Before Li Jiancheng and others could go far, Liu Hongji and Li Xu immediately ordered the remaining brothers to pull their horses and hide in the woods. Those who chose to stay and go to Bopi Village to rescue the siege were all heroes who didn't care about life and death, so Liu Hongji didn't need to talk nonsense. What kind of agitation? He roughly organized his people into three brigades, leaving one team of brothers to guard around the forest, and then waved his hand and ordered the rest to rest in the forest.
Knowing that 80% of them would never come back this time, everyone felt more at ease. After a while, low snoring sounded in the woods. Liu Hongji and Li Xu did not dare to sleep, and patrolled along the periphery of the woods with weapons in their hands. After walking for a while, Liu Hongji slowed down and said apologetically: "I brought you to Liaodong because I wanted to give you a fortune. Who would have expected that I would send you to the Mazhai waterfront instead..."
"Brother Liu, why did you say this? To be honest, my biggest wish at that time was just to get a job in the local area and become a captain. Hehe..." Li Xu pointed to the iron helmet on his head and started to drive it frankly. Joking, "I've already fallen in love with it like crazy. Even if I really die in battle, I won't have dishonored my ancestors in this life!"
"Look at your ambition!" Liu Hongji punched Li Xu sideways and scolded, "If I were you, I would have to become a general before I wanted to die in battle!"
The two of them looked at each other and smiled, feeling so relaxed. They seemed to have returned to the days when they traveled back from the grassland hand in hand. Apart from friendship, there was no trace of dust.
"What is Brother Liu's ambition in life? To be a general, or to be a champion?" Li Xu laughed enough and asked one question at a time.
"Being a local governor, just like my father did!" Liu Hongji replied in a low voice. "My father did not make money during his lifetime. As a result, after his death, my mother and I were looked down upon by others. All my former relatives and friends suddenly became far away, and it seemed like I I just contracted the plague!"
Speaking of this, he couldn't help but sigh softly, "So, I am determined to be the governor and county governor in this life, so that my mother will no longer be looked down upon by others. If I have a son in the future, I will no longer be looked down upon by others. Bullying!"
"Brother Liu doesn't have a son?" Li Xu asked in surprise. He had been dating Liu Hongji for so long, but he had never cared about whether he had a family. At this moment, when he heard the other person mention children, he suddenly realized that Liu Hongji was already in his thirties! This Not only were people who were childless at this age not only rare in their hometown, but they could not be found in the entire Sui Dynasty!
"Although I have the honorary title of Right Honorable Minister, I have no official salary. Whose daughter would marry someone who can hardly afford to eat!" Liu Hongji shook his head with a wry smile.
"If we can go back alive, maybe the imperial court will promote my eldest brother to an official position again!" Li Xu said with a smile, and a bit of longing for the future flashed in his eyes. The 300,000-strong army was wiped out, but Liu Hongji took three soldiers with him. More than a hundred people went upstream. From my own perspective, such officials were the pillars of the Sui Dynasty, and His Majesty the Emperor should be able to appreciate them.
"The army of 300,000 was defeated, and the emperor cannot reward us for the merits of a few soldiers. Otherwise, the generals will be embarrassed. Therefore, our trip was an absolute loss, except for what we deserve." Apart from conscience, not many people will remember it!" Liu Hongji shook his head again, denying Li Xu's blind optimism.
"That's true!" Li Xu put on a depressed face, raised his leg and kicked away a dead branch, "But saving one by one, those people care!"
Liu Hongji turned his head in surprise, and suddenly found that the little brother next to him, who was half his age, actually spoke with a Zen spirit, "Yes, those who survive will remember it!" He said with a smile, and suddenly, his eyes shone brightly,
Alertly, he pressed his hand on the handle of the knife.
"There's someone!" Li Xu also heard the sound of horse hooves coming from outside the woods. He rushed forward a few steps, holding a machete and hiding behind the tree hair on the edge of the woodland. Not far away, five horses galloped towards him, leading a figure.
He was so weak that he could hardly ride the horse steadily, but his arms tightly hugged the horse's neck.
"It's Yu Wenshiji, Wang Yuantong, and Lao Qi. Why did they come back again?" Liu Hongji let go of the handle of the knife and muttered unhappily.
If there are enemy troops nearby at this moment, Yu Wenshi and others will definitely be captured alive. The warriors hiding in the forest will also be exposed because of their recklessness. But this is not the time to blame them. First, find out what Li Jiancheng and others are like.
Whether people are in trouble is the first priority.
"Master Li is not in any trouble. I, Lao Qi, feel that we all drink wine together and eat meat together every day. You go and fight with others and Lao Qi doesn't follow, which is a bit unjust!" Qi Poning saw Li Xu and accompanied him.
With a smile on his face, he explained in a low voice.
"Ziying is such a coward, and he went up with a knife. I, the old Wang, turned around. If we all get together in the future, why don't you all press me under your tongue. This deal, I, the old Wang, feel a little bit
Lose!" Wang Yuantong jumped off his horse and shouted with a playful smile.
"Keep your voice down, brothers are resting!" Liu Hongji scolded in a low voice, taking the reins of the horses from his two friends, with heat surging in his heart.
"The wimps of the Yuwen family won't have any friendship with you!" Yu Wenshiji was helped off his horse by Yu Wenzhong and another guard. He gasped and stuck out his forked tongue. "The wimps of the Yuwen family calculated their chances of surviving.
It seems bigger. Once we rescue the trapped brothers, we will have more than 3,000 people here. With more than 3,000 people heading west together, it will definitely be safer than more than 400 people!"
At this time, no one was fighting with Yuwen Shiji. Li Xu smiled generously, turned around and entered the depths of the woods, found a piece of felt from the pack horse, handed it to the Yuwen family, and signaled them
The three of them lay down to rest first. However, Yu Wenshiji did not intend to let Liu and Li go. As soon as their bodies fell down, they immediately supported half of their heads with their arms and asked Li Xu in a low voice: "You two are not afraid of death?"
Does your general have a strategy to defeat the enemy? Don't tell me that you tricked more than 300 brothers to follow you, just to let them pounce on you and become the ghosts of Qianqiu!"
"Liu is worried about this matter. If the people in Bopi Village know that we are coming to help, the two sides should cooperate internally and externally, and they may not be able to break through the siege of the Goguryeo people. But now there are enemy troops everywhere, and it is really difficult to send a message!" Liu Hongji!
He cupped his hands and responded in a low voice. Although he had always had a bad impression of the Yuwen family, Yuwen Shiji's courage to return and live and die with everyone had already won his respect.
"The people in Bopi Village are not fools. After hearing the noise, are they still willing to sit back and wait to be killed?" Yuwen Shiji smiled and continued to sarcastically.
Hearing this, Li Xu couldn't help but feel happy. He squatted down and asked in a low voice: "The Prince Consort is saying that as long as we make the noise bigger, the people inside will rush out on their own!"
"They are now lambs waiting to be slaughtered. They will jump out at any opportunity. As for how to make the momentum bigger, I think it will not be difficult for you two brave generals who deserve nothing!"
"Please give me some advice from the Prince Consort, Commander-in-Chief!" Liu Hongji asked Yuwen Shiji with a serious military salute.
Yu Wenshiji speaks harshly and behaves strangely, but when he does not consider the interests of the family, his mind is one of the best among the children of the family. He said this, he must have thought of a strategy to defeat the enemy. For the safety of his brothers, Liu Hongji
No matter how many sarcastic comments you receive from the other party.
"Aren't you two the best at setting fires? How did you burn the Turkic camp back then? Let's continue burning it tonight. Do you need me to teach you this trick?" Yu Wenshiji glanced at Liu Hongji with his pure white eyes.
, scolded disdainfully.
"Set fire? Burn the Turks?" Li Xu stood up suddenly and instinctively touched the handle of the knife. Looking at Yu Wenshi and his proud look, he instantly understood that the other party had no ill intentions.
"This is a wonderful plan!" Liu Hongji and Li Xu quickly exchanged glances, and both read the word "admiration" from each other's hearts. There are only more than 300 brothers in the woods, but there are still nearly a thousand horses transporting grain.
Horse. If frightened horses are allowed to trample the camp, the effect will definitely be greater than that of people. And in the darkness, the light of fire is the most obvious. As long as the fire in the enemy camp burns up, no matter how slow the reaction of the brothers trapped in Bobo Village is,
I also knew that the opportunity to break through had arrived.
Thinking of this, the two of them bowed at the same time and saluted Yu Wenshiji again: "Thank you very much, Commander-in-law, for your advice!"
"The more people you can rescue, the more security I will have! We shouldn't owe anything!" Yu Wenshi replied with a sour face and a frown.
Although he still looked disgusting, Liu Hongji and Li Xu couldn't help but have a much better impression of the son of the aristocratic family in front of them. The two immediately used tree branches as pens to plan a sneak attack on the enemy in detail on the ground in front of each other.
After everything was discussed, he raised his head and asked Dui Yuwen Shiji: "Master Governor, do you think this arrangement is feasible?"
"You are better at killing and setting fires than I am!" Yu Wenshiji rolled his eyelids and continued to spray "venom" with his tongue.
"The prince-in-law and the commander-in-chief have given me the reward. This fire was set by the Sui Dynasty. I only wanted to defeat the enemy and don't care about the reputation behind me!" Liu Hongji smiled and replied solemnly.
"Aren't you surprised, how do I know about your evil deeds of setting fires in Turks and stealing other people's horses?" When Yu Wenshi saw that Liu Hongji could not be attacked, he changed the topic and asked proudly.
"It's still early before nightfall. If the Commander-in-Chief is willing to speak, Liu is all ears. If he is unwilling to speak, how can Liu dare to force the Commander-in-Chief!" Liu Hongji handed over his hand again, using politeness as his best defensive weapon.
"Next time you offer a horse to the emperor, remember not to offer someone else's first-class horse. There are several breeds that the Turks will never sell unless you pay with a knife." Yu Wenshiji put down his arms and straightened his body.
He said sourly. "Also, that boy on the black horse, don't tell me that you don't know that the mount under your crotch is Teller, a special horse of the Turkic royal family!"
After saying that, ignoring the embarrassment of the two of them, "Venomous Snake" closed his eyes and snored softly. (To be continued)
