Forty-one-year-old Yang Guang sat triumphantly on the edge of the dragon bed, and the beautiful concubine beside him slept soundly, this was the second day of the total annihilation of Wang Bo's rebels, and the first day of the vanguard going north to Liaodong.

Today is the first day of the first month of March, the north is still a day of snow, walking on the road for two months, to Liaodong just in the beginning of spring, the little Goguryeo, as soon as the army of millions arrives, drown you with spittle stars, surrender quickly, otherwise......

Yang Guang put on a dragon robe and a crown under the service of the palace maid, sat on the dragon chair, and waited for Yu Wenhua to see him.

This Yu culture and the same year as him, the grandson of Yu Wensheng of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Shangzhu Guo, his father Yuwen Shuguan worshiped the right guard general, grew up with Yang Guang since childhood, Yang Guang was the staff of the East Palace when he was the prince, Renshou four years of official promotion of the seventh grade of the military department of the guard, after Yang Guang ascended the throne, promoted to the right of the military department, responsible for the training of the soldiers and the transfer of grain and grass and other logistics and government affairs, the great cause of four years, transferred to the left waiter, presiding over the daily government affairs of the military department, although it is a flat transfer, the power is a lot greater.

Yang Guang drove the royal expedition to Wang Bo, Yu Wenhua and was transferred to the army, accompanied the king's side, and gave advice to Yang Guang, he is a rare talent, Yang Guang trusts him very much.

The short-bearded and white-faced Yu culture and the Hu people are of blood, he likes the emperor's obedience to him, but he also understands that the reason why Yang Guang trusts him so much is why he is dedicated to doing things for him, loyalty is very important, and it is also very important to be able to do things.

All the war reports from all over the country are collected in his hands, what to report, how to report depends on Yang Guang's mood, besides, the rebels are just a rabble, and Xue Ju in the northwest was blocked by Wu'er Chengdu in Longyou and could not advance an inch; Shanxi Dou Jiande was targeted by the Li family's father and daughter, and it was difficult to become a climate; Nanyang Wang Bo is a villain, and it will be difficult to grow in the end; The rebels in the south don't have to worry, the governor of the right army and the commander of the southern army is his friend Liu Fang, with his ability, Zhang Shicheng, Chen Youliang and the like, aren't they easy to capture?

Now His Majesty's mind is all on the Eastern Expedition to destroy Goguryeo, don't bother him with these scabies, pick up some good things to report to him, and he is a courtier who can do things.

As a result, Yu Wenhua did not present the national war report to His Majesty at all, but picked out the things that made Yang Guang happy, so that Yang Guang did not know the situation of the national war situation at all, and now he only wanted to wave his troops to Liaodong, get Goguryeo with the power of thunder, and then return to Chang'an to enjoy the praise of the first emperor through the ages.

"Long live my emperor!" As soon as Yu Wenhua arrived in front of Yang Guang, he knelt on the mountain and shouted long live, and then waited for Yang Guang to speak.

Yang Guang seemed to be a little out of shape today, he was silent for a long time and didn't let him calm down, and he didn't dare to look up, it was safest to kneel honestly at this time.

The inner attendant looked at Yu Wenhua, who had been lying on the ground, and then glanced at His Majesty, who seemed to be wandering out of the world, and said softly to Yang Guang: "Your Majesty, Yuwen Shilang Jin will see you." ”

Yang Guang nodded and said: "Renhuai, flat body, I am just a little in a trance, you have followed me since I was a child, tell me, am I old?" How can I miss the old days at every turn. ”

Yu Wenhua got up, bowed and saluted: "My emperor is in his prime, how can he be old?" Wang Bo's rebel army is strong, His Majesty drove the expedition in person, swept away thousands of troops in less than half a month, captured the head of the thief, and our army only suffered more than 2,000 casualties, today the vanguard has gone north, the million army will be able to reach Pyongyang like a bamboo, destroy the small Goguryeo, Weichen first wish His Majesty a complete victory in the Eastern Expedition, complete the unification as soon as possible, and achieve the hegemony of the world. ”

After listening to this, Yang Guang said: "Hahaha...... It is still Renhuai who listens to what he says, and when the war in Goguryeo is over, I can sit back and relax and swim in the magnificent rivers and mountains. ”

Yu Wenhua said with a smile: "Your Majesty, three million quintals of military rations and two million catties of forage have arrived in Zhuozhou, and millions of quintals of grain and grass raised in Jiangnan and Jiangbei have also been loaded on ships and headed north, along the canal to Nanjun of Jizhou, ready to support the front line at any time." ”

Yang Guang nodded and said, "What is the military situation in various places?" Let's talk about the Central Plains region first! ”

Yu Wenhua said: "There is no change in the Central Plains for the time being, but there are changes in Shanxi Dou Jiande and Nanyang Wang Bodang, but it is all good news, Your Majesty, this is the battle report submitted by the hussar general Li Xiuning and the chariot cavalry general Zhang Xutuo from Shanxi and Nanyang, please Your Majesty to take a look." ”

Yang Guangdao: "You pick up important things and talk about them." "He didn't seem to be in the mood to read the war report.

Yu Wenhua opened Li Xiuning's battle report and said: "The Right Wu Army has captured Linfen, but Dou Jiande has highlighted the encirclement, and she is ready to use Linfen as a station to capture Changzhi, Jincheng and Yuncheng. ”

Yang Guangxi said: "My cousin niece really did not disappoint me, solved a big problem for me, passed the order to her, always pay attention to Dou Jiande's movements, if there is a fighter that can complete its work in a battle, there is no need to ask for instructions, act cheaply." Expedited with the Imperial Red Feather 800 Miles! ”

Later, the internal officials were busy receiving the decree, and the eunuch who wrote the decree only once, handed it over to the internal officials, Yang Guang stamped the jade seal after reading it, and then got the Chinese book and the seal under the door, and the person in charge of the two departments signed it for the record and sent it to the Shanxi Right Martial Army garrison.

After the inner servant was busy, Yu Wenhua opened Zhang Xutuo's battle report and said: "Zhang Cheqi has captured Nanzhao and is marching to Nanyang, I am afraid that Nanyang has been broken at this moment, Your Majesty, Weichen suggested that he should stay in Nanyang, in case Wang Bodang came to attack the city again." ”

Yang Guang thought for a while and said, "No, let him go north and guard Xuchang." Optimistic about Zhengzhou, Kaifeng line. Hurry up with six hundred miles" Yu culture and don't speak. It is the duty of the squire to make suggestions to Yang Guang as a squire in the military department, and it is the emperor's decision to use it or not.

The chamberlain took the written holy decree, stamped it with a jade seal, and then went to the door and the office of the Chinese book with two holy decrees to seal it, and after the formalities were completed, they each sent three messengers to the two places.

Yang Guang's expedition to the east brought half of his subordinates and Zhongshu, and the other half of the people stayed in Chang'an to assist the prince who was in charge of the country. In order to facilitate the transmission of the decree, it is necessary to sign and record with two ministries and affix two official seals, and only the holy decree of the jade seal can not be obeyed. A decree that is not signed and filed without two copies does not count.

Yang Guang saw that the chamberlain had left, so he asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

Yu Wenhua saluted: "I haven't received any other battle reports for the time being. Yang Guang waved his hand and said, "It's okay, you go down, in addition, spread the order to cook food on the third watch today, pull out the camp at dawn, and the whole army will go north!" ”

Yu Wenhua and the order after the order quickly went out to arrange, in fact, he still had the battle reports of the south and northwest in his hand, but he felt that these were not important, and there was no need to report Yang Guang's heart.

Luo Yu followed Yue Yun to the flat land in the west of the city, which is a large basin, surrounded by stone mountains, and there are many small ponds distributed in the shape of stars, which should be mud pits washed out by rain, the largest one is in the southeast corner, with hundreds of squares.

On the western side, the low-lying ground was loose and rainwater had washed out several deep ditches of various sizes, which were not easy to fill.

The advantage of this basin is that the area is large enough, and there is no problem in moving the horse market and the blacksmith shop, but there are also many disadvantages, because it is surrounded by all sides, and the two rivers on the mountain are all confluent in the low place, and a single drainage project will consume a lot of manpower and material resources, and there is no cement at this time, which is really not easy to do.

The trade in Beicheng moved over, and it was necessary to build stables, iron shops, shops, restaurants and other buildings, and there were at least three or four thousand people in horse trainers, blacksmiths, shopkeepers, etc., plus family members and apprentices, etc., Gong was afraid of no less than 10,000 people, and had to find a place to build thousands of houses to live in, and also had to support private schools, shops, taverns, medical halls, green buildings, inns, etc., this place could not be too far, nor too close, it was really difficult to find.

It's a big head when you think about it, it's too much to take for granted, this is not something that can be done in the short term at all, and now there is not so much money to do these things, Luo Yu racked his brains and couldn't think of an effective way. Do you want to abandon this plan? Or will it wait for the Tang Dynasty to be developed after the founding of the country?

Thinking of resting here, it is better to temporarily turn this basin into a training ground, move out the Roman phalanx in the west of his time and space, and train a new infantry combat team to cope with the more brutal battles in the future.

If you think about it, you will implement it, it is unrealistic to go to the black, so Linfen City will not change it first.

When Yue Yun returned to the Taishou Mansion, he found Li Xiuning who was reading a book and said, "Xiuning, I have changed my mind." ”

Li Xiuning was puzzled and asked, "What changed your mind?" ”

Luo Yu said with a smile: "I have changed my mind about the usefulness of the west square of the city, and the business of moving the north city out of the infrastructure cannot be realized so quickly, I want to change it into a training ground and train a new infantry combat team, called the spear phalanx." ”

Li Xiuning was puzzled: "Spear phalanx? What is it? ”

Luo Yu took the pen and paper, drew the phalanx, spear, pendulum, etc. one by one, and then said and pointed to the phalanx: "This phalanx can be large or small, and the organization is simple, the warrior is dressed in full armor, and the armor can wear soft fabrics such as silk, which can effectively reduce the damage caused by bow and arrow shooting. ”

After listening to it, Li Xiuning looked at the drawings and fell into deep thought, Luo Yu didn't bother, he took the paper and pen to draw it, he wanted to improve this phalanx according to the characteristics of the Sui army, plus the blessing of black gunpowder, this phalanx can play many tricks.

On the second day of the first month of March, Lai Hu'er led the former army general, Yang Guang and Yang Lin sat in the Chinese army, Wu Tianxi led the rear army general, and the million army was ready.

This three thousand miles, the labor expedition, is not a good time, but Yang Guang is full of confidence, when he led the army to attack Nan Chen, the defenders of Chen State all over the country looked down on the wind, until they hit Jiankang, Chen Shubao, the lord of Chen State, did not know, he was still spending time drinking, and when he finally found him in the well, he was still asking who was wrong, who would perish if such a country did not perish?

He also knew that Liaodong was different from Chen, where the monarchs and ministers were quite shrewd, and knew that the Sui Emperor drove the imperial expedition in person, raised the strength of the whole country to resist, and sent out spies to report that the monarch Gaoyang Chengtong led 150,000 elite soldiers to garrison Pyongyang, and Linyang Hou Yuangai Su Wen led 120,000 elite soldiers to garrison Liaoyang, and was accelerating the expansion of the city, filling the warehouse with grain, and strengthening the defense; Jiang Cheng Bojin Chengfei led 50,000 troops to garrison Xiangcheng, built a village to expand the river, and cleared the wilderness; Rongliu Wang Gao Jianwu led 150,000 elite soldiers to guard the entrance of the camp, arranged a long snake formation, and waited for the Sui army to come.

Yang Guang looked down on Goguryeo in his heart: "There are only 300,000 soldiers and horses on the front line, and the generals who lead the army have never heard of it except for Yuangai Suwen, who is a little famous, and such a lineup is vulnerable in front of my million-strong army, even if it relies on the terrain." ”

Behind the three cities is the endless Morita Plateau, which is also an important reason why Gao Yangcheng chose here to block the Sui army, if he wants to attack Goguryeo, this is the only way to pass by land, and to pass through the three hundred miles of Morita Plateau, the only road in the middle of the plateau has been dug between Liaoyang and Xiangcheng to dig a tunnel from the earthwork filling, from the land route, even if the Sui army breaks through the weakest Xiangcheng, want to dig up the filled earthwork, clear out a road for marching, it is not so easy.

The waterway is more convenient to defend, the Sui army is not good at water warfare, not to mention that this is a naval battle, the spies report, the Sui army can only carry a military ship of 800 people at most, it takes 15 ships to cross 10,000 infantry and food and grass, and the cavalry needs more ships, a trip back and forth from the west coast is at least three hours, and there are very few suitable landing sites in the west, and only one partial division needs to ambush to defeat the Sui army crossing the sea.

Each has its own calculations, each has its own battle, and the psychological offensive has already begun before this battle has even begun.

Li Xiuning saw that Luo Yu was holding a well-built spear, which was very similar to an extended version of the flying halberd, but the half-moon sickle below was missing, and the half-moon sickle above was lengthened and thickened, according to him, it was used to cut the horse's legs, which was a bit crazy with the idea of using infantry against cavalry, even if it was with a phalanx, she couldn't figure out how to deal with the cavalry who rushed to kill at full speed.

Today is the fifth day of the first month of March, three days, the blacksmith shop in Beicheng has made every effort to make it, and has built 900 pairs of flying halberds, Luo Yu ordered the sergeants to go into the mountains to cut wood, and specifically pick the soft trees with the thickness of the arms and two feet high as the target, and then polish them according to the size of the flying halberd perforation, and then install the wooden handle, and a spear dedicated to the military formation will be ready.

Yesterday, I received a letter from Li Yuan from Taiyuan, knowing that he was okay there, and received Yang Guang's 800 miles of Hongxiang urgent holy decree, and finally could stay in Shanxi with peace of mind, and now Dou Jiande's entanglement with Li Mi and Zhu Yuanzhang has not yet come to fruition, and he is not in a hurry to go south.

The barracks had been repaired on both sides of the basin, which were actually collective quarters nailed with wooden planks, and the two thousand infantry came over in this basin, occupying only a third of the area.

The army doesn't have so many requirements, everything is fine if there is a place to eat and live, you can rest every seven days, do not arrange exercises, and move freely, which is the only benefit that Luo Yu gave to the two thousand people specially selected.

The army, grain and grass have been transported from the security Changping warehouse, and they directly crossed the Yellow River to the east without a detour to Yuncheng. Although it is now a dry season, that section of the Yellow River is narrower than the lower reaches, so the same amount of water here becomes rough and difficult to cross, and I don't know how they did it.

Looking at the grain, grass and copper coins piled up like a mountain, Luo Yu was in his heart

I can't help but sigh, Yang Jian really knows how to save his belongings, so many places in the country need money and food, and they are always available. The Youwu Army is only 80,000 people, so it needs so many things, and Yang Guang's side is almost 3.2 million people, and he doesn't know how to transport it!

Don't think about Yang Guang's affairs, now just train the troops, as for the money and food, someone will come to take it away.

Laihu'er looked at the Liaoyang city wall in front of him, and his heart was shocked, this is a city wall specially designed for war, at least four zhang high, all made of bluestone stacks, the moat does not know how wide it is, but from the suspension bridge on the city gate, the river is at least two zhang wide. There are many small holes in the wall two zhang upward, it should be arrow holes, I don't know if they have such a sharp weapon as an eight-ox crossbow, if there is, the open space in front of the city wall will be a nightmare for the attacker.

On the top of the city wall, all are built with Tibetan military towers, the top is made of green tiles, used to resist the enemy's arrow rain, the two sides of the city wall against the mountain protrude a blue brick wall about three zhang high, about one zhang wide, the top is completely closed, and the wall is one zhang high and the top is also covered with small holes. The whole layout is like forming a large pincer, waiting for the incoming enemy.

It seems that this Yuan Gai Suwen is really worthy of the famous general, although he is only twenty-one or twelve years old, he has defeated the Baekje and Silla coalition armies, and also defeated the Mongol cavalry, and here he has used the danger of the terrain to the extreme, and is a formidable opponent.

After receiving the military order, they went all the way north, and the vanguard army rushed to Liaodong after three months of great hardship, with 200,000 horses and horses reduced by two, and 400,000 people lost more than 10,000 people.

Today, on the fourth day of the fifth month, tomorrow is Duanyang, after inspecting the front line, Laihu'er ordered, scattering the cavalry, the whole army camped, the tent is not enough to cut down wood and build a camp, anyway, there are many trees in Liaodong, no need to use in vain, tomorrow rest for a day, attack Liaocheng after the festival.

In fact, the defense of Xiangcheng is not as terrifying as Liaocheng, one hundred and twenty miles away from Liaoyang City, in the middle of the long snake array, it is an ideal place to break the city, but the long snake array has an advantage, that is, it can echo each other, hit the head and tail, hit the head and tail, and hit the head and tail. According to the news sent by the spies, the three places were connected by tunnels to form a whole, so Yang Guang rushed to the three cities separately in three ways, and launched an attack at the same time, so that the Goguryeo people could not care about each other, and he broke through Xiangcheng first in the center and disintegrated the long snake formation.

He also ordered Laihu'er to take a day off after arriving in Liaoyang, and then make a tentative attack to find a way to break the city.

Li Xiuning, who was dressed in a white uniform, listened to Luo Yu explain the specific training process of the phalanx to the newly selected team leader, and was very proud. She didn't dare to imagine that maybe she had already died on the battlefield, maybe she married Chai Shao, or maybe she went north to Taiyuan to fight the enemy with her father......

Thinking about it, she was fascinated, and it wasn't until Luo Yu called her that she came back to her senses, and hurriedly asked, "Are you done?" ”

Luo Yu smiled: "It's all lined up, waiting for the general to review it......"

Li Xiuning also smiled: "I still don't understand this phalanx, you can help explain it next to you." Luo Yuqi said: "This is not in line with the general's usual intelligence, don't you understand the simple and straightforward explanation?" If you want me to accompany you more, just say it. ”

Li Xiuning blushed and said, "Yes, I just want you to accompany me more, aren't you happy?" Luo Yu hurriedly said: "How dare I, I am happy!" This is the usual way for the two to flirt and scold, and they both enjoy it.

The 800-strong phalanx has been assembled, and since there are only 900 spears, only one large formation has been practiced today, and the other 100 people have formed a small formation, and the rest are all watching from the sidelines, learning methods, putting forward opinions and improving methods.

Each person is spaced two feet apart, leaving enough space to swing the gun, the captain gave an order, and the sergeant in the formation swung his spear to the left with the earth-shattering rage, and the sergeant in the inner circle only swung half the distance, and the outer circle formed a loop, and each sergeant was protected by his comrades, but the middle part was a little redundant.

When the outermost sergeant put away his spear, the second sergeant then reached out to protect the sergeant on the first layer, and so on, swinging his spear as he went, flexing like a nimble finger.

After 300 steps, each person swung his gun 210 times, an average of two swings of his gun every seven steps, which was a bit high, and ordered the phalanx to stop, and then turned around and asked the people watching the excitement on the sidelines: "Have you found any problems?" What's the workaround? ”

A squad leader said: "Joining the army, my subordinates feel that there are a lot of people, if only it could be changed to a hollow shape." ”

Another sergeant said: "My subordinates think it's best to change the formation at will according to various terrains, anyway, it's all about wielding guns, protecting comrades and killing and injuring the enemy, don't stick to any formation." The voice grew quieter and quieter as he saw a lot of eyes staring at him.

Li Xiuning said: "You can put forward any opinions, don't think too much, I won't eat you with the army, what are you afraid of?" ”

Luo Yu said: "This phalanx existed in the pre-Qin period, I just changed the weapon, the important things have changed, of course it is immature, you are the actual operators in the array, of course I have to listen to your opinions, continue to speak." ”

Hearing Li Xiuning and Luo Yu say this, there is no burden, all the sergeants, you said your thoughts one by one, Li Xiuning listened to it and said busily: "Take 100 people as a team, and each team will compile the opinions and correction methods, and hand them in after dinner tonight." ”

Yesterday passed a different Duanyang, the army men actually wrapped rice dumplings, although each person only divided one, but everyone was moved to tears, 600,000 people is 600,000, although there are people to help wrap, but cooking out is also a big project, this Duanyang is too different.

Early in the morning of the sixth day of the new year, Laihu'er led 30,000 troops to Liaoyang City, the sun rose as usual, it was May, the night in this place was still a little cold, and the Central Plains should be in full swing.

Standing 500 steps away from Liaoyang City, 30,000 infantry each 500 people in a team, standing on the flat ground, Lai Hu'er plans to attack the city with a group of 500 people, test the firepower behind the city wall.

At the sound of the order, the team of five hundred people raised their long shields to cover their bodies, and every three people were responsible for carrying the ladder and walked forward until they were a hundred steps away from the city, as if there was no one in the wall.

Laihu'er was puzzled, and just as he was about to give a new order, the team had entered the protruding city walls on both sides, and suddenly a golden bell rang, followed by black rain falling on his head, accompanied by an unpleasant smell, sprinkled all over his body.

A torch fell from the middle city wall, and the black rain suddenly burned, and the soldiers wanted to extinguish the fire on their bodies, throwing away the burning shield, long knife and cloud ladder in their hands, and slapping it with their hands, but they didn't expect that the fire was like a hellish ghost fire, and the more it was beaten, the more it was beaten, and finally the whole person was surrounded, and the painful wails resounded all over the earth, and some rolled directly to the ground, knocking down the comrades around them......

The people behind tried to retreat, but they were easily killed by the long arrows shot from both sides, and then they were glued by their teammates who rolled over, and they also burned.

This is literally hell on earth, thick black smoke rises into the air, and the smell of burnt meat wafts in the wind, Laihu'er endured the feeling of vomiting and ordered the withdrawal of the army, because he had seen that some of his subordinates were about to vomit out even bitter gall.

The five hundred men were burned to ashes with just one cup of tea, but the fire of hell with its thick black smoke was still burning, as if it would never be extinguished.

Laihu'er on the high platform watched the fire slowly become smaller until it was extinguished, and most of the hour had passed, and his heart ached, the enemy had not seen the loss of 500 people, and he was so scared that a small number of sergeants on his side vomited out bile, how could this battle be fought?

Returning to the big tent of the Chinese army, he wrote down everything he saw today in detail, and sent someone to Yang Guang for 800 miles to hurry up, asking him to be careful of this hellfire, and he was looking for a way to crack it.

The remaining 20,000 people are all isolated in another place, otherwise they will return to the army to preach today's events, and this war will have been lost, so hurry back to the army.

The first battle of the Eastern Crusade ended in a crushing defeat. Yang Guang had arrived in Jinyang at this time, and soon received the battle report from Laihu'er, so he hurriedly stopped his advance and found everyone in the military department to discuss the way to break the enemy.

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