For the Great Sui, there has never been a shortage of brave and good fighters.

It can even be said that although the Sui Dynasty was not established for a long time, it produced many famous generals, not to mention the four famous generals of the founding of the country, Yang Sushi, Long Live Han Capture Tiger He Ruobi, and many other generals who were also extremely brave.

For example, the 2,000-battle 100,000-Da Xi Changru, such as He Lou Zigan at the border of Weizhen, and then the eldest Sun Sheng who kills two birds with one stone, Luo Yi who is outside the Yangwei Sai, and the fish Juluo and Tu Wanxu in front of him.

The reasons for this result are actually not complicated, first of all, it was not long after the founding of the Sui Dynasty, and the Sui Dynasty was a melee between the north and the south before, and the soldiers were endless, and the predecessor of the Sui Dynasty, the Northern Zhou and Western Wei, had fought for decades. The Western Wei Dynasty began to implement the ruling idea of integrating military and government, and the Guanlong nobles formed a military aristocratic group.

These nobles practiced riding and archery when they were young, and began to fight at a young age, and over the decades, as long as they did not die, they could always find out a few famous generals in a hundred battles.

It can be said that this is a product of the times, and in the era of the Song and Ming dynasties, which emphasized literature and suppressed martial arts, it was difficult to have this kind of spectacular scene of star-studded gathering.

These famous generals of the Sui Dynasty are rarely born, and they are basically famous generals who started from small training and then fought for the rest of their lives. Like a fish, a disciple of the general, he entered the palace as a guard in his teens, and began to fight on the front line at the age of twenty, and then fought countless battles in his life, and finally Weizhen Fengzhou, so that the Turks did not dare to go south to herd horses.

Tu Wanxu is similar, a disciple of the general, he was already a county duke in his twenties, fought countless battles in his life, and finally reached the position of the general of the Twelve Guards.

The two veterans have fought for a lifetime and are famous.

It's just that Yujuluo is because his eyes are born and his eyes are taboo by the emperor, so he can't be reused. And Tu Wanxu was given a cold reception because he didn't understand the emperor's intention to kill He Ruobi.

This time, the emperor used the two, which can be regarded as giving them a chance.

Qi Biao and Li Bao were once lieutenants under the command of Yuju Luo Fengzhou, and a few years ago they were implicated and relegated to Qi County, but they didn't expect it to be a blessing in disguise.

"I didn't expect Dashuai to go south this time." When Qi Biao saw Yu Juluo, he was still very respectful.

"I'm just the deputy general of the southward counterinsurgency army this time, but I can't be your commander, there is only one marshal of our counterinsurgency army, and that is the Duke of Chu."

In front of Luo Cheng, who was only the eldest of his grandchildren, Yu Juluo did not put on any old qualifications, after all, he had been sitting on the cold bench for several years, and the temper of this famous general was also suppressed a lot.

Tu Wanxu also nodded, "Yes, we two old guys, we're just here to fight." ”

The posture of the two lieutenants is very low, which makes people feel disgusted.

"I wonder how the commander plans to quell the rebellion?" Yu Jura asked.

"Go straight to the thief's den, capture the thief and capture the king first!" Luo Cheng's answer was straightforward, although intelligence showed that the rebels were now extremely strong in Sanwu, and in a short period of time, they had captured seven counties.

But Luo Cheng believes that this is just some illusion.

No matter how strong the rebels are, they have only been in two or three months, so how strong can they be.

The land south of the Yangtze River was not originally the key place for the soldiers of the Great Sui Dynasty to be stationed and defended, and the two Eastern Crusades recruited many young soldiers, which gave the rebels a chance.

But when Luo Cheng led more than 20,000 of the most elite soldiers to the south, they would be disintegrated.

"The water town in the south of the Yangtze River, the water network is vertical and horizontal, and many of my northern soldiers are used to riding horses and not used to taking boats, so you may have to be careful." Tu Wanxu reminds.

"General Tuwan is right, but the rebels are not fighting guerrillas with us, they are now based on the county to claim the dynasty, so let's first thunder through the city of Wu County, capture and kill Liu Yuanjin, and then recruit the local government soldiers and county warriors to encircle and suppress the rest of the rebels."

Luo Cheng was the marshal of the navy, but there were many soldiers in the south of the Yangtze River who were once under his command.

Before the expedition.

The emperor sent envoys to reward the soldiers and horses, with wine, meat and a new clothes, plus a string of copper coins, it can be said that the good treatment of the Left Fifth Army made the Xiaoguo army envious.

When you go on an expedition.

Luo Yi, the governor of the political affairs department and the secretary of the military department, came to see him off on behalf of the emperor, and Luo Siye also came.

"I thought I could drink your wedding wine and then go to Liaodong, but unexpectedly, a holy decree came down, but I had to go to Jiangnan first, it is estimated that I can't catch up with your wedding in August, and I have nothing to congratulate, so I will send you a thousand acres of fertile land near Luoyang, plus 3,000 yuan, although you are still a princess, but you also have some property in your hands, you can't find the princess everywhere in the future to spend money, right?"

Si Ye smiled and punched Luo Cheng, "I'm not short of money to spend." ”

"In case you want to take a concubine or something in the future, it's always more convenient. By the way, you stay in Beijing in the future, be careful yourself, especially beware of the Yuwen family, this old dog is a poisonous snake. ”

"Don't worry, with you here, the old dog won't dare to touch me easily."

"Make more friends! Multiple friends, multiple paths, it's always right. Luo Cheng said with a smile.

Over there, Luo Yi came to see him off.

"Originally, you were going to Liaodong to take office, and I have already left my five thousand Yanyun Iron Horsemen to you."

Luo Yi entered the court as a minister, and the thousands of iron horses that he had trained for more than ten years couldn't take away, so he left it to Luo Cheng.

"It's okay, when Jiangnan puts down the rebellion, I will definitely go to Liaodong, and they will also be under my command at that time."

Luo Yi said, "This time I asked you to go to Jiangnan to quell the chaos, it was Yuwen Laogou's meaning, and I guess I wanted to give you a trip." You have to be careful yourself, after all, Jiangnan is geographically different. ”

"Don't worry, it's impossible to capsize in the gutter."

Twenty-five thousand men immediately got out of the boat and went east.

The Grand Canal opened by Yang Guang is indeed much more convenient to go from Luoyang to Jiangnan.

However, in fact, the canal was not original to Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, and the canal had begun to be dug as early as the pre-Qin era, and even everywhere.

When Qin Shi Huang conquered Nanyue, he took the road from Hunan to Guilin to cross Lingnan, and there was also the Xiangjiang River in Hunan to transfer materials, but when he entered Guilin, there was no waterway, and he had to go over the mountains and mountains, and the material transfer was extremely inconvenient, and because the materials could not be transported, the Qin expedition to Nanyue began to be unsmooth.

Later, the Qin Dynasty dug a canal of 1,200 miles to connect the Xiang River and the Li River, which was a spiritual canal. Lingqu passes, Baiyue Ping.

Even Lingnan has built canals, not to mention the Central Plains, west to Guanzhong, south to Lingnan, north to the North China Plain, there are artificial canals, these artificial canals are connected with natural rivers.

The canals of the Sui Dynasty were only a little larger in scale and more connected.

In particular, the two canals in the north and south are dug through, and then they can be connected to Luoyang, the center of the world, so that the Great Sui Empire, there are big rivers such as the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, the Huaishui, the Jishui, and the Hanjiang River in the east and west, and the Grand Canal is also connected in the north and south.

The Sui Grand Canal, except for a few sections, most of the rest of the rivers are actually just connected by using millions of people to dredge the rivers left by many dynasties before dredging.

This is the highway of the Great Sui, thousands of miles through the waves, although the canals are also locked between them, and sometimes it is necessary to transfer ships, but it still greatly reduces the time on the road, but also enhances the transport capacity, and reduces the fatigue of the road.

At the end of July, Luo Cheng had arrived in Yangzhou, Huainan, which was called Jiangdu County at this time, from the south bank of the Huai River to the north bank of the Yangtze River, this vast land on both sides of the Zhanggou Canal belonged to Jiangdu County.

This is also the place where Yang Guang stayed the longest before he took the throne, when he sat in Yangzhou for many years, so Jiangdu is also the emperor's favorite place except Luoyang.

Here, there are many palaces such as Jiangdu Palace, and there are still heavy troops stationed, although Jiangdu County has not been promoted to Nanjing, but its Taishou is on the same level as Jingzhao Yin and Henan Yin.

Before landing, King Shichong of Jiangdu County has been waiting there for a long time.