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Judging from the reports of the four counties, Chen Yingliang found that the big thief head Peng Xiaocai, who was most worried about by Zhang Xutuo, was actually not very dangerous. The reason why Peng Xiaocai, who was entrenched in the Yimeng Mountains, was not because Peng Xiaocai's team was good at fighting, but because the terrain of the Yimeng Mountains was too complicated. When the official army entered the suppression, Peng Xiaocai led his team into the deep mountains and forests to play hide-and-seek with the official army, and dragged down the official army down. As long as the official army had a way to lure Peng Xiaocai out of the mountainous area and then fought with him in the plains, it was not difficult to defeat him or even annihilate him. There was no need to worry about it at all.

On the contrary, the Donghai County that Zhang Xutuo did not mention at all made Chen Yingliang alert, because the prefect of Donghai Yin Weng reported to Chen Yingliang that after Du Fuwei's team rushed into the East China Sea, not only did the team expand rapidly again, but also designed to drop the East China Sea thief head Zhao Pozhi, annex Zhao Pozhi's team and become the leader of the East China Sea. At the same time, another historical master, Li Zitong, also took advantage of the opportunity that Zhang Xutuo's main force was restrained by Meng Rang and Meng Haigong, and led more than 10,000 people to go south to Langya. He has now invaded Huairen County, the northernmost end of the East China Sea, echoing Du Fuwei roaming south of Shuyang, seriously threatening the safety of the entire Donghai county where the officers and soldiers are empty.

After carefully reading the reports of each county, he marked the enemy's location on the sand table of the map of the four counties made by Yuan Tiangang. Chen Yingliang calculated for a long time before saying: "I think we cannot send troops to Langya first. We should send troops eastward directly. First, we will sweep the small group of thieves in the south of Pengcheng, train the recruits, and then station troops in Xiapi, and send troops to the East China Sea at the right time to defeat the two thieves, Du Fuwei and Li Zitong, each to ensure the safety of the East China Sea. Otherwise, once these two thieves become large in the East China Sea, not only will the Donghai County City be difficult to protect, but the richest Xia Pi County in Xuzhou will definitely have no peace."

"What should Peng Xiaocai do?" Changsun Wuji asked, "He is the big thief named by Ambassador Zhang. If we cannot wipe him out as soon as possible, it will be difficult for Ambassador Zhang to explain?"

"Peng Xiaocai asked Dong Chun to deal with it." Chen Yingliang replied: "Dong Chun's strength is enough to deal with Peng Xiaocai. It's just that there is no chance to fight Peng Xiaocai, so that Peng Xiaocai is free and easy. As long as we think of a way to get out of the Yimeng Mountains, Dong Chun can easily deal with him."

"Of course what my brother said is a good idea, but how can we let Peng Xiaocai get out of the Yimeng Mountains?" Changsun Wuji asked.

Chen Yingliang frowned and refused to answer. He couldn't think of any way to create a decisive opportunity for Dong Chun. Yuan Tiangang, who gradually shifted his energy to military affairs, spoke and made a suggestion: "Deputy envoy, why not interrupt the food? Langya is vast and sparsely populated, with barren land and scarce grain production. Peng Xiaocai's team does not do production, and it depends entirely on plunder and supplies. There will definitely not be too much grain storage. If we can cut off his source of food and grass, it won't take much time. Peng Xiaocai can only get out of the Yimeng Mountains to get the food obediently. At that time, wouldn't it be much easier for Dong Chun to want to fight him?"

"The idea is correct, but it is difficult to do it." Chen Yingliang frowned and said, "It's already early July. Another month is when millet is harvested. Once autumn grain is in the warehouse, there will be a lot of grain stored in the people. Peng Xiaocai just robbed the countryside and got food. How can we cut off the source of his food and grass?

"Forgive the students' comments, this year's Qingzhou area is not a bumper harvest year." Yuan Tiangang shook his head and said, "Students love Zhouyi astronomy and often collect the weather and weather in various places. Judging from the weather conditions in Qingzhou that students learned, the rain in Qingzhou area this year is very scarce, and it is already extremely lucky to have no locust plague. The grain harvest is a foregone conclusion. Therefore, as long as we try to let the people concentrate on the small amount of food, it will not be difficult to seduce Peng Xiaocai."

After listening to Yuan Tiangang's suggestion, Chen Yingliang said without expression. After a long time, he said: "It seems that this method can only be used. Wuji wrote a document for me to Dou Xian, the prefect of Langya, and ordered him to build a civil warehouse in the seven counties of Langya. After the autumn harvest, he immediately asked the people to transfer the grain to the city for preservation, register and bookmark, and let the people collect their own grain in batches and eat them home. Before the extermination of Peng Xiaocai, the people are not allowed to store grain for more than ten days at home."

"In villages that are too far away from the city, building a fort to preserve autumn grain, local townships will focus on protecting it, and then arrange for officials to supervise and supervise. When an enemy attacks, once the fort is in a hurry and reinforcements will not arrive, the officials will immediately set fire to burn the remaining grain. The officials will not let the enemies who have the remaining grain, and will be rewarded according to the law."

After reading the official document, Chen Yingliang finished reading the general thought. Before Changsun Wuji could pick up his pen, Wei Zheng next to him was already shocked and opposed: "No, you must not be Deputy Envoy Chen, do you know? If you do this, how many disadvantages will arise? How many corrupt officials will take the opportunity to fill their pockets and extort them, and how many people's food will be embezzled and deducted?"

"It is better to be detained by corrupt officials than to be robbed by all the bandits." Chen Yingliang said coldly: "Wei Facao, of course I know the disadvantages you said, but if I send a large army to Langya to suppress the bandits, how many disadvantages will it have, how much money and food will it cost, and how much burden will it add to the people? The two harms are the least, and I can only choose the one that harms the people the least."

Wei Zheng was a little silent, but still moaned again: "But if you do this, the people will suffer too much."

"The people are suffering, but they are better than starving to death after being robbed of food." Chen Yingliang sighed and ordered: "Wuji, let Dou Xian write to him and let him act according to the plan. This is an opportunity for him to make money. I believe he will do his best. By the way, he will give Dong Chun an order, asking him to send 6,000 troops to Linyi to rest and standby, to ensure the transportation connection with the counties of Langya. Once the enemy is discovered, send troops to kill the thieves immediately."

Changsun Wuji agreed and immediately wrote a letter to draft the order. Then Chen Yingliang ordered his full training to prepare for the war and prepare for the war. After the autumn harvest, he immediately sent troops to the south of Pengcheng to sweep the small groups of rioters there to train new recruits. At the same time, Chen Yingliang naturally had to report the situation to Zhang Xutuo, explain the situation and introduce the pros and cons, and asked Zhang Xutuo to arrange a team to meet Xintai Dong'an and other counties in the northern part of Langya to prevent Peng Xiaocai from robbing the northern part of Langya.

As Chen Yingliang expected, after receiving the order from Chen Yingliang's considerate subordinates, Dou Xian, the prefect of Langya, was simply ecstatic. He hurriedly ordered seven counties to build private warehouses to stockpile autumn grains, and at the same time built forts in remote areas to store civilian grains. Officials at all levels of Langya who smelled the smell of oil and water were also ecstatic. While cheering and praising the new boss for his administration for considerate to his subordinates, he worked hard to execute orders. At the same time, he also went deep into the public to promote the various benefits of concentrated storage of grains, inciting and intimidating and threatening the people to hand over the autumn grains to the government for safekeeping. Of course, there were also some tricks to make money.

The officials of Langya were cheering, but the prefect of Pengcheng Dong Chun was so angry that he cursed Chen Yingliang's absurd behavior. While making a statement that he impeached Chen Yingliang's mischief, he also wrote to Zhang Xutuo to protest and asked Zhang Xutuo to come forward to discipline Chen Yingliang. Unfortunately, Zhang Xutuo was bewitched by Chen Yingliang's letters and felt that it would be better to force Peng Xiaocai to fight to the decisive battle than to send a large number of troops and Peng Xiaocai to play hide-and-seek in the Yimeng Mountains. He was not sure and wasted the people and money, so he replied to Dong Chun to act according to the order, and asked Dong Chun not to report beyond the level in the future. If there was any problem, he had to report to Chen Yingliang first.

The respected Zhang Xutuo also stood on Chen Yingliang's side. Dong Chun was dissatisfied with no choice. At the same time, Dong Chun received news from the court that someone impeached him in front of Emperor Yang of Sui, accusing him of being weak in suppressing bandits, cowardly and fearful of fighting, and was extremely incompetent in the rule. He asked Emperor Yang of Sui to follow the law to do it in order not to give others more excuses to criticize him, Dong Chun could only curse Chen Yingliang's random command while obediently leading his army north to station at the Linyi battlefield designated by Chen Yingliang, waiting for the fighter to appear.

After asking Zhang Xutuo for a moment, Dong Chun led his army to the outside of Linyi City angrily, the autumn harvest in Langya had already begun. Just like Yuan Tiangang's crow mouth predicted, the autumn grain harvest in Langya County was indeed severe this year. Because of insufficient rain, the usual harvest of millet that could harvest more than 200 kilograms of millet per acre was only 130 to 40 kilograms this year, and the yield was reduced by almost half. The grain shortage in the next year was almost a foregone conclusion, resulting in the continued rise of private grain prices even in the autumn harvest season.

Since grain prices rose against the market, corrupt officials in Langya County naturally worked harder to execute Chen Yingliang's order to clear the country. In order to let the people concentrate on storing autumn grain, Langya officials Yu Qian dispatched troops to collect grain forcibly. The people of Langya who knew the virtues of these local officials cried and refused to hand over the grain. They even caused human lives. Dong Chun was so angry that he couldn't help but submit another memorial to Emperor Yang of Sui, scolding Chen Yingliang for being a traitor to harm the people, and was useless to waste the people's money but was useless.

It was also coincidental that when the people of Langya were still working hard to harvest in the autumn, the second day after Dong Chun sent out the second memorial to impeach Chen Yingliang, Fei County, which was not far from Linyi, suddenly sent an urgent report, saying that the traces of Peng Xiaocai's team were found in the northern part of the county. However, Dong Chun, who had suffered countless similar losses, was not deceived this time and did not rush to send troops to conquer. Instead, he chose to hold on and send people to closely monitor the movements of Peng Xiaocai's team.

Two days later, news that Dong Chun felt incredible came. Peng Xiaocai, who used to flee everywhere like a rabbit, seemed determined to do a big deal in Fei County this time. He actually gathered troops to surround a new fort in the north of Fei County, threatening to hand over the grain, and if he refused to hand over the grain, he would kill all the people in the fort, the township soldiers guarding the fort quickly asked the county town for help, and the county magistrate of Fei County also asked Dong Chun for help.

At this point, Dong Chun could not explain to the court if he didn't send troops. Although he knew that Peng Xiaocai might have run away with a shot, Dong Chun still personally led 3,000 troops to Fei County for reinforcements. What made Dong Chun even more unbelievable was that when his army arrived at the scene of the incident, Peng Xiaocai's team not only did not escape in advance, but also gritted the bullet and fought a head-on battle with Dong Chun's team.

This was a decisive battle that Dong Chun was not prepared at all. The large and powerful team of Peng Xiaocai bullied Dong Chun's soldiers. He rushed to the front of Dong Chun's flag formation at the beginning of the battle, and once killed Dong Chun's team a little unbearable - because the soldiers of Pengcheng did not expect that Peng Xiao would dare to fight the decisive battle with his own army. He also said that Peng Xiao would collapse as usual, and was caught off guard and was quite passive, and his team was a little loose at one time.

Fortunately, Dong Chun's team is a well-equipped army of battles, with rich experience on the battlefield. After surviving the initial dangerous moment, he gradually freed up his hands to carry out a counterattack, and gradually reversed the situation and began to gain the upper hand on the battlefield. It was also at this time that Peng Xiaocai finally ordered his retreat and escape as usual. Dong Chun finally caught Peng Xiaocai's main force and was willing to give up. He ignored the mountainous areas ahead and still chased him hard. He also led the army to the front, biting Peng Xiaocai's tail and refused to let go.

The pursuit lasted for a whole day and a night, and the key to victory and defeat was once again beyond Dong Chun's expectations. Just as Dong Chun's team was chasing for too long and its physical strength was reduced, the Feixian Fort that had been surrounded by hot rice in time, allowing Dong Chun's team to eat in time and recover their physical strength and start chasing again. This time, Dong Chun did not let his old opponent Peng Xiaocai slip away from him, and finally captured Peng Xiaocai alive next to a stream, and caught this big thief who had harmed Langya and Pengcheng for nearly two years.

When the Sui army soldiers cheered, Dong Chun wondered why Peng Xiaocai did not escape early this time. When Peng Xiaocai was taken to the front, Dong Chun asked Peng Xiaocai this question in person. Peng Xiaocai was also very generous and answered directly: "You dig up my stomach and you will know the answer."

Of course, Dong Chun was reluctant to let Peng Xiaocai die so happily, but ordered the belly of several zombies to be cut open. What surprised Dong Chun was that the belly of several zombies was actually rooted in the bark and grass. One of the zombies was Yu Qiandi in the belly, and he could not find any food. In shock, Dong Chun blurted out and asked Peng Xiaocai: "How long have you been out of food?"

"Thirteen days," Peng Xiaocai shouted with red eyes: "Langya is already poor. The grain we snatched before was left and right, and finally survived until the autumn harvest. You dog officials gathered all the food to guard. The people did not keep any food in stock. How could I not fight hard? If I don't hurry up and grab some food for food, my brothers and I can only eat people."

Dong Chun was stunned and said powerlessly for a while: "I have truly seen it today when planning and winning thousands of miles away."

Four days later, the news that Dong Chun captured Peng Xiaocai was sent to Chen Yingliang, who was still in Qiao County. At the same time, Dong Chun's handwritten apology letter was also delivered to Chen Yingliang. Not only did he apologize to Chen Yingliang, he admitted that he was a little disrespectful to Chen Yingliang, but he also admitted that Chen Yingliang's arrangements and commands were quite effective.

Seeing the apology letter from Jiebao and Dong Chun, Changsun Wuji, Yuan Tiangang and others were of course smiling happily. Qian Xiangmin was extremely excited to suggest that Chen Yingliang also did the same in the other three counties, starving the rioters and bandits who made a living by plundering. Unfortunately, Qian Xiangmin's flattery hit the horse's hoof. Chen Yingliang changed his face on the spot and roared: "Do you want to kill the people? Do you know how big the disadvantages are there in this place? How much crimes are the people going to suffer? There are too many mountains and forests in Langya, and the terrain is too complex and it is too difficult to suppress bandits. I was forced to drink poison to quench thirst in other counties. Except for starving to death, thousands of people and forcing countless desperate people to become bandits, it will not have any effect."
Chapter completed!