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In fact, there are roots in Xiliang Zhang's attack on Qinzhou and Longxi. In that year, Wang Zhen took advantage of the siege and annihilation of Shi Shi Ning and Liu Ning, the general of Anxi, in Northern Zhao and Qinzhou, to escape from Anding County, and went out of Jingyuan and Liangzhou from the pigeon ferry.

After arriving in Liangzhou, Wang Zheng didn't know what way to find it, so he leaned on Zhang Chonghua's confidant Shen Meng, and frantically encouraged Shen Meng to go south to attack Longyou: "Liangzhou Zeng's new Guanlong is really a fluke, and there is no strength. Its foundation is shallow, like building a building in the sand. Liang Wang Deze Hexi, the power of Longyou, the people are all looking forward to it, such a God-given opportunity, why not take advantage of it? Adults are also good at making immortal achievements, and they are more solid. ”

When Shen Meng heard this, he immediately thought about it in his heart. Back then, Beizhao Shihu didn't know what was crazy, so he gritted his teeth and fell in love with Xiliang. Although the people of Xiliang withstood the attack of Shi Hu* under the "wise leadership" of Zhang Chonghua and kept the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains of Zhangjia, the land of Henan was completely lost. Nan'an County and Longxi County were lost, Jincheng County and Wuwei County lost half, and they could only retreat to Hebei, which has always made Zhang Chonghua angry. If he asks King Liang to seize this opportunity, recover the lost territory, expand the territory and merge the territory, this credit will naturally be the first share.

So Shen Meng ran to Zhang Chonghua for a flicker, and immediately opened Zhang Chonghua's heart, and the important minister Zhang Zuo and the chamberlain Zhao Chang also agreed, so Zhang Chonghua was eager to send troops immediately, until Chang'an, to complete the dream of unifying the west of the Guanlong River.

At the beginning, Zhang Chonghua was ready to appoint the famous general Xie Ai as the main general, but Xie Ai resolutely refused to accept this disorderly fate, and scolded Shen Meng for being greedy for personal merit and damaging national strength, and was a mediocre and ignorant villain, which made Shen Meng so angry that he almost vomited blood. And Zhang Chonghua was also angry by Xie Ai's words of pointing at the bald head and scolding the monk, and in a fit of anger, he cut Xie Ai's envoys, governors, and generals to recruit the military and guard generals, but he continued to receive the Fulu County Uncle, and then appointed the old post Jiuquan Taishou, and sent away far away.

The obstacle was removed, but there was no general to lead the army. Shen Meng, as the proposer, was not easy to refuse, so Mao recommended himself, Zhang Chonghua was overjoyed, worshiped him as the general of Zhengnan, led the cavalry of 15,000 people, and went out of Jincheng Ferry through Yun Street to take Jincheng County.

Shen Meng took Wang Cheng as the forward general and led 5,000 men and horses as the front army. They entered Yun Street in October of the fifth year of Yonghe and began to stock up on grain and grass, collect supplies for ships, and prepare to go south. When the spring is warm and the ice melts, thousands of people in Hebei Province were immediately recruited, and it took more than ten days to build a wide pontoon bridge with dozens of large wooden boats at Jincheng Ferry. Then Shen Meng led the army to the first pass of Henan's defense, Shangqu Pass.

Shangquguan is actually an earthen fort sentry tower, built on a mountain not far from the river, the key role is to observe the movement of the river up and down more than 100 miles, there are dozens of Qinzhou stationed in it. When they saw Shen Meng overhauling the pontoon bridge at Jincheng Ferry, they had already reported back to Xu Dang, who was stationed in Xiangwu, Longxi, and Xu Dang immediately reported to Mao Muzhi, the Qinzhou assassin stationed in Tianshui. Mao Mu ordered that the Liang army was not allowed to harass the bridge repair, and sent Xu Dang to lead a group of infantry troops to rush to Jincheng, join the infantry army stationed there, hoard grain and grass, collect and disperse the people, strengthen the city defense, and prepare to strictly defend Jincheng. And Mao Muzhi immediately ordered to gather the four-box infantry army and prepare to stand by to advance westward.

Therefore, when the defenders of Shangquguan saw that the pontoon bridge had just been repaired and tens of thousands of Liang troops flocked to the south of the river, they did not panic at all, lit a fire, lit the prepared wolf smoke, and then calmly rode away in the wolf smoke rising from the sky and rushed back to Jincheng.

Xu Dang, who received the wolf smoke alarm, immediately sent a message to Mao Muzhi of Tianshui, and then ordered the four cities to be closed and prepare to fight.

Shen Meng spent more than ten days repairing the pontoon bridge in Jincheng, but he didn't see the Qinzhou soldiers coming over to fart, and he became more and more convinced of what Wang Zheng said, the generals and soldiers under Zeng Liangzhou were all cowardly and cowardly. So he led 15,000 paces to ride to the foot of the golden city, and surrounded a golden city.

The siege of Jincheng is a good siege, but it is not so easy to capture it. Jincheng as an important town of the handover of Longxi and Hexi, and is located at the confluence of the Central Plains and Qiangdi, has always been an important place for soldiers, and the city is naturally built tall and strong. Moreover, a few years ago, Ma Qiu led tens of thousands of soldiers to attack Liangzhou, although he suffered heavy casualties and was defeated and defeated, but he also captured the land of Henan. This Jincheng is Ma Qiu's later station in Henan, which is naturally different from ordinary cities. Therefore, even the "courageless" Xu Dang, who led the "cowardly" 6,000 Qinzhou soldiers and horses, could easily defend Jincheng as solid as gold. Shen Meng took turns shouting and scolding under the city, attacking day and night, Xu Dang and his subordinates just refused to come forward, that is, relying on the high walls of the city, they used longbows, strong crossbows and rolling stones to beat wood to call the Liangzhou army attached to the ants.

After more than ten days of onslaught, Shen Meng lost more than 3,000 people, but Jincheng still stood still. At this time, the reinforcements led by Qinzhou Thorn Shi Mao Mu arrived. But to Shen Meng's surprise, this Qinzhou assassin who was very active in rescuing led tens of thousands of Qinzhou soldiers and did not dare to come forward to join Jincheng, let alone engage him, but was stationed in Guyuan Mountain, forty miles west of Jincheng City. It seems that this Qinzhou assassin is ready to use a huge momentum to scare back the Liangzhou army that came from afar.

Shen Meng suddenly let go of one hundred and twenty hearts, it seems that the famous generals of this Jin family are nothing more than that. Despite this, Shen Meng's attack on Jincheng has not been so smooth since then. He attacked Jincheng, and Mao Muzhi sent Yangwu general Le Changshan with thousands of men and horses to contain the Liangzhou army; If Shen Meng turned around and attacked Yuanshan, Xu Dang would send one or two thousand men and horses out of the city to set fire to Shen Meng's front camp, creating chaos, so that Shen Meng could take care of both ends and not be able to attack either side with all his might.

Shen Meng couldn't, so he had to lead the army back to Shangquguan to camp, he was unwilling to leave, he didn't catch anything, and he couldn't explain to Zhang Chonghua, who had deep expectations; If you don't go, it looks like you can't take advantage of it easily. So he settled down at Shangquguan, backed by the Jinchengdu pontoon bridge, to see what chance he could take advantage of and go back.

A few days have passed, and Shen Meng has been crossing the river for more than half a month, not to mention the land of thousands of miles, even the land of Henan only allows him to occupy such a small piece. Looking at the majestic Golden City in the distance, Shen Meng sighed for a long time, why didn't God take care of him so much? Let yourself encounter a dangerous city as soon as you leave the division.

But the guide pioneer Wang Zhen began to mumble. He has suffered at the hands of Mao Muzhi and Le Changshan, and knows how powerful these two are. So when Mao Muzhi and Le Changshan suddenly weakened in front of Shen Meng, he was puzzled. Wang Zhen didn't believe that it was Shen Meng's Wang Ba Qi that scared these two away, he guessed that there must be a trick in this, but what was the conspiracy? Wang Zheng couldn't say it for a while.

On this day, Wang Zhen took advantage of Shen Meng's sigh there, and plucked up the courage to say: "My lord, do you see that this Qinzhou Thorn Shi Mao Mu's troops are not moving, are you waiting for something?" ”

"What are you waiting for? The New Year has already passed, and it will not be waiting for the New Year. Shen Meng said angrily.

"My lord, according to his subordinates' guesses, will he be waiting for reinforcements?" Wang Yan cautiously continued.

"Reinforcements? Isn't he himself a reinforcement? Shen Meng asked strangely.

"My lord, this Mao Muzhi is afraid of your lord's courage and strategy, and he doesn't dare to block the tiger's might, so he can only dare to compete with you when he waits for more reinforcements." Wang Zhen is still so careful.

Shen Meng was a little comfortable listening to it, and couldn't help but say, "Who else are you waiting for?" Didn't you know that there were only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Qinzhou? Now that they are all here, where are there still reinforcements, you have a lot of heart. ”

"My lord, what I'm worried about is the soldiers and horses and Qiang cavalry in Guanzhong." Wang Zhen said in a low voice.

Shen Meng shuddered, sat there and thought carefully for a while, then shook his head and said, "Didn't you find out last year?" These tens of thousands of Qiang cavalry have already entered Guanzhong eastward and are stationed near Chang'an. This Chang'an is not only three thousand miles away from Jincheng, even if it takes twenty days to march on a fast horse, and it takes more than ten days for the messenger to transmit the message, which calculates that it will take at least a month and a half for the Qiang cavalry to march here, and now it is less than twenty days, is Mao Muzhi stationed here from the beginning and waiting for reinforcements? How cowardly could he be? In any case, we have our back to the Jinchengdu pontoon bridge, what happened, we retreated from the bridge to Hebei, and then burned the bridge Qinzhou Army can help me? ”

Hearing this, Wang Zhen lowered his head and thought about it, and was speechless.

However, Shen Meng first did not expect that Zeng Hua had rapidly developed Guanlong's post system in just half a year. He ordered a post of thirty miles, with one post per post, ranging from a dozen to dozens of post men, according to the important rank of the post station, and the homeless soldiers of the former Northern Zhao border soldiers who were eliminated were filled, and they were provided according to the treatment of the commander of the army and the soldiers; And raise a number of good horses, which are used as post relay candidates.

And the post system is divided into water post and land post. When the water post sails against the current, the river travels forty miles, the river travels fifty miles, and the other sixty miles; When going down the river, it is all stipulated that one hundred to one hundred miles. Lu Yi is divided into post post and post delivery, post post with post Ding back encapsulated post bag walking, used to deliver the people's special low-cost letters, two posts a day, package to and people return, one post after another, until the post bag is sent to the destination. And the post delivery is delivered by a fast horse, divided into three kinds, one is to insert a small red flag on the back of the post Ding, drive the fast horse to walk six posts a day, that is, one hundred and eighty miles, change the horse every two posts, in order to maintain the speed of the horse, and then change the post Ding again, continue to move forward; The second-level post man inserts two small red flags on his back, travels 300 miles a day, and also changes two posts for horses, and six posts for posts; The fastest is to plant three small red flags on the back of the post ding, requiring five hundred miles a day, day and night (of course, it is a night when the moon is full), and the rest is as usual. Moreover, there is a kind of horse bell hanging on the fast horse of the Three Flags Post Delivery, which can make a peculiar horse bell sound, so that people can hear it from a distance, and all those who dare to block the Three Flags Post are beheaded by the military and civilians.

In addition to delivering official documents, the first and second flag post delivery can also use these two kinds of more expensive post delivery if they are willing to pay for it, and the three flag post delivery is specially used to deliver military emergency reports. Zeng Hua specially issued an order to all localities to kill those who dared to rob and steal the post and post, no matter how serious it was.

According to Zeng Hua, a big profiteer, he will not let the government pay for these post houses, so he must have a little "sense of diversified management".

As the main road in the Guanlong area, Guanlong Avenue is the "model project" that Zeng Hua mainly grasped, from Tongguan in the east to Ji County in Tianshui County in the west, where Zeng Hua used it as a chaotic Haoqiang, the former Northern Zhao Diehard Capture Tens of thousands of people and then recruited tens of thousands of people to renovate Guanlong Avenue, while improving the post station system in Northern Zhao that was reluctantly improvised, setting up 129 posts, and then enriching more than 3,000 former Northern Zhao border soldiers, and purchasing a batch of good horses. So a perfect post station system was quietly opened.

In this way, it took three days for the urgent report to be sent from Jincheng to Ji County, Tianshui County, but it only took five days to reach Chang'an.

Zeng Hua immediately sent someone to send a letter to Mao Muzhi, and then lit up the Wuxiang Feiyu Army, joined the army with Di Pu, Mi Capture Deer, Fei Ting, and Fox Slave as generals, and galloped westward. Zeng Hua ordered each Feiyu army to bring three horses each, and the horse changers were endless, and they hurried west day and night. Five days later, the army entered Luoyang County, then turned around and headed north into the northern part of Luoyang County, Huining Pass in the southern part of the former Wuwei County. Four days later, Zeng Hua joined Wei Xingguo, who had just arrived there, in Jingyuan.

At the same time that Wei Xingguo was out of Jincheng by Mao Muzhi, he only led a team of cavalry straight to Jingyuan, and ordered the two-box infantry troops scattered there to gather in Jingyuan as he went. Jingyuan area used to belong to the Henan region of Wuwei County, Liangzhou, and later when the Northern Zhao attacked the West Liang, it was annexed together, and became the jurisdiction of the Liangzhou Thorn History of the Northern Zhao, and later Mao Muzhi sent troops to Longxi, and it was included in the bag, and it was divided into the jurisdiction of Luoyang County and Nan'an County. As soon as Liangzhou sent troops, Mao Muzhi immediately sent Wei Xingguo to guard Jingyuan and Huining Pass to defend this important pass.

"Xingguo, this is Jingyuan Pigeon Yindu?" Zeng Hua looked at the rolling Yellow River in front of him and more than two or three hundred ships of all sizes and asked.

"Yes, my lord, this is the pigeon crossing, it and Jinchengdu, Chengxian (now Yongjing, Gansu) of the Linjin ferry are the three major ferries connecting the west of the river in Longyou, and they are also each divided into three east-west avenues." Wei Xingguo replied respectfully.

"Xingguo, not bad! I learned a lot. Zeng Hua said with a smile.

"Back to the adult, when the adult parted with the little one in Wudu, he once earnestly told the little one to read more books, and to know more about the local astronomy and geography whenever he went to a place, so that he could be sure of winning the battle. The little ones don't dare to forget. Wei Xingguo replied.

"Okay, that's what makes a difference. It's not enough to be brave for the general, you don't have Changshan's rabbit cub cleverness, but you are more stable than him, and if you read more books, you won't lose to him. Zeng Hua encouraged.

"Yes, the adults, the little ones are remembered."

"What's going on with the Liangzhou Army on the other side?" Zeng Hua asked about the urgent matter.

"Lord Hui, the Liangzhou area in the west is relatively desolate, it is the summer pasture of some Qiang and Xiongnu tribes, and there are no people at all now. When Xiao arrived here two days ago, while collecting the boats of the upper and lower sections of the river for more than 100 miles and strictly guarding the river defense, he sent people to touch the past and found that the signs of the military and horse activities in Liangzhou were more than 100 miles away. ”

Hearing this, Zeng Hua immediately ordered the 15,000 Feiyu army to cross the river immediately with only two horses and ten days of dry food. It took four days for 15,000 men and more than 30,000 horses to finally cross the Yellow River.