"Entering the Central Plains from Hebei, the closest to Bianliang is Weizhou, and we must defend Yangliu City if we want to block the Beihu army from crossing the river from Weizhou. ”

In the Qinzheng Palace, Han Zhao, the deputy governor of the Dadu Governor's Office, pointed to the military map and said to Song Zhi and others:

"After this period of intensive defense, the defense line of the big river with Yangliucheng as the core has been very strong, and the Beihu army wants to cross the river head-on and approach Bianliang, which is tantamount to a fantasy. ”

For Beihu, the capture of Bianliang and the expulsion of Song Zhi and the Great Qi court from here is equivalent to capturing half of the Central Plains.

With the sharpness of the opponent's previous sweep across the Hebei region, the Manchu Dynasty did not feel half surprised by their military subordinates who were mainly attacking Yangliucheng - this was also the news that the army scouts had detected.

"In this way, as long as the main force of the army is deployed on the front line of Yangliucheng, it can contain the invasion of the northern Hunan. Beihu is not accustomed to water warfare, and it is difficult to deal with our army's naval division on the river, and with the strong defense line of Yangliucheng, Bianliang should be impregnable. Prime Minister Chen Xun touched his beard and groaned.

Han Zhao nodded: "That's true. ”

After everyone finished talking, Song Zhi pondered for a moment and said: "Beihu looks powerful, and no one can stop sweeping Hebei, but in fact, it is just taking advantage of surprise.

"Now they have been attacking Jingcheng Pass and Chengtian Pass for several months, and the two Xiongguan are still firmly in the hands of the Hedong Army, and Beihu has left tens of thousands of corpses in front of the pass, and has not been able to kill Jindi, which shows that Beihu is not so difficult to fight.

"Zhuqing, hold Yangliucheng, let the Beihu army bury the bones of the Yellow River, and when their offensive is frustrated and there are heavy casualties, it is the time for the Wang Division to counterattack and recover Hebei!"

The ministers in the palace all bowed down.

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Pinewood Town.

After so many years, he finally came out and became the master of the blacksmith shop, although because he was young, he still had to give the master a hand, so he got rid of the identity of the apprentice.

At dusk, at the end of the day's work, when he sat in front of the door and ate with a big bowl, Li Datou habitually looked at the two-story restaurant across the street. There are not many people entering and leaving the restaurant, which is very different from before, because the Beihu army has occupied the place.

The officials of the Great Qi of the official government were all replaced, and they became fierce barbarians, who would patrol the streets from time to time, and if anyone they thought was misbehaving, they would be killed in the street immediately.

When the other party first came, Songlin Town was not without a land snake who was unconvinced, but after the leader of the other party showed his cultivation in the middle stage of the Imperial Qi Realm, no one dared to get along with them.

At present, the people of Songlin Town try to go out as much as possible, so as not to be found fault by the other party on the street.

Although Songlin Town is a small place, its location is important, and Beihu has stationed two hundred-man teams here, so although there are few Hu people in the official office, there are many Beihu soldiers who appear on the street.

These grassland barbarians are more fierce than the other, they don't regard human life as human life, and they are addicted to alcohol, and they often play drunk on the street, rob people's daughters, and even kill people for no reason.

In front of these people, there is nothing that can be done by those rich and wealthy families in Songlin Town, even if the wives and daughters of the family are defiled, and if they resist a little, they will fall to the ground.

Suddenly, Li Datou's eyes shrank slightly, and the person he was familiar with broke into his field of vision:

The owner of the restaurant, Zuo Che'er, nodded and respectfully, and sent three or five drunken Beihu people out of the restaurant, with a flattering attitude like a dog, and how hateful the smiling face looked.

When he was seven years old, Zuo Che'er was appreciated by the owner of the restaurant and became the second shopkeeper, and since then he has become famous in Songlin Town, and gradually respected the township.

In the ninth year of Qianfu, Zuo Che'er became the shopkeeper of the restaurant, and in the twelfth year of Qianfu, that is, last year, the owner of the restaurant resold the restaurant to him, so Zuo Che'er, who was only in his twenties, became a rich man in Songlin Town.

When Zuo Che became the shopkeeper, Li Datou could only be a man with his tail between his legs, and after the other party became the owner of the restaurant, he was in awe of Zuo Che from the bottom of his heart.

The grudge in the past has long been thrown out of the clouds by him, and he doesn't even dare to think about it, but whenever he meets the other party, his waist will bend very low, for fear that the other party will remember the feud between the two in the early years and make him lose his livelihood in Songlin Town.

After discovering that Zuo Che'er did not have the same knowledge as him, when Li Datou bragged to others, he would even exaggerate the deep friendship between him and the other party when he was young, and he was a good brother who often sat together to chat and eat.

But now, everything is different.

Before the Hu people occupied Songlin Town, Zuo Che'er was the leading figure in Songlin Town, with extensive contacts and unparalleled prestige, and was the object sought after by young people in the town, even if he was working against the government in order to stand up for the common people, the government did not dare to do anything to him.

At that time, whoever mentioned the left car had to give a thumbs up.

When the Hu people occupied Songlin Town, the people of Songlin Town, especially the young people, who were simple and knew good and evil, wanted to fight each other to the death.

When the other party first came, there were not many people, and those chivalrous young men who liked to fight bravely and fiercely and advocated morality on weekdays all thought that even if they couldn't keep Songlin Town and drive the other party away, they would have to cut off a few bearded heads, and it would be a big deal to cross the Yellow River to the Central Plains.

The good families in the town are also willing to give money to these chivalrous young men to help them form a righteous army, and the worst will not let them run away when they run away, worrying that they will starve to death after arriving in the Central Plains.

However, as the actual leader of these chivalrous young men, the fighter who has been upholding justice for the poor people all these years, and the hero in the eyes of everyone in Songlin Town, Zuo Che'er rejected everyone's proposal.

This directly led to the leaderlessness of the dragons in Songlin Town, and finally failed to set off a wave of rebellion, failed to fight for his family and country, not only that, but he was also the first to come forward to greet Beihu when he arrived, and expressed his willingness to saddle the front and rear of the Hu people in public.

The Hu people who came to Songlin Town, after knowing Zuo Che'er's status in the town, were immediately very happy to see him so sensible.

They gave him a vacant official position, regarded him as a model, and took him to the township to publicize it greatly, calling on the people of Songlin Town to obey the rule of the Hu people like Zuo Che'er, otherwise their lives would be lost.

Since then, Zuo Che'er's status in the hearts of the people of Songlin Town has fallen directly from the clouds to the dust.

Everyone was secretly poking him in the back, calling him a traitor to the country, some hot-blooded and brave chivalrous young men, and they also went to assassinate Zuo Che'er at night, but they didn't succeed.

All in all, in the eyes of today's people in Songlin Town, Zuo Che'er just wants to be a good Qi person, but wants to be the existence of a dog.

Some people said that they had seen Zuo Che'er by mistake before, but they didn't expect to know people and faces, but now they finally found out the true face of the other party, so they stopped interacting with each other, and in fact cut off their robes with each other.

Some people say that Zuo Che'er has a bad character and is used to selling his reputation and reputation, and everyone was just deceived by him before, and this kind of person should be killed by thunder.

Li Datou exchanged a look with the grain shop guy on the side, and they both saw the heavy disdain and disgust in each other's eyes.

Although they didn't dare to show it openly, this did not prevent them from scolding each other's ancestors for eighteen generations in their hearts.

"What a hero, a chivalrous and righteous man, is just a soft bone, when he encounters a real strong man, he has no backbone, he used to show off his might in front of us, like a human being, and now he is a dog for a barbarian, it is really shameless! Lu Yao knows that horsepower has been seen in the hearts of the people for a long time, and this is really true!"

Li Datou thought so, and took a bite of rice into his mouth, as if he was eating Zuo Che'er's flesh and blood now.

Although he is only the second master of the blacksmith shop, the monthly income is only one or two silver, and the left car is still the owner of the restaurant.

It's like a god, but the other party is just an ant, and it's a stinky ant.

No matter which dynasty or generation it is, the thieves who committed treason and defected to the enemy during the war are always the target of all people's condemnations, and Li Datou feels that his figure is now thousands of times greater than that of the other party.

He didn't dare to assassinate Zuo Che'er, he didn't dare to leave Songlin Town, which was occupied by the Hu people, abandon his livelihood to cross the Yellow River, and go to Wang Shi He didn't have the courage to even speak out in front of people about the other party's mistakes and slander the other party's morality, for fear of being detected by the other party and suffering angry retaliation.

But if one day, the other party is abandoned by the Hu people or hacked to death by Wang Shi, he is confident that he must have the courage to rush to the other party's corpse, cut off a piece of meat on the other party's body and eat it in public, showing his noble character of swearing to stand against the national thief.

Zuo Che'er didn't know what Li Datou was thinking, and after sending away the few Hu people who wore gold and silver, and wanted to hang the wealth plundered in the war, in the most conspicuous place on his body, he returned to the store and went straight to the backyard.

In the wing room in the backyard, there was a man dressed as a farmer waiting for him - the other party came over, and did send bacon and pickles to the restaurant, and was now waiting for him to settle the bill.

"What are Commander Hu's instructions?" Zuo Che'er sat down at the table intently, and while picking up the account book, he asked how much silver should be settled this month.

"We have news that must be sent to Yunzhou as soon as possible, you have to arrange for our people to cross the river!"

The cultivator of Yipinlou, dressed as a farmer, lowered his voice and said quickly: "The big war is imminent, and the Hu people have strengthened their patrols at various ferries, and the previous road is impassable. ”

Hearing this, Zuo Che'er's eyes lit up: "But the information I provided a few days ago has been confirmed by Commander Hu?"

It has been not a short time since the Hu people came to Songlin Town, and under Zuo Che'er's hospitality and constant flattery, the relationship with some Hu people has become better and better.

A few days ago, a centurion stationed in Songlin Town, when he came to him to drink, he was very drunk, and after getting drunk, he revealed the news that they were about to leave Songlin Town and go to the direction of Yunzhou. At that time, the centurion expressed his regret that he could no longer enjoy the wine and food of the restaurant.

Through what he saw and heard during this period of time, Zuo Che'er deduced the possibility that Beihu was going to use troops on a large scale in Yunzhou, and urgently passed the news on at that time - before the arrival of the Hu people, all the strongholds under the jurisdiction of Yipinlou received orders to monitor the movements of the Hu people and listen to the number of Hu soldiers and horses in various places.

"I can't tell you, and I don't know. ”

The farmer replied.

After Zuo Che'er asked, he knew that he had lost his words.

It is impossible for the other party to disclose such a major news, and even the other party does not know what the news to send is. But since the matter is so urgent, it is better to go to Yunzhou, and the situation is not far from ten.

He had just lost his words, and he also thought that he had provided important news for the battle of Wang Shi and made meritorious contributions to the country, and he suddenly felt a strong sense of pride, and his heart was agitated, so he didn't keep his mind for a while.

"I'll be able to send you across the river tonight!" Zuo Che'er handed over the money to the other party.

He has been operating in Songlin Town for many years, and he is very familiar with every grass and tree in the surrounding area, and he is very familiar with the Hu people during this time, and he knows a lot about the other party, so it is not difficult to do this.