In the morning, at the northeast foot of Tongbai Mountain, Pingyang City, Yiyang County, Shenzhou, the banner of the city head fluttered and crowded, and the general of Anzhou, Sima Wei Chishun, led the generals to inspect, and it has been half a day since the Anzhou army attacked and won this Shenzhou Prefecture, but they are still on guard.

At the southern gate of the city, a long procession was marching south, and the procession was full of people with children and daughters, who left Pingyang and headed south to cross the mountains and mountains to the border of Anzhou under the command of the soldiers of the Anzhou army.

Shenzhou is subordinate to the Yuzhou Governor's Mansion for its border with the Anzhou Governor's Office, in June, the Anzhou Governor Yuwen Liang raised troops against Yang, and then sent the Governor Sima Wei Chi Shun to lead the army in Yingzhou, at the southeast foot of Tongbai Mountain, to prevent the Yuzhou Governor's Mansion army from going south through Shenzhou.

Wei Chishun stayed in Yingzhou for two months, during which the main force of the Anzhou Army defeated the imperial court at the mouth of the two rivers and then swept through the states of Jingzhou, and his responsibilities as the Eastern Route Army remained the same: to contain the governor's office of Yuzhou.

Therefore, after planning for more than a month, he made a decisive move and successfully took the south gate of the Yuzhou Governor's Mansion in a surprise attack on Pingyang last night, and the next thing he will face is a strong counterattack by the Yuzhou army.

"Sima, the sentinel has come to report that the governor of Yuzhou has sent a large army south, less than a hundred miles away from Pingyang an hour ago." A subordinate general reported the military situation, and Wei Chishun and the generals looked solemn when they heard this.

There is not much time left for them, the normal marching speed of the army is about thirty or forty miles a day, but if the cavalry is sent alone, it will be much faster, and if the Yuzhou army sends cavalry to harass and contain them, then their retreat plan will be affected.

"Immediately send the order down and set fire to the city!" Wei Chishun did not dwell too long before issuing the military order, which was also part of the plan: taking Pingyang is not the same as holding Pingyang. The people were moved away, the city was set on fire, and not a grain of grain was left for the Yuzhou army.

The responsibility of the Anzhou East Route Army led by him is to guard against and contain the Yuzhou Army, so when there is a chance, he will attack the other side to bleed and attract more troops to come. Between Yingzhou and Shenzhou is the eastern section of Tongbai, and the traffic is related to the mountain road, which can be described as easy to defend and difficult to attack. These passes are now in the hands of the Anzhou army, so he is not afraid of the Yuzhou army coming to attack, and Wei Chishun is to try his best to attract the other party to these passes and consume himself.

"Sima, there are still people in the city who have not been evacuated, is it" A general asked, Wei Chi Sima had previously ordered the army to enter the city not to burn, kill and loot, and not to kill people indiscriminately in the process of relocating the people, and now the people have not finished withdrawing and set fire to the city, he is afraid that someone will be trapped, which is somewhat inconsistent with the previous image of 'harmony'.

"Set fire to the place where no one is there first, and the people who are still grinding will naturally speed up their movements when they see the fire, and when the burn is reached, everyone will also be withdrawn." Wei Chishun did not mean to change the order. He had been fighting with his father, the lieutenant of Shu for many years, and knew that Ci should be ruthless if he was not in charge of the army, so he looked at the long line of troops outside the city and added: "Arrange more carriages, and try to bring the old and weak women and children as much as possible." ”

In this era, population is the most important resource, there are more than 2,000 residents in Pingyang City, and tens of thousands of people can move to Anzhou according to the calculation of five people per household, and they can also open up wasteland and farm to increase taxes, leaving an empty city with no one behind, and the Yuzhou army does not even have a strong and strong force to defend the city.

"Our army's attack this time has given the Yuzhou army a slap in the face, and the Pingyang defenders have suffered a lot of casualties, if they send troops to defend the city again, I am afraid that thousands of people will have to be arranged." A general looked at the gradually lit fire in the city and said, "There are more people here, and there are fewer people who can go to the west, and the governor will have a few more advantages in Jingzhou." ”

If Yuzhou wants to defend Anzhou, it must garrison troops in Pingyang City, and with the lesson of this loss, the other side must strengthen its troops, and at the same time, it must reserve troops and horses elsewhere. They have to guard against whether the Anzhou army will go out to take Pingyang in the next attack, and then directly wave the army north, Pingyang is only two hundred miles away from Yuzhou Prefecture, and Cai, if the cavalry comes to raid day and night, I am afraid that they will succeed in one blow.

"It's not just the west. I heard that the Bozhou Governor's Mansion in the east of Yuzhou has been taken by the Governor of Weichi, and it is too late for Yuzhou to defend itself, where do you have the heart to save Jingzhou. Another general added that now that the Anzhou army is gaining momentum, as long as it stays up for a few more months and the situation is stable, then the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion will be in the stomach.

The generals were discussing the current battle situation in full swing, but Wei Chi Shun did not participate, and the 'Wei Chi Commander' they mentioned just now refers to the Qingzhou Governor Wei Chi Qin, who is his cousin, and his half-brother Wei Chi Dun is the Xiangzhou Governor, and is now leading a large army to fight with the imperial army in Xingzhou.

"I don't know if my father is okay now," he looked back at the sky in the north and muttered to himself, his father Wei Chi Hui supported Zhao Wang Yuwen in Yecheng to recruit his youngest son Yuwen Qiankeng as the emperor and set up another court, and the father and son have been separated for more than a year.

In June last year, the Duke of Shu Chi Hui raised troops against Yang in Xiangzhou, and Chi Shun, the Duke of Angu County in Chang'an, was placed under house arrest by Yang Jian, if it weren't for the son-in-law Yuwen Wen who rescued him, he was afraid that he would have been in a different place, and after coming to Anlu, thanks to his in-law Yu Wenliang is the governor of Anzhou, so he served as the governor Sima to lead the troops to fight, and now seeing the situation between the two sides improve, resist Yang Jian together, and the uneasiness in Wei Chishun's heart also began to sprout: If Yang Jian is really killed, then what will happen after that?

Father is now the prime minister of the Yecheng court, if he can kill Yang Jian in the future, Yuwen Qiankeng, who ascended the throne and became the emperor in Yecheng, is naturally the true son of the Great Zhou, and his father is also the real power of the Great Zhou, how should Yuwenliang and his son deal with themselves at that time?

One mountain does not tolerate two tigers, the Wei Chi family will rebuild the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the four people will inevitably be high and powerful, and finally the three of Yu Wenliang father and son as the clan will be opposed, the little emperor will grow up, he will begin to feel that it is difficult for the Yu Chi family to fall, so it is inevitable to use the only remaining clan power of the fruit, and when the time comes, Yu Chi Hui's father and son, uncle and nephew will fight against Yu Wenliang's father and son, so what should he do?

Whether it is over there, the final victory is a dilemma for Wei Chishun: no matter who wins, he must cut the grass and eradicate the roots, Yuwenwen is dead, then his daughter Sanniang is afraid that she will not be able to live, if Yu Chi's family dies, she is afraid that Sanniang will not be able to live.

Although the current situation is uncertain, maybe Yang Jian can finally succeed or make the situation of the confrontation between the Eastern and Western Wei more than thirty years ago, it seems a little ridiculous to worry about the future now, but Wei Chishun has already sensed that something is wrong in some details: his father did not contact Yu Wenliang when he launched the offensive in June, and it is not known whether he has contact now.

In other words, his father did not regard Yu Wenliang as an ally, perhaps because he was confident in his own strength, or maybe he thought that Yu Wenliang had made peace with Yang Jian and was not trustworthy. Whatever the reason, this is in stark contrast to the incident of contacting Yu Wenliang when he started fighting against Yang last year. This attitude itself has already shown that his father has a lot of criticism for Yu Wenliang.

Therefore, Wei Chishun felt that the uneasiness in his heart was not unreasonable. Yang Jian had an opinion on Yu Wenliang before he got rid of his father, so if Yang Jian was really resolved, the relationship would only become more and more tense until a conflict broke out.

Even if his father can bear it, even if Yu Wenliang can bear it, can his younger brother, cousin, son-in-law and brother bear it? Will their respective subordinates be able to endure it? Can the little emperor endure it? Not to mention those families and nobles who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic and fish in troubled waters.

"If the situation continues like this, it's actually not bad," Wei Chishun thought to himself as he looked at the sky in the northwest direction......

In the eastern section of Tongbai Mountain, the mountain road winds and turns, crowded with people who drag their families and mouths, they were driven out of Pingyang City by the Anzhou army, stepped into Tongbai Mountain, walked all the way south along the mountain road, and then came to the pass at the junction of Shenzhou and Yingzhou.

There are three roads in Shenzhou to the south over Tongbai Mountain, and there is a pass on each road for the three passes of Yiyang: Baiyan Pass, Wuyang Pass, Pingjing Pass, Wuyang Pass is in the middle and Baiyan Pass, Pingjing Pass are separated on the east and west sides, and this group of people walks on the Wusheng Pass Road in the center.

On weekdays, it takes three or four days to walk each of these three passes, and from time to time you have to beware of the barbaric attacks of Tongbai Mountain. However, since the end of May, the Barbarian rebellion was put down one after another, the mountain road has stopped a lot, because the people of Pingyang who have migrated are more and the mountain road is narrow, this time they are divided into two groups, one to take the Wuyang Pass, the other to take the Pingjing Pass.

As for the Baiyan Pass in the east, because it is located at the eastern foot of Tongbai Mountain, it is very easy to be intercepted by the Yuzhou army, so no one left, and the Anzhou army escorted the people into Tongbai Mountain, and did not urge again, after all, the army behind the palace blocked the entrance of the mountain road, even if the Yuzhou army chased after it, there was nothing to be done: the road was too narrow, and the two sides were either ravines or cliffs.

Although the Anzhou soldiers had a fierce attitude, they did not 'move their hands and feet' to these civilians according to the orders of the officials, and let the old people, women and children who could not walk take a ride, and now they are not afraid of chasing soldiers behind, so it doesn't matter if the team moves slowly.

A woman was walking with a little girl in her arms, and suddenly her feet slipped and almost slipped into the deep ditch next to her, but fortunately she was pulled by the man next to her, and the soldiers who followed behind to maintain order saw this and stopped the carriage behind her: "Take her and her mother for a ride." ”

Seeing this, the woman was quite grateful, and with the help of the man, she squeezed into the carriage, and the soldier couldn't help but smile when she saw the little girl's timid appearance and said to the man: "You girl is good-looking, and she is smart." ”

Seeing that the man was silent, he was worried that the other party would think that he had ill intentions towards his daughter, and hurriedly added: "Don't panic. After you arrive in Anlu, the government will settle you well, and you will have land, land and houses. No worse than in Binh Duong. ”

"Master Jun, I don't know how far it will be to go to this Anlu?" The man seemed to believe it and asked boldly.

"It depends on which road you take, if you go out of the mountain, you go south through Yuezhou and then west to Anlu, this road is about one hundred and forty miles, if you go out of the mountain to the west to Yingzhou, and then turn south to Anlu, it will be one hundred and twenty miles."

The man thanked and followed the carriage to move on, the little girl in the woman's arms suddenly cried, the woman kept coaxing and couldn't stop, she didn't ask the man next to her for help, and the man was also indifferent, the soldier looked at the little girl, and then touched the little girl from his arms, took out half of the cooking cake and handed it to the man: "Your daughter is hungry, right?" Hold it for her. ”

"Uh, thank you, Master Jun." The man hurriedly thanked him, and the soldier asked him how old his daughter was, first saying six, but after glancing at the little girl, he changed his words to say that he was three.

The man handed the cake to the little girl in the woman's arms, but the other party did not dare to take it, the woman glanced at the man and then took the cake with a nervous face for the little girl to eat, the soldier felt that this family of three looked a little strange, and the relationship between the two seemed to be very poor.

The soldier felt a little strange, before according to the requirements of the officer, the soldiers had interrogated every civilian, so as not to have the Yuzhou soldiers who had slipped through the net mixed with the civilians, this little couple was in charge of the interrogation, and it was determined that they were husband and wife at that time.

'Could it be that you have a mother-in-law outside?' He thought about it and stopped paying attention, because his mother-in-law couldn't give birth to a boy and raise a child outside on weekdays, he also heard about it from time to time, so he thought that the relationship between the couple in front of him was not harmonious, and it was probably the same.

The mountain road ahead turned a corner, a pass appeared in front of everyone's eyes, the pass on both sides of the steep mountain wall, only the pass gate can pass, the top of the gate 'Wuyang Pass' three big characters are clearly visible.

The man who followed the carriage glanced at Wuyang Pass, lowered his head and looked to the side to meet the gaze of the other person.

There were also some eyes in the team looking at each other, as if they were conveying something. (To be continued.) )