Things in the world are so unpredictable. Yang Hao tried his best to invite Pei Du to Hedong. He wanted to use his reputation to stabilize the situation in Hedong, and then control the military and political affairs of Hedong under his name. W√w    W★.

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CoM Therefore, when the court ordered Pei Du to leave Hedong, Yang Hao seemed both excited and nervous. He instructed Qu Chuji, Mulanqing and other personnel stationed in Beijing to do everything possible to prevent Pei Du from bringing Luoyang's confidants into Hedong.

Pei Du had the style of a great hero. When he took office as a senior official, he only had five students following him. These five were all Qingtan Xuanshi who had not yet had any trouble. Yang Hao breathed a sigh of relief, but the situation suddenly reversed.

First, a censor reported to the Chai Shangyan, who was immediately dismissed from his post and investigated, and then became a member of Baizhou, Lingnan. Pei Du calmly cleared the biggest obstacle for himself to take office in Hedong. Chai Shangyan's sudden collapse made Yang Hao's secret agreement with him suddenly become worthless. This is not over. On the way to Hedong, Pei Du promoted Mu Liangfang to the deputy envoy of Hedong Jiedu. At the same time, he also appointed Mu Liangfang as the governor of the Left Army, the governor of Xinzhou, and Luo Lai to serve as the young imperial court in Taiyuan. He himself was the remnant of Jibeidu, Taiyuan Yin and Hedong Jiedu.

Originally, a scattered sect in Hedong instantly united by Pei Du. The 50,000 garrisons in Taiyuan City seemed to have changed from 50,000 sheep that could be slaughtered at will to 50,000 hungry wolves surrounding Yang Hao. An invisible pressure made Yang Hao breathless.

The day after Pei Du arrived in Taiyuan, he met Yang Hao at the left-behind mansion. Facing this important minister of the four dynasties in his seventies, Yang Hao was very nervous for a while. Pei Du was kind and his tone was gentle, which made Yang Hao feel quite good and respectful. Pei Du said a few words in the scene first, thanking Yang Hao for sending troops south to help suppress the bandits, and then asked Yang Hao the topic: "Now the bandits in Hedong have been subsided, I don't know when you plan to return to Fengzhou. I want to prepare the food and grass for you."

Yang Hao hurriedly stood up and said, "Although the big bandits in Hedong are in vain, the remaining party is still doing evil everywhere. The subordinates are willing to help the general with their strength."

Pei Du laughed and said, "I have 100,000 soldiers from Hedong. Do you have to deal with others when you catch a few thieves? Where do you put my old face in your words?"

Yang Hao retreated tragically. Everyone asked the reason, and Yang Haoshang said with lingering fear: "It is said that Pei Xiang is majestic, it is true. I was dizzy after saying a few words, and I had nowhere to defend myself."

Zhang Bozhong said: "Did he force the adults to leave Taiyuan?"

Yang Hao smiled bitterly and said, "He wants me to leave Hedong."

When everyone heard this, they immediately defrauded themselves. Cheng Keling said, "Are he old or pretending to be confused? We captured Hedong. Why do we say that we should leave? We will leave? Although there are 100,000 troops in Hedong, we are not afraid of him!"

Yu Yanlu mocked: "Hedong and Fengzhou are all kings of the Tang Dynasty, and Lord and Pei Xiang are both ministers of the Tang Dynasty. How can they kill each other? Then they will not be in harmony with the lawless military towns in Heshuo."

Cheng Keling disagreed and said, "In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with those military towns in Hebei."

Yang Hao shouted, "Don't talk nonsense. If this is spread, how many heads do I have enough to cut off?"

Cheng Keling and others dared not speak again after hearing this. Yang Hao was upset and kept paced in the house. Suddenly he became calculating in his heart. He drove everyone out, leaving Zhang Bozhong alone, and discussed with him: "Since Pei Zhongli dared to chase me away, he must have something to rely on. Now there are 50,000 Hedong Army around Taiyuan, and our army is less than 5,000. If he really makes a fuss, I am afraid that it will be me who suffers."

"Did you have a solution?"

Yang Hao smiled slightly, walked to the map of the rivers and mountains of the north, found Suizhou City in the east and south corners of the river, and used his hands to lift his hands: "Let Wu Cao send troops to attack Shizhou and Fenzhou. Force Pei Du to bow to me."

"Shizhou is stationed in two battalions of the Hedong Right Army. Even if he is willing to use Wu Cao's troops, he may not be able to seize Shizhou."

"Only a Wu Cao can't do anything. Then let Meng Ming go. Let Polang Camp be a bandit. The troubles made the river east and west and south uneasy, and force Pei Xiang to bow his head to admit defeat." Speaking of this, Yang Hao suddenly frowned, and his eyes fell on the Hehe River east and west gates, where three thousand Zhongyi Army stationed. Transferring the Zhongyi Army is equivalent to opening the Hedong Gate. Dong Bazheng stationed heavy troops in Lanzhou, and Shi Xiong stationed heavy troops in Linzhou. The barrier in the middle was removed, so that the two families could restrain each other, and no one could interfere in their own affairs.

After weighing the pros and cons, Yang Hao decided to withdraw his troops from Hehe. Before withdrawing the troops, he wrote a letter to Dong Bazheng and Shi Xiong, stating that his mission to go south to suppress bandits was completed and he was about to withdraw from Hedong, and Hehe was still returned to Hedong. Shi Xiong immediately replied to Yang Hao, promising that he would not compete for Hehe. Dong Bazheng asked someone to send a brigade to take over Hehe's defense.

Both families showed restraint, and Yang Hao let down a stone in his heart. He decided to see Pei Du again and inform him of his timetable for withdrawal. At the same time, he asked Pei Du for 20,000 stones of grain as a reward for sending troops this time.

Pei Du smiled in his heart when he heard this. It was not easy to transport 20,000 shi of grain from Taiyuan to Fengzhou. Yang Hao could still use the opportunity to transport grain to Hedong and stay in Hedong without leaving. So he blocked all the roads: "It is natural for you to benefit the people of Hedong and get some rewards. But as far as I know, more than half of your battalions have been injured and half of them are injured and it is difficult to transport so much food and grass. You can withdraw your troops first, and I will send someone to Fengzhou within a month?"

Yang Hao was shocked and couldn't speak for a long time. He could only smile bitterly: "Sir, what else do you have to say to the officials?

I only hope that Hedong will be in good weather and will be free from war."

In order to fight the Xining army as soon as possible, Pei Du instigated Taiyuan merchants and raised thousands of taels of silver, thousands of kilograms of bacon, hundreds of jars of wine, and sent them to the Xining army camp with gongs and gongs to practice for Yang Hao.

On February 20, the Liehu Camp, Feihu Camp, and Xiaoqi Camp first went north, and then Weiyuan Camp and Fengya Camp also set sail north. Before this, the Zhongyi Army stationed in Hehe County, the Baoying, Jinfeng Camp, and Tiedang Camp, who were stationed in Hehe County, had also left the garrison and gathered in Langu area. The Tiger Camp and the Polu Camp were united in Xinzhou, and the barracks had been handed over to the local garrison.

On the same day that Yang Hao withdrew his troops, Liu Mian also began to withdraw from Shuozhou and other places. The haze that had been shrouded in Hedong for more than two months was about to dissipate. But on the morning of the 21st, a group of horse bandits suddenly attacked Dinghu County, west of Shizhou City, and the magistrate and the subordinates of the Heyao were all captured by the horse bandits. By noon that day, Pingyi and Fangshan counties under Shizhou were also lost one after another.

At dusk, the horse bandits stepped forward to siege Shizhou City. The troops stationed in Shizhou had two battalions of the Right Army in Hedong, with a population of nearly 3,000. The defenders were like tigers and dared not fight. The bandits saw the city was high and deep, and they escaped. They swept the hot springs, spirit stones, Fenzhou and other places, and the east and south of the river were quakes. The snowflakes flew to Pei Du’s case like emergency documents.

Pei Dujiu sent Mu Liangfang as the envoy to fight the bandits and led the Hedong Left Army to the south to quell the rebellion.

On the night of the 21st, the bandits captured Huoyi, and crossed Fenxi early the next morning to capture Hongdong County. Jinzhou Governor Xie Xuezhai led his army to attack, trying to retake Hongdong, but encountered a thief attack in Xiaoyinghe, the west of the city. Xie Xuezhai was defeated and captured. At dusk that day, Jinzhou City was broken. Mu Liangfang heard that Jinzhou City was broken, and Huoyi was stationed in Huoyi did not dare to move forward.

Pei Du urged repeatedly and barely divided his troops to capture Fenxi. On the night of recapturing Fenxi, the bandits suddenly jumped into Jiangzhou. The general of the Hedong Right Army, Hu Ming, surrendered without fighting, and the governor Huang Maolin committed suicide. Jiangzhou is located in the east and south of the river, bordering the Hezhong, Zhaoyi, Fufang, and even Shangdu Chang'an. Jiangzhou is unstable, and all the surrounding towns have reason to send troops to Hedong in the name of suppressing bandits. This is the result that Pei Du most unwilling to see.

Under his harsh urging, Mu Liangfang gritted the bullet and led 13,000 people to Jinzhou. Both battles were defeated. At this time, Zhaoyi and Fufang towns issued a letter to Hedong to ask if they needed to send troops to help. Hezhong had already assembled 10,000 soldiers on the border to prepare to cross the border to help the Hedong army suppress the bandits at any time.

Pei Du was appointed as the ambassador of Dong Bazheng's southwest states to fight against the thieves, and ordered him to lead the front army in Hedong to fight against the thieves. Dong Bazheng knew very well that the so-called bandits were the neighboring Suizhou official army and Yang Hao's Polang camp. As early as when Meng Ming captured Shizhou, he sent his confidants to investigate Meng Ming's actions. Every time Meng Ming captured the prefectures and counties, he would severely suppress corrupt officials, local tyrants and evil gentry, and then open warehouses and release grain to help the poor and poor people. The people not only did not hate the "thieves", but instead led the way for the "thieves" and informed the "thieves".

Dong Bacheng said to Li Yufang: "If I don't go to suppress such a thief, I will only feel disappointed if I go."

Li Yufang said: "If the teacher doesn't go, Pei Zhongli can only turn to Yang Hao for help. This game of dead chess will make him survive."

Dong Bazheng shook his hand and said, "It was not him who won, or the biggest winner was not him. If Yang Hao went south, Liu Mian would also go south. In the end, the northern states of Hedong fell into the hands of Liu Mian. Although these states were poor, their status was almost certain. In the long run, they were much more beneficial than the southern states occupied by Yang Hao."

Li Yufang smiled and said, "The students' views are different from those of their mentors. If Yang Hao got Jin, Jiang and other places, he would have a basis for glimpsing Guanzhong and Heluo. This is not a good thing."

Dong Bazheng laughed and said, "Maybe I am old and can't understand the chess played by young people. However, it may not be a good thing to show up before I can get rich."

Pei Du asked Yang Hao for help and suppression. Yang Hao immediately ordered the Zhongyi army to capture Shizhou, the Liehu Camp captured Fenzhou, the Feihu Camp captured Fenxi, the Xiaoqi Camp captured Cizhou, the Weiyuan Camp occupied Wanquan, and the Fengyi Camp occupied Wenxi. The Hu Camp arrived at Yangqu, and the Polu Camp returned to Xinzhou.

After seeing Yang Hao's reinforcements, Mu Liangfang was a little braver and wanted to capture Jiangzhou before Yang Hao and seize the first merit. He personally supervised the army to attack the city, and for two days in a row, but failed to move forward. On the night of the second day, the troops were exhausted. Meng Ming robbed the camp in the middle of the night and burned the twelve miles of the joint camp. Mu Liangfang fled to Fenzhou in a panic and was immediately detained by Yu Yanlu. On the second day, the Flying Tiger Camp divided his troops to occupy Jinzhou, and the Hedong Army's military rations and equipment accumulated like mountains.

After Meng Ming was surrounded on all sides, he symbolically resisted for two days and announced his surrender to the official army. Yang Hao immediately "dismissed" his troops on the spot and pardoned the important criminals. The bandits in the east and south of the river were eliminated, and all prefectures and counties fell into Yang Hao. Yang Hao felt deeply that his troops were insufficient and it was not appropriate to stretch the front line too long. So shortly after occupying Jiangzhou, he voluntarily gave up Jiangzhou, Cizhou, Fenxi, Wenxi and other places. He contracted the main force in areas near Taiyuan such as Fenzhou, Shizhou, Xinzhou and other places.

Not long after, Mu Liangfang and his Hedong Left Army were ordered to station the southwest border areas such as Jiangzhou, Jinzhou, and Hedong Right Army was ordered to station the southeastern prefectures and counties such as Qinzhou, Yizhou and other southeastern prefectures and counties. The Hedong rear army was ordered to go north to station Daizhou. Although the Hedong Central Army stayed in Taiyuan, the main force was stationed in small cities such as Wenshui and Taigu. Only Pei Du's personal military camp was left in the huge Taiyuan city.
Chapter completed!