It has been seven days since the Northern Sui captured Wuyuan County, and Zhang Xuan has been inspecting Wuyuan County and Yulin County these days, while also waiting for news from Chang'an. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

On this morning, ten miles east of Yulin County, a cavalry of more than 100 people rushed from the east, and there were already soldiers rushing to report to Zhang Xuan, when Zhang Xuan came to the city gate, this cavalry had already entered the city, Zhang Xuan immediately saw a familiar figure, and the military advisor Fang Xuanling actually came.

Zhang Xuan greeted him with a smile, "Why is the military advisor here?" ”

Fang Xuanling turned over and dismounted and said with a smile: "Naturally, I came to report the situation of Lou Fu County to His Highness, and I found out that the Hetao was so close!" ”

Everyone laughed, the cavalry saluted together, Zhang Xuan comforted them a few words, and then came to the county office with Fang Xuanling, of course Zhang Xuan knew that Fang Xuanling had something important to do.

The two sat down in the hall of the county office, and an attendant served them tea, Zhang Xuan took a sip of tea and asked, "How is the situation in Chang'an?" ”

"Weichen is here for the matter of Chang'an, and the situation is not very good."

Fang Xuanling took out a tube of eagle letters and handed them to Zhang Xuan, Zhang Xuan shook out the contents from the letterbox, which was a roll of fine silk wrapped in a small note.

Fang Xuanling explained: "The small note is Ling Senjun's handwriting, it should have been written in a hurry, and the fine silk is the explanation of the Intelligence Agency, Wen Shilang and Ling Senjun and others have been placed under house arrest by Li Yuan, and this note was obtained by one of Yu Yun's generals and guards on the road from Ling Senjun, and was transferred to Gao Jin in time." ”

Zhang Xuan opened the small note and took a look, although it was only a short sentence, but the content was very rich, not only the Hetao negotiations broke down, but Li Yuan also refused to fulfill the agreement reached before, and did not hand over Changsha and other five counties to the Northern Sui, which made Zhang Xuan angry in his heart.

It is not surprising that Zhang Xuan broke down in the Hetao negotiations, the rupture is inevitable, Li Yuan cannot tolerate the westward expansion of the Sui army, and will definitely ask the Sui army to withdraw from the Hetao, but how can the Northern Sui agree to it, it is normal for the two sides to have sharp contradictions for this, but Zhang Xuan cannot tolerate Li Yuan tearing up the last agreement.

Zhang Xuan said: "It seems that he doesn't cry when he doesn't see the coffin!" ”

"Wechen is also here for this matter."

"What's the best strategy for the strategist?" Jang Hyun suppressed the anger in his heart and asked.

"Weichen thinks that this matter is easy to solve, as long as His Royal Highness issues a document on the crusade against Song Jingang, I believe that Li Yuan will have to give in, as the so-called army and strategy, you can solve this turmoil without sending a single soldier, why not?"

Jang Hyun didn't answer immediately, he paced back and forth in the room with his hands in his hands, and by this time Jang Hyun had calmed down, and he needed to think about the matter carefully.

The fundamental reason why Zhang Xuan let the Northern Sui envoy send an envoy to the Tang Dynasty was for the Hetao, he wanted to set up a set to let the Sui and Tang Dynasty reach an agreement, the Northern Sui attacked Liang Shidu, and the Tang Dynasty attacked Song Jingang, and he secretly supported Song Jingang at the same time, maximizing the consumption of the Tang Dynasty's national strength, so that the Tang Dynasty was unable to attack Lingwu County and even the Hetao in the north.

When the Northern Sui completely gained a firm foothold in the Hetao, he would attack Song Jingang again and occupy Yan'an County in one fell swoop, and Chang'an would also be under the Northern Sui army.

Now Li Yuan seems to have seen through his intentions, and resolutely refuses to give in to the Hetao, and even does not hesitate to threaten Xiao Miao's territory, if it is just a threat, Li Yuan will never feel pain.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xuan said slowly: "There is no need to publish any articles, we will directly send troops to Diaoyin County, capture their iron mines, and at the same time break their attack on Song Jingang, since Li Yuan tore up the agreement, then it is normal for the two armies to fight in Diaoyin County." ”

Fang Xuanling saw that Zhang Xuan's determination had been made, so he didn't persuade him anymore, and said: "Although Your Highness uses troops, Wechen will guarantee the logistics supply!" ”

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Diaoyin County is located in the south of Yulin County, that is, today's Shaanxi Suide, Mizhi area, luxury water flows from the west, the Diaoyin County is cut into two, of which the southern densely populated area has been occupied by Song Jingang, but the sparsely populated, relatively harsh environment in the north is still controlled by the 3,000 Tang Army.

The reason why the Tang army attaches great importance to the northern part of Diaoyin County is because the largest iron mine in the Tang Dynasty: Red Iron Mountain, at the junction of the northern part of Diaoyin County and Shuofang County, there are 3,000 Tang troops specially guarding this iron mine and a smelter, the Tang Dynasty can obtain 30 million catties of pig iron and millions of catties of blister copper from here every year in the future, a large number of pig iron and blister copper are carried by hundreds of small boats, along the luxury water into the Yellow River, and then from the Yellow River to the south to Guanzhong, which is much more convenient than the long-distance travel from Jiangxia to Guanzhong.

However, the water was already under the control of Song Jingang's army, so the transportation of pig iron and blister copper had been suspended since the beginning of the year, and a large amount of pig iron and copper ingots had accumulated in the mine's warehouse.

The reason why Song Jingang's army did not come to snatch these pig iron and blister copper was that the Tang Dynasty deployed a Tang army of more than 10,000 people in Shuofang County, which was close to Diaoyin County, which made Song Jingang's army quite jealous.

In addition, Song Jingang also has no shortage of pig iron and copper for the time being, he has little interest in attacking the mines, and the biggest test for Song Jingang at present is how to defeat the north and south attacks of Li Gaoqian, the general of the left guard of Shangjun, and Duan Decao, the general of the Tang army of Shuofang County.

Red Iron Mountain is located in the vicinity of Rulin County, about 80 miles north of Luyan Water, not far from the county seat, Red Iron Mountain was originally called Rust Mountain, because the mountain has no trees, the whole mountain is like growing rust, so it is called Rust Mountain,

When the officials of the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty discovered that this mountain was actually a high-grade iron mine last year, they renamed the Rusty Mountain as Red Iron Mountain, and set up a mine supervisor in Rulin County, recruiting 30,000 miners from nearby counties to mine and smelt iron, and stationed 3,000 troops here at the same time.

The mining of the mine has gradually prospered not far from Rulin County, many miners' families have moved here, coupled with the consumption of miners, the business of Rulin County has developed rapidly, wine shops, green buildings, gambling halls, inns, pharmacies, music shops, mules and horse shops, shops, etc., there are more than a dozen wine shops and green buildings alone, and in just one year, the population of Rulin County has grown from thousands of people to tens of thousands.

More than 7 million catties of pig iron and 2 million catties of blister copper had been piled up in the warehouse in Rulin County, and Li Yuan was also very anxious about this, he hoped to defeat the Song Jingang army in Diaoyin County as soon as possible and transport the pig iron and blister copper back to Chang'an.

For this reason, after Li Yuan's second son Li Shimin sent troops to the county, he made another decision, urgently transferring Duan Decao, the general who was besieging Liang Shidu, to Yanlu County, Shuofang County, where to launch an offensive against Song Jingang from the north.

But before the Tang army's two-sided offensive began, a 20,000-strong Northern Sui army was killed from Yulin County under the leadership of Zhang Xuan and rushed towards Chitie Mountain.

The general of the Tang army guarding the mine was named Xi Shiling, who was originally a thief commander of Hongnong County, when Li Yuan raised troops to kill Tongguan, he led his troops to surrender to Li Yuan, and was named the general of Zhendong and the prince of Yan County.

However, Xi Shiling was only a thief with limited ability, and after Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty, he gradually ceased to be reused, and he is currently the general of Zuo Yiwei's general Chai Shao, who was sent to Diaoyin County last year to guard the iron mines.

Xi Shiling was sent to Diaoyin County, where the environment was relatively harsh, to serve as the governor of Diaoyin County, which was actually a disguised derogation, Li Yuan originally promised him to be the governor of Hongnong County, but now he is just an iron mine guard, which makes Xi Shiling extremely depressed.

In the morning, a watchtower located on the top of Chitie Mountain suddenly sounded a rapid alarm bell: 'Dang! While! While! This was the alarm of an enemy attack, and at this time 3,000 Tang soldiers happened to come out of the barracks, and they were going to go to various mines to supervise the work of the miners, and the matter that was originally an overseer was also lost to them.

The sudden alarm sound made all the Tang soldiers look at each other, Xi Shiling suddenly realized that this must be Song Jingang's army killed, such a tight alarm sound means that at least tens of thousands of troops are coming, his top priority is not to protect the mine, the mine thief army can not move away, but to keep the warehouse in the county, where there is a large number of pig iron and copper ingots, there is also one of his concubines in the county, once the thief army enters the city, the consequences are unimaginable.

Xi Shiling shouted, "Withdraw to the county seat immediately!" ”

The Tang soldiers did not even have time to return to the barracks, nor did they care about the 30,000 miners who were working in the mines, so the 3,000 Tang troops turned around and rushed to the county town of Rulin, a few miles away.

I have to say that Xi Shiling is indeed competent in escaping, decisive and resolute, and will never drag mud and water, just when Xi Shiling has just left, the official road in the north is dusty, the sound of horses' hooves is like thunder, and a Sui cavalry is killing from a distance.

The mine suddenly exploded, and 30,000 miners were so frightened that they scattered and fled, some fled to the county seat, some fled to the miners' camp, and some people reacted quickly and climbed up the mountain, but the cavalry could not go up the mountain, and the five mines more than ten miles long were all in chaos.

At this time, the vanguard of 3,000 cavalry led by General Sun Changle instantly killed the mine, and the 3,000 cavalry rushed into the barracks and captured several Tang soldiers who did not send troops due to illness.

Sun Changle pointed his horsewhip and asked, "Where has the army gone?" ”

Several soldiers were so frightened that they kowtowed and begged for mercy, and one soldier trembled and said: "King Qiqi, General Xi has just led the army to flee to the county seat, we are sick and have not been able to keep up, please spare your life!" (To be continued.) )