At the end of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 151
Gao Yuan, the current king of Goguryeo, is undoubtedly a very ambitious guy. Ten years after the founding of the emperor, he joined forces with Mohe to invade the Liaoxi County of the Great Sui Dynasty. You must know that the Great Sui Dynasty was at the heyday of the "Kaihuang rule". The monarch is enlightened, the stars are shining, the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, and the four barbarians submit. Even Ryukyu, a coastal island country far away in the sky, has surrendered to the Sui Dynasty. He paid tribute and called himself "Liaodong dung earth official", but it also reflected that Gao Yuan was not a fuel-efficient lamp. Sure enough, this person later attacked Silla and Baekje, the small countries in the south of Goguryeo, and both won victories. , to dominate the entire Korean peninsula, and his strength is unprecedentedly strong, which is why he dared to face Yang Guang's million-strong army.

Since Gao Yuan dared to invade the Liaoxi County of the Great Sui in the tenth year of Emperor Kaihuang, now that the Sui army was defeated, why not take advantage of the victory and pursue it?

If possible, Gao Yuan even wanted to annex the territory of the Sui State east of Linyu Pass (Shanhai Pass). In this way, Goguryeo would not be afraid of the Sui State attacking again in the future, and could knock on the pass to seize the land of Youyan at any time, and then watch the tiger Central Plains.

Therefore, after the defeat of the Sui army, Gao Yuan immediately sent two of his most powerful officials to lead his troops to pursue them with all his strength. One was called Eulji Wende, and the other was called Gao Jianwu, who was Gao Yuan's half-brother.

Ulchi Mandeok, who is both civil and military, first adopted the strategy of arrogant soldiers to lure the enemy into deep, and finally defeated Yuwenshu's more than 30 army by the Yalu River, and chased them all the way to Xincheng. Yuwenshu's old cat burned his beard, In the end, only thousands of people crossed the Liaohe River and fled back to the territory of the Sui Dynasty. All the massive luggage carried by the army fell into the hands of Ulji Wende, and the strength of the Goguryeo army was greatly increased.

Ulji Wendeok was obviously not satisfied with this, he sent his troops across the Liaohe River, and the soldiers pointed directly at Huaiyuan Town in Liaoxi County.

Huaiyuan Town was the bridgehead for the Sui army to attack Goguryeo. At the beginning, Yang Guang, the emperor of the Sui Dynasty, commanded the Sui army across the river from Huaiyuan. The food and weapons here were piled up like a mountain. Therefore, as long as Ulji Mundeok captured Huaiyuan Town, he would be able to stand firm on the west bank of the Liaohe River. Heel, and then occupy the entire Liaoxi County.

Besides, that Gao Jianwu is also a talented person who is capable of both literary and martial arts. He is highly regarded by his elder brother Gao Yuan. He was in charge of guarding Liaodong City from the very beginning. After defending, Yang Guang retreated in panic, Gao Jianwu decisively went out of the city to pursue them, and finally captured the whole city.

Now Eulji Wendeok is attacking Huaiyuan Town on the front line, Gao Jianwu is providing support in the rear, and at the same time is responsible for clearing out the Sui army's rout in the territory and stabilizing the rear.

Let's say that the centurion Liu Chengwu led only a dozen cavalry to break through the siege, and immediately fled to Liaodong City in a hurry to report the situation to Gao Jianwu in the city.

After Gao Jianwu listened to Liu Chengwu's report, he really paid attention to it, and immediately dispatched multiple groups of soldiers and horses, and informed the upstream Xincheng guards to send troops to cooperate with the encirclement along the Liaohe River, so that the Sui army must be wiped out before it forms a climate. , the total strength of the army was over ten thousand, of which two thousand were cavalry.

Ever since, a large hunting net was spread between Liaodong City and Xincheng, and slowly shrunk along the Liaohe River. Therefore, the collapse of the Sui army hiding in this area was about to face disaster.

Although Gao Bufan expected that the enemy would pursue him, he never dreamed that they would go to war and send tens of thousands of troops to encircle and suppress them. This "guerrilla" with less than 200 people is really a dog. head bird.

Let's say that early the next morning, Gao Bufan and others set up camp again and went to the place where Pei Xingyan and others cut wood for a boat last time, preparing to make a raft and wait for an opportunity to cross the river.

Pei Xingyan is full of enthusiasm now, training his [-] cavalry while marching, but Xiao Pei's way of training cavalry is a bit unique, that is to plunder villages and towns along the way, and let the cavalry grow up quickly in a short period of time by means of actual combat. It just so happened that the armed defense forces in the local villages and towns were weak, so it happened to be used for training.

In addition, although the current team is less than 200 people, people eat horses and feed them every day, which consumes a lot of money. Without logistics supplies, they can only rely on looting to get supplies. Fortunately, this is the territory of Goguryeo, and the psychological burden of looting is also great. He was very young, and he also trained soldiers by the way, so why not do it.

Of course, looting is looting, but adultery is not allowed, let alone killing and setting fire at will for fun. This is the bottom line of being a human being, and Gao Bufan does not allow anyone under his command to cross it.

Let's say that the team walked for three days, and it went smoothly unexpectedly. It was about a day away from the place where Pei Xingyan and others felled wood for the boat last time.

On this day, the sky was gloomy, and the air was so humid that water could be wrung out, but not a single drop of rain came out, and everyone felt a little depressed.

At about dusk, there was a rush of horseshoes from far to near, and Gao Bufan raised his hand to order the troops to stop advancing. Soon, a cavalry of about 50 people appeared in the misty misty rain in the distance. With a hulking back and a hulking waist, and a horse spear hanging from the victory hook, it is the radiant Pei Xingyan.

The corner of Liu Ying's mouth twitched and said: "This young man is addicted to robbery, how many times has he done this day?"

Han Laoshi replied honestly: "It's the fifth time."

Dou Xianniang is smiling, she is now a "quartermaster", she has to open nearly 50 mouths a day, more than [-] livestock rations, the pressure is even greater than Alexander, naturally she will not think that the robbed food is too much, Now Xiao Nizi sees Pei Xingyan more and more pleasing to the eye, one mouthful of Big Brother Pei's, even Gao Bufan is a bit appetizing.

At this time, Dou Xianniang had urged her horse to go up to meet her, and said happily, "Brother Pei has worked hard, how much food did you get this time?"

Pei Xingyan let Ding Ma laughed and said, "The harvest this time is very good. Brothers, give the food to Miss Liu to check and record it. Whoever dares to fill his own pockets, I will crush his balls."

All the cavalry laughed loudly, and threw the large and small bags on the horse's back on the ground, and soon piled up a large pile, estimated to be as much as nearly ten stones.

Although Dou Xianniang is a girl, she has been with a lot of rough men for a few months, and she is almost immune to these vulgar words. She just took it as a rumor, and happily called a dozen villagers to help count and enter the accounts. Brother Gao Teach her a new set of accounting methods, which are simple and effective. Well, Brother Gao is really knowledgeable, such as Arabic numerals, multiplication formulas, etc., I have never even heard of it.

"Miss Liu, what are you writing here?" Pei Xingyan asked himself that he could read, but he didn't recognize any of the "tadpoles" written by Dou Xianniang in his notebook, and he couldn't help being shocked.

It is said that Dou Xianniang now introduces herself to the outside world as her surname Liu, and her name is Liu Xianniang. Now, except for Gao Bufan and the villagers in Liu'anli who know her original surname Dou, everyone else thinks that her surname is Liu originally.

Although the villagers in Liu'anli were surprised that Dou Xianniang changed her surname suddenly, they tacitly did not point it out. She became Liu Xianniang.

"This is the method of keeping accounts that Brother Gao taught me. If Brother Pei wants to learn it, he can go to Brother Gao." Dou Xianniang smiled, with a hint of color on her brows.

Pei Xingyan rubbed his nose: "Forget it, why do I learn that, but brother Gao knows a lot."

"That's right, there is no elder brother Gao who doesn't understand." Dou Xianniang's beautiful eyes sparkled, her face full of arrogance.

Seeing this, Pei Xingyan couldn't help teasing: "That's not necessarily true, why don't you ask brother Gao if he will have children?"

"Young master Gao can't, but Miss Liu can do it." That boy Su Dingyue interjected, and everyone couldn't help laughing.

Dou Xianniang was so ashamed that she forked Xiaoman's waist and shouted: "You guys are going to be miserable, don't even think about eating tonight."

As soon as they heard that there was no dinner, these guys immediately became honest, and that kid Su Dingyue salivated and even apologized, so Dou Xianniang was willing to give up.

Gao Bufan just looked at it with a smile, and waved to Pei Xingyan, who hurriedly rode his horse to come to him, bowed his hands and said, "Brother Gao!"

After a few days of getting along, they have become very familiar with each other. It is precisely because they know that Gao Bufan is usually easy-going and easy-going, so everyone dares to joke like this.

"It's going to be dark soon, but have you found a place to stay?" Gao Bufan asked.

When it came to business, Pei Xingyan didn't dare to neglect, and said with a straight expression: "From here, six or seven miles to the west, there is a deserted village suitable for camping."

(End of this chapter)