On the wasteland, the remnants of the sea tiger were intermittent, and he was holding Zhai Ren's head in his hand, almost running towards Xingyang with the strength of his life. At this moment, his strength was already very weak, but fortunately he had seen the Xingyang city wall, and he couldn't help but be shocked, and pushed the current to push again, taking advantage of the last moment of his exhaustion, he climbed up to the city with both hands and feet.

"Is the old handsome safe!!"

As soon as he got up to the city wall, Haihu no longer had any strength, and as soon as he sat on the city wall, he grabbed a sergeant and asked eagerly: "Is the old man back safely!" ”

"Come back safely, come back safely."

The sergeant suddenly saw a figure running from afar, and thought it was an enemy soldier, but as soon as he arrived, he saw a shadow rushing up from under the city wall, and before he could see the man's appearance, he was caught by the man and kept asking. After seeing clearly who the person was, he subconsciously replied: "General Qin, General Cheng and Lao Shuai all returned safely, as well as General Luo, they are all in Shuaifu, and another 10,000 soldiers have all returned safely!" ”

"That's good, that's good"

Hearing the news, Haihu had the joy of the rest of his life on his face, his head tilted, and he completely fainted.

"General!!"

When the sergeant saw it, he hurriedly beckoned a few people to come over and carried Haihu to the Shuaifu.

The Wagang army had only seven or eight thousand troops when it started from Zhai Rang, so they should attack Wagang Village as a foothold first. At that time, although there were more than 10,000 elite soldiers in Wagangzhai, there was no general to defend it, and Zhai Rang took control of Wagang in one day after attacking, and those sergeants also surrendered to Zhai Rang, so that his Wagang army increased to 20,000 at once.

However, although Wagangzhai has been obtained and the supply of soldiers has increased substantially, the food supply of so many people is a big problem, and even if each soldier has one pound of grain per day, it will take 300 tons a month. The Wagang Army had no base area, and all the food supplies relied on looting. Although it is very easy to grab, the problem is that after a long time, the source of grabbing is gradually drying up, and there is nothing to grab.

At that time, the army had no goals of faith, no programmatic purpose, and the purpose of joining the army was to make ends meet. In fact, these 20,000 people are coagulated together by the glue of food, and if the food is cut off one day, these soldiers who "have food is their mother" will immediately scatter as birds and beasts. Wagang does not have a grain storage base, and they are all ready to eat. In such a situation, if there is a large-scale blockade and encirclement by the officials and troops, it will immediately become chaotic without a fight.

Zhai Rang was also very annoyed by this problem, but he had no better solution, so he had to take one step at a time, grab a catty, and eat ten taels. Later, Li Mi's brainy guy took refuge in the Wagang army, in order to completely change this short-lived situation of drinking and getting drunk today, Li Mi proposed to Zhai Rang to attack the nearby Xingyang County, and then robbed the granary of the Sui Dynasty. Accumulate grain and grass, rest the army, and wait for the opportunity to plot the world.

Xingyang County, located in the south of Wagangzhai, is a big city with many business travelers and convenient transportation. Li Yuan used to be a taishou here, and the current taishou is also the prince of the Yang family, Yang Qing, the king of Xun, which shows the importance of this place.

Zhai Rang listened to Li Mi's suggestion, led the army to first lay down the Jindi Pass in the north of Xingyang, and then took the victory of the army, and successively took several nearby county towns, and the nearby mountain bandits and small groups of rebels were also invested in Zhai Rang's command, so that his soldiers expanded nearly five times at once, and finally the sword pointed directly at Xingyang County, so that Wagang and Jindi attacked Xingyang in the north and south.

In the face of the surging tide of the Wagang army, Yang Qing, the king of Xun, the Taishou of Xingyang, originally came here to enjoy the food and beauties, and it was okay to govern the place, how could he command the charge?

Several times when he went out to fight, he was beaten by the Wagang army, and his troops were defeated. So he hurriedly asked Luoyang for help, and Yang Guang, in order to deal with the Wagang army, threw out the only trump card in his hand and transferred Zhang Xutuo to Xingyang County.

This Zhang Tuo originally served in Qi County, and was the ambassador of the 12 counties of Henan Province to arrest him. Qi County is not close to Xingyang, from so far away Shandong pulled out a radish and then planted in Henan, on the one hand, it shows the importance of Zhang Xutuo, on the other hand, it also shows that at this time Yang Guang has not many cards in his hand.

However, this card is a ruthless card, a sharp knife, and it is difficult for any rebel army to defeat its edge. However, Li Mi and Zhai Rang joined forces, and the Wagang Army was a little difficult to handle.

If it weren't for the sudden intervention of the sea tiger and the battle of the Great Sea Temple, Zhang Xutuo would have finished playing.

At present, although the strength of Zhang Xutuo and his group has been greatly damaged, it has not hurt their vitality, but after this battle, the morale of the army has plummeted, and it may be difficult to go out of the city to fight in a short time.

On the Wagang Army's side, Li Mi was seriously injured, and at the same time lost the boss of the big dragon head Zhai Rang, and its interior exploded, and they returned to Wagangzhai and Jindiguan respectively, Zhai Jiao, the daughter of the dragon head, was the only daughter of Zhai Rang, the head of the Wagang Village, lost her mother at a young age, was fat and ugly, and looked like a fierce woman, but there were many beautiful maids and maids who were like sisters to her, and the entire Zhai family's backyard was neatly organized by her, and she has always been very willful and strong at home.

Zhai Jiao heard that his father died in battle, and he was the main battle faction that took the initiative to jump out to avenge his father, but they lost the first prize in the first battle of Dahai Temple, and the big dragon head died in battle and lost the momentum, plus the generals and soldiers who had participated in that battle were all trembling about the thunder god who killed their big dragon head (the abbreviation of Wagang Jun's anger to the sea tiger), and if you want to take revenge, you have to confront that guy again, that is an executioner who kills people without blinking an eye and kills people at a super fast speed, who would dare to go if they have seen him!!

So the Wagang army quickly split into two factions, one was the revenge faction dominated by Zhai Jiao, Tu Shufang, the head of the head of the head of the house, and a forty-year-old scribe, Wang Ruxin, who was named Sima by Zhai Rang, and some loyal people who supported Zhai Jiao.

The other faction is the defensive faction based on Li Mi's defense, this side proposes not to take the initiative to attack, first to defend, after all, the other party's thunder god makes them frightened, so there are countless people who support Li Mi's side, there are Xu Shiji, Shen Luoyan and other military divisions, and there are generals like Wang Bodang and Shan Xiongxin.

Zhai Rang died, so that Zhai Jiao felt how cold the human affection was, and after some disputes, she reluctantly led 20,000 soldiers back to Wagangzhai and parted ways with Li Mi and others.

And Li Mi's defense is also very helpless, he is seriously injured and cannot heal in the short term, originally there were more than 100,000 people in the Wagang army, only 60,000 were left after the continuous battle in Xingyang, and now Zhai Jiao has taken away 20,000, and he only has 40,000 left. But fortunately, all these 40,000 people were loyal to him, so that Li Mi felt a little at ease, but he was unwilling to let him retreat like this, so he had to wait for the Jindi Pass in order to advance backwards.

This is the information collected by Zhang Xutuo, he never thought that Zhai Rang's death would split the Wagang Army into two factions, but although these two families are separated, they are siblings who help each other. So at present, Xingyang, Wagangzhai, and Jindiguan have become a three-legged situation, and if they move a little, there will be an uncontrollable situation, so no one dares to move.

However, Xingyang is already a city with convenient transportation, and it is backed by the world's first granary such as Luokou Granary, so the grain and grass are naturally not comparable to areas that are not rich in grain like Wagangzhai and Jindiguan.

As long as Zhang Xutuo can hold Xingyang, it is equivalent to guarding the largest granary of the Great Sui, so that the imperial court will not be exhausted.

It's just that Zhai Rang was killed, of course, such a major event had to be reported to the imperial court, so Zhang Xutuo wrote a song overnight and sent it to Luoyang to report the victory to Yang Guang. Of course, in the battle of Dahai Temple, Zhang Xutuo did not say that he was surrounded by people and almost wiped out the whole army, but wrote how he led his troops out of the city to pursue the enemy, killing tens of thousands of enemies, and finally the enemy leader Zhai Rang was cut off in public by his own vanguard, and the enemy army was defeated. And his side is inferior in numbers, although the battle is brave, but it is unable to pursue and kill the enemy, so he can only return to Xingyang and wait for the next day to fight again.

The twists and turns in this are vividly written, and it is not too much to look at it as an exaggeration!!

Zhang Xutuo, who wrote this letter, was happy in his heart and secretly sighed that he was romantic.

In the imperial city of Luoyang, the courtiers arrived at the main hall early in the morning. It stands to reason that Yang Guang, an emperor who likes to enjoy, has not been in the court for more than ten days, but today, after the ministers arrived at the court, with the support of four or five beauties wearing heavy makeup and wearing a thin palace veil, his legs trembled and he sat on the dragon chair.

"See Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live long live."

Seeing that Yang Guang's legs were trembling, the courtiers didn't know where the emperor must have been the sequelae of the battle with many palace e-tails last night, but he was the emperor, although you couldn't see it in your heart, but you couldn't show it on your face, and immediately everyone knelt down and shouted long live.

"Flat."

Yang Guangda waved his hand, looked down with his arms left and right, and said: "Yesterday, Zhang Qing's family sent me good news, saying that the enemy army was broken in Xingyang, killing 30,000 or 40,000 enemies, and his vanguard Lan Hai even killed the head of the thief Kou Zhai Rang, and asked me for a reward. ”

"Your Majesty."

As soon as he heard that he was going to be rewarded, Hubu Shangshu immediately stood up and said: "In recent years, there have been many wars in China, and in recent years, there have been many anti-thieves and rebellions in various places, and the treasury has long been empty, and it is really impossible to come up with money. However, if you win a battle, you must be rewarded, which is a rule inherited from all dynasties, but now you don't have money, so you can only go to the direction of the official to reward. "Zhang Chengxian, the head of the household department, is in charge of the money bag of the imperial court, this person is very picky, he is a rake who holds money, so Yang Guangcai asked him to be the head of the household department, only in and out, which emperor will not like it.

And the Yang family is also well-known for picking, the grain hoarded in the major granaries of the country has not been used up for decades, but there are natural disasters but they do not take it out to help the victims, so the rebellion against the king in various places is the first target is near the granary.

After all, if there is food, there will be soldiers, and if there are soldiers, they can participate in the game of seizing the world.

"Your Majesty, Zhang Dashuai is already a twelve-way envoy, except for entering the palace as an official, there is no other reward, according to the humble opinion of the lower officials, it is better to reward Zhang Dashuai than to officially seal the generals under him."

"If you win the battle, you should be rewarded, and I will now appoint Zhang Xutuo as the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, and conquer all the thieves in the world."

Yang Guangda waved his hand and laughed loudly after eating the grapes handed over by the beauty.

"Yes, the world is already chaotic enough, and now there is a generalissimo of soldiers and horses. But fortunately, the emperor only gave him the name, and did not give him one more soldier, otherwise if this Sutuo was reversed, the Great Sui would really be finished. ”

The military department Shangshu smiled bitterly in his heart, bowed down and said: "The pioneer general who killed Zhai Rang, Gu Dashuai played in the folds, this young general is not yet twenty years old and has strong martial arts, he is a good man recruited in Xingyang, and now is the time for the imperial court to employ people, and he can make an exception to promote." ”

"When it should be rewarded, this should be rewarded, but what is it better to reward him!"

For this problem, Yang Guang was a little difficult, and looked at the person who looked at Dugu Valve, that person was strong in martial arts, but there was already a Dugu Valve by his side, and then looked at Wang Shichong and said: "Wang Qing, you see how the blue ocean should be rewarded!" ”

For a while, everyone's eyes in the hall turned to Wang Shichong.