Things in the world are so inscrutable, Yang Hao tried his best to invite Pei Du to Hedong, he wanted to use his fame to stabilize the situation in Hedong, and then control the military and government of Hedong under his name, so when the imperial court ordered Pei Du to go out of Hedong, Yang Hao seemed both excited and nervous, and he instructed Qu Chuji, Mu Lanqing and other personnel stationed in Beijing to do everything possible to prevent Pei Du from carrying Luoyang cronies into Hedong,

Pei Du is quite a father and important minister, when he went to Hedong with only five students to follow, these five people are undefeated Qingtan Xuanshi, Yang Hao breathed a sigh of relief, but the situation suddenly reversed,

First of all, there was a royal history of Chai Shangyan, Chai Shangyan was immediately dismissed and investigated, and then transferred to Lingnan Baizhou, Pei Du quietly cleared the biggest obstacle to Hedong for himself, Chai Shangyan's sudden downfall, so that Yang Hao tried his best to make a secret agreement with him, suddenly became worthless, this is not the end, Pei Du on the way to Hedong, promoted Mu Liangfang, Luo Lai as the deputy envoy of Hedong Jiedu, and at the same time ordered Mu Liangfang to serve as the governor of the left army, Xinzhou Assassin History, Luo Lai concurrently served as Taiyuan Shaoyin, and he himself was left behind in the north of the capital, Taiyuan Yin and Hedong Jiedu make three important positions in one,

The 50,000 garrisons in Taiyuan City seemed to have changed from 50,000 sheep that could be slaughtered at will to 50,000 hungry wolves around Yang Hao, and an invisible pressure overwhelmed Yang Hao.

Pei Du to Taiyuan on the second day in the stay in the house to meet Yang Hao, in the face of the seventy-year-old four dynasties minister, Yang Hao was quite nervous, Pei Du attitude kind, speaking in a soft and gentle tone, so that Yang Hao quite good, very respectful, Pei Du first said two words, grateful to Yang Hao for sending troops south to help suppress the bandits, and then turned to ask Yang Hao: "Now that the Hedong bandits have been calmed, I don't know when you plan to return to Fengzhou, I want to prepare the required grain and grass for you." ”

Yang Hao hurriedly got up and said: "Although the big bandits in Hedong are peaceful, the remaining party is still doing evil everywhere, and the lower officials are willing to help the big boss." ”

Pei Du laughed and said: "I am a hundred thousand soldiers in Hedong, do you have to fake others to catch a few thieves, where do you put my old face when you say this." ”

Yang Hao retreated miserably, and everyone asked the reason, Yang Hao still said with palpitations: "It is said that Pei Xiang is majestic, and it is true, I was dizzy when I said a few words, and I had nowhere to justify." ”

Zhang Bozhong said: "He is forcing adults to leave Taiyuan." ”

Yang Hao smiled bitterly and said, "He wants me to leave Hedong." ”

When everyone heard this, they immediately cheated, and Cheng Ke said: "Is he old and confused, or pretending to be confused, Hedong was beaten down by us, why do you say let us go, let's go, although there are 100,000 troops in Hedong, we are not afraid of him." ”

Yu Yanlu mocked: "Hedong and Fengzhou are the land of the Tang Dynasty, and the Lord and Pei Xiang are both Tang Dynasty courtiers, how can there be a reason for cannibalism, then it will not be in the same stream as those lawless military towns in Heshuo." ”

Cheng Keling said disappreciatively: "In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with those military towns in Hebei. ”

Yang Hao shouted: "Don't talk nonsense, if this word spreads, I have a few heads enough to cut off." ”

Cheng Keling and the others didn't dare to speak anymore when they heard this, Yang Hao was bored in his heart, and kept pacing in the room, and suddenly there was a plan in his heart, he drove everyone out, leaving Zhang Bozhong alone, and discussed with him: "Since Pei Zhongli dares to open his mouth to drive me away, he must have relied on it, and now there are 50,000 Hedong troops around Taiyuan, and our army is less than 5,000. ”

"Do you have a solution?"

Yang Hao smiled slightly, walked to the map of the rivers and mountains of the northern country, found Suizhou City in the southeast and west corners of the river, and used his hands a little heavier: "Let Wu Cao send troops to attack Shizhou and Fenzhou, and force Pei Du to bow to me." ”

"There are two battalions of the Hedong Right Army stationed in Shizhou, and even if he is willing with Wu Cao's troops, he may not be able to gnaw Shizhou."

"Naturally, you can't do it with one Wu Cao, so let Meng Ming go, let the Breaking Wave Camp go to be a bandit, and make trouble in Hexi, Xinan, and the chickens and dogs will be restless, forcing Pei Xiang to bow his head to us and admit defeat." Speaking of this, Yang Hao suddenly wrinkled his brows, his eyes fell on the east and west gates of the river, where three thousand loyal and righteous troops were stationed, and the transfer of the loyal and righteous army was equivalent to opening the east and west gates of the river, Dong Bacheng stationed heavy troops in Lanzhou, and Shi Xiong also stationed heavy troops in Linzhou, and removed the barrier in the middle, so that the two families could contain each other, and no one was able to interfere in their own affairs.

After weighing the pros and cons left and right, Yang Hao decided to withdraw the army from Hehe, before the withdrawal he wrote a letter to Dong Bacheng and Shi Xiong, indicating that his mission of going south to suppress bandits has been completed, and he is about to withdraw from Hedong, Hehe is still returning to Hedong, Shi Xiong immediately replied to Yang Hao with a letter, promising that he would not fight for Hehe, and Dong Bacheng asked people to bring a message that he would send a brigade to take over the defense of Hehe,

Both families showed restraint, Yang Hao put down a stone in his heart, he decided to see Pei Du again, and informed him of the timetable for his withdrawal of troops for a while, and at the same time he asked Pei Du for 20,000 stone of grain as the reward for this expedition.

Pei Du smiled in his heart when he heard this, it is not easy to transport 20,000 stone of grain from Taiyuan back to Fengzhou, Yang Hao can still take the opportunity to transport grain and stay in Hedong, so he blocked all the roads: "It is natural for you to benefit the people of Hedong and ask for compensation, but as far as I know, more than half of the battalions in your department have suffered casualties, and it is difficult to escort so much grain and grass, you withdraw first, and I will send someone to send the grain to Fengzhou within a month." ”

Yang Hao was stunned, speechless for a long time, and could only smile bitterly: "My lord is so precautionary, what else does the lower official have to say,

I only hope that the wind and rain in Hedong will be smooth from now on, and there will be no more wars. ”

In order to send the Xining army on the road as soon as possible, Pei Du instigated Taiyuan merchants to raise thousands of taels of silver, thousands of catties of bacon, hundreds of jars of wine, and beat gongs and drums to send them to the Xining army barracks for Yang Hao to practice.

On 20 February, the Agni Battalion, the Flying Tiger Battalion, and the Xiaocai Battalion went north first, and then the Weiyuan Battalion and the Fengya Battalion also marched north.

On the same day that Yang Hao withdrew his troops, Liu Wei also began to withdraw from Shuozhou and other places, and the haze that shrouded the east of Hedong for more than two months was about to dissipate, but on the morning of the 21st, a group of horse bandits suddenly attacked and occupied Dinghu County in the west of Shizhou City, and the county magistrate and his subordinates were captured by the horse bandits.

At dusk, the horse bandits besieged Shizhou City, the Shizhou garrison has two battalions of the Hedong Right Army, the number is nearly 3,000, the defenders will not dare to fight the enemy like a tiger, the thieves see that the city is high and deep, and go to relieve the siege, turn to plunder Hot Springs, Lingshi, Fenzhou and other places, the east and west of the river are shaken, and the states and counties are in an emergency, and the snowflakes of the emergency documents generally fly to Pei Du's public case,

Pei Du hurriedly sent Mu Liangfang as a thief envoy to supervise the left army of Hedong to the south to quell the chaos.

On the night of the 21st, the thieves broke through Huoyi, crossed Fenxi early in the morning of the second day, broke through Hongdong County, Jinzhou assassin Xie Xuezhai led the army to attack, wanted to recapture Hongdong, encountered a thief raid in the Xiaoying River in the west of the city, Xie Xuezhai was defeated and captured, at dusk that day, Jinzhou City was broken, Mu Liangfang heard that Jinzhou City was broken, and the garrison Huoyi did not dare to move forward,

Pei Du urged again and again, only to reluctantly divide the troops to capture Fenxi, the night of the recapture of Fenxi, the thieves suddenly jumped to attack Jiangzhou, the defender of the Hedong Right Army General Hu Ming surrendered without a fight, assassinated Huang Maolin committed suicide, Jiangzhou is located in the southeast of Hexi, surrounded by Hezhong, Zhaoyi, Yanfang, and even the capital of Chang'an, Jiangzhou is restless, and the surrounding towns have a reason to send troops to Hedong in the name of suppressing bandits, which is the result that Pei Du is most unwilling to see,

Under his strict urging, Mu Liangfang stubbornly led 13,000 people to Jinzhou, and was defeated in two battles.

Pei Du gave Dong Bacheng the ambassador of the southwest states to ask for thieves, and ordered him to lead the front army in Hedong to go south to fight for thieves, Dong Bacheng knew very well that the so-called bandits were the neighboring Suizhou official army and Yang Hao's wave breaking camp, as early as when Meng Ming captured Shizhou, he sent his cronies south to investigate what Meng Ming did, every time Meng Ming broke through the state and county, he would severely suppress the corrupt officials and corrupt officials, local tyrants and inferior gentry, and then open warehouses to release grain, and help the poor and poor, the people not only hated the "thief" but led the way for the "thief", and reported the news for the "thief".

Dong Bacheng said to Li Yufang: "If I don't kill such a 'thief', I will only touch a nose if I go." ”

Li Yufang said: "If the teacher doesn't go, Pei Zhongli can only turn to Yang Hao for help, this game of dead chess will make him come alive." ”

Dong Bacheng shook his hand and said: "It's not him who wins, or the biggest winner is not him, if Yang Hao goes south, Liu Wei will also go south, and finally the northern states of Hedong fall into the hands of Liu Wei, although these states are poor, but their status is dangerous, in the long run, it is much more advantageous than the southern states occupied by Yang Hao." ”

Li Yufang said with a smile: "The student's opinion is different from that of the teacher, if Yang Hao gets Jin, Jiang and other places, he will have a basis to peek at Guanzhong and Heluo, which is not a good thing." ”

Dong Bacheng laughed and said: "Maybe I'm old and can't understand the chess played by young people, but it's not necessarily a good thing to show up before I have fledglings." ”

Pei Du sent a request to Yang Hao for help, and Yang Hao immediately ordered the Loyal and Righteous Army to capture Shizhou, the Agni Battalion to capture Fenzhou, the Flying Tiger Battalion to capture Fenxi, the Xiaocai Battalion to capture Cizhou, the Weiyuan Battalion to occupy Wanquan, the Fengya Battalion to occupy Wenxi, the Tiger Battalion to enter Yangqu, and the Po Battalion to return to Xinzhou.

After Mu Liangfang saw Yang Hao's reinforcements, he was a little bolder, and he wanted to capture Jiangzhou before Yang Hao, and seize the first credit, he personally supervised the army to attack the city, and attacked for two days in a row, but failed to move forward, and on the night of the second day, the troops were exhausted, Meng Ming robbed the camp in the middle of the night, and burned the joint camp for twelve miles, Mu Liangfang fled to Fenzhou in embarrassment, and was immediately detained by Yu Yanlu, and on the second day, the Flying Tiger Battalion divided troops to occupy Jinzhou, and the Hedong Army military food and equipment were piled up,

After Meng Ming was surrounded on all sides, he symbolically resisted for two days and announced the surrender of the official army, Yang Hao immediately "dismissed" the department on the spot, and pardoned the main culprit, the bandits in the east and west of the river were eliminated, and all the states and counties fell into Yang Hao, Yang Hao felt that his troops were insufficient, and it was not suitable to stretch the battle line too long, so soon after occupying Jiangzhou, he took the initiative to abandon Jiangzhou, Cizhou, Fenxi, Wenxi and other places, and shrank the main force in Fenzhou, Shizhou, Xinzhou and other areas near Taiyuan,

Soon after, Mu Liangfang and his Hedong Left Army were ordered to garrison Jiangzhou, Jinzhou and other southwestern frontiers, Hedong Right Army was ordered to garrison Qinzhou, Yizhou and other southeastern prefectures and counties, Hedong Rear Army was ordered to go north to garrison Daizhou, although the Hedong Central Army stayed in Taiyuan, but the main force was stationed in Wenshui, Taigu and other small cities, and only Pei Du's pro-military camp was left in the huge Taiyuan city,

Yang Hao ordered the leopard battalion to be stationed in Taiyuan City, the Fengya battalion to be stationed in Yangqu, the Po Yu battalion to be stationed in Xinzhou and Langu, the main force of the Polang battalion to be stationed in Fenzhou, and the first to be stationed in Shizhou.