Yang Guang also heard that many of the children of high-ranking officials were there with Yang Xuangan, and he became more and more worried and angry.

Hu Sizheng, the squire of the military department, usually had a good relationship with Yang Xuangan, Yang Xuangan rebelled, Hu Sizheng had plotted with him, and Yang Xuanzong's brothers fled back to the mainland because Hu Sizheng secretly sent them back.

Yang Guang wanted to investigate and prosecute Yang Xuangan's henchmen, but Hu Sizheng was extremely frightened and uneasy, and on June 26, he fled and defected to Goryeo.

Because of Yang Xuangan's rebellion, this Goryeo can no longer fight, even if Yang Guang ignores the comfort of the capital Luoyang and other places, he doesn't have much food to continue to fight, although Yang Xuangan left Liyang, but he also sent a cronie Yuan Wuben to continue to guard there, so that Yang Guang's army still can't get new supplies.

On the 28th, at the second watch of the night, Yang Guang secretly summoned the generals and asked them to lead the army to retreat. All the military equipment and siege equipment were piled up, and the barracks and tents were left untouched and abandoned.

The Sui soldiers were frightened and frightened, the deployment of the army was chaotic, and the soldiers and horses of all walks of life were separated and scattered.

The Goryeo side quickly noticed this situation, but did not dare to go out, but only beat drums and shouted in the city.

It was not until noon the next day that the Goryeo side gradually sent troops out of the city and reconnoitred from far and near, but still suspected that the Sui army's retreat was fake, and saw that the Sui army was about to break through Liaodong City, how could they suddenly retreat?

The Koreans didn't understand what they thought, so they could only attribute it to the ghost tricks of the Sui Dynasty.

After another two days, the Goryeo finally realized that something was not right, so they sent thousands of soldiers to follow behind the Sui army, but they were still afraid of the large number of Sui soldiers and did not dare to approach, and the two armies were often eighty or ninety miles apart.

When they were about to reach Liaoshui, the Goryeo people learned that Yang Guang's chariot had crossed Liaoshui, so they dared to approach the rear of the Sui army, and at that time there were still tens of thousands of people in the rear of the Sui army, the Goryeo army outflanked and attacked the Sui army, and finally tens of thousands of old and weak soldiers of the Sui army were killed.

Speaking of the army with Yu Wenshu and Yang Shidao as the main generals and Wang Rengong as the front army, they drove directly to Pyongyang as they did in the first expedition to Goryeo.

When Wang Rengong, as the former army, arrived in Xincheng, tens of thousands of Goryeo soldiers fought in a formation behind the city, and Wang Rengong personally led two thousand strong horsemen to break through the middle army of the Goryeo army, which was extremely powerful and unstoppable, and directly killed the chief general of the Goryeo army and broke the Goryeo army of tens of thousands of people.

The remnants of the Goryeo army that had fled back to Xincheng continued to hold on to Xincheng, and Wang Rengong besieged it on all sides, giving him a few more days to capture this important city on the edge of the Yalu water.

At this time, Wang Rengong was full of pride, and thought in his heart that only by capturing Xincheng and then attacking Pyongyang, the capital of Goryeo, would be just around the corner, and then he would be able to rely on his military exploits and be promoted to the general of Weifu, and he would no longer have to look at the faces of Yu Wenshu and others.

But at this moment, Wang Rengong received an edict to retreat, and his fiery heart was instantly poured with a basin of biting cold water......

The armies then discarded all the equipment and materials, and rushed back, although there was no enemy pursuit, but many soldiers were unwilling to return, resulting in a lot of separation, and when they crossed the Liaoshui, this army was already one in ten.

Yang Guang led the army back on the one hand, and on the other hand, he sent Hu Benlang to Liyang to attack Yuanwuben first to attack Yuanwuben in order to open up the grain road, and sent Yu Wenshu, the general of Zuo Yiwei, and Qu Tutong, the general of the right Houwei, to take the car of the post station and send troops to attack Yang Xuangan.

At this time, Laihu'er led the army in Shabei City, and when he heard that Yang Xuangan was besieging the Eastern Capital, and his son Laiyuan had also taken refuge in Yang Xuangan, he was so angry that he shouted a few times, "Rebel!" He didn't think that Yang Xuangan could win the world, and if he took 10,000 steps back, even if Yang Xuangan won the world, what could he give him to protect his children was comparable to Yang Guang?

So Laihu'er immediately summoned the generals and discussed returning to the division to rescue the eastern capital.

Zhou Fashang, who has always had different opinions from Laihu'er, has a rare strong support for Lai's decision.

However, the rest of the generals thought that without the emperor's edict, it was not appropriate to return to the division without authorization, so they resolutely refused to obey the order of Laihu'er.

Lai Hu'er said sharply: "Luoyang is surrounded, it is a problem for the henchmen, and Goryeo's resistance to the king's order is just a disease of scabies." When you know what the country is doing, you can't help but do it. I will bear the charge of arbitrariness of power, and those who obstruct the discussion of returning to the division will be dealt with by military law! ”

The generals had to agree, and they came to Hu'er to return to the teacher on the same day.

On the way, Laihu'er was afraid that Yang Guang would suspect him, so he ordered his son Laihong and Laiquan to gallop and report to Yang Guang.

Yang Guang had just returned to Jicheng at this time, and was just about to order Laihu'er to rescue the Eastern Capital, he was very happy to see Laihong and Laizhen, and rewarded Laihu'er in the seal: "When the prince returned to the teacher, that is, the day of the pardon of the duke, the monarch and the minister agreed with each other, and it was far from the same. ”

For the courtiers, Yang Guang, the monarch, is more peculiar, as long as he identifies it, it will not change, for example, he believes that Lai Hu'er, Zhang Xutuo, Yu Shiji and others are loyal ministers, so he trusts it, and he will not doubt it at any time.

For another example, he decided that Li Yuan was a person who was addicted to alcohol and couldn't do great things, but he still had some ability, and after all, he was his cousin, and he could still use it at a critical moment, so he urgently ordered Li Yuan to stay in Honghua County to resist Yang Xuangan's entry into the pass, and let all the counties in Guanyou be subject to Li Yuan's temperance.

Li Yuan instantly changed from a small Huaiyuan town to a grain envoy and became the largest feudal official in the Sui Dynasty.

However, for the courtiers with a bad impression, Yang Guang will always remember, for example, at this time, he suddenly remembered that there was a man named Li Zixiong in Hu'er's army, this person was originally the general of the Right Martial Candidate, but he secretly hid many weapons at home, and was accused of attempting to rebel.

Yang Guang had the intention of killing people at that time, but after the hard persuasion of many people, and Li Zixiong said that collecting weapons was just his hobby, which exempted him from the death penalty, but removed all his official positions and titles, and let him go to the navy to become a petty officer.

Yang Guang was afraid that this Li Zixiong would collude with Yang Xuangan, so he sent a messenger to send Li Zixiong to his camp in shackles.

Li Zixiong has never had the intention of rebelling, and after receiving the order, he knew that if he went to Yang Guang's tent, he would definitely die, so he launched a ruthless attack, brazenly attacked, killed the messenger, and fled overnight to defect to Yang Xuangan.

Yang Xuangan was unable to attack Luoyang for a long time, and knew that the Sui Dynasty's reinforcements were coming, so he divided his troops to guard the main road, guarding Cidao with 5,000 soldiers and 5,000 people guarding Yique Road, and sent Han Shige, the son of Han Baohu, to lead 6,000 people to surround Xingyang. Gu Jue was sent to lead 5,000 people to capture the Tiger Pass, and the Sui army in the Tiger Pass surrendered, and Yang Xuangan appointed Gu Jue as the assassin of Zhengzhou to guard the Tiger Pass.

Li Zixiong in the day and night under the hurry, finally came to Yang Xuangan's military camp, Yang Xuangan was very happy, immediately ordered Li Zixiong to be his mastermind, as for the previous mastermind Li Mi, because of the frequent advice, so that Yang Xuangan is very unhappy, since more and more people defected to him, Yang Xuangan has not asked Li Mi for a long time.