"I have already sent a letter to the family, and asked Shimin to send your third sister and fourth sister to Liaodong, and by the way, bring San Lang Shilang with you." Li Yuan gently tapped the couch.

"Shimin is fifteen years old this year, and his eye disease has been cured, so it's time for him to come out and see the world. Yuanji is also fourteen this year, and he is messing around at home all day, so it is better to send it to Liaodong to suffer a little. It's Xuanba, who is twelve years old, but his body has always been bad, but I don't worry about him being at home alone, so I let him come with him. ”

Li Jiancheng is still very resolutely opposed to this family matter.

But Li Yuan told his son that marriage was the best way to exchange power. Even if you are dissatisfied, you have to get used to it and accept it. At that time, his father married the daughter of Duguxin of Zhuguo, and he also married the daughter of the Dou family, his sister married the Taiyuan Wang family, and he also gave Jiancheng the daughter of the Zheng family in Xingyang.

"Erlang is fifteen years old this year, and I originally wanted to see if I could ask for a princess for him, but now it seems that the princess is not yet here, and the eldest grandson's family has a good girl, maybe he should go to find someone to propose to his uncle Gao Shilian."

If the Li family hadn't relied on marriage over the years, they wouldn't have survived until now. And now if the Li family wants to survive, they must continue to rely on marriage.

"Da Lang, you remember that the marriage of the children of the family must be considered for the interests of the family. As the children of the family, we are born to enjoy the benefits brought to us by the family, and enjoy all kinds of superior treatment, so everyone has to contribute to the interests of the family when they become adults. ”

Li Yuan got up, "I'll go to the palace to take a look, you think about what your father said just now, and besides, my father has no objection to you and Yu Wenhua to continue to walk together, but you must not go against Luo Cheng in the future, remember, it won't be long before Luo Cheng will be your brother-in-law, and then he will be a relative of us, and you should find a way to make Luo Cheng your help, not your enemy." ”

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Luo Cheng waited by the Yalu River for another half a month, and then waited for the other Eighth Route soldiers and horses to arrive one after another.

The first to arrive was the three armies of Yu Zhongwen, which were originally far away, and the three armies of Yuwenshu, which were originally the closest, but they arrived at the end, and the other two armies arrived, so they were too late.

By the time Yuwenshu arrived, it was already June 12.

Twelve days had passed since the date set by the emperor for crossing the river.

The Ninth Army gathered, and the Yalu River was full of troops.

Fortunately, Luo Cheng had already prepared and asked the baggage regiment to prepare a camp for them in advance.

"Why are these guys so embarrassed?" Luo Cheng took his brothers to Yuwenshu's camp to participate in the Ninth Army Military Conference.

The Ninth Army has its own generals, but the emperor assigned Yuwenshu and Yu Zhongwen to coordinate the Ninth Army, Yuwenshu is responsible for the Five Armies on the left, and Yu Zhongwen is in charge of the Fourth Army on the right.

Yu Zhongwen is the grandson of Yu Jin, one of the Eight Pillar States, his father once attacked the Duke of Yanguo, and when he was in his generation, he was demoted to the Duke of the County, and then after changing the title, he only got the title of Marquis of Longevity.

However, the important ministers of the three dynasties of the Yu family, especially when the Sui Dynasty was founded, the support of the Yu family was very important, so in the Sui Dynasty, Yu Jin was crowned the Duke of the Kingdom, and he had nine sons, two of the Duke of the Kingdom, four county dukes, three county dukes, and the Duke of Manmen, which can be described as extremely glorious.

But now, the Yu family is also in decline.

Although there are many children in the Yu family, Yu Jin has nine sons, each son has given birth to seven or eight, such as Yu Zhongwen's father gave birth to nine, and an uncle gave birth to thirteen, adding up, Yu Zhongwen's generation has more than 100 brothers. It's just that although there are many people, most of them are not very productive.

Back then, the Yu family had ten dukes such as the Duke of Yan and the Duke of Qi, but now there is only one marquis in Yu Zhongyu.

But no matter what, Yu Zhongwen is the grandson of the Yu family of the Eight Pillars Country after all, and his own skills are quite strong, so he is still a general in the court, this time he is a general of the First Army, and he also serves as the commander of the Right Fourth Army with his qualifications and prestige.

However, Luo Cheng belonged to the Left Fifth Army and belonged to Yuwenshu.

This time it was in the Yuwenshu army, and the brothers came all the way and saw Yuwenshu's left first sergeant, most of whom were very tired and thin.

"Why do you still look a little hungry?"

Heiye was also puzzled.

"Didn't they all bring 100 days of food when they came out, it's only the middle of June, and it's only been less than a month and a half since the troops were dispatched, why did they use up the 100 days' food?"

Luo Cheng probably understood what it meant.

"I can't finish eating, three stones of grain for one person, how can I finish it in forty days, I guess I threw it away."

"Throw it away? Why are they so bold and don't want to die, this is deep in the enemy's territory, but there is no supply. Throwing away food is not fatal? ”

Everyone knows the importance of military rations, and it is impossible for Yuwenshu not to know.

"The devil knows what they think." Luo Cheng shook his head.

All the way to the big tent of the Central Army of the First Army on the left.

The generals of the Ninth Army arrived.

"The general of the Left Fifth Army, Hou Luocheng of Xiangyang, has arrived!"

"Song Laosheng, the second general of the Fifth Army on the left, has arrived!"

As the guards shouted, Luo Cheng and the others wore armor and entered the account in high spirits.

"Luo Cheng led the generals of the Fifth Army on the left to see General Yuwen and join the army General Yu!"

Yu Wenshu just snorted, while Yu Zhongwen got up and came to the tent to greet him in person.

"I heard that General Luo is young and brave, and he has received countless successes since entering Liao, and today I finally have to see the real person, young, really young." Yu Zhongwen took Luo Cheng's hand and walked in, "It's really the back waves of the Yangtze River pushing the front waves, and there are talented people in the country." ”

Wait for everyone to sit down.

The first thing Yu Wenshu said when he opened his mouth was to ask Luo Cheng directly, "What is the grain and grass in the Left Fifth Army now?" ”

"Our army still has plenty of food and grass." Luo Cheng replied.

When Yu Wenshu heard this, a smile immediately appeared on his face, "This is very good, now that all the armies are short of food and grass, Luo Cheng, you will immediately take out half of the grain and grass to distribute to the armies to solve the immediate difficulties." ”

Luo Cheng laughed.

"General Yuwen, Luo Cheng has something to understand, the army set off from Huaiyuan Town in early May, when they set off, the imperial court pulled out weapons and baggage and 100 days of food, and now it has only been less than a month and a half, how can you say that there is no food? There should be more than half of the food, right? ”

"If you want to share the grain, you will share it, what are you doing with so much nonsense?" Yuwen said angrily.

Luo Cheng doesn't depend on him.

"What General Haojiao knows is that when my Left Fifth Army set out, like General Yuwen, they only brought one army's food. At that time, the grain and grass given to us by Weiwei Siqing was not enough for 100 days' of food, only 90 days' of food, and many of the grains were still old and bad grains. ”

Yu Zhongwen smiled on the side, "Xiangyang Hou, I was blocked halfway before, and I had to come by a long detour, and it was difficult to travel on the mountain road, so a lot of heavy food had to be abandoned in order to hurry up, so now the army is short of food, and I also ask the Marquis of Xiangyang to distribute food to relieve the army." ”

"Since General Yu said so, then our Left Fifth Army must not sit idly by and watch the fraternal armies starve and starve. So let's do it, the court has given us ninety days of food, and we have used forty-five days' of food, half of it. There is still half left, about 40,000 stone grain, and I, Luo Cheng, am willing to take out half of it and distribute it to the army, what does General Yu think? ”

"20,000 stone grain, it's fine." Yu Zhongwen frowned, but still agreed.

There are more than 260,000 people in the Eighth Army, and each person needs more than 5,000 stones for two liters of grain a day, which is only enough for four or five days of food.

Something is better than nothing.

Yu Wenshu was not happy.

"Since your army still has 40,000 stone of military rations, then the nine armies should divide it equally, and you should give 4,500 stone of food to each army."

"Why?" Luo Cheng asked directly?

This question, Yuwen Shu who asked was furious!

"Just because I am the commander of the Fifth Army of the Left Army granted by His Majesty!" He slapped the table and shouted, "Luo Cheng, do you want to disobey?" ”

's murderous appearance made people believe that as long as Luo Cheng really dared to say no more, he would really dare to send someone to arrest Luo Cheng and then cut off his head.

"General Yuwen is so majestic, but the order that I Luo Cheng received is that the Ninth Army will send Pyongyang together, the five armies on the left will be coordinated by General Yuwen, and the fourth army on the right will be coordinated by the general. If I understand correctly, it should be to coordinate the armies, not directly command the armies, otherwise, why didn't Your Majesty appoint General Yuwen as the Marshal of the Left Road, but appoint you as the General of the Left Road? ”

"Presumptuous, come on, take down Luo Cheng!"

Luo Cheng also slapped the table, "Who dare!" ”

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