Jiangxia County and Qichun County are only separated by a river, and after several years of painstaking management by Qu Tutong, Jiangxia already has a small naval fleet and a cargo fleet. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Under the cover of night, a fleet of more than 40 cargo ships sailed from the other side of the Yangtze River, and slowly arrived at a wooded area near the Yangtze River, where there was no wharf, but the fleet could unload directly on the shore, and it was dark all around, and the nearest village was still more than ten miles away.

At this time, more than a hundred people ran out of the woods, and behind them there were mule carts, and the boatmen on the cargo ship and the people on the shore seemed to have a tacit understanding, and no one spoke, and joined the unloading procession together.

The leader of the receiving cargo and the principal of the fleet handed over the list, which was clearly written, 5,000 knives, 10,000 spears, 3,000 pairs of leather armor, 3,000 bows and crossbows, and 100,000 arrows, which were the first batch of armor handed over to Du Fuwei by the Tang Dynasty.

This is Du Fuwei's cunning, he does not believe in Zheng Shanguo, on the one hand he asked Zheng Shanguo to get two thousand war knives for him, on the other hand, he himself secretly received weapons from the hands of the Jiangxia Tang army, Zheng Shanguo promised to get him two thousand war knives in seven days, but he himself will get the first batch of weapons of the Tang Dynasty in four days, when Zheng Shanguo still thought that he was looking forward to his war knife, Du Fuwei's army has been killed under the city of Qichun County.

"This is the first batch of armor, it says that after you capture Lujiang County, the second batch of 10,000 pairs of armor will be delivered on time."

"Thank you! Go back as soon as possible, and don't be discovered by the Sui patrol boats. ”

After unloading all kinds of weapons, the forty cargo ships left the shore and headed for the other side of the Yangtze River, when nearly 200 mule carts came out of the woods and loaded all kinds of weapons on the trucks, and the mule cart team drove along the rugged path in the direction of Huangmei County.

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Three days had passed since Du Fuwei raised his troops in the mines, and because a large number of prisoners of war were unwilling to follow Du Fuwei in rebellion, more than 2,000 people fled in the chaos, so that Du Fuwei's army was not increased, but from 2,500 to 2,300 men, and increasing the number of troops had become Du Fuwei's urgent desire.

After Du Fuwei came out of the Huangmei Mine, he first occupied Huangmei County, which had only more than 1,000 households and less than 10,000 people, and the only wealthy family was the only wealthy family who got a message from the mine defenders and fled with his family when Du Fuwei raised his army.

Du Fuwei's target was not Huangmei County, and the benefit they promised the soldiers was to capture the county and govern Qichun County, so the thin and dry Huangmei County did not have Du Fuwei's appetite.

On the day he occupied Huangmei County, he connived at the soldiers to arrest the strong men, and in just three days, Du Fuwei captured more than 2,000 young men from Huangmei County and forced them to become his own soldiers, so that Du Fuwei's strength reached more than 4,500 people.

But how many atrocities of ** women occurred in the process of arresting Zhuangding, these are not things that Du Fuwei cares about.

At the head of the county town, Du Fuwei, who was dressed in armor and carrying a sword at his waist, was looking westward, although they had made thousands of war knives with iron crowbars, but the quality of these war knives was relatively inferior, and they would break after a few chops, which made Du Fuwei quite distressed, and his only hope now was to wait for the armor resources sent by the Tang army.

At this moment, suddenly a soldier pointed to the western official road and shouted: "General, they are coming!" ”

Du Fuwei also saw that a team of 200 mule carts was approaching the county seat, and the dust was overwhelming, Du Fuwei was overjoyed, and immediately ordered the city gate to be opened, and he personally went out of the city to meet their first batch of armor.......

On the morning of the next day, nearly 5,000 Du Fuwei troops, armed with Tang army armor, left Huangmei County and began to march towards Qichun County, 150 miles to the north.

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At the same time that Du Fuwei's army was advancing north, a Sui army of 8,000 men had already entered Qichun County first.

This army of 8,000 people for Zheng Shanguo, as if falling from the sky, he never dreamed that there would be a Sui army stationed in the west of Jianghuai, he only had 20,000 troops in Jiangdu, and the rest of the counties only had hundreds or more than 1,000 county soldiers to maintain local security, he also told the Tang Dynasty this information, and the Tang Dynasty also thought that Jianghuai was empty, so he secretly sent Du Fuwei back to Jianghuai to raise troops again.

The appearance of these 8,000 troops completely subverted the information that Zheng Shanguo had, which made Zheng Shanguo panic a little, could it be that the King of Qi had already secretly deployed heavy troops in Jianghuai?

What made Zheng Shanguo even more uneasy was that the Tang army's plan for the eastern expedition was based on the Jianghuai civil strife, and the Sui army had no time to take care of the south because of the Jianghuai civil strife, but now the Sui army was obviously prepared, and the 8,000 elite army could easily destroy Du Fuwei, who was still weak, could it be that all this was a trap laid by the Sui army a long time ago?

Zheng Shanguo was very flustered in his heart, and what made him feel a little relieved was that he had already written two letters to Zhang Xuan, the king of Qi, and Lai Hu'er, and maybe he still had a chance of life.

As soon as the morning dawned, Zheng Shanguo was ready to go to the county government in front as usual, his official residence was the same as most counties, it was the front and back house, his wife and children were in his hometown Xingyang, and there was only a concubine who served him and an old servant who had followed him for decades.

Although it is the front and back house, it is impossible to walk to the front of the house from the house, and there is no passage between the house and the house, so you must go out of the house and detour to the front office.

The army entered the city in the middle of the night last night, Zheng Shanguo has not yet seen the army commander, and he doesn't know who the army commander is, but he needs to visit the army commander this morning to understand the situation.

As soon as Zheng Shanguo walked to the courtyard, his old servant hurried over and said nervously: "Master, it's not good, there are a lot of soldiers outside, and the gate and side door are blocked. ”

Zheng Shanguo was taken aback, and hurriedly came to the gate, he opened the gate, and there were indeed soldiers standing outside, he was just about to step out, two soldiers stopped him, and saluted the first captain: "We came to protect the safety of Taishou by the order from above, please don't go out for a few days, if you need anything, say it directly, we will send someone to send it." ”

Zheng Shanguo was stunned, isn't this just putting himself under house arrest?

"This ..... Whose order is this? Who are your generals? ”

The captain said lightly: "My general is Luo Shixin, this is his order." ”

Zheng Shanguo was so shocked that he took a few steps back, it turned out to be Luo Shixin, the first general of the Sui Army, who came, wasn't Luo Shixin in the Central Capital?

He only felt dizzy for a while, and finally understood a little, the matter was far more serious than he imagined, and the arrival of Luo Shixin was not only a few thousand people, nor would it be as simple as dealing with Du Fuwei's rebellion.

Could it be......

Zheng Shanguo suddenly remembered something, Li Yuan had just transferred Jiangxia Commander Qu Tutong back to Chang'an, and sent Li Shenfu to sit in Jiangxia, and Luo Shixin appeared in Qichun County, what was hidden in this?

At this moment, a cavalry of more than 100 people appeared at the gate, the head of the golden helmet general turned over and dismounted, and all the soldiers knelt down on one knee to salute together. Kneeling down at the gate, this general was none other than Zhang Xuan, the king of Qi he was most afraid of seeing at this time.

"Wechen.... Zheng Shanguo, meet His Royal Highness the Regent! Zheng Shanguo saluted with a trembling voice.

Zhang Xuan walked up the steps and said with a slight smile: "Zheng Yuanjun doesn't need to be polite, please get up!" ”

"Thank you..... Your Majesty! ”

Zheng Shanguo felt a sad cry in his heart, Zhang Xuan was actually in Qichun County, and there was a major strategic miscalculation in the Tang Dynasty.

Zhang Xuan walked in the door and said with a smile: "What, didn't Zheng Yuanjun invite me in to sit down?" ”

"Where! Where! Weichen didn't dare, His Highness, please come in. ”

Zheng Shanguo was flustered, and hurriedly invited Zhang Xuan into his study, and ordered the concubine to serve tea.

Zhang Xuan sat down in the study, and seeing that the study was very elegantly arranged, he nodded and smiled: "It is worthy of being a famous family, and it is indeed tasteful." ”

Zheng Shanguo's heart was in a mess, and he didn't know how to answer Zhang Xuan's words, he couldn't say a word.

At this time, the concubine served tea and retreated again, Zhang Xuan took a sip of tea, then took out a letter and put it on the table, "This is the letter I received halfway, it was written to me by Zheng Yuanjun, if it weren't for this letter, I think Yuanjun wouldn't be sitting here now, do you understand what I mean?" ”

Zheng Shanguo lowered his head with shame on his face, "Weichen is guilty!" (To be continued.) )