On the second day after the news of the Jiangdu mutiny came, Zhang Xuan ordered the Qingzhou army to attack. The 40,000 troops immediately dispatched and quickly marched south towards the Huaihe River. At the same time, more than a thousand warships gathered from all over the country also moved south from the sea and entered the Huaihe River at the mouth of the Huaihe River. In just half a day, ten thousand cavalrymen arrived first to the north bank of the Huaihe River and entered Huaiyang County. With the arrival of Qingzhou troops one after another, Zhang Xuan began to deploy this once very familiar land.

The Sui army was mainly engaged in the north bank of the Huai River, which was west of Tongji Canal, and the other side was Shanyang County. If Yu Wen and the dragon boat team head north, this was the place to pass. Of course, there were many rivers from the north of the Huai River, but other rivers could not drive a huge warship like a dragon boat, which was no less than a lateral ocean boat. They could only go north through Tongji Canal. However, in order to prevent Yu Wen and small boats or land north, Zhang Xuan still sent more than a thousand scouts to divide them into 100 teams to conduct carpet-like patrols on both sides of the Huai River, not giving Yu Wen and any chance to go north.

The Sui army camp originally had a wall-shaped camp with a circumference of about ten miles. It was built when Zhang Xuan conquered Meng Haigong. It is still intact now. The Sui army only repaired it slightly, and it became the main camp of tens of thousands of troops.

Thousands of large tents were built in the camp, and thousands of warships of all sizes were swam in the Huai River. Zhang Xuan was bound to win this battle.

In the central army's tent, Zhang Xuan stood in front of the Huaihe sand table with his hands behind his back and pondered for a long time, while Fang Xuanling sat aside and worked with several staff officers to organize documents.

At this time, Li Jing quickly walked into the tent. Fang Xuanling quickly waved his hand to him and pointed at Zhang Xuan. Li Jing understood. He did not disturb the coach's contemplation, and stood aside with a smile. After a while, Zhang Xuan noticed Li Jing next to him and smiled apologetically, "The pharmacist is here!"

Li Jing looked at Zhang Xuan's armor and smiled: "I found that the general did not have the majesty of King Qi, at least the armor on his body could be replaced with gold."

Zhang Xuan laughed silently. "Don't talk about the King of Qi, even the Duke of Qi is not as majestic as it is. I still have to study hard, so I must first catch the Taichang Qing Li Gang, who is in charge of rituals and music in this battle."

Everyone in the crowd laughed, Li Jing made a joke, so that the atmosphere of the big tent was slightly calmed down, and Li Jing said again: "Is the Grand Marshal considering the matter between Chang'an and Luoyang?"

Zhang Xuan nodded, "What do you think of the pharmacist?"

"Actually, it is normal for the low-level ministers in Luoyang to recognize Yu Culture and the emperor he supported, so they would naturally support King Yue ascend the throne. However, Li Yuan did not take the opportunity to force Yang You to abdicate, which was a bit surprising."

"It is said that Li Yuan mourned Yang Guang in Chang'an and mourned for three months. Perhaps he was afraid of taking the world's worst, so he did not dare to usurp the throne easily."

Li Jing shook his head, "Bizhi thinks this is just a remark. Since Li Yuan dares to establish a new king, he will care about criticism. Beizhi thinks he is actually a little afraid of the Grand Marshal. Now he is evenly matched with the Grand Marshal. Once he abdicates and ascends the throne. As long as the Grand Marshal calls for the righteous men in the world to attack the traitor Li Yuan, the situation in the world will immediately reverse. There will be no chance for him to go east of Wushan. Only when his power is stronger than us will he dare to abolish Yang You and ascend the throne with strong force."

Fang Xuanling next to him smiled and said, "Li Sima is right. After all, the Sui Dynasty is still orthodox. If Li Yuan wants to replace the Sui Dynasty and become orthodox, he must have the momentum and strength to sweep the world, so that everyone in the world feels that the Sui Dynasty has been exhausted and Li Yuan is the only one in the world. Then he is orthodox, but although the emperor is now destroyed, the Great Sui Dynasty also has the King of Qi and Hebei and Shandong. Although all the bandits attacked cities and plundered the land and established themselves as kings, it is difficult to convince people's hearts. Therefore, as long as the general insists on the orthodox Sui Dynasty, he will have the political capital to unify the world. When the world is unified, the surname Yang or Zhang is insignificant."

Zhang Xuan paced back and forth in the tent with his hands behind his back. Li Jing and Fang Xuanling were both wise men. Every sentence tells him that he is not like Li Yuan’s support of the Long nobles behind him. Although the Hebei gentry supports him, the strength of the Hebei gentry is far from comparable to that of the Guanlong nobles. Li Yuan’s political advantages are much greater than that of him, so firmly grasping the orthodox Sui Dynasty is the cornerstone of his confrontation with Li Yuan.

In history, Li Yuan ascended the throne immediately after Yang Guang's death. The fundamental reason is that there is no force in the world that can compete with him. Either thieves and bandits like Li Mi and Dou Jiande, or Yu Wen and such traitors. Yang Tong only has the lonely city of Luoyang, so Li Yuan dared to ascend the throne with strong strength. But now that he has his own King Qi of the Great Sui Dynasty and is of equal strength, Li Yuan dares to take the throne rashly anymore.

It has to be said that Yang Guang’s appointment as King of Qi before his death was indeed a wonderful chess to check and balance Li Yuan’s chess, and it was indeed a great gift from Yu Shiji to him.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xuan's mind suddenly became clear. He no longer struggled with Chang'an and Luoyang, and turned the topic back to the present. He pointed to the sand table with a wooden pole and smiled at Li Jing: "Actually, I am considering Zhai Rang and Du Fuwei. Zhai Rang has deployed more than 100,000 troops on the front line of Xuzhou. It is obvious that I want to intercept Yu Wenji. This morning I got scout information again. Du Fuwei's tens of thousands of troops found in Zhongli County. It is estimated that Du Fuwei also wants to get a share of the pie. Du Fuwei is not worth worrying. I am a little worried about Zhai Rang. I think I have to kill the chicken and scare Zhai Rang, the monkey."

Li Jing immediately understood what Zhang Xuan meant to come to him and said with a smile: "I am willing to kill the chicken for the general!"

Zhang Xuan laughed, and pointed at Suyu County with a wooden pole and said, "The scout found that there was a Wagang army of more than 10,000 people in Suyu County, about 80 miles away from our camp. I will give you five thousand troops. I hope you will slaughter this chicken within three days."

Li Jing shook his head, "It's not really a skill to defeat the 10,000 Wagang Army with five thousand troops. I only need five hundred troops, and it doesn't take three days. I will kill this chicken before noon tomorrow. If the general doesn't believe it, I'm willing to issue a military order."

Although Zhang Xuan knew that Li Jing was good at using troops in history, it was dusk now. It took him to eliminate the time spent in marching. Li Jing actually only had half a day, and he only used 500 troops. How could he take Su Yu to defeat the Wagang Army?

This made Zhang Xuan really interested and asked, "I don't want to issue any military orders, but you have to tell me how you are going to fight this battle?"

Li Jing smiled slightly, "The strategy to defeat the enemy is to know yourself and your enemy. I heard that the general of Suyu County is Zhai Hong, and there is also a Bing Yuanzhen. The only way to use the tricks of carving insects can prevent the Wagang Army from going south."

After sweeping across the Central Plains, Zhai Rang's ambitions quickly expanded, and then targeted Luoyang and Jiangdu. Luoyang had Hulao Xiongguan, which was difficult to attack. Jiangdu was flat, Zhai Rang turned his attention to Jiangdu. He asked Shan Xiongxin and Hao Xiaode to lead a large army to attack Luokoucang, and he and his brother Zhai Hongtun had heavy troops on Liangjun and Xuzhou, looking for an opportunity to attack Jiangdu in the south.

At this moment, news of the Jiangdu mutiny came, and Zhai Rang thought that the time had come, so he deployed 150,000 troops in Qiao County, Pengcheng County and Xiapi County, preparing to intercept Yu Wenhua and go north. Unexpectedly, Zhang Xuan actually broke out from Donghai County and deployed an intercepting army directly on the Huaihe line in front of him. This made Zhai Rang angry and anxious. Of course, he was afraid of Zhang Xuan's Qingzhou, but he was unwilling to let him give up this fat piece of meat for nothing.

Zhai Rang was worried about gains and losses, but he finally decided to take Li from the fire. If Zhang Xuan and Yu Wenhua and both suffered losses, then his chance would come.

The 10,000 troops in Suyu County were Zhai Hong's troops, led by Zhai Hong himself. Because Zhai Hong was a reckless and impatient person, Zhai Rang was worried about him, so he asked the director to join the army to assist Zhai Hong.

Early that morning, soldiers from the outer patrol came to report to Zhai Hong. A Sui army of about 500 people was found several miles away from the south. Zhai Hong was having breakfast. He slapped his chopsticks when he heard the news and said angrily: "Zhang Xuan bullied me too much!"

He immediately got up and picked up the big knife and strode towards the city wall. At this time, Bing Yuanzhen also heard the news and hurried to the south wall.

On the top of the city, Zhai Hong narrowed his eyes and hundreds of Sui soldiers coming from afar. The army marched slowly and slowly. The soldiers were all listless and looked like a group of old and weak troops, led by a captain.

Moreover, the clothes worn by these soldiers were strange, like wide robes performing witch operas. When they approached the city wall, Zhai Hong discovered that they used bamboo poles to carry dozens of paper-pasteed mountain spirit tree monsters, some of which read "Zhai Hong's father, Zhai Hong's mother, and Zhai's ancestor". There was a huge paper-pasteed dog with two big words "Zhai Hong" written directly on it.

The Sui army soldiers insulted the enemy wantonly under the city, shaking Zhai Hong's relatives on the bamboo pole. The soldiers on the city wall were furious and fired arrows together, but the arrows could not shoot the Sui army.

Zhai Hong was almost mad and shouted: "Kaicheng, I'm going to peel them off!"

He lifted his sword and rushed down the city. Bing Yuanzhen hurriedly stopped him, "General, don't be reckless, the Sui army will be ambushed behind him, and you will be fooled when you go out!"

Zhai Hong is now the second-ranked figure of the Wagang Army. He was unhappy that his elder brother sent Bing Yuanzhen to monitor him. How could he take Bing Yuanzhen's words to heart now?

Besides, no main force of the Sui army was found within ten miles. Could it be that his war horses could not catch up with these old and weak soldiers even if they were tempted by the enemy? So what if they dared to insult their parents? He had to chop all these people into meat sauce to get out of his heart.

He pushed Bing Yuanzhen away and shouted angrily: "If you dare to talk nonsense, I will cut you into two pieces with one knife!"
Chapter completed!