This time, Zhang Xuan urgently went south because the Tongji Canal was intercepted by Du Fuwei's army, which interrupted the north-south traffic and seriously affected the north-south freight and material exchanges, which was a major event that the court and monarch of the Great Sui Empire could not tolerate.

They boarded a 2,000-stone boat from Luoyang's Black Dragon Pond, traveled all the way east, entered the Yellow River when it was dark, and two days after leaving Luoyang, the ship turned into the Tongji Canal and soon arrived at Xingze County.

There are hundreds of big ships moored on both sides of the wharf in Xingze County, Zhang Xuan's ship slowly docked, Zhang Xuan stood on the side of the ship and looked at the county seat not far away, just on the south side of the county, a military camp stood on the vast field, and a big cyan flag fluttered in the wind over the camp.

"Husband, why is that flag cyan?" Lu Qing slowly walked to Zhang Xuan's side, she was wrapped in a red shoulder veil, although it was a summer morning, the river wind was strong, and she pulled the scarf tightly.

Zhang Xuan gently hugged her delicate shoulders and smiled: "That's my battle flag, the cyan represents Qingzhou, the flying dragon on it represents the Celestial Empire, my five elements belong to the earth, and the dragon body is black, so it is called the Qingtian Black Dragon Banner, and our army is also called the Qinglong Army." ”

"Is that the husband's army?"

Zhang Xuan smiled and nodded, and then he saw a group of cavalry rushing towards this side, so he said to his wife: "The wind on the river is too strong, let's go back to the cabin first!" ”

The wind on the river was very strong, blowing Lu Qing's hair very messy, she nodded, turned around and went back to the cabin.

At this time, the big ship shook for a while, and finally docked at the dock, Zhang Xuan walked off the big ship quickly, and after a while, more than 100 cavalry rushed like lightning, and the people led by him were his three generals. Luo Shixin, Pei Xingyan and Wei Chigong.

"Big brother!"

Luo Shixin turned over and dismounted, walked forward quickly, and said with a smile: "Congratulations on the marriage of the eldest brother!" ”

Pei Xingyan and Wei Chigong also came forward to congratulate, Zhang Xuan smiled and punched one person in their shoulder sockets, "Why don't you guys come to Luoyang to drink my wedding wine?" ”

Wei Chigong scratched his head and said: "We wanted to come, but the general didn't allow us to leave our posts without permission, did the general forget?" ”

"When did I say that?" Jag-hyun himself couldn't help but laugh.

Then. Su Dingfang also walked off the boat quickly, and when Luo Shixin saw him, he shouted happily and greeted him with a smile.

Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin laughed and hugged each other, the two talked and laughed and walked up, Su Dingfang hurriedly saluted everyone, Zhang Xuan smiled and said: "Su Gongzi will be called General Su in the future, and he will participate in the suppression of bandits with us, and everyone will be the same general." ”

"Didn't the general say that there are still a few civilian officials?" Wei Chigong asked.

Jang Xuan nodded. "There are also a few young people who have joined the army, and they are coming in the second batch."

Zhang Xuan looked at the back again, most of the cavalry behind were his own personal soldiers, they got off their horses and saluted, Zhang Xuan said a few words to the personal soldiers, and asked Pei Xingyan: "Where is Mr. Fang?" ”

"Mr. Fang is still in the barracks."

"Let's go! We'll talk about it when we get to the barracks. ”

Zhang Xuan arranged for his own soldiers to guard the big ship, and he rode to follow several generals to the barracks.

The camp of 20,000 troops covers a vast area, and the tents are neat and orderly. When Zhang Xuan walked into the camp, countless soldiers and generals flocked to the two sides of the camp gate to welcome the return of the main general. The atmosphere was extremely warm, and Zhang Xuan was surrounded by more than 100 generals and stars to the big tent of the Chinese army.

Looking at the expectant faces, Zhang Xuan waved his hand, and the crowd immediately quieted down.

"Everyone should have noticed that our military flag has been replaced by the Qingtian Black Dragon Flag, which means that we are from Qingzhou. It is an army of dragons, we are no longer the Flying Eagle Army, but the Green Dragon Army, and the Holy Lord has agreed to our title, starting today. I will lead you, lead the Qinglong Army to fight in the south and the north, across the Great Sui, everyone, we not only want to enjoy this life, but also go down in history, I believe that we will one day return to Qingzhou! ”

The generals cheered together, "Long live the Blue Dragon Army!" ”

In the midst of cheers, Zhang Xuan turned around and walked into the big tent, but saw Fang Xuanling with a wry smile on his face, Zhang Xuan smiled: "Fang Junshi doesn't want to come to Jianghuai with me?" ”

"Where did the general say, why would I not want to come, just"

Fang Xuanling pointed to the outside of the tent, "What the general said just now is easy to misunderstand, listen, even Banzai shouted out." ”

"They are shouting long live the Qinglong Army, but they are not shouting long live me Zhang Xuan!"

Fang Xuanling knew that Zhang Xuan didn't care about these details, so he had to smile helplessly and walk into the big tent with Zhang Xuan.

"Xuan Ling, in a few days, a group of young people will come to the army, let them follow you!"

In this army adjustment, Zhang Xuan left Wei Yunqi and Liu Ling in Beihai County, and there was almost only Fang Xuanling left as a civilian official, and he urgently needed civilian personnel to replenish him.

"How many people are there?" Fang Xuanling asked anxiously.

"There will be a total of four people, my second brother-in-law Lu Qingyuan, as well as Li Qingming of the Li clan of Zhaojun and Cui Yuanhan of the Cui clan of Qinghe, and the other one is Pei Xiangguo's grandson Pei Hong."

Fang Xuanling only felt that his head was big for a while, he basically knew all these people, they were all children of famous families, even Su Dingfang actually followed Zhang Xuan to join the army, it seems that they don't generally attach importance to Zhang Xuan.

"Won't the general let them go to the local government as officials?"

Zhang Xuan shook his head, "They want to follow me, originally I planned to arrange Li Qingming to be the Cheng of Shouguang County, but he heard that I went to Jianghuai to suppress bandits, but he changed his mind again and asked to follow me in the army, and I also agreed to him, the only thing that gave me a headache was Pei Hong, I didn't want to accept him, but I couldn't hinder Pei Ju's face." ”

"The general can accept Yuan Qing, why can't he accept Pei Hong?" Fang Xuanling asked with a puzzled smile.

"Although they are clansmen, they are not the same thing at all, there is no comparison!"

At this time, Pei Yuanqing and several other generals walked in, Fang Xuanling didn't ask any more, Zhang Xuan sat down on the handsome seat, and asked everyone to sit down too.

"This time I was ordered to fight Jianghuai, to be honest, it was not only unexpected by me, but also reasonable, the Qingzhou bandits have been suppressed, and the Son of Heaven will not let us sit and enjoy peace, either go north or south, it is not our turn to fight Wagang, and the bandits in Shanggu County are left to Wang Shichong, so we will go south."

"But in a place as big as Jianghuai, where should we start?" Pei Xingyan asked.

Zhang Xuan gave Fang Xuanling a look, Fang Xuanling understood, stood up and hung a map of Jianghuai on a wooden shelf.

Fang Xuanling said to everyone: "According to the news of the imperial court, Du Fuwei cut off the transportation of the Tongji Canal and robbed 100,000 stone official grain, I have sent scouts to investigate, the scouts just sent information last night, the grain robbery incident occurred on the Huai River, the whereabouts of 100,000 stone official grain are currently unknown, at the same time, there are Du Fuwei's sentinel boats patrolling on the Huai River, no boat dares to pass through this section of water, and the Tongji Canal has actually been cut off. ”

Jang Hyun asked, "How many sentinel ships are there?" ”

"The intelligence says that there are more than 100 ships, the ships are not large, but they are very flexible, and the thieves are ruthless, and all the transit ships have been burned, and it is said that hundreds of passenger ships and caravans have been burned."

"Do you understand?"

Zhang Xuan said slowly: "This is our first task, to restore the north-south traffic of the Tongji Canal, if Du Fuwei wants to continue to fight, it will be a vicious battle." ”

Zhang Xuan asked Fang Xuanling again: "How much grain do we have?" ”

"General Hui, this time Jiangducang will support us with 100,000 stone of military rations, and Liyangcang has allocated more than 100 military ships to us, all of which are moored on the Tongji Canal, these big ships will also be the capital for us to fight against Du Fuwei in the future, and our own money and grain are left in Beihai County, according to the general's orders, half of it will be used to appease the families of the soldiers, and the other half will be used as a strategic reserve, which will be kept by Wei Changshi."

Zhang Xuan nodded, and said to everyone: "Although the imperial court is in a hurry this time, we can't be in a hurry, let alone be swayed by the imperial court or the military department, that will be too passive, we must deal with Du Fuwei's army according to our own deployment, don't rush to do it with Du Fuwei first, but stabilize the army, so the first step is to go to Jiangdu and lay down the foundation first." ”

Everyone was taken aback, "General, should our camp be located in Jiangdu?" ”

Zhang Xuan nodded slowly, "Now the lord of Jiangdu will be General Chen Ling, but he is about to lead the army south to Wu County, replacing the previously captured Yujuluo, as soon as he leaves, there will only be 5,000 troops left in Jiangdu, so the Holy Lord asked us to be responsible for the peripheral defense of Jiangdu, and the Ministry of War agreed that our military government can choose the location, either in Jiangdu, or in Hefei or Liyang, I thought about it, or Jiangdu is the most suitable." ”

"General, when are we leaving?" Luo Shixin couldn't help but ask.

Zhang Xuan smiled slightly, "Set off early tomorrow morning!" (To be continued.) )