When Xu Ping walked out of the valley, it was already noon, and the bright sun was stinging on his skin. Helped by Tan Hu to get on the horse, Xu Ping rode straight to the front of the military formation.

"I've seen the military envoy!" Han Daocheng, Zhang Rong and others, who arrived first, sang loudly.

Xu Pingce stepped forward immediately, and then saw Huang Ping'an and others.

Huang Ping'an had seen Xu Ping before, and he hurriedly brought people up to bow and salute: "Xiaguan knows that Huang Ping'an, as well as his subordinates, please see him!" ”

Xu Ping nodded and said, "Don't be polite, lead the way and go to your village to talk about things!" ”

Huang Ping'an agreed, turned around and went first.

Xu Ping said to the people around him: "The Zhongrui Army and the Anyuan Army are stationed outside the village, and they are divided into left and right to guard the village. Gao Daquan came up at the first meeting to take the second commander of the township soldiers to station on the other side of the Ming River, and Zhang Rong led the first commander of the township soldiers to follow me into the village, and everything was done according to the previous orders. Han Daocheng, you divide two teams of people to collect ferries up and down the Ming River, and there must be no delays! ”

Everyone agreed, and each went to his own army.

Zhang Rong arranged it, and Xu Ping whispered to him: "Follow me into the village, you arrange for someone to watch the granary in the village, and you must not make mistakes!" After we have eaten the military rations we brought, if there is no food to be delivered, it is a place to save lives, we must be careful! ”

After speaking, Xu Ping beat the horse and followed Huang Ping'an to Qianlongzhai.

After entering Qianlongzhai, Xu Ping saw that there was no pedestrian on the street, and everyone closed their doors and shook his head. These ordinary people only know that they are afraid when they see the army, but they don't know that they are here to help them. I don't know if when I leave one day, they will be a farewell or a curse.

Entering the Zhizhai Yamen, several family members had already burned incense and knelt on the ground and did not dare to raise their heads.

Xu Ping looked at the case of Jia Ding and Xiang and sneered slightly. Huang Ping'an came to worship his god, but he entered the wrong temple gate, he likes good food and drink, but he doesn't like incense.

Dismounted and went straight into the walled hall, Xu Ping sat down, and Huang Ping'an brought people over to pay homage.

Xu Ping said: "Huang Zhitong, it is difficult to walk from Taiping County to the mountain road here, I came a few days early, so as not to miss the hour, and you will tell the people in the village not to panic, everything is just as usual." ”

Huang Ping'an should be.

Xu Ping said again: "Also, the mountain road is difficult, and it is inconvenient to carry grain and grass, so I have to trouble you." ”

When Huang Ping'an heard this, he cried out in his heart, where can he afford an army of more than 2,000 people in his small village. After thinking for a while, he said stubbornly: "Shangguan, our Qianlongtong is a small place, the land is barren and sparsely populated, and there is really not much grain and grass stored in the village, but I am afraid that the supply of the imperial army will not be able to cope with it for a few days." ”

"Oh, you have a point. In this way, I will write a few warrants in a while, and you will send people to Shangsizhou and Siming Prefecture respectively, so that their Zhizhou will bring grain and grass when they come, and let Yongpingzhai notify the subordinate states and counties to do so. Chungju doesn't have to go, I already told you when I came. ”

Huang Ping let out a sigh of relief when he heard this: "The little one obeys orders!" ”

After asking about the current situation of Qianlongtong, Xu Ping asked Huang Ping'an to go out to run errands, and he occupied the Zhizhai Yamen as a temporary station.

However, it was said that Huang Anming had left Luobai County, and he did not dare to stop all the way back to Siming Prefecture, thinking about secretly sending people to Qianlongtong to meet Huang Zongxiang's people in Shangsizhou, and harassing the loyal Rui army who went to Qianlongtong on the mountain road. Because he had to hide from the Yongping Zhai people stationed here, he delayed for a while, but before he set off from Siming Prefecture, he got the news that Xu Ping led his troops to Qianlongtong, so he had to stop.

Two days later, someone from Qianlongtong sent Xu Ping's warrant, asking Siming Prefecture to send a hundred people to Qianlongtong to deliver grain and grass. Huang Anming saw it, sneered, and tore it up casually. I still want food and grass, and on the 25th, I will pretend to be sick and see what will happen to Xu Ping.

Huang Zongxiang of Shangsi Prefecture got the news earlier than Huang Anming, and he was already halfway to the road, but some of his subordinates who were close to Qianlongtong came to report that a large number of soldiers and horses from the imperial court had arrived in Qianlongtong. Huang Zongxiang had no choice but to return with someone in a huff. He had already made up his mind to ignore Xu Ping, why did he come to arrest him if he didn't go to meet with local officials on November 25?

Only one day after returning to Shangsizhou, the people sent by Qianlongtong arrived.

After reading Xu Ping's warrant, it was said that Shangsizhou was in the upper reaches of Qianlongtong, and it could be transported by water, and the most grain and grass were distributed. Although Xu Ping said in the warrant that these grains and grasses would be borrowed temporarily by the Xitong Lifting Division and would be repaid in the future, Huang Zongxiang was still furious, and he tore up the warrant and was still angry, so he chopped off the head of the messenger in a fit of anger.

On the morning of November 16, when Xu Ping was discussing the situation around Qianlongtong with Zhang Rong, Gao Daquan, Han Daocheng and others in the Zhizhai Hall, Huang Ping'an ran in in a panic and shouted: "Shangguan, something is wrong!" Shangsizhou is going to be reversed! ”

Xu Ping looked at Huang Ping'an, who was frightened, and shouted: "If you have something to say, why am I not good!" ”

Huang Ping'an was stunned for a moment, and saw that Xu Pingping's complexion was not good, so he hurriedly said: "I'm not saying that Shangguan is bad, I'm saying that Huang Zongxiang in Shangsizhou is not good, he is going to rebel!" ”

Huang Zongxiang has never listened to the dispatch, and he has never come to visit him for so many years, Xu Ping has long been dissatisfied with him, listened to Huang Ping'an's words, and said in a deep voice: "What's going on?" Make it clear! What did he do, you said he was going to do the opposite? ”

Huang Ping'an finally calmed down, straightened his official robe, and bowed his hand: "Back to Shangguan, a few days ago, the little one obeyed the orders of Shangguan and sent someone to Shangsizhou to deliver your warrant." Huang Zongxiang's wolf behavior tore up the warrant of Shangguan, and killed the person who delivered the letter, and the head was sent back! The poor messenger has grown up with me since he was a child, and I see him as a son! ”

Hearing the news, Xu Pingteng stood up. This is worth it, I heard that Huang Zongxiang was domineering, but Xu Ping didn't expect that lawlessness would reach such a point. Tear up the warrant, kill the messenger, this is really going to rebel, does this guy really think that he brought troops over just scary? is confident that his Shangsizhou is iron-clad?

"Who sent the head back? Bring someone to me! ”

Seeing that Xu Ping's color was like iron, Huang Ping'an actually felt a little flustered, and hurriedly said: "The people from Shangsizhou just sent the heads across the border, they didn't get close to here, they went back a long time ago, and the small subordinates came back to report." ”

Xu Ping took a deep breath: "Okay, I know the matter, there will be an arrangement, you go down." ”

Huang Ping'an had doubts in his heart, could it be that Shangguan would endure this kind of thing? So what's the use of bringing so many soldiers and horses? But he didn't dare to ask, so he had to leave the hall.

Watching Huang Ping'an go out, Xu Ping did not speak.

Shangsizhou was originally known as Yingzhou, and it was the Sui Dynasty general Liu Fang who opened the road to Jiaozhi and opened the road there. In the Tang Dynasty, in order to open up the Zuojiang area, Li Hongjie, the prince of Qingping during the Zhenguan period, sent Qinzhou to guard Ning Shijing to reopen Liu Fang's old road and set up Yingzhou there. After entering the Song Dynasty, Sizhou was set up, and Yingzhou was withdrawn and annexed, and the surrounding area of two or three hundred miles was governed. The mountains in the territory are continuous, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the people are fierce, which is the most difficult to govern.

Before the road to the south of Yongzhou was opened, the Central Plains Dynasty entered the Zuojiang area by the Qinzhou sea road, and Shangsizhou was just rushing, and the passes were heavy, and it was an important place in the Zuojiang River. Now Liu Fang's old road has long been abandoned, but there are really a lot of guarding facilities left there, and the place also ignores the imperial court by virtue of natural danger.

When he came back to his senses and saw that everyone was looking at him, Xu Ping smiled bitterly: "The first one to jump out is Shangsizhou, and he doesn't even have a chance to kill chickens and monkeys, so he will gnaw hard bones at once." ”

After speaking, he shook his head again and again.

Zhang Rong said: "Officials don't have to worry, they can't hide from what should come." Among these Tuzhou, Shangsi Prefecture is the most unruly, and if it is defeated, other places will be honest. ”

"That's right." Xu Ping nodded and looked at Gao Daquan, "Gao Daquan, you will set off today with your subordinates, travel lightly all the way, and hit Sizhou directly." This is seventy miles away from Shangsizhou, I limit you to arrive tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow he broke his stockade and took Huang Zongxiang's head back! ”

Gao Daquan stood up and promised loudly.

Xu Ping said again: "You go there, remember to transport all the grain stored in their state to Qianlongtong, if you don't have enough manpower, just arrest the local people in their state!" “

"The little one understands!" Gao Daquan nodded and turned out of the Zhizhai Hall.

Before coming, various plans had been made, and it was the last thing Xu Ping wanted to hit Sizhou first, and it was precisely because of this that the plan was done the most fully. No way, God likes to play tricks, the more you don't want things to happen, the more you have to put them on your head, and you have to spend more effort on the things you don't want to happen if you plan in advance.

Shangsizhou is on the other side of the Ming River, and Gao Daquan was arranged on the other side of the river after he arrived, because Shangsizhou was fought by him in the plan. In the same way, if Siming Prefecture is in turmoil, it will be returned to the loyal Rui Army and the Anyuan Army, and there are also soldiers and horses from Yongping Village, and it is the easiest to cooperate with the outside and the outside. Who knew that although Huang Anming did not reply to the letter, he honestly put the person who sent the letter back, and the first punch could not hit him, which made Xu Ping feel sorry.

Among the four villages in Zuojiang Road, Qianlongzhai is the latest, and the jurisdiction of Detuzhou is also the least, with only three places: Zhongzhou, Shangsizhou, and Qianlongtong. Zhongzhou Xu Ping has long been in his hands, and Qianlongtong is now in his hands, but the remaining Emperor Shangsizhou Mountain is far away, and now it is time to solve it.

As soon as the tall and full soldiers and horses moved, there was Shang Sizhou's eyeliner to report back to Huang Zongxiang. However, Xu Ping watched strictly, Han Daocheng scattered more than a hundred cavalry, and as long as he saw someone riding a horse within a range of ten miles around, no matter who it was, he would be arrested first, and his eyes could only run away.

The local natives are good at walking mountain roads, but they can't rush back for seventy miles, and when the eyeliner returns to Shangsizhou, it is already the early morning of the next day.

Huang Zongxiang got up early in the morning and was munching on a cooked fat chicken in the walled hall, when a family member flew in and shouted: "Master, the army over there is here!" ”

Huang Zongxiang pushed the chicken, stood up freely, and asked, "How many people are here?" When did you leave? When will you come to us? ”

The family Ding gasped and said, "I heard that it is a command, and I don't know how many people." We left yesterday morning, and it is said that we will not be able to come to us until the day after tomorrow, but listening to the lectures of a few people who have come back to report the news, the soldiers and horses who came are walking very fast, and I wonder if they will arrive tomorrow afternoon! ”

"Straight-girls, they're here well! Go down and pass on my military orders, and the soldiers and horses in the village are ready. There are also all the villages outside, let their men come to the village before tomorrow night, and we will have a good competition with the soldiers and horses of the lifting division! ”

Seeing Huang Zongxiang's eyes glowing, Jia Ding said: "Master, the court is full of soldiers, horses, swords and armor, we-"

Huang Zongxiang slapped the table: "What are you afraid of!" Their men and horses came to us, they had nothing to eat, no drink, as long as we kept the village for a few days, they were hungry and hungry and starved back! At that time, we will go out of the village to chase and kill, so that they will not come back! ”

(I had a cold, I had a terrible headache, and I couldn't write at once.) That's all for today, I'll do my best to make amends at the end of the week, forgive me, readers. ）