Will Ming

The team had already walked northward for nine days after leaving Sashui. Because they had to avoid the Goguryeo army and attack the forts along the way to obtain food, the team's speed was not fast.In fact, Li Xian didn't want to take his troops back to Tai Sui so soon.

Although after a series of purges, now this team has obeyed his orders.For nine consecutive days, Li Xian kept instilling in the soldiers an awareness that they were no longer soldiers of the Sui Dynasty.But Li Xian knew that if he really wanted this team to follow him wholeheartedly, he still needed an opportunity.And this opportunity, Li Xian has already sent someone to arrange it early.

He wanted this team to completely give up on Tai Sui and completely forget that they were soldiers of Tai Sui.

Duguzhen didn't show any strange behavior, Li Xian made sure that he didn't say anything to Xue Wanche.Xue Wanche is simple, but he is not simple at all. This person's military talent is not weak at all, and as long as he is willing to calm down and think about problems, his understanding is not much worse than Duguzhen.What Dugu can really think of, he will think of it sooner or later.

On the ninth day of the march, the team camped and rested under a big mountain.

Li Xian went to watch Xiong Kuo Hai's military training when he had nothing to do, and Li Xian valued the thousand elite infantry soldiers very much.Although he prefers the joy of cavalry charging, there is no doubt that infantry will still be the main force on the battlefield in the future.Moreover, Xiong Kuohai is far more innocent than Xue Wanche and others. He comes from a poor family. It stands to reason that he would have been promoted to a lieutenant long ago after accumulating military merits, even from a fifth-rank general. He is a child of a family, so he has been in the brigade for a long time.

For Da Sui, he had resentment in his heart.

In particular, Yu Wenshu abandoned two 10,000+ troops, and the fact that eight generals fled with their own soldiers made him even more desperate for Tai Sui, so it was not difficult for Li Xian to win him over.In fact, as long as you treat him well, such a person will treat you twice as well.

This mountain is not very high, but its radius is extremely wide.There are several small villages of Goguryeo people along the mountain. Li Xian's team has already sorted them out after they arrived. Originally, the people of Goguryeo had already taken refuge in the big city, and this mountain village was even less populated.It is not difficult to hide a team of more than 2 people in the mountains. It is indeed time for the team to rest for two days after the march and fight in the past few days.

In an open space at the foot of the mountain, Xiong Kuohai was training with his soldiers.

What is being trained is not very complicated, just queue training.The soldiers of the Sui Dynasty had a whole set of training methods, and there were more than 30 infantry formations.Li Xian hopes that Xiong Kuohai can train a group of heavy armored infantry, and a thousand sets of infantry heavy armor will be put on those soldiers now.The [-] elite army of the Sui Dynasty was defeated, and their luggage was lost all the way.Li Xian is like a scavenger, picking up what he sees, he would rather waste than lack.

One thousand pairs of heavy armor is not difficult to gather compared to the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty.And Xiong Kuohai has already replaced all the weapons of these 1000 people with Modao, just like the murderous weapon in his hand.

Seeing Li Xian's arrival, Xiong Kuohai ordered the soldiers to continue the drill, and he strode forward to meet him.

"General"

Xiong Kuohai shouted.

Li Xian smiled and waved his hands and said, "It's nothing, I just came to watch your training."

Xiong Kuohai blushed unexpectedly, smiled and said: "I have never led so many soldiers, and I don't know if I can train them well. I am afraid that I will be sorry for your trust, General. I have been entrusted to me, but I can't train them well." Come out with the ability to kill the enemy."

Li Xian said with a smile: "I know your ability. It is the right way to entrust these people to you. In the future, I will give you more people. At the very least, I will let you bring out a heavy armored infantry of 5000 people." Come on. Training soldiers now is also training yourself. In the future, you won’t have a headache if you have too many soldiers. If you can have [-] elite soldiers to open the way, plus [-] cavalry, you can’t stop the Goguryeo people from going back to Liaoshui!”

Xiong Kuohai nodded, and asked suddenly as if thinking of something: "General... I don't know if I should ask you something. I haven't had a chance to talk to you alone. It's been in my heart for a long time."

Li Xian pointed to the tree not far away, where there was a rather flat boulder.Xiong Kuohai understood, and walked behind Li Xian.Sitting down on the big rock, Li Xian asked, "Say, what's the matter?"

Xiong Kuohai hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and said: "General, if we can go back to the Sui Dynasty, can we... go back and serve those guys as soldiers?"

Li Xian was slightly taken aback, he didn't expect Xiong Kuohai to bring it up first.

"My surname is not Yan"

Li Xian thought for a while and said, "My name is not Yan Yun either."

Xiong Kuohai was taken aback by this abrupt remark, and then he looked at Li Xian in disbelief and asked, "Then you..."

"My surname is Li, and my name is Li Xian."

"Of course, I'm not a son of a merchant family, and I don't have a million-dollar family. I was originally a horse thief on Yanshan Mountain. I was a horse thief who couldn't tolerate me in the Sui Dynasty. The people of the court killed me on Yanshan Mountain. Hundreds of brothers, including my elder brother who took care of me when I was young. When the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty attacked us, we were fighting the Turkic people!"

Li Xian paused for a moment, glanced at the astonished Xiong Kuo Hai, smiled and asked, "Somewhat unbelievable?"

Xiong Kuohai nodded, and said honestly: "This subordinate really... didn't expect it."

"When I came to Liaodong, I was actually looking for an opportunity to assassinate Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty. I didn't expect to meet the old general Mai Tiezhang who died in battle, so I simply snatched the old general's body back. The reason why I went north along the river that day , because I was afraid of being besieged and killed by the troops of the Great Sui. Unexpectedly, no one in the Liaodong army recognized me, and Yang Guang sent someone to find me and let me serve in the Great Sui army. To be honest, I entered the Sui The army is still looking for an opportunity to assassinate the emperor."

"But then there was a war with the Goguryeo people. I knew that even if I had the chance at that time, I couldn't kill him. In that case, the army of millions would collapse in an instant. soldiers were buried in foreign lands.”

"Later, when I went on an expedition with the army, I was still thinking that killing the Goguryeo people was far more enjoyable than killing the emperor. Although the emperor was my sworn enemy, the blood debt of hundreds of lives was on my shoulders. But When I got to the Liaodong battlefield, I couldn’t do anything. After fighting Goguryeo all the way, I found that the great generals of the Sui Dynasty were so insidious that they wanted to kill me several times.”

"Because of my pursuit of Ulji Wendeok, Xin Shixiong and Wang Rengong plotted to kill me. If General Xue Shixiong hadn't rescued me, I'm afraid I would have died under the city of Pyongyang. From that moment on, I realized that, after all, Da Sui and I People in the imperial court do not go the same way.”

Li Xian sighed and said: "I didn't die, and I don't want to see everyone die in Sashui. I stopped Yu Wenshu and asked him to wade back with [-] soldiers and horses to rescue the brothers who were trapped on the south bank. Yu Wenshu alone Didn’t give it to me! The so-called senior officials and the so-called generals are not as loyal as us horse thieves!”

Xiong Kuohai said angrily: "That old thief Yu Wenshu! General, when you stopped in front of his horse, your subordinates saw it, so they followed the general and went back to the south bank. With so many brothers stuck in the south bank, the old thief didn't Don't ask, just run for your own life!"

Li Xian asked, "Do you mind if I'm a horse thief?"

Xiong Kuohai said solemnly: "A good man, regardless of his background, the general has rescued so many brothers and came back, the subordinates respect the general!"

Li Xian smiled and said, "Thank you."

Xiong Kuo Hai said: "General, what are you going to do with these brothers back?"

Li Xian shook his head and said: "I don't know yet, they are all soldiers of the Sui Dynasty after all, if I let them know that I was born as a horse thief, I'm afraid they will abandon me immediately, and even tie me up and send me to The imperial court may ask for credit. My heart is full enough to bring them all home. As long as the brothers do not turn against each other before returning home, there is nothing else to ask for. After passing the Liaoshui River, I will go back to Yanshan .”

Xiong Kuohai said eagerly: "No!"

He looked around and said in a low voice: "General, even though this subordinate is a rough man, he can tell that the world of the Sui Dynasty is going to be in chaos! Before we set off, how many people who could not survive in the north of the Yellow River raised their flags Rebellion? Gao Shida, Zhang Jin said, Sun Anzu, Wang Bo, all gathered tens of thousands of people. This time when the army conquered Liaodong, hundreds of thousands of government soldiers died in battle. The foundation of the Sui Dynasty has been shaken! The world is down, why didn't the general make a plan earlier? If the general has more than 2 elite soldiers in his hands, it will be easy to occupy a place!"

Li Xian was taken aback, he didn't expect Xiong Kuohai to have such thoughts.

"It's easier said than done!"

Li Xian sighed.

Seeing that Li Xian didn't seem to care about the rebellion, Xiong Kuohai urged him urgently: "General, with your ability, if you are willing to plot big things, why not worry about it? Zhang Jin said that people like Gao Shida can gather crowds Banner, why can’t the general? Besides, if the general can gather a party, and in the future there will be hundreds of thousands of soldiers under his command, won’t he be able to take revenge? Now is the opportunity, as long as the general returns with his troops, who can be the opponent?”

Li Xian showed that he was moved by Xiong Kuohai, hesitated and said: "But... After all, these soldiers are soldiers of the Sui Dynasty, how difficult it is to make them rebel!"

Xiong Kuohai smiled and said in a low voice, "Why is it so difficult?"

He lowered his voice and said, "As long as the soldiers are charged with a crime, they will be able to do so if they don't want to!"

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Duguzhen took a sip of the bad wine he snatched from the Goguryeo Fortress, and it was spicy, and suddenly his throat seemed to be on fire.Because I raped a Goguryeo woman in that fort a few days ago, after drinking wine at this time, the hot feeling in my chest and abdomen became violent again.It's just a pity that it is impossible for the army to take a woman with it, so the woman's neck was twisted and broken by him.Thinking about it now, Dugu really felt a little regretful.

When he was in the Sui Dynasty, what kind of woman could he not get?

Eight months have passed since the Battle of Liaodong