Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 288

Wake up in the morning.

Someone shouted outside, it's blooming, so many flowers.

Luo Cheng put on his clothes and went out of the tent, but suddenly saw a spring breeze blowing overnight, and thousands of trees and pear trees bloomed.

"Snow willows in the cold river, jade trees and Qionghua." Luo Cheng sighed.

"These two sentences of the general really describe the beautiful scenery of the tree hanging in front of you." Wei Zhenglong started to come over, it didn't really start spring outside early in the morning, but a rare rime phenomenon appeared.The rime is also called tree hanging. In the cold weather, the warm Liaoshui and Zeshui interact with the cold weather. In addition, the weather has been fine and windless these days, so the humid water vapor condenses into a cloud at night. Frost crystals look great when attached to branches.

"Willow trees bear silver flowers, pine flowers bloom silver chrysanthemums!" Wei Zheng sighed a few words, "However, the weather is getting colder and colder, and many soldiers suffered from frostbite."

At this time, it has entered the twelfth lunar month of winter.

Zhangqiu's hometown is covered in heavy snow, not to mention the land of the Northland, which is even more frozen for thousands of miles.

After the First Army besieged Wuli City for two months, it finally captured this fort not long ago. When the fort was broken, all the thousands of Goguryeo inside were killed. Too few, even if the castle is strong and dangerous, Luo Yi's first army soldiers and [-] civilians attacked in turn, making them exhausted.

In the end, Luo Cheng offered a soil attack strategy to break the city. Relying on the strength of his numbers, he directly built a city wall on Yuliang Avenue under Wuliluo City.

The so-called Yuliang Avenue is actually a negative earth mound slope. From a distance, a earth slope was piled up to the city wall on the hill. Although it took a lot of engineering, the earth slope could not be burned or smashed. There were few guards in Koguryo. He didn't dare to go out of the city to destroy the slope, so he could only watch helplessly as the slope grew higher day by day.

Until the city wall was finally piled up, and then the city was broken.

Originally, Wuli City was broken, and the soldiers in the front compartment thought they could get into the city to escape the winter.

As a result, the city was broken in November, and the victory report was sent to Linshuo Palace in Zhuojun. Tongding Town.

As a result, this fortress suddenly became the county seat of Liaodong County, the county seat of Tongding County, and even a military fortress, Tongding Army Town.

Tongding has also become the fifth frontline military town after Liucheng Town, Wanghai Town, Luhe Town, and Huaiyuan Town.

In the Sui Dynasty, there were as many as 68 military towns in the border passes of the world.

After Luo Yi captured Wuli City, he expanded the first army again and divided it into five compartments, front, rear, middle, left, and right. The front compartment was [-], the middle compartment was [-], the rear compartment was [-], and the left and right compartments were [-] each. The whole army had [-] soldiers. There are also six regiments with [-] auxiliary soldiers and [-] civilian husbands.

He led the Chinese army of [-] Yanyun cavalry to station in Wuliluo City, and then stationed in the front, back, left, and right sides of the city.

The 6000 people in the front of Luo Cheng's department were still stationed at Liaoze in the south of the city.

In addition to military training, it is military training. Since the first battle in the north of Wuliluo City in September, they have been training for four months.

"Aren't all the barracks equipped with kangs?"

In four months, Luo Cheng's front camp had become a temporary castle. Six thousand soldiers in his front, four thousand auxiliary soldiers, and eight thousand civilian husbands were erected on the edge of Liaoze. He built a rammed-earth castle with a circumference of two miles, built on a hill, backed by Liaoze, and guarding the north road of Liaoze.

When building the fort, Luo Cheng took into account the cold winter here, and specially planned the heated kang ground dragon. In fact, this thing does not have much technical content. There are many craftsmen among the eight thousand civilians and four thousand auxiliary soldiers. Luo Cheng proposed They conceived the idea, and then they pondered and researched it. It didn't take long for them to make a heated kang. After several improvements, this heated kang has already satisfied Luo Cheng very much.

The barracks are all bungalows, with Datong shop built inside, and once the kang is fired, the room is extremely warm.

"The kang is quite warm, but we still have to train, we can't squat in the house every day." Wei Zheng said with a smile, this old man is afraid of the cold. Surrounded by a large fur collar.

"Then revise the training time, instead of practicing so early in the morning, let the teams practice in the house, and learn Mandarin by the way, literacy and arithmetic."

This day is already a drop of water into ice, breath into frost.

It is comfortable to have a kang in the house, and you can even eat bean sprouts, but it is different outside the house. Running outside for half an hour in the morning can freeze people's eyebrows.

"Is there enough food?" Luo Cheng asked again.

Now his large front camp has 8000 people, and there are also a large number of war horses and pack mules, but correspondingly, food consumption is also a huge problem.

Fortunately, although it is three hundred miles away from Huaiyuan Town, it has not yet crossed the Liaohe River. From Huaiyuan, there is no need to cross Liaoze, but directly along the northern edge, and the traffic is okay.

Before the cold winter came, Luo Cheng's [-] auxiliary soldiers and [-] civilian husbands went back and forth to Huaiyuan to carry food, grass and luggage, and finally stored a lot of food before the ice was frozen.

"There is enough food, but there is not much food here. It is the cabbage, radish, and dried salted fish that were brought in before the snow fell."

You can eat enough, but you can't eat well.

It is really too cold here, and as the front line, there is not even a bird feather in the vicinity, there is no local government and no local people, so it is impossible to get supplies on the spot.Especially fresh vegetables and meat, there is no way.

It can only be transported from Huaiyuan Town, but it is [-] miles away, and it is okay to transport some food, but it is difficult to transport vegetables and meat.

"It really doesn't work. Take out our marinated horse meat and eat it. No matter how bad it is, we raised some pigs and sheep, and we slaughtered them slowly. Anyway, it's too cold today, and there is no fodder to feed. Every day It’s not worth losing weight.”

"There's not much horse meat."

"That can't be helped. We are stationed here now, and we have no battle to fight and nowhere to seize. We can only grit our teeth and persevere. It will be the Chinese New Year soon, and Huaiyuan Town will definitely send a batch of supplies to reward us Yes, then we will be able to live a good life for a few days. In the next year, when the Royal Commander personally conquers, we will also be able to fight across the Liaohe River. Are you afraid that there will be no meat to eat?"

Wei Zheng chuckled a few times, "You said that our first army has captured Wuliluo City for so long, why haven't the rewards come down yet?"

"Old Daoist, do you want to be promoted too?"

Wei Zheng smiled, "All the soldiers in the chamber are talking about it."

"I'll go to Tongding Town and ask General Roya."

The morning meal is millet porridge with wheat flour steamed cakes, each with a little salted vegetables and some pickled horse meat. Many soldiers complained about this meal.Especially those youths from Zhangqiu, they used to follow Luo Cheng to suppress bandits everywhere, where did they eat meat and drink soup, but in the west of Liaoning, life is getting worse and worse, eating these every day, mouth The birds are about to fade out.

Luo Cheng was also a little tired of this breakfast, so he ate some casually, and then took a team of personal guards to Tongding City.

Go to the city and go directly to Luo Yi.

"It was said that someone would be sent to call you, but you came by yourself."

"What's the matter?" Luo Cheng asked.

He and Luo Yi have been working together in western Liaoning for more than half a year, and the relationship with this uncle has gradually changed from birth to familiarity, and the relationship between the two is not even bad.

"The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and our first army's victory over Wuli City and the annihilation of [-] Goguryeo troops has finally come down." Luo Yi said, "I thought it would be a year later, but the result is not bad."

"Oh, really?"

As a vanguard, the First Army has made great achievements.

Not only did they pull down the fortress of Wuliluo City on the Northwest Road of Liaodong, they swept away Goguryeo's stronghold on the west bank of the Liaohe River, and wiped out a total of [-] Goguryeo troops.Annihilating [-] troops of Wu Liluo, and [-] soldiers who came to aid them, can be described as fruitful.

The First Army had only 3000 casualties before and after.

Before the Eastern Expedition officially started, Luo Yi of the First Army had achieved such a record, the emperor was of course happy.

Therefore, Luo Yi was specially granted the title of Duke of Yan, and his title was formally promoted from Duke of Xiangyang County to Duke of the Kingdom, and his original position was promoted from General Huben to General Zuo Wuwei, and his rank was raised from the original fourth rank to the third rank. The general is in charge of the affairs of the Zuowuwei Mansion and the administration of the Yingyang Mansion of the Benwei.

"Congratulations to the second general!"

There are also several hurdles to be an official. For example, starting from the ninth rank is the hurdle for an official to become an official. After crossing this hurdle, one becomes an official from then on.And reaching the seventh rank is another hurdle. Below the seventh rank, you can only be regarded as a low-level official. Only at the seventh rank can you be considered to have some authority.

And reaching the fifth rank is another hurdle. After passing the fifth rank, one can be regarded as a mid-level official if he wears the scarlet robe.

And the third rank is a big hurdle. If you reach the third rank, you can wear a purple robe. From then on, you can be called a senior official, a senior official in the frontier in the local area, a senior official in the temple in the court, and a general in the military government.

Luo Yixun was born as a son of nobles. He studied in the Imperial College when he was young. He served as the emperor's bodyguard when he was a teenager, and then joined the army at the border gate.

After so many years of accumulation, he had the opportunity to unify the army this time. Although he led the first army as the second general, this record is solid.

Attacking the fortress Wuliluo City, and annihilating [-] enemies in several battles, this record can be ranked first in the Daye Dynasty.

Especially this time, the emperor attached so much importance to the expedition to the east, and he wanted to conquer it personally. He played well at the beginning, and the emperor was naturally happier.

General Zuo Wuwei, Duke Yan, and First Army runner-up Luo Yi took over the First Army.

"You also have a reward."

"In the battle of Liaoze Wasteland, you defeated [-] Goguryeo Qingqi with [-] infantry, and beheaded [-] people. In the battle of Wu Liluo, you swept the periphery and wiped out another [-] enemies. Even more so, he showed his supernatural power and defeated the [-] Goguryeo army with [-] new troops."

"The emperor wrote your name on the screen of the Linshuo palace before, and this time you have made great achievements again, and the emperor is even more delighted. Especially after hearing that you are the son of my elder brother Luo Yi, he praised you as the queen of the general. Therefore, this The next emperor specially conferred the title of Marquis of Xiangyang on you."

Luo Cheng frowned, thinking that this matter might not be so simple.

At the beginning of the founding of the Sui Dynasty, there were nine ranks of nobility. After the current son succeeded to the throne, the official system was changed, especially this time, an edict was issued to remove the ranks below princes and marquises, and only the third rank was retained.

For example, Luo Yi was the Duke of Xiangyang County before, but he was originally going to be reduced to the Marquis of Xiangyang after he was changed into a nobleman this time, but because of his great achievements, he was promoted to the Duke of Yan Guo.

However, although Luo Cheng has made great achievements, he is only a general who leads thousands of people.

How many victories will you win the title?The one who was also granted the title was originally Luo Yi's Marquis of Xiangyang.

(End of this chapter)