Late at night, the sky of the capital is also drizzling, Yang Chudao's carriage is also speeding in the direction of the palace, he has been preparing for war for nearly a month, from Longyou, Guanzhong, Hanzhong to mobilize 200,000 troops have been assembled in Fengyi County, Tongzhou, tomorrow Yang Chudao will rush to Fengyi County, officially lead the army to conquer the Han King Yang Liang.

On the eve of his expedition, Yang Ying ordered someone to summon him into the palace to discuss military affairs, Yang Chudao had to admire Yang Ying's diligence, dealing with heavy court affairs during the day, and thinking about quelling the rebellion of the Han King at night, staying all night, resting for less than two hours every day, which has lasted for nearly a month, which made Yang Chudao have to admire Yang Ying's abundant energy.

Perhaps it was the drizzle of the night sky that added a bit of desolation to Yang Chudao's state of mind, and he leaned on the soft couch of the carriage, silently thinking about the future of his family.

He has reached the age of sixtieth, and he has not been able to protect the family for a few years, especially some of his old and sick people, who have shown signs of aggravation and deterioration in the past two years, which makes him full of worries, he knows that he will not live for a few years, and the worry about the family makes him have a deep sense of urgency, and he must arrange the future affairs of the family one by one before he dies.

Decades of eunuch career and insight into the rise and fall of thousands of years of history, so that he has a kind of vision and wisdom that is difficult for ordinary people to reach, he knows very well that his family hides a deep crisis, this crisis is his Yang Chudao itself, not only his high merit shock, but also his involvement in the royal family is too deep, Emperor Wen Yang Xiong's five sons, he has killed two, the former Tai Yang Jun and Shu King Yang Xiu, and now it is the turn of the third, Han King Yang Liang.

Yang Chudao faintly realized that Yang Ying ordered him to be the commander of Yang Liang, and there was an intention behind him to let him be a villain to the end. Liang Gong hidden, the cunning rabbit died, the lackey cooked, Yang Chudao already felt his fate, and Yang Liang, the king of Han, was the last cunning rabbit.

In fact, Yang Chudao is not worried about himself, he is already old and has not been in the world for a long time, what he is worried about is the descendants of his family. His brothers and nephews are all in high positions, which are actually dependent on his wings, and once he is gone, they will no longer be protected, and they will also be beaten back to the prototype of mediocrity. It can be said that the fall of the Yang family is a matter of time.

It doesn't matter if you fall, the key is to have a successor, this is the foundation of the Yang family's century-old history, but fortunately, God gave him a Sun Yang Yuanba, which made Yang Chudao see the hope of the family's revival.

Now what Yang Chudao thinks and thinks is thinking about how to protect Sun Yang Yuanba. He is now more worried about Yang Yuanba than proud, Yang Yuanba is too dazzling, the wood is beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy it, he is still too young, his foundation is not strong, and he is easily hurt. He must not allow his only hope to die.

Yang Chudao felt that he had to suppress Sun Yang Yuanba's limelight, cover his light with layers of sand, hide this pearl deeply, and isolate this small tree, when he grows deep-rooted, he will eventually become the pillar of the Yang family, this moment. Yang Chudao made up his mind.

The carriage entered the Suzaku Gate, and soon stopped in front of the Chengtian Gate, where there were already eunuchs waiting, leading Yang Chudao to the imperial study of the Taiye Palace.

In the imperial study, Yang Ying was sitting in front of the map thinking about counterinsurgency. More than a month of unsleeping and forgetting to eat as an emperor has made him lose a lot of weight, and he originally had a lot of plans to implement, but the sudden rebellion of the Han King put many of his plans on hold, which made him anxious.

However, there are pros and cons to everything, and the rebellion of the King of Han actually made him find an excellent excuse to move the capital - the old land of the Northern Qi Dynasty was unstable, and the capital was beyond the reach of the whip.

But in any case, quelling the rebellion of the Han king was his top priority.

As an emperor, Yang Ying will not think about how to fight, this is not his business, he needs to consider this war from a higher level, he is considering whether it is necessary to expand this war and quickly exterminate Yang Liang with the whole country's army.

Yang Ying was a little undecided, and was waiting for Yang Chudao to come and discuss.

"Your Majesty, Mrs. Yang is here. A eunuch reported at the door.

"Announce him in. ”

Yang Ying sat back on his dragon couch, and after a while, Yang Chudao was led in by the eunuch, and Yang Chudao gave a deep salute, "Old minister Yang Chudao sees Your Majesty!"

"Yang Aiqing will leave tomorrow morning, and I called Yang Aiqing tonight, I'm really sorry. ”

"It is the minister's duty to share the worries of His Majesty. ”

Yang Ying nodded, "I invited Yang Aiqing because I have an idea, I want to hear Aiqing's opinion, I want to mobilize the country's troops and quickly extinguish the rebellion in the state, what does Aiqing think?"

Get along day and night for more than a month, Yang Chudao has found some differences between the new emperor and the first emperor, the first emperor is thrifty by nature, and the new emperor is very courageous, generous, like to do things generously, in the nineteenth year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, he led the army to the north to conquer the Turks, and won a complete victory, and finally the first emperor only rewarded himself with 300 pieces of silk, and this time the rebellion of the king of Pinghan, has not yet started, Yang Ying has rewarded himself five times, tens of thousands of pieces of silk.

This kind of generous shot, to put it nicely, is a big deal, courageous, but can be placed in the homes of ordinary people, this is a loser.

It's the same today, a small prince rebelled, and actually wanted to mobilize the whole country's troops, didn't he know how much manpower and material resources it would take to mobilize the whole country's troops? But Yang Ying must know that when he fought the Chen Dynasty, he was the commander-in-chief, how could he not know, it can only be explained that this is Yang Ying's character, and he is a little happy to do things.

Yang Chudao sighed secretly, and said unhurriedly: "Your Majesty, the soldiers lie in the essence and not in the many, Yang Liang conspired against him, discredited the world, ruled fifty-two states, but only nineteen states rebelled against him, it can be seen that he is unpopular, and if he is unpopular, he will not be popular with the army, and there is no need to move the soldiers of the whole country, and the minister is sure, so he will rely on the 100,000 army in the hands of the minister to destroy Yang Liang's rebellion within half a month."

Yang Ying knew that Yang Chudao never underestimated the enemy with soldiers, since he could say this, there would be no problem, he was at ease, and he gave up the idea of mobilizing the country's soldiers.

At this time, Yang Ying remembered something again, and hurriedly smiled: "I just received news from Youzhou, Yuanba has arrested Dou Kang, Li Xiong has incorporated the Youzhou army, I have ordered, 30,000 Youzhou troops out of Jingcheng to attack and state, contain the rebels, this time Yuanba lives up to my expectations, I want to reward him well." ”

Yang Chudao was taken aback, and he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Yuanba is just a small achievement, and there is no need to reward him." It is enough to give a commendation. ”

Yang Ying was a little unhappy in his heart, so he stretched out his voice and said: "Yang Aiqing, this is your mistake, last time Yuanba killed the Western Turk Chuluo and made a great contribution to my Tianwu Dynasty, you said that Yuanba is young and should not be spoiled, so I will listen to you." Don't ask about it, you also know that in Renshou Palace, he saved my life, and I didn't give me a reward, which made me feel guilty for a long time. That's a rescue work, and this time, he captured Dou Kang and tried his best to protect Youzhou, this is not a small achievement, and you want me not to be rewarded, if the matter spreads, how do you let me face the people of the world? Let me lose my trust in front of the three armies?"

Yang Ying said later. The tone was already very stern, Yang Chudao wiped the sweat on his forehead, and explained in fear: "After all, he is not qualified, if he is too high, it will not be good for him, he is the grandson of the minister, of course the minister hopes that he can ascend to the sky in one step, but that will really be arrogant to him." In the end, he could not become a talent, just like the other children and grandchildren of the minister, the minister hoped that he could hone more, so that he could understand that it was not easy to be promoted, and he could work harder to serve His Majesty loyally, which was also the meaning of the first emperor back then. ”

This sentence made Yang Ying's face pale, which made some sense. Let Yuanba understand that it is not easy to be promoted.

"Yang Aiqing, at the age of Yuanba, the first emperor was already a general of the cavalry, a general of the chariot and a cavalry, and the three divisions of Yitong, and he was named the prince of Ji County, this is actually not a matter of age, as you said. If you want him to understand that it is not easy to be promoted, you don't have to ask about the reward of Yuanba, I know it in my heart, and I will see his credit this time. ”

"Yes, the old minister didn't mention it. ”

In fact, Yang Chudao also knew that Yang Yuanba was a little dissatisfied with the last time, if he didn't give him a reward this time, he had to jump, of course, he couldn't help but reward, Yang Chudao could only hope that the saint would stop in moderation and not reward too much, but how Yang Ying was going to reward him, Yang Chudao didn't have any bottom at all, the key was to see how much credit Yang Yuanba had in quelling the chaos this time.

"If there is nothing else, the old minister will not disturb His Majesty's rest. ”

Yang Ying nodded, "Tomorrow Aiqing is going to go on the expedition, and I will wait for Aiqing's good news." ”

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This is an elite army of 5,000 light cavalry, since five days ago, they have been galloping non-stop in the starry night, the black rumbling world flying past them, the wind whistling in their ears, above their heads is the rotating starlight, and the sky on the right is the wriggling shadow of the Taihang Mountain.

The mountain road was difficult, so the cavalry slowed down and walked for another hour, when the morning dawn first appeared, Yang Yuanqing saw the first faint golden light, and the five thousand cavalry led by him had arrived at the western exit of the Flying Fox Road, and there were still twenty miles away from Lingqiu County.

Five days ago, Yang Yuanba received an urgent request for help from Li Jing, the assassin of Daizhou, and Qiao Zhongkui, the general of Yang Liang's army, led 30,000 elite soldiers to attack Daizhou City, while Li Jing, who was guarding Daizhou City, only had 5,000 defenders, and the city was dilapidated and the situation was precarious.

After discussing with Li Xiong. They decided to divide their troops, with Li Xiong leading the main force to attack Taiyuan from Jingcheng, while Yang Yuanba led 5,000 cavalry to Feihu to aid Chidaizhou.

Yang Yuanba stopped his horse, the light shone on him, as if his whole body was burning in flames, he looked ahead, and a mile away was Gaojiazhuang, a small village with only fifty households, but there was a small river to the north of the village, and the flat land on both sides of the river was open, just for his army to rest.

Yang Yuanba immediately ordered: "The army is resting by the river. ”

The five thousand cavalry quickened their speed, and in a moment, the team came to the small river, where the leading scouts had already probed around, and the resting place was planted with red flags, and the army dismounted one after another, and led the horses to the river to drink, and the small river suddenly became lively.

At this time, the scout who arrived first led two young men from the village to step forward and said to Yang Yuan: "General, these two people have just returned from Yanmen County, Daizhou.

Yanmen County is the Daizhou City that Yang Yuanba is going to, Yang Yuanqing was in good spirits, and hurriedly asked, "How is the situation over there?"

The two young men saluted, and the elder said to Yang Yuan: "Back to the general, we fled from Yanmen County yesterday morning, the siege has been fought for five days, it is very tragic, the city wall has collapsed several times, Li Tingshi led the army and civilians to defend while repairing the city, and we also participated in the defense, there are corpses everywhere inside and outside the city, and the city walls are stained red with blood." ”

"Then how did you escape back?" Yang Yuanba asked with some displeasure.

The two glanced at each other, and the elder said: "It's really because the granary in the city was burned down and the food was insufficient, Li Tingshi had no choice but to take advantage of the enemy's retreat to send a group of people out of the city at night to find food, and we also went out of the city." ”

At this moment, a commotion came, and Yang Yuanba saw more than a dozen soldiers escorting a man in black to step forward.

"General, we've captured a rebel scout. ”