Tao Kan not only built forts and set up beacons near various ferry crossings, but also piled up firewood and animal dung along the west bank of the Yellow River every ten miles by a military of auxiliary soldiers for communication. Therefore, together with the smoke of Xiayang Ferry, in a short period of time, warnings were issued everywhere along the Yellow River.

The first to get the news was Xiayang Zhou Jin, followed by Dong Biao in Haoyang, Dong Biao immediately sent someone to meet Tao Kan and report the news. As for Pei Gai, he did not learn the information until he arrived in Dali in the afternoon of the second day, and Liu Yetang went out of the city to greet him.

Pei Gai asked in surprise: "When did Hu Kou come?" Where did you cross west? Who will the Lord be? How many troops? ”

Liu Yetang replied: "He crossed from Xiayang on Pingdan yesterday, and his troops were very strong, but the specific number and generals are still unknown...... "After all, Fengsui is not a telephone or telegram in later generations, and the amount of information that can be transmitted is quite small."

Liu Yetang said that I had strengthened the defense in the direction of Pusaka, and at the same time sent people to the north to spy on the Yangyang sentry, and I believe that the Haoyang side would also send people to spread the news. Sure enough, Pei should have hurried into the city, and before he could sit down, the first messenger in the direction of Haoyang arrived, but the content of the report was not more than that of Fengsui - this messenger was sent by Dong Biao, and when the messenger set off, Tao Kan had not yet entered Haoyang City.

However, the messenger also said that it was reported that Marshal Tao's headquarters was already very close to the city, and it was believed that at this time, it should have been successfully driven into Haoyang.

Hearing this, Pei Gai breathed a sigh of relief. He was so anxious that he wanted to immediately move his army north to Haoyang, but considering that he only had 3,000 subordinates, and the current enemy situation was not clear, he rushed into the battlefield, and he was afraid that there would be more than one luck. In desperation, he had to force himself to suppress the irritability in his heart, and ordered the soldiers to quickly find a place to rest, and he also took the opportunity to eat a full meal......

After a meal, the second messenger also arrived, which was sent by Tao Kan. The content brought by the messenger this time was relatively rich, and the report said that Tao Junshuai had settled in Haoyang, and immediately waved his army north, striving to block Hu Kou between the two cities of Xiayang and Haoyang, and not to make peace. As for the chief general of the Hu army, according to the detective horse, the total number of Gao Zhang's puppet crown prince Liu Cang should be more than 40,000.

Pei Cai couldn't help but lift the bamboo cane in his hand, smacked it fiercely on a few cases, and sighed: "I don't want Liu Cang to come so quickly - this is all my mistake!" ”

He had long expected that Liu Cangqiu would come, and theoretically speaking, he should concentrate his forces and defend the riverbank, and should not go west to attack Qinzhou. However, as a result of the discussion with Pei Wei and others at that time, the imperial court issued an edict to crusade against Sima Bao for a long time, if this tumor could not be cut this winter, I am afraid that it would damage his prestige and be suspicious of the imperial court; And if he didn't go west, maybe Liu Cang would be cautious and wouldn't dare to cross, then he would waste another idle time in vain.

Besides, Sima Bao was in Qinzhou, if Pei should be fighting fiercely along the river with the Hu army, he suddenly cut off the Longdao Road, and even waved his army to the east to cover the attack on Chang'an, how should he deal with it? If it was just Sima Bao, he might not dare to act rashly, but the problem is that he didn't release Zhang Chun and Yang Ci again, God knows what those two ambitious and brainless guys will do. Sometimes I am really not afraid of the opponent's wisdom, but I am afraid of the opponent's, and the move is often not according to the boxing reason, and only looks at the small profit in front of the eyebrows......

Therefore, the tumor of Qinzhou must be cut off, in Pei's plan, Sima Bao's base is actually just a projectile land, as long as he marches into the god speed, there is a great chance to block him in Shangqi City, and it will be broken in one drum; If he drags and delays, maybe he abandons the city and escapes, and then the huge Qinzhou, where can I find him?

As long as Sima Bao can be captured quickly, it will not be too late to return to fight Liu Cang again.

Therefore, when Pei Gai said that he had "made a mistake" today, he really did not mean that he was fighting Sima Bao in the west, but that Shangqi almost went down without a fight-even Chen An, who only resisted under the city for a day-The progress was faster than he expected, and it was easy, which caused Pei Gai to have a sense of pride. In addition, there is no news from Hexi - theoretically, the operation of the army must be prepared for at least a month, but the Xue family has no faith at all, can it be said that Liu Cang will not come this year? Or is he going to attack Zu Ti in Henan?

Pei Cai was in a hurry because of this, and since he had to go to Sui, the repatriation army went out in all directions, trying to settle Qinzhou in one fell swoop, and even personally went to Yuzhong to meet Zhang Yu. If the army could be gathered ten days and a half months in advance and returned to Jingzhao and Feng Yi, the police would not be so overstretched this time.

I didn't expect Liu Cang to either not move, but to move so fast, it is estimated that he tried his best to hide his affairs and blocked the ferry in advance, which caused both the Xue family and Pei Xu's spies planted in Hedong to be unable to send the news in time, and almost beat Pei Jun off guard. Originally, Pei should have met with Tao Kan in Suyi, and he had to report that the Hu army had converged on Caisangjin, so he guessed that it was a plan to attack the west, but he didn't expect that in less than three days after that, the other party would be able to cross from Xiayang!

Fortunately, Pei Gai had not yet left Suyi, so he sent a fast horse to send an order to Anding, Chang'an, and Qinzhou to summon generals. Pei Wei temporarily led the two battalions to stay in Qinzhou, and he had to wait for Pei Cui to officially take office before returning to the east; As for Wudu County, Pei Gai originally planned to find an opportunity to clean up Danchangqiang, but now he had to temporarily appoint Liang Yi as the magistrate of Wudu County, leaving Xiong Yi to guard Xia Wei and Hechi, and recalling Zhen Sui and Wang Ze.

However, less than 7,000 soldiers and horses can be mobilized in Chang'an, and in addition, Guo Mo, who is the closest, will take more than ten days to reach Feng Yi after counting the time, is it really too late? Even if Liu Cang only sent 40,000 troops, that was more than twice the number of Tao Kan's troops, and Tao Shixing did not defend Haoyang, but wanted to block Hu Kou's southward road to Pingping, how many days could he block?

Pei should not be blindly sighing and feeling sorry for himself - the situation is already like this, what's the use of being annoyed? Immediately stood up, and wanted to lead his troops north to reinforce him. Liu Yetang stopped and said: "Most of the Metropolitan Governors are to Dali, and the soldiers are tired, so it is really not appropriate to move lightly." The last general asked for an order to reinforce Marshal Tao first. "I'm guarding in Dali City, this battalion is a new force, I'll go.

Pei Gai nodded in agreement, but he immediately took care of Liu Yetang: "Send a message to Tao Jun, don't fight in vain, only keep it first, wait for the army to come down and merge, and then you can plan to break Hu." After thinking about it, he said: "Qing Ke will take me away and stand in the middle of the fortress to confuse the enemy and boost the morale of the army." ”

Liu Yetang took the order and left, and Pei should continue to sit and wait for news from the front. In the evening of the same day, a small group of soldiers suddenly ran from the direction of Pusaka, carrying a dead body with a wooden plank, and reported to Pei Gai: "This person has arrows on his body, swam across, and he died not long after he came ashore...... Pei Gai asked: "Who is it?" What did you say before you died? The soldier replied: "He claimed to be a guest of the Xue clan in Fenyin, and he came to deliver a letter on the order of Xue Ning. ”

Pei Cai couldn't help but twist his beard and groan, and said in his heart Who is Xue Ning? Why didn't Xue Tao send someone to report me?

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Yang Qing lay on the mat - no way, he was hit by an arrow in the back, although the wound was not deep, it was inconvenient to lie on his back after all, so he had to rest on his stomach - he could hear the sound of drums in the city, and the sound of swords clashing and soldiers roaring also came from time to time, and he couldn't help but feel numb......

Yesterday, when the Hu army first arrived, but it was only a meal time, more than 40 corpses were brought down in the city, and the number of seriously injured was twice as much, Yang Qing was helping to defend the city - in Chenggao, in Dali - always felt that the enemy was outnumbered so clearly, if more than 100 people would be killed and wounded in one day, I am afraid that this projectile land would not be able to carry it for ten days.

The most important thing is that he has seen the Hu army who waded in with his own eyes, and it is estimated that there are no less than tens of thousands of people, but I heard that there are only more than 10,000 people who have come back to attack the city, so where is the rest? I can think of it with my toes, it is definitely not stranded on the riverbank, but must go south to attack Haoyang. From this point of view, it is estimated that for a long time, the Jin army in the south will not be able to go north to reinforce Xiayang......

With no reinforcements, can you really hold the city with thousands of people? Yang Qingxin said that if I were the governor of Zhou, I would definitely see that the situation was not good, so I would break through the siege and leave the city - it is said that the Hu army only attacked the front, and there were no four gates to encircle - and hid in the mountains, so I don't know if I would bring the wounded soldiers at that time......

Just as he was thinking wildly, he heard the sound of footsteps, and a person came to his side and asked softly, "Yang Qing?" Yang Qing raised his head slightly, hurriedly struggled to stand up, put his fist on his chest, and saluted in response: "Here." ”

Because the person who came was not a bystander, it was the battalion Sima of the "Lifeng Left Battalion".

Sima looked him up and down and asked, "I heard that you are not deeply injured, and you can still move...... I don't know if I can still fight? ”

Yang Qingcai just wanted to say that he couldn't, but then he changed his mind, if he said that he was unable to move, maybe when Zhou Governor fled, he would not take me away, so he immediately changed his words, and said arrogantly: "Serve the Metropolitan Governor, the villain can fight!" ”

Sima said Okay, you come with me, and then he will leave with his hands. Yang Qing followed him to the city wall, only to see a circle of soldiers around the wall, burying pots and cooking, many of them were slightly injured, their arms or legs were wrapped in bandages, and almost all of them had blood stains on their clothes.

Sima led Yang Qing to a small group of soldiers, stretched out his hand, and ordered: "This is the new platoon commander of you and others, and it is good to rest and eat, I expect that the Hu army will come to attack the city today, and then you will be replaced by the city guards." ”

After a brief order, the battalion Sima left. Yang Qing had no choice but to step into the circle, looking left and right, there were about twenty people, almost a row. When Sima came, all the soldiers got up and saluted, but they didn't have to be so respectful to Yang Qing, they just greeted: "The platoon commander can come and sit, and the meal will be cooked in a few moments." ”

Yang Qing looked at these new subordinates, seventy percent of them were wearing armor, and they were obviously all regular soldiers of the "Lifeng Left Battalion", and thirty percent were short clothes without armor, or obviously the size of the leather armor did not match, and it was estimated that they were young and strong temporarily recruited in the city. In fact, you don't have to look at the clothes, you can determine the identity just by your demeanor and position: Zhengbing Tai leaned against the city wall half-lazily, although the Hu army was almost separated by a wall, but there was a rare look of fear on everyone's faces; Most of the young people who were temporarily recruited sat far away, obviously unable to fully integrate into the group, and most of them were afraid or nervous. In addition, those who are busy chopping wood, lighting fires, and cooking rice are naturally residents of the city.

After Yang Qing sat down, he asked, "Which row are you waiting for?" "If it weren't for the fact that the original platoon commander was killed or seriously injured in battle and couldn't command, how could Sima shoehorn himself in?

An old soldier first pointed to his nose: "I am the ...... of the twenty-third row in the front" and grabbed the person at his side with his shoulder: "He is from the sixth row in the front, and a few are from the seventeenth row on the left." ”

When Yang Qing heard this, he couldn't help but be shocked: Damn, is it possible that after only two days of fighting, so many platoons will be disabled? !

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