The chief general of Liucheng County is called Lu Chifeng, he is a member of the Lu clan of Liaodong County, and the Lu clan of Liaodong is a branch of the Lu clan of Fanyang, and it is in the same vein a hundred years ago.

Lu Chifeng looks like a tiger, his face is rough, his neat thick eyebrows are as hard as a brush, his eyes are like copper bells, and his eyes are particularly shining.

He was originally an eagle strike general in the army of the great general Xue Shixiong, and belonged to the middle and lower level generals in the Great Sui army system.

After the end of the third Goguryeo campaign, Lu Chifeng's army stayed in Liaodong, Lu Chifeng was originally stationed in Luhe Town, with only 1,000 people, but after the Liaodong garrison was broken by Gao Kaidao, Lu Chifeng took the initiative to collect 6,000 defeated soldiers from all over the country and retreated to Liucheng, and it has been three months.

At the head of the city, Lu Chifeng stared worriedly at the thief army camp in the distance, although Gao Kaidao failed to attack Liucheng several times, he did not give up, and directly stationed the camp in Pingdu Town in the south, Gao Kaidao obviously refused to let go of Liucheng County.

Of course, Lu Chifeng knew Gao Kaidao's purpose of knocking Liucheng County to death, he wanted to seize the grain and materials in the warehouses of Liucheng County, there were 250,000 stone of grain in the thirty warehouses, and there were tens of thousands of pieces of armor, once Gao Kaidao got it, he could quickly recruit troops and buy horses, and the number of troops would surge to more than 100,000 people, then the entire three counties of Liaodong would be completely lost.

Deng Wei, the Taishou of Liucheng County next to him, said in a low voice: "General Lu, there are fifty or sixty thousand young people in the city, and if you arm them, I think you should be able to fight with Gao Kaidao." ”

Lu Chifeng shook his head, "Envoy, fighting a war is not the same as defending a city, without adequate training, once you get to the battlefield, it is easy for the whole army to collapse, and then the entire Liucheng will be finished." ”

"Then it's not a way to drag on like this, panic has begun to appear in the city, and if you don't think about it, the city will not be able to hold it sooner or later."

Stop for a moment. Deng Wei asked in a low voice, "Is there still no news from Luo Dudu?" ”

Lu Chifeng's eyes showed resentment, "I have asked him for help three times, but he has never responded, and I feel more and more that those rumors in the city may be true." ”

Deng Wei was shocked, "Could it be that Gao Kaidao was really put into Liaodong by Luo Yi?" ”

Lu Chifeng snorted coldly, "I sent someone to Lu Longsai to inquire." Gao Kaidao's army didn't pass through Lu Longsai at all, so they could only come from Beiping County, and they had to pass through Linyu Pass, if it wasn't for Luo Yi to let them over, who would it be? ”

"But what's the point of him doing that?"

"Haven't you thought of it? Those Goguryeo people who sent food to Gao Kaidao. ”

Lu Chifeng didn't say any more, Deng Wei was silent, this is the most terrifying and unacceptable scene, Luo Yi actually colluded with Goguryeo, he really couldn't believe that a dignified governor of Youzhou would collude with other races?

But he really couldn't figure out Luo Yi's intention to open his way into Liaodong. In particular, when they discovered that a Goguryeo army was actually escorting grain to Gokaido, they realized that there were Goguryeo people standing behind Gokaido.

After a long time, Deng Wei sighed, "Why don't you ...... Let's ask the court for help! ”

Lu Chifeng still shook his head, "Envoy, it's not a matter of asking for help now, but our people can't pass Linyu Pass at all, even if our people get lucky enough to pass Linyu Pass." How did the imperial army come to Liaodong? Frankly, I think the imperial court has given up on Liaodong. ”

Deng Wei smiled bitterly. "General Lu is a bit alarmist."

"Nope! It's not that I'm alarmist, even the Son of Heaven almost died at Yanmen Pass, which shows that the strength of the Sui army is now far less than it was at the beginning, the Son of Heaven clearly knows that Goguryeo is eyeing Liaodong, and the defenders he left in Liaodong are less than 10,000 people. Does this not clear that there is an idea of giving up Liaodong? ”

While the two were talking, a soldier rushed over and reported urgently: "Qi Taishou, Qi General Lu, there is a messenger from outside Beicheng." It was said that he came to deliver the letter on the order of General Zhang, the envoy of Hebei. ”

Deng Wei and Lu Chifeng glanced at each other, both of them were very surprised, how could Zhang Xuan send them a letter?

Lu Chifeng hurriedly said: "Quickly bring the messenger over!" ”

After a while, a young man dressed as a civilian walked quickly, bowed, and presented a letter: "On the order of my marshal, I have come to Liucheng to deliver a letter to Deng Taishou and General Lu!" ”

Deng Wei hurriedly took the letter and opened it to read it carefully, Lu Chifeng asked the messenger in confusion: "How did you come here, didn't you encounter interrogation over there in Linyuguan?" ”

The sergeant who sent the letter said with a smile: "General Qiqi, I came by boat across the sea, the big ship was anchored in Liaodong Bay, and I changed to a small boat to go north along the White Wolf Water, and arrived in Liucheng last night. ”

Lu Chifeng was dumbfounded when he heard this, he actually crossed the sea, at this time, Deng Wei had finished reading the letter, and his heart was very excited, and he hurriedly handed the letter to Lu Chifeng and said: "General Lu take a look at the letter first, we are saved!" ”

Lu Chifeng hurriedly took the letter and read it, and immediately felt overjoyed, Zhang Xuan said in the letter that he would cross the sea to the north to attack Gaokaidao and defend Liaodong, he hurriedly asked: "I don't know when your general is going to send troops and how many troops will be sent north to Liaodong?" ”

"I don't know how many troops will be sent to the lower position, but the marshal told the humble post before leaving, if the Liucheng side can withstand the fierce attack of Gao Kaidao, the army will definitely be able to kill Liaodong within half a month at the latest."

Lu Chifeng nodded, "Please tell General Zhang that we will mobilize the whole city to defend Liucheng and wait for his reinforcements to arrive!" ”

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The camp of Gao Kaidao is in a wilderness ten miles south of Liucheng County, it is a wall-type military camp, with nearly 30,000 troops, because the army of Gao Kaidao has the full support of Goguryeo, although the Goguryeo army has not entered Liaodong for the time being, but Goguryeo has provided a large number of armor and food left over by the Sui army to the army of Gao Kaidao, and the army of Gao Kaidao has become an elite army.

Gao Kaidao was originally the general of the Hebei bandit Geqian, since Geqian was defeated by Yang Yichen at the beginning of the year, Gao Kaidao led more than 20,000 troops north to Liaodong and developed in Liaodong.

But Gao Kaidao's other identity is the royal concubine of Goguryeo, although his background is not good, his father is a distant royal family of the Gao family, and his mother is just a maid, but with his strong martial arts and shrewd ability, he was promoted step by step in the Goguryeo army, and was finally appreciated by the upper echelons of Goguryeo and sent to the Central Plains, lurking in Geqian's army, becoming Geqian's right-hand man, after Geqian's defeat and death, Gao Kaidao led the army north to Liaodong to develop under the instruction of Goguryeo.

Gao Kaidao is about 30 years old, with a horse face, slender eyes, and looks particularly insidious and cunning, but he has a good figure, six feet five tall (about one meter nine), broad shoulders, and very developed muscular arms.

Gao Kaidao's development in Liaodong can be described as a bamboo, just three months swept through the three counties of Liaodong, the strength of the army increased rapidly from the initial 20,000 to 40,000 troops, but from a month ago he began to attack Liucheng County, the last fortified city in Liaodong, his career in Liaodong fell into a bad situation, he attacked Liucheng County for a whole month, not only did not take the first city of Liaodong that stored a large amount of grain and armor, but lost more than 10,000 soldiers.

Of course, Gao Kaidao does not think that the army defending the city is very powerful, more than half of the opponent's 6,000 troops were killed and wounded, and there are tens of thousands of people to help defend the city, the army is not to worry, the key is that the city of Liucheng is too tall and strong, the city wall is as high as four zhang, the moat is three zhang wide, and the white wolf water is connected as a whole, it is not possible to use ordinary siege ladders, it is necessary to use cloud ladders to attack the city, it is the easy defense and difficult attack of Liucheng, which makes Gao Kaidao suffer heavy losses, and he did not capture Liucheng for a month.

As early as ten days ago, Gao Kaidao stopped attacking the city, he was waiting for Goguryeo to send an extended siege ladder, this siege ladder is a special ladder made by imitating the Sui army to attack Liaodong City, it is wide and high, the ladder body is heavy, it is difficult for the general steel fork to push it out of the city, it is the sharp weapon needed to attack Liucheng, according to intelligence, this siege ladder has crossed the Liao River three days ago, and is on the way to Liucheng, so that Gao Kaidao is very much looking forward to it.

However, a letter sent by Luo Yi, the governor of Youzhou, last night ruined Gao Kaidao's expectant mood.

Inside the big tent, Gao Kaidao was pacing back and forth with his negative hands, his eyes glancing at the map on the table from time to time, and he drew an arrow on the map with a pen, from Beihai County to Liucheng County, across the entire Bohai Sea.

Zhang Xuan was actually ready to send troops to Liaodong to exterminate himself, which made Gao Kaidao uneasy and annoyed, uneasy because he had heard Zhang Xuan's name for a long time, fought in the south and the north, and made great achievements, and now he is killing Liaodong, whether he can resist it, and the annoyance is aimed at Luo Yi, if Luo Yiken cooperated with him to deceive the gate of Liucheng County, he would have taken this strong city a long time ago, and he would not be stationed in the field today, but Luo Yi is very cunning and has always refused to help him to go to the city.

"King Qiqi, there is urgent information!" Outside the tent, a soldier's voice was suddenly heard. (To be continued.) )