In the spring of the 13th year of Daye in the Sui Dynasty, General Liu Changgong led an army of 30,000 soldiers and was summoned to conquer Wagang Village. Wagang Village was mobilized. The two armies fought decisively in Luoshui. Zhai Rang led 60% of the troops to form a formation by the Shizi River, and the remaining 40% of the troops were lying in ambush. When the two armies were fighting, Li Mi led the ambush to make a surprise attack. The officers and soldiers were tired from traveling all night, and the soldiers were tired and hungry, so they were destroyed. The soldiers and horses in Gangzhai were defeated and returned.
Liu Changgong's defeat completely reversed the situation in Henan. Originally, in the battle at Yanshi City, Wagang Village's morale and prestige had plummeted. But now after such a battle, Wagang Village has once again become the leader of Henan Province. The leaders of various rebel armies have even begun to compete with the rebels in Hebei and Shandong. Immediately afterwards, Wagangzhai took advantage of the situation and took away the grain returned to Luocang, using the grain to expand its strength and recruit troops. , plus Huiluocang is outside Luoyang City, which means that the army of Wagang Village may attack Luoyang City at any time. For a time, everyone in Luoyang City is in danger. No one knows, if Wagang Village After the Zhai army invaded the city, what would Luoyang look like? Many residents of Luoyang City began to move out of Luoyang and moved to Chang'an. In short, Luoyang was in chaos.
Not only was Luoyang in such a situation, some time ago, news came from the north and northwest that Liang Shidu in Shuofang, Liu Wuzhou in Mayi, Guo Zihe in Yulin, and Xue Ju in Jincheng all revolted, and now the world There is already chaos. Faced with such a situation, the biggest headache is undoubtedly the King of Yue Yang Tong. Although Yang Tong has become the emperor's grandson now, and his succession to the throne seems to be a certainty, there are no absolutes in this world. Today's emperor Although he no longer has a son, there is more than one grandson like Yang Tong, so Yang Tong is not without the possibility of being replaced. This time to supervise the country is Yang Tong's opportunity. If Yang Tong can handle it well, then the throne will definitely be in the future. It belongs to him, but if on the contrary, something went wrong when Yang Tong was supervising the country, then Yang Tong would say goodbye to the throne forever.
Naturally, Yang Tong would not sit back and give up the throne that he was about to win to his brother. At this time, the only person Yang Tong could count on was Wan He, the Duke of Liang.
Early in the morning, the door of Duke Liang's mansion had just been opened. The servant yawned and walked out of the mansion. He saw that there seemed to be a lot of people standing densely outside the door. However, this did not surprise the servant. After all, Now that the eldest young master of our family has become a high-ranking official, more and more people come to see the eldest young master for business every day. They have long been accustomed to all this. They yawned, rubbed their eyes and shouted to the door: "Okay. ,Okay, please hand over your name cards,"
"Bold," a loud shout sounded from outside the door, which scared the man so much that he staggered and almost fell to the ground. When he raised his head and looked outside, he was immediately dumbfounded and knelt down on the ground. He shouted loudly: "Young man, I have seen it before. I have seen His Highness the King of Yue. His Highness is a thousand years old, a thousand years old, a thousand years old,"
The person standing outside the gate at this moment was none other than King Yang Tong of Yue, and the one who just made that violent shout was the guard Hao Fei who was guarding behind Yang Tong. Hao Fei stared at the servant with a gloomy face, he was going to He just found a reason to vent his unhappiness. The owner of the mansion in front of him was just a low-status businessman three years ago. At the time, Hao Fei had to drag him around, but he didn't dare to There was not even the slightest complaint, but before he knew it, such a humble existence had grown to the point where he needed to look up to him. Even the master to whom he was loyal must now beg for help from this person.
Yang Tong, who was next to Hao Fei, did not show the same impatience as Hao Fei. He just waved his hand to signal Hao Fei not to be impatient, but he said to the servant: "Liang Guogong has already gotten up, but you passed the message Just for a moment, just say that I have something important to discuss with him,"
Hearing Yang Tong's words, the servant had just reacted. It seemed that the current emperor of the country, His Royal Highness the King of Yue, in order to find his eldest young master, even stood at the door of his house and waited for the eldest young master to get up. This, this It was too exaggerated. The servant couldn't help but swallowed his saliva, and immediately saluted Yang Tong and shouted: "Please, please, your Highness, wait a moment. I, I will go and report to Your Highness right now," he said After that, the servant immediately turned around and ran into the mansion.
Seeing the servant running away like this, Hao Fei's face showed a trace of anger again, and he shouted coldly: "How rude, I didn't know to invite His Highness into the house first, huh, Wan He is actually a servant of the company I don’t know how to discipline,”
"Okay," Yang Tong waved his hand, but stopped Hao Fei's words and said, "No need to say any more, I believe that person didn't mean it. Okay, anyway, I have been staring here for so long, so I don’t care if I wait a little longer, forget it,”
Now that Yang Tong has spoken, Hao Fei can't say anything more. He can only suppress his anger and say nothing. After a while, he saw a burst of footsteps coming from the door of the mansion, but it was still the same. The servant from before, I saw that servant running out of the door of the mansion, saluting Yang Tong with a panicked look on his face, and said tremblingly: "Your Highness, Your Majesty, your Highness, I, I, I have already conveyed the message to Your Highness. No, no, but, but my eldest young master, the eldest young master, he, he..."
Hearing this man's stammering words, Yang Tong couldn't help but frown. He seemed to have a bad premonition and said in a deep voice: "Why, what did Liang Guogong say?"
There was a trace of chill in Yang Tong's words, and the servant was immediately frightened and knelt down. His voice was crying, and he shouted: "Your Highness, forgive me, Your Highness, forgive me, my eldest young master, he, he, He caught a cold yesterday, so he couldn't see the guests. Your Highness, Your Highness, please come back."
After the servant finished answering, Yang Tong's face was already ashen, and Hao Fei beside Yang Tong was even more angry, and shouted sullenly: "Bold," After saying that, Hao Fei directly held the hand. The sword on his waist was half-pulled out with a clang. This drawing of the sword frightened the servants so much that they kept kowtowing and begging for mercy. There was an eighty-year-old mother on the top and a child waiting for her breasts on the bottom. , all the words came out of his mouth.
"Hao Fei, stop," Yang Tong took a deep breath and reached out to stop Hao Fei. After the anger on his face dissipated, he revealed a helpless smile. In fact, before coming here, Yang Tong had already guessed He thought that he would be treated coldly by Wan He. After all, he had deliberately targeted Wan He before. It was definitely impossible to say that Wan He had no knots in his heart. After hesitating, Yang Tong took it from his waist. He lowered a jade pendant and sent it directly to the servant, saying: "Since Liang Guogong is unwell, I will not disturb his rest. You will hand this jade pendant to Liang Guogong and tell him that if he remembers Shao Qingchi back then, For friendship, come to Yue Wang Mansion,"
After handing the jade pendant to the servant, Yang Tong said nothing more, turned around and got into the carriage, and then led Hao Fei and his guards directly back to the Yue Palace.
The servant also gave the jade pendant back. In the study room in the backyard, he took the jade pendant from the servant. Wan He frowned and sighed. It was naturally an excuse to feel cold. Wan He He also deliberately made an excuse to refuse to see Yang Tong.
Ever since Yang Tong became the grandson of the Imperial Supervisor, Wan He felt that there was a crack in the alliance between Yang Tong and himself, especially the previous incident of going to Luokou Granary to grab food. If Yang Tong was willing to send more imperial troops For himself, why should Wan He be afraid of the people from Wagang Village coming to snatch food? Especially after the battle in Yanshi City, Wan He also clearly felt that Yang Tong was becoming more and more wary of him. That's not good news.
It is precisely because of this that Wan He is willing to take risks and has to have Liu Changgong defeat Shi Zihe. Only in this way will Yang Tong realize that there is no way to replace Yuan Wendu, Duan Da and his like. Wan He's importance, so the fact that Yang Tong came to visit Wan He this time had long been expected by Wan He.
Looking at the jade pendant in his hand, Wan He couldn't help but let out a long sigh. When Wan He and Yang Tong met for the first time at the Shaoqing Pond, Yang Tong asked his servant to tell him this sentence, just to show his friendship. Come to impress Wan He. I have to say that Yang Tong found a good way. Wan He can't forget that it was Yang Tong's care that allowed him to escape crisis after crisis. Wan He is not an ungrateful person. Therefore, it is impossible for him to turn a blind eye to Yang Tong's request this time.
Next to Wan He, Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji glanced at each other and nodded. Fang Xuanling said: "In fact, in this situation, it is impossible for us to really fall out with the King of Yue. After all, this The remaining 10,000 imperial troops outside Luoyang City are still under the control of the King of Yue. Unless we leave Luoyang, otherwise, we must unite with the King of Yue,"
"Yes," Changsun Wuji also nodded and said to Wan He: "Wagang Village has captured Huiluocang, so the food problem can no longer restrain them, and Wagang Village's attack on Luoyang has become a foregone conclusion. My foundation is all in Luoyang, so it is absolutely impossible to abandon Luoyang. For now, the only way is to hold on to Luoyang, block the attack of Wagangzhai, and then wait for reinforcements."
When Changsun Wuji talked about reinforcements, he glanced outside, as if to make sure that no one outside heard what he just said, and listened to the advice of Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji. , Wan He also nodded slightly, held the jade pendant tightly in his hand, took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice: "Okay, this time I will join forces with this little pervert,"