Lin Yi nodded, and Wei Xuan immediately told him what he had done in Anyi and Biqiuxing. At this time, the money in the treasury cannot be kept anymore, and it has to be spent.

Lin Yi felt a little relieved, Wei Xuan was so generous, it would not be difficult for him to recruit strong men in a short time. Xiangling was originally a big city in Hedong, there used to be a county order, and the population in the city was more than 20,000, Yang Feng broke the city and forcibly recruited 2,000 people, and it was not difficult to recruit another 1,000 or 2,000 people. Coupled with the grievances between Yang Feng and Xiangling, there is no need to worry about the Taiping Dao people hiding among the people.

Lin Yi then received the order, and the marquis of the army came to report that the two thousand thieves in the city were killed by the people and guards in the city in the chaos of four or five hundred, and four or five hundred escaped, and the rest were all taken prisoner. It was initially screened that most of the captives were originally ordinary people in or near Xiangling City. was coerced by Yang Feng to join the thieves.

Of course, Wei Xuan would not let them go, but just let everyone form the team after detailed screening. In fact, these people don't need to be screened more, because they are also soldiers, and of course they are comfortable with officers and soldiers. In fact, these people soon found that the food in Weijia County was much better than that of Yang Jiajun. The news spread, and Lin Yi's side was a lot more relaxed!

Although Xiangling was once looted by Wei Xuan, most of Yang Feng's office during this period was here, and a rough inventory of nearly 10,000 gold, silver and copper coins and more than 30,000 stones of grain were obtained. Wei Xuan said that he and Wei He were excited about millions of dollars in furniture, and later they thought they had gained a lot in order to exterminate or bandits, destroy several big families, and force back a few officials. No wonder Zuo Feng wanted to record and ask for bribes from General Bei Zhonglang, who led the suppression of the Yellow Turban Army. Zhang Rang even directly sent someone to ask Huangfu Song for hundreds of millions of money! The explanation, at least for the most part, is to know that war is easy to make a fortune.

Let's say that Yang Feng led 8,000 elites out of Xiangling and then traveled all the way west, passing some people along the way, looting wealth and harvesting a lot, and when they came to Pingyang City, Pingyang City had already prepared.

Yang Feng was originally a Confucian student, not a brutal person such as Guo Tai, he wanted to do great things, so he was unwilling to slaughter the occupied city, so he camped outside the city and sent people into the city to persuade him to surrender.

The guards in the city are also a second person, and they do not say surrender, nor do they angrily reprimand or even kill Yang Feng's envoys, but receive them politely, and then send them out of the city. Then he recruited troops and horses in the city, and put on a posture of fighting with the thieves.

Pingyang is close to the Fenhe Plain, is the richest county in the northeast of Hedong, there are 30,000 residents in the city, at the beginning by Wei Xuanzhu Oujia forced to retreat Zhang Yang and others, is one of the few county towns to release grain for disaster relief, the head of Taiping Road in the city was also arrested. Hearing that Yang Feng had arrived with thieves, the county commander and the county lieutenant were also decisive people, and immediately gathered the victims inside and outside the city into the county soldiers, as long as these victims had something to eat. So when Yang Feng was preparing to attack the city, he found that there were three or four thousand defenders in the small county town! Although it is all a rabble, it is not easy to capture Binh Duong in a hurry!

Yang Feng is not a reckless person, knowing that he can't take Pingyang in a hurry, so he wants to surround it first and see how Guo Tai and others attack Anyi, anyway, the surrounding area of Pingyang County has been looted by him, and the wealth of Pingyang County can't escape.

Then he heard some bad news, Guo Taiqian and back 20,000 people, by the Weixuan cavalry assault, night raid heavy losses, driving the victims to fill the moat, but more than 1,000 elite casualties in the first war.

Guo Tai and the others could not capture Anyi, which was expected by Yang Feng, and he expected that even if he brought 5,000 of his subordinates, he would still not be able to help Wei Xuan. Guo Tai and others attacked Anyi and turned to the east to occupy Dongyan is also expected by Yang Feng, the original plan is that after everyone takes Xiangfen, Xiangling, and Pingyang together, they will take Jiangyi, Donglu and other four counties after a little rectification, and then connect Wangwu Mountain, enter to storm Anyi and Wenxi, and retreat to enter the mountain to confront the officers and soldiers. If you can't support it, you can go to Hanoi and go to Montenegro.

However, Yang Feng never imagined that Wei Xuan would dare to go out of the city to pursue Guo Tai and others, Yang Feng guessed that Wei Xuan must have brought out of Anyi the Wei family's private soldiers and recruits, thinking that Wei Xuan might form a stalemate with Guo Tai and others. Yang Fengxiang asked if Wei Xuan wanted to rush to drag down the Baibo army and then wait for the imperial reinforcements, if so, he must take Pingyang before the imperial reinforcements arrived.

Unexpectedly, Wei Xuan went down to Xiangfen in three or four days, and conquered Xiangling the next day!

Yang Feng was suddenly in chaos and remorseful, he shouldn't just guard Xiangling, he should have sent troops to garrison Xiangfen, so that even if Xiangfen is lost, he can still have time to rescue Xiangling!

Because of the disagreement with Guo Tai and others, Yang Feng took his hometown Xiangling as his base camp, thinking that if Guo Tai and others practiced the four counties of Dongyan smoothly, he would take Pingyang and then move north to take Yang County, Huoshan and other places. At that time, his team will be large enough, and no matter how many soldiers he has with Guo Tai and others, his status will not decline.

Now Wei Xuan suddenly appeared in Xiangling, completely disrupting Yang Feng's plan, the key is that all the income during this time is in Xiangling, if Wei Xuan sticks to Xiangling, the people in the city will be united, and the money and food are enough, unless there is a crisis in Anyi and other places, or Guo Tai and other four people come to help in the war, otherwise Wei Xuan will definitely sit in Xiangling!

Yang Feng was able to easily take Xiangling for the first time because he had a large number of people and an internal response, and now that Wei Xuan had 3,000 people entering Xiangling, the wealthy clans in the city and the county Cheng Lin Yi would definitely work together, if Guo Tai and others fell ill quickly, they might be able to attack Xiangling together. However, Guo Tai and the others are short-sighted, if they learn that Wei Xuan is in Xiangling, they will definitely breathe a sigh of relief, and then they will definitely take the three counties in the east of the county to strengthen themselves.

After thinking about it, Yang Feng decided to get rid of Wei Xuan first and strengthen the team before trying to Xiangling. The three counties of Jiangyi, Huze and Yishi are lined up, sandwiched in a semi-encirclement of Xiangfen, Wenxi, Anyi and Dongyi.

Jiangyi is the closest to Anyi, and Huize is in the south of Xiangling and forms a line with the three counties of Dongyi. Yang Feng thought that Guo Taiwen lost Xiangfen and Xiangling must be in a hurry to take Huze, so the best thing left for him to attack was only the easternmost Yi clan, so he left Pingyang overnight and went to Yi Shi, on the way Yang Feng was unwilling to send scouts to Xiangling to explore the truth, sure enough, the city head fluttered the banner of Weizi, and the scouts in and out of the city were frequent, Yang Feng also folded a few scouts for this, so he dispelled the idea of continuing to wander in Xiangling and pounced directly on the Yi clan.

Although Wei Xuan found out Yang Feng's movements in Xiangling City, he had too few troops in his hands to go out of the city to intercept Yang Feng, so he could only speed up the screening of prisoners in the city to fill the army.

It is said that Guo Tai and the other four did not see Wei Xuanjun coming in Dongqi Panhuan for several days, and they still did not see a trace of the scouts, so the four of them discussed sending Hu Cai to lead the troops to quietly approach Anyi, and the road was unimpeded. The scouts were sent to the east gate, but they saw a big flag written on it! Hu Cai sent people to the north gate of Anyi to check, and there were hundreds of defenders on the city, and it was still a big banner with the word guard.

Hu Cai judged that Wei Xuan's brother Wei Tong at the east gate was Wei Xuan's younger brother, so that Wei Xuan went out of the city to pursue it was a false move, and then returned to the city.

He didn't want to attack Anyi alone, even if Wei Xuanhe and the county soldiers were not there, the Wei family still had private soldiers, and it was not difficult for other families in the city to choose a few thousand people from seventy or eighty thousand people, so he returned to the east.

Guo Tai and the others were very puzzled when they heard about the situation in Anyi, and it was not until Yang Feng's envoy arrived that Guo Tai's people knew that Wei Xuan had taken advantage of their time in Dongqi to attack Xiangfen and Xiangling, and they regretted it in their hearts, and then hurriedly gathered people and horses to go straight to Xuze, leaving Hu Cai alone to guard Dongyan.

Let's say that the Taishou Yinde in Anyi City has been dazzled by various news during this time, and Guo Tai gathered more than 10,000 people to loot all the way, coerced the people, and captured Dongyan as he expected. He was worried that Wei Xuan would not be able to withstand the siege of Guo Tai and others, and Guo Tai came back to Anyi in a few days, but he heard that Wei Xuan would recover Xiangfen and Xiangling counties one after another with 3,000 people within three or four days. ”

Everyone looked at each other, and said in their hearts that they knew why they were in the first place, if they had listened to Wei Xuan's words at the beginning, they would have said that there would be no disaster for the Baibo Army.

However, the good times did not last long, a few days, the two counties of Huze and Yishi were respectively broken by the leader of the thieves Guo Tai and Yang Feng, and the power of the thieves increased greatly. If Jiangyi is broken by thieves, Anyi is in danger of being cut off from Xiangfen and Xiangling again! So he convened everyone again to discuss, but Anyi originally did not have many soldiers and horses, and there were no people who were able to serve the army, so he discussed for a long time, and Yin De could only look up to the sky and sigh! If he is not virtuous or benevolent, he can't do it, and the people of Jiangyi can only resign themselves to fate.

Let's say that Wei Xuan learned that Yang Feng led his troops to the east, and then broke through the Yi clan, knowing that the leader of the five thieves had achieved the momentum of meeting again, plus the Yi clan was adjacent to Wangwu Mountain, Anyi could be taken in the west, and Hanoi could be overlooked in the east! Now it's even more difficult to extinguish the thieves.

So on the one hand, he sent a message to Yang County, Huo Shan and others to prepare, and on the other hand, he left Xue Li and Yiqu people to assist Lin Yi in preparing Xiangling soldiers and horses to prevent Yang Feng from returning, leaving 15,000 stones of grain and 10 million dollars. Wei Xuan gave up Xiangling and guarded Xiangfen because of the geographical location of Xiangfen, Xiangfen is located on the side of the Fen River and Pingyang across the river, due south is Jiangyi, due west is Wenxi, southwest is Anyi, northeast is Xiangling.

If Guo Tai listened to the advice of Yang Feng and others, based on Xiangfen, first went down to Xiangling, and then took Pingyang, not to mention 100,000 soldiers and horses, at least 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers who could fight, and there were savings of three counties, whether they went east or north, they would definitely be like a bamboo, and then attack Jiangyi, Wenxi, Anyi, etc., they would sweep Hedong. Even if the imperial court arrived, it would be difficult to defeat the 100,000 people in a hurry.

Fortunately, Guo Tai and others recklessly went straight to Anyi, attacked Anyi's subordinates and turned to Dongyi, and ceded Xiangfen to Wei Xuan, who arrived in Xiangfen and could support the three cities of Jiangyi, Wenxi and Anyi.