Updated: 2012-06-06

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A seemingly fierce mutiny quickly subsided under more intense suppression methods. The soldiers did not support the rebellion of the children of the aristocratic families, and of course not many people would feel sad about their deaths. On the contrary, when they learned that the rebels were executed soon, the soldiers seemed to feel a little pleased.

If Dugu Zhenquan had any knowledge, when he knew that Li Xian used his momentum to eliminate all the restless factors, he would not know if he would feel uneasy.

In fact, from the beginning, Dugu Zhen always thought about taking military power in his hands. Unfortunately, the soldiers often respect heroes from poor families. He, a child of aristocratic families who had also killed people and worked hard by Sashui, received much less respect than Li Xian. He has been tolerating and acted very humble in front of Li Xian. When he thought that the opportunity was coming, he did not expect that his opponent was actually waiting for an opportunity.

After removing the children of the aristocratic families, Li Xian arranged his confidants to be middle- and low-level commanders like the brigade leader. The reason why the team did not move fast on the way back was actually the most fundamental reason that Li Xian wanted to firmly grasp the control of the team. He was waiting for the opportunity, and if the opportunity did not come, he would create an opportunity.

It seemed that everything was going well. He was comparing speed with the army of the Eastern Expedition of the Great Sui Dynasty. Of course, it was not faster than anyone else. What he had to wait for was that the army of the Great Sui Dynasty was defeated by the entire expeditionary army, and the weather was cold. His team must be slower than the Sui army withdrew. In addition, the matter he had sent people to arrange on the bank of the Liaoshui River, so that the team of more than 20,000 people would follow him wholeheartedly.

But what Li Xian didn't expect was that his arrangements by the Liaoshui River were useless at all.

Because the team had just undergone a cleaning, Li Xian, the Goryeo city fifty miles away, planned not to rush to fight. The food was enough for more than ten days, so there was no need to rush to attack the enemy city. Li Xian had to let his confidants stabilize the team and use a few days to let his subordinates adapt to their new identities.

In order to calm the soldiers, Li Xian ordered the team to rest on site for a few days.

Expanding the map, Li Xian pointed to the location of the big city fifty miles ahead and said, "After passing this big city, you can cross the horse water in another two days. Although the food is enough for ten days to eat, the food cannot be solved after the team returns to Yanshan. The food and grass on Yanshan Village are nearly 30,000 people and horses, and they cannot even hold on for half a month. Therefore, this city of Goguryeo must be fought, bring more food back."

Luo Fu said: "Now Goguryeo is chasing behind the Sui army's defeated troops, and it is almost time to fight to the Mazishui. It would be better to capture this city and delay the trip for two or three days. If the team goes too fast and the Sui army has not withdrawn, it will be a problem."

"I think, after the battle comes, we will rest in the city for a few days. Anyway, the Goguryeo army will not come back for a while. After the Sui army withdrew from the west bank of the Liao River, it will not be too late for us to set off again."

Chen Que'er said.

Li Xian thought for a while and said, "If a person has no future, he will have immediate worries. The food and grass must be prepared. Otherwise, when he returns to Yanshan, the morale of the army will be in chaos. After capturing this big city, we will not go to Liaodong City, but then go north and then west, passing by the Xi people's pastures. At this time, the cattle and sheep on the grassland have already gained weight, and it is the time to be fat."

"Ha ha!"

Chao Qiuge smiled and said, "I like to do this the most. The fat cattle and sheep of the grassland people are just the right winter food for our army to spend the winter!"

After Wang Qinian learned Li Xian's true identity, he had already accepted his life. It was impossible to escape. Moreover, Li Xian was indeed not bad to him. Although he still had the baggage camp, in addition to one thousand combat soldiers, there were two thousand old and weak people eliminated from the war soldiers. Now, as a captain, he actually led three thousand troops. How could Wang Qinian, who led at most 100 troops in his life, be unhappy? He felt that although he was a captain, he already had the power of a general. It was worth having such a glorious moment in his life.

When he gave all his savings gifts to seek the position of the lieutenant of the grain-protecting army, he was robbed by Li Xian. Now Li Xian also gave him a lieutenant and had so many soldiers in charge. Wang Qinian felt infinite passion in his heart, and he even remembered a sentence that made people think of to flatter him.

"A gentleman is tolerant to those who please themselves, and a woman dies for her confidant. The subordinates are appreciated by the general and are grateful. The general's orders, and the subordinates firmly obey!"

He said with a firm look on his face.

Li Xian glanced at him and said lightly: "You said you were wrong."

Wang Qinian explained without blushing and his heart was not beating: "That's because every time I see you, I feel that my heart is surging and difficult to calm down.! Actually, what I want to say is that if I really plan to loot the Xi people, my subordinate's baggage battalion will take the lead in proposing that no matter how many general you take with me, I can take it..."

Li Xian smiled and said, "You have a good appetite."

Wang Qinian said: "I have a mouth that is more than 20,000, so I have a bad appetite."

Li Xian said huh, "The big city ahead should have a lot of food and grass. When the Sui army marched eastward, the city lords of each city in Goguryeo collected all the food into their respective cities, in order to strengthen the walls and clear the fields so that the Sui army could not grab a grain of food. Now the city's air defense is empty, which is indeed a good opportunity to win this city. I am not afraid that you have a big appetite. As long as you manage the baggage camp, I will not treat you badly."

Wang Qinian immediately came to his heart and asked, "What do the general intends to reward his subordinates?"

Li Xian said seriously: "You are fifty years old, how can you not take care of you without a woman? I plan to touch you a strong Xi woman to take care of you after you arrive in the grassland. How about it?"

Tie Yaolang said seriously: "Well, an auntie who is so sexy, please be sure to be strong!"

Wang Qinian turned black and smiled embarrassedly, "I... I still think being single is good..."

Li Xian smiled and stopped joking: "I have sent a scout to check the Goguryeo city in the morning, and I should be coming back soon. Chen Que'er, after the scout comes back, you ask them to come to see me directly."

The scout leader Chen Que'er nodded and said, "I understand.

"In addition, it's time to plan now. Yanshan is not a suitable place. It's still a barely enough to support three or five thousand people. Now the team has nearly 30,000 people. It's time to find a place to move. What do you think is the most suitable place in the north now?"

He pointed to another map and said, it was the territory map of the Great Sui Dynasty.

Everyone looked around the map, but they couldn't think of any good place for a while.

It is no wonder that everyone could not imagine that although the world of the Great Sui Dynasty is getting more and more chaotic, especially north of the Yellow River, there are no less than a dozen rebels from all walks of life, such as Wang Bo, Zhang Jincheng and others, and there are thousands of people under their command, but there are no doubt that the country of the Great Sui Dynasty is far from being out of control. Although the counties in Hebei are very chaotic, the rule of the Great Sui Dynasty is still stable. In theory, the most suitable place is Zhuo County, but Zhuo County is Luo Yi's territory. The five thousand tigers under his command are too elite. Although Li Xian's 30,000 troops are mostly from the Great Sui Palace, he still has no chance of winning against the five thousand armored iron cavalry. Besides, the light cavalry and infantry under Luo Yi are counted as no less than 50,000. Luo Yi is the local emperor of Zhuo County. Although Zhuo County is large, he is not willing to give up a place that is one meter long.

Li Xian is not confident to fight against Luo Yi now. He didn't want to lose the team he finally got. Except for Zhuo County, almost all the counties in Hebei have famous generals, and it is not so easy to rob.

"otherwise……"

Liu Man, the oldest among the crowd, said tentatively: "Let's go south? Since we can't fight the tough battle with the Sui court for the time being, it's better to compete with the teams on the Green Forest Road."

Almost at the same time, everyone's eyes were fixed on one place.

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Yu Wenshi was in a hurry. From the Sui army camp outside Liaodong City, a cavalry team of 20,000 people rushed to the southeast without stopping, and greeted Yu Wenshu along the route of the Sui Expeditionary Force southward. After walking out for 300 miles, Yu Wenshi's heart became heavier and heavier.

Within three hundred miles, there was no Sui soldier in the dangerous place! This was not in line with common sense. According to his understanding, his father Yuwen Shu had always been cautious in using troops. At least a few hundred men would be left to guard the dangerous place along the road, so that the army would be blocked when it returned. But all the way south, Yu Wen and Shi and although they discovered that several places should be stationed by soldiers from the Sui Dynasty, they did not see a single living person!

His heart became more and more uneasy. Finally, after walking for a few more days, he finally found five hundred corpses of soldiers from the Great Sui Mansion with their heads cut off at a place where the troops left by the Sui army were stationed. The heads were piled into graves, and the bodies were piled up to build the city walls. Although the weather was getting colder, countless flies were still buzzing, and there were dense maggots rolling back and forth on the corpse.

Yu Wenshi and Han looked at the dead bodies that were stripped into red-body-naked body, and the anger and worry in their hearts were so strong that they formed a cloud of haze.

He ordered the soldiers to bury the bodies, and Yu Wenhe turned around nearby. In addition to the bodies, he also saw the seedlings that had already emerged from the ground that were still growing hard against the season. They were the food that the soldiers buried secretly in the soil when the Expeditionary Force went south, and now they have grown by one foot smaller.

Without stopping for a long time, Yu Wen and the cavalry ordered the continued southwards. The more he walked south, the colder his heart became.

How did the Expeditionary Force fight? Why did so many Goguryeo cities remain along the way but not captured? There were at least ten thousand people among these cities, and there were no less than fifty thousand in the large cities! These cities that were left on the road like nails were like pits that could smash people to pieces! How could so many disasters be left on the way back? How could my father be so reckless in using troops?

In fact, it is not Yuwen Shu's fault. The weather turned cold when the army headed south. If we didn't hit Pyongyang quickly, we would probably be so cold that we couldn't even pull out the knife if we couldn't walk out of Pyongyang. Later, Yuwen Shu thought that we wouldn't be able to move forward quickly. The food and grass were in a hurry. If we didn't come to Hu'er earlier, 300,000 people would be starving to death.

Along the Expeditionary Force, there were actually men and horses stationed in every dangerous place. But after the Expeditionary Force passed, the Sui army of these small teams was immediately killed by the Goguryeo people in the city.

When Yuwen Shi and led his army to pass outside the city of Goguryeo, he could feel the cold look of Goguryeo looking at the team on the city wall. Of course, a team of Great Sui cavalry with more than 20,000 people, no matter how brave the Goguryeo people in the city were, they would not dare to provoke them.

After the army crossed the Mazi River, Yu Wenshi became even more anxious.

From the captive Goguryeo people, he already knew about the defeat of the Sui army.

"Dad doesn't know what's going on."

Riding on the horse, Yu Wenshi murmured. He remembered that the boy named Yan mentioned when he was chatting with him that the scout was the eyes and ears of the team. The further you see, the clearer your ears will be the better it will be for the army. After thinking about it by chance, he immediately ordered: "Come on, let the scout double the search area!"

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