Pig-killing Captain

The hall suddenly became quiet. After busy all night, I finally could sit quietly on the comfortable mat. Everyone finally had time to remember how great military achievements they had made today. When they just captured the new city, they had already been promoted to the top. Now they have captured this army of hundreds of thousands of troops and have besieged the No. 1 fortress in the Northeast that they could not reach several times.

Think about it again, not only did he capture Liaodong City, but he also grabbed nearly ten million stones of grain. What a great contribution it would be. As long as you defend Liaodong City, when His Majesty fights again next year, you will no longer need to use millions of people to transport food and grass from the Central Plains.

The generals and lieutenants of the Pojun Camp in the hall were all making their own plans. Since joining the Pojun Camp, they have been promoted to at least two levels. If they are promoted again, they will be promoted to three levels and four levels in a year. In such a thing, except for the general, Shen Guang, Luo Lin, etc., it is estimated that there will be no one else.

When they thought of the rewards, the gold, silver, and fields, they almost laughed out loud. When they bought the new city last time, they each had a lot of money, and later His Majesty the Emperor rewarded a lot. This time, after taking the Liaodong City, the general had promised to reward the generals with half of all the money in the city. How much should there be? Maybe when they return to triumphant next year, these things will have to be pulled down with a carriage.

Li Jie was born into a Li family in Guanzhong. He did not attach much importance to the rewards from Pojun Camp and the rewards after siege. Although this was also a considerable wealth, he would not lack money with such an identity. What he needed was power, and the military power of the elite soldiers of Pojun Camp. Unfortunately, he is getting farther and farther away from the core of Pojun Camp. Staying in this Liaodong and far away from the emperor, he could not fight with Chen Kefu at all.

What he most urgently is to return to the capital early and return to the emperor. At that time, he has some solutions and some supporters to help him seize the military command of the military camp. Now, seeing Chen Kefu's posture, he didn't want to leave, so he immediately put down his teacup and said in a deep voice, "General, the will given to us by Your Majesty is to withdraw our troops here, for about half a month after the Great Army."

Chen Kefu smiled, "According to General Li, is it possible that the Liaodong city captured by the brothers abandoned? The nearly ten million stones of grain in the city were abandoned? The first fortress in the Northeast that swallowed up the millions of soldiers and civilians of the Great Sui Dynasty once again handed back to the Goguryeo people? Next year we will come to the city under the city to pile up like mountains and blood flowed into a river?"

Li Jie sneered a few times, "Of course I don't mean that. Although we withdraw our troops, we can destroy all this. Didn't the Goguryeo people rely on this Liaodong city to resist my Great Sui Xiong Army? As long as we leave, burn the Liaodong city, Xincheng and other cities, do you think the Liao people can still defend it next year?"

As for Li Jie, there were not many generals in the hall who were willing to accompany him, and even none of the officers temporarily selected from the auxiliary army and the civilians agreed with him. For most civilians, this conquest of Liao has become a huge burden for them. Whenever they conquest of Liao, no one of them would lose money or even lose their families! The two consecutive conquests of Liao have put their lives on the verge of collapse, and no one wants to come again. And if Chen Kefu said, even if there is a fourth conquest of Liao, they will no longer have to transport food from the Central Plains, and they will no longer have to bear the tasks of transporting grain from thousands of miles away.

"General Li, you are treating the great affairs of the army as a joke. Your proposal is completely a loss. According to what you said, the Liao people will definitely not be able to fight against me, the Sui Dynasty, but I, the Sui Dynasty, will definitely lose the national strength, completely killing 10,000 people and 3,000 people. Now there are constant domestic disasters, and the entire Central Plains are already everywhere. Even the nobles with wolves ambitions like Yang Xuangan have rebelled. Do you want the world to be even more chaotic? Only by solving Goguryeo as soon as possible can the world return to peace, the people can be stable again, and the court can free up their hands to quell the chaos in the Central Plains."

"You ask everyone here, are some willing to fail? Are some willing to let the chaos continue? Who doesn't want to solve Goguryeo as soon as possible, and who doesn't want to put down his weapons and pick up a hoe, and the relatives in the family are looking forward to them, and the fields in the family have grown grass. For the sake of the Great Sui Dynasty, for His Majesty, and for the parents and relatives in the family, we should not abandon Liaodong."

"Never give up, fight to the end!" The new army officers yelled in unison.

Chen Kefu stood up, glanced at the audience with cold eyes, and was arrogant without anger.

"Everyone, Your Majesty did say that you can retreat after holding on for half a month, but what Your Majesty said at that time was the worst. In addition, Your Majesty also told me personally that if we can seize the opportunity to defend the four new cities, we can defend. Even if we take over Liaodong City, as long as we can defend, we can defend until next year the army will fight again to serve as a base for the army to advance."

"For this reason, Your Majesty also gave me an order. If you defeat the military camp to take down the Liaodong City, I have the right to build ten new Yingyang Mansions in Liaodong and expand 12,000 regular soldiers. All the officers and generals of the ten Yingyang Mansions can be appointed by me first and then sent to Your Majesty for review. Everyone, we have the first fortress in the Northeast, we also have four new cities, we have sufficient food, sufficient equipment, and hundreds of thousands of strong people, and we can be armed at any time. What reason do we have to abandon the city? At this time, those who abandon the city and return to the country will be traitors! Our entire army will despise it!"

Li Jie's face was gloomy and sunny, but he couldn't say a word of refutation. Chen Kefu occupied the righteousness, and he had no reason at all, so he could only sit there helplessly.

For Chen Kefu, he would never let him go whenever he had the chance. His purpose was to completely put Li Jie out of the edge so that he could no longer participate in the core of the Pojun Camp.

"Everyone, since everyone is willing to stay, let's discuss how to deal with the Goguryeo soldiers that will arrive soon. Let's discuss it."

Everyone was talking about it, and they had countless ideas, especially the generals of the new army. They really thought about it and dared to come up with any ideas. But for Chen Kefu, none of the people said anything except making him laugh, except for what they said had any practical significance.

Those who came out were like leading troops to attack Pyongyang, and all large troops were out, using the Xiao Liao River to fight the enemy, and the entire army retreated to defend Liaodong City. Some even had ideas, because they took advantage of the defeat of the Liao people and divided their troops into several routes, or even dozens of routes, to capture nearby mountain cities, large and small, in order to eliminate the surrounding enemies.

Chen Kefu, who was originally a little amused, suddenly seemed to hear something very important, and hurriedly reached out to everyone, and the hall suddenly became quiet. Chen Kefu pointed to a battalion commander of the Sixth Division. He just proposed to disperse his troops and attack the big and small cities near Liaodong City.

"You, yes, it's you. What did you say just now? Say it carefully."

The battalion commander was just a strong man who transported grain. Because of his prestige among the gangs of people who transported grain, he made him the commander of the battalion, with four hundred people, but in fact he was a man who was only a lot more powerful than others and had never even been a man in the countryside. He saw everyone's pleasure and joined in the fun and said a few words, but unexpectedly he was named by the general.

For a moment, his face turned into white paper, and he stood there tremblingly. He didn't know where to put his hands holding the pig-killing knife for many years, but he unconsciously wiped his clothes. "General, the small one, the small one was just talking nonsense for a while, and the small one knew his mistakes, and he would never dare to do it again."

Chen Kefu smiled, "You don't have to be so nervous. This is a normal discussion. Since you are a new army officer, although it is only temporary, every word should be in line with the style of a soldier. Answer my question, you should be a last general or a humble position, and you cannot be a young one. Okay, stand up straight and repeat your words just now!"

The butcher battalion commander saw that Chen Kefu had no intention of blaming him, and he quickly breathed a sigh of relief, "I heard from the general that the Goguryeo army was less than apart from our Sui army. Now there are less than 100,000 troops in China, and there are 70,000 to 80,000 troops on the borders of Pyongyang and Baekje, and Silla. Now, except for those troops, there are only Liaodong Rufuyu, Beisha, Wugu, and 30,000 to 40,000 people in these major cities in China, and these are all two who have little experience as new cities as before.

Line troops. There are more small mountain cities near Liaodong City. The Liao army there are dozens and hundreds of people. I think we can divide our troops to attack those small villages while the Liao people are gathering their troops. Although there are not many people in each small mountain city, as long as we destroy them all, the number will be quite considerable. Without these trained soldiers, the Liao people will come back and are just newly recruited soldiers, so there is no need to worry at all."

Chen Kefu closed his eyes and pondered for a while, and said with a smile, "It's OK. Although he was a little whimsical, he really used his brains. He knew that he had analyzed the information in his hands, judged the dynamics of the enemy, and made his own countermeasures. This is already the idea of ​​a general, very good. What did you do before? How could you think of these?"

"Returning to the general's words, the last general Zhang Hei lived in Zhuo County. He was a descendant of Zhang Yide, a general in Shu during the Three Kingdoms. The last general has always inherited the craftsmanship of his ancestors and slaughtered him in Zhuo County. This time, he came to Liaodong to transport grain. Because of his prestige in the team, he became the battalion commander of the Sixth Division. A few days ago, he went to the general's martial arts party to listen to the lecture, and occasionally he would think about it according to the random words that the general had said."

Chen Kefu smiled, but he didn't expect that someone would claim to be Zhang Fei's descendants, but he and Zhang Fei were really professions. He smiled and said, "No, when you often think about it, you will think about it right whenever you think about it, then you, the temporary battalion commander, can become a real fifth-grade Eagle Yanglang general."

Everyone burst into laughter and felt very happy with the butcher battalion commander.
Chapter completed!