Guo Xuan was silent. He realized that Yao Kai was right. Zhang Xuan should not have colluded with Luo Yi. Moreover, he knew that Zhang Xuan and Luo Yi had no relationship. However, Zhang Xuan had a good relationship with Luo Yi's son. With Zhang Xuan's personality, it was impossible for him to take such risks for Luo Yi.

Guo Xuan's personality is very suspicious. Although he reluctantly believed that Zhang Xuan was unlikely to collude with Luo Yi, he was still worried about Luo Yi and said to Yao Kai: "Actually, I think this is a good opportunity. Since this year, the emperor is very dissatisfied with my poor suppression of bandits. He issued several edicts to send troops to suppress bandits. Dou Jiande and Gao Shida both stationed heavy troops on the north bank of the Yellow River, which gave me the opportunity to attack from behind. But then again, how can I prevent Luo Yi from making small moves behind me?"

Yao Kai smiled and said, "As the deputy governor of Youzhou, Luo Yi is also responsible. The governor can let his brother or son be the pioneers and lead the army to go south first. With his family as the hostage, why worry about the governor?"

"What if he refuses to let his brother or son fight?"

"If he refuses, let him hand over the army to the governor. If he still refuses, let him explain to the Lord!"

Guo Xuan was finally convinced by Yao Kai, and he nodded, "Okay, I'll write to Luo Yi now!"

At present, Luo Yi no longer lives in Ji County, but moved to Lulong County, Beiping County. This is also the tacit understanding he and Guo Xuan reached. Since neither of them could kill each other, they would not violate the rivers. Among the four counties of Youzhou, Guo Xuan controlled Zhuo County and Anle County, and Luo Yi controlled Beiping County. As for Yuyang County, neither side stationed troops. As a buffer zone for the two, the military rations allocated by the court were also divided by the two people according to the number of troops.

The two of them have been in peace in the past two years, but they are still fighting each other in secret, secretly collecting evidence that the other party is unfaithful to the emperor in order to defeat each other at a critical moment.

Luo Yi mastered the fact that Guo Xuan lied to report the number of troops. Guo Xuan's registered soldiers was 25,000, but Luo Yi knew that Guo Xuan actually had only 22,000 people, and 3,000 people were bought by Guo Xuan.

Guo Xuan discovered that Luo Yi and the Bohai Society had secretly interacted with each other, and one of Luo Yi's fathers who joined the army was one of the six nobles of the Bohai Society. Guo Xuan suspected that Luo Yi had defected to the Bohai Society. But he had not found any definite evidence yet.

On the morning of the day, Luo Yi received a letter written by Guo Xuan, asking him to send troops to suppress the bandits with him, especially asking his brothers Luo Shou or Luo Cheng to lead the army as the vanguard.

Luo Yi did not refuse at all, and he also knew that the emperor was very dissatisfied with the ineffective suppression of bandits in Youzhou. If he refused at all, it would become a handle for Guo Xuan to overthrow himself, and he would take the opportunity to put all the responsibility on him.

Luo Yi was unsure of his mind, so he asked someone to invite Wen Yanbo, the military officer of his account room.

Wen Yanbo was born into a famous family in Taiyuan. Both father and son were famous for their extensive knowledge. His father Wen Junyou was a bachelor of the Wenlin Pavilion in the Northern Qi Dynasty. His elder brother Wen Daya is currently a bachelor of the Eastern Palace of the imperial court. He was just transferred to Sima, the residency of Taiyuan, and assisted Li Yuan. Wen Yanbo was hired as a doctor by the Lu Family School last year and came to Ji County to teach. He was highly appreciated by Luo Yi and hired him to join the army for his record room, that is, confidential secretary, and became Luo Yi's confidant adviser.

Wen Yanbo smiled after reading Guo Xuan's letter: "This is Governor Guo who doesn't believe in the general. Governor Guo plans to take advantage of Gao Shida and Dou Jiande's opportunity to station troops in the north bank of the Yellow River to kill a cold gun from behind, to recover Hejian County, and give the emperor an explanation. But he sent the general to pull him back from behind, so he asked the general to send troops, and specially named Lingdi or the eldest son as the vanguard. This is obviously planning to use these two people as hostages."

Luo Yi nodded silently. Wen Yanbo and his own analysis were exactly the same, but the question was whether he would agree to Guo Xuan?

"What do you think of joining the army?"

Luo Yi asked, "Should I agree to Guo Xuan?"

Wen Yanbo sorted out his thoughts and said: "First of all, we make it clear that if we don't agree to send troops, the imperial edict will come within a month. At the least, the general will be transferred from Youzhou. At the worst, the demotion or dismissal will be demoted or dismissed. I think this is why Guo Xuan is fearless."

"I understand the meaning of joining the army. Since it is impossible to avoid sending troops, I can also send troops. I just let my two relatives be the vanguards. I think it is inappropriate. I want to send a general to lead the army to the expedition and send 5,000 troops. What do you think about joining the army?"

Wen Yanbo smiled and said, "I think this is Guo Xuan making a choice for the general. If Ling Di or the eldest son leads the army, he will have no worries. At least the army can be saved. But if other generals lead the army, then these 5,000 troops will definitely not be able to return to Beiping County. This is what Guo Xuan means."

Luo Yi thought for a long time and walked out of the lobby and said to his personal soldiers: "Go and find the eldest son for me!"

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To Guo Xuan's surprise, Luo Yi agreed to his request very happily. He asked his son Luo Cheng to lead 3,000 troops as the vanguard and obey Guo Xuan's orders.

Although the troops were a little less, Luo Yi sent his son to follow him, which made Guo Xuan very satisfied. At least he had no worries and could go south with all his might.

Two days later, it was the fifth day after Zhang Xuan defeated Dou Jiande's army. Guo Xuan took advantage of the emptiness of Hejian County and personally led 20,000 troops to march south along the Yongji Canal. The left vanguard was Luo Cheng and the right vanguard was Hou Junji. The army swept across Hejian County, but Guo Xuan's targets were Nanpi County, Gao Shida's old nest and Wuyi County, Dou Jiande's old nest.

One of the big reasons why Guo Xuan attacked Dou Jiande and Gao Shida, but did not attack Lu Mingyue's nest in Shanggu County, was that Dou Jiande and Gao Shida occupied the county town, and the Qianglien warehouse and the bandits' family were all in the county town, so they could succeed if they captured the county town.

On the contrary, Lu Mingyue's old nest was hidden in the deep mountains and ridges. It was difficult to find and attack even more difficult. Therefore, although Lu Mingyue's army had already reached Xiangguo County and the rear was very empty, Guo Xuan did not consider attacking Lu Mingyue, but instead rushed to Hejian County, and tried his best to deal with Gao Shida and Dou Jiande.

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The Zhang River originates from Confucius Ridge in Zhaojun, and winds northeastward, flowing through Zhaojun, Xindujun and Hejianjun. Finally, it injects into the Yongji Canal north of Changlu County, Hejianjun. It is an extremely important river in Hebei.

Gonggao County, Hejian County is located between the Zhangshui River and the Yongji Canal. There are several small rivers in the county connecting the Zhangshui River and the Yongji Canal, making the water transportation of Gonggao County extremely convenient. You can enter Zhuo County to the north, or even the Bohai Sea, and you can go to Luoyang and the Yellow River to the south, and the water transportation is well connected.

Just in the wilderness about one mile from Zhangshui in Gonggao County, there is a manor covering an area of ​​2,000 acres. The manor is divided into two by a small river. Dozens of buildings are built to the south and a military camp to the north.

A wall nearly two meters high was built around. In addition to building a high tower to monitor, there were also Zhuang Ding, a dog with a knife, patrolled along the wall. No one was allowed to approach the manor wall fifty steps, otherwise he would be beaten up at the mildest, and would be killed at worst.

This mysterious and murderous manor was discussed by farmers around him. The manor was suddenly built last year. No one knew who lived in the manor. He only knew that carriages often came and went, and even fleets of ships were loaded with cargoes to enter the manor, but the government never dared to ask about it.

Everyone only knew that the land where the manor was originally belonged to a minister of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and everyone suspected that someone was going to rebel here.

That afternoon, a passenger ship from Yongji Canal entered the water gate of the manor along the river and stopped at a pier in the manor. A young and heroic young general came up with more than a dozen monks and stood respectfully by the dock waiting.

At this time, a woman walked out of the passenger ship and saw her tall figure, wearing a long sword on the waist, wearing a light yellow half-sleeved skirt, a veil, covering her face, and two strong guards stood behind her.

The young general hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, "Nephew, please see my aunt!"

The woman took off her hat and showed a fair face. She was Gao Hui, the third-person figure in the Bohai Association who had been missing for a long time.

Gao Hui has grown a lot, with many fine wrinkles on her forehead and corners of her eyes, but her apricot eyes still have the usual coquettishness and dressed up so evilly. However, her tall cheekbones and thin lips destroyed the attractiveness of her appearance to men, making people feel her meanness and toughness.

Gao Hui walked off the boat and smiled slightly, "Yier looks like a general when wearing armor. It's good, and looks decent!"

This young player who came to welcome Gao Hui was the third son of Gao Lie, the leader of the Bohai Association. He was named Gao Yuanyi. He was tall and strong. He liked martial arts since he was a child. Although he was only seventeen years old, he was already quite famous in the Bohai Association, using a big knife weighing 70 pounds.

Although Gao Yuanyi has been afraid of his aunt since he was a child, his aunt's evaluation made him feel very uncomfortable. What does it mean to be decent? Did he dress up deliberately?

He was unhappy and was a little lazy and speechless. "My father is already waiting in Wangshan Tower."

Gao Hui nodded, turned around and walked towards a tall building in the distance. After walking a few steps, she stopped and turned to smile at her nephew and said, "Replacing the sword at her waist with a horizontal knife will make you look more like a general."

She giggled and walked away quickly. Gao Yuanyi was angry with his aunt's ridicule. He pulled off the sword from his waist and threw it into the river.

(To be continued.)
Chapter completed!