May is a beautiful time to visit and the weather is good. March and April are warm and cold, and June and July are too hot to go out, when wildflowers bloom everywhere and weeping willows on the roadside are at their most pleasant. This year's year in the Great Sui is better than last year's, and although the sides of the official road still look like a barren grassland, the ambitious leaders of the rebel army have changed their tactics from plundering to raising the people. For example, Dou Jiande in Gaojibo, Hebei, Li Xian in Juyeze in Dongping County, and Zhai Rang in Wagangzhai in Dongjun County, the people in these places are living quite well, at least the people have fields and homes, and they will not easily live a wandering life. Moreover, in the places controlled by the rebels, the taxes collected were lower than those set by the government, so they could also attract many displaced people to settle down. The cycle of killing people and taking things has come to an end in these places, and the cycle of using fields to attract people and people to land has begun. In fact, the people's requirements are extremely low, they can eat well, wear warm clothes, have a house to live in, and do not break up their wives, these things seem to be no requirements at all, just the basic conditions for survival, but even so, since Wang Bo took the lead in the rebellion in the sixth year of the Great Cause, and now in the past five years, many people in the north of the Great Sui have no basic conditions for survival. There are rebellions everywhere, killings everywhere. In the beginning, the rebels had no base, and wherever they went, they grabbed it like a locust crossing the border, and there was nothing left. The people were robbed of their money, food, and even wives and daughters, and they had no way to live, so they either picked up hoes and the so-called rebel army and fought hard, or they joined the rebel army and became one of them, and then they could harm other people in the next village and town, and rob other people's food, wives and children. But this is not a long-term solution after all, such as knowing Shilang Wang Bo, grabbing money and grain, where his team passed was like a tornado, digging three feet into the ground, there was not a single grain of grain left, and none of the women could run, but his team was getting smaller and smaller, in addition to the factors that were repeatedly defeated by Zhang Xutuo and Yan Yunzhai, the most fundamental thing was that he didn't know how to raise the people. Jibei County has been robbed by him, even if he uses a rake to hug back and forth, he can no longer hold anything, and the team has no harvest, so it can only go downhill day by day. Therefore, the originally high-spirited Zhishilang is now living a hard and tight life, although he still occupies Jibei County, but he can't even get together 20,000 horses. So when he heard that Yanyunzhai rode five thousand horses into Jibei County, Wang Bo's first reaction was to be furious, and his second reaction was to flee quickly. Today's Jibei Army has long lost the strength of the people of Yanyunzhai. Wang Bo ran fast, only took a few concubines and sons, and took more than a thousand cronies into the dense forest without coming out, and told the people below that he was going to hunt and play, but in fact, who didn't know that he was frightened by the cavalry of Yanyunzhai and made a turtle with a shrunken head. This is the gap in life, two years ago, Wang Bo crisscrossed both sides of the Yellow River, Mo said that he did not put the little-known Yanyunzhai Li Xian in his eyes, and he even did not put Zhang Xutuo in his eyes with 100,000 male soldiers. But it turns out that the people he didn't care about hit him in the face one after another, and it hurt and hurt. Eat a trench and grow a wisdom, Wang Bo is now adhering to the concept of ten words. If you can afford to provoke, you will fight, and if you can't provoke, you will run. The cross mantra, the golden rule. Fortunately, the five thousand elite cavalry from Yanyunzhai didn't seem to plan to get along with the Jibei Army, and I don't know if people no longer put the Jibei Army in their eyes, or if they were in a hurry to do something, in short, they passed through Jibei County safely and soundly, and they didn't tease the already thin fighting spirit of the soldiers of the Jibei Army. As soon as Yanyunzhai rode away, Wang Bo immediately took his cronies out of the dense forest and returned to his lair. One of his strategists smelled a good opportunity to pat on the back, and said that Yanyunzhai deceived people too much, and came here to show off his might when my big boss was not at home, but in fact they were all cowardly scum like a mouse, and my big boss returned from hunting, so the so-called elite riders of Yanyunzhai didn't flee in disgrace? Wang Bo raised his hand to reward him with a big mouth and praised a word. Get lost! On the fourth day of the first month of May, Yanyunzhai elite cavalry entered Jibei County, on the eighth day of May, the army has crossed the Yellow River, and then, it magically disappeared in people's sight, both sides of the Yellow River pay attention to the green forest heroes of this team, no one knows, where did the cavalry of Yanyunzhai go overnight. It's just that since the eighth day of the fifth month, I don't know why there are many more big ships carrying grain on the Yellow River, and they don't sail, so they stop near the ferry to rest. Some people were curious to inquire, it turned out that the official ship that sent grain from Liyang to Liaodong, after returning from Liaodong, because the front waterway was blocked by the righteous army besieging the eastern capital of Pushan Gong, they could not return to Liyang Cang, and the officials who led the team had already gone to ask the imperial court sailors to escort them, so these grain ships could only be parked here. Because they are all empty ships, and there are dozens of Huanglong clippers of the imperial court sailors in the fleet, the general rebels do not dare to make up their minds, and the most important thing is that most of the green forest men and horses on both sides of the Yellow River have gone to besiege the eastern capital Luoyang. ………… Emperor Yang Guang was trapped in Yanmen Pass, and it can be said that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the rebels. It seems to be a normal thing to take advantage of the fact that all the people of the imperial court are rushing to the north to develop their forces and expand their territory. However, what is somewhat unexpected is that except for Pushan Gong Li Mi who gathered 200,000 troops with the intention of breaking through the eastern capital, he no longer saw a righteous army come out to make trouble. The most surprising thing is that the officers and soldiers who rushed to Yanmen Pass from all walks of life trembled all the way, and were ready to fight with the righteous army at any time, but none of the righteous troops came out to make trouble, which made people feel a little delusional that the world had become peaceful in an instant. A county commander rushed to Yanmen Pass with hundreds of people he gathered, intending to serve the country loyally, even if this life died on the battlefield, he had to be worthy of the official uniform on his body, and he had to be worthy of the conscience of a Sui people. The people under his command are all from the common people, and when they heard that the emperor was surrounded by Turkic barbarians, they were angry and indignant, so they followed the county order to save His Majesty the emperor, and they even thought that maybe they would not even be able to reach Yanmen Pass and be intercepted by the rebels along the way, these hundreds of people are not enough for those rebels to plug their teeth. When they passed under a large mountain carrying the banner and were surrounded by thousands of rebels, the rebel leader asked what they were going to do, and the county commander, who was nearly sixty years old, held his head high and said six words. Kill the barbarians and save the emperor. The leader of the rebel army immediately ordered the road to be cleared, and gathered hundreds of sets of leather armor and weapons and some grain and grass to give to the county commander. When the rebel leader handed these things over to the county commander, he hugged his fists and said: "Kill a few more Turkic cubs for me, I turned against the Great Sui and looked down on the foolish emperor, and I have also killed a lot of corrupt officials in the past two years, so it is not good to go to Yanmen Pass, but Lao Tzu is still a Han and can't do anything that is sorry for his ancestors." No matter how confused the emperor is, he is no longer a thing, and he is also a person from our Central Plains, and it is not the turn of those ungrateful Turks to teach a lesson. He looked at the county order and said sincerely: "Go all the way, if you unfortunately die at the border, Lao Tzu will set up a tablet for you, incense, candles, paper money, all are indispensable." This is unlucky, and it is not pleasing to the ear, but the county order was still moved, as a Qing official and a loyal person, he hugged his fist with a thief for the first time and said thank you. The leader of the rebels stood on the mountainside and watched the group of hundreds of people leave, and suddenly a sadness arose in his heart. He remembered that at the beginning of the emperor's ascension to the throne, the Turks were beaten and cried for their fathers and mothers, not to mention going south, and they would tremble with fright when they mentioned the soldiers of the Great Sui Mansion. It's only been a few years, and the emperor has been trapped by others, how can it not be embarrassing? Among the officers and troops rushing to Yanmen Pass, there was a team that looked a little different.

This team of less than 5,000 people set out from Jiangdu to the north, and when they set off, the news that the emperor was trapped in Yanmen Pass had not yet spread. It was only when they crossed the Yishui that they heard about it. The reason why they were different was that the procession, which was still hurrying up, slowed down when they heard that the emperor was trapped, and even seemed to be deliberately delaying, passing through every county and county, and then the big man in the army would visit the local officials. Naturally, this big man is none other than Long Tingwei.