"Something is wrong!" Although Han Biao's voice was low, Hu Bingchang felt that his ears were stunned for a moment, and then his chest felt a little suffocated like a heavy hammer hitting his chest, could it be that there was really something wrong in the rear of Qizhou?

Seeing that his own side and the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Qi army have been fighting for several months, and now they have reached the stage of stalemate, it depends on who will hold on. Hu Bingchang knew in his heart that as long as he could survive this difficult winter, next year Beizhou and Nanchen would inevitably divide the victory and stop fighting.

In this way, the Northern Zhou will inevitably devote its main energy to its old opponent Northern Qi, and when the time comes, with the containment of the Northern Zhou, even if the Northern Zhou does not send troops, the Northern Qi will have to station at least 200,000 troops on the western border, and by that time, the offensive of the Northern Qi will not be so fierce.

Northern Qi also knows this situation, so the offensive has been very fierce, fortunately they rely on the geographical advantage to block the offensive of the Qi army, but if at this time Qi Zhou and other rear of their own side have a bad change, it will be too unjust for their side.

After thinking for a while, Hu Bingchang decided to entrust his big brother Qin Lang, who has always been good at defense, to guard the camp, in case the Qi army got the news and took the opportunity to sneak attack the camp, while he himself and Cheng Chong, Zhou Tong, Xun Yun and others hurried towards Jibei County with hundreds of cavalry.

As soon as I got out of the camp, I felt that the wind was stronger, Hu Bingchang's vision was all white except for some big trees covered with snow, and the uneven fields in the past can no longer distinguish the ups and downs, but the direction leading to the county town of Jibei has already been stepped out of a road by the soldiers and horses, but he is not afraid of losing his way, that is, the road after the snow is covered with horses, the war horses can only move forward in small steps and can not run fast.

The snow covered on the road is seven or eight inches thick, although it looks very flat, but there are often hidden dangers under the snow, and some potholes on the side of the road have already been blown by the strong wind, and the snow drifts are as flat as the road, if you accidentally go the wrong way, it is very likely to break the horse and break the horse's leg.

However, even in such weather, the scouts and horses of the Qi army and the Xia army did not stop for a while, and from time to time you could see more than a dozen to dozens of people passing by in the nearby fields, and Hu Bingchang once even found that there were more than a dozen Northern Qi horses following his team.

However, these Qi army scouts saw Hu Bingchang and others following hundreds of cavalry, and they didn't dare to approach, but followed a short distance away, when Hu Bingchang found that this Qi army scouts were ready to let the cavalry expel them, these Qi army scouts quickly rode away and disappeared from everyone's sight.

Hu Bingchang was a little surprised and a little dissatisfied that the Qi army was able to break through its own scouts and horse blockades, and ran to a range of only a few miles from Jibei County, although there was a reason why their horses could not run because of the heavy snowfall, but it also proved the fact that the combat effectiveness of the Qi cavalry far exceeded that of their own.

The camp is ten miles away from the county seat of Jibei, in fact, it is very fast to ride a war horse, and you can see from a distance that a large piece of snow is scattered from the city head from time to time, like a white silk practice sprinkled on the ground, that is a soldier sweeping the snow on the top of the city wall, otherwise it will penetrate into the soil on the city wall after the snow melts and reduce the compactness of the city wall.

Because the main direction of attack of the Qi army is that Hu Bingchang's camp is far away from the county town of Jibei, so the city is open and there is no danger of the enemy attacking, there is a hundred-person team guarding inside and outside the city gate, and there are more than 1,000 city guards stationed in the military camp hundreds of meters away from the city gate in the city.

However, when Hu Bingchang, Zhou Tong and others entered the county guard's mansion, they immediately felt the heaviness of the atmosphere, the original crowded county guard mansion is now quiet, and there is no idler here, and hundreds of Wang Yong's personal guards outside a lobby in the mansion are strictly guarded, staring at everyone who enters their sight.

However, these guards were obviously instructed by Wang Yong and knew Hu Bingchang and others, and when they saw Hu Bingchang and others coming, they immediately put Hu Bingchang and others in, and Hu Bingchang and the others guards also knew the rules, and they were all waiting outside the county guard's mansion.

Hu Bingchang walked to the door of the lobby and heard that it was quiet and a little strange, but as soon as he came in, he saw that more than a dozen generals at the rank of captain and above of Jibei County were all in the hall, and these generals only nodded when they saw Hu Bingchang and others coming, but no one spoke, and Wang Yong, who was the focus of everyone's attention, stared at the sand table in the center of the hall with a heavy face.

When the Survey Division made these sand tables, there were only five in total, one each for Wang Yong and Yuan Jia, and it turned out that Wang Yong's general line in Qizhou had one, and there was one in Qingzhou Xiagong's Mansion, and the last one was brought to Jeju Island by Wang Ze.

In the past, the delicate sand table is now filled with small colored flags used to distinguish the defense of our and enemy armies, the ochre yellow colored flags represent the Northern Qi army, the red flag represents Wang Yong's army, and the surrounding other countries also have their own colored armies.

In fact, at the beginning, the color of the flag of the Northern Qi army was not yellow, and the flag color of the Qi army was still red when Gao Huan first established the Eastern Wei Dynasty, but in the early years of Wuding (543 AD), the Qi army fought against the Western Wei army led by Yuwentai in Luoyang Mangshan, when the flag of the Qi army was red, and the flag of the Western Wei army was black.

Just when Gao Huan couldn't win the battle for a long time, Qimu Huaiwen, the most powerful weapon master in the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi periods, came to Gao Huan's camp to offer the divine soldiers he had built, and said to Gao Huan: "Red is the color of fire; Black is the color of water. Water can extinguish fires, and red against black should not be used. The soil can win the water, so it should be changed to yellow.

So Gao Huan changed all the flags of the army under his command to ochre yellow, which is the famous "Heyang Flag Change" incident in history. Of course, even Gao Huan changed the color of the flag to ochre yellow, which could not help him defeat Yuwentai, and finally ended up depressed because of the defeat in the battle with the Western Wei Dynasty.

Without further ado, the ochre yellow banners that represent the colors of the Northern Qi army are now mostly used in the battlefields of Jeju and Jibei counties and the plains on the other side of the Yellow River in Jeju, and there is hardly any open space densely planted. Zero Zero Book House

The small red flag, which symbolizes Wang Yong's army, is also a small flag close to the Qi army, which crowds this small area of Jeju and Jibei County; In addition, there were some banners along the south bank of Qizhou and the Yellow River, where mainly Ge Wei's cavalry and the naval army under Zhang Feng and Zhong Likai; As for Qingzhou, Gwangju, Changguang County, and other states and counties located in the rear of Qizhou, they are sparsely planted with one or two small red flags.

Although the sand table in front of him is very exquisite, Hu Bingchang doesn't know how many times he has seen it, and he has long passed the fresh stage, and he doesn't know what General Wang Yong is looking at.

When Hu Bingchang stepped forward to take a closer look, he immediately found that there was a large undulating place on the sand table, and the small flags planted on the city where he was located had changed.

The prefectures and counties of North Xuzhou, Dongtaishan County, Lanling County and other prefectures and counties that were originally at the junction of their own side and Nanchen have now all become small ochre yellow flags on behalf of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and even some of the southern Qingzhou and Dong'an counties to the north are also planted with ochre yellow flags.

Wait! South Qingzhou? Isn't that the place you occupy? Hu Bingchang still remembers that it was the territory that Cheng Chong had beaten down at the beginning, and since spring and summer, the old man of the cottage, Lu Wen, has been there as a assassin, but how did this place become a place occupied by the Northern Qi Dynasty!

Hu Bingchang suddenly felt a chill down his spine and felt that something was very bad, why did he suddenly turn such a large area of dangerous territory into the territory of Northern Qi again?

"Bingchang, Zhou Tong, you're all here!" Wang Yong, who was staring at the sand table just now, finally came back to his senses and greeted Hu Bingchang, Zhou Tong and others, "You don't know that something happened in Nanqingzhou!" Without waiting for everyone to answer, Wang Yong said in a low voice, "The Qi army has captured Nanqingzhou City, and Mr. Lu was not in the city before, but now he is missing!" ”

Now everyone understands why Wang Yong is in a bad mood, Lu Wen is Wang Yong's father's old subordinate, it can be said that Wang Yong played with Lu Wen's ass when he was young, and later followed Lu Wenxue when he read and learned calligraphy, and Lu Wen's sadness when he had an accident Wang Yong can be imagined.

After Wang Yong's detailed narration, Hu Bingchang found that the situation was really not good, not only that Dugu Yongye had occupied Nanqingzhou and began to threaten the safety of the hinterland of Sanqi, but also that there had been many riots in the hinterland of Sanqi mainly launched by the remnants of the powerful forces who fled in the past.

Although the rebellion of these powerful remnants was quickly quelled by the garrison troops stationed in various places, it also showed that there were still a large number of disgruntled people in the hinterland of Sanqi.

"General, now the hinterland of Sanqi is extremely empty, once it is broken into it by the Qi army and then summons a large number of disgruntled people to join the army, so that the ranks of the Qi army will expand rapidly, and the most important thing is that the general should not ignore the monks who are still serving hard labor who are still building the road between Jiaozhou Port and Qizhou!" Hu Bingchang, who has always been relatively calm, is also a little restless.

After listening to Hu Bingchang's words, Wang Yong was also shocked into a cold sweat, thinking that as long as he sent a part of the army to block Dugu Yongye's attack, he forgot that there was such a time bomb under his rule.

Since last year, all the Futu Sect in the land of Sanqi was cut down and the temples were destroyed, and more than 100,000 monks were degraded to hard labor, these monks were also relatively low-key under the guard of the army, and honestly built the official road from Jiaozhou Port to Qizhou, which made Wang Yong forget that these monks were not pure and lovely little white rabbits, but evil beasts trapped in cages.

Because of the extreme demand for labor in the land of Sanqi in the past two years, Wang Yong also cherished the hard labor of these monks, if he died, where would he get so many coolies; So after more than a year of hard work, these monks still have more than 100,000 people.

If Dugu Yongye invaded the hinterland of Sanqi and got the help of these monks, then it would not take long to be a powerful army, and what is even worse is that these monks are full of resentment towards their own side, and they must move forward bravely when they fight.

Can't let Dugu Yongye attack the hinterland of Sanqi, he must send reinforcements quickly, Wang Yong made a decision in his heart, but it is easier said than done, how to let the army quickly rush to Jiaozhou?

In ancient times, when transportation was difficult, the fastest and safest way for large armies to move was by water, which is one of the reasons why the countries that occupied the upper reaches of the great rivers in ancient China had a better chance of unifying the world.

In the past, Wang Yong could have urgently transported a group of troops to the Jiaozhou front line through the warships of the navy, but now because of the cold weather, the ice floes floating on the water cannot sail, and the ships can only give up.

Since the waterway can't be walked, then you have to take the land route, and the best way to take the land route is to ride a horse, which means that it is better to send cavalry to Jiaozhou to support, but because the road is slippery on a snowy day, the war horse can only walk in small steps, and it is not much faster than the infantry.

Jiaozhou City, which is now being attacked by Dugu Yongye, is nearly a thousand miles away from Jibei County, and the hundreds of miles from Qizhou to Jibei County are even more muddy and difficult to walk because they have not been rebuilt.

If an army is sent from Qizhou, there is no army to defend along the Yellow River, and just when Wang Yong didn't know what to do, he suddenly heard a voice next to him: "General, I have a way!" ”