Before setting out from Luoyang, Yang Guang once asked the world's famous master to divinate the situation of the Second Eastern Crusade. And the emperor's answer made the emperor very dissatisfied, and the emperor replied, "The minister is indeed stupid, but he still adheres to the last opinion, if Your Majesty drives the expedition in person, the labor and consumption are too much." ”

Yang Guang was furious when he heard it at that time, "I am driving the expedition in person, and I can't win with a division of millions, so I only send a big general, how can I succeed?" ”

At that time, he recommended several generals to the emperor, saying, "Li Jing, Luo Yi, Xue Shixiong, Yang Yichen, and Luo Cheng are five people, choose one as the commander, command the army of two or three hundred thousand, fight steadily, and work steadily to destroy Goguryeo." ”

However, the emperor thought that although the five generals could fight, they were still not qualified and prestige, and could not command such a war to destroy the country.

The emperor believes that he is the only one who can really control those generals well.

Later, when he was drinking with Yu Shiji, Pei Yun and other close ministers in the Zhuojun Palace, he even said bluntly, "Everyone in the world thinks that I inherit the legacy of the first emperor to own the world, in fact, even if I am asked to compete with the scholar and doctor, I will be regarded as the Son of Heaven." ”

The emperor is very conceited, but he also does have conceited capital.

Yang Guang can also be regarded as a person born with a golden key, and can be called the top second generation, but unlike many second generations, Yang Guang was very hard when he was young, practicing martial arts hard and studying diligently.

In terms of martial arts, even if the emperor is now in his forties, he can still gallop on a horse, and a horse lance is also a good wield. In fact, this emperor can be called a contemporary literary master, and his poetry and poetry do not need to be patted by anyone, and he is also the top contemporary one.

He even swept away the gorgeous rhetoric of the palace style poetry that prevailed since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and created a new genre, that is, Biansai poetry, and his cave line on the Great Wall of Drinking Horses is extremely majestic and magnificent. His Spring River Flower Moon Night, Water Tune Songs, etc. are also very good.

Later, Li Shimin, who had been scolding Yang Guang, also wrote about the Great Wall Cave Line and the Spring River Flower Moon Night, but the level was far worse than Yang Guang.

Yang Guang is indeed able to write and be martial, but he is not omnipotent.

His extermination of Tuguhun, Ping Yiwu, defeat of the Turks, conquest of Linyi, attack Liuqiu, etc., did not make him an omnipotent emperor all of a sudden.

When he immersed himself in the fantasy of his great cause, he did not realize that he had become disconnected from reality and was getting farther and farther away.

Yang Xuangan, who is also a top second generation, has been resentful of Yang Guang for forcing his father to death for several years, and is very loyal to Yang Guang on the surface, but in fact he wants to kill Yang Guang more than once.

It was his uncle who had been persuading him to forbear, and it was his friend Li Mi who had been planning for him, so he endured it until now.

But hard work paid off, and Yang Xuangan finally waited for a suitable opportunity.

After his and Li Mi's unremitting planning efforts, he finally won enough trust from the emperor, and the Second Eastern Crusade began, and he was appointed as the governor of grain and grass, sitting in Liyang.

Staying in Liyang, Yang Xuangan has been moving quietly.

He first conspired with Li Mi to lure more than a dozen thieves from Henan and Hebei to Douzigang, and then broke through the Pingyuan County, the original plan was to break the city, Yang Xuangan had the opportunity to lead his troops north into the Pingyuan County to fight for thieves, and then successfully recovered the Pingyuan County, and then surrendered many anti-troops, and successfully accepted these peripheral forces under his command, and could also take the opportunity to install people to occupy the Plains County, etc., and also arranged the uncontrolled soldiers and horses of Ji County to the Plains and separated.

By the way, you can also get weapons, money, food, etc. from Plains County.

Unfortunately, this plan was only half successful, and Luo Cheng's sudden attack made Yang Xuan feel that Li Mi's plan had failed. Dozens of thieves, the old nest was raided in Douzigang, and countless gathered money and livestock were taken away, these originally belonged to Yang Xuangan.

Then he captured nearly 200,000 thieves in Pingyuan County, and Luo Cheng killed 3,000 people, turned over on his horse, beheaded thousands, captured tens of thousands, and killed eight kings and thirteen princes in the capital of the thieves.

Luo Cheng entered the plain county town first.

Although Yang Xuangan listened to Li Mi's plan, he hurried to the scene, and Pegasus told the emperor about Luo Cheng's black state.

In the end, Luo Cheng was stripped of his position as an ambassador for comfort and arrest, and went south, but when this bastard left, he still took away the thieves who captured the captives, as well as the countless weapons, money, and food.

Plains County is just an empty city.

What made him most angry was that although Luo Cheng was gone, he had promoted Yang Yuanhong and Yang Shanhui to be the Plains Taishou and Juncheng without authorization, and the emperor actually allowed this promotion.

So although Luo Cheng left, Yang Xuangan did not get any benefit from Pingyuan County.

Fortunately, as soon as Yang Xuangan waited for Luo Cheng to leave, he immediately waved his troops into Gaojibo in Qinghe County, fought several 'big victories' there, and surrendered more than a dozen groups of bandits such as Wang Yan, and surrendered tens of thousands.

He also took advantage of the situation to install people and horses in Qinghe County, and left many Jijun soldiers there.

Since this war.

The canal was reopened, and the front urged Liyang to transfer grain and grass to the front.

Yang Xuangan responded here and distributed grain and grass, but over there he let Li Mi stay in the high chicken park between the rivers, leading a large group of bandits to block the canal and rob the grain boats.

Therefore, since March, the canal has not been smooth, and ten ships of grain were sent from Liyang, and often only three or five ships of grain could only enter Zhuo County in the end. This seriously affected the supply of grain and grass, and the front-line troops were very dissatisfied.

Then at this time, Yang Xuangan secretly sent people to summon his brothers Yang Xuanfang and Yang Xuanqi who were far away to Liyang.

Fathers and sons go into battle, and they have to be brothers when they fight tigers.

Everything is going on quietly.

The original plan was that Yang Xuangan would have to start up again later.

A little later, when the Eastern Expeditionary Army was completely trapped in Liaodong, especially when Yuwenshu Yang Yichen and other soldiers arrived in the domestic city, Luo Yi and others also went deep into the hinterland of Liaodong, and Luo Chenglai Hu'er also led the water division to reach the Yalu River.

But it was Luo Cheng who disrupted Yang Xuangan's plan.

Damn Luo Cheng didn't go directly to the Yalu River, he tossed it in southern Liaoning first, and defeated the soldiers of Anshi again, and broke the city of An, and also broke the city of Beisha.

Seeing that the situation was completely unexpected, Yang Xuangan was also worried that Luo Cheng would have some accidents at that time.

In order to avoid long nights and dreams, Yang Xuangan had to do things in advance.

There are already many rebels in the world, and the Central Plains has even been full of beacons, and ant thieves are rampant everywhere.

But many people were just forced to rebel in anger, natural disasters, Yao labor, famine, and finally starve to death if they didn't rebel.

And some people rebelled, not to starve to death, they had no worries about food and clothing, and even had a high status, they were local heroes, such as Wang Bo, but they also rebelled.

And Yang Xuangan and Li Mi, the two rebelled completely because of the wolf's ambitions, or they claimed to be ambitious, both of them were the top nobles of the Great Sui, but they still kept secretly planning, always ready, and once they had the opportunity, they did not hesitate to raise the banner.