The intention did not really ask Yang Guang to build a nun temple on Lei Mountain for her, and still lived with Sima Luo and Feng Xiaoxi in the west courtyard of the Yangzhou Governor's Mansion. Moreover, it was not as Pei Yun expected, and it was found that she had any unfavorable actions towards Gu Shi, who should be invited to go out of the mountain to compile and write books. After a long time, Yang Guang and Pei Yun were busy with other things, and gradually stopped paying so much attention to their minds.

Soon after Zhang Heng was ordered to rush to Yang Sujun, he ordered someone to send a message back and forth to Yang Guang, saying that he had made it clear to Yang Su that Gao Qinglian and Gao Zhizhi were the same clan of the Gao clan in Jiangnan, and it was likely that they were hiding in the rebels on the South Road, and according to Yang Guang's explanation, he temporarily stayed in Yang Su's army as a senator. At the same time, his subordinates also brought Yang Guang a letter written by Yang Su himself.

In the letter, Yang Su reported to Yang Guangyu that he had led a land and water army down the river from Hankou to quell the rebellion, saying that he was planning to take advantage of the victory of breaking the Taihu Lake Fortress, swinging his army to the east, and in one fell swoop to wipe out the small groups of rebels from all walks of life, going to sea from Songjiang, and launching a final clean-up against Huiji, where the rebels were entrenched on the South Road, with Shi Wansui's department, and completely pacifying Jiangnan.

In order to live up to Yang Guang's trust, Yang Su asked Yang Guang to order people to draw pictures of Gao Qinglian, Xiao Rushui, Zhang Zhongjian, and other important fugitives in the "Wild Goose's Nest" organization, and ordered them to be sent to his own military camp, so that they could find out their whereabouts and arrest them when they surrounded and annihilated the rebels on the South Road.

For Gao Qinglian, who had pretended to be the uncle of the Goguryeo king, Gao Liansheng, and Zhang Zhongjian, a bearded guest, Yang Guang himself was very familiar, and it was not difficult to find skilled painters to paint their portraits according to their own descriptions.

When Yang Su received the two portraits sent by Yang Guang, he had already led the naval fleet to set off from the shore of Taihu Lake and continue to march eastward.

From Taihu Lake to the east, Yang Su's army successively annihilated Shen Xue, Shen Neng's rebels, Gu Shixing's rebels in Songjiang, and the rebel army led by Shen Xuanhui, a general who guarded the estuary of the river under the order of high wisdom.

Huiji County was not as difficult to conquer as Yang Su expected, under the cover of six or seven "Five Teeth" giant ships throwing stones into the city in turn, Li Che and the two generals of Laihu'er took the Yellow Dragon warship and led the vanguard of 5,000 men and horses to quickly land and attack Huiji City.

It was about Chen Junfan, Gao Zhizhi and others in the city who did not expect that the Sui army would take the lead in attacking Huiji City from the sea, and were caught off guard by the main fleet of the Sui army that suddenly appeared on the sea outside the city.

Yang Su led the Chinese army into the city to be surrendered, and ordered Chen Junfan and Xiao's uncles and nephews to be detained first, and then escorted back to Chang'an to be handed over to the imperial court in the future, leaving Gao Zhizhi alone, and asking him whether Gao Qinglian and Xiao Rushui, Zhang Zhongjian and others were in his army.

Gao Zhizhi was a white and chubby rich man, kneeling in front of Yang Su with his hands and feet tied, and when he heard him ask about Gao Qinglian, he immediately scolded: "If it weren't for the fan and encouragement of this thief, the old man would still be sitting at home enjoying Qingfu at this time, how could he suffer this misfortune?" The old man is just a puppet found by Gao Qinglian's house, and the power in my army is actually in the hands of Gao Qinglian! ”

"Ben Shuai asked you, where is Gao Qinglian now?" Yang Su looked at Gao Zhizhi disdainfully and asked, "If you can lead the officers and soldiers to arrest him, Ben Shuai will protect you from death." ”

"He, he was out of town twenty days ago." Gao Zhizhi heard Yang Su's promise to leave him a way to live, and couldn't help but come to his senses, took a few steps forward, looked at Yang Su and replied, "I remember that Gao Qinglian told me before he left the city that he had received the news that the Sui army sent the fierce general Shi Wansui to lead eight thousand elite troops from Huzhou to the south, specifically to clear the old man's department, and he was going to meet Shi Wansui." ”

"Hasn't he been in contact with you since he left the city? How many soldiers and horses did he take with him when he went out of the city? ”

Gao Zhizhi thought for a while and shook his head: "He was the only one who went out of the city, without a single soldier." However, I know that before he left the city, he sent people to Maoshan to ask Xiao Yan for help, probably to take his soldiers to meet Shi Wansui. ”

Yang Su asked Gao Zhizhi in detail about the process of Gao Qinglian instigating him to support Chen Junfan of the Southern Chen clan as emperor and raise troops to rebel, and after confirming that Gao Qinglian was the actual leader of the rebels on the South Road, he ordered the sergeant to take Gao Zhili down and detain him alone, leaving it for later.

At the same time, Yang Su ordered people to post portraits of Gao Qinglian and Zhang Zhongjian everywhere inside and outside the Huiji City, offering a reward of 10,000 yuan for the "Five Plants of the Emperor" to be wanted by these two, and sent Li Che to lead 10,000 elite soldiers to quickly march west to support Shi Wansui's department and find Gao Qinglian's whereabouts.

What puzzled Yang Su was that after Li Che led his army westward for ten days, he ordered someone to send him a military report, saying that his advance had not met Shi Wansui's men and horses until he arrived in Jiangxi, which was less than 100 miles away from the city of Huzhou.

Yang Su received the report, immediately checked the map, and was surprised to find that Taiping Mountain is located at the junction of Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi provinces, surrounded by inaccessible deep mountains and dense forests, which is very unfavorable for large-scale marching operations.

Yang Su issued a strict order: "Even if Shi Wansui's troops encounter an accident on the way to the south, they must find the bodies of the soldiers of the Sui army under his command." ”

After almost dispatching more than half of his troops to find the whereabouts of Shi Wansui's subordinates, and there was still no progress for more than ten days, Yang Su faintly felt a hint of something wrong, and thought to himself: Before Gao Qinglian left the city, he told Gao Zhizhi that he was going to stop Shi Wansui's troops from coming south, but he didn't bring a single soldier, did he set up an ambush on Shi Wansui's southbound road, and was he sure that he would completely annihilate Shi Wansui's troops? In addition to the halberd army sent south by the Maoshan rebels to pursue Shi Wansui's troops at Gao Qinglian's request, where can Gao Qinglian transfer a soldier and horse from to completely annihilate Shi Wansui's department?