The sudden rise of Huaihuang Town made Yang Jian see a way to make up for the loopholes in the failed Eastern Crusade plan. Let the Huaihuang Army and the new Sanfan attached to him become a wonder soldier. Use them to contain the Turks and even spy on Goguryeo. Although in the decisive battle of the top forces in the world, the Huaihuang Army may be wiped out in the end, but for the entire Great Sui, this is a very good chess piece, and even shows an increasingly important role.

Yi Feng is the key chess piece of this move, and Yang Jian cannot withdraw this chess piece at will. If Yi Feng is withdrawn, Huaihuang's dark chess move may be useless.

Between the world and his grandson who had been separated for many years, Yang Jian chose Jiangshan without hesitation. Not only could he not summon Yi Feng back, but he also had to find a way to strengthen his determination to be in Huaihuang. He had to be firmly nailed to Huaihuang, let him lead his "huge army", nail him to Huaihuang, and hold the boundary between the three powerful forces of Turkic, Great Sui, and Goguryeo. Let him be a firm wedge, nailed into this gap.

However, can Yi Feng withstand this pressure, stick to Huaihuang, and even fight for the imperial court at a critical time. Yang Jian is not very sure, although Yang Lin is his grandson, but after all, he has been in the rivers and lakes for many years, and no one knows whether he can rely on it at a critical time. Yang Jian sat back on the couch and closed his eyes to think carefully. Maybe he should summon Yi Feng back to meet him first, so he took advantage of this New Year's court meeting to personally summon him once before launching a counterattack and decisive battle in Ming Chun. Give him some reassurance and give him some encouragement.

Is it a seal or a promise? Or just let him recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors. Give him the title of king, and let him fight for the Yang royal family for the Great Sui?

Finally he shook his head again, it was not yet time. But he did deserve to see him. Talk to him personally. If he is useful, then give him some support and let him return to Huaihuang. If he is not of great use, then he will stay in the Beijing Division, be a rich idler, and then choose a few powerful forces to take over the Wuzhou Army.

In the afternoon of the same day, a team left Beijing Daxing with Yang Jian's edict. Riding a horse eastward, taking the east of the river to Huaihuang.

At about the same time, Yi Feng finally said goodbye to Sanfan by the Raole River. Pull out the camp class teacher. The army marched south, returning the same route it had taken from before. At the east entrance of the original Shehe River, the ice castle still stands, but there are no more soldiers and horses. To the east of the ice castle, where three rivers and two rivers meet. A brand new town of Two Rivers is almost complete. The city walls, gates, ditches and other defensive works have been completed, and many houses have been built in the city, and the streets are well divided. Some of the houses have been put into use, and some of the shops that are waiting have even been rented and sold directly, and many businessmen with a keen sense of smell have come to seize business opportunities and start trading without fear of the cold.

The three forts around Lianghe Town have also been built, and the construction of Lianghe Town has been successful. The valley in the ice and snow was immediately rejuvenated. There are pedestrians everywhere. Many merchants in the wilderness used sleds to bring large quantities of grain, cloth, salt, and other goods to sell to the people who had suffered this disaster. The Xi people could exchange goods for cattle, sheep, horses, camels, donkeys, horses, and even timber, herbs, people, and other things of value, and it didn't matter if they didn't even have money. The merchants were very clever, and they came more to seize the market. If you don't have any money, it doesn't matter, I'll keep an account for you, or even give you a loan, as long as you have the head of the tribe or a few herdsmen to vouch for you. It even specifically stated that in response to Yi Shuai's help to the Xi brothers through the current difficulties, all goods will be interest-free on credit before next summer. Even the selling prices of various goods, as well as the purchase prices of various ridiculous items, are very fair.

This made Yi Feng very satisfied after hearing about it, and he was also worried that those businessmen were mercenary, and at this time they wanted to make war money, so they would take advantage of the blackmail to ridicule people.

The four brothers also rushed to Lianghe Town and bought a very good shop at the crossroads. Wu Shi Tong poured wine for Yi Feng and said with a smile: "Actually, everyone is also shrewd, and everyone won't do that kind of one-stick business." Now it is not as good as before, now the handsome and Xi people have formed an alliance, Xi people are all open to our Han businessmen, we build a city here and hoard fields to open shops, and we will do long-term trading in the future. Now at this time, be generous, this is a good time to set up a signboard. The merchants gave you credit today, and you turned around and had money, are you embarrassed to go to other places to do business? In fact, Xi people have always been upright, if you don't take advantage of him, he will recognize you in the future, this is a very rare loyal guest. Besides, the marshal is building a city and hoarding fields here, and we are all thanks to the marshal's subordinates to eat together, how dare we do anything wrong and ruin the reputation of the marshal. ”

Yi Feng couldn't help but be a little impressed by Wu Shi Tong when he heard this, no wonder in history this guy went to the village to sell tofu and started his business, but in the end he was able to become a national prince.

Putting down the hot soybean milk bowl, Yi Feng looked at the warrior Tong and said, "I think you can be a cultivator, if you want, you can come to work in my general, are you willing?" ”

The warrior Tong who was carrying a stack of dried incense to Yi Feng was stunned on the spot for a moment, he knew that Yi Shuai took care of him, and he was very grateful in his heart. But he never thought that he could work under Yi Shuai, he was just a small businessman selling tofu, and it was thanks to the capital borrowed by Yi Shuai that he was able to regain a foothold in Huaihuang. His face swelled with excitement for a while, and he couldn't speak.

"You don't have to be excited, I see that you have this ability."

"But I'm just a small trader, how can I be qualified to work under Yi Shuai." The samurai was troubled by gains and losses, and he was anxious.

Yi Feng smiled, "I used to be a horse thief in other people's mouths, the past is just an experience for you, don't be arrogant, as long as you are willing to work hard, you can change yourself." Do you want to sell tofu here for the rest of your life, or do you want to be able to scarlet one day and be an official product? ”

Wu Shitong's lips trembled excitedly, and he finally gritted his teeth, "I am willing to follow Yi Shuai's side to do things, but I am driven and will not give up." ”

"Where did you learn this, it's quite slippery." Yi Feng pointed to the plate in Wu Shitong's hand, "Hand me the plate of dried incense first, and then you go and clean up and prepare, and when I finish eating, you can come with me." Tell you exactly what you do, and we'll talk about it then. ‘

"Yes, it's all on Yi Shuai's orders." The samurai was so excited that he couldn't help himself, he had already heard of this Yi Shuai being eclectic. But he never thought that such an opportunity would come to him one day.

Early the next morning, the samurai handed over the shop to his brother to take care of, and he returned to the camp with Yi Feng with a burden on his back, and then set off with the army again to continue southward and return to Huaihuang.

Along the way, there are also military towns and forts in the cold wind in full swing, many of the city builders are prisoners of previous wars, this time Yi Feng brought more than 10,000 prisoners. In addition, there are many tribal herdsmen recruited nearby, and the Huaihuang Army has opened up good employment conditions, attracting many herdsmen to come to build roads and cities. The past two months have been a nightmare for many herders, many of whom have lost their loved ones, some of whom have saved their families' lives, but their homes have been destroyed, and many more have lost their cattle and sheep and other property. It is a good choice to be able to take advantage of this winter to work for the generous Han people and earn some food and copper money to subsidize the family. What's more, the treatment on the construction site is really good, just three meals a day, plus a meal of meat to eat and broth to drink, it is enough for them to come without hesitation.

The location of each military town and fort had already been carefully discussed by the Huaihuang generals and approved by Yi Feng himself. Almost all of these towns are located at the intersections of several river valleys, guarding important thoroughfares. And those forts are generally built in some small river valleys. The town fort is still under construction, but many of the town garrison troops have been transferred, and they are all garrison armies that have just undergone a round of new expansion, and the original town garrison army has the size of three armies after this round of expansion, reaching one hundred and five regiments. According to Yi Feng's order, a large number of teams of the newly formed garrison army went to their new defense areas to participate in the construction of the new garrison.

By next summer, all the new forts will be built, as planned. According to the plan, the first round of resettlement and hoarding will be carried out after the year, and some unemployed people and the families of some town soldiers will be moved to come and hoard fields and grow grain in the river valley around the town fort.

Although the Zhenshu Army was expanded to three armies, in Yi Feng's plan, they were only local garrison troops, responsible for city defense and trade route patrols, as well as suppressing bandits, catching robbers and reassuring the people, and were the supplementary troops and reserves of the war troops.

On the day of Laba, Yi Feng finally triumphed with the victorious army.

There were only more than 20,000 people when they went out, and more than 50,000 people went back when they returned, and they brought back countless trophies, herds of war horses, cattle, sheep, camels, and all kinds of booty full of wagons and sleighs. The people of Huaihuang who came out of the city to greet them all cheered when they saw this majestic and mighty army. In particular, the families of those soldiers were even more happy, they had already heard that the battle was remarkable, but the casualties of their own soldiers were not large. The merchants of Huaihuang were even more happy to see the triumph of this army, and the army returned, and Huaihuang was safer. Moreover, the army has been going north for so long and has obtained so many results, not to mention that the soldiers have been promoted and made rich, and all the shops will also welcome the feast of the previous year.

The army marched into the camp as they were greeted by the multitude. Yi Feng didn't say anything, and directly announced loudly that the whole army would have a three-day holiday, and he would return to the camp to report after three days. Then the whole army cheered, and soon rushed out of the camp gate like a flock of scattered sheep, looking for the family members who had been waiting outside for a long time. (To be continued......)