Fuyu City is a northwest border town in Goguryeo, bordering the east by Maruhe, the west by Khitan, and the north by Shiwei. Its military value is far less than that of Liaodong and Xincheng, which are adjacent to Middle-earth. Pyongyang does not pay enough attention to it and its garrison power is limited.

During the Eastern Expedition of Central China, Fuyu City was too far from the main battlefield, and Zhongtu also had no intention of attacking. Until the sudden change occurred in Andong, Xue Shixiong was ordered to enter the northeast with famous troops to patrol borders and attack bandits. Fuyu City entered the sight of Zhongtu, and then went down in one go, becoming a food and grass transfer place for Xue Shixiong's troops to enter the northeast.

The overall situation of Andong was implemented, Xue Shixiong withdrew from the northeast and left an army to guard Fuyu City. Soon the Liaodong headquarters received the order from the Holy Lord that the third eastern expedition officially began, and the Andong army was going to participate in this eastern expedition. Fuyu City became the transit station for the Andong army to rush to Huaiyuan Town. Its importance was highlighted. So Li Jing and Xue Shixiong immediately made a decision and ordered Wang Rengong, the general of the Tiger Ben, who was guarding the new city, to transport food, grass and supplies to Fuyu City to ensure that the Andong army arrived in Huaiyuan unimpeded.

The new city is more than 400 miles north of Huaiyuan Town, and the new city is more than 500 miles north of Fuyu City, so Huaiyuan transports military supplies to the new city, while the new city provides food, grass and grass for Fuyu, which can save a lot of manpower, material resources and time. However, the more food and supplies stored in Fuyu, the greater the danger. After all, the Donghu City is surrounded by various Donghu, and there are many horse thieves and thieves, and their defensive power is relatively weak.

The guard of Fuyu City is Xue Wanche, the son of Xue Shixiong, General Yingyanglang. He led five infantry corps and one horse corps to guard the border town. This place is remote and deserted, and the soldiers stay in such a barren land where birds do not shit. They are depressed. If they have been garrisoning for many years, they will inevitably be desperate.

Fortunately, the "dance with the wolf" was not long, so Xue Shixiong wrote to his son that the third Eastern Expedition had begun, and Anton's army was going to pass through Fuyu and enter the Eastern Expedition battlefield. This was their best opportunity to leave the wilderness. As for the garrison of Fuyu City, they could find ways to push it to Anton. And Anton must have the idea of ​​expanding his power to Liaodong with this Eastern Expedition. He should have a covetous desire for Fuyu City and would not be able to garrison Fuyu, so as long as Xue Wanche uses some brains and uses some means, he will get what he wants.

Xue Wanche understood it and was looking forward to the stars and the moon. Finally, a few days ago, he received an urgent report from the scout that Anton's army had begun to cross the river and was about to arrive in Fuyu City soon. He was very happy and immediately left the city and went out early to greet him.

Commander Andong, who led his army to the Eastern Expedition, was from the third-rank Deputy Protector of Andong, who was on the same rank as the General of the Guardian, and had an army of 100,000. General Ying Yanglang of the Guardian was the chief of the fifth-rank and 1,200 guards. Not only was his official rank several levels apart, his strength was not comparable. Unless Xue Wanche didn't want to live, he would not dare to sit in the city and wait for Deputy Protector of Andong to come to see him.

There is also more important thing, who is Li Pingyuan? The Holy Lord appointed him and rewarded him. From the fourth-rank Anton Commander to the third-rank Anton Deputy Chief Protector, in just a few months, he made a big splash. His rise speed was like lightning, which was so fast that it was dazzling.

Although Xue Wanche learned about Li Pingyuan's deep background from his father's letters, and even saw his father's vague mention of the Yulin Storm, the secret was directly related to the Saint Lord and Yuwen Shu. Even if this "slap in the face" is deliberately made public and spread by those with ulterior motives, the wiser will be limited to the top leaders. After all, once this matter is spread, it will inevitably damage the authority of the Saint Lord and Yuwen Shu's power. If it triggers a political storm, implicates himself and hurts the country's destiny, wouldn't it cause its own disaster? Therefore, everyone is so secretive that they are afraid of offending the Saint Lord and Yuwen Shu. The more obscure Xue Shixiong speaks, the more mysterious Li Pingyuan is, and the more mysterious Li Pingyuan and the secret behind it make Xue Wanche very curious.

Curiosity kills people, and Xue Wanche is the same. He is eager to see Li Pingyuan and see Li Pingyuan's secrets, and is even a little impatient.

However, Xue Wanche still regarded himself very highly. He was a fifth-rank Ying Yanglang General and a guard of Fuyu Border City. Even if he came from the Hedong wealthy Xue family and a father who was a general of the Weifu Mansion, it was difficult to easily meet the third-rank Deputy Anton Guardian and the supreme commander of the Anton Expeditionary Force.

Li Fengyun and more than 20,000 knights Feng Chi Dianzhi rushed outside Fuyu City, set up a camp, rested for a night before summoning Xue Wanche, but Li Fengyun did not come forward, and Pei Shuang came forward to receive Xue Wanche.

Pei Shuang is the son of Pei Yun, the chief censor of the Censor. Pei Yun is an old minister of Jiangzuo, but also from the wealthy Pei family in Hedong. After the unified Central Earth, the Pei family returned to the main hall. The Pei family in Hedong grew rapidly, and the waters rose and ships rose. The branches of the Pei family were also blooming in height. Today, there are two Hedong Pei nobles, the Huangmen Minister Pei Shiju and the Censor Pei Yun, which shows how powerful the Pei family in Hedong is.

The three wealthy families in Hedong, the Pei family and the Xue family, have a common interest basis, and cooperation exceeds conflict, so Li Fengyun asked Pei Shuang to come forward to receive Xue Wanche, which was exactly what he wanted to take advantage of.

Pei Yun was an old minister of Jiangzuo and a civil servant, while Xue Shixiong was a Guanlong nobleman with a strong roots and a military general. The two had no friendship or even had no intersection. The same was true for their next generation. Pei Shuang was an official in the capital, and Xue Wanche followed his father to conquer the frontier. The two had no friendship, but they knew each other and had the foundation of common interests of Hedong. As they sat together, they became close and could find common ground.

Xue Wanche first asked, "How many people did Anton come?"

Pei Shuang said, "More than 200,000,000 troops, more than 100,000 follow the military, civilians, craftsmen, etc."

Xue Wanche was stunned and couldn't believe how could this be possible? Where did Anton get the 100,000 army? Could it be that the Protectorate of Anton forcibly recruited all the string controls of various tribes of Donghu, and brought together all those who could ride horses and shoot arrows to gather the number of people?

Pei Shuang laughed and shook her hand disapprovingly, "Let's wait and see, you will have to believe it soon." Then he changed his tone and asked, "How much food and grass is there in Fuyu?"

Xue Wanche smiled bitterly, "You only have two ways. You either go south day and night, and the food and grass there are piles up like mountains, enough for the needs of a 200,000 army. Or you quickly go to Yalushui to burn, kill and plunder the two sides of the Yalu River to support the war, and there is no other way to go besides."

Pei Shuang smiled and asked, "This trip is a thousand miles away. If there is no food and grass support, how can the 200,000 army travel a long distance?"

"This is not a problem." Xue Wanche looked sympathetic, "This is your problem."

"Why is this our problem?" Pei Shuang said angrily, "We are ordered to march eastward and come from all the way. You should always let us eat and drink, right?"

"Of course, it is a certain responsibility to provide you with food and grass." Xue Wanche said, "But Huaiyuan gave such food and grass, which was only enough for tens of thousands of troops to go south to the new city, and then to the new city to get supplements, so that you can arrive in Huaiyuan smoothly. However, now you tell me that you have more than 200,000 troops, which is of course your problem."

Seeing Pei Shuang refuting, Xue Wanche immediately rushed to say, "May I ask, Anton dispatched more than 200,000 troops to participate in the Eastern Expedition. Does the Holy Lord know? Did Huaiyuan prepare enough food and grass for you?"

Pei Shuang was speechless.

When Xue Wanche saw Pei Shuang "speakless" and immediately "pursued the victory" and pointed to the key point. "If the Holy Lord doesn't know and Huaiyuan doesn't know, then when this matter reaches Huaiyuan, will Huaiyuan still welcome you more than 200,000 people? If they don't welcome, come up with a plan to advance in the same direction and ask you to attack Pyongyang directly from Fuyu. What should you do? Do you still have to resist the order or order, insist on rushing to Huaiyuan, bear all the responsibilities arising from this, and even the crime of the failure of the Eastern Expedition?"

Pei Shuang was stunned. Although he had expected that the expedition might be difficult, he still seriously underestimated the severity of the situation, especially the fierce contradictions within the Wei Mansion. It was these ubiquitous contradictions that destroyed the first two expeditions and even caused more than 200,000 soldiers to die in the battlefield. Now these contradictions have not eased, but have become more and more intense. This can be clearly seen from Xue Wanche's "outsightedness" that the expeditionary army on Huaiyuan is not only unhappy.

Welcoming the Anton army did not want the Anton army to steal their contributions from the Eastern Expedition, and deliberately obstructed and destroyed the Anton army to rush to the Eastern Expedition battlefield, and even threatened Anton to take responsibility for the failure of the Third Eastern Expedition. This problem is serious. This is no longer a question of whether the Anton army can go south to Huaiyuan and whether it can get food and grass support from Huaiyuan, but a question of whether the third Eastern Expedition can destroy Goguryeo as expected and achieve the final victory of the Eastern Expedition.

Pei Shuang looked cold and looked at Xue Wanche with an expressionless face, and asked slowly, "Is this your one-sided statement, or is it the rumor that came from Huaiyuan?"

Xue Wanche thought for a while and replied, "Maybe the fact is your imagination."

"I understand." Pei Shiju nodded, "But the fact in front of us is that if we have no food and grass, we are hungry and unable to travel, and have to stop in Fuyu, it will inevitably affect the Eastern Expedition."

Xue Wanche glanced at him, not knowing whether Pei Shuang had limited understanding or deliberately pretended to be confused, so she said without hesitation, "If you are hungry, kill the horse."

The Anton cavalry had more than 20,000 cavalry. Although most of them were controlled by the Donghu tribes, even so, the Anton cavalry was very powerful. Xue Wanche witnessed it with his own eyes and was shocked in his heart. Therefore, it was increasingly believed that the Liaodong base camp was correct. The Anton army was very dangerous and had too many variables. It would not only steal the merits of the Eastern Expedition, but also cause unpredictable harm to the Eastern Expedition. Therefore, in order to prevent problems before they happen, it would be better to try our best to prevent Andong's army from going south. So Xue Wanche gritted his teeth and simply "break up the face".

"If you are hungry, kill the horse" sounds like an angry word, but in fact it is to tell the Andong army that the Liaodong base camp does not welcome you. If you want to seize the credit for the Eastern Expedition, you can go to fight Pyongyang alone.
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