Let’s look back at the situation in Luoyang. Yang Xuangan’s rear troops in Jinyong City, Luokou Cang and Hulao Pass still played some role. The main force of the Sui Dynasty led by Qu Tutong, Lai Huer and Yu Wenshu No matter how elite the army is and how capable it is, it is not easy to break through the Yellow River and take down such natural dangers as Hulao Pass. In any case, you have to waste some time in sieges—at least you have to waste some time preparing Ships and siege weapons, right
What's more troublesome is that the rebel troops guarding these dangerous places have nowhere to retreat, whether it's Gu Jue and Han Shi'er guarding Hulao Pass, or Zheng Yan and Zhou Zhong guarding Luokou warehouse, and Pei Shuang guarding Jinyong City. They all knew one thing very well, that is, even if they put down their weapons and surrendered, Emperor Sui Yang would never spare them. In order to clear their suspicions, their implicated fathers would definitely kill them and save their other sons and daughters! Therefore, even when Yang Xuangan was regarded as an abandoned son, these rebel generals who were unfortunately on the wrong team could only bite the bullet and implement the orders left by Yang Xuangan, and stick to the dangerous place on the Luoyang battlefield with all their strength, so that Yang Xuangan's main force can capture Guanzhong. Buy time, and wait for Yang Xuangan to succeed before withdrawing to Guanzhong to enjoy the blessing.
In this way, the main force of the Sui Dynasty led by Qu Tutong, Lai Huer and others will have to waste some precious time anyway. Among them, Qu Tutong and Yu Wenshu are better, at least they are restrained by the defenders of the Eastern Capital. The army did not dare to send troops to prevent their troops from crossing the river, so Qu Tutong easily crossed the Yellow River in Mengjin after recruiting enough ferries, and quickly approached the city of Jinyong. Immediately launched a siege battle, and then the main force of Zuo Yiwei led by Yu Wenshu easily crossed the river and joined forces with Qu Tutong.
It was unlucky to come to Hu'er. Not only did the exhausted army never get a chance to rest and reorganize, but also the distance from Luoyang was too far to get the help of Fan Zigai's supplies. They could only gather supplies on the spot to temporarily build siege weapons. These alone were enough After wasting four days, the Great Sui Youyiwei soldiers under Huer's command took over half the day to take Hulao Pass, but unfortunately they failed to wipe out all the defenders in the pass. The rebel guards Gu Jue and Han Shi'e Together they successfully escaped from Guancheng and led a few defeated generals to Luokoucang to join the rebels Zheng Yan and Zhou Zhongbu.
Almost at the same time, Pei Hongce's real nephew, Pei Shuang, could no longer withstand the onslaught of Qu Tutong and Yu Wenshu. With no hope of fleeing to the west, Pei Shuang simply fled to Luokoucang with a few cronies, and fought with Zheng Yan. , Zhou Zhong and Han Shi'e and other suffering brothers and sisters meet together, temporarily lingering on their last legs.
Logically speaking, now that Hulao Pass and Jinyong City have been captured, the fierce men of the Sui Dynasty, such as Qu Tutong, Yu Wenshu, and Lai Huer, can completely ignore Luokou Cang for the time being and go west to pursue the main force of the rebel army. But at this time, Zheng Yan, Zhou Zhong, Pei Shuang, Han Shi'e and other dandies did another amazing thing - they even sent envoys to contact Fan Zigai, asking Fan Zigai to pardon their lives as a condition. In exchange for them peacefully handing over the Luokou warehouse, otherwise, they would burn down the Luokou warehouse and die together with the Luokou warehouse, the most important granary of the Sui Dynasty!
Let me talk about the importance of the Luokou Warehouse to the Sui Dynasty. The Luokou Warehouse has a total of 3,000 grain cellars, and each cellar can store 8,000 dan of grain. In history, the Luokou Warehouse suffered several catastrophes. First, Yang Xuangan took down the Luokou Warehouse. Afterwards, they opened warehouses to release grain, and allowed the common people to take and take the grain, and the self-armed army took it at will; then Zhai Rang and Li Mi took down the Luokou warehouse again, and opened the warehouse again to release grain, allowing hundreds of thousands of people to take whatever they wanted Then Wang Shichong ruined a lot of Luokou Cang, and relied on the remaining grain of Luokou Cang to feed his main force for nearly two years—but even so, the archaeological team of later generations was in the site of Luokou Cang. More than 500,000 catties of carbonized millet were found! The horror of the amount of grain stored in the Luokou warehouse can be seen from this, and its importance to the Sui court is naturally self-evident.
Of course Fan Zigai would not agree to the request of dudes such as Zheng Yan and Pei Shuang—nor did he dare to agree, and none of the great Sui warriors such as Qu Tutong, Yu Wenshu, and Lai Huer dared to be the master for Emperor Sui Yang. At the same time, in order to be on the safe side, not to give Zheng Yan and other rich and powerful children the time and opportunity to go crazy and burn food, the main forces of the Sui army had to immediately move to Luokou warehouse, wasting the extremely precious time to retake Luokou warehouse, pack up and hide in the warehouse. The remnants of the rebels in the city.
Fortunately, the distance from Luokou Cang is not too far. It takes only one day to send troops from Hulao Pass and Jinyong City. At the same time, the 20-mile-long Cangcheng city wall also gave the Sui army enough room to break through. From the start of the battle to the end of the battle, it took only a little more than a day for Lu Sui's army to easily break through Luokou Cang, wipe out all the rebel troops in Cangcheng, and capture them alive and threaten to burn down the granary, but in fact there is no substance Zheng Yan, Pei Shuang and other powerful children who acted completely wiped out the remnants of the rebels around Luoyang.
The flag of the Great Sui army fluttered in the huge Cangcheng, and the soldiers of the Great Sui who were running back and forth searched and killed the remnants of the rebel army cell by cellar in the city. Hu'er had already gathered in the Guancheng official hall that had just been taken back, interrogating the newly captured dudes like Zheng Yan, Zhou Zhong, and Han Shi'e.
As a result of the meeting, of course, the dandies like Zheng Yan, Zhou Zhong, and Han Shi'er immediately knelt down on their knees, kowtowed desperately, and begged their uncles to spare their lives. Qu Tutong and Yu Wenshu, who are scum, have nothing to do with themselves and are at ease, but Lai Huer yelled with a livid face, "Where is that little bastard Laiyuan? Who of you knows!"
"My little nephew knows, my little nephew knows!" Pei Shuang quickly kowtowed, crying and said, "I'm reporting to uncle, brother Laiyuan went to Guanzhong with Yang Ni's main force, uncle, my little nephew is considered meritorious in reporting and exposing, right? When you are in front of the emperor, uncle, you must beg for a favor for my nephew, my nephew is confused, my nephew was confused for a while, and this is why I got on the thief ship of Yang Rebellion!"
Of course, Lai Huer ignored Pei Shuang's crying and begging, but just punched the table heavily, and roared with a dark face: "Little beast! When I catch you, I will see how I will deal with you! If I don't take care of you with my own hands! Cut off the head and go before the emperor to plead guilty, I will feel sorry for the emperor and the Sui court!"
Qu Tutong and Yu Wenshu didn't have any serious enmity with Lai Hu'er, and naturally they didn't have any intention of making trouble for Lai Hu'er in this kind of matter, so they persuaded together: "Mr. Rong, don't be so annoyed. It's not worth it to damage your own body. This time Yang Ni rebelled, there were dozens of officials and eunuchs who were coerced by Yang Ni, and your son was only one of them. He was neither the main culprit nor did he do much evil. You will be implicated, and maybe you will be extrajudicially merciful to your son, and the crime will be reduced."
"That's right, the current emperor is wise and wise, and he has learned a lot from others. He never implicates the innocent. Please rest assured, Mr. Rong Guo." Standing behind Yu Wenshu's deputy and good friend Wei Wei Shaoqing Yun Dingxing also comforted him, and said: Pointing to Zheng Yan, he said: "For example, Zheng Yan is a rebel. His father, Zheng Yanguo, Zhengqing of Dali Temple, was not implicated by him. Your Majesty not only did not pursue Zheng Siqing's involvement, but also rejected Zheng Siqing's initiative to resign, and kept Zheng Siqing in the camp to serve, the emperor is so wise, what else can Rong Guogong worry about?"
The law does not blame the public, there are more than 40 rich and powerful children who followed Yang Xuangan's rebellion this time, and even Pei Ju, the big celebrity in front of Emperor Sui Yang, was implicated. It's cheating, but Lai Hu'er had to say whatever he said on the scene, and after he slapped the table heavily, Lai Hu'er shouted again: "The more holy and benevolent your Majesty is, the more diligent and prudent we servants must be to serve you. This time, the old man not only has to make a plea, but also ask His Majesty to drive out all these traitors, leaving no one behind!"
"Uncle, spare your life! Uncle, spare your life! My nephew is just a moment of confusion, just a moment of confusion!" A few dudes suddenly screamed and cried louder, with expressions of grief and misery like killing a pig, it is simply that even a hard-hearted person would know. Soft-hearted, but unfortunately the few people present are characters whose hearts are colder and harder than iron, and they completely turn a blind eye to this.
While weeping and shouting, several people hurried in from outside the hall door. The leader was a middle-aged man in his forties, but it was Chen Yingliang's distant uncle Pei Hongce who had turned around seventeen or eight times. Pei Shuang, who was tied up like a rice dumpling by Wuhuada, was already struggling to kowtow to Pei Hongce, crying loudly: "Uncle, my nephew knows I was wrong, uncle, you save my little nephew, you save my little nephew, my little nephew is you of… ."
"Go away!" Pei Hongce unceremoniously kicked over the unfilial nephew, and said to Yu Wenshu and others: "Three generals, Fan Liushou sent an official to inform you that the news just received, two days The previous morning, the Daxing army led by Wei Xuanwei was once again defeated by the main force of Yang's rebels on the Mianchi battlefield. The reinforcements sent by our eastern capital Luoyang to Wei's stay were also defeated and forced to retreat to Hongnong. Daxing Zuowuwei's army was almost wiped out, only a small number of troops withdrew to Mianchi City and stood firm."
Although they all had no hope for Wei Xuan to stop Yang Xuangan's main force, after they really learned the news, the faces of the three generals Lai Hu'er, Yu Wenshu and Qu Tutong all became gloomy. Yu Wenshu said, "How did you lose so quickly? Didn't even defend for a day? What's the situation with Wei staying behind now, and what about the main force of Yang Rebellion?"
"Wei Liushou was stubborn and insisted on a decisive battle with Yang Ni's rebels. In the end, he was easily defeated by the main force of the rebels."
Pei Hongce once again kicked away his nephew Pei Shuang who kowtowed in front of him and begged for mercy, and then he replied with a wry smile: "The counselor Husi Wanshan, who was withdrawn from Mianchi City, should be guarded by Liu Changgong from Youwuwei in our eastern capital. The team was protected and retreated to Hongnong. The specific situation has not been confirmed yet. We only know that the traitor Yang Xuangan led a large number of main forces in pursuit. Husi Wanshan and Pang Yu were still in the Mianchi battlefield because of the traitors. The road was blocked until yesterday. It was only early in the morning that the fast horse was dispatched to warn Dongdu, so it was late last night that we only received the news that Wei Liushou suffered another fiasco."
Yu Wenshu's face became even more ugly. After a little calculation, Yu Wenshu turned to Lai Hu'er and Qu Tutong and said, "You two generals, the military situation is on fire. I don't think we can delay any longer. We should leave a small number of troops to clean up the battlefield. That's it, immediately gather the troops of Zuo Yiwei and You Wuhou, must withdraw to Luoyang within today, rest overnight, and immediately go west to pursue Yang Ni's main force tomorrow, what do you two generals think?"
"What General Yuwen said is very true, it should be so." Lai Hu'er and Qu Tutong nodded together and replied.
Neither Qu Tutong nor Lai Huer had any objections, so Yu Wenshu immediately issued an order, deciding to leave only 2,000 Zuoyiwei infantry to clean the Luokoucang battlefield, and the other troops immediately assembled to prepare for departure. Nuo, immediately flew out to deliver the order.
Taking advantage of the fact that it would take some time for the army to assemble, Pei Hongce finally turned his attention to the scum among the sons of the powerful and powerful of the Sui army who were captured by the Sui army, and then settled on Han Shi'er, who was almost forty years old, and opened his mouth to ask , but immediately warned himself in his heart, "Calm down, Lai Hu'er and Yu Wenshu are here, if you speak directly, if you are not careful, you will be self-defeating, and in turn, you will have trouble."
After a little more calculation, Pei Hongce simply made an insinuation, turned to Yu Wenshu, Lai Huer and others and said: "The three generals don't need to worry too much. To tell you the truth, Chen Yingliang, the secretary of the Xiaguan Zanzhi Mansion Now that we have led the Baoguo Army to Hongnong and stationed in Hongnong ahead of time, with that boy Chen Yingliang here, I guess it will not be so easy for Yang Rebellion to break into Guanzhong."
"What does Li Guogong mean by that?" Yu Wenshu and Lai Huer, who had never heard of Chen Yingliang's name, were a little curious.
"Chen Yingliang? Report to the National Army?" Qu Tutong, who was the first to return to the Luoyang battlefield, had some impressions, and asked: "Li Guogong, the Report to the National Army should be the famous white-robed soldiers in the rebel team, right? That Chen Yingliang should also be the legendary little Chen Qingzhi in the rebel army, right? I heard that this kid once led a nationalist army with only a few hundred people to raid Yang Nitun’s grain land among tens of thousands of rebel troops, and burned Yang Nitun. After the food, he escaped from the siege of the traitors almost unscathed, is it true? Is this kid really so powerful?"
"What? Surprised the granary with hundreds of people among tens of thousands of enemy troops, and then broke out of the encirclement unscathed?" Yu Wenshu and Lai Hu'er were taken aback, and exclaimed, "Impossible? It's impossible for our front-line elites to do this?"
"Li Guogong, are you sure you're not joking?" Yun Dingxing, Yu Wenshu's deputy, screamed the loudest, "Are they heavenly soldiers and generals? Can they fight so beautifully?"
"Three generals, Yun Shaoqing, whether it is true or not, you'd better ask these scumbags of the Sui Dynasty." Pei Hongce pointed to Han Shi'e and Pei Shuang and other dudes with a smile: "They are all involved, and they know the most about the situation at that time." The situation, if they say it out of their mouths, you should be able to believe it more easily."
The extremely curious Yu Wenshu, Lai Huer and others couldn't wait to ask. In order to please Yu Wenshu and others, the few dudes tried their best to fight for the chance of survival. The person introduced truthfully, and naturally there was no lack of exaggeration and boasting. He praised Chen Yingliang and the Baoguo Army as rare in the sky and unique in the underground. , but also know that this little Chen Qingzhi is extremely powerful, every time he fights with a small number of people, every time he beats Yang Rebellion to the ground, and also knows that Yang Xuangan's rebels did not dare to besiege Mianchi at that time because of little Chen Qingzhi Leading the white-robed soldiers to burn his food and grass, Yang Xuan felt that the rebels were afraid of running out of food, so he was forced to withdraw from Jinyong City... "
"Just Xiao Chen Qingzhi? It seems that you haven't even heard of Chen Yingliang's name before." Pei Hongce, who had been paying attention to Han Shi'er's expression and reaction, nodded slightly, and quietly breathed a sigh of relief, secretly said: "Okay! Although I don't know what it is Reason, but our Wenxi Pei family can rest assured to support Ying Liangxian's nephew. Since the death of General Zuo Jinwu Pei Heng, our Wenxi Pei family has never had a capable person in the army. If you can’t get promoted, it’s time to quickly support a reliable general.”
Pei Hongce was only secretly happy, but Yu Wenshu and the others were already overjoyed. Yu Wenshu slapped the table and said, "Okay! I didn't expect such a young hero to emerge in the Eastern Capital Army! It seems that our westward march this time Chasing Yang Xuangan's rebels, you shouldn't have to worry too much about the rebels taking Tongguan first!"
"It should be so." Pei Hongce had some confidence in his distant nephew, and he replied confidently: "I'm not bragging, as long as the distant nephew of the lower official can withdraw to Tongguan first, Yang Xuangan's rebels will have more troops. Ying Liangxian My nephew can also rely on the natural danger of Tongguan to stop the rebels from advancing westward, and persist until the three generals lead an army to encircle Yang Rebellion!"
"Li Guogong, if your virtuous nephew can really persist until we encircle Yang Rebel and the traitor!" Yu Wenshu slapped the table again without hesitation, and shouted: "Then your virtuous nephew should not be in your Zanzhi mansion either!" Li Qucai, come into my Zuo Yiwei! I will protect him as a general!"
"If nephew Ling Xian likes Youwuhouwei, I can also recommend him as General Huyalang." Qu Tutong said with a slow smile: "Leading four regiments of troops is like entering a no-man's land among tens of thousands of rebels. , among the important generals of Marquis Youwu, there is really no one who can do this."
"A seventeen-year-old young man, is he really so powerful?" Lai Hu'er was still a little suspicious, and said, "If Chen Yingliang's record is true, then he is worthy of a Huya Lang when he enters my You Yiwei .”
The ambitious Yun Dingxing is also very tempted, but unfortunately he is only a civil servant now, even if he is tempted, he has no way to ask Pei Hongce for someone, so he can only smile and say: "In this way, we can pin our hopes on Li Guogong's good nephew As long as he can stop Yang Ni's main force from advancing westward and persist until our army encircles the main force of the rebels, then needless to say, the lower officials will be the first to submit a letter to His Majesty to ask for credit for him!"
Pei Hongce smiled and cupped his hands to thank him, and said in his heart: "Nephew, uncle has blown the bull out for you, and the rest is up to you. As long as you can stop Yang Ni from advancing westward, your glorious future will be guaranteed by uncle." I can vouch for you!"
Pei Hongce placed high hopes on Chen Yingliang, so why not use Chen Yingliang's Fan Zigai as a bet on his fame? After hearing the news of Wei Xuan's disastrous defeat again, Fan Zigai not only quickly dispatched Pei Hongce who volunteered to ask for help from Yu Wenshu and others, but also pinned all his hopes on Chen Yingliang, "Ying Liang, it's all up to you. Don't let the old man down."