In the camp of the rebels outside the city, the lights were on and off. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The elites under the command of Du Fuwei and Li Zitong are isolated from the outcasts on the periphery.

At least there is food to eat in the camp and be able to live. Outside the wall, then you can only resign yourself to fate.

In troubled times, human life is like a mustard.

The night was misty, and Cao Xu led the crowd to the camp of the Du Fuwei Department.

Except for a few unlucky ghosts who were killed and seriously injured in today's defense of the city, all the other people were dispatched.

Stealing camps has never been a simple matter.

Du Fuwei, who has experienced a hundred battles and crisscrossed the Jianghuai, will not ignore this point.

But if someone from inside answers, that's a different story.

In the calm camp, a bright fire suddenly rose.

Countless people shouted loudly, "go to the water", "go to the water" .......

"Kill. You Niaoti, who was beside Cao Xu, waved the heavy sword in his hand, took the lead, and killed at the gate of the camp, and the rest hurriedly followed.

With a "boom", the gate collapsed, and more than 500 people shouted loudly and rushed in.

At this time, a person appeared beside Cao Xu, knelt on one knee, and said, "Subordinate Fu Gongyou to meet the sect master." ”

Cao Xu said: "Get up, you did a good job." ”

"Sect Master Xie. Fu Gongyou said. After standing up, looking at the camp where the sound of killing was everywhere and the flames were soaring, he sighed in his heart, the dead Dao friend is not the poor Dao.

A few hours ago, Fu Gongyou had just turned off the lights and lay down, and he had not yet fallen asleep.

A figure suddenly appeared in the tent, "What....... Before he could say anything, he saw two stars suddenly light up in the darkness.

The misty starlight goes straight into the hearts of the people, this is a competition at the level of spiritual will, and Fu Gongyou is completely defeated.

Subsequently, he was planted with a life and death talisman and became a member of the Demon Gate Holy Extreme Sect that has reappeared in the rivers and lakes these days.

After that, the things ahead happened naturally.

"Has the army of the imperial court been killed?" In another camp not far away, Li Zitong woke up from his sleep and walked out of the tent to watch.

"Chief, it's not good. Duvowe's camp has been breached, and now the rebels are rushing towards us. Someone rushed to say.

"What?" Li Zitong was anxious and said loudly: "Quick, gather people quickly, and evacuate immediately." ”

Outside the county seat of Liuhe, there was a mess.

Du Fuwei's general Wang Xiongdan, under the siege of You Niaoti and Ding Jiuzhong, fought his way out and escaped. Fu Gongyou led the crowd to chase and kill, and there was no news for a while.

The east is white, and the chaos outside the city has gradually calmed down.

It took Cao Xu a morning to clean up the mess, and the most important task was to count the number of displaced people. There were also some gold, silver, jewelry, food and supplies seized, only a pitiful bare bite.

The news of the victory soon reached Liuhe County, and Liuhe County ordered to immediately send people out of the city to reward the three armies.

The big families in the city contributed money and food, and quickly helped Cao Xu stabilize the situation. Of course, this is not without a price, and the salt business of Yangzhou will hereby open its door to the big families in Liuhe County.

Outside Liuhe County, Cao Xu rebuilt the camp, recruited the rebels, absorbed the displaced people, and had the full support of the Yangzhou Association, there was no shortage of food, and after half a month, the weather was very different.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Cao Xu was looking at the map on the table, on his left was You Niaoti and Ding Jiuzhong, and on his right was Fu Gongyou.

"What are your opinions on how to develop next?" Cao Xu said.

You Niaoti and Ding Jiuzhong look at their noses and noses, their noses look at their hearts, they only know how to fight and kill, and they don't know anything about these problems.

Fu Gongyou groaned slightly, and said: "Sect Master, Yang Guang patrols the north, was besieged by the Eastern/Turkic Shibi Khan at Yanmen Pass, and returned to the eastern capital Luoyang after the siege was lifted, and it seems that he intends to go south to Jiangdu. ”

After thinking for a while, Cao Xu shook his head and said, "It is precisely because Yang Guang intends to go south to Jiangdu that I will choose Yangzhou." ”

Fu Gongyou's brows furrowed, incomprehensible.

Cao Xu naturally won't explain anything. directly made the final decision and said: "Take Liuhe first, and then go down to Yangzhou." ”

Seeing that Cao Xu had made up his mind, Fu Gongyou no longer persuaded anything.

Cao Xu set his sights on the north, in the trajectory of history, after Yang Guangnan went to Jiangdu, Li Mi threw himself into Wagang, captured Luokou, cut off the connection between the north and the south, the situation in the north was completely out of control, Li Yuan rose up in Taiyuan, captured Chang'an, and laid the foundation for the rise of Li Tang.

If Yang Guang didn't choose to go south, or there was no way to go south, how would the general trend of the world change?

This kind of unknown makes Cao Xu very fascinated.

The displaced people in the camp were sent away by Cao Xu one after another and sent to the various salt farms of the Yangzhou Society. In addition to the more than 500 people in the White Tiger Hall, there are thousands of selected young people. Although these people have only been training for half a month, most of them have seen blood, and their combat effectiveness is not weak.

After half a month, Cao Xu once again stepped into Liuhe County.

The county magistrate of Liuhe County is a smart person, and he directly moved out of the county office with his family.

In the county office, Cao Xu rubbed his eyebrows lightly, just occupying the first county, the "demon seed" was no longer in peace, and the strong desire/hope in the bottom of his heart stimulated the growth of the "demon seed" all the time.

Left a brigade of 100 people, led by the "Iron Fist" Yan Hu, mainly responsible for maintaining law and order in Liuhe County.

Cao Xu led the crowd towards Yangzhou City.

At noon the next day, Yangzhou City was already in sight.

In Yangzhou City, Governor Zhang Ze was in a hurry, but it was useless. Although there were 3,000 soldiers in Yangzhou City, they were all remnants of the defeated army. On weekdays, it's okay to pretend, but if you really start a war, you're not vulnerable at all.

At the west gate of Yangzhou City, Shi Long looked at the soldiers walking under the city with a bitter face.

To this day, he is not allowed to choose these things. The elders of the Qinglong Hall on the side, some were elated, some looked dazed, and some had gloomy faces, forming a stark contrast.

Seeing the wide open city gate, Cao Xu breathed a sigh of relief, being able to occupy Yangzhou City without bloodshed, but it was a good thing for him and the people in Yangzhou City.

At this time, Shi Long had already walked out with people.

Cao Xu dismounted and greeted him, and the soldiers behind him let out bursts of cheers.

The bitterness on Shi Long's face was hidden by a smile, and he waved to the soldiers around him.

In November of the eleventh year of the Great Cause (615), the first master of Yangzhou, "Pushing the Mountain", Shilong Uprising, occupied a small half of Jiangdu County, and proclaimed himself the governor of Yangzhou.