At the Texas Wharf, in the hut, Xu Jiang, the current shopkeeper of Baiquan Huntang, was sitting opposite Xia Xun, unable to suppress his excited and reddened look, and described the news to him in a low voice.
Xu Jiang was originally a small banner defending the city in the south of Daning, and the eyes and ears of the Daning guards bought by King Ning, because of his meritorious service in dedicating the city, he was promoted to 100 households by Zhu Di, the king of Yan.
When Xia Xun set up the Flying Dragon Spy, he saw that he was alert, so he asked him over and served as a small leader.
To say that in this world, there are really no useless people, only inappropriate people who are placed in inappropriate places, Xu Jiang is charging into battle, but he is just a pawn talent, but let him be an ear report secret detective, but he is doing his best, these secret spies selected by Xia Xun are gradually growing, and the most outstanding one is Xu Jiang.
"His Royal Highness was out of the Bauhinia Pass in early February, first conquered Guangchang City, and then trapped in Ulzhou, the defenders of Ulzhou were isolated and helpless, and surrendered His Highness, and His Royal Highness was surrendered, and His Royal Highness entered Datong on the way, and on the way he divided his troops to attack Baoding, and the prefect of Baoding surrendered.
Datong we did not take down, but along the way to collect countless money and grain in various cities, Li Jinglong from the Bauhinia Pass into Taihang Mountain, rushed to Datong to help, His Royal Highness has returned to Beiping from Juyong Pass.
Hehe, Li Jinglong didn't know the severe cold of the spring cold, but the winter was cold, and now it was spring, and he was marching to help, so he didn't bring much warm clothes and tents. ” Xia Xun nodded with a smile and said, "In this way, Li Jinglong's long-awaited Beiping offensive will be forced to die, and the initiative will be in the hands of His Highness." ” Xu Jiang said: "Your Excellency is wise, Your Highness is planning to take the initiative to attack.
His Royal Highness said that although Li Jinglong is not good at fighting, all the generals under his command have experienced a hundred battles, if Li Jinglong can humbly accept advice, with the strong strength of the army of 600,000, it is still not something we can eat in one bite, and if we are not careful, we will suffer a big loss, so we are asked to collect useful information here as much as possible, and at the same time, try to make all kinds of fighters. ” Xia Xun bowed slightly: "I understand, if you stay in Baiquan Hall, a place to take a bath, people will try to relax, and their vigilance will be greatly weakened, and they will unconsciously reveal a lot of important information, and this news channel cannot be given up."
I am here, through the number of officers and soldiers who go to and from the gambling house and the gymnasium, I can also collect a lot of important news about the Southern Army, such as the time of payment of salaries and the frequency of guard changes, which can play a big role at critical moments. ” Xia Xun thought about it and asked again: "Over there in Baojiacheng, how is Tang Yaoju?"
Xu Jiang said: "The construction of Baojiacheng has been completed, and now they have moved to Hejiazhuang.
He is the head of those servants, and his whereabouts are indeed a bit mysterious, and he can often be seen talking to those servants mysteriously, but it is difficult for our people to know more specific things, what is wrong with this person, how can adults pay special attention to him" Xia Xun nodded, and shook his head again, his mood is very complicated, the struggle itself is inevitable, the cruelty of the struggle is very clear to him, he is not so compassionate to the point that he has the illusion that all contradictions can be resolved by peaceful means, there must be bloodshed if there is a struggle, but if the White Lotus Sect is involved, it is by no means a good thing, it is a disaster for the Southern Army and the Yan Army, if the Central Plains is rotten, the Mengyuan Imperial Court of Mobei will not make a comeback King Yan chose to attack Xuanfu Datong instead of Liaodong, and only said three reasons that were beneficial to the Yan army, but Xia Xun knew in his heart that Zhu Di, the king of Yan, did not choose Liaodong, there must be a more important reason, that is, the vigilance of Meng Yuan Yu, with Zhu Di's eloquence, it is impossible not to consider the possibility of Meng Yuan Yu taking advantage of the fire to rob and make waves, leaving the Liaodong garrison and controlling their flanks can make them more fearful.
Historically, in order to achieve a great cause, the White Lotus Sect once colluded with foreign enemies of foreign races to plot against the Central Plains, although once they created any chaos in the Texas barracks, it would be beneficial to King Yan in the short term, but this flame must not be allowed to come out.
Xu Jiang said again: "By the way, that Tang Yaoju sent the lady and the child to Jinan City, it is said that the child was sick and sent to ask someone for diagnosis and treatment, accompanied by one of his righteous sisters." ” Xia Xun was secretly shocked, could it be that the White Lotus Sect was going to have any change to think of this, Xia Xun didn't hesitate any longer, and revealed Tang Yaoju's identity to Xu Jianghe, and instructed: "Arrange a few people to go in, even if it is just to become their peripheral personnel, if they want to fish in troubled waters, they must put out this wildfire." ” Xu Jiang said happily: "The White Lotus Sect, what kind of storm can they stir up, why should the adults bother with them, if they really disturb the Shandong Mansion, isn't it beneficial to His Highness?"
Xia Xun said solemnly: "When His Royal Highness King Yan returned to Beiping from Daning, His Royal Highness King Ning once offered a plan to His Royal Highness King Yan, you forgot" Xu Jiang said with admiration: "Well, His Royal Highness King Ning said: If you go here, if you are defeated by Li Jinglong's 500,000 army, you can abandon Beiping, retire Daning, make peace with Beiyuan, and borrow troops to fight again." ” "Yes, what did His Royal Highness King Yan say?"
Xu Jiang said: "His Royal Highness King Yan only said three words, no" Xia Xun said again: "His Royal Highness King Ning said again, the Tang Dynasty borrowed troops from the Turks and was able to establish a country, although he saluted the Turkic ministers and paid tribute for 12 years, but Li Shimin tried his courage and accumulated strength, and finally turned against the ministers, this is an expedient measure, and it is not impossible to follow suit, what did King Yan say?"
Xu Jiang was embarrassed: "His Royal Highness pointed to the north with a halberd at that time, and said loudly: Jing Nan is really because there are national thieves in the court, and the army is really because he is unwilling to kill, An Neng is to suppress the national thieves, and then lead foreign thieves to my Ming man, you must remember, do not cut the land, do not pay compensation, do not call the minister, do not make peace, do not pay tribute, death is dead, and expedient measures cannot be done" Xia Xun said with a smile: "That's it, in order to suppress the thieves of the country and not attract foreign thieves, will we condone the people and thieves If we make an assertion and connive at the White Lotus Sect to take the opportunity to stir up trouble, we will be severely punished by His Highness."
Xu Jiang said solemnly: "I remember my humble position" Xia Xun said: "Okay, you go back first, the official warehouse of the wharf here, there is a large amount of materials transported from the south, and we have to wait for the completion of the twelve cities before we send them to the stores everywhere, if Your Highness takes the initiative to send troops to attack Texas, once Texas can not go down overnight, there will be a shortage of rice and grain, there is no food in the army, and the army's heart will be scattered, I have to find a way to find out the strength of the officers and soldiers stationed here, the defense situation, if Your Highness attacks Texas and occupies this place first, then you can do it calmly." ” As he spoke, the voices outside the wall on the left came and went, and the gamblers outside the wall on the right were hoarse, but they were still endless, Xu Jiang couldn't help but smile and said: "If you can seize the official warehouse of the dock first, Your Highness will indeed have great help, but Texas is close at hand, and troops will definitely be sent to take it, and the two will fight, these bitter people who are begging for life on the dock will be unlucky." ” Xia Xun couldn't help but be silent when he heard this, and sighed softly after a while: "Say innocent, who is not innocent, you have been outside the gate, you should know that when those innocent rabbits on the grassland lose their natural enemies such as wolves, foxes, and eagles, they can gnaw everything and make all the creatures have no way out."
Of course, my analogy may not be appropriate, I just want to say that the law of the jungle is not just a matter on the grassland, this is the Tao, not the so-called ethereal Tao of Huang Zicheng, Fang Xiaoru and others, but the bloody and realistic Tao."
"Click", the door opened, and a door on the left opened almost at the same time, Xu Jiang walked out and arched his hand to Xia Xun, and a satisfied veteran walked out there, followed by a half-old who hurriedly covered her clothes, and called to the soldier delicately: "Uncle go well, come again" Turning his head and seeing Xia Xun who was sending guests out, the girl immediately changed her face, smacked him viciously, and scolded disdainfully: "Kill the rabbit, steal business with the old lady" After speaking, he twisted his fat ass and went back to the room.
Xia Xun was embarrassed, but Xu Jiang seemed to have picked up a big bargain, holding his stomach and laughing wildly Li Jinglong heard that Datong was in danger, and hurriedly led his troops out of Bauhinia Pass to help, Bauhinia Pass is located in the west of Yixian County, high on the Bauhinia Ridge, is one of the main roads in the Hebei Plain into Taihang Mountain, listed as the seventh of Taihang Eight Mountains, there is the risk of "one husband is a pass, ten thousand people are not in front of it".
The army went out of the Bauhinia Pass, walked for a few days in the ice and snow in the Taihang Mountain, and received the news that Zhu Di, the king of Yan, had searched in the Datong area of Xuanfu, and bypassed the Ming army along the road on the way back, and returned to Beiping from Juyong Pass.
Li Jinglong was not discouraged, and went out for a walk with the army, but before he arrived at the place, the people had already left.
King Yan attacked Datong, all the way to the cavalry, Li Jinglong led the army to rush on two legs, and also had to cross the mountains and mountains, how could this maneuver speed catch up with others Li Jinglong listlessly led the soldiers and horses back the same way, trekked through the mountains and mountains to return to Texas, did not fight a battle, ten percent of the soldiers and horses, but thirty percent of them were sick, and hurriedly summoned all the Langzhong in the nearby states and counties, and mobilized a large number of medicinal materials for treatment.
Seeing such a situation in the army, Li Jinglong was very worried that he would not be able to complete the plan of attacking Beiping on time, and now he was "guilty of meritorious service"; although Huang Zicheng, Fang Xiaoru, Qi Tai and others in the court concealed the news of his defeat and return for him, who knows how long he could hide it, and if anyone went against him and secretly reported the news to the emperor, he only had to wear guilt here, and did not make meritorious contributions, and Huang Zicheng and others were afraid that they would not protect him at that time.
Therefore, Li Jinglong was eager to fight, this time he didn't dare to be arrogant, the army returned to Texas, rested for more than ten days, just controlled the disease in the army, he convened the generals to discuss countermeasures, the generals actually hated him for being incompetent, but the handsome seal was in his hands, everyone was related, and he had to abandon his personal suspicions and make suggestions for him.
When the generals were discussing around the sand table, a post envoy in the army planted a triangular red flag on his back, hurriedly broke into the tent, knelt down on one knee to Li Jinglong, and said urgently: "Report, Beiping Yan rebelled, personally led the army of 100,000, mighty, and went straight to Texas."
To be continued: