"Report back to the city quickly!" As Song Qing spoke, he tied up a letter that he had hastily written on straw paper, tied it to an arrow, and then galloped to the foot of Sangbi City, shouting: "I am a sentry of the Guangwu Army!" Don't get hurt by mistake on the city's robes! I have a letter, tied to an arrow and shot in, please find it and hand it over to your lord! ”

Song Qing raised his right hand under the city, galloped back and forth several times to show that he was not hostile, and repeated Fang Cai's words several times in a row. Seeing this, the soldiers in the city heard Song Qing's shout, so they put down their bows and crossbows one after another, and quietly looked at the sentry riding who was galloping back and forth under the city from the top of the city.

After Song Qing finished explaining, he put the arrow book on the bow, and then aimed at the city tower, and shot an arrow, but the arrow book was just inserted on the window lattice of the city tower. Seeing that the arrow book had been thrown, Song Qing turned his horse's head and galloped towards the west. When his subordinates saw this, they followed him one after another, galloping all the way to the west.

Liu Zhao's army pressed the border and came surgingly. Sangbi is about to be besieged. These circumstances knocked on Song Qing's head and made him feel a headache. However, his immediate priority was undoubtedly to get the news back to the camp, the county, and even the state as soon as possible.

No one knows how long the elite of Yinjian and Liangzhou in Sangbi can last. Song Qing hurriedly wrote it down, and then shot the arrow book on the city tower, and only a few big characters were hurriedly written inside: "The Guangwu Sentinel has turned back to ask for help." The Yin Protector must hold on. Then he signed his name.

Presumably, if Yin Jian saw this book, he should be able to muster up the courage to stick to it for a while.

However, it was only then that Liu Zhao's line of troops was slowly advancing in a formation of more than 50,000 people. In view of this critical situation, Song Qing, who had found out the military situation, could only rush back day and night in order to shorten Liangzhou's reaction time to this crisis of military pressure as much as possible.

Along the way, there were constantly cavalry guards who had been released from the surrounding guards, and then they sent rotating cavalry guards to guard. Song Qing and his subordinate horsemen rode on horses, from early morning to dusk, basically without stopping for a day. Even when they felt hungry, the soldiers grabbed a handful of fried soybeans on horseback, and then nibbled on a few bites of dry and hard cakes, and drank a few sips of water from the water bladder, which was considered a meal.

After galloping for six or seven hours in a row, it was almost dusk, and seeing that the horsepower of the horses under the crotch was already poor, Song Qingcai ordered his subordinates to pause for a while, and wait for a while to catch up with the robes who were rushing to replace the horses, and then after replacing the horses, they would march again.

When the soldiers heard this, they all did as they were told. After waiting for about two quarters of an hour, the rear riders rushed to replace the horses.

Seeing the replacement of the military horses coming, the soldiers put down the dry food bags or water bladders in their hands, hurriedly fed some forage and bean cakes to the war horses that had been tired for a day, and then changed their horses and continued to gallop.

From Sangbi back to Guangwu, there was a distance of more than 500 miles, and Song Qing traveled day and night like this, and finally rushed back to the Guangwu army camp at dusk the next day.

At this time, the camp of the Guangwu Army was also a busy scene. A batch of newly made arrows, armor and other items in the county government have been piled up outside the arsenal of the big camp. The grain and grass distributed by the county government were also pulled into the camp by the soldiers one by one. Seeing that the camp gate was blocked by the grain truck, Song Qing, who was about to gallop to the front, didn't care about the imminent loss of strength, and struggled to open his chapped lips and shouted: "Give way to the camp gate!" We're waiting for an urgent military intelligence to be submitted! ”

A gatekeeper at the gate of the camp, seeing the dust rushing over, was Song Qing, the commander of the 100 cavalry in the camp, seeing his depressed expression, obviously galloping for a long time, he hurriedly shouted, shouting that the grain trucks blocking the camp gate to make way of a passage.

Song Qing saw that the passage was out of the way, and slowed down his horse slightly, and as soon as the horse rushed to the gate of the camp, he immediately reined in his horse, and then turned over and galloped towards the camp. It is strictly forbidden to gallop horses in the camp, and military law stipulates that violators will be beheaded. Therefore, even if Song Qing had an urgent military situation, he had to run in on foot to report.

Song Qing rode on horseback for a long time, and did not close his eyes for two days and one night. At this time, his physical strength was exhausted, and he ran into the camp gate only a dozen steps away, and he already fell. Fang struggled to get up, but before he could run five steps, he fell again. Among the soldiers passing by, someone had stepped forward to help him up, and then took a closer look at Song Qing, the head of the cavalry battalion, who was busy helping him to the cavalry camp tent.

The subordinates led by Song Qing outside the camp gate, as soon as they got off the horse at this time, they all felt that the sky was spinning. After supporting himself for a while, they fell sideways and vertically outside the camp gate. Seeing this situation, the infantry officer guarding the door hurriedly exchanged some subordinates around him. The men carried the distrained horsemen towards their camp.

After helping the horsemen away, a few more foot soldiers came, and they took the horses that were exhausted and left outside the camp, and then carefully led them to the stables in the camp. The officials of the team guarding the camp gate had settled these things, and it didn't take long for the horsemen who were hanging behind to catch up with the replacement horses to be in front of the camp gate.

Finally, I summoned my subordinates to get these military horses and horsemen into the camp. The grain carts blocked at the gate of the camp were already lined up. The soldiers who escorted the grain cart looked at this time, and the embarrassed faces of the cavalry who had entered the camp one after another, some looked worried, and some were talking and laughing. I have long spread what I have just seen as a joke.

Li Yanzhao was checking the official documents for the transfer of grain and ordnance in the account. was annoyed by the chaotic and disorderly bookkeeping of the county officials, but saw his subordinate Song Qing coming in the account by several foot soldiers. Song Qing's lips were chapped and he was panting like a cow. I also rolled my eyes a few times from time to time. When Li Yanzhao saw this, he knew that he must have been galloping for a long time, and at this time, he was close to losing his strength.

"Brother Song, what happened?" Li Yanzhao was shocked, and hurriedly asked. And Song Qing was helped in by the two foot soldiers, and almost immediately fell on the futon behind a few cases on the side of the tent. Hearing Li Yanzhao's question, he tried his best to sit upright and opened his mouth, but he only let out a few hoarse screams.

Song Qing pointed to the glass of water on the table, and then to his own throat. Seeing this, Li Yanzhao immediately knew what he meant, and hurriedly stepped forward and poured a full glass of water for Song Qing. Song Qing's eyes suddenly showed a look of greed, he grabbed the cup, and then brought it to his mouth with a trembling twist, opened his mouth, and poured the cup of water with his neck tilted.

Li Yanzhao watched Song Qing's Adam's apple move up and down a few times, and then the bottom of the cup was already visible. Song Qing paused the cup on a few cases, looked at Li Yanzhao with an expectant look, and then said in a voice that was still slightly hoarse: "Hundred generals, have another cup!" ”

Li Yanzhao went as he said and poured a full glass of water for Song Qing. Song Qing picked up the cup, then put it to his mouth, and poured it down in a few big mouthfuls.

After drinking the water, Song Qingfang wiped his mouth with the palm of his hand, and then said: "Liu Zhao has raised tens of thousands of troops and has attacked Sangbi. Please 100 people will report this to the county government as soon as possible, and please report it to the state government! ”

Hearing what Song Qing said, Li Yanzhao's face suddenly sank, and then he quickly took out the map in his hand and unfolded it to look at it. It didn't take long for the index finger of his right hand to point to a point. On the mark of the city there, it is impressively written: mulberry wall.

Since last autumn, after Han Pu led a large army into Jincheng, Li Yanzhao has not read these official documents on military affairs. Therefore, it is also known that last month, while Chen An and Liu Zhao were fighting fiercely, the Liangzhou soldiers divided into two routes, and Yin Jian and Han Pu led the elite troops to occupy Sangbi and Jicheng respectively.

On the map, Li Yanzhao drew a line, which is the route from Jicheng to Jincheng. Nowadays, Jincheng has become the bridgehead of Liangzhou to expand its territory. Countless ordnance, grain and grass were transported. Jincheng now not only shoulders the important role of defending Liangzhou, but also exists as a supply transit station for the Liangjun army in Longxi.

Li Yanzhao carefully looked at the location of the road marked on the map. Now Di Dao is still stuck on the only way from Jincheng to Jicheng, and you can imagine how difficult it is to transport ordnance and materials to Jicheng and Sangbi farther away.

Although Di Dao brought out all the main forces of Shi Wu, the city is now empty and unable to intercept the transport team in Liangzhou. However, on this kind of main road, there is a nail stuck in it, like a fish in the throat, but Li Yanzhao always feels uncomfortable.

Not to mention the distance of more than 200 miles from Jincheng to Jicheng. Such a long-distance large-scale delivery of materials, if it is intercepted by the Hun cavalry who come and go like the wind, it will be the end of no return.

However, if you attack Didao. Then they can occupy it, strengthen the city wall, and add arrow towers. The fortress of Didao, a key place located in Taoshui, can be transported in small batches by Jincheng, and Didao is used as a transit station.

And from Di Dao to the east, for Sangbi and Jicheng to transport supplies, one is that the distance is greatly shortened, the risk is reduced, and the other can still be transported in small batches and batches, and send a part of the troops to be stationed in Di Dao to Jicheng several hills and valleys, cut down trees and set up villages, monitor and defend, so as to squeeze the erratic Hun cavalry as much as possible The activity space.

Li Yanzhao thought for a while, then sat down in front of a few cases, poured water and polished ink, spread out a piece of paper on a few cases, sharpened the tip of the pen, and then wrote the paper.

"Fu Jun Junjian. A few days ago, our sentry rode to Sangbi and saw that tens of thousands of Liu Zhao's troops had attacked Sangbi. At present, the front line of Sangbi and Jicheng is critical. Wangfujun reported to Zhang Yuanjun as soon as possible. ”

Li Yanzhao wanted to write the payment and send it out, but after thinking about it, he opened the paper again and added a few words.

"In my humble opinion, our state should first take Di Dao, and then send more than 5,000 elite soldiers to station, and then take Di Dao as the key point, hoard materials, and transport them to Jicheng, and then send troops, thieves can be eliminated."

After writing the letter, Li Yanzhao carefully sealed the letter, and then called a cavalry outside the tent and ordered him to send it to the county government.

Then, Li Yanzhao picked up Song Qing, and the two went all the way to the tent of the Thousand Governors.

When Du Jie heard the report, he was also shocked, and hurriedly got up and went to the arsenal, granary, horse depot and other places with Li Yanzhao to check the reserve of materials. Song Qing, who had already lost his strength, was naturally sent back to the camp by Du Jie's subordinates.

Nowadays, whether it is the arsenal or the granary, it has been piled up. Even so, the county government continued to send supplies to the camp. Even the horse feed warehouse now has enough bean cakes and other items for the whole camp of mules and horses to support for several months.

Seeing that the materials in each warehouse were sufficient, the worried look on Du Jie's face gradually eased a little. He turned his head and talked with Li Yanzhao, exchanging views on the current grim situation.

Li Yanzhao immediately discovered that the strategy of this thousand-person governor was exactly the same as his own. They all intended to uproot Di Dao first, and then use Di Dao as a stronghold, hoard troops and accumulate food, and choose the right time to support Jicheng Sangbi.

In the future, even if Jicheng and Sangbi are defeated. Dido can still hold on. If Di Dao is not captured, it will be difficult for Liu Zhao's army to go north to capture Jincheng. Not to mention the capture of Liangzhou.

However, it is limited by communication conditions. Li Yanzhao really didn't know how long it would take for this news to reach Guzang. How long will it take to wait for Gu Zang and his staff to discuss the results and issue them.

However, in his current capacity, he only has the power to make suggestions and not the power to make decisions, so he can only wait anxiously. Wait for the unknown decision to judge yourself and your brothers.

When I woke up, it was still dark. However, there was already an uproar at the camp gate.

Li Yanzhao put on clothes and armor, got up and went out of the tent to check, but found that the soldiers at the camp gate were talking to a cadre of officials outside the camp. After a while, the gatekeepers opened the gate and let the officials into the camp.

The officials hurried to the big tent of the Thousand Governors, and after about a quarter of an hour, Du Jie was already dressed neatly, and ordered the drummer to beat the trumpet, and then let go of his voice and shouted: "The whole army is assembled, and after the meal, prepare to leave for Jincheng!" ”[.]