Yang Guang was reminded by Liu Fang, and also noticed that the dark soft armor worn by the leader robber was extraordinary, so he asked him: "Judging by this soft armor alone, you are definitely not an ordinary robber, and if you don't confess again, don't blame us for being rude." As he spoke, he glanced at Liu Fang.

Liu Fang couldn't help but say, stepped forward three times and divided five by two to untie the binding on the head robber, and took off the soft armor from him, holding it in his hand, he almost didn't feel the weight, and was about to show it to Yang Guang, but he heard a call from afar on the mountain road: "Can the prince be in the col in front of him?" ”

Yang Guang, Liu Fang, and Xian Yu Luo were stunned when they heard the sound, and the leading robber took the opportunity to kick down Xian Yu Luo, rolled to the door on the spot, jumped up from the ground, opened the door and ran out.

Liu Fang's movements could not be said to be unquick, but when he came back to his senses and chased out of the hut, he saw a black shadow jumping and moving between the mountains and forests and running away.

Wang Shao received a message from the soldiers defending the city at the Xingtai Office on Huainan Road during the day, and learned that Yang Guang had only taken two guards out of the city and left, so he hurriedly gathered five hundred hussars together with Zhang Heng and chased them down from behind. Finally, they arrived in time, scared off the group of robbers, and found Yang Guang and the other three in the hut in the small mountain pass.

Yang Guang had finished meeting with Wang Shao, Zhang Heng and others, still holding the soft armor in his hand, and asked Wang Shao: "Zixiang, do you know this soft armor." Before you arrived, we were robbed on the mountain road, and Liu Fang obviously swept the lead robber with a sword, but he was unharmed, I don't know why? ”

Wang Shao heard that Yang Guang and his entourage met bandits on the mountain road, and secretly broke out in a cold sweat, and it was inconvenient to complain about Yang Guang in front of all the sergeants, so he had to take the soft armor from his hand, approached the torch held in the hand of the accompanying sergeant and looked at it carefully, and said not very surely: "Although the lower official has been transferred to Huainan for nearly three years, I only hear legends on weekdays that there is a kind of scout in the Nanchen army, and the equipment is different from the usual, called the halberd-shooter. The Halberders were extremely swift and were sent to penetrate deep behind enemy lines to spy on the military and assassinate enemy generals. In addition to the three halberds as their weapons, it is said that the soft armor they wore was actually made of stainless steel and black iron mined from the cold land of the southwest, and was carefully sewn by skilled craftsmen. When an ordinary halberdier is out on an errand, if he encounters a strong enemy and kills his sergeant, his companions will also strip the soft armor from him and take it away, so that the soft armor will not easily fall into the hands of the enemy. ”

Yang Guang has often had a trace of doubt in his heart since he heard that Master Xin revealed that Gao Liansheng was Guan Zizai a year ago, and he has never been able to figure out why Gao Liansheng is the big leader of Nan Chen's fine work, why he took the initiative to offer chain mail to himself, and tonight he unexpectedly got a treasure armor that can be called a sword from the robber who is the leader, and he can't help but think of the chain mail that Gao Liansheng dedicated to himself three years ago.

In the sixth year of the emperor's reign, Yang Guang served in the state and the dynasty, and more than once came to the door to ask the Taifu supervisor He Chou how to make chain mail in batches to equip the Sui army and improve combat power, but with He Chou's ability and knowledge, he could only do it himself, and spent ten months of effort to make a chain mail, and no matter how comfortable and convenient it was, or its protection on the battlefield, it was far inferior to the soft armor captured tonight.

Because Wang Shao, Zhang Heng and others led the 500 soldiers of the hussar battalion of the Jin Wangfu to find Yang Guang and the other three in the mountains seventy or eighty miles away from Anzhou City, at Yang Guang's insistence, they could only escort Yang Guang to Anzhou City overnight.

When Yang Guang and his entourage arrived in Anzhou on the evening of the same day, although it was already the fourth watch, Yang Guangyu was quite interested in this soft armor, and pulled Wang Shao and Zhang Heng to sit and talk in the back flower hall of the Anzhou Thorn History Mansion, and discussed in detail what were the similarities and differences between the soft armor in front of him and the chain mail that Gao Liansheng gave to him three years ago.

Since Wang Shao and Zhang Heng were both Yang Guang's old subordinates when he went out of the town and merged the state, both of them had seen the pair of chain mail offered by Gao Liansheng with their own eyes, so the three of them talked about the similarities and differences between the two sets of armor, and they all had the same feeling: it seems that the chain mail presented by Gao Liansheng was specially used to equip the cavalry, and the production process was far less refined than this soft armor, and the materials used in the two were the same, but the production process and final use were far apart.

"Zixiang, when I was robbed in the mountains tonight, I heard that the robber claimed to be the lord of the war, does Nan Chen still have a town in Jiangbei?" After the three of them discussed in detail the similarities and differences between the two pairs of armor stomachs, Yang Guang suddenly recalled a detail from the previous encounter with the bandits and asked Wang Shao.

"Lord Wang, just near Anzhou, there are still three towns in the Jiangbin area of Nanchen, the largest of which is located in quarrying, there are nearly 3,000 soldiers, the lord Xu Zijian is said to be a halberd-bearer, often personally lead a group of halberd-bearers to sneak into my territory to make trouble, maybe tonight in the mountains the prince met Xu Zijian himself is unknown."

Yang Guangda was puzzled and asked: "I remember that when I first arrived in Shouchun, I heard you say that before this, Yuwenshu led the army to drive the Nanchen army back to Jiangnan, so why did the Nanchen army still retain as many as three towns near Anzhou?" ”

Wang Shao saw Yang Guang asking in person, so he had to say truthfully: "In fact, it is not only near Anzhou, if Wang Ye rushes to Guangling by water, he will see more than a dozen towns occupied by the Southern Chen army in Jiangbei along the way. Most of these fortifications were built near the reefs along the river that were easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it was difficult to attack them from both land and water, and they relied on the powerful naval army of Nanchen to regularly transport supplies and replenish supplies for the garrisons, and it was difficult to uproot them one by one unless they paid a great price. After receiving the edict issued by the imperial court, Xiaguan and Yuwenshu and others planned to cut off the supply lines of these towns in the north of the river and force them to surrender to the imperial court after crossing the river first to capture Nanchen itself. ”

Raising his eyes, seeing that Yang Guang seemed to have a look of displeasure on his face, Wang Shao hurriedly explained: "But please rest assured, these towns and garrisons along the north of the river in the south are now under the strict monitoring and prevention of our Great Sui naval army. ”

Yang Guang almost used the experience of being robbed in the mountains tonight to refute Wang Shao's statement, and when the words came to his mouth, he remembered that it was not easy for Wang Shao to personally lead the army to find him, so he swallowed the words back, pointed to the soft armor on the several cases in front of him and explained to Zhang Heng: "Jianping, this soft armor will be handed over to you for the time being, and when you return to Beijing in the future, remind the king, and go to He Fujian again to ask for advice, and see if this kind of soft armor can be made in batches?" ”