The final winner of the polo match was the Longyou team. The cost of the Eastern Turk team's victory over the Western Regions Metropolitan Protector team was too great, and a total of 20 good players and substitute players were injured by 17 of them, and then they fought the Persian team, and finally almost reached the final with a remnant; The semi-finals between the Longyou team and the Chang'an downtown team almost became a friendly match, and finally waited for work and defeated the Eastern Turkic team to win the championship, so that the face of Da Sui stayed in Chang'an, and all the bookmakers, including Zhou Ru, made a lot of money at the same time.

When Yang Chong left Chang'an, Li Yu was still asking for leave, perhaps because of the chain effect, the military department sent 1,500 cavalry, but except for Yuwen Chengdu, he couldn't find a suitable candidate. Duan Wenzhen stuffed the original polo team led by Prince Wei to Yang Chong, and twenty-nine people were officers, among which the highest position was Li Wenxin, who led Prince Wei to participate in the military, and Cao Xing joined the army Han Qi. Yang Chong asked the two of them and learned that the other twenty-seven people were all Xungui's children, so he ordered Han Qi to be in charge of the twenty-seven people.

Sure enough, when they set off, the twenty-seven people all took their generals and slaves, and Yang Chong simply let the two hundred or so people form a single battalion, led by Han Qi, as the rear army; Yuwen Chengdu and Liu Hongji led 1,000 people as the front army; Li Wenxin led 500 horsemen and more than 1,000 people from Yangfu and people who transported grain as the Chinese army, which was commanded by Sikong Xing.

The Turkic mission led by Tong Ye Hu walked with Yang Chong, and Tong Ye Hu was very strange about Yang Chong's arrangement, and asked a few times on the way; In the end, Yang Chong had no choice but to tell Tong Yehu that he hadn't figured out how to follow these twenty-seven people. Tong Ye Hu didn't care either, and continued to discuss economic transactions with Yang Chong, Tong Ye Hu learned from the Ministry of Rites and his own channels that Yang Chong had the power to open a crushing farm, so he was very concerned about this.

Out of the Hetao, Yang Chongcai came up with his own plan to exchange cloth and other daily necessities for cattle and sheep; Tong Yehu is very satisfied, Yang Chong is a person who knows how to advance and retreat, he is not like others, he opens his mouth and asks for military supplies such as horses, cattle and sheep are easy to handle, but the Western Turks do not, so they can be robbed. The two sides talked very happily, so much so that when Gaochang City broke up, Tong Ye Hu wanted to leave his clan brother Ashina Ni to be stationed in Gaochang to communicate the situation on both sides, but Yang Chongwan declined.

Yang Yichen, the capital of the Western Regions, had been waiting for a long time, not because there was a problem in the war, but because there was a problem within the Du Protector Army. The Heavenly Wolf Army is composed of the original Heavenly Wolf Gang, this time after the Heavenly Wolf Nine Evil arrived in Gaochang, it was okay at first, and after Yuwenshu's army withdrew, he began to make requests, one is that the Heavenly Wolf Army wants to expand, and the other is to garrison Gaochang and not return to Shanshan. Murong Xixiong, Xifeng Changshan, Tuoba Anhu and others are all Yang Chong's old subordinates, and when they learned that Yang Chong was coming, they didn't want to leave.

After listening to the situation in the county guard's mansion, Yang Chong asked Yang Yichen: "General, what are your plans?" ”

Yang Yichen is a Xianbei person, his surname is Wei Chi, and he was later given his surname Yang by Emperor Wen of Sui, raised in the palace since childhood, and Yang Chong, nominally belongs to the Hongnong Yang family. Yang Yichen had already planned for a long time, and said to Yang Chong: "The main thing is that Shanshan County is actually a castle in addition to the mud city, and Pu Zhihai is actually a castle, which is good for the people of Shatuo Village, but for the Heavenly Wolf Gang, which is all from the Central Plains, it is not enough, the most important thing is that they have more than 2,000 dependents, especially the families of these officers." ”

Yang Chong nodded in understanding and said: "General, I understand your difficulties, Pu Shihai is the front line like Gaochang, so naturally choose a place with a good environment." In this way, as long as the more than 2,000 dependents of the Heavenly Wolf Gang are willing to come to Gaochang, I will accept them, but I have the final say in which county town to place them in, and I promise not to dissatisfy them. I still want the old man of Handchuan Shu in the army, and the officers of the Heavenly Wolf Army If you agree to be transferred, you will be arranged in the Tuntian Army. ”

Of course, Yang Yichen understood that this arrangement was a means of differentiation for the Heavenly Wolf Army, and said with a smile: "No wonder Cui Junsu said that you are empathetic, I thought it was because the Cui family had done too much business with you, so I helped you speak." ”

Yang Chong heard the meaning of Yang Yichen's words, and hurriedly said: "General, don't worry, I will call you uncle in the clan, and if I have any business in the future, I will definitely think of Shanshan and the end of the world." ”

Yang Yichen said happily: "Yang Chong, I am a rough person, and I can count on you for the future planning of the three counties." ”

Yang Yichen went back and talked about the results of the discussion, Murong Xixiong and the others were very happy, after Yang Chong left Handchuan Shu, he also sent Sikong Xing to do business with them, and now Yang Chong is on one side, and there is no problem. The Heavenly Wolf Nine Demons were a little depressed, and when the family members came, no one could come, and they were even more uneasy; Ma Delai summoned all the brothers to discuss, except for Xiang Yang and Liu Dapeng who stayed in the end, the other six people, Gan Bao, Wang Xietian, Luo Tiehan, Wang Lei, Peng Liao, and Jing Sanchuan, all rushed to hear the news.

Luo Tiehan said indifferently: "Yang Chong is a young man in his twenties, how capable he is, I will follow my family here, and I can't kill him." ”

Gan Bao sneered: "Do you remember what Daqian said about Yang Chong? Born handsome, we have been killing all the way from the end to the present, it is all arranged by Yang Chongding Xice, you still play him to death, don't cause trouble for us. ”

Wang Xie Tian is the most strategic of the seven, and understands that this embarrassment is caused by the eldest brother Ma Delai's refusal to dismantle the army after he returned to the Sui army, and if you don't want the nine people to disperse, it will be difficult for the Heavenly Wolf Army to expand, and finally watching others rise up, his heart is angry again. Wang Xie Tian groaned and said: "I feel that we should visit Yang Junshou, inquire, and then make a decision on the way for the family to come and settle down, as for the Tuntian Army, it's not impossible, at least with our current grade, how can we have a good position in the 20,000 Gaochang Army." ”

Gan Bao, Wang Lei, and Peng Liao all agreed that they were already in their forties, and they wanted to find a shelter for their families. Ma Delai was a little disappointed, but he also understood the difficulties of the big guy, so he said: "The general said, we still have to hand over the army and place with Yang Chong, about ten days, I will first see Yang Chong's actions, and then go to him." ”

This is a safe consideration, Gan Bao and the others have nothing to say. But the next day, I heard that the new county guard Yang Chong announced the way to deal with the Gaochang army, all the non-commissioned officers over 30 and under 18 years old, and officers over 40 years old reported to Nanping City, Nanping City is forty miles south of Gaochang City, commonly known as "Lamubo", this time Yang Chong canceled the county governance, which is very surprising. The 20,000 surrendered troops were actually picked by Yang Yichen and Yuwenshu, and the most elite 4,000 people had already been picked up, and according to Yang Chong's request, about 8,000 people arrived in Nanping.

Li Wenxin looked at the black crowd in the camp outside Nanping City and was startled, in addition to Gaochang's surrender army, Yang Yichen personally led 5,000 elite soldiers to escort it, which immediately crowded Nanping City; Li Wenxin knew that Yang Chong had the intention of disarmament, but losing so many soldiers at once would definitely increase the pressure on the army, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, although Yang Chong had been a military commander in Handchuan, he still had no experience in dealing with the situation in a county, and Yang Yichen was afraid that he was worried about it.

What Li Wenxin didn't know was that Yang Chong was determined to eradicate the Gaochang Zhang family, and there was a master who offered two thousand taels of gold to buy his own head, could this Gaochang County guard do it safely? Inquired from various channels, the Zhang family can be called the first scholar family in Gaochang, that is, there are many officials, especially in the army, the protégé is even more incredible, when Gaochang was in the country, the prestige of the Zhang family in the army far exceeded that of the royal family.

Before Yang Chong came, he specially sent Meng Fu and Jiang Duo to Luoyang with an inkstone, and through Cui Hongdu, Tuoba Bo spit out a list of more than a dozen people who were lurking in Gaochang.

Jiang Duo, Shan Xiongxin and others had already set off in advance and secretly investigated in Gaochang City, the inn in Gaochang City was overcrowded these days, and the innkeepers were smiling from ear to ear. Feng Qiquan and Zhang Guolao also took eighteen disciples of Louguan to infiltrate Gaochang City in disguise, and the news that came back was that many horse thieves on the grassland and the heroes of the Central Plains had arrived in Gaochang City, which was also the reason why Yang Chong wanted to disarm in Nanping.

(End of chapter)