In the imperial study, Yang Guang's anger has disappeared a little, he held an emergency military affairs meeting today to solve the crisis in Xuzhou, but he didn't expect Su Wei to expand the situation and start digging his old bottom, how could he not be angry.

But annoyance is annoyance, how to solve the problem of Xuzhou, but it is an imminent problem, he paced back and forth in the imperial study with his hands, but he couldn't find a suitable way for a while.

At this time, a eunuch whispered at the door, "Your Majesty, Xiao Xiangguo and Wei Shangshu ask to see you!" ”

Wei Xuan came just in time, and Yang Guang was about to send someone to announce him, he nodded, "Call them in!" ”

After a while, Xiao Yu and Wei Xuan hurriedly walked into the imperial study and bowed, "See Your Majesty!" ”

Yang Guang snorted, "Sit!" ”

The two of them quickly looked at each other, and they felt that the anger of the Holy Lord had subsided a lot, which was a good sign.

The two sat down, Xiao Yu gave Wei Xuan a look, let him say first, Wei Xuan smiled: "Your Majesty, Weichen and Xiao Xiangguo want to see each other because they want to discuss with Your Majesty how to solve the situation in Xuzhou." ”

Yang Guang's face was a little more relaxed, and he nodded, "The two Aiqing are people who do practical things, unlike Su Wei who can only talk empty and say a bunch of nonsense, but the problem can't be solved, you can say it!" Any good advice for me? ”

"Your Majesty, the top priority is to send troops, and we must cut off the momentum of Meng Haigong's march to the east as soon as possible.

"What's slow, what's urgent?"

"Your Majesty, the nearest army to Xiapi County is the 3,000 garrison of Langya County, the garrison is in Linyi, the main general is called Chen Haishi, Your Majesty can order him to send troops to attack Donghai County, where is the lair of Meng Haigong, and the families of his core soldiers are in Donghai County. Meng Haigong will inevitably return to the East China Sea. ”

"This is Wei Wei to save Zhao!"

Yang Guang nodded, "The method is not bad, but the troops are too small, only three thousand, and it will not have any effect." ”

"Your Majesty, his task is to buy time for the Second Route Army, and it is enough to contain Meng Haigong for four or five days."

"And where is the Second Route Army?"

"Your Majesty. The Second Route Army was either Zhang Xutuo's army or Jianghuai Zhang Xuan's army, and they were almost the same distance from Xuzhou, and they were all strong troops. ”

Yang Guang pondered for a moment, but did not make a decision immediately, he asked slowly: "Then there should be a Third Route Army in ,,,,,?" ”

"Exactly!" Next to him, Xiao Yu took over the topic.

Yang Guang and Wei Xuan both looked at him, and Xiao Yu said a little eagerly: "Zhang Xutuo is dealing with Wagang, and Zhang Xuan is trying his best to deal with Du Fuwei, but they can't divide their troops for a long time." Therefore, it is necessary to send an experienced general to concentrate his forces to exterminate Meng Haigong. ”

"And who to send? Yuwen Shu? He's dying. ”

"Weichen does not refer to Yuwenshu, and he recommends Qu Tutong."

Yang Guang shook his head, "Qu Tutong is quelling the Tuyuhun rebellion in Xihai County, it is impossible for him to be separated. ”

"What about Zhang Jin?" Next to him, Wei Xuan proposed.

"Zhang Jin's qualifications are sufficient, but there are some experiences," Xiao Yu implicitly pointed out Zhang Jin's shortcomings.

"Just let Zhang Jin go!"

Yang Guang has his own ideas, Zhang Jin's position as the general of the right guard has been done for too long, and it is time to make a move.

Stop for a moment. He added: "Zhang Xutuo and Zhang Xuan don't need to send troops, continue to do their duty." The Second Route Army could let Pei Renji go, but he was unable to besiege Wagang on the East Road, so let him contain Meng Haigong. ”

Xiao Yu sighed secretly, neither he nor Wei Xuan had adopted the two candidates proposed by him.

On the seventh day of August in the 11th year of the Great Cause, Yang Guang appointed the general Zhang Jin as the envoy of Xuzhou and the imperial historian, and sent 30,000 troops to Pengcheng County.

Meanwhile. The military department issued an urgent military order of 800 li, ordering the garrison of Langya County to attack Donghai County, and ordered Pei Renji to abandon the east road to besiege Wagang, and cooperate with Zhang Jin to attack Meng Haigong in the south, so as to contain him in Xuzhou

Although Zhang Xuan only returned to Jiangdu after receiving the news of Meng Haigong's rebellion. But he did not send troops to Xuzhou, although Xiapi County and Pengcheng County were close to Jiangdu County, on the one hand, although there was no order from the imperial court, on the other hand, he was also recruiting and training a naval army with all his might, fighting in Jianghuai, without a strong naval army, there was simply no place to stand.

The city gates and main buildings of the counties of Jiangdu County are plastered with recruitment orders to recruit naval soldiers, and the recruitment conditions are very demanding, but they are also very special, mainly requiring excellent water resistance, and Zhang Xuan wants to build a water ghost special force.

On this morning, Zhang Xuan, accompanied by Shen Guang, rode to the south gate of Jiangdu City.

"General, we have already recruited more than three thousand people, do we need to recruit more?"

"Recruit for two more days, how is the registration situation now?"

"It was very popular at the beginning, but now it has faded a lot, but there are still people who sign up, General, I'm worried that Du Fuwei's people will take the opportunity to infiltrate the Sui Army."

"Of course it's possible, but it doesn't matter, we've been through this kind of thing a lot, so naturally we will have a way to deal with it."

The two said as they walked, and soon came to the south gate, they had been recruiting the navy for almost two months, and now only the south gate was left.

There is a long row of tables next to the south gate near the city wall, there are soldiers standing guard on both sides, and there are three large water tanks in an open space in the middle, and there are two long queues in the big water tank, all of which are young men who have signed up for the water army, there are three or four hundred people, although the number is quite a lot, but compared with the queue of thousands of people in the past few days, the line has been much shortened.

Zhang Xuan turned over and dismounted, and slowly walked to the recruiting point, a captain next to him was startled, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, Zhang Xuan waved his hand and asked him not to alarm others.

Today's main recruiting officer is Wei Chigong, and he is fully responsible for recruiting new recruits this time, although he does not need to recruit soldiers personally, but he has a strong interest in recruiting soldiers and takes the initiative to serve as the main recruiting officer.

Wei Chigong sat in the middle of the seat, and there were four or five civil and military officials on each side.

"Next!"

The officer next to him shouted, a sturdy, burly man stepped forward, the officer pointed to the water tank, no need to explain the rules, the man took a deep breath, and plunged into the water tank, at this time the first step of the assessment, you must dive more than half a column of incense to be qualified.

At this moment, two more young men came out and stuck their heads in the water tank, and the other two officers were taking notes for them, and everyone was watching the three men.

I don't know how long it took, the two people behind raised their heads from the water one after another, they couldn't hold it anymore, Zhang Xuan stood behind and shook his head, neither of them had reached half a pillar of incense, but the first person was still in the water, and it had exceeded half a pillar of incense.

Zhang Xuan was a little interested, wanting to see how long this person could last, time passed little by little, the discussion next to him became louder and louder, and a thin incense finally burned out, until this time, the man suddenly raised his head from the water, gasped for breath, and there was a round of applause on both sides, and even Wei Chi Gong couldn't help but applaud, and actually insisted on a stick of incense.

"What's your name? Where are the people? After passing the first level, Wei Chigong began to ask.

"The villain's name is Zhou Meng, a native of Jiangning County, Danyang County."

"How's it watery?"

"The villain grew up by the river, and swam into the Yangtze River at the age of five to fish."

"Mention the stone locks!" Wei Chigong pointed to a sixty-pound stone lock on the ground.

If you pass the water-based level, there will be no problem if you pass the test with strength, but like this young man, it doesn't matter if you can't mention it.

This young man named Zhou Meng worked hard with one arm, and actually lifted the sixty-pound stone lock high, he changed his other hand to raise the stone lock, and his arms took turns to lift three times, and gently put the stone lock down, his face did not change and his heart did not beat.

"You've been in the army before?" Zhang Xuan, who was standing in the back, suddenly asked.

The officials turned around together, only to find that the main general was behind them, everyone quickly got up and saluted, Zhang Xuan waved his hand to let everyone sit down, his eyes stared sharply at the man, he saw that the man used a spear to stab when changing the stone lock.

The young man's face flushed, and he nodded: "Xiaomin once served in the army in Wu County, and it was Shen Faxing's army, but Xiaomin has quit and returned to his hometown half a year ago. ”

Li Qingming, who was writing his name, heard that this person had been a thief, hesitated for a moment and stopped writing, and he asked, "What proof do you have to prove that you are no longer a bandit?" ”

At this time, a voice came from outside, "I can prove it!" ”

Everyone dodged away, only to see three men in white robes appear outside, the first was a middle-aged man with a long beard and a very elegant appearance, the other was his entourage, and another person was blocked by him and couldn't see his face clearly.

The middle-aged man walked up to Zhang Xuan, bowed down, handed a letter of worship to Zhang Xuan and said with a smile: "I have a little relationship with this brother, I can guarantee that he is not a spy sent by anyone to infiltrate the Sui army." (To be continued.) )