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 pan, 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 avoiding him and always kept a distance of twenty miles from him, like a very patient wild wolf, waiting for the wounded cow to fall to the end.

"General, the grain harvest team is back!"

Wang Bo was excited and walked out anxiously. He sent twenty grain-harvesting teams to plunder the grain, but the surrounding villages were all deserted and the fields were bare and there was no grain. Now he hoped that these grain-harvesting teams could grab some grain.

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 would never look back when he embarked on this road.

Thousands of soldiers dodged a path, and 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 and immature mountain fruits. He was stunned, "This... is this food?"

The grain-funding leader smiled bitterly and said, "There are no people within a hundred miles. 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 drink all 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, it won't work. Zhang Xutuo obviously wants us to collapse ourselves."

"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 the journey was vast. 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 the last bit of strength. At this time, Meng Rang was looking at the surrounding situation. Both sides were covered with mountains and forests, with dense weeds and dense woods, which was an excellent place to set up ambush. Meng Rang felt a little uneasy, and he shouted: "Go faster 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 recalled that hundreds of people were shot over. 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 bandits had exhausted food, the army was dispersed, and the morale was sluggish. In addition, they felt a deep sense of fear of Zhang Xutuo. At this time, the ambush was like the first domino that fell, causing Wang Bo's army to collapse instantly. The bandits trampled on each other and rushed to escape.

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At this time, just two miles away from the bandit army, Zhang Xutuo led a thousand cavalry and 2,500 Sui troops to wait for a long time. He looked at the bandit soldiers who were running away like the collapse of the Yellow River in front, and a cold smile appeared on his face. (　　　)

With a wave of the sword, he shouted sternly: "The whole army attacks and defeats the bandits!"

The 3,500 Sui army rushed to the ground, with shiny armor, sharp swords and spears, and fierce murderous aura. The army instantly rushed into the chaotic thief army.

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Wang Bo's army was in a low morale and was defeated in one battle. The 35,000 army was defeated, with dead bodies everywhere and blood flowing into a river. Countless surrenders. In the battle of Tingshan County, Zhang Xutuo's army annihilated 15,000 enemies and captured 8,000 enemies. Wang Bo and Meng Rang led more than 10,000 remaining troops to flee south in a panic.

Zhang Xutuo left behind thousands of people to deal with prisoners of war. 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. Meng Rang led more than a hundred people to flee south, while Wang Bo brought more than 300 confidants to Jibei County, crossing the Yellow River from there, and heading 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, 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 tone had already appeared on the dark green earth, indicating that autumn had 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 returned from Zhuo County, had been taking leave from Zhuo County. He went to Jiangdu for inspection at 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, there was a big chaos inside the Yang family. On the one hand, the children of the politicians 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 was exposed, causing an uproar, arousing great anger among the Yang family. 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 eldest son Yang Jun returned to Beijing with Yang Xuangan. 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 he was silent all the way, 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 couldn't help but feel angry when he thought of his wife's boldness and wanted to give up. But in front of his son, he had to suppress the anger in his heart and sighed and said, "Her financial power must be taken back. I agreed at the beginning of the year, but because I could not return to Beijing, it has been delayed until today. The key is how much money and food she gave to the Zheng family? Your second grandfather's letter did not say it clearly, but it was just a huge million, and some precious things from your grandfather must be counted before we can know. 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 shook his head decisively, "It is 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 grain to make up for the deficit, 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 had made it difficult for him to deal with the public and private affairs, while the matter of equality between legitimate and illegitimate is even more difficult to deal with. It involves the interests of everyone. Yang Xuangan pondered for a while and said, "If it really doesn't work, I will persuade the legitimate family to make concessions, and it will be consistent in terms of money and food, but it will not change in terms of clan power."

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 division of the Yang family, and he was a little confused.

The carriage drove into the capital from Jianchun Gate, and a noisy atmosphere came to Yang Xuangan's face, which 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 Mansion should be full of legitimate children who welcomed his return. Unexpectedly, only Yang Xuanting was the only one, which made him unhappy. His mood, which had just improved a little, was destroyed again.

"Xuan Ting, where are the others? Are they not in the mansion?"

Yang Xuanting is the son of Yang Yue, but in fact he is the legitimate son of Yang Su. Because Yang Yue cannot give birth, he adopted Yang Yue since childhood. This is also the reason. Yang Xuanting has a high status in the Yang Mansion. In addition, he was fair and selfless when the shopkeeper's family was financially powered by the financial power a few years ago. 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: "Now the conflict between legitimate and illegitimate children is acute. Jishan led dozens of common people to worship the ancestral temple the day before yesterday, which made the legitimate families 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 Xuan Ting 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.
Chapter completed!