Xingyang, Tiger Prison Pass.

Zhang Xutuo and Pei Renji have already gathered 20,000 horses in Xingyang Tiger Pass, and fortunately, thanks to the implementation of the plan of the standing camp that Luo Cheng had done before, it could go so smoothly. Otherwise, it will not be easy to quickly recruit a combatable army in a hurry.

On the one hand, he ordered the armament to be reorganized and the border defense strengthened.

On the one hand, he also ordered all counties in Henan to be strictly vigilant and vigilant, so that the officers and soldiers of each county could stick to the city and not easily go out of the city to fight.

At the same time, the two also sent scouts to scout horses, reconnoiter from all sides, and pay close attention to the movements of the rebels.

Pei Hongce returned to the Tiger Prison with dozens of defeated horses.

When he left, he was entangled and angry, but when he came back, he was immediately like a defeated rooster. As soon as he returned to the Tiger Prison Pass, he immediately wanted to pass through the pass and return to Luoyang.

Zhang Xutuo sent someone to stop him.

"According to the order of the arrest of Ambassador Zhang, from now on, all government soldiers, county soldiers, and village soldiers will be temporarily conscripted to participate in the suppression of the rebellion. Pei Juncheng, you and your subordinates have been urgently called up and cannot leave. ”

Pei Hongce was furious.

"Lao Tzu is a counterinsurgency general left behind in the Eastern Capital, and now he wants to return to the Eastern Capital to resume his life, who dares to stop me?"

"I'm sorry, this is Ambassador Pei's military order, and all the twelve counties in Henan must obey the order."

"Lao Tzu is leaving."

"It's wartime, this is a military order, and those who disobey the military order can be engaged in military law, beheaded!"

As soon as the words came out, dozens of soldiers guarding the gate surrounded them with spears.

Pei Hongce still shouted out of the way.

Until Jia Wuben arrived with a team of personal soldiers.

"Take it for me!" Jia Wuben's position is far inferior to Pei Hongce, but it is Zhang Xutuo's personal guard general, and he will not take care of Pei Hongce's official position.

"Presumptuous!" Pei Hongce was furious.

But where would Jia Wuben care, he went up and kicked him to the ground directly.

"A county gentleman, how great do you really think you are? Before, the two ambassadors Zhang Pei asked you not to take the enemy lightly, but what about you? It's good now, I've lost the battle, I've lost all the soldiers and horses, and I want to escape? ”

"Tie him up for me and escort him to Zhang Shuai to listen to Hou Fa's whereabouts."

A group of soldiers stepped forward and arrested Pei Hongce, who had been kicked and chewed, tied up all kinds of flowers, and escorted him to Zhang Xutuo.

Taishou Mansion.

Zhang Xutuo stared at Pei Hongce with an ugly face.

"Eight thousand elites in the Eastern Capital, and you lost them all?"

"The generals don't listen to orders." Pei Hongce made excuses for his failure.

"The generals don't listen to the command? A main general, who lost all his 8,000 soldiers and horses in one day, and was defeated by 2,000 thieves, now still has the face to flee back alone? When you come back, you still refuse to participate in the defense of the thieves in Xingyang, what about your courage and your duties? ”

"I want to go back to the Eastern Capital to die!"

"Bastard, you are now in Xingyang, so you need to listen to the military order of me, the ambassador of the twelve counties of Henan, why do you want to come and leave as you want?"

"Disobey the military order, ignore the law and discipline, come to someone, push this person out for me, behead him, hang his head above Xingyang Guancheng to show the public, and warn the soldiers! Anyone who dares to escape from the battle, and anyone who dares to surrender to thieves, will be beheaded! ”

Zhang Xutuo gave an order, and immediately came up with several personal soldiers, and no matter how Pei Hongce scolded angrily, he dragged him down like a dead dog.

After a moment, Pei Hongce's head came up.

Bae In-ki remained silent.

"Pei Gong, now the thieves are powerful and arrogant, and the people of Henan are panicking, this Pei Hongce disturbs the hearts of our army and lowers my morale, and it is not enough to stabilize the morale of the army if he does not kill."

"Understand, but it doesn't hurt to kill, the above really wants to investigate, and a certain and Zhang Gong will bear it together."

Pei Renji smiled bitterly, "I never thought that this Pei Hongce was so incompetent, and the eight thousand elites were wiped out in one fell swoop." ”

"The biggest headache is still those children of the nobles and nobles, all of whom have fallen into thieves, but I'm afraid that we won't be able to escape by then." Zhang Xutuo sighed.

"Who would have thought that Yang Xuangan would actually rebel." Pei Renji didn't dare to think about it before.

"Report!"

Yang Xuangan led 100,000 thieves to camp twenty miles outside the pass, and also sent Yang Gongdao, Wei Fusi and others to persuade him to surrender.

Hearing this, the two couldn't help but look at each other even more.

"Who else has come to persuade him to surrender?"

The person reported his name, but all of them were the famous second generation of Kyoto, everyone was a wealthy family, and these people actually surrendered to thieves after defeat?

"Muddy tent, insult the ancestors." Bae In-gi scolded.

Zhang Xutuo only shook his head, "Maybe they are also helpless, after all, they were defeated and captured, just don't worry about them." ”

"Send someone to Luoyang to report it."

Wei Fusi and more than 40 other nobles persuaded them to surrender under the Tiger Prison for a long time, but no one paid a word to them.

Over there, Yang Xuanting said to the eldest brother, "Brother, there are few of these people who are sincere. ”

"I don't know, but what's the matter if they're really not sincere, at least they are now on our side, Xingyang Pass, Luoyang City, everyone knows that they are on our side, and countless people have also seen many famous nobles standing on our side, what is this? This is public opinion, and it is the guidance. When we succeed in the future, they will naturally turn to us completely. ”

"But if we lose, they'll bite us too."

Yang Xuangan didn't care.

"If he really loses, then what if he is flooded, a manly man, if he doesn't fight, how can he be right. At the beginning, my father was forced to die of illness because he didn't dare to take medicine, and I couldn't do it, even if I wanted to die, I had to fight back and die. ”

This is what Yang Xuangan didn't understand his father the most, in his opinion, his father was very good at being a martial artist, and he was incomparable. But such a powerful person, because of Yang Guang's words, he refused to even take the medicine, and let himself die of illness, which is too wretched.

"Report!"

"Overlord, there is a person outside the camp who claims to be Li Zixiong to vote, saying that he is an old friend of the general."

"Li Zixiong? Please! ”

As soon as he heard that Li Zixiong was coming, Yang Xuan was overjoyed.

"No, I'll meet it myself."

Yang Xuangan personally rushed to the outside of the camp, "Uncle Shi! ”

Li Zixiong came from Bohai County, he was the grandson of Li Boben, a doctor in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the son of Li Taozhi, the assassin of Yizhou in the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

Speaking of this Li Zixiong is also a character, when he was young, he had a bold personality and great ambitions, and when he became an adult, he followed the army to pacify the Northern Qi Dynasty, and was appointed as the governor of the Shuai Du for his merits, and later participated in the rebellion of the pacification of Wei Chi Yuan. After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, he served as a hussar general, and in the ninth year of the emperor's reign, he also participated in the pacification of the Chen State, and was promoted to the general for his merits.

Waiting for Yang Guang to succeed to the throne, Yang Liang rebelled, and he followed Yang Su to conquest, for the general, Lianzhou Assassin History, and later he was promoted to the governor of Youzhou for his meritorious service in quelling the chaos, and then returned to the dynasty to serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

It's just that Yang Zixiong doesn't have a good mouth, and he often says the wrong thing, just because he says the wrong thing because of his bad mouth, he has three ups and downs in his life.

All three times he was removed from his post as a citizen.