The northwest is already a land of wolf smoke, and the Great Sui Dynasty is facing an unprecedented dilemma of fighting between the north and the south, but Yang Guang, who is in the state, is completely unaware of this. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

On the contrary, due to the successive smooth sails in the past month, Yang Guang was in a good mood, and seeing that the New Year was about to come, he actually started to eat dumplings.

Since a month ago, Zhang Heng made a decision, asking Yang Guang to report a message to Chang'an with one hand to warn him, and with the other hand to strengthen contact with the Turkic Department who stayed in Baidaozhou, but in fact he seized the time to recruit troops and raise food, make preparations with both hands, and deal with sudden changes at any time, the situation facing the entire Hebei Daoxingtai has been better day by day.

At Yang Guang's insistence, it took less than half a month for a canal to be built outside the Yanmen Pass, so that the Turkic people in the Turkic territory north of the Yanmen Pass who were plagued by drought could finally drink the clean water brought from the pass. In order to express his gratitude to the Sui Dynasty for helping the Turkic people, the Turki Khan sent 50 horses with good foot strength to Yang Guang, and took the initiative to suggest that the two countries resume mutual trading 50 miles north of Yanmen Pass, exchange ideas and live in harmony. Yang Guang readily agreed.

The brief easing of relations with the Turks did not make Yang Guang relax his vigilance against them. At the initiative of An Ruoxi and with the full support of Li Che and other hussar battalion generals, Yang Guang, while supervising the repair of the canal, issued a conscription order to recruit loyal and brave men into his own guard force, the hussar battalion, for all the Shishu people in the nineteen state capitals under the rule of Hebei Province.

This new recruitment order suddenly stirred up a huge wave among the people of the prefectures under the rule of Hebei Province. Most of the people of Hebei, who had lived for many years under the rule of the Northern Qi Dynasty, could not believe at first that His Royal Highness the King of Jin of the Sui Dynasty would dare to recruit guards from them, the subjects of the former enemy state. You must know that according to the orders of all dynasties at that time, being able to become a guard samurai beside the prince of the imperial court is not only the greatest recognition of a person's character and ability, but also a great honor for the entire family he is in. In particular, as the prince of the Sui Dynasty, who inherited the mantle of conquering the Northern Qi Dynasty, he was able to issue a recruitment order to recruit guards and warriors for the people of the old Qi, which greatly encouraged the majority of the people of Hebei: we are no longer classified as a different kind of enemy country by the Great Sui court, and we are no longer dwarfs, and we can serve as soldiers next to the King of Jin, which fully reflects the high trust of the imperial court in us.

Despite this, in the first few days after the conscription order was issued, the recruiting offices set up in front of the yamen of the state capitals were still crowded, and there were many people who lingered and watched, but only a handful actually signed up for the draft.

In order to completely dispel the concerns in people's hearts, at Li Che's suggestion, Yang Guang personally presided over the first batch of selection and recruitment activities, selected two of the 35 people who came to sign up for the conscription in Bingzhou to join the hussar camp, and announced the names and origins of the selected people on the four city gates in the southeast, south, and northwest of Bingzhou.

As soon as the news spread, it had an immediate effect. In the days that followed, Ding Zhuang men from the countryside of Luli in all directions went to the state government offices to sign up for the recruitment, and the number soon exceeded 10,000.

Yang Guang had a whim, and after obtaining the approval of Li Che and other hussar battalion generals, he immediately issued a recruitment order, publicly announcing that all those who were not selected for the hussars this time, if they themselves volunteered, could join the army of the state government and serve the country.

The issuance of the new conscription order was like adding fuel to the fire, pushing the conscription operation in the prefectures under the rule of Hebei Province to another climax.

Hearing the news, Shi Wangshao, who hurried back to the Hebei Provincial Xingtai and the head of the Jin Dynasty, held a list of more than 30,000 people in total, and was impressed by His Royal Highness the King of Jin, who was not yet fourteen years old: before Yang Guang's two recruitment orders were promulgated, he himself ran non-stop in front of the right door of the wealthy families in the state capitals, and tried his best to persuade them to let go of a large number of customers under his door to enlist in the army, but with little success. Because the hussar camp around him suffered a heavy setback in the battle of Lingshi, he adopted the method of recruiting Ding Zhuang from the people of Hebei to supplement the hussar camp, which greatly gathered the hearts of the people and did what he could not do.

It is precisely for this reason that Wang Shao returned to Bingzhou and learned that Yang Guang had signed a peace treaty with the Turks, but did not accuse Yang Guang like Zhang Wei, but only reminded Yang Guang not to relax his guard against the Turks because of the signing of a piece of paper.

After layers of selection, not only did they successfully select nearly 200 young students with extraordinary skills from the more than 30,000 people who came to sign up for the hussar camp, but also recruited nearly 30,000 horses for the government army guarding the prefecture.

In recent days, the only thing that made Yang Guang feel a little uneasy was that the sixth uncle Yang Shuang did not lead the army from Youzhou to rush back to Bingzhou to join him.

On the surface, the Goguryeo king Gao Tang was extremely respectful to the Great Sui Dynasty, which had just been founded for less than a year, and not only sent envoys to Chang'an to contribute to the party and ask Yang Jian for the title, but also agreed to Yang Shuang's request to take back Gao Baoning, but he did not hand over Gao Baoning for a long time, but secretly instigated the Mohe tribes living in Liaodong to continue to attack the Yingzhou area.

Yang Shuang is also young and vigorous, when he learned that Gao Tang was secretly supporting the Mohe tribes, he couldn't help but be furious, and immediately led a large army into Yingzhou, preparing to force Gao Tang to send back Gao Baoning with heavy troops and completely surrender to the Sui Dynasty.

You must know that although Yang Guang was canonized as the secretary of the Hebei Provincial Administration, Yang Shuang, the king of Wei, was the marshal of the Hebei Provincial Army who was entrusted by Yang Jian with military power and enjoyed the right of autocracy. Once he personally led an army of 100,000 out of Linyu Pass and stationed in Yingzhou outside the pass, the remaining troops in Youzhizhou, the heart of Hebei Province, would be very limited.

Out of high vigilance against the Turks, the most powerful enemy in the front, almost all the officials of Hebei Province, including Zhang Wei, Wang Shao, and Li Che, after learning the news that Yang Shuang personally commanded the main force of the Sui army in Hebei Province went east to Linyu Pass, they all asked Yang Guang to immediately send people to Yingzhou to persuade Yang Shuang to give priority to defending the overall situation of the Turks and withdraw the main force of the Sui army to the pass in case of contingency.

Yang Guang also felt that the sixth uncle ignored the Turks this time, and insisted on leading the army east to Linyu Pass to force Goguryeo to hand over Gao Baoning, which was too hasty, but because Yang Shuang was not only his elder, but also equivalent to himself in terms of title, and he was the marshal of the Hebei Provincial Army who was granted the right of expulsion by his father, even if he went in person, he might not be able to persuade him to agree to withdraw his troops from outside the pass, not to mention the Taiwanese officials whose identity and status were far inferior to Yang Shuang.

At this time, Zhang Heng took the initiative to ask Ying, took on this arduous mission, and went to Yingzhou on the order of Yang Guang to persuade Yang Shuang to withdraw his troops to Guannei as soon as possible.