"Master, let's sleep for a while!" The old servant who had followed Yang Su all his life next to him whispered to persuade him.

"In the current situation, how can I sleep!" Gao Ying sighed low and said faintly, but at this time, his face still maintained a confident look of pampering and not being shocked.

At this moment, someone outside the door exclaimed: "What is that, it's a fire, there's a fire on the mountain!" ”

Gao Ying was stunned, the door was slammed open, and a guard shouted: "Gao Gong, there is a fire on the high cliff ridge, and the fire is soaring to the sky!" ”

Gao Ying's face changed greatly, and his usual calmness and confidence had long disappeared without a trace. He ran to the courtyard, only to see that the high wall ridge was really a fire, from a distance, the fire was more than ten miles, see that the direction is not the camp of the main army under his command on the mountain ridge lit a fire, what else can it be, Gao Ying seemed to step on the air, and his heart fell straight into the abyss.

"It's over, it's all over." Gao Ying stared blankly at Gao Biling, his face was pale, and he muttered to himself. At this time, another guard rushed in and said loudly: "Gao Gong, the scouts have sent information and found that Yang Su's main force is only seven miles away from us. ”

Gao Ying jumped up in shock and shouted, "Quick! Command the whole army and prepare for battle. ”

"Gao Gong, Yang Su's army did not attack at night, they have stopped advancing."

Gao Ying's heart was slightly lowered, he walked back and forth in the courtyard with his hands behind his back, barely calming himself down, he finally found that he was only a civil official after all, not a military general, and he was not as good as Yang Su in this kind of thing as fighting.

Now what should he do?

He doesn't count on the army on Gaobi Ridge, even if most of them escape back, he can't support it, he doesn't have so much food and grass, unless the Taiyuan Wang clan can fully support him, but with the current situation, how is it possible, Wang Long, that old fox, will definitely not fully support him. Moreover, Yang Su's main force was behind them, and the army on the mountain couldn't escape much at all.

No, he must retreat, first withdraw to Taiyuan City, relying on the strong walls of Taiyuan City for defense, Yang Liang has been operating in Taiyuan City for nearly ten years, he should be able to hold it, Yang Guang has just ascended the throne, the court is not stable, the various gate lords are unpredictable, if he drags on in Taiyuan for a long time, maybe there will be variables, and then look for opportunities to turn defeat into victory.

Thinking like this, Gao Ying gritted his teeth and immediately ordered: "Order the three armies to withdraw to Taiyuan City." ”

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On the high cliff ridge, the 5,000 elite soldiers sent by Yang Su found that the rebels' defense was inadequate, and the mountains and mountains were narrow, the big tents were dense, one by one, and the wind was extremely strong, which was simply a battalion specially set up in this way to cooperate with their planned fire attack.

According to the original plan, Yang Su's main force would feint to attack Zhouping County, force Gao Ying to ask for help from the army on Gaobi Ridge, and then ambush 5,000 elite soldiers to rescue the rebels in Zhouping County, but at this time, he did not need to ambush, and directly set fire to the camp.

The fire burned rapidly, and the raging flames were swept to the west of the mountain range by the wind, and the red flames on the tents flew up, forming a sea of fire for more than ten miles, and the entire Gaobi Ridge seemed to be engulfed by fire.

Outside the camp, 5,000 Sui troops slaughtered out, cutting off the rebels' escape route, the heads of the people killed directly, the dead bodies piled up, and the air was filled with pungent blood and scorching.

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An hour later, the raging fire has engulfed the entire Gaobiling, and the 100,000 rebels of Gaobiling only escaped less than 50,000 people, and the other more than 50,000 people were killed, burned, smoked to death, and killed each other.

At the same time that the news of this battle was transmitted to Daxing City in Kyoto, the specific situation was also sent to Yang Guang by Yang Guang's henchmen in the army, and after great joy, Yang Guang's eyes flashed, and he said casually: "This battle Yang Taifu is naturally a last resort, but I'm afraid it is too brutal, I remember that three years ago, Wang Junlin burned Shuiquan Pass, and many people in the court did not count the credit of Wang Junlin in that battle on the grounds that he was too brutal and hurt Tianhe!" ”

These words of Yang Guang were soon spread out of the palace by people with good intentions, and were known by some courtiers who had enmity with Yang Su or were good at speculating on the mind of the Son of Heaven.

"Is the emperor already so impatient?" The turmoil of the imperial court also reached the ears of Yang Su, who was heading to Taiyuan City on the front line, Yang Su's face was ugly, he knew that Yang Guang was jealous of him, and he was indeed suspected of being a master of high merit, and their Hongnong Yang clan's power has developed too rapidly over the years, and it is no longer weaker than these old family members of the Seven Sects and Five Surnames, and he has too many disciples and henchmen in the army and in the court. It's just that he didn't expect Yang Guang to be so impatient, isn't he afraid that he will directly rebel and become the second Gao Ying?

Yang Su's face changed, and finally sighed, he really can't be the second Gao Ying, at least not yet, not to mention the army of the Northern Expedition and the state, Yang Guang has installed a lot of henchmen in the army, if he really rebels, even if he succeeds, he will need an internal fight, and it would be good to have half of the troops left, the most important thing is that their Hongnong Yang family is different from Gao Ying, their Yang family's stall is too big, he dares to rebel, Yang Guang will not hesitate to kill all the tens of thousands of people in their Yang family.

In addition, there is one main reason——— King's Landing is still hidden in the territory of Bingzhou.

In the past three years, Yang Su has tried his best to deal with Wang Junlin, and he has not taken advantage of it every time, which makes him extremely jealous of Wang Junlin, and even Yang Su's jealousy of Wang Junlin has exceeded the jealousy of the old family of the seven sects and five surnames and the Guanlong nobles headed by Dugu and Yuan. In Yang Su's opinion, no matter what he wants to do, he must first kill Wang Junlin. Because, he faintly felt that at a critical time, Wang Junlin would inevitably come out and ruin his big things.

"Hasn't Wang Junlin been found yet?" Yang Su asked with a calm face.

A black-robed man behind him immediately replied, "Back to my lord, I haven't found Wang Junlin yet." Moreover, some of the information found before turned out to be all caused by Wang Junlin. General Li Jing also sent a secret letter from Youzhou, which could guarantee that Wang Junlin had never been to Youzhou, so he guessed that Wang Junlin was still in Bingzhou. ”

Yang Su's eyes flashed with a monstrous murderous intent, and after a little contemplation, he wrote a letter, put it in an envelope, sealed it with fire paint in person, handed it to the black-robed man, and said: "You take this secret letter, go to see Yang Yichen in person, hand over the letter to him, he will draw out an army of 10,000 henchmen to cooperate with you to search for Wang Junlin's traces, once you find it, immediately tell me with a flying eagle, I will immediately send a large army to besiege him under the pretext of exterminating the remnants of Bingzhou." ”

"Humble duty understood." The black-robed man agreed, turned around and left quickly.

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