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Jiangxia County, Qin Qiong led 3,000 Xuanjia Army, along the Han River south, raided into Jiangxia County, he lived up to Li Shimin's trust, in the north of Wuchang County with 3,000 troops defeated the 8,000 Liang Army stationed in Jiangxia, the Liang army commander Shen Liusheng was killed by Qin Qiong in front of the battle, Qin Qiong did not care about Wuchang City, he immediately divided his troops into three roads, occupied the entire Jiangxia mining area with a thunderous momentum, and seized the Liang State Treasury and the mining areas did not have time to transport away more than 4 million catties of pig iron. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

This news made Li Shimin overjoyed, he personally led 20,000 troops to Jiangxia to kill, along the way the counties have looked at the wind and surrendered, in just half a month, the Tang army occupied the seven counties of Jingbei, Li Shimin immediately collected more than 400 cargo ships, Jiangxia County pig iron all transported to Xiangyang County.

The news that the Tang army had seized four million catties of pig iron in Jiangxia County reached Chang'an, and the Manchu Dynasty celebrated, and Li Yuanlong's heart was happy, and he immediately named Qin Qiong as the Duke of Wuchang County, General Zuo Wuwei.

At the same time, the general Li Xiaogong led an army of 50,000 into Badong County, marching to Yiling County, which is today's Yichang in Hubei, since ancient times it is a strategic place for Bashu to enter Jingzhou, the battle of Yiling in the Three Kingdoms era, Lu Xun burned the company camp, broke Liu Bei's 600,000 army, and Liu Bei also died in the White Emperor City on the way back.

But there is no garrison in Yiling County, this is the consensus reached by Xiao Milling and Li Yuan last year, the two sides take Yiling County as a buffer zone, and do not garrison each other, but Yiling County itself belongs to the Tang Dynasty, and Xu Shao, the Taishou of the Sui Dynasty, was a classmate and friend of Li Yuan when he was a teenager, and when Li Yuan ascended the throne, Xu Shao immediately expressed his allegiance to Li Yuan, making Yiling County the first county of the Tang Dynasty in Jingzhou.

As early as last winter, Xu Shao received a secret order from Chang'an, and after the beginning of spring, the Tang army would attack Jingzhou in a big way, so that he could prepare for war as soon as possible.

This winter Xu Shao was particularly busy, he did several major things in a row, repaired several important passes, built docks, sent people to Jingzhou to secretly buy ships, and secretly accepted 2,000 Tang troops into the country in the name of recruiting county soldiers.

However, he did not dare to relax on another matter, Li Shimin sent him a letter a month ago, asking him to be careful of an elite cavalry of the Sui army, especially to protect the safety of granaries, ships and various materials, Li Shimin pointed out in the letter that the main intention of this cavalry was to delay the progress of the Tang army's eastern crusade and buy time for Zhang Xuan in the south of the Yangtze River.

Xu Shao is indeed very worried, one is the safety of hundreds of cargo ships in the Yangtze River, the Tang army arrived in Yiling by land, but all kinds of food and materials are transported by water, just this morning, a transport fleet from Badong arrived in Yiling County, this is called the soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, and the fleet has sent 80,000 stone of grain, Xu Shao is very worried, his 2,000 soldiers can withstand the impact of the Sui cavalry.

But worried about it, Xu Shao immediately organized thousands of people to transport the grain back to the city, as long as the grain entered the city, the danger was much lessened.

The wharf was particularly lively, half of the 80,000 stone grain had been unloaded, forming three hill-like grain piles, surrounded by wharf porters transporting grain, thousands of people either carrying grain, or pushing wheelbarrows, forming two long teams, each with different directions, and two thousand soldiers divided into ten teams, patrolling the wharf and the county town, watching every move around.

Xu Shao and Zhonglang General Feng Tai stood on the city tower and looked at the dock in the distance, Xu Shao was very worried, he felt that the Sui cavalry was about to be killed in the next few days, and the Yiling army was too small, only two thousand people, once the Sui army killed, would they be able to resist?

Feng Tai saw the worry in Xu Shao's eyes, so he smiled and persuaded him: "Taishou don't worry too much, the road to Yiling is not good, the cavalry can only take the official road to kill from the east, the spies I have arranged on the official road ten miles away, once the cavalry appears, it will be immediately smoked, we will be fine if we withdraw to the city in time, the cavalry will not be able to attack the city, I estimate that in three days at most, our army will be killed." ”

Feng Tai's comfort made Xu Shao feel a little relieved, he looked at the sky, it was already dusk, and said: "It is estimated that it will not be able to be carried before dark, and I plan to finish it at night without resting, and finish moving it in one go, does the general think it is feasible?" ”

Feng Tai thought for a while and said: "Actually, daytime transportation and night transportation are the same thing, since you are too worried, then carry it overnight!" ”

Speaking of this, Feng Tai pointed to the people under the city again, "Have you checked the origin of these people?" ”

Xu Shao scolded secretly in his heart, thousands of people are working, and not a few people, how can he check, he asked a little unhappily: "General Feng asked what is this for?" ”

"I think there are too many of them and too miscellaneous, and there are probably Sui Dynasty spies mixed in them, I'm a little worried, I want to check them one by one."

Xu Shao was even more dissatisfied in his heart, these people and porters are not slaves, they only come to work for the sake of money, annoying these people, everyone has taken the burden, who will carry the grain? I also checked one by one, with a yellow mouth and white teeth, it is so easy to say, why should people check it for you, it is simply not a family that knows the price of firewood and rice.

Xu Shao pursed his lips disapprerovingly, "Then what can I do?" There are six or seven thousand people inside, and finding one or two spies from there is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, and even if there were, would they stand there and wait for death? After a check, it will definitely slip away, and in the end, it will find nothing, and it will also delay the delivery of grain. ”

Xu Shao accentuated his tone again, "General Feng, a few spies don't matter, a thousand cavalry is our threat, we must transport food into the city before dawn and send the fleet away, this is an urgent matter, which is more important, please General Feng think about it." ”

Although Feng Tai is a military position, and it is not the same system as a civilian official, his status is still far from being compared with Taishou, who can directly impeach himself to the sky, and Li Xiaogong is only the superior of his superiors, let alone the emperor who is high above.

Feng Tai knew in his heart that Xu Shao was just asking for himself, so he was so polite to himself, this Taishou was really not someone he could afford to provoke.

Feng Tai immediately laughed: "That's right, it's important to carry the grain, and we will have time to check it after the grain is moved." ”

Xu Shao nodded, "I agree with this plan!" ”

There are about 6,000 porters on the wharf, half of them are recruited from the city, and the other half is the porter on the wharf, most of them come from all over Jingzhou, come to Yiling County to sell coolies to earn money, at this time, a team of more than 100 porters came out of the city, each carrying a five-foot-long bamboo tube on their shoulders, at this time they are eating guys, they are polished very oily by the palms, each person also has a pair of shoulders on their shoulders to prevent the bamboo tube from pressing the bone pain, they are all wearing gray cloth short clothes, it looks like there is no difference from the usual porters.

But the head porter is tall and sturdy, only in his twenties, and looks amiable, this person is Liu Lancheng, the commander of the Wind and Thunder Army, Xu Shao never dreamed that the Sui cavalry he had been worried about had quietly infiltrated Yiling County half a month ago, which was a misunderstanding of Xu Shao's thinking, he had always thought that the Sui army that was preparing to attack them was a cavalry, so he could not have imagined that the Sui soldiers had already mixed into Yiling City.

The Sui army entered Yiling City in three batches, all of them were porters on the dock, a total of 500 people, with their strength, it was easy to kill 2,000 Tang troops, but Liu Lancheng's task was not to seize Yiling City, but to destroy the Tang army's grain and grass materials and warships, and waited for nearly ten days, and today the Tang army's grain ships were finally waited for by them.

The 500 Sui army was divided into three groups, one group was responsible for carrying grain in the warehouse in the city, and one group was responsible for unloading grain on large ships, while Liu Lan led 300 people to carry grain among the porters.

At this time, a soldier walked forward quickly and whispered to Liu Lancheng: "I just got the news, I won't rest tonight, and I will carry grain all night." ”

Liu Lancheng thought about it in his heart and said: "Half of the grain ship has been unloaded, according to this progress, it is estimated that it will be all unloaded before the fourth watch, we will start at the third watch, and immediately go to inform General Zhang and General Li!" ”

"Obey!"

The subordinates hurriedly went, Liu Lancheng's two lieutenants, Zhang Li unloading grain on the grain ship, and Li Keshi transporting goods in the warehouse in the city, each of them occupying an important place.

At this time, Liu Lancheng looked back at the city, a group of soldiers at the head of the city were patrolling back and forth, Liu Lancheng shook his head, there are only two thousand people in itself, and they have to disperse patrols, isn't this a break for each person? This Tang general doesn't seem to be very clever.

Night soon fell, the wharf outside the city was more lively, hundreds of torches were lit at the city gate and the wharf, the wharf and the city gate were lit as day, thousands of people and porters saw that the wages were doubled, and they also gritted their teeth and fought at night, a group of people stretched like a long dragon to the county town a mile away, but there were no torches on the road, it looked a little dark, but after walking for a while, it gradually brightened, and the team arrived at the city gate illuminated by the firelight.

Six thousand people were transporting grain in a mighty way, and there were no three hundred people who could not see it at all, Liu Lancheng led three hundred of his men to leave the dock, they came to a woods a few miles away, they dug up the armor and weapons buried here in advance, put them into grain bags, and then quietly returned to the grain army, and easily mixed into the city.

The time gradually came to two watches, at this time, from the other side of the Yangtze River came a thousand stone grain ship also with the flag of the Tang Army, silently mixed into hundreds of grain ships, this thousand stone grain ship did not have a grain in it, but hid three hundred heavily armed soldiers, in addition to some armor and weapons, they came to meet Zhang Li and a hundred brothers who were unloading grain on the grain ship.

Since the flotilla was unloaded overnight tonight, the fleet would return to Padang County early tomorrow morning to continue transporting grain, and the boatmen all hurried to rest and sleep, unaware that there was a dangerous Sui cavalry nearby.

The soldiers of the Sui army have already begun to do it, they pretended to be the Tang army to search for spies, and began to search one ship after another, they locked the boatmen in the cabin, and locked the big ships together with iron chains, in fact, as long as the more than 100 big ships on the periphery were locked, the big ships inside could not get out.

The time gradually came to the third watch, and the time to start the action finally came, the Sui soldiers had completed the locking of the ship, and all the armor had been changed, Zhang Li shouted: "Drive all the boatmen down the river!" ”

He didn't want to kill innocents indiscriminately, but he didn't want to make a mistake because of the boatman, and the best way was to drive the boatman directly down the river, and life and death would depend on the sky.

A group of boatmen were forced to jump into the river, at this time, the boats brought by the Sui army were ignited, there was a large amount of sulfur and fire oil in the boat, it was the best ship to ignite, the ship began to burn rapidly, crashed into the fleet, and several large ships around were ignited at the same time.

At this time, the patrol Tang Jun at the head of the city found that there was a fire in the river, and hurriedly sounded the alarm bell, 'Dang! While! While! Alarm bells rang throughout the city. (To be continued.) )