"The country of Handong is great."

As a native of Suixian, he is restless to be a teaching old Confucian, but he has a soft spot for lobbying and vertical and horizontal techniques, and he pays more attention to it on weekdays.

In the Suixian County Temple, he talked eloquently to Ji Ying and Zhou Chang, who came to him for advice: "When King Wu of Chu wanted to pass through the Central Plains, he would first serve Sui and Tang, and the concubines of Hanyang would be wiped out. Gai Chu is suited, Tang and Cai, and Zheng Shi are afraid. Jin and Wu wanted to attack Chu, but they also served Tang first and followed the second marquis, thinking that Kong Dao. Since there are many reasons in the north and south, they are often guarded here. ”

He told Ji Ying and the others that Nanyang County is equivalent to a large basin, and between the Nanyang Basin and the vast Jianghan, there are four large mountain ranges.

From west to east, they are Jing Mountain, Lvlin Mountain (Dahong Mountain), Tongbai Mountain, and Dabie Mountain.

Therefore, in this era of backward transportation, between Jianghan and Nanyang, there are only three roads sandwiched by four mountains, which can pass through the army of cars and horses.

Han Water Road, Tang Sui Road, Hades Sanguan Road.

Xiangyang and Yanxian hold the Han waterway, which is the most smooth and convenient, and there is a waterway to transport grain, which is the first choice for going south, so Wang Bencai has to take the army and Heifu to fight there.

The Three Gates of the Underworld were connected to the Runan region of Chenjun, and Wang Ben did not invest a large number of troops there.

Tang Suidao (Zaosui Corridor) in the middle became the second choice, once lost, the northern army could drive straight into Anlu in the hinterland of Jianghan, and even threaten Hengshan County, which is why Suiguo has a prominent position in the vassals of Chu, and it is also the reason why Heifu ordered Ji Ying to take 10,000 men to garrison this place.

I don't want to, just after He finished speaking, Ji Ying slapped the case and scolded: "You old Confucian, the enemy has crossed Baishui with 30,000 people, and it looks like he is about to enter the boundary of Suixian, and our army only has 10,000 people, and most of them are newly recruited militiamen in the past few months." I came to you to try to break the enemy's strategy, but you talked to me about the local mountains and rivers, and you were verbose, I'm afraid you're not entertaining me? ”

At present, Ji Yingdu is about to burn his eyebrows.

Seeing that Ji Ying's attitude was so bad, Lao Ru Suihe sneered: "Since the commander knows that he can't be the enemy, why don't you give up Suixian?" ”

Ji Ying was furious, and was about to draw his sword: "Okay, what do you want, dare to instigate me to abandon the land and flee?" I'll kill you! ”

"Ji, Ji Duwei is angry, and, listen to him."

Zhou Chang, who is also a little stammering, has to be persuaded, he was originally a Surabaya county official, three years ago, when Xiao He went south to be the captain of Heifu's Sosu, Zhou Chang followed Xiao He, and then got on Heifu's thief ship.

Sui He flashed back and said: "This is not an abandoned land, but what Marquis Wu Zhong said, save yourself first before you can destroy the enemy army!" ”

Ji Ying was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it carefully, a few months ago, after Heifu attacked Anlu and rescued his father and fellow villagers, he did say this, and immediately crossed the river with the people, avoiding Feng Wuxuan's main force.

Sui He began to explain the reason why you can't stick to it: "With the Tang Dynasty, it is like lips and teeth, so you must keep the Tang Dynasty." ”

"But now that the Tang land has been lost, the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, and there is no barrier, the northern army can drive straight into and besiege Suixian."

"With the non-fortified city, the soldiers are not elite soldiers, in my opinion, Ji Duwei can't be a good general, ask yourself, can you resist three times the enemy?"

It is rude to say this, but it is a fact, Ji Ying is indeed the person with the least military talent in Heifu's old department, Ji Ying groaned, and said honestly: "I can't stop ......"

Sui He persuaded: "In this case, instead of fighting with the enemy army in Suixian, it is better to give up a city in Suixian, take 10,000 soldiers, and the people of Suixian, and hide in the townships of Lulin Mountain and Tongbai Mountain!" ”

Suixian is a small basin between the two mountains, so Lixiang, Longshan, Pinglin, Hengwei and other townships are all in the mountains.

"In this way, wouldn't it be easy for the enemy army to pass through Suixian and enter Jianghan?" Ji Ying's heart was very twisted.

Sui He shook his head: "Giving up Suixian does not mean giving up anywhere." ”

He pointed to the bare farmland outside the city wall and said: "Suixian's grain has been harvested in advance, and the commander can immediately distribute the grain to the soldiers and the people, don't leave a grain of millet in the city, and then block the spring, fill the well water and poison it, and finally burn Suixian!" This is also a strategy to clear the wilderness. ”

Zhou Chang glanced at Sui He in surprise, but all people have a love for their homeland, this Sui He is ruthless, and the first fire has burned to the heads of the people in his hometown.

Sui He didn't have any psychological burden at all, and continued: "In this way, the 30,000 northern army entered the place, and could neither find anyone nor find food, so they faced the situation of having no rice to eat. The northern army had nowhere to eat, and if it wanted to advance, it had to transport grain from Nanyang County in the rear and replenish it all the way. ”

"But with the long road, the narrow road, the mountains and rivers are pressing, the trees are thick, the march is slow, and the procession will be very long. The commander can send people to lurk in the mountains and forests, hit his baggage, burn his grain, and the army has no baggage, food, and accumulation, so he will not dare to risk marching, so he can only stay in the local area and wait for us to waste. ”

"Sss Ji Ying's eyes lit up, this is a good idea!

He couldn't help but think of what Heifu had done a few months ago when he had gone to Yundu and Xinshi to go to Huarong Road.

Heifu asked Ji Ying and Gongwei to take 5,000 people to attack Feng Wuxue over there, and also taught him the sixteen-character mantra:

"The enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and disturbs me, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase!"

Sui He slapped his palm: "Yes, this is the way of playing, and this is probably the reason why Marquis Wu Zhong asked Duwei to guard the place." ”

Zhou Chang poured cold water on the side: "If you ...... What should we do if others do not want to leave us? ”

Ji Ying's eyes glared: "Tie, you have to tie it up, you can't leave a grain of grain for the rebel army, a person's hands!" ”

Sui He said with a smile: "This matter is simple, more than ten years ago, everywhere still belonged to the Chu State, Qin destroyed Chu, broke Sui County, because of the resistance of the people, after the city was broken, many people were beheaded, as a beheading calculation." ”

After that, Suixian was called Xindi, there were often robbers for chaos, and the young people of Suixian County all had enmity with Qin officials, two months ago, the Northern Expedition military arrived, and they surrendered with random people. The lieutenant only needs to tell the people that after the northern army comes, they will investigate the crimes of the people, and they will be afraid that they will slaughter the city, and they will leave with us. ”

"Good!"

Ji Ying felt full of energy, he couldn't defend the city and fight in the field, but he had some experience in breaking it into pieces, avoiding the real and attacking the false, so he clapped the board and said: "Just follow Mr. Sui's policy, Zhou Chang, you go to Yan County immediately, and inform the prince of Suixian's response!" ”

……

Out of the county temple, Zhou Chang shouted to Sui He from behind.

"Sui, Mr. Sui, what you say is the truth?"

Looking back, he stroked the gray beard under his chin and said:

"It's true, with my plan, I can drag the Northern Army in Suixian for at least a month!"

Zhou Chang shook his head: "I, I mean, it's up to ...... people's business."

He was stunned for a moment, and laughed dumbly:

"Dare to ask Zhou Jun, looking at the world, who will defect to the Northern Expeditionary Army?"

Zhou Chang shook his head: "I never thought about it. ”

Sui He pointed at Zhou Chang, and then pointed at himself: "One is, like you and me, who are not willing to be a cloth cloth official and have ambitions. ”

"The second type is those who have been promised by the prince and want to live a good life."

"There is another kind of people, if they can make good use of it, they will be the most desperate to the prince and the Northern Expeditionary Army."

Sui He restrained his smile, looked around and learned that the Northern Army was coming, everyone was terrified, and he was afraid of being slaughtered, and sighed:

"People who can't live!"

……

At the beginning of August, before the arrival of the Northern Army, the fire broke out in Chengman County, and the peasants watched their houses being set on fire with tears in their eyes, and under the urging of the military officials, they followed the banner of the Northern Expeditionary Army and walked to the mountains.

And Zhou Chang went in the opposite direction, was ignited Suixian, has been left behind, Zhou Chang with more than a dozen people first to the south, and then to the west, take the trail of the green forest mountain, in early August, can calculate the rolling mountains, to the west side of the green forest mountain, the shore of the Han River.

This is the vicinity of the suburbs of Ying(Zhongxiang, Hubei), Zhou Chang wants to go north to Yanxian County, and then west to Yancheng, and tell Wuzhonghou what happened in Suixian.

But before he arrived in Yanxian, he witnessed a terrifying scene......

A group of chariots with black flags were galloping across the flat land of Handong, driving and killing farmers in Nanjun who were trying to harvest rice, and setting fire to the crops in the fields that had not had time to be harvested.

The flames danced in the yellow rice fields, turning the hard work of spring, summer and autumn into a pile of ashes, which continued from south to north, and when the chariots had set the fire, they flew away, leaving only a scorched earth and the blood and tears of the farmers......

Looking at the smoke and dust in the distance, Zhou Chang couldn't help but be shocked: "Wang Ben's chariot has gone deep into here?" ”

You know, this is a place two hundred miles south of Xiangyang, if the two armies are still facing each other, it is impossible for Wang Ben to let the lone army of Che Cai go deep here, and he suddenly has a bad premonition in his heart.

When Zhou Chang was cautious, he avoided the chariots of the northern army that would be encountered at any time, and when he arrived in Juxian, he found that the four gates were closed here, as if he was facing a great enemy, but he was helpless to take the chariots and horses outside the city that wreaked havoc on the farmland of the township.

Chen Ying, who was guarding the city, knew Zhou Chang, and after letting him enter the city, he told him a thunderbolt on a sunny day:

"The front line, the battle is lost!"

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PS: The second chapter is in the evening.