Let’s take a look at the situation on Chen Yingliang’s side. When the four left-behind people in the East Capital were chasing each other and tugging each other, after half a month of march, the 10,000 reinforcements led by Chen Yingliang successfully arrived at the city of Taiyuan and immediately saw Fan Zigai who was lying in bed.

As for the same sentence, Chen Yingliang was not worried at all. Even if he didn't bring any reinforcements, Chen Sangliang was confident of breaking through the rebels Jingbantuo and Chai Baochang troops who were wandering around Fenyang. The only thing that made Chen Yingliang a little worried was Fan Zigai's physical problems - after all, Chen Sangliang's conscience had not been eaten up by the dog.

Fortunately, half of Fan Zigai's illness was caused by the long-term battle and the failure to defeat the enemy. It was also due to the shame of the court and Emperor Yang of Sui. After receiving news from the court that Emperor Yang of Sui sent Chen Sangliang to lead his army to reinforce him, Fan Lao Tanjun immediately understood that Emperor Yang of Sui did not blame him, and still trusted and cared for him. Otherwise, Chen Sangliang, who had promoted him personally, would not have sent Chen Sangliang to him. During the depression, Fan Lao Tanjun's condition improved immediately. After Chen Sangliang led his army to Taiyuan City, Fan Zigai, who had been bedridden for many days, personally led Taiyuan civil and military officials out of the city to welcome Chen Sangliang.

To be precise, Mr. Fan, who is definitely a teacher-student relationship, meets Chen Sangliang again after a long separation. The scene is also quite touching. Chen Sangliang, whose official rank is already on the same level as Fan Zigai, took the initiative to dismount and strode to Fan Zigai. He first performed official etiquette, and then immediately knelt down on one knee to give the junior gift, saying loudly: "Grandson Chen Yingliang, pay homage to Grandpa Fan. If you are tired of your grandfather, your grandfather came out to greet him with illness, and your grandson was sentenced to death. Grandpa Fan, how is your condition?"

A sentence moved Fan Zigai to tears, and also made the Taiyuan Hu Ben Lang General Gao Junya and County Magistrate Wang Wei and others sighed. They were all moved by Chen Sangliang's respect for elders and were grateful for his kindness. In the end, Chen Sangliang respectfully invited Fan Zigai into the carriage, personally waved the whip to drive Fan Zigai into the city to repay Fan Zigai's various kindness to him - not to mention that Chen Sangliang was not pretending to act this time, because without Fan Zigai's extraordinary promotion and favor, Chen Sangliang really couldn't get to where he is today.

He sent Fan Zigai back to his left-behind mansion. Chen Sangliang wanted to send Fan Zigai back to his hospital bed to recuperate immediately, but Lao Tanjun suggested that state affairs were important and insisted on convening a military meeting first before going back to rest. Chen Yingliang, Gao Junya and others could not resist Lao Tanjun's stubborn temper and obeyed the orders. Then at the meeting, Fan Zigai asked all the civil and military officials in Taiyuan to obey Chen Yingliang's orders and cooperated with Chen Sangliang's work to suppress the thieves. No slack or contradict. Those who violate the orders were punished seriously. Until Taiyuan's civil and military officials respectfully accepted the order, Fan Zigai also told Gao Junya and Wang Wei to help Chen Sangliang get familiar with the situation in Taiyuan as soon as possible, and then returned to the bedroom to rest with Chen Sangliang's support.

He personally fed Lao Cai Zongheng Fan Zigai a bowl of medicine. Chen Sangliang wanted to accompany Lao Tanjun again, but Lao Tanjun's temper was more conscientious than Chen Yingliang. He forced Chen Yingliang to leave his bedroom and handle official and military affairs first. Chen Yingliang had no choice but to remind the servants of the Fan Mansion to take good care of Fan Zigai, so he hurriedly left the left-behind mansion and went out of the city to arrange the army to set up a battalion. At the same time, in order to facilitate command of the army, Chen Sangliang also ordered the reinforcements camp to be established next to the camp of the Sui Army in Taiyuan, and also took the opportunity to roughly observe the situation of the Sui Army in Taiyuan.

Fan Zigai's temper and habit of governing the army, Chen Sangliang also knew that it was strict, strict, and no negligence was allowed. After observation, Chen Yingliang found that Fan Zigai was the same when governing the Taiyuan army. Compared with the Yanmen War half a year ago, the Taiyuan Sui army had significantly improved discipline. The flag camp tent was extremely neat, and the camp structure was like a drawing, without any unevenness. After the military order was conveyed, the soldiers and generals carried out quickly, like arm and finger, and had the basic qualities that an elite army should have. However, Chen Sangliang also found that compared with the previous Taiyuan Sui army, the current Taiyuan Sui army seemed much more rigid. Even if they were resting, there was almost no laughter in the camp, which had a bit of life.

After discovering this, Chen Sangliang inevitably frowned a little because Chen Sangliang knew very well that the discipline in the army was as heavy as Mount Tai, but in terms of details, it must be flexibly implemented, and the soldiers should have the opportunity to relax and vent, because soldiers who rely on licking blood on the knife are already under great psychological pressure. If they cannot vent, their psychology is like a bowstring. If they just tighten, they will be broken sooner or later. At the moment, the state of the Sui army in Taiyuan is very similar to a bowstring that has reached its limit.

"We have to find a way to activate the atmosphere of the Sui Army in Taiyuan." Chen Yingliang had just made up this idea, but suddenly discovered another abnormality. Xu Shixu, a Sima of Taiyuan Yingyang Mansion who performed well on the Yanmen battlefield, was actually wearing the uniform of an ordinary team and leading a team of Sui soldiers to patrol the camp in the Taiyuan camp. Seeing this scene, Chen Sangliang was even more confused and said to himself: "What's going on? In addition to his stinky mouth, Xu Shixu played well on the Yanmen battlefield? Why did he not receive any promotion after the Yanmen Battle, but he was also demoted to the team leader?"

At this time, the messenger came to report that Gao Junya and Wang Wei came to the camp to ask for a meeting. Chen Sangliang did not hesitate and immediately returned to the central army tent. Gao Junya and Wang Wei whom Chen Yingliang had already met during the Yanmen War were indeed waiting for the lords in the tent. Seeing that Chen Yingliang had entered the tent, Chen Sangliang immediately bowed his head and bowed. Chen Sangliang hurriedly helped the two of them one by one and smiled and said, "General Gao, Wang Junzhu, we are all old acquaintances, why do you need to give such a big gift? There is no way to go in front of outsiders. If there is no outsiders, you don't have to be so restrained. Relax, please sit down quickly, please sit down."

He is indeed familiar with Chen Sangliang. Knowing that Chen Sangliang is easy-going, Gao Junya has no obscure words when speaking. He smiled and said, "Don't blame General. You have developed a habit under Fan Liushou's command. You must ceremonials when meeting superiors and subordinates. If you are not well-mannered enough, you will be punished. Otherwise, Fan Liushou will get angry. So even if you know that General, you don't care about these things, you can't help but follow his old rules."

"Grandpa Fan's temper is a bit stubborn. You are suffering." Chen Sangliang smiled and said, "But you are pretty good. During the Battle of Dongdu Defense, no one of the soldiers of Dongdu dared to look up and look at Grandpa Fan, otherwise they would have to be punished. Wu Jie, a fifth-rank tiger-toothed general, just slept lazyly while on night, and was immediately chopped off by Grandpa Fan. Compared to that time, Grandpa Fan's temper is much better now."

"We also know about this. Fan Liusuo often uses it to intimidate us." Gao Junya smiled and said, "We have an example here. A lieutenant was lazy to go back to bed while on night. He was discovered by Fan Liusuo. He beat him forty military sticks twice as much as 80. When he hit him more than 60, he couldn't bear it and died. Fan Liusuo refused to forgive him. He ordered the military and legal team to beat the remaining military sticks, and then dragged the body out and buried it. Since then, we have been afraid of him, and it is indeed strong enough."

Chen Yingliang smiled heartlessly, and said that he would advise Fan Zigai not to be so stubborn anymore. Then he asked about the purpose of Gao Junya and Wang Wei. Gao and Wang immediately presented the military information summary and map sand table of the Fen River battle situation, saying that Fan Zigai ordered them to send them to help Chen Sangliang formulate a plan to break the enemy as soon as possible. Chen Sangliang smiled with a smile. After taking it, he casually looked through the military information and war reports, while asking about the current situation of the rebels. Gao Junya hurriedly marked a rough location on the map sand table. Chen Sangliang saw the location and said in confusion: "Lingjingdian? This place is not far from Taiyuan? Even if Grandpa Fan is sick, why don't he send a few generals to lead the army to conquer?"

Gao Junya and Wang Wei smiled bitterly. After a wry smile, Wang Wei said, "I'm not hiding the general. General Gao asked for an order to go out to war. The subordinates volunteered to lead the army to guard the city so that General Gao could attack with confidence, but Fan Liushou did not agree. He was worried that the two thieves of Jingchai would run away as usual, and fled into the mountains and forests to circle us. He decided to continue to adopt his old man's strategy of firming the walls and clearing the fields, first cut off the grain and supplies of the thieves' army, and wait until the general's reinforcements arrive before breaking the thieves."

Chen Yingliang was a little silent, and after a while, he asked Gao Junya, "General Gao, must be very dissatisfied in the army?"

"I'm a little dissatisfied." Gao Junya nodded, looked around again, and whispered: "General, there is a saying that you don't tell Fan Liushou. Many generals and soldiers in the army complain that Fan Liushou is partial, saying that the Taiyuan army was born by stepmothers. They obviously had the opportunity to make meritorious contributions but were not allowed to kill the thief. They just wanted to leave the credit for you. They were quite resentful towards Fan Liushou."

After a moment of silence, Chen Sangliang said: "General Gao, the reinforcements I brought are exhausted and need some time to rest. Tomorrow you will lead 10,000 Taiyuan Sui army to Lingjingdian to fight against the thieves and walk the Pingshu road. Let's go out today and tell the Taiyuan soldiers, and say that I have obtained Fan Liushou's consent. If I can win this battle tomorrow, the beheading and reward will be 30%, and the captives will be captured alive by 50%.

"General, is it too risky to do this? What if Fan Liushou disagrees?" Gao Junya asked worriedly: "His temper is famous for being stubborn. If he does not agree to the reward, wouldn't the soldiers complain even more?"

"Don't worry, I'm sure." Chen Sangliang said with a smile: "Grandpa Fan himself once said that in the world, except for our Emperor, I am the only one who can tell him. He will not slap himself in the mouth. Also, I don't hide it from you. I have done this in Dongdu before in order to increase the rewards without authorization. In addition to scolding me, Grandpa Fan still obediently paid for me to wipe my butt."

Seeing that Chen Yingliang said this, Gao Junya was also happy and rubbed her hands excitedly and said that the soldiers were finally happy. Chen Yingliang also smiled slightly and said, "General Gao, remember to ask the soldiers to capture more prisoners, and after they are caught, they will be handed over to me. No abuse or harm are allowed."

"This..." Gao Junya hesitated for a moment, and then said: "The General should do his best, but General, you should also understand the difficulties of the General. Before, Fan Liushou buried all the prisoners of war they caught alive, which made the current thief army, regardless of men, women, old and young, would rather die than surrender than surrender, so the General was afraid that they would not be able to catch many."

"It's okay, just do your best." Chen Sangliang answered casually, thinking about how to convince Mr. Fan to stubbornly agree with his soft strategy. However, at this moment, a report came from outside the tent, saying that it was Pei Ji, the supervisor of Jinyang Palace, who asked for a meeting. When Chen Yingliang heard the big news, he hurriedly asked: "Why is Pei Ji or the supervisor of Jinyang Palace? Grandpa Fan didn't see him when he led civil and military officials to greet me just now, and I thought he had been replaced."

"Pei Gongjian has not been replaced." Wang Wei replied truthfully: "Although Fan Liushou has always disliked him, he is a direct official of the court, and Fan Liushou has no choice but to do anything to him. He didn't go to greet you just now, and it was Fan Liushou who deliberately did not call him."

He sighed inwardly that Mr. Fan was stubborn and could offend others. Chen Sangliang quickly asked the messenger to summon Pei Ji to the tent. In a moment, Pei Ji, who was famous in history, entered the central army tent and saluted Chen Yingliang respectfully. Chen Yingliang personally helped him up, and did not ask why he didn't go to the city gate to greet him. He just had a relationship with Pei Ji as a junior of Pei's family, and called Pei Ji his uncle. Pei Ji was full of flattery. While presenting a gift to meet, he quickly explained that he happened to have official duties, so he could not go to the city gate to greet Chen Sangliang, and begged Chen Sangliang not to mind.

When he laughed and said it was okay, Chen Sangliang also looked at Pei Ji who had only seen him before before, and found that he was in his early forties and was very handsome and handsome. He was quite tall and not like a civil servant, but more like a general. He spoke and acted gracefully and had a very elegant temperament. Unfortunately, Chen Sangliang had no decent topics to discuss with him, so when Ma Sanbao and Cheng Yaojin reported the matter of establishing the camp, Pei Ji took the initiative to leave and left without disturbing Chen Sangliang's military affairs.

He ordered the army to set up wood as a square. Chen Yingliang asked Gao Junya to help provide wood. Gao Junya agreed immediately and immediately rushed to the camp of the Sui Army in Taiyuan to allocate wood for Chen Sangliang. Chen Sangliang handed the gift box that Pei Ji gave him to Gao Junya and ordered: "General Gao, tell the soldiers of Taiyuan that this is something I accidentally got. To send troops to Lingjing Store tomorrow, whoever kills the most enemies will be the ones here, and the reward will continue to be allocated as usual."

"The general really understands the soldiers' thoughts. I thank you for those Qiu Ba." Gao Junya did not refuse, and took the gift box with a smile. When she opened it curiously, Gao Junya screamed in surprise, "So many?"

He turned his head in surprise and saw that Chen Sangliang realized that the gift Pei Ji gave him was indeed quite good. The gift box contained a total of ten silver cakes and a pair of jade walls. However, Chen Sangliang did not feel distressed, but just smiled and said, "I didn't expect that Pei Gongjian would be so generous, so let's change it. The person who beheaded the most has the jade walls and caught the first ten prisoners, and got these ten silver cakes."

Gao Junya agreed happily, and Wang Wei next to him said in surprise: "Old Pei is really a rooster this time. He is so generous. Could he have something to beg you, General, right?"

If it were someone else, Chen Yingliang would definitely not have any questions, but because he knew what Pei Ji was, Wang Wei's unintentional sentence immediately aroused Chen Yingliang's alertness, and Chen Yingliang asked quickly: "Mr. Wang, after hearing what you said, Pei Gongjian is very stingy?"

"It's not just stingy?" Wang Wei sneered and said, "It's famous for plucking hairs by geese, mosquitoes scraping oil in their stomachs, and egrets cut flesh on their legs. They are both picky and greedy."

"Shanxi Laozi is already famous, and Pei Ji is nicknamed Shanxi No. 1 Xiaozi." Gao Junya also disliked Pei Ji very much, sneered, and said, "General, you have to be careful. If this Laozi gives you such a heavy gift, there must be something big to ask you."

Chen Sangliang's face became a little serious. After a moment, Chen Sangliang smiled again and said with a smile: "No matter what he is doing, for his heavy gifts, as long as he asks me not to violate national laws, it doesn't matter if he is willing to be a favor. But don't let Grandpa Fan know about this. He is famous for being honest and knows that I will be slapped in the past for no reason." Gao Junya and Wang Wei laughed together, and they all nodded and said yes.

In a moment, Gao Junya hurried to the Sui Army camp in Taiyuan. While allocating wood to the reinforcements brought by Chen Sangliang, Chen Sangliang's decision was announced in public. As a result, the effect of boosting morale was immediately visible. In a moment, a shocking cheer sounded from the Taiyuan Sui Army camp, which was still alive before, and the earth-shaking cheers sounded. One after another, for a long time, Taiyuan generals who asked to follow Gao Junya to send troops to fight the thieves were grouped together, surrounding Gao Junya, and they were all smiling and in high spirits.

While the Taiyuan soldiers who had been suppressed for a long time finally burst into laughter, Pei Ji, the Jinyang Palace Supervisor, also returned to Jinyang Palace. In the palace of Emperor Yang of Sui, who was the only one in Taiyuan City, Fan Zigai, who had no authority to investigate and deal with the investigation, Li Er, who was dressed in servants and dressed up, was waiting in Pei Ji's signing room, with an extremely calm expression. Seeing Pei Ji suddenly pushed the door in, Li Er was not surprised and asked with a smile: "How is it? Did you send it out?"

"I've sent it out." Pei Ji nodded and sighed, "It's a pity that Gao Junya and Wang Wei are both beside him, so it's inconvenient to speak, so I couldn't say what I asked him to protect the position of the palace supervisor for me."

"It's okay, it's not too late to talk about it when you have the chance. Anyway, he won't leave for a while." Li Er said with a smile.

Pei Ji nodded and asked carefully: "Second Young Master, can he really convince Fan Zigai not to impeach me anymore? That old guy has always disliked me and has always wanted to get me away. This time he finally caught the handle of the escape of the palace servants in Jinyang Palace. It may be difficult for him to give up."

"Don't worry, that boy's butt is not clean. As long as he is fed, and you are from Wenxi Pei, he will not be able to say something about incense." Li Er comforted: "Fan Lao Wanru is very close to him. Fan Lao Wanru refuses to listen to other people's words. Fan Lao Wanru can still listen to a few words. And even if he can't persuade Lao Wanru, the old Wanru's memorial is sent to His Majesty, my father will do everything possible to protect you."

Pei Ji nodded and said regretfully: "It's a pity that Duke Tang just couldn't make up his mind. Otherwise, it would have been the best opportunity a few days ago. He was stubborn and stubborn, offended the Taiyuan army all over. People in the army hated him to the core everywhere. If Duke Tang could make up his mind at that time, things would definitely be done."

"Is that easy?" Li Er smiled and said, "My father sent me here. He originally wanted me to see if there was a chance to do it, but after I looked carefully, I found that the opportunity was not mature yet. The old stubbornness was indeed a bit unbearable to the hearts of the army and the people. But after all, he was honest and self-disciplined and had a high prestige. He was not sure of success if he really wanted to do it. So I had no choice but to save you first, keep my father's old subordinates, and wait for the opportunity to appear slowly."

Pei Ji nodded and respectfully thanked Li Er for his kindness in preservation. Li Erze said again: "Just do it like this, if you have a chance, you should plead with him. Use Wenxi Pei's signature to ask him. If you still need money, just speak to me."

"Thank you, the second son." Pei Ji thanked again, and said: "Duke Tang has been so hurt by that boy. He has to make the second son spend so much money, which will make the Duke Tang worse. The lower official feels really sorry."
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