Junzhou is located on the bank of the Han River, north of Xiangyang and south of Wuguan.

Although it is an inconspicuous remote state, the location is important. The famous Wudang Mountain and Shennongjia are in Junzhou.

The name of Junzhou Zhizhou is Zhou Yun, and he can achieve five grades at a young age, of course, he is a person with a background.

Moreover, this person is quite shrewd and capable, and he is good at dancing with long sleeves, and he is righteous and squandering money, so he has been the governor of the state for two years and firmly controls the state government.

Even Junzhou Daru Hua Chichahuan was called a brother and sister by Zhou Yun, and finally simply paid Zhou Yun all the major events in the state, while the town guard himself played mahjong, hunted, and was happy.

At this time, it was getting late, and the state officials had already been on duty, and it was known that the oil lamp was still on in the state signing room.

Zhou Yun, a young magistrate, was talking secretly with two young people. One of these two young men is dressed as a scholar, and he is the spy Li Jing, and the other is a heroic young man, but it is Liu Weitai.

"Brother Li, Brother Liu, now all the soldiers, horses and weapons have been secretly transported to Wuguan Hebei, and across the river is Shangzhou, Shaanxi. That's all the brother has done. Next, it will be up to the two to seize the Wuguan. Zhou Yun said.

During this period, he relied on the authority of Zhizhou to recruit displaced people to build the Hanshui River embankment, and brought batches of Tang troops disguised as civil husbands to Junzhou. At the same time, the armament was hidden.

Now Xiao Yin's White Lotus Sect Red Turban Army is confronting the Huguang Yuan Army in Jiangling and Xiangyang and other areas, and the Yuan Army has no time to care. In addition to Daru Hua Chichahuan in Junzhou, Zhou Yun is the largest. Cha Huan doesn't care about things, and Zhou Yun is much more convenient.

Even the 1,000-yuan army in Junzhou was sent to Xiangyang by Zhou Yun under the pretext of encircling and suppressing the White Lotus Sect.

The big spy Li Jing said with a smile: "Brother doesn't know much about battle formations, and this battle to seize Wuguan still needs Liu Lushuai to fight." ”

Liu Weitai said solemnly: "Even if I am broken, I will win the martial arts, you two can rest assured!" ”

Liu Weitai had just been promoted to brigade commander, and it stands to reason that Li Luo should not have sent him. But Liu Weitai is extremely reliable, not to mention, and has strong perseverance, and is very good at sticking to the pass for a long time.

Don't look at him as a brigade commander, but this time he commanded 10,000 horses. In addition to the 5,000 regular troops, there were also 5,000 township troops used as auxiliaries.

Wuguan is really the kind of dangerous place where 10,000 soldiers are placed there, as long as the grain is sufficient, even if there are more Yuan troops, they can defend it for a year and a half.

In fact, as early as ten days ago, the weapons of the centaurs were ready. But Li Jing did not give the order to seize the pass.

Because Wuguan is guarded by 3,000 yuan troops, it is too difficult for 10,000 Tang troops to seize the pass.

In order to prevent the Han army from rebelling, the Yuan court handed over the Wuguan, which obviously belonged to Shaanxi, to the Huguang Yuan army to guard.

According to the intelligence, the 3,000-yuan army guarding Wuguan was guarded and changed guards every three months.

Li Jing and others were the day when the Wuguan Yuan Army changed its guard, in early May.

Even the armor that was smuggled in was Yuan army armor. Under the banner of the Yuan Army, the Tang Army will take advantage of this pass to change defenses, and Zhou Yun, the governor of Zhou, will personally go out and enter the Wuguan Pass to change defenses. After capturing the pass, he played the banner of the White Lotus Sect and pretended to be the White Lotus Sect to occupy the martial pass.

Sichuan's Jianmen Pass, because of the earlier change of guards, is now estimated to have been taken down.

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The three of them guessed correctly. Since the Jianmen Pass in Sichuan changed its guard in late April, the Tang army, which was smuggled to Guangyuan, started on 25 April.

Li Yi, a spy who had long been lurking in Sichuan, with the cooperation of Cen Yuanzhong of Guangyuan Zhixian County, took advantage of the opportunity of the Sichuan Yuan Army to suppress the Sichuan White Lotus Sect, and swaggered to Jianmen Pass to change the guard under the banner of the Yuan Army.

Cen Yuanzhong escorted a batch of grain and grass in front of him, and first entered Jianmen Pass, and then Li Yihe and the brigade commander led 5,000 Tang troops under the banner of the Yuan army to ask to enter the pass to change defense.

Jianmen Pass is also stationed with 3,000 soldiers and horses all year round, and it is also a regular change of defense. The Yuan army in Guancheng has been in the mountains for a few months, and they have long been like arrows, looking forward to changing their defenses.

Seeing that someone came to change the guard on time, and Cen Yuanzhong, the magistrate of the county, often came to deliver grain and grass, so the defenders, who had long been accustomed to it, did not have any suspicion at all, so they opened the gate as usual.

It wasn't until the Tang army went up the mountain and entered the pass that they sent the number of the Tang army, not more than 3,000, and at the same time found that the soldiers and horses who came to change the guard this time were very strange.

However, it was already too late.

"Kill!" The Tang army, which had been prepared for a long time, immediately took the lead of the samurai and took the squad as a unit, and suddenly made a move against the careless Yuan army.

"Not good! Hit the trick, it's a red scarf thief! The generals of the Yuan army only reacted at this time.

However, the 3,000-yuan army had long been tired in the mountains, because the weather was getting hotter and the city was very safe, so many people did not wear armor at all in order to be relaxed and happy, and even many people did not have weapons around.

Think about it, an army stays in a safe place for a few months, how many people can still keep their armor and knives in their hands?

It's been like this all these years, hasn't there been an accident?

Unless there is a strict military discipline that stipulates that you must wear armor every day, you really can't do it.

Coupled with the sudden attack of the Tang army, the quality of individual soldiers and the coordination of the squad were above these traitor troops, and even the number of them was more than 2,000 people, so the Yuan army was sad.

The soldiers of the Tang Army, who have been trained hard all year round, are extremely brave and invincible. The Yuan army was simply slaughtered by a one-sided massacre, and it could not even be called a battle. Many Yuan troops who did not wear armor and were bare-handed were killed by the Tang army before they had time to run back to the barracks to wear armor.

"It's down! It's down! Don't kill! ”

"Brother, spare your life!"

Under the Tang army's wolf-like slaughter, chopping melons and vegetables, the remaining traitor army knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and those who had weapons also threw down their weapons.

"Brother Li, look at ......" Brigade Marshal Wang Jue looked at Li Yi, and he wanted to ask Li Yi's opinion.

Wang Jue was Li Luo's first batch of students, and because of his reliability and perseverance, he was selected as the guard of Jianmen.

Li Yi looked indifferently at the traitor army who surrendered, and said without hesitation: "I didn't hear them surrender, and I didn't see them surrender, did Brother Wang see it?" ”

Wang Jue grinned, "I didn't hear it either." ”

As a result, the Tang Army's swords and guns did not stop. The remaining traitor army saw that the Tang army did not accept surrender, and they could only fight hard, but it made no sense.

Why not accept surrender?

Because Jianmen Pass is an "enclave", outside the pass is the territory of the Yuan court, and the nearby Yuan army is far away, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang are thousands of miles away, how can they accept surrender?

Once the surrender is accepted, it is necessary to prevent them from turning back against the water at all times, preventing them from letting the Yuan army enter the pass, and it is not safe to sleep, and the hidden danger is too great.

Let them go, they are the Yuan army again, and they will turn around and attack themselves.

You can only solve it all, which is no way around.

Besides, although they are Han Chinese, they have taken refuge in the Yuan Dynasty for many years, and they have a share in the destruction of the Song Dynasty, and they also have a share in the slaughter of the Han people.

Such a traitor army should also be killed.

Soon, the 3,000 traitor army was slaughtered. It was only at this time that Li Yi ordered the 5,000 auxiliary soldiers of the Township Army waiting at the foot of the mountain to transport all kinds of supplies up the mountain.

Large-scale gatekeeper weapons, such as bed crossbows, not to mention stone cannons. In addition, there were four ten-pound artillery pieces among them, which were slowly pulled to Guancheng by the auxiliary soldiers.

In order to prevent the artillery from falling into the hands of the Yuan army, Li Luo ordered the artillery and ammunition to be smuggled separately. Even if the Yuan court obtained the artillery of the Tang army, there was no advanced gunpowder, and it was difficult to exert the power of the artillery with the poor quality gunpowder of the Yuan army.

Four cannons were finally carried to Guancheng by the horses, followed by some small and medium-sized artillery.

There were 5,000 regular troops guarding the city, including 500 firearmsmen, 200 gunners, and 300 gunners.

Coupled with 5,000 auxiliary soldiers with basic training, it is enough to guard the dangerous Sword Gate Pass.

There were 100,000 catties of gunpowder, 500,000 feather arrows, 50,000 stone of grain, a large amount of dried meat and vegetables, and a medical team of 30 people.

Not surprisingly, it can be seen that it has been held for a year.

It took a day and a night to transport all the supplies to Guancheng, and 10,000 people were tired enough.

It was only at this time that Li Yi, Wang Jue and others breathed a sigh of relief.

It's not easy!

After planning for so long, Jianmen Pass was finally in the hands of Tang Jun.

Li Yi stood on the Guancheng, looking at the surrounding mountains, and his heart was extremely steady. He pointed to a rugged mountain road in the north and said with a smile: "That is the way to Jianmen Pass, you see, how difficult is it for the Yuan army to recapture Jianmen?" ”

Qinling, Shu Road, it is difficult to go to the blue sky!

Everyone took a look and saw that the Qinling Mountain Road in the north of Guancheng was only more than one zhang wide, and it was rugged, winding and undulating, with steep stone walls and cliffs on both sides, and it was difficult to widen it. If you march, it can only be a long snake formation.

Under the city, the area is narrow, but it is only more than 50 zhang square, and at most there are thousands of soldiers and horses, and there is no room for roundabouts. The enemy army is an army of 100,000, and it can only look at Guan and sigh.

If you want to break through the Wuguan, you can only adopt the wheel tactics and slowly wear down the defenders.

"It's really a one-man affair!" Wang Jue said with a smile, "The Northern Yuan Army is dominated by cavalry, so it is even more difficult to defeat this level." ”

Cen Yuanzhong said: "Shu Road is difficult, it is difficult to go to the blue sky!" As long as Jianmen and Wuguan are in the hands of my Tang, there is only one way for the cavalry of the Yuan army to go south. ”

Li Yi and Wang Jue both nodded yes. Both of them knew that the last way for the Yuan cavalry to go south was to make a detour to Tibet, from Tibet to western Sichuan.

This option works, but it takes too long to go around the detour.

Can't you just cross the Qinling Mountains and go down?

No.

The Qinling Mountains stretch for more than 2,000 miles from east to west, from Kunlun in the west to Dabie Mountain in the east, hundreds of miles from north to south, and the cavalry cannot cross it at all.

In the case that the Tang army closed the river and the sea, and occupied Jianmen and Wuguan, the most reliable route for the main force of the northern Yuan army to go south was to detour to Tibet. When the Song Dynasty was destroyed, the Yuan army went south from Tubo and made a detour to Dali.

Of course, this passage could not be cut off by the Tang army, but fortunately, it was also very troublesome for the Yuan army.

Li Yi said in high spirits: "Thousands of miles of Qinling will be used by my Tang Dynasty, enough to block a million troops!" Now that the monarch is about to recover Jiangsu and Zhejiang, great things can be expected, as long as we wait to guard the sword gate, it will be a great achievement in the future! ”

When everyone heard this, everyone was excited.

"Summon, first convene the members, hold a meeting of the members, and tell the soldiers how to ......," Li Yi said.

Brigade Marshal Wang Jue also ordered: "After the member meeting, all the samurai gather!" ”

The news of the Tang Army's secret attack on Jianmen Pass, the nearest Yuan Court Guangyuan Road Governor's Mansion, was still unknown at this time.

It wasn't until three days later that the governor of Guangyuan Road, Daluhua Chi, and the governor of the Song clan, Xing Timur, were shocked to hear of the change in Jianmen.

"The White Lotus Sect's Red Turban Thief actually occupies the Sword Gate!" Song Zuxing was shocked, "What should the town guard be!" ”

Timur, who had braided his hair on his head, had a shaved head covered with sweat. He was originally a Han official, even if he shaved his hair and changed his name, he couldn't escape the fate of being blamed.

Sure enough, Yu Li was furious, and the rude Mongolian language was like a ruthless sword: "Chief Administrator, are you a dim and ignorant roe deer!" The thief stole the sword gate, and you, the manager, didn't even know it! What do you eat! You yourself ask the officials of Pingzhang and the court for guilt! ”

Yu Lichi is Daru Huachi, the town guard, he is in charge of all major affairs, and of course the military power is also in his hands. But when the Sword Gate Pass was seized, he actually threw the blame on Song Xing Timur.

It's so domineering. Who taught him that he was a Mongolian?

"It's... The town guards and officials..."Song Xing Timur wanted to cry without tears, and the six gods had no owner, but he didn't dare to refute Yu Lichi at all.

When Chengdu's Sichuan Pingzhang Altai Tieshan received a report from Guangyuan Road, he didn't take it too seriously, and he didn't even get angry.

Hmph, the thief army thinks that they have occupied the Sword Gate Pass and blocked the passage for Da Yuan Tie to ride south, so Da Yuan can't do anything about them?

It's a whimsical idea.

There is no need for the northern iron cavalry to make a move, just the southern army of the Great Yuan can destroy the red turban thieves, and even if the northern army can't go south, the result can't be changed.

It's just an extra month or two of effort, what's worth it?

This is not only the self-confidence of Altai Iron Mountain, but also the self-confidence of the entire Dayuan officialdom.

However, Altai Iron Mountain can sit in the high position of Sichuan Pingzhang, of course, it is not a fool. Jianmen Pass was attacked by the thief army, and he immediately thought of another important pass: Wuguan.

While reporting to Dadu, Altai Iron Mountain sent fast horses to Huguang Xiangyang to remind Huguang Embankment to prevent red turban thieves from attacking Wuguan.

However, it was too late.

Before Arshan's reminder was sent to Huguang, Wuguan was once again attacked by the "red turban thief".

On 2 May, the "red turban thieves" took advantage of the opportunity to change their guard and deceive the military pass. 3,000 Han troops, all annihilated.

Kudu Timur, who was leading the army to attack the fortified city of Xiangyang, was unexpectedly unconcerned when he heard the news that the "red turban thief" had defrauded Wuguan.

"Hmph, the red turban thief was afraid that the Great Yuan Iron Horse would go south, so he deceived Wuguan. But these low-boned thieves and slaves don't want to think about it, do they need the northern army to exterminate these wild dog-like thieves? Kudu Timur was dismissive.

Chen Yiji, a traitor who had long become a party of Kudu Timur, was in iron armor at this time to suppress the Red Turban Army, and when he heard Kudu Timur's words, he said flatteringly: "What the officials of Zhongtang said is extremely true, although Xiangyang is strong, but with Zhongtang personally taking action, Xiao Yin in the city will not be able to jump for two days." They deceived Wuguan, and there is no use for fart! ”

Since Huguang Pingzhang Li Luo defected, Kudu Timur finally got his wish and became the leader of Huguang.

Kudu Timur sat on his horse, looked back at the 70,000 troops as majestic as a mountain, and then looked at the Xiongcheng of Xiangyang not far away, and his heart was full of pride.

A few months ago, Xiao Yin rebelled, and the momentum was huge, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of Dayuan, he pulled up hundreds of thousands of cheap slaves to rebel, connecting and occupying Jiangling, Xiangyang, Changsha and other big cities.

At that time, Xiao Yin was very arrogant, like a wild dog that picked up a rabbit, and he was enthroned as the emperor, and he was a great official.

But what about now? Once the Great Yuan Dynasty reacted, it made them look good.

In the past three months, the red turban thieves have been defeated repeatedly, and there are only a few hundred thousand of hundreds of thousands of anti-thieves left, hiding in a few big cities, they can only defend, they dare not attack, and they become turtles with shrunken heads.

Now, Xiao Yin is trapped in Xiangyang City, although there is a lot of food, but there are at most forty or fifty thousand soldiers and horses, and morale is low.

Kudu Timur believed that in more than a month at most, he would be able to break through Xiangyang and capture the rebel Xiao Yin.

In addition to his side, Youcheng Da Dali led an army of 50,000 to attack Jiangling (Jingzhou), and the red turban thieves in Jiangling City would not exceed 30,000, and it was impossible to hold out for too long.

There are also 30,000 troops led by Du Si Ma Er to attack Changsha, and it will be captured by June.

As soon as the red turban thieves were entrenched, the red turban thieves in other states and counties were even less afraid, and Huguang was pacified.

At that time, he will command more than 100,000 troops, go straight to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and suppress the traitor Li Luo!

When Timur was preparing to attack the city, a messenger suddenly came on horseback, and the horse jumped down before it could stand firm, and it seemed that a lot of trouble had happened.

The messenger half-knelt and stroked his chest and saluted, and said in Mongolian: "I have bad news for Nayan, there was an explosion in the military warehouse where we were hoarding grain and grass, and a fire broke out, and 200,000 stones of grain and grass were burned. ”

What the!

Kudu Timur was suddenly shocked, "What's the matter!" ”

The messenger bowed his head: "The ambassador and the small officials of the military warehouse were originally spies, they burned the grain and grass, and then ran away." ”

Suddenly, Timur suddenly remembered that when Li Luo first became Pingzhang, he had made excuses to adjust many small official positions, and there was no need to think about it, these ambassadors in charge of the warehouse were all spies he had installed.

Such a trivial matter, he had completely ignored before. This is not to blame for his carelessness, who would have thought that the officials in charge of the warehouse would burn the warehouse themselves? Although the warehouse is defended by soldiers, it is the enemy army outside that can be guarded, how can it be possible to defend the ambassador of the warehouse?

What a trick... Damn it!

Kudu Timur's angry whip was pumped in the air. The grain and grass are gone, it's a big deal to levy again, there are so many cheap slaves in the Han people, are you afraid that there will be no food and grass?

But the problem is that so many materials cannot be collected in a short period of time, and it will take a month or even longer.

Now the grain and grass reserves are burned, and he does not carry much in the army, and within three days he will have to run out of food and horses and grass.

Enraged, Kudu Timur had to choose to temporarily withdraw his troops, and at the same time send people to Jiangling, Changsha and other military warehouses to prevent other military warehouses from being burned down.

But Kudu Timur was simply doing useless work.

The agents of the Tang State who served as the officials in charge of the warehouse burned the warehouse on the same day. On the same day that the large warehouses of the Yuan army in Xiangyang were burned, the military warehouses in Jiangling, Changsha and other places were all burned down by the officials in charge of the warehouses themselves.

They were all burned with fuses and oil, so when the fire started, the arsonist was no longer in the barn. By the time the Yuan army determined who the arsonist was, they had already run away.

The grain and grass reserves of the Huguangyuan army were destroyed, and the Yuan army, which was attacking the Red Turban Army, immediately eased the offensive and had to stop to prepare grain and grass.

The precarious "girder" finally got a precious respite.

As a result, Hu Guangyuan's army's plan to exterminate Xiao Yin in June had to be postponed.

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As soon as Lin'an arrives in May, it will rain lightly, the smoke and rain will be blurred, and the green hills will be faint, which will make the agitated atmosphere in the past few days become much quieter.

Li Luo took Cui Xiuning and climbed the Wangjiang Tower behind the Funing Palace to overlook the misty Qiantang River.

"The rain hates the clouds, and Jiangnan is still called beautiful." As soon as Li Luo went upstairs, he dragged a sentence.

It has been twenty days since entering Lin'an, and almost all the large and medium-sized cities in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have been occupied by the Tang army. Although the prefecture and county have not yet been controlled by the Tang army, and there are still many landlord armies and remnants of the Yuan army resisting, the overall situation is already under control.

The first phase of strategic objectives has been successfully achieved.

Therefore, Li Luo and Cui Xiuning were in the mood to take a look at the scenery after being busy for more than half a month.

The two did not brave the rain to go to the West Lake, but directly climbed the Wangjiang Tower of the Zhao Song Palace.

Upstairs in Wangjiang, Cui Xiuning wore a blue pleated fairy skirt, a bun of Chaoyun near incense, and a gust of river wind blew her clothes, fluttering, as if she would fly away at any time.

It is difficult for Li Luo to associate the policewoman who chased him in a police uniform with a gun before, and the beautiful woman in ancient costume in front of him who is a little unearthly.

Of course, although this woman has picturesque eyebrows, there is always a hint of coldness like a snowy mountain, and this scene is indeed like a fairy in the clouds, but as soon as she speaks, it is not like that.

"I'll go, more than a million homeless people, how much food will I eat! That's a whole thing. Cui Xiuning said.

Although the two of them saw the scenery, they were still talking about things.

Li Luo pulled Cui Xiuning with one hand and touched his chin with the other, "I can only let them drink porridge and work for relief." Although we have 10 million stone grains, it is not so bad. ”

It turned out that there were more than one million displaced people in the land of fish and rice such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

I could ignore it before, but now that the little couple has entered Jiangnan, they have long regarded Jiangnan as their own land, how can they watch so many people starve to death.

"The fairy in the clouds" wrenched his fingers and frowned to settle the account, "It's calculated according to 1.5 million displaced people." The porridge had to be thicker, and they had to work. That's the average person has half a pound of food per day. ”

"...... At least 750,000 catties a day! More than 6,000 stone of grain! Now in May, they can't catch up with the spring rice, and even if they can catch up with the autumn rice, it will be October, and we will have to help them for at least five months! ”

Li Luo smiled bitterly: "You don't have to forget it, why not just the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang?" This year, we will spend at least a few million stone of grain on the people. Unless, we only occupy Jiangsu and Zhejiang this year, and don't want other places. ”

Cui Xiuning sighed, "I don't know what year it will be, the war has caused too much damage to agricultural production and the economy, and no matter how much food we have, we can't save it." ”

Li Luo pinched her shoulder, "Digest Jiang and Zhejiang first, it's a big step...... Well, it's just a bite of rice. At least for a few months, it will not be possible to attack other places. ”

"There are still fewer soldiers." Cui Xiuning hugged her arms, and this action immediately destroyed her image as a lady in ancient costumes, "I have calculated that more than 100 prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River need at least 50,000 troops to be garrisoned in order to maintain a minimum level of law and order and effective management. ”

"In addition to important cities such as Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Ningbo, we will spend at least 80,000 soldiers and horses to garrison. There are only 50,000 or 60,000 mobile soldiers and horses used for field operations. You say you're going to recruit 100,000 recruits, but it's hard to use them without months of hard training. ”

Li Luo nodded, "So this definitely won't work." The elite soldiers we have trained hard for several years cannot be used to defend the city and maintain law and order, but must be used on the blade. ”

Cui Xiuning said: "I think the military slaves should be used, so that the Japanese militarism can assist in law and order." Second, 100 outstanding police officers were dispatched from Haidong to set up a police training camp in Hangzhou, where 3,000 people were recruited first, and after training for half a year, they were assigned to prefectures and counties. ”

"Okay." Li Luo pinched the woman's plump earlobes, "I don't care about this, you can catch it." Okay, let's look at the scenery and don't talk about work. Also, it's not Hangzhou, it's Lin'an. ”

But as soon as the two of them left their jobs, they took the initiative to find their jobs.

A guard rushed to Wangjiang Tower, "Your Excellency, madam, news from Huguang!" ”

Li Luo opened it and handed it to Cui Xiuning, "Okay, the two levels have been lowered, you can rest assured for the time being!" ”

When Cui Xiuning heard this, her heart was suddenly relieved, and she couldn't help but smile.

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