readx; The night is deep, thick dark clouds cover the sky, there is no moonlight and starlight, more than a dozen steps away can not see the object clearly, in the dark, the Yellow River is also difficult to see, after autumn, this mighty river is no longer like the summer rush, but like the storm after the dim sea, gradually tend to calm the dim sea, but the water surface is still microwave ripples. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is the best time of the year to cross the river, in the cover of night, a hundred stone fishing boat in the undulating waves to the north fast, in addition to the three boatmen, there is only a man in a gray robe, a pair of goods beside him, looking like a merchant, but his resolute gaze and always straight waist, it shows that he is not a businessman, and a small businessman, how can he hire a boat to cross the river.

He was indeed not a merchant, he was a scout of the Tang army, named Zhou Yuan, who crossed the river to carry out an important mission.

He crossed the river from Roku-gun, Jeju, to Boju on the other side, although the river was wide, but the water was gentle, it was very convenient to cross the river, and the boat had been driving on the river for most of the hour, and gradually, he had seen the swarthy, undulating shadow like a wall on the other side, which was the woods on the other side, and he could see the woods, which showed that he was very close to the shore.

"Oops!"

The boatman, who had been silent, suddenly cried, and the sound of oars was heard in the night, and they were already surrounded by two patrol boats, one left and one right.

"Throw the oars into the water and kneel in the boat, or we'll let off the arrows!"

The two patrol boats were already ten paces away, and there were a dozen soldiers on each board, all armed with crossbow arrows, and they were aimed at them coldly.

"Listen to them!"

Zhou Yuan said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, I'm here to find them." ”

Several oars were thrown into the water, the boatmen knelt down and raised their hands high, Zhou Yuan also knelt down, the hull shook violently, several Dr. Wei soldiers jumped on the boat, they didn't say a word, and began to search the boat.

The torch was lit, a torch approached Zhou Yuan, illuminating his face, a sharp knife pressed against his neck, and the other party said coldly: "Are you a spy on the other side?" ”

Zhou Yuan raised his hand and said calmly: "I'm just a messenger to send a letter to you General Tian." ”

'Bang! With a bang, someone smashed the back of his head with the handle of a knife, and Zhou Yuan was knocked unconscious at once.

"Damn, it's obviously a spy, and you dare to lie to Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will kill you!"

Captain Wei Bo, who was the leader, frowned and stopped his companion's attack, "Don't be reckless, search him first." ”

The two quickly searched Zhou Yuan's body, and one shouted: "Found it!" ”

He found a letter from Zhou Yuan's arms and handed it to the lieutenant, "Head, do you think it's this?" ”

Wei Bo Military Academy knew a few words, he took the letter and looked at the firelight, and immediately stood up in fright, "Quick, wake him up!" ”

After a while, Zhou Yuan was woken up by the other soldier's pinching and slapping on the face, and the captain returned the letter to him, hugged his fists and said, "I'm really sorry, we are routine." ”

Zhou Yuan took the letter, and when the headache calmed down a little, he said: "Time is pressing, please take me to see your General Tian, besides, this ship has nothing to do with me, please let them go." ”

The lieutenant waved his hand, "Let this ship go." ”

Zhou Yuan followed them into the patrol boat, and the two patrol boats quickly walked away, disappearing into the heavy black fog, and the small boat was out of danger and began to return.

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Hebei Province from An Lushan rebellion to Shi Siming's self-reliance, and then to the Anshi Yizhou War, the time has lasted for more than a year, at this time Hebei has been full of desolation, thousands of miles of red wilderness, the original millions of people in the prosperous area, the population has been sharply reduced to one percent, the rest of the population is concentrated in Youzhou, Weizhou and Yingzhou and other few areas.

Today, the evil consequences of the warlord melee have been revealed, whether for An Lushan, Shi Siming or Tian Chenghei, the most important resources are no longer grain and grass, pig iron, but people, no one has no food, and without food they cannot support their army.

Tian Chengsi had 60,000 troops in his hands, and there were more than 200,000 people in the three prefectures of Wei, Bo, and Bei under his control, and these more than 200,000 people were obviously unable to feed the 60,000 army.

But the development of the situation is obviously more and more unfavorable to Tian Bingsi, An Lushan was defeated by Shi Siming, Youzhou changed hands, An Lushan fled to Yingzhou, Hebei's short balance situation was broken, and Tian Chengsi will directly face Shi Siming's impact.

In the past few days, Tian Chengsi has always been unable to sleep, although among the generals in Hebei, Tian Chengsi is known as a cunning fox, although the fox is cunning, but it also has a day at the end of the road Now, Tian Chengsi was forced into a corner at this time.

Night has fallen, the lights in the room flickered on and off, stretching Tian Chengsi's slender figure for a long time, he paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, and behind him was a sand table, which was the entire topographic map of Hebei Province, Tian Chengsi was worried about his way out.

Tian Chengsi is about fifty years old, thin and tall, with a slightly rickety back, a thin long face, fox-like eyes, showing that he is cunning and resourceful, he is a veteran Han general in the Fan Yang army, and also one of An Lushan's henchmen, An Lushan after occupying the entire territory of Hebei, ordered him to lead his headquarters of 50,000 people to garrison the important three prefectures of Wei, Bo and Bei in the south of Hebei.

Of course, he was not a good man, and the first thing he did when he arrived at Weber was to confiscate all the food and iron tools from all the inhabitants' homes, and to distribute rations by the day, so that it would be difficult for them to escape, and likewise, to gather all the young men together and farm the fields, and to distribute rations to their families according to their performance.

When a man works hard, his wife and daughter can have a little more rations, and if a man is lazy or complains about disobedience, he will withhold the rations of his family, which is a very vicious trick, so that nearly 100,000 young and strong men will farm and work for him like cattle and horses, and ensure the supply of military rations for his army.

Among the generals in Hebei, Tian Chengsi is known as the cunning fox, in the turmoil in Hebei, his fox-like surname began to appear, Cai Xide was destroyed, Li Guiren was finished, Shi Siming reversed, but he Tian Chengsi has always preserved his strength and has not been affected in any way, and has quietly absorbed many remnants of the defeated generals, so that his strength has reached 60,000.

In the past few days, he has received two major pieces of information, one is that An Lushan was defeated and the remnants fled to Yingzhou, and the other is that the Southern Tang Dynasty was destroyed, and Li Qingan had completed the unification of the Tang Dynasty except for Hebei Province.

Li Qing'an's next step must be Hebei, Hebei's recovery is only a matter of time, in fact, Tian Chenghei has long seen Li Qing'an's strategy, Li Qing'an is not without the strength to recover Hebei, the reason why he delayed the recovery of Hebei is to leave An Lushan and hang it over the head of the Tang Shimin, so that he can do everything with the excuse of An Lushan's rebellion, and when his wings are mature, he will come to clean up Hebei.

Now that the Southern Tang Dynasty has fallen, it means that Li Qing'an's wings have matured, and it is inevitable to take action against Hebei.

And the situation in Hebei has become clear, An Lushan and Shi Siming have become puppets, and the forces that have been lurking behind them have finally come to the forefront, Shi Siming's backstage is the Hui people, and An Lushan's backstage is the Khitans, the reason why the two of them can maintain a strong army when the Han people are almost killed, where does the food come from, is actually the supply of the Khitan and the Hui.

Judging from the ethnic structure of their army, the Han people are almost gone, Shi Siming's army is mainly Turkic and Uighur, and An Lushan's army is the Khitan and Xi people, and a small number of Han soldiers in their army have also become military slaves, and the Han army is concentrated in the hands of Li Huaixian and his Tian Chenghei.

From the perspective of the nation, he Tian Chengsi is undoubtedly on the front line with Li Qing'an, and surrendering to the imperial court is his inevitable destination, Tian Chengsi knows this.

But Tian Chengsi didn't want to surrender Li Qing'an so easily, what he wanted was to maximize his interests, and it depended on what Li Qing'an gave him, after Li Huaixian surrendered, he got the position of Beiping County Duke and General of Youwuwei, so what about him Tian Chenghe? What does he get?

At this time, there was the sound of footsteps in the courtyard, and a soldier outside announced: "Commander! The patrol sentry caught a messenger, who was sent by the Tang Army to deliver the letter. ”

As soon as Tian Chengsi turned around, he pondered for a moment before ordering, "Bring him in!" ”

After a while, Zhou Yuan, the scout of the Tang Army, was brought into the house, and Zhou Yuan bowed and saluted, "Zhou Yuan, the captain of the Tang Army Scout Battalion, see General Tian!" ”

Tian Chengsi saw that this person was quite polite, so he nodded slightly, "What letter do you have for me?" ”

The letter was already in the hands of the pro-soldiers, and a pro-soldier presented the letter, Tian Chengsi took the letter, and his eyes suddenly flashed with a trace of shock, this turned out to be a handwritten letter from Li Qing'an to him.

'King Zhao and Generalissimo Li Qing'an sent a letter to General Wei Bo and Tian Bingsi', Tian Chengsi restrained his inner tension and opened the letter.

'Your Excellency General Wei Botian, the Hebei Rebellion has been said to this day, it has been Hu Ma's tiger peep into the Central Plains, the Hui Turks invaded the Central Plains south through Shi Siming, and the Khitan Xi people used An Lushan to swallow Hebei and drink the Central Plains, where did the general go? The general's subordinates are all children of the Han family, and they are willing to be driven by Chief Hu, killing their parents and insulting their sisters? Sigh the prosperity of Hebei, now it is said that it is already a scorched earth, thousands of miles of red land, white bones and wilderness, and the lives are devastated, Li Qing'an, as the marshal of the world, does not allow the Chinese rivers and mountains to fall to the iron hooves of Hulu, and wants to lead the official army to the north, expel the Tartars, and revitalize the prestige of the Tang Dynasty, but he can't bear the cannibalism of the Han family, and he specially advises the general to return to the Tang Dynasty, seal his wife, and the generals, don't be obsessed, otherwise the general will not only be difficult to protect, but also enter the Annihilation of another book, leaving a stench for 10,000 years, I hope the general will think twice, Li Qing'an respects! Again, Hebei is a major matter today, and protecting the people is the top. ’

Li Qing'an's letter, Tian Chengsi read it three times, figuring out the meaning of every word in it, what he cared about was how Li Qing'an would seal him, the letter made it very clear, Feng Yin's wife, Lie's general, Yin's wife is a title, and the general is a position, that is to say, it is similar to Li Huaixian.

Tian Chengsi glanced at the scout who delivered the letter, and asked, "Does Captain Zhou have any other message for me?" ”

"The message is eight words, 'Be kind to my people, and be more than an immortal', I don't know what it means, please General Tian understand it himself."

Tian Chengsi nodded and instructed left and right, "Take him down and entertain him well." ”

Zhou Yuan was taken down, Tian Chengsi slowly walked to the sand table, repeating the meaning of this sentence, that is to say, as long as he treats the people well, his future position will surpass Li Huaixian, but nearly 300,000 Han people in Wei, Bo, and Bei Prefectures are under his control, and they have not tortured and killed them like Cai Xide and Li Guiren.

Tian Chengsi picked up the letter again and read the last sentence, "Again, Hebei is a major matter today, and protecting the people is the best." On the surface, this sentence was forgotten by Li Qing'an and added at the end, but Tian Chengsi knew that with Li Qing'an's identity, he would rather rewrite it than forget anything and add it at the end, which was obviously his deliberate addition at the end, a hint that he was doing something? It has the same meaning as Zhou Yuan's message.

What is Li Qingan hinting at himself?

Tian Chengsi's eyes were firmly fixed on the sand table, this was like lightning in his mind, and he suddenly remembered one thing, he slapped his head hard, he understood, the fugitives from the five states.

He received information a few days ago that about 60,000 refugees from Mo, Ying, Shen, Hebei, and Cangzhou fled in the direction of Cangzhou under the leadership of Zhang Xun, the county commander of Yizhou County.

It turned out that Li Qing'an wanted him to save the refugees who fled from these four states, so the condition was that he was above Huaixian, Tian Chengsi was a little moved, Li Huaixian was named the county duke, if he was above him, it would be the duke of the country, even if he was not the duke of the country, he would add a title such as Kaifu Yi and the third division or the young master Shangshu.

Tian Chengsi knew that even if he surrendered, after a few years, Li Qingan would slowly degrade them, but for Li Qingbao to protect the reputation of protecting the people, this was another credit, and his wealth in the second half of his life may be in this move.

Thinking of this, he was also anxious, he was very worried that Shi Siming had already sent troops to captivate these Han people and sacrifice them to the Hui people.

"Someone!"

As soon as he shouted the order, a herald immediately stood up, "Please give the order!" ”

"Pass my order, the first and second armies are ready to set off at once, and I will personally go north!"

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An Lushan and Shi Siming's war gave Zhang Xun and others a loophole, they came out of Baiyangdian and began to organize large-scale people to flee, this escape took two months, countless people from timidity to follow, from despair to hope, from children to the elderly, from one person to 60,000 people, the mighty evacuation team was finally formed, 60,000 people from Mozhou, Yingzhou, Shenzhou, Jizhou and Cangzhou, they finally realized that there was only one way to stay in Hebei, and the instinct to survive made them finally overcome their attachment to their homeland, They began to set off, to the sea in Cangzhou, believing that the imperial court would send a boat to pick them up, and they set off.

In mid-August, this vast army of refugees finally arrived at Baishi Town, east of Qingchi County, which belongs to Qingchi County and is also the closest town to the sea.

According to the agreement, the fleeing army marched east along the floating water, and the hundreds of large ships that picked them up would wait at the entrance to the floating water, which was also the hope of everyone, but they did not know that a 20,000-strong Shi Siming army had been killed eighty miles away.

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(To be continued)