In the eleventh year of Chongguan, in the spring and March, Emperor Liang Xi sent troops south to Pingliukou.

Liang Xi said that the grain and grass were insufficient, and asked for pay with 50,000 soldiers, hoping to make Qingzhou Cao grain help the Liang army first.

The Chongzhou to Tianjin sea route sends about 60,000 stone of grain every month, and the sea winds and waves are strong in summer and autumn, and the ship will rest; At present, the Gyeonggi and Northern armies are still heavily dependent on the transportation of the Jiaolai River in Qingzhou for grain transportation.

Even if Chen/Yuan Liang, Zhang Jinxian, Du Juefu and other Qingzhou officials had no grudge against the Liang family, it was impossible to transport the grain obtained from Qingzhou to the Liang army in northern Lubei.

It is also impossible for the imperial court to intercept the life-saving grain of Gyeonggi to the Liang family, Liang Xi did not move, Yue Lengqiu had few troops in Huaibei, and was unable to prevent the Liumin army from crossing the Huai River in the south.

Cao Yiqu received the order in Guyuan, and transferred the general Wei Shiyan to lead more than 20,000 elite soldiers to the south and eastward, the movement was as fast as thunder, and the troops were sent from Tianshui in western Qin, and marched east along Weishui, and they arrived at Tongguan on the eighth day, and Cao Yiqu also moved to Chang'an to supervise the war. However, the elite of western Qin entered Tongguan in the east, and Cao Yiqu entered Chang'an City, and the grain and straw of the Xuanfu envoy of Xuanfu County were not well prepared, which was not enough for the army to go west out of Tongguan to suppress the Liukou, and the soldiers and horses refused to leave Tongguan for a long time.

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In late March, the spring is warm, the grass is blooming on the plain, the wildflowers are flourishing, there is a winding dirt path in the south foothills of Tongguan south, more than 100 horses are rushing to come, trampling the grass and flowers that have covered the soil path.

At the end of the dirt path is a large tomb, and several tomb huts are lined up along the road. Listening to the sound of horses' hooves coming from a long distance, Gu Siyuan, Yang Pu, and Zhao Qinmin walked out of the hut and saw more than 100 riders who were about fifty years old, with a dark red face like jujubes, silkworm eyebrows and thick beards, wearing crimson armor, and the armor pieces like fish scales shining in the sunset.

"Qin Xihou Cao Yiqu!" Gu Siyuan said in a suppressed voice.

Zhao Qinmin was slightly stunned, he didn't expect Cao Yiqu to come to Tang Cemetery.

Gu Siyuan escorted Tang Haoxin's body back to his hometown for burial, and the cemetery was located on the Nanshan Plain of Tongguan.

Gu Wuchen couldn't get away from Jiangning, so Gu Siyuan stayed in Tongguan County to guard filial piety on behalf of his father. Gu Siyuan did not live in Tangjiabao in Nanyuan, but set up three simple grass huts next to the cemetery, read the book of soldiers every day, pondered and meditated, and lived a light life for three months, and did not ask about the world.

Gu Siyuan's period of filial piety in Tongguan Yuan in March is about to expire, whether it is going south to Hanzhong or east to Yuzhong, the crowd is infested, and the road is uneasy. There was no one available in Tongyuan Tangjiabao, so Gu Wuchen sent Yang Pu to lead more than 200 elites to come to respond, and Zhao Qinmin also came over to see if Gu Siyuan decided to go back to Qingzhou or Jiangning.

Cao Yiqu dismounted, leaving his entourage in place, he paced, looked at Gu Siyuan with bright eyes, and asked, "But Gu Shaojun?" ”

"Gu Siyuan has seen the Marquis of Qinxi!" Gu Siyuan bowed.

"Tang Gong and my late father traveled to Xiqin when they were young, I studied calligraphy and literature when I was young, and also studied under Tang Gong, but I am not a talent, and I have high hopes for Tang Gong, passing by Tongguan today, I specially came to put a stick of incense in front ......of the Tang Cemetery," Cao Yiqu said.

Cao Hongfan took advantage of the turmoil in Eastern Fujian and threatened the imperial court during his illness, so that his son Cao Yiqu attacked his governor's general, and the Xiong army on the border of Guyuan Town became the private army of the Cao family from then on. Because of this incident, Tang Haoxin cut his robe with Cao Hongfan, denounced the Cao family as a thief, and long ago broke off the teacher-student friendship with Cao Yiqu.

Gu Siyuan did not prevent Cao Yiqu from going to Tang Haoxin's tomb to incense, Cao Yiqu had incense, so he left with Hu, leaving only a path for trampling the remnants of the grass.

"Cao Yiqu received the order in mid-March, but 20,000 male soldiers stopped at Tongguan, the intention is really intriguing!" Zhao Qinmin looked at the dust brought up by the cavalry from afar, and was quite emotional.

"The intention is nothing more than to wait and see Jinan," Gu Siyuan raised his eyes to look at the foothills of the southern mountain behind him, and said, "If the two Huai are in chaos, and Liang Xi is in Shandong and eastern Henan, the Cao family can seal Tongguan, and the Marquis of Qin Xixi can sit in Chang'an and wait and see the situation in the world...... It's time for us to get out of Tongguan. "In the past three years, Gu Siyuan has experienced a lot of things, and he has less of the boredom when he was about to enter Jiangning, and more calm.

Zhao Qinmin also sighed in his heart: The world will be chaotic, the mountains and rivers will be broken, and Cao Yiqu will be no worse than Luwenzhuang.

Gu Siyuan returned to Tangjiabao that night and packed his simple bags. The next day, he resigned with his uncle's family, and took Tang Weizhong, a young man from the Tang family, and under the protection of more than 200 servants, he did not rush to the east, but walked for three days in the southern foothills, and then inspected the topography of Tongguan.

Tongguan is located at the junction of Shaanxi, Henan and Jin three counties, leaning on Huashan in the south, facing the Yellow River in the north, the width between the rivers and mountains is not more than twenty or thirty miles, the deep slope of the south ditch is steep, the original lower river valley is narrow, forming a natural danger, commonly known as the Han Valley.

Tongguan is located at the western end of Hangu, close to Tongshui. There is a tributary in the east of Guancheng, called the forbidden ditch, the upper and lower east and west aspects of the forbidden ditch include the golden steep pass, there are seventeen passes such as Tongguan and Mayu, so that the foot of Nanshan Mountain to the bank of the Yellow River, set up layer by layer, arch guard Tongguan.

"If Cao Yiqu divides Qinxi, he will take Tongguan as the gateway and divide his troops to capture Hanzhong, Qinxi will be in a complete situation from now on, and the world can be ......" Before leaving Tongguan, Gu Siyuan looked at the steep Guancheng and said with emotion.

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The bandit leader Liu Miaozhen led his troops south to Yingshui, and the Liukou of Hezhong Mansion on the north bank of the Yellow River gradually calmed down, even if there were a few bandits to disturb the attack, but they could not shake the two hundred elites of Gu Siyuan's entourage, but instead paid Gu Siyuan a lot of peace and bandit records.

After three or four months of fighting, half of the counties in Hezhong Province were destroyed, and many officials died, and new officials have not yet arrived. The war and the continuous drought have left the road full of devastated and desolate displaced people.

Gu Siyuan picked up Jianrui from the homeless people along the way, and when he left Tongguan County, there were only 200 elites, and after more than ten days, there were more than 1,000 Jianyong, plus their families, a team of nearly 2,500 people. Travel between the territory controlled by the Exile Army and the territory controlled by the Liang family.

Gu Siyuan compiled a section of his entourage and his family members, and more than 1,000 Jianyong compiled a unit, and learned the method of organizing the army that Lin Tie generally implemented in the Jiangdong Left Army, and scattered the two hundred elites, as the commander and banner leader, and scattered the homeless people Jianyong into it, and suppressed some small bandits along the way, obtained some armor supplies, and trained the army.

Walking to the territory of the Daimyo's Mansion, the army of more than 1,000 homeless people, fighting against bandits along the way, was stronger than the combat power of Qingzhou's army.

If you want to recruit the displaced people to go north to Qinwang and go to Jinan, the Jiangdong Left Army will dare to fight with the elite sentinels of the East Captives outside the city, and enter Yannan in the north, and create a great victory in Cangnan, and then enter the Jinhai Sea, join forces with the remnants of the Jinzhong Army, and the Great Creation Cavalry - the grass creation army is so capable of fighting, in the final analysis, there are not too many secrets, the key is that there are a number of qualified grassroots military attaches into the army.

A strong division, the top-down military attache system is the real solid skeleton.

The Gu family has more than 400 elites, and it was also after the bloody battle in Jiyang that Jianrui was selected from the people of Jiyang to really take shape. More than 200 people were assigned to Yang Shi into the water camp and became the backbone of the two battalions trained in Chongzhou, and the remaining 200 people were brought to Yang Pu and handed over to Gu Siyuan.

Entering the territory of the daimyo Anyang, Gu Siyuan and the others heard the news that Jining had been captured by the exiled army.

Jining is in the southeast of Daimyofu, southwest of Tai'an, and north of Xuzhou.

Between Jining and Xuzhou, there are Weishan Lake, Dushan Lake, Zhaoyang Lake, Nanyang Lake four north-south connected, connected to each other, the Weishan Lake is also called the South Four Lake, is the most important waterway of Jianghuai River Jinei River water transport. Jining then has the risk of connecting the Jianghuai River in the south and the river in the north.

"When Ge Ping led the rebels of Tianyuan to expel the Liang family from Jinan, two or three hundred thousand people passed through Jining, but they failed to capture Jining, and wanted to go south to the Huai River, and Yue Lengqiu led the army to enter Xuzhou as a head. Ge Ping did not have the ability to capture Linyi, and hundreds of thousands of rebels were trapped between the hills and ravines in the east of Nansi Lake. Unexpectedly, Liu Miaozhen did not go south to contain Yue Lengqiu with Chen Hansan, and took the rebels of Tianyuan to the south, but directly sent troops to capture Jining......" Zhao Qinmin propped his hand on the desk, looked at the shabby map, pointed to Yingkou in the southwest of Xuzhou, and said, "When we set off from Tongguan, the bandit leader Liu An'er led the Liukou army eastward into Yingkou, if he led the Liukou army to continue eastward, could it be said that they wanted to encircle Yue Lengqiu in Xuzhou in turn?" ”

Zhao Qinmin is not good at managing the army in detail, but his analysis of the strategic situation is not bad.

Gu Siyuan frowned slightly, it was not his turn to care about the general trend of the world, and the key thing in front of him was that he would lead these two or three thousand people back to Qingzhou safely.

Gu Siyuan is no longer the stunned young man who played a round and round for Wang Chao and Yuan Jinsheng back then, if the Liang family wants to gain a firm foothold in Shandong, it is bound to expel Tang Haoxin's legacy forces from the Lushan area, if Gu Siyuan leads his troops to pass through the area controlled by the Liang family, the possibility of annihilation for the Liang family is very high.

He originally planned to go to Qingzhou from Jining, and as long as he arrived in Linyi, he could sit back and relax.

Unexpectedly, Liu Miaozhen, the red-jacketed woman of Hong Ze, took the lead in occupying Jining and blocked their way eastward. It is not possible to go south, at this time, from Yingkou to Xuzhou in the Huaibei area, the mountains and fields are afraid that they are all homeless people.

Liu Miaozhen captured Jining, so that the Geping Tianyuan rebels who were trapped between Jining, Linyi, and Xuzhou were no longer alone, and Chen Han Sanbu and Liu An'er led the main force of the Liumin Army to the east along the north bank of the Huai River, and Yue Lengqiu, who led the Changhuai army to retreat to Xuzhou, did have the worry of encirclement.

Cao Yiqu stopped at Tongguan, the Liang family watched the situation in Jinan, and became a lone army in the cold autumn of Xuzhou's Yue, and the number of displaced people who came to encircle them was as many as four or five hundred thousand people - Ge Ping's Tianyuan rebel army was not enough, and more than 300,000 people hurriedly raised troops for less than five months, and even a hoe was not enough for a weapon, and the threat was really limited, but Liu An'er's army was very different.

Liu An'er was originally a general of the border army, and after the defeat of Chen Tangyi, he led his troops to flee back to Sizhou from the border army, and secretly operated in Sizhou for two years before taking advantage of the opportunity of the displaced people to rise up in Hongzepu. At the beginning of the army, the Qin fleet was robbed, a large number of supplies were obtained, and the strength of the army rapidly expanded to 200,000 people, according to Sizhou, Shiliang and other counties, and the Changhuai Army, Dongyang Xiangyong, Weiyang Army, Huai'an anti-theft camp and other departments had a long-term confrontation, and then trapped Haozhou, annihilated the Changhuai Army, obtained a large number of armor and supplies, abandoned Haozhou, entered Huaishang, and Zhukou joined forces to attack and fight, and moved to Nanyang, Hanzhong, so far it has been nearly two years.

In the past two years, Liu An'er has not been driving the officers and soldiers away, but his troops are too numerous, and if they stay in one place for too long, it will be very difficult to supply grain and grass, and they are forced to choose to disperse the supply pressure by turning to war. The 200,000 soldiers and horses under his command did not continue to expand, although the armor was not complete, but there were still 350,000 soldiers capable of fighting.

Liu An'er led the main force of the Liumin Army to encircle Xuzhou, and Yue Lengqiu's trouble was big.

Yue Lengqiu and Gu Wuchen are rivals in the temple, but if Yue Lengqiu is surrounded in Xuzhou, it will not be their turn to gloat, and if the Changzhun Army that spent a lot of money to rebuild is destroyed again, it will hurt the foundation of Jiangdong County.

Under the nest, how many eggs are gone? That's the truth, no matter how hard the fight is on the temple, if Yue Lengqiu loses in Xuzhou, everyone in Jiangning, Dongyang and Chongzhou will have the worry of losing their lips and teeth.

"The period of Lin Bin's filial piety has also expired, and it should be the time for him to lead the army north from Chongzhou." Yang Pu said.

Yue Lengqiu fell into Xuzhou, and the imperial court could only call on a handful of combat power between Jianghuai, and Zhao Qinmin and Gu Siyuan couldn't imagine that there were other suitable candidates besides Lin Bin.

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