The scale of Luoshan City is not large, the twenty-sixth lane of the fourth street, the county government is also the place where the Wenbo tooth tent is, located in the center of the city, Zhang Qian and Guo Rong and others enter the city, when they enter the county office, they can see a team of cars and horses full of heavy materials, driving into the county government from the east.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Qian was also secretly frightened, looked at Guo Rong, and asked tentatively: "Is the Marquis of Qianyang really relieved of the Wen family?" ”

He didn't expect that before everything was negotiated, Han Qian would directly transport a large number of materials into Luoshan City, thinking that Han Qian was really not afraid that Wen Bo would change his mind after getting a large number of supplies?

"Luoshan has been besieged for several months, the grain is about to run out, the army and the people are drowning, I want them to serve Da Chu, especially in such a short period of time, if they want their minds to change, everyone can fight for the loyalty of Da Chu, if they don't give favors, and continue to suppress, resulting in resentment, how can it be done? Wouldn't Lord Zhang also think that the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister, it is really a matter of course? Guo Rong said, "And Tang Yi is benevolent and righteous, and tries his best to show such kindness, if there is any repetition on General Wen's side, it will only be pointed out by thousands ......of people."

Zhang Qian thought about it and was relieved, Wen Bo was really going to change his hexagram, Han Qian poisoned the Wen clan who kidnapped Tangyi at this time, probably no one would say that Han Qian was ruthless, right?

Wen Bo led Cao Ba, Xue Chuan and other generals to welcome Zhang Qian's arrival just before the county government, and a very simple banquet was also set up in the hall, seeing that Wen Bo and the generals' robes were patched, and even grass wool was exposed, which shows how short the materials in Luoshan City have been besieged for more than half a year.

Zhang Qianlongque saw Wen Bo and his son with Shen Yang when he first started the army, Wen Bo was still a Confucian general and elegant, in his thirties, he was appointed as a senior general at the level of the commander of the capital in Dachu, everyone thought that he would succeed his father as the deputy privy envoy, and even as a privy envoy It is possible, who imagined that Wen Bo, who had not seen him for seven years, was over forty years old Wen Bo had a full beard and a lot of vicissitudes of life.

Of course, who would have thought that in the past six or seven years, the world would be in such chaos?

Wen Bo and the generals met Zhang Qian, and there was nothing more to say, nothing more than regret for the Anning Palace and the Xu family's coercion for the tiger, and it was nothing more than trying to express the mood of returning to Dachu and serving the imperial court.

Maybe Wen Bo himself will perform, disguise, and try his best to hide his true thoughts, but many generals under Wen Bo's command have undisguised their disgust, dissatisfaction with the Shouzhou army being defeated and retreating over the years, and worrying about the future of Liang State, Zhang Qian can also believe that the emotions of the Luoshan defenders thinking of returning to Dachu are not disguised, and the real obstacle may still be worried that after accepting the surrender, they will one day be liquidated.

Seeing this, Zhang Qian was able to rest first after the night banquet, but Wen Bo, Wen Zhanyu, Guo Rong and others still kept counting the materials entering the city from the east of the city, and distributed them to the battalions as quickly as possible.

Even if Wen Bo led his troops to defend Luoshan, strengthened the defense of Luoshan to the greatest extent, and hoarded a large amount of supplies, more than 15,000 generals and more than 20,000 civilians in the city were besieged for more than half a year, and the supplies were almost exhausted.

Wen Bo was prepared to defend the city for a long time early in the morning, and strictly controlled the supply of rations for the army and civilians from the beginning of the siege, and for more than half a year, the daily ration supply of the defenders was controlled below eight taels, and the ration supply of civilians was even lower, just barely guaranteeing that they would not starve to death.

Semi-starved for a long time, most of the soldiers and civilians were starved to the point of bone and severe malnutrition.

Therefore, Han Qian urgently transported tens of thousands of jackets, tens of thousands of catties of grain, tens of thousands of catties of dried meat, tens of thousands of catties of cane sugar, more than 30,000 catties of edible oil, and tens of thousands of catties of salt.

Of course, the first batch of supplies brought into the city was 3,000 sets of armor, including more than 500 sets of armor and scale armor from the most elite, as well as 1,000 crossbows with arms and 60 crossbows with beds.

Although Han Qianming did not make any more demands on his face, Guo Rong would also talk about some necessary measures that could be accepted by Wen Bo and his subordinates without making others suspicious.

The Tangyi army recovered 12 counties such as Huailing and Linhuai, and collected more than 90,000 households and more than 50 households, of which more than 5,000 households were the soldiers of the old Zuo Wuyi army who were surrounded by the Anning Palace in the early years and migrated to Huailing, Linhuai and other places, and they were also the families of the generals of the old Zuo Wuyi army led by Wen Bo.

Considering the continuous wars over the years, there were definitely a lot of casualties among the generals of the old Wuyi army led by Wen Bo, Han Qian estimated that among the more than 6,000 households that moved north to the old Wuyi army, there should be nearly 3,000 or so generals who were still arranged to serve in front of Wen Bo's tent.

Guo Rong went into the city to talk with Wen Bo secretly, and also brought the corresponding list of soldiers, Han Qian asked Wen Bo to transfer these 3,000 or so generals separately and organize them into a capital.

Military generals such as soldiers and horses, Du Yu Hou and battalion commanders can be appointed by Wen Bo, but some seemingly unimportant auxiliary positions of marching Sima need to be held by officials designated by Tangyi, and the fact that his family was incorporated and placed in Tangyi should also be disclosed to these generals.

In troubled times, ordinary generals are at the bottom, like wanderers, who can only flow with the waves, and have no time to care about where the family is gone, but for those generals who clearly know that the family has been placed in Tangyi, they can still form a relatively stable centripetal force and cohesion.

In addition, after Wen Bo led his troops to leave Luoshan City, Luoshan City would be taken over by the Xiangbei Army, but the more than 20,000 civilians in the city would be handed over to the Tangyi Army and moved to the east bank of the Gushui River.

Guo Rong, on behalf of Han Qian, also asked Wen Bo to organize the more than 2,000 Ding Zhuang who had been forcibly recruited from the local government to strengthen the city's defense.

It took a while for the imperial court to formally make the decision to surrender the defenders of Luoshan and make the army that followed Zuo Wuxiang to attack Guanzhong, and during this time, Han Qian asked Wen Bo to make preparations for the expedition......

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Zhang Qianluoshan stayed in Luoshan City for two days, under Wen Bo's arrangement, he also met with the military generals who commanded the first level of the garrison camp, visited the barracks in the city, and after grasping some of the conditions of the defenders, he went out of the city to meet with Li Zhihe, and then hurried to Anfeng, and then took a boat through Chaohu, Yuxi River, and Yangtze River all the way eastward, and rushed back to Jinling on the ninth day, and reported to Shen Yang and other ministers of political affairs that he had been recruiting for more than ten days.

At about the same time, the news that Li Xiu led his troops to successfully capture Wuguan also galloped back to Jinling.

The capture of Wuguan will open the passage to advance into the pass, but only by capturing the southeast of Lantian County can it be regarded as the gateway to the hinterland of Yongzhou.

At present, Li Xiu and Zhang Fengzheng are leading their troops to march north along Shangluo Road (Wuguan Road), but from Wuguan to the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, where Yaoguan is located, there are still nearly 300 miles of tortuous mountain post roads.

Huang Xi, Li Xiu, Zhang Feng and other generals were not worried about how strong the Liang army in Guanzhong was under the situation of being attacked on all sides, how strong they could prevent them from capturing the pass, but the problem was that after capturing the pass and opening the door to the hinterland of Guanzhong, the Chu army wanted to share as much of the results as possible, compared with the Shu army and the Mengwu cavalry and the Weizhou rebels in the north, it seemed that the strength was insufficient.

Even if the Guanzhong Liang army was finally defeated, it would be difficult for them to capture Yongzhou City, the former capital of the former dynasty, from the hands of the Shu army and the Mughu, who had an absolute advantage in military strength, let alone control the entire Weiping Plain.

Therefore, Huang Xi, Li Xiu, Zhang Feng and others will gallop to the imperial court, and Shangshu put forward two suggestions.

The first is to suggest that the imperial court recruit more soldiers and horses to go to the front line of the pass, and after the capture of the pass, it will have a stronger strength to participate in the division of the pass.

If they could not send more troops and horses, and only the Zuo Wuxiang army would be the mainstay, they advocated that after the capture of Yaoguan, they should temporarily stop continuing to use troops in the hinterland of Yongzhou, hold the gateway pass that can directly use troops against the hinterland of Yongzhou, and occupy the two counties of Shangluo and Shangluo between Yaoguan and Wuguan, so as to observe the subsequent development of the situation, rather than rushing into the hinterland of Guanzhong.

The princes of the court initially decided to respond to the proposal of Shu and send troops to attack Wuguan, but they did not expect to participate in the partition of the Wei Plain.

In any case, even if Dachu was able to divide several counties and occupy them in the early stage of Weiping, the investment was definitely far greater than the gain.

What's more, the lone army hangs north of the Qinling Mountains, once the Shu army and the Mengwu people suddenly change their hexagrams, they want to hold the land of Pingchuan north of the pass, which is actually extremely difficult, and if they are not careful, there is also the worry of the destruction of the whole army.

What the princes of the court were most looking forward to before was to be able to lay down the pass and control the narrow passage between Guanzhong and Xiangbei, but the real opportunity they saw was still in the Central Plains, in the wider land between the river and Huai.

In the dismemberment of the Guanzhong Liang army, the strategic focus of the Great Chu should also be to concentrate elite soldiers and horses across the Huai River to the north, invade Cai Ruying, Shang, Song, Xu, Siqingmi and other prefectures, and even expect that during the period when the Mengwu people digest the Hedong and Heshuo regions, the Chu army's troops can directly advance along the Yellow River.

Of course, at the beginning of the decision-making, the princes of the court all recognized that the defenders of Luoshan were a major obstacle.

As Han Qian said in the recital, Luoshan is an inch of land, more than 10,000 weak brigades, but the two main forces of Xiangbei and Tangyi are unable to cross the Huai River to the north, which is undoubtedly a huge waste at the current moment, and it is even very likely that the Chu army will miss the best opportunity to attack the Central Plains since the founding of the country.

Han Qian's proposal to ask the Xiangbei Army to solve the problem of the Luoshan garrison within a month was harsh on the Xiangbei Army, but as far as the entire battle situation was concerned, once several troops and horses defeated the Liang army in Guanzhong, it was in the best interests of the Xiangbei Army, the Tangyi Army and the Huaidong Army to prepare for the north in time before that.

Even if the Xiangbei army would suffer heavy casualties when it attacked the Luoshan army, it was still better than when the Liang army was completely defeated, and they missed the opportunity to attack Cai Ru, Shang, Ying, Song and other states.

Zhang Qian's return is undoubtedly the best solution to bring back an exciting and current contradiction.

Even if Cishou Palace has the support of the Queen Mother, its opposition is insignificant at this time.

On the thirteenth, Emperor Yanyou officially issued a holy decree to incorporate the Luoshan garrison as the Right Shenwu Army - this can be regarded as the re-use of the banner of the Right Shenwu Army - Wen Bo, Xue Chuan, Cao Ba and others will be the commanders and deputy commanders of the Right Shenwu Army, and at the same time, they also ordered the military department to re-organize the old Left Wuyi Army into small households and incorporate them into the military households of the cantonment military government.

The rebels of Anning Palace fled north across the river, and a large number of ordinary generals' families and dependents were abandoned on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

After all, in the era of Emperor Tianyou, in addition to the guards and pro-army, the families of the forbidden army were small as soldiers, and the cantonment military offices under their jurisdiction were distributed on a large scale in prefectures and counties outside Gyeonggi, while the soldiers of the left and right dragon bird armies and the left and right Shenwu armies were mainly placed in Tanzhou, Junju and other places.

In the Jinling Incident, the large-scale forbidden army generals had no choice but to follow the main general and were forced to choose the rebels, but they stayed in the small family on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and after Emperor Yanyou ascended the throne, they were all reduced to official slaves and maids of various state and county government offices.

Wen Bo led his troops to accept the surrender, and the old Zuo Wu Yi Army stayed in the small family on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and its identity naturally had to be reclarified, which would also involve the influence and penetration of the imperial court on the new Right Shenwu Army in the future.

The holy decree also demanded that when the new Youshenwu Army received the order, it should immediately go south through Jiuli Pass under the supervision of the Xiangbei Army, borrow the road from Suizhou, and then rush to Wuguan along the Han River and Danshui to accept the control of Jiangyin Marquis Huang Ji and enter the Guan.

As for Han Qian's suggestion in the previous letter that Wen Bo's troops should join up with Zuo Wuxiang's army, they should occupy Yongzhou City before the Mughal people, but they were ignored by the princes of the court.

In addition to the narrow territory of Guanzhong, it is only connected to the Jianghuai land by a narrow Wuguan Road, and instead of competing for the city with the Shu army and the Mengwu people in the narrow Guanzhong, it is far better to put the strategic focus on the Central Plains Hehuai region, which is more closely related to the Jianghuai and the Jianghuai.

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On the 17th, Zhang Qian accompanied the squire of the military department, Li Changfeng, the marquis of Linjin, and Chen Ruyi, the regular attendant of the Chongwen Palace, to Luoshan with the holy decree.

In addition to Wen Bo leading the new Right Shenwu Army to mobilize and advance westward in the fastest possible time, the disposition of Luoshan City was also roughly carried out according to the previous compromise between the two armies of Xiangbei and Tangyi.

More than 22,000 civilians in the city, including some wounded and sick generals, will all be handed over to the Tangyi army for acceptance, and moved to the east of the Gushui River for resettlement, and the two counties of Huangchuan and Le'an will be assigned to Huozhou.

Nasan, Uiyang, Tongbaek, and Jisi, which was still occupied by the Shouju army at this time, were assigned to Gwangju, and the new state was set up in Uiyang Castle.

The upper valley area of the Gushui River was separated from Luoshan County and merged into Le'an County.

At the same time, the holy decree also ordered the Xiangbei Army to immediately send troops to attack the upper reaches of the Huai River, and it was necessary to capture the Qisi City before the soldiers and horses on the West Road and the Shu army opened the gateway to the hinterland of Guanzhong, and opened the passage for the Northern Expedition to occupy Caizhou and Ruzhou, without further delay.

At the same time, 3,000 military horses will be requisitioned from each of the Tangyi and Xiangbei armies to strengthen the long-range marching capability of the Youshenwu army.

There are not enough military horses and other animal power camels to transport heavy baggage and wounded soldiers, and it is normal for a group of about 12,000 soldiers and horses to march on post roads and maintain a speed of 30 miles a day.

This means that it will take almost 20 days for the newly formed Right Shenwu Army to enter the territory of Junzhou, and after entering Junzhou, it will take 20 days to march along the Danshui into the depths of the Qinling Mountains, through Jingzikou, Wuguan, and then to the front line of Yaoguan.

That will be at the end of January next year.

Such a speed is obviously unsatisfactory.

In order to speed up the march, a large number of mules and horses and other animal power are indispensable.

The Luoshan garrison had two or three thousand military horses before, but after the siege, in order to save a huge amount of horse material consumption, except for more than three hundred war horses, other military horses were slaughtered and stored as military rations.

Now, if 6,000 military horses can be incorporated, the marching speed of the Right Shenwu Army can almost be doubled.

It may not be very difficult for the Tangyi army to get 3,000 military horses, but the Xiangbei army has tried its best to raise them in the past two years, and it has a total of eight or nine thousand military horses in its hands, and it is quite difficult to take more than one-third of the 3,000 military horses at once.

Even if the imperial court promised to compensate the Tangyi army and the Xiangbei army at a price of 12 taels per military horse, the Huangjing and other places near Xiangbei were extremely scarce, and they did not have strong enough transportation capacity to buy military horses from Jiangdong or Nanzhao and other places more farther away, and it might take two or three years to make up for this gap if they only relied on scattered livestock dealers.

However, no matter what, things have advanced to this point, and even Li Changfeng, the squire of the military department who is sitting on the side of the Xiangbei Army, will never see that things will be stuck in such details.

In the end, in two days on the 18th and 19th, Li Zhihe delivered 3,000 military horses in full, so that the newly formed Right Shenwu Army stepped into the western expedition on the 20th as scheduled.

In addition to ordering the walled cities along the way to strengthen defenses, Li Zhihe also ordered his general Chen Xiong to lead 3,000 horse infantry troops along the road to monitor the movements of the Youshenwu army.

Also on the 20th, Su Lie escorted more than 20,000 Luoshan civilians, Yuguan walked out of Luoshan City, stepped into the eastward move to Le'an, Huangchuan, Xinjing and other counties, and on the 22nd, handed over Luoshan City to the Xiangbei Army garrison and management.

Probably stimulated by the failure of the two long-term sieges to achieve good results, after all the Tangyi troops withdrew to the east bank of the Gushui River on the 22nd and handed over Luoshan City, Li Zhihe led his troops to attack Qisi City, where the Gushui River entered the mouth of the Huai River.

It was fought especially hard at the beginning.

The whirlwind cannon advanced under the city, mainly using scattered stone bullets to suppress the defenders, Li Zhen and Zhong Yanhu, two fierce generals, rushed directly to the city to supervise the battle, and even personally led the elite to directly take turns to join the city and attack.

Maybe it is because the expectation is not the focus of the Shouzhou army, there are only 5,000 defenders stationed in it, and it is not possible to talk about the strength of the soldiers, or maybe it is the surrender of Wen Bo's troops, which has severely damaged the morale and morale of the defenders, or it is under the supervision of Li Changjun, the squire of the military department, or the duck of the Luoshan defenders flew away so that the generals of the Xiangbei Army were holding a fire in their hearts, and the attack on the period of thought was extra brave, and finally paid 2,000 casualties, from the soldiers to the city to the capture of the city, forcing the defenders to flee into the estuary, It took only four days.

For the Xiangbei Army, after capturing the city of Qisi, the forward soldiers and horses crossed the Huai River and entered the southern area of Caizhou, which opened up contact with the Fangcheng defenders on the other side of Tongbai Mountain and the north of Nanyang (Dengzhou).

This also means that Li Zhihe can concentrate his elite forces at any time, capture the counties of Caizhou one by one, and then expand his troops to the north and east.

However, on the 3rd of January, Li Zhihe, who led his troops into Qisi City to recuperate, and Li Changfeng, who planned to leave for Jinling in the near future, suddenly received a letter that the newly formed Right Shenwu Army had been stranded under Canglang City for more than three days, and had no intention of setting off to continue along the Danjiang River to Jingzikou.

Canglang City was the old seat of Junzhou, which was destroyed in the middle of the war.

It was also during the Jingxiang War that Han Qian mobilized resources to rebuild Canglang City in the northeast corner of the intersection of the Danjiang River and the Han River, and prevented the Liang army from fully controlling the Danshui coast in the early stage of the Jingxiang War, which played a vital role.

It was also because the Liang army failed to control the Danshui coast in time that there was a later defense battle of Xichuan City.

Although Canglang City is located at the turn of Han Dan, the scale of the city was narrow when it was first rebuilt, and because Xichuan City could take into account the defense lines of Jingzikou and Wuguan, when Junzhou was re-established, the state was set up in Xichuan.

Regardless of Zheng Hui before, or Chai Jian later, the tooth tent was set up in Xichuan, which can take into account the defense of both lines, the development of Canglang City in the past seven or eight years has been relatively slow, and only now a rammed earth city wall has been added, and the previous few small forts have been encircled, and the scale of the city has expanded to 600 steps square.

Due to the fact that the population of Junzhou is still at a very low level after the new establishment, and the garrison fortress on the south bank has developed for a longer time, even if Canglang City occupies convenient land and water, it is still a very inconspicuous small city between Deng Jun for the time being.

Wen Bo led the newly formed Right Shenwu Army to suddenly stop under Canglang City and not leave, at such a sensitive moment, it was not a trivial matter!

In addition to ordering Chai Jian to immediately lead a group of soldiers and horses to approach Canglang City, Li Changfeng did not dare to delay for a while, so he angrily took Yao Xishui, Xu Jing and Chen Ruyi, a regular attendant in the Chongwen Palace, who had not yet embarked on the way home, and crossed the Gushui River and Huanghe River by horse that night, rushed to Huangchuan City, and urgently asked to see Han Qian, who was staying in Huangchuan and planned to personally command the Tangyi army on the west wing to attack Huoqiu.

"Qianyang Hou, what do you want, and what sinister intentions are hidden?"

The 12,000 elites of the newly formed Right Shenwu Army suddenly stopped under Canglang City, how can this matter not make people panic? Li Changfeng, Yao Xishui, Xu Jing, and Chen Ruyi also discussed that Xu Jing would sing red face on the way, and when he saw Han Qian's face, he also asked unceremoniously aggressively.

"The Right Shenwu Army is advancing westward under the supervision of the elite of Xiangbei, and Canglang City is also a city guarded by soldiers and horses sent by the Xiangbei Defense Embassy, and the current situation is that Wen Bo suddenly led his troops to attack Canglang City, or what, I don't know anything. Lord Xu aggressively questioned Ben Hou at this time, and Ben Hou also asked Lord Xu, is it because you are capricious, annoyed Wen Bo, stimulated the generals of the Right Shenwu Army, and made the whole thing make waves again? Han Qian sat behind the long case in the center of the hall, stared at Xu Jing with a cold face and asked.

"The Wen clan is all under the control of you and others, and Hou Ye really thinks that with a light sentence, he can really stay out of the matter and say that he has nothing to do with this matter?" Yao Xishui asked sharply.

"I don't have the same knowledge as you," Han Qian glanced at Yao Xishui contemptuously, and asked Li Changfeng, "What is the current situation, Wen Bo suddenly led his troops to capture Canglang City, or what do you say?" ”

Yao Xishui was so angry that he was about to vomit blood, but when it came to identity, at this time, only Li Changfeng could compare with Han Qian, even if Chen Ruyi was the envoy of Emperor Yanyou, Han Qian didn't take a straight look, how could they help him?

"Wen Bo has no signs of attacking Canglang City for the time being, but the front and back parts of it have blocked the passage in and out of Canglang by land, and I really don't know what he wants." Li Changfeng said with a calm face.

"Don't say that Wen Bo hasn't captured Canglang City yet, even if he captures Canglang City, with the food stored in Canglang City, it is probably only enough for more than 12,000 elite soldiers and horses for more than ten days, I don't think Wen Bo has any strange ideas, is there any misunderstanding?" Han Qian frowned and asked, "Or is it that the imperial court called the Zuo Wuxiang army to attack Wuguan and re-use Canglang City as a grain storage base, with a large amount of grain and straw?" I haven't heard of that! ”

"This is not true, the grain and grass that entered Wuguan were directly transported from Xiangcheng to Jingzikou through Danshui, and there was no transit in Canglang City." Li Changfeng said.

When they received the letter, they were also shocked and suspicious, the biggest suspicion was that Canglang did not have a large amount of grain reserves, and there were only five or six hundred households in the city - Wen Bo really wanted to have any conspiracy with Han Qian against the Xiangbei army, and he should also launch a surprise attack on the two important towns of Xiangcheng or Xichuan under careful arrangement, instead of stopping under Canglang City for no reason.

The newly formed Right Shenwu Army temporarily stopped under Canglang City and there was no sign of direct siege, and even if Canglang City was captured, it would soon be surrounded and killed by the elite of the Xiangbei Army who were forced from both sides and had more superior troops and combat effectiveness, and they would run out of food in more than ten days.

Of course, Wen Bo can slaughter military horses as military food, but at this time it is already January, and in more than a month, the weather will warm up, and the slaughtered military horses are not easy to store.

At that time, even if there are five or six thousand military horses—it is impossible to have a supply of up to 112,000 catties of horse material every day, and such a huge number of military horses must be slaughtered as soon as possible—it will be heaven to ask Wen Bo's department to support it for two or three more months after occupying Canglang City, but after two or three months, it will inevitably be a dead end.

They couldn't imagine why Wen Bo suddenly stopped in Canglang City, of course, they decided that the problem was with the Tangyi army and Han Qian, and they didn't know what conspiracy Han Qian and Wen Bo had secretly reached that they didn't know about.