readx; Early in the morning, a white dove hovered and fell from the sky, landed on the pigeon tower in Heyin County, the soldiers of the sentry tower saw that there was a red pigeon tube tied to the pigeon's legs, so they hurriedly untied the pigeon tube and ran to the outside of Heyin City.

There is a large camp stationed outside the city of Heyin, about 10,000 people, this is Li Qing'an's personal guard, in peacetime, he went out to patrol the personal soldiers of 1,000 people, but in wartime, his personal guard is as many as 10,000 people, forming a reading force of the establishment of the guard, called the Tiger Benwei, this is Li Qing'an's garrison garrison, including scouts, cavalry, Modao army, a total of 10,000 people, for several days, Li Qing'an is stationed in Heyin County, he has always been concerned about the war in Xiangzhou, of course, as a commander in command of the world's army, He will not suffer from the outcome of Xiangzhou, whether Xiangzhou is defended or lost, it does not matter the overall situation, Guo Ziyi is not An Lushan's opponent, he does not have enough strength, he Li Qingan is. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In fact, Li Qingan doesn't care about Cheng Qianli's victory or defeat, he doesn't care about Xiangzhou's gains and losses, he only cares about one thing now, that is, whether An Lushan will send troops as he expected, which is related to whether he can control the overall situation.

Regarding An Lushan's violent rebellion, Li Qing'an did not deal with it very actively at first, but only passively defended, on the one hand, it was because he had not finished handling the affairs of Anxi, and he did not have the strength and energy to contain An Lushan's rebellion.

On the other hand, as a traverser, although he knew a few years ago that the Anshi Rebellion would break out sooner or later, he did not want to stop An Lushan's rebellion, this was not just for his personal selfish interests, but he knew that the Tang Dynasty system [***] and land annexation were fierce, and the Tang society needed a social turmoil and impact like An Lushan's rebellion, which could reshuffle interests, impact the minds of scholars, and make those in power reflect, thoroughly reform, cut off rotten meat, and let Datang rejuvenate.

And extinguishing the fire of An Lushan's rebellion too soon will only allow those in power to continue to lie on the soft pus of the Tang Dynasty, continue to erode day by day, and finally even the roots will rot.

Everything has pros and cons, the key is to control a 'degree', not to let the intensity of the Anshi Rebellion expand, and finally destroy the entire society as in history, becoming the root cause of the millennium decline of Han civilization, opium is poison and medicine, the key is how to use it?

Sometimes Li Qingan also feels that he is gambling, he is betting on his net worth and surname and the Tang Jiangshan Sheji.

As soon as the day dawned, Li Qing'an came to the Yellow River embankment with his surname, to inspect the freezing situation of the Yellow River, these two days, he almost every day to see a circle, this is one of his interests, the old boatman said that there are seven days, the Yellow River will be completely frozen, he seems to be like to verify the old boatman's words, every day to see a circle, this has almost become an interesting thing for him, today the ice on the river surface extends to the center of the river for a few miles, it is difficult for ordinary people to see the water, only to see the river surface of a bright and swaying piece, but Li Qing'an's eyesight is different from ordinary people, He can still see clearly that there is a river in the distance, and he can even quickly make a judgment, the river has been frozen for two and a half miles, then the opposite bank should be about the same, the water surface of the Yellow River is ten miles wide, and it has been frozen for half of it, and it has only been two days! It seems that the old boatman has room to go, at most five days, the Yellow River should be completely frozen, 'the Yellow River is frozen at the beginning of the upward movement, and the upward movement must be invited by the Dragon King', he remembered this sentence.

"General!" There was a shout from afar behind him, Li Qingan looked back, and saw a cavalry galloping forward, the cavalry turned over and dismounted, stepped forward and saluted: "The latest information from the Hebei Provincial Intelligence Branch!" ”

The messenger presented a tube of red pigeon letterbox to Li Qing'an, Li Qing'an broke the letterbox, and shook out a volume of information from it, the information was written in a special password of Anxi, he handed it to the personal guard behind him, and a personal guard quickly translated the information and said to Li Qing'an: "Report to the general, the content of the information is that An Lushan personally led 200,000 troops to the south, and the forward has arrived in Beizhou, echoing with Cai Xide's army, a total of 300,000 troops will besiege Xiangzhou, Cheng Qianli still refuses to withdraw the army. ”

Li Qing'an's pupils contracted into a line, and he guessed that An Lushan's real purpose was to fight Xiangzhou, Li Qing'an secretly sneered, in fact, An Lushan still made a mistake, he should have fought Hedong first, and left Xiangzhou to Guo Ziyi, so that his Li Qing'an's Henan army would not be able to go north, and Cheng Qianli's tens of thousands of troops could still capture his Youzhou nest?

An Lushan's capture of Xiangzhou is equivalent to a direct confrontation with his Li Qing'an's army, and there is no buffer zone.

Thinking of this, Li Qingan turned around and ordered: "Return to the camp, get up and return to Luoyang!" ”

He turned over and got on his horse and went to the camp, just returned to the gate of the camp, but saw Li Guangbi galloping from a distance, with a worried face, Li Qingan reined in the war horse, and when Li Guangbi approached, he smiled and said: "Come in such a hurry, did something big happen?" ”

Li Guangbi clenched his fists and said, "Does the general know about Xiangzhou?" ”

"Hmmm! Are you saying that An Lushan's 200,000 troops went south? I just found out. ”

At this time, Li Guangbi admired Li Qing'an so much that he threw himself to the ground, Li Qing'an grasped the overall situation accurately, I am afraid that no one in the world can beat him, An Lushan really went south, so what about the next step? Lee Kwang-pil was more concerned about their countermeasures.

"General, An Lushan's army is heading south, how should we deal with it?"

Most people have a kind of dependence, when Li Qing'an expected the enemy's actions step by step, Li Guangbi gradually lost the ability to think independently, and began to rely on Li Qing'an's arrangement, but Li Qing'an hoped that he could stand alone, Li Qing'an didn't say anything, just smiled and said: "I just came to the front line to investigate, and I don't care about the battle, you are the commander of the Eastern Route Army, how to arrange, to help or not to help, it's up to you to decide, I want to return to Luoyang immediately." ”

Li Guangbi was stunned, and when Li Qingan was about to enter the gate, he suddenly woke up and hurriedly said, "General, please stay!" ”

Li Qing'an stopped, turned around and smiled: "Is General Li still something?" ”

Li Guangbi stepped forward quickly and said, "General, there are two small requests for humility. ”

"Say it! What do you want? ”

"The subordinate knows that the Hebei Intelligence Branch is currently in Xiangzhou, and asks the general to allow the subordinate to contact them, and the subordinate wants to get more and faster information from them."

"Yes!"

Li Qingan agreed without thinking, "Let's say the second request!" ”

"The second request is that I want to help Cheng Qianli defend the city."

"Oh? How are you going to help him? Li Qing'an asked with interest.

"I want to give them a new type of weapon!"

Li Qingan glanced at Li Guangbi deeply, he saw a far-sighted idea in Li Guangbi's eyes, so he nodded and said, "Yes, I also approved the second request." ”

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Cai Xide's 30,000 forwards have been killed in Xiangzhou, they did not immediately besiege the city, but stationed thirty miles away, waiting for the arrival of the main force, although An Lushan's army is far from arriving, but the arrival of the vanguard army still blew a cold wind in Xiangzhou City.

Xiangzhou City suddenly became nervous, soldiers began to patrol the city day and night, Cheng Qianli organized 20,000 troops out of the city to dig a moat, the moat has frozen, lost the role of the moat, but Cheng Qianli is still unwilling, he tried to smash the ice, but he quickly gave up, not long after the Dongcheng section was smashed, it froze again, the entire Anyang River was frozen, and the temporary smashing was only in vain.

Cheng Qianli was in a hurry, and ordered the people to organize bundles of arrows and boulders to transport them to the city, and blocked the four city gates with boulders, and the moat froze, so that An Lushan's large siege rams could directly attack the city gates, and the situation was very unfavorable to them.

The city defense is in chaos, the residents in the city are not calm, Xiangzhou City is the second largest city in Hebei Province after Youzhou, the original residents in the city are 80,000 households, nearly 500,000 people, but after several large-scale immigration and escape, now there are only 20,000 households, about 100,000 people, despite this, 100,000 people are still a large number, of which there are three religions and nine streams, all of them, plus Xiangzhou City is wide, want to manage the 100,000 people, it is not easy.

In the center of Xiangzhou City, there is a wine shop, called Guanzhong Wine Shop, covers a huge area, the wine shop is four floors high, can accommodate thousands of guests to dine at the same time, and the front building and backyard, also double as an inn, has always been prosperous, and it is also one of the best in Xiangzhou City.

But with the tense situation, this Guanzhong wine shop, like other restaurants, began to gradually light up, especially its inn, there are almost no customers, there are many empty houses in Xiangzhou City, no money to live casually, who will pay for the inn.

Although business is not good, the liquor stores still open early in the morning and only close at night, which is in stark contrast to the closure of many liquor shops, and there are still some people who have fun in time, but the number has been greatly reduced.

This morning, the sun dispelled the fog, the warm sun shone on Anyang City, everyone went out, feel this rare winter sunshine, the door of the wine shop in Guanzhong opened as usual, several guys were lazily cleaning the store, the fat shopkeeper squinted, lying on the counter, enjoying the warmth of winter, his fat body with short limbs, and the fat cat snoring on the wall complemented each other.

The shopkeeper is called Zhang Debao, who has been in this Guanzhong wine shop for 30 years, enthusiastic about helping others, and no one knows him from tens of thousands of households in the surrounding area, at this time, Zhang Debao's eyes slowly became round from a slit, and he stared closely at the sky outside the gate, only to see a gray pigeon in the sky hovering downward, passing over his restaurant.

Zhang Debao stood up suddenly, stumbled to the back door, and knocked over several cleaned and dried couches in a row, "You bastards! Can't I put the couch away? ”

He didn't care about being held responsible, so he ran to the backyard, through a side door is the inn, and ran to the backyard of the inn, which has been locked for many years, is a forbidden area for wine shops and inns, and no guests are allowed to enter, at this time, Zhang Debao has heard the cooing of pigeons in the courtyard, he hurriedly took out the key and opened the lock, pushed the door into the courtyard, and saw that the gray pigeon had landed on the pigeon cage just now, cooing and waiting to enter the cage.

Zhang Debao saw at a glance that the pigeon leg was tied with a tube of pigeon letters, he hurriedly grabbed a handful of millet, put it on the palm, the pigeon flew on his palm in a daze, Zhang Debao stroked the pigeon feathers, while skillfully untying the letterbox, wrapped in a thin layer of white silk, after tearing it open, it turned out to be a red letterbox, which means that it is highly important, and the source of the letterbox engraved on it turned out to be Xingyang, Zhang Debao was a little stunned, Xingyang is where Li Guangbi Shuaiya is stationed.

He didn't dare to slack off, he ran to the fourth floor in one breath with the letterhead like in a wine store, he was so tired and out of breath that he walked to a door and knocked on it.

"Who?" A young woman's voice came from inside.

"Girl, it's me! There are urgent letters. ”

"Come in!"

Zhang Debao pushed the door in, in fact, he was very reluctant to come to this house, he privately called this room a 'haunted house', always with thick curtains, dim, gloomy, cold and biting, but there was no musty smell, but there was a faint fragrance, an indescribable, unreminiscent fragrance of women's fat powder.

The room was empty, only a table and a table, there were several neat stacks of paperwork on the table, a woman in a black gauze dress, sitting at the table with her back to him, her back was straight, her figure was slender and slender, her skin was frighteningly white, in Zhang Debao's memory, every time he came in, he saw that the woman was facing away from him, always like this black widow.

Zhang Debao couldn't help but sigh secretly, why can't the girl be as normal as other women?

"Give me the letter!"

The woman turned her head, although her face was frighteningly white, her eyes were as cold as snow, but her face was as crystal as ice jade, and her appearance was exquisite, but unfortunately she had no left arm, her shoulder was broken, and she only had one hand.

This woman is the new Hebei Intelligence Branch Master Qi Yuhua who succeeded Zhang Yue, only twenty-five years old this year, is one of the twenty-four core members of the Hidden Dragon Society Qi Huaiyuan's daughter, since she was a child in the Central Plains, martial arts are strong, fifteen years old to join the Han Tang Society, when she was eighteen years old, she married a childhood sweetheart who grew up together, the husband and wife are very affectionate, but unfortunately only one year after marriage, her husband died of illness, she swore to keep the festival for her husband for life, for the Ming heart, she cut off her left arm, And devoted herself to the cause of the Han and Tang Dynasties, repeatedly made meritorious contributions, and was promoted step by step, after Zhang Yue's death, she was appointed by Li Qingan as the head of the Hebei Hall.

Qi Yuhua has a nickname in the Han and Tang Dynasties, called Black Kite, very famous, after a long time, everyone forgot her real name.

Qi Yuhua came to Xiangzhou from Yizhou ten days ago, which was an order from the Chang'an Intelligence Hall, ordering her to lead her capable men to enter Xiangzhou and assist the Tang army in defending the city.

Guanzhong Restaurant is one of their branches, this Zhang Debao is the owner of the Xiangzhou branch, and the fourteen men under him are all members of the Han and Tang Associations, but they don't know that Qi Yuhua is their boss, they only know that there is a strange woman.

Zhang Debao put the pigeon letter on the table, immediately took a few steps back, Qi Yuhua broke the letter with one hand, and slowly unfolded a roll of pigeon letter on the table, she pressed the side with a bright dagger, and read it carefully, although the letter was written in the Anxi code, but there was no obstacle to her, she read it quickly, a trace of surprise flashed in her eyes, she was afraid that she had misunderstood, so she took out a booklet, and re-translated it against the password, and it turned out that she did not read it wrong.

She nodded, and then instructed Zhang Debao: "You go to Xiangzhou City to collect two things for me." ”

"Girl, please."

"One is saltpeter, the other is sulfur, the more the better, immediately mobilize the men to collect, I have an urgent need."

Speaking of this, Qi Yuhua was silent again, and she stared at the pigeon letter, falling into a kind of contemplation.

"Girl, then I'll go first."

Zhang Debao said twice, and when he saw that she didn't react, he was about to leave secretly, but he just walked to the door, but was stopped by Qi Yuhua.

"Shopkeeper Zhang, wait a minute!"

Her voice was always so cold, without the slightest emotion, Zhang Debao sighed secretly, he missed the former Zhang Yue very much, and this woman made him feel scared.

"Girl, is there anything else?"

"Did you do what I told you yesterday?"

"Oh! The girl is a person who breeds pigeons in Xiangzhou City. ”

"That's right! Did you find it? ”

Zhang Debao smiled bitterly in his heart, confessed to him yesterday evening, and now the sky is just dawning, she is going to bear fruit, and she doesn't say why she wants to find pigeons, so that he is confused, fortunately, his locals know the situation very well in this regard, otherwise there is no way to find out if you change people, where to find pigeons at night?

"Hui Yu girl, as far as I know, there are a total of thirteen pigeon breeders in Xiangzhou City, and now most of them are gone, and there are four left, and I know the location of these four."

"Did you just move in half a month ago?"

Zhang Debao suddenly slapped his head, he understood, why did the master of Qi Hall check the pigeons, he perked up and said: "Yes!" There is one, I only found out a few days ago, it is the Baiyutang cabinet shop, it just opened half a month ago, everyone else ran away, but they came to Xiangzhou to open the cabinet shop, strange! They have pigeons at home. ”

"Excellent! You can retreat, and within two days, you can find all the sulfur and saltpeter in Xiangzhou City. ”

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Generally speaking, when the war situation is critical, all the merchants will evacuate the dangerous place, once the rebels enter the city, the merchants will suffer first, not to mention the place where the cabinet is gathered, it is the focus of the rebels' looting first, and the cabinet workshop requires a lot of capital, but they are willing to invest in the dangerous city of Xiangzhou, either because they have something to do with An Lushan, knowing that the rebels will not loot them, or they are crazy.

There are people who persuade and people who ridicule, but Baiyutang Cabinet Fang still opened normally ten days ago, located in the more prosperous East Street of Xiangzhou City, about 300 steps away from Guanzhong Liquor Shop.

Although the business is very bleak, but they are also the same as the Guanzhong wine shop, open early, close late, this night, Baiyutang cabinet shop is ready to close as usual, at this moment, a pigeon from the backyard fluttered up, circled a few times at a low altitude, and was about to fly out of the city, but at the moment when it crossed a big tree, a crossbow arrow shot out of the tree like lightning, and hit the pigeon, and the pigeon fell straight from the air.

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(To be continued)