After Lin Shihong retreated to Yichun County, he immediately mobilized people from all over the dependent counties and prepared to fight with Gao Buer, but the counties were nominally dependent, and now seeing his defeat, there were not many people who listened to the order, and finally scraped together, plus recruited and collected stragglers on the spot, and came up with 60,000 people.

Feng An, who has been entrenched in the southwest for generations, has always regarded himself as a local wealthy family, and has never looked down on Lin Shihong's mud-legged background. Before, because the soldiers and horses in his hands were not enough to fight against Lin Shihong, he had to send a letter to ask for dependence, but now seeing that his army was scattered, and the imperial army was cleaned up, he directly ignored Lin Shihong's order to transfer troops, although he had 30,000 or 40,000 elite soldiers in his hands, but he did not send a single soldier.

Lin Shihong, who was in Yichun, saw that Feng Ang did not listen to the order, and he was naturally angry in his heart.

Lin Yaoshi said: "Feng An's dog thief, in the past, he was a minister and knew everything, but now he dares to ignore His Majesty's holy decree and not send a soldier to help the war. ”

Lin Shihong was still dizzy and said: "The grass on the wall is not only his Feng Ang family, what are you excited about?" Feng Ang relied on the support of the local Liao people, their Feng family has been operating there for three or four generations, how can it be so easy for you to take it, and now our big enemy is Gao Buer, and it is not too late to return to him when Gao Buer is defeated. ”

Lin Yaoshi said angrily: "He is too deceitful to be Gao Buer, Yang Guang's faint monarch knows that it is a grasshopper after the autumn for a few days, and he is still so loyal and violently attacks us, why don't we send someone to cross the river to Wagang with generous gifts, form an alliance with Li Mi, and ask him to go south to attack Jiangdu, attract Gao Buer to save Yang Guang and reduce our pressure, what do you think?" ”

Lin Shihong nodded with satisfaction, his younger brother didn't blindly know what to do, he was very pleased, and said: "That's fine, sooner rather than later, send someone to set off now, I'm afraid that Gao Buer can't wait to send troops to attack." In addition, we can't all hope for outsiders, we also have to seize the time to train troops, since we don't have an advantage in city warfare and water warfare, we will practice mountain and forest warfare, if Gao Buer dares to come, we will drag him to death. ”

Pharmacist Lin received the order and went down to prepare.

On the other side, more than two months after Gao Buer reorganized the troops and horses in Yuzhang, he heard that Lin Shihong had entangled more than 60,000 people in Yichun County, so in order not to give him too much time, he ordered Li Jing and Hongfu Nu to lead an army of 50,000 to the south and continue to fight south.

However, due to the many mountains and few roads in the south, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the logistics supply takes a lot of time, and when Li Jing rushed to Yichun with soldiers and horses, it was already three months later, Lin Shihong had to give up Yichun and retreat to Nankang County because the training was not completed.

However, Gao Buer had to return to Hangzhou, because Yongjia County Taishou Shen Faxing united Dongyang, Jian'an, Yi'an, and Longchuan four counties to raise troops against Sui, with more than 100,000 troops, and was storming Huiji, Huiji County was in an emergency, Gao Buer left 10,000 defenders to Wang Rong, responsible for supervising the transfer of grain and grass to Li Jing, and led 30,000 cavalry to Huiji to support in the starry night.

Although Shen Faxing claimed to have 100,000 troops, but only 30,000 people were sent to attack Huiji, Gao Buer left 5,000 elite soldiers in Huiji, and when he saw the thief army attacking, he sent cavalry out of the city and took the initiative to meet the battle, Shen Faxing's army had fewer cavalry, and there was no heavy cavalry at all, but Huiji suffered a loss in the few soldiers, and did not dare to pursue the enemy too far from the city, and the two sides were deadlocked for more than ten days.

Shen Faxing military camp, subordinate strategists, generals Chen Guoren, Sun Shihan, Jiang Yuanchao, and Li Baiyao are all there.

Chen Guoren said: "King, now we will not be able to attack for a long time, the enemy's reinforcements will arrive soon, we should not fight with the other party too early, and Dongyang County and Yongjia County are too close to Hangzhou and Jiangdu, I suggest that we retreat to Jian'an, where we can change our course and build the country, so that we can recruit people of insight from all over the world to vote, as long as there are more talents and soldiers, then we can fight with the Sui Court." ”

Li Baiyao said: "The minister agrees with Situ's opinion, as long as we stay away from Yuhang, Gao Buer is fighting with Lin Shihong again, and he can't take care of us for a while, we can take this opportunity to develop ourselves." ”

"I'll second." Shen Faxing listened to the advice of his subordinates and led the troops to withdraw to Jian'an, and the two soldiers and horses were combined into one, and the number of soldiers in battle reached more than 60,000 at once, and the prestige was greatly boosted, attracting many capable people and righteous people from Lingnan to vote.

After Gao Buer's army arrived at Huiji, he saw that Shen Faxing had already led his troops to retreat to Jian'an, so after making some preparations, he led the army to Yongjia County, and there was no time to go south for the time being.

In Nankang County, Lin Shihong fought a big battle with Li Jing, and returned defeated, and finally had to lead the remnants of less than 20,000 soldiers to the west to defect to Xiao Miao. Gao Buer asked Li Jing to give up the pursuit of Lin Shihong's remnants and continue to lead the army south. Since Lin Shihong had retreated westward, Li Jing easily captured Hainan County, and thus the Chu regime established by Lin Shihong collapsed.

Xiao Milling in Baling heard that Lin Shihong led the troops to vote, overjoyed, sent Dong Jingzhen, the general in Hengshan County, to lead the troops to respond, has shown a grand ceremony, with Lin Shihong to vote, the counties and counties in the southwest have written to Xiao Milling, asking for attachment, in just half a year, Xiao Milling army has developed to no less than 400,000, and has become the most powerful leader of the righteous army like the Wagang Army in the north and Dou Jiande in Hebei.