Han Qian gathered four or five thousand people in Dragon Tooth City, but his foundation was still shallow, and the strength of the fighting will of the newly recruited soldiers had not yet been tested in actual combat.

In particular, if they want to storm Jiming Village, Chenyang City and other places guarded by the Chenzhou soldiers in the next step, the military morale of the newly incorporated soldiers and soldiers in the camp will be severely tested.

In addition to the newly recruited Fanyong, the two thousand generals compiled before were not without problems, but they mainly used tactics to win Eagle Fish Village before, and they did not experience difficult battles, and many problems were not exposed.

In this case, Han Qian hoped that Han Ting would first cut down the domain of Tanzhou, and first send troops from Ezhou to attack Tanzhou, so that his side could be more prepared.

However, things may not be as Han Qian wants.

Throughout September, with the efforts of Tian Cheng, Gao Shao, Lin Haizheng and others, the armor of the three battalions were undergoing intense and orderly drills, and the ironworks and armor workshops were also making every effort to build all kinds of combat weapons.

On this day in mid-October, Han Qian and Zhang Ping were chatting about things, and called Xixunqiao to ask about some of the situation in Zhuzhou Shanyue Fanhu, but his father Han Daoxun sent a messenger from Qianyang City, saying that Yuan Guowei, Zheng Xingxuan and others had escorted Zheng Hui to Xuzhou and asked them to return to Qianyang City to meet.

"Your Majesty sent Zheng Hui to Xuzhou?"

If it weren't for Han Laoshan's nephew Han Dong, who rushed over with his father's handwritten letter, Han Qian couldn't have imagined that Zheng Hui was already in Qianyang City at this time.

Han Qian glanced up at Zhang Ping, wanting to see what he thought about this matter.

"It should be that the imperial court has already decided to cut the domain of Tanzhou at this time, right?" Zhang Ping said.

Han Qian smiled, knowing that Zhang Ping should have other guesses, but it was inconvenient to say it at this time.

Zheng Hui joined the army as a soldier in Huangzhou at the beginning, and was transferred to the county palace as a counselor and military adviser after the Jingxiang War, and was the most core figure in Jinling in addition to Mr. Zheng Chang of Baishi at this time.

At this time, Zheng Hui, under the escort of Yuan Guowei, Zheng Xingxuan and others, passed through the blockade of Tanzhou, crossed the mountains and crossed the mountains and entered Qianyang City, and it was definitely not as simple as informing the imperial court of the battle plan for Tanzhou.

If that's the case, it's okay to take Yuan Guowei over the mountains and mountains to deliver the decree, and he can't be tired of a heavyweight like Zheng Hui running so hard.

If they were unfortunate enough to be targeted by the scouts and eyeliners of Tanzhou, the losses to the Zheng family and the county palace would be extremely heavy.

Han Qian immediately called Tian Cheng, Gao Shao, Lin Hai and others over, and ordered them to strictly guard the walled city, he went out of the mountain with Zhang Ping that night, and rushed to Linjiang County, which had built the city wall one zhang high, in the middle of the night, and hastily rested for two hours, and rushed to Qianyang City by boat at dawn.

Flowing down the river and at great speed.

Han Qian and the others entered Qianyang City before noon and met Zheng Hui, Yuan Guowei and others again.

"There will be a year of farewell, Han Sima will be fine!"

Although Zheng Hui had already changed into a clean robe, he could also see that he had suffered a lot of hard work this time, and there were several cuts on his cheeks that had been cut by sharp rocks or branches.

Zheng Hui's beard was cleaned up, only two short mustaches were left on his lips, but his cheeks were much thinner than when they said goodbye last year.

"You guys came from Ezhou?" Han Qian asked.

Since Yuan Guowei left Xuzhou last time, he has been staying in Ezhou to assist Shen Yang in collecting information about Tanzhou, and this time it was Yuan Guowei who accompanied Zheng Hui to come over, and Han Qian naturally had this question.

"We borrowed from Hongzhou, and Lord Yuan returned to the Third Highness from Ezhou at the end ......of August," Zheng Hui said.

"Coming from Hengzhou and Shaozhou, the hardships are not small," Han Qian said with emotion, "What is the situation in Hengzhou and Shaozhou?" ”

Hongzhou (Nanchang) is located in the southwest of Poyang Lake, from Hongzhou to the southwest, there is a sloping valley through the territory of Yuanzhou, can cross the Luoxiao Mountains into the north of Hengzhou, and then cross the Xiangshui from the west of Hengzhou, is Shaozhou.

And from Wugang County on the west wing of Shaozhou, over the main vein of Xuefeng Mountain, it will go to Wukou Village, where Wushui flows into Yuanshui, and from Wukou Village, it is Qianyang City to go against the water for more than 30 miles.

There are 1,500,600 miles to come, and it is very difficult and dangerous to climb over the two mountains of Luoxiao Mountain Range and Xuefeng Mountain Range.

Although there are post roads between the Luoxiao Mountains and the Xuefeng Mountains, the post roads in the mountains are quite rugged.

In particular, the post road connecting Qianyang County of Xuzhou and Wugang County of Shaozhou at the central and southern foot of the Xuefeng Mountain Range is even more treacherous.

Although this post road existed in the Western Han Dynasty, it is also one of the most important passages for Xiangshui to connect Yuanshui and go to the ancient county of Qianzhong.

However, most of the ancient post road is only passed by horses against the mountain wall.

Therefore, Han Qian did not expect the soldiers and horses of Xuzhou to take this post road to attack Shaozhou, nor was he afraid that the soldiers and horses of Shaozhou would be able to cross this post road and threaten Xuzhou.

This post road is too dangerous and too long, and if you control a key pass, you can block thousands of soldiers and horses.

At present, Xuzhou is stationed in Wukou Village, where Yuanshui and Wushui intersect, with 200 elites.

Wukou Village stands between cliffs on both sides, both sides are close to the Baizhang stone wall and the ridge, only the northeast corner has more than 200 steps of open river beach wharf, the ships that come and go are moored in the past, and the business travelers can go up and down from there, but it is extremely difficult to capture Wukou Village.

Of course, the soldiers and horses of Shaozhou can do whatever it takes, or there are large warships in Tanzhou, and they can attack Wukou Village directly from the river, and it is not impossible to capture it.

Comparatively speaking, the road from Hongzhou to the west and through Yuanzhou over the Luoxiao Mountains into Hengzhou is much easier, with intermittent a series of rift valleys distributed in the central and northern foothills of the Luoxiao Mountains.

It was also a major passage for the Chu army to threaten and attack Tanzhou.

And it is precisely like this that Tanzhou must be extremely vigilant against the passage at the northwest foot of the Luoxiao Mountains, and Zheng Hui and them took that road, which was also hard and dangerous.

Calculating the time, Zheng Hui and the others set off from Jinling in early September, and walked down this trip by land and water, and arrived in Qianyang City within a month, but they couldn't rest much on the way, no wonder a military general like Zheng Xingxuan was also full of haggardness.

Of course, Han Qian was more concerned about the changes in the situation in Shaozhou and Hengzhou in the south of Tanzhou at this time.

Although Shaozhou and Hengzhou were not directly included in the jurisdiction of the Tanzhou Jiedu Embassy, Shaozhou and Hengzhou were really the backyard gardens of Tanzhou.

On the one hand, Shaozhou, Hengzhou and Tanzhou coexist in the Xiangjiang River Basin, and there are no majestic mountains and mountains like the Wuling Mountains in the middle.

More importantly, the assassins in Shaozhou and Hengzhou are all old generals of the Ma family.

In the early years, before the outbreak of civil strife in the Ma clan, Ma Yin had to join the Tianyou Emperor Yang Mi and ask the Great Chu to send troops to quell the rebellion, not only Yuezhou, Tanzhou, and Langzhou on the shores of Dongting Lake, but also the Yuanshui in the south and Shao Hengchen and the Xujing Guizhou prefectures along the Xiangshui coast, were also the jurisdiction of the Ma clan, and their influence once extended to the territory of the ancient county of Qianyang and the ancient county of Guilin.

In the early years, the history of Xuzhou was also served by Ma Yuanheng, who served as the history of Langzhou at this time.

It's just that Ma Yuanheng was tyrannical in Xuzhou that year, and he was extremely unpopular with the people, and finally during the Ma civil strife, he was expelled from Xuzhou by the four surnames and had to go to Tanzhou to join Ma Yin; Jinling also had to be sent by the two states of Chenchen and Shao to assassinate the history.

Although as a condition for inviting Emperor Yang Mi of Tianyou to send troops, the two prefectures of Shao and Heng were separated from Tanzhou after the rebellion within the Ma clan was quelled and nominally under the jurisdiction of Jinling, but in recent years, the main official positions of the assassin history and Changshi and Sima in these two states have been controlled by the old generals of the Ma clan or the local native surnames.

Therefore, Emperor Tianyou did not expect to put any nails in Shaozhou and Hengzhou in a short period of time.

Han Qian had previously infiltrated Shaozhou and Hengzhou mainly by sending scouts to spy on the local reactions and speculate on the vigilance within Tanzhou.

Of course, Zheng Hui and Yuan Guowei personally passed through Shaozhou and Hengzhou, and their feelings will naturally be deeper.

"At the end of August, it was confirmed that Tanzhou had secretly sent envoys to Shu and Liang to seek assistance, and Zhao Sheng, the assassin of Shaozhou, and Luo Jia, the assassin of Hengzhou, also sent their sons-in-law to Tanzhou to study before the end of August! Immediately after that, the news of the death of King Liang of Chenzhou also spread to Jinling, and it was the same, so His Majesty ordered me to come to Xuzhou and join the defense envoy and Han Sima. Zheng Hui directly said that it was information that Han Qian could not detect.

Han Qian also thought that it was Jinling who had already known the news that they had captured Eagle Fish Village, Zheng Hui set off from Jinling to Xuzhou, but he didn't expect that the road was blocked and the news transmission was inconvenient, but it was the action of Tanzhou at the end of August and the news of the sudden death of Liang, the assassin of Chenzhou, which finally made Emperor Tianyou decide to send Zheng Hui to Xuzhou.

More than 100 elite scouts of Zuo Si were either assigned to the camp as military attachés, or incorporated into the workers' battalion or Zhu Cao as grassroots officials. Manpower is sometimes poor, Han Qian only has this amount of manpower, and there is no way to conduct deeper intelligence spying on Tanzhou at this time; Even to deliver information to Jinling and Ezhou, a group of messengers was sent only two months apart.

Hearing Zheng Hui say this, Han Qian guessed that Tanzhou should be Zhao Zhixian and Tan Yuliang who quickly made a decision after they went back, and he was also slightly shocked in his heart, and said with emotion to his father Han Daoxun and Zhang Ping:

"Tanzhou is more decisive than imagined!"

Han Qian also thought that letting Zhao Zhixian and Tan Yuliang return to Tanzhou should be more or less confusing, but at present, it seems that Tanzhou is already preparing for the worst after Zhao Zhixian and Tan Yulang are released.

Zhao Sheng of Shaozhou and Luo Jia of Hengzhou both sent their sons to Tanzhou as hostages, which almost meant that it was impossible to peacefully cut the feudal domain with just an edict from Emperor Tianyou.

Although Han Qian didn't have much expectation for this, he thought that the war was about to break out, and the land of Xianghu Lake would be a sea of blood, and he was inexplicably a little unbearable.

Of course, Zheng Hui said that such a key piece of information was discovered by the secret agents of the Ministry Division, which also revealed a very crucial information, that is, the plot to cut the domain, Emperor Tianyou had already asked Niu Gengru and Zhao Mingting and other people from the Anning Palace to know the secret.

However, Han Qian believed that Emperor Tianyou had control at this time, and the Anning Palace and the crown prince's family should not dare to do anything.

"The situation in Xuzhou is much better than what we knew when we were in Jinling, Your Majesty's secret is to defend the envoy, and I also ask Han Sima and Master Zhang to read it first, and then we will discuss other matters." Zheng Hui said.

At this time, Han Daoxun took out the edict of his personal collection from his cuffs and handed it to Han Qian and Zhang Ping to read.

Zheng Hui came out of Jinling in early September, and he didn't know that Han Daoxun, Han Qian, and his son had completely controlled the situation in Xuzhou, and it wasn't until he entered Qianyang City the day before yesterday that he knew that the situation in Xuzhou was much better than he had initially expected, but when he watched Han Daoxun hand over the secret decree, his heart still rose to his throat.

At this moment, Zheng Hui glanced at Feng Yi who was standing behind Han Qian, Han Daoxun and Han Qian had no scruples to let the son of the rebel minister participate in the secret matter in Xuzhou, he was really a little worried that the Han family's father and son might resist and disobey the order.

And if the Han family's father and son really disobey the order, he and the court may have nothing to do.

Han Qian calmly read this secret decree brought into Xuzhou by Zheng Huixin with Zhang Ping, the envoy of the prison army.

In this secret decree, Emperor Tianyou ordered that on the basis of the original Xuzhou Defense Mission, the Wuling Army Defense Mission should be formally set up, and the areas south of the original Langzhou Wuling County, the eastern and southern foothills of the Wuling Mountains, including the main counties under the jurisdiction of Chenzhou and Xuzhou, and their military defense and other matters were brought under the jurisdiction of the Wuling Army Defense Mission.

In addition to his father Han Daoxun continued to serve as the defense envoy and the assassin of Xuzhou, Zheng Hui served as the deputy envoy of Wuling defense, and replaced Wang Liang, who "died suddenly of the epidemic" in late August, as the assassin of Chenzhou.

Zhang Ping looked at the secret decree, but did not look at anyone, but calmly handed the secret decree back to Han Daoxun's personal collection.