Before going to Luoyang, Yang Guang once asked the world-famous master Shuozhi to let the master divine the situation of the Second Eastern Expedition. Shuozhi's answer made the emperor very dissatisfied. Shuozhi replied, "I am indeed stupid, but I still insist on my opinion on the last time. If Your Majesty leads the army personally, it will be too much labor and expenditure."

Yang Guang was furious when he heard this, "I personally led the army to fight and led a million troops to win. How can I succeed if I only sent one general?"

At that time, Wu Zhi recommended several generals to the emperor, saying, "Li Jing, Luo Yi, Xue Shixiong, Yang Yichen, and Luo Cheng, five people, chose one as the commander, and unified the army of 200,000 to 300,000, and made steady progress. With two or three years of hard work, it can destroy Goguryeo."

But the emperor believed that although all the five generals could fight, they were still inexperienced and prestige and could not command such a battle to destroy the country.

The emperor believed that he was the one who could truly control those generals.

Later, when he was drinking with his close ministers such as Yu Shiji and Pei Yun in Zhuo County Palace, he even said bluntly, "Everyone in the world thinks that I can inherit the legacy of the previous emperor and own the world. In fact, even if I am allowed to compete with the scholars and officials, I will be the emperor."

The emperor was very conceited, but he did have the capital to be conceited.

Yang Guang is also a person born with a golden key in his hand. He can be called the top second generation, but unlike many second generations, Yang Guang was very hardworking when he was young, practicing martial arts hard and studying hard.

In terms of martial arts, even the emperor in his forties can still sprint on a horse, and he can still wield a horse spear well. If he talks about literary talent, this emperor is actually a contemporary literary master. His poems and songs do not require flattery, and he is also the top contemporary.

He even swept away the gorgeous lyrics of the palace-style poetry that has been popular since the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and created a new genre, namely frontier poetry, and his horse-drinking journey to the Great Wall Caves was extremely majestic. His spring river flowers and moonlit nights, water tunes and songs were also very impressive.

Later, Li Shimin, who had been scolding Yang Guang, also wrote about the Great Wall Cave Tour and the Moon Night of the Spring River, but his level was far inferior to Yang Guang.

Yang Guang is indeed very good at being civil and military, but he is not omnipotent either.

He destroyed Tuyuhun, quelled Yiwu, defeated the Turks, conquered Linyi, attacked Liuqiu, etc., but he could not make him an omnipotent emperor all at once.

When he was immersed in his fantasy of great cause, he did not realize that he was already out of touch with reality and was getting further and further away.

Yang Xuangan, who is also a top second generation, has been resentful for Yang Guang forcing his father to death for several years. On the surface, he is very loyal to Yang Guang, but in fact he wants to kill Yang Guang more than once.

It was his uncle who had been trying to persuade him to endure, and it was his good friend Li Mi who had been planning for him, so he endured until now.

But hard work pays off, and Yang Xuangan finally waited for a suitable opportunity.

After his and Li Mi's unremitting planning and efforts, he finally made enough profits from the emperor. The Second Eastern Expedition began and was appointed as the governor of food and grass, in charge of Liyang.

Staying in Liyang, Yang Xuangan kept moving quietly.

He first conspired with Li Mi to lead dozens of thieves in Henan and Hebei to Douzigang, and then to break the Pingyuan County. After the plan was to break the city, Yang Xuangan would have the opportunity to lead his troops north to enter Pingyuan County to fight the thieves. At that time, he would successfully recover Pingyuan County and surrender many anti-army troops, and successfully accept these peripheral forces under his command. He could also take the opportunity to plant people to occupy Pingyuan County, etc., and also arrange uncontrolled troops and horses of Ji County to go to Pingyuan and separate them.

By the way, you can also obtain weapons, money, and food from Pingyuan County.

Unfortunately, this plan was only half successful. Luo Cheng's sudden attack made Yang Xuangan and Li Mi's plan failed. Dozens of thieves' army of thieves were raided in Douzigang, and countless gatherings of money and livestock were seized. These were originally belonged to Yang Xuangan.

Then nearly 200,000 thieves captured Pingyuan County, and were killed by Luo Cheng's three thousand men. They were beheaded thousands and captured tens of thousands. The Eight Kings and Thirteen Dukes died in the capital of the thieves.

Luo Cheng first entered the Pingyuan County City.

Although Yang Xuangan heard Li Mi's plan, he arrived hurriedly and even claimed Luo Cheng's darkness to the emperor.

In the end, Luo Cheng was stripped of his position as ambassador and surrendered and went south in shame, but when the bastard left, he still took away the captive thieves and countless weapons, money and food.

Plain County is just an empty city.

What made him most angry was that although Luo Cheng left, he had promoted Yang Yuanhong and Yang Shanhui to become the prefect of Pingyuan and the county magistrate, and the emperor actually agreed to this promotion.

So although Luo Cheng left, Yang Xuangan did not get any benefits from Pingyuan County.

Fortunately, when Yang Xuangan and Luo Cheng left, they immediately rushed to Gaojipo, Qinghe County, where they fought several "big victory battles", captured more than a dozen bandits including Wang Run, and surrendered tens of thousands of them.

He also planted troops in Qinghe County and left many soldiers in Ji County there.

Since this war.

The canal was reopened to navigation, and the front line urged Liyang to transfer grain and grass to the front line.

Yang Xuangan responded and distributed food and grass, but he asked Li Mi to lead a large group of bandits to block the canal and rob the grain ships in Gaojipo, Hejian.

So from March, the canal was not smooth, and ten ships of grain were sent from Liyang, and in the end they could only go to three or five ships of grain to Zhuo County. This seriously affected the supply of grain and grass, and the front-line troops were very dissatisfied.

Then at this time, Yang Xuangan secretly sent someone to summon his brothers Yang Xuantong and Yang Xuanye who were far away to Li Yang.

Father and son fight, and brothers fight to fight tigers.

Everything is going on quietly.

The original plan was that Yang Xuangan would have to make another comeback later.

A little later, the Eastern Expedition Army was completely trapped in Liaodong, especially when Yuwen Shu and Yang Yichen and other soldiers arrived at the city of the country, Luo Yi and others also went deep into the hinterland of Liaodong. Luo Chenglai Hu'er also led the navy to the Yalu River. At that time, he would be in trouble again, and it would be difficult for the troops to return.

But Luo Cheng still disrupted Yang Xuangan's plan.

Damn Luo Cheng didn't go directly to the Yalu River. He started to make trouble in southern Liaoning, defeated the Anshi soldiers, destroyed Jian'an City, and also destroyed Beisha City.

Seeing that the situation was completely unsatisfactory, Yang Xuangan was also worried that Luo Cheng would cause something unexpected.

In order to avoid the long nights and many dreams, Yang Xuangan had to do something in advance.

There are already many rebels in the world, and the Central Plains are even full of war, with ants and thieves rampant everywhere.

But many people are forced to starve to death due to helplessness, natural disasters, Yao wars, and famines. In the end, they will not rebel, so they can only rebel in anger.

Some people rebel did not want to starve to death. They had no worries about food and clothing, and even had a high status. They were local tyrants, such as Wang Bo, but they also rebel.
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