On the second day of the news of the mutiny in Jiangdu, Zhang Xuan ordered the Qingzhou army to attack, 40,000 troops immediately dispatched, quickly marched south to the Huai River, at the same time, more than 1,000 warships gathered from all over the country also went south from the sea, through the Huai River estuary into the Huai River, only half a day, 10,000 cavalry took the lead in arriving on the north bank of the Huai River, stationed in Huaiyang County, with the arrival of the Qingzhou army one after another, Zhang Xuan began to deploy in this once very familiar land.

The main camp of the Sui army is located on the north bank of the Huai River close to the west of the Tongji Canal, and the opposite bank is Shanyang County, if Yu Wenhua and the dragon boat team go north, here is the place that must pass, of course, there are many rivers from the north of the Huai River, but other rivers can not drive the dragon boat This is no less than the huge warship of the Hengyang boat, and can only go north by the Tongji Canal, but in order to prevent Yu Wenhua from going north by boat or by land, Zhang Xuan still sent all more than 1,000 scouts, divided into 100 teams, and carried out carpet-like inspections on both sides of the Huai River, Don't give Yu Culture and any chance to go north.

The place where the Sui army was stationed originally had a large camp with a circumference of about ten miles, which was built when Zhang Xuan conquered Meng Haigong, and it is still intact, and the Sui army only repaired it slightly, and it became the main camp of tens of thousands of troops.

Thousands of big tents have been set up in the camp, and thousands of warships of all sizes are cruising in the Huai River.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Zhang Xuan stood in front of the Huaihe sand table with his hands in contemplation for a long time, while Fang Xuanling sat on the side, and several staff officers were engaged in sorting out documents.

At this time, Li Jing walked into the big tent quickly, Fang Xuanling hurriedly waved his hand to him, and pointed at Zhang Xuan, Li Jing understood, he did not disturb the boss's contemplation, and stood aside with a smile, and after a while. Zhang Xuan noticed Li Jing next to him, smiled apologetically, and said, "The pharmacist is here!" ”

Li Jing looked at Zhang Xuan's armor and said with a smile: "I found that Dashuai doesn't have the prestige of King Qi, at least the armor on his body can be replaced with gold." ”

Zhang Xuan smiled dumbly, "Don't talk about King Qi, even if the majesty of the Duke of Qi is not there, I still have to learn hard." So in this battle, I will be the first to catch Li Gang, Taichangqing, who is in charge of Lile. ”

Everyone in the crowd laughed, Li Jing made a joke, which eased the atmosphere of the big tent a little, and Li Jing said: "Is the marshal thinking about Chang'an and Luoyang?" ”

Zhang Xuan nodded, "What does the pharmacist think?" ”

"In fact, it is normal to be lowly and lowly, it is impossible for the left-behind minister in Luoyang to recognize the emperor of Yu Wenhua and support, and naturally support King Yue to ascend the throne, but Li Yuan did not take the opportunity to force Yang Yu Chan to give in, which is a bit surprising."

It is said that Li Yuan mourned for Yang Guangju in Chang'an for three months. Perhaps he was afraid of risking the world's disapproval, so he didn't dare to usurp the throne easily. ”

Li Jing shook his head, "The humble position feels that this is just a rhetoric, since Li Yuan dares to establish a new monarch, what criticism will he care about, the humble position feels that he is actually a little jealous of the big handsome, and now he and the big handsome are evenly matched, once he ascends the throne." As long as the marshal ascends to the heights, he calls on the righteous men of the world to crusade against the rebellious minister and thief Li Yuan. The situation in the world will be reversed immediately, and there will be no chance for him to the east of Kunshan, only if his power is much stronger than ours, he will dare to abolish Yang Yu and ascend the throne strongly. ”

Fang Xuanling next to him said with a smile: "Li Sima is right, now the Sui Dynasty is still orthodox after all. If Li Yuan wants to replace the Sui Dynasty and become orthodox, he must have the momentum and strength to sweep the world, so that everyone in the world feels that the Sui Dynasty is exhausted, and the world belongs to him Li Yuan, then he is orthodox. But now although the Son of Heaven is dead, but the Great Sui still has the king of Qi, as well as the land of Hebei and Shandong, although the bandits from all walks of life attack the city and plunder the land to establish themselves as kings, but it is difficult to convince the people, so as long as the marshal adheres to the orthodoxy of the Great Sui, he has the political capital to unify the world. ”

Zhang Xuan paced back and forth in the big tent with his hands in his hands, Li Jing and Fang Xuanling were both smart people, and every sentence said to his heart, he was not like Li Yuan about the support of the Long nobles behind him, although the Hebei Shi clan supported him, but the strength of the Hebei Shi clan was far from being comparable to the Guan Long nobles, Li Yuan's political advantage was much greater than him, so firmly grasping the orthodoxy of the Sui Dynasty was the cornerstone of his confrontation with Li Yuan.

Li Yuan in history ascended the throne immediately after Yang Guang's death, the fundamental reason is that there is no force in the world that can compete with him, either thieves and bandits like Li Mi and Dou Jiande, or Yu Wenhua and such rebellious ministers and thieves, Yang Tong only has Luoyang Lonely City, so Li Yuan dared to ascend the throne strongly, but now that he has his own Great Sui King of Qi and his strength is comparable, Li Yuan does not dare to rashly ascend the throne again.

I have to say that Yang Guang named himself the king of Qi before he died, which was indeed a wonderful move to balance Li Yuan, and it was indeed a great gift from Yu Shiji to himself.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xuan's mind suddenly brightened, he was no longer entangled in Chang'an and Luoyang, and turned the topic back to the present, he pointed to the sand table with a wooden pole and smiled at Li Jing: "Actually, I'm thinking about Zhai Rang and Du Fuwei, Zhai Rang deployed more than 100,000 troops on the front line of Xuzhou, obviously to intercept Yu Wenhua, this morning I got scout information, Du Fuwei's tens of thousands of troops found in Zhongli County, it is estimated that Du Fuwei also wants to get a piece of the pie, Du Fuwei is not worried, I am a little worried about Zhai Rang, I think I have to kill the chicken to scare the monkey. ”

Li Jing immediately understood what Zhang Xuan meant by looking for him, and said with a smile: "I am willing to kill chickens for the handsome!" ”

Zhang Xuan laughed, he pointed at Suyu County with a wooden pole and said: "The scouts found that there is a Wagang army of more than 10,000 people in Suyu County, about eighty miles away from our camp, I will give you 5,000 troops, I hope you will slaughter this chicken in three days." ”

Li Jing shook his head, "Defeating the 10,000 Wagang army with 5,000 troops is really not a good thing, I only need 500 troops, and it doesn't take three days, I will slaughter this chicken before noon tomorrow, if the commander doesn't believe it, I am willing to make a military order."

Although Zhang Xuan knew that Li Jing had used troops skillfully in history, it was already dusk, and Li Jing actually only had half a day to remove the time it took to march, and he only used five hundred troops, how could he take Suyu and defeat the Wagang army?

This made Zhang Xuan really a little interested, so he asked: "I don't want to make any military orders, but you have to tell me, how are you going to fight this battle?" ”

Li Jing smiled slightly, "The plan to defeat the enemy lies in knowing oneself and knowing the enemy, I heard that the lord of Suyu County is Zhai Hong, and there is also a Bing Yuanzhen, who only uses small skills to carve insects, so that the Wagang army does not dare to take the next step south." ”

Zhai Rang's ambitions swelled rapidly after sweeping the Central Plains, and then aimed at Luoyang and Jiangdu, Luoyang has a tiger prison and a strong pass arch guard, difficult to attack, and Jiangdu is a horse Pingchuan, Zhai Rang turned his eyes to Jiangdu, he let Shan Xiongxin and Hao Xiaode lead a large army to attack Luokoucang, and he himself and his brother Zhai Hongtun heavy troops in Liangjun and Xuzhou, looking for an opportunity to attack Jiangdu in the south.

At this time, the news of the Jiangdu mutiny came, Zhai Rang thought that the time had come, and he deployed 150,000 troops in Qian County, Pengcheng County and Xiapi County, preparing to intercept Yu Wenhua and go north, but Zhang Xuan actually killed from Donghai County, and directly deployed an interception army on the front line of the Huai River in front of him, which made Zhai Rang angry and anxious, of course he was afraid of Zhang Xuan's Qingzhou, but let him give up this piece of fat in vain, he was unwilling.

Zhai Rang suffers from gains and losses, but he finally decides to take advantage of the fire, and if Zhang Xuan and Yu Wenhua lose both, then his chance will come.

The 10,000 troops in Suyu County are Zhai Hong's troops, led by Zhai Hong himself, because Zhai Hong is more reckless and impatient, Zhai Rang is not worried about him, so he asked the record to join the army Bing Yuanzhen to assist Zhai Hong.

In the early morning of this day, there were peripheral patrol soldiers who came to report to Zhai Hong, and found a Sui army of about 500 people a few miles to the south. ”

He immediately got up and picked up the big knife and strode towards the city wall, when Bing Yuanzhen also heard the news and hurried to the southern city wall.

At the head of the city, Zhai Hong squinted at the hundreds of Sui soldiers who came from afar, the army seemed to be dragging and dragging its feet, and the soldiers were all listless, looking like a group of old and weak troops, led by a school captain.

And the costumes worn by these soldiers are also strange, like the wide robes of performing witch shows, and when they approached the city wall, Zhai Hong found that they were carrying dozens of mountain spirits and tree monsters with paper paste with bamboo poles, some of which read 'Zhai Hong's father, Zhai Hong's mother, Zhai's ancestor', and there was a huge papier-mâché dog with 'Zhai Hong' written directly on it.

The soldiers of the Sui army wantonly insulted under the city, shaking the relatives of Zhai Hong on the bamboo pole, and the soldiers at the head of the city were furious and released arrows together, but the arrows could not reach the Sui army.

Zhai Hong was almost mad, and shouted: "Kaicheng, Lao Tzu is going to skin them!" ”

He rushed to the city with his knife, and Bing Yuanzhen hurriedly stopped him, "General Hugh must be reckless, the Sui army will be ambushed behind, and you will be fooled when you go out!" ”

Zhai Hong is now the number two person in the Wagang Army, and he was already unhappy that his eldest brother sent Bing Yuanzhen to spy on him, how could he take Bing Yuanzhen's words to heart now.

Besides, the main force of the Sui army was not found within ten miles, could it be that his war horse couldn't catch up with this group of old and weak soldiers after running ten miles? Even if he lured the enemy, he dared to insult his parents, he had to chop all these people into meat sauce in order to get out of the fire in his heart.

He pushed Bing Yuanzhen away and shouted angrily: "If you dare to be verbose, Lao Tzu will cut you into two pieces with one knife!" ”

Bing Yuan was so frightened that he didn't dare to stop him, and watched Zhai Hong go down to the city. (To be continued.) )