At the foot of Yinlong Mountain, Fu Gongyou and several personal soldiers walked up the hillside quickly. The mountain was filled with freshly built thatched houses, and soldiers were everywhere cutting trees to build houses. Tens of thousands of soldiers needed a large number of houses to live on the mountain, and many soldiers still lived in tents.

Not only building houses, thousands of soldiers are also building a long defensive wall, like a belt tied around the hillside.

Fu Gongyou shook his head, why did he become less and less effective? After all, he was the King of Huai and General, who were named by Emperor Tai, but now he has become a mountain king. Will it not be ridiculed by the world if it is spread?

Fu Gongyou also understood Du Fuwei's mentality very well. Du Fuwei was almost killed by Zhang Xuan a few years ago, especially afraid of Zhang Xuan's cavalry and navy, so he chose to go up the mountain, but can he avoid Zhang Xuan's strangulation by going up the mountain? It can only be said that Du Fuwei thought the problem too simply.

After walking past a ridge, a small villa appeared in the valley in front of him. This was Du Fuwei's temporary palace. The gate of the villa was full of soldiers. When the soldiers saw Fu Gongyou coming, they straightened their backs together. Fu Gongyou walked straight into the gate and waited for a moment. A guard ran over and saluted, "Your Highness, please come in."

Fu Gongyou walked into the inner hall without saying a word, and saw Du Fuwei paced back and forth alone in the hall, looking worried.

"Your Highness, what happened?" Fu Gongyou walked into the hall and asked.

Du Fuwei looked back at him, smiled bitterly and said, "Brother, sit down first!"

Fu Gongyou came over for a long distance and was really tired. He sat down at the table, and personal soldiers came in to serve tea. At this time, Du Fuwei also sat down opposite him. He was silent for a moment: "I just received the news from Liyang that the food we hid in Yugou Bay was discovered by the Sui Army Navy. All the ships and grains were taken away by the Sui Army."

Fu Gongyou said for a long time: "I advised you not to go up the mountain, concentrate your food in the city, defend the city and fight against the Sui army, but you didn't listen."

Du Fuwei was upset and waved his hand to interrupt Fu Gongyou's words, "What's the point of saying this now? Since the elder brother is here, just say something useful, and don't always complain about the past, like a resentful woman."

"All right!"

Fu Gongyou said helplessly: "I won't talk about the past. It's really meaningless to just complain. Let's talk about what we should do! Today I came here to tell my brother that the grain reserves in Banyang Mountain are only 30,000 stones, and there are 40,000 troops on the mountain, which will be exhausted in one and a half months. In addition, the three granaries near Xiang'an County were all taken over, and 20,000 stones of grain were lost. We took over the mountain and could not transport the food to the mountain. How long does it take for us to last?"

Du Fuwei remained silent. When he initially decided to go up the mountain, his generals opposed it, but he insisted on his own initiative and forced the army to go up the mountain, thinking that this would avoid the powerful cavalry and navy of the Sui army. However, he did not expect that the Sui army was clearing out the periphery, causing him to suffer heavy losses. If this continues, the grain and military weapons he had worked hard to store in the past two years would be wiped out by the Sui army.

"What about the big brother's opinion?"

Fu Gongyou felt that Du Fuwei's tone was a little loose, and hurriedly advised: "It's not too late to repair the sheep. Fighting on the mountain is not in line with the identity of a virtuous brother, nor can it last long. More importantly, we are trapped on the mountain. Once the army is defeated, where will we escape? It will be different on the plain. Even if we fail, we have a way out."

Perhaps the last sentence touched Du Fuwei, and he sighed, "Let me think about it again!"

Fu Gongyou temporarily retreated, and Du Fuwei paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his hands, weighing the pros and cons. In fact, he realized in his heart that it was a serious mistake to decide to go up the mountain. He was the King of Huai, who was conferred by Emperor Tai, and was politically legal. It was for this reason that local governments and gentry began to gradually accept him, but when he decided to go up the mountain, all his previous efforts were wasted, seriously damaging his political legitimacy and turned into a bandit, which made Du Fuwei regret it.

In the afternoon, Du Fuwei finally issued an order, and the entire army gave up Yinlong Mountain and Banyang Mountain, and went down the mountain to gather in Hefei. The reason why he chose Hefei was because he had six warehouses around Hefei, including 70,000 stones of grain and a large amount of soldiers and armor. He decided to use Hefei as his nest to fight the Sui army.

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According to the information confessed by the warehouse guards, Du Fuwei's main force was hidden in Banyang Mountain and Yinlong Mountain, which are two large mountains located in Xiang'an County, Lujiang County. They are about 150 miles apart, both of which are dozens of miles in a radius and can hide millions of troops.

That afternoon, several traveling merchants who came from Jiangdu appeared in a small town at the foot of Yinlong Mountain. The town is called Longdong Town, as the name suggests, it is a small town east of Yinlong Mountain.

The town is not big, with about a hundred families. A stone road runs through the entire town. There are dozens of shops, taverns, inns, brothels, blacksmith shops, grocery stores, etc. on both sides. Since this is the only way to Hefei, the town is quite lively, and the business of each store is good. The two taverns are full of customers, all of which are from all over the place.

Three travelers sat by the innermost window. The leader was a big beard with dark skin and a voice like a broken gong, which was particularly harsh.

"Why are you two so annoying? What's the relationship between drinking a glass of wine? Will drinking a glass of wine make a big mistake? No! Scratch the business in Hefei?"

His voice was loud and could be heard in the entire tavern, and many people turned back and looked at them.

These three travelers were scouts sent by the Sui army. The leader was the general Cheng Yaojin. After Cheng Yaojin returned to the Sui army, Zhang Xuan appointed him as the general of Huya and sent him to the scout army. Zhang Xuan felt that he had the talent to be a scout. Although Shen Guang, the chief general of the scout army, refused repeatedly and was unwilling to accept the famous general of the three no ones, Zhang Xuan forced Cheng Yaojin to the scout army.

Fortunately, Cheng Yaojin was not arrogant. Although he was a general of Huya, he still fought fiercely with ordinary soldiers and was secretly despised by the officers, but the soldiers liked him very much. Soon, his reputation spread throughout the Sui army and became a major alternative in the Sui army.

Today, Cheng Yaojin's mission is to inquire about the situation of Du Fuwei's army in Yinlong Mountain. Originally, this kind of thing was not the turn of a tiger-toothed general like Cheng Yaojin, but Cheng Yaojin volunteered to come to Yinlong Town with two elite scouts to inquire about the news.

The two scouts were as big as a fight. They felt that General Cheng was actually looking for an excuse to come to Yinlong Town to drink. He had already drunk two pots of wine, but he was still not satisfied. So, he started to ask for a third pot of wine.

"Shopkeeper, this won't work, it will really make a mistake."

"You know, when did I miss the problem when I drink? Besides, three pots of wine are nothing, not half a jar. In the past, I always drink a jar."

Having said that, Cheng Yaojin's tongue was already a little curled, and the depth of the wine-deep foundation began to leak out.

At this time, the bartender walked up quickly with the wine and food, "The wine is coming!"

He put the wine pot on the table and smiled and said, "Your guest is slow to use it. If you need wine, come to me?"

He turned around and wanted to leave, but Cheng Yaojin grabbed him and said drunk Xunxun: "I'll ask you, are there robbers on this mountain?"

The two scouts were startled. If they asked someone directly like this, they quickly winked. Cheng Yaojin just ignored it, "Tell me, I'll invite you to drink!"

The bartender couldn't break free, so he had to smile bitterly and said, "It used to be, but now it's gone."

"Nonsense! Yesterday we went up the mountain to have a trip, so it's so stupid. What a bullshit. I said it was Mouse Mountain. When I met a group of thieves and mice, they said it was Du Fuwei's subordinates and snatched my goods and money. I was unhappy. Tomorrow I would like to settle the score with Du Fuwei."

"No way! King Huai's army left Yinlong Mountain three days ago. How could there be his army on the mountain? The guest must have been deceived."

The two scouts looked at each other and couldn't help but feel surprised. Unexpectedly, they accidentally asked about the information. It turned out that Du Fuwei was no longer on the mountain.

Cheng Yaojin refused to give up and cursed with a slight drunkenness: "Bad! Where has he gone? I want to settle the score with him."

The bartender said helplessly: "He led his army to Hefei City. If the guest officials want to find him, go to Hefei!"

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After coming out of the tavern, Cheng Yaojin burped and said to his two subordinates proudly: "You see it! I asked about Du Fuwei so clearly, but nothing unexpected happened. If Du Fuwei was still on the mountain, there would definitely be his spies all over the street."

The two subordinates shook their heads secretly. They would have been dead as scouts like him. They can only say that he is lucky, and Du Fuwei just happened to withdraw his troops.

However, General Cheng is a general of Huya Lang. The two soldiers could not afford to offend him and dared not blame him in person. One of the subordinates said: "General Cheng, although this information seems reliable, it must be further confirmed that we still have to go up the mountain."

"Oh! My waist is not very good recently, and I feel very painful as soon as I climb the mountain. Let's do it! I'll wait for you in the town, find a doctor to see a doctor, and buy a plaster or something."
Chapter completed!