Ning Taoyang's reputation in the army is not as good as Xue Song and Feng Changqing, but he is unwilling to lead the troops outside, because of his respect for Guo Ziyi, he is willing to stay by Guo Ziyi's side and obey orders.

Over the years, I have heard and seen a lot of things from Guo Ziyi, and I can even understand Guo Ziyi's thoughts to a certain extent.

Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi fought in Chuzhou with the same force, this was their last chance, the former was to test the combat power of the Xuanjia Elite Cavalry, and the latter was to challenge the goal in their hearts.

After this battle, the two sides will start a large-scale war, and there will be no chance of such a fair war.

How can a war aimed at destroying a country involve only a few hundred thousand troops?

The battle situation in Chuzhou is currently very delicate, and it is temporarily in a state of equilibrium, and anyone who leads troops will break this balance, but Yang Ping'an is an exception.

If Yang Ping'an led the troops to Chuzhou, Li Guangbi would never send reinforcements to block it, but would draw troops and horses from his headquarters to meet the battle, so that Guo Ziyi could gain the upper hand, and Li Guangbi would definitely send Xuanjia elite cavalry in order to reverse the situation.

This is the purpose of Ning Taoyang's coming, and the reappearing Xuanjia Jingqi has always been a big stone in Guo Ziyi's heart.

Ning Taoyang's words made Yang Ping'an understand a lot of things, and he was still curious that the Northern Expedition launched by the Southern Zhou Dynasty with the slogan of unifying the world only had 30 troops, and Guo Ziyi only had 300,000 soldiers and horses, which was too child's play.

So far, the two sides have been in the tentative stage, and the real large-scale attack has not yet begun.

It's just that the muddy water in Chuzhou, he doesn't want to wade: "General Ning, I'm sorry." ”

"You won't deliberately retaliate because my godfather didn't send troops to rescue Yangzhou, right?" Xue Yufeng asked, Yang Ping'an and Guo Ziyi are her relatives, she hopes that the two can get along in harmony, these days she has been worried that Yang Ping'an will hate Guo Ziyi's previous "death and not rescue".

"Yufeng, the colt is definitely not that kind of person, you misunderstood." It was not Yang Ping'an who opened his mouth to explain, but Ning Taoyang, "Don Ma, will you be able to know the reason?" ”

Yang Ping'an spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders and said, "I have no soldiers under my command." ”

This is a big truth, and Ning Taoyang has to admit this fact.

At present, the military strength of Yangzhou City is divided into four parts, of which the most powerful combat power is not the original Yangzhou garrison with the largest number, but the Shi Siming Department with only more than 10,000 people, the second is the Xue family army with 5,000 soldiers and horses, and the third is Xu Yuan, Yang Ping'an's militia...... It's barely worth fighting.

In this kind of deformed situation, there is only one Yangzhou in the whole world, Yang Ping'an cannot lead the militia of 8,000 people who have just been trained for a few days to fight, and the Xue family army and the original Yangzhou defenders are the two major bargaining chips to clamp down on Shi Siming's department, so Yang Ping'an's "no soldiers under his hands" is also a fact.

"It's the Admiral who was negligent." Ning Taoyang hugged his fists and left, and sighed after walking out of the door.

When he walked away, Xue Yufeng glanced at Yang Ping'an, and said angrily: "Bad guy, Uncle Ning doesn't know you and I don't know, you just don't want to help me do grandpa's favor at all, right." ”

Yang Ping'an chuckled and didn't answer, and took Xue Yufeng into his arms: "How can I be that kind of person, Yufeng, I haven't seen you for a few days, come, let me take care of you." ”

As he spoke, he sat down with Xue Yufeng in his arms, letting the latter sit on his lap, and his hands immediately became dishonest.

Xue Yufeng knocked his hands off: "Don't change the topic and say, why don't you want to help me grandpa, if you dare to fool me, don't blame me for being unkind to you." ”

This girl is getting smarter and smarter.

Yang Ping'an shook his head helplessly, and finally told the truth: "I don't want to be an enemy of Li Guangbi." ”

If he was allowed to choose, he would not hesitate to choose Nan Zhou and help Nan Zhou destroy Tang, because Wu Cong was also his woman, and Yang Rui was uneasy and kind to him.

But Yang Rui controlled his wife and children one step earlier, and he had to stay in Yangzhou as a supervisor, except for guarding Yangzhou, he would never take the initiative to attack the Zhou army.

He couldn't say these words to Xue Yufeng, he could only say that when he went to Nanjing to assassinate Yang Shuo before, he owed Li Guangbi a favor, so he would not be a direct enemy of the other party.

"A woman's kindness." Xue Yufeng was very dissatisfied and rebuked loudly, "This is war, you don't understand, there is only life and death in the face of war, there has never been any human affection, especially if you are still the supervisor of Yangzhou, once you act because of the kindness of a woman, you will not only kill yourself, but also kill too many soldiers." ”

Seeing Xue Yufeng's anger, Yang Ping'an hugged her tightly: "I understand, I understand, but you also said that I am the Yangzhou Supervisor, as long as I am not an enemy who comes to attack Yangzhou, I will not take the initiative to provoke, Yufeng, you have to hurry up and help me train those recruits, and do you think An Lushan has the qualifications to lead the troops." ”

Because he knows some of the things recorded in the official history, Yang Ping'an has always been very similar to cultivating An Lushan.

Shi Siming, a guy who followed An Lushan, can now be called a fierce general, how can An Lushan be just a guy.

"Ann Fatty." Xue Yufeng's face showed embarrassment, "He used to be a firehead soldier, how can he have the ability to lead troops to fight, even if you cultivate, it is useless." ”

"What's wrong with the Huotou Army, isn't your Xue family's ancestor also from the Huotou Army?"

"He also deserves to be compared with my ancestor, for hundreds of years, you are the only one who has a little bit of the shadow of my ancestor when he was young, otherwise how would I have fallen in love with you as a firehead."

Recalling the bits and pieces between the two in Shandong, Xue Yufeng's eyes showed a soft color, and he slowly leaned on Yang Ping'an's arms, his forehead against his chin, gently rubbed, and his body gradually became hot.

Yang Ping'an couldn't help it, his hands were dishonest again, and his lips began to kiss on Xue Yufeng's face, and slowly the two of them pressed their lips against each other, hugging each other with both hands, expressing the feelings in their hearts with the most primitive movements of the human body.

After a long time, Xue Yufeng, whose sideburns were a little scattered, took a bite on Yang Ping'an's cheek and said softly, "How did you offend the saint." ”

After Yang Ping'an escaped from Shandong, she handed over the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" written by Yang Ping'an to Guo Ziyi, and still clearly remembers Guo Ziyi, Feng Changqing and her father Xue Song's changed looks, and Xue Song even beat her brother Xue Yulong violently.

Yang Ping'an's origin seems to be very simple.

After she came to Yangzhou, Yang Ping'an also asked her that fateful question, and now she is desperately recruiting and training, and wants to master the military power, no matter how confused she is, she also feels the strangeness in it.

Yang Ping'an smiled and shook his head: "I didn't offend him, it's just that he is afraid of me, Yufeng, if one day in the future, I leave the north, are you willing to go with me." ”

"Out of the north, you're going...... Go to the south. Xue Yufeng's eyes straightened, "Why, are you thinking too much, the Holy Lord will not harm you." ”

"Will you come with me?" Yang Ping'an didn't want to explain too much, and Xue Yufeng might not be able to understand it if he said too much.

"I do." Xue Yufeng nodded without hesitation, "If the Holy Lord really wants to harm you, I will protect you even if I go out." ”

This is the first time she answered Yang Ping'an's previous question positively, which made Yang Ping'an very moved, the monarch of heaven and earth, the king in ancient times could be said to be a god in the minds of his subjects, even if he was incompetent and mediocre, he could not tolerate the slightest offense, let alone give birth to two hearts.

It was not easy for Xue Yufeng to have this answer.

Seeing that she was worried, Yang Ping'an smiled and stroked her cheek, and said, "Don't worry, if I want to leave in the future, I will definitely think of a proper way to help you get out, and it will never affect your father and brother." ”

Chuzhou is like a quagmire, more than 100,000 people of the two armies of the Zhou and Tang dynasties are now fighting and fighting among them, which lasted for another three months, although it was not intense, but one by one the living lives disappeared in the quagmire, which also shocked people's hearts and highlighted the cruelty of the war.

The kings of the two countries did not wait patiently, and the marshals of both sides understood that it was difficult for the two sides to distinguish the winners and losers, and in the end, this inconclusive war ended at the cost of more than 60,000 lives on both sides.

Li Guangbi retreated to the south of Chuzhou, and the Gao Xianzhi and Yan brothers also led the Zhou army to retreat to the Yangtze River, still controlling the Yangtze River and many important ferries.

This was already in Guo Ziyi's plan, so he did not let Feng Changqing and Xue Song lead the troops to chase the Zhou army east and west, but only ordered his generals to lead the troops south and still confront the Zhou army.

In the past three months, Yangzhou has also undergone a lot of changes, the biggest of which is Yang Ping'an's militia, 3,000 homeless refugees, under the training of Xue Yufeng, barely have the appearance of soldiers, as Yang Ping'an's personal soldiers also have qualifications.

Their family members all died in the war, and they had no worries, and there was a desperate end to the war, so they also had a certain combat power.

The rest of the semi-professional militia, although the combat power is not high, but the number is superior, and there are 10,000 people at the moment, peacetime for the civil war as soldiers, regular training to receive Yang Ping'an's military salary, it can be said that in the entire Yangzhou City, they only listen to Yang Ping'an's words, even if it is Xu Yuan, who has always been very respectful.

Yang Ping'an was happy in his eyes when he saw these changes, but there was one thing that made him very upset, An Lushan didn't have the slightest talent for being a general.

Not only Xue Yufeng pointed out many times, but even An Lushan himself admitted in front of Yang Ping'an many times that he was incapable of leading the troops, and asked Yang Ping'an to lead the troops himself.

Yang Ping'an was unwilling, and insisted that An Lushan lead the tens of thousands of militiamen, especially the 3,000 personal soldiers, and completely handed them over to An Lushan.

An Lushan had military power, which made Yang Guozhong very jealous, and he wanted to get the 3,000 people into his hands several times, but Yang Ping'an refused.

Li Linfu was very clear about his own determination, he never fought for these things, but according to Yang Ping'an's plan, he often walked around with Shi Siming, and in the end he moved to Shi Siming's military camp to live, and was scolded and beaten half to death by Yang Ping'an, who arrived later, completely won Shi Siming's trust and became his confidant.

Xu Yuan commanded the soldiers and civilians in the city, and in these three months, he strengthened the entire Yangzhou city to deal with the war that could expand at any time.

The peace between Tang and Zhou was less than a month, and then a great war destined to change the pattern of the world unfolded with the gathering of millions of troops from the Tang and Zhou countries.