In the military camp of Heyang County, a stormy military discipline purge has just ended, Yang Yuanqing was ruthless, digging deep into the drinking incident of 15 officers, he always thought that 15 soldiers can go out of the barracks at will, and the water in this must not be shallow.

Sure enough, under the continuous reports of the soldiers, two major gangs were unearthed from the 30,000 Hanoi garrisons, one Gaojipo faction and the other Douzigang faction, involving thousands of people, and the fifteen officers were all Gaojipo factions, and it was the turn of their gang members to be on duty that enabled these fifteen officers to calmly leave the camp and go to drink.

Yang Yuanqing was extremely angry by the results of this investigation, and he beheaded all 16 people led by the two gangs, and the remaining 1,300 or so people were all purged out of the army and sent back to their hometowns.

As the chief general, Xu Shiji was ineffective in controlling his subordinates, and was beaten with a hundred military sticks, and was removed from the post of chief general of the Hanoi army, and Li Jing was appointed as the chief general of the Hanoi army, and Xu Shiji was demoted to deputy general.

Through this purge, the rotten muscles in the army were dug up, and military discipline was completely renewed, and the arrogance that prevailed among the soldiers was also washed away, the military appearance was invigorated, and the morale was greatly improved.

At this time, the news of the Tang Army's capture of Hongnong County on all fronts also came, and the atmosphere in the barracks began to become tense, which was a kind of seriousness before the big war.

In the early morning of this day, Yang Yuanqing came to the Yellow River with more than a dozen generals and hundreds of soldiers, and on the wide river, a fleet composed of more than 500 warships was slowly sailing, which was a fleet from Taiyuan, carrying 20,000 troops and a large number of ordnance materials and siege baggage.

The fleet stretched for nearly 100 miles, with no end in sight, and the momentum was magnificent and immense, and more than 100 troop transport ships led by it had been moored on the shore.

A group of soldiers got off the boat and quickly lined up on the shore, led by two generals, the main general was Yang Wei, the fat San Lang, and the deputy general was Wang Junkuo, a flower knife general nicknamed 'Xiao Guan Yu'.

In the ranking of the top ten fierce in the world, the generals of the Sui army, Su Dingfang, Wang Junkuo and Yang Wei are all nameless. But if the ranking is extended to sixteenth, Su Dingfang and Wang Junkuo can both be on the list, and Tang generals Qu Tutong and Duan Zhixuan can also be on the list.

In addition to the ten fierce generals, there are still four wonder generals, these are four different generals, one is the Sui general Yang Wei, the only general who rides a camel to fight, and his camel can also bite people and horses. It's hard to prevent; One is Xia Jiang's demon knife Song Jingang. A flying knife is elusive and extremely powerful; There is also a Xiliang old man who will protect his children, and his water kung fu is unparalleled in the world; The other is Shen Guang, the Sui general Meat Flying Immortal. It's a great achievement.

Yang Wei and Wang Junkuo stepped forward and knelt down on one knee, saluted Yang Yuanqing and said, "Humble Yang Wei and Wang Junkuo are in charge!" ”

Yang Yuanqing hurriedly stepped forward to help the two of them up, and said with a smile: "The two generals came from afar. It's been a hard work. ”

Yang Wei smiled bitterly: "Actually, it's not hard, it's just that it's stuffy and panicked on the boat, so it's better to ride a horse all the way to the road, and you can enjoy the mountains and rivers." ”

Yang Yuanqing patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Since you like to travel in the mountains and rivers, when the world is unified, I will appoint you as the pacification envoy of Linyi, go to the southern Linyi to wander, and wait for you to come back after half a year." You're going to be dark and thin, and you probably won't even know your wife. ”

Yang Wei was startled, and waved his hand again and again, "Chief, I don't want to go to any Linyi, it is said that the locusts there are bigger than snakes, don't really let me go." ”

Yang Wei's funny appearance made everyone laugh. Yang Yuanqing walked to a high place again and said loudly to the soldiers: "Brothers have worked hard all the way, now everyone go back to the camp to rest for a day, and officially start training tomorrow, I hope everyone can be rewarded for their meritorious service in the next battle." ”

20,000 soldiers shouted in unison: "I want to serve the governor!" ”

The sound is uniform. High-pitched and loud, soaring into the sky. Yang Yuanqing was slightly stunned, he glanced back at Yang Wei, Yang Wei scratched his head and pointed at Wang Junkuo, "This is not my idea, it is General Wang's training." ”

Wang Junkuo hurriedly saluted, "It's a lowly post that has nothing to do on the ship, and the soldiers are shouting military orders, which is a bit abrupt, please forgive me!" ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled slightly, "It's okay, everyone has worked hard, take the brothers back to the camp!" I will arrange for someone to carry the materials later, so you don't care. ”

He said to Li Jing again: "Li Changshi, take them back to the camp!" ”

"Yes!"

Li Jing agreed, and led Yang Wei and Wang Junkuo's troops to the camp in Heyang County.

Yang Yuanqing walked back to the dock and continued to watch the cargo ships docking, and at this moment, a group of cavalry scouts rushed from the east.

The scout ran to Yang Yuanqing, turned over and dismounted, and knelt down on one knee to report: "Chief Qiqi, we have captured a small boat by the Yellow River in the east, and there is a scribe on the small boat, he said that he has something to find the chief manager, let us give this letter to the chief manager." ”

The leading scout handed a letter to Yang Yuanqing, there was not a word on the envelope, he took out the letter from the envelope and looked at it, frowned slightly, and asked, "Where is this person?" ”

"Five miles to the east, guarded by the brethren."

"Take him to the Heyang County Military Office to see me!"

Yang Qing also had no intention of inspecting the cargo ship again, he turned on his horse and galloped towards Heyang County.

Half an hour later, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and the scout reported at the door, "Chief Qiyu, the people have been brought!" ”

"Bring him in!"

The door opened, and a middle-aged scribe walked in from outside, looking very thin and elegant, he bowed and bowed, "In front of the throne of Wei, the Xuanzao of the Nayan Fang is see His Royal Highness the King of Chu!" ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled and nodded, "It turned out to be Mr. Fang, who has admired his name for a long time." ”

"The humble position is like thunder to the prestige of His Royal Highness the King of Chu, today is the first time to meet, the King of Chu is unparalleled in the world, no wonder the King of Wei always says that His Royal Highness is the dragon and phoenix among the people, and when I see it today, it really deserves its name."

Fang Xuanzao said very sincerely, as soon as he entered the door, he was intimidated by Yang Yuanqing's non-angry and self-authoritative momentum, he had seen Yang Xuangan before, and thought that Yang Yuanqing looked like his father.

But now he found out that Yang Yuanqing looked more like Yang Su back then, and that kind of gesture had a faint appearance of an emperor, which was beyond Li Mi's reach.

Although Li Mi can also be regarded as a hero, compared with Yang Yuanqing, he can only be regarded as a little hero, and he can only be regarded as a domain hero, and Yang Yuanqing has the momentum to annex the world, which makes Fang Xuanzao secretly frightened, is it really this person who takes the world?

Yang Yuanqing smiled and interrupted his train of thought, "I read Mr.'s letter, Mr. said that he was ordered by King Wei to come to discuss major matters with me, I don't know what the major matters mentioned in the letter refer to?" ”

Fang Xuanzao didn't say it explicitly in the letter, he just wanted to test Yang Yuanqing's sincerity, if Yang Yuanqing detained himself aside and met him again after two or three days, it would mean that he was not interested in cooperating with King Wei, and there was no need for him to bother with those words.

If he is very eager to receive him, it means that he and King Wei are of the same mind and coincide, then they can have a good talk.

Judging from the current situation, Yang Yuanqing's performance made him very satisfied, and he was met in less than half an hour, and it seems that his thoughts are not wrong.

Thinking of this, he bowed deeply, "About half a month ago, the Tang Dynasty sent an envoy Wen Daya to Chen Liujin to see my lord, asking Tang and Wei to form an alliance to jointly resist the Sui Dynasty south, King Wei didn't think that there was a mystery behind this, so he agreed, but just a few days ago, the Tang army attacked Luoyang on a large scale and asked the Western Wei to send troops in accordance with the covenant, and the King of Wei knew that he had been fooled......"

Before he could finish speaking, Yang Yuanqing interrupted him, "I don't quite understand, do you have to assist the Tang Dynasty in attacking Luoyang, is it also written in your covenant?" ”

"That's not true, but they didn't say that they were going to attack Luoyang, but to send troops to defend the Sui army from going south, that is, we don't have to participate in the attack on Luoyang, but we must send troops to participate in defending the Sui army from going south."

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "I understand what you mean, what can you do with leaking these to me?" ”

Fang Xuanzao also knew that it was difficult to explain this problem clearly, after all, the king of Wei had signed an alliance with the Tang Dynasty to jointly deal with the Sui Dynasty, and hostility had appeared.

So how can he convince Yang Yuanqing to believe that King Wei did not have the sincerity to cooperate with the Tang Dynasty, Fang Xuanzao thought for a long time, and finally thought of a reason that was not a reason.

He smiled bitterly and said: "I really don't want to hide it from Your Highness, the King of Wei didn't want to form an alliance with the Tang Dynasty at all, but the Tang Dynasty put pressure on us and promised to give us hundreds of thousands of stones of urgently needed food, and we were forced to agree to an alliance with the Tang Dynasty in order to protect ourselves, but we didn't want to be enemies with the Sui army, so we specially served as an envoy to explain this matter to His Highness." ”

Yang Yuan already fully understood what he meant, to put it bluntly, Li Mi wanted to offend both ends of the rat, neither offending the Tang Dynasty nor the Sui Dynasty, but he did not adopt neutrality, but formed an alliance with the Tang Dynasty, and wanted to secretly collude with the Sui Dynasty, which was a typical wall-to-wall grass.

However, Yang Yuanqing, the head of the city, also welcomed it, because in this transaction, the Western Wei Dynasty was both flattering and offended, and also got the grain of the Tang Dynasty.

And knowing the details of the Tang Dynasty, he can make full use of this loophole to arrange the battle, it can be said that he is the biggest beneficiary, and the unlucky one is only the Tang Dynasty, which is called losing his wife and breaking his army.

Thinking about this, the obstacles to cooperation were swept away, and the rest was how to cooperate, Yang Yuanqing asked him again: "Does the Western Wei Army have any plans?" ”

"Back to His Royal Highness, King Wei's plan is to send troops to Dongjun to confront the Sui army in Liyang, of course, King Wei doesn't want to fight with the Sui army, he just wants to find an excuse, if His Highness can find an excuse for us, we are grateful."

Yang Yuanqing pondered for a long time with his hands behind his back, and said lightly: "I can give you an excuse, or I can promise not to attack Chen Liu for the time being, but Mr. should understand, and King Wei should understand even more, what do you use to show the sincerity of cooperation between the two sides?" ”