When the White Grass Army appeared at Shangjin Fort, it caused a sensation in the fort.

At first, there was a beacon fire in the fort, thinking that they were rebels from Huaixi, but soon Gao Yue revealed his identity.

Shangjin Fort across the bridge on the Jiashui River, a green-shirted official hurriedly rode to the west bank, with his subordinates to greet him, he reported his identity to Gao Yue, for the palace to serve the imperial history and the right to know the Shangjin Road transfer envoy Wan Qi, was sent here by His Majesty in advance, to protect the post road in Shangjin and the east and west.

The arrival of the three thousand white grass army made Wan Qi inexplicably happy, and he said to Gao Yue:

"Shangjin Fort goes north along Jiashui, that is, Manchuan Pass, where all the way to Shanyang is the entrenchment of the Huaixi rebel party, Li Xilie's general Feng Youlin colluded with Li Shuwen, the leader of the Shangzhou Mountain Shed, and gathered thousands of bandits to show off their might in Shanyang County, and claimed to attack our Shangjin Fort and cut off the post road between the east and west roads in Shannan."

Gao Yue also knew why Wan Qian was terrified, he only had three hundred united disciples in his hands, or the remnants of Xie Liangfu, the former Shangzhou assassin who was killed by Li Xilie, each of them was scared to death for the Huaixi Mule Army, where can we talk about any reliable combat effectiveness?

And Wu Xianfu, the general under Jia Tan, led 3,000 soldiers in Yunxiang City, Junzhou, southeast of Shangjin, claiming to protect the transfer yard here, and ignored Wan Qian's bitter request.

"Wan Qi Yushi doesn't need to panic, since my White Grass Army has arrived, Shangjin will have no worries." Gao Yue said very straightforwardly.

Sure enough, the next day, Gao Yue ordered the whole army to cut down trees on the hills east and west of Shangjin and Jiashui, raised flags and fences everywhere, beat drums and blows horns, and let the three brothers of Ming Huaiyi lead all the cavalry to gallop back and forth on the plains sandwiched between the mountains, making the momentum extremely huge.

The mountain sheds on the side of Manchuan Pass couldn't figure out how many soldiers and horses the Baicao Army had, so they were so frightened that they all retreated along the mountain road to the pass, but they were afraid that Gao Yue would come to attack them.

At the same time, Gao Yue wrote a letter in Shangjin Fort and sent it to Wu Xianfu, the military envoy of Shannan Dongdao in Yunxiang City, telling him to leave 500 people to guard the transfer yard, and bring the main force of 2,500 people to Shangjin immediately, meet with him, and fight the enemy together.

As soon as Wu Xianfu heard that his idol Guo Zaizhen's boss Xingyuan Shaoyin had arrived at Shangjin Fort, he was so shocked that he didn't dare to slack off, so he immediately complied, and took 2,500 soldiers to gallop for two days and came to Shangjin.

As a result, after arriving in Shangjin, Gao Yue asked General Wu to pull his troops to the mountains on the left and right sides of the fortress, and built eight bases, and the twelve bases he had built before were staggered around Shangjin like a chessboard, and each was connected by roads, drumming during the day, and bonfires were raised at night, as if there were tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

A few days later, the Yunxiang Transfer Institute sent news that Han Rong's 100,000 stone meters were transported from Xiangyang City by ship again, and in order to avoid the dangerous shoal, he was leaving the boat ashore and sending it to Shangjin Fort with mules and horses.

In addition, the situation has changed: Jingnan Jiedu made Cao Wang Gao send his general Wang Yi to supervise the 50,000 stone rice and 100,000 yuan of money and silk in this road, and also came to Yunxiang City; At the same time, a more massive transfer came, and Wang Shao, the judge of Biandong Transshipment Envoy Bao Ji, carried 5,000 boxes of "light goods", most of which were silk, gold and silver, and jewelry, and also landed in Yunxiang.

These light goods, are Bao Ji from all over the southeast to raise, because of the previous millions of looted heavy losses, so that Bao Ji no longer dare to take the Jianghuai and Biansong Dynasty between the Cao Yun, he asked the judge Wang Shao to convert all of it into light goods, but also to go on the Tianjin Road, it will be sent to Fengtian City.

Now these three roads have a total of more than 100,000 stone meters, 780,000 yuan of money and silk and light goods, all of which are transported to Shangjinbao, and this road has never been so lively!

"General Wu, the mountain shed of Manchuan Pass threatens me especially Shangjin Fort, we must take the initiative to attack and seize this pass, not only will Shangjin turn the crisis into safety, but also facilitate the progress to recover the entire Shangyu and Wuguan Road." Before the goods arrived at the fort in the third way, Gao Yue found Wu Xianfu, the soldier and horse envoy of Shannan Dongdao, and was impassioned to him, "Tomorrow, I will let the downstream envoys and shooting officers go to the mountain shed in Manchuan Pass to challenge the book, and you will take the children of Shannan to refuse." ”

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Seeing Gao Shaoyin's eyes burning, Wu Xianfu was inconvenient to say anything strange and complaining, so he agreed.

At this moment, Jia Tan also asked Jinfeng to bring a text from Xiangyang, asking Wu Xianfu to "listen to Gao Shaoyin's moderation, strive to ensure that Shangjin is thorough, and do not resist at every turn.

That night, Zhang Xi, the general of the Xuanrun Army, and the two hundred strong crossbowmen that Han Yun promised to send, came to the fort together, which strengthened the combat power.

Gao Yue found Bao Ji's judge Wang Shao, and Cao Wanggao's tooth general Wang Yi.

As soon as he opened his mouth, he borrowed money from them, which was used to reward the three armies and boost their morale.

Wang Shao clapped his hand and said that he was willing to take out 30,000 yuan from the light goods, and Wang Yi also promised to take out 8,000 yuan from Jingnan's goods.

Gao Yue was overjoyed, and immediately ordered to give each of the Shangjin armies three times of "meal money", and promised to break the capture of Manchuan Pass, there will be no reward.

The whole army was overjoyed, and all of them were gearing up and waiting for the day.

"War is money and food, what are you doing without money?" Gao Yue's belief in his heart was even stronger.

On the day of the war, there was already a patrol sentry in the mountain shed, aware of the intensive movement of the Baicao Army and the Shannan soldiers, and the twenty walls around Shangjin Fort were full of smoke, and then the men and horses came out from all directions, gathered together, lined up in several wing lines, and began to advance to the north one after another.

Gao Yue personally sat in the battle shed of the north horse wall of Shangjin Fort, and Wan Qi, the envoy of Shangjin, assisted him, and looked at the entire battle array.

On the central front, the vanguard is the cavalry of the White Grass Army led by the three brothers of Ming Huaiyi, with about 600 cavalry, all of which are party and city sides, and then 300 Yangzhou unity children led by Hou Lan, holding long cards and horizontal swords.

The left flank is the 2,500 Shannan soldiers led by Wu Xianfu, holding a long standing formation, and there are archers behind the formation.

On the right flank were 2,400 infantry soldiers of the White Grass Army under the command of Gao Gu, who were also mainly long-armed and long-sworded, mixed with a small number of pack horses and crossbowmen.

At the city gate, there are Cai Fengyuan leading thirty tourists, all riding horses and holding flags, preparing to go back and forth between Shangjin Fort and the battle array, transmitting news, and detecting the enemy's deployment.

As for the two hundred Xuanrun crossbowmen, Gao Yue did not let them fight, but used them as a strong reserve force, waiting for an opportunity.

After the troops left the base, they advanced for several miles, cut off the passage from Manchuan Pass to Shangjin Fort, beat drums and demonstrated, and demanded that Li Shuwen, the leader of the mountain shed guarding the pass, come out to fight the male and female.

Outside the watchtower of Manchuan Pass, Li Shuwen scolded, stood at the battlements, looked at the strict formation of the officers and soldiers, and was afraid, so he let the team of mountain sheds under the leadership of the thief named Mo Liuhun come out of the east mountain of the pass, sentinel the officials and soldiers, and let people fly across the mountains and yang, and go to the Huaixi general Feng Youlin for help.

In fact, Li Shuwen and Mo Liuhun are not Han Chinese, but they are all descendants of Liuzhou Hu who moved inward in the previous generation, and many people in Liuzhou Hu were placed in Henan Province by the Tang government at that time, but the Turkic blood in their bodies was ready to move, and they would not be as content with farming as the Han people, so they gathered hunters who were good at bows and arrows everywhere, and the marginal strata such as floaters and drifters formed an organization called "Mountain Shed", which roamed the deep mountains and mountains at the junction of various roads, sometimes selling mountain goods, and sometimes robbing houses everywhere, gathering in the mountains and forests.