"Did Chen Yingliang fly here with wings? How could it come so fast? How could it be? How could this be possible?"

After learning that Chen Yingliang led the Qiao Peng Sui army had arrived in Qi County, Li Yuan, who was organizing the king-supporting troops in Taiyuan City, was incredible and actually said three of them in a row. Then, shocked, Li Yuan also mentioned the collar of the confidant warrior who came to report the news and asked quickly: "Is the news accurate? Is it possible that it is a false alarm from Qi County that mistaken the other king-supporting troops for Chen Yingliang's army?"

"Ambassador, how could such a serious situation be wrong?" At present, it was just the warrior in Taiyuan Yingyang Mansion Team, who was the chief warrior of Taiyuan Yingyang Mansion Team, said: "Our people can see clearly that the army of kings was the banner of Chen Yingliang, the deputy envoy of the 12 counties of Henan Road. In addition, there is also accurate news at the Qi County checkpoint. The official documents presented by the kings were also issued by Chen Yingliang, so he dared not stop them at the checkpoint and allowed them to enter Qi County. But our splashed eyes there felt something wrong, and thought that the soldiers and horses in the Central Plains could not come so quickly, so he asked us to be anxious."

Li Yuan felt even more unbelievable, but the facts were put here, but Li Yuan couldn't help but murmur: "How could he come so fast? Didn't he hear some time ago that he and Zhang Xutuo divided the twelve counties into two north and south war zones. Was he responsible for the farthest south war zone? Calculate the distance, even if he immediately sent troops after receiving the news, he would only rush to the Yellow River at most. Why did he run to Qi County now?"

Unable to figure out this question, Li Yuan had to put this question aside and changed his words to the warrior and asked, "How many soldiers did he bring?"

"About 20,000." The warrior answered truthfully, and said, "It is not clear how many cavalrymen are there, but the number must be one or two thousand."

"Damn, a clown who jumped the beam had a day when he was commanding 20,000 troops to gallop on the battlefield. God is really not open to his eyes." Li Yuan said a rare rudely and snorted coldly: "Twenty thousand troops? It must be the most teams under his command. He brought all his family to serve the king. He has a great ambition. It seems that it is not that easy for me to win the first prize of serving the king this time."

"Ambassador, why have to fight with him?" The warrior became Li Yuan's confidant after Li Yuan was transferred to Shanxi. He was not very clear about some past events and kindly suggested: "Instead of competing with him, it is better to join forces to save the enemy. Although you and him are not subordinate to each other, he is only the deputy envoy of Henan Province to seek arrest. You are the ambassador of Hedong, Shanxi, and after joining forces, he will definitely have to obey your orders. Since this is the case, it is better to try to join forces with him and take over the 20,000 troops under his command for your own use. This will not only strengthen our strength, but also avoid many disputes?"

"Don't think too beautifully." Li Yuan said angrily: "That kid and anyone else may join forces to save the car, but he will never join forces with me, and he will not accept my order."

The warrior asked why, but Li Yuan shook his head and refused to answer. After thinking for a while, Li Yuan suddenly felt his heart and hurriedly ordered the warrior: "Sir, go see the county magistrate Wang Wei immediately. Chen Yingliang came from afar. The army carried not much food and grass. We must replenish food and grass in Taiyuan. The granary of Taiyuan County is controlled by Wang Wei. You advise Wang Wei to give priority to the King of Hedong to the King of Hedong. Don't refuse Chen Yingliang's food and grass requests. Just deliberately delay the distribution. Let's wait until our King of Hedong to the Xinkou first."

Hearing Li Yuan's order, the warrior was stunned for a moment, and then said in surprise: "Ambassador, does Chen Yingliang know that you are going to do this? I forgot to report to you just now. For some reason, after Chen Yingliang arrived in Qi County, he immediately took out a large amount of gold and copper coins and bought a large amount of grain from merchants in Qi County, Taigu and other places at three times the price. How much does it cost to buy?"

Li Yuan's face suddenly turned black, and he suddenly kicked the table in front of him and shouted: "The traitor knows that I am in Taiyuan, and knows that I will definitely not give him food and grass. He actually paid out of his own pocket to buy food at three times the price. If he doesn't give me the chance to drag you down, I won't believe it, and everything can make you think of the front."

After yelling, Li Yuan shouted to the warriors: "Go and Xu Wenbao immediately. You two join forces to put pressure on the merchants in Qixian and Taigu, and they are not allowed to sell the food to the ones that Chen Yingliang told you. Just say that the imperial army of the royal army is heading north continuously. It won't take long to sell the food price five times and ten times, let alone the traitor Chen Yingliang."

"Ambassador, this is probably unlikely?" The warrior said with a sad face: "My Qixian County friends are not fools. I heard that the king-superior army is constantly heading north. Are you worried about these king-superior army forcing to buy and sell, or even forcing food without paying money? Chen Yingliang bought food from them at three times the price of cash. They must have taken it off quickly and dared not leave these troubled grains in the warehouse to cause trouble."

"You didn't do it, how could you know it was impossible?" Li Yuan was furious and shouted: "If they must sell it to Xiaozi Chen, then tell them that next time there will be rioters and bandits attacking their business caravans, don't expect our Taiyuan army to send troops to protect them."

Seeing that Li Yuan was really angry, the warriors of the Shanxi merchant ancestor did not dare to neglect, so they had to hurriedly hold their fists and sing their nobility, and then ran down to arrange the arrangements. Then the personal soldiers entered the room to clean up the case that was kicked over by Li Yuan, but were kicked away by Li Yuan. Then Li Yuan yelled and ordered Changsun Shunde, Liu Hongji, Tang Xian, Xu Shixu, Xiahou Duan, Pei Ji and other confidants and eldest son Li Jianzhen came to see him immediately. The personal soldiers did not dare to neglect, so they rushed down to pass the order.

After a moment, Changsun Shunde and Liu Hongji and other confidants arrived one after another. They were shocked to see the mess in Li Yuan's room. They asked the reason why Li Yuan did not answer, but just asked the personal soldiers to clean Yu Jing quickly. After the personal soldiers finished cleaning up the case, Li Jiancheng also came to the room and saluted Li Yuan while asking: "Did your father call me, are there any instructions to the child?"

Li Yuan nodded, changed to a kind-hearted smile, and said, "There is good news to tell you that your good friend Chen Yingliang has already brought a army of 20,000 to Qixian County and will arrive in Taiyuan within about one or two days."

"Brother Chen, he has come?" Li Jiancheng was also surprised and said in surprise: "How is it possible? How could he come so quickly? I heard that he is responsible for the southern counties such as Qiao Peng Xia Pi, why are you here now?"

"This is also a big confusion for my father." Li Yuan smiled and said, "I'll send you some wine and meat to reward him immediately, ask him about his situation, and then ask him again, would you like to join forces with his father's soldiers to serve the king? With the answer, come back and report me immediately. Go and come back quickly, don't delay."

Li Jiancheng agreed happily and was about to reward his friends' army, and he was about to go down to execute it immediately. However, Li Jiancheng was still a little worried and bowed to Li Yuan and said, "Father, it is definitely okay for a child to reward the army, but he persuaded him to join forces with you, but he was not sure..."

"It's okay, you go and try it. I won't blame you if it doesn't work." Li Yuan said generously: "Your main task this time is to find out the specific situation of Chen Yingliang's army, the more detailed the better, so that you can have a clear mind in your heart and know how many heavy responsibilities he has to bear. Otherwise, if you arrive on the battlefield of the king, if his strength is not enough to deal with the enemy on the other side, I don't send reinforcements to him in time because I don't know the details, it will hurt him."

Li Jiancheng is not a fool either. Of course, he understands the reason why his father wanted to do this himself, but his father's order was difficult to violate, and he was eager to reunite with his friends. Li Jiancheng did not refuse and immediately took the order to leave. As soon as Li Jiancheng left, Li Yuan immediately changed his face and said to Yiyu's confidant present: "You have heard just now that Chen Yingliang came with 20,000 troops. Why did he come so quickly? We ignore it for the time being. But so far, he is the only person with the ability to compete with me for the great achievements of the king, and we must be careful."

"And." Li Yuan added: "Most of you know the grudges between me and I, and I don't know, I can tell you slowly. In short, don't think about joining forces with him. This kid will never obey my command, nor will he work for us to help us win the great achievements of the king. We can only be wary of him, and we cannot trust him, because my holiday with him is too deep and cannot be resolved."

Changsun Shunde, Liu Hongji and others who knew the details nodded repeatedly. Tang Xian and Xiahou Duan, who knew little, nodded to express their understanding. Then Li Yuan asked: "When will our army of kings be assembled?"

"It will take three days at the fastest time." Liu Hongji replied: "The main thing is that the teams on Longmen are too far away and take too time to go, but the army there is an elite team that we have to break through Wuxuer. Without them, it won't work."

Li Yuan's face looked a little ugly again. He hated that he had no ability to know the future. He didn't know that Emperor Yang of Sui would encounter such a play at Yanmen. When he received the imperial edict to support the king, he happened to appease the rebels there in Changping, supervised the construction of an important castle to prevent the Taihang bandits, and rushed to the north to serve the king. He wasted a lot of time, but ended up in the current dilemma.

"Ambassador, the situation is not very good." In fact, Changsun Shunde, who was already considered a relative of Chen Yingliang, spoke up and reminded: "Ambassador, you are stationed in Taiyuan. The emperor issued an edict to serve the king, but the result was that Chen Yingliang, who was far away in the Central Plains, was the first to arrive at the battlefield for serving the king. Once the emperor learned about this, it would be difficult for you to explain."

Li Yuan nodded and admitted that this was the thing he was most worried about now. After understanding Li Yuan’s meaning and his impulsive personality, Taiyuan Sima Xu Shixu immediately said loudly: "Then try to stop Chen Yingliang boy and don’t let him rush ahead of us. Yu Qian like this, I will take some people to stop him, and use the excuse to check his identity, official position, team members, etc., to hold him down, and wait until our troops gather and head north, then let him go north."

"If you want to die, go," Li Yuan said angrily: "What did he come this time? If you dare to find an excuse to stop him, he will dismember you and chop you into meat sauce on the spot. The emperor will only praise him for doing it well and do it right, and then ask him to chop your whole family."

Xu Shixu shut up embarrassedly. Pei Ji, who was also a distant relative of Chen Yingliang, stood up and said carefully: "Ambassador, why not make a fuss about food, grass and supplies? Chen Yingliang came from afar. There must be not much food and grass in the army, and it needs to be replenished in Taiyuan. The Taiyuan County Magistrate is under the jurisdiction of Wang Wei, and the Jinyang Palace is controlled by the Xiaguan. As long as Wang Wei and I pinch him in the food and grass, we will not worry about being unable to hold him up."

"It's useless. This has long been captured by the treacherous little thief."

Li Yuan smiled bitterly, and then he remembered to tell everyone about Chen Yingliang buying grain from the people at three times the price. As a result, Li Yuan's confidant was stunned when he heard it. Xiahou Duan took the lead and complained: "Oh no, Qi County and Taigu are a place where Shanxi merchants gather, and there is a lot of food stored by the people. Chen Yingliang bought grain at such a high price and would definitely get a large amount of food soon, so there is no need to beg us for food and grass."

"And," Xiahou Duan added: "Once Chen Yingliang learns that our king-supporting troops have not yet been assembled, he has a deep grudge against the ambassador. In order to embarrass you and be punished by Your Majesty, he will definitely continue to move northwards without stopping, saying that he must be ahead of us."

Li Yuan's smile became even bitter, and he couldn't imagine what would happen if this situation happened. With Emperor Yang of Sui, even if he didn't dismiss himself from his post, he wouldn't be able to escape if he scolded him.

After a long frowning face, Li Yuan made up his mind and said, "Let's do this, before waiting for the army on Longmen, you should prepare immediately. Tomorrow, I will take the gathered army north, first go to Xinkou to install the camp, and then slowly wait for subsequent reinforcements there."

"Amusement, is it too risky?" Liu Hongji said with some concern: "Although we have gathered nearly 20,000 troops now, most of them are temporary recruits from surrounding counties and counties. They have insufficient training and poor equipment and poor combat effectiveness. Once they encounter Turkic attacks after reaching Xinkou, it will be a lot of danger.

"Then you have to go," Li Yuan slapped the table and shouted: "As the ambassador of Hedong comforting and comforting, I stationed in Taiyuan. The emperor was surrounded by the Turks in Yanmen and ordered the king to be the king. However, I arrived in Xinkou later than Chen Yingliang who was far away in the Central Plains. If this matter is spread, what is my face to pay homage to the emperor? How can I face the Sui people all over the world?"

"That's it." Li Yuan slapped the table again and said viciously: "Let's go tomorrow. I will lead 10,000 troops north to establish a camp. Fortunately, some troops have gathered in Xinkou. Wang Rengong from Mayi should arrive at Xinkou by walking on the small road. His troops can fight. I will organize these troops and have more troops than Chen Yingliang."

Seeing that Li Yuan had made up his mind, Changsun Shunde, Liu Hongji and others did not dare to continue to object, so they hurriedly hugged their fists and sang their promises, and then quickly went down to prepare. At this time, when Pei Ji, the governor of Jinyang, suddenly remembered a big event, stopped, turned around and bowed to Li Yuan and said, "Ambuyer, the official suddenly thought of something. If we can do it, then even if the boy Chen Yingliang snatched us and arrived at Xinkou, the first contribution to the king will still be yours. Boy Chen Yingliang can't take it away no matter how much he snatched it."

"What's the matter?" Li Yuan asked.

"Get contact with His Majesty the Emperor and offer memorials to pay homage to the king." Pei Ji said with a smile: "His Majesty the Emperor was surrounded by Turkic cavalry in Yanmen City. There was no way to go to heaven and no way to the ground. Even if the imperial edicts were only passed on the driftwood, from His Majesty the Emperor and the civil and military officials, from the military and civilians in the city, they would definitely be eager for news about reinforcements."

Speaking of this, Pei Ji smiled even happier and bowed and said, "Since that's the case, why don't the ambassador write a memorial immediately? Report to His Majesty the Emperor where you have organized reinforcements and how far is it from the Yanmen battlefield. Send people to go on the Wutai Mountain Road to Yanmen and try to send them into the city. Once this matter is successful, His Majesty the Emperor will definitely be overjoyed. The officials will praise him at the same time. The morale of the soldiers and civilians guarding the city will definitely be greatly boosted. The city will be happy and the number of people is one stone. Isn't this the most important contribution to the king?

"The clever plan" Li Yuan applauded and said happily: "This plan is great. If this matter is successful, His Majesty the Emperor may be able to pass the imperial edict again and appoint this official as the commander-in-chief of the king and rescue the emperor. At that time, all the soldiers and horses in the world will be obeyed by the commander-in-chief of the king and the commander-in-chief of the emperor."

"If the ambassador thinks it is feasible, please write the memorial immediately." Pei Ji volunteered: "Your Highness will find a guide who is familiar with the terrain of Mount Wutai. After finding it, you will give him a great reward and ask him to take our messenger to take the small path to Yanmen City."

Li Yuan was even more happy when he heard this. He quickly ordered Pei Ji to act according to his plan, and personally wrote a book to explain that he was ordered to go north to serve the king, and that his troops would arrive at the Yanmen battlefield soon, so that Emperor Yang of Sui could wait for his rescue to relieve the siege. However, for various reasons, Li Yuan did not dare to report to protect his time and number of troops, and he did not dare to promise when he could rescue Emperor Yang of Sui.

In the evening of that day, Pei Ji, a local snake in Shanxi, actually got Li Yuan a guide to lead the way. Coincidentally, this guide was also from Tantou Village in Wutai County, named Liang Xiaosi. He was also greedy for Pei Ji's promised reward. He patted his chest and promised to bring Li Yuan's messenger to the city of Yanmen. Li Yuan was overjoyed when he heard this and doubled Pei Ji's promised reward. He promised to give Liang Xiaosi an official position once the message was successful. Liang Xiaosi was even more overjoyed and hurriedly thanked Li Yuan.

The guide who was familiar with the terrain and roads was ready, and the next question was the messenger. Pei Ji, who had been mediocre in the Jinyang Palace Supervisor for many years, was very happy to take this risk. The danger was great, but the rewards must be amazing. Unfortunately, like Chen Yingliang, Li Yuan was reluctant to let the powerful Pei Ji take the risk of life-long death. After shaking his head to object, he had an idea and ordered: "Let Hou Junji go, come and call Hou Junji. I have an errand to tell him."

The personal soldiers sang their promise and took the order away. Pei Ji was shocked and said quickly: "Ambassador, you have seen the official Hou Junji Xiaguan. Apart from bragging, you can't even pull the bow. Isn't it a useless thing to ask him to do such a big thing?"

"Don't worry, I'm better than you." Li Yuan smiled and said, "Hou Junji is indeed a frivolous and ignorant prodigal son. He has almost any martial arts except bragging. But this kid has two advantages: one is cleverness, and the other is good luck. Cleverness can be easily avoided by the Turks' interception and killing. Luck is even more mysterious. This trip is a life-threatening mission, and others will definitely be nine deaths. This kid may be able to seize that life if he goes."

Thinking that Li Yuan’s words were reasonable, Pei Ji no longer objected. He nodded and smiled and said, “Yes, there is another point that is more important. Among the soldiers under the ambassador’s command, it would be a pity for anyone to die, but it would be no pity for this Hou Junji to die."

Li Yuan laughed loudly and said to himself: "Brother Chen, if I succeed this time, 90% of the emperor will send an imperial edict to the Driftwood and order me who are familiar with the Turkic military and folk customs to serve as the commander-in-chief of the King. At that time, hum, the great humiliation of my daughter and son-in-law will be gone."
Chapter completed!