Yang Xingmi finally couldn't withstand Sun Ru's powerful offensive and asked Chang'an for help. At this time, the strategist Yuan Xi once again suggested that Yang Xingmi find a way out as soon as possible. So Yang Xingmi actively transported a large number of materials to Luzhou. In this way, one can avoid the enemy's edge, Yangzhou has been broken for a long time, and the people's hearts have not yet been attached, and the whole army may be wiped out in this decisive battle; Second, Luzhou is the land of Longxing, the city is intact, and the generals are all Luzhou people, although the business time is not long, but there is a small foundation, once the situation in Yangzhou is unfavorable, there can still be a place to retreat.

In the first year of Wende, in March, Sun Ru swept away the various strongholds on the periphery of Yangzhou, and once again burned the flames of war to Yangzhou, and Yangzhou once again changed the banner of the king. Yang Xingmi followed Yuan Xi's advice and retreated to Luzhou, but Luzhou was not too peaceful. Luzhou is too close to Yangzhou, and the morale of the whole army is extremely low after the new defeat, as long as Sun Ru pursues it, it will be difficult to stop. What to do? Only to go south first, avoid Sun Ru's sharpness, and then rely on the criss-crossing water network in the south of the Yangtze River to defend the danger. It's just that Yang Xingmi and Yuan Xi had a disagreement on the direction of the exhibition. Yang advocated attacking Zhong Chuan in Hongzhou (present-day Nanchang), while Yuan sought an opportunity from Zhao Qi in Xuanzhou (present-day Xuancheng).

Yuan Xi pointed out that Zhong Chuan had pacified Jiangxi for a long time and was not easy to take, while Zhao Qi's foundation in Xuanzhou was still shallow and easy to start, and it was possible to get the support of Sun Duan of Hezhou and Zhang Xiong of Shangyuan. It's really a blessing to have a military advisor who has a good understanding of the situation, but if it can't be adopted, it's still in vain. Yang Xingmi is a true leader, and he always listens to the right opinions of others.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, at the mouth of the lake. There are 100,000 troops stationed here, and the commander of the army is Zhao Jun. Since Sun Ru came to Huainan, the morale of the army has plummeted, and every soldier patrolling the river defense is also lazy, which is no wonder to them, as the saying goes, "one soldier will be a nest of bears." The generals who fought the main battle were all killed by Sun Ru in the middle of the battlefield, what other jīng gods did the soldiers have?

The soldiers patrolling the river defense were dealing with the mission in vain, when they suddenly saw a fleet approaching from upstream. The bow of the ship is hung with a large flag with the word Yang. The cruiser immediately sailed back to the camp and closed the camp. Yang Xingmi's Yangzhou sailor also routinely patrols the river. The two sides take the middle line of the Yangtze River as the boundary, and each patrols one side, and has always been peaceful. However, since Sun Ru crossed the river, Yang Xingmi patrolled the river every time. Zhao Quan's sailors had to avoid it, so as not to be provoked by the arrogant Yangzhou sailor soldiers, and now they also thought that it was the Yangzhou sailor who patrolled the river as usual, but soon they found that today was a little different from the past.

This fleet of sailors is too large, no feudal town would burn bags like this, and Rì Chang Patrol River would send such a large fleet. The masts were lined up, the huge sails covered the sky, and the fleet was mighty, with no head in front and no tail in the back, and swaggered past in front of the Huxuanzhou Naval Division.

If there is a senior general here, seeing this abnormal situation, he must have judged the truth and immediately ordered the dispatch of troops. The Yangzhou Navy Division set up a long snake formation, and the Xuanzhou Army occupied a favorable location. As long as the outstanding surprise soldiers are cut off from it, this Yangzhou Navy Division will inevitably be cut off, and the beginning and the end must not be taken into account. However, at this time, the Xuanzhou generals just wanted to calm things down.

The Yangzhou Naval Division descended mightily, and Hukou, the forefront of the Xuanzhou Yangtze River defense line, was "broken through" by the Yangzhou Naval Division without a single shot.

Subsequently, the barrier city at the front of Xuanzhou, Fuzhou defender An Shiming immediately opened the city gate when he heard the news, and drove the cattle and pigs to engage the Laoyang army. Facing the Yangzhou army. The Fuzhou guards have always done this, and it is reasonable to comfort the Yangzhou army. It's just that in the past, the Yangzhou army would leave happily after receiving the wine and meat, but this time they pounced like wolves, looking at the posture like a group of hungry refugees, not only to eat pigs and cattle, but also to eat people.

An Shiming was taken aback. Under the desperate struggle of the soldiers, An Shiming escaped alone, and when he fled to a distance and turned his head to look back, he saw that the flag fluttering at the head of Fuzhou City had changed the Yang character.

Undeclared wars, blitzkriegs, surprise wars, one after another. The stinky rules of breaking diplomatic relations, handing over war letters, making appointments about war, and fighting in a dignified manner have been lost since the Chūn autumn period, and it is the king to not tire of deceit. Yang Xingmi joined the troops of Sun Duan and Zhang Xiong, defeated the enemy's peripheral forces, and successfully surrounded Xuanzhou. Under the continuous siege, Xuanzhou ran out of food, and the tragedy of cannibalism occurred in the city. Zhao Qi was driven away by his subordinate Zhou Jinsi and was captured on the way to escape. The Xuanzhou army was unstable, and the soldiers captured Zhou Jinsi alive and surrendered. After the surrender of Kaesong, Yang Xingmi's subordinate Xu Wen cooked porridge to help the hungry refugees (don't underestimate this practice, in the case of more than five generations of arrogant soldiers, Yang Xingmi and his army are simply benevolent and righteous soldiers in this way).

Through the concerted efforts of the top and bottom, the hearts of the people slowly fell under the banner of Yang Xingmi. Xuanzhou was originally a big state, in its heyday there were 121,204 households, and a population of 884,985.

News came from the front that Sun Ru sent troops to attack Luzhou, and the defender Cai Yan surrendered, which indicated that a large-scale attack by Caizhou Diao troops was coming. There is no way out of the lonely city, and they must be able to echo each other, and Xuanzhou can only defend it. Yang Xingmi took advantage of the fact that Sun Ru's army had not yet attacked, and captured Changzhou (now part of Changzhou City). Xuanzhou, Changzhou east and west echo each other.

The expected offensive began, and Sun Ru's army, which had been raising Jīng in Yangzhou for a long time, was very aggressive, and after crossing the Yangtze River, it captured Changzhou and Runzhou in succession. Xuanzhou is in a hurry! That's when the good news came. Sun Ru was originally a general of Qin Zongquan, and most of his troops were Huaixi soldiers. The Huaixi soldiers have always been Zhu Wen's sworn enemies in Henan, and although Qin Zongquan has been defeated, Zhu Wen will never allow the Huaixi soldiers to make a comeback. Now that he has fought again, Shi Pu has no power to fight back, and he can free up his hands to meddle in Huainan affairs.

Zhu Wen had not been defeated by the combined forces of Duan Mingyu and Li Keyong at that time, and the battle of Wang Mandu had not begun, and Zhu Wen had never given up on the wealthy Jianghuai. He sent the general Pang Shigu to lead a large army from Yingshang (now part of Fuyang City) to Huainan, claiming to support Yang Xingmi and attacking Sun Ru. Zhu Wen and Yang Xingmi joined forces for the first and last time because of the common enemy, in the first year of Dashun, the mighty Pang Shi Gu army captured Tianchang and Gaoyou along the Lu, Shou, and Chu lines one after another, and Sun Ru's army returned to the division to rescue, and the two sides fought in Lingting.

As a result, Pang Shigu's army was defeated and forced to retreat. Although Pang Shigu's army was defeated, it bought valuable time for Yang Xingmi. ，