July of the tenth year of the great cause.

Due to the chaos in the world, Yang Guang ordered that many of the soldiers in the world could not be expected, and because the soldiers he personally led were also fleeing, all Yang Guang's chariots arrived in Beiping County on April 27, and they have been stagnant and have not been able to continue their march to Liaodong.

It was not until July 10 that Yang Guang led his troops to reluctantly march to Huaiyuan Town, but at this time, the soldiers said that they would not continue to move forward, and Yang Guang was in a dilemma.

Just when Yang Guang couldn't advance or retreat, the good news suddenly came, and Gao Yuan, the king of Goryeo, actually sent someone to ask for surrender!

It turns out that Goryeo at this time is already very troubled, although the first two wars, Goryeo are the winners, but Goryeo is small, where can it withstand this successive national wars?

Goryeo was also an agrarian country, and after a few years of war, the fields were barren and there was famine everywhere, which made several peasant uprisings break out in the country like the Sui Dynasty, so Goryeo was also unable to fight the war anymore.

In addition, Laihu'er led the naval army from Dongnae County to the east, once again broke through the city of Shap, killed thousands of enemies, and then led the army directly to Pyongyang.

Gao Yuan was so frightened that on July 28, he sent an envoy to escort the rebel Hu Sizheng of the Great Sui Dynasty, and went to Huaiyuan Town to beg for surrender.

Lai Hu'er summoned his subordinates and said: "The army has gone out three times, but it has failed to pacify Goryeo, and I will not be able to come again when I go back this time, and I feel ashamed of my efforts." Now Goryeo is indeed exhausted, and with so many of our troops to crusade against Goryeo, we will soon win a great victory. I plan to resist the edict and march to directly encircle Pyongyang, capture Gao Yuan, and then return triumphantly, what do you think? ”

Changshi Cui Junsu tried his best to obey the class teacher, but he didn't agree, and said: "Goryeo can't support it anymore, the emperor completely believes in appointing me, and I can decide this matter for myself." I'm outside the imperial court, I should decide for myself if there is something, I'd rather capture Gao Yuan and return and be punished, but I can't give up this chance to succeed! ”

Cui Junsu didn't say anything more when he saw this, but said to his generals in private: "If you follow the marshal and disobey the emperor's edict, you will definitely be played by the emperor, and the marshal will receive the emperor's favor, and he may be exempted from responsibility at that time, but we will definitely be punished." ”

After hearing this, the generals were greatly frightened, and all asked to return, and Laihu'er felt a sadness in his heart, thinking in his heart that it would be good if his great rival Zhou Fashang was in the army at this time, Zhou Fashang had been leading his troops to kill the rebels along the coast for the past two years, although he had often disagreed with him before, but he had never been ambiguous about the major rights and wrongs, and he would definitely support his decision.

As long as there is one person who supports him to protect his son, he will definitely be able to resist this life to the end, but at this time......

Laihu'er laughed a few times, and finally accepted the edict and returned to the class.

On the fourth day of August, Yang Guang returned to the court from Huaiyuan Town. Handan thief Marshal Yang Gongqing led 8,000 people to rob the eighth team behind the car, snatched 42 horses from the Feihuang stable, and then drove away.

If it were a change from the past, relying on the convenience of the canal, it would not take more than a month to return to Luoyang from Zhuo County. However, at this time, because there were many rebels on the way back, and these rebels were not as afraid of Yang Guang as before, and most of them showed off their might near a royal car, so Yang Guang did not move fast every day on the way back this time, but he was afraid that he would not be able to return to Luoyang until winter.

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There are eight counties in Hengshan County, in addition to the county rule Zhending City, most of them have been broken by the rebels, and now the rebels, most of them have broken through the city and looted and left, so Hengshan County except for Zhending City, before May this year, basically belonged to the ownerless state, only entrenched in some thieves.

However, after May, Li Yin repelled Zhang Jincheng and took control of Jingcheng Pass, and began to send people to take over Jingcheng County, Fangshan County, Lingshou County, Xingtang County, and Ziyang County north of Zhending City.

There were no officers and soldiers in these five counties, and there were no rebels of great force, so the takeover went very smoothly and there were basically no obstacles.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Li Yin did not take over the five counties of Hengshan in his name, after clearing the thieves of the five counties of Hengshan, he asked Zhang Liang to fall into the grass again, with a group of county officials, leading tens of thousands of displaced people, and entered the county towns in a mighty way, they called themselves Hengshan thieves, and Li Yin had nothing to do with it.

At the beginning, there were only more than 10,000 displaced people who entered the five counties of Hengshan, but later they will send people one after another, and the local surviving people will be unified and resettled according to the government military system.

On average, every two dings of military training can be carried out in leisure time, which can defend the township and become a high-quality source of soldiers.

There are many trivial matters to settle the displaced people, so Li Yin has been very busy in the past few months, and the most important thing is food.

However, because Wang Wei, the county of Taiyuan County, and Pan Changwen, the general of Tiger Ben, both intended to win over Li Yin, Li Yin did not refuse them in one go, and asked for a large amount of money and food, which barely survived the difficulties.

After temporarily handling the affairs of the five counties of Hengshan, Li Yin handed over the burden here to Zhang Liang, and he took more than 100 horsemen from Hengshan County all the way north to Feihu County in Shanggu County.

Shanggu County has produced elite cavalry since ancient times, when Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty Liu Xiu crossed the Yellow River to the north, it was after getting the support of Shanggu and Yuyang Counties that he relied on the cavalry of the two counties to sweep Hebei and establish an immortal foundation.

Li Yin came to Shanggu, not for money, not for food, but to recruit some cavalry from Shanggu County.

There is not a lot of arable land in Shanggu County, and most of the people here are half-farming and half-pasture, so many people have grown up on horseback since childhood. However, since the seventh year of the Great Cause, the residents here have become increasingly difficult, but fortunately, the people here are fierce, and the people have settled in the dock to protect themselves, so that the rebels everywhere do not dare to come here, so compared to other counties in Hebei, it is a relatively stable place.

When Li Yin first arrived in the counties of Hengshan in May, many places were uninhabited for hundreds of miles, and the villages became ghost domains.

Li Yin has food and money, it is not difficult to recruit suitable cavalry here, and there is only a flying fox in Feihu County and Lingqiu County in Yanmen County, and most people here know Li Yin's name, so he set up a sign to recruit people here, and the servants gathered, and in less than a day, he recruited eight hundred cavalry, which was the result of Li Yin's careful selection.