Successfully Accepted

Chen Kefu sat in the upper head, swaying under the candlelight, and his figure was tall and big.

He was like a member of a landlord's family, looking at the members of the tribe, taking stock of the income and expenses for another year, saying so carelessly, with a clear and quiet atmosphere.

As the numbers were reported, the more than 200 captured officers below were becoming more and more surprised and shocked. Their eyes were almost glaring, and many of them were rude. At this time, their mouths were already wide open. If they hadn't dared to disturb Chen Kefu, many people would have shouted in surprise at this time.

Zhou Jin and others originally heard that Chen Kefu was the general of Zuotun Guard, Zhuguo, and the right Guanglu official. When Liaodong founded, they all thought that Chen Kefu was too young. After all, it was really unbelievable that he had been promoted from a mate to this position in less than a year. Later, in the logistics camp, he heard that Chen Kefu was born in the Southern Chen royal family and was the legitimate son of the Crown Prince Shen of the Southern Chen.

They also think that his rise so fast is related to this.

But now, they were kneeling here, listening to Chen Kefu relaxingly, and saying the Liaodong war was not surprised at all.

The Goguryeo people were not soft persimmons, and even when they were locked up in the city, the Goguryeo people who could not find a strong wall were harder to fight. During the second conquest of Liao, although they were defeated outside many battle formations, they had also personally verified the elite of the Goguryeo soldiers. The elite light cavalry was not at all given up compared to the cavalry of the Great Sui Dynasty.

Everyone couldn't help but stand up and shouted, "Long live the Great Sui Dynasty, the great general is mighty!"

Chen Kefu smiled, "This is not my own credit, it is the credit of all the soldiers. Although I have analyzed the situation of the troops and horses in Goguryeo before, I have preliminarily judged that after losing the soldiers, horses and food on the Liaoshui front line, the Liao people could not go north to counterattack in a short time. However, the time between them is also short."

An infantry captain asked, "General, the Liao people can only go north for more than 40,000 at most. Even if they recruit 100,000 people in three or two months, I am afraid that the combat effectiveness will not be strong by then. The general defeated Yizhi Wende, Gao Jianwu, Gao Yuzhen, Gao Yannian, Yuan Taizuo and other Liao generals. I think the general's troops are nearly 100,000. And there is a Liaodong city, I am afraid that the Liao people will not be able to get it."

Another man also spoke, "Yes, General, if the Liao people do not attack in a short period of time, then we can ask Your Majesty for reinforcements. When the army arrives, will it be easy to destroy Goguryeo, which has only more than 100,000 troops left?"

Chen Kefu smiled, "You have some truths, but you just saw the surface, but you didn't see the true essence of the matter. The Liao people are brave and fighting in the local area. They adapt to the climate and terrain here, and have the support of the Liao people. We came from afar and were not very adaptable to the battles in the mountains of Liaodong. Especially the previous mountain city siege battle was extremely difficult. The army of 400,000 and 500,000 and hundreds of thousands of people were strong, and they surrounded the Liaodong city for more than a month but could not get off."

"Although we have defeated the Liao people many times before, thinking about these battles, which are the conventional battle examples? We annihilated 80,000 private soldiers from Yizhi Wende, and we dispatched more than 200,000 elite troops, and we still fought on both sides of the field, and we had lost their spirit before. It was a ratio of three to one, and it was still an elite against aristocratic private soldiers like the south who had little combat power."

"The annihilation of Gao Jianwu's men was cut down bit by bit with 400,000 soldiers, hundreds of thousands of people, and dozens of days, with countless soldiers' blood."

"Attack Gao Yuzhen, Gao Yannian, and Yuan Taizuo are all ambush battles, fighting less, and ambush raids. That's it. In the battle of Jinshan Canyon, we almost defeated the entire army. Now, the entire hundreds of thousands of troops have retreated to the Central Plains and quelled the rebellion with His Majesty."

"To be honest, you see that I have 100,000 soldiers, but I actually only have 10,000 elite soldiers. In fact, more than half a month ago, they were all civilians and auxiliary soldiers, and pulled them out to fight ambush battles, attacking the few with the masses, and taking precautions to calculate unpreparedness. There is still some hope. But if you fight a tough battle, even if it is a battle to defend the city, I will not have any confidence."

"As for what the captain said to ask Your Majesty for help, you must know that far-reaching water cannot relieve near-thirst thirst. Your Majesty's army has returned to the Central Plains. If you want to send troops from the Central Plains to Liao, it will not work without three or five months, especially now it is the rainy season in Liaodong. Not only is the water in the Liao River soaring, it is difficult to pass. The more than 200-mile swamp west of the Liao River is now a vast ocean. If you want to pass, you must build a bridge, which is basically an unfinished task. Therefore, if you just wait for Your Majesty's army, it will only be possible until April or May next year. Before that, everything depends on us."

After saying that, Chen Kefu stepped down from the top and slowly walked to the middle of the tent, saying with a sincere tone, "Goguryeo is my confidant in the Sui Dynasty. Now Goguryeo is the weakest time. If you don't seize the opportunity at this time and completely defeat him, then it will take less than ten years. Goguryeo will definitely threaten my Sui Dynasty again. At that time, we will repeat the sufferings we have since the three conquests of Goguryeo?"

A few of the officers were older and stood up and said, "General, you are right. If you don't defeat Goguryeo, maybe more comrades will be humiliated by us in the future. General, tell me, what do we need to do? As long as we can do it, we will definitely do it. We are all dead people, and it is General that you saved us."

Seeing everyone's reaction, Chen Kefu didn't do anything anymore and immediately said, "Before around May next year, we are likely to not get support from the army in the court. It's not yet September, so there is still at least eight months left. And I estimate that the Liao people may raise troops to the north in only three months at most. So I plan to take down the mountain cities on the Liaohe River and the middle reaches, collect all the food, grass, equipment, cloth, clothing, cattle, sheep, horses, and animal life from each city. Anyone who can be taken away will be brought back to Liaodong City. We use Liaodong City as the base camp and Xincheng as the acropolis. All the other mountain cities will be given up, and the troops will be retreated back to Liaodong City, and then send a group of troops to guard the new city and restrain the Liao people."

"When the Liao people have not yet come here, we will speed up the training of new recruits. I have initially reorganized 80,000 people, more than 20,000 cavalry, and more than 50,000 infantry. Now there is no shortage of armor and equipment, and there is still a little time. The only thing I lack is those veterans who have been on the battlefield and the officers from the middle and lower levels. You are all climbing out of the pile of dead people, so I hope you can join my Northeast Army, help me train new recruits and lead new recruits. Then we will protect Liaodong City for the Great Sui Dynasty and His Majesty. Until next year, we will wipe out Goguryeo in one fell swoop."

"For the Great Sui Dynasty! For Your Majesty!"

The officers were all excited by Chen Kefu's statement. They were all captured officers. If they could really join the Northeast Army, defeat the Liao people on the battlefield, regain their lost glory, and wash away the humiliation from the past, then everyone would be willing.

Zhou Jin saw the excitement of his friends, he hesitated for a while, and shouted several times.

"General, tell me, what do you want us to do?"

Chen Kefu smiled gently at everyone, "We will return to Liaodong City soon. After returning to Liaodong City, we will start to train new recruits. At the same time, we have discussed with all the generals in the army that while training new recruits, we will also prepare to focus on training lower-level officers. At that time, a non-commissioned officer school will be organized to select a group of young people with good quality for one year. After a year, we will be assigned to the army as squad leader. In addition, we will also hold a teaching company, teaching regiment, and teaching brigade in the army to train active squad platoon company commanders to strengthen the abilities of lower-level officers."

"You were all the elite warriors of my Great Sui Dynasty, and they were all officers. I originally wanted you to serve as the original position and lead the army. However, you were enslaved by the Goguryeo for a year and suffered great physical losses and had to rest. So I plan that the deputy team members and the officers in your team will be transferred to each of the re-elected instructors and teach those active squad leaders in the army, that is, our former mate commanders."

"Each school lieutenant was transferred to the teaching team to serve as instructors for the platoon leaders."

"Eagle Yanglang Generals and Yingjilang Generals will be transferred to the teaching brigade in the army and serve as instructors of the teaching brigade. As for the rest of Sima, Chief Secretary, Six Caos, etc., we will be transferred to each division as staff. The staff will include the original military responsibilities of the Six Caos, but we will also be responsible for the tasks of formulating combat plans, analyzing intelligence, etc., and there will be a staff team in the regiment or above."

After arranging their whereabouts, Chen Kefu said again, "The ranks of all in the army will remain unchanged, but now our army is in temporary wartime organization. Everything is subject to military positions and ranks. After returning to Liaodong City, I will grant you additional military ranks."

Zhou Jin listened and analyzed it and found that the general's arrangement turned them all into coaches. None of them were directly commanding the troops, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was normal that they were all a group of surrendered generals who had been captured. How could they be the commander? It would be good to be the coach if they were allowed to maintain their original position and be a coach. Although now, he still doesn't understand the ranks, military ranks, and teaching companies that Chen Kefu said, but he didn't intend to ask now.

After this was really arranged, I felt relieved.

"General, I'm in good health. I don't know how to be a coach. You'd better let me lead the troops. I'm a general of the Eagle Strike, even if I'm demoted to one level, I'd be a lieutenant and a group of people." A bearded officer said a little unwillingly.
Chapter completed!