Seeing Zhang Ping, who was escorted by two guards and followed from behind, Xinchang Marquis Li Pu could no longer care about retaining the slightest demeanor, and roared loudly at him:

"What is Han Qian going to do with this bastard, could it be that he has been so domineering that he completely ignores Yue Yang's feelings, and wants to pit us all here? As a prison envoy, were you completely kept in the dark by Han Qian, or did you already have an affair with Han Qian! ”

Zhang Ping could understand the anger of Xinchang Hou Lipu, arched his hand, and said indifferently: "At the beginning of Lord Han's arrival in Jinling, he declared it to the Hou Ye, and also made a heavy oath that unless he died, otherwise, he would advance and retreat with the women and children. If the Chishan Army does not withdraw to the left and right of Fuyu Mountain, and does not use the main force to keep an eye on the state soldiers in Huxuan and other places, but stays on the front line of Maoshan Mountain, how can it take care of the thoughtfulness of so many old and weak women and children in Fuyu Mountain? Regarding the withdrawal of the army, Lord Han strictly kept it a secret, and he was also worried that the Lishui family would leak secrets, but I handed over this letter to Master Hou today. And I have always asked Hou Ye to prepare early, but Hou Ye ignored it. Of course, the Chuzhou Army and the Nanya Forbidden Army did not react so quickly, and Hou Ye still had time to lead his troops to retreat to the south of Jieling Mountain, and it was impossible for Lord Han not to welcome Hou Ye. ”

"I ......" Xinchang Hou Li Pu was about to spurt out of anger when he took a mouthful of old blood, but he couldn't open his mouth to question Zhang Ping's words.

Zhang Ping has been in Lishui City for the past few days, and he told him that Han Qian was evacuating the women and children to Fuyu Mountain, but in his opinion, this was exactly the performance of Han Qian cutting off the old and weak women and children to prevent being dragged down.

On the one hand, it was in his heart that he had long believed that Han Qian would lead the Chishan Army to be the elite of the main force of soldiers and horses, and stay on the front line of Maoshan to deal with the Chuzhou Army and Anning Palace.

Li Pu felt that Han Qian would do this, in addition to making the Ning'an Palace and the Chuzhou army, who had a grudge against him to kill his father, uncomfortable, but also to gain greater military exploits to strengthen his position and influence in Yueyang.

On the other hand, Li Pu also decided that Han Qian really had to take care of so many old and weak women and children, so he could only move eastward as a whole and move into the southern plain of Taihu Lake, where grain was abundant.

Only in this way will it be possible to raise enough grain to ensure that so many old and weak women and children will not starve to death due to famine, and only in this way can it resist the resistance of the local elite soldiers and horses who have been highly organized on the southern shore of Taihu Lake.

Think about it, throwing two or three hundred thousand old and weak women and children who have no ability to protect themselves and are scattered into the deep mountains and old forests where there is no food to raise, isn't it a burden to throw away?

Based on this, Li Pu made up his mind to seize Lishui City, and then quickly gathered the family clans in Liyang, Pingling and other places, and the Qiuhu Army, which was awarded the banner by Yueyang in just a few days, collected more than 3,000 elite soldiers and horses, and took Lishui City as the core, and frequently dispatched to Dangtu and Quarry in the west and Pingling and Jiangcheng in the north, and was extremely active.

Li Pu also worked hard to show Han Qian and other Chishan generals the truth that "soldiers are more expensive, not more expensive".

Based on this, even if he knew a few days ago that Han Qian was quickly evacuating the old and weak women and children to Fuyu Mountain, he didn't make any response, but he didn't expect that Han Qian would really pull out all the elite soldiers and horses of the Chishan Army overnight, and they were lonely in Lishui, surrounded by wolves!

At this time, several people climbed onto the back of the dragon from the opposite mountain col.

Seeing that the familiar figure was barely staggered up the stone steps with the support of the two healthy servants, Li Pu was so ashamed that he wanted to find a place to bury himself in it, but there were already more than a dozen people on the left and right, regardless of Li Pu's expression, and stepped forward to greet him, worried that the mountain road was slippery and the old man in the green robe would accidentally fall.

"It's really gone, Han Qian is really ruthless!" Yun Puzi looked at the empty wolf camp at the foot of the mountain, sighed with emotion, and saluted Li Pu again, "Yun Puzi has seen Master Hou." ”

"The palace envoy Gu is polite." Li Pu said coldly.

In the previous dynasty, Zhaozong founded the Shenling Division, which was the same as the Shence Army, and in the later period, it fell under the control of the eunuch group.

At the end of the previous dynasty, the Jianghuai region still kept a line of allegiance to the imperial court, and Gu Yunpu was the palace envoy sent by the imperial court to the Shengzhou Jiedu Embassy as a military envoy, and at the same time, he was nominally the governor of the Shenling Division in the Jianghuai region.

It's just that the secret spy team of the Shenling Division lurking in Jianghuai has always been directly controlled by Lu Qingchen, Li Pu and others, and Lu Qingchen, Li Pu and others are nominally controlled by Gu Yunpu.

The last emperor of the previous generation was killed in Luoyang for Liang Taizu to announce the fall of the previous dynasty, Emperor Tianyou led the Huainan army to cross the river and occupy Shengzhou, Gu Yunpu had thought of leading the Shenling Division in the Jianghuai region to join the Great Chu and Tianyou Emperor, and finally under the persecution of Li Pu and Lu Qingchen, he returned to Maoshan in seclusion.

Seventeen years have passed in a daze, but I didn't expect Gu Yunpu, who was nearly seventy years old, to have a ruddy complexion and an awe-inspiring appearance of a fairy wind.

In the face of Li Pu's indifference, Yun Puzi smiled slightly and said, "Master Hou has finally opened up some situations in Lishui, so it seems that there is only one way left to retreat south. ”

Regardless of whether Yun Puzi had the intention of teasing him or not, Li Pu's heart was full of bitterness, and he looked at the old man in the green robe looking at the rickety figure under the mountain, and stopped talking.

He didn't want to stay in Lishui, which was surrounded by wolves, and he wanted to retreat south, but how to retreat?

Nearly two-thirds of the 3,000 elite soldiers and horses he recruited from Yueyang to obtain the banner of the Qiuhu Army were all private soldiers directly led by the children of the Lishui families.

Under the threat of Anning Palace, the Lishui families who joined them may choose to follow them to retreat westward, but in this way, their 3,000 soldiers and horses are surrounded by nearly 20,000 small southward retreats, what is the difference between them and the rabble of the Chishan Army?

After losing the protection of the city, they retreated to the southern foot of Jieling Mountain, if they want to continue to form their own line and not merge with the Chishan army, but they have to raise grain for more than 20,000 old and weak women and children, and protect 20,000 old and weak women and children from being attacked by the state soldiers of Xuanhu, even if they have 3,000 elites in their hands, they can't actually do anything, and they will soon be dragged down and tired by so many old and weak women and children, and they will soon become no different from the exile army.

However, if he wants to rely on the care of the Chishan Army to evacuate so many children to the northern foothills of Fuyu Mountain controlled by the Chishan Army, then his efforts and struggles during this time will not become a joke?

The more critical problem is that he doesn't think that the old and weak, women and children, like a plate of scattered sand, can really solve the problem of the survival of so many people.

He wouldn't believe it, and neither would the family gatekeeper, and even thought it was Han Qian's ploy.

Who would have guessed that Han Qian's collection of the Chishan Army from Maoshan this time was not a retreat?

The old man in the green robe turned around for a while, walked up to Li Pu tremblingly, and said, "No matter what, you can only take one step at a time." ”

Li Pu has too many scruples and suspicions, but as the eldest brother said, he can only lead his troops to retreat south first and then think about dealing with the future situation, otherwise whether the Chuzhou Army or Anning Palace sends troops to Maoshan, they will completely block the gap for them to break through to the south.

Thinking of this, Li Pucai swallowed a mouthful of saliva with a bloody smell, and said to Zhang Ping with difficulty: "There are still more than 1,000 cavalry in the Chishan Army operating on the front line of Baihuling, can you ask them to cover the flank of our ......?"

The Chuzhou Army and the Nanya Forbidden Army all have scouts operating nearby, and at this time they must also notice the signs that the main force of the Chishan Army has retreated southward, and no matter how slow they react, they will inevitably send more cavalry south to spy on the truth, and it is not easy for them to cover the southward retreat of more than 20,000 old and weak women and children.

Another one, under his coercion, the Lishui family tore their faces with the side of Anning Palace, but if they decided that retreating south was not a good way, they might have the intention of joining the Chuzhou army.

At present, the Qiuhu Army is divided into two capitals, the first is the 800 horse infantry led by Li Xiu, the second is the 2,000 family soldiers led by Chen Mingsheng, and the other is the elite of the 300 personal guard battalion led by his son Li Mo.

In order to open up a unique situation in Lishui as soon as possible, although the second capital is based on Chen Mingsheng as the general, the eight battalion commanders such as Wei Huang and Liu Zishu are all children of the Lishui family, and the generals under their command are also private soldiers and sect soldiers under the direct control of the Lishui family by default.

At this time, Li Puzhen had no confidence, and only with more than 1,000 elites, he suppressed nearly twice as many people as the second without any dissenting thoughts, and then coerced more than 20,000 people from all families to flee to the south of Jieling Mountain in just one or two days.

In the face of the cruel and grim reality, no matter how resentful and hateful Li Pu was, he could only choose to bow his head.

"I'll send someone to contact Zhao Wuji and Zhao Commander to see if he can lead the cavalry camp to stay near Maoshan for two more days." Zhang Ping agreed, and then arched his hand to the old man in the green robe and Yun Puzi, and said, "Maoshan is a mess, and it will be difficult to have peace in the next few months, so the prince and the Gu palace envoy should also go south to avoid the limelight, right?" ”

Yun Puzi looked at the old man in the green robe.

The old man in the green robe with a gray face nodded and said, "I have an old bone and I won't be alive in a few days, but I don't want the corpse to be ruined, so I can only go south with Xiu'er and them, and Lord Lao Zhang is concerned." ”

After speaking, the old man coughed violently, took the handkerchief handed by the attendant, and spit out a mouthful of bloody phlegm, which was slightly relieved.

Zhang Ping saw that Li was ill like this, and he was only worried that Li Pu and they would not be able to control the situation, and they would drag their crippled bodies to walk with them, so he no longer dissuaded them at the moment, and wrote a letter according to the cliff, asking a Hu to ride a fast horse to see Zhao Wuji, hoping that after Zhao Wuji received the letter, he could lead the Chishan Army to rush to Lishui with a thousand cavalry, suppress the restlessness of the Lishui family's gate valve, and help Li Pu's newly formed Qiuhu Army retreat south......