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The war situation in various places has basically stopped, and the Tang army temporarily let Xiao Mo go, and began to concentrate on passing through Jiangxia, where a large amount of pig iron and blister copper were smelted and shipped to Chang'an. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Tang army finally adopted the shipping method of transporting pig iron and blister copper, which was also the result of the Tang army's repeated deliberations and trials, and the transportation of pig iron by ship was more than five times larger than that of horse-drawn carriages.

And it is very convenient, Jiangxia iron ore mine has no official road, must be transported to Wuchang County by ship, and then turn to the carriage, not only time-consuming and laborious and slow time, low volume, more importantly, if the distance from the mine to transport Wuchang was not attacked by the Sui warships, then there will be no problem to continue to go north, so Qu Tutong finally decided to use the cargo ship directly to transport.

The fleet composed of more than 100 cargo ships of 500 stones goes north along the Han River, can carry 300,000 catties of pig iron at a time, from Wuchang to Xiangyang and then to Junyang, directly transfer to Danshui to the north, and finally arrive at Shangluo County, which is the famous Nanxiang Road, which can go straight to Jiangxia from Guanzhong, and if you take the waterway, you can also go to the more distant Jiangnan and Jiangdu.

However, this famous Nanxiang Road is not completely in the hands of the Tang army, which connects Danshui and Hanshui Xiyang County is Wang Shichong's territory, Wang Shichong can exchange Xiangyang, but will definitely not exchange Xiyang County, if Xiyang County is occupied by the Tang army, it means that Nanyang County, Shuyang County and other important counties will be annexed by the Tang army at any time, which is also the biggest benefit that Wang Shichong seized from the Wagang Army in the Central Plains Battle last year.

However, under the persuasion of Wang Shiyun and others, Wang Shichong finally made concessions and allowed the Tang army ships to pay a fee to transit from Xiyang County, and agreed that the Tang army would build a transit terminal in Junyang County, and a small number of troops could also be stationed, but in addition, Wang Shichong did not allow the Tang army to set foot on the land of Xiyang County.

But Xiyang County was also extremely important to the Tang army's transportation, covering the main road of the Danshui and the upper reaches of the Han River, but so far the Tang army has not violated the agreement they reached with Wang Shichong, and the Tang army only sailed in the river, and only slender men walked on the shore.

In the afternoon of this day, a fleet full of coarse copper slowly moved on the Han River at the junction of Xiangyang County and Xiyang County, and a team of slender men walked along the rugged and difficult riverside, and the long fiber rope pulled the fleet to sail north-west, and then the fleet reached the Danshui into Hankou, that is, Junyang County, where the fleet would enter Danshui and continue to the north.

On a hill about two miles away on the north bank of the Han River, several Sui scouts watched the Tang army fleet in the Han River from afar, looked at it for a moment, waved their hands for the first team, several scouts turned their horses' heads, and followed the team to run towards the dense forest behind them, and soon disappeared into the dense forest.

After the Junyang County incident, the Tang army put forward a request to Zheng Jun to garrison troops along the Danshui to protect the waterway, but Wang Shichong refused, Wang Shichong's attitude was very resolute, either the Tang army sent warships to follow the cargo ships, which could be escorted in the river, or they were rerouted to take the Yangtze River into Shu.

However, the Tang army obviously could not send warships, and after several consultations, a compromise was finally reached, and Wang Shichong sent 6,000 troops to guard the coast of Xiyang County to prevent thieves from attacking the fleet, and at the same time, the Tang army sent 20 soldiers to follow each cargo ship, and the fleet barely had a little sense of security.

The wind and thunder army led by Liu Lancheng has been stationed in Ye County, the southernmost part of Yingchuan County, Ye County is a flat land that appears between the mountains, in fact, it is a valley dozens of miles wide, since ancient times, it has been called the throat of Wan, the belly of Xu, the Sui army has stationed five thousand troops here, commanded by the tiger Benlang general Mai Mengcai, Liu Lancheng's wind and thunder army is also waiting for opportunities in Ye County.

After the Fenglei Army was replenished by five hundred elite soldiers in Nanjun, the army had reached 1,200 people, and it was a special cavalry with very strong combat effectiveness, but they hid in the Yexian military camp at this time, and changed into the same armor and military uniform as the defenders, just like a piece of sand thrown into the desert, it was difficult for the Tang Army to find this army that gave them a headache.

In the afternoon of this day, Liu Lancheng was carefully studying three maps in the big tent, which was the map of the garrisons of the three counties urgently sent by the Luoyang Intelligence Bureau, and it was the most urgently needed information for Liu Lancheng's operation.

At this time, the curtain was lifted, and the deputy general Li Keshi hurriedly walked into the big tent, "General, the eagle letter has arrived!" ”

He handed an eagle letter to Liu Lancheng, Liu Lancheng hurriedly took the letter and read it, and said with a smile: "It seems that God has favored us, and everything we need has been sent at the same time." ”

"Could it be that General Fei got the map?"

Liu Lancheng pointed to the three maps on the table with his finger, "This is the map of the three counties just sent by the Luoyang Intelligence Bureau." ”

Li Keshi was immediately pleasantly surprised, with these three maps, they could successfully avoid the Zheng army and find a gap to attack the Tang army's convoy.

"General, everything is ready, only the east wind is owed."

Liu Lancheng nodded, "Go tell General Zhang, let the brothers start changing their clothes, and let's set off overnight!" ”

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Twelve hundred cavalry of the Wind and Thunder Army left Ye County under the cover of night and entered Shuyang County, they had the Zheng army's three-county defense map, whether it was the army of Shuyang County, Nanyang County or Xiyang County, they knew everything about it, and they could bypass the garrison far away to avoid being discovered by the Zheng army, so as to guess their intentions.

The distance from Yexian to Danshui is about 300 miles, and the wind and thunder cavalry travel day and night, all the way unimpeded, and they arrived at the east bank of Danshui two days later, about 20 miles away from Nanxiang County.

The army was temporarily resting in a forest, which was about five miles away from Danshui, and Liu Lancheng had already sent scouts to inquire about the news.

On a big stone, Liu Lancheng spread the garrison map of Xiyang County on the table, and said to Li Keshi and Zhang Li: "Wang Shichong's army has a total of six garrison points on the east bank of Xiyang County, each garrison point has a thousand people, we have a garrison point in Nanxiang County twenty miles to the south, and there is also a garrison point in Danshui County thirty miles away to the north, we are just in the gap between these two garrison points, in terms of time, it will take at least two days to travel here from where we scouts found the Tang Army cargo ship, almost synchronized with us, if we don't catch up, Then take a detour north and intercept them in the far north, but I think this is the best position. ”

Li Keshi also smiled: "Destroying the Tang Army's cargo ship under Zheng Jun's nose, I'm afraid that Wang Shichong will not be able to clear this suspicion by jumping into the Yellow River." ”

"That's what we want."

Liu Lancheng saw that Zhang Li was silent in thought, so he asked, "What is General Zhang thinking?" ”

"I'm wondering, how do we intercept each other's ships?"

This is indeed a problem, Liu Lancheng pondered for a moment and said: "I can only fight the idea of the slender man, let the slender man stop and rest, and the ship will naturally dock." ”

Li Keshi also said: "This is a good way, generally speaking, a slender man has a slender head, as long as we control this slender head, then the other slender men will obey the order to rest, and you can find a brother to pretend to be a slender man to blend in." ”

Liu Lancheng laughed, "When I was a teenager, I also worked on the Yellow River for two years, I know the rules here, let me play this slender man!" ”

"The general is the main general, how can he be a slender man?"

"Don't fight, let the other brothers not succeed, if anything happens, you can't make a decision, but if I do, I will succeed."

Li Keshi and Zhang Li saw that the master insisted on pretending to be a slender man, so they had to agree.

At this time, a scout quickly walked in and reported, "General Qiyu, the target has been found." ”

Liu Lancheng was overjoyed, "Where?" ”

"When it was discovered, the fleet had just arrived in Nanxiang County, and now it has passed Nanxiang County."

"Did you stay in Nanxiang County?"

"Didn't stay!"

Liu Lancheng knew that this was because the Tang army's fleet was very wary of Zheng Jun, and it was impossible to rest under Zheng Jun's nose, so he immediately said to the two lieutenant generals: "Just act according to the plan we agreed!" (To be continued.) )