Ten thousand troops arrived at Liucheng under the leadership of Huben Lang General Du Yunsi. The prefect Yang Shanhui personally led everyone out of the city to greet him. Du Yunsi clasped his fists and said with a smile: "The general hopes that Liucheng can not only hold the Khitan army, but also the Goguryeo army. I am willing to obey the orders of Yang and unite to defend Liucheng."

The arrival of ten thousand reinforcements made Yang Shanhui completely relieved. The city of Liucheng was not damaged much. The key was that the troops defending the city suffered heavy losses, which made them unable to deal with the large-scale attacks of the Goguryeo people. The supplement of the 10,000 new forces restored the city's defense force again.

Yang Shanhui hurriedly said, "Please go to the city to rest first, and I will tell the general about the situation of defending the city."

Ten thousand troops drove into the city in a mighty manner, but the ten thousand troops did not rest. After entering the barracks, they devoted all their might to active combat preparations.

At this time, the Liucheng was not deserted at all. Li Chun and the craftsmen and civilians were working hard to repair various defensive weapons and facilities. The Khitans did not take away tens of thousands of wood and became Liucheng's spoils. They used this wood to re-create the catapults and large shields.

In addition, the Sui army has accumulated a lot of experience in defending the city. They know which defense measures are more effective in hindering the enemy's attack. All soldiers unanimously agreed to use thorns and poisonous signs to trap foot pits. These two evil hidden weapons are as annoying as poisonous mosquitoes in summer.

Li Chun and more than a dozen craftsmen invented an open-type trench thorn for this purpose. It can throw more than a thousand tiny thorns at a time. The range of throwing is very wide. When attacking, it makes the enemy unable to defend.

In addition, burning the siege hay bales with hay bales left a deep impression on everyone. They all realized that burning the ladders and siege ladders would be equally effective. For this reason, Yang Shanhui ordered thousands of civilians to prepare this hay bales. Not only the hay, but also the tiny branches of the shrubs are also flammable. Outside Liucheng, there are dead shrubs everywhere, and sulfur, tincture oil and other combustible substances are mixed inside to make the combustion even more violent.

On the city wall, Yang Shanhui accompanied Du Yunsi to visit the city's defense. He saw a team of soldiers cooperating with the training of the siege ladder. Twenty people were in a group. The soldiers held axes, forks, and claws in their hands, skillfully cooperating with the training over and over again. Some people fell down from time to time in the middle, which was imitating that they were shot down by arrows. At this time, someone had to replace the soldiers who were caught in the arrow.

Du Yunsi was quite interesting to see. At this time, he discovered a strange phenomenon. It seemed that the Sui army soldiers had different clothes. One was leather armor and the other was Mingguang armor, but the helmets and weapons were all the same. He pointed to the two soldiers and asked: "General Duan, why are the two soldiers wearing clothes differently?"

Duan Xianda, who accompanied him on the tour, explained with a smile: "The leather armor is a militia soldier, and the Mingguang armor is a formal Sui army. The two are indeed different."

Du Yunsi was surprised that these militia soldiers were all very morale and brave, not as timid or listless as ordinary militia soldiers, and they were completely the momentum of formal soldiers. How did this be trained?

Lu Chifeng, who was in charge of the militia commander on the other side, seemed to understand Du Yunsi's thoughts and said lightly: "These militia soldiers were trained in bloody battles with the Khitan army. The timid and cowardly ones were killed. On the contrary, the brave ones who fought survived. If it weren't for the lack of Mingguang armor, I would definitely have all the militia soldiers equipped. After the war, these militia soldiers could be converted into formal soldiers."

"I see!"

Du Yunsi nodded and turned to Yang Shanhui and said, "When I left, the general told me that the people had paid a heavy price to defend Liucheng this time. He put forward the idea of ​​treating everyone equally, that is, the dead militia soldiers were pensioned by formal soldiers, and the militia soldiers who made meritorious people should also be rewarded by formal soldiers, including military fields. I believe the general had already told the prefect in the letter."

"General Du, don't worry, I have already written the military newspaper according to His Highness King Qi's wishes, which is exactly the same as what General Du said."

Yang Shanhui had never spoken. He had something to do. King Qi only sent 10,000 troops to Liucheng. He was very worried that there would be no other troops and that they would have to bear the defense of the entire Liaodong.

"General Du, is His Highness King Qi only planning to arrange 10,000 troops in Liaodong?" After hesitating for a moment, Yang Shanhui asked his concerns directly.

This is actually the concern of Duan Xianda and Lu Chifeng. They looked at Du Yunsi together. Du Yunsi saw the concerns of the three of them and smiled and said, "The general was very considerate. He knew that the battle between Liucheng and Khitan had been weakened a lot, so he would not let Liucheng bear the attack like the Khitan. I will not hide it from the three of you. There are a total of 40,000 troops coming to Liaodong this time. In addition to my help to Liucheng, there are also General Pei's 30,000 cavalry. He dragged the Goguryeo army from the Western Expedition to death on the land of Liaodong like our mission."

The three of them were overjoyed. Pei Xingyan's 30,000 cavalry were actually in Liaodong, so Liucheng would be safe and sound.

In the early morning, a team of more than a hundred Sui cavalry was running eastward along the White Wolf Water. The cavalry was well equipped. Each cavalry was equipped with a steel short halberd and horned bow, a blood eagle helmet, a bright light armor, a horizontal sword, a round shield, antler horn, a flying fox claw, and a cow tendon rope, including a strong war horse and a thick wool blanket, an adequate dry food bag and a kettle.

People who are familiar with the Sui army's equipment can recognize that it is a scout cavalry at a glance. The biggest difference between them and regular cavalry is the main weapon. Of course, the deer antler, flying fox claws and cow tendon rope are also special equipment, but these small objects are not obvious, and what makes people see at a glance is that the weapons are different.

Regular cavalry use combat spears, one meter and three feet long, while the steel short halberd is only five feet long and weighs twenty kilograms. It can be hung directly on the saddle. It is very easy to carry and extremely durable. It gradually replaced the short spear and became the main combat weapon of the scout cavalry.

This scout cavalry belongs to the Second Battalion of the Scout Army, led by Sun Ying, the commander of the Second Battalion. Sun Ying is the nephew of Sun Xuanya. When he captured Sun Xuanya alive, he was named the scout brigade commander by Zhang Xuan. In recent years, he has been promoted to the Eagle Fighting Column and is in charge of 500 scout cavalry. In this battle to defend Liaodong, he was ordered to lead the cavalry of the base camp to follow Pei Xingyan's 30,000 cavalry into Liaodong and be responsible for carrying out some special tasks.

At this time, Sun Ying led a hundred cavalry into Liaodong. About 80 miles west of Yancheng, he walked east along the White Wolf Water. To the north was the majestic Yiwulu Mountain. Between the mountains and the White Wolf Water, a plain a hundred miles wide, mostly covered by vast forests. This is an important strategic channel to the Liao River and a must-pass place for the Goguryeo army.

At this time, a cavalry pointed ahead and shouted, "Look, there is white smoke over there!"

Sun Ying also saw Bai Yan. He immediately strangled the war horse and observed for a moment. Bai Yan was about two miles away. The smoke column was very thin, unlike a large-scale army. And if it were a large-scale army, they would have entered the security area and were hunted by ambushed patrols.

But considering that they would encounter Goguryeo's outpost spies at any time, Sun Ying felt that he would act cautiously, so he immediately ordered: "The first fire sent two brothers to see, and the other soldiers went into the woods to avoid them for a while!"

The cavalry turned around and ran towards the woods not far north, while the two cavalrymen took a detour towards Baiyan in the distance.

In the woods, the scouts and cavalry seized the time to eat dry food and drink water. It had just rained here and the ground was very wet. The war horses gathered together to leisurely eat the tender grass with dew on the ground. Sun Ying sat on a big tree, concentrating on what was drawing on a map.

His main task this time was to investigate the residents in the Liaodong region, so that the western expedition to Goguryeo could not obtain food supplements in Liaodong. He sent twenty cavalry teams to various places to investigate, while Sun Ying himself was responsible for investigating Yan County. So far, he found fourteen towns and villages, but only three villages and more than 200 families, and the remaining eleven villages were uninhabited. All the civilians knew that the Goguryeo army was about to attack, and responded to the call of the government, helping the elderly and the young to take refuge in Beiping County.

At this time, the sound of horse hooves came from outside the woods, and a soldier reported: "General Sun, the two brothers are back, it seems that something is happening."

Sun Ying quickly put away the map and walked quickly to the trees. He saw five or six horse riders. The two leaders were soldiers he sent to investigate the situation. Behind them were three men with hair, wearing black left-side robe and round neckline and narrow sleeves.

"It's a Khitan!" several soldiers shouted.

"Don't do anything random, they are not Khitans."

Sun Ying stopped his men and quickly greeted them. Although the three men looked very much like Khitans, the Khitan men's clothing was mainly gray and yellow, and only one ethnic group liked to dye the clothing black, that is, the Sumo Mohe people.

The two subordinates stepped forward and bowed: "Report to the general, Baiyan was lit when they cook. There were a total of hundreds of people, and these three were their heads."

The three mars quickly turned over and dismounted, and the older man came forward and bowed, saying, "See General!"

He actually spoke fluent official language. Sun Ying was quite surprised and replied with a smile: "You are--"

"We are the subordinates of Chief Mushi Tudiji. The villain named Meng Chi, who went to Liucheng to report the news under the order of the Chief."

Sun Ying suddenly realized that it was Tu Diji's subordinate. Tu Diji was the leader of Sumo and Moh. They lived in the Fuyu area for generations. Later, they were constantly invaded by the Goguryeo people. Tu Diji was forced to lead the tribe to migrate westward and surrender to the Sui Dynasty. Emperor Yang Guang of Sui appointed him as the Jinzi Guanglu Dafu and the prefect of Liaoxi. He placed his tribe north of Liucheng. Tu Diji once led his soldiers to attack Goguryeo with the Sui army and recaptured Fuyu City. After the Battle of Goguryeo, they stayed in Fuyu, and there was no news later.

"What letter do you go to Liucheng to report?" Sun Ying asked with a smile.
Chapter completed!