The route drawn up by Xu Shiyang was to start from Juzhou, pass through Mengyin under the jurisdiction of Qingzhou and enter the territory of Yanzhou Prefecture, and then pass between Maoyang and Surabaya.

Then bypass Nishan, pass by the county seat of Zou County, and attack Zhujiazhuang located in Jining County (Zhujiazhuang in the Water Margin is not this location).

It's basically a straight line, taking the shortest marching distance.

According to Xu Shiyang's thoughts, if the Wubao lord in Yanzhou did not take the initiative to attack, Xu Shiyang would also not attack them.

To this end, the auxiliary troops brought a large amount of Tianzhu Tubu cloth with him—he intended to cross the territory of the Yanzhou Dock Fort Lord in a friendly way.

An army of nearly 10,000 people crossing their territory, no one will be at ease, not to mention that it is still busy farming, and the owner of the dock fort will almost certainly shrink the population to defend the dock fort, even if the two sides do not go to war, the other party will inevitably suffer some losses.

Therefore, there is a natural contradiction between the local dock fort owner and the Qingzhou army.

If there is time, Xu Shiyang certainly hopes to push all the way over and solve this hidden danger.

But the interception task requires stuck time, and it is impossible for him to spend time entangled with the local dock fort master, if he leaves it alone, those dock fort owners who have suffered losses will most likely bring some trouble to Xu Shiyang's rear when they are fighting on their own front.

Therefore, as soon as Xu Shiyang entered the territory of Yanzhou, he immediately launched a diplomatic offensive - sending Old Man Hu and others to the dock fort that was about to pass through in advance, sending some Tianzhu native cloth as a gift, and at the same time very clearly explaining the purpose of the Qingzhou army's operation to the local dock fort owner:

Zhujiazhuang took refuge in the Tartars, and repeatedly helped the Tartars cross the canal to rob the elders of Qi Province, and Xu Muhe ordered a crusade against Zhujiazhuang in Qingzhou Jiedu!

This operation has nothing to do with other docks along the way!

That being said, the local dock fort owner really can't believe it, after all, Qingzhou is not far from Yanzhou - Xu Shiyang's actual operation this time is actually a little closer than the attack on the northern part of Qingzhou a few months ago, and most of the dock fort owners in eastern Yanzhou know what happened in Qingzhou.

Everyone was afraid that the Qingzhou Festival would find another reason to annex Yanzhou.

Therefore, it is necessary to raise vigilance if it is time to raise vigilance.

It's just that the Qingzhou army is strong, and none of the scattered dock fort owners in eastern Yanzhou have the ability to organize thousands of strong men to resist, and the Qingzhou army expresses goodwill, and they have to accept it.

The cloth that Old Man Hu gave to the families in Yanzhou was not a simple gift, textiles in the current Jiangbei originally assumed the responsibility of part of the currency, and it was too low to give money directly, Xu Shiyang did not want to let the owners of the dock fort along the way have the illusion that the Xu family was tying them up.

Therefore, these cloths are actually procurement costs, and while expressing goodwill, Old Man Hu wants to purchase some materials from the local area - grain, vegetables, freshwater fish, poultry eggs, meat or other similar local products, and the price can be relaxed a little, so that the locals feel that they can make money.

Of course, if you can leave Qingzhou rich and live a good life among the people of Wubao, it will be better - if they are not unified now, it does not mean that they will not do this in the future, if the people at the bottom yearn for Qingzhou, the war will be smoother in the future.

In this way, the Qingzhou Army went all the way to the west, and the journey was smooth when there was a large amount of cloth to open the road.

Although the lord of the dock fort who passed by on the way was very vigilant, he did not take the initiative to stop the advance of the Qingzhou army.

Moreover, the trade went smoothly, and the rough Tianzhu homespun cloth could not be sold at all in the south of the Yangtze River, but in the dilapidated Jiangbei, it was quite a popular good thing.

After all, many poor Dockfort residents may not be able to find a complete garment for their families.

This is especially true in Yanzhou, because it is further west, and the degree of tartar poisoning over the years is much deeper than that of Qingzhou, so the dock forts here appear more dilapidated, and exchanging grain or local products for some thick and low-cost cloth is a very cost-effective deal.

This kind of generous approach equivalent to money has brought some unexpected benefits to Xu Shiyang, and in every dock fort he passed, there were some singles who had nothing to worry about sneaking out to join the army.

When bypassing Nishan, a bandit named Lu Fang on the mountain even led his subordinates to form a formation and went down the mountain to take refuge, adding more than 2,000 strong men and more than 5,000 family members to Xu Shiyang at once.

Xu Shiyang didn't let them all follow, near Zou County, Xu Shiyang stopped for a long time, took out a thousand Ding Zhuang from the bandits, and the rest returned to Qingzhou with Xu Shiyang's letters with the bandits' families.

There, there was a place for Xu Muhe to arrange their accommodation.

When he set off again, the scattered people from various dock forts in Yanzhou brought the Nishan bandits, adding about 1,500 auxiliary troops to Xu Shiyang, which was really a good sign.

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Xu Shiyang's actions were violent, and he had no intention of hiding his purpose at all, and even hyped it along the way, as if he was afraid that the enemy would not know that he was going to fight them.

Therefore, Zhujiazhuang knew very early that someone from Qingzhou in the east was coming to beat him, so he had been prepared for a long time.

Soon after the army left Qingzhou, Zhu Chaofeng, the head of the Zhu family, convened his core members: three sons Zhu Long, Zhu Hu, Zhu Biao, Master Zhuangzhong, and the head of the Gun and Stick Sect to discuss together.

In this plane, Luan Tingyu directly followed Sun Li's path and joined the Xu family early, so the head of Zhujiazhuang's gun and stick is Han Tao, who is known as a universal general in the rivers and lakes.

This person is actually a former Great Zhou official army, and when the imperial court moved south, he did not retreat to the south of the Yangtze River, and was stranded in Qi Province and was taken in by Zhu Chaofeng, because of his good kung fu, he was regarded as the head of Zhujiazhuang's gun and stick.

"The Qingzhou army said that there were 10,000 in total!"

Zhu Chaofeng spoke first, and his tone was obviously a little flustered:

"Our whole family only has five thousand in total, how can we resist this?"

Zhu Biao, the third elder of the Zhu family, immediately stiffened his neck and shouted: "What did my father say, our Zhuangzi Gate is full of Pantuo Road and traps, and if you want to rush to the Wubao wall, their Xu family will have to lose a thousand lives first!" Why be afraid of him! ”

"Our family is all bankers and slender men, and we have a lot of strength, but after all, we can't be an army!" The boss Zhu Long said: "The Xu family defeated the Jurchens last year, and this year they gathered all of Qingzhou together. ”

"You can't hard-top, so what?" Zhu Chaofeng asked.

"Just like when the Jurchen soldiers came, our family offered gold and silver women, took on some grain and grass, and bought the Xu family to withdraw the army!"

"Big brother can't!" The second Zhu Hu shouted dissatisfiedly: "Then the Xu family is not Dajin after all, how can we treat the Xu family the same as serving Dajin?" ”

"So what do you say you should do?"

"Send a boat to Yanyun and ask Dajin to send troops to help!" Zhu Hu suggested: "Our family has no credit for Dajin and hard work, they should be willing to come to help!" ”

"We don't have any credit for hard work...... Han Tao, the head of the gun and stick sect, said helplessly: "In the eyes of the Tartars, we should give food to women, help them cross the canal, and transport New Year's coins, all of which should be done, and there is neither merit nor hard work." ”

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