Since the rebellion, Liu Wuzhou has become increasingly powerful, with more than 200,000 troops, occupying the five counties of Dingxiang, Mayi, Loufan, Yanmen, Lishi and most of Taiyuan County, proclaiming himself emperor and changing the reign of Tianxing

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Liu Wuzhou was the main force of the Turks, but after the Turks were defeated and retreated in Fengzhou, Liu Wuzhou lost the backstage and began to feel a little nervous. He was afraid that Yang Yuanqing's tribe would attack his old nest Mayi County from behind, so that he would be in a state of being attacked from both sides.

Unfavorable situation.

That morning, Liu Wuzhou received news that the number of Fengzhou troops in Yulin County had increased to more than 30,000. This news made Liu Wuzhou feel that the sky was about to collapse. He locked himself in his room and was depressed all day long.

At dusk, a guard at the door reported: "Your Majesty, King Song is here!"

Liu Wuzhou woke up from his meditation and sighed, "Let him come in!"

After a while, Song Jingang, the second-ranked figure of Liu Wuzhou's army, walked in. Song Jingang was the first general of the Tiantian King Wang Paixue. After Wang Paixue was wiped out by Yang Yuanqing, he was buried in the harbor for several years, secretly recruiting troops and preparing to go to Shanggu County.

Rebellion, but Wei Daoer rebelled first, gathering more than 100,000 troops to occupy Shanggu County and Boling County. Song Jingang knew that his troops were weak and was not a match for Wei Daoer, so he led 10,000 troops to surrender to Liu Wuzhou, which was well-known to Liu Wuzhou.

He valued him, named King of Song, and married his sister to him.

Song Jingang stepped forward to salute, "See Your Majesty the Emperor!"

Liu Wuzhou waved his hand and said with a frustration: "Don't call me Your Majesty the Emperor anymore. This Your Majesty is really boring."

Song Jingang knew that Liu Wuzhou was frightened by Yang Yuanqing, so he smiled and comforted him, "Your Majesty, things are not that bad yet, Your Majesty has a way out."

"What other way out can I get?"

Liu Wuzhou sighed and said, "Yang Yuanqing defeated the 300,000 Turkic army with the power of Fengzhou alone. How terrifying is this? How could I be his opponent? If he advances eastward.

One is to deal with me, what should you do if you ask me to do?"

Song Jingang was quite cunning and had a little vision, so he smiled and advised: "The Turkic army promoted its shortcomings and avoided its strengths. If they gave up the cavalry to fight the siege, how could they be defeated? Yang Yuanqing had been in Fengzhou for many years. He had sufficient food and soldiers.

It is reasonable to use his life to defeat the Turks. But Your Majesty also has to think that killing three thousand enemies and losing eight hundred of them will also cause heavy losses to Yang Yuanqing. He also has to defend against Li Yuan's army heading north, and the troops will inevitably be insufficient to advance eastward. If we can

Defeat him in one battle. He could only retreat to Fengzhou, and his worries were resolved. We captured Taiyuan City in one fell swoop, and the army went south with the momentum, and the land in Hedong would belong to Your Majesty, which was enough to compete with the Central Plains."

Liu Wuzhou was not stupid. He was just frightened by Yang Yuanqing. At this time, he had gradually calmed down and agreed with Song Jingang's words. He paced with his hands behind his back and walked around the room for a few times. He finally made up his mind.

He gritted his teeth and said, "We can first show weakness to Yang Yuanqing, be arrogant, and finally lure him to kill him!"

Yulin City was guarded by Yingyanglang General Song Chun. Song Chun was the veteran who was practicing martial arts with Cui Pojun in Mayi County. He was experienced. When the Turkic army launched a large-scale attack on Fengzhou, Liu Wuzhou wanted to take the opportunity to occupy Hetao.

In the five cities, troops were sent to attack Yulin City several times. Song Chun responded with a strong wall and cleared the fields and defended the city. In the end, Liu Wuzhou's army failed at the foot of Yulin City. Yang Yuanqing highly praised his contributions and appointed him as the governor of Yulin.

At this time, Yulin City was already full of troops. The strongest 30,000 troops of Fengzhou Army were stationed outside Yulin City. The camp covers a vast area, with thousands of large tents stretching for more than ten miles. Outside the camp, there were teams of patrols.

The scout extends a hundred miles away.

That morning, a team of scout cavalry came from the east with a convoy. The convoy consisted of hundreds of large cars, with more than 300 young and beautiful women in palace clothes sitting in the sixty cars in front of them.

The more than thirty cars behind were loaded with treasures such as gold, silver, jade, jewelry, etc. These women in the palace dress were all palace maids of Fenyang, including jewelry and jade, and were also objects in the Fenyang Palace. Originally, Liu Wuzhou planned to present them to the Turkic Khan, but unexpectedly

When the Turks were defeated by Yang Yuanqing, Liu Wuzhou changed his mind and prepared to reward them to the generals in the army, but Song Jingang advised him that leaving these beautiful jewelry would be of great use in the future.

This time, Liu Wuzhou used these beautiful jewelry to show weakness to Yang Yuanqing. In Liu Wuzhou's view, if he could defeat Yang Yuanqing, he could still regain these beautiful treasures, but if he was defeated by Yang Yuanqing, he would not be able to save these beautiful treasures.

The person who escorted the beauty to play this time was the merchant Wang Jinfu. He was originally the Turkic messenger in the Central Plains, and was also the Minister of Revenue and the Turkic envoy of Liu Wuzhou. He was cunning and good at disguising. This time, Liu Wuzhou sent him to test Yang Yuanqing's truth.

The team came all the way west, and from afar, they had already seen the Fengzhou Sui army camp, with the tall Red Eagle flag flying over the camp.

Yang Yuanqing only arrived at Yulin Camp last night. At this time, he was having a meeting with the generals in the tent of the Central Army to introduce the current situation in Hedong and Hebei.

At present, after Fengzhou transformed all the militia troops into formal troops, there were a total of 100,000 troops. He left Yang Xuanzhuo and Yang Jiachen to lead an army of 20,000 to guard Lingwu County, Pei Renji and Ma Shao led an army of 30,000 to guard Fengzhou, and his confidant general Yang Wei

Yang Zongzheng, the sixth son of the Iron Guard, led 20,000 troops to patrol the five counties in the north of Guanbei.

There were only 30,000 troops left in this surplus army. Yang Yuanqing led the 30,000 jing savage troops to carry out the Eastern Expedition. The marching generals were full of war, the marching Sima Li Jing, the chief clerk Xie Sili, the record officer Pei Jin, the general Yang Sien and Pei Xingyan,

Su Lie, Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, Xie Yingdeng, Niu Jinda, Gao Zikai, Cui Pojun, Zhao Wu and dozens of others, as well as Xu Shiji and Cheng Yaojin who had just defected to him, were full of talents.

There were dozens of people standing in front of the sand table in the central army's tent, and everyone was listening to Yang Yuanqing's introduction to the situation in Bingzhou, that is, Hedong.

The mountains and rivers of the sand table include Hedong and Hebei, which are two wide and four feet long. They are made of 400 scouts and 80 craftsmen in one year. They are currently the most advanced sand table map in the world.

Yang Yuanqing held a long wooden pole and pointed at the small town of Shanyang County and said, "This is the capital of Liu Wuzhou, including Kaiyang County, Yanmen County and Fenyang Palace in the south, with a radius of 200 miles. This is the core area of ​​Liu Wuzhou.

Liu Wuzhou's 200,000 troops were basically distributed in this area, so let's look to the south."

Yang Yuanqing's wooden pole pointed to Taiyuan, "From the south of Taiyuan City, it is basically Li Yuan's territory. Taiyuan City is the foundation of Li Yuan's uprising. It has a large population and sufficient supplies. Taking Taiyuan is the first step in our Eastern Expedition, but now

Taiyuan is still in the hands of Li Yuan, guarded by his fourth son Li Yuanji, with 50,000 troops of Jingrui. It is precisely this way that Liu Wuzhou's 200,000 troops were unable to capture Taiyuan City for a long time, and there were many counties in the south of Taiyuan.

The army was initially inferred that there were about 30,000 troops, which means that Li Yuan had 80,000 troops in the Hedong area."

Yang Yuanqing's wooden pole pointed to the east and said to everyone: "Hebei Hedong is only one Taihang Mountain, and it is only three days away. If you want to attack Hedong, you must consider Hebei. In fact, the situation in Hebei is more complicated than Hedong. Liaodong is occupied by Gaoxingdao.

Youzhou was controlled by Luo Yi, but the nominal Sui army was actually controlled by Wei Daoer. In the south, Dou Jiande's territory was mainly dominated by Dou Jiande's territory, with a huge force, with an army of 300,000, ten times more than

We, but according to the latest information I have received, are in Weijun.”

Yang Yuanqing pointed the wooden pole at Anyang County: "There is another Sui army guarding the army in Anyang County, Wei County. It was led by Yang Shanhui and Yao Junsu, the former Qinghe County Tongguan, with about 10,000 people. Dou Jiande failed to lead the army several times.

, This Sui army will be our powerful ally."

Yang Yuanqing waved his hand, and everyone returned to their seats to sit down. He lowered the wooden pole and said to everyone: "This time we are in the east, I'm afraid all forces will encounter it. Now all forces in Hebei and Hedong are in a temporary balance. Our arrival

This balance will inevitably be broken. The Battle of Hedong is not only a matter of the three companies, but all forces in Hebei will be involved in more or less. This will be a complex eastern expedition. I don’t know when it will end, but I hope that in the Great Job Ten

The first phase of the battle will end three years ago.”

Yang Yuanqing looked at everyone again and asked with a smile: "What do you think?"

Qin Qiong raised his hand and asked, "General Manager, how is the situation of Liu Wuzhou's army?"

This is also a question that everyone is concerned about. Li Jing, a marching Sima, stood up and smiled and said, "I will answer this question! Except for the few counties occupied by Liu Wuzhou, apart from Lishi County, the other counties are border counties with a small population, and Liu Wuzhou almost has almost all the population.

All the men were recruited as soldiers, from the sixty old men to the fourteenth teenagers, there was no combat effectiveness at all. Only his 70,000 direct troops stationed in Shanyang County had a little combat effectiveness, but the rest were all mobs and equipment.

Behind, and Liu Wuzhou has another fatal weakness, that is, his army does not engage in production and replenishes through plunder and replenishment. The reason why he can support it until now is that the Turks gave him millions of cattle and sheep. Once these million cattle and sheep are consumed

He is facing a food crisis, so he cannot afford to spend more time than us. We might as well fight the battle between Liu Wuzhou and Zhou calmly, and it is best to use his strength to weaken Taiyuan's defense."

Li Jing's analysis made everyone nod, and Yang Yuanqing said to everyone: "I will add one more thing: the army in China should be different from the Turks, try to kill as little as possible, and focus on living prisoners. Starting today, the rule of recording merits with the head will be officially abolished.

, One person was captured alive, and the reward was doubled. I don’t want to destroy Liu Wuzhou, but what I got was a land of thousands of miles. Everyone should understand what I mean."

At this moment, a personal soldier reported at the door of the tent: "Report to the general manager, Liu Wuzhou sent an envoy to ask for his visit and sent many treasures and women."

Everyone laughed, and before they could fight Liu Wuzhou, Yang Yuanqing smiled at the generals and said, "Everyone can take me to the outside of the camp to see."

Everyone followed Yang Yuanqing to the outside of the camp. The camp was full of carriages sent by Liu Wuzhou, but the soldiers guarding the camp were not allowed to enter. The Fengzhou army was strict and women were not allowed to appear in the camp during the war.

At this time, the camp gate opened and a team of cavalry rushed out. Then, Yang Yuanqing led dozens of civil and military generals and officers to walk out of the camp on horseback.

Wang Jinfu hurriedly ordered 300 palace maids to get out of the train and line up, and then asked someone to carry boxes of jewelry and gold jade down. He quickly walked to Yang Yuanqing and bowed to salute, "Emperor Yang, the former Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Wang Jingui, to meet General Manager Yang!

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Chapter completed!