The Hu Lawyers Association focused on Wang Yong's weak defense not elsewhere, it was Wang Yong's side and the Qing, Yan, and Xu 'Jiao' boundaries of Nanchen's 'Jiao', which was located in the large rolling mountains of the mountainous area of central and southern Lu in later generations.

Almost everyone can cite a few examples of the most important strategic locations in China, and why they are listed as strategic locations in the north and south.

However, in the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, especially in the early period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, because of the long-term war and military confrontation between the two sides, the military strategic places and strategic towns in this period were mainly concentrated in the Qinling Mountains in the west and extended along the south bank of the Yellow River to the south bank of the Yellow River to the land of Qing, Yan and Xu, that is, this mountainous area of central and southern Shandong in later generations.

Compared with the rugged and steep mountain ranges in western China, the cost of conducting a series of large-scale battles in this terrain is too high, so in ancient times, all battles of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people were mainly concentrated in the eastern region with vast plains, especially the large plains east of the Taihang Mountains from Yanshan to the south to the north bank of the Yangtze River.

There are many reasons why the war took place here, such as the fact that it is a large plain that stretches for thousands of miles, and the terrain is flat and suitable for large-scale cavalry and other brigades of soldiers and horses; The vast plains produce enough food to feed a large army; In addition, the dense population in the Great Plains can easily pull the strong Ding to replenish the army damaged in battle, and so on.

The most important reason is that since the Eastern Han Dynasty, China's population center of gravity has been mainly concentrated in the north China Plain east of Hangu Pass, the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, although after the war and chaos of the three kingdoms in the late Han Dynasty, the population living here still accounted for more than half of the Chinese population until the Sui and Tang dynasties.

As soon as one occupies this land, which was the richest in the world at that time and in modern times, the occupants of this place will immediately have a population, army, food, and skilled craftsmen far superior to those of other countries or powers.

However, it is not easy to occupy this plain, and the large plain is easy to attack and difficult to defend for both the north and the south, especially compared to the Northern Dynasty with a large number of cavalry, the disadvantage of the Southern Dynasty without cavalry is more obvious.

Fortunately, there are many rivers on the plains, especially the dense water network in the Huainan area, relying on these rivers and the cities built up by various states and counties, the Southern Dynasty can also defend its own territory while fighting with the Northern Dynasty.

In this situation, located in the center of the north and south of the entire Great Plain, the mountainous area of central and southern Shandong is more important, from the topographic map of China in later generations, it can be clearly seen that the north of the mountainous area of central and southern Shandong is the Hebei Plain that can lead to the Yanshan Mountains to the north of Beijing, to the west or the plain continues to the Taihang Mountains, to the south, in addition to more rivers and lakes, mixed with a large plain of a few hills until the north bank of the Yangtze River.

In the great plain within a radius of thousands of miles, this piece of undulating mountains represented by Mount Tai and 'Meng' Mountain is more tall and majestic, and Mount Tai, which is still a little short compared with the other four mountains among the five mountains, is called the honor of the five mountains and is the place where the Son of Heaven sacrifices to heaven in the past dynasties.

As long as the nomadic forces that dominated the Northern Dynasties controlled this mountainous area in the center of the entire North China Plain, they could firmly occupy the rich land north of the Great River, led by Jizhou and Yecheng, and after holding the Qing and Yan lands, they could also peep into and seize Luoyang, Liangjun and other prefectures and counties south of the Great River.

After seizing these places that have always been known for their affluence, and obtaining a large amount of local manpower and material resources, the nomadic forces that seized the northern power can safely let their horses go south to attack Pengcheng (Xuzhou) Huaisi area and other areas controlled by the Southern Dynasties, and can even cross the Huai River to attack Huainan until the north bank of the Yangtze River, and even cross the Yangtze River several times to attack Jiankang, the administrative center of the Southern Dynasties, such as the Northern Qi Dynasty.

In that year, Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty was defeated by the Northern Expeditionary Army during the period of Liu, Song and Yuanjia, and broke through the Yellow River defense line of the Southern Dynasty, and then led tens of thousands of cavalry all the way south to attack continuously.

The failure of this military northern expedition was a very big blow to the Southern Dynasties, until the Southern Song Dynasty, Xin Qiji also wrote in the "Yongyule Jingkou Beiguting Nostalgia" in the "Yongyule Jingkou Beiguting Nostalgia" sentence "Yuan Jia Caocao, win the Canghuang Beigu" and "a crow shrine drum under the Buddha Temple", the Buddha is the nickname of Tuoba Tao.

Compared with the Northern Dynasties, which had the advantage of large-scale cavalry, this large area of mountainous areas in central and southern Lu on the Great Plains was more important for the Southern Dynasties, which had always lacked cavalry!

During the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, due to the lack of cavalry in the Southern Dynasties, although many Northern Expeditions were launched against the Northern Dynasties in an attempt to expel the Tatars and restore the Central Plains, most of them also achieved some results at the beginning of the Northern Expedition; But in the end, due to the lack of horses and poor mobility of the troops, they had to deploy defenses everywhere on the Great Plains, so that the armies of the Southern Dynasties were greatly dispersed.

After that, the Southern Dynasty was easily annihilated by the Northern Dynasties through the powerful mobility of the cavalry, and quickly concentrated superior forces to annihilate the Southern Dynasties in various places one after another, thwarting the Northern Expedition of the Southern Dynasties.

Because of the lack of horses, the army of the Southern Dynasties was mainly composed of water troops and supplemented by infantry in the areas south of the Huai River, while in the north of the Huai River, because the water network was no longer dense, they had to rely on infantry.

Although the powerful infantry team established by the Southern Dynasty with the northern displaced people was very 'elite', compared to the four-legged cavalry, these people could not catch up with the cavalry of the Northern Dynasty, and the follow-up grain route needed to be protected by a large number of troops, so that the Southern Dynasty needed to rely on the terrain to defend against the attack of the Northern Dynasty.

If the Southern Dynasties occupied the mountainous areas of central and southern Shandong, the south of the Yangtze River would no longer be in danger of being attacked by the Northern Dynasties, not to mention that the rich Lianghuai Land and the Huaisi Region could carry out stable agricultural production, and the Southern Dynasties could also seek the rich land of Sanqi, compete with the Northern Dynasties for Henan, and even threaten the Hebei region, on which the Northern Dynasties relied the most. In this way, the Southern Dynasty gained the upper hand in the struggle between the North and the South.

Now, after more than a year of chaos, this strategic place has been occupied by various forces. Wang Yong had already controlled Qizhou, Qingzhou and other places north of the Taishan Mountains, and to the east occupied large mountainous areas such as Southern Qingzhou and Dong'an County in the upper reaches of Yishui.

The Southern Dynasty occupied a small mountainous area to the south of Yitang County, which was probably located in the southern Rizhao area on the border between Shandong and Jiangsu in later generations, and barely occupied a border; while the Northern Qi Dynasty only occupied a small area of Yanzhou and Qufu to the east of Gaoping County, and most of the other mountainous prefectures and counties were nominally controlled by the local tyrants who had nominally defected to the Southern Dynasties, and there were countless smaller bandits and bandits in various places during this period.

When it comes to Qufu, you may immediately think that this is the place where Confucius was born, of course, it is not wrong to say this, in fact, in addition to Confucius was born here, there are Mencius, Yan Hui, Zeng Shen's hometown, it is said that Emperor Yan, Yellow Emperor, Chiyou, Shaohao have all established their capital here in Qufu, and the capital of the Shang Dynasty before moving the capital to Yinxu is Qufu.

However, no matter how prosperous a place is, after the wind and rain of time, it will inevitably gradually decline and become a name that outsiders never know.

After experiencing the prosperous culture of the Lu State known as the "State of Etiquette" and the strong Han Dynasty, in the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, because of the long-term war "chaos", the rulers of various countries only attached importance to the most needed practical talents and technical "sexual" talents, in the Han Dynasty, Wei and Jin Confucianism, the status has been much worse than before, even with Qufu, the holy place of Confucianism that once gave birth to Confucius, has lost its former glory.

Especially since Wang Yong, Wang Ze and his son swept through the Sanqi caused a series of wars and 'chaos', the powerful and bandits in various places have risen one after another, and their respective conquests have continued, and it is also common for the city to change the king's flag, which has led to the original very remote town becoming more desolate and backward.

Since this year, because the bandits from nearby Dongping County and Dongtaishan County have come to loot from time to time, and the officials and soldiers have not been able to take care of it because of the remoteness of this place, it has led to the outflow of the local population.

The land of Qufu in October is already early winter, but thanks to the warm climate during this period, Qufu located in the southwest of Shandong does not seem to be so cold, in addition to the plane tree, poplar tree and other trees that are easy to lose their leaves early, many fresh leaves can be seen on the large elm trees all over the city and outside the city are still growing on it.

The nests of birds in the trees are very obvious in the trees that have fallen almost to the ground, and large flocks of wild birds are jumping from branch to branch, most of these birds are ordinary birds such as sparrows and gray finches, and occasionally you can see larger crows or owls resting with their eyes closed.

From time to time, birds fly from the trees to the grass on the ground to feed, and from time to time there are larks screaming and roaring into the sky, and in the large yellow barren grass, you can still see that the grasses with relatively tenacious vitality are still exuding the light of life in green, and even in some low-lying places on the southern slope of the sun, there are still many grasses that still maintain green 'color'.

In early winter, there is still a large amount of grass in the grass, and from time to time there are large flocks of wild birds rising and falling in the grass in search of full grass seeds to fill their bellies; Even the warmest winters are harder than the summer and autumn seasons, and they need to use the energy contained in these delicious grass seeds to store enough fat in their bodies to survive the winter that is already coming.

Because of the continuous war, there is no figure on the road from Yanzhou to Qufu City, and the road that was three zhang wide the year before last is now occupied by dense weeds, leaving only a road surface more than one zhang wide because of the lack of maintenance, the road potholes have been damaged a lot.

It may be that no one has passed by for a long time, and there are still a few wild sheep on the side of the road because they are greedy for the fresh grass by a puddle on the side of the road, and they have never left here for a long time.

Suddenly, one of the rams in charge of the sentry pricked up his ears as if he heard something, so he 'bleated' to the other wild sheep who were still grazing beside him······ A long cry began, and the other wild sheep immediately followed the ram and disappeared into the woods not far away.

Immediately after that, while a few wild sheep were hiding in the woods, they heard the crisp sound of horses' hooves coming from afar, and if an experienced old scout was there, just listening to the sound of the horses' hooves gently kicking the road, you could know that this must be a military horse, or the kind of war horse usually used only by scouts and scouts.

As the sound of horses' hooves approached, three cavalrymen in light armor galloped quickly with five-color flags, each of them hung long weapons such as spears and horse lances, and at his waist was a four-foot-to-two-foot long horizontal knife and a longbow, and a quiver full of carved arrows was hung behind his back.

A young cavalryman about twenty years old asked another cavalryman who was nearly thirty years old, "Brother Wei Chi, why did the general bring us here in Qufu?" Further east, there are large mountains, is it possible that the general wants to take us through the vast mountains to sneak attack the Sanqi rebels? ”

The older cavalryman known as Brother Wei Chi was called Wei Chi Nan, he glanced at the young cavalryman and said loudly: "No matter what you do so much, the general who has led us to fight in the east and west all these years will definitely not take us to suffer a big loss, if we can do it this time, we will make a great contribution!" ”

Another twenty-four-five-year-old young cavalryman also spoke: "Brother Wei Chi, I have also been to this place from Yanzhou to Qufu back then, and then go east through Surabaya, Pingyi, Philadelphia and North Xuzhou until the sea for thousands of miles, the mountain road is very difficult to walk, and most of the way through the mountains and forests The terrain is very dangerous, and there are large groups of bandits, you don't know how powerful the Taishan thieves are, as long as someone finds a random place to ambush them, we will all be finished!" ”

The twenty-year-old cavalry was said by his own robe Ze suddenly felt a cold, he was originally a native of Gaoping County, Yanzhou, although he later came to northern Xinjiang to join the army, but when he was young, he also saw the majesty of Taishan thieves passing near Gaoping and Yanzhou, and even the officers and soldiers were guarding the city and did not dare to go out.

So he asked the senior cavalryman, "Brother Wei Chi, we don't really have to cross this thousands of miles of mountain roads, do we?" When the Taishan thieves swept through the countryside of Qizhou, there was a lot of movement, if they were really targeted, I am afraid that we will have a hard time in the future! ”

Hearing the hidden fear in the young cavalry's words, Wei Chi Nan reprimanded: "Now most of our 50,000 troops led by the general are 'elite' sharp troops from the northern Xinjiang, and they have all fought with the Rouran people and the Turks. ”

As he spoke, he turned his head to another soldier and said: "These Taishan thieves and other small bands of thieves are good to say if they know each other, if they don't know each other and dare to come and 'disturb' our army, the general will definitely let them know why 'flowers' are so red!" ”

After saying this, Wei Chi Nan pointed to Qufu City, which was faintly visible in the distance, and said to the two: "Let's hurry to the city today and let them arrange food and accommodation, the general will definitely be able to rush here today, don't delay the time and be in a hurry!" As he spoke, he hurried forward quickly.

The three cavalry galloped away, and the smoke and dust raised were quickly blown away by the cold wind of early winter, and after four or five hours, close to dusk, the distant avenue began to raise dust and smoke again, and there were dozens to hundreds of cavalry scouts running through the road, and after more than a thousand people passed, a large army appeared on the avenue.

In the smoke and dust, drums sounded, flags fluttered, and the tallest of them was vaguely written on the two huge seal scripts of 'Dugu'! Dugu Yongye is here!