Yang Congyi had just taken a sip of tea, and before he had time to taste it, he heard Zhizhou Mao Qi say: "I don't know how many soldiers and horses General Yang brought with him to Qinzhou, where is he now?" ”

Put down the teacup and replied: "The Xuanwei army has more than 4,000 people, and all of them have arrived at the port fifty miles away. The order given to us by the imperial court only allowed us to transfer Qinzhou, but I don't know where it is, so I came to see Lord Zhizhou. ”

"Only four thousand?" Zhizhou Moltke was disappointed.

"This is already all the people of the Xuanwei Army, and there is no one left in the original place. After receiving the order, we went south from the coastal road of Mingzhou, and arrived in Qinzhou two days ago, but we did not know the location of the state government, so we delayed for some time. Now that the troops are in the port, please let the governor know where they are stationed. The Xuanwei army hurriedly went south, and the rations they brought were not much, and they would run out of food in five days. Since Lord Zhizhou felt that there were few people, he should have been prepared, so Yang Congyi raised the issue of food and salary.

"General Yang may have misunderstood, it is not stationed, it is to resist the incursion. Also, on the issue of food, the treasury is empty this week, and there is really not much money to come up with, and it can only provide 10 days of food at most. The smile on Zhizhou Moltke's face disappeared.

Resist infestation? Hearing this news, Yang Congyi was shocked, no wonder there was no one in the market, could it be that some kind of cottage came out of the mountains to make trouble? The Xuanwei army was not ready to go south to fight.

So he asked, "I wonder how large-scale the intrusion the adults said, and the soldiers of the state government can't deal with it?" ”

Zhizhou Mao Qi's expression changed on his face, and he said after a while: "It seems that the imperial court didn't tell you anything, so I'll tell you directly." ”

"Lord Zhizhou, please speak." Yang Congyi's expression also changed, it seems that the problem is not as simple as he thought.

"More than a month ago, Li Yue suddenly sent troops to occupy Xian'an Town, and soon after, he occupied Hechang and Tanhe successively, approached Dongxing Town, and occupied most of Anyuan County. After that, a group of Li Yue people were found in the north, and they successively captured Pingliao, Dongzhong Town, and Banba, and later occupied Natong, entered Fulong Town, and went straight to Anyuan County. Two days ago, it was discovered that one group of Li Yue people in Qinzhou had occupied Fulong Town, and the other group had reached 30 miles away from Dongxing Town, and was collecting boats to cross the river. If the imperial court does not send a large army to support, it will not take ten days for them to take Anyuan County and enter Qinzhou City. Fortunately, General Yang arrived ahead of schedule, and if he came ten days late, Qinzhou would be gone. Zhizhou Moltke sighed.

"Li Yue's people attacked Qinzhou? Isn't Prince Li Yue still in Lin'an? How dare they invade Qinzhou? As soon as Yang Congyi heard that it was Li Yue who was causing trouble, he felt that he could not be trusted, unless King Li Yue did not want his son to live, he would never stir up trouble at this time. As for what Lord Zhizhou said, where Li Yue captured, he didn't have much impression, it is estimated that they are all remote villages and towns, Qinzhou City is like this, and there are probably few people in those unknown towns.

"It was because of Prince Li Yue, I heard that the prince fled back to Li Yue from Guangzhou, and then Li Yue attacked Qinzhou in retaliation."

"I see." It's no wonder that Prince Li Yue has been imprisoned on the main ship since he was captured back to the fleet, and he must have suffered a lot, as long as he escapes back, he will inevitably take revenge.

Without waiting for Yang Congyi to ask, Zhizhou Mao Qi continued: "But as far as I know, Li Yueren not only attacked Qinzhou this time, but also sent a large army to occupy the entire Yulin Prefecture half a month ago, captured the two counties of Hengzhou, and threatened Yongzhou. Yongzhou is the core state capital in the south of Guangnan, the location of the Yongzhou governor's office, the location is very important, a hundred years ago during the emperor's reign, Guangyuan Prefecture Zhuang leader Nong Zhigao to resist Li Yue's oppression, many times to ask for the attached Song Dynasty, the imperial court in this place is barren, remote and difficult to defend as the reason, rejected him, do not want him to hold a grudge, raise the flag to rebel, led hundreds of thousands of mountain people, all the way from Guangyuan Prefecture to the east to Hengzhou, and finally occupy Yongzhou, the imperial court was shocked, from the north to send 200,000 troops to extinguish Nong Zhigao, this turmoil caused great harm to Guangnan, Therefore, the imperial court set up a governor's office in Yongzhou, sent 20,000 troops to garrison it all year round, and shrank the entire Guangnan guard area to the north and east, completely abandoning the remote places of several states such as Guangyuan Prefecture. This time Li Yue suddenly sent troops, within half a month to capture the entire Yulin Prefecture, caused a great shock to the Yongzhou Governor's Office, the Governor's Office commanded the eight states and thirty-three counties, in addition to the Yulin Prefecture occupied by Li Yue, the threatened Qinzhou, the other six states of troops are all concentrated in Hengzhou and Li Yue's army to confront each other, so Qinzhou has no support, can only rely on thousands of troops and native soldiers to resist Li Yueren, fortunately the general came, although he could not drive away the enemy, there should be no problem to resist for a month or two more. ”

Yang Congyi heard Zhizhou say this, explained the current situation and reasons, and suddenly felt that his shoulders were heavy, where is this to adjust the defense, it is obviously a war, and the imperial court actually gave them a paper to adjust the defense, isn't this a pit Xuanwei army? But now that it's here, there's no choice.

"Lord Zhizhou, since the Xuanwei Army was ordered to defend Qinzhou, the whole army will be dispatched by the Lord from this moment on." After speaking, Yang Congyi submitted the appointment order sent by the Privy Council to Moltke.

Moltke took the order, and after carefully inspecting it, he said hello three times, and then returned the order, and said solemnly: "Since General Yang said so, the old man is not polite." Now there are two Li Yue rebel armies in Qinzhou, totaling more than 4,000 people, approaching Anyuan County, which is less than 100 miles away from Qinzhou City. The Yongzhou Governor's Mansion is currently confronting Li Yue's army, and if they are not careful, they may not be able to protect themselves, so Qinzhou can't count on them. Therefore, the old man hoped that General Yang could lead reinforcements into Anyuan County to resist Li Yue's rebellious army. ”

"Xuanwei Army takes the order." Yang Congyi got up and took over the garrison task cleanly. Li Yue made such a big fuss, this may be an opportunity.

"Okay, then please ask your army to rush to Anyuan County immediately. If he can hold on for a month, the old man will definitely ask for credit for the general. Zhizhou Moltke got up.

"Lord Zhizhou, rest assured, the Xuanwei Army will be able to hold the county seat of Anyuan." Then Yang Congyi thought of something and said: "My lord, how to solve our grain and grass, the ration is only enough for five days." ”

Zhizhou Mao Qi said: "General Yang, rest assured, the old man on the grain and grass problem will raise it for you, and it will be sent directly to Anyuan to ensure the supply of military food." ”

"There is another thing, I don't know if there is a map of Qinzhou or Guangnan here, we are from the north, the south is very unfamiliar, there is no map, marching and fighting, it is inconvenient." Yang Congyi has a map in his hand, but it is a map of later generations, the roads and rivers are very different, and it will definitely run into walls everywhere when used to march and fight, or the information on the map of the state capital is more real.

"General Yang, wait, the old man has exactly two maps here." With that, he got up and left.

After a while, he returned to the living room with two waterproof leather buckets and handed the leather buckets to Yang Congyi: "This is a map of Qinzhou and Guangnan, General Yang carefully kept, and after using it, remember to return it to the old man." ”

"Thank you, Lord Zhizhou. The lower official took his leave. Yang Congyi took the map, saluted and left quickly.

As soon as he left the state office, he led people straight to the port where the fleet was located.

"General Zhao, this is the truth of Qinzhou and Guangnan, since you have been ordered to transfer to Qinzhou, you have to obey the dispatch arrangements of Lord Zhizhou, and rush to Anyuan County immediately." Yang Congyi returned to the port, told Zhao An everything, and persuaded him to rush to Anyuan County immediately.

"Yang Jianjun, the military order given by the imperial court to the Xuanwei Army is to adjust the defense, not to fight. Li Yueren was killed in Anyuan County, so he transferred us to Anyuan County? We've come all the way here, but we're not here to die. "Zhao An exploded as soon as he heard the truth, isn't this a pit person? If you don't have any preparations, you have to fight with Li Yueren, and if you fight a battle, how many people will be left in the Xuanwei army? This is his Xuanwei Army!

"General Zhao, it's wrong for you to think so, adjusting defense and adjusting defense, adjusting is not the goal, defense is, what is defense? Anti-rebellion, anti-riot, anti-alien infestation. Now that Li Yue has hit Anyuan County, you see where it is, if you don't help defend, it won't be long before Qinzhou City will be captured, and without Qinzhou City, the Xuanwei army will have nothing to eat and drink. We were ordered to defend Qinzhou, and if Qinzhou fell, when the time came, the court would ask for the guilt, and no one would be able to get out of the relationship. As he spoke, he opened the map of Qinzhou and pointed to the location of Anyuan County.

Zhao An looked at it, that Anyuan County is less than 100 miles away from Qinzhou, and immediately hesitated, if you sit and watch Qinzhou lose, Xuanwei Army will not escape the blame, I knew this, I am not in a hurry to come over, ten days late, it is estimated that Qinzhou has been lost, if so, even if the Xuanwei Army retreats to Guangzhou, the court has nothing to say, but now it is a dilemma, do not go to Anyuan County to fight hard with Li Yueren, disobey the military order will be punished, and Li Yueren fight hard, Xuanwei Army is unprepared, it is estimated that there will be heavy losses.

"General Zhao, Li Yue people are invading Guangnan, this is a great opportunity to establish meritorious service, the Xuanwei army stays in Mingzhou, there will be no such opportunity for five years and ten years, it should be grasped well, maybe after this battle, the general can be promoted to the commander." Yang Congyi saw that Zhao An began to hesitate, so he threw out the bait. Although he, as a supervisor, can also order Zhao An to carry out military orders, if he is not willing, the task of garrisoning Anyuan is afraid that it will be difficult to complete.

"Okay, since there is an order from Zhizhou, the Xuanwei army will immediately start and go to Anyuan County." Zhao An thought about it carefully, if you don't fight, if you don't have meritorious service, you can't be promoted in the army, it's useless to just accumulate years, and if you don't make military merits, you can only stand still.

"Someone, order the whole army to land on the West Bank!" Zhao An gave an order, and the herald immediately went to convey the military order to the battalions.

An hour later, the whole army packed up everything, crossed the sea, and landed on the west bank.

After that, half a battalion of men and horses were left to guard the fleet and the materials that could not be taken away for the time being, and the rest of the soldiers carried the necessary war materials such as bows, crossbows, feathers, arrows, spears and knives and three days' rations, and under the leadership of the guide fishermen, they went straight to Anyuan County, forty or fifty miles away.