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Chapter 198: New Year's Eve

The Sui soldiers who were far away on the northwest prairie are about to spend the first Spring Festival in their lives, which was not spent at home. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. Except for the soldiers on duty, everyone else found familiar friends to gather together to chat. The difference between the Han people in the Central Plains and the Mengyuan people in the East Chu was not only the difference in appearance, but also the difference in personality. The Han people are in love with their homes and their parents are not traveling far.

The people of Dongchu were used to traveling around the country, and they regarded traveling and doing business as life. In their concept, home was just a word. The people of the Mongolian Yuan lived in grass, and they were used to driving cattle and sheep to live a nomadic life. Even if they could not leave the tribe's fiefdom, the grasslands of at least a few thousand miles were enough for them to go back and forth.

The topics that soldiers gathered together to discuss cannot be separated from what the people in their hometown were doing at this time. Someone licked his lips and said that he really wanted to eat dumplings. This sentence resonated with many people. The soldiers in Jiangnan did not have a particularly strong relationship with pasta, but the soldiers in the north loved dumplings more than the scope of food. In their opinion, dumplings represent more than just a kind of food.

There were people coming and going in the camp, which was more than twenty miles in a radius. In order to let the soldiers feel a little bit of New Year's atmosphere, the generals even found some red cloths and carefully decorated them in the military camp. I don't know where the military officers took out some big red lanterns and hung them outside several large tents of the central army, looking particularly friendly.

The soldiers kept talking until it was almost dark, and then they were surprised to find that everyone could get half a pound of cooked meat for today's dinner. For the army that had not seized any cattle, sheep and horses on the expedition, it was a matter of cheering for everyone to get half a pound of cooked meat. You should know that these pork were transported from the pass from the gates thousands of miles away. In order to provide the army of 700,000, the manpower and material resources consumed in this meal were astronomical.

General Li Yuanshan patrolled his camp in the night. As the chief general of the northwest of the imperial garrison, he played an important role in this war. Moreover... the greatest advantage of the Right Guard compared with other guards is that Li Yuanshan has tried his best and used all means to form a heavy armored cavalry of two thousand people in recent years.

The heavy cavalry of the Right Guard was the first heavy cavalry since the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty.

Armored war horses were equipped with armor and were invincible without any attack. When they charged in battle, they easily crushed the enemy into powder like a heavy tank. The treatments enjoyed by each cavalry of this two thousand people were incomparable to other soldiers. Each of them had two entourages who belonged only to them. In addition to a tall and majestic war horse, there was also a scattered horse carrying personal belongings. After all, they could not wear at least forty kilograms of heavy armor on their bodies all day long, and their horse spears were far larger and heavier than ordinary soldiers' spears.

The Jingbu Camp is the standard for every guard soldier, so there is nothing outstanding about this.

But because the Right Guard is the northwest army, the number of soldiers is more than the number of soldiers in the hinterland of the empire. According to the military system of the Great Sui Dynasty, each guard has 36,000 soldiers and 8,000 auxiliary soldiers. Including the people of other military positions, the total number is less than 50,000. The Right Guard has the emperor's special order, which can recruit 12,000 more soldiers and 2,000 auxiliary soldiers. In terms of the scale, a Right Guard has about one-third more troops than other guards.

In the entire Sui Dynasty, the only army that could be larger than the Right Guard was the left vanguard in the southwest. So some people in the court made an example: Li Yuanshan in the northwest and Luo Yao in the southwest were the two Optimus Primes in the west of the empire.

Li Yuanshan was ordered to be the vanguard of the Western Expedition Army, and his army was always at the forefront. However, after several consecutive battles, the losses of the Right Guard were not too great. The troops recruited by the emperor from various paths of the empire were also controlled by several generals. On the battlefield, these soldiers transferred from various places were the real vanguards, and no general would be stupid enough to fight all his personal soldiers.

In the first battle, although the five thousand troops led by Li Xiaozong were under the banner of the Right Guard, the soldiers of the Right Guard were only one of the Zhechang camps.

"General, let's leave the first battle after the New Year to us... This is a bit unfair. Let's fight to the death in front, and they will pick up ready-made cheapness in the back!"

Yin Poshan, one of the seven tiger generals under Li Yuanshan, said with some dissatisfaction.

Li Yuanshan waved his hand and said, "Your Majesty uses the right guard as the vanguard, so we will naturally rush to the front. Don't just look at the losses. If this war is won, the vanguard will get much more than other people. Have you forgotten Luo Yao? In the war to destroy Shang in the Empire, Luo Yao's left vanguard has been rushing to the front. When more than 40,000 troops were still left in the capture of Yongzhou, there were less than 15,000 troops, and it was indeed a heavy loss. But now? The late emperor and Your Majesty both felt that they owe Luo Yao to him and were indulging in every way. Who knows how many troops Luo Yao has now?"

"Our Right Guard will not suffer small casualties and injuries after fighting this battle, but the glory that those who survive will not receive small, even greater than Luo Yao's left vanguard!"

Li Yuanshan said calmly: "I have always told you that you should have a longer vision. Even if you can't see it ten years later, you should try to see it three years later and five years later. The longer you see it, the greater your future will be."

"I understand."

Yin Poshan hangs his head.

Li Yuanshan shook his head: "You don't understand, I know your personality the best. It's not much easier to let you think about these things than to have a baby. Among you seven, the most calm person is Xu Xiao. Now, Li Xiaozong and Xu Xiao are almost the same. That's why I handed over the vanguard army's vanguard army to him, not you."

"The General is a miserable person, his subordinates are to be guilty..."

Li Xiaozong, who was following behind, said with his head down.

"What's your sin?"

Li Yuanshan smiled and said, "The first battle was done like this according to my wishes. If you are guilty, wouldn't I be guilty?"

"but……"

He paused for a moment and said, "The first battle after the New Year is better. The prince Fei Ge sent a letter to make us more realistic. First, fight a few exciting battles to make Your Majesty happy. Be happy and then disappointed. Your Majesty's anger will be even greater. So you must remember that you can fight the next battle as you should. If you lose someone again, I will pick up your meal first."

"Here!"

Several generals responded with their heads.

Li Xiaozong hesitated for a while and asked in a low voice: "General, please allocate another 5,000 troops to his subordinates. This time his subordinates will definitely fight beautifully."

"You're tired"

Li Yuanshan waved his hand: "Let Xu Xiao fight the battle below, you can rest for a few more days."

Li Xiaozong's face changed suddenly, and a trace of resentment flashed in his eyes. The strong hatred seemed to be the night that could not be dissolved. Although it flashed, it was particularly clear. Li Xiaozong agreed to hide his dissatisfaction by hanging his head, but a fire in his heart became more and more intense.

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More than a dozen people in black night clothes walked down the moonlight cut by the clouds and walked quickly in the grass like wild beasts. Not only did they cover their faces with black cloth, but even their heads were covered with extremely tight scrupulously, revealing only a pair of bright eyes. These dozen people were like fish swimming in the sea. The vast grassland as wide as the sea was their home, so even if the night became thicker, their speed of moving forward did not slow down.

The man in black in the head suddenly stopped while running and made a gesture. More than a dozen men in black immediately fell to the ground and lay motionless in the grass. Soon, more than twenty war horses passed by not far from where they were hiding, and the black armor of the knight on the horse's back declared their identity.

It is a cyclist of the Great Sui Dynasty.

This place is less than three miles away from the Sui Army camp, and the Sui Army's ranger patrols have become increasingly frequent. These dozen men in black have moved forward carefully along the way, and their speed has been reduced a lot after avoiding this team of ranger.

The man in charge climbed up a high slope and lay in the grass and looked at the brightly lit Sui army camp not far away. On such a deep night, the lights of twenty miles were like a lake with glory. The undulating camp tents were the waves of this big lake.

"The flag owner said that the New Year's Eve of the Sui people is as important as our fasting festival. Sure enough...you see..."

The man in black pointed to the Sui army camp and said, "Although it seems that the defense is still tight, the moving torches in the camp are patrolling soldiers, which seems to be much less than before."

The man in black beside him sneered softly: "Master Qianma, the Sui people have the face to be the nation that knows the most about war. Look, there are red lanterns hanging outside the large tents of the central army, which is extremely idiotic. It is like telling us that those tents are the residences of the commander of the Sui army."

The leading commander named Agudam, who is a powerful general under the mandu wolf in Nirvana City. Although he is not old, he has profound cultivation and a cold and cruel temperament, and he will not blink.

“This is a habit that is difficult to change.”

Agudamu whispered: "The General once pretended to be a herdsman and sneaked into Fangu City. He knew what the Sui people were used to. Every New Year's Eve, the Han people would hang red lanterns in front of their homes. They would also eat a food called dumplings and set off firecrackers. It was like we celebrated the fasting festival. On New Year's Eve, the Sui people were almost unprepared for peace. Their soldiers also had to drink and eat meat. Even criminals locked in prison would get wine and cooked meat. Especially on New Year's Eve, they had the lowest vigilance."

"This time, even if you can't win all, you will always be caught off guard by the Sui people."

Another man in black said.

Agudamu shook his head and said, "You can't be careless. Even though the Sui people had many difficult habits to change, you saw real soldiers in front of you, and there were too many of them."

"Even ten thousand sheep can't stop the attack of a wolf."

A man in black smiled and said, "Wait, let the Sui people taste the scimitar tomorrow night."

Agudamu nodded, pointed to the front and whispered: "Push a hundred steps forward and see if you can no longer see clearly. Spread it apart, and each person chooses a good place to hide. When the hourglass in your hands are gone, return here to gather immediately. We will rush back to report to the young banner master and the general before dawn."

"Huha"

The men in black responded in a low voice, and then each chose one direction to disperse.

Agudam did not move and stayed on the high slope.

On another high slope less than 150 steps away from him, several people tied with dead grass were lying in the grass. The hats and clothes on their heads were disguised. In such a night, they could not easily find their existence even if they walked in front of them.

One of them put down his subordinate Qianli's eyes and lowered his voice to ask a petite man beside him: "Master Qianhu, do you want to capture one and ask him to ask?"

The man, known as Qianhu, shook his head slightly, habitually picked a piece of weed and held it in his mouth: "Let them see as much as possible. Before leaving, he notify the cyclist to catch a few. If they let them go so easily, they will be a little suspicious. Let's just stare at whether anyone is close to the camp. The arrest of people on the battlefield will not be subject to the Great Inspector's Office."

Listening to her, she turned out to be a woman.

"Here"

The person who asked the question responded, raised his eyes again and looked at the high slope opposite.

Qianhu, a woman lying on the grass, looked up at the moon that was blocked by the clouds, and gently squirmed her lips and chewed on the hairy grass. The grass was already withered and yellow, so there was no bitter taste.

She felt sweet when she thought of the boy far away in Chang'an City. That guy knew to use weeds to disguise him when he was very young, wear clothes of different colors in different environments, apply ugly colors on his face, and even stay in one place without moving for a day, and urinate in his pants without moving. He said this was a means of survival. She looked down on him at the time, but later she gradually realized that these means were really useful.

After changing into yellow clothes with dry grass, they would not be noticed even if they hid in the grass during the day. With this color disguise, the people from the Great Inner Guard Department have repeatedly approached the camp of Mandu Banner.

What will he be doing now?

She was thinking.

There was no shadow of him in the moon, but she was so obsessed with it.
Chapter completed!