After drinking tea, I woke up from my contemplation. Han Gang pulled a letter from his cuff. This is a private message sent by You Shixiong's trustee, which was only delivered to him today, and before he had time to read it, he was found by Wang Shao. Then I heard that there was an accident in the wine shop, and I went there to teach a few thieves who stole wine, and it has been delayed until now.

Han Gang opened it and looked at it, and there was nothing special. Ordinary greetings, some academic topics, as well as a few recent interesting stories, by the way, also talked about the current situation in Guanzhong.

It has been three months since Han Gang left Shaanxi Xuanfu Division and returned to Tongyuan during the wheat harvest season. During this time, the strategic shift of the imperial court in the Kansai region was already very obvious.

The division of the Shaanxi Transshipment Division into two is naturally the most obvious empirical evidence, but the calm silence of Yanyan Road and Huanqing Road also proves that both the north and south sides of Hengshan were injured in the earlier battle.

Although winter is approaching, it has already arrived in the annual autumn season, but there is no need to worry too much about Xixia this year, Liang Yibury has just solved a few wealthy families, although he has stabilized the position, but he has to nest in the nest of Xingqing Mansion and lick it. wounds.

The Hengshan Fan Department on the first line of the Yanyan Road, both the southern and northern feet, were all destroyed in the previous war. The southern foot of the Tibetan army first swept through the Song army, and then snatched almost all the grain for the party members. And although the Song people didn't bother the Song people in the northern foothills, their loyal masters still robbed them clean.

Without cattle and sheep, the wheat fields that were shortly tended at the beginning of spring were only half of the harvest of previous years, and with such a little grain, they could not even survive the New Year's Festival. There are two paths in front of the Tibetan tribes, one is to ask for help, and the other is to loot.

*For Yokoyama, it has become a habit of nature. It has long been a practice passed down from ancestors to invade the south with the party members every year and get a piece of the rich Han people. This year, the party members did not come, there was no leader in the Hengshan Fan Division, and the brigade could not be gathered, and small bandits emerged in endlessly.

It's just that the new Yanzhou Zhizhou, Zhao Yu, the envoy of Yanyan Road, and Yan Da, the deputy head of the soldiers and horses, are not easy to provoke. There was no major battle during this period of time, but the number of fragmentary beheadings reached as many as 14,500. Do everything possible to prevent these robbers from grabbing the slightest bit of food. According to Zhao Yu's report to the imperial court, as long as the situation continues to develop like this, after this winter, the population of the Hengshan Fan Department will be reduced by two percent.

It's not that no one chooses to be attached, and under normal circumstances, the imperial court may be generous and take out the stored grain in the standing position to appease. However, at present, the Yongxing Military Road Transit Division is not able to squeeze out a little grain stockpile, and the large-scale reduction in production in the Baiqu irrigation area alone, the harvest of 1.45 million stone in the old year is only 700,000 stone this year.

Of the four sages of the Lu clan in Lantian, only Lu Dafang is not Zhang Zai's disciple. But he is also very close to the Guan Xuefaction. You Shixiong is now serving under Guo Kui in Chang'an, and he is already the judge of Yongxing Military Road Jiedu. In several letters during this time, Lu Dafang was also mentioned several times. It is said that the newly appointed Quan Yongxing military road transfer envoy has a lot of support for the actions of Zhao Yu and Yan Da on the Yan Yan Road, and hopes that through the tactics of the strong wall and the clear field, the Hengshan Fan who often harass the Song Realm will starve to death a few more families - even if he is a Confucian scholar, he will not be stupid like Mr. Dongguo, and put his benevolence on the jackal and poisonous snake.

The situation in Hengshan is like this, and the timing of Wang Shao's military victory is indeed the most appropriate at the moment.

Before the party members healed their wounds, they crossed the Dalai Valley and walked to the other side of the Bird and Mouse Mountain. Lay down Lintao first, control Taoshui, and threaten Lanzhou, an important town in the southwest of Western Xia, to the north, and face Hezhou to the west.

It was getting late, Han Gang cleaned up all the words on the table, got up and left the public hall.

Walking out of the door, looking at the west side, the red glow in the sky was dazzling.

The thin clouds were stained red by the low-hanging sunset, as if a wound had been cut in the canopy, and half of the sky was soaked with red blood.

Han Gang has been reading more martial arts classics recently, and there are words such as 'those who are red and bloody, and the elephant of blood' is in the article of Yunqi Possession.

Now that the war is imminent, it is natural that the blade is stained with blood, but I don't know this 'red and bloody',

Is it a big murderer, or a big luck?

……………………

The remnant sun is like blood.

Mu Zheng had read the books of the Han people, and like most of the Tibetan nobles, he longed for the culture of the Han people. Seeing the blood-stained sky, I couldn't help but think of this word. But no matter how carefully he thought about it, he couldn't think of which Han book he had seen it.

But Mu Zheng will not chant poetry like a scholar of the Han people, looking at the red light in the sky, but he is shocked that this color is really unlucky. I am afraid that it is also the heavens that are signaling that a great war will soon come.

After chanting the Buddha a few times, retracting his gaze, Mu Zheng walked into the tent.

There was a person kneeling in the middle of the tent, and when he saw Mu Zheng coming in, he immediately put his face on the ground and waited for Mu Zheng to fall.

Mu Zheng glanced at him expressionlessly, sat down to drink tea, and ignored him.

This is an envoy sent by his brother to ask for help, and after a few days, he has grown tired of seeing it.

Wu Shengjun's younger brother Wu Qi, who has received three urgent reports a day, one messenger after another, has been sent three urgent reports a day. It is said that Gu Wei on the other side of Bird and Mouse Mountain, which has now been renamed Tongyuan or Longxi, has gathered 100,000 Song troops and is about to attack in the blink of an eye. The first step is Wu Shengjun, and the next step is Hezhou.

Blind Wu Qi cried in the letter asking for help, asking him to read the love of a mother and compatriots, as well as the relationship between lips and teeth, and pull his brother along.

If it is really as the blind Wu Qi said, the Song people really sent an army of 100,000, and they could starve to death if they were hungry. If he doesn't die of hunger, then he Mu Zheng can't fight if he sits down and waits for death.

In fact, Mu Zheng guessed that the Song army was between 10,000 and 20,000 at most, and no matter more, the Song people couldn't afford to supply it - the Dalai Valley in the Bird and Mouse Mountain was not very easy to walk.

But don't say one or two thousand, even seven or eight thousand is already a headache.

Whether Wu Shengjun can keep it, Mu Zheng is not optimistic. Today's Song people are becoming more and more difficult, which is an undeniable reality.

I heard that earlier this year, the Song army defeated the army led by Liang Yi, the prime minister of the Western Xia state, in Hengshan and fled. If it weren't for the civil strife in Shangguo at that time, the front line was forced to return to the division, and Liang Yi might not have been able to return to Xingqing Mansion, and he would have to bury his bones on the bank of the Wuding River.

Thousands of miles away, Mu Zheng couldn't tell whether the rumors were true or false. But one thing is certain, the Song people must have had the upper hand, but they withdrew because of civil strife, so that Liang Yi returned to the national capital proudly.

Because in the caravans to and from Hezhou, there are many people who are rumoring about this incident, and everyone is talking about it. In their mouths, words of regret overflowed, and they deeply hated that the Song people had not been able to leave Liang Yibury and the party army he led in the depths of Hengshan—in the land west of the river, no matter what kind of merchant they were, most of them would not have any good impression of the party members who were habitual to plunder and treachery.

Mu Zheng didn't want to go to war with the Song people, and it wouldn't be good for him to fight. Many times, Mu Zheng also fantasized about swapping positions with his uncle and letting him be Zampu's uncle to block the Song people and the party for himself. Rather than the diametrically opposed status quo of the moment.

But the Song people are now aggressive, and they all come to the door, and they can't help but deal with it. As Blind Wu Qi said, today the Song people have captured the Wusheng army, and tomorrow they may extend their hands to Hezhou. Mu Zheng knew very well how good the geographical location of his residence was, as long as the Song people had the intention to control Hehuang, they would have to occupy Hezhou City.

Mu Zheng slowly drank the tea, poured the remaining residues into his mouth, chewing the ghee and the fragrance of the tea leaves, and did not waste it at all.

After thinking about it, Mu Zheng finally made a decision. He said to the envoy sent by his brother for help, "Tell the blind Wu Qi, don't fight hard." Avoid the limelight first, and then I will send someone to help him cut off the Song people's grain road together. Hungry, the Song people can't stay long. ”

It only took one day for Mu Zheng's words to reach the ears of Blind Wu.

"Don't hit hard? Avoiding the limelight? So what should I do in Lintao City? There was no anger on the face of the blind Wu Qi, but the sharpness of his tone clearly showed the angry mood, "Is it not left to the Song people?!" He asked.

The messenger knelt on the ground, not daring to raise his head, allowing the blind Wu Qi to vent his anger.

Dong Yu died, and the blind Wu Qi, who was ranked third, finally inherited his territory. Over the past year, he has worked hard to govern the various tribes of the Wusheng Army, just wanting to make this land by the Tao River into a rich place that is not inferior to Qingtang and Hezhou.

But the brainchild of his past year, the eldest brother Mu Zheng's fluttering words asked him to give up. Looking at the increasingly populous city, as well as the newly built mansion compound where he lived, how could Blind Wu Qi be willing to abandon these properties that he regarded as treasures, and run into the mountains to avoid the Song soldiers?

If he gave up Lintao City as instructed, would his eldest brother really be able to send reinforcements to save him?

Blind Wu Qi didn't want to pin his hopes on Mu Zheng, but he couldn't say other methods, he looked around the hall, the patriarchs of dozens of large and small tribes he led were now here, and many of them were not just one family, I believe that among them, someone could come forward first and say what satisfied him.

"Do you want to ask the Yu Zang family for help?" One of the elders of the tribes under the tent proposed,

The proposal led the patriarchs of the hall to talk in private voices, with some against it and some in favor. Among those who are in favor, some people are afraid that Yu Zang's family will not leave when they come, and some people feel that it is not so easy to invite Yu Zang to move.

Blind Wu Qi coughed, stopping the discussion below, he ordered a smart and clever cronie, "You go and bring a letter to Yu Zang Huama, tell him the truth that your lips are dead and your teeth are cold, and say that if you succeed, you will cede to him the piece of the north of Wusheng Army near Lanzhou, and ask him to lead the army to rescue." ”

Ignoring the whispers below, it suddenly became louder, and Wu Qi said again: "Before you leave, go to the warehouse, and if you think the property inside is useful, you can move it, as long as you can invite Yu Zang Huama, you can move as much as you want." ”

Blind Wu said generously, the property in the warehouse is accumulated in the past year, as long as you can keep Lintao City, what you send out today can be replenished in a year. And the land that was cut, as long as the Yu Zang family and the Song people were defeated, he could also shake his head and deny it.

Let's talk about the soldiers of the Yu Zang family first!