Turbulent Times Chapter 1531: Liaoyuan and Yang Guang’s death

Outside Fengyang City, since the Far Eastern Army attacked Li Mi's camp at night and defeated the Wagang Army nearly a month ago, the front of the army has been approaching Luokou City and the Wagang General Village.

Strangely enough, the Far East Army under the personal command of Wang Junlin suddenly stood still when the situation was very good. He just kept dispatching small groups of troops to sneak secretly to the counties and counties in the Central Plains, but the main force was only in Fengyang City. Rest nearby.

In addition, it is to concentrate a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources to expand and rebuild the Blackwater Fort, transforming it into an arsenal.

In the base of Xiaohe Town, various policies of the Far East Army were continuously tried and implemented, and spread like wildfire to the surrounding villages, towns, counties and counties.

During this process, the Military Intelligence Office, Xiaoyu Theater, Wulin Guild, and Fanyang Chamber of Commerce all mobilized a large number of people to use various means to subtly change the minds of the people in the Central Plains, so that their minds gradually moved closer to the Far East Army, and to the Far East Army. The image in the minds of the people gradually became closer to that of King An of Qin, Wang Junlin, who was different from the past.

Li Mi, Zhai Rang, Xu Shiji and other heroes in the Wagang Group will never know or understand that the most important part of Wang Junlin's plan in the Central Plains is not to military them. Army defeated, not even kill Li Mi and Zhai Rang, and then steal the Wagang Army's army.

What Wang Junlin really cares about is this invisible war, a war without gunpowder smoke.

"This is an ideological battle."

"It is also a kind of trial to carry out such a war in the Central Plains. If it goes well, we can implement it in other places, such as Hedong and Guanzhong, Huainan and Jiangnan."

"Of course, the situation in different places is different, the cultural habits of the people are different, and the sufferings they have experienced in the troubled times of the past few years are also different. Modify and improve accordingly.”

"If this pilot project in the Central Plains is successful, if it can be carried out smoothly, it will be able to defeat the enemy without fighting, greatly reduce the casualties caused by the war, and avoid the social and economic collapse caused by a large number of wars. The loss of normal life."

Wang Junlin summoned Wei Zheng, Li Jing, Shen Guoer, Li Xuanba, Zhang Tiangang, Li Shanfei and others to discuss matters. These words or some of the novel concepts were mentioned by the Far Eastern Army as early as more than a year ago. Everyone is very familiar with learning, researching, and discussing, and even participated in the production of the plan.

So, except that Li Xuanba was not interested in these things and listened in a cloud, even Li Jing, who only recently learned about this plan, already knew very well what was going on.

"My lord, now the Wagang Army has been occupied by us without a single soldier in the four counties of the Wagang Army in Shandong, while the counties in the Central Plains and Henan have already had our base in each county, ranging from a small village to a large one. To a town, or even a county." Shen Guoer reported solemnly.

Wang Junlin nodded, then looked at Wei Zheng, who hurriedly said, "The first batch of preaching troupes cultivated in Xiaohe Town have already entered the Xiaoyu Theater, and are now held in various forms in various counties, towns, and villages. To preach and perform, to spread the experience of our Fanyang County to the people, and let them feel the good governance of the prince."

Wang Junlin nodded slightly to express his satisfaction. Li Jing didn't wait for Wang Junlin to look at him, and then said: "My lord, with the veterans of our Far East Army as the backbone, the armed forces in each base area have been initially established, and now the weapons and equipment have also been established. Sent over, strict training and small-scale actual combat training continued, and the captains who commanded the army in each base area were good at fighting alone."

After a pause, Li Jing added: "My lord, based on the hopes and expectations of the people in the Central Plains for our Far East Army and Fan Yang's good governance, and based on the judgment of my subordinates, except for the four soldiers stationed by the Wagang Army In addition to the counties, the other eleven counties occupied by the Wagang Army, as long as the prince is willing, we have at least seven counties that can turn them into the prince's territory overnight, and there is no need to send troops there. The flag of the Far East Army will have the widespread support of the local people, and easily kill all the officials sent by Li Mi."

Wang Junlin glanced at Li Jing appreciatively. As expected of the Chinese military god, his gaze was very sharp, but Wang Junlin shook his head and said, "Li Jing, you are right, but there are still four counties that will inevitably happen. Large-scale wars have resulted in the death of a large number of people. Even the process of the other seven counties may not be smooth sailing. If you are not careful, the local people will suffer. Our goal is to win the entire Central Plains with the smallest loss of troops and the smallest casualties of the people. .So, the time is not yet ripe."

"My lord is wise, my subordinates understand." Li Jing said with a bow, paused, and then said: "My lord is waiting for news from Luokou City. Hidden danger, will wildfire start a prairie fire?"

"It's not wrong to wait for news from Luokou City." Wang Junlin nodded, but shook his head again and said, "But I'm not just waiting for Zhai Rang to be killed by Li Mi, I'm still waiting for Li Mi to be killed by Zhai Rang." The news that the confidants were killed."

Li Jing was shocked, only then did he realize that Wang Junlin's arrangements in Luokou City were far more shocking than he had imagined, and Wang Junlin's appetite made him even more amazed and admired.

At this moment, there was the sound of galloping war horses outside, and soon one of Wang Junlin's guards ran in with a messenger. Kneeling down, he said, "My lord, Luokou City urgently reported that Zhai Rang was assassinated by Li Mi's confidants, and Li Mi was surrounded and killed by Zhai Rang's confidantes. General Shan Xiongxin cleaned up thousands of people, and now he has initially controlled Luokou

There are more than 100,000 Wagang troops in Koucheng and the city. "

Everyone in the tent was shocked when they heard the words, and they were all ecstatic.

Wang Junlin was also overjoyed. Although their plans were very meticulous, but many times the plans were not as good as changes. He felt uneasy. He thought that Zhai Rang would definitely die, but Li Mi might not die. He didn't want Shan Xiongxin to do it alone. The beheading plan presided over went very smoothly.

Of course, Wang Junlin also knew that it was because Xu Shiji led the 50,000 inner battalion elite soldiers to Shangqiu instead of Luokou City, otherwise Shan Xiongxin's beheading plan could not have gone so smoothly.

"Send an order to Shan Xiongxin to let him further control the main village of Wagang and the troops outside the Wagang camp on the basis of controlling the 150,000 people in Luokou City, and tell him to enter the next Liaoyuan in three months link."

"Send an order to each base area, and start to expand its power and influence on a large scale. After three months, it will enter the next stage of starting a prairie fire."

"Send an order to the personnel of Xiaoyu Theater, Martial Arts Guild, Military Intelligence Office, and Fanyang Chamber of Commerce to fully support each base area and prepare for the start of the prairie fire."

"Send an order to Cheng Yaojin to take my autographed letter and go to Shangqiu City to meet Xu Shiji."

"I'll tell Xiaoyu to let her accompany Cheng Yaojin on a trip in person."

Wang Junlin issued a series of orders in one breath, and the relevant messengers, Shen Guo'er and others took the orders and left one after another.

Li Jing hesitated for a moment and said, "My lord, is this a little too urgent?"

Wang Junlin sighed and said, "Yes! I am indeed in a hurry, but there is no need to be in a hurry! We have spent more than half a year in the Central Plains. And in this half year, Li Yuan and his son are about to take Guanzhong Yes. I guess our arrangement in Chang'an City is at most just to allow Li Yuan to fight for a while longer. Chang'an City will eventually be taken by Li Yuan, and Li Shimin is not idle. Based on this, another 50,000 elite soldiers were trained, and a bunch of heroes were recruited."

"There is also Wang Shichong from Luoyang, who is ready to move, and has received news that Wang Shichong has formed an alliance with Li Yuan and his son."

"And Zhu Can, the ogre king in Huainan, Du Fuwei, Liang Shidu, Li Zitong, and Xiao Xian in Jiangnan, these people have not been idle for more than half a year. Under the influence of our Far East Army and Li Yuan Group, these people People are no longer bandits, they are no longer blindly robbing, they start to appease the people, grow food, resume production, and I even heard that Du Fuwei is still learning from us in terms of literature and governance, arranging exams, recruiting domestic scholars and talented people People are officials, in short, these guys have grown a lot in power and have a certain foundation, the longer the delay, the harder it is to deal with."

"On the contrary, Yang Guang, the emperor of the Sui Dynasty, lived in Yangzhou, deceiving himself and others all day long, and his death was not far away."

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When Wang Junlin was plotting the Central Plains and Li Yuan was plotting Guanzhong, Yangzhou had already become a trapped dragon.

The north is the sphere of influence of the Wagang Army, the west of the Jianghuai area is the territory of Du Fuwei and Fu Gongyou, with nearly 200,000 rebels, and the south is occupied by Shen Faxing and Li Zitong. To the south is Lin Shihong, and the Jingxiang area has been occupied by Xiao Xian. At this time, the Sui Dynasty has come to the end of the road.

In the imperial study room, Yang Guang was carefully painting with red pen the pieces of land on the map that still belonged to the Sui Dynasty, while his second grandson, Yang Tan, stood beside him holding the red lacquer.

Grandson Yang Tan came to visit the palace, Yang Guang rarely got drunk and dissolute with his concubine, he led his grandson to the Imperial Study Room accompanied by his close ministers Yu Shiji, Pei Shiju and his son-in-law Yu Wenzhiji.

At this time, he put down his pen and saw that only the isolated city of Luoyang, Yangzhou and Danyang counties, as well as some unidentified counties and counties in the south and Bashu remained in the red-painted land. Is there only a little bit left in the country?"

Besides, Yu Shiji said cautiously: "Your Majesty, Hedong and Guanzhong should still belong to the imperial court."

Yang Guang shook his head, snorted coldly, and said in a cold voice: "Li Yuan has been hiding for so many years. Although he still claims to be Tang Guogong of our Great Sui Dynasty and a minister of the Sui Dynasty in name, he is already independent in fact. How could it still belong to me, Da Sui? One of the things I regret most back then was not killing Li Yuanman's family."

At this time, Yang Tan, the king of Yan, bit his lip and couldn't help but said: "Grandfather, grandson thinks that the counties occupied by the Far Eastern Army can also be painted red."

Yang Guang shook his head and did not speak. He is too lazy to scold his grandson now, let alone feel any disappointment.

However, Yang Guang thinks that if the eldest grandson Yang You would not say such a thing.

Yang Guang didn't speak, but Yu Wenzhiji said from the side: "Your Majesty, Wang Junlin is only short of proclaiming himself emperor now."

Yang Tan's face suddenly turned red, and blood rushed to his head, pointing at Yu Wenzhi and cursing: "You are my emperor's son-in-law, but you are a big sycophant, you are the one who slandered Mr. Yujuluo The general and the little general Yuzimo conspired against each other, forcing King Qin An to send someone to rescue the old general Yu and his family from Yangzhou City, and had to kill them all. Now you are the only one left to die in your Yuwen family, and You can only survive by staying next to the emperor's grandfather in the palace. In these years, you have either slandered or framed anything related to King Qin An, because your Yuwen family has a private enmity with King Qin An. For your own hatred, you must Has it ruined the Sui?"

Yuwen Zhiji remembered the hatred of Yuwen family's extermination, his face turned pale, he knelt down, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, King Qin'an's intention of rebellion had already appeared when he was in charge of Fanyang County. I am loyal to your majesty. Your Majesty, please learn from

! "

Yu Wenzhi tried to frame and slander Wang Junlin, and killed people close to Wang Junlin by any means. Yang Tan did not wrong him.

But Yu Wenzhiji forced Wang Junlin to embark on the road of rebellion, but Yang Tan really wronged Yu Wenzhiji.

Yang Guang glared at Yang Tan fiercely, "Tan'er, how can you talk to the son-in-law like that, he is your aunt's husband, and the Yuwen family is also a loyal lieutenant of my Great Sui Dynasty. And living alone is also the result of working hard for the country, you still haven't apologized to the son-in-law!"

Yang Tan's stubbornness welled up in his heart, and he said loudly: "Grandson will not apologize to this sycophant. In my grandson's eyes, he is no longer a sycophant, but a traitor to the country. Please behead this man as a thank you." The world."

Yu Shiji and Pei Shiju looked at each other and did not speak, but they did not have the slightest panic in the hearts of Yang Guang and his grandson, because they had already arranged their way out, whether it was with Wang Junlin or Li Yuan, They are all fully prepared. Although they may not be able to be reused at that time, it is no problem to keep their respective prosperity and wealth.

Yang Guang sighed, and said to Yu Wenzhiji, Pei Shiju, and Yu Shiji: "You three all go down, I will take good care of my grandson, you go down first!"

Yu Shiji and Pei Shiju bowed and said, "I will leave."

After finishing speaking, the two of them left the imperial study room without waiting for Yuwen Zhiji, turned around and strode away.

"The minister also resigned." But Yu Wenzhi suppressed the hatred in his heart, thinking that Yang You, a bastard, humiliated me so much, I would kill him sooner or later.

After Yuwen Zhiji retreated slowly, only Yang Guang and his eldest grandson Yang Tan were left in the imperial study room. Neither of them spoke. Unspeakable exhaustion and unspeakable pain.

When Yang Tan saw the grandpa's expression, his heart ached, he lowered his head, and said in shame: "The grandson lost his composure just now."

Yang Guang patted his grandson's head affectionately, and sighed: "I'm a little bored, let me go for a walk in the back garden with my grandfather!"

Yang Tan nodded, Yang Guang changed into short clothes, wore a scarf on his head, leaned on crutches, and walked towards the back garden with the support of his grandson.

It is the beginning of spring at this time, and everywhere is lush and full of vitality. The dragon liquid pool in the back garden of Yangzhou Palace is full of lotus leaves. Yiyi, the breeze is blowing, and under the reflection of the setting sun, the back garden is extraordinarily beautiful.

More than a dozen eunuchs, maids, and guards followed from a distance. Yang Guang walked slowly with his stick and his grandson in the alley. It collapsed in just over half a year. He is only forty-eight years old this year, but he looks like a sixty-year-old. His body is weak and he needs crutches to walk.

"I have decided to make your elder brother the emperor's grandson, but I have not issued an edict for a long time, do you know why?"

"The grandson doesn't know."

Yang Guang sighed, and said: "It is my responsibility that Da Sui has come to this point. I don't want to hand over the current Da Sui to your brothers, and I don't want your brothers to bear any responsibility. Everything about Da Sui All the crimes are borne by me. In addition, I always feel that your brother is too similar to me when I was young, and I have failed so much, so I still want to see you and see if your ability can take on this important task..."

"Grandfather let the grandfather down." Tears welled up in Yang Tan's eyes, and he said with a choked voice: "Grandfather, grandson thinks that the matter is not so serious, we still have Bashu, There are more than a dozen counties in the south, and we still have the army."

Yang Guang shook his head, "The key is that Li Yuan is about to occupy Guanzhong, behind him is the support of the entire Guanlong nobles, and Wang Junlin will soon occupy the entire Central Plains, so now my heart is dead."

"However, the emperor's grandfather can issue an order to reward King Qin'an for suppressing the Wagang army and subduing the Central Plains, and then order Wang Junlin to attack the Li Yuan rebels in Hedong and Guanzhong, and the army of the emperor's brother in Luoyang will attack from the east. , will definitely destroy Li Yuan."

"Even if I don't give an order to Wang Junlin, he won't fight Guanzhong and Hedong, and Luoyang, your elder brother seems to control Luoyang, but he has been emptied by Wang Shichong, and if I'm not wrong, Wang Shichong has secretly colluded with Li Yuan, so how could he beat Li Yuan."

"But..." Yang Tan wanted to say something else, but he didn't know where to start.

Yang Guang lightly supported his grandson's shoulders and sat down on a stone pier. He stared at the lotus leaves on the water surface with an indescribably complex look in his eyes. Son, I know that Wang Junlin is kind to your brothers, because your father has a deep friendship with Wang Junlin, and once entrusted your brothers to him, and you regard him as an uncle. Your younger brother Dong'er told me about this, I can I understand your feelings, but your eldest brother can see Wang Junlin's face clearly, but you can't, but now I won't force it."

Yang Tan bit his lips tightly and did not refute his grandfather's words. He felt that there was a strong persuasive force in his grandfather's words. Yes, he listened patiently.

Yang Guang glanced at his grandson, sighed sadly, and said quietly: "I don't know why, but I always feel that this year is my death day."

Yang Tan's complexion changed, and he said anxiously: "Grandfather, don't talk nonsense, you will be fine."

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