Chapter 17: First Meeting

"Brothers in the city, brothers of the Right Guard, you can see clearly, I am Yuan Jinwei, the Eagle Yang Lang General of the Right Guard! Three days ago, in Bai Sima Ban, I led three regiments to defect to Yang Xuangan, the Duke of Chu, and was named the general of the Right Military Guard. 100 taels of gold and silver! ”

"Brothers, don't give your life to the faint monarch Yang Guang, that tyrant is mediocre, favors traitorous ministers, treats human life like a mustard, and treats us as human beings at all, our brothers in the Sixteen Guards, hundreds of thousands of people died in Liaodong, and millions of ordinary people were killed, causing chaos in the world and thieves everywhere! There is only one way to follow this tyrant, so it is the right way to open the city gate and surrender, abandon the darkness and follow Yang Zhuguo to fight the world! You are not Yang Zhuguo's opponents, and there is no one in the Eastern Capital who is Yang Zhuguo's opponents! As long as Yang Zhuguo waved his hand, it would be easy to break through the Eastern Capital! ”

"Brothers, Yang Zhuguo said, whoever is the first to open the city gate will be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold, and the Marquis of Yiyang will be promoted, and the official will be promoted to the third level! Whoever can cut off the head of Fan Zigai, and also reward a thousand taels of gold, a marquis, and an official promotion to three levels! Brothers, don't hesitate, your chance to get promoted and make a fortune has arrived! Open the gates! Kill Fan Zigai! ”

As Chen Yingliang guessed, the formation was lined up outside the Shangchun Gate, and the Sui army team that had surrendered to the rebels before really stepped forward to launch a psychological offensive, and Yuan Jinwei, the first Ying Yanglang general who led the Sui army to surrender to the enemy in Bai Simaban, took the lead again, shouting surrender outside the range of bows and arrows on the city wall, and then the other Sui army surrendered to the shout, calling friends and friends directly named and surrendered the defenders of the eastern capital on the city wall, tempting and intimidating, and shouting endlessly.

Of course, the rebels did this to a certain effect, and the defenders of the Eastern Capital, who were already very sloppy in their hearts, listened to the surrender cries of their old companions, and their hearts were more or less shaken, at least they had the idea of surrendering to the rebels once the city was broken, and under the low morale, there were not even a few Sui soldiers on the Shangchun Gate who opened their mouths to scold the shameless traitors, showing signs of shaking the morale of the army - this is not surprising, the key is that Pei Hongce and Da Xi were both wiped out before the goodwill, It dealt a severe blow to the morale of the defenders of the eastern capital.

Seeing this scene, Yang Xuangan and Li Mi, who led the main force of the rebel army in the rear array, and other rebel leaders were inevitably overjoyed, and Li Mi simply said to Yang Xuangan: "Duke Chu, the enemy's army is obviously depressed, as long as we can win another battle, the defenders of Luoyang will inevitably collapse completely, and there will be great hope for taking Luoyang!" ”

"What's promising? It's a nail in the coffin! Yang Xuangan laughed happily, and then ordered: "Go and give Yuan Jinwei and them an order, let them continue to shout, shout louder, and wait for Fan Zigai to come over to check the situation when he receives the news, maybe he will be angry and go to the city to fight a decisive battle, and clean up these traitors of the right guards in front!" ”

The herald sang the promise and was about to rush forward to give Yuan Jinwei and other new generals an order, but on the wall of Shangchunmen not far away, a tall old man with snow-white hair stood out, standing straight in armor, bowing his head and glaring at the rebel soldiers under the city, and his momentum was extremely majestic. Seeing this tall old man, Yuan Jinwei and the other troops suddenly made a loud noise, and Yang Xuan was also shocked, and blurted out: "Fan Zigai?!" This old thing is actually on the Shangchun Gate? ”

"Duke Chu, it's a rare opportunity, hurry up and talk to that Fan Zigai!" Li Mi was overjoyed and said: "I will help you and scold this old horseman, you will definitely be able to anger Fan Zigai's old stubbornness and lure him out of the city for a decisive battle!" Yang Xuangan was also overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly slapped his horse and rushed forward, and rebel leaders such as Li Mi and Wang Zhongbo also hurriedly followed.

Yang Xuanting led Li Mi and the others all the way to a distance of only a hundred steps from the city wall of the Eastern Capital before reining in the war horse, and ordered to stop the noise of the rebel soldiers, and after the rebel team quieted down, Yang Xuangan raised his head, smiled and shouted at Fan Zigai: "Fan stay, Lord Fan, it's been a long time!" ”

"Traitor! You still have the face to answer with the old man! "Don't look at Fan Zigai, who will be seventy next year, but he is old and strong, and his voice is still very loud, it can be regarded as a loud bell, and a hundred steps away, Yang Xuangan and others can still hear it clearly.

"Fan Liushou misunderstood, he was not rebellious, but to overthrow the tyrant Yang Guang and save the people from fire and water!" Yang Xuangan laughed and said: "Facts have proved that the decision of this pillar country is very correct, since the start of the army, not only have thousands of heroes from all over the world come to defect every day, Lord Fan, these soldiers under your command are also scrambling to submit to me and serve me willingly?" Why don't you learn from them, open the city gate and surrender to the Pillar Country, assist the Pillar Kingdom to kill the tyrant, and achieve a great cause?! ”

"Rushing to be the first to submit to you, and willingly serve you?" Not only did Fan Zigai not be as angry as Yang Xuan expected, but he also laughed loudly, suddenly raised his voice, and shouted: "The army listens to the order!" ”

"No!" An obviously untidy answer sounded on the city wall, and the rebel leaders such as Yang Xuangan and Li Mi were also suddenly full of expectations, and said that Fan Zigai was ordered to go out of the city to fight, who knew that Fan Zigai shouted: "This official is now ordered as a left-behind guard in the eastern capital, the first order, the rebels of the right military guard under the city, as long as they surrender anyway, will not be investigated, and they are allowed to return to the team!" ”

"The second order, the rebels of the right military guard under the city, escape from Yang Rebell's team and no longer follow the thieves, let them choose their own way out, and do not go to the sea to catch the documents and be wanted!"

"The third order, the rebels of the right military guard under the city, those who are obsessed with it, and those who attack the city from thieves, as long as they die under the city of the eastern capital, they will be identified by their corpses, and their whole family will be killed, and their wives and daughters will be reduced to lowly slaves! Whoever kills a mutinous soldier will receive all the property of the slain person, including the house and land, and also the wife and daughter of the slain person as slaves! Do you understand? ”

"Understood!" This time, the defenders on the city wall answered obviously much more neatly, and many of the defender soldiers also showed excited looks, and the traitors of the right military guard led by Yuan Jinwei in the city suddenly changed their faces, and Yang Xuangan and Li Mi and other leaders of the rebel army were stammering, never dreaming that Fan Zigai would have such a move, which in turn would severely damage the morale of the rebel soldiers.

"Yuan Jinwei, General Yuan!" Under Chen Yingliang's guidance and Pei Hongce's order, a defender soldier jumped out and shouted, "General Yuan, come and attack the city!" Your daughter is good-looking, I cut off your head, and you can be your son-in-law! Quick, help my brother, whether my brother can your daughter depends on you, the old man! ”

As soon as these words came out, the defenders on the city wall suddenly laughed wildly, and the old stubborn Fan Zigai's old-fashioned old face couldn't help but show some smiles, and scolded in a low voice A ridiculous sentence, Yuan Jinwei, the leader of the right martial guard traitors under the city, was colorless, wanted to scold but didn't dare to scold, and the other right guard rebels also peeked at Yuan Jinwei with strange faces, and the previous excitement was also swept away.

"This old immortal still has such a hand!" Li Mi scolded in his heart, and at the same time couldn't help but secretly admire Fan Zigai's divisive poisonous plan, not only not blocking the door of the right Wuwei rebels anyway, but also giving the right Wuwei rebels who were unwilling to continue to be soldiers hope for their lives, and at the same time intimidating the right Wuwei rebels not to dare to follow Yang Xuan to fight to the death.

"Old horseman, come to this set with this pillar country!" Yang Xuangan was not too stupid, and immediately understood the true purpose of Fan Zigai's three orders, and in a fit of anger, Yang Xuangan simply shouted: "Okay, that Benzhuguo will also give an order now, but all the Luoyang soldiers who dare to follow Fan Zigai to resist the righteous army of Benzhuguo will also confiscate all their family property after their deaths, execute the men of the whole family, and the female dependents will be transferred to the lowly status and sent to the army to the camp!" ”

"Chu Gong, are you crazy?" Li Mi shouted bitterly, "What should we do in the name of righteousness? ”

Sure enough, when he heard Yang Xuangan's order, there were immediately boos on the Luoyang city wall, and the soldiers of the Eastern Capital Garrison, who had a good impression of Yang Xuangan, suddenly had a bad impression of Yang Xuangan. Fan Zigai laughed and said, "Traitor, your fox tail is finally revealed, isn't it?" You still have the face to call yourself a rebel, and you can say such things as the wheel camp, which is also called the rebel army? ”

"Old horseman! No more nonsense! Yang Xuan was completely annoyed and angry, pointed the spear in his hand at Fan Zigai and roared: "If you are brave enough, open the city gate and come out to fight with me!" ”

"Traitor Yang Xuangan, if you are brave enough, come up and fight me for three hundred rounds!"

Qifeng got up again, a handsome young man wearing a clerk's uniform, carrying a horizontal knife, suddenly jumped on the arrow stack, stood taller than Fan Zigai, who stayed in the Eastern Capital, and pointed at Yang Xuangan with a horizontal knife and scolded, "If you don't dare to come, you are raised by a bitch, come, Lao Tzu will accompany you to the end!" ”

"Who is this kid?" A rabbit suddenly jumped out of the flock, and Yang Xuangan and Li Mi were inevitably surprised.

"Chen Yingliang, come down, you don't have the right to speak here!" Fan Zigai shouted angrily.

The opportunity to show Xiàn in public is rare, and Chen Yingliang, who finally caught this opportunity, naturally didn't have time to pay attention to Fan Zigai's order, and pointed at Yang Xuangan with a horizontal knife and just scolded, roaring like thunder, "Yang Xuangan, you shameless thief who is disloyal, unfilial, unkind, unjust, incorruptible, shameless, despicable and obscene!" If you have the guts, come over and I will fight three hundred rendezvous, and if you don't have the guts, shout three times, you are a guts with no eggs, I will spare your dog's life today! ”

"Little thief, you scold again!" Yang Xuangan was furious.

"Just a few scolds!"

Chen Yingliang, who had accumulated thousands of years of scolding essence on his body, was still afraid that there would be no scolding words, so he pointed at Yang Xuangan and scolded quickly, "Yang Xuangan, you traitor, listen up!" Thou hast betrayed the Lord and are ungrateful, and thou hast gathered a crowd to rebel, for disloyalty! Your father's bones are not cold, and the grave is not dry, so you betrayed the Great Sui court, which he has been loyal to all his life, because of unfilial piety! You traitor kills people and sets fires to poison the people, it is unkind! It is unjust that you, a traitor, deceived your subordinates, coerced innocent people and boatmen to rebel and rebel, and caused thousands of innocent people to suffer the disaster of war! A shameless thief like you, who is unkind, unrighteous, disloyal, and unfilial, what face do you have to live between heaven and earth? Buying a piece of tofu as soon as possible and crashing to death is your right path! If you don't have the money to buy tofu, I'll reward you, sir! ”

Roaring, Chen Yingliang really took out a few five-baht coins from his arms, scattered them under the city in public, and roared at Yang Xuangan: "Traitor, come and take it, take it to buy tofu!" If the tofu can't die, just buy a brick and kill it! But don't hit your face, you traitor has thicker skin than the city walls! Use your dirty and ugly face to hit the green bricks, and you will only have the life of the green bricks being crushed! ”

The sound of laughter sounded again on the city wall of the eastern capital, and Fan Zigai also turned his anger into joy, shouting: "Good scolding, continue to scold!" The heavier the scolding, the better! Scold this traitor to death! ”

"Lord Fan, don't worry, even if I don't have your order, I will scold to death the eighteenth generation of the ancestor of this traitor!" Chen Yingliang agreed loudly, and then pointed at Yang Xuangan, whose face was already blue, and continued to scold, "Yang Xuangan is a rebel, I am sad for your father Yang Su, he is an old man who is loyal all his life, how could he give birth to you, an unrighteous traitor?!" If he had known about it, he would have regretted why he didn't put you in a urine bucket and soak you to death when he gave birth to you? Even if he gives birth to a pig, it is better than giving birth to you, a treacherous thief! ”

"Your grandfather Yang Fu will also regret it because of you, a traitor! If Yang Fu knew that you, a traitor, would do something treasonous, you would have slaughtered your mother before you were born, so as not to give birth to you and be embarrassed! His bones must be rolling in the grave now, and he regrets why he didn't castrate himself in the first place, and entered the palace as a eunuch, why did he leave you as a wicked seed?! ”

"And your great-grandfather, uncle, what is Yang Re's great-grandfather's name Yang? You said I forgot. ”

In the midst of laughter, Fan Zigai's stubborn and uncharacteristic smile rushed to answer for Pei Hongce: "Yang Rei's great-grandfather is called Yang Xuan, and he is also from Huayin. ”

"Yang Xuangan, your great-grandfather Yang Xuan was also killed by you! He is no longer just rolling in the grave now, he must have crawled out, crawled out of his grave, lest the people of Huayin County run to his grave every day to and pee! Because of you, a traitor, your Yang family is now a shame in Huayin, and the people of Huayin can't help but vomit out all the overnight meals when they hear your name! Why, it's because your name stinks, stinks to the point of being left for 10,000 years! Now throw you into the pit, and the pit will spit out! ”

"Yang Xuan is a rebel, you were born with a cucumber, you owe it! The acquired walnut is underwhelming! There are only 12 genus in the Great Sui, and you want to go to the thirteenth genus, which belongs to the leprosy donkey, and you owe kicking and pumping! ”

"Yang Xuangan, master, I will give you a couplet, the upper couplet is, the tree does not have bark, it will definitely die; The next link is, people are shameless, and the world is invincible! The horizontal batch is, slut supreme! ”

"Yang Xuangan, I still don't understand, master, how can you still have the courage to live? Why didn't your dad shoot you at the wall? Why didn't your mother strangle you to death back then? Why did your grandfather ...... back then?"

Hearing Chen Yingliang's gushing scolding, Yang Xuangan's face first turned iron blue, then turned black, and then turned purple, and finally Yang Xuangan couldn't bear it anymore, so he simply threw down the spear under impulse, grabbed the bow and arrow and slapped the horse, and rushed directly to Chen Yingliang, who was flying with spittle, while pulling the bow and arrows, he roared like thunder, "Little thief, I want your life!" ”

Of course, Chen Yingliang would not be stupid enough to continue to stand on the arrow stack and use Yang Xuangan as an arrow target, and jumped down the arrow stack after Yang Xuangan released the arrow, and yelled at the defenders who were laughing left and right, "What are you laughing at?" Hurry up and release the arrows! ”

Chen Yingliang yelled and reminded him, and the soldiers of the defending army in the eastern capital woke up like a dream, and were surprised to find that a big pie had fallen from the sky - Yang Xuangan, the leader of the rebel army, actually rushed into the range of bows and arrows on the city wall! Under the ecstasy, the soldiers of the Sui army hurriedly scrambled to draw their bows and release arrows, and Fan Zigai, who came back to his senses, shouted hysterically, "Release the arrows!" Shoot the arrows! Hurry up and release arrows to the old man! ”

"Shoot the arrows! Give me arrows! Shoot the arrows! Pei Hongce also clenched his fists and roared, and finally grabbed a bow and arrow to personally pull the bow and release the arrow at Yang Xuangan.

"Boom", Yang Xuangan shot out the feather arrow, over the arrow buttress that Chen Yingliang had stood on before, and shot at a Sui soldier behind the arrow buttress, the feather arrow broke through the armor, pierced through the chest, the arrow momentum was still not gone, and it was nailed to the bluestone steps of the city tower, the arrow was deep into the stone, and the arrow shaft was also shattered by the residual strength!

At the same time, countless defender feather arrows were also overwhelmingly shot at Yang Xuangan, but these Sui archers themselves were average archers, and they were even more accurate in their hurry, so the feather arrows shot were either outrageous, or weak and powerless, and only one feather arrow hit Yang Xuangan's right ear, cutting off half of Yang Xuangan's ear, making Yang Xuangan scream, and suddenly blood filled his right face.

"Brother!"

"Duke Chu!"

Countless rebel soldiers rushed up, while blocking the arrows with shields, they dragged Yang Xuangan off the war horse, and set Yang Xuangan up and ran back, although Fan Zigai and Pei Hongce and others on the city wall roared like thunder, forcing the soldiers to quickly release the arrows, but it was still too late to do so, and the feather arrows that kept shooting down on the city wall only killed two rebel soldiers, but no arrow could hit Yang Xuangan, who had been tightly protected by the shield.

Seeing this scene, Fan Zigai's unwilling roar also echoed on the city wall, "Waste! Rubbish! You shit! Such a great opportunity was missed by you waste! Chen Yingliang! Chen Yingliang, you little rabbit! Keep scolding the old man! Keep scolding! If you can scold Yang Xuangan back as a rebel again, the old man will give you a credit! ”

"Scold again? How is this possible? Chen Yingliang smiled bitterly, but Fan Zigai had already choked Chen Yingliang's neck, in order not to be strangled to death, Chen Yingliang could only continue to scold Yang Xuangan's ancestors for eighteen generations.

"It turns out that this thief's name is Chen Yingliang, thief, I remember your name!" Li Mi, who heard Fan Zigai's roar, turned around and glanced at Chen Yingliang with great malice - this was also the first meeting between Li Mi, the outstanding leader of the rebel army at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and Chen Yingliang, the loyal lackey of the tyrant Emperor Yang of Sui and the executioner of the suppression of the rebel army.

After being rescued to safety by the soldiers, Yang Xuangan touched his right ear, which was already bloody and blurred, and looked at the blood on his hand, Yang Xuangan also roared hysterically, "Order the three armies to make siege weapons with all their might, the more the better!" Tomorrow morning, wave the army to attack the city! This pillar country wants to set foot in Luoyang and cut that thief with a thousand knives! Ling Chi was executed! ”