Huguan, finally received Yuan Shao's instructions, Gao Gan was stunned, but he was relieved. handed the silk book to Linghu Shao and Guo Yuan: "The lord ordered, I should withdraw!" ”

Linghu Shao took the silk book and read it, thought for a while and said to Gao Gan: "General Yuancai, the homeland is difficult to leave, if you follow the orders of the lord, I am afraid of provoking a civil uprising!" ”

"It doesn't matter! Anyway, we are going to abandon the party, so what about the popular uprising? What I'm worried about is that now that the Xia Kingdom has swallowed up the Black Mountain Army, it can be regarded as freeing up his hands. Jiexiu's Kebi can fight against Liu, but I am afraid that we will send troops to attack in the evening, and there is not much time left for us! ”

With a sigh, Hu Shao's eyes flashed, and he said to Gao Gan: "Our army is short of manpower, and the Shangdang area is not small, if you want to move the people, it is impossible to take care of them all." The counties in the north and east of the party were selected as the relocation targets, supplemented by the support of the Shizu counties. And retreat quickly! ”

"Uncle Kong's words are reasonable! Then take the eldest son as the boundary, Uncle Kong, you are responsible for contacting the noble clan and cooperating with the migration, with the attitude of the Xia army towards my great Han clan, if you can move to Jizhou, presumably they will be willing. Gao Gan agreed with Ling Hu Shao's statement.

Turned his head to look at Guo Yuan: "Guo Yuan, next, you lead the soldiers to drive the surrounding people to the east, settle in Lu County, destroy the city and burn the wilderness, no matter what the reaction of the people is, you are going to let the Xia army get a ruin!" Do you understand? ”

"No! Subordinates obey orders! ”

"In addition, summon Jizhou and let them prepare to answer us!"

Mianyang gathered, the high intervention material was good, the matter of Montenegro was ended by Yan Rou, and Liu Yuan's order came. Kebi can lead the army with Liu Qiu and Bald Gui, go out of bounds, and go straight to the party.

"General! There was something wrong with the movements of the Yuan army, the scouts came to report, and the senior cadres destroyed the cities of the eldest son, Tunliu, Huguan and other cities, burned fields and dwellings everywhere, concentrated military forces in Lu County, and drove the people to him. Liu Qiu said to Kebineng what the secret agent had reported, and suddenly shouted: "They want to escape!" ”

"That's right!" Kebineng frowned, and said coldly: "They know that the party can't hold it!" ”

"General Liu Qiu!" Without much hesitation, Kebi Neng directly ordered: "You lead my front army to rush to the horse, quickly march eastward, regardless of the counties on the way, drive directly to Lu County, and intercept Yuan's army for me!" If the party really only has a blank field left, and let the other generation escape, the king will blame me and wait! ”

"Without further ado, the last general will go immediately!" Liu Qiu acted resolutely, turned around and mobilized his troops and horses to leave.

"Summoned Yan Rou of Montenegro and asked him to lead the army north and intercept Yuan's army in the mountains. They are in Lu County, they must want to take the mountain road and go to Jizhou to get involved in the country! "I thought about it and ordered the scouts.

"Bald Gui come, you and this general will ride south and control the remaining counties." Kebineng said with a serious face.

……

In the vicinity of Luxian County, more than 20,000 people from Shangdang counties have gathered, chaotic and disorderly, their homes have been destroyed, they have been forcibly relocated, and there are constant howls. Two thousand soldiers of the Yuan army were guarding, after all, it was difficult to leave their homeland, and they were forcibly relocated to Jizhou on the other side of the mountains, and not many people were willing, they would rather face the "brutal" rule of the Xia State.

At the head of the city, Gao Gan's face was anxious, and he asked Guo Yuan beside him: "Why are you so good!" ”

"General, the subordinates have tried their best, and the people have resisted and fled in all directions. The Xia army has moved, and he really doesn't dare to stay in the west for a long time! Guo Yuan replied helplessly.

"Uncle Kong, how many of the Shangdang clan are willing to move east with us?"

Ling Hu Shao smiled bitterly for a while: "There are not many, people's minds have become unstable, and many families have already planned to take refuge in the Xia Kingdom!" ”

"This bunch of rats!" Gao Gan scolded secretly: "Xia Jun has moved, and there is not much time for us." Hurry up, immediately cross the river and relocate, along the existing mountain road, and move east to Jizhou! ”

"No!"

On the turbid water in the east of Lu County, Yuan Jun had already built several bridges to cross the river, and with the order of Gao Gan, more than 3,000 Yuan troops began to drive more than 20,000 Shangdang people, crossed the river and went east into the Taihang Mountain Road, and began a difficult journey.

When Liu Qiu's army arrived, Gao Gan and others had already entered the mountain, and Liu Qiu could only eat soil in the back. "Ahh Damn" Liu Qiu scolded angrily, slapped the horse's buttocks a few times, and ran back and forth outside the mountain. Hurry up and hurry, but still be escaped by it.

With a strong unwillingness in his heart, Liu Qiu did not dare to rashly lead the cavalry into the mountains to pursue. After hesitating for a moment, he ordered a thousand men to dismount, plunge into the mountains on foot, and carefully pursue the past following the trails left by Yuan's army and the people.

On a hill in the southern foot of Taihang, Yan Rou led the army to occupy the small village on the mountain. During these days, he has been commanding the army, and under the leadership of the Black Mountain Soldiers, the raiders took over the large and small cottages in the mountains, captured the population, and moved to Taiyuan.

"General, the mountains of Montenegro have been basically conquered by our army, and there are not many people left!" Yang Feng handed Yan Rou a bag of water, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said.

Nodding, Yan Rou said with a smile: "The soldiers have worked hard, let everyone rest." After the remnants are completely cleared, you can go out of the mountain! ”

"No!"

"General!" Zhang Sheng called out from afar, and ran to Yan Rou's side in a few steps.

"What?"

"General Kebineng sent scouts to pass the book!" After speaking, he handed the letter to Yan Rou.

"Looks like we don't have time to rest!" Yan Rou took it apart, browsed it, put it away and sighed: "Order all the soldiers to set off in gear up and turn north!" ”

Gao Gan, Liu Qiu, and Yan Rou all started a race against time. Although Yan Rou's army was far away from the north, he had many black mountain soldiers under his command, and he was familiar with the route, and his speed was not slow, and he went straight to the Taihang remnants next to the country.

The high-ranking cadres were affected by those people, and the mountain roads were difficult to walk, so they couldn't get up fast if they wanted to. Liu Qiu pursued behind, very careful, Gao Gan found the chasing soldiers behind him, and ordered Guo Yuan to set up an ambush, Liu Qiu was cunning and was avoided by him.

The two sides were entangled all the way, slowly moving eastward.

"General Yuancai, this can't be done! Let's let Guo Yuan come back, we will abandon these people and go directly to the country! Leaning against the mountain wall, Ling Hu Shao was out of breath, and saw the soldiers of the Yuan army struggling to drive the people forward.

After entering the mountain, he profoundly realized how difficult it was to drive some people to march, and how many of them did not cooperate.

"How far is it from the mountains?"

"Back to the general, there are still more than ten miles of mountain roads!"

After thinking about it, Gao Gan coldly ordered: "Those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety, hold on for a while, and go out of the mountain." Tell the soldiers, speed up, but there are procrastinating grinders, kill! ”

However, Gao Gan did not insist on going out of the mountain after all, and at a distance of less than three miles from the Taihang East Pass, Yan Rou shuttled through the mountain road and finally arrived to intercept it. Both sides were tired soldiers, a fierce battle, Liu Qiu attacked from behind, Gao Gan was defeated, fled east in embarrassment, and was lucky to be picked up by Jiang Yiqu, the general of the Yuan army who came to support.

The population driven by the high-ranking cadres was recaptured, and the more than 20,000 people who entered the mountains returned to Shangdang again, with less than 10,000 survivors. The rest either fled into the mountains or became cannon fodder when the two sides were fighting.

fled into Jizhou, Gao Gan and others were the rest of their lives after the catastrophe, and they had a lot of emotion.

"General Gao, please return to the country with your subordinates to rest!" Seeing that Gao Gan was depressed, Jiang Yiqu spoke.

"This defeat is entrusted by the lord! Since the party has been lost, my Yuan Jun will try to win a city and a city in Yuzhou, I'm afraid it will be difficult! Looking at the reckless mountains to the west, Gao Gan sighed.

Shangdang, without accident, fell into the control of the Xia State, and Liu Yuan took all the risks of Taihang, so as to control the eastern border, rest assured that the west direction, and open the Yongliang strategy.