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It turned out that after Li Zitong fled north of the Huaihe River with the remnants of the defeated general, he met other troops of the Wagang Army. The two sides fought to compete for territory and had a victory or defeat. The other party quickly reported the situation to the current leader of Wagang Li Mi. When Li Mi heard this, someone actually dared to compete with the Wagang Army. He wanted to mobilize a large army to wipe out the other party in one fell swoop. But then he thought that it was when he was about to use troops to Luoyang, and it was inappropriate to divide the troops for a small thief who rushed into Huaibei.

After thinking about it, he finally came up with a strategy, which was to incorporate Li Zitong's troops and allocate some of his troops, food and grass, and ordered him to cross the Huaihe River to develop his territory in Huainan. So he wrote a letter in his hand and sent a letter to Huaibei.

After receiving the letter, Li Zitong thought carefully that if he really had to stand with the Wagang Army and forced the other party to launch a large-scale army in Huaibei, he would be completely unstoppable with his own strength. At that time, he either was defeated or was forced to flee south of the Huaihe River. It would be better to simply surrender to the Wagang Army now and then fight back to Huainan according to Li Mi's intention. At least this would also get some food and grass and military support from the Wagang Army. Moreover, when fighting in Huainan, he could also have the support of Huaibei, a large-scale support.

Li Zitong decided to make up his mind, so he agreed to Li Mi's persuasion without hesitation, which was considered to have officially joined the Wagang Army. After a while, he replenished his troops, fed and fed the Huai River again, and invaded Gaoyou in Huainan south.

Some important cities in Gaoyou are stationed by Chen Jun's army and Du Fuwei's army, who had newly defected to the Sui army, but some small cities are still weak in defense. Most of Li Zitong's actions are to plunder these small cities and villages in Gaoyou. In addition to Gaoyou, Li Zitong also flew to the Yancheng area facing the sea east to plunder.

Since Li Zitong fought in a bandit-like manner, and he was familiar with the daily tactics of Du Fuwei's troops. Du Fuwei and Chen Jun jointly suppressed him several times but failed. After several ambushings, Li Zitong was not fooled. During a pursuit and extermination process, Chen Jun was in a waste, but he found that Li Zitong's main force, with 15,000 people, was circling south from the sea.

He thought to himself that if Li Zitong accidentally attacked Tianxing City or the periphery of Jiangdu, and Emperor Yang Guang always liked to travel back and forth between the two cities, if the bandits encountered unimaginable consequences. So Chen Jun rushed back to Gaoyou overnight and used the pigeons stored in Gaoyou to send letters to Tianxing City's flying pigeons.

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After Yang Guang learned about these situations, he did not generate cavalry again. Instead, he spent 2,000 points to generate 1,000 gang members. He ordered people to issue signs of royal guards to them and let them sail into the rivers in their own boats. These gang members will be distributed in the rivers, lakes, and water networks of reed marshes in the Jianghuai area.

Forces with more than two thousand men could not escape their eyes when they operated on a large scale in this area.

After completing these things, Yang Guang entered the workshop in Tianxing City again. The workshop production options for the elementary era of Enlightenment have one more thing that Yang Guang is interested in - primitive black gunpowder. Although this primitive gunpowder does not have much explosive power at present and cannot start the era of hot weapons, using its flammable and explosive properties can achieve great results.

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Chapter completed!