The Elderly King at the End of Sui Dynasty

Night has already fallen, but the entire city of Liaodong City is tens of miles in a radius, but it is not dark.

It was like venting anger. All the villages, thatched huts, noble lord manors and other people outside the Liaodong city were lit by the Liao people. The raging fire rushed to the sky, and all the trees outside the Liaodong city had been cut off. The big ones were kept for siege equipment, and the small ones were cut into pinnies to set up camp.

A bunch of bonfires lit up, illuminating the entire Liaodong city as bright as day. In the firelight, the Liao people's front army was still constantly setting up camps. Pile-driven, trenches, and deer antlers were installed. There were also teams of people between Liaodong city and Liaoying, and began to dig pits one by one, three feet long, and knocked down the ground, leaving only a calf-high lead pile outside.

These are methods specifically to prevent cavalry from leaving the city to attack the camp. If it is a field battle, these fortifications can be said to be useless. However, when siege, this thing is a very powerful method. The sika deer feet with high calves outside the city gates and the countless traps of horses will definitely make any cavalry who wants to come out of the cavalry camp cry without tears.

The entire south of the city seemed to have suddenly become a huge construction site, and countless soldiers were working hard like ants. The south of the city had become bare, and all the visible obstacles were cleared.

A huge wooden camp has been slowly built in countless bonfires. The tall wooden walls of fences and trees are also on them. Rows of archers are covered with rows of archers, tightly defending the camp.

More than ten towers of seven or eight feet were formed on each side of the camp, and the soldiers standing on it could clearly bring inside and outside the camp into view.

After the battle at dusk, Chen Kefu made detailed arrangements for the remaining 140,000 soldiers and 300,000 people and soldiers. The remaining 20,000 cavalrymen in the city did not arrange to go to the city, and all remained in the temporary barracks near the four gates.

Among the remaining 120,000 soldiers, there were logistics, and the engineer battalion was 28,000. They were divided into three squads, rotated every four hours to get enough rest and maintain the best condition. The remaining 90,000 infantry combatants were also divided into three batches, with 30,000 people each time, and then 100,000 people were led to the city to assist in the defense. If the Liao people attacked the city, they would urgently draw troops to the city.

The generals in the city also made arrangements and divided them into two shifts to take turns to guard the four cities.

After a small defeat of the Liao army, Chen Kefu asked each army to block the four gates and strictly prohibited the troops from leaving the city. It was precisely because the Sui army no longer fought that Yuan Jingshui's troops could complete the entire camp and the defense fortifications outside the city without any interference.

That night, no one fell asleep inside and outside the city. Although Chen Kefu had arranged to take turns to defend, none of the generals could go back to sleep with peace of mind. Just like a husband whose wife was giving birth in the room, each general stood silently above the head of the Liaodong city and kept his eyes on the distance.

The winter in Liaodong is very cold, but the hearts of the generals are also heavy at this time. Although they have never suffered a defeat, they only rely on various odds to win. However, in the face of real strength, one force will reduce ten times, and no matter how many strategies you have, you will sometimes be pale and powerless.

If the Liao people gathered 200,000 troops to siege the city, then it would be a real meat-mincing battle. There is nothing to do, only real strength.

"How long does General Zhang Xutuo take to arrive?"

Chen Kefu couldn't help but ask the commander of the Special Service Department behind him. Although the Special Service Department had to inform him of Zhang Xutuo's reinforcements every day, he couldn't help asking at this time. Zhang Xutuo's reinforcements were their greatest support.

According to Chen Kefu's judgment, if the Allied Khitan, Sumo Shui Moe, and Silla could help him get back the troops of Shi Wei, Hei Shui Moe, and Baekje. Then with his current strength, he would not be worried about losing. Only by transferring the three Goguryeo coalition forces, he would be 100% sure to win the war.

However, such a victory was not something he was willing to accept. If Chen Kefu's Liaodong camp was allowed to fight in such a battle of hundreds of thousands of people, then no matter how good the outcome was, he would still have to pay a heavy price. The troops in the Liaodong camp were his greatest reliance, and he would not want his strength to be cut off at all.

Since Yang Guang sent Zhang Xutuo and Su Wei to Liaodong east, he had already smelled a bad feeling. Yang Guang became suspicious of him. He was not a loyal minister and had nothing to be open-minded. If Yang Guang was guarding against him, he had to be more guarded, and only by holding heavy troops was the best way out.

He was 100% sure that if the war ended, the Sui army would win, and the Liaodong camp would lose its troops and generals, and his strength would be greatly damaged. Then it would be very likely that Yang Guang would transfer him from Liaodong as soon as possible, whether he would be promoted or demoted to the court to serve as a false position or transferred to other places in the Central Plains to serve as an official, this was not what he was willing to accept.

Strength, maintaining strength is his best support and way out. And the arrival of reinforcements as soon as possible will give him the opportunity to maintain the strength in his hands.

Standing behind Chen Kefu was Tang Shengyun, the director of the Special Service Department who had just returned from the Central Plains. When he returned to Liaodong, the Special Service Department had already done several beautiful things that made the whole army highly praised when he was away. The entire Special Service Department had changed from the situation where he was alone in the past to the situation where the Special Service Department had a two-headed snake. Walking in the dark, he naturally understood that this was Chen Kefu's technique of checking and balance, and he was not very dissatisfied.

But he was more low-key and diligent in dealing with people. Chen Kefu asked, and he immediately took a step forward and whispered, "The information sent by the Zhuo County branch of the Special Service Department every day has arrived today. The information says that General Zhang Xutuo has arrived in Beiping County and can reach Liaodong in at most half a month."

"Half a month!" Chen Kefu seemed to be talking to himself in a low voice, and after a while, he asked again, "Is there any situation in the Central Plains?"

"A few days ago, Your Majesty had intended to dispatch a large army to Liaodong again in Gaoyang, including 300,000 infantry and cavalry out of Beiping County, 200,000 navy out of Shandong, and increased the income of the rich people in the world to impose Liao taxes. However, the ministers in the court wrote letters to oppose it, and His Majesty stayed at Zhongzhong and did not issue it. During several consecutive court meetings, every time His Majesty mentioned four expeditions to Liaodong, all the ministers stopped talking and remained silent."

Chen Kefu smiled. It seemed that Yang Guang was really angry and resentful. Within a year, he wanted to conquer Goguryeo twice in a row, but no one was willing to accept this. The soldiers in the world had delayed the farming for a year. If they went to conquer them again, they would be delayed next year. And the wealthy families in the world could not stand it. Every time they conquer Liao, Yang Guang did not actually increase taxes on ordinary people except for letting them bear the labor service for transporting grain and equipment.

Yang Guang directly collected all the money and food shortages from the rich households in the world. Although these rich households are rich, no one's money is blown by the strong wind in the sky. There is no way for everyone to collect once or twice, but again and again, then no one will bear it.

For the ministers in the court, the whole world is now in chaos, and although Liaodong may be pacified in one battle, all ministers agreed that the country must first be settled when fighting foreign countries. With Chen Kefu in Liaodong, he only needs to send a few reinforcements to advance eastward. Even if Goguryeo cannot be destroyed for a while, as long as it can maintain the current situation in Liaodong.

The most important thing at the moment is to return the emperor to the capital immediately, no matter whether it is the capital of Tokyo. As long as the emperor returns to the capital, he can consolidate the government affairs at that time, and the two can also make the people feel a little at ease.

Another one can draw out a lot of elite troops and dispatch the Central Plains to quell the rebellion. Only by first quelling the Sui family can we talk about conquering the foreign tribes. Otherwise, if this continues, the entire Sui country will be destroyed, and the skin will not exist, where will the Mao be attached? Then the noble ministers in the court will now have their power and wealth.

“What’s the result?”

Chen Kefu was also the most opposed to Yang Guang's four campaigns in Liaodong, but he was not loyal to the Great Sui Dynasty, and was afraid that the Great Sui Dynasty would destroy the country and the dynasty from then on. What he was worried about was Yang Guang's arrival. If Yang Guang arrived in Liaodong, he would definitely have hundreds of thousands of soldiers. At that time, he would not have the position to speak or decide the matter in Liaodong. In addition, Yang Guang is already suspicious of him now, and it is very likely that the day when Yang Guang arrived in Liaodong would be when he handed over his military power.

Tang Shengyun whispered, "The ministers responded to the emperor with silence for several consecutive days. The emperor was furious and killed two ministers on one after another. However, this time the ministers seemed to have been determined to go against the emperor. Just a few days ago, the two generals of Yujuluo, who were sent to suppress Liu Shiyuan in Jianghuai, and Tu Wanxu were defeated in Jianghuai. Moreover, after General Zhang went north, bandits in Shandong and Henan began to grow bigger again. Lu Mingyue, Dou Jiande, Du Fuwei, Zhai Rang and other bandits defeated the official army one after another, and the court was shocked. Your Majesty had no choice but to agree to suspend the personal expedition to Liaodong, and to mobilize Gaoyang's troops and various troops in the world to suppress the rebels. Li Yuan, Duke of Tang, was appointed as the ambassador of Hedong, and was appointed as the ambassador of Henan, and Wang Shichong was appointed as the ambassador of Jianghuai, and transferred various departments to recruit bandit suppression matters."

When Chen Kefu heard that Yang Guang had temporarily canceled his plan to come to Liaodong, he was relieved. However, when he heard the series of things that followed, he was silent for a long time. Lu Mingyue, Dou Jiande, Du Fuwei, Zhai Rang and other several rebels, except for Lu Mingyue who died the earliest, it can be said that the remaining three troops finally became the most powerful rebel army at the end of the Sui Dynasty. Now that the emperor has actually dispatched Li Yuan to Hedong, Chen Kefu can't help but remain silent.

In history, Li Yuan had been unfamous for years and kept a low profile. It was not until he went to Hedong that he began to develop ambitions, recruit soldiers and finally seized the Yang family's territory. At present, Li Yuan is still following the pace of history. So where will he take the future?

As for Fan Zigai, a minister who is in his seventies and eighties and always likes to engage in massacres, Chen Kefu has no favoritism. Fortunately, he is a civil servant, and he only knows how to use violence to control violence and kill killing. It can be said that Henan, Shandong and other places have almost been suppressed by Zhang Xutuo. Zhang Xutuo will also comfort him. It will not take long for the rebels in Shandong and Henan to survive.

But now it can be imagined that this person who pays attention to the Three Lights policy everywhere will definitely only suppress more and more bandits in the end, which will completely ruin the entire Shandong and Henan.

Wang Shichong was a hero in his lifetime, and it was nothing strange that he could get up so quickly. After Yang Guang's trouble, the Central Plains was completely in chaos. The ministers full of ambition and the heroes in the peasant army were probably difficult to calm down from now on. When he thought of this, Chen Kefu's mouth couldn't help but raise a little.

The more chaotic the world is, the more beneficial it will be to him. As long as he passes this level, it will be when Chen Kefu enters the Central Plains stage.

"Shengyun, you ask the branches of the Special Service Division of Zhuo County and the Dongdu to pay attention to the situation in the Central Plains. Not only does the latest information from the court come in time, but also the information of Duke of Tang Li Yuan, Wang Shichong of Huainan Army, Dou Jiande, Du Fuwei, Wagang Zhai Rang and others should also be collected. If the time is ripe, your Special Service Division can also send spies to these targets. Whether you buy it or directly install an undercover agent, I hope the Special Service Division will have their accurate information in the future. Remember, this is a top-secret mission, and you can only report all the information about this mission to me. Do you understand?"

The Central Plains are already in chaos, and all the heroes and heroes have already begun to make a comeback. Since Chen Kefu already knows the direction of these major events, he naturally cannot waste it at this time. He should take advantage of the opportunity to act first and then suffer. Taking advantage of the current opportunity to act in advance, he will definitely bring more help in the future.

Tang Shengyun nodded vigorously. The ability of the Grand Marshal to hand over such an important task to him means that his position in the Grand Marshal's heart is still very important.

"Master, please rest assured, I will make every effort to make arrangements!"

Central Plains! Central Plains! Chen Kefu was silently chanting these two words in his heart. Only the Lord of the Central Plains was his goal. However, there was still a mountain standing in front of him. The Liao people were thriving in the country. Only by defeating the Liao people first can he have the opportunity and qualification to talk about the Lord of the Central Plains.

"Master-in-chief, the Liao people have arrived again in the east direction of the city!" A lieutenant hurriedly climbed to the east gate and said loudly to Chen Kefu.

Chen Kefu hurried to the head of Dongcheng with the generals and saw that the firelight appeared in the endless darkness. After a while, a fire dragon winded out in the darkness. At the end of his eyes, a bright light belt formed, just like the Milky Way in the sky. The countless torches were getting closer and closer, and there could be faintly seen that there were countless flags flying in the light belt. And behind it, it seemed that the light belt would never end, and there seemed to be countless soldiers and horses rolling in.
Chapter completed!