Yang Guang nodded and asked, "Qi'er, after I lead the army away, how should you deal with the relationship with the local princes and rogues?" ”

Yang Qi thought for a while and said, "According to the policy of the Holy Grandfather, help while fighting!" ”

Yang Guangchai asked, "Then who do you hit first?" Who can fight, and who will caress it? ”

Yang Qi touched his chin and said: "Sun Er thinks that he should fight Hailing Li Zitong first, this person's range of activities is too close to Jiangdu, and he is insidious and cunning, scheming, and strong, he has been a bandit for many years, and he can only talk about long-term development after he is eliminated first!" ”

Yang Guang was noncommittal, and turned to Chen Ling and asked, "What does Aiqing think?" ”

Chen Ling clenched his fists and replied: "Back to the saint, I think that Liyang Du Fuwei is my confidant. Liyang when the Yangtze River and land rush, the left Yangtze River, the right control of Zhaoguan, Liangshan Zhi its east, Haochu ring its north, for the "Huainan Domain", "Jiangbiao" of the guarantee, since ancient times, for the soldiers must fight for the place. Its quarrying ferry is one of the only two ferries in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River (the other is Guazhou ferry), which can go straight down the river and approach the Jiangdu, and can retreat through the two Huai, and recuperate. ”

"Du Fuwei gathered disciples bravely, and in the process of making his fortune, he often fought with other rebels, and then annexed other people's people, which shows his great ambition! Moreover, Du Fuwei is brutal and ferocious, and the combat effectiveness of the 'upper recruitment army' under his command is really strong. In the past two years, Du Fuwei's army has developed rapidly, and the imperial court wants to expand and develop in Zaijiangdu, so it must defeat this thief! ”

Hearing this, Yang Guang smiled slightly, he was familiar with history, he naturally knew how powerful Du Fuwei was, General Chen Ling, who had won a hundred battles, was defeated for the only time in his life, that is, he was defeated in the hands of Du Fuwei.

Du Fuwei, a native of Zhangqiu, Qizhou. Since childhood, his family has been poor, and he is accustomed to stealing, and he is a friend of the auxiliary father. Fu Gong Yi often stole sheep from his aunt's house and gave them to Du Fuwei to eat. Later, because of her aunt's denunciation, the government filed a case to pursue them, and the two fled, and then fell into the grass at the age of 16.

In the ninth year of the Great Cause, Du Fuwei and Fu Gongqi fled to the Changbai Mountain area, organized bandits and homeless people, and gathered people to revolt. After being defeated by Laizheng, he led his troops to the Jianghuai region, and first threatened to annex Xiapi Miao Haichao, and was despised by Zhao Po, the leader of the Hailing bandits.

Therefore, Du Fuwei personally led ten soldiers with beef and wine to meet Zhao Pozhen, Zhao Pozhen was very happy, pulled Du Fuwei into the camp, gathered all the leaders together, held a grand banquet and drank to his heart's content. Du Fuwei suddenly exerted his power at the banquet, personally killed Zhao Pozhen, and then annexed his people, proclaimed himself a general, crisscrossed Huainan, and merged Liuhe, threatening Jiangdu.

Jiangdu once sent Wei Song Hao to suppress it, and Du Fuwei used a plan to introduce it into the reeds, set it on fire and burn it to death, marched to Anyi, and slaughtered its city.

The eleventh year of the Great Cause, October. Li Zitong of the East China Sea was suspicious of the old thief Boshan Gongzuo in Changbai Mountain, and led more than 10,000 people to Huainan to take refuge in Du Fuwei. Du Fuwei was very happy, unexpectedly, Li Zitong suddenly mutinied, Du Fuwei was caught off guard, the whole army was in chaos, Du Fuwei himself was seriously injured under Li Zitong's pursuit, at the critical moment, Du Fuwei's adopted son (Du Fuwei selected a strong man in the army to adopt as an adopted son, a total of more than 30 people) and the general Wang Xiongdan carried him to hide in the reeds, and luckily escaped the pursuit. In this mutiny, Du Fuwei's forces were dealt a great blow, and he became enemies with Li Zitong from then on.

Misfortune is not a one-way line, taking advantage of Du Fuwei's defeat, Sui will also lead his troops to attack. Du Fuwei was recuperating from his wounds at this time, unable to command, and the army had just experienced a fierce battle, and it was already a tired army, so it naturally could not resist the attack that came to be reorganized. Du Fuwei's whole army collapsed, and his general Ximen Junyi's wife was brave and strong, and fled with Du Fuwei on his back.

After two consecutive escapes, Du Fuwei's troops suffered heavy casualties and lost the strength to dominate, so they had to fight guerrilla everywhere and continue to recruit displaced people to join in order to expand their power. After half a year of recovery, Du Fuwei gained the strength of tens of thousands of people again, and took control of Liuhe County near Jiangdu as a base area. At the same time, Zuo Cai traveled to and from Huaibei, and Li Zitong occupied Hailing, both with tens of thousands of troops, and the Jianghuai area was headed by these three rebel armies.

The twelfth year of the Great Cause, July. Du Fuwei annihilated the Sui army Huyalang general Gongsun Shangzhe in Yancheng, and fought with Chen Ling several times, although he lost repeatedly, but Chen Ling did not have many troops, and it was not easy to destroy Du Fuwei, and the two sides fought into a stalemate.

In December of the same year, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty drove to Jiangdu, escorting more than 100,000 people in Xiaoguo, and his reputation was great. It stands to reason that the Sui army should be greatly boosted, and Du Fuwei could not escape destruction, but the arrival of Emperor Yang of Sui gave Du Fuwei a chance to rise.

At this time, it was a famine year, and the people had no way to make a living, and they had to bear the supply of hundreds of thousands of troops, which finally caused a great famine. It is recorded that the common people first ate the bark and leaves of trees, and then boiled the soil for food, "all things are consumed, but they are cannibalistic." A large number of people rose up, and Du Fuwei took the opportunity to absorb a large number of subordinates, and his power expanded rapidly.

Du Fuwei selected the most elite sergeants in the army to form his own guard, called the "Shangzhuo", with a strength of 5,000 men. Du Fuwei took the recruited soldiers as his own soldiers, and was very pampered in peacetime, but the requirements were also very strict, and he must be recruited as the vanguard in every battle, and check the scars on each person's body after the war, and if the wound was in the back, he would be beheaded immediately, because that meant that he was retreating from the battle. Every time he was victorious, Du Fuwei rewarded the whole army with the looted assets, and if his men died in battle, they would be buried with the property of the deceased and even their wives and concubines.

At this time, the strength of Du Fuwei and Chen Ling had reversed, so he took the initiative to challenge Chen. Chen Ling also knew that the situation was unfavorable and there was no chance of victory, so he couldn't shrink back and let Du Fuwei show off his might. Du Fuwei then sent an envoy to Chen to bring a set of women's clothes, and gave Chen Ling the nickname of Chen Ling.

Chen Ling was furious and led the whole army to battle. This battle was very fierce, Du Fuwei personally went into battle, and was accidentally shot by a Sui general's dark arrow, Du Fuwei roared angrily: "If I don't kill you, the arrow will not be pulled!" ”

Then Du Fuwei hit the horse and rushed straight over, cut the stunned archer under the horse, and carried the archer's head into the Sui formation, and cut dozens of people in a row, the morale of the Sui army was greatly reduced, Fu Gongqi took the opportunity to lead the whole army to charge, Wang Xiongdan and Kan Ling led the recruitment of troops to take the lead in attacking, the Sui army collapsed, and Chen Ling was only spared.

With the growth of power and territory, some scholars began to take the initiative to defect to Duvoway. As a result, Duvowe abandoned his previous rogue tactics and relied on these scholars to build his own territory. Suffering from taxes, Duvowe levied only a very low tax on his territory, and because he was born into a poor peasant, he had an innate hatred for corrupt officials. As a result, Du Fuwei ordered that all officials and corrupt people should be executed, regardless of their severity, and from then on, Du Fuwei depended on the people's feelings and became a force of his own.