Gao Yuan and Yang Keshi have not been idle these days, not only for military training.

Originally, the training was the training of the soldiers, but Yang Keshi was born in the army, and what he did was to attack the city and seize the land, at the moment there are people in his hands, and Zhou Nan does not restrict him from doing things, it is impossible to let him stay in the city honestly and train the army.

At the beginning, Yang Keshi was only training around Zhuozhou City, but after a long time, he gradually became familiar with the surrounding environment, and his eyes naturally focused on the surrounding villages and towns. First of all, there is the Songlin shop forty miles south of Zhuozhou City, where there is a dangerous Qigou Pass.

Yang Keshi naturally also knew that in this place at the junction of the dynasty and the Fanren, there were ravines and puddles everywhere, and what he wanted was to hinder the rush and advantage of the Fanren Iron Cavalry. The two countries tend to build passes in narrow areas where the two rivers are only found to facilitate defense. This is the case with Qigou Pass.

Ten miles southwest of Qigou Pass is the South Juma River, twelve miles to the northeast is the North Juma River, Qigou Pass is built in these two rivers only see the pass, the city is about one mile long from east to west, the south and north two places are about half a mile long, the city wall is made of rammed earth, very firm. Controlling this place can block the north-south passage between the north and south Juma rivers, and the topography is very important. Zhou Nan didn't have the energy to pay attention to this place before, so there were still officers and soldiers waiting here.

Yang Keshi took these soldiers and horses, his hands were itching, and suddenly found such a place to train soldiers, so he raided Qigou Pass in the early morning of one day, only 500 soldiers were on duty in the city, seeing that the army was killed, or killed from the north, he couldn't figure out the situation at all, and because there was no one from above for half a month, the food was about to run out, and he had no fighting spirit, so he was occupied by Yang Keshi Qigou Pass, replaced by his soldiers and horses stationed here, and the soldiers who surrendered in Qigou Pass were selected and expanded to their other armies.

From the mouths of these surrendered soldiers, Yang Keshi knew that Yanjing City had been cut off from these defenders for half a month, and the surrounding towns were also like this.

Since then, Yang Keshi has been out of control, crossing the Qigou Pass, Xincheng and Guiyi are all laughing, all the cities have been replaced with their own soldiers and horses, and the city head has been replaced with the banner of the Wansheng Army. To the east, you need to cross the Wuding River, although Yang Keshi has not yet gone to Gu'an and Anci, it seems that he can't hold back for long. Even the Liangxiang that is close to Yanjing City to the north has been occupied, standing at the head of the Liangxiang City, you can often see the Fanren cavalry running in the north of the city, and peeping here from time to time.

Seeing Yang Keshi staking land, Gao Yuan also learned from him, so he didn't lag behind, he went to Laishui in the north and Rongcheng in the south, and he was also replaced by Gao Yuan with the banner of the Wansheng Army, and the three thousand men and horses in the city were replaced by reliable guards.

It's just that Gao Yuan and Yang Keshi are still the main people in Zhuoyi Erzhou, and they never set up chucks to guard at each intersection, nor do they send sentinels to patrol around the city, so they don't need to. The soldiers in Yanjing City in the north have not even come out of Yanjing City, and the officials and troops of the Southern Dynasty in the south have an appointment with Zhou Nan, and even the boundary river is not enough. There are four hundred miles of land in the middle of the north and south, and it can be said that there are no boundaries between the two sides, only they run here every day, where do they still need to put a sentry road to check?

Liu Guangshi took his 3,000 elite soldiers and walked in the front, and Liu Guangzu, Wang Niu, and Liu Hanzi, who were "meritorious in Yanjing", led the way in front. They were the vanguard, and they crossed the river and set out at the end of the day. The three thousand men were all horsemen, and even the three hard detectives got on their horses and hurried forward. The black pressure behind which could not be seen was all the soldiers who had crossed the river and those who had already crossed the river. Liu Yanqing, as the commander, had already crossed the river at this time, and was commanding the rear army to follow closely.

This time I crossed the river, and the mood of the last time I sneaked across the river, was very different. The last time I crossed the river, I just thought it was like sneaking into someone else's house to be a thief. This time is different, first, there is no need to worry about the interception of the distant blocking sub-army, and second, there is no need to worry about outflanking the armies of the state capitals on the way.

The 50,000-strong army crossed the river smoothly, and the infantry closely followed the vanguard army in front, waving the flag and covering the sun, but there was no noise and noise, and only the sound of the armor rubbing and hitting when the brigade of men and horses walked and the sound of horses' hooves stepping on the stones.

According to the people in front of them, the vanguard army had already passed through Guiyi County and was passing outside Xincheng County. When passing by Guiyi, the defenders on the city wall just watched them pass by, and no one shouted, let alone soldiers and horses came out to intercept and question.

It seems that Zhou Nan still has some brains after all, and he knows that the heavenly soldiers of the imperial army are coming, and he doesn't dare to stop it, so he knows each other. After Liu Yanqing heard the report, he thought silently in his heart, it seems that there will be no danger on this way to the north and directly to the bottom of Yanjing City. It's just that with the few men and horses in Yanjing City - even if there are 20,000 people - there are no reinforcements outside, there is a shortage of food and grass inside, a dead city, and his own army of 50,000 will surround the city, and then choose a city wall to attack, and he is not afraid that he will not be able to defeat it.

"Order the whole army to march in a hurry, without delay!" Liu Yanqing immediately ordered that he would rush to the outside of Yanjing City tomorrow night, trap Yanjing City to death overnight, and let the defenders of the city see the heavenly soldiers flying down at dawn on the second day.

Liu Guangzu, who was the vanguard of the vanguard army, did not dare to say much at this time, but fortunately, the defenders in the city did not stop them along the way, which corroborated each other with the words he had made up to General Liu before. Now he can only stubbornly lead the army forward in a daze.

From Guiyi to Xincheng, he has really walked this road, so he has a bottom in his heart; Further north, it followed the east bank of the river and went north. The last time I met Yang Keshi in front of me in the early morning, I was on the west bank of the Drinking Horse River with his soldiers, and it was the front.

When passing there, Liu Guangzu also looked west from time to time, for fear that a team of men and horses would suddenly emerge from the west bank of the river, and he would be killed with an arrow leading the way.

The two county towns of Guiyi and Xincheng were taken by Yang Keshi, and now they are under the management of Yang Keshi, and the guards of the county are also Yang Keshi's personal soldiers when he was in the Western Army. The guards of these two counties hurriedly went up to the city to watch, it was really the army of the imperial court, and when they looked at the banner, they naturally knew that it was Liu Yanqing's subordinates.

It's just that Liu Yanqing's army passed from outside the city, and he didn't enter the city or attack the city, which made the two guards a little embarrassed: go out and intercept it, nominally these territories taken by Yang Tongzhi are all to be submitted to the imperial court, so naturally they can't stop the imperial army; If you don't stop it, the imperial army can't agree to the boundary river, and besides, you are originally a person in the Western army, and it is embarrassing to see Liu Dutong. So I watched Liu Yanqing's 50,000-strong army pass outside the city, cross the Liu-Li River, and go north along the east bank of the Liu-Li River.

After thinking about it, I could only report to Yang Tong.

(End of chapter)