For two days in a row, Zhang Xutuo always avoided fighting, Wang Bo's army ran out of food, and the camps began to be noisy. ()

In the big tent, Wang Bo was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back, and he pursued Zhang Xutuo's army in turn, but Zhang Xutuo's army just avoided him, and always kept a distance of twenty miles from him, like a very patient wild wolf, waiting for the wounded ox to finally fall.

"General, the grain team is back!"

Wang Bo was in good spirits and hurried out, he sent twenty grain teams to plunder the grain, but the surrounding villages were uninhabited, the fields were bare, there was not a single grain, and now he was counting on these grain teams to grab a little grain.

Meng Rang also followed behind him, his heart was heavy, and only then did he have an indescribable regret in his heart, the wheat fields were uncultivated, wasn't it the result of their plundering everywhere?

He rebelled in order to save the people from fire and water, but in fact, it was their existence that made the fertile land barren and thousands of miles of barren, which was completely different from what he had thought at the beginning, but at this time, it was useless for him to regret it, he embarked on this road, and there was no possibility of turning back.

Thousands of soldiers dodged out of the way, hundreds of wet soldiers carried dozens of large baskets and walked over, Wang Bo stepped forward, and saw that the baskets were full of fresh fish, and there were more than a dozen baskets of green and unripe mountain fruits, he was stunned, "This... This is the grain? ”

The grain leader smiled bitterly: "There are no people within a hundred miles, so we had to cut off a small river for fishing, and found a fruit forest, only these things." ”

Wang Bo was so angry that he stepped forward and kicked the basket over, and the fruit was scattered all over the ground, and he shouted, "Everyone drink the northwest wind!" Lao Tzu doesn't care. ”

He turned and hurried towards the tent, and as soon as he left, thousands of soldiers rushed up all around, scrambling for fresh fish and fruit, and it was a blessing to have fish to eat.

Meng Rang followed Wang Bo into the big tent and said: "Big brother can't go on like this, Zhang Xutuo obviously wants us to collapse by ourselves." (，)”

"I know, but if he doesn't fight, what can I do?" Wang Bo squatted on the ground and tore his hair desperately.

Meng Rang thought for a moment, "I have a way, he will definitely appear." ”

Wang Bo was overjoyed, and said in a loud voice: "Say it quickly, what way?" ”

"If we go to Tingshan County, he will definitely not be at ease, and he will definitely come forward to fight."

Wang Bo gave himself a mouth and scolded: "Why am I so stupid!" We can't take Licheng County, but Tingshan County is a small county seat, and of course we can take it with more than 30,000 people. ”

He shouted, "Order the army, march to Tingshan County!" ”

Tingshan County is twenty miles away in the southeast direction, you need to bypass a big mountain, the big mountain is called ** mountain, Tingshan County is located in the south of Jishan.

More than 30,000 thieves turned around and marched south, all the way, at this time Wang Bo was already anxious, his soldiers did not even have lunch, if he did not find food, his army would completely collapse.

After passing through a mountain forest, the outline of the county seat was already seen in the distance, and the county seat was a few miles away, Wang Bo shouted excitedly: "Brothers, take the county seat, we will eat and drink spicy food!" ”

The 30,000 bandits cheered up their spirits and ran towards the county seat with their last strength, but at this time, Meng Rang was looking at the surrounding situation, there were mountains and forests on both sides, overgrown with weeds, and dense woods, which was an excellent place to set up an ambush, Meng Rang felt a little uneasy in his heart, and he shouted: "Speed up, pay attention to both sides!" ”

As soon as the words fell, only to hear the sound of a bang, thousands of arrows in the mountains and forests on both sides, the thieves were caught off guard, a miserable scream remembered, hundreds of people were shot over, and the fear in their hearts made the thieves confused, scrambling to flee.

"There is an ambush! Zhang Xutuo is here! ”

The shouts of fear were hysterical and resounded through the official road, but Meng Rang found that there were not many ambush soldiers, only a few hundred at most, he drew his knife and hacked a few people to death, shouting: "Don't panic, line up!" ”

But there was no effect, the thieves ran out of food, the morale of the army was sluggish, and they had a deep fear of Zhang Xutuo in their hearts, and the ambush at this time was like the first domino that fell, so that Wang Bo's army collapsed instantly, and the thieves trampled on each other, scrambling for their lives.....

At this time, just two miles in front of the thief army, Zhang Xutuo led a thousand cavalry and 2,500 Sui troops had been waiting for a long time, and he looked at the thief soldiers in front of him who were fleeing like the Yellow River bursting embankment, and a grim smile appeared on his face. (，)

With a wave of his sword, he shouted: "The whole army will attack and defeat the thief army!" ”

The three thousand five hundred Sui troops were overwhelming, their armor shining, their swords and spears sharp, and their murderous aura was fierce, and the army instantly slaughtered into the chaotic thief army.....

Wang Bo's army morale was low, the first battle was defeated, the 35,000 army was defeated, the dead bodies were all over the field, the blood flowed like a river, there were countless surrenderers, the battle of Tingshan County, Zhang Xutuo's army annihilated 15,000 enemies, captured 8,000 enemies, Wang Bo and Meng Rang led more than 10,000 remnants of the army to flee to the south in panic.

Zhang Xutuo left a thousand people to deal with prisoners of war, he led 3,000 troops to chase closely, three days later, at the foot of Daishan Mountain, Wang Bo's army was defeated again, Wang Bo's army was annihilated, Meng Rang fled to the south with more than 100 people, and Wang Bo fled to Jibei County with more than 300 henchmen, from there crossed the Yellow River to the north, and went to Douzigang.

So far, the bandits of Changbai Mountain were all exterminated by Zhang Xutuo, Zhang Xutuo opened a warehouse again under the supervision of the imperial history to release grain, persuaded the people to return to their hometowns to farm, and waited for the autumn harvest, and the bandits in Qi County gradually subsided.

The time gradually came to August of the seventh year of the Great Cause, the heat subsided, and there was a hint of coolness in the morning and evening, and the thick green earth had a hint of yellowish hue, announcing that autumn had quietly come.

On this morning, on the official road east of Luoyang, a team of entourages surrounded a carriage in the direction of the capital, and the rolling yellow dust brought up by the carriage and horses showed the anxious heart of the car owner.

In the carriage, sitting on Yang Xuangan, who had just returned from Zhuo County, he went to Jiangdu with Yang Guang to inspect at the end of last year, and went directly north to Zhuo County in February this year, and had been away from Beijing for nine months, seeing that Yang Guang had returned to Beijing indefinitely, but there was a big chaos within the Yang family, on the one hand, the brothers of the house collectively did not receive the monthly money, and demanded equality from the concubines, on the other hand, his wife gave the Yang family's huge amount of money and grain to her mother's family without authorization, and the matter was revealed, causing an uproar, arousing the huge anger of the Yang Mansion, and his uncle Yang Shen specially wrote a letter to him, He was asked to explain the matter and resign as head of the household.

Yang Xuangan has always indulged his wife, but when this happened, he couldn't continue to perfunctory, so he had to plead with the saint again and again, and was finally allowed to return to Beijing for a month to deal with family affairs.

and Yang Xuangan returned to Beijing together, as well as his eldest son Yang Jun, Yang Jun received a letter of help from his mother, and specially asked for leave to return to Beijing with his father, and his brother Yang Rong also wanted to return to Beijing, but it was only a day or two late, although he was silent all the way, but Yang Jun finally spoke when he was going to the capital.

"What is my father going to do with my mother?"

Yang Xuan looked at the city wall that could be seen in the distance, he couldn't help but be full of anger when he thought of his wife's audacity, and he couldn't wait to divorce her, but in front of his son, he had to suppress the anger in his heart, sighed and said: "Her financial rights must be recovered, I promised at the beginning of the year, but because I couldn't return to Beijing, it was delayed until today, the key is how much money and food she gave to the Zheng family?" Your second grandfather didn't say it in the letter, but it only said that there were huge millions, and some of your grandfather's precious things, which could only be known after being counted, in short, I would find a way to minimize the mistakes made by your mother and appease the anger of the family. ”

"Is my father ready to resign as head of the family?" Yang Jun asked again.

He didn't say much, but every sentence could ask the key point, Yang Xuangan shook his head decisively, "Impossible, resigning as the head of the family will destroy many of my plans, it's a big deal that I will use my own money and food to make up for the shortfall, but I will never resign as the head of the family." ”

"What about the equality of concubines?"

Yang Xuangan only felt a headache, his wife's fake public and private interests had made it difficult for him to deal with it, but the matter of equality between the concubines and concubines was even more difficult to deal with, involving the interests of everyone, Yang Xuangan groaned and said: "If it really doesn't work, persuade the concubine to make concessions, and be consistent in terms of money and food, but not in terms of clan power." ”

Yang Jun smiled faintly, "Father, I don't think it's appropriate. ”

"What's wrong, tell me your opinion!" Yang Xuangan is very willing to communicate with his son, his son is too deep, which always makes him a little unable to see through, he hopes that his son can say more.

Yang Jun was silent again, and only after a while did he say: "Father should resolutely safeguard the interests of the concubine, so that the concubine can make concessions in the matter of his mother, and only then can he retain the position of the head of the family." ”

Yang Xuan looked out the window worriedly, although he admitted that his eldest son was reasonable, but if he was too antagonistic to the house, it would also cause a split in the Yang family, and he was in a bit of a dilemma.

The carriage drove into the capital from Jianchun Gate, and a noisy atmosphere came to his face, which made Yang Xuan feel a sense of familiarity that he had not seen for a long time, he liked this prosperous feeling very much, looking at the people coming and going on the street, listening to the shouts of the merchants, Yang Xuan's mood gradually improved.

The carriage entered the Shangshan room and slowly stopped in front of the huge Yang Mansion, and a guard came to report first, and Yang Xuanting stood on the steps to welcome the return of the head of the family.

Yang Xuangan thought that he had not returned to the house for nine months, and the front of the Yang Mansion should be full of children who welcomed his return, but Yang Xuanting was the only one who made him unhappy, and the mood that had just improved was ruined again.

"Xuan Ting, what about the others? Aren't they all in the house? ”

Yang Xuanting is the son of Yang Yue, but in fact he is the son of Yang Su, because Yang Yue can't have children, he has been passed on to Yang Yue since he was a child, and it is also for this reason that Yang Xuanting has a high status in the Yang Mansion, plus he can be fair and selfless when he was in charge of the family's wealth and power a few years ago, and he is not bad.

Yang Xuanting smiled bitterly, stepped forward and saluted: "Big brother, they are all in the house, but they all have big opinions and are full of anger, so they called them, but no one came." ”

Yang Xuanting whispered to Yang Xuan: "Now the contradiction between the concubines is sharp, and the day before yesterday, Jishan led dozens of concubines to worship the family temple without authorization, which made the concubines extremely dissatisfied. ”

Yang Xuan was furious, "Jishan dared to sacrifice to the family temple without authorization and asked him to come to see me?" ”

A family member was about to run to find Yang Jishan, but Yang Xuangan held back his anger and said, "Wait a while and call him." ”

He asked Xuan Ting again, "Is the second uncle here?" ”

Yang Xuanting nodded, "Second Uncle is here!" He asked the eldest brother to go to him, and he had something to say. ”

Yang Xuan felt that the big thing in his heart, he and his second uncle Yang Shen had a tacit understanding, and now he could only ask the second uncle to look at the big things they were planning and fully support him.

Yang Xuan. Feel. Walked quickly into the gate of the mansion and walked towards the courtyard of the second uncle Yang Shen.