly became excited, looking straight at Xin'er's belly, I didn't notice it when I first came back, I found that Xin'er's belly was already high and bulging, I couldn't help laughing, walked to Xin'er's side, squatted down, gently stroked Xin'er's belly, and gently put my ears on it.
"You stupid boy, you just see it now?" Daddy smiled and said, "Not long after you left, Xin'er began to vomit, we found Lang Zhong's pulse, hey, it's a great thing, Xin'er is pregnant, your mother and I are going to hold our grandson, we are so happy." ”
"yes, I'm waiting for you to come back. Fortunately, our family is finally reunited, Xin'er will be born soon, and you will be able to be a father soon. The mother said happily.
I got up from the ground, "I'm going to be daddy soon." "I was so excited that the tiredness I had been feeling for months melted away at the thought of it.
"Okay, okay, you take a shower first, it's time to eat after washing." Xin'er said coquettishly, "Look at your stupidity. ”
After staying at home comfortably for more than a month, Emperor Yang of Sui's heart began to stir again - in the first month of the ninth year of the Great Cause (613 AD), Emperor Yang of Sui began to recruit soldiers from all over the world to gather in Zhuo County, and recruited some strong, brave and warlike people as Xiaoguo, most of whom were people from Guanzhong, and these Xiaoguo troops were led by the Hu Benlang general Sima Dejiao.
Yang Guang wants to crusade against Goguryeo again, and I naturally have to stay away from my father and mother, Xin'er, and even the baby I am about to be born can't see.
"Yang Guang still wants to conquer Goguryeo for the second time, isn't the last defeat enough?" Daddy said indignantly.
"Isn't Xiao Sheng leaving us again?" My mother said sadly, "How long has it been since I came back?" It's going to go again, which country is Goguryeo? Did you provoke Yang Guang? Why can't Yang Guangfei get along with it? "My mother doesn't know much about state affairs, but she knows that as soon as the war starts, I will have to leave this house, so she is not happy.
"Mother, this is also something that can't be helped, don't be anxious, I won't come back after a while." I tried to persuade my mother, in fact, I don't want to leave home very much, and the war is ruthless, as for the next time I can go home safely is unknown, but I can't bring this negative attitude to them, born in this dynasty is our helplessness.
"You promise me that you will come back safely." Xin'er frowned.
I smiled and pretended to be relaxed and replied, "Don't worry, I'm hard, I'll come back alive!" I crouched down and gently stroked Xin'er's bulging belly.
"Child, when Dad comes back, Dad will love you well." I whispered to the child in Xin'er's belly, "Child, I want to see your birth with my own eyes, but life is not always as people wish."
Drawing on the experience of the last defeat, Yang Guang did not rashly lead his army to attack Goguryeo this time.
He first sent people to repair the ancient city of Liaodong to reserve military rations, and then ordered the generals to be allowed to "work cheaply", and erected flying towers, crashes, ladders, etc. under the city of Liaodong, and also deliberately dug tunnels. However, Goguryeo was fortified and cleared, and we still did not capture Liaodong City for more than 20 days without stopping the city. Yang Guang also ordered more than 100,000 cloth bags to be sewn, which were filled with clods of earth, and wanted to pile them up into a Yuliang Avenue higher than the city, so that the soldiers could smoothly ascend the city along this road, and also built an eight-wheeled building cart, which was higher than the city wall of Liaodong City, which was used to project stones into the city.
As the saying goes, "everything is ready, only the east wind is owed", but this east wind was "cut off" halfway - Yang Xuangan rebelled!
When he got this urgent news, Yang Guang immediately withdrew his troops and returned to the DPRK, leaving behind countless equipment, military funds and other things, but at this juncture, who can take care of so much? Yang Guang also tried to suppress the message of Yang Xuangan's rebellion, but it backfired, and the army that learned this information was immediately disheartened, and lost its deployment division in the chaos.
Goguryeo took the opportunity to send thousands of soldiers to pursue us, how could we, who were already in a mess, still have the fighting spirit to face the battle, and the result can be imagined, we were defeated, I picked up another life, God really favored me......