Before the fleet was opened, Emperor Yang Guang issued an order, and the bandits in Dongjun were rampant, threatening Li Yangcang, and ordered the general of Zuo Xiaogu, Yang Yuanqing, to lead 10,000 Huya cavalry to Dongjun to suppress the bandits.
The fleet continued to move southward with great strength, while Yang Yuanqing led 10,000 troops to move south along the Yongji Canal. Three days later, 10,000 cavalry arrived at Liyangcang, where they would cross the Yellow River to Dongjun.
On the Yellow River Ferry, hundreds of official ships lined up in long queues, sails covered the sky, masts were like forests, huge ships slowly landed on the dock, waves slapped the revet, and a team of soldiers lined up on the boat.
"General, we are lucky today. A batch of grain ships are empty."
The person who spoke was Yang Yuanqing's deputy general Song Laosheng. Song Laosheng had dealt with Yang Yuanqing when he was repairing the Fenyang Palace. He was later transferred to Liangzhou and became the confidant of the Liangzhou general manager Fan Zigai. Fan Zigai was transferred to the Ministry of War this year
Shangshu and Song Laosheng were also promoted to General of the Zuo Xiaowei. This time he attacked Wagang Village, he was appointed as Deputy General Yang Yuanqing.
Old Sheng Song still remembers Yang Yuanqing's killing of Yuan Shangying with one arrow, and he also has a little more respect for Yang Yuanqing in his words.
Yang Yuanqing glanced at him and said lightly: "There is something I want to say hello to General Song first, Song Laosheng hurriedly bowed and said: "General, please tell me!"
"I have another secret order to attack Wagang this time, and it is not important to attack Wagang itself."
"I understand that rescuing Yuwen is the key."
"How do you know?" Yang Yuanqing asked strangely.
Song Laosheng smiled and said, "Actually, the matter of Yuwen has spread throughout the army. If you want to hide such things, you can't hide them. Everyone says there is no need to fight. Just pay a sum of money to redeem people."
"This is the reason. If the person is in the hands of the other party, he will be forced to send the head back to you. How can he explain it to the emperor?"
Song Laosheng was stunned and asked carefully: "The general will not really pay the ransom!"
"Let's talk about the situation! Who knows if Yuwen and the others' lives are still there?"
Yang Yuanqing's tone was very quiet, and he was not interested in the life and death of Yuwen and others. Everyone and the generals were confused, and no one knew what their general was thinking.
The army continued to cross the river, and teams of soldiers led their horses onto the large ship. At this time, a soldier found Yang Yuanqing who was about to board the ship.
"General, someone is looking for you and said that he is your father's friend."
Yang Yuanqing was stunned and walked out quickly. From a distance, he saw two people standing in front of several grain trucks, both leading horses, one of whom was about ten years old, and the other was over thirty years old, which seemed a little bit
look familiar.
Yang Yuanqing walked up quickly and smiled, "Brother, have we seen this place?"
The man smiled, "Didn't General Yang and I see each other hunting in the western suburbs of Luoyang that year? We have also seen it before."
Yang Yuanqing suddenly remembered it, he patted his forehead and smiled, "You are Li Mi, Duke of Pushan County."
Li Mi smiled slightly and bowed, "It's just below!"
Yang Yuanqing didn't expect to meet Li Mi here. In history, Li Mi was the lord of Wagang Village, but that was later. Now Li Mi has nothing to do with Wagang Village. Yang Yuanqing asked with a smile: "Mr. Li has something to do with me?"
"There is indeed important thing, can you find a place to talk about it?"
Yang Yuanqing nodded, "Come with me!"
He quickly walked towards a tent that stored swords and guns. The swords and guns were logistics supplies, and were about to board the boat. Yang Yuanqing looked back at the young man behind Li Mi. He was slightly shorter than himself, with a big waist and a round waist, especially long arms, and fair skin.
He was vigorous, with a large black bow and a pot of arrows on his back, and a bright silver spear in his hand.
"This brother is," Yang Yuanqing asked with a smile as he looked at the young man. He remembered a Li Mi patted the young man on the shoulder and said with a smile: "This is my righteous brother Wang Bodang. He admires General Yang's archery skills very much."
It was indeed Wang Bodang. Yang Yuanqing also heard that Wang Bodang and Li Mi were family friends. When his father died, he grew up in Li Mi's mansion and was very skilled in archery.
Yang Yuanqing smiled at him, and Wang Bodang hurriedly bowed and bowed. They walked into the tent, while Wang Bodang stood in front of the tent with his horse.
There was no seat in the tent, so the two of them sat on the ground. Yang Yuanqing said, "Sir, please tell me! What's the important thing?"
Li Mi sighed and said, "Do you know your father will be dismissed from office?"
“Why?”
Yang Yuanqing asked clearly, why didn't he know? Pei Yun had told him that Emperor Yang Guang was going to use the excuse of killing his wife to depose Yang Xuangan and attack the Yang family. Yang Yuanqing understood that this was Yang Guang's idea of completely cutting off his idea of returning to the Yang family.
"I believe you know that it's just for him to kill his wife!"
Li Mi sighed, he didn't expect that Yang Xuangan would have a strange situation and this accident occurred. Whether it was really killing his wife or not, the handle was caught by the emperor. Yang Xuangan's career was worrying, and his ambitions were likely to follow this.
Something was left to nothing. He can only find Yang Yuanqing now to see if Yang Yuanqing can plead for his father and escape this disaster.
"Yuan Qing, this matter is actually big or small. If the emperor does not pursue the matter, then your father apologizes to the Zheng family and fines him for up to half a year, which will be over. But if the emperor must pursue the matter, it will be serious. It is very likely that the matter will be serious.
Your father will be dismissed from office, do you understand what I mean?"
Yang Yuanqing smiled, "I know there is such a possibility. When Yang Neisha just went to pay homage to my grandfather's tomb, he was dismissed from office. This time, if my father was dismissed from office for this reason, I would not be surprised at all.
”
"But"
Li Mi didn't know what to say, Yang Yuanqing's cold attitude disappointed him, but he still wanted to say, "General Yang, are you really watching your father be removed from office? As a son of man, shouldn't you plead for your father to the emperor?
?”
Yang Yuanqing shook his head, "I have always valued Mr. Li's vision and strategy, but this time, Mr. Li really disappointed me. Does Mr. Li really not understand the real reason why my father was demoted?"
Li Mi really doesn't understand. He is an outsider. He doesn't know what happened here. He got news from a friend of the Censorate that Yang Xuangan would be dismissed because of the murder of his wife. This made him anxious and hurried to look for him.
Yang Yuanqing.
Li Mi was a little stunned. After a while, he asked tentatively: "Is there anything else going on here?"
"I might as well tell sir that half an hour before the emperor handed over my father's murder case to the Censorate, the emperor officially decided to appoint me as the general manager of Youzhou."
Li Mi didn't say anything for a long time. After a while, he sighed softly, "God's will!"
He felt a little nervous and stood up and said, "If this happens, I have nothing to say. Maybe you can do better than your father."
"What is Mr. Li referring to?"
Yang Yuanqing looked into Li Mi's eyes and asked with a pun: "Does I do higher than my father's official position, or do I mean I am bigger than my father's goal?"
A jing light suddenly flashed in Li Mi's eyes. He looked at Yang Yuanqing with a little disbelief. Of course, he understood what Yang Yuanqing meant. Could it be that Yang Yuanqing also had such ambition?
Yang Yuanqing smiled slightly, "Mr. Li may have thought too much."
He turned around and walked out of the tent. Wang Bodang was looking at a group of soldiers on board with envy, but he didn't notice Yang Yuanqing coming out. Yang Yuanqing patted his shoulder and said, "Good men should go to the battlefield to practice bows, and
It’s not about carrying a bow for decoration.”
Wang Bo blushed. Why didn't he want to join the ship with the soldiers? But... he looked back at Li Mi who came out of the tent. He said to Li Mi: "Brother, can I not answer him?
He stared at Yang Yuanqing's back, his eyes full of complex spirits.
Large ships left the dock with soldiers and war horses, raised sails and sailed to the other side of the Yellow River. There were more than 100 large ships. If they were infantry, they could transport hundreds of soldiers each time, but Yang Yuanqing brought them all this time.
Cavalry, so more than a hundred large ships could only transport soldiers across the Yellow River in two times.
Deputy General Song Laosheng has left first, and now some of the ships have returned and started transporting the second batch of soldiers. There are more than 3,000 cavalry on the north shore.
Yang Yuanqing was about to get on the boat at the end. He stood on the dock and waited patiently for the big ships to return. At this time, the personal soldiers behind him said, "General, they are here again."
When Yang Yuanqing turned around, he saw Li Mi bowing to him from a distance. Yang Yuanqing walked forward with a smile and said, "If Mr. Li also plans to cross the river, he can take our boat."
Li Mi wanted to talk to Yang Yuanqing in depth about what he hadn't fulfilled just now. He bowed and smiled: "If General Yang doesn't think we are burdened, we are willing to go to Wagang with General Yang."
Yang Yuanqing was a little stunned. Is Li Mi going to Wagang with him? Could it be that this is really God's will?
Wagang Village is actually not a big mountain, but like Douzigang, it is a swamp land formed by the flooding of the Yellow River. It is dozens of miles in a radius, located at the junction of Weicheng, Lingchang, Kuangcheng and Licheng counties.
The place is remote and sparsely populated. The rivers in the area are crisscrossed and well-connected. Through the Wei River, you can even directly reach the Yellow River. There are more than a dozen dense reeds distributed.
In the hinterland of Wagang, Zhai Rang led more than 2,000 people to build a circle of earth ridges with a circumference of more than ten miles, and enclose the land as king. This is Wagang Village.
Zhai Rang's more than 2,000 men were fishermen who were good at using spears. They had hundreds of small boats, were flexible and mobile, and often drove deep into the wealthy Xingyang and Liang County to rob passing ships and cargo, which made Wagang Village develop rapidly, just a few short times.
In a month, it grew from a few hundred to two thousand, and it began to attract the attention of the government.
A month ago, Xu Shi, a young third-in-commander in Wagang Village, committed the next shocking case, captured the censor Yuwen and his 200 followers, and obtained the four hundred war horses and a lot of money that Wagang Village dreamed of, but they
It also caused great trouble and caused the anger of the Great Sui Emperor Yang Guang...