When the purpose of the early operation was achieved, Zhang Yue was not in a hurry, and led his troops to take over the state government and set the list for the people. More than 4,000 prisoners of war were captured after the destruction www.biquge.info of Changzhou City, all of whom came from the surrounding villages on the outskirts of the city.

Through observation and questioning, Zhang Yue found that most of these people from the Liugu tribe did not have a good impression of the Zhe Clan, and they were also average and xenophobic to the Zhou army. If the captives are properly educated, they can be transformed and strengthened by their own military strength, and they can quickly stabilize the place, and even collect some grain and grass.

These things were handed over to Xuan Chongwen, Zhang Yue scattered scouts, paid close attention to the movements in Liangzhou, and in order to test the motive of the battle, he specially released ten captives to return to Guzang with letters and the heads of the Zhiqi Branch, so as to achieve the purpose of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger.

At the same time, he ordered Gao Changhai to lead the Linjing army to escort the captives to Changzhou Huiqi, leaving Yao Keding and Ma Tan to lead the Baoding army to garrison and garrison the military city. Because of the troops stationed along the way, they have always been drawn from the Baoding army, and the rest is actually only more than 1,000 soldiers.

As early as a few days ago, Feng Jianjie, the deputy commander of the scout, was under the leadership of Shen Jingang, bypassing the military city and heading south to reach Yangfei Valley.

Yangfei Valley is located in the valley area at the eastern foot of the Snow Mountain, originating from the Wuzhi River in the Snow Mountain, also called Zhuanglang River, which flows south into the Yellow River in Lanzhou from the valley. There is a military city left over from the Tang Dynasty in this valley, which was originally called Wucheng to defend and capture, and then fell into Tubo, and the Shen clan of the Six Valleys settled here.

After years of development, the military city has been repeatedly repaired and expanded, and it is still well preserved, and the main clansmen like Shen Nian live in the city. After a fiasco last winter, Shen Nian's prestige plummeted, and he could barely control the patriarchs of the Six Valleys tribe.

And in order to protect the people in the clan from being purged by the Zhe Clan, Shen Nianyan had to humiliately accept the conditions offered by Zhe Kui Jiashi. Handing over Changzhou is just a trivial matter, but the daughter of the clan brother Shen Panruo can be married, and the dowry is 10,000 tribes, plus a large number of grain, grass and weapons, and the family has been hollowed out since then.

After reading the two volumes of letters presented by Shen Jingang, Shen Nianyan roughly understood that Zhang Yue had quietly accepted his daughter Shen Xuelian as a concubine.

Moreover, Zhang Yue's troops were only more than 20,000 people, but the old jackal of Zhe Jiashi had prepared 40,000 or 50,000 cavalry, as well as Uighur reinforcements, and the outcome was not yet known. Shen Nianban didn't want to bet too early, so he sent someone to receive Feng Jianjie and arranged for them to stay and ignore it.

In the evening of this day, some clansmen came from afar to report that more than 1,000 mules and horses were driven by a large number of soldiers and armor from Lanzhou along the Kara River to the north, and they would soon pass through the Yangfei Valley. Shen Nian was helpless, there are not many clan soldiers in the Liugu Department now, and the waist pole can't be stiffened, and the folding bowl is coming at this time, and I don't know how to send it.

Feng Jianjie lives in the military city, and he has been here for almost two days, and he has already seen the size and defense facilities of this military city thoroughly, so he will ask Shen Jingang about the situation if he has nothing to do, hoping to go back to his life soon. I don't want to know whether it was intentional or unintentional on this day, Shen Jingang revealed the whereabouts of the folding bowl.

Feng Jianjie was shocked, if this batch of armor was transported back to Guzang, the soldiers of the Zhe Clan would be like a tiger, and their combat strength would be greatly strengthened, and it would be even more difficult for their own side to attack Liangzhou City. Feng Jianjie immediately left his residence and went to the Shen mansion to ask for a meeting.

Shen Nianru didn't slack off, and happily met him in the main hall of his mansion. After Feng Jianjie saw the ceremony, he went straight to the point and asked, "If the bowl arrives north, how is the Shen patriarch going to deal with it?" ”

"I just got the news that General Zhang has captured Changzhou, but this does not mean that it has been successfully occupied. Shen Nian's face was complicated, but he said worriedly.

Now that the Zhou army is fighting with the Zhe Kui clan, no matter which party obtains the governance of Liangzhou afterwards, although the Liugu Department has suffered a great loss, it will still play a pivotal role, but its status is completely different. If the Zhou army wins, the Rokugubu may still be there. If the Zhe clan wins, it may further split and clean up the Rokutani Department and complete the annexation. Therefore, Shen Nianban also wanted to help, but the position of the lord of Liangzhou had nothing to do with him.

"Patriarch Shen is too worried, we are fully capable of taking Liangzhou City. Now I'm talking about folding the bowl, is the patriarch of Shen willing to send someone to help me and kill one of them? And intercept this batch of armor? Feng Jianjie asked directly.

"You can't kill indiscriminately, you can capture it, and you can exchange hostages with the Zhe clan at that time. The bowl will probably arrive tomorrow afternoon, and you can lead a thousand troops with Shen Jingang to set up an ambush at the foot of Pipa Mountain. Shen Nianru nodded and agreed.

Pipa Mountain is a gentle undulating mountain range at the junction of Liang, Lan and Hui Prefectures, located in the east of Wushui, and must pass through Pipa Mountain Pass from Lanzhou to the north. On one side is the turbulent water flow of the deep stream of Wuhui water, on the other side is the towering mountain cliff, the path of the mountain stream is less than two zhang wide, and the terrain is very dangerous. To the south of the pass is a steep slope of a long length, and below it is a large depression of the river beach.

Shen Jingang led 400 soldiers to ambush on the hillside, and by the afternoon of the same day, there was indeed a small group of cavalry in front of the road, followed by hundreds of horses and mules and horses loaded with goods to the north.

"It......'s quite cautious to fold the bowl," Shen Jingang muttered as he looked at the mule and horse team passing by under the hillside.

After a while, there was the frightened neighing of war horses and the shouts of the riders in the mountain pass ahead, which was Feng Jianjie leading the soldiers to push down a large number of boulders and rolling logs, blocking the mountain pass path.

The mule and horse team was still in the depression, and the riders had just gone up the steep slope with a folding bowl, and suddenly encountered the police and were a little caught off guard, and retreated one after another, while the mule and horse team behind was going uphill and was in a mess on its own.

Shen Jingang saw great joy on the hillside, and asked the soldiers to push down the prepared boulders, and the large and small stones rolled down the mountain with a roar, and crashed into the mule and horse team loaded with goods.

The bowl was on a steep slope, and hundreds of horsemen were knocked over by the boulders, and rushed down the depression in a hurry, but the mules and horses were frightened and scurried around, and the formation of the soldiers was so chaotic that they could not be restrained at all, and they had to gallop with the mule and horse teams on the road.

As a result, the way back was also blocked, and the galloping mules and horses could not catch up, and the dumplings generally fell into the deep stream. There were only a dozen or so horsemen left around the bowl, and at this time they couldn't move the mules and horses at all, but they were dragged around, and almost rushed down the deep stream several times.

Throwing off the mules and horses that were scurrying around, the folding bowl gradually gathered with the cavalry and the soldiers, and gathered in the depression, but found that there were more than 100 horsemen, and everyone was extremely embarrassed.

"General Fold! Have you ever seen Mi Duche? A Uighur officer came on horseback and asked.

"I didn't see it! Let's save my life first! See...... They're coming down the mountain, ready to fight! "Two hundred horsemen were hastily assembled, but the terrain here was so narrow that the horse team could not maneuver back and forth at all.

Shen Jingang led the soldiers of the Liugu tribe to gather the mules and horses while surrounding the depression in the middle. After a skirmish, the bowl was captured alive, and the mule and horse armor it carried was captured by Rokutani. Among them, the Uighur envoy Mi Duxie and his men and horses fell into the river stream, and only later found the corpses of the men and horses.

Shen Nianlike received the news of great joy and counted the goods of mules and horses, and there were 2,000 sets of fine iron armor produced in Qingtang City alone, as well as scimitars, arrowheads, spearheads, etc., which were enough to equip 3,000 elite soldiers.

And at this moment, there was another express delivery from Changzhou, asking Shen Nianban to lead the head of the Liugu tribe and the troops that could be deployed to Changzhou to discuss the matter. Shen Nianru hesitated again and again and didn't dare to agree, because he still had hostage soldiers controlled by the Zhe Clan. (To be continued.) )