Chapter 128 - Receiving Refugees

Yang Guang went directly south from Yanmen County to Jiangnan, and he had already expressed his idea of giving up the north and holding Jiangnan. This also stimulated the various forces in the north to be ready to move, and for a time the forces in the north showed their true colors.

Luo Yi, the governor of Youzhou, took the lead in raising the banner of rebellion, and attacked the north with the help of a large number of ordnance and materials transported for the eastern expedition to Goguryeo, and there was no one who could stop him for a while. At the same time, the Goguryeo people also found that the Central Plains was in chaos and had the intention of going south, but after being led by Luo Yi to defeat several armies one after another, they gave up the year of going south.

Liu Wuzhou, the captain of Yingyang Mansion, also led his troops to kill the Mayi County Guard, opened a warehouse to release grain, and proclaimed himself the new Taishou of Mayi County, and at the same time, because Mayi County was attacked by the Turks not long ago, the materials were not abundant, in order to gain a firm foothold, Liu Wuzhou sent his powerful lobbyists to the Eastern Turks' tooth tent to show his intentions, and was willing to respect the Eastern Turkic Shibi Khan as the main one, pay tribute every year, and call himself a minister every year.

Although the Eastern Turks were defeated under Yanmen County, their strength still existed, and it was only at this time that people's hearts fluctuated, which made the battle against the Goguryeo people unfavorable and retreated one after another. However, if you face the Han people who were defeated in the past, they still have these psychological advantages, so they accepted Liu Wuzhou's attachment and sent troops to assist Liu Wuzhou in the battle.

After having a Turkic army, Liu Wuzhou designed a large and risky battle plan, he led the Han army of his headquarters to the south to meet the tiger general Wang Zhibi, deliberately stepped into the trap set by Wang Zhibi, and was surrounded by Wang Zhibi's army in Sangqian Town. At this time, the army of the Turks suddenly killed from behind Wang Zhi's army, and Liu Wuzhou should cooperate with the outside to defeat Wang Zhi's army, and the tiger general Wang Zhiwen was also killed in the chaos, Liu Wuzhou with the help of the high momentum brought by the victory, took advantage of the situation to break through Lou Fu County, and captured a large number of palace maids left in Fenyang Palace.

After seeing the fighting power of the Turks in Sangqian Town, Liu Wuzhou, in order to further curry favor with the Turks, personally dedicated all the captured palace maids to the Turks, and worshiped Shibi Khan as his father-in-law in the tooth tent. This made Shibi Khan very happy, so he gave his mount and war horse to Liu Wuzhou, and gave him an elite army to guard the tooth tent. With the help of the fierce fighting power of the Turks in his hands, Liu Wuzhou returned to the division and captured Dingxiang County, completely opening up the connection with the Turks.

Feeling that Liu Wuzhou's performance was good, and he had some strength and brains, he strengthened Shibi Khan's determination to support him as the agent of the Turks in the Central Plains, so he canonized Liu Wuzhou as Dingyang Khan, took a good fortune to pacify Yang Sui, and at the same time gave him a wolf's head flag as a banner.

Of course, people can't put all their eggs in one basket, Shibi Khan is proficient in Han culture, and naturally understands this kind of thing very well, so while canonizing Liu Wuzhou, he found Liang Shidu, who was once the general of Yingyang Mansion, and helped him kill Shuofang Juncheng, raised the banner of rebellion and proclaimed himself the prime minister, and then merged with the Turks to defeat the Sui general Zhang Shilong, who came to suppress, and then took advantage of the victory to capture the counties of Diaoyin, Honghua, Yan'an, etc., and then dug out a seal in the ground when the jade was buried in the sky, There are some unrecognizable pre-Qin ancient seals on it, and the subordinates all say that this is auspicious, and God uses this to seal people and persuade Liang Shidu to be emperor.

So Liang Shi couldn't resist the persuasion of his subordinates, ascended the throne and called the emperor, established the Liang State, and established the Yuan: Yonglong, which was the first year of Yonglong. In the same year, Bi Khan canonized Liang Shi as Dadu Viga Khan, and also the son of heaven.

Dou Jiande of Hebei also defeated more than 10,000 officers and soldiers led by Guo Xuan, the general guard of Zhuo County, who came to quell the rebellion, plundered countless war horses, killed thousands of enemies, and personally chased out more than ten miles, caught up with Guo Xuan who fled in a hurry in Pingyuan County, cut off Guo Xuan's head and brought it back to Gaojibo, and since then the power in Gaojibo has been even stronger. Later, Gao Shida advanced lightly and was defeated by Yang Yichen led the army, and he was also killed by Yang Yichen in the chaotic army.

Later, Yang Yichen thought that he had killed the leader of the rebel army, and the remaining rogues were not enough to succeed, so he led his army to retreat. At this time, Dou Jiande led his subordinates back to the battlefield, collected the corpses for Gao Shida, buried the corpses of the rebels who died in battle, and ordered his soldiers to wear white mourning clothes, and gradually gathered the fleeing rebels, and once again developed to the scale of thousands of people. The mourning soldiers will win, under the same hatred of the enemy, the righteous army successively defeated several Sui troops who came to suppress, and Dou Jiande has always been magnanimous and benevolent, and the Sui officials and local gentry in the captured city have always been courteous, which also makes more people begin to defect to him, for a time the counties of Hebei have been attached, Dou Jiande has nearly 100,000 soldiers, claiming to be the king of Changle.

Zhishilang Wang Bo and Meng Rang led the army and the Sui army to fight around Hebei and Shandong, although they were repeatedly defeated by Zhang Xutuo, but after each defeat, they were able to quickly gather tens of thousands of men and horses again to fight against the official army again. Moreover, although Wang Bo said that he was ten scholars, he experienced the front line every time he fought, and sang "The Song of Death of Liaodong Waves" with the soldiers to attack the official army. Meng Rang under Wang Bo was even more brave, except for Zhang Xutuo, there was no one who could stop him.

Xue Ju saw that what Li Wenyuan said appeared unexpectedly, and his heart was also overjoyed, after learning the news of Yang Guang's southward departure, he directly used the reason of suppressing the bandit Zong Luohu in the territory to recruit strong men, and then at the send-off banquet of Hao Ai, the guard of Jincheng County, detained Hao Ai, claiming that he wanted to search for the rebels, and imprisoned the officials of the county.

After Xue Ju's incident, Zong Luohu led his bandits to join Xue Ju according to the agreement, and Xue Ju surrendered to Fengzong Luohu as the prince of Yixing County, and wantonly recruited bandits in the territory and plundered officials and horses. Soon, Zhong Lishu, the leader of the Minshan Qiang people, also led 20,000 troops to defect to Xue Ju. Xue Ju made friends and took them in private, and the heroes who were in Xue Ju's martial arts arena on weekdays also joined Xue Ju's army one after another.

Li Yuan also supported Yang Yu, the acting king of Chang'an, and respected Yang Guang as the emperor from afar, and raised things in the land of Jinzhong, and proclaimed himself the king of Tang.

For a time, the whole of northern China was plunged into the flames of war, today I led people to defeat you, tomorrow you bring people back to disperse my army, the people were displaced, and the fields were barren. At this time, a rumor circulated in the land of the Central Plains:

The king of the Western Regions, don't pay for food!

(End of chapter)