Qishan belongs to the remnants of a thousand mountains, is one of the birthplaces of ancient culture, and is the place where the ancient Yan Emperor lived and the Zhou Dynasty was born. The mountains in the territory are undulating obviously, the deep mountains are steep, and the shallow mountains are wide.

Among them, there is a mountain peak, named Phoenix Mountain, and the small mountains in front of the mountain come out. The end is a stone island, extending to the bank of the Du River, shaped like a crested head, like drinking water. Emperor Wen of Sui visited Renshou Palace, and according to legend, Fengming was named after this mountain.

To the southeast of Fenghuang Mountain, the mountain shape is thin and lush, and the stream flows down from the mountain and flows into a mirror lake, which is not frozen because of the infusion of living water.

The Zhou Gong Temple built during the period of Emperor Wen is located here, although this temple covering an area of great land has been abandoned for a long time, but the surrounding walls are especially there, which can play a role in avoiding the wind and snow.

Li Yuan sent to assassinate Yang Tong's assassin team is temporarily living here, this time the lord will be Li Yuan's cousin Li Xiaoji, was named the king of Yong'an County, although he is as greedy for money as Li Shentong, but he is quite talented, so he has been deeply used by Li Yuan, this time the stakes are very important, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the last chance of the Li Tang Dynasty to turn around, so he appointed Li Xiaoji, who is cautious, to carry out this operation, and sent Dou Liang's eldest son Dou Fengjie as a deputy general. After the two sneaked to Guanzhong, they collected the Li dead scattered everywhere, but they only had more than 2,000 people, and it was too difficult to assassinate Yang Dong, so they planned to create chaos outside the Chengtian Gate on the day of the Yuan Dynasty meeting, so that the people of the ceremony trampled on each other, and chose the opportunity to assassinate Yang Dong and the Sui Dynasty's civil and military ministers, but later discovered that Yang Dong would go to Sanyuyuan to worship Yang Jian before Chinese New Year's Eve, and saw that Wugong County officials mobilized the people to clean the snow in the imperial tomb, so they changed their original plan and planned to ambush Yang Dong in the middle road.

However, almost all of them are plains from Daxing to Sanyuan, and there are too few places suitable for ambushes, and to this day I have not found a more safe place, and seeing that the day after tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Xiaoji really can't sleep.

At the moment, let people set fire to pine branches and try to choose a place for ambush.

Dou Fengjie looked at Li Xiaoji, who was silently staring at the map, and hugged his fist: "King Yong'an, the day after tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve, what do you think we should do now?" ”

Li Xiaoji looked at Dou Fengjie, and a touch of helplessness flashed in his eyes: "If Yang Tong comes, the civil and military forces of the Sui Dynasty and the envoys of various countries will definitely not be able to avoid it, this will protect these people, the Fifth Army of the Sui Dynasty is very likely to protect collectively, we are such a small person, if we fight below, it is no different from sending us to death, so we must find a more suitable place to ambush, and then attack Yang Dong's car, but you also know that there is almost no suitable place for ambush in these places, and the snow is covered with snow, It's clear where we're hiding. ”

When Dou Fengjie heard the words 'snow-white', his heart suddenly moved, "King Yong'an, why don't we dig a trench in the snow, push the snow outside the trench into a slope, and then hide in it, as long as it is integrated, the Sui army will definitely not think that there are people in the snow." ”

"This method works." Li Xiaoji's eyes lit up, he walked a few steps excitedly, turned around and said, "But General Dou, don't you see it?" Even if we succeed in the sneak attack, will we still be alive? ”

"King Yong'an, compared to Yang Tong, what are the more than 2,000 dead soldiers?" Since he had already said it, Dou Fengjie simply told what he knew and said: "Also, you see that these dead soldiers only obey the orders of Wu Chuan, which one really regards us as the leader?" If the last general's expectation is good, this should be the idea of the king of Qi, if we fail, do you think these people will not sue us? ”

Li Xiaoji is not a fool, knowing that Dou Fengjie is planning to let these people go to the same death with the Sui army, the two of them just need to wait and see from afar, they were silent for a long time, and said: "This is the only chance for the Tang Dynasty to take Yang Dong's life, no matter what, we must focus on the overall situation, and we can't make extraneous branches at this time..."

"Enemy attack... Ah~"

Before Lee Hyo-gi could finish speaking, a terrible scream sounded outside, which also broke the silence of the entire temple.

Li Xiaoji's face changed, and he said sharply: "Go and see, what happened?" ”

"Huh~"

At this moment, two rockets outside the temple shot up into the sky one after the other, and Li Xiaoji's expression changed miserably, "We were discovered by the Sui army and faced the battle." ”

"Ahh......hh

The sound of screams and sharp weapons tearing muscles quickly spread like a plague.

In the panic of Li Xiaoji and Dou Fengjie, one by one the clay pots of fire oil were thrown in, and at the same time, one by one, the rag balls filled with fire oil were ignited and thrown in.

The fireball crossed the wall and smashed into the dead soldiers in the acre, the dead soldiers shouted and scattered to dodge, the fireball rolled to the oily ground and the ruined temple, the fire quickly spread, although the fire did not cause great damage, but the temple was in chaos, like headless flies The dead soldiers were also exposed from the darkness.

"Boom!"

When Li Xiaoji and Dou Fengjie came out of a temple that was on fire, they just saw that the wall in front of them was pushed to the ground, and a heavily armored Mo sword army stepped on the rammed earth wall that had fallen to the ground and killed the courtyard step by step, every step was as dignified as a mountain.

Some of the dead soldiers used their bows and crossbows to shoot, and a dense rain of arrows shot at the Modao army, but their armor was made of fine iron, and ordinary bows and crossbows could not do anything with them within a range of fifty paces.

The arrows were like a storm, clanging and shooting on the heavy armor, but none of the Mo knife soldiers were shot down, and they still walked step by step, and the soldiers in the front row waved the Mo knife and slashed down towards the dead soldiers who drew their swords to meet the battle. Suddenly, the head of the person flew, the torso was torn apart, the corpses on the ground were piled up, there was no complete corpse, and the stumps and broken arms could be seen everywhere, which was unbearable.

Step by step, they marched forward in a procession like a wall of steel, and wherever they passed, like the earth cracking and the waves parting, the heads of men rolling wildly, and the hearts of the dead men who had been killed were terrified, and the screams resounded in the night sky.

"King Yong'an, we are surrounded, retreat to the apse!" Dou Fengjie had woken up from the chaos, and he didn't care about Li Xiaoji, under the escort of dozens of Dou family soldiers, he turned around and ran.

Before he could run a few steps, a crossbow arrow had already broken through the air, directly piercing Dou Fengjie's head, and blood and brains splattered. Dou Fengjie fell to the ground, convulsed all over, and died on the spot.

Not far away, Yin Mingyue sneered and hung the crossbow in her hand on the horseback, she was the main general of this operation, and was ordered by Yang Dong to come and exterminate this assassin team.

Yang Tong knew that these dead soldiers, who were especially serving the Li family, had lost their souls and sanity, and they were all cold killing tools, and they must not have the slightest mercy, if they could not cut the grass and eradicate the roots, the assassination of the Great Sui Imperial Family would recur sooner or later, and it would harm the descendants if it was not done well.

As the emperor of the Great Sui and the head of the Yang family, how could Yang Tong allow the assassins to keep an eye on him and his relatives in secret all the time? Therefore, in order to completely annihilate this team of dead soldiers, he not only mobilized all the Shura Guards, but also handed over the Xuanjia Army to Yin Mingyue.

"It's just a woman, is there no one available for Yang Tong?" Li Xiaoji knew that there was little hope of escaping, so he immediately glared at Yin Mingyue and roared: "Attack, kill this woman for me." ”

"Kill!" Suddenly, a group of chaotic dead soldiers let go of the Mo Sword Army and rushed towards Yin Mingyue.

"Shoot the arrows." Yin Mingyue's cold pretty face flashed with a fierce look.

"Woohoo"

A puff of blood mist bloomed in the crowd, and the dense crowd was like a ploughed field, and the dead soldiers' original rainbow momentum was like a basin of cold water in an instant. In order to avoid hurting their own people, the Sui army did not use crossbow arrows at this time, but swung their swords upward.

"Kill the past, leave no one behind!" With a roar, Wang Xiongdan rushed through the gap with a Mo knife, setting off a bloody storm.

Behind him, Xue Wanbei, Qin Huaiyu, Cheng Chumo and other young generals and three hundred Xuanjia soldiers instantly formed a cone formation headed by Wang Xiongdan, and let out a roaring roar towards the chaotic dead soldiers.

Failed!

Lee Hyo-gi's mind was blank, and he still doesn't know what went wrong.

At this time, Yang Qinfang, who was lying in a corner like a civet cat, was holding a crossbow in his hand and was aiming at him, seeing that the guards beside Li Xiaoji suddenly gave up a gap, she suddenly pulled the trigger, and a crossbow arrow came out of the string, and the arrow was instantaneously shot, and the 'poof' shot through the back of Li Xiaoji's neck, and the arrow came out through the neck.

But at this time, it was already a mess, and almost no dead soldiers of the Tang Army found that Li Xiaoji was dead, and his body was killed all over the place by well-equipped Sui soldiers.

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At the same time that the Sui army was wantonly killing Li Tang's assassins in Phoenix Mountain, Yang Tong was also fighting with Song Shu.

In the dead of night, the two halls are as light as beans. Yang Tong sat behind the desk, holding his forehead while reviewing the recital. But there is no shortage of sparse sonories as high as mountains.

In fact, many of them were more than a month ago, and Yang Tong didn't blame them for coming late, but the current territory of the Great Sui was too vast, and the news transmission was inconvenient, and the letter eagle could not carry the summary brochures of each county, so they could only be brought to the center through the post station or the officials who entered the court to report on their work.

What made Yang Tong wonder even more was that Da Sui began to lack people again, because he obviously felt that he was much busier than usual recently, and many things that he didn't have to worry about before had been in his hands, so that the time for practicing martial arts that could not be moved every day was also taken up.

It is also understandable, after all, the Great Sui has recovered the four prefectures of Qingxu and Jingyang this year alone, the four counties of Qingzhou have jurisdiction over 36 counties, and the five counties of Xuzhou have jurisdiction over 40 counties; Jingzhou 22 counties have jurisdiction over 122 counties; Yangzhou 29 counties govern 158 counties. The total number of counties is 60 counties and 356 counties.

So many county guards, general guards, county punishments, and county royals; With so many county orders, county magistrates, county lieutenants, and county royals all need to be reappointed, how can the imperial court have so many skilled people? The only way is to withdraw from the three provinces, ten departments and nine temples, and these middle and low-level Beijing officials leave in a large area, and the personnel in the center are naturally insufficient.

Moreover, after these officials took office, they implemented the current executive order of the Great Sui from scratch, and on the other hand, they also had to clean up the thieves, and the number of problems can be imagined.

Yang Tong finally understood why most emperors were keen to be faint kings, and it was strange that they could not get bored if they were like a hill in front of you.

In fact, from Yang Tong's current point of view, it is not as difficult as imagined, just because this year is not as complicated as in later generations, and the content of local officials is much the same, mostly for people's livelihood, cases, infrastructure, etc., just calm down and analyze, the key is to endure this boredom and loneliness.

However, the busy days also made Yang Tong feel fulfilled, since Cen Wenwen, Bing Yuan Zhenma Zhou, Yang Chanshi, Yin Hongzhi, Yang Siyi, Liu Xun and other capable officials in each town and one region, Yang Tong obviously felt that his control over Qing, Xu, Jing, and Yang was increasing little by little, and he had to digest this year's harvest in the next two or three years.

This is also one of the reasons why Yang Tong is not in a hurry to recover Yizhou, he is worried that no matter how big the territory is, he will not be able to control it.

If you can't control the country, it won't be your own country, after all, no matter how big the country is, if the grassroots are unstable, it is just an illusory mansion in the air, rather than letting the novice govern the place in a mess and lose the hearts of the people, it is better to continue to let Li Yuan control it, but this side is stable, and there are more reserve officials with sufficient experience, and when they take office, they can use their experience in governing to put all localities on the right track.

After all these years of training, Yang Tong knows very well what he wants to do and what he needs. What he wants to do is to consolidate the Great Sui Dynasty and strengthen it, and he wants a Great Sui world that completely belongs to him, not a nominal emperor.

After the beginning of the year, Li Yuan in Yizhou was temporarily ignored; Li Shimin's department in Danchang County should be exterminated as soon as possible, just because Li Shimin is different from Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng, he is a person who is more and more courageous, he was under the jurisdiction of Li Yuan before, and he did not dare to let go of his hands and feet, but Li Yuan's current order is estimated to be similar to farting for him, and he has lost Li Yuan's restraint, Li Shimin, a guy with a heavy gambling nature, is very likely to take risks and make Dasui lose control of the entire situation. Therefore, even if you can't kill this variable, you must beat him back to Chengdu City, so that their fathers, sons, and brothers will continue to love and kill each other to the end.

According to Han Zhi's private letter, Li Yuanji won over some local officials because he entered Shu first, and because of his bloody cleansing of the Guanlong aristocracy and Yizhou's haoqiang, the empty treasury of the puppet Tang court was enriched, and the hundred officials and officials were also settled, so that the officials in the court also began to say good things about Li Yuanji.

The accumulation of strength and prestige made Li Shiyuan's covetousness for the throne more and more serious, and now he basically doesn't care about political affairs, and is bent on winning over military and political officials.

This result also made Yang Tong breathe a sigh of relief, the situation of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty is developing as he expected, if Li Yuan's father and son and brother have a palace change, then he will have a way to make the Li father and son and the Li clan die in the palace change, saving a lot of follow-up trouble.

It wasn't until late at night that Yang Tong finished reading all the notes and walked into the hall, the cold snow wind blew, his mind was clear, and the snowflakes were shining under the lamp.

"Enlightening the Holy One, Ling Shangshu urgently asks to see him." After a while, a guard hurried in and bowed down to report.

"Xuan!" Yang Tong's eyes lit up.