A team of cavalry rushed from the official road in the south of Qiaoxian County, led by a veteran, it was Laihu'er, they ran to the barracks and turned over and dismounted, and the officer on duty hurriedly came out to salute, "The old general has worked hard all the way!" ”

Laihu'er threw the reins of the war horse to the soldiers, and asked with a smile, "Is the marshal here?" ”

"Dashuai is here, he just arrived today!"

Laihu'er walked quickly towards the camp, and he was also very excited in his heart, the long-awaited moment had finally arrived, and they were finally going to make a move on Du Fuwei.

Du Fuwei is the biggest threat to Jiangdu, especially to the recovery of Jiangdu's people's livelihood has a major obstacle, many people think that Yu Wenhua and the Wagang army were wiped out, the canal will be restored to smooth, and Jiangdu's commerce will gradually return to its former prosperity, but Du Fuwei once again cut off the canal shipping, looted a lot of goods and ships, and caused a group of merchants who were eager to ship to suffer heavy losses.

The merchant's cry made Lai Hu'er extremely annoyed, and the complete elimination of Du Fuwei became something he thought about day and night, and this day finally came.

Laihu'er strode to the front of the big tent of the Chinese army, the front of the big tent of the Chinese army was heavily guarded, and it was full of soldiers, showing that the big tent was discussing major military and political affairs. ”

Laihu'er tidied up the armor a little, and then walked into the big tent, only to see a huge sand table in the middle of the big tent, about three zhang long, two zhang wide, and the two sides were full of generals and civil officials, surrounding the sand table.

Zhang Xuan stood in front of the sand table, holding a long wooden pole, he saw Laihu'er come in, and said with a smile: "We have been waiting for the old general for a long time. ”

Lai Hu'er hurriedly stepped forward and clasped his fists and saluted, "See the big handsome!" ”

"The old general doesn't have to be polite!"

Zhang Xuan looked behind him and asked, "Didn't Li Changshi come?" ”

"Back to the big handsome, Li Changshi really can't leave, please forgive the big handsome!"

"Since he's busy, forget it."

Zhang Xuan smiled, and invited Hu'er to stand in front of the sand table, the navy army of Laihu'er will be one of the main forces to attack Du Fuwei this time, for this reason, Zhang Xuan did not hesitate to call Hu'er from Jiangdu in the future.

Laihuer looked at the sand table, he recognized at a glance that this was the sand table of Jianghuai and Jiangnan, maybe the height of the mountain is a little inaccurate, but the city, roads, Yangtze River, rivers, bridges and other terrain and scenery are readily available, very vividly showing the whole picture of Jianghuai and Jiangnan, sure enough, the weapon of war planning, so that Laihuer secretly praised in his heart.

"Now that the old general has arrived, then I will briefly repeat the previous strategic plan."

Zhang Xuan pointed to the Yangtze River on the sand table with a wooden pole, and said to everyone in a strong and low tone: "First of all, the scope of this battle ends at the Yangtze River in the south and reaches the county in the north, mainly to completely destroy Du Fuwei, and may involve Lin Shihong and Jiangnanhui, but they are not the point; Secondly, we invested about 80,000 troops, including 30,000 sailors, 10,000 cavalry, and 40,000 infantry, while we faced about 130,000 enemy troops, and although we were at a disadvantage in numbers, I think 80,000 troops were sufficient; Thirdly, we have invested 150,000 stone in the food of this campaign, which is almost two stones for a soldier, that is to say, we must completely destroy Du Fuwei within three months, which is a kind of pressure on us, and I personally do not want this battle to be protracted; Fourth, because it involves the coordinated operation of the navy, cavalry, and infantry, this battle is under my unified command; Fourth, we have two important logistics places, one in Qiaoxian and one in Jiangdu; Fifth"

Lai Hu'er only stayed in the camp of Qiaoxian County for an hour and was about to rush back to Jiangdu, Zhang Xuan sent him out of the camp, and Lai Hu'er asked, "Is Dashuai going to Jiangdu next?" ”

According to Zhang Xuan's previous plan, he should have gone to Jiangdu to inspect a long time ago, but a series of accidents changed Zhang Xuan's plan, and Lai Hu'er still hoped that Zhang Xuan would make the trip as soon as possible.

Zhang Xuan smiled and said: "I want to go to Jiangdu, I am still waiting for news from Zhongdu, Chang'an should send someone to negotiate in Zhongdu, solve the matter of merging states, and I will go to Jiangdu, but the old general does not have to wait for me, according to the plan we just agreed, as soon as possible, we will carry out the clearing of the river." ”

"Your Highness, rest assured, you will deploy when you go back."

The two walked out of the camp gate, and the soldiers who came to Hu'er were already waiting outside the camp gate, and Laihu'er turned over his horse, hugged his fists and said, "What else does the marshal command?" ”

Zhang Xuan said with a smile: "I have said everything that should be said, but I still need to remind me again, pay attention to Lin Shihong, once he has any changes in the Yangtze River, he will strike mercilessly, and do not give him any luck." ”

"Humble and understand, please take care!"

Zhang Xuan nodded, "We'll see you in Jiangdu!" ”

Laihu'er hugged his fists and saluted, turned his horse's head and galloped on his horse, and his own soldiers followed, and a group of cavalry galloped away in the southeast direction.

Zhang Xuan kept watching them walk away, and then turned around and walked towards the camp, he needed to write a letter to Su Wei and Pei Ju to clarify their attitude towards negotiations with Chang'an

The continuous operations of the Sui army in Xuzhou and the Central Plains did not affect the development of Zhongdu, on the contrary, Zhongdu was not affected by the war at all and became more and more prosperous.

About ten miles east of the capital of the newly built Anyang new county is also preliminarily completed, the circumference of the county is about 30 miles, will accommodate more than 200,000 people, here will be the commercial concentration place, the west of the capital is located in the west of the new county seat, occupies the area of the county seat of three, in addition, from Luoyang to move 20,000 artisan households will also settle in Anyang new county and Ye county.

Anyang County will become the industrial and commercial center of the Northern Sui, the big businessmen from all over the world have heard the news, buy land and open shops in Anyang New County, a shop quickly rises in the county, the straight road connecting Zhongdu and Anyang New County has also been built, the straight road is as wide as five zhang, the road is very smooth, and ten carriages can go hand in hand at the same time.

If Xin'anyang is mainly a prosperous situation formed by a large number of industrial and commercial households, then the prosperity of Zhongdu is another scene, and it is the style of wealthy families to get as close to the center of power as possible from ancient times to the present.

With the end of the campaign to conquer Goguryeo, Zhang Xuan's personal prestige was in full swing in the world, especially in the battle for the Central Plains, the Sui army captured Hedong City and Pujin Pass by surprise, seriously threatening the safety of Guanzhong, and the Tang army was forced to withdraw from the Central Plains.

Driven by this consciousness, the upsurge of buying land and building houses in Zhongdu has risen again, and wealthy families all over the world hope to have a family house in the center of power, and the land price in Zhongdu has skyrocketed again, and many shrewd civilians have taken advantage of the situation to sell their houses in Zhongdu and go to Anyang New County to buy land and houses, so that they are not far from Zhongdu, but the difference in land price between the two is enough for them to buy hundreds of acres of farmland.

But the wealthy families don't care about the hundreds of acres of farmland, they don't look down on Anyang New County, which is a place where merchants live, which does not fit their identity, they want to be close to the center of power.

It is this kind of land conversion that has turned Zhongdu into a large construction site, full of old houses demolished in patches of cities, new houses rising from the ground, accents from all over the world can be heard everywhere on the streets of Zhongdu, and the rapid increase in the wealthy population has directly promoted the prosperity of Zhongdu.

On this morning, a team of envoys from Chang'an walked into the south gate of the capital, and the first envoy was Wen Daya, the squire of the Yellow Gate, who came to the capital to discuss the solution to the crisis in the state by the will of Li Yuan, the son of heaven, and the minister of the Northern Sui who greeted him outside the city was Cui Junsu, the secretary of the Honglu Temple, Cui Junsu accompanied Wen Daya to the Ziwei Palace slowly, while walking, while explaining the scenery of the capital.

"That's the Treasure Tower of Huayan Temple!"

Cui Junsu pointed to a tall white pagoda not far away and said: "The tower is nine zhang high, a total of thirteen floors, because the whole body is white, the people of Zhongdu call it the white tower, it is currently the tallest building in our capital, one zhang more than the end tower of Ziwei Palace, of course, the importance of the pagoda can not be compared with the end tower." ”

Cui Junsu pointed to the shadow of a faintly visible city tower in the northernmost part and said with a smile: "That's the end tower, we will see it soon." ”

Wen Daya just responded casually, he seemed very absent-minded, in fact, he sent an envoy to Zhongdu this time, and the burden on his shoulders was extremely heavy, and the saint asked the Sui army to withdraw from the state, but could Zhongdu agree?

His only basis is the armistice agreement signed by the two sides last year, but if Zhang Xuan really values this agreement, he will not raid and annex the state, which shows that in Zhang Xuan's heart, this agreement has no practical significance.

"I wonder when His Royal Highness the Regent will return?" Wen Daya asked cautiously.

This is the key, if there is no Zhang Xuan's nod, neither Su Wei nor Pei Ju will be just mud bodhisattvas in the temple.

Cui Junsu didn't answer Wen Daya directly, but just smiled lightly: "I don't know this matter very well, Wen Shilang can ask Su Xiangguo or Pei Xiangguo later." (To be continued.) )