Yang Yan is not worried that the big families in Fulin County will not return, after all, their subordinates are still in his hands, although there are not many people in four hundred, but they are a vital force that cannot be given up in Fulin County, without these four hundred loyal subordinates, what will he do to occupy Huaisikou Besides, Su Jun is not a good match, once Su Jun gains a firm foothold in Huailin, sooner or later he will make a move on Huaisikou, Yang Yan thinks that the big families in Fulin County will not understand that if the relationship with himself is bad because of money, the gains outweigh the losses.
In fact, Fulin County can come up with such a sincere compensation, presumably because he saw the beginning of his own domain, he was nervous, and he had the idea of forming a good fate, and it happened that Yang Yan also needed to nail a wedge in Su Jun's territory to ensure the smooth flow of the waterway, and the two sides tacitly hit it off.
Sure enough, on the fourth day, Zheng Guan and others led 300 troops and more than 1,000 men, women, and children with goods, 200 beautiful maids, and 100 craftsmen.
It is estimated that these families are also fighting, and the quality of the beautiful maids is even higher than that of the concubines of the Yan Ping family, and the age is ordinary, mainly fourteen or fifteen years old, and they are likely to be yellow flower girls, and the oldest is not more than double ten.
But it's not surprising to think about it, the Yan family has only occupied Huaisi for more than ten years, and the big families in Fulin County have taken root in the local area for at least a few decades, or even hundreds of years, and the foundation is thicker in the end.
Artisan households are not as diverse as Xun's, mainly planting, silk reeling and weaving, carpenters and blacksmiths, Yang Yan doesn't care, he welcomes anyone who has a skill, and now he doesn't even have a boatwright, plus the artisan households looted from Yan Ping's family, he has a total of nearly two hundred and fifty households.
Yang Yan returned the troops along with the original weapons and equipment and horses, and the next morning, he set out to cross the river, and it took two days to cross all of them, and then went north along the right side of Surabaya.
Walk from the right side, you can save the trouble of crossing the river, go up more than 200 miles, Suishui in the left side of the lower phase of Suqian, Jiangsu Province into Surabaya, and then go up to Xiapi, Surabaya folds to the west, must cross Surabaya along the Yishui to the north, and Tancheng is located on the right side of Yishui, which is equivalent to walking from the left side of Surabaya, need to cross the river three times, and from the right side, you can retreat unimpeded, straight to Tancheng.
The only risk is that Surabaya and Yishui go around Xiapi on three sides, and the nearest part is about two to three miles away from the city wall, and Liu Yao's reaction is difficult to predict, but Yang Yan has 4,000 troops, fortified by ships, and is not without the strength of a battle.
At present, the whole army has swelled to nearly 20,000 people, and a large amount of goods have been looted from Yan Ping's house, including about 150,000 stone grain, more than 5,000 horses of cloth, 1,500 catties of gold, 2,000 catties of silver, nearly 4 million baht coins, more than 100 horses, and more than 300 cattle and mules and other livestock.
Goods, family members, old and weak women and children as much as possible on the boat, Yan's father and son were also placed on the boat, and the cattle dragged the cart and the troops along the river, and on the sixth day, Xiapi was in sight.
Last time, I entered the city from the east gate, but this time I passed from the west of the city, the city head was waving flags, there were shadowy soldiers running, and there was a hidden sound of golden trumpets in the city.
Xiao Wen turned his head and said, "Fujun, Liu Yao is only afraid that he is waiting for our army." ” Yang Yan nodded and said, "Okay, see what he wants." ” As he spoke, he commanded backwards: "Order, the whole army stops, the archers advance and set up defenses, and the cavalry is deployed on both wings."
"No" The order was shouted by mouth, layer by layer, Yang Yan had not yet come to train the banner, but there was only an army of 4,000 people, and there was no big problem for the time being.
The ships started from the last one and stopped in turn, the archers took refuge behind the vehicles, the cavalry and the guards urgently put on their armor and moved separately, and the foot soldiers acted as the middle army, and the atmosphere of tension was pervasive in the formation.
After all, Liu Xuan is not as good as Yan Ping, he has been fighting in the north for a long time, and his core subordinates are thousands, all of whom are dead, and he himself is compared to Guan Zhang, who is unrivaled in bravery.
After a while, the city gate opened, and the cavalry, archers and foot soldiers went out of the city in turn, with a total of about 5,000, and finally galloped out dozens of horsemen to the front of the formation.
After Xun Guan and Concubine Pei left Xiapi, Liu Yao was always uneasy, so he went to the battlefield to investigate, and sure enough, the mountains were full of headless corpses.
He was worried about whether Xun Guan knew anything, thought about it again and again, and sent his henchmen to Jiankang to investigate, and if there was any movement, he could also know in advance, and as a result, he heard the news that Yang Yanzhi was appointed by the court as the minister of the East China Sea.
This made him even more suspicious, and he regarded Yang Yan as Xun's pawn in Huaibei, helping him gain a foothold and choose an opportunity to seek revenge.
Even if there is no such thing, Yang Yan's occupation of Tancheng is a very dangerous signal, after all, Tancheng is only three hundred miles away from Xiapi, and the cavalry can reach the city in one day and one night, which is equivalent to a sharp knife on his back.
On the surface, Liu Yao had no reason to deal with Yang Yan, so after concluding that Yang Yan would cross the Huaishui from Huaisikou, he instructed Yan Ping to intercept it, so that even if the incident leaked, it could be inferred that Yan Ping's private actions had nothing to do with him.
It's just that I didn't expect that Yan Ping's superior forces were actually wiped out, and then looking at Yang Yan's military formation, it was clear that Yan Ping's army would have such a scale, at first Liu Yao thought that the newly incorporated soldiers would not have too high morale, but it was obvious that the military appearance of the Eastern Navy overturned his judgment.
Liu Yao's side was a woman of about forty, holding a horse lance, wearing a bright silver bright light armor, and then behind him, Cai Bao was waiting for the ceremony and dressed in civilian clothes, and the others were Liu Yao's generals.
Cai Bao bowed his hand and called loudly: "But Yang Lang" After being released from prison, Cai Baotan heard that it was Yang Yan who spoke up for him in the court, and the Jin lord pardoned him for his capital crime, so he wanted to find Yang Yan to thank him.
Chen Liucai's family passed on to Cai Bao's generation, and there are two more prominent ones, one is Cai Mo, who served as a Zhonglang in Wang Dunba's mansion, and the other is Cai Bao, Cai Bao's family Ding Buwang, fifty-two years old, is still childless, and his deceased brother's son Cai Yi is used as a stepson.
Cai Bao and Cai Mo are not interested, there is no contact, and there are no friends in Beijing, the scholars think he is the Huaibei Liumin Marshal, disdain to associate with him, and the Jin Lord left Beijing with him, not allowed to stay in Jiankang, Cai Bao could not find Yang Yan, had to go north alone, fortunately his reputation in Jiangbei is not small, the homeless Shuai and the various dock castle owners more or less sold him a little face, and was able to travel all the way back to Xiapi.
Yang Yan returned the salute with a smile: "Seeing that General Cai is safe today, Yang is relieved." “ Cai Bao turned off the horse and gave another salute: "The old man thanks Yang Lang for saving his life." “ Yang Yan stepped out of the way before he said: "General Cai doesn't need to be like this, Yang is soft-spoken, thanks to the intercession of Duke Bian, Duke Xun and Duke Wen." “ "Huh" Cai Bao waved his hand and said: "Why does Yang Lang need to shirk, the old man has already inquired clearly, if it weren't for Yang Lang to ask for the old man's life, how could the old man be pardoned, this worship can be bearable."
After speaking, Cai Bao said goodbye, and when he met such a stubborn old man, Yang Yan had no choice but to accept a gift.
Cai Bao dusted off the dust on his body, and sighed: "The last time I saw Yang Lang, he was still white, but this time he is already the prime minister of the East China Sea, and the opportunity is so great that it makes people sigh."
Just as he was chattering, Liu Yao waved his hand and interrupted: "Brother Shixuan, if you talk about the old with Yang Yan, please later, Liu has some old accounts to settle with this son
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