Du Fuwei set up countless eyeliner in Jiangdu, when the Sui army sent troops, he soon received a flying pigeon message, and immediately expected that the Sui army would continue to fight himself, when the Sui army cavalry passed Liuhe County, Du Fuwei received a second pigeon letter, combined with the Sui army's big ship into the river, he was finally able to determine the target of the Sui army's attack, it must be Liyang County.

In order to give the Sui army a blow to the head, Du Fuwei personally led the army to lay an ambush under the Taoye Mountain, but unfortunately the post was not effective, and did not introduce all the Sui cavalry into the ambush circle, so that his results were not obvious, and only annihilated a hundred Sui cavalry who took water.

Du Fuwei looked into the distance fiercely, and after a long time, he viciously ordered: "The whole army retreats north and goes to Zhongli County!" ”

The 10,000-strong army turned around and left Taoba Mountain and withdrew to Zhongli County in the north

Three days later, the Sui fleet arrived at Liyang County, the south bank of the Yangtze River is Jiangning County of Danyang County, and the north bank of the Yangtze River is the target of their expedition.

Fang Xuanling hurriedly came to Zhang Xuan's cabin, and he asked the soldiers at the door in a low voice, "How is the general?" ”

Last night they received an urgent report from Pei Xingyan, the cavalry was ambushed in Taoye Mountain, and 97 cavalry people were killed, and Chen Xu, a cavalry general who had always been loyal to Zhang Xuan, was unfortunately killed in the ambush, which hit Zhang Xuan very hard, and everyone did not dare to persuade him, so they could only wait for him to calm down.

The pro-soldier whispered: "It's okay, it's back to normal." ”

At this time, Zhang Xuan's voice came from the cabin, "Is it a military advisor?" Come in! ”

"It's a lowly position!"

Fang Xuanling walked into the cabin, only to see Zhang Xuan sitting at a small table looking at a map, Fang Xuanling deduced from the outline of the map that Zhang Xuan was looking at the topographic map of Liyang County.

"Is there anything wrong with the military advisor?" Jang Hyun put away the map and asked with a smile.

Although the death of Chen Xu and his cavalry brothers dealt him a heavy blow, Zhang Xuan was the commander who was killed on the bloody battlefield after all, and he didn't take life and death seriously. He has returned to normalcy.

"General, the scout has brought the latest information, and is now waiting outside."

"Take the scouts to the military chamber!"

After a short time, a scout walked quickly into the military cabin, stepped forward and reported to Zhang Xuanyu on one knee: "General Qiyu, we have found the nest of the thief army located at the southern foot of Liuhe Mountain. But now only a ruin destroyed by the fire remains, the thieves have evacuated, and all the food they can't take with them has been burned. ”

This result was expected by Zhang Xuan, since Du Fuwei ambushed the Sui cavalry, it means that they already knew that they were coming, and they either actively prepared for war or retreated, it seems that Du Fuwei chose the latter.

Although Zhang Xuan expected that Du Fuwei might withdraw, when the news really came. Jao Hyun still felt extremely angry in his heart, which meant that he could not avenge his dead brother for the time being, and his face was very gloomy and ugly.

The generals in the military cabin looked at each other, they were still a step late, Du Fuwei actually knew that the Sui army had arrived and withdrew in advance, what should they do next?

At this time, Zhang Xuan coldly ordered: "The fleet continues to move south. Go to Liyang County! ”

Pei Hong, who joined the army next to him, persuaded: "I'm afraid that the thief army on the side of Luozhu Mountain has also retreated." ”

Zhang Xuan snorted, "I'm not going to fight thieves. I'm going to visit Liyang Taishou to see what he can give me? ”

Fang Xuanling sighed secretly, he understood Zhang Xuan's intentions, if Zhang Xuan decided to attack the Jianghuai Mansion, I am afraid that he would accept the Jiangnan Shi clan and oppose the Jianghuai Shi clan

Liyang County is the county seat of Liyang County. That is, today's Anhui Hexian is a large county located on the north bank of the Yangtze River, with a population of nearly 200,000, especially the mining industry is developed, because Liyang is also an important iron ore and copper ore mining area in the Great Sui. There are more than 18,000 miners living in Liyang County, and together with their families, there are as many as 70,000 or 80,000 people living on iron ore in Liyang County.

Since Liyang County is close to Jiangdu in the north, close to the Yangtze River, and across the river from Jiangning County, Liyang County has become the core ruling place of Du Fuwei, and Liyang County has also become Du Fuwei's capital to some extent.

Although Du Fuwei was across the Jianghuai, he was not the same as the bandits in Qingzhou and Hebei, he did not defend the city, and the troops were scattered all over the Jianghuai, Liyang County was still nominally a county of the Sui Dynasty, and Taishou also submitted a report to the Ministry of Officials every year.

Liyang County Taishou is called Jiang Xiaobo, a native of Lujiang County, who was transferred from Zhongli County to serve as Liyang Taishou in the seventh year of Daye, and more than four years have passed so far.

At this time, Jiang Xiaobo led dozens of officials to greet Zhang Xuan's arrival on the Liyang wharf, the Sui army warship had slowly docked, and groups of soldiers rushed down from the boat to guard around the wharf.

Zhang Xuan, who was wearing armor, led a group of generals to walk off the boat quickly, Jiang Xiaobo and other officials hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, "Xiaguan Liyang is too guarded by Jiang Xiaobo to recruit General Zhang!" ”

Zhang Xuan waved his hand, "Take it for me!" ”

Several soldiers rushed forward and controlled Jiang Xiaobo, all the officials were immediately shocked, knelt down together, Jiang Xiaobo shouted, "The lower officials are not guilty!" ”

"Not guilty?"

Zhang Xuan snorted heavily, "Du Fuwei's lair is less than twenty miles away from your county office, how dare you say that you are not guilty?" ”

"Although the lower officials know where Du Fuwei's military camp is, there is no way, there are no soldiers in the county, how can I pay the bandits? In order to protect the civilians of a county, we have no choice but to be safe with Du Fuwei, which is really a helpless move! ”

"Go and plead your case to the court! Who is Juncheng? ”

An official stepped forward tremblingly, "Xiaguan County Cheng Yang Li, see General Zhang!" ”

Zhang Xuan said coldly: "From now on, you will temporarily take over the post of Taishou, write me a detailed report on the bandits in Liyang County, and hand it over to me before noon tomorrow." ”

Yang Li didn't know what to do, so he had to reluctantly agree: "The lower official obeys the order!" ”

Zhang Xuan raised his voice and reprimanded the other officials: "I believe that all of you have something to do with Du Fuwei to a greater or lesser extent, but I don't want to pursue it for the time being, I warn you, whoever dares to fornicate with the bandits again, I will not only let him be ruined, but at the same time, I will not tolerate it!" ”

The officials were frightened, Zhang Xuan opened their bottoms, all of them had a relationship with Du Fuwei, and some even served as Du Fuwei's army and chief bookkeeper at the same time, to some extent, they were Du Fuwei's civilian officials, this was their secret, but they hoped that Zhang Xuan did not know this secret, but now Zhang Xuan exposed them, but he actually did not arrest them, which made them frightened at the same time, and secretly relieved.

Everyone replied at the same time, "We don't dare!" ”

"Only you know if you dare or not!"

Zhang Xuan stopped talking to them and waved his hand, "The army is entering the city!" ”

Two thousand defenders guarded the ships at the docks, and the remaining eight thousand troops followed Zhang Xuan into the county seat of Liyang, where they needed to rest for two days before returning to Jiangdu.

At night, a crescent moon hangs in the deep blue night sky, and the silver moonlight sprinkles the mountains and city walls in the distance, the night is as cool as water, and the field under the night is exceptionally silent.

The gates of Liyang County were closed, and hundreds of Sui soldiers patrolled back and forth on the city, vigilantly monitoring the movements outside the city.

At this moment, at the corner of the northern city wall, several broken bricks were opened, and a thin black figure emerged from the hole like a large weasel, he was clearly a man, and his movements were very agile, he swam across the moat, jumped into a ditch, and bent down to the northern woods.

About ten miles away from Liyang County, there is a forest more than ten miles long, which has been connected with Luozhu Mountain in the northwest.

Du Fuwei stood on a big rock, his eyes looked coldly at Liyang City in the distance, he immediately led the army to withdraw in the direction of Zhongli County after ambushing the Sui cavalry, but that was just confusing the Sui army scouts, they actually bypassed the northern foot of Liuhe Mountain, and returned to Liyang County, Liyang County is Du Fuwei's lair, how could he give it to the Sui army? He was retreating, looking for an opportunity to attack the Sui army.

The Sui army actually came by boat, which meant that he had a chance, but he now urgently needed to get detailed information from the Sui army before he could decide his next move.

At this time, a soldier stepped forward and reported: "My lord, someone has come to the city." ”

"Bring him up!" Du Fuwei perked up, and the person he was waiting for finally came. (To be continued.) )