Fang Xuanling and Yang Wang could only say that Yang Chong was cautious and did not transfer the elite troops of the Sixteen Guards, but mobilized a large army from all over the country, which had room for maneuver, not only would it not be because of the situation of the garrisons in various parts of the Great Sui; Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if you are defeated, it will have no impact on the overall situation. Although these people are not particularly famous, they are all good generals, Fang Xuanling smiled and asked: "Who are the marching Sima and Changshi going to arrange?" ”

Yang Chong shook his head and said: "There is no too good candidate, the general will not be subject to the orders of the foreign monarch, there are too many checks and balances, which is not conducive to Chen Ling's battle, I consider the long history of Cui Junsu being reappointed as the governor of Pyongyang Province, and Kan Ling as the marching Sima; Fan Yuan succeeded Cui Junsu as the chief of the Right Yi Guard, and Ximen Junyi took over the post of Xuancheng County Guard. ”

Fang Xuanling breathed a sigh of relief, Yang Chong was not ready to take the opportunity to exclude dissidents, which was the best signal. Fan Yuan is different from others, as a local county guard, he does not have a tough background, and it is very promising to be transferred to Luoyang to gild and become Yang Chong's cronies in the Sixteenth Guard, and in the future, he will serve in the military department or a certain left-behind division, Fan Yuan will not be unwilling.

Yang Wang asked Yang Chong: "Where are you going to be in town?" ”

Yang Chong said confidently: "Zhuojun." Since Xu Shiji went on the expedition, he always had to have a person who could hold the table in Zhuojun to deal with the changes in Anzhou and the Turks; This time, it was Shi Daqian who accompanied me on the trip, and I could let Cui Junsu, Shen Guang, Wei Ting, and Wang Junkuo go to Dengzhou halfway. ”

Yang Wang smiled and said, "Then I wish King Yue all his wishes come true." Chang'an can rest assured that there will be no chaos in the political affairs hall, and Fang Xuanling and Yang Gongqing can control the situation. ”

Sure enough, when discussing in the political affairs hall, Du Fuwei hoped that he could destroy Goguryeo, but Yang Chong didn't speak, Ling Jing and Yang Wang successively expressed their opposition, this was just an attack on Goguryeo, not a battle to destroy the country, and there was no need for big people to conquer in person, just Xu Shiji and Chen Ling commanded. When he heard the list of troops mobilized by the Privy Council, Du Fuwei was silent, these people were all second-rate troops, just like Qibi He Li, as Luo Shixin's deputy general, only 1,000 of the 4,000 men led by him were the elite of the Beiwei battalion, while the other 3,000 were infantry troops drawn from Jiangling and other places.

Before Yang Chong left Chang'an, Li Jing and Jiang Duo had already returned to Chang'an, and after Yang Chong finished talking with the two, Li Jing only rested for one day, and then rushed to Taiyuan with the Red Whisk Girl. Jiang Duo was a little reluctant to go to Shangshu Province, and he was even more unwilling to succumb to Du Fuwei, Yang Chong only asked: "What are you going to do when the world is peaceful?" ”

Jiang Duo suddenly came to his senses and immediately agreed to take office, and Yang Chong sent Wei Shuhuan, a regular attendant, and Li Gongyan, a casual attendant, to Feng Ang and Ning Changzhen's places respectively to preach the festival to show appeasement. Wei Shuhuan and Li Gongyan have both been Li Tang's officials, but for the sake of the Wei family and the Li family of Zhao County, Yang Chong sent the two to Lingnan at this time, it can be said that it is very clever, Feng Ang and Ning Chang really want to rebel, how can they send someone to comfort them, Yang Chong's purpose is to ask the two to leave Chang'an.

After all the arrangements were made, Yang Chong said goodbye to his family and went to Zhuo County to inspect accompanied by Shi Daqian, Lu Yanqing, Pei Ju, Wen Dayou, Wang Hua and others; Du Yan took some officials to the Shili Changting, and many people saw each other off on the roadside. Yang Chong did not bring his family for the first time this time, in the imagination of the court, Yang Chong is likely to go deep into the northeast, and there are rumors in the army, many soldiers have written to ask for help, so that Fang Xuanling has to come forward to explain.

The spring breeze blows the willows, the warbler flies and the grass grows, and the scenery of late spring is particularly charming, Yang Chong looked at the majestic marching army and the people crowded on the side of the road to watch the send-off, and said softly: "The chariots, the horses and the horses, and the pedestrians have bows and arrows at their waists." The grandmother and wife sent each other off, and the dust did not see the Xianyang Bridge. Du Yan, I hope this is the last time I go north, but unfortunately not, the Turks will not be destroyed, and this matter will not be over. ”

Du Yan said with a smile: "When you are old, you will inevitably be sad, in fact, don't care, as the saying goes, the will of God is hard to disobey, we are for the people of Li in the Central Plains, in order to prevent the Hu people from drinking the Yellow River again, although tens of millions of people are gone." We're doing it, God is watching, as long as we don't deceive. When did you go on an expedition with so many people to send you off, didn't you see that the people were sending water and wine, in fact, no one disapproved of doing something to Goguryeo, but they were worried that they would be humiliated again. ”

Du Yan was telling the truth, the officials around the two nodded one after another, not to mention the defeat several times, the most important thing is that the corpses of hundreds of thousands of soldiers were piled up into a landscape by the Goguryeo people in the Liao River, and every time they talked about it, they felt a faint pain in their hearts. No matter what he said, he still hoped that the Sui army would defeat Goguryeo.

A soldier drank the water and wine handed over by the people, threw the wine bowl casually, and sang generously: "You don't see, the Han Dynasty, the weak crown is the captive, please Changying, you don't see, Ban Dingyuan, the peerless light cavalry urges the battle clouds!" The boy should be in serious danger, how can he let the Confucian crown miss this life? The situation is that the country is in danger, and the feather is constantly fighting! Abandon my old pen, focus on my wartime time, endure and lightly interrupt homesickness, and generously hold out the heart of serving the country. Went to the battlefield with a smile, the banner was unduly displayed, the air was blown too white into the moon, and the long arrow was pulled to shoot the wolf. ”

The singing was heroic, countless people responded to the harmony, ten, hundred, thousand, and ten thousand people sang in unison, making countless people cry sadly, Yang Chong was no longer hypocritical, said goodbye to Du Yanshi, sat in the carriage, and went all the way to the east under the embrace of the hundred cavalry battalions. Du Yan watched the army go away, and then took the officials back to the city, and asked Du Yan in a low voice: "Lord Du, could it be that the rumors are true, the king of Yue is not going to inspect this time, but to start a war with the north." ”

Du Yan laughed and said: "When it is true and true, the soldiers are treacherous, go, go back to the city to drink." ”

Yang Chong's army to Zhuojun walked all the way, and with the delay in Luoyang and Yecheng, it took almost two months to reach Zhuojun. Xu Shiji has been away for almost a month, and Song Jingang has been transferred to preside over the overall situation with Cui Minshou. Since the lord of Duhu usurped a valve went to the Yunzhong Metropolitan Protectorate, Yanmen County completely dispelled the idea of going south to Daizhou, and all the attention was on Duhu usurpation, and Song Jin was able to come to Zhuo County just now.

Song Jingang really wanted to meet with Yang Chong to discuss the direction of Daizhou; Song Jingang had seen Yang Chong's various methods in Hedong, and naturally knew that the situation in Daizhou was severe, unless Yang Chong personally took action, or a character like Li Chunfeng came over, relying on the local scholars in Daizhou and Hengshan, it was far from enough. Regarding Song Jingang's doubts, Yang Chong's guidance was that Pingcheng, since it was rebuilt, it should be built well, so that Pingcheng would become an important military and economic town.

Song Jingang smiled bitterly and said: "King Yue, I really don't know how to do this, or I will go to Liaodong to fight, and you can arrange another capable person." ”

(End of chapter)