Zhuo Shunfu's two arrows missed Yuan Ying, but just shot his horse, the horse was injured and fell, after Yuan Ying got up, seeing that he couldn't catch up, he could only shout and curse angrily.

Seeing this situation, Yikou next to him said disapprerovingly: "Why should Fifth Brother Yuan worry, it's just that he got rid of a dog slave." ”

Yuan Ying glanced back: "This dog slave must be on Ye Chang's mission, looking at his appearance, he is going north, maybe he is looking for An Lushan to help...... If An Lushan's 100,000 soldiers really enter the Central Plains, our plans will be in trouble."

"Even if you stop him, the court will also transfer An Lushan in." Another said: "As long as we are quick and solve Ye Chang earlier, and then we will meet with Brother Yuan, our army of one million people, how can we be afraid of 100,000 people in An Lushan?" ”

"And I heard that An Lushan and Ye Chang are at odds, he may not be willing to send troops to rescue Ye Chang."

"You don't understand, these dog officials are not in harmony anymore, it is their internal fighting, against our people, are they not colluding together to drink our blood and eat our flesh?" Yuan Ying snorted: "But what Duan Jiu said is right, let's pull out Ye Chang's fight first, and then meet with the eldest brother."

They were originally going to sweep the surrounding area, but now they changed their minds temporarily, and Yuan Ying ordered: "Gather all the brothers together, let's attack Luoyang now"

"Attack Luoyang, attack Luoyang" The rebels all raised their arms and shouted.

In Luoyang City, Ye Chang, who had been training newly recruited soldiers for a day, returned to the barracks tired. Since taking over the post of Luoyang Guard, he left the comfortable accommodation in the Grand View Garden and came to the barracks

"Lu Yi is really martyred...... Liu Changqing endured the discomfort below, quickly caught up with Ye Chang, and reported to Ye Chang in a low voice: "There is also bad news, Da Xiqi was trapped in Linru by the thief army, and the small soldiers in Linru City were weak and unbearable to defend, so he sent someone to ask for help." ”

"Can't help him." Ye Chang was a little irritable in his heart: "Now there are only six thousand newly recruited soldiers in the city, and I don't know the military orders and can't afford to fight, what can I do to help him...... Let him think of holding it, but if he can't hold it, let's break through

The bad news is really one after another, the surrounding Dugi Province of Luoyang is almost everywhere, and there are civil riots for a hundred miles out of Luoyang, and even in places only twenty or thirty miles away from Luoyang, there are also thieves who are infested. Ye Chang's only way to deal with it was to disperse more than 100 of his 200 personal guards into 6,000 newly recruited sergeants as team officers, and the other 100 were placed by his side as the main elite force.

"Why did the situation suddenly deteriorate to this point" Liu Changqing also sighed: "Fortunately, Ye Gong has already pacified the rebellious people in the city, otherwise, the city and the outside of the city echo at the same time, and Luoyang will definitely not defend it."

"Among the thieves there are wise men." Ye Changdao.

"Speaking of the thief leader, news just came that someone came out and said that this thief leader is Yuan Ying, the brother of the Taizhou traitor Yuan Chao, I don't know if it's true or not."

Although Yuan Chao and Yuan Ying are friends from many parties, there are always people with two hearts among the people they collude with, and among the subordinates of these people, there are also those who disagree with the uprising, so in the past few days, the counties have changed, and the paperwork snowflakes generally fly to Luoyang. If it weren't for the fact that Luoyang's troops were really insufficient, as long as he followed this change to arrest people, it would be enough to arrest most of the Haoqiang befriended by the Yuan family brothers.

"There should be nothing wrong with that." Ye Chang had no impression of the Yuan family brothers at all, he muttered, but there was a little strange in his heart, these two people should be ordinary people in remote places near the sea, it is said that Yuan Chao is still a small official, how can they make such a big noise

made such a big fuss, it is clear that he has a deep understanding of the reality of Datang, and can grasp the timing very well, such characters should not be underestimated.

"The people of Taizhou actually went to Dugi Road and Henan Road to stir up the storm, and their people colluded with the treacherous and powerful people in various places, which is by no means a day's work." Liu Changqing also sighed.

"After all, it was because of his own gap that he gave the traitor a chance"

Ye Chang knows very well why Gyeonggi, Dugi, and Henan Province have become like this, and he has also contributed to this.

In fact, it was a struggle between the old small landowners and the new mill owners and large plantation owners. In the past ten years, Ye Chang has brought the development of Datang's commodity economy to an unprecedented height, and workshops and large plantations must occupy more land in order to obtain more profits. In this frenzy, first the yeoman and semi-yeoman peasants were exterminated, and then the small landlords.

The small landlords were mostly powerful and clan leaders in the countryside, and their role in speaking was more effective than that of the imperial court in the villages where the imperial court was weak. When they realized that they were threatened, or were ambitious enough to join in the feast that had begun as a result of the commodity economic boom, the current power structure of the Tang Dynasty became their enemy. Only by overthrowing the Tang Dynasty can they achieve their goals.

Of course, these are all things that he summed up after the fact, and if he could have expected this in advance, he would have made better preparations to reduce the losses caused by this rebellion and maximize the benefits of the destruction of the old system.

He can understand this kind of thing in his own heart, but he can't tell others, so Yang Guozhong is the best scapegoat. Yang Guozhong's exploitation and looting is indeed one of the reasons why the people participated in the rebellion, but when Yang Guozhong thinks about it himself, he will definitely be very depressed: his looting of the people is only slightly stronger than Li Linfu and others, why did the people afford it when Li Linfu was there, but the people rebelled when it was his turn?

At this time, it was getting late, and after the two discussed things for a while, at this moment, Su Yuan walked in quickly and saluted Ye Chang: "Lang Jun, everyone has arrived."

"Okay" Ye Chang perked up and stood up: "It's good that they arrived"

When he said this, his expression became very happy, and his face could not help but smile. In the past few days, Liu Changqing has been by Ye Chang's side, and he has never seen him smile like this

"What's wrong?" Liu Changqing asked.

"Someone from Chang'an City." Ye Chang said with some excitement: "Since I know that I want to stay in this eastern capital, how can I completely pin my hopes on others?"

"Chang'an City...... Reinforcements sent from Chang'an City? ”

Liu Changqing was very surprised, all kinds of news showed that there were not many soldiers in Chang'an City, and they were basically taken away by Cheng Qianli, where are the reinforcements now?

"Since Tianbao has been in the army for eight years, I have been retiring in the army." Ye Chang said with a smile: "Jiannan Town, Anxi Town, Beiting Town, plus the Liaodong Marching Governor's Mansion, each has hundreds to two thousand sergeants over the age of forty who retire every year. Most of them returned to their hometowns, but some of them entered the major chambers of commerce, especially the things responsible for the protection of the tracks, only in Chang'an and Luoyang, there are more than 2,000 such people. Now that the matter is urgent, I asked Li Yuan to recall them back to the army, they are all elite soldiers in a hundred battles, with this manpower, Luoyang has no worries."

As he spoke, he walked outward, led the way, and in a short time, he reached the barracks and the school. Liu Changqing looked at the school and saw that it was dark, and there were more than 1,000 people standing silently. Their ranks were very neat, and they didn't look like retired sergeants at all, and the forbidden army drills that Liu Changqing saw were nothing more than that.

Liu Changqing couldn't help but be a little surprised in his heart.

He didn't know that although these retired veterans withdrew from the military membership of the imperial court, it did not mean that they had given up their usual exercises. Ye Chang raised them as low-level officers in the reserve, and their treatment was not inferior to that of the low-level guards in the imperial army on weekdays, and he always let them insist on training. This is one of Ye Chang's hole cards, which was originally buried in case the court turned against him, but he never thought of using it this time.

"Solemnity"

Liu Changqing was pondering, and when he heard the sound of one person cheering, the sound of those veterans brushing, they all stood up straight, and then saluted Ye Chang with his hands crossed.

"I've seen the county princess"

The voices of more than 1,000 people were uniform, like thunder and tide, which shook Liu Changqing's ears and rumbled.

Liu Changqing was in high spirits, and he wanted to praise Ye Chang, but was gently pulled by Li Yuan. He was stunned, and then saw Ye Chang take two steps forward and walked straight in front of the sergeants.

"Brothers, the country is in trouble today, Ye is ashamed, and he has to rely on the power of your brothers." Ye Chang's deep voice rang out.

"I am willing to die for the county princess," the veterans replied in unison.

They are from the bottom of their hearts, border soldiers like them, before they met Ye Chang, they often served for decades and died in a foreign land, and the family did not know about it, their comrades-in-arms, too many of them had died in battle, and the family still had to pay taxes for them to serve Tianbao for 11 years, Ye Chang did not hesitate to offend the powerful people of the dynasty and the border town generals in the court, and exposed the collusion of these people to skin and suck the blood of the veterans, which caused a huge tide, and was even regarded as one of the important reasons for the coup d'état in Tianbao's eleventh year.

"All pensions, like all the rewards in the army, are the same." Ye Chang said again: "Brothers, you don't need to have worries, if there is an accident, your parents and wife, I will raise you" Ye Chang said again.

"I am willing to die for the county princess" The veterans once again shouted in unison.

Liu Changqing vaguely felt that something was wrong in his heart, this matter was a state matter, how could Ye Chang bear everything by himself. However, thinking of the monarchs and ministers in the court now, he knew very well in his heart that if it weren't for this, where would it be possible to recall these retired soldiers.

In recent years, Li Longji would rather spend hundreds of thousands of yuan on building a warm house with glass, hundreds of thousands of yuan on buying a table clock, and millions of yuan on building a crystal palace built of glass, rather than spend more money on building roads and caring for the people. After discovering that the bank invested money to build the road was a lucrative business for the imperial court, Li Longji and Yang Guozhong were eager to outsource all the construction to the Anton Bank

"Thank you so much" Ye Chang replied to the soldiers with a cross salute, and then ordered: "Each team selects the team leader and the captain, and then this Mr. Liu will send you the armor in the arsenal."

Liu Changqing responded, Ye Chang turned around and whispered to him: "Over there in the arsenal, go to my military order, things should be done quickly and without delay, send it today, they can conduct the exercise tomorrow, and in addition, this matter will be kept as secret as possible." ”

"When they entered the city......" Liu Changqing was taken aback.

"Came in pretending to be a plague person who had fled into the city."

Liu Changqing nodded, and suddenly understood. These days, the number of people who have fled into Luoyang City has been increasing every day, and half of the shelters for victims in the city have been occupied, and a full 80,000 or 90,000 people have entered the city. Among these people, there must be thieves who are meticulously involved, but at the same time, they can also cover up some of Ye Chang's arrangements

Liu Changqing suddenly thought that Ye Chang went to see those unscrupulous new recruits during the day, maybe it was for those eyeliners: Luoyang is weak, let's attack Luoyang

"Luoyang's soldiers are weak, taking advantage of Ye Chang's lack of preparation, attack Luoyang first, at least besiege Luoyang first"

Khalid spoke a very authentic Tang Dynasty official dialect, and his voice was a little hoarse because of the fire.

He is a big cannibal, and he has always been active as a big food merchant, and he has met many people inside and outside Chang'an and Luoyang. No one would have thought that this big cannibal who came all the way to Datang to make a fortune would collude with thieves outside Luoyang City.

Therefore, Khalid and his accomplices have become the best eyeliner for the thieves

"Khalid, do you mean it really?"

"Really, I saw with my own eyes that Ye Chang recruited more than 2,000 people and less than 3,000 people as soldiers, and practiced outside the city for a day, and those who were recruited were all scoundrels, ruffians and drunkards, in short, the most unsuitable people to be soldiers were recruited by him" Speaking of this, the corners of Khaled's mouth twitched, thinking of the flood outside Talas: "Unless Ye Chang digs up the embankment of the Luo River and turns all the fish and shrimp in the river into soldiers, he will not have enough troops at all."

"Ye Chang has always been cunning, Khalid, you have experienced it yourself, do you think this will be his trap?"

Yuan Ying was originally a little reckless, but when facing Ye Chang, he had to be cautious. His question made Khalid laugh: "I don't think it's a trap, it's a bluff, as your Sun Tzu says in the Art of War."

In the eleventh year of Tianbao, Khalid escaped from the prisoner of war camp in Ximachang as a prisoner, and since then he has followed the Yuan brothers. He shouldered the mission of Ziyad, and after spending more than a year returning to Dashi by sea, he resolutely refused the invitation of the caliph and returned to Datang again, bringing a lot of wealth to the Yuan brothers while also helping them find a way to deal with Ye Chang and Datang.

Therefore, the Yuan family brothers trusted him very much, and when they heard that this was Ye Chang's bluff, Yuan Ying nodded: "Since this is the case, I am nine points sure...... Khalid, go back to the city and continue to find out. ”

"Okay, if necessary, I can act as an internal response for you with my people." Khalid said.

"No, no," Yuan Ying shook her head repeatedly.

"How?"

"My brother has a sentence that he came to after studying Ye Chang's actions." Yuan Ying said: "My brother always thought that although Ye Chang had no vision and lacked the ability to tolerate people, he still had talent, so he couldn't ignore it. ”

"What?" Khalid was taken aback, he actually looked down on the Yuan brothers, but at this moment, he vaguely felt that he seemed to underestimate this pair of brothers.

Every time Ye Chang acts, it seems to be bold, but in fact, he has a sharp dagger hidden in his arms, as long as the enemy is not careful, this dagger will see blood and seal his throat. Therefore, to deal with Ye Chang, we must also hide a dagger...... Khalid, you are our dagger, and you can't use it easily."