Since Liu Wuzhou raised his army, his momentum has become increasingly huge, and his strength has reached more than 200,000, occupying most of the five counties of Dingxiang, Mayi, Loufu, Yanmen, Lishi and Taiyuan County, and he has established himself as the emperor and changed the Yuan Tianxing.

Liu Wuzhou was mainly based on the Turks, but after the Turks were defeated and retreated in Fengzhou, Liu Wuzhou lost his backstage and began to be a little uneasy, he was afraid that Yang Yuanqing's troops would attack his old nest Mayi County from behind, so that he would be in a disadvantageous situation of being attacked by the enemy on his back.

On the morning of that day, Liu Wuzhou received the news that the Fengzhou army in Yulin County had increased to more than 30,000 people, and this news made Liu Wuzhou feel as if the sky was about to fall, and he locked himself in his room and was sullen all day.

At dusk, there was a guard at the door to report: "Your Majesty, King Song is here!" ”

Liu Wuzhou woke up from his contemplation, sighed and said, "Let him come in!" ”

After a while, Song Jingang, the second person in Liu Wuzhou's army, walked in, Song Jingang was the first general of the king of Mantian, after Wang Basu was exterminated by Yang Yuanqing, he was in ambush for several years, secretly recruited troops and horses, and prepared to rebel in Shanggu County, but Wei Dao'er rebelled first, gathered more than 100,000 troops, and occupied Shanggu County and Boling County, Song Jingang knew that his troops were weak and not Wei Dao'er's opponent, so he led an army of 10,000 people to take refuge in Liu Wuzhou, and won Liu Wuzhou's respect, named him the king of Song, and married his sister to him.

Song Jingang stepped forward and saluted, "See His Majesty the Emperor!" ”

Liu Wuzhou waved his hand and said with a depressed expression: "Don't call me Your Majesty the Emperor anymore, this Your Majesty the Emperor is really boring." ”

Song Jingang knew that Liu Wuzhou was frightened by Yang Yuanqing, so he comforted him with a smile, "Your Majesty, things are not so bad, Your Majesty still has a way out." ”

"What else can I do?"

Liu Wuzhou sighed and said: "Then Yang Yuanqing only used the power of Fengzhou to defeat the Turkic army of 300,000 and annihilate 200,000 people, how terrifying is this, how can I be his opponent?" If he goes east, the first thing he will do is to clean me up, what will you let me do? ”

Song Jingang was quite cunning and had a little vision, so he smiled and persuaded: "The Turkic army is short and avoids its strengths, and gives up the cavalry to fight siege battles, how can it be undefeated?" And Yang Yuanqing has been operating in Fengzhou for many years, with sufficient food and soldiers, it is reasonable for him to defeat the Turks, but Your Majesty also has to think that he killed 3,000 enemies and lost 800 himself, Yang Yuanqing also suffered heavy losses, and he also had to defend Li Yuan's army to the north, and he would inevitably go east with insufficient troops, if we could defeat him in a battle, he could only retreat to Fengzhou, and then the worries had been solved, and we would capture Taiyuan City in one fell swoop, and the army would go south, and the land east of the river would be owned by His Majesty, which was enough to compete with the Central Plains. ”

Liu Wuzhou was not stupid, he was just frightened by Yang Yuanqing, at this time he had gradually calmed down, and he was deeply convinced of Song Jingang's words, he paced and pondered with his hands behind his back, walked around the room a few times, he finally made up his mind, gritted his teeth and said: "To Yang Yuanqing, we can show weakness first, be proud of his heart, and finally trap him!" ”

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Yulin City by Ying Yanglang Song Chun led 3,000 troops to defend, Song Chun is the old general who was the original and Cui Pojun in Mayi County to practice martial arts, experienced, when the Turkic army attacked Fengzhou, Liu Wuzhou wanted to take the opportunity to occupy the five cities of Hetao, and sent troops to attack Yulin City several times, Song Chun responded with a strong wall and cleared the field, held the city, and finally made Liu Wuzhou's army collapse under Yulin City, Yang Yuanqing rewarded him for his merits and named him the Yulin Overseer.

At this time, Yulin City was already a large army, the most elite 30,000 troops of the Fengzhou Army were stationed outside Yulin City, the camp covered a vast area, thousands of big tents stretched for more than ten miles, outside the camp, a team of patrol scouts extended to a hundred miles away.

On this morning, a team of scout cavalry escorted a convoy from the east to come, this convoy is composed of 100 carts, the front 60 carts sit more than 300 young and beautiful palace women, the back more than 30 cars are full of all kinds of gold, silver, jade, jewelry and other treasures, these palace women are Fenyang palace women, including jewelry and jade, but also Fenyang palace things, originally Liu Wuzhou intended to dedicate to the Turkic Khan, but the Turks were defeated by Yang Yuanqing, Liu Wuzhou changed his mind, ready to reward them to the generals in the army, But Song Jingang persuaded him to leave these beauty jewels, which would be of great use in the future.

In Liu Wuzhou's opinion, if he can defeat Yang Yuanqing, he can also take back these beauty treasures, but if he is defeated by Yang Yuanqing, he can't keep these beauty treasures.

The person who escorted the beauty treasure this time was the merchant Wang Jinfu, who was originally the Turkic liaison envoy in the Central Plains, and was also Liu Wuzhou's household secretary and Turkic envoy, who was cunning and good at disguise, and this time Liu Wuzhou sent him to test Yang Yuanqing's reality.

The team came all the way to the west, and in the distance, they had already seen the Fengzhou Sui army camp, and the high red eagle flag was flying over the camp.

Yang Yuanqing also arrived at the Yulin camp only last night, and at this time he was holding a meeting with the generals in the big tent of the Chinese army to introduce the current situation in Hedong and Hebei.

At present, after Fengzhou turned all the militia troops into a regular army, there were a total of 100,000 troops, he left Yang Xuanhui and Yang Jiachen to lead 20,000 troops to guard Lingwu County, Pei Renji and Ma Shao led 30,000 troops to guard Fengzhou, and his henchmen Yang Wei and Tiewei Liulang Yang Zongzheng led 20,000 troops to patrol the five counties of Guanbei.

There were only 30,000 troops left in such a surplus army, and Yang Yuanqing led the 30,000 elite army to the east, with a large number of generals, marching Sima Li Jing, the main book Xie Sili, the record of the army Pei Jin, the generals Yang Sien, Pei Xingyan, Su Lie, Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, Xie Yingdeng, Niu Jinda, Gao Zikai, Cui Pojun, Zhao Wu and dozens of others, as well as Xu Shiyun and Cheng Yanjin, who had just taken refuge in him, can be described as full of talents.

Dozens of people were standing in front of the sand table in the big tent of the Chinese army, and everyone was listening attentively to Yang Yuanqing's introduction of the situation in Bingzhou, that is, the Hedong region.

The mountains and rivers of the sand table include Hedong and Hebei, two wide and long, four zhang long, made by 400 scouts and 80 craftsmen in a year, and it is also the most advanced sand table map in the world.

Yang Yuanqing held a long wooden pole in his hand and pointed to the small town of Shanyang County: "This is the capital of Liu Wuzhou, including Kaiyang County, Yanmen County and Fenyang Palace in the south, a radius of two hundred miles, this is the core area of Liu Wuzhou, Liu Wuzhou's 200,000 troops are basically distributed in this area, let's look at the south." ”

Yang Yuanqing's wooden pole pointed to Taiyuan, "From the south of Taiyuan City, it is basically Li Yuan's territory, Taiyuan City is the foundation of Li Yuan's army, with a large population and sufficient materials, taking Taiyuan is the first step of our Eastern Crusade, but now Taiyuan is still in the hands of Li Yuan, guarded by his fourth son Li Yuanji, with an elite army of 50,000 people, and it is precisely in this way that Liu Wuzhou's 200,000 army can not take Taiyuan City for a long time, and there are many troops in the counties south of Taiyuan, and it is initially inferred that there are about 30,000 people, that is to say, Li Yuan has 80,000 troops in the Hedong region. ”

Yang Yuanqing's wooden pole pointed to the east again, and said to everyone: "Hebei Hedong is only separated by a Taihang Mountain, at most three days away, to attack Hedong can not ignore Hebei, in fact, the situation in Hebei is more complicated than Hedong, Liaodong has Gao Kaidao occupied, Youzhou is controlled by Luo Yi, but the nominal Sui army, in fact, has become independent, Shanggu County and Hengshan County are controlled by Wei Dao'er, and the south is mainly Dou Jiande's territory, the power is huge, the army is 300,000, ten times that of us, but according to the latest information I have obtained, in Wei County. ”

Yang Yuanqing pointed the wooden pole to Anyang County and said: "There is also a Sui army in Anyang County, Wei County, led by Yang Shanhui and Yao Junsu, the former Qinghe County Tongshou, about 10,000 people, Dou Jiande led the army to attack several times and failed, this Sui army will be our powerful ally." ”

Yang Yuanqing waved his hand, everyone returned to their seats and sat down, he put down the wooden pole and said to everyone: "This time we are going eastward, I am afraid that all the forces will encounter, now all the forces in Hebei and Hedong are in a state of temporary equilibrium, our arrival will inevitably break this balance, the Hedong campaign is not only a matter of the three families, the various forces in Hebei will be more or less involved, this will be a complicated crusade, I don't know when it will end, but I hope that the first phase of the campaign will be ended before the thirteenth year of the great cause." ”

Yang Yuanqing glanced at everyone again, and asked with a smile, "What do you think?" ”

Qin Qiong raised his hand and asked, "Chief, how is the situation of Liu Wuzhou's army?" ”

This is also a question that everyone is concerned about, and the marching Sima Li Jing stood up and said with a smile: "Let me answer this question!" Liu Wuzhou occupied several counties except for Lishi County slightly wealthy, the other counties are border counties, the population is not large, Liu Wuzhou almost all the men are requisitioned as soldiers, up to sixty old men, down to fourteen teenagers, there is no combat effectiveness at all, only his 70,000 directly subordinate troops stationed in Shanyang County have a little combat effectiveness, the rest are rabble, backward equipment, and Liu Wuzhou also has a fatal weakness, that is, his army does not produce, relying on plunder to replenish, the reason why he can support until now, The main Turks gave him millions of cattle and sheep, once these million cattle and sheep are exhausted, he faces a food crisis, so he can't afford to spend more than us, for the battle of Liu Wuzhou, we might as well fight a little more calmly, it is best to use his strength to weaken the defense of Taiyuan. ”

Li Jing's analysis made everyone nod their heads again and again, and Yang Yuanqing said to everyone: "I will add one more point, the domestic army should be different from the Turks, try to kill as little as possible, and focus on live prisoners, from today onwards, the rule of remembering merit by head will be officially abolished, and one person will be captured alive, and the reward will be doubled. ”

At this moment, a personal soldier reported at the door of the tent: "Report to the chief, Liu Wuzhou sent a messenger to ask for a meeting, and sent a lot of treasures and women. ”

Everyone laughed, and before Liu Wuzhou could fight, Yang Yuanqing smiled at the generals: "Everyone follow me to the outside of the camp to have a look." ”

Everyone followed Yang Yuanqing to the outside of the camp, the front of the camp was full of carriages sent by Liu Wuzhou, but the soldiers guarding the camp did not allow them to enter, the Fengzhou army had strict military regulations, and during the war, women were not allowed in the barracks.

At this time, the camp gate opened, and a group of cavalry rushed out, and then Yang Yuanqing led dozens of civil and military generals to ride out of the camp.

Wang Jinfu hurriedly ordered three hundred palace maids to get out of the car and line up, and asked people to carry down boxes of jewels and jade, he walked quickly to Yang Yuanqing and bowed, "Emperor Dingyang's Imperial Household Department Shangshu Wang Jingui See Chief Yang Chief!" “