On the second day of the second month of February, today is Xu Huang's day of rest, he came to the Wei family's manor in the southwest of the city last night, during this time he has to learn from Zhao Yun almost every day, foot combat, horse fighting, hand-to-hand, all kinds of competitions, both sides feel that the other party has enough weight to be their opponents, and driven by the two of them, Du Peng, Bai Shu and others often catch each other after training. After today's lunch, everyone was about to start a new day of competition after a rare sunbath, and rushed into the manor, whispering a few words in Wei Xuan's ear, and then Wei Xuan came to the martial arts arena with a serious expression, and said to the Su steward: "Please all the stewards and company platoon commanders immediately gather in the martial arts arena." ”

Su Lin saw that Wei Xuan's expression was serious and hurriedly arranged, while Du Peng and the others thought that they were going to have an exercise today, and they were all very excited, because every time they performed well, they would be rewarded by the second son.

After a while, the big and small stewards in the manor and all the company and platoon commanders of the escort team arrived, and Wei Xuan, as before, let everyone line up and said an earth-shattering sentence: "Baihutang Pegasus came to report, in the early hours of this morning, Taiping Daoist Guo Tai, Yang Feng and others raised flags in the Baibo Valley in the northwest of Xiangfen, known as the Baibo Army, Guo Tai and Yang Feng called themselves generals, and there were more than 100,000 servants!" ”

Hearing this, whether it was the more than 30 people queuing up to gather, the family, guards and guests who were watching the excitement on the periphery were all dumbfounded! Of course, I know what Wei Xuan meant.

Many of them used to often listen to their second son's chatter, Hedong was erosive, Taiping Dao was seriously infiltrated, and the overturning was just in the middle of October, but when the Taiping Dao uprising really happened in Hedong, they still couldn't believe it. I can't believe how Mrs. Guo and the others dare to rebel, why is it Hedong's turn?

Wei Xuan actually couldn't believe it, he felt that it was possible for Yang Feng to destroy the Tang family and gather two or three thousand people, but Yang County, Huoshan, Daning, Wenxi and other counties have been providing disaster relief and arresting the leaders of Taiping Island, these counties are surrounded by Xiangling, Xiangfen and Fenyang, Pingyang and other places, Wei Xuan also sent many members of the White Tiger Hall to pay close attention to these counties. With the experience of encountering Yang Feng and others outside Xiangling City that day, Wei Xuan was confident that as long as there was a large number of Taiping Dao activities, he should get the news as soon as possible, but he still didn't expect Guo Tai and others to grow stronger in the eyes of many people.

Guo Tai and the others are revolting under their noses, although it is a bit exaggerated to claim 100,000, but it is still possible for the five leaders to have 20,000 or 30,000 strong men, and if they are allowed to capture the surrounding counties all the way, they will soon really reach 100,000.

Wei Xuan glanced at everyone's faces and said, "We have made some preparations for today, but it is not enough, now I will assign a task, and everyone will go separately later." ”

Everyone looked solemn again, and they also knew that raising soldiers for a thousand days was used for a while, and they all stood straight and waited for Wei Xuan's arrangement.

"Tao Kan, you can lead your company to Yanchi, and from today onwards, strengthen the Yanchi guard to prevent the crumbs from taking advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos. At the same time, they told the two that before the thieves were assessed, they should not send supplies to Anyi for the time being, and do not wait for the rescue of Anyi, everything needs to be led by the two stewards to tide everyone over the difficult times. ”

Tao Kan was a little surprised, but Wei Xuan ordered him to quickly get out of the team, he also knew that Yanchi was the economic source of the Wei family, there was originally an escort team, and after the production of refined salt, a guard team of forty people was added, and now with a company, the escort force of Yanchi is nearly three hundred, which is a great mutual force, and ordinary bandits and rogues can't help it. Even so, Tao Kan knew that the difficulties he was about to face might be great, but he was selected by the Wei family and became a company commander, so it was naturally time for him to contribute.

"Su Lin, the manor has left four or five people to guard the gate and assist the others in moving to the city, and the furniture factory and the training ground will take away valuable things. Tell those who stay to be safe, and let them in if the victims outside the manor want to come in when we're gone. If the thieves come, flee if they can. ”

Su Lin hurriedly nodded in agreement, he knew that he was fortunate to listen to the words of the second prince during this time and transferred a large amount of grain to the city, otherwise this Baibo army would definitely be cheaper than those Taipingdao.

Wei Xuan looked at everyone's reactions, and knew that everyone was a little reluctant, how could he be willing to leave this manor, and rely on him to spend the most days here, and many of the facilities and equipment in the manor were built by him according to the memories of later generations. But he was not willing to take any chances, although the manor house numbered nearly fifteen or six hundred men, including the workers and guards, and the strong men, the walls were too weak for the White Polish army to rush in if they heard the news. After thinking about it, he continued: "Wang Kai, you can lead the twenty cavalry to Wenxi and obey the arrangement of the eldest brother, remember not to disturb the normal defense of the eldest brother, you are responsible for his safety!" ”

Wang Kai quickly came out of the queue when he heard this, and he couldn't hide the information on his face, he knew that it was dangerous to go to Wenxi at this time, but Wei Xuan handed over the responsibility of protecting the eldest son of the Wei family to him, as long as the task was successfully completed this time, he would definitely stand out among the guards. Sure enough, the other guests who entered the Wei family at the same time all stole envious eyes, even Du Peng, Du Chong and others were no exception.

"Wang Qiang, immediately lead the twenty cavalry to reconnoiter in the direction of Xiangfen, and send the news back to Anyi at any time. Remember to stay safe! ”

When everyone heard this, they all looked at Wang Qiang very seriously, knowing that this reconnaissance team was not allowed to return to Anyi City for the time being, and it was very dangerous for more than 20 people to wander outside. Wang Qiang grinned, tracking and reconnaissance is what he is best at, don't say that he has horses, even if he is on foot, he is not worried about being discovered or caught by thieves. The second prince is to rely on his expertise as his eyes and ears, to inquire about the intelligence of the Bai Bo Army at any time, and to ventilate and report the news between Wenxi, Anyi and even Yanchi, which is also a heavy responsibility!

Wei Xuan looked at Xu Huang, took out a list from his arms and handed it to him: "Gongming, you have to roughly write down the names of these people later, the prince may send someone to arrest the inner line of Taiping Dao in the city, and I will let the four brothers recommend you together." ”

Xu Huang took the list and died cautiously into his arms, what he wanted to say after all, he still didn't say it, if it was two months ago, he would definitely bow down to the ground and thank Wei Xuan for his support, this list is obviously the crystallization of the long-term work of the White Tiger Hall, and it will naturally be a credit for him to get it in front of Taishou when the time comes. But now that he is about to become a family, it is normal for Wei Xuan to promote him, and he also needs to be as polite as before in front of everyone, because most of the people present are just guests, and he is about to become the son-in-law of the Wei family. But my heart is still full of emotion!

Wei Xuan glanced at Zhao Yun again and said, "Zilong, the silver dragon spear has been built, how do you plan to do it?" If you leave now, I will ask Tong'er to prepare a carriage, and the three of you together must leave Anyi by tonight. ”

Zhao Yun shook his head: "Shizun's body has not fully recovered, it is not conducive to traveling far, now that this kind of thing happens, Shizun will definitely not want to go, Yun believes that Anyi will be fine, Yun will stay in Anyi first, in case something happens, it is better to repay the hospitality during this time." ”

Wei Xuan smiled bitterly, in his heart he definitely didn't want Zhao Yun to go, but from the perspective of his parents, he definitely hoped that Master Tong Yuan and the three of them would leave Anyi and go south to Luoyang or Chang'an. In this way, even if Anyi can't hold it, at least Weitong can escape alive and continue the Wei family. However, Tong Yuan would not leave at this time, and Zhao Yun was even more impossible. Zhao Yun decided to stay, Wei Xuan was naturally welcome, there was Xu Huang in front of him and Zhao Yun in the back at the critical moment, and he was always able to escort some of the core disciples of the Wei family to break out of the encirclement of thieves.

Wei Xuan then glanced at everyone and said: "Then go separately to prepare, in order to avoid causing panic in the city, the people on foot entered the city from the west gate and the south gate in two batches, and the cavalry made a detour to the north gate to enter the city." Be sure to enter the city within two hours, the gates may be closed and there will be some trouble. ”

After finishing speaking, Wei Xuan didn't care about Su Lin and Bai Shu and the others, and directly took Xu Huang and Zhao Yun towards Anyi City, this news must be notified to the Wei family and the members of the White Tiger Hall scattered in the counties of Hedong as soon as possible, so that they can get ready.

Xu Huang and Zhao Yun were by his side, Wei Xuan was in a much better mood, and suddenly had an impulse to cross thousands of troops. Think about it, a five-son good general and a five-tiger general, how can you wait for idle thieves to do anything.

Wei Mansion, everyone saw Wei Xuantie come back with a blue face, it was very strange for the second son to ride a tall horse with his quasi-aunt Xu Huang and the third son's senior brother Zhao Yun back all the way, what happened today?

After a stick of incense, in the Wei family council hall, in addition to Wei Ning, who was on duty in the Taishou Mansion, the three brothers of Wei Su, the main members of the younger generation of Wei Zheng, Wei Tong, Wei He and other clans, Wei Cheng, Wei She, Chen Zhong and other backbones of the White Tiger Hall and several main stewards such as Bai Shu all appeared here.

Everyone's faces were solemn, because some of them had already received the news on the way here. After Wei Su sat down on the Taishi chair, he glanced at the audience and said to Wei Xuan, "Zhongdao, tell everyone about the current situation." ”

Wei Xuan got up from his seat and said in a solemn tone: "The three rounds of news have confirmed that Mrs. Guo, Yang Feng and the other five people had an incident in Xiangfen Baibo Valley this morning, and the news will be sent to the Taishou Mansion in an hour at the latest. Guo, Yang and others claimed to have gathered more than 100,000 people, and announced that there should be about 20,000 strong men who can fight, plus 40,000 or 50,000 women and children. Xiangfen is the closest, it is estimated that Xiangfen will definitely not be able to stop it in a hurry, if the thieves continue to attack Pingyang, Fenyang and Xiangling after taking Xiangfen, then Anyi still has five or six days to prepare, but then the team of thieves may really have 100,000 people. If they take Xiangfen and go straight to Anyi, they will be able to arrive the next evening at the latest. Then there is not much time left for us to prepare. ”