On September and 15, the Turks withdrew their troops, and the danger of the siege of Yanmen Pass was lifted, Yang Guang ordered the reinforcements to pursue the Turkic army, and he quickly left this nightmare place with hundreds of officials and more than 10,000 remnants.

Of course, Li Yin was indispensable for the opportunity to beat the water dogs, and he and 8,000 soldiers shouted and cheered for half a month in Yuxian County, and after receiving the news of the retreat of the Turks, they immediately attacked, pursued and killed the backward Turks, and won a lot.

On the 18th, Yang Guang returned to Fenyang Palace in Taiyuan County.

Su Wei immediately said to Yang Guang: "Now that the thieves are endless, and the soldiers are tired, I hope that Your Majesty will return to Xijing Chang'an as soon as possible and consolidate the long-term plan of the fundamental land of the Great Sui." ”

After Yang Guang heard this, he nodded silently, Su Wei thought that he agreed at this time, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Yuwen Shu said: "Most of the family members of the officials who followed the car are still in the Eastern Capital, even if they want to go to Chang'an, they have to go to Luoyang first, it is better to enter Guanzhong from Tongguan after arriving in Luoyang." ”

After Yang Guang heard this, he immediately adopted Yuwenshu's suggestion, and Su Wei chuckled in his heart, worried that after Yang Guang arrived in Luoyang, he would not go to Chang'an again.

After the siege of Yanmen Pass was lifted, the first thing Yang Guang had to deal with was the issue of rewards. The reason why they were able to hold out until the Turks retreated was that Yang Guang promised a rich reward, so the whole army, everyone worked hard, although tens of thousands of people died in the battle, but the survivors were waiting for the reward!

However, Yang Guang didn't want to fulfill the promise he made at this time.

Yang Guang said at Yanmen Pass at that time that the promise was: All those who have meritorious service in defending the city will be directly awarded the official position of Liupin if they have no official position, and they will be rewarded with 100 pieces; Those who already hold official positions increase in rank and reward in turn.

Now, there are a total of 17,000 surviving soldiers guarding Yanmen Pass, and they are naturally all meritorious, do they all have to give them these 17,000 people and six-grade officials? Each person will be rewarded with 100 pieces, which is 1.7 million pieces!

Yang Guang's nature is to be stingy with official rewards, unless it is someone he values, otherwise it is very difficult to be promoted and rewarded, and at this time, it is really not in line with his mind to ask him to give such a generous reward to the 17,000 soldiers at once.

Pei Yun, Yu Shiji and other people who are good at figuring out their intentions naturally quickly understood what Yang Guang meant, and they all persuaded Yang Guang to reduce the reward.

Su Wei also felt that the reward specification was too heavy, and he should consider it again and make appropriate adjustments, after all, it was indeed unrealistic to let the Sui Dynasty have 17,000 more six-rank officials at once.

Yang Guang saw that so many people supported him, and he suddenly had confidence in his heart.

However, Fan Zigai earnestly pleaded to keep his previous promise, believing that he should not break his trust in the soldiers, otherwise there would be no repercussions.

Yang Guang said coldly to Fan Zigai: "Are you planning to buy the hearts of those 17,000 soldiers?" Fan was so frightened when he heard this that he didn't dare to answer any more.

In October, the third day of the first lunar month, Yang Guang arrived in the eastern capital and began to reward those who had meritorious service in the battle of Yanmen Pass.

Before the reward, Yang Guang had changed the rank of the army's position, and reduced the original rank of the fifth rank of Jianjie Lieutenant to the sixth grade, and after the establishment of the Jie Lieutenant, the captains of Fenwu, Xuanhui, Suide, Huairen, Bingyi, Fengcheng, and Lixin were also lowered by one level in turn, so that many people were "demoted first and then promoted", and the official title changed, but the rank and rank of Yulu did not change at all.

There were 17,000 soldiers who participated in the defense of Yanmen, but only 1,500 people received the medal, all of which were compared with the standard of rewards when pacifying Yang Xuangan, and those who won the first merit in a battle were promoted to one level, and those who did not have a military position before were only awarded the position of the lowest military rank of Lixin Lieutenant; Those who have won the first merit in three battles will only be the captain of Bingyi; Those who have been on the battlefield but have not made meritorious deeds have fought four battles and have been promoted to the first rank, nor have they been rewarded.

As for the promised reward of 100 pieces of silk cloth per person, it was directly ignored.

After such a mean reward was promulgated, the government and the opposition were in an uproar, and Yang Guang discussed attacking Goryeo again after this, so the soldiers were all angry and resentful, although they couldn't do anything for the time being. vent the anger and resentment in your heart, but bury these emotions in your heart, which may erupt at any time......

Li Zitong, a native of Donghai County, is brave and powerful, he first attached himself to the handsome and handsome Zuo Caixiang of Changbai Mountain, and the thieves were very cruel, only Li Zitong was generous and benevolent, so many people went to join him.

In less than half a year, Li Zitong had 10,000 people. Zuo Caixiang was therefore suspicious of Li Zitong and planned to get rid of Li Zitong.

After Li Zitong learned about it, he led his troops to break away from the Zuo Xiangcai army, and then left Shandong, led the people to cross the Huai River, and took refuge in Du Fuwei, who had crisscrossed the Jianghuai River in recent years.

Since Du Fuwei came to the land of Jianghuai, he has been very prosperous.

Last year, Song Hao, the captain of Jiangdu's left-behind faction, led 30,000 troops to attack Du Fuwei. Du Fuwei fought with Song Hao, feigned defeat, introduced the official army led by Song Hao into the reeds, and then set fire to the wind, most of the official army was burned to death, and Du Fuwei shocked Jianghuai.

Zhao Pochen, the thief marshal of Hailing County, Jiangdu County, thought that Du Fuwei had few soldiers and looked down on Du Fuwei. So, Zhao Pochen summoned Du Fuwei to come and wanted to annex his subordinates.

Du Fuwei asked the auxiliary prince to lead the troops to wait outside, and he and more than ten of his cronies entered the camp with cattle and wine to meet Zhao Pochen, and suddenly attacked Zhao Pochen in his seat, killed Zhao Pochen, and then annexed Zhao Po's troops, and became stronger, capturing many cities.

After Li Zitong defected to Du Fuwei, Du Fuwei treated him very well, making Li Zitong's status almost equal to that of Fu Gongyou.

At this time, Du Fuwei had many generals and strong strength, coupled with Yang Guang's siege of Yanmen, which made him feel that the world was about to change greatly, and it was the time to divide one side and fight for the world.

As a result, Du Fuwei confided to Fu Gongyou, Li Zitong and others his grand goal of preparing to capture Jiangdu, divide the south, and then chase the Central Plains.

After hearing this, Fu Gongyou and other generals were full of ambition in their hearts.

Li Zitong was also touched by Du Fuwei's words, but Li Zitong was not willing to succumb to Du Fuwei. Why can't he Li Zitong be the one who chases the Central Plains?

In November of the eleventh year of the Great Cause, the land of Jianghuai, which had produced strong troops since ancient times, had a little more slaughtering atmosphere.

Li Zitong set up a banquet in the largest restaurant in Yancheng County, and then sent an invitation to Du Fuwei and other generals, Du Fuwei did not doubt him, and brought a few adopted sons and personal soldiers to the banquet.

Du Fuwei likes to adopt his son, his adopted son is selected from the army, a total of more than 30 people, among them, Jiyin Wang Xiongdan, Linji Kan Ling is the most prominent of Du Fuwei's adopted sons.

Wang Xiong is strong and resolute, with extraordinary strength, and strategy, Kan Ling is the number one fierce general in Du Fuwei's army, good at making Mo knives, and must charge forward in every battle. Because Wang Xiong was younger than Kan Leng, Du Fuwei's army called Kan Ling a great general and Wang Xiong was called a little general.