Lord of the House

In later generations, Linyuguan Road was called the Liaoxi Corridor, and it was also appropriate to say that it was a corridor. From Yuguan to Songshan, sandwiched between Songling Mountain and Liaodong Bay, this long and narrow terrain with a length of 3,670 miles and a width of more than ten or twenty miles connects the old county in Liaodong and Yanji. The earth is really a standard corridor terrain.

After Chentangyi was defeated, all the frontier troops withdrew into Linyu Pass and surrendered the western Liaoning outside the pass to the Donghu people.

Western Liaoning is backed by mountains and facing the sea, and the Donghu people have no intention of confronting the Yue Dynasty fortifications on the narrow terrain. After gaining the western Liaoning land, the Donghu people took the Liaoning people to manage the eastern Liaoning, and destroyed the city walled in the western Liaoning, turning all the millions of mu of land in western Liaoning into wasteland, and only built the cities of Songshan, Tashan and Jinxi at the northern end. Become the defense line outside the capital of Liaoyang.

After the winter, on a frosty evening, among the hills south of Ningjin, Liaoning, on a bare and cold hilltop, there is a ruin on the top of the hill. In the depression in the southeast corner of the ruins lies the broken boundary stone, and the three characters "Chen Tangyi" can be seen.

This is the main battlefield of the battle of Chentangyi. The former fort has been completely destroyed. Perhaps the majesty of the former Chentangyi Fortress can be seen from the scale of the ruins, but at this time it is not as good as the solitary pine tree on the hill. more upright.

There were about two hundred cavalrymen standing on the top of the hill, wearing black iron armor that made one's heart shiver when they looked at it, and all wearing blue-black cloaks. It's already early winter, and the wind hurts like a scraper on the face. If you don't wear a cloak, the weather is really pleasant.

Gao Zongting came over on horseback, saw the commander-in-chief standing in front, and walked over to see the boundary stone at the foot of the commander-in-chief. This is Chentangyi. Gao Zongting personally went out of Yuguan and walked through western Liaoning. The main battlefield where the army fought against the Donghu people, there were dozens of destroyed fortresses and fortresses. Can't see the boundary stone, Gao Zongting rode all the way, and was beaten by Shuangfeng so much that he couldn't open his eyes. He really didn't know that he had reached Chentangyi.

In front of the top of the mountain is a shallow valley that is not deep. Since the wind and snow covered the earth, the corpses of the mountains and valleys can still be seen. In the battle of Chentangyi, the elites of the frontier troops died. There were more than 100,000 corpses in the ravine forest, listening to the howling north wind, as if countless resentful spirits and wild ghosts were screaming.

Gao Zongting subconsciously wrapped the cloak even tighter and said, "There is a message from the south that the bandit Changle army has captured Qichun, which has offset the results of Huaidong's raid on the coast of eastern Fujian - Jiang Ning was a little caught off guard and deliberately adjusted. Zhihu headed south, and went to fight the Changle army first. There is no new news from Datong, and it should be able to support the spring in the hands of Ye Jiduodi - Hao Zongcheng brought the oracle again, Xu is urging us to speed up our advance, I will ride first Come and find the commander-in-chief!"

Standing like a bronze statue in the frosty wind, Li Zhuo asked with a sigh, "Has Qichun fallen?"

"Well, Qichun was lost, and everything from Jinghu to Jiangxi to Jiangdong was in chaos," Gao Zongting said, "Zhihu fought fiercely in Henan, and finally joined forces with the Changhuai Army to besiege the Red Jacket Army in Huaihe. On the frontier of Yangyang, he was suddenly transferred south, and the victory that has been accumulated since July will be destroyed! Maybe Jiangning should transfer the Huaidong Army to the west!"

"Huaidong," Li Zhuo turned his head to look at the dark sky in the south, shook his head, and said, "Lin Fu will not go west. He repeatedly reminded Qichun that there might be problems, but he turned a deaf ear. If something goes wrong, he won't run over to help... The people of Huaidong are not you and me."

Gao Zongting turned his head to look at the ruins on the top of the hill and said nothing. He knew that if the Donghu people hadn't sent troops to surround Datong as scheduled, the commander-in-chief would have to wait until after next spring before considering whether to send troops.

Donghu people's confidence is getting stronger and stronger, and they are more and more willing to fight. In order to prevent the Donghu people from besieging Datong and then dividing their troops to attack Jinzhong or Yannan, Li Zhuo could only follow the established plan and dispatch troops from Linyu Pass this season, hoping to attract the main Donghu forces to the north of the Liaoning Corridor - Li Zhuoya With the speed of the army, it was necessary to wait for the Donghu people to be unable to resist the pressure and withdraw their troops and horses from the periphery of Datong.

As long as the Donghu people withdraw from Datong, Li Zhuo will be charged with disobeying the decree and will return to the pass from the retreat.

It's hateful, the Donghu people were not at all moved by the expedition to the North from Linyu. The number of troops and horses assembled on the periphery of Datong has always been maintained at more than 100,000. Feng asked Li Zhuo to attack Liaoyang, the heart of the Donghu people, while the Donghu people gathered around Datong.

The sound of horse hooves was mixed with the wind, and was blocked by a hill, but a group of horses could be heard coming over.

After a while, Hao Zongcheng, surrounded by dozens of cavalry, came over on horseback.

"Li Shuai, after the army left the customs, they recovered the cities of Ningjin, and they won many victories. The sage is very relieved, and he specially asked me to bring the edict to reward the generals..." Hao Zongcheng said loudly as he rolled off his horse.

Gao Zongting glanced at the ruins and secretly said: Is this also a recovered city?

In the battle of Chentangyi, the frontier army collapsed for thousands of miles and lost the strength of the field battle. First, the Donghu people have limited fortification skills, and secondly, maybe the Donghu people want to attract the main force of the frontier army to build a fort, in order to defeat the frontier army again in the field battle...

The 60,000-strong army marched very slowly. In ten days, the Linyuguan Road, which was more than 300 miles long, was only halfway through. It was still 145 miles away from the cities of Songshan and Jinxi to the north. Apart from cutting off the Donghu people's outposts in western Liaoning, the expedition to the North had nothing to gain, but it became a great victory in Hao Zongcheng's eyes.

Li Zhuo didn't say anything else. He bowed to Hao Zongcheng and said, "Master Hao has worked hard to travel back and forth..."

"Why do I have to work so hard?" Hao Zongcheng laughed. He put the imperial decree in his sleeve. According to the rules, he had to wait until he returned to the tent and placed the incense case before it could be read out. So he just told Li Zhuo what the imperial decree wrote. He will directly hand over the imperial edict to Li Zhuo, saying, "The battle in Datong is tight, and everything is waiting for Li Shuai to make a final decision. The sage specially asked me to ask Li Shuai if he can push the army to the city of Liaoyang... I also know that Liaoyang may not be good. However, as long as the Songshan and other cities are defeated, the encirclement of Datong can be forced to withdraw, and the old county in western Liaoning can be recovered. There should be no major worries. Chen Zhihu went south in June, and in just over four months, Xiaoshou won more than 50,000. He is really a famous general! Although there are many bandits, there will always be a time to kill them. The Jianghuai situation is just around the corner! Li Shuaixiu If you have any complaints, I nagging and urging, I respect Li Shuai as the pillar of the imperial court, but I don’t want Li Shuai to lead the army to the north, but he will be much inferior to his love generals in the past!”

"In the past, I had a bad reputation, and it was not supported by Zhihu and the others?" Li Zhuo's face was as usual, ignoring Hao Zongcheng's aggressive tactics, and asked, "I heard from the newspaper that there is heavy snowfall in southern Yanan, this winter may be It will be extra cold, so the food supply will not be a problem, right?"

"Even if the Jinhai Sea may be sealed by sea ice in a few days, there will be no problem," Hao Zongcheng said, "Lu Guogong spent a lot of effort to build a post road in Jinan that leads directly to the Weihe River, and the rice grains from Shandong and Hedong, You can go overland, go to Weihe, and then transfer to Gyeonggi. The food and grass stored in the Changli front line can be specially used to ensure that the North Army is fully supported..."

The sediment from the Yellow River almost silted up the canal channels in Jinan Prefecture and Pingyuan Prefecture, taking away the channel of the Zhulong River into the sea. It is necessary to re-dig the river channel to open the canal. The imperial court has no strength to do it for the time being, nor does the Duke of Lu, Liang Xi, have the strength to do it. Just to build a post road, the grain that can be transported to Beijing will actually be very limited.

The last time the Donghu people broke through the border and entered the customs, they took nearly 400,000 Dingkou from the three prefectures in Yannan, and 600,000 to 700,000 animals from Yannan and Lubei. The region suffered another setback.

In Yannan and other places, in ten or eight years, don't think that vitality can be restored. First, Dingkou has lost too much, and secondly, there is a serious lack of animal power for farming...

It is a good thing to build a post road to transport grain, but Gao Zongting doubted whether the Liang family could find enough mules and horses to transport grain: to transport grain by land from Jinan to Weihe, people cannot have high hopes. There is no great power around the Liang family who is really proficient in political affairs~www.wuxiaspot.com~ I'm afraid I haven't thought of the stubborn disease?

But what is more worrying is that the court is overly optimistic about the situation in Jianghuai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang - the Changle army has captured Qichun, and it has already disrupted the deployment of Jiangdong, but the court is more willing to believe that as long as Chen Zhihu is transferred to the south, all problems can be solved. .

In mid-July, Emperor Gao Zongting met Chen Zhihu in Yanling. In fact, he did not expect Chen Zhihu to listen to him. In fact, it also proved that after that, Chen Zhihu still went his own way and used to use killing to solve all problems, which also made the opinion of the court and Jiangning towards the refugee army, one-sidedly inclined to suppress and exterminate.

Hao Zongcheng saw that Li Zhuo and Gao Zongting were thinking at the same time, and they were touched when the Liang family built the Yuncao Post Road. Seeing Li Zhuo, he sneered: You support Huaidong's monopoly on the Jinhai grain road, probably because you don't want to see it. The Liang family will also have a share of it!

In the beginning, Hao Zongcheng could obtain some smuggled grain from Jinhai Grain Road and transport it into Gyeonggi for profit. Since Tang Haoxin's death, Lin Fu cut off the supply of private grain to Hao Zongcheng, and allocated this part of the private grain to Gao Zongting to make up for the shortage of Jibei Army's salaries-this is also in return for Li Zhuo's "Salt and Silver Guarantee Grain" "The support for Huaidong in this matter.

Hao Zongcheng, however, held a grudge. The Liang family built the Yuncao post road and could get a piece of the food from the Jinhai grain road. He had put in a lot of effort, and he was inevitably a little proud, and said: "The Holy Master saw that the weather was getting colder in the palace, and read When I went to the north, I specially asked me to bring a fine tribute to Li Shuai, and asked Li Shuai to take good care of his body and serve the court."

"The emperor's grace is mighty, Li Zhuo is deeply grateful, and he should do his best for the court..." Li Zhuo bowed his hands in the southwest direction.

Gao Zongting was worried in his heart: Hao Zongcheng, on behalf of the emperor, braved the bitter cold weather to run over to the supervising army to urge the war, how could the superintendent drag him not to hit Songshan? My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter