Updated: 2012-06-18

"This general, may I ask, which general are you under?"

Yuanwuben, who was pushed forward, stopped in front of Li Xian, raised his head and asked seriously. Li Xian, who was sitting on the big black horse chewing a piece of grass, glanced at him and asked faintly: "Do you know this makes sense?"

Yuan Wuben nodded and said solemnly: "I just want to know the general's name. The general rushed back from Liaodong thousands of miles away. In short, even if he flew with wings, he shouldn't arrive so quickly. I admire this marching speed. I have no other intention, I just want to know if all the imperial army has been killed back?"

Li Xian smiled slightly and said, "You are quite loyal. You have become a prisoner and are still worried about your master Yang Xuangan."

Yuan Wuben shook his head and sighed, "There is nothing to worry about. The commander is now under his command of hundreds of thousands of troops and 100,000 troops, and the Prime Minister of Korea will help him. Even if the court army rushed back from Liaodong, it is exhausted. The commander is waiting for his work and has a great chance of victory. In the final outcome of this battle, I still think the commander will win! Moreover, the reason why I asked this is not because of concern, but just out of curiosity, when did the court army return from Liaodong? General, how long did you take to get from Liaodong to Liyang?"

Li Xian narrowed his eyes and looked at Yuanwu Ben and smiled, "You are very confident in Yang Xuangan."

He bent down and looked at Yuan Wuben's eyes and said, "The troops of the Great Sui court have passed the Liaoshui River now, and the fastest one will arrive at Zhuo County. Don't worry, Yang Xuangan has a few days to live. As for you, if you are willing to cooperate with me to transport the food out, I will not kill you. After I lead the army, you can continue to recruit soldiers and horses to defend Liyang. As long as your capture is not passed to Yang Xuangan's ears, you will still be the county magistrate and you can think that nothing has happened."

Yuan Wu Ben's face suddenly changed, and then he smiled miserably and said, "Even if Yuan is now a general of the defeated army below the ranks, you don't have to ridicule me like this, General."

Li Xian asked with a smile: "How did I ridicule you?"

Yuan Wuben looked at the cavalry beside Li Xian and said, "Do you really think that I don't know the robe of the soldiers of the Great Sui Palace? Do you really think that Yuan is an idiot?"

Li Xian pointed to the flag behind him and said, "You still haven't looked carefully."

"Yanyun Village?"

Yuanwu Ben's eyes sterned, and his face became even more ugly. Yes, it was not the fierce red battle flag of the Great Sui Dynasty. This flag was black with three big red characters on it, Yanyun Village. From this flag, it can be seen that it was indeed a man on the green forest road. However, Yuanwu Ben couldn't understand that the standard equipment of the Great Sui Dynasty's soldiers, even if there were no county soldiers, how could a mountain village on the Green Forest Road have five thousand elite cavalry and tens of thousands of well-prepared and well-trained infantry?

"That's right, it's Yanyun Village."

Li Xian smiled proudly and said, "It was not the troops of the Great Sui court that defeated you, but the troops of my Yanyun Village."

For some reason, Yuan Wuben suddenly felt relaxed. Logically speaking, if he was defeated by the elite troops of the Great Sui court, he had nothing to regret. Then he should be unwilling to be defeated by a Green Forest Rebel Army. However, Yuan Wuben's mood at this time was much more relaxed than before. Perhaps... he knew that if he lost to the Great Sui court, he had only one way to die. And if he lost to the Green Forest Rebel Army, as the Black Armored General said, if he cooperated well, he might be able to leave his life as a family.

"Yanyun Village...Yanyun..."

Yuanwu Ben's eyes suddenly widened and looked at Li Xian like a monster.

"Could it be... the legend about Yan Yun on the Liaodong battlefield last year...is it true?"

He subconsciously asked Li Xian.

Li Xian smiled and said, "The rumors about Yanyun in Liaodong are true, but... Yanyun is false."

"What does the general mean?"

Yuanwumoto asked.

Li Xian shook his head and stopped talking, urging his horse to walk forward. Yuan Wuben stood in front of the gate of Liyang City very conscious and shouted loudly to ask Yuan Yong to open the gate. Yuan Yong saw that his father was caught by the thief, so he had to order the gate to be opened. After entering Liyang City, Li Xian left two thousand men to guard the gate, climbed the city wall and drove all the defenders of Li Yang's army down. Xiong Kuohai personally led 500 armored infantry to guard the gate. Tieyalang rushed into the city with five hundred cavalry and captured Yuan Wuben's wife and family.

Yuan Yong looked at his father who was tied up like a rice dumpling with a gray face, and was in tears. He glanced at the people entering the city and asked in a low voice: "Father, they are not embarrassed by you, the court... Why did the people in the court come back so quickly?"

Yuan Wuben hurriedly said, "He is upright, you hear from my father, don't resist, they are not the people of the court!"

He lowered his voice and said, "These thieves come just to grab the food and grass. As long as they get enough food, they will leave. You ordered the soldiers not to resist, no matter how much food the thieves transport out, don't stop them!"

"Isn't the imperial court?"

Yuan Yong asked in surprise.

"no!"

Yuan Wuben said word by word: "I guess your mother and our tribe members have been arrested by the thieves. They did not start a massacre. Obviously, they did not want to fight against our Yang Dashang. I guess they had to attack Liyang City because they were in a hurry to get food and supplies. Now on both sides of the Yellow River, the heroes of Green Forest Road have been contacted by secret officials to assist the hero. Since these people dared to show their banner, it means that they are very strong and do not fear other heroes, but they are not strong enough to compete with the hero."

"Seeing that they are very well-organized, they obviously don't want to do anything. Moreover, the leader of the thief said before that they took the food and grass and left. After they retreated, I will still be the governor of Liyang County. I think that man is a person who speaks with trust, so we must not stop it, so as not to arouse the murderous intent of those thieves."

Yuan Yong nodded quickly and said, "I have written it down!"

As he was talking, Li Xian rode over on a big dark horse, pointed at Yuanwuben and said, "Let the bondage for Lord Fujun."

Two personal soldiers came up to untie the rope on Yuanwu itself. Yuanwu loosened his muscles and bones and clasped his fists at Li Xian and said, "Thank you for your kindness and righteousness, and you will not hurt the people of Liyang."

Li Xian smiled and said, "The people have no hatred with me, so what can I do for the people? Lord Fujun, I am still in a hurry to transport grain out of the city."

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Starting from June 24th, Li Yang Cang has been transporting food continuously. The carriages brought by Li Xian himself were obviously not enough. Even if all the carriages in Li Yang City were added up to transport grain to Juyeze, it was nothing to the huge Li Yang Cang. Li Xian didn't have much time to spend in Li Yang. He estimated that at most ten days, the fastest-moving troops of the Great Sui Dynasty would soon arrive.

Fortunately, there were not enough carriages, Liyang was still next to the river, and there were ships in Liyang City. In just three days, Li Xian's men collected hundreds of large ships. Li Xian asked the soldiers to wear the clothes of the soldiers of the Great Sui Palace to escort grain ships. The fleet went east along the Yellow River and walked along a tributary of the Yellow River in Fan County, and could directly enter the Juyeze River. Taking the water route was much faster than taking the land route.

Although the waterway had to pass through several important towns such as Puyang and Linhuang, the grain ships carrying the Great Sui Battle Banner and soldiers wearing the Great Sui Mansion's soldiers were escorted, and no one doubted where the grain was transported to the cities along the way. Besides, Yang Xuangan rebelled, and the adults in these cities were huddled in the city and dared not come out, and the green forest bandits along the way did not dare to fight with the Great Sui Mansion's soldiers, so the grain transport was particularly smooth.

From June 24th to July 3rd, Li Xian stayed in Liyang City to supervise the transportation of grain and grass. In nine days, the grain transported from Liyang warehouse was enough for Juyeze's current people to eat for ten years. He planned that the people from the Sui court were almost here, and Li Xian ordered the last batch of grain and grass to transport, and then took the people and horses back to Juyeze by land.

Yuan Wuben was very happy, really happy. He had never seen a bandit who kept his word like this. After the food was transported, the troops from Yanyun Village withdrew from Liyang. In addition to forcing the rich households in the city to donate 200,000 guan of money to buy Ping'an, the troops from Yanyun Village did not harass the people. Although the rich households felt a little distressed to raise money to buy Ping'an, the rich households at least had no money to spend in vain.

After the Yanyun Village troops set off, Yuan Wuben immediately sent people to Yang Xuangan's army to deliver a letter. The letter said that Liyang City was besieged by the bandits and lost some food and grass. Fortunately, under his leadership, the Liyang military and civilians fought back and defeated the bandits. The letter was written in a very general way. It did not mention the specific date of the battle, nor did it mention that the rebel army attacked Liyang City. Then Yuan Wuben recruited troops again and prepared to defend Liyang. Even if there were no more horses to borrow food, he did not plan to go out of the city to fight. After this battle, he fully realized the weakness of his Liyang army. Compared with the troops in Yanyun Village, it was simply vulnerable.

However, the troops in Liyang's warehouse were all broken up. After several days, he recruited a team of less than 5,000 people. Including the remaining troops in Liyang City, the total number was only more than 10,000.

Yuanwu Ben and Yuanwuzhen summarized the experience of defeat this time and decided not to send food to Yang Xuangan's army for the time being. After the troops grew, they would talk about it. After all, they did not have many soldiers and horses to be used. The two still held their hands tightly and agreed to supervise each other. No matter what tricks the enemy uses next time, they would never go out of the city to fight. Although there were not many more than 10,000 troops, they could barely deal with it when they defended the city.

Yuan Wuben did not expect that the experience he had learned from his mistakes would cause such great trouble to the people who later attacked Liyang by the imperial court. Chen Len, the general of Wuben who led his army to tempt the enemy, originally used the trick of seducing the enemy to tempt Yuan Wuben out of Liyang City, and defeated the Liyang army in one field battle. The location was at the foot of the mountain. He ambushed the troops in the dense forest and sent troops to lure Yuan Wuben out of the city to fight. In history, he defeated Yuan Wuben in this way. Unfortunately... Yuan Wuben was no longer fooled this time. Li Xian arrived ten days earlier than Chen Len and took away his victory.

If Chen Ling knew the truth, he would definitely be crying without tears.

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