Seeing Yang Xuangan who was jumping for joy and being happy from the bottom of his heart, a smile appeared on Yang Guang's face.

Since Yang Jian ascended the throne as emperor, the Yang family has changed from the Guanlong aristocracy to the royal family, and like the Zhou Dynasty before, has become the target of the struggle of the Guanlong aristocratic group; after the two sides broke up, the Sui Dynasty royal family lost its most powerful

The foundation. Then, due to various new policies and the nobility gradually drifted away, the "basic base" that the royal family could rely on was very scarce.

To this day, the Yang family of Hongnong can be said to be his closest and most reliable foundation besides the royal family. How could he not want Yang Xuangan, Yang Wensi and others to become talents?

The main reason why I am dissatisfied with Yang Su's brothers and children recently is that they are too unsatisfactory, too irritating, and too ignorant; there is also Yang Yue, he can obviously be a prime minister, but he is infected with the presumption of being persecuted.

, causing many ridiculous and terrible things, which made Yang Guang feel like he hated iron.

As for Yang Xuangan! Even Yang Su said that he could only be a general but not a commander. If he was used incorrectly, it would be a disaster for the Sui army. However, although Yang Guang also wanted to make him a general, he was of good family background and high status.

, is proud and arrogant; if he is allowed to be a general, who can make him convinced and sincerely convinced?

Later, Yang Xuangan was made Minister of the Ministry of Rites. First, Yang Xuangan's moral standards were not suitable for the military affairs. Second, he was angered by the Yang family, so he planned to use a lot of government affairs to smooth Yang Xuangan's arrogance and make him less impulsive;

Only in this way can Yang Xuangan become a great minister in the future.

Only then can he be a general with peace of mind. And now Yang Xuangan is like a tiger that has been imprisoned for many years. Letting him go north this time will be like a tiger coming out of the mountain. It will make the Turks know that the Sui Dynasty is more difficult to mess with than before. In addition to the army in the Sui Dynasty

Besides Yang Ji, the god of war, there is another truly fierce god.

However, the current situation has become more and more complicated and out of control after Yang Ji's killing. Even Yang Guang doesn't know what to do.

When they were in Daxing Palace, the two of them were originally very happy and enthusiastic. They used the navy as bait and Jingzhou officialdom as the basis to involve all the forces in it. They used their positions and power to make the Shandong gentry and the south

Gentlemen and Guan Longgui

The tribes will fight against each other, and then let the Shandong gentry forces enter Jing and Yang, and let the southern gentry go north to Jizhou and Youzhou. When these three major political forces get mixed up and fight fiercely, and the fight will be bloody, there will be a formation of

A delicate balance.

And the three factions of the Guanlong nobles will also move towards an irreparable split due to their strength. However, after this treasonous incident, the plan has completely changed. Now he is worried that the Yuan faction, which he wants to deal with, will be destroyed by the Dugu faction, Dou Faction, etc.

If the Yuan sect disappears and the Guan and Long sects disappear, it is very likely that the two heroes of Guan and Long will come together; when the time comes, it will be extremely difficult to split up using the same method.

After all, the Guanlong nobles were not stupid. After suffering many heavy losses, they naturally understood the consequences of fighting separately, and naturally united wholeheartedly.

However, Yang Guang could not blame Yang Ji emotionally and logically. But this time he asked Yang Xuangan to go to the Turks to cause trouble, which was more or less out of anger after he had nothing to do.

Do you, Yang Ji, really think that you, Yang Ji, are the ones causing trouble? I, Yang Guang, can do it too, and I am better at making trouble than you. If Qimin is really forced to rebel, you come to solve it for me, you come to clean up this mess for me;

By then, let me see if you have a headache?

However, what Yang Guang didn't know was that Yang Ji, Pei Ju and others had misinterpreted his meaning and were preparing to cause a big event in Liaodong. Moreover, in terms of distance, they were already very close to Goguryeo, and he was at this time

Not only are we thousands of miles away from the Turks, we also have a lot of trouble to deal with.

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Yang Ji's deployment method in Zhuojun was a combination of right, strange, and cunning. They were Yang Lun and Li Jing. They led 20,000 Jizhou troops and 10,000 Youzhou troops along the Liaoxi Corridor eastward into Tongding City in the southern part of Liaodong County, and fought with

After Li Zixiong joined forces, he put together a lineup with all the main players in Liaodong.

Strangely, Yang Yichen and Cui Hongsheng led 30,000 Liangzhou troops and 10,000 Xiaoguo troops along the Anle County Road. After entering Raole Prefecture, they stopped their activities and broke into pieces, and marched from the northern foot of Yanshan Mountain to Huanglong County in Liaodong to assemble.

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This plan was actually very difficult to hide from Goguryeo's eyes and ears, but after the accidental arrest of Gao Jianwu and other agents, everything became easier. Under the pressure of the sword, Gao Jianwu had to cooperate with Yang Ji and wrote several false messages to Gao Jianwu.

Yuan and Yuanzi traveled, and their main force was in Tongding City, Liaodong.

The trick is that of Yu Zhongwen and Yin Shishi; the two led 10,000 Xiaoguo troops to kill Xi Zhong, the chief of the Xi tribe, and after seizing the military power of the 40,000 Xi tribe coalition forces, they assembled towards Huanglong City.

After Yang Ji dealt with the corrupt officials in Youzhou, he led 10,000 Liangzhou troops along the Yanshan North Road and marched day and night to Huanglong County in Liaodong where the main force was located.

The grasslands heading to Huanglong County were full of civilians transporting grain and supplies, including ordinary people and Xi herdsmen, but more of them were prisoners building official roads in the Western Liaoning Corridor, as well as foreign captives and slaves.

These prisoners are all people who have committed crimes. As long as they are given a chance to survive and atone for their crimes, they are willing to do whatever the court asks them to do. And many projects in the past dynasties generally use these people as the main body. During the construction period,

, if they run away, their family members will have to bear double the responsibility for their crime. Therefore, most of the prisoners do not dare to run away during their sentence, so they are relatively free and there are not many people to supervise them.

Most of the foreign captives and slaves were obtained from Liangzhou. The former captives are easy to understand, while the slaves were obtained from Liangzhou through human trade. The origins of these two people are diverse and uneven, and they are not from the same tribe.

Therefore, the work we do is always the heaviest and most dangerous.

In order to prevent them from escaping while transporting grain, they increased supervision, and the objects of supervision were the prisoners of the Sui Dynasty who were also transporting grain.

After all, the prisoners were members of their own tribe, and were far more reliable and trustworthy than foreigners; the government had promised to release them after the war was over and the official roads of the Liaoxi Corridor had been repaired. Granting them supervision rights this time undoubtedly increased their sense of participation.

, a sense of responsibility and a sense of mission. Not only will I not escape, but I will also responsibly help the government supervise foreigners.

As for the aliens, since they are all called aliens, how could they have freedom and human rights in the Sui Dynasty?

In addition to a large number of "civilians" on the road, there are also long convoys transporting grain and grass. The carriages loaded with fodder are particularly large. Each one requires a person to lie on the pile of fodder about ten feet high to control the balance of the cart and the fodder.

Compared with trucks, the largest number of grain trucks is grain trucks, each of which can transport at least four or five shi of grain.

Yang Ji's team was walking on the side of the grain transport team. Along the way, they heard the "squeaking" sound of wooden axes turning. Whenever a car sank into the ground, the peasants struggled to move the cart amidst the shouts of "one, two, three".

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In addition to the officially arranged grain transport team, there are also grain teams from the Dugu family, the Dou family, the Li family, and the Wei family. The grain they promised is first sent to the dock of Huaiyuan Town, Liucheng County by sea and Liaoshui River, and then part of it is shipped away. They were transported to Huanglong County by land. Their husbands were mainly people hired nearby, and of course they also had their own servants.

As soon as Yang Ji's team entered Huanglong County, a scout came with more than ten people on horseback: "Your Majesty, Governor Deng wants to see you."

The leader is a middle-aged man. He wears a warrior uniform that is easy to move around. The only thing that can represent his identity is the flag carried by his own soldiers. This man is Deng Hao, the governor of Liucheng County.

"Your Majesty, Deng Hao!" When he got close, Deng Hao got off his horse and saluted Yang Ji.

"Prefect Deng is exempt from the courtesy. I wonder why Prefect Deng is doing this?" Deng Hao was a capable and good official, but Yang Ji didn't have a good impression of him.

Just because although Deng Hao had rich experience in combat and local governance, he was also very honest and dedicated to his duties, he made the big mistake of "not distinguishing between ourselves and the enemy". Not only did he adopt benevolent and righteous policies towards the people within his territory, He also treated the Khitan people equally. He hoped to use benevolence and righteousness to influence the ambitious Khitan, making them admire the Sui Dynasty and integrate into the Sui Dynasty voluntarily.

However, because of his leadership, the soldiers and civilians of Liucheng County followed the so-called policy of benevolence and righteousness to the outside world, which caused the powerful frontier troops to become paralyzed and careless. The Khitan people also became ambitious because of his benevolence and righteousness. Not only did they think the Sui Dynasty was weak, but they also Massacred tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Liucheng (then called Yingzhou.)

After Yang Ji led his army to take position, the first person he wanted to kill was not the Khitan traitor, but the governor who was benevolent and righteous and did not distinguish between friends and foes. If he had not been used to stabilize the rear and calm people's hearts, Yang Ji would have killed him with a single blow. Slaughtered.

Deng Hao felt extremely bitter in his heart when he saw Yang Ji's cold face, showing a face that rejected people thousands of miles away. He understood why Yang Ji was so indifferent to him, and he himself had been suffering a lot because of his previous mistakes. Suffering. But what happened has happened, and he can't regret it. The only thing he can do is to muster the spirit of 120,000 people to govern the place.

This move is not for merit or political achievement, but for atonement.

"Your Majesty!" He bowed his hand to Yang Ji and said, "The Ahui tribe has been controlling the Xi people for hundreds of years. It has extraordinary prestige in Raolezhou County. People who are loyal to the Ahui tribe are almost all over the country. After the great chief Xi Zhong and his close associates were killed by General Yu and four other chiefs, the five Xi tribe's coalition forces had gone east; however, Raolezhou County lost order due to Xi Zhong's death, and many small and medium-sized people loyal to the A Hui tribe Although the tribes dare not directly oppose me, the Great Sui Dynasty, they are destroying our grain team."

"In the past few days, more than 150 hay trucks have been attacked on this section of the road that Xiaguan is responsible for, and more than 300 civilians have been unfortunately killed. Xiaguan is afraid that this will happen again, and I beg your Majesty to grant "I will give you the military power and let your subordinates lead the troops to set up an ambush and exterminate these rebels."

"What else do you want? Tell me all!" Yang Ji glanced at him and said indifferently. Since Deng Hao is the prefect and general manager of Liucheng County, he is also responsible for the security of the grain road in Yanshan North Road. He has the ability to mobilize troops to respond to the enemy. There is no need to specifically ask for instructions, which shows that his request is more than that!

Deng Hao perked up and said quickly: "Your Majesty, the Xi tribe has a large number of people, and the grain road that needs to be guarded by the thousands of soldiers under the command is hundreds of miles long, and the guarding grain transport team is not enough. Faced with the coming and going like the wind. The enemy is really unable to wipe out the invading enemies. Please also ask the king to send troops to assist."

"I don't have any extra soldiers!" Yang Ji looked at the long grain transport team and asked the very disappointed Deng Hao: "How many prisoners are there in charge of transporting grain? Are they all from the resting place?"

After hearing this, Deng Hao immediately understood what Yang Ji meant and quickly replied: "Reporting to your Majesty, when the imperial court ordered the construction of the Western Liaoning Corridor, in order to speed up the progress of the project, the five prefectures of You, Ji, Yu, Yan, and Qing were All the disciples have been sent, and now there are 35,000 people transferred to Yanshan North Road to transport grain."

"Select 6,000 able-bodied prisoners to form a food protection team!" Yang Ji said: "Tell them that if they make great contributions, not only will they be pardoned for their previous sins, but they will also be rewarded as auxiliary soldiers after the war; if they die in battle, they will be rewarded in battle. If you are disabled, you will be compensated according to the standards of a combat soldier."

Deng Hao was overjoyed when he heard this. He actually wanted to select a thousand people from among the prisoners to serve as food protection teams, but he did not have the power. However, he never expected that Yang Ji not only agreed, but also gave him 6,000 places in one go.

"Thank you for your support, Your Majesty!" Deng Hao greeted him and said: "However, the main duty of the official is to coordinate all parties, so I also ask Your Majesty to send a few generals to take charge of this matter."

Yang Ji nodded, even if Deng Hao didn't ask for it, he would do the same. He looked at Zong Luohu next to him and ordered: "Zong Luohu, you stay here with 300 personal guards to reorganize the prisoners and select good riders. The soldiers formed a food protection army to assist Deng Taishou in annihilating the Xi traitors."

Zong Luohu once served as the leader of thieves in Dunhuang and northern Zhangye. Back then, even Mai Tiezhang, who was familiar with thieves' tricks, could not catch him. Today's Xi tribe thieves are just like him back then. It is undoubtedly the most suitable for him to deal with his kind. .

"General, I will obey your order!" Zong Luohu happily agreed.

"Xue Wanjun!" Yang Ji looked at Xue Wanjun again. This guy and Mai Tiezhang have been fighting in the Tuyuhun territory for several years, and they have accumulated quite a lot of experience as thieves; and he cooperates quite well with Zong Luohu. , and made considerable military exploits together. However, although their contributions were great, their starting point was too low, so even if Yang Ji was not willing, he could not promote them to mid-level senior generals at once.

If Yang Ji had forcibly promoted them both at that time, not only would it not be justified according to the promotion rules, but they would eventually be suppressed by other factions due to insufficient foundation. If they make meritorious deeds again this time, Yang Ji will be able to follow the court's regulations. Promotion rules promote them; and those in the court cannot find fault or deny.

Xue Wanjun quickly clasped his fists and said, "The general is here!"

Yang Ji ordered him: "You stay and become the deputy general of Zong, and we will do a good job in this matter together."

"I will obey your orders!"

Yang Ji then ordered the two of them: "After you annihilate the Xi clan traitors, bring them to join me, and do not disband this army!"

"Yes!" the second general responded, and withdrew from the large group with three hundred personal guards.

"The army will set off immediately, heading towards Huanglong City!" Yang Ji ignored the incident and led the army to continue moving forward.
Chapter completed!