"Why didn't he come directly to me, but Wang Che met him?" Han Qian asked doubtfully.

"Zhou Kun is a bastard, but he's not stupid. He should have heard Chen She's story about how he lives in wealth and honor without forgetting anything - his brother was an official in the enemy's camp, and he dared to come here after eating a leopard.

Expose your shortcomings?" Feng Yi said, "Think about why the man in Beijing can't tolerate you. Is it because you have seen through all the details, and that makes you feel uncomfortable?"

"Why aren't you afraid that I will kill you to silence you and cover up the previous scandal?" Han Qian rolled his eyes at Feng Yi and asked.

"You know I will keep my mouth shut." Feng Yi said with saliva on his face.

Han Qian smiled and raised his foot, trying to kick Feng Yi away.

"By the way, why don't you meet Zhou Kun? After all, he has been an old friend for many years, and you don't want to begrudge your wings too much?" Feng Yi asked Han Qian seriously.

Han Qian pondered for a while, shook his head and said: "Since Wang Che has thought of using Zhou Kun and Zhou Shen brothers, he should have some ideas. We'd better not casually sabotage the plans of the people below, otherwise it will be too easy to attack them.

Their enthusiasm has been reduced - and if Zhou Kun really wants to gain a foothold in Tangyi, it's better to give him a chance to fight for himself, after all, not everyone can be as shameless as you."

"I went to Xuzhou with Guo Que this time to ensure that a big fish can bite the hook among the three families of the Xi family, the Yang family, and the Tian family. By holding their handle, we have to lure the snake out of its hole, but we cannot lure the snake into the territory.

The bandits were completely crippled, and they were allowed to escape to the territory of the powerful forces so that they could collect the stolen goods. You also know that this guy Guo Que is really useless. If I hadn't helped him make up his mind along the way, how could he have killed him just right?

A group of thieves are blocking the mountain pass in Xupu County?" Feng Yi said boldly claiming credit.

In late February, after meeting Li Zhigao, Guo Que and Feng Yi went south from Yiyang to the mouth of the Han River. At that time, they learned that Yao Xishui suddenly entered Dongting Lake on an official ship of the Weaving Bureau. Afterwards, Han Qian speculated that Yao Xishui might be

They deliberately exposed their whereabouts. After all, they had more comprehensive information. It is not difficult to guess that Yao Xishui's intention was to cause trouble in the southwest to attract their attention. At that time, the Mongols could go south at any time, and the time left for Yao Xishui was very limited.

He succeeded in attracting Tangyi's attention right away so that Li Zhigao's troops could seize the maximum benefit from the ensuing chaos in Liang Dynasty. Yao Xishui deliberately exposed some flaws and created suspicions. It was really a normal guess.

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Yao Xi is in charge of the Weaving Bureau, and her official responsibility is to collect silk, silk, silk, and other fabrics from various counties to supply to the palace. At the same time, she also has the power to spy on the world's sentiments for the Cishou Army. Therefore, even if she is seen with

Chen, Si and other big-name forces in the state are in contact. As long as she does not directly lead the bandits into Xuzhou, she is not afraid that anyone can do anything to her.

As long as he understood Yao Xishui's intentions, Han Qian was not worried about how much she could do in such a hurry.

We must know that they secretly condoned the civil unrest in Sizhou, and it lasted for more than half a year from the secret preparation to the civil unrest in Sizhou, and finally forced the imperial court to take action to stop the persecution of the soldiers and civilians of Guangde Mansion by the clan clans.

Even if Zhu Rang and Liang Shixiong were not aware of the rebellion at the time, it was certain that Yao Xishui would not have much time to calmly plan the rebellion as the Mongols could move south at any time.

Guo Que, Feng Yi and others also speculated at that time that even if Wan Honglou had secretly wooed the Chenzhou Xi family and the Sizhou Yang family, they would most likely sneak into Xuzhou through the bandits they controlled to attack one or two key points in a hurry.

The goal is to create a shocking case.

Guo Que and Feng Yi were only one day behind Yao Xishui. They quickly made up for the time lag by using a fast sailing ship and rushed back to Xuzhou in advance.

Although since the establishment of the Tangyi Army, Han Qian has successively transferred more than 5,000 generals and soldiers from Xuzhou, and in order to ensure that he can continue to draw money and food from Xuzhou to make up for the lack of military resources in Tangyi, he has added seven counties in Xuzhou to

Wuchuan County only maintains a defensive garrison of less than 3,000 people.

If this amount of troops is divided among eight counties, the defensive strength of each county will become extremely limited, but it does not mean that after Xuzhou carries out emergency mobilization, this amount of troops will be the only one available.

You must know that before the Jinling Incident, the number of Wuling troops once exceeded 7,000 in the late stages of the vassal war. After the Jinling Incident, more than 4,000 Zuo Guangde troops moved directly to Xuzhou with their families to settle down; not to mention

It is said that in the late period of the Sizhou Civil Rebellion, the number of soldiers in Tianpingdu once exceeded 6,000.

After that, they carried out downsizing. Both Xuzhou and Tianping maintained a standing force of about 5,000 people in peacetime. However, the generals who were downsized were not simply kicked home and ignored.

According to Xuzhou's military recruitment law, these people also maintain a reserve force and must gather together to participate in four months of rotation training every year. In addition to enjoying the treatment of regular soldiers during the rotation training, they can also receive half of their military pay whenever they are not working.

For those veterans who have passed the reserve period (full-time, reserve service totals five years), even if they usually have to support themselves, they do not need to gather together for rotation training every year, and they can receive military service allowances at half the rate throughout their lives.

Since the establishment of the Tangyi Army, even if Han Qian mobilized 5,000 generals and soldiers from Xuzhou, and even if Xuzhou still maintained a standing defense force of 3,000 people, in theory, he could directly mobilize about 5,000 to 6,000 people without training.

Military potential on the battlefield.

Even if according to the Art of War, these reservist veterans have to fend for themselves after retiring from active service, but in fact they mainly stay in workshops in Chenzhong, Qianyang, Longya, Linjiang and other counties, and are used to the army.

Disciplined veterans are still the backbone even if they work in the workshop.

Even if some of them return to their hometowns, they still maintain close contact with the township inspection department. The township department hires people to build ditches, roads, etc., and it is mainly these people who are the backbone.

It can be said that as long as they are mobilized, these troops can be quickly and effectively assembled in the county camp within one day.

Although Han Qian was not in Xuzhou, Feng Yi and Guo Que arrived and left-behind officials such as Xi Xunqiao, Xi Chang, Qiao Weiyan, and Wei Xu could carry out a comprehensive survey of the entire state in an emergency as long as the majority agreed.

Emergency military mobilization.

To be honest, Guo Que and Feng Yi rushed to Xuzhou in advance. They were not afraid of how much damage Yao Xishui would cause to Xuzhou behind his back. Instead, they were worried that they would launch a comprehensive military mobilization and scare the surrounding powerful forces.

It would be bad if you dare not act rashly.

In order to seize the handle of the restless people and have the opportunity to further attack the big surname forces, Guo Que teamed up with Xi Xunqiao, Qiao Weiyan and others, and contacted Tan Yuliang. They judged that the most likely target for Yao Xishui's instigation of the big surname forces to attack was the state

It belongs to a few limited places such as the Weaving Institute, Longyashan Foundry, Wuchuan Saltworks and Engineer School.

No matter how hard Hong Lou tried his best to explore the craftsmanship skills mastered by Xuzhou over the years, the state-owned Weaving Institute, Longya Mountain Foundry, Wuchuan Saltworks and Engineer School still mastered some secret skills unknown to outsiders.

Unless Wan Honglou directly sends people to attack and get first-hand information, otherwise, these secret techniques cannot be seen through by sneaking in by pretending to be ordinary craftsmen.

In the end, they decided not to alert the snake, but to hide ambushes in these places and then lure the snake out of its hole...

In early March, just two days after Han Bao returned to Tangyi via flying pigeons, many groups of horse thieves attacked Qianyang, Zhijiang and other places to create chaos, attacking in the east and west. After that, more than 300 elites concentrated on attacking Longya.

The armor foundry on the mountain.

It contains the most advanced foundry craftsmanship in Xuzhou and is also the Tangyi Army's largest armory and equipment casting base. More than a hundred guardsmen and horses seemed to have been transferred away by the previous attacks on Qianyang and Zhijiang.

However, among the more than 2,000 craftsmen used in Longyashan's refinery and armor casting, one-third, nearly 800 people, are veterans of the reserve force.

At that time, Guo also expected that the foundry would be most likely to be attacked, so he and Feng Yi stayed in Longya Village secretly to take charge.

Even though he successfully led more than 300 elite horse thieves into the trap, Guo was still not satisfied. He just mobilized more than 300 old soldiers to rely on Longya Village and the courtyard of the foundry to defend, letting the main force of the horse thieves escape before reinforcements arrived, and then

In a true military mobilization of the entire state, he and Wei Xu led four thousand elite soldiers to drive the horse thieves into Xupu County, the home of the Xi clan in Chenzhou.

Before Feng Yi rushed back from Xuzhou, the situation in Xupu County was that two hundred horse thieves were captured by Guo, and Wei Xu led four thousand elite soldiers and horses to tightly surround Longtan Mountain on the east bank of the Yuan River in Xupu County.

The stronghold was fortified, while Xiying and his son led 2,000 Chenzhou battalion soldiers to stand guard at Fu'an Ridge at the entrance of the basin in Xupu County and wait.

Not to mention the danger of the steep fortress in Fu'anling Mountain, the soldiers led by Xiying and his son have been fighting in the south and north in recent years, and their fighting momentum is extremely strong.

Even if Guo Que, Wei Xu, Tan Yuliang, Xi Xunqiao, Xi Chang, Qiao Weiyan and others can take over the power and do not need to ask Han Qian for instructions, they still have to do more if they really want to eat up the Chenzhou Fan soldiers who occupy the advantageous location.

A lot of preparation work.

After careful consideration, they believed that it was still necessary to transfer part of the naval force from Tangyi back to Xuzhou to ensure that the communication between the waterway and the counties in the hinterland of Xuzhou was worry-free, and to frighten Sizhou so that Yezhou would not dare to act rashly, and then attack Longtan Mountain first.

It would be better to deal with the group of horse thieves who attacked Xuzhou - after all, the horse thieves must be defeated before we can consolidate the evidence that Xi's army invaded Xuzhou - and then launch a leisurely offensive against the main force of Xi's Fan camp.
Chapter completed!