Yang Chong understood that the center went north this time because the drunkard did not mean to drink, he was openly Turkic, and secretly he was himself, and the target was likely to be Hou Mo Chen Yi of Yanmen County. Hou Mo Chen Yi now has another identity, that is, the craftsmen brought back by the Turkic Gui Bird are actually in the hands of Hou Mo Chen Yi, Hou Mo Chen Yi has an iron factory in Lingqiu, Yanmen County, and the annual output is nearly 200,000 catties, although the complete process has not been obtained, but under the guidance of the Persian craftsmen, the quality is very good, exceeding the smelting level of Guanzhong.

Hou Mo Chen Yi's other identity now is that he is a supplier of Turkic and rebel armies, weapons, armor, horses, and grain, as long as there is profit, he will do everything. Because Yanmen County is the county of the Great Sui, and Hou Mo Chen Yi is a scholar family, Yang Chong's steel sales are not restricted at all, and in more than a year, he has sold 30,000 catties of iron to Yanmen, as for how Hou Mo Chen Yi handles it, it is not something that Yang Chong can manage.

According to Yang Chong and Meng Tuo's guesses, Gui Niao and Hou Mo Chen Yi were both born in the scholar clan, and they are both martial arts masters, so they should be old acquaintances; Otherwise, with the character of the Gui Bird, it will not cooperate with the Chijin Turks. The center went north this time, did not go to Taiyuan to inspect, but directly entered Bingzhou from Hebei, and Lingqiu happened to be the place through which it passed; Yang Chong and Wenwu discussed, and they both thought that it would not be a random route, and it was likely that Hou Mo Chenyi's secret had been discovered.

Ling Jing believed that if the Hexi army took Woye Town and attracted a large Turkic army, it could not be ruled out that Yang Guanghui would negotiate conditions with Shibi Khan and let the Hexi Army support independently in Woye Town until the moment when the Hexi Army was defeated. Yang Chong disagreed, saying: "The northern attack on the Turks, among them, there is a false name that Yang Guang is reluctant to recover Woye Town, and the center is probably afraid that I will make a fuss in it, so I have to make some moves to prove that everything is the arrangement of the center and the Holy Son of Heaven, and the easiest action to convince the world is to kill a Turkic important minister Shi Shu Huxi." ”

How could it be possible to kill Shi Shu Huxi? Yu Juluo, Ling Jing and the others all thought that Yang Chong's idea was unthinkable, but they all knew that Yang Chong had an intelligence network in the Central Plains, and thought that Yang Chong had another source of intelligence. Yu Jura thought about it and said: "If this is the case, Shibi Khan must make a move, otherwise his prestige within the Turks will plummet, and the Turks will definitely harass Yanmen and other places if they are particular about retaliating with a tooth for a tooth." Wuyuan is the territory of the enemy, his mind is the same as ours, he will definitely not send troops in the name of war, we can be stationed in Wuyuan County first, and then make a test to attack Woye Town. ”

The opportunity was in front of him, Yang Chong immediately asked Yujuluo to arrange for the army to go out, and sent Suo Yanshou and Po Liuhan Bakui to command the five thousand cavalry of the headquarters to start to advance and clear the way for the army to advance. The Turkic Wuyuan Tooth Banner really began to retreat immediately, abandoning all the strongholds on the border, and by the time Yang Chong and Yujuluo's army arrived at Wuyuan County, the Turks had already fled without a trace.

Wuyuan County, that is, Fengzhou, where Yujuluo was originally in charge, was changed to Wuyuan County in the third year of Daye, leading the three counties of Jiuyuan, Anhua and Yongfeng, with 2,330 households and a garrison of 3,500 people. There are many towns and households in the border pass, passed down from generation to generation, even if there is Pei Ju's official document, but in the face of the old boss of Yujuluo and the 15,000 Hexi army, no one wants to find themselves unhappy, the county governance Jiuyuan County opened the city gate, and the guard Wang Dai said that he was not sick.

Yang Chong knew that Wang Dai was also a fierce general under Yang Yichen, but he was tricked and scared by a group of bosses, so he just asked Wei Wentong and Suo Yanshou to divide Anhua and Yongfeng counties, and he stayed in Jiuyuan and did not leave. Yu Juluo asked curiously: "Yang Chong, do you want to occupy Wuyuan County and not leave?" ”

Yang Chong smiled and said: "What am I doing if I don't leave, now I'm just resting, waiting for the news from Ma Yi and Yanmen, and seeing which one of Shi Shu Hu Xi and Pei Ju will play each other to death." ”

Yu Juluo, Ling Jing and the others were all stunned, this kind of thing would happen between Shi Shu Hu Xi and Pei Ju, but Yang Chong's vision everyone saw it, so they waited suspiciously, and the soldiers who thought they were going to fight were singing in the barracks all day long. Only three days later, news came from Ma Yi that Pei Ju had killed Shi Shu Hu Xi, and Yang Guang, the son of heaven, issued an edict to Shibi Khan, saying that Shi Shu Hu Xi suddenly led the tribe to defect to the Great Sui, and for the sake of friendship with Shibi Khan, the Great Sui reluctantly killed Shi Shu Huxi.

This is a naked demonstration, the Holy Son of Heaven Yang Guang is still angry with the rivers and mountains, in a word, I just killed Shi Shu Hu Xi, what are you going to do with the Khan? Yang Chong immediately asked Yujuluo to inform Wang Dai that he had to strengthen his defense, and the Turks would soon come over. Wang Dai's illness quickly recovered, and he came to ask Yang Chong: "Where are the Hexi Army going?" ”

Yang Chong and the others were discussing the map in the big tent, and Yang Chong gestured on the map and said, "You and I both know that killing Shi Shu and Hu Xi is an oath to go to war. If the Turks don't react, I'll start attacking the town of Woye; If the whole army of Shibi Khan comes, I will prepare to rescue Yanmen. ”

In addition to vowing not to pay tribute to the Sui Dynasty, Yang Chong launched an attack on Woye Town at the urging of the center, and the castle in the north of the Ujia River did not resist at all, so it was directly thrown to Yang Chong, and a thousand Turkic cavalry disappeared from the sight of the Hexi army. Yang Chong reported the victory to Yanmen on the one hand, and ordered the three armies to be stationed on the spot.

At the same time as the center received the good news, the envoy of Princess Yicheng also arrived, and Shibi Khan led 200,000 cavalry south, and the purpose of the attack was Yanmen County and Yang Guang's convoy; The convoy of the center quickly galloped into Yanmen City, and Yang Xuan, the king of Qi, led the rear army to slow down by half a beat and entered Lao County. After the Turkic army surrounded Yanmen County, it successively captured 39 cities in Yanmen County, leaving only Yanmen and Lao County uncaptured.

150,000 soldiers and civilians in Yanmen City resisted desperately, and even demolished private houses to use as materials to defend the city; Yang Xuan, the king of Qi, fought to the death in Lao County, and understood that if he abandoned the city and fled, no matter whether Yang Guang died or lived in the end, he and the throne would be lost for life. The fast horses of Yanmen County were running frantically on the main roads of the state, and the last will from the center was King Qin, ordering all counties to send troops to rescue them at all costs.

Yang Chong got the news and ordered Yin Hongshen, who stayed in Wuyuan, to lead a thousand trained people to follow Wang Dai to set out, and Wei Wentong led 3,000 cavalry from Woye Town to advance, and he and Yu Juluo commanded the army to retreat to Wuyuan County. Du Bi successively sent three thousand cavalry to test it, and saw that Yang Chong always had 8,000 cavalry to suppress the formation, advancing and retreating in an orderly manner, and did not dare to step forward to cover the killing, and watched the Hexi army retreat to its original place.

After more than 20 days of fierce fighting in Yanmen County, Wei Wentong came first, conquered the four cities in one go, killed more than 300 enemies, and opened a passage for the reinforcements of Wang Dai, Yin Hongshen and Yulin; Knowing that the Turkic army began to retreat, Wei Wentong decided to defend the city by himself and let Wang Dai and others receive the great merit of rescuing the driver. After Shibi Khan retreated, the Sui army confirmed that the valley outside Yanmen County was empty and there was no Turkic army, so it sent 2,000 cavalry to track the Turkic army to Mayi and captured 2,000 Turkic old and weak people and returned.

(End of chapter)