Chaoyang, light breeze, white robe, the banner of loyalty to the country fluttered in the wind under the morning sun, following this military flag, there are only more than 700 people left to re-equip the **** soldiers on the walking horses, neatly singing the military song of "Loyal to the Country", and once again embarked on the journey, westward to reinforce the journey of Cuihan Road.

Yang Tong, the king of Yue, personally led the civil and military officials of the eastern capital to Hui'anmen to see off the expeditionary army, under the secret guidance of Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi and others, Yang Tong, who was only nine years old, praised the accumulated merits of the **** in an old tone, and asked the **** to make persistent efforts, continue to be loyal to the country, kill thieves and make meritorious contributions, and assist Yang Zhiji, the king of Cai, to hold Hongnong, and prevent the rebels from invading the Hongnong Palace of Emperor Yang of Sui. At the same time, Yang Tong naturally encouraged the main force of the Sui army led by Liu Changgong to say a few words, and asked Liu Changgong's team to assist the Daxing army to hold the Cuihan Road, and not give Yang rebels a chance to advance west to threaten Guanzhong.

Yang Tong was only responsible for talking about the scene, Fan Zigai, the real ruler of Luoyang, the eastern capital, naturally explained to Chen Yingliang in private, and when parting, Fan Zigai held Chen Yingliang's hand and said: "Remember two things, first, if Wei Wensheng can't stop Yang rebels, you must try your best to block Yang rebels west of Tongguan and buy time for our reinforcements." Second, you have to take care of yourself, when you destroy the Yang rebels, the old man will personally take you to the emperor and ask for credit for you, so you must give the old man back alive! ”

"This is my handwritten letter to His Royal Highness King Cai." Huangfu Wuyi also handed a letter to Chen Yingliang, and said in a low voice: "I gave a detailed introduction to His Royal Highness King Cai about your achievements and talents in the letter, His Royal Highness King Cai is a well-informed and responsible Highness, he will read my letter, and will definitely listen to and adopt your military strategies and tactics as much as possible, which can help you quickly gain the trust and reuse of His Royal Highness King Cai." But you must also remember that don't get too close to His Royal Highness King Cai! You are a smart person, what will happen if you are too close to the emperor's relatives, I won't say much. Take care and come back alive. ”

Listening to Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi's heartfelt words of concern and kind reminders, Chen Yingliang was inevitably a little moved no matter how vicious he was, knelt down on his knees, and solemnly bowed to the white-haired Fan Zigai and the sick Huangfu Wuyi, and said in a low voice: "Fan stays behind, General Huangfu, you also take care, although it is unlikely that Yang rebels will attack Luoyang again, but it is not ruled out that he will suddenly launch a sneak attack, before confirming that the main force of Yang rebels is moving, please be cautious, Don't give Yang a chance to rebel and rebel. ”

"Of course." Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi picked up Chen Yingliang with their own hands, and each told him to take care, Chen Yingliang thanked him, and said goodbye to his distant uncle Pei Hongce, who was really good to him, and then did not hesitate to lead the army to the west, and without Liu Changgong General Liu to speak, Chen Yingliang took the initiative to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the palace, and personally walked to the end of the Sui army team in the west to aid the Kun Han Road, and was always ready to meet the pursuit team of the rebels.

At the same time, in order to prevent accidents, Chen Yingliang privately discussed with Liu Changgong, and decided that before the army entered the Cuihan Road, once a large number of rebel cavalry were found to be pursuing, then the Baoguo Army, which was all equipped with walking horses, would take on the task of luring the enemy, and the fast horse gallop to lure the rebel team into the Kuihan Road, which was not conducive to cavalry operations, and Liu Changgong's team, which was dominated by infantry, temporarily left the battlefield and did not engage the rebel cavalry, and then acted at the opportunity, and if there was a chance, the rebel cavalry brigade that was advancing lightly would be blocked in the Cuihan Road, and the rebel cavalry would be severely damaged!

Although the rebel army has mistakenly slowed down the intensity of the scout battle, but the four thousand Sui troops in the eastern capital and the white-robed Baoguo army have joined forces to advance westward, it is still impossible to hide from the eyes of the rebel scouts in any case, and after the rebel scouts flew the news to Yang Xuangan, Yang Xuangan suddenly became furious, jumped up and shouted, "Assemble the team immediately, this pillar country will personally lead the army to hunt down and kill Chen Yingliang's thief!" ”

Several of Yang Xuangan's brothers quickly agreed, and Li Mi, who had returned to the Chinese army's big tent to participate in tactical decision-making under Li Zixiong's recommendation, quickly stood up and dissuaded: "Duke Chu, don't be impatient, our army scouts have already found out, and all the white-robed soldiers under Chen Yingliang's thief have war horses to travel, and they have been set off for a while, and it is difficult for us to catch up anymore." ”

"Why can't you catch up? He has war horses, is there no war horse in the army of this pillar country? Yang Xuangan shouted: "This pillar country led the cavalry to chase, if you don't believe it, you can't catch up!" ”

"Duke Chu, please calm down." Li Mi smiled bitterly and said: "You personally led the cavalry to chase after you, hoping to catch up with Chen Yingliang's thief, but what if Chen Yingliang's thief took the opportunity to lure you into Cuihan Road?" At that time, Chu Gong not only has no chance to annihilate Chen Yingliang's thief's white-robed soldiers, but on the contrary, it is possible to be lured by Chen Yingliang's thief to Wei Xuan's old horseman's formation, and then the infantry of the official army will block Kui Han Road again, Chu Gong, you and our cavalry team will really be dangerous. ”

"Duke Chu, the Dharma Master is reasonable, Cuihan Road is not conducive to cavalry, it is only suitable for infantry combat, and leading the cavalry to chase into Cuihan Road will only be a short blow and a long blow, which is not good for battle." Li Zixiong also persuaded: "Be patient for the time being, the preparations for our army's westward expedition are about to be completed, and we will send troops to Guanzhong tomorrow, if you send troops to pursue Chen Yingliang's thief again, it will be difficult to return to the camp in time to lead the army in the early morning tomorrow, if so, it will have an impact on the morale of our army." ”

Yang Xuangan gritted his teeth, kept a straight face and did not speak, but did not continue to insist on personally leading the cavalry to pursue, Li Zixiong guessed Yang Xuangan's thoughts, and then said: "Don't worry, Duke Chu, Fan Zigai sent the army westward, it must be worried that Wei Xuan's soldiers were outnumbered and unable to resist our westward army, so he sent soldiers and horses to reinforce Wei Xuan, since this is the case, then the old man thinks that when our army arrives at the Mianchi battlefield where Wei Xuan is stationed, the great opportunity for the Duke of Chu to avenge General Yang Xuanzong and thousands of soldiers of our army will definitely appear!" ”

"What does the old general mean by this?" Yang Xuangan, who was anxious to avenge his brother, hurriedly asked.

"It's very simple, Wei Xuan's old puppet is bound to go out of the city to fight a decisive battle with our army." Li Zixiong smiled and said: "Wei Xuan went west to rescue Luoyang this time, and he was defeated in successive battles, and almost the entire army was wiped out, so that now he must rely on the Luoyang army to rescue, which can definitely be regarded as disgrace, with Wei Xuan's temper of that old thing, he must be eager to take revenge in a decisive battle and save face." Besides, Wei Xuan still stayed in Daxing, and it was even more impossible to shrink in Michi City, sitting back and watching our army go straight into the pass, and the only choice was to go out of the city for a decisive battle. ”

"When the time comes." Li Zixiong smiled even more happily, and added: "Relying on sneak attacks to pick up leaks and slaughter our auxiliary soldiers, Chen Yingliang, who has already been lucky enough to be regarded as a famous thief, naturally it is impossible to hide in Mianchi City and stay out of the matter, he will definitely be taken out of the city by Wei Xuan to participate in the decisive battle, and if Chu Gong wants to take revenge again, wouldn't it be easy?" ”

"That makes sense!" Yang Xuangan waved his hand vigorously, turning his anger into joy and said: "Then there is no need to risk the pursuit, let Chen Yingliang's thief be proud for a day or two, and when our main army arrives at the Mianchi battlefield, it is not too late to find this treacherous thief to take revenge!" ”

Yang Xuangan has already changed his mind, even if Yang Xuanting and others, who obey his eldest brother's words, are unwilling, they can only obediently withdraw the order of the cavalry assembly, but Li Mi has some objections, but considering Yang Xuangan's quick temper, Li Mi still didn't say anything after hesitating again and again, and waited until after the account was dispersed, Li Mi caught up with Li Zixiong outside the tent, and said in a low voice: "Old general, what happened just now, the younger generation is still a little worried, Chen Yingliang's little thief is treacherous, if he said that Wei Xuan led the army to retreat to Tongguan, what would it be?" ”

"Don't worry, of course, the old man has also considered this." Li Zixiong, who was already very close to Li Mi, said with a smile: "Wei Xuan's old horseman retreating to Tongguan is indeed the best choice to block our army's entry into the pass, but that old horseman will never do this!" Don't forget, the tyrant Yang Guang's Hongnong Palace, and the most important Changping Dacang are all west of Tongguan, if Wei Xuan's old puppet retreats to Tongguan and surrenders Hongnong Palace and Changping to our army, how to explain to Yang Guang? ”

"How did I forget this?" Li Mi stroked his forehead and said with great joy: "The old general is really a clever man, and the younger generation admires it, and our army is carefree." ”

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Of course, Chen Yingliang and Liu Changgong could not know whether Yang Xuangan decided to send troops to pursue, for the sake of insurance, the team of Bao **** and Liu Changgong was all the way to rush all the way, and rushed to the Cuihan Road seventy miles away at the fastest speed, but under the direct threat of the main force of the rebels, the team under the command of General Liu broke out with a speed that would only appear when fleeing for his life, and it took less than four hours to enter the relatively safe Cuihan Road. Avoid the danger of being surrounded by rebel ranks.

Originally, Chen Yingliang and Liu Changgong were still a little worried that there would be rebels intercepting the narrow Cuihan Road, but Chen Yingliang soon found that his worries were superfluous, because after entering the Cuihan Road, he walked less than ten miles to the west, and the Eastern Capital team met the scouts sent by Wei Xuan's army, carefully checked their identities, and learned from the Wei Xuanjun scouts that the situation ahead was safe, and the Eastern Capital Army was even more relieved to move westward, and the scouts of Wei Xuanjun's army knew that the Eastern Capital Army was from the army, and they were also very happy, and hurriedly led the way to the Eastern Capital Army. While departing the manpower, Pegasus rushed to Michi to report the good news to Wei Xuan.

The distance from Luoyang to Mianchi is about one hundred and forty miles, and the cavalry can easily arrive in one day on a rapid march, and if the lightly armed infantry team does not consider the problem of retaining the body to fight, the distance of one hundred and forty miles can also be completed in one day, so in the case that most of the troops under his command are infantry, Liu Changgong still mentioned that he should arrive at Mianchi City within one day, and Chen Yingliang, who had a war horse under his command, put forward a different opinion, feeling that a hundred and forty miles of marching in one day would hurt the infantry body. At the same time, the Dongdu army did not inform Wei Xuanjun of the reinforcements in advance, and rushed to Mianchi, Wei Xuanjun must be in a hurry, and even the camp tents are difficult to provide in time, rather than rushing to Mianchi to trouble the friendly army, it is better to follow the practice of normal rapid marching, let the infantry team only walk 90 miles a day, camp on the spot so that the soldiers can rest overnight, and arrive at Mianchi the next day is not too late, so that everyone is relaxed.

Chen Yingliang's construction of yì of course has been unanimously supported by the infantry team of the Sui army, and Chen Yingliang took the initiative to take up the task of night duty, General Liu of course also obeyed, the current army camping on the spot, General Liu led the infantry team to take turns to rest, Chen Yingliang divided the army into two teams, took turns to rest and watch the night, at the same time Chen Yingliang was very careful to arrange a large number of triphorses tied with bells around the camp, and another secret post was arranged next to the bright whistle to prevent the enemy from sneaking at night, and quietly touched the campsite of the Sui army in the eastern capital.

Chen Yingliang's arrangements were completely in vain, and there were no accidents overnight, and in the early morning of the next day, the Sui army in the eastern capital continued to drive westward after eating dry food, and arrived at the destination of Mianchi at noon, and came to the gate of the Wei Xuanjun camp located directly south of Mianchi. What made Liu Changgong and other eastern generals quietly angry was that the Sui army in the eastern capital took the initiative to go west to rescue Wei Xuanjun, who was in poor condition, Wei Xuan did not personally go out of the camp to greet him, and he did not even send an official of sufficient level to the gate of the camp to meet the reinforcements of the eastern capital, but just arranged for a herald to come to the gate of the camp and summoned Liu Changgong and Chen Yingliang to the big tent of the Chinese army to meet Wei Xuan.

In this regard, Liu Changgong, who is also a famous family and is the general of the right martial arts Weihu Benlang, is of course full of anger, and quietly scolded Wei Xuan for repaying virtue with grievances and putting on a stinky shelf, Chen Yingliang was also a little surprised, because Chen Yingliang knew that Wei Xuan must have a bad impression of himself, but it was unreasonable for Wei Xuan to treat Liu Changgong like this.

With the herald all the way to Wei Xuan's Chinese army tent, and through the words of the soldiers outside the tent, Chen Yingliangcai and Liu Changgong, who was full of grievances, entered the tent together, and finally saw the soil emperor on his head some time ago. At the same time, Chen Yingliang also saw that the big tent was already full of civil and military officials of Wei Xuanjun, all of them had stern faces and unkind eyes, only Pang Yu, who was standing in the prison gate of the civilian train, nodded to Chen Yingliang to express his gratitude, and at the same time squeezed his eyes at Chen Yingliang, as if to remind Chen Yingliang to speak carefully.

Wei Xuan, who has snow-white hair, is older than Fan Zigai, he is already seventy-three this year, although his figure is not as tall and burly as Fan Zigai, his expression is as strict as Fan Zigai, and when he saw Chen Yingliang and Liu Changgong saluting him, not only did he not be polite, but he also shouted even more unceremoniously: "Why is it only now?" Fan Zigai sent you to lead the army to reinforce the old man, isn't there a time limit? Do you know how hard our soldiers worked last night in order to free up the camp and military tents for you? ”

"Lord Shangshu forgives the sin, Fan Liushou really did not stipulate a time limit for the arrival of the last general." Liu Chang replied respectfully: "Fan Liushou only asks the last general to arrive at Mianchi and join forces with the friendly forces of Daxing. ”

After answering, Liu Changgong added very unjustly: "Originally, the last general could have arrived at Mianchi last night, but Chen Ji's room was worried that the soldiers were tired, and he was also worried that Wei Shangshu's team was too hasty and panicked to prepare the camp for our army, so he strongly persuaded the last general to camp overnight and then go west to Mianchi, so the last general did not go west overnight. ”

"Rushing and panicking is the old man's business, and it has nothing to do with you!" Wei Xuanqiang yelled, "Even if Fan Zigai doesn't set a time limit for you to arrive, don't you understand the truth that the military situation is like fire?" At the moment of the great enemy, you all dare to camp on the spot, what if the Yang rebel suddenly attacks your campsite? ”

Liu Changgong was completely speechless, and knew that Wei Xuan, who was in a state of anxiety, was using himself as a punching bag, but fortunately, Wei Xuan immediately changed the object of his anger, and turned to Chen Yingliang, who was wearing a white robe next to him, and a pair of sharp falcon eyes first looked Chen Yingliang up and down, and then snorted coldly and asked, "You are Chen Yingliang?" I heard that you are a clerk, but is there such a thing? ”

"The villain Chen Yingliang of the Zanzhi Mansion Office in Henan, meet Daxing to stay and guard Shangshu!" Chen Yingliang saluted as standard as possible, and replied in a loud voice.

"What a notebook!" Wei Xuan snorted coldly and said: "Go back and tell the old man Fan Zigai, he is doing nonsense, ignoring the court, and appointing you as a small official to lead the army to fight, the old man impeached him, and he has been sent to the emperor's Luan, tell him to prepare the defense recital." ”

Chen Yingliang smiled bitterly, and began to worry about the next time Fan Zigai and Wei Xuan met-nine times out of ten, the two old stubborns would have to stage the Great Sui Heavy Minister's version of Mortal Kombat! After smiling bitterly, Chen Yingliang had to reply respectfully: "Be cautious Lord Shangshu's order, when the villain returns to Luoyang City, he will definitely report to Fan Liushou truthfully." ”

Seeing Chen Yingliang's calm appearance that was not shocked, Wei Xuan, who had a bad impression of Chen Yingliang, was inevitably even more angry, and continued to hum: "I heard that under the command of Fan Zigai, not only did you not lose a single battle, but also led four regiments of cavalry to raid the traitor's granary among tens of thousands of rebels, burned the thieves' storehouse, and killed the traitors unscathed, and almost slaughtered the traitor military master Li Mi, is there really such a ghost and absurdity?" ”

"Returning to Lord Shangshu, this is true, but the villain is just lucky." Chen Yingliang hurriedly humbled and explained: "Also, it wasn't tens of thousands of rebel rebels, there were about 30,000 rebels present at that time, but they were lax and loose after the big victory, there was no queue, and there was not even an emergency response team assembled to prepare for war, which allowed the villain to get lucky." ”

"More than 30,000 traitors?" Wei Xuan laughed out loud and said, "If this cow doesn't have an egg, it won't be blown to the sky by you?" ”

The Daxing civil and military forces in the big tent of the Chinese army also laughed loudly, and they all sneered at Chen Yingliang's shameless nonsense, only Pang Yu, who was present at the time, stood up, knelt down on Wei Xuan's knees tremblingly, kowtowed and said: "Lord Shangshu, the lower officials can testify, Chen Ji's room was indeed a raid on the granary in the team of more than 30,000 traitors at that time, and he was surrounded by traitors unscathed. They were all parties at the time. ”

"What do you ask? It's been so long, and the confessions have long been colluded. Wei Xuan sneered and said: "Don't forget, the old man is still the secretary of the criminal department of the imperial court, and he has seen a lot of collusion." ”

Pang Yu also smiled bitterly, and began to quietly complain in his heart that Chen Yingliang's record was too strong and outrageous. Fortunately, Wei Xuan did not continue on this topic, and waved his hand again and said: "Okay, since you Chen Ji Room is so brave and good at fighting, and Fan Zigai sent you to reinforce the old man, then it is just for the old man to see with his own eyes how brave and invincible you are, whether it is the reincarnation of Chen Qingzhi, go down and take your white-robed soldiers into the camp to rest, and when the traitor army comes, the old man will give you a chance to make meritorious contributions!" ”

"Sure enough, it's coming, I want to put Lao Tzu to the front and send him to death." Chen Yingliang muttered in his heart, and then hurriedly said: "Lord Shangshu misunderstood, Fan Liushou sent a villain to lead his team westward to reinforce His Royal Highness King Cai, and assisted His Royal Highness King Cai in guarding Hongnong Palace, not to reinforce Lord Shangshu's Daxing team. ”

"What?" Wei Xuan was stunned and said angrily: "You are going west to reinforce His Royal Highness King Cai?" ”

"Lord Shangshu, Chen Ji's room was indeed ordered to reinforce Hongnong, and the four thousand elite soldiers under the command of the last general came to reinforce the Mianchi battlefield." Liu Changgong hurriedly opened his mouth to explain, and presented Fan Zigai's handwritten letter to Wei Xuan.

I read Fan Zigai's handwritten letter with a full stomach, and saw that Fan Zigai did ask Chen Yingliang to lead the newspaper **** to reinforce Yang Zhiji, and Wei Xuan, who originally planned to take the opportunity to clean up Chen Yingliang, was inevitably even more angry, and threw Fan Zigai's letter in front of him several times, and shouted: "Why didn't you say it earlier?" Since Fan Zigai sent you to reinforce King Cai, what are you still doing here? Get out of here! ”

Chen Yingliang, who had been mentally prepared, didn't mind, and immediately said goodbye, and carefully said goodbye to Pang Yu when he left, Liu Changgong didn't want to stay in the big tent as Wei Xuan's punching bag, so under the pretext of leading reinforcements into the camp, he quickly slipped out, leaving Wei Xuan to continue to be angry in the big tent of the Chinese army, "Fan Huazong, you old immortal old thing, what do you mean by sending reinforcements to Hongnong?" Worried that the old man can't stop Yang from rebelling and looking down on the old man? Okay, the old man is going to block you this time, don't think it's great that you block the traitor's siege! The old man doesn't need to fortify the city and deep trenches, he can still stop him in the field Yang rebels! ”

"Strange, the name Chen Yingliang, why does the old man seem to have heard it here?" At the same time, Wei Xuan was also pondering a question in his heart, "Where did you hear it?" Why can't the old man remember it at all? ”