At the same time that Li Chuanyun was sitting on a small boat and staring at the troops on the shore, a one-armed general stood on a hill on horseback, and also looked at Li Chuanyun's boat, but unfortunately the night deceived his eyes, he could not see the people on the boat clearly, and he was thinking more about the boat itself.

Wei Deqing rushed back to Chenliu four days ago, and Cui Qinggong, in the face of righteousness and reality, he chose the latter, he has controlled nearly 70,000 soldiers, is 70,000 living young and strong men, every day to consume a large amount of food, as well as military uniforms, ordnance, camp tents and other large daily expenses, and even military salaries, he can't be like Cui Qinggong, to fight to pay wages, he can't do it, strict self-discipline makes him strict with the army, not allowed to loot, not allowed to commit adultery, not to forcibly occupy people's houses, but in this way, his sources of funds and food have also been severely tested.

In order to feed the army, he has been forced to do many unavoidable things, such as looting local granaries, forcibly occupying the public fields of the government, pretending to be rogues to kidnap the children of large families to extort money and grain, etc., and now, seizing this million yuan of salt tax is also of great significance to him.

"If you really want to fight it, I can't help it, but you have to remember that this black cauldron must be carried by Cui Qinggong

Before leaving, the advice of the head of the family seemed to be still echoing in his ears, Wei Deqing sighed softly, after this incident, he wanted to learn from Zhang Huan, the military household acre system, he also thought that this was the most effective way to stimulate morale and stabilize the morale of the army, although he hated Zhang Huan to the bone, but Wei Deqing also admired him very much, in just six years, he became the first major warlord in the Tang Dynasty, and firmly controlled his foundation. It is completely different from Cui Qinggong and Zhu Zhi.

"General, we've entered the county." One of the guards suddenly pointed to a small stone bridge.

Wei Deqing nodded, "Order the three armies, and then you can camp and rest after another fifty miles, and send scouts to the front to investigate." ”

He put up the curtain and looked at the dark and dreary front, the earth was pitch black, only the water was slightly glowing with starlight, as if a black jade belt was extending to the south, and his heart began to be a little excited. Now. The boat should have also arrived in Qiaojun.

The sky is getting brighter. A round of red sun radiates ten thousand golden rays, shining on the land full of vitality in the Huanghuai Plain, in the south of Yongcheng County, about ten miles away from Bianshui, there is a magnificent scene, only to see two rows of boats walking side by side, the black pressure fleet can not see the tail at a glance, it is more than ten miles long, each ship is full of coins or grain, the draft is very deep, the head is a big ship. Like a dragon's head, cleaving the waves and leading the way.

On the west bank of the Bianhe River, groups of cavalry galloped back and forth, passing the news from the front and rear, although there were also 2,000 cavalry, but they were comparable to the fleet of more than ten miles. They seem insignificant, like a few buttons left on a gown. In the distance, there are endless gentle hills covered with large expanses of thick green woods.

On the big ship, Li Huai, the new soldier of the military department and the king of Jiyang County, was staring ahead with his hands behind his back, and the brilliant glow was scattered on his ground, but in this morning full of vitality, he seemed to be a little tired. His eyes were full of worry. Indeed, the fleet has entered Cui Qinggong's territory. He barely closed his eyes overnight.

Li Huai is about fifty years old, he is the eldest son of Shouwang Li Maodi, some people say that his biological mother is the famous Yang Guifei, but the concubine entered the palace and entrusted him as a concubine to avoid suspicion, but with the passage of time, as the scandal between Emperor Tang Ming and Yang Guifei has become a thing of the past, the truth of his life experience is not so important.

Li Huai also has a younger brother, that is, the heir to the king of life, Li, six years ago, his son Li Yao almost became the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but Li Li robbed him of this rare opportunity, for this reason, Li Huai brothers and Li Li formed an indissoluble enmity.

This time, Cui Xiaofu appointed him as the left squire of the military department, that is, in order to alleviate the contradiction between him and Li Yu and make up for the biggest rift between the royal family.

Li Huai himself also knows this, although he accepted Cui Xiaofu's appointment, it doesn't mean that he and Li Li can talk to each other, no! The position of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty is by no means something that can be made up by a single soldier of the left squire.

"Lord Wang!" A cavalryman shouted from the shore, "There is no situation behind, everything is normal!" ”

"There is no situation in Yongcheng County ahead, it's normal!" Another cavalryman also rushed back and shouted.

Li Huai waved his hand and said, "I know, let's go and explore again!" ”

At this time, one of his attendants stepped forward and whispered: "Lord Wang, you haven't slept all night, why don't you go into the cabin and rest for a while!" ”

Li Huai felt that he was indeed a little tired, and he nodded, "Okay! I'll rest for a while and call me in Yongcheng County. ”

He was just about to walk into the hatch, when suddenly, he faintly heard a strange sound, rumbling and muffling, like a muffled thunder in the sky, but the morning glow was full of sky, where would there be thunder?

He couldn't help but stop, and looked to the shore in surprise, only to see that the cavalry on the shore also reined in their horses and looked around in surprise.

"Who is it?" Suddenly one of the horsemen noticed something, and he shouted, but only halfway through his shout, his shout turned into a scream, and he fell from his horse, and an arrow of wolf's teeth pierced his throat.

"It's not good, there are ambushes!" The other cavalry also noticed the anomaly and shouted, but it was too late, and the arrows in the woods rained down like a torrent of arrows, and in an instant a hundred cavalrymen were shot like hedgehogs, and the horses neighed miserably and fell down the river.

Li Huai was so frightened that his soul was scattered, he saw a dense crowd of soldiers pouring out of the woods, stretching backwards for a mile, like a large ant colony rushing towards the boats, there were tens of thousands of people, the number of cavalry guarding was too small and scattered, there was no way to compete with it, these regiments trained soldiers to flee for their lives, some transferred their horses to flee back, and some simply jumped into the river and swam to escape.

Just when the boat was in a dilemma, Cui Qinggong's ambush soldiers had already killed the shore, and the temptation of the money on the boat made their eyes red, and groups of soldiers shouted wildly, jumped into the water and climbed onto the boat, split the linoleum with a knife, and threw a large amount of copper coins into the sky. Laughing hysterically.

Li Huai already understood that this was Cui Qinggong's attack on the boat, his face was pale, he held on to the side of the boat, and forced himself to calm down, he didn't believe that Cui Qinggong even dared to kill himself.

But things were not as simple as he thought, and the soldiers, who had been stimulated by money and lost their minds, began to climb onto the big ships in defiance of the ban, screaming, their thinking was simple and plain, and the simple flat-bottomed boats were loaded with copper coins. Then this big ship with gold and painting is naturally a treasure of gold and silver.

Dozens of Li Huai's entourage shouted and cursed. While drawing his knife and slashing at the rebels who climbed onto the boat. The big ship swayed from side to side, and the screams were incessant, when a group of cavalry galloped in, waving their swords and shouting at the soldiers around the big ship from afar. Li Huai seemed to hear that these soldiers were being told to get off the boat, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

But at this moment, Li Huai suddenly saw two officers jumping up from the bow of the boat, they were wet, each carrying a long knife, and their eyes were staring at him like wolves, shining. Less than a foot away from him.

Li Huai's legs trembled under their vicious gaze, and he turned around and ran towards the cabin, and the five or six guards around him rushed forward while drawing their swords, and scolded: "Are you crazy? This is the head of the military department. ”

"Didn't the big man say who he wanted to spare?" An officer laughed wildly and lunged at him, his sword flashing, and the heads of his two followers had already landed. A cold long knife slashed towards Li Huai's back.

Li Huai's legs were so weak that he couldn't move, and he didn't even have the courage to look back, he suddenly heard the sound of a knife chopping bones, and a sharp pain came from his lower body, he screamed, his eyes were dark, and he didn't know anything.

Two hours later. The Cao transport fleet began to turn west from Yongcheng County. Driving along a fork of the river to Qian County, Ma Dawei on the riverbank kept apologizing to Li Huai in the carriage.

"My handsome man repeatedly told him before leaving. Don't hurt the prince, I also specially sent a team of personal soldiers to drink so that they should not harass the prince, and ask the prince to believe in our sincerity

In the end, Ma Dawei's voice became smaller and smaller, he already felt that he had no need to explain, Li Huai was weakly half-lying in the carriage, his face was sallow, his eyes were so weak that he didn't even have hatred, his two legs were cut off even with his knees, thanks to the timely rescue of his entourage, he did not die, and the two officers who caused the accident also fled without a trace, afterwards, Ma Dawei ordered hundreds of officers above the team to line up for Li Huai's entourage to identify, but Li Huai's entourage coldly refused.

"Please tell Cui Qinggong that he will go to explain this matter to the Queen Mother." Li Huai's entourage leader said, he waved his hand, "Let's go!" ”

The group escorted the carriage and slowly walked towards Yongcheng County.

Ma Dawei kept watching their carriage go away, and then he smiled helplessly, turned around and ordered: "Speed up and sail the boat back to Qian County." ”

After about two hours, the ship had sailed for more than 20 miles, and it was getting dark in the afternoon, and when Ma Dawei saw that the fleet had completely left the canal, and that his center of earth had finally set, he ordered: "Order the brothers to stop the boat and rest for half an hour." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly heard the roar of horses' hooves faintly behind him, he was taken aback, turned his head and looked into the distance, only to see a long black line appear a few miles away, at this time, a soldier galloped from afar, and reported loudly: "General, Wei Deqing, Wei Deqing's army is coming." ”

Ma Dawei's heart sank suddenly, and the millions of dollars were really not so easy to get.

On April 20 of the seventh year of Xuanren, the Cao boat loaded with millions of salt taxes and 300,000 stone meters was intercepted by the general Cui Qinggong in the south of Yongcheng County, Qian County, and Li Huai was seriously injured in the melee, but the praying mantis caught the cicada and the yellow finch was behind, just when Cui Qinggong had just succeeded, Wei Deqing, who heard the wind, led 20,000 troops to participate in the snatching of the boat, and the two armies fought in a melee, Cui Qinggong's army was finally defeated because of the defeat of the army, and the boat changed hands again and was taken away by Wei Deqing's horizontal knife.

In Jiangling County, a sudden heavy rain blocked Zhang Huandi's trip, the day was getting hotter, and the rain also changed from a fine spring rain to a large and fierce one.

This is Jingmen Station, just now it was still a little stuffy afternoon, at this moment it is already pitch black, the ink cloud has shrouded the entire four fields, the rain began to fall, and it is getting bigger and bigger, deep darkness shrouds the uninhabited fields, a lightning light splits, the earth is white, in the rainstorm, I saw a slender figure leading the horse to flee into the post station in panic.

Bursts of thunderbolts, dazzling electric lights illuminated the dark sky at every moment, the sound of torrential rain, the howl of the wind, these forces liberated from nature unscrupulously exerted their power on the rooftops.

This majesty of heaven and earth is in stark contrast to the silence in the room, giving people a sense of sacredness, the light in the room is soft, warm and quiet, Zhang Huan is leisurely half lying on the soft couch reading a book, as if the torrential rain outside the window has nothing to do with him like the battle for the boat in the county.

Of course, he didn't care whether the millions of dollars would eventually go to Cui Qinggong or Wei Deqing, no matter who it was, in the end, Pei Jun would definitely come to him, or even beg him, it turned out that Cao Yun could only go to Xiangyang.

But none of this is important, the important thing is that he will get another new force, Li Huai, the king of Jiyang County, and Li, the king of Sishou, doesn't Cui Xiaofu want to take his power with the left squire of the military department? But what's the use of setting it up? Will he, Zhang Huan, willingly give away the military department? No! She Cui Xiaofu thought too simply, Shuo Fang Jiedu envoy could not be exchanged for the military department. Zhang Huan smiled faintly, snap! The earth will close the book, "Who's outside!" ”

"Governor, it's your old friend." The voice of the soldier was a little strange, as if he replied with a smile.

"The deceased?" Zhang Huan was a little surprised, he got up and walked to the door, only to see Li Dingfang flashing to the side with a strange expression, only to see a person standing at the door, looking quite scared.

"It's you!" Zhang Huan lost his voice.