The world of the Great Sui is becoming more and more chaotic, and no matter how beautiful Chen Fuliang fights on the battlefield in Guanzhong, he can't stop the seventy yards of the wheel of history, let alone those big and small thieves who have raised flags and rebelled one after another, and become a righteous teacher of the people.

Xiao Miao, a relative of Xiao Guo's uncle, raised troops earlier than in history, just entered September in Luochuan County, proclaimed himself Liang Gong, rebelled from the Great Sui court, and pulled up a team of more than 30,000 people in less than five days, the surrounding Sui army and local troops not only did not send troops to suppress it, but also changed banners and attached themselves to him, and took the initiative to take refuge in the Liukou people who were obedient to him like a carp crossing the river, and the counties around Dongting Lake quickly broke away from the rule of the Great Sui court and became Xiao Miao's territory.

Dou Jiande proclaimed himself the king of Changle in the river and changed the yuan to Ding Chou; Guo Zihe, who is still called Li Zihe, became the king of Changle in Yulin, Jianyuan Zhengping; Liu Wuzhou directly proclaimed himself emperor in Mayi and changed his name to Tianxing; Lin Shihong killed Chen Fuliang's old comrade-in-arms Liu Ziyi, and proclaimed himself Emperor Chu in Qianzhou, with the year name Taiping; Liang Shidu also became the Liang Emperor in Yan'an, which was very imperial, and Jianyuan Yonglong; Coupled with Li Mi, Xue Ju and Li Liang, who had already been called emperors, kings and dukes before, there were more than ten era names in the thirteenth year of the Great Cause.

The most troublesome is still Li Mi and Zhai Rang, and finally survived to Chen Fuliang, the loyal lackey of Emperor Yang of Sui, who entered the pass westward, Zhai and Li's thief army immediately attacked the eastern capital in two ways, and used the secret tunnels excavated before to attack the Tiger Prison Pass, and then surrounded Luokoucang, Wang Shichong, who replaced Chen Fuliang to defend the eastern capital, was entangled by the main force of the Zhai and Li coalition forces in Hanoi, and could not quickly return to the division to rescue, Yang Tong sent Duan Da to lead the army west to rescue Luokoucang, but the follow-up reinforcements led by Li Mi and Zhai Rang rushed to cross the Yellow River and arrived at the Luokoucang battlefield, Attacking Duan Da head-on, although Duan Da had a lot of soldiers and horses in his hands, the elite soldiers had been taken away by Chen Fuliang and Wang Shichong, and they were defeated and fled by the elite Zhai Li thief army, losing more than half of them.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, Pei Renji, who was accustomed to cheating his father, once again pitted the Zhai and Li coalition forces, and was ordered to contain Wang Shichong, but he fell into Wang Shichong's trick to lure the enemy, and sent troops to pursue Wang Shichong, who pretended to retreat, and was ambushed by the treacherous Wang Shichong, who was beaten all over the ground to find teeth, and less than 1,000 of the more than 20,000 soldiers and horses fled back to Linqingguan, fortunately, Wang Shichong was eager to return to the Eastern Capital, and immediately returned to Heyang to cross the river to the south after getting rid of Pei Renji's entanglement.

I must say one more digression here, the author believes that the biggest hero of the Sui army in the eastern capital in history who was able to finally defeat Li Mi was not Wang Shichong, nor did he fight Li Mi's main force Yu Wenhua, but Pei Renji. In history, after Li Mi and Zhai Rang took Luokoucang, they quickly took the last grain and grass supply place of the Sui army in the eastern capital back to Luocang, and in the case of starving the Sui army in the eastern capital, Pei Renji, who was ordered to guard back to Luocang, actually plundered the troops at this critical moment, causing Li Mi's army to be chaotic on its own, and the Sui army in the eastern capital took the opportunity to launch a counterattack, defeated Pei Renji and snatched back Luocang, and transported back a large number of life-saving food to the city, and then relied on these grains until Wang Shichong and others led the army to the Eastern Capital battlefield for reinforcements, which was what happened. Basically, it can be said that if there was no habitual brain water ingress of Pei Renji, a professional household of pit fathers, there would be no later defeat and death of Li Mi.

When he returned to Luoyang to reorganize his troops and prepare to rescue Luokoucang, Luokoucang, which had only a few thousand defenders, had been broken by the red-eyed Zhai and Li coalition army, and the defender Helan Yi was killed, and the ecstatic Zhai asked Li Mi to immediately open Luokou Cang to release grain, and in less than three days, he brought more than 100,000 cannon fodder, and when Wang Shichong hurried to recapture Luokoucang, the strength of the Zhai and Li coalition forces had exceeded 200,000. Although Wang Shichong, who is good at using soldiers, is not afraid of these rabble, he met Li Mi, who is also good at using soldiers.

Under such circumstances, although Wang Shichong himself did not make a request, Yang Tong, the king of Yue, still sent an envoy to contact Chen Fuliang, the eldest brother of the worshipper, and asked Chen Fuliang to withdraw from the Guanzhong battlefield to help relieve the crisis in the eastern capital Luoyang. However, what Yang Tong probably never dreamed of was that his eldest brother Chen Fuliang no longer wanted to return to Luoyang, the eastern capital, at least before something happened, Chen Fuliang didn't want to go back to Luoyang.

Yang Dong's envoy scattered cavalry Chang Shi Cui De arrived in Daxing on October 23, seeing that Chen Fuliang had already taken Daxing by Shun Lì, Cui Deben was once overjoyed, and when he saw Chen Fuliang, he immediately begged Chen Fuliang to return to the army, but unfortunately Chen Fuliang, who had lost all his conscience, immediately pointed to the bloodstained inner city of Daxing and asked: "Cui Changshi, you see for yourself, the blood of the palace city and the imperial city has not dried up, do I dare to return to Luoyang at this time?" ”

Confidently blocked Cui Deben's mouth, Chen Fuliang took out all kinds of reports even more confidently, flipped through them one by one and said: "Cui Changshi, please see, the defeated soldiers of Li Rebel's army are still in Sanyuan, and they may return to Daxing at any time; There are also the slave thief Bai Yupo and the traitor Li Hongzhi, taking advantage of the opportunity of our army to fight with Li Yuan's thief army, they have already wandered to the Shangyi area of Jingzhao County, which is only more than 200 miles away from Daxing, I am gone, these thieves have not taken the opportunity to fight Daxing? These thieves are quite easy to deal with, Xue Ju Xue is the striker, and he is about to fight with Ma Sanbao, the partial division of our army, Dou Jin and Xiao Yu behind him are goods, you know, do I dare to leave Daxing with confidence? ”

In the face of iron-clad facts, Cui Deben obediently closed his mouth, Chen Fuliang changed his tone and comforted Cui Deben, saying that he would definitely try his best to send reinforcements to the Eastern Capital, and persuaded Cui Deben not to be anxious, Wang Shichong had the ability to block Li Mi and Zhai Rang, so to speak, he finally sent Cui Deben to the pavilion to rest, and Chen Fuliang asked Fang Xuanling to show himself Emperor Yang of Sui and Yang Yu, while exaggerating the critical situation around Daxing, and making excuses to stay in Guanzhong.

It was also a coincidence that not long after Cui Deben was sent away, Ma Sanbao sent an urgent report again, saying that Xue Renguo's army had crossed Yu County (Baoji) the day before yesterday, and Fufeng Taishou Dou Jin really stood still, and sat back and watched Xue Renguo pass through his county Zhiyong County, and judging from Xue Renguo's advance speed, Ma Sanbao is likely to be with Xue Renguo within today.

A new problem came again, Chen Fuliang once considered personally leading the army west to meet Xue Renguo, but Daxing had just recovered, the inner and outer three cities were full of devastation, and all kinds of political problems urgently needed to be dealt with by Chen Fuliang himself, and at the same time, the main force of the Sui army was also relatively tired, which was not conducive to launching a large-scale westward expedition. Therefore, Chen Fuliang only considered two other response plans, the first was to follow the original plan, let Ma Sanbao stick to Meixian County to block Xue Renguo's footsteps, and at the same time let his cousin Li Jing lead a detachment of partial divisions to the west to reinforce Ma Sanbao.

The second plan is to lure the enemy deeper, let Ma Sanbao fight and retreat, and gradually hook Xue Renguo to advance eastward, and at the same time hook the main force of Xue Jujun's army to advance eastward, and lead him to Daxing City, which is far away from Tianshui, to fight a decisive battle, so as to kill the main force of Xue Jujun's army.

For Chen Fuliang, who has been accustomed to opportunistic tactics, the second plan is undoubtedly the best and most tempting, but this plan has been resolutely opposed by Fang Mouduan. Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui both reminded Chen Fuliang: "Luring the enemy to go deep and waiting for work at ease is indeed very correct from a tactical point of view, but from a strategic point of view and the people's heart, this is very unfavorable to our army. ”

"Daxing City has been war-torn twice." Du Ruhui pointed out: "Li Yuan's thief army attacked Daxing once, and our counterattack on Daxing was one, although we and Li Yuan's thief army were more restrained, and did not condone the soldiers to plunder the people and rob the people's property, but the two armies clashed, the city was attacked, and the farming and trade of the people of Daxing were still greatly affected, and even the winter wheat was not planted because of the war, and the grain harvest around Daxing in the coming year was a foregone conclusion." ”

"In such a situation, if we lead the main force of the Xue Ju thief army to the decisive battle under Daxing City, then not only will the people of Daxing suffer from another war, but the fields and winter wheat in the west of Daxing will definitely be destroyed, and even if we successfully defeat the main force of the Xue Ju thief army, the food shortage in Guanzhong next year will definitely be very strict, is this the situation you want to see if you stay behind?"

"Brother Keming is right, if you want to stay in Daxing for a long time, you can't just care about tactics and ignore the feelings of the people like before." Fang Xuanling also pointed out: "After months of war in Guanzhong, the people have long been unbearable, whether it is ordinary people or gate valve families, they are looking forward to ending the war and living and working in peace and contentment again." At this time, if we deliberately lead the main force of the thief army to the decisive battle under Daxing City for the sake of tactical advantage, the people of Guanzhong and the family of the gate lords will inevitably be disappointed in you, which will be extremely unfavorable to you to establish a foundation in Guanzhong and consolidate the people's hearts. Keeping the enemy out of the country is your only choice! ”

Nodding silently, Chen Fuliang, a good young man in the new era, immediately accepted Fang Mouduan's anti-ear advice, and after a little calculation, Chen Fuliang said again: "Xue Renguo may not be afraid, I asked my cousin to lead a partial division to the west, and it is definitely not a big problem to block him or push him back, but what if Xue Ju also comes with the main force?" When the time comes, won't I have to lead the main force westward to meet the battle? ”

"I don't think it's very likely that Xue Ju will continue to personally lead the main force westward." Fang Xuanling analyzed: "Xue Ju previously promised to form an alliance with Li Yuan and send troops to Li Yuan's old thief to resist our army, the purpose is definitely not to make Li Yuan's old thief admit that he is the emperor of Western Qin, but to take advantage of the fire to rob and take the opportunity to take the entire Guanzhong." Now that Li Yuan's old thief has been defeated, Xue Ju will definitely consider the consequences of fighting our army alone when he hears the news, and he is threatened by Li Liang and Pingliang staying behind Zhang Long, and the rear is unstable, and he will not weigh the consequences of personally leading the main force westward. ”

"As long as we do two things, Xue Ju will definitely not personally lead the main force westward!" Du Ruhui said again: "First, defeat Xue Renguo with a thunderous momentum, so that Xue Ju's thief army knows how powerful we are, and knows that Daxing is not easy to fight!" Second, force Dou Jin to stand in line, let him turn against Xue Ju's thief army, Xue Ju will be threatened to attack the Daxing Grain Road again, and he can only give up this ill-prepared Eastern Crusade! ”

"Forcing Dou Jin to stand in line?" Chen Fuliang was stunned and hurriedly asked, "How to persecute it?" ”

"It's a foolish brother, brother Xian, you've been too busy these days, and I haven't had time to sue you yet." Fang Xuanling hurriedly bowed to Chen Fuliang, and said: "That's the case, after our army recovered Daxing, we found a lot of official documents and letters from the Wude Palace, and we have obtained the evidence of Dou Jin, Xiao Yu's two thieves and Li Yuan's old thief secretly colluding, and also caught a messenger sent by Dou Jin to contact Li Yuan's thief army. ”

"That's right." Du Ruhui nodded, and said again: "If you stay behind, you only need to send a letter to Dou Jin, pretending to ask if this matter is true or not, whether Li Yuan's old thief deliberately forged and framed Dou Jin, and took the opportunity to ask Dou Jin to stand in line to show loyalty." Then in order to protect himself, Dou Jin can only turn against Xue Ju and make meritorious atonements. ”

"Will that completely force Dou Jin to the side of Xue Ju's thief army?" Chen Fuliang was taken aback.

Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui both smiled, and then Fang Xuanling smiled and said: "Brother Xian, you underestimate the Pingling Dou clan a little, it is true that they support Li Yuan's thief army, but they will not be stupid enough to stand in the wrong position again and again, although Xue Ju is a huge rich man in Longxi, but he comes from a humble background, and Dou Jin will definitely not look down on him after a famous family." And although you are in the middle of the road, you are also a famous family, and at the same time, you are famous for repaying grievances with virtue and have a good reputation, Dou Jin sees that you are not to blame in the past, so you will only go down the slope and get off the donkey and serve the Great Sui court again, and will not fall to Xue Ju, who was born in the common people, as a cow and a horse, and call and drink. ”

Nodding, Chen Fuliang made up his mind and said: "Okay, just do it, even if we completely force Dou Jin to Xue Ju's side, it will be a good thing for us, at least we don't have to worry about this Erwuzai rebelling at any time and seducing and covering Xue Ju to attack us." ”

Finalizing this idea, Chen Fuliang sent someone to invite his cousin Li Jing, and asked Fang Xuanling to write a book for him, hinting and forcing Dou Jin to stand in line, but it was also at this time that Chen Fuliang finally remembered a big event, and hurriedly asked Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui: "Brother Qiao Song, Brother Keming, isn't it?" What you said just now, why did it seem like you wanted me to stay in Daxing? I'm staying in the Eastern Capital, and it's possible to return to the Eastern Capital? ”

Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui looked at each other and smiled, and then smiled and said in unison: "Slip of the tongue, slip of the tongue, accidentally said the wrong thing, we didn't mean that." ”

Chen Fuliang also smiled, and said secretly in his heart: "The two slippery heads must have seen through my mind a long time ago." ”

After a while, Li Jing was invited to Anxingfang to meet with Chen Fuliang, Chen Fuliang immediately told Li Jing of his decision, Li Jing also very much agreed with Fang Mou Duduan's strategy of resisting the enemy outside, and volunteered to lead the army to reinforce Ma Sanbao, Chen Fuliang was overjoyed, and immediately decided to send Li Jing's 30,000 troops, and also decided to send Cheng Yanjin's cavalry team to Li Jing.

Li Jing declined Chen Fuliang's kindness, and took the initiative to say: "Virtuous nephew, General Cheng's cavalry doesn't have to be sent to me, as before, let me command the armies of Niu Jinda and Zhang Jixun, and give me another 10,000 new troops, and 20,000 troops can be dispatched. ”

"Xue Ju's thief army occupies the Longxi Horse Farm, and there must be a lot of cavalry." Chen Fuliang was a little worried, and said: "Uncle Cousin, you don't bring some cavalry over a little, I'm afraid it's not conducive to the war." ”

"Don't worry, I'm sure." Li Jing replied with a smile, and said: "I don't take General Cheng to Meixian, but also for the unity of the army, General Cheng is your old department when you were in Qianxian, and your qualifications and official positions are above me, if you let me command him, I'm afraid that he will not be convinced, Niu Jinda and Zhang Jixun They are now somewhat convinced of me, and they are more handy in command, and when I have established more meritorious deeds and established more prestige, it is not too late for you to let me command more troops." ”

Chen Fuliang nodded, and knew that if he forcibly sent some generals to Li Jing to command, it was likely to cause discord among the generals, and he knew that his cousin of the god of war was absolutely reliable in fighting, so he did not hesitate, and immediately agreed to Li Jing's request, but for the sake of prudence, Chen Fuliang still sent the Zhao Yu team of the National Army and the famous general Qiu Shili brothers to Li Jing, and equipped Li Jing with a hundred musketeers and a large number of firearms, Li Jing did not shirk this time, and accepted it with a smile.

Quickly prepared for the expedition, the next morning, Li Jing led 20,000 partial divisions to send troops west to reinforce Ma Sanbao, Chen Fuliang relieved to devote himself to the internal affairs work, with the help of Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and Wei Zheng and other famous ministers through the ages, the daily operation of Daxing finally gradually got on the right track. On the 26th, the Eastern Capital suddenly sent a courier to Chen Fuliang with an expedited 500 li, saying that Wang Shichong had suffered a great defeat on the battlefield of Luokoucang and had been forced to retreat back to Luocang.

Wang Shichong lost this battle very unjustly, in the battle with the Zhai and Li coalition army, he originally had the upper hand, but Li Mi highlighted the surprise soldiers to attack the black stone fort behind him, the defenders of the black stone fort even lit six wolf smoke to him urgently, leading his army to panic, morale declined, and also forced Wang Shichong to return to the army to save the grain land, the result made Wang Shichong his nose crooked is that the Li Mi army who attacked the Black Stone Fort was only 2,000 people, and they did not enter the fort at all, and at the same time Li Mi took the opportunity to counterattack on all fronts, Killing him to a big defeat, he could only flee to Luocang in defeat, and the balanced situation of the Luokoucang battlefield that Wang Shichong had managed to maintain before was suddenly in vain. And the waste dim sum guards of Blackstone Fort also immediately opened the door and surrendered to Li Mi's thief army.

In order to let Yang Tong and Wang Shichong block Li Mi and Zhai Rang for himself, Chen Fuliang not only considered sending an army back to aid the Eastern Capital, but also began to think about how to promote the break between Li Mi and Zhai Rang, or to urge Li Mi to kill Zhai Rang as much as possible, so that the internal division of the Zhai and Li coalition forces.

"Or, help Li Mi take the eastern capital Luoyang?" Chen Fuliang even had such evil thoughts, "Li Mi takes Luoyang, Yang Tong will die, and there is no one north of the Huai River who can restrain me, I just want to do whatever I want in Guanzhong." ”

Having said that, considering the threat to himself after Li Mi won Daxing, as well as the impact on his moral reputation, Chen Fuliang immediately dispelled this idea, and continued to think with all his might about how to separate Zhai Rang and Li Mi, who should have met each other a long time ago, thousands of miles away, and fully bear the pressure for his father-in-law Wang Shi as much as possible. If you are defeated, you can only flee to Luocang, and the balanced situation of the Luokoucang battlefield that Wang Shichong had managed to maintain before was suddenly in vain. And the waste dim sum guards of Blackstone Fort also immediately opened the door and surrendered to Li Mi's thief army.

In order to let Yang Tong and Wang Shichong block Li Mi and Zhai Rang for himself, Chen Fuliang not only considered sending an army back to aid the Eastern Capital, but also began to think about how to promote the break between Li Mi and Zhai Rang, or to urge Li Mi to kill Zhai Rang as much as possible, so that the internal division of the Zhai and Li coalition forces.

"Or, help Li Mi take the eastern capital Luoyang?" Chen Fuliang even had such evil thoughts, "Li Mi takes Luoyang, Yang Tong will die, and there is no one north of the Huai River who can restrain me, I just want to do whatever I want in Guanzhong." ”

Having said that, considering the threat to himself after Li Mi won Daxing, as well as the impact on his moral reputation, Chen Fuliang immediately dispelled this idea, and continued to think with all his might about how to separate Zhai Rang and Li Mi, who should have met each other a long time ago, thousands of miles away, and fully bear the pressure for his father-in-law Wang Shi as much as possible.