Although Changsun Zhi was the commander-in-chief, the marching route and battle plan were drawn up in advance by the Imperial General Staff, and what Changsun Zhi had to do was to implement it to the letter. The army of the Western Expedition drove to Hongnong, and according to the predetermined plan, the next task was to attack Tongguan.

However, Yang Kan objected to this plan: Tongguan is dangerous to be easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is better to take Puban in the north, cross the river from the ferry over there, and first relieve the siege of Huazhou, Huazhou is equivalent to directly detouring to the back of Tongguan, once the road from Tongguan to Chang'an is cut off, the thieves who are cut off from the back road must be panicked and want to break up, and the two places will be calm, and Chang'an will be self-defeating.

Changsun Zhi agreed with what Yang Kan said, however, he also had concerns, the Hedong rebels were not small, and the leader Xue Xiuyi had worked under him, and he was a brave and resourceful general, not easy to deal with.

In addition, his task is to pacify Guanzhong, and the imperial court has other punishments for Hedong affairs, and if he accidentally falls into the war in Hedong, the imperial court will be to blame. Therefore, the eldest grandson said to Yang Kan: "There are two Xue rebels in Hedong, and I know Xue Xiuyi, who occupies Yanchi, at the beginning, he once followed me to crusade against Zhengping County's rebel Shu, and his merit ranked first, which should not be underestimated."

The imperial court sent the governor Zongzheng Zhensun to crusade against Hedong was trapped by them and could not advance half a step, so this plan was too dangerous. Yang Kan said with a smile: "Zong Zhengzhen's grandson is just a martial artist, where does he know how to march and fight."

Hedong County is stationed on the edge of the Yellow River, Xue Xiuyi's people are all from the east of the county, and now they are following him to fight in the west of the county, leaving his parents and wives at home. In this way, the spirit of the army will be scattered, and they will definitely flee from the wind. ”

Yang Kan is good at planning and eloquent, and his words are so good that Sun Chengye said yes again and again. In fact. The eldest grandson has long coveted Hedong County, and it turns out that there is a salt pond in Hedong County. That's a piece of fat.

In the past, salt was authorized by the government to operate, and it earned high monopoly profits. The fact that so many people risk their heads to sell illicit salt is also an indirect testament to the lucrative profits of the industry.

If the salt ponds are taken back, the salt tax will be enough for the military. Although the imperial court sent Zong Zhengzhen Sun to relieve the siege of Hedong, this kid worked in vain and could not perform for a long time, although the main task of Changsun Zhi was to recapture Tongguan and attack Xiao Baochun's rebels, but, according to past experience, if the attack on Hedong is victorious, it is easy to say that if you win a handsome and ugly thing, of course, if you fail, the imperial court will definitely add guilt.

Changsun Zhi has been weighing the power of this. But. According to Yang Kan, the problem suddenly becomes no longer a problem, why?

Because according to Yang Kan's strategic planning, the capture of Hedong is essentially the capture of Tongguan in a curve, as part of the battle of Tongguan, then the meaning is naturally different. In order to further strengthen the confidence of the eldest grandson, Yang Kan said angrily: If the public thinks my plan is feasible, I am willing to be a pioneer.

The eldest grandson finally made up his mind and decided to act according to Yang Kan's strategy, and ordered his son eldest grandson Yan to lead the cavalry to cross the river north with Yang Kan first.

The advantage of cavalry is that it is highly mobile and suitable for long-distance attacks. Sure enough, the Hedong rebels did not expect that the Taiwan army would cross the river from Hongnong to the north, and the Taiwan army would penetrate into the Hedong territory with a momentum like a bamboo.

Yang Kan quickly occupied the stone cone wall. confronted Xue Xiuyi's army, but Yang Kan knew in his heart that his little strength would really fight Xue Xiuyi. It's not that it's uncertain, it's like a moth fighting a fire and killing itself.

Xue Xiuyi is indeed not an ordinary person. He was born in the Xue clan in Hedong, and once accompanied Yuan Hao to the west. On the way, he received an edict from the imperial court, and those who can recruit 3,000 people to participate in the counterinsurgency can be awarded officials and generals, Xue Xiuyi was moved, so he said goodbye to Yuan Hao and returned to his hometown in Hedong, and immediately drew 7,000 people, and the court did not lose his trust, and immediately promoted him to the fake Anbei general, the West Road general, and then followed the eldest Sun Zhi to pacify the Shu thieves and worship the Longmen town general.

When Xue Fengxian responded to the rebellion in Guanxi, Xue Xiuyi, who had always thought that it was not ideal to be a small town general, suddenly did not want to mix with the imperial court, so he raised his banner and stood on his own, known as General Huang Yue, occupied Yanchi in Hedong, led the army to attack Puban, and established his own independent kingdom in Hedong. Therefore, to deal with a local tyrant like Xue Xiuyi who has a mass base, we must not be hard-hitting.

As a Hongnong person, Yang Kan is very familiar with the local conditions of Hedong, he understands the psychology of the people in Hedong, he knows the origin of the rebels in Hedong, knows the reasons for these rebellions, and knows how to deal with them, so he already has a plan in his heart, and he has already made a plan for the war.

Yang Kan posted a notice in Hedong County: Our Don army is waiting for the infantry to come here, and at the same time observe the people's back.

If the villages are willing to surrender, they only need to send someone to say it, and when the Taiwan army raises three beacons, the villages will also respond to the fire, showing that your villages are of the same mind as the imperial court.

If there is no ignition, it is a rebellion, and the Taiwan army will implement a policy of burning, killing, and looting the three lights in these villages, and all the looted funds will be confiscated and used as a reward for the officers and men of the army.

The proclamation of the official army soon spread to all the nearby villages, and the whole east of the river was shaken, ignition means peace, and those who do not light the fire will be slaughtered in the village. So that night, all the villages in Hedong were lit with Yang Kan's beacon fire.

Suddenly, the entire Hedong fire lit up hundreds of miles, and the rebels surrounding Pusaka were stunned, they thought that the fire was the camp fire of the imperial court's counterinsurgency army, but now they see that the entire Hedong hundreds of miles are the camps of the Taiwanese army, how many troops have been dispatched by the imperial court, and there are probably no millions of people who have no such effect, so that everyone is really afraid, all of them are frightened, where is there still the mind to besiege the city, everyone is still worried about the safety of their wives and children at home, so more and more people desert to run home, and Xue Xiuyi's army actually collapsed like this.

The soldiers who surrendered without a fight were all planned and controlled by Yang Kan. Xue Xiuyi was completely convinced, and the official army destroyed his tens of thousands of troops with just a few pieces of tissue paper without letting go of a single arrow, what a cow, admire! Admire!

Xue Xiuyi had no choice but to ask Yang Kan to surrender, in order to strive for meritorious service, he wrote another letter to Xue Fengxian to take advantage of it, and persuaded Xue Fengxian to surrender as soon as possible so as not to affect the elders of Hedong.

He was definitely not the opponent of the official army, and decided not to make senseless sacrifices with pebbles hitting stones, so he announced his surrender and lifted the siege in Hedong. The rebellion was put down.

The eldest grandson took possession of the coveted salt pond, just when he was happily preparing to make a lot of money from the salt pond. When the imperial decree arrived, the salt tax on the salt pond was abolished. The eldest grandson was very depressed. But he quickly made a decision, and while continuing to run the salt industry, he should collect money, and at the same time writing to the imperial court explaining the necessity of continuing to collect salt taxes.

At present, there is a war in Hebei and a great chaos in Kansai, there are too many places to use money, and now the imperial court is unable to make ends meet, how can I get money? If there is no money, what will the counterinsurgency forces eat? Officers and soldiers who have nothing to eat will definitely evolve into bandits and robbers. Everyone understands this truth.

Changsun Zhi's opinion is undoubtedly correct, the imperial court really has no money now, not long ago, in order to quell the rebellion in Guanxi, the imperial court even promulgated the reward for selling officials, those who lose corn to Ying, Ding, Qi, and Yongzhou will be rewarded with 200 rewards for official fights; Those who enter Erhuazhou will be rewarded with 500 stones.

There is no limit to how many, Su Bi is an official. The price is not unreasonable. But the results are very small, the wars are still frequent, the official hat is worthless, how many people are willing to do the loss-making business?

So. The imperial court can only choose to acquiesce in the behavior of the eldest grandson. Yang Kan calmly crossed the river to relieve the siege of Huazhou, and crossing Huazhou was equivalent to going around to the back of Tongguan.

Guo Zihui, the general of Tongguan, saw that he had been copied from the back road, and he also abandoned the pass and fled to Chang'an. The eldest grandson occupied Tongguan and guarded it with Yang Kan as the governor. Yang Kan took Wei Xiaokuan as his Sima. Yang Kan admired Wei Xiaokuan's talent very much and recruited him as his son-in-law.

Arrange the affairs of Tongguan. The eldest grandson continued to march west with the iron children, and the army marched towards Chang'an.

A tough battle is just around the corner, and Changsun Zhi is ready, but unexpectedly, before Changsun Zhi's army arrives in Chang'an, Xiao Baochun has already taken off his dragon robe and abandoned the city and fled. At the same time that the government army defeated the rebels besieging Huazhou and captured Tongguan, the shape of Yongzhou underwent a heavy change. In Ma Yizha, Beidi County, Yongzhou, the township soldiers led by the brothers Mao Hongyuan and Mao Hongbin, the heroes of Beidi County, played the banner of crusading against Xiao Baokun, and the local Di and Qiang people joined one after another, and the anti-Xiao forces were unprecedentedly strong, which aroused Xiao Baokun's great attention.

Mao's family is a wealthy family in the north, and in Mao Hongyuan's generation, the three brothers are heroes. Mao Hongyuan is famous, a young man, resourceful, as a rich second generation, guarding the wealth left by his ancestors, but he does not have the vanity of showing off his wealth at all, and he is not particular about food and clothing, but who is in difficulty in the countryside, he must not hesitate to help with money, and has a lot of friendship with Zhongshulang Tanzhuo, Shangshulang Gongsun Fan, etc., and has a high prestige among the villagers.

Hongyuan's younger brother Hongbin was born out of phase, with a big nose and big eyes, a fat and thick black body, a black and evil look, and he was brave enough to ride and shoot people, and the Di people and Qiang people were very afraid of him and regarded him as the leader of nature.

Mao Hongbin is as light on money as his brother, although Mao Yao became the first official among the brothers when he became the governor of Xianyang Prefecture, and Mao Hongbin's reputation is really above Mao Yao. Their other younger brother, Mao Hongxian, is also fierce and powerful, and he is also a hero for a while.

When Xiao Baokun's army was defeated in Jingzhou, the people near Chang'an were shaken, and Mao Yao was worried that his family would abandon his official position and return to his hometown, so he gathered villagers with Mao Hongbin to protect themselves.

Wu Guoren, the younger brother of Su Qin Mingda, the leader of the Gaoping rebels, copied the northern land and was named the king of Jingzhao by the puppet regime of Wan Qian Chounu, and the Hongyuan brothers were forced to temporarily join the rebels. Soon, Yang Kan led the army to fight, and the Mao brothers immediately reversed it anyway and returned Wu Guoren to Yang Kan as a meeting gift.

Unexpectedly, the world is impermanent, the commander of the Taiwan army, Xiao Baokun, actually set himself up as the emperor and established a reactionary government, the governors and generals near Chang'an began to stand in line, don't make Lu Zuqian, the governor Guo Zihui, and Hou Zhongde, a native of Chang'an, become the backbone of the Xiao Qi regime, and the governor of Nanping, Wang Yuanzhong, was beheaded for opposing Xiao Baochun, and the Mao brothers were dumbfounded, do they want to rebel again?

After thinking about it for a while, the Mao brothers decided to stand firmly on the side of the government this time, so they led Hu Han to raise the banner of crusading against Baochun and drew a clear line with Xiao Baokun. Xiao Baochun sent Lu Zuqian to meet him and was killed by Mao Yao.

Lu Zuqian, as a famous general of the Great Wei Dynasty, once beat Hu Chen, the king of Gaoping, and fled, but this time he followed the wrong master and finally ended up in disrepute.

Compared with him, although Cui Yanbo, Cui Mo, Yi Jisheng and others also died on the battlefield in Kansai, they were loyal to the country and died well, and there were gifts to benefit their children and grandchildren after their deaths.

When the news of Lu Zuqian's defeat and killing reached Chang'an, Xiao Baochun was busy worshipping the heavens in the southern suburbs, and Emperor Qi's face changed color at that time, and the ceremony ended in a hurry, and it was too late to even reorganize the honor guard, and the people who participated in the sacrifice hurriedly returned to the city like a chaotic army.

The matter had to be resolved, Xiao Baochun sent Hou Zhongde to resist Mao Yao, hoping to use the locals to get more mass support, but he did not expect Hou Zhongde to defect after hearing the news of the defeat in Tongguan and Huazhou, and led the army back to Chang'an to prepare to capture Xiao Baokun. Do you blame me for Hou Zhongde's treachery?

Originally, I rebelled with you for the sake of glory and wealth, but now let alone wealth and nobility, even the guy who eats is difficult to protect, why let me be martyred for you, in order to protect myself, I have to borrow my majesty to use it, and I may have a chance to redeem my guilt.

Hou Zhongde's army killed at the White Gate, Xiao Baochun knew that his subordinates had turned the arrow to point to him, so he hurriedly organized left and right resistance, but those who could be sent out to fight were elite, the city guards were already quite weak, the Chang'an defenders were defeated in a battle, Xiao Baochun had no choice but to take his wife Nanyang eldest princess, the young son and more than 100 of his subordinates to flee from the back door of Chang'an, and defected to Gaoping's Wan Qian ugly slave.

In fact, under the chaotic shape of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the power of the family clan is impossible for any ambitious emperor to ignore, and a regime must obtain the support of those deep-rooted clans to survive, they represent the mass base, and when Xiao Baochun was called emperor, the Guanzhong clan basically adopted a non-cooperative attitude, and Wei Xiaokuan, a disciple of the Wei clan of the Wang clan, also asked Ying to go out to crusade against Baochun, so from the beginning of the emperor, Xiao Baochun was doomed to failure.

Similarly, an important reason why Wan Qian Chounu ran rampant was that the density of Hu people in the Qin, Yuan, and Fengzhou areas was very high, and they had always been dissatisfied with the imperial court like the people of Liuzhen, in other words, the mass base of the Gaoping army was still very deep. Wan Qi Chounu took Xiao Baokun as the Taifu, and the Guanxi rebels gathered around Wan Qian Chounu, and the eldest grandson Zhi had meritorious service in quelling the rebellion, and was awarded the general of the Che Cavalry, the Kaifu Yitong Three Divisions, the Yongzhou Assassin History, and the Shangshu Servant Shooting, and the West Road Xingtai Town Guard Chang'an to prevent the Guanlong rebels from advancing eastward. The Mao Hongyuan brothers were also commended by the imperial court. Mao Yao was awarded the history of the Southern Youzhou Thorn and became an earl. Mao Hongbin worshiped the history of Qizhou Thorn, scattered cavalry, and the founding county marquis.

Soon, Beidi County was upgraded to Beiyongzhou, with Mao Hongbin as the thorn history. Soon, Emperor Xiaoming ordered Beidi County to be upgraded to Beiyongzhou, with Mao Hongbin as the assassin. With the ability of Changsun Zhi, although he could not further expand the results of the battle and eliminate the Gaoping army, there was no problem in holding Yongzhou to cut off the passage from Guanzhong to Luoyang. The officials, the army, and the rebels each protected the territory and the people in the area under their actual control, but they were also safe.

Once again, the fighting in the west has calmed down. However, the pacification of Xiao Baokun's rebellion did not bring much joy to Luoyang, after all, Xiao Baokun was just an episode, Guanlong's rebellion was as always, and a few months before Xiao Baokun's rebellion, Hebei became a pot of porridge, and even the prince of the clan began to defect and join the rebel team (to be continued......