~《》~    Chapter 4: Deployment

After the car of Emperor Yang Guang of the Great Sui Dynasty passed Linyu Pass, he immediately did two things. One was to replace the Linyu Pass defenders and replace the Linyu Pass defenders with his imperial guards. The second was to stop traveling north. The Liao army did not go north, but guarded outside Linyu Pass, and all news was strictly blocked.

At the same time, Yang Guang sent Yang Yichen, the Minister of Taipu Temple, to the Liaodong Road, Wang Rengong, the Grand Duke of the Left Guanglu, to the Fuyu Road, and Yang Yuanqing, the General of Youzhou, to walk on Xiangping Road, and ordered the General of the Left Guard to come to Hu'er to attack on the water. The four generals led tens of thousands of troops to launch an attack on Goryeo.

That afternoon, Yang Yuanqing led an army of 30,000 to Liaoyuan Town, a major logistics site located in the west bank of the Liao River. He immediately ordered the army to station on the spot.

The army was meticulously stationed in the camp, with tents arranged neatly, military flags flying, trenches were dug outside, caltrops were sprinkled, and supplies were chariots were placed on the periphery, and more than 100,000 spears were inserted to surround the camp, with the spear tips facing the outside.

In front of the central army's tent, Yang Yuanqing looked at the dark warehouse a mile away, where nearly one million stones of grain and hundreds of thousands of soldiers were stored. The situation became increasingly serious. Although he had persuaded his father Yang Xuangan to restrain his ambitions and Yang Xuangan agreed, Yang Yuanqing still had a deep sense of crisis. Once the Yuan family rebelled, could Yang Xuangan still restrain himself?

Yang Yuanqing has received news that Yang Xuanzong and Yang Wanshi have fled the army, and Yang Jun and Yang Rong brothers also used the excuse of visiting relatives and not following the court to enter Liaodong. Yang Xuangan is making arrangements in an orderly manner, and is becoming more and more intense. All the Yang family members have withdrawn. He has not notified himself, or he will not consider his situation at all. This shows that Yang Xuangan has completely given up on him.

Yang Yuanqing sighed softly. At this moment, he felt relieved. He could finally kick away the "family affection" rock that was crossing in front of him.

"Yuan Qing!"

Someone called him behind him. When Yang Yuanqing turned around, he saw that it was Sima Li Jing, and nodded with a smile, "Please come in and talk."

Li Jing was also a little worried. He felt the seriousness of the situation. The emperor actually stayed in Linyu Pass and did not go north.

Li Jing walked into the tent and sat down. A personal soldier brought him a cup of hot tea. Li Jing held the tea cup and asked, "Yuan Qing, what happened?"

Li Jing was invited by Yang Yuanqing. He wanted to have a talk with Li Jing openly. Yang Yuanqing sighed softly, "I'm sorry, I'm just telling Uncle Shi. In fact, I only heard about it at the end of last year."

"What the hell happened?"

"My father may rebel against Sui Dynasty!" Yang Yuanqing said with a wry smile.

"What?"

Li Jing was shocked, stood up, staring at Yang Yuanqing, "You... mean Xuangan is going to rebel!"

"This is just my guess. He never told me that he was going to rebel, but I felt something was wrong."

Li Jing sat down slowly again, and he could feel the heavy feeling in Yang Yuanqing's heart, "You mean, is this just a guess?"

"Yang Wei got news from his father that the Yang family was secretly recruiting private soldiers. When they returned to Beijing to report their work at the beginning of the year, I went to ask my father, but he did not deny it, so I think my guess will become a fact."

Li Jing was silent for a moment, and then asked in a low voice: "What are you going to do?"

Yang Yuanqing walked to the door of the tent with his hands behind his back and stared at the warehouse in the distance. After a long time, he said in a heavy tone: "I got the news yesterday. Yang Xuanzong, Yang Wanshi, Yang Jun, and Yang Rong, they were not in Liaodong. It is estimated that they got the notice and escaped in advance."

"Didn't he tell you?"

Yang Yuanqing shook his head, "He no longer cares about my life or death."

Li Jing suddenly became angry and slapped the table hard, "The tiger poison is still not alive. Even if he can't arrange your retreat, he should at least tell you that Linyu Pass has been blocked, so where can you go?"

Yang Yuanqing laughed, "I have already thought about what to do. If he dares to rebel, I will issue a statement to the world, severely condemn his rebellion, and break away from his father-son relationship with him."

Li Jing pondered for a while, and he sighed, "Yuan Qing, I advise you not to take this step unless you have to."

Yang Yuanqing sat down again, "I invited Uncle Shi to come here today, hoping that Uncle Shi can support me, and hope that Uncle Shi can agree. No matter what choice I make, Uncle Shi can be with me."

Li Jing's eyes showed a look of embarrassment. He lowered his head for a long time and said nothing. Yang Yuanqing understood his difficulties and smiled and said, "I have settled down Uncle Shi's wife and children to ensure their safety."

Li Jing was shocked all over. He looked at Yang Yuanqing with some disbelief. Yang Yuanqing smiled faintly and said, "Since I guessed that my father was going to rebel, how could I remain indifferent? Not only Uncle Shi's wife and children, but Su Lie's parents and brothers, I also notified them to transfer."

Li Jing looked at the confidence and perseverance shot out from Yang Yuanqing's eyes, and the blood in his heart also became hot. A kind of belief that he had when he was young was resurrected in his heart. His eyes became brighter, but he still restrained his inner excitement and nodded silently. This was his promise from Li Jing.

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After seeing off Li Jing, Yang Yuanqing ordered the generals Shi Tiesheng and Wang Renyi to invite him to his tent. Shi Tiesheng is the grandson of the famous general Shi Wansui, and Wang Renyi is the grandson of Wang Shiji, the former general manager of Liangzhou. Both of their grandfathers were killed by Emperor Wen Yang Jian. They have been in the army in Youzhou for many years. Although they have martial arts skills, they can only serve as low-level officers because of their ancestors. One serves as the brigade commander and the other is just a team leader. They were promoted by Yang Yuanqing. Both of them served as partial generals and each led 3,000 troops.

The Youzhou Army carried out a reorganization on the grounds of suppressing bandits the year before yesterday, and cleaned up all Yuan Hongsi's confidants. Three months ago, Yang Yuanqing reorganized the 30,000 elite Youzhou Army on the pretext of conquering Liao. This time, he targeted the middle and low-level officers such as the lieutenant and the brigade commander, and cleaned up more than 100 children of the Guanlong family, and inserted his personal soldiers into them one by one to ensure his absolute control over the 30,000 Youzhou Army.

Yang Yuanqing also reorganized the Youzhou Army into ten armies, each with 3,000 people, consisting of one thousand cavalry and two thousand infantry, with seven Iron Guards and Su Lie as side generals, and the other two side generals were Shi Tiesheng and Wang Renyi.

"I want to tell you something. The world is about to be in chaos. I am ready to support my troops. I want to know the attitude of you two."

Yang Yuanqing stared at the two of them with sharp eyes. If they didn't follow, he would kill these two people today, without any ambiguity.

Shi Tiesheng and Wang Renyi looked at each other, and they knelt down on one knee, clasped their fists and said, "We are willing to serve the general manager!"

"What you said is heartfelt?"

Shi Tiesheng said with tears in his eyes: "Our grandfathers were all killed by Yang Jian. We were originally sinners of the Sui Dynasty. We were sent to Youzhou as an army. General Meng refused to give up and promoted us to generals. How could we dare to have a different intention for such a recreation!"

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "Okay! You can make a bloody oath."

The two of them pulled out the dagger from their boots, cut their palms, and applied blood to their foreheads. Shi Tiesheng knelt on their knees and said to the sky outside: "The sky is above. I, Shi Tiesheng, swear with my parents' essence and blood, and be loyal to the general manager Yang Yuanqing. If you violate this oath, you will be punished by heaven and earth!"

Wang Renyi also knelt down and swore to the sky: "God knows that my Wang Renyi swears with the spirit of my grandfather to be loyal to Yang Yuanqing. If we violate this oath, the heaven and earth will not tolerate it."

Seeing that the two of them made such a heavy oath, Yang Yuanqing was overjoyed and quickly helped them up and said with a smile: "Two generals, Yang Yuanqing, I, will never let you down, and will ensure that your family will be prosperous and prosperous for generations."

Yang Yuanqing asked the two of them to sit down and said to his personal soldiers: "Go and invite the eight partial generals together."

Then he smiled at the two of them and said, "Su Lie is a close friend, and the other seven partial generals are my grandfather's Iron Guards, Eighteen Iron Shadow Guards, should you know?"

Shi Tiesheng and Wang Renyi suddenly realized that Yang Yuanqing trusted Yang Jiachen and others so much, and it turned out to be Yang Su's Tieying Guard. Shi Tiesheng thought for a while and said, "Did the general manager decide to reprimand the emperor?"

Yang Yuanqing patted his shoulder and smiled, "It's not that serious. I just want to be a disobedient Sui Vladimir Putin."

Shi Tiesheng and Wang Renyi both breathed a sigh of relief. He thought Yang Yuanqing wanted to rebel and proclaim himself emperor, and Yang Yuanqing's statement made them more relieved.

At this time, Su Lie and eight other side generals came to the central army tent one after another. The eight of them, together with Shi Tiesheng and Wang Renyi, controlled the 30,000 troops under Yang Yuanqing. Hou Mo and Chen Yi served as the governor of Zhuo County, but did not go to Liaodong. There were two other iron guards who stayed in Youzhou as the secret chess stationed in Youzhou by Yang Yuanqing.

More than 200 personal soldiers were standing guard outside and no one was allowed to approach. Yang Yuanqing said straight to the point: "This time the emperor's conquest of Liaodong is just a cover. He is now leading 500,000 to stay in Linyu Pass. I have decided that if my army does not cross the Liaoshui River, I will hold the troops here."

Yang Yuanqing had already talked to the other eight people in advance. Everyone knew his strategy. No one spoke, and everyone listened to his arrangements quietly.

Yang Yuanqing glanced at everyone and said, "It's May now. I estimate that the latest month, there will be a rebellion of important officials in the Central Plains. First, it should be the rebellion of the Yuan family, and secondly, it may be the Yang family of Hongnong. I was expelled from the family by the Yang family of Hongnong in the fourth year of Renshou. Everything they did has nothing to do with me, Yang Yuanqing, but I must also be prepared to protect myself and will not be slaughtered. You are my confidant generals. Today I tell you with my confidant, and I hope you will advance and retreat with me and make innovations together."

Everyone knelt down and saluted, "I wish to serve the general manager!"

Yang Yuanqing ordered everyone to return to the camp and rectify the army and horses. He kept Su Lie. Yang Yuanqing smiled at him and said, "Do you regret rebelling with me?"

Su Lie shook his head and said, "Only man is unruly and is suffering from the people. I, Su Dingfang, just wish I could not kill this traitor with my own hands. Besides, the general was not a rebellion, so why do I regret it?"

"You said it well, but I'm not in a hurry."

Yang Yuanqing smiled faintly and said, "Even if I have the intention to rebel, it is not yet time for rebellion. Those who initiate the incident are just paving the way for later generations. Only those who plan and then move can laugh to the end."

Su Lie nodded silently, and Yang Yuanqing said to him again: "Save you there is a task to hand over to you."

Su Lie immediately bowed and said, "Please give orders by the general!"

Yang Yuanqing took a map of Liaodong and spread it on the table. He pointed to Liaoyuan Town, "Now our location is here, walking 80 miles northwest, and there is a pasture covering an area of ​​thousands of hectares on the eastern foot of Yiwuchang Mountain. It is the logistics pasture for the expedition of Goryeo this time. There are about 200,000 war horses. If you lead your troops to the pasture, you will say that you need to expedition to Liaodong, and bring 70,000 war horses back."

"As for the order!"

Su Lie bowed and took the arrow and walked away quickly. Yang Yuanqing looked at Linyu Pass on the map again, and didn't know how many troops Yang Guang had deployed here.

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Chapter completed!