Stay-at-home, which means "staying in custody and garrisoning", Yang Guang called the emperor, because he often traveled around the city, the capital Luoyang, Xijing Chang'an and other places had to send people to temporarily guard, so he set up the official position of stay-at-home, the governors are all military rights, but they are all temporary.

In the past seven years of the Great Cause, there have been many rebellions in various places, so various places have begun to appoint left-behind guards, and Li Yuan is now appointed as the left-behind guard in Taiyuan, in fact, he is the supreme governor of Taiyuan County.

Because the tiger general Pan Changwen led the soldiers of Taiyuan County to die not long ago, there are not many soldiers and horses in Taiyuan County now, only about 13,000, but due to the arrival of Li Yin, the strength of Taiyuan County has been greatly enhanced.

After Li Yin led 5,000 elite cavalry to Jinyang City, Li Yuan gathered 10,000 soldiers from Taiyuan County and killed Zhen Zhai'er's rebels with Li Yin.

Since Li Yin became the captain of the Yang Mansion of Sour Zaoying, he has fought with various rebels almost every year, and he has rich experience and knows the advantages and disadvantages of the rebels.

Zhen Zhai'er doesn't think that there are more than 100,000, but it is not necessarily strong there, because of the rebels of this size, just the family members who accompanied the army, they are afraid of no less than 30,000, and there are many weaknesses, as long as their weaknesses are exposed, it is not difficult to defeat.

Li Yuan and Li Yin led the army to catch up with Zhen Zhai'er's army in Xihe County, south of Taiyuan County, and the two sides fought a decisive battle in the Bird Mouse Valley in Xihe County.

"Water Jing Note" volume six Fenshui Note said: "In the southwest of Jiexiu County, commonly known as the Sparrow Mouse Valley, dozens of miles of road is dangerous. In the Han and Wei dynasties, the Bird Mouse Valley was called "Guanjue Jin", the Guanjue is the homonym of the cheekfinch, the cheekfinch is a powerful bird, the meaning of the Bird is naturally that only the cheekfinch can fly over the surrounding cliffs, which shows the danger of the terrain of the Bird Mouse Valley.

Wang Wei saw that Zhen Zhai'er was overwhelmed and timid, so he proposed to Li Yuan to retreat, and Li Yuan talked and persuaded him for a while to stabilize Wang Wei.

Zhen Zhai'er's army was more than ten miles long in the end, Li Yuan divided the troops into two formations, the first formation was the main formation, but the formation was full of old and weak in the army.

The second formation was where the main force was located, including Li Yin's 5,000 cavalry, and 7,000 selected elite infantry, a total of 12,000 men, ambushed on the west side of the Bird Mouse Valley.

Li Yin's cavalry was divided into two teams, one team led by Li Yin himself, and the other team led by Liu Hongji, Li Yin's deputy generals included Su Dingfang, Huang Junhan, etc., and Liu Shihong's deputy generals had Li Shimin and others.

Zhen Zhai'er's army took the lead in attacking, Zhen Zhai'er thought that Li Yuan was in charge, so he led the army straight to the main formation, and easily defeated the main formation, but the soldiers saw the many baggage left in the same place and scrambled to grab it.

It's a pity that Zhen Zhaier didn't watch the scene back then.

Just when Zhen Zhai'er gradually fell into chaos, Li Yuan personally led an army of 12,000 to kill, Li Yuan led his elite infantry to attack Zhen Zhai'er's army, while Li Yin and Liu Hongji led the cavalry to attack from the flank, completely disrupting the ranks of Zhen Zhai'er's army, and then encircling the Chinese army, Zhen Zhai'er had to retreat in a hurry, fled in defeat, and was finally killed by Su Dingfang at the mouth of the Bird Mouse Valley, and Li Yuan's army won a complete victory.

After this battle, Li Yuan's army captured Zhen Zhai'er's countless materials plundered these days, and in order to reward Li Yin, Li Yuan sent people to send half of these materials to Yanmen County.

Li Yuan also recruited more than 8,000 people in Zhen Zhai'er's remnants, and his strength has increased a lot.

At the end of July, the newly made dragon boat in Jiangdu was completed and sent to the eastern capital, and the roundworm Yu Wenshu in Yang Guang's stomach immediately played to persuade Yang Guang to tour Jiangdu.

Zhao Cai, the general of the right Houwei and a native of Jiuquan, dissuaded: "Now that the people are tired and toiling, the treasury is empty, thieves are swarming, and the ban will not work, I hope that Your Majesty will return to Beijing and appease the people of the world." ”

Yang Guang was furious and handed over Zhao Cai to the officials for treatment, and after ten days, Yang Guangcai calmed down his anger and released Zhao Cai.

The ministers of the court did not want Yang Guang to travel, but Yang Guang's intention to go to Jiangdu was very resolute, and there was no one who dared to admonish.

Jianjie Wei Ren Zong wrote a letter of great persuasion, and was beaten to death with a rod in the court on the same day.

In August, Yang Guang ordered Yang Tong, the king of Yue, Duan Da, the Guanglu doctor, Yuan Wendu, the Taifu Qingyuan, Wei Jin, the secretary of the civil department of the inspection school (Wei Jin was the son of Wei Xiaokuan, a famous minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty), Huangfu Wuyi, the general of the Right Wuwei, and Lu Chu, the right Shilang, to be jointly responsible for staying in the eastern capital, and then began to take a dragon boat and set off to Jiangdu.

Yang Guang originally wanted Fan Zigai to preside over Luoyang affairs, but Fan Zigai fell ill and died on the eighth day of the seventh month.

Before Yang Guang left Luoyang, he said goodbye to the palace people with a poem, and the poem said: "My dream of Jiang is good, and the conquest of Liao is also accidental." ”

Before Yang Guang's car drove out of Luoyang, Feng Xinlang Cui Minxiang discouraged the trip to Jiangdu on the grounds that thieves were flooding the country, and Yang Guang was furious, first had Cui Minxiang's chin removed, and then ordered him to be executed.

On August 5, Yang Guang arrived in Bishui, and Wang Airen, who was a letter to him, asked Yang Guang to return to Luoyang or Xijing, but Yang Guang did not frown and ordered Wang Airen to be killed and continued southward.

Arriving in Liang County, someone in Liang County stopped Yang Guang's car halfway, and wrote: "If Your Majesty must tour Jiangdu, the world will not be Your Majesty's!" Yang Guang killed the passer-by A who was in the book.

The reason why these people knew that Yang Guang was fond of killing, but they still stood up and persuaded Yang Guang not to go to Jiangdu without hesitation was that everyone knew like the killed passer-by A that Yang Guang really went to Jiangdu, and the world was really going to change.

At this time, the world is full of traitors, if Yang Guang sits in Luoyang, the center of the world, or Chang'an, the foundation of the world, he can still command the world, but if he goes to a remote place like Jiangdu, the government decree will not work, the edict will not work, how can he command the world?

"Peach and plum, the queen goes around Yangzhou, like a garden. Don't talk nonsense, who promises! Almost overnight, this ballad called "Tao Li Zhang" spread all over the country, and many people with different intentions knew that the time had finally come to achieve great things, and they immediately became active.

Li Mi, the prince of Pushan County, began to flee when Yang Xuangan was about to be defeated, he first went to Hebei to defect to the rebel Hao Xiaode, Hao Xiaode did not treat Li Mi politely, and Li Mi went to Wang Bo, Wang Bo did not treat him as a special person and did not pay much attention to him.

In the first two years of Li Mi's escape, he lived in great hardship and deprivation, to the point of peeling the bark of a tree to eat.

Later, Li Mi hid in a cottage in Huaiyang County, changed his name, and gathered disciples to teach, but accidentally said some rebellious remarks. aroused the suspicion of the county officials and wanted to arrest him, Li Mi fled again, and finally arrived at the house of his brother-in-law Lingqiu Junming in Yongqiu County.

Qiu Junming didn't dare to leave Li Mi to stay, so he transferred Li Mi to the Ranger Wang Xiucai's house to hide.