"Official, just now the Sang patrol sent someone back to report that everything is going well there, and he has broken the stockade at the mouth of the valley and entered the state city north of the besieged river."

Tan Hu came in from outside and excitedly reported to Xu Ping, who was sitting and recuperating.

"Oh, I didn't expect it to be so fast." Xu Ping straightened up and thought for a moment, "You send someone back to Pingxiang and invite Han Zong to come to me, I have something to discuss." Also, pass on my military order, the army of Menzhou and Pingxiangtong that was originally scheduled to go to Guangyuan Prefecture will start preparing tonight and set off tomorrow! ”

Tan Hu agreed, turned around and went out.

Xu Ping stood up, stood in front of the table and looked at the sand table, estimating the current situation.

Originally, Sang Yi broke the stockade at the mouth of the valley and asked if he wanted to send troops to occupy it, but Xu Ping vetoed it. Originally, they didn't plan to confront Jia Yu for a long time, so why bother to make such a move, it also aroused their suspicions.

After entering Langzhou this time, Ka Tong may ask for reinforcements from Thang Long Province, but before that, it is estimated that he will be holding on to help. The distance from Thang Long to Langzhou is about the same as the distance from Menzhou to Guangyuan Prefecture, and Xu Ping has been prepared here for a long time, so he should be able to buy time.

After pacifying Guangyuan Prefecture, and then returning to Shimenzhou, and concentrating the forces of the Xiang Army and Sucane Sugar to take Langzhou, the war in this area should be over. Langzhou, like Menzhou, is a place where the Great Song Dynasty and Jiaozhi are not clearly involved, and whoever takes it in his hands is his. Even if Jiaozhi is unwilling and sends troops from the country to attack, as long as the road is repaired there, there is nothing to be done about Jiaozhi with its back to the cane sugar, it is just a matter of ripping.

After looking at it for a while, Xu Ping sat back in his chair, leaned back on the chair and looked up at the roof, and let out a sigh of relief.

After doing this, my years in Yongzhou can be regarded as having a happy ending. It's time to leave.

In the eighth year of Tiansheng, the cane sugar business was established. By March and April of the following year. Xu Ping's term of office has expired, and the Yongzhou general judgment has also served two terms, so it's time to return to the capital. No matter how unpopular he is, there is no reason for him to take over the foreign appointment, and if someone really comes nonsense, he can refuse to take up the foreign appointment under the pretext that his parents are old.

In any case, in the next few years, Xu Ping was determined to rely on Kaifeng. I can't get out of it. After a few years of hard work, it is time to enjoy a happy life and taste the life of having a wife and daughter.

Xu Ping began to prepare half a year ago and wrote to Lin Suniang, asking her to keep an eye on the road in the capital. The Xu family has thousands of acres of good land, a lot of wealth, and is usually willing to squander money, how can there be two good ones. What's more, Lin Suniang not only has money in her hands, but her husband Xu Ping has become an official in his early twenties, and no matter how outsiders look at it, they have a bright future. She herself has a head and face in the women's circle in the capital.

Xu Ping also asked himself to help in the same year when he could speak, especially Zhao Yan. is currently working as a judge in the Third Division, Xu Ping wrote him several letters, asking him to help him keep an eye on it, and inform him whenever the Third Division is lacking.

and Wang Su was also transferred to Xuzhou to be a general judge, which was close to the capital, and his path was wide, and Xu Ping also pinned his hopes. I have helped him take care of his nephew for several years, and he deserves something in return.

As for the champion Wang Yaochen, firstly, Xu Ping's friendship with him is just average, and secondly, he is doing an important official position, although he always wanders in front of the emperor, but at this time the emperor is not pro-government, but he can't count on it.

With Xu Ping's temperament, he still hopes to serve in the Third Division. Although the three divisions are weighted and relatively busy, the advantage of having more things is that there are fewer chores, and there is no need to fight with people every day. Like what Yushitai and the Imperial Court are what Xu Ping hates the most, practicing the pen and playing tricks, not Xu Ping's temperament.

Winter has come, and spring is blooming in a blink of an eye, and Xu Ping is a little impatient to return to life in the capital. People are like this, the more things come to an end, the more they can't even wait for a moment, and Xu Ping is not exempt from vulgarity.

In the yamen of Jiatong Zhizhou, Jia Chenggui sat in the middle, including his son Jia Jirong, and several major leaders all gathered around him.

The family outside is like flowing water to report the situation on the other side of the Qiqi River.

"The Song army has broken through the Mashan military village and entered the territory of Langzhou!"

"The Song army has arrived outside the city of Beilangzhou, and Li Zhizhou will not be able to hold out!"

"The Song army has surrounded Beilangzhou, and Li Zhizhou is holding on behind closed doors!"

"The Song army is on the bank of the Qiqi River and has not crossed the river!"

"The Song army is moving along the Qianqi River, and we have burned all the ferries on the river!"

"The Song army did not cross the river, but it is still by the river and does not retreat!"

Jia Chenggui had a gloomy face, watched the soldiers who reported the news go out, and said in a deep voice: "What should you do?" ”

Jia Jirong said: "According to the current situation, when more than half of the soldiers and horses in Yongzhou on the opposite side have entered Langzhou, the comers are not good!" We only have more than 2,000 soldiers here, and we are still holding on to help! ”

"Doesn't the poor Qihe care? That's a natural risk! A middle-aged man said in a loud voice.

Jia Jirong said: "Now in winter, the river level is slow, and there is no danger on both banks, what kind of natural danger is it!" Just send a few soldiers and horses to patrol along the river, and don't let people smuggle over! ”

The middle-aged man was silent, and Jia Jirong said again: "The most important thing now is to go to Shenglong Mansion for help, Daddy, do you want to send another group of people?" ”

"No need, the Holy One knows what kind of place we are, this is the north gate of Thang Long Mansion! Once there is a mistake in Jiadong, I don't believe that the people in Thang Long Mansion will still be able to sleep! The order goes down, and tomorrow morning, all kinds of people from the surrounding villages will withdraw into the city! Yongzhou is hundreds of miles away from here, thousands of soldiers and horses, how long can the grain they transport support it? We are strong and clear, and we don't believe that hunger will not leave them! ”

Listening to his father's words, Jia Jirong said softly: "Daddy, that Xu Ping on the other side has built a sugar business in the past few years, and it is said that he has a lot of grain reserves, but I am afraid that he will not be able to consume them for a while." ”

"Hmph, even if there is food, someone has to transport it! Even that cane sugar business, with a population of only tens of thousands, how many dingfu can be pumped out to transport grain? Ten households draw one ding, and if he can draw out thousands of people, it will be up to the sky! I heard that he also built a road there, what kind of road can be built in the mountains? It's hard to run an ox cart! I still don't believe it, with such a little mouth, he can destroy my Jiadong? Really think that Xu Ping is a god! ”

Jia Jirong saw that his father was angry, so he had to keep silent, but he was faintly uneasy in his heart. He had personally been to Pingxiangtong, but along the way he had passed along Luzhou, and had never seen what the road in the opposite mountain had become. Just listen to what others say. It's not good to talk back to my father.

North Langzhou Yamen. Li Qingcheng sat in the official hall with a gloomy face, without saying a word.

His family gathered around him, three wives, two daughters, and a somewhat stupid son, all looking at him with a dumb eye.

A wife said with a crying voice: "Husband, let's sacrifice the city, my arms can't twist my thighs." ”

Li Qingcheng closed his eyes. The face is expressionless.

The other grabbed the boy and said, "You only remember the two sons, a few of us, and the daughter, and this child, is it possible that it is not your family?" For their sake, it's hard to ignore our lives and deaths! ”

Li Qingcheng's two normal sons, one in Jiatong and the other in Thang Long Mansion, are actually hostages. There is only one fool son left by his side, except for the woman.

Fall. How to drop? Can he make the Li family cut off their roots?

Outside the city, the Song army marched around the city with torches. From time to time, a neat shout was uttered.

"Li Qingcheng, you are the governor of the Great Song Dynasty, the soldiers and horses of the imperial court are coming, and you don't open the door to greet you!"

After a while, another shout: "Open the door!" Open the door! Open the door! ”

Li Qingcheng had a gloomy face, and he thought he was deaf and couldn't hear anything.

After a while, the shouting changed again.

"Not a big Song Zhizhou, refuse the officers and soldiers of the imperial court outside the city, Li Qingcheng, you are going to rebel!"

"Plot against the whole clan!"

"Plot against the whole clan!"

"Plot against the whole clan!"

The voice was higher and higher, and he wanted to overturn this small state city.

How could the women and children in the yamen endure this kind of torture and cry together.

In the state city, the native soldiers squatted on the city wall, shrunken their heads, and really didn't have the courage to look at the imposing Song army outside. The torches were shining, and the sabers and spears of those officers were bright, and the armor was bright, and they were all proud, and when compared with those people, the native soldiers were like beggars.

"According to outsiders, we are also from the Great Song Dynasty, is it true?" A soldier whispered.

Another interface: "Zhizhou is the Zhizhou of the Great Song Dynasty, this can't be wrong!" We are soldiers of Jiaozhi, and we don't know what the algorithm is for this account! Straight thief, we are really bad luck today! ”

"Then you say, if we open the door and go out, will the officers and soldiers outside recognize us?"

"Shut your mouth! Zhizhou didn't dare to go out to admit it, let's go find bad luck! ”

"That's not the case, Zhizhou usually enjoys the money given by Jiatong, but he doesn't give us anything. He took the money of the Jiaozhi people, of course he didn't dare to go out, what are we afraid of! ”

"Don't think nonsense, wait until dawn, if the official army attacks the city at dawn, we will kneel on the ground and beg for mercy. At that time, they said that we were Song people, maybe they didn't bother us. ”

"Oh, I heard that the officers and soldiers in the Great Song Dynasty receive money on a monthly basis, and there are many times a year! If we dedicate the city, it would be good to be a great Song officer and soldier, and we could save money to marry a daughter-in-law! ”

"Well, take advantage of the darkness and dream your sweet dreams! A poor ghost who has never seen even a coherent copper coin, and dares to think about how many times a year, I think you are crazy about money! ”

Sang Yi rode on his horse, looked at Langzhou City not far away, and asked Han Daocheng, who came to his side, "How is the surrounding situation?" Are there any soldiers and horses coming from Jiatong? ”

"I didn't see a single figure, but all the ferries on the Qiqi River were burned down!"

Sang Yi sighed: "It seems that Jia Chenggui didn't have the courage to cross the river to save this side, but it's a pity that we brought so many soldiers and horses, and we still want to clean him up!" ”

Han Daocheng said with a smile: "Jia Chenggui is an old fox, how can he be fooled like this?" But this time, we spent the night by the river, enough for him to have nightmares for months. ”

Seeing the soldiers under the city slowly circling around with torches, roaring from time to time, Han Daocheng said to Sang Yi: "How can the officials come up with this method, if they don't release an arrow tonight, it also scares Li Qingcheng's courage!" ”

Sang Yi also smiled: "Just to scare him, it's best to scare him so that he can't sleep well in the future!" This time it was not only Langzhou that was scared, but also made a show to the surrounding states, holding the official seal of my Great Song Dynasty, and doing things for the Jiaozhi people, what is the end! It's a pity that the officials have repeatedly said that they don't want to break the Zhou City, otherwise it won't scare Li Qingcheng, I really broke through this small city and cut down the people of the Li family one by one! ”

Under the city, the soldiers did not shout all of them, but divided into two shifts, and changed shifts every time they shouted five sentences. After going around the city twice, go to the side to rest, and then replace people up, anyway, there are many people coming, and everyone is not tired.

"Li Qingcheng, you want to rebel!"

"Plot against the whole clan!"

The earth-shattering sound continued through the night, and no one within a radius of miles could sleep. (To be continued.) )