readx; Although Li Qing'an allowed Guo Ziyi to lead 3,000 troops into Beijing, Guo Ziyi finally gave up this opportunity, he never entered Guanzhong, and soon Li Qing'an got the news that Guo Ziyi had led 100,000 troops to withdraw to Lingzhou and Guannai North Province, and there was no garrison in the Guannei Province states near Guanzhong. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This news made Li Qing'an feel a little stunned, he understood what Guo Ziyi meant, Guo Ziyi was likely to give up the Guannei Road to the imperial court, and on the afternoon of getting the news, Li Qing'an immediately ordered someone to find Yan Zhuang, who supervised the division of fields in Weinan Huangzhuang.

In the big tent, Li Qingan was pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back, he was repeatedly thinking about Guo Ziyi's intentions, why did Guo Ziyi give up Guannei Dao, was it because he was weak to himself? Or is he deliberately testing himself?

"I'd like to hear the general's thoughts first!" Yan Zhuang sat aside and said with a smile.

Li Qing'an frowned slightly: "I'm wondering which side Guo Ziyi belongs to, at least he will definitely not be loyal to me, so who is he loyal to, is it the little emperor who is less than two years old, or the queen mother?" Or is it the imperial court? This is something we need to determine first. ”

Yan Zhuang nodded and said, "My subordinates think that Guo Ziyi is still in a wait-and-see situation, and he should not have decided where he belongs." ”

"Here's the problem!"

Li Qingan continued his words and said: "If Guo Ziyi does not decide where he belongs, then strength is his greatest capital, and only when he has strong strength can he have the capital to bargain, in this case, why would Guo Ziyi give up Guannei Dao?" ”

"What does the general mean that Guo Ziyi has already made a decision?"

"Yes! It should be like this, otherwise he has 100,000 troops in his hands, and without Guannai Dao, what will he use to feed these troops? ”

Yan Zhuang was also silent, he also felt that Li Qing'an's analysis was very reasonable, the most important thing was that if Guo Ziyi really gave up Guannei Dao, then what would he use to support the 100,000 army, and he was likely to defect to the imperial court, if he defected to Li Longji, the grain would not be able to be transported.

At this time, Li Qingan said again: "Now I think there should be two possibilities, one is that he intends to serve the imperial court and deliberately makes concessions to me, and the second is that he is making a test to see if I will immediately send troops to occupy Guannei Dao." ”

"General, I think there are both possibilities, and now the key is what the general plans to do?"

Li Qingan walked to the door of the tent, looked at the direction of the Northern Guannei Road, and said slowly: "This is also the main reason why I invited Mr. to come, I hope Mr. can give me a suggestion." ”

Yan Zhuang pondered for a moment, then said with a smile: "It's better for the general to test Guo Ziyi." ”

Li Qingan turned around and asked, "What kind of temptation?" ”

"It is possible to create an opportunity by means of an abnormal means."

Yan Zhuang whispered a few words to Li Qing'an, Li Qing'an pondered for a moment, then nodded, and said, "This method can be tried." ”

After speaking, he immediately turned back to his own soldiers and ordered: "Pass my order and order Hu Peiyun to come to see me quickly!" ”

．．．．．．．．．． Guannei Road is today's northern Shaanxi and Ningxia area, north of the Guanzhong Plain, surrounded by the vast hinterland of the Yellow River, the Tang Dynasty's Guannei Road has a humid climate, you can see a large area of dense forests everywhere, the land here is fertile, the population is large, it has always been a strategic place rich in grain, and the Guannei Road has been obtained, which means that the food and military resources are sufficient, and An Lushan planned to occupy the Guannei Road first, with the Guannei Road as a springboard and base, and then marched to Guanzhong.

Since Guo Ziyi was ordered to guard the Guannei Road, the number of troops in his hands has gradually increased, from 50,000 to 100,000, and his army is of high quality and strong in battle, although it is not as good as Li Qing'an's Anxi Army, but it is more than enough compared to Li Heng's Guanzhong Army.

But since Li Qing'an supported the new emperor Li Xun to ascend the throne, Guo Ziyi suddenly gave up Guannei Province and withdrew his troops to the line of Lingzhou and Guannei North Road, which made all the states and counties in Guannei Province unable to follow for a while.

Anding County, Jingzhou, is also the seat of Jingzhou, when the Anxi Army annihilated the vanguard of An Lushan here, this area is the remaining veins of Liupan Mountain, the mountains are high and extended, the mountains are high and the valleys are deep, and there are many fugitive mountain people.

These so-called fugitive mountain people used to be ordinary peasants in Guanzhong or Guannei Province, because the land was annexed, they could not become serfs or tenants, and they were forced to flee the land and become fugitive mountain people, which was an extremely serious social problem since the Tang Dynasty, on the one hand, the land was annexed, and on the other hand, the owners of the large estates passed on heavy taxes to them, making it difficult for them to live, so they had to flee with their families into the mountains.

In addition to the peasants, some fugitive soldiers also hid in the mountains, some cultivated the land and lived a primitive life of slash-and-burn farming, while some fierce people occupied the mountains as kings and became bandits who harmed the people.

And in the deep mountains of Anding County, there is an active bandits, the leader of the bandits is surnamed Miao, the officers and soldiers went into the mountains several times to clear them, but they all returned in vain, not because they could not be defeated, but they could not be found at all.

The time has come to the middle of June, Anding County is about to harvest the wheat season, this is also the most worried moment up and down in Anding County, the annual wheat harvest season is the most active time for bandits.

That night, the night was dark and the wind was high, the moon passed through the thin dark clouds, and the heavens and the earth were sometimes shrouded in a dull darkness, and sometimes they were as bright as silver, and the light of the full moon shone on the earth.

There are several huge warehouses on the banks of the Jing River south of Anding County, and because they can enter Guanzhong by water, Anding County has also become one of the main transit points for transporting grain from more than a dozen nearby counties to Guanzhong.

Although the summer grain has not yet been harvested, the warehouse on the bank of the Jinghe River still stores 30,000 stone of grain that was not transported last year and a lot of light goods such as silk and linen.

This warehouse was originally guarded by Guo Ziyi's 1,000 troops, due to the sudden withdrawal of Guo Ziyi's army, these warehouses immediately lost their supervision, Jingzhou Taishou Pei Ju was afraid that something would happen to the warehouse, on the one hand, he organized a large number of people to transport food and materials into the city, and on the other hand, he sent more than 100 officials to keep vigil in the warehouse.

After five days of transportation, there was not much grain in the warehouse at this time, less than 3,000 stones, and the guards of the warehouse became lax, and after five days of hard work, many officials finally couldn't bear it anymore and sneaked back to the city to have fun.

But on the evening of the fifth day, a procession of about 800 people appeared five miles outside the warehouse, this was a mottled and disorderly procession, some of them were wearing military uniforms, some were wearing peasant shirts and linen trousers, some were wearing scholars' robes, and they held all kinds of weapons, knives, spears, bows and arrows, and hoes and iron rakes.

If they were bumped into by the people of Anding County, someone would surely shout: "Bandits! ”

Judging from their dress and uneven weapons, they do look like the bandits of Liupan Mountain, but these 800 people are all vigorous, walking like flying, I don't know how many times stronger than the rabble bandits, their goal is very clear, that is, the five big warehouses on the banks of the Jingshui River.

At this time, eight hundred people were not far from the warehouse, only less than a mile away, the bright and sharp eyes of the bandit leader stared closely at the warehouse, at this time, the moon drilled out of the thin clouds, and the faint silver glow once again illuminated the earth, five huge warehouses stood on the bank of the Jing River, like five swarthy giant gods, they were about thirty steps away from each other, there was no fence to enclose them, only a row of bungalows next to them, that was the person who took care of the warehouse, there were more than 100 state and county officials living recently, and tonight there were only more than 30 people left.

The lights in the room were bright, and the figures on the paper in the windows were shaking, and I could only hear the gambling money shouts of the officials in the room from time to time, "Lu! Lou! ”

When the time came, the bandit leader waved his hand and ordered in a low voice: "Go!" ”

Eight hundred people were like eight hundred arrows off the string, and they quickly shot towards the five large warehouses, and at this time, a servant came out to relieve himself, and saw a dense crowd of people rushing towards the warehouse and them, and was so frightened that he shouted: "Bandits! The bandits are coming! ”

He picked up his trousers and turned around and fled, his shout made the house as if it had exploded, some of the dozens of officials jumped out of the window and fled, some rushed out of the house and ran wildly into the mountains and forests behind, only in the blink of an eye, more than 30 officials fled cleanly, and no one was left.

"Fuck! Runs faster than a rabbit. ”

The bandit leader looked at the empty house and cursed in a low voice, and then he ordered: "Light the fire and burn the warehouse!" ”

In a moment, five warehouses were ignited at the same time, and the raging flames shot straight into the sky, and the flames were so fierce that the sky south of Anding County was reflected red.

．．．．．．． On the city wall of Anding County, more than a dozen state and county officials rushed to the city head after hearing the news, and each of them was extremely shocked, although the bandits surnamed Miao were fierce, they never did anything to catch fish, and generally grabbed a little grain and went back, and never burned down the warehouse like today, don't they want to grab grain again in the future?

Jingzhou Taishou Pei Ju looked at the five raging fires, his eyes flashed with angry flames, he originally had a little sympathy for these mountain people and fugitives, but now, these bastards actually dared to burn the official warehouse, they were really going to rebel.

At this moment, someone suddenly pointed into the distance and shouted: "Look, everyone, they are coming!" ”

I saw that dense black shadows appeared in the darkness, there were as many as a thousand people, led by three people on horseback, who were not hidden, but rushed in the direction of the county town with wild shouts.

Jing Governor Shi Zhao Xuming was so frightened that he shouted: "Quick! Close the gates and pull up the drawbridge! ”

"Zhao Changshi!"

Pei Ju glanced at him dissatisfied, he really looked down on this Zhao Changshi, although his knowledge was good, but his character was low, all the officials in Guannei Province resisted Li Heng's ascension to the throne, although this Zhao Xuming kept shouting boycotts, but in fact, he privately sang praises to Li Heng, and was appreciated by Li Heng, and was promoted from the county magistrate of Panyin County to the governor of Jing, which is really despicable.

Pei Ju saw a group of small thieves who frightened him into a panic, and couldn't help but despise him even more, so he said coldly: "You are a governor and historian, don't forget your identity." ”

"Yes! It was the first time Xia Guan had seen the bandits, and he lost his temper. ”

Zhao Xuming didn't dare to shout anymore, he wiped the sweat on his forehead and said, "What do these bandits want to do, rebel?" ”

"They saw the army withdrawing, and they came to demonstrate to us, huh! A group of rabbles who don't know the height of the sky, more than 1,000 people want to come and loot the county seat! ”

Zhao Xuming laughed dryly and said: "Pei Yuanjun is right, this little thief, we don't have to pay attention to it, they can't grab the county seat, they will naturally retreat, Pei Yuanjun, I don't think we need to alarm the court, what do you say?" ”

Pei Ju understood this Zhao Xuming's thoughts, he was afraid that the court would liquidate his head, Pei Ju sneered in his heart, but ignored him.

Zhao Xuming touched a nail, his face was very embarrassed, and he scolded Pei Ju in his heart, at this time, nearly a thousand bandits rushed in, a hundred bandits rushed forward and released arrows to the bow, dozens of arrows roared towards the officials at the head of the city, the arrows were strong, and the officials were so frightened that they hurriedly dodged.

Zhao Xuming was almost shot by an arrow, he screamed, squatted on the wall with his head in his hands, trembling with fright, and shouted with a cry in his mouth: "It's over, I'm finished this time!" ”

Pei Ju saw that Zhao Xuming was extremely embarrassed, so hated that he stomped his foot heavily, turned around and went down to the city, and only listened to him in the dark night to tell the officials: "Go door to door to inform the people, let everyone work together to kill thieves, and kill a thief and reward fifty yuan!" ”

Pei Ju went back to the state government first, Pei Ju is Pei Min's brother, about forty years old this year, originally the governor of Yanzhou, because the officials were evaluated for three consecutive years, he was promoted by Li Yu to Jingzhou Taishou.

Pei Ju is upright, stern and upright, and has a very high reputation among the people, he is another officialdom hope star of the Pei family after Pei Min, tonight, although he reprimanded Zhao Xuming for being cowardly and contemptuously calling the bandits a rabble, but in fact he was also worried, even if these bandits could not break through the city, but the people living outside the city would suffer, alas! As soon as Guo Ziyi's army withdrew, these bandits became rampant.

As soon as he walked to the gate of the state office, a government official greeted him and reported with a strange expression: "Envoy, someone is looking for you, just waiting in the state office?" ”

"Who is it?"

"I don't know, he said he was from Kyori."

'Kyosato? Pei Ju was a little puzzled, could it be that his brother Pei Min sent someone? He also got the news a few days ago that Li Qing'an led a large army into Guanzhong, and the puppet emperor Li Heng had fled.

Although Pei Ju was a little disapprehensive of Li Qing'an's establishment of a two-year-old child as the emperor, he did not supervise the country for Li Qing'an, but handed over the power to the political affairs hall, which he appreciated, the seven people in the political affairs hall are all famous ministers, like his brother Pei Min, Zhang Hao, Wang Jin and others are honest and upright people, and Li Qing'an once led the Anxi army to expel An Lushan, who invaded Guannei Province, which also made him always grateful.

Pei Ju thought that Pei Min had sent someone to deliver a letter to him, and in ten days it would be Pei Kuan's Ninety-Nine Sacrifice, and he would go to Beijing to attend the Pei family's gathering.

He walked into the guest room in the state office, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw a man in his thirties sitting in the room, tall and burly, heroic. ”

"Are you ....."

Pei Ju saw that this person was very strange, and he had never seen it before, so he asked in surprise, "Who are you?" ”

The man took out a letter, put it on the table, and said with a smile: "Below is Chang'an Hu Peiyun, who came to deliver a letter to Pei Yuanjun on the order of my general. ”

．．．．．．．．．． Three days later, Pei Ju, the Taishou of Jingzhou, wrote an urgent letter for help to the imperial court's political affairs hall, saying that the bandits were rampant in the territory, burning the official warehouse, attacking the city, and seriously endangering the lives of the people of Jingzhou, and he implored the imperial court to send troops to Jingzhou to exterminate the bandits.

The political hall unanimously decided to send troops to suppress the bandits, and after receiving instructions from the political affairs hall, Li Qingan immediately ordered the general Tian Zhen to lead an army of 5,000 people to Jingzhou to suppress the bandits.

(To be continued)