In January of the seventh year of Xuanren, the rebellion of Li Zhengji from Shuofang triggered a comprehensive crisis in the Tang Dynasty, the army of Hui Hui pressed the border, and Li Zhengji's rebellion made the right minister Pei Jun tired of coping, and his ambiguous attitude towards Cui Qinggong made Jingxiang's crisis worse, in late January, Cui Qinggong's main force defeated the 50,000 army led by Wang Mao, the deputy envoy of Shannan Jiedu, in the north of Xiangyang, and the defeated army retreated to Xiangyang, Cui Qinggong's army came at the end, and the 150,000 army surrounded Xiangyang City like an iron bucket.

At the same time, Zhu's army had captured Fangling and stopped at Yongqing County, and Cui Qinggong issued him the most severe warning that if he dared to enter Xiangyang for half a step, he would not hesitate to fight.

Yongqing County, Zhu stood on the high city wall, looking at a gray field, the sky was about to dawn, the sky showed the white belly of the fish, there were a few stars twinkling in the sky, in the distance, a touch of mountains towered hazy in the gray sky.

He sighed, he was tired of seeing the mountains and mountains in Hanzhong, what he liked was the plains, the endless plains, the rich Jingxiang land water network vertical and horizontal, and the fish and rice were fat.

"But the prince is looking forward to the future?" I don't know when his military advisor Qi Lu appeared behind him, a pinch of goatee was even more charred, and a cunning gaze flashed in his triangular eyes.

When he saw Zhu Ning looking at the southeast direction, he knew his thoughts, and said with a slight smile: "Now that Cui Qinggong has besieged Xiangyang, it is difficult for the army to be separated, so he threatens the prince with all his might, and he is afraid that the prince will go south to seize Jingzhou, and he will make a wedding dress for nothing." ”

"I think the same way, as long as Cui Qinggong's deployment is completed, we will immediately move south."

Qi Lu nodded, he muttered for a moment and said, "There is something I want to discuss with the prince." ”

"What's the matter?" Zhu's fat body slowly turned, and his figure was like a mountain completely covering the thin Qi Lu, and when he saw that Qi Lu wanted to speak and stopped, he said coldly: "It won't be the one who wants me to cherish the people's power!" ”

Qi Lu saw that his eyes were full of disdain. sighed secretly in his heart, this time he was going to talk about it in vain, but he didn't talk about it, but his heart was unwilling, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Has the prince thought about it, why can't the prince stay in Shu, why there are no soldiers and no food in Hanzhong, the people can't flee when they hear that the general is coming, and the people of the world will regard it as a rebellion as soon as the prince moves." These negligence. Didn't the prince calm down and think about it? ”

"Negligence!" Zhu suddenly became furious, he stretched out his hand to grab Qi Lu's small neck, and said viciously, "What is my fault? If it weren't for Zhang Huan's bastard who took advantage of the danger of others, took away my Shuzhong foundation, and repeatedly forced each other, would I have fallen to this point today? The people of the world regard me as a rebellion, that is, I have defeated the hundreds of thousands of armies of their great families. How can those in power tolerate me if they hold a grudge? If I take Jingxiang, I will immediately move all the people of Hanzhong, and Lao Tzu will be the emperor to show them. ”

Qi Lu was pinched by him and rolled his eyes, and pulled his arm desperately, but his hand was slightly loosened, and it took a breath to ease up. He clutched his neck, bent over and gasped for air.

Zhu's anger in his heart did not subside, and when he saw him so embarrassed, he felt a burst of disgust in his heart. turned around and left, after a while, Qi Lu finally relieved his breath, and when he looked up, he saw that Zhu had already walked away, and he couldn't help but feel a deep sense of shame in his heart, and said hatefully: "A pig is a pig." Never become a dragon! ”

Then. Suddenly, he saw two fast horses galloping towards the city. The panic on the knight's face was evident, and before the other party could enter the city gate, he immediately leaned out of the battlements and asked loudly, "What happened?" ”

Immediately, the cavalry looked up and saw that it was the military division, so they shouted in panic: "Military division, it's terrible, Zhang Huan's army has occupied Hanzhong, Shangyong has also been taken by its vanguard, and the enemy army is killing this side." ”

"What!" Qi Lu was stunned like a lightning bolt, and after a while, he finally looked up to the sky and sighed, "Go!" Go! The general trend has gone, I am unwise, and I should be laughed at by the world. ”

Sigh! He laughed and went mad.

In late January of the seventh year of Xuanren, Zhang Huan took Hanzhong, he did not stop, continued to wave eastward, after Liu Shuai, the pioneer of the West Road, won Ankang, he was ordered to take Shangyong, five thousand light horsemen galloped, arrived at Shangyong two days later, Shangyong will see that the general trend has gone, so he surrendered to the Xiliang army, on January 22, Zhang Huan's army entered Fangling County, the news reached Chang'an, and the government and the opposition were shaken.

Fushui County, here was the capital of Chu during the Warring States Period, Xiangyang County in the north, Jiangling County in the west, Hanyang County in the east, Hanshui River traverses from north to south, the geographical location is extremely important, at this moment, around the Hanshui Wharf in Changshou County in the north of Fushui County, the people who fled are already crowded, hundreds of thousands of people who fled from Xiangyang, Tangcheng, Sui County, Jingmen gathered here, noisy and shocking, looking from the sky, as if to the sea of people.

In the Han River, nearly 1,000 large ships and thousands of sails were lifted at the same time, and the people on the shore boarded the ships like ant colonies, and soon, large ships full of refugees slowly went out of the shore and headed south and towards Yueyang.

The shore was filled with eager shouts, and everyone's faces showed anxious looks, and when a large ship landed, the crowd rushed forward, and hundreds of soldiers on the side of the boat were desperately pulling and pushing to prevent people from being squeezed down the river.

"Don't panic, the chasing soldiers are still far away, there are thousands of big boats in the river, enough to transport everyone away." From time to time, soldiers shouted loudly, stabilizing the mood of the people.

"Large items are discarded on the spot, each person can only bring ten catties of items, try to bring food, everyone lives are important."

Bands of soldiers, wearing red scarves on their arms, walked among the people, and were responsible for maintaining order, distributing food and water, and carrying away the sick in time to prevent the spread of the disease.

According to the original plan, their task was to occupy Jiangxia and snipe Li Xilie's army before they were about to set off, Zhang Huan's urgent order to send flying pigeons to change the original plan, and he ordered Lin Jiuhan to collect all the ships that could be used and rush to Fushui County to rescue the refugees.

Lin Jiuhan, surrounded by dozens of personal soldiers, checked the situation in the refugee camp, and it was obvious that with the help of the army, the extremely panicked hearts of the refugees began to gradually calm down, and it has been two days, and thousands of large ships have transported more than 200,000 refugees away, but the refugees who got the news still came from all directions with the old and the young.

"General, there are more than 300,000 people, and my subordinates are worried that there will not be enough ships." One of the lieutenants was worried.

"How many ships are there in the river?" Lin Jiuhan asked.

"There are about 1,000 ships, and they can carry more than 200,000 people at most."

Lin Jiuhan pondered for a moment, then he looked up at the carriage that was unloading the items, and resolutely ordered: "Let the soldiers explain the situation clearly to the people, all young and strong men are not allowed to get on the boat, and try to use the carriage to cross the river from Jiangling by land." ”

"Yes!" After about half an hour, the cries of the family members began to spread out, and groups of young men began to say goodbye to their families in tears, either on foot or in a carriage, and went south by land.

Just as the sun was gradually moving overhead, several horsemen and scouts came galloping from the north, and they brought extremely unfavorable news that about 10,000 of Zhu's forwards had arrived in Lexiang County, a hundred miles away, and Lexiang County was already a sea of fire.

Lin Jiuhan's pupils gradually contracted into a line, a hundred miles away, he could arrive in one day on the plain, he immediately turned over and said to the adjutant general: "I will lead the troops to intercept the enemy, you have to speed up the transportation of the people on the ship, and all the items will be discarded!" ”

"Yes!"

It was rumored that the soldiers of the Zhu Demon King were about to chase after him, and the atmosphere of panic on the dock began to spread, and the ten thousand soldiers divided into two hundred teams and began to help the people get on the boat, and the speed was significantly accelerated.

Soon, Lin Jiuhan led 20,000 troops to the north.

Night gradually fell, in the official road between Lexiang County and Changshou County, a group of cavalry galloped south, almost every cavalry was hung behind the large and small baggage, some were tied to young women immediately, their eyes eagerly looked at the southern end, thirty miles away is Changshou County, it is said that all the refugees are concentrated there.

In their eyes, it is not a refugee, but a fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered, especially those who fled from Xiangyang, they have countless wealth, and countless young and beautiful ladies.

This vanguard army is the elite of Zhudi, that is, the rumored demon who uses human dried flesh as food, when the army ran out of food last winter

Three thousand military wives became food for them.

They set out from Yongqing, all the way like a bamboo, scattered defenders fled from all over the country, they raped and burned all the way, after burning Lexiang County, they were no longer interested in the villages along the way, and hundreds of thousands of refugees were their targets.

The Wang family's army has all been concentrated in Xiangyang, and Li Xilie's army is still thousands of miles away in Jiangxia, where they are kings, and all the people must prostrate at their feet and let them ravage.

Not even a scout was needed, and the 10,000 cavalry were like a blood-dripping long knife, slashing straight towards Changshou County.

The general who led this vanguard army was called Zhu Xueren, the official name was General Tianying, and he was the youngest of Zhu's clan, only in his early twenties, although he was young, he acted the most brutally, and killed people at every turn, whether it was a soldier or a common man, everyone in Hanzhong was afraid of him, and gave him the nickname Zhu Xueren, he was sent by Zhu to seize Jiangling, and at the same time to plunder the young and strong as soldiers, in order to deal with the upcoming war with Cui Qinggong.

It's all up to your brother!

This is the permission that Zhu gave him before he left, Zhu Xueren is like a demon without restraint, he vents the beast in his body as he wants, and in three days, there are no less than twenty women who have been raped and killed by him.

"Brothers, do your best! To catch up with the refugees, we had two days off. ”

Zhu Xueren howled like a wolf, and he beat the curtain and looked into the distance, the mist shrouded in the vast heaven and earth, and in the south, a few miles away, under the afterglow of the fading sunset, there was a thick shadow: it was the edge of a dark forest.