At noon, Yang Yuanqing's army arrived in Xianyang, about half a mile away from Xianyang City, the gate of Xianyang County was wide open, and the county commander Wei Yijie led more than a dozen officials to go out and surrender.

Wei Yijie is the younger brother of Wei Ji, is an important figure in the Wei family, he was originally an official of the Ministry of Rites, because Liu Wenjing was implicated in the case, demoted to Xianyang County Order, there is no garrison in Xianyang County, only more than 100 veterans open and close the city gate, Wei Yijie knew that he could not defend the city, and was afraid that the Sui army would plunder the people's food, so he had no choice but to open the city and surrender.

A Sui soldier led Wei Yijie to Yang Yuanqing, and Wei Yijie knew that it was Yang Yuanqing, the king of Chu, who had arrived in person.

He was terrified in his heart, knelt down on his knees, held the county order seal high, and wept: "Xianyang Kaicheng welcomes His Royal Highness the King of Chu, and begs His Highness to spare the people of Xianyang and not hurt the people for the sake of non-resistance." ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled faintly and said: "Wei Xianling, don't worry, I didn't come to Guanzhong to kill the people, on the contrary, I came to help the poor in Guanzhong, please get up!" I don't want the county order seal. ”

Wei Yijie was even more suspicious in his heart, there were 20,000 stones of grain in the official warehouse in Xianyang, could it be that Yang Yuanqing wanted to open the warehouse to release grain? Wei Yijie didn't dare to say more, so he had to stand up and say, "Your Highness, please go into the city to rest!" ”

When the Sui army attacked Chang'an at noon, many soldiers were wounded by arrows and needed to recuperate, so he nodded, turned back to Luo Shixin and Cheng Yanjin and said: "You two go and settle the brothers well, don't disturb the people, and then open a warehouse to release grain, and help the poor people in Xianyang, regardless of men, women, old and children, you can receive food!" ”

"Yes!"

Luo Shixin and Cheng Yanjin saluted at the same time, and the two ran to lead the army into the city. Yang Yuanqing came to the county government under the escort of hundreds of personal soldiers, and he also needed to calm down and consider the next strategy.

In the county council hall, the soldiers quickly put together the sand table, and Yang Yuanqing stood in front of the sand table and was silent, today he was sure that Li Yuan would immediately withdraw his troops to help. Prince Li Jiancheng's side will inevitably return to help immediately, and the army is at least more than 50,000, but will Li Shimin's army come back to help?

Yang Yuanqing was worried about this. His surprise attack on Guanzhong was largely to put pressure on Li Shimin and force him to withdraw his troops back to Guanzhong. Give up the capture of the Central Plains, but with Li Shimin's intelligence, he will inevitably see through his own attempts, whether he will withstand the pressure and resolutely not withdraw his troops back to Guanzhong.

Yang Yuanqing intuitively felt that Li Shimin was likely to withstand the pressure and resolutely not withdraw his troops back to Guanzhong, after all, this was an opportunity to occupy the Central Plains, and now the Sui army had just finished fighting the Turks, and the hinterland of Hedong had suffered heavy losses. The soldiers were physically and mentally exhausted, and they really couldn't afford to fight another big battle in the Central Plains.

Li Shimin should see this opportunity, and it is very likely that he will not withdraw his troops, but if so, how should he deal with this unfavorable situation? Yang Yuanqing paced back and forth around the sand table with his hands. Thinking about countermeasures, at this time, Cheng Yan Jin Xingchong walked in, and shouted as soon as he entered the lobby: "Your Highness, what do you guess I found?" ”

Yang Yuanqing's train of thought was interrupted, and he was unhappy in his heart. turned around and glared at Cheng Yanjin, Cheng Yanjin suddenly realized, he lowered his head in fright, and didn't dare to say a word, Yang Yuanqing snorted and said: "I will spare you this time, and next time I dare to trespass in the lobby, I will be heavily punished with thirty military sticks!" ”

"Yes! Humiliation remembered. ”

Yang Yuanqing retracted his thoughts and asked, "What did you find?" ”

Cheng Yanjin no longer had the excitement just now, he trembled and said: "When I inspected the warehouse, I found that there were many long ladders, strong and tall, all three or four zhang high, very suitable for siege weapons, didn't we bring siege weapons?" These ladders ......"

This discovery made Yang Yuanqing quite interested, and he immediately said: "Go!" Look at it. ”

The warehouse of Xianyang County is on the left side of the county government, about a mile apart, the warehouse is actually two concepts, the warehouse is to store grain, the warehouse is to place money and things, the granary of Xianyang County is composed of two large granaries, a total of 20,000 stone grain is stored, guarded by dozens of officials.

At this time, the granary has been taken over by the Sui army, Luo Shixin led 500 soldiers to open the warehouse to release grain, tens of thousands of people heard the news, carrying sacks, leading donkeys, and even many people are the whole family, anyway, the Sui army does not know.

There were more than a dozen long queues in front of the granary, a thousand steps away, although there were a lot of people, they were also in order, there was no robbery, and hundreds of Sui soldiers and cavalry maintained order.

Yang Yuanqing was surrounded by the guards, and he rode slowly, and the county commander Wei Yijie followed on horseback, his face was full of sadness, these are all tax grains, all the grain is for relief, how can he explain to the imperial court?

Yang Yuanqing pointed at the people queuing up to receive grain, and said to Wei Yijie: "Most of these people are in rags, and they are obviously poor people, isn't it a good thing to give them food relief?" Why is Wei Xianling still so sad? ”