Taishou Zhou Yuan never dreamed that the day after he agreed, Yang Yuanqing personally led 20,000 cavalry to appear outside the county seat, he stood at the head of the city, looking at the 20,000 troops outside the city, his eyes were a little glazed.

And he saw that the cavalry didn't bring any baggage except for the tent, so where was the food that Yang Yuanqing promised? Zhou Yuan's heart was full of doubts.

At this time, the general Pei Xingyan rode forward and said loudly: "Is it too guarded? ”

Zhou Yuan arched his hand at the head of the city and said: "It's down there!" ”

"The head of my family asked Taishou to go to the barracks for a meeting to discuss the border and food. The domain name of this site"

Zhou Yuan was a little hesitant in his heart, and went to the barracks to meet Yang Yuanqing, which seemed a little dangerous, and Zhao County next to him ordered: "The other party's 20,000 cavalry, it is easy to kill us." ”

Thinking about it, Yang Yuanqing wants to kill him, and it is indeed effortless.

"Alright! I'm going! He had no choice but to agree.

Taishou Zhou Yuan took two retinues and rode to the Fengzhou military camp, at this time 20,000 cavalry had set up a large camp outside the city, and a large tent stood on the wasteland, which was enough to have thousands of large tents.

Zhou Yuan was taken to the big tent of the Chinese army by the soldiers, and Yang Yuanqing smiled and said: "Zhou Taishou, I haven't seen you for a few years, have you married a few more concubines?" ”

Zhou Yuan has been a Taishou in Yanchuan County for ten years, and Yang Yuanqing has also been in the army in Fengzhou for more than ten years, they naturally know each other, Yang Yuanqing's joke suddenly made Zhou Yuan's heart relax, and he also smiled and said: "Last year, I married a Hun concubine, and I don't want to marry in the future, it's really a bit unbearable." ”

The two smiled knowingly, walked into the big tent, and sat down, Yang Yuanqing didn't wait for him to speak first, so he smiled and said: "The grain will be transported from the water, two or three days late, don't worry about it." ”

Take the Yellow River from Fengzhou to Lingwu County, and then turn to the tributary Yanchuan water, you can directly reach the county seat, Zhou Yuan was immediately relieved, and he asked again: "The main force of Liu Jia's army is in Yan'an County, does General Manager Yang still want to go to Yan'an County to suppress bandits?" ”

"It's not a big problem to suppress bandits, I have a plan for this, I invited Zhou Taishou here today, I want to discuss the defense in the future, I plan to build a city in Yanchuan County, and garrison 3,000 troops to assist Zhou Taishou in defending against bandits."

Zhou Yuan was stunned for a moment, he couldn't have imagined that Yang Yuanqing was to guard the mine.

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One of the targets of the Fengzhou Army, Hongtie Mountain, is located in the west of Yanchuan County, fifty miles away from the county seat, a few miles away from the north is the Yanchuan water, the water flow is gentle, you can carry a big ship of 500 stones, in the past, there was a mine supervisor here, a large number of iron ore mines were mined, and the mine ships entered the Yellow River from the Yanchuan water and were transported to Lingwu County for smelting.

If Yang Yuanqing occupies the mine, his ore transport ships will enter the Yellow River and go north, and they can directly reach Wuyuan County, the transportation is very convenient, and more importantly, Wei Siyun, the Taishou of Lingwu County, is the governor of Fengzhou at that time, and he generally will not block the Fengzhou mining ships.

The mine was occupied by the army of the slave Bai Yusa half a year ago, but two months ago, in order to seize the mine, Liu Jialun, a bandit from Yan'an County, sent 30,000 troops to fight Bai Yusa's army along the Yanchuan River north of the mine, and finally ended in the defeat of Bai Yusao's army.

Liu Jialun occupied the mine, but thousands of mining slaves had already fled during the war between the two armies, and Liu Jialun had no choice but to forcibly drive 10,000 people from Yan'an County and Honghua County to come to mine, leaving 3,000 garrisons to monitor.

But Liu Jialun is facing another problem, that is, how to transport the ore to Yan'an County, there is no direct river here, the only way is to use animal power to transport, with 10,000 horses to consign, each horse carries a weight of 100 catties, and can transport millions of catties of iron ore at a time, so it needs to accumulate a certain amount before it can be transported uniformly.

In two months, millions of catties of iron ore have been mined and stacked in several huge and simple barns, that is, these days, Liu Jialun will send a large number of horses to transport the ore.

At this time, it is the late autumn season of late September, the morning and evening are particularly cold, at night, a semi-circular bright moon rises from behind the barn, the cold silver glow is sprinkled all over the red iron mountain, the black mountain shadow shrouds the labor camp and a military camp at the foot of the mountain, the people who have worked all day are sleepy and sleepy, and the barracks are also extraordinarily quiet, only two wooden guard towers, each with two soldiers patrolling back and forth, the guard towers are one mile apart, one east and one west.

At this time, two groups of Sui scouts quietly approached the wooden tower, and the two crossbowmen used the cover of rocks to raise their crossbows fifty paces away, aiming at the enemy sentries on the sentry tower, the tips of the arrows flashed with green phosphorescence in the moonlight, and they were coated with the highly poisonous medicine 'Papamu' from Sogdia, and when they saw the blood sealing their throats, they couldn't even shout their voices, which was the best poison for scouts to assassinate.

Just listen to 'Click!' Click! Two softly sounds, two bolts of crossbow shot like lightning, almost simultaneously striking the two sentries, and there was no shouting, only two muffled grunts, and one of the sentries fell from the two-foot high watchtower.

There was a jackdaw's cry from the west, which was a signal that another watchtower had succeeded, and this side also followed two sounds, and after a while, another sentry appeared on the watchtower, which had been replaced by the Sui army.

Not long after, a thousand Sui cavalry came from the west, the horses' hooves were wrapped in thick linen, although the sound was not loud, but the momentum of more than 1,000 cavalry sprinting was still swept like a storm, many enemy soldiers were still awakened, rushed out of the barracks to inspect, what they saw was a cold light flashing spears and momentum like thunderous iron horses.

The Sui army suddenly rushed into the enemy camp, crying, shouting, and screaming sounded, the cavalry kicked over the camp tent, the spear ruthlessly pierced the enemy's chest, the war knife chopped, blood splashed everywhere, the Jihu army scattered and fled, many people did not wear shoes, they could not run the war horse, the cavalry instantly caught up, and killed the fleeing enemy soldiers one by one.......

Half an hour later, the killing gradually stopped, more than 2,000 of the 3,000 Jihu troops were killed, the rest all knelt down and surrendered, only more than 10 people fled on horseback and rushed back to Yan'an County to report.

The camp tent of 10,000 people was a hundred steps away, the slaughter of the Sui army did not impact them, and no one dared to escape, a group of people, gathered in the camp in a daze, everyone's eyes were full of fear, at this time, several cavalry rushed to the scene, shouting: "Don't be afraid, we are the Fengzhou Sui army, come to rescue you!" ”

There was a moment of silence, and there was a cheer in the camp.

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The sky is gradually bright, Yang Yuanqing led more than a dozen generals, under the escort of a thousand cavalry, came to the mine, he squinted at this mountain range, about ten miles long, is a rocky mountain, there is no grass on the mountain, but not all of them are red, only a few miles to the west is red, the red iron mountain refers to this section.

More than ten years of mining have caused a big gap in the mountain, but the iron ore resources are still abundant, enough to be mined for hundreds of years.

At this time, the battlefield had been cleaned up, the prisoners of war were tied behind their backs, sitting in piles, most of them were Hu people, there were also a very small number of Han people, the corpses had been burned and buried, more than 2,000 war horses and a large number of inferior weapons, and hundreds of tents were captured.

More than 10,000 people were quiet, staying in the tents, waiting for the Sui army to settle down, and today the entire mine was suspended.

But Yang Yuanqing was not interested in these, he wanted iron ore, and he urged the horse to come to several large warehouses, which were full of mountains of ore, most of which were iron ore, but there were also hundreds of thousands of catties of chalcopyrite.

At this time, Fengzhou Soldier Armor Division Cao He Jun turned over and dismounted, ran into the warehouse, he picked up the ore and carefully examined it, for a moment, he came out with a piece of ore, gave a salute to Yang Yuanqing, and said with the joy in his heart: "Chief, this is a treasure mountain!" The iron content of these iron ores is at least 60% or more, and there are few impurities, which can be smelted into fine iron, which is extremely suitable for making weapons and armor. ”

"Very well, this ore should be shipped back to Toyosu as soon as possible."

Looking at the mountains of iron ore, Yang Yuanqing couldn't help laughing, and turned back to everyone: "Then Liu Jialun worked hard to mine millions of catties of iron ore, and he was taken away by us without even seeing the shadow of pig iron, I want to know how his expression is?" ”

The generals burst into laughter, Yang Yuanqing waved his hand, and ordered several captains: "Organize these people, use the captured war horses, and transport the iron ore to the river as soon as possible!" ”

"Obey!"

Several lieutenants ran to greet the soldiers, and Yang Yuanqing said to Pei Xingyan again: "Liu Jiayan will not give up, he will inevitably come to fight for the mine in a big way, you have to send more scouts to grasp their movements." ”

Pei Xingyan bowed down and saluted, "I understand my humble duties!" ”

After arranging the trivial matters of the mine, Yang Yuanqing turned back to the officers and said, "The bait has been thrown, and it is time for us to take action." ”

He turned his horse's head and galloped away with a large group of cavalry in the direction of the county seat.

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Yan'an, Yanchuan, Diaoyin, Shuofang, Yulin and other counties in the northern part of Guannai, as well as some areas of Honghua, Lingwu and Wuyuan, due to the relatively poor natural conditions, do not use agriculture, and have always been the areas used by the central court to settle the attached ethnic minorities, and hundreds of thousands of people of Xiongnu, Xianbei, Xia, Di, Qiang and other tribes live in these areas.

When the central court was strong, these Ji Hu were calm and responsible, and there was no transgression, but once the central court was weak or the Central Plains was in turmoil, the nobles among these Hu people began to be ambitious, stir up trouble, and set off a wave of rebellion to loot the wealth of the Han people and kill the Han people.

Liu Jialun was a Xiongnu nobleman, when the rebellion began to break out in various parts of the Great Sui, he also thought that the time had come, and began to gather the people of the headquarters to rebel, and contacted the leaders of other nationalities, the power developed rapidly, in just a few months, the number of troops reached 100,000, he proclaimed himself the emperor, with Yan'an County and Diaoyin County as a stronghold, led the army to loot and kill in the north of Guannei, and one village after another was destroyed under their iron hooves, except for some relatively large cities did not fall, several counties in the north of Guannai, almost all of them were occupied by his army.

Like other rebels, Liu Jia's biggest problem was that his equipment was backward and he was desperately lacking in armor and weapons, so obtaining pig iron and crafting weapons was their urgent need.

Two months ago, Liu Jia ordered the general Liu Harizi to lead an army of 30,000 to seize the Chiling Mine occupied by Bai Yusao.

Just when Liu Jialun was looking forward to the iron ore being shipped soon, a bad news came, the mine was taken away by the Sui army, and all the millions of catties of iron ore they had worked hard for two months were taken away by the Sui army.

On the second day after receiving the report, he personally led an army of 60,000 to pounce on the mine, and he wanted to trample the Sui army who dared to rob his mine into powder.