readx; Taihang Mountain is like a giant dragon, lying between Hedong Road, Hebei Road and Henan Road, stretching for thousands of miles, hundreds of mountains are interconnected, thousands of peaks are towering, and ten thousand ravines are deep. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Many rivers in the east of the river cut through the Taihang Mountain, Qinshui, Danshui, Zhangshui, Hutuo water, Sangganshui and so on, in the long years because of the erosion of feng shui for many years, formed many large and small fragmented mountain streams and deep ravines, of which eight main roads formed eight famous strategic military arteries, known as Taihang Bashan.

Jundu, Puyin, Flying Fox, Jingcheng, Baicheng and other eight military arteries are the lifeblood of Hebei and Hedong, and countless fortified fortresses have been built for defense since ancient times, and the Hebei immigrants are sent to Hedong through these arteries.

Jingcheng is the most famous military artery in the middle of Taihang Mountain, because it goes straight to the heart of Hedong Taiyuan, it is a place where soldiers must fight since ancient times, among them, the Tumen Pass in Jingcheng County, Hebei Province is the throat of Jingcheng, seize it, you can grasp the initiative of Jingcheng.

In the military deployment of the Tang Dynasty, the defense task of Taihang Bacheng is generally handed over to the Hedong Army, which is due to the fact that Hedong Jiedu itself is to assume an auxiliary military function, it is not like Fanyang Jiedu against the Turkic, Khitan and other strong enemies, it is more to protect the safety of the northern capital Taiyuan, it is precisely because of this, Taihang Bacheng is controlled by the defenders under the Hedong Jiedu Mansion.

When An Lushan occupied Hedong that year, he also controlled the various passes of Taihang Bacheng for a time, but after his defeat in Guanneidao, he withdrew from Hedong on all fronts, including Taihang Bacheng, and was subsequently occupied by the armies of Li Qing'an and Li Heng.

According to the agreement reached by Li Heng and Li Qing'an, Jingcheng is located in the Taiyuan line, it should be controlled by Li Qing'an's army, at present, Jingcheng has a total of 1,000 troops stationed, belonging to the Anxi system, called the Chengtian Army, 1,000 people are stationed in two passes, one is at the starting point of the east of the river in Jingcheng, called Guguan, and the other is the end of Hebei Tumen Pass.

Like the other Qicheng, the Jingcheng is also crowded with Hebei immigrants who have migrated westward, and the official road is mighty, and the migrating people can not see the edge at a glance, there are nearly 100,000 people, and the momentum is extremely spectacular.

These people mainly come from Heng, Zhao, Ding, Shen, Hebei, De six states, and the southern Xiangzhou Weizhou, the northern states of the migration time is relatively late, only ten days ago began to start, seven days ago before the gradual formation of the scale, although the time is late, but because the northern states are closer to Youzhou, the damage may be greater, the people are more panicked, so the wave of immigrants in a short period of time is more turbulent than the southern states, this is already the fourth batch of immigrants.

The dilapidated ox carts and horse-drawn carts creaked and walked on the official road, the men led the ox carts and walked in front with heavy steps, the flat ox carts were full of all their belongings, some pots and pans, large gourds full of water, a few bags of grain and flour cakes, and a bunch of freshly picked mountain fruits and vegetables on the side, and behind the cart sat the white-haired parents, who were holding their young grandchildren in their arms, and their eyes were full of vicissitudes with the confusion of the future and the sadness of leaving their homeland.

The child did not feel so much, he held a pear, his eyes were excited and curious, looking around, everything on the road was extremely new to him.

The child's mother followed the ox cart with a big belly, and could see that she was pregnant again, and her steps were staggering, but the ox cart could not sit so many people, so she had to walk behind her husband, and one hand carefully held a Nanmu box, which may have been a few dowry silks and copper coins from her back then, and perhaps a few dresses and jewelry pressed into the box.

This is an ordinary family, almost every immigrant family on the official road is similar to them, at this time, the vast majority of people have not left their homes for the sake of thirty acres of land, but to flee for their lives, in order to escape from this land where war is about to break out as soon as possible.

In the eyes of the people in power in Chang'an, thousands of miles away, these Hu people were homeless and pitiful, like lost dogs, running to the eaves of the Tang Dynasty to cling to, and the attachment of these Hu people brought the satisfaction of arrogance and arrogance to the authorities.

But for the low-level people who live next to these Hu people, the feelings are completely different from those in power, and what they see is the ferocity and greed of these Hu people, the bereaved dogs are waging their tails and begging for mercy, but from time to time they show their hideous canine teeth to the people, revealing the true face of the vicious dogs, which makes these humble people full of fear and anxiety about them.

An Lushan recruited hundreds of thousands of dependent Hu people as soldiers, and the weak Han people deeply realized that the danger was coming, and the only way to escape was to flee from the danger, the farther away the better, because of this psychology, more than seventy percent of the immigrants chose Longyou.

More than 18,000 households of people on the official road of Jingcheng County to the direction of Tumen Pass, they take the clan as a unit, a clan has 100 households, with the patriarch to arrange and take care of it, next to each clan there will be dozens of young men walking in line, they hold bows and arrows and long swords to protect their clan.

From time to time, there are horseback servants in the team to maintain order and resolve disputes between clans, at this time, a Hengzhou Jiang clan and a Zhaozhou Mu family quarreled because of the vigor of young people, and they did not give in to each other, hundreds of young people confronted each other, looked at each other angrily, held long swords and wooden sticks, and had a collective brawl posture, and some officials saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly went to report to the high-ranking officials of the two states.

For a moment, a team of officials escorted several officials to gallop on horseback, led by a middle-aged man, medium stature, very dark and thin, he is Zhaozhou Taishou Yan Zhenqing, Yan Zhenqing in the twenty-second year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty into the Shi and out of the Shi, several times as the supervisor of the imperial history, and then promoted to the palace of the imperial history, because of the uprightness and offended Yang Guozhong, was demoted to the local official, and then promoted to the Texas Taishou, the political achievements are remarkable, last year because of the locust plague in Zhaozhou, he was transferred to the Zhaozhou Taishou by the political hall, under his active governance, the disaster has been greatly alleviated, He has received an order from the imperial court to return to the court to serve as a waiter in the criminal department, and when he has not yet left office, he happened to encounter the great migration from Hebei, and he also resolutely supported one, and did not hesitate to slow down his departure, and actively participated in the westward migration of the people of Zhaozhou, and sent away three groups of people successively.

Among several officials, in addition to Zhaozhou Taishou Yan Zhenqing, there are Hengzhou Taishou Yan Gaoqing and Changshi Yuan Luqian, coincidentally, Yan Gaoqing is Yan Zhenqing's brother, both brothers are in Hebei for Taishou, and they are two adjacent states, and they also have outstanding political achievements and won the hearts of the people.

The two brothers, Taishou, were discussing how to distribute grain to the official warehouse, when they suddenly heard that there was a dispute between the people of Zhao and Heng Prefectures, so they immediately came to inspect it.

At this time, the migrating brigade had come to a halt because of the dispute between the two clans, both of which were obviously large clans, and the young children of the two clans gathered together in a crowd of three hundred people, and they stood in a clearing facing each other, their eyes wide and emotional, and the two patriarchs did not give in, standing behind the group to encourage their own children.

In fact, the dispute between the two families started last night, because the rations for the immigrants were provided by the official warehouse, distributed by the head of the day every day, and the patriarchs of each clan were unified to take away, and they distributed within the clan, the Jiang clan was missing two bags of grain last night, and someone found that it may have been stolen by the Mu family, and the two clans quarreled, although later the official gave the Jiang family two bags of grain as compensation, ending the quarrel, but the contradiction between the two families was not resolved, and today the two families quarreled, and the contradiction broke out again, and began to heat up.

Just when the two clans were about to break out into a fight, the Yan brothers arrived, and Yan Zhenqing shouted: "Stop!" ”

Dozens of officials rushed forward and separated the two clans, fearing officials has always been a tradition of Chinese peasants, especially high-ranking officials like Yan Zhenqing, with Yan Zhenqing's shout, more than 300 children of the two clans have put down their swords and sticks, and dare not be arrogant anymore.

Yan Gaoqing also galloped forward, he had been an official in the local area for a longer time, and he knew how to solve this contradiction, so he said to the two parties: "Where is your patriarch, let him come to see me!" ”

When the patriarchs of the two clans heard Taishou call them by name to see them, they all trembled and walked up, bowed down and saluted: "Xiaomin see Yan Taishou." ”

"Why are you two at odds?"

"Back to Taishou, they stole our rations last night."

"Nonsense! We have our own rations, so why should we steal yours? ”

"Someone saw it, but you still don't admit it!"

"You talk nonsense!"

The two patriarchs quarreled like two roosters with red faces and thick necks, Yan Gaoqing frowned, the best way in this situation is to beat them with fifty boards each, and they will not dare to quarrel.

"Okay, for the sake of your family's selfishness, you will affect everyone's progress, tonight your two families will cut the food by half, and tomorrow they will quarrel again, and then halve, and when they don't quarrel, they will return to normal."

The two clans were stunned together, they looked at each other, and pleaded together: "Back to Taishou, we don't dare to quarrel anymore, please spare us." ”

"Don't spare today, let's talk tomorrow, let's go!"

Yan Gaoqing resolved the dispute between the two families without mercy, and the team set off again and continued to move towards the west, at this time, Yan Zhenqing came over and said with a smile: "I didn't expect it to be solved so easily." ”

Yan Gaoqing smiled faintly and said, "Yes! As long as many things are pinpointed, a knife can be effective, and there is no need to spend any tongue and mind, isn't it just for food? ”

Yan Zhenqing nodded and smiled: "Brother is right!" ”

Yan Gaoqing smiled again: "This batch of immigrants has been sent through Tumen Pass, and the virtuous brother should enter the court!" ”

"Yes! Yesterday, the ministry issued a letter urging again, I have delayed it twice, this time it can't be delayed, I am ready to go to the capital tomorrow to take office, my successor may not come for a while, please ask my brother for the matter of immigration. ”

"Hmmm! Go with confidence! I can handle it. ”

The two men turned their horses' heads and sped westward.

The sky gradually darkened, and the team finally arrived at the Tumen Pass, which was lit with torches and lit as day, and there were five hundred Anxi Army guards on the gate, and the guard was a captain, called Yu Fang, an officer about thirty years old, and when he saw the arrival of the large group of immigrants, he immediately ordered: "Open the door and release the people!" ”

The gate of Tumen Pass slowly opened, and tens of thousands of immigrants began to flock into the gate, shouting, shouting, and the cries of children became a chorus, and the officials were so anxious that they shouted: "Don't be in a hurry! One by one, you can go in. ”

Yu Fang couldn't help but shake his head, isn't it the same sooner or later? What's there to hurry. At this moment, a scout rushed from a distance, he looked anxious, but the city gate was blocked by the people, but he could not enter, Yu Fang saw the scout's frightened expression, and couldn't help leaning forward and shouting, "What happened?" ”

The scout glanced at the people beside him, but did not dare to say it out loud, so he took out the information and inserted it into the arrow, broke off the arrow, and shot an arrow at the head of the city, and a soldier picked it up and handed it to Yu Fang, who was barely literate, he opened the information, and his face suddenly changed greatly.

Tens of thousands of Youzhou cavalry are coming here, and the vanguard is already thirty miles away.

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(To be continued)