The people sent by Yang Guang to investigate did not collect any evidence that Yujuluo was going to rebel, but Yang Guang was not relieved about this, because Yujuluo's appearance was different from ordinary people, and he had two pupils in each eye, which was the appearance of an emperor, so Yang Guang had always been suspicious of Yujuluo.

So Yang Guang directly issued an edict to remove Yu Juluo from his official position, arrested him to Luoyang, and let Liang Jingzhen, the director of Dali Temple, interrogate.

Liang Jingzhen is also a person who can figure out his intentions, otherwise Yang Guang would not have named him to handle this case, he immediately charged Yuju Luo An with a few crimes, and closed the case and reported it.

As a result, Yujuluo, a famous general of the Sui Dynasty, did not die on the battlefield, was beheaded in the Luoyang market, his small family property was confiscated, and his wife and children were executed a few days later.

It wasn't until the tenth year of the Great Cause, when Yang Guang began to go north to Zhuo County, that he issued an edict to summon Tu Wanxu to listen to the order, and Tu Wanxu felt that he would follow in the footsteps of Yujuluo, so he was afraid and depressed, and died halfway through.

After Liu Yuanjin learned that his two old enemies were both dead, he shouted that the sky was going to kill Sui, and then led his troops to attack everywhere, and the land south of the Yangtze River shook again, and even Yang Guang's favorite Jiangdu fell into unease.

So Yang Guang had no choice but to let Wang Shichong of Jiangdu County levy 40,000 Huainan soldiers to crusade against Liu Yuanjin.

Wang Shichong, full of words, his surname is Zhi, is a Hu person in the Western Regions, his grandfather moved to Xinfeng when he was depressed, but he died at a young age, the young wife and young son were paid, and later the wife of the branch was married to Wang Cangye, and gave birth to a son Wang Qiong, so Wang Cang accepted it as a small wife, and the income also went to Wang's house with his mother, so he changed his surname to Wang.

Wang Cang regarded Wang Zhi as a parent and devoted himself to education, so that Wang Zhi was able to enter the officialdom after becoming an adult, and was the official to Huai and the governor of Bianer when Emperor Wen of Sui.

Therefore, Wang Shichong is also considered to be long in the family of the eunuch, since he was a child, he likes to read books, especially the military book, and then worships the military as a member of the military department, and then moves to Jiangdu County, and concurrently serves as the Jiangdu Palace Supervisor.

Jiangdu is Yang Guang's favorite place to stay, since he ascended the throne, every year to visit the Jiangdu, less than a month or two, more than half a year, Wang Shichong during this period, the use of his position, Yang Guang's sycophancy, try his best to stammer, so Yang Guang is very trusted.

After Wang Shichong received Yang Guang's edict, he immediately led his army across the river and fought with Liu Yuanjin many times, Liu Yuanjin thought that he Wang Shichong did not have the ability to fight, so he despised him very much.

However, Liu Yuanjin soon paid a heavy price for this idea, and since the two armies began to fight in March of the tenth year of the Great Cause, Liu Yuanjin was repeatedly defeated by Wang Shichong.

At the same time as Wang Shichong had a hard-to-face confrontation with Liu Yuanjin, he also sent people to spread the information that the imperial court would no longer increase labor and no longer let Jiangnan soldiers recruit Liao, which made fewer and fewer people defect to Liu Yuanjin, and Liu Yuanjin could no longer respond to the battle even if he was defeated as before.

In the end, Liu Yuanjin, Zhu Xie and others were once again defeated by Wang Shichong in Wu County, and all of them died on the battlefield, and the rest of the troops either surrendered or dispersed, and the rebellion that lasted for more than half a year was finally put down.

Wang Shichong summoned the people who surrendered first to burn incense in front of the Buddha statue in Tongxuan Temple as an oath, and agreed that those who surrendered would not be killed.

Liu Yuanjin broke the scattered troops and began to want to enter the sea as a thief, hearing the news, within a month, basically surrendered to Wang Shichong, but Wang Shichong finally killed all these people in Huangtingjian, and the dead amounted to more than 30,000 people.

Therefore, the rest of the people gathered together as thieves, and the official army could not crusade until the fall of the Sui Dynasty.

It was from this battle that Yang Guang thought that Wang Shichong had the talent of a general, and he became more and more fond of him, and Wang Shichong also began to step onto the big stage of this chaotic era at the end of the Sui Dynasty from a county official with a bad reputation.

Liu Yuanjin was finally destroyed, although there are still many bandits, but it is not enough to cause trouble, Jiangnan can finally calm down for a while, right? Many people think so.

However, Liu Yuanjin, the evil wolf, was destroyed, and two tigers came to Jiangnan, and these two tigers were named Du Fuwei and Fu Gongyou.

Du Fuwei, a native of Zhangqiu, and Fugong, a native of Linji, were friends of life and death, and they died together as thieves very early.

At the age of sixteen, Du Fuwei was the first to move in every action and the last to retreat, so he was elected commander by the disciples.

Miao Haichao, a native of Xiapi, also gathered a crowd to be thieves, and Du Fuwei sent an auxiliary duke to Miao Haichao and said: "Now you and I are both people who can't bear the harsh government of the Sui Dynasty, but each raises the banner of righteousness, the strength is scattered, and the strength is weak, and he is often afraid of being captured.

However, if we become one, then it will be enough to be the enemy of the Sui Dynasty. If you can be the manager, I should be respectful, if you don't think you can be the boss, you better come and obey the orders, otherwise we will fight a battle to determine the male and female! ”

Miao Haichao was frightened, so he led his troops to surrender to Du Fuwei, and Du Fuwei's momentum grew, but at this time, Zhang Xutuo had been allowed to order troops to go out of Qi County to pursue the rebels, and Shandong became more and more difficult to stay.

At this time, Du Fuwei heard that Liu Yuanjin had been killed, but the officers had been fighting for a long time and were very tired, so after thinking about it again, Du Fuwei led the crowd from Shandong into the Jianghuai area, turned to plunder, and proclaimed himself a general, no one could match it for a while, and the momentum was not much smaller than the previous Liu Yuanjin.

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Taihang Mountain stretches for thousands of miles, hundreds of mountains are interconnected with thousands of peaks, ten thousand gullies are deep, the west is Hedong, the east is Hebei, it is the natural barrier between these two places.

However, if you want to go from Hedong to Hebei, you don't need to bypass Taihang Mountain, because although Taihang Mountain is steep, there are eight mountains, and you can go along.

陉 (xing, two sounds) is the place where the mountain range is interrupted, Taihang Mountain north and south vertically and horizontally, but there are many east-west directions of "陉", the most famous is the Taihang Eight Mountains, these eight mountains are: Jundu Chen, Puyin Cheng, Flying Fox Cheng, Jing Cheng, Fukou Cheng, Bai Cheng, Taihang Chen, Yiguan Cheng.

Eight Cheng has always been fought for by soldiers, and Jing Cheng is the top priority, because "Tai Xing is the key to control, and Jing Cheng should be in and out." "Taihang Mountain is located in the north and south, and Jingcheng is in the middle of it.

Since the Spring and Autumn Period, the pass was built about the pass, which used to be called Tulong Pass, and now it is the Well Pass.

The importance of Jingcheng Pass is naturally self-evident, whether it is from the Hebei Plain into the hinterland of Hedong, or from the Hedong Highlands into the hinterland of Hebei, located between the two places of Jingcheng Pass, are the traffic points, once this pass is lost, Taihang natural risk will be cut and opened, and the losing side will immediately lose its geographical advantage.

In May, Jingcheng Pass.

Jingcheng Pass as a key place, there are a lot of travelers during the daily travel period in peacetime, and now the world is chaotic, the people who come and go do not decrease but increase, most of them are fleeing from Hebei to Hedong for refuge.

At this time, Li Yin was in the largest restaurant in Jingcheng Guanzhong, he sat by the window on the second floor of this restaurant, ordered a few side dishes, ordered a pot of wine, drank freely, and looked into the distance from the window.