For two consecutive days, Zhang Xutuo always avoided fighting. Wang Bo's army cut off food, and the camps began to make noise.
In the big tent, Wang Bo was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, paced back and forth with his hands behind his back. He went back and forth to pursue Zhang Xutuo's army, but Zhang Xutuo's army was hiding from him and always kept with him for twenty miles.
The distance is like a very patient wild wolf, waiting for the wounded cow to finally fall.
"General, the grain harvest team is back!"
Wang Bojing was excited and walked out quickly. He sent twenty grain-harvested teams to plunder the grain, but the surrounding villages were all empty and the fields were bare and there was no grain. Now he was counting on these.
The grain harvest team can grab some food.
Meng Rang followed him, his heart was heavy, and it was not until this time that he felt an indescribable regret in his heart. No one cultivated the wheat fields. Isn’t it because of their robbery everywhere?
He rebelled to save the people from water and fire, but in fact, it was their existence that made the fertile fields deserted and thousands of miles of red fields, which was completely different from his original idea, but at this time, it was useless for him to regret it. He walked on this
There is no possibility of turning back on the road.
Thousands of soldiers dodged a path, hundreds of wet soldiers came carrying dozens of big baskets. Wang Bo walked forward and saw that the basket was full of fresh fish, and more than a dozen baskets were green.
, He was stunned by the immature mountain fruit, it was just food?"
The grain-funding leader smiled bitterly and said, "There are no people within a hundred miles, so we had to cut off a small river to catch fish, and then found a fruit forest, which was only these things."
Wang Bo was extremely angry. He stepped forward and kicked the basket over, and the fruit spread all over the ground. He shouted: "Everyone drinks the northwest wind! I don't care."
He turned around and rushed towards the camp tent angrily. As soon as he left, thousands of soldiers around him rushed forward, scrambling to grab fresh fish and fruits. It would be a blessing to have fish to eat.
Meng Rang followed Wang Bo into the tent and said, "Brother, you can't continue like this. Zhang Xutuo obviously wants us to collapse."
"I know, but if he doesn't fight, what can I do?" Wang Bo squatted on the ground and teared his hair desperately.
Meng Rang thought for a while, "I have a way, he will definitely show up."
Wang Bo was overjoyed and said repeatedly: "Speak quickly, what's the solution?"
"When we go to attack Tingshan County, he will definitely be worried and will definitely come forward to fight."
Wang Bo gave himself a slap and cursed: "Why am I so stupid! We can't capture Licheng County, but Tingshan County is a small county, of course we can capture more than 30,000 people."
He shouted, "Send the army to march towards Tingshan County!"
Tingshan County is twenty miles southeast, and you need to bypass a big mountain. The mountain is called ** Mountain, and Tingshan County is located on the south side of Jishan.
More than 30,000 bandits turned around and marched south, and all the way. At this time, Wang Bo was already anxious. His soldiers had no lunch. If he did not find food, his army would completely collapse.
After passing through a forest, the outline of the county town was already seen from afar. The county town was several miles away. Wang Bo shouted excitedly: "Brothers, conquer the county town, we will eat and drink delicious food!"
Thirty thousand bandits were excited and ran towards the county town with their last strength. At this time, Meng Rang was looking at the surrounding situation. Both sides were covered with mountains and forests, overgrown with weeds and dense woods, which was an excellent place to set up ambush. Meng
It made him feel a little uneasy, and he shouted, "Start up and pay attention to both sides!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a clapper sounded, and thousands of arrows were fired on both sides. The bandits were caught off guard. A scream was heard. Hundreds of people were overturned. The fear in his heart caused the bandits to become chaotic and rushed to flee.
"There is an ambush! Zhang Xutuo is here!"
The screams of fear were hysterical and resounded throughout the official verdict, but Meng Rang found that there were not many ambushers, at most only a few hundred people. He drew his sword and killed a few people, shouting: "Don't panic, line up!"
But there was no effect. The troops were exhausted, the morale was dispersed, and the morale was low. In addition, they felt a deep sense of fear of Zhang Xutuo. At this time, the ambush was like the first domino that fell, making it possible for them to make
Wang Bo's army collapsed instantly, the bandits trampled on each other and rushed to escape.
At this time, just two miles away from the bandit army, Zhang Xutuo led a thousand cavalry and 2,500 Sui army to wait for a long time. He looked at the bandits who were running away like the collapse of the Yellow River in front.
A cold smile appeared.
With a wave of the sword, he shouted sternly: "The whole army attacks and defeats the bandits!"
Three thousand and five hundred Sui troops were killed like a storm, with shiny armor, sharp swords and spears, and fierce murderous aura. The army instantly broke into the chaotic thief army.
Wang Bo's army was low in morale and collapsed in one battle. Thirty-five thousand army was defeated. The dead bodies were everywhere, blood flowed into a river, and countless surrendered people. In the battle of Tingshan County, Zhang Xutuo's army annihilated 15,000 enemies.
After capturing eight thousand enemies, Wang Bo and Meng Rang led more than 10,000 remaining troops to flee south in panic.
Zhang Xutuo left behind thousands of people to deal with prisoners of war, and he led three thousand troops to pursue him. Three days later, he defeated Wang Bo's army again at the foot of Daishan. Wang Bo's army was wiped out, and Meng Rang led more than a hundred people to flee south.
Wang Bozhe fled to Jibei County with more than 300 confidants, crossed the Yellow River from there, and went north to Douzigang.
At this point, all the bandits in Changbai Mountain were wiped out by Zhang Xutuo. Zhang Xutuo opened the warehouse and released grain again under the supervision of the censor, and persuaded the people to return to their hometown to farm and wait for the autumn harvest. The bandits in Qi County gradually subsided.
Time gradually came to August of the seventh year of Daye, the heat subsided, and a hint of coolness began to appear sooner or later. A hint of yellowish scent on the thick green earth, indicating that autumn has quietly arrived.
That morning, on the official road east of Luoyang, a team of followers surrounded a carriage and drove towards the capital. The rolling yellow dust brought by the carriage showed the anxious heart of the carriage owner.
In the carriage, Yang Xuangan, who had just been rushing back from Zhuo County, took leave from Zhuo County. He followed Yang Guang to Jiangdu for inspection since the end of last year. In February this year, he went north to Zhuo County and had been nine months away from Beijing. Seeing that Yang Guang had no chance of returning to Beijing,
However, a chaos occurred within the Yang family. On the one hand, the children of the illegitimate house collectively did not receive monthly money and demanded that the legitimate and illegitimate children be equal. On the other hand, his wife gave the Yang family a huge 10,000 yuan of grain to her parents' family without authorization. The matter failed, causing an uproar.
*o, Ji, the great anger of the Yang Mansion, his uncle Yang Shen wrote a letter to him, asking him to explain the matter, and resigned from the position of head of the family.
Yang Xuangan has always condoned his wife, but when such a thing happened, he could no longer perfunctory. He had to plead with the emperor repeatedly, and was finally allowed to return to Beijing for one month to deal with the family affairs.
The one who returned to Beijing with Yang Xuangan was also his eldest son Yang Jun. Yang Jun received a letter of help from his mother and specially asked for leave to return to Beijing with his father. His brother Yang Rong also wanted to return to Beijing, but he was only one or two days later, although
I was silent all the way, but Yang Jun finally spoke when he was about to reach the capital.
"What is my father going to do with his mother?"
Yang Xuangan looked at the city wall that was visible from afar. He thought of his wife's boldness and arrogance, and he couldn't help but feel angry. He wanted to give up her, but in front of his son, he had to suppress his anger and sighed and said, "Her financial power must be taken back. At the beginning of the year,
I agreed, but because I couldn't return to Beijing, I was delayed until today. The key is how much money and food she gave to the Zheng family? Your second grandfather didn't say it clearly in his letter, but just said it was huge, and there were some precious things from your grandfather.
You have to count it before you know that, in short, I will find a way to reduce the mistakes your mother made and calm the family anger.”
"Are my father going to resign from the position of head of the family?" Yang Jun asked again.
He didn't say much, but every sentence could ask the key points. Yang Xuangan decisively shook his head, "It's impossible, resigning from the position of head of the family will destroy many of my plans. At worst, I can use my own money and food to make up for the shortfall, but
I will never resign from the position of head of the family.”
"What should I do if the legitimate and illegitimate sisters are equal?"
Yang Xuangan only felt a headache. His wife's fake public servants made it difficult for him to deal with it, while the matter of equality between legitimate and illegitimate is even more difficult to deal with. It involves everyone's interests. Yang Xuangan pondered for a while and said, "If it really doesn't work, just convince him."
The legitimate family concessions are consistent in terms of money and food, but the clan power remains unchanged."
Yang Jun smiled faintly, "Father, I don't think it's right."
"Why is it inappropriate? Tell me your opinion!" Yang Xuangan was very willing to communicate with his son. His son was too deep, which always made him a little unable to see through. He hoped that his son would talk more.
Yang Jun was silent again, and after a while, he said: "The father should firmly safeguard the interests of the legitimate family so that the legitimate family can make concessions in the affairs of his mother and keep the position of the head of the family."
Yang Xuangan looked out the window worriedly. Although he admitted that his eldest son was right, if he was too opposed to the common house, it would also cause the Yang family to split. He was a little confused. The door drove into the capital, and a noisy breath came to his face.
This made Yang Xuangan feel a long-lost sense of familiarity. He liked this kind of prosperity very much. Looking at the people coming and going on the street and listening to the peddler's hawking, Yang Xuangan's mood gradually improved.
The carriage entered Shangshan House and slowly stopped in front of the huge Yang Mansion. A guard came to report first. Yang Xuanting stood on the steps to welcome the head of the family back.
Yang Xuangan thought that he had not returned to the mansion for nine months, and that the gate of Yang's mansion should be full of legitimate children who welcomed his return. Unexpectedly, only Yang Xuanting was the only one, which made him feel unhappy. His mood, which had just improved a little, was destroyed again.
"Xuanting, what about the others? Are they not in the house?"
Yang Xuanting is the son of Yang Yue, but in fact he is the legitimate son of Yang Su. Because Yang Yue cannot have children, he adopted Yang Yue since childhood. This is also the reason. Yang Xuanting has a high status in Yang's mansion, and he is in
A few years ago, the shopkeeper was able to be fair and unscrupulous when he was financially powered by his family, and he was also a good person. All the legitimate and illegitimate buy him the account. He is now a bridge between the legitimate and illegitimate Yang family, and he is supported by him.
Yang Xuanting smiled bitterly and stepped forward and bowed, "Brother, they are all in the mansion, but they all have a lot of opinions and are full of anger. They called them, but no one came."
Yang Xuanting whispered to Yang Xuangan again: "The conflict between legitimate and illegitimate is now acute. Jishan led dozens of illegitimate houses to worship the ancestral temple the day before yesterday, which made the legitimate houses extremely dissatisfied."
Yang Xuangan was furious, "Ji Shan dared to worship the ancestral temple without authorization and asked him to come to see me?"
A family member was about to run to find Yang Jishan, but Yang Xuangan held back his anger and said, "Wait and call him later."
He asked Xuanting again, "Are you here in the second uncle?"
Yang Xuanting nodded, "Uncle Second is here! He asked his elder brother to go to his place, he had something to say."
Yang Xuangan was thinking about the big things in his heart. He had a tacit understanding with his second uncle Yang Shen. Now he could only ask his second uncle to fully support him in view of the big things they planned.
Yang Xuan. He walked quickly into the mansion and walked towards the yard of his second uncle Yang Shen.