Shun lì to Yun Dingxing to get reinforcements Fan Zigai this messenger, so that Yun Dingxing is very grateful to Chen Fuliang, Yun Lao slippery head is very clear, among the generals of the Sixteen Wei Mansion, not only the shallowest military qualifications, but also the fewest military achievements, it is completely by relying on Yu Wenshu's strength to get himself the position of Zuo Tunwei General, Lai Hu'er, Feng Ang and Zhao Cai, none of these military veterans can afford to look up to themselves, now that Yu Wenshu is dead, and he has not been able to obtain the direct love and trust of Emperor Yang of Sui, if nothing else, I, the general of Zuotunwei, basically can't be a few days old.

In such a situation, Chen Fuliang's recommendation to Yun Dingxing is of course very important, of course, he can blame Yun Dingxing himself for not playing well in rescuing Taiyuan, but if he fights well, Yun Dingxing's position can basically be saved, and if he plays beautifully, then Yun Dingxing can not only completely stabilize his position, maybe he may go further - Fan Zigai is seventy-three years old and sick, although our old general Yun is also more than sixty, but his body is still very tough, As long as Emperor Yang of Sui has the courage to let General Yun Lao pick up the burden of Taiyuan, our General Yun will dare to take over this burden.

Because of this, after receiving the will of Emperor Yang of Sui, the knowledgeable and knowledgeable General Yun immediately held a generous gift, and came to Lushunfang to thank Chen Fuliang for his kindness, and Chen Fuliang, who followed the customs of the country, also accepted the gift unceremoniously, and also took the opportunity to have a separate conversation with Yun Dingxing, and took the initiative to say: "Uncle, in fact, you don't need to thank me so politely, the little nephew is doing something for the country." In addition, the little nephew has a small request for you, Fan stayed behind his old man's temper is not very good, after you arrive in Taiyuan and join forces with him to suppress the thief, there will definitely be some friction and contradictions between each other, and when the time comes, uncle, you will be more tolerant of his old man for the sake of my thin face. ”

"Of course, that's of course." Yun Dingxing hurriedly slapped his thin chest loudly, and said: "Rest assured, Fan is highly respected, loyal and unparalleled, and I have always admired my uncle, after arriving in Taiyuan, I will definitely look forward to him, even if there is any misunderstanding and friction, I will definitely try my best to endure it, and I will never make his old man angry." ”

"I'm relieved." Chen Fuliang nodded, and said: "Also, uncle, you also have to take care of yourself, the Taiyuan thief army has a lot of soldiers and horses, and the thief leader Zhen Zhai'er is cunning and abnormal, you must be careful when you go to conquer him, you would rather be slow than risk using troops, so as not to repeat the mistakes of General Gao Junya." ”

"Thank you for your advice, the old man remembered." Yun Dingxing hurriedly thanked him, and then took the opportunity to say: "Virtuous nephew, about this matter, my uncle is begging you, when arranging the expedition team, please also ask the virtuous nephew you must send me the elite of Zuotunwei during the Yanmen War, as well as the two generals Miao Haichao and Zhu Cang, and please also ask the virtuous nephew to arrange for you to go with me." ”

Chen Fuliang hesitated slightly, Zhu Cang was Yun Dingxing, even if he didn't say that Chen Fuliang would send it to him, the simple and warlike Miao Haichao Chen Fuliang wanted to stay and reuse, but considering that there were only two capable and obedient generals under Old Man Yun, and he recommended it to Emperor Yang of Sui by himself, if he didn't fight well, it would have some impact on himself, Chen Fuliang still nodded quickly and said: "Okay, no problem, Miao Haichao and Zhu Cang can go out with you, and you can choose from the army of Zuotunwei at will, and I will try my best to arrange it for you." ”

Yun Dingxing was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly thanked Chen Fuliang again, and after discussing the military situation in Taiyuan with Chen Fuliang, he saw Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng and others coming in with official documents, Yun Dingxing was very smart and hurriedly asked to leave, Chen Fuliang did not keep it, but personally sent Yun Dingxing out of the door, but when he said goodbye, Chen Fuliang hesitated again, and still whispered to Yun Dingxing: "Uncle, the little nephew still has a word, don't blame me for being unlucky, if you have any accidents on the battlefield, the war is unfavorable and you must withdraw, Don't go to Taiyuan, come to the south, Grandpa Fan has a bad temper, killing officials is like mowing grass, I can't help you when I go there, after coming south, I can at least maneuver from it. ”

Rao is Yun Dingxing is no matter how shameless and vicious he is, after listening to Chen Fuliang's words, he was still a little moved, and hurriedly said to Chen Fuliang: "Thank you for your advice, the mountains are high and the sea is deep, you have this affection for the old man, the old man remembers." If you have the opportunity, you will be sure to report it. ”

Chen Yingliang nodded, and said goodbye to Yun Dingxing, and after Yun Dingxing left with gratitude, Wei Zheng, who had never looked at Yun Dingxing's displeasure, said: "Stay behind, why do you care so much about this old man?" If he was really slashed by Fan Liushou, it would be equivalent to cutting off a scourge for the imperial court. ”

"It can be regarded as repaying the favor, when I first started, he still gave me some help, and I have never had any conflict with Yuwen Zhuguo's family, and I have some blessings from him." Chen Yingliang sighed and muttered again: "Besides, when I reminded him like this, I wasn't entirely worried that he would be cut by Grandpa Fan, but also worried about other things. ”

"Worried about something else? What are you worried about? Wei Zheng asked, Chen Yingliang shook his head, refused to answer, and couldn't answer.

By the way, before Yun Dingxing led the army to the north, after a lapse of three years, Chen Fuliang took the initiative to send someone to find Zhu Cang for the first time, invited Zhu Cang to his home for a private conversation, and praised Zhu Cang's contribution to the court and himself in the past three years, rewarded Zhu Cang with some gold and silver, and promised an official position, ordering him to continue to lurk in the Zuotun Guard, ready to accept his orders and command at any time. Only then did Zhu Cang understand that Chen Fuliang had never forgotten himself, and mistakenly thought that Chen Fuliang had sent him to spy on Yun Dingxing, so he was very happy to accept Chen Fuliang's order, and his resentment towards Chen Fuliang was slightly dissipated.

In this way, with the 10,000 Zuotunwei troops selected by himself, Yun Dingxing and Zhu Cang and Miao Haichao went north to reinforce Fan Zigai, and the garrison outside the city of Luoyang, the eastern capital, basically fell into the hands of Chen Fuliang, but the matter was not over, with the holy decree of Emperor Yang of Sui to allow him to expand the army, Chen Fuliang immediately began to expand the army, and personally presided over the recruitment of soldiers, personally appointed generals at all levels, and personally led a group of generals to train the army, in fact, the new army was formed as the Chen family army, Because of the large number of people in the great turmoil today, the new army was quickly recruited, and the mountains of weapons and armor in the eastern capital also allowed Chen Fuliang to not worry about the equipment problem at all, and the remaining problem was how to train the army to maturity.

Chen Fuliang expanded the army in Luoyang, the eastern capital, such a big move, of course, it is impossible to escape the eyes of people with a heart, receiving this news, Li Yuan, who was in Chengji, was so worried that he didn't fall asleep all night, afraid that Chen Fuliang would train the army in the eastern capital to mature, which would pose a huge threat to his ambitions. But fortunately, only one day later, Li Yuan received a decree from Emperor Yang of Sui, after spending a huge price, Emperor Yang of Sui finally lifted the ban on Li Yuan not leaving Chengji, and allowed Li Yuan to move at will.

I also have to explain here that when the Li family father and son moved to Hedong, of course, they were also worried that their mortal enemy Chen Fuliang would be vigilant about this, but to the surprise of the Li family father and son, they soon received the Dongdu Line News, saying that Chen Fuliang actually said something stupid when talking about this matter, such as Lao Li is pitiful, Chengji's side is too windy and sandy, and he should live in a different place.

The old Li family is hiding in the dark - at least the people of the old Li family think so, the reaction to Chen Fuliang's expansion of the army is not strong enough, Li Mi's side is completely different, after receiving this news, Li Mi's face suddenly changed, and he directly shouted: "You can't give this traitor time!" We can't let this traitor train the Eastern Capital army to maturity, otherwise we will die without a place to bury! You must start first and get rid of the troubles forever! ”

The first strike is strong, Li Mi is now qualified to say this, on October 18, the twelfth year of the great cause, after the formal establishment of the Pushan public self-reliance portal, relying on extraordinary talent, prestige and skill, just entered the great cause of the thirteenth year, in less than three months, Li Mi expanded his Pushan public camp to 30,000 people, soon after the year broke through the 40,000 mark, at the same time, through guò coercion and other means, Li Mi took the four county towns of Futian, Weishi, Kaifeng and Xinzheng in one go, and obtained a large amount of military baggage, With sufficient grain and abundant troops, coupled with Li Mi's treacherous use of troops and good management of the army, the Sui army in the Xingyang area, including Pei Renji, who was stationed in the Tiger Prison Pass, was already afraid of him like a tiger, and did not dare to fight him, and his momentum was unparalleled for a while.

In addition, including Zhai Rang's led Wagang army has actually been Li Mi's horse head is Zhan, after defeating Zhang Xutuo, Zhai Rang once personally led the army to attack Xingyang County to govern the city, but unfortunately Yang Qing, the king of Xun, although the field battle is not good, but there are quite a few hands to defend the city, Zhai Rang several sieges were repulsed, and he was forced to give up, and felt that his food was enough, so he decided to retreat to Wagang, let Li Mi lead the Pushan public camp alone. However, just after retreating from the Jindi Pass, Zhai Rang immediately received the news that Li Mi had successively conquered the southern counties of Xingyang, and coveted the money and food of these counties, Zhai Rang immediately returned to chase Li Mi, and Li Mi was very friendly and generous and agreed to join forces with the Wagang Army again, but in this way, the soft-mouthed Zhai Rang gradually obeyed Li Mi's leadership and command, and was still Li Mi's benefactor in reputation, but in fact he had become the commander of the friendly army under Li Mi's command.

The situation is like this, and it was decided to attack Chen Fuliang first, Li Mi naturally had to pull Zhai Rang into the water, let Zhai Rang go to be cannon fodder for his own strength, and then invited Zhai Rang to his account to talk, Li Mi also told Zhai Rang about his plan to let himself go, and strongly persuaded Zhai Rang to join forces with himself to enter Luoyang, first take the world's largest granary Luokoucang, and then attack Luoyang to achieve great things. As a result, Zhai Rang also saw Xiaoli's death as usual, and did big things and spared his life, and when he heard it, he immediately exclaimed: "Attack the eastern capital Luoyang? Pushan Gong, are you crazy? Yang Xuangan didn't even succeed in winning the Eastern Capital back then, how could we possibly take it? ”

"King Zhai rest assured, at this time, at that time, the situation is already different." Li Mi pointed out: "Yang Xuangan's failure to attack Luoyang that year was mainly due to three losses: first, his soldiers were not trained and their combat effectiveness was weak; the second is that he refuses to adopt my good idea, but wants to listen to Li Zixiong's bad idea of embroidering pillows; The third is that the world was not in turmoil at that time, and the officials and troops from all over the country could go back to Luoyang City with all their might, and the reinforcements were endlessly returning to the eastern capital, so Yang Xuangan was finally outnumbered, and was broken by the officials and soldiers, and was also taken by Chen Yingliang's thieves. ”

"But now, all three of these points are gone." Li Mi explained: "Now the king, your soldiers and horses are all elite soldiers who have experienced a hundred battles, and their combat effectiveness is far better than that of the new army under Chen Yingliang. The king, you and the students are as close as flesh and blood, and like brothers and sisters, there is no need for others to hinder you, the laws and regulations are unified, the soldiers are consistent, and it is easy to break the enemy. In the end, now that the four seas of Kyushu are boiling like boiling water, the officials and troops in various places have long been exhausted to deal with it, and they are still free to go back and forth to help Luoyang? Therefore, as long as we come to Luoyang City, Luoyang City will inevitably be in our pocket. ”

Zhai Rang was indeed obedient to Li Mi, and felt that Li Mi was reasonable, so he immediately made up his mind and agreed to join forces to march into Luoyang to strangle Chen Fuliang, who was not yet full-fledged, in his growth. Then Zhai Rang asked again: "Pushan Gong, then how do we win the Tiger Prison Pass?" Pei Renji was stationed there, and that Xiongguan was not very easy to attack. ”

"When you enter Luoyang, why do you have to go through the Tiger Prison?" Li Mi laughed out loud, took out the map again, pointed to the map and said: "We can march like this, go first to the territory of Yangcheng County in the southeast of Henan County, and then go north to cross Fangshan, suddenly appear behind the Tiger Prison Pass, and then go straight to the Luokou Cang that is close at hand, take this world's largest granary, and take this as the foundation to gain a foothold, first break Pei Renji in the east, and then face Chen Yingliang's thief with ease and waiting, it is not difficult to win." (Luokoucang is located between Gong County and Bishui County, more than 100 miles away from Luoyang.) ）

"Brilliant plan! That's it! As soon as Zhai Rang heard the great joy, he immediately said: "Pushan Gong, you and I will immediately do our best, first go to Yangcheng and then go north to the mountain, cross Fangshan and take Luokoucang!" ”

"King, what are you anxious about? Listen to me. Li Mi couldn't cry or laugh, and hurriedly said: "King, we must not take the whole army to cross the Fang Mountain, if we do this, the huge team will inevitably move slowly, and it will inevitably startle the snake, so that Chen Yingliang's treacherous thief will perceive our intentions, and arrange a defense in advance at the dangerous point of Wanshan, we can only act with a part of the elite, and we must also arrange a tactic to attack the east and west, confuse Chen Yingliang's thief and Pei Renji, and also respond to our surprise army." ”

"Then how are we going to make a fuss?" Zhai Rang hurriedly asked again.

"It's very simple, feint to attack the Tiger Prison Pass and surprise attack Luokoucang." Li Mi compared the map and said: "We can concentrate the main army outside the Tiger Prison Pass, falsely play our banner and release the rumor that we are going to join forces to attack the Guancheng, create the illusion that we are ready to attack the Tiger Prison Pass head-on, and lure Pei Renji to concentrate on guarding the front and ignoring the defense behind the back, at the same time, you and I lead an elite army, do not play the banner and pretend to be ordinary homeless, rush into Yangcheng County lightly, and then go north to attack Luokoucang, and when we succeed, immediately open the warehouse and release grain to strengthen the team, Pei Renji will inevitably return to the division to save Luokoucang, The main force we have deployed to the east of the Tiger Prison Pass can take the opportunity to attack and join us in the pass. ”

"Brilliant plan! Coup! That's it! That's it! Zhai Rang applauded again, and he was about to do so immediately.

"Damn, talking to stupid people is a waste." Li Mi first scolded a dirty word in his heart, and then said: "King, don't worry, don't worry, there is one more point, we must take precautions in advance." The students believed that after our heavy troops were drawn to the Tiger Prison, we could not rule out the possibility that Pei Renji would ask Chen Yingliang for help, and once Chen Yingliang's thieves sent troops, they might inadvertently discover our surprise attack army and make us fall short. Although this may be small, it is best for us to avoid it as much as possible, and we have to find a way to keep Pei Renji from asking for help from Chen Yingliang's thief. ”

"What is Pushangong's clever plan?" Zhai Rang hurriedly asked again.

"The student received a report from the Eastern Capital, Chen Yingliang's thief and Pei Renji have a bad relationship, and they have fought openly and secretly with each other several times, Pei Renji has failed miserably every time, and he is very dissatisfied with Chen Yingliang, we can use this to make a big fuss." Li Mi said in a deep voice: "The student wants to ask the king to write a letter to Pei Renji, pretending to claim that our military strength is huge, and it is easy to break through the Tiger Prison Pass, persuade Pei Renji to switch and surrender, and deliberately mention Chen Yingliang, saying that even if Pei Renji gives his daughter to Chen Yingliang as a concubine, in exchange for Chen Yingliang sending troops to rescue him, he will not be able to save him from the end of Guan Guan and his death." ”

Speaking of this, Li Mi smiled slightly and said, "In this way, Pei Renji will definitely not ask Chen Yingliang for help, and it is likely that he will deliberately not let Chen Yingliang know the news that we have come to the city, which can buy us a lot of precious time." ”

"Pei Renji gave his daughter to Chen Yingliang as a concubine? What does this mean? …… Oh, clever plan, I can't imagine that Chen Yingliang's thief and Pei Renji still have such a layer of grievances, clever plan, clever plan, I will be angry when I see such a letter, not to mention Pei Renji's old puppet? That's it, I'll write right away, and I'll send troops right away! ”

"King, don't be in such a hurry, okay? This battle requires us to cooperate inside and outside, Zhengqi hand in hand, we also have to discuss the front and flank surprise soldiers' hands-on time, contact signals, but also discuss how to create the illusion that you and I are in the main force, these things are complicated, it is a meticulous work, we have to discuss! Discuss carefully! ”

It took a lot of time, and finally agreed on a qiē detail with Zhai Rang, and wrote a letter to stimulate Pei Renji under Li Mi's personal guidance, Zhai Rang hurriedly went back to arrange the arrangement, Li Mi smiled in the tent, and the smile was extremely hideous, and muttered: "Little thief, every time I fought before, I was tied by others, and now I can finally let go of my hands and feet, but you are bound by the tyrant's holy decree, even if I win you this time, I will be a little invincible." ”

"Fortunately, it doesn't matter, when I take Luokoucang, after the soldiers are well fed, I will give you a chance to fight to the death with me!" When I see such a letter, I will be angry, not to mention Pei Renji's old puppet? That's it, I'll write right away, and I'll send troops right away! ”

"King, don't be in such a hurry, okay? This battle requires us to cooperate inside and outside, Zhengqi hand in hand, we also have to discuss the front and flank surprise soldiers' hands-on time, contact signals, but also discuss how to create the illusion that you and I are in the main force, these things are complicated, it is a meticulous work, we have to discuss! Discuss carefully! ”

It took a lot of time, and finally agreed on a qiē detail with Zhai Rang, and wrote a letter to stimulate Pei Renji under Li Mi's personal guidance, Zhai Rang hurriedly went back to arrange the arrangement, Li Mi smiled in the tent, and the smile was extremely hideous, and muttered: "Little thief, every time I fought before, I was tied by others, and now I can finally let go of my hands and feet, but you are bound by the tyrant's holy decree, even if I win you this time, I will be a little invincible." ”

"Fortunately, it doesn't matter, when I take Luokoucang, after the soldiers are well fed, I will give you a chance to fight to the death with me!"