(The third watch is coming, ask for a red ticket)

Luo Xiancheng quietly rushed to Fancheng to have a secret meeting with Yanhu's envoys, and then sent Wei Zhang to Chaishan to invite Wang Xiang out of the mountain, so that Wang Xiang, Tang Xitai, Zhou Bin and others in the hinterland of Huaishan confirmed that Luo Xiancheng had made up his mind to join Yanhu.

Wang Xiang knew that Luo Xiancheng stepped out of this step, and those generals who were iron-hearted to join Yanhu with him, and there was no turning back from then on, thinking of the past, he couldn't help but feel a little melancholy and reluctance.

Zhou Bin has been with Wang Xiang for a year in Chaishan, and he is also very familiar with Wang Xiang's temperament and mentality.

Wang Xiang showed his reluctance to the old master, and Zhou Bin and Tang Xitai saw it but didn't see it.

Zhou Bin and Tang Xitai said: "Hao, Luo Qibing, it should be in three or five days, Xitai, you go to Luzhou as soon as possible, and report to Cao Shuai that you know." The weir pond on our side will also be closed immediately according to the plan, and then we will wait for the soldiers and horses of Luzhou to sneak in......"

"Cao Shuai intends to transfer Feng to leave the army and advance westward to prepare first, but the lord is afraid that the snake will be frightened too soon, so he will suppress this discussion," Luo Xitai said, "Even if Nanyang falls, the soldiers and horses of Luzhou may not be dispatched immediately, and Lord Zhou and Lord Wang should be a little patient in Chaishan." ”

"I've been waiting in Chaishan for a year, and I still have patience," Wang Xiang put down his reluctance to the old master, and said to Tang Xitai and Zhou Bin, "Nanyang is in danger, and Suizhou, the luxury family and Yanhu soldiers and horses will send troops together, if Huang Binghao has different intentions, he will definitely not stand still in Yuanzhou at this time." The plan to lead the snake has been completed, first go to Yuanzhou, remove the trouble in Jiangxi's heart, and then wave the army to cross the river to the north is the current order of Huaidong, wait for a month or two, how can I be impatient? ”

Tang Xitai nodded secretly.

Huang Binghao has a tacit understanding with the luxury family, and when the Yanhu army comes to Nanyang City, Luo Xiancheng and the luxury family openly defect, and uses troops against Nanyang and Xinyang at the same time, the final veil will be unveiled.

If Huang Binghao really wants to join Yanhu in exchange for the wealth of the king, he will inevitably express and change his actions at that time.

According to Lin Bin's plan, if Huang Binghao makes any changes, Huaidong's soldiers and horses in Jiangxi will give priority to solving Huang Binghao and solving the hidden dangers in the heart of Jiangxi, rather than crossing the river to participate in the war as soon as possible.

This kind of plan was only clearly established after Tang Xitai arrived in Yuzhang, and Tang Xitai came to Chaishan and did not mention it. However, Wang Xiang relied on the current situation to make such a judgment, which also shows that he does have some strategies in his heart.

It's a pity that Luo Xiancheng is greedy and has no ambitions, and Wang Xiangzhicai is under his command, and there is no way to fully display it.

Tang Xitai said to Wang Xiang: "Lord Wang is patient, it's good to ......" Wang Xiang secretly attached to Huaidong, and made great contributions to Huaidong to repair the Huaishan plank road, and in the future, he will be attached to the middle and lower generals of the Changle Army, and he must also rely on him, he is indeed talented, such a character is the most important in Huaidong, Tang Xitai treats Wang Xiang naturally politely.

Tang Xitai did not stay in Jinshuizhai for long, and said goodbye to Wang Xiang and Zhou Bin, that is, under the escort of several followers, he left Jinshuizhai and dived along the northern slope of Hengqi Ridge in the direction of Buddha Monkey Ridge.

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Buddha Monkey Ridge is the main ridge of Huai Mountain, extends from southwest to northeast, the dangerous peak of more than 1,000 meters high, as many as more than 100, lies between Suizhou Chaishan County and Luzhou Yu'an County, is the boundary mountain of Jiangdong and Jinghu, is the watershed of Hanshui and Chaohu Lake.

Jinshuizhai is nearly 60 miles away from the Buddha Monkey Ridge, which is nearly 60 miles away, sandwiched between Hengqiling and Daiyan Mountain, is an extremely treacherous, barren valley.

The name of the river is Yanzi Creek, which gathers the flowing water of the northern foot of Hengqi Ridge, the southern foot of Daiyan Mountain and the west foot of Buddha Monkey Mountain, flows out of Jinshui Village to the direction of Chaishan City, gathers other streams and rivers, flows to the territory of Lishan, and finally joins the main water system of Fuhe in Suizhou.

Although the source of the Swallow Creek is the Buddha Monkey Ridge, the valley is extremely steep, like a wedge opened by a giant axe, and the stone cliffs on both sides are suspended, and the stream flows through the strange stone pool. It is neither accessible on foot nor by boat, making Swallow Creek Canyon an inaccessible Jedi.

From ancient times to the present, there are also many trails walked out by mountain woodcutters and medicine farmers in Huai Mountain, which can travel between Luzhou and Suizhou. The private owls and scouts traveled back and forth to the Huai Mountain, and they also took these secret paths, but they were all far away from the Swallow Creek Canyon.

Although the Swallow Creek Canyon is the shortest route through the Huai Mountain, due to the steep terrain, even if the mountain is paved, few people will think of taking advantage of the terrain of the Swallow Creek Canyon.

However, the most important section of the Huaishan Plank Road connecting with the Buddha Monkey Ridge is precisely selected in the Swallow Creek Canyon.

In fact, the overall idea is very simple, that is, to build a weir dam in the stream channel of Yanzi Creek out of Jinshui Village to raise the water level, and directly turn the shallow stream with strange rocks and forbidden vehicles and boats into an excellent river between Hengqiling and Daiyan Mountain.

Because the cliff banks on both sides of Swallow Creek are extremely steep and almost at right angles, even if the water level of Swallow Creek is raised by ten zhang, the width of the river surface is only thirty or forty zhang.

As long as the weir dam is built, the water storage of the river will be completed soon, and the river channel formed will be directly connected with the military village built by Huaidong at the western foot of the Buddha Monkey Ridge.

In comparison, out of the Swallow Creek Canyon, the section of Buddha Monkey Ridge sixty miles away is high, but the mountain is quite easy, and it is a highland meadow terrain. In the early years, there were mountain people who set up a village there, which was under the jurisdiction of Yu'an County, the capital of Luzhou, and was almost the westernmost edge of Luzhou.

However, after Huaidong took over Luzhou, the mountain people there were completely forcibly relocated, thus becoming a military restricted area in Huaidong.

On the side of Jinshuizhai, it is also from Jinshuizhai to the west, the terrain has become open, and there are villages on both sides of Yanzi Creek to gather. The mountains on both sides have also become easy, and the mountaineers have even carved out a large number of terraced fields on the slopes.

However, after Wang Xiang took charge of Chaishan, the mountain people around Jinshuizhai were also forcibly moved out and became a military forbidden area controlled by Chaishan.

The mountain is not necessarily steep, and the mountain is not necessarily easy.

Jinshui Village and Buddha Monkey Ridge Village are only 60 miles apart, but separated by the steep mountains of Daiyan Mountain and Hengqi Mountain, there is little contact between the two places. After the blockade of Huaidong, it became extremely difficult for even birds and beasts to take this route.

If outsiders do not have an accurate spatial concept of geography, they only see one of the two walled cities of Jinshui Village and Buddha Monkey Ridge Village, and they will never think that the Yanzixi Canyon between the two villages will run through the last and most critical link of Huai Mountain.

Wang Xiang built a dam to block the stream downstream of Jinshuizhai under the pretext of building two diversion canals from each end of the dam in order to irrigate more paddy fields. When the water level of Yanzi Creek is raised, it can directly irrigate the slopes on both sides of the lower reaches of the original Yanzi Creek through the diversion canal to the west, and transform a part of the terraced dry land west of Jinshuizhai into productive paddy fields.

Because Yanzi Creek is in the east of Jinshui Village, the cliffs on both sides are extremely narrow, even if you choose the most open place, the length of the dam body is only more than 70 zhang, so the cost of dam construction is low. Compared with the dam that was nearly 20 miles long temporarily built by the Huaidong Army in the upper reaches of Shanxi during the Shangrao War, the Yanzixi Pond Dam was naturally required to be built more strongly, but because the length was only 70 zhang, the manpower and material resources required were far less than the former.

When manpower is relatively abundant, and Suizhou is extremely short of grain, even in order to get more than 35,000 acres of paddy fields, building a dam to raise the water level of Yanzi Creek is considered a normal thinking. Wang Xiang is in Suizhou, and he is a capable official who is famous for governing the government. Even if people see the dam being built here to raise the water level of Swallow Creek, no one will suspect the real intention behind it.

The main body of the dam, which is less than 70 zhang long, was built as early as June, but it is still waiting for the right time to raise the water level by the mouth of the dam. The battle of Nanyang is about to break out, and the time is ripe for the water storage at the mouth of Yanzi Creek.

After Tang Xitai left, Wang Xiang and Zhou Bin ordered the dam to be closed and stored with water.

That night, heavy rain fell in the territory of Chai Mountain, Tang Xitai rushed back to Foshan Ridge and could not take the waterway, so he could only climb over the steep mountains and forests, and walked sixty miles for a day and a night before he arrived, and when he arrived at Foshan Ridge, Yanshui Creek had been lifted to a high enough position.

It is as if a large river suddenly appeared between the deep gorges, and even in the upper reaches of the Buddha Monkey Ridge, the water level has risen to a depth of three zhang. At the foot of the Buddha Monkey Ridge, a small lake with an area of hundreds of acres is also formed.

Tang Xitai went over the mountains and mountains very hard, and it rained at night, and rushed to the Buddha Monkey Ridge Village, like a chicken in the soup, but he was very excited to see the last link of the Huaishan plank road finally picked up.

The main commander of the Buddha Monkey Ridge is Huang Zuyu, who is personally ordered by Lin Tie, and selects Jianrui from the soldiers to train and train, and there are about 6,000 soldiers and horses in the Chongcheng Army, and Huang Zuyu has been stationed on the Buddha Monkey Ridge since the spring.

Tang Xitai rushed back to the Buddha Monkey Ridge Village, in addition to the main general Huang Zuyu, Cao Ziang and the Chongcheng Army commander Zhou Tong and the two people quietly sneaked to the Buddha Monkey Ridge to watch the situation in Jingxiang.

Tang Xitai didn't even change his wet clothes, so he told Cao Ziang the latest situation west of Huaishan.

Lin Jian is far away in Yuzhang, and the car and ship are inconvenient.

Even if the military situation is reported as quickly as possible, from the hinterland of Huaishan to Yuzhang through Luzhou, it will be delayed for six or seven days on the way, so in the direction of Luzhou, Lin Tie Yu Cao Ziang has the right to dispose of it, and the lost horses gathered in Luzhou are controlled by Cao Ziang.

"Go back to the village and talk about it......" Even though he knew that the final battle of Nanyang was close at hand, Cao Ziang's heart was still as calm as usual, looking at Tang Xitai in wet clothes, he gave him a horse, and went back to the military village first.

After returning to the village, Tang Xitai changed into clean clothes and walked to the command shed, Cao Ziang, Zhou Tong and Huang Zuyu were all there, discussing around the map of Jingxiang.

Tang Xitai walked over and looked up at the map hanging on the wall.

The soldiers and horses of the Changle Army, the remnants of the Luxury Family, and the troops of Chen Hansan and Yang Xiong between Hanshui and Huaishan were actually under the strict surveillance of the Huaidong scouts.

From the end of June, the main force of the remnants of the luxury family crossing the river, especially the elite combat force directly under the direct jurisdiction of the luxury family, will have almost 40,000 soldiers and horses, all of whom will gather in Shicheng.

Shicheng is located in the middle reaches of the Han River, across the Han River from Dangyang County to the north of Jingzhou Prefecture.

At the time when Hu Wenmu was focusing on the defense of Jiangxia, it was difficult for the luxury family to cross the Han River from Hanjin to the south to attack Jingzhou, transfer the troops along the Han River upstream, and gather in Shicheng, wanting to cross the Han River from Shicheng and insert Jingzhou from Dangyang County, which was a choice.

However, another, more important geographical feature of Stone City is easy to overlook.

Shicheng is located on the north bank of the Han River, from the stone city to Xiangyang, the Han River is almost straight north and south, the waterway travel is about two hundred miles, and there is no major geographical obstacle between the land and Xiangyang, the traditional Hanzuo post road is sandwiched between the east bank of the Han River and the west vein of the Green Forest Mountains, and can directly reach Fancheng where the Huaihe River flows into the Han River.

As long as Luo Xiancheng lets Fancheng out, the elite soldiers and horses gathered by the luxury family in Shicheng will be able to pass through Fancheng and attack Xinye, the southern gateway of Nanyang, in just two or three days.

Although there was no scout return, Tang Xitai suspected that the Hao family's soldiers and horses in Shicheng had already moved north.

Cao Ziang pointed to the map and said, "Although the water level of Yanzi Creek is raised and it is easy to sail, it can only cross four or five thousand soldiers at a time. No matter how well the arrangement is, it will take half a month to sneak 50,000 soldiers and horses into Shibayama, plus the necessary supplies. Nanyang must give up, if they can defend it for three months, it will be their fate, but the soldiers on the Luzhou side should immediately arrange for the matter of sneaking over Huaishan......"

Zhou Tong nodded and said: "After all the things in Jiangxi are resolved, this side will decide to send troops, not to mention a delay of half a month." The situation is ever-changing, and half a month is too long to delay. When the Luzhou side first vacated the camp, at least ask Tang Fuguan and Sun Zhuangbu to sneak into Chai Mountain first and stand by! ”