Lord of the House

Funiu Mountain and Tongbai Mountain are both steep and dangerous mountains that span hundreds of miles. Together with the east side of the Qinling Mountains, they surround the Nanyang Basin. In the northern part of the Nanyang Basin, the east foot of Funiu Mountain and the west foot of Tongbai Mountain stand facing each other, and the mountain subsides to form a trumpet-shaped graben that is narrow in the northeast and wide in the southwest, which is called Fangcheng Pass. The pass is about 20 to 30 miles wide from east to west, and more than 40 miles wide from north to south, with mountains on both sides.

Fangcheng is located on the inner side of the pass. It is built along the Fangcheng Mountain in the southern foothills of Funiu Mountain. It is the only way to go to Jingxiang in the south and the Central Plains in the north.

Because it is the main road to Jingxiang in the south and the Central Plains in the north, the vehicles and ships meet, and there are many historical cultural relics left under the stone cliffs on both sides of the pass. When Liang Chengchong and Yuan Guizheng accompanied Yue Lengqiu to cross the Fogou Cliff, they were in no mood to see the carved statues on the stone cliff and the inscriptions of literati of all dynasties.

Further north, there are the ruins of the border wall left by the Chu State during the Warring States Period.

After Liang Cheng rushed to Nanyang, he stationed a heavy army in Fangcheng to guard against the enemy from the north.

However, the wall city of Fangcheng and the outer wall of the moat are no more than two miles wide, and between the mountains to the west of Fangcheng Mountain, there are still passages that can be passed in a roundabout way, which is not enough to completely seal the pass and protect the Nanyang Basin on the inside. . Liang Chengchong used the old site of the ancient Chu side wall, erecting wood as a fence, and rammed earth to build it, and renovated the side wall of the square city, which was more than 30 miles long.

Yue Lengqiu climbed to the Saicheng built on the cliff of Fogou, and looked at the hills and plains in the east pass. The side wall is built according to the terrain, with a strong fortress embedded in the steep place, and connected with the square city fortress on the west side of the pass, connected as one, like a dragon.

At the end of the day, Yue Lengqiu would appreciate Liang Chengchong's ability to restore Fangcheng's gate in just two or three years, but he was about to face the impact of hundreds of thousands of Yanhu soldiers and horses, and the side walls of Fangcheng looked so rudimentary. Follow the thin.

If the Wuyang and other bases on the periphery could not hold, and the Yanhu soldiers and horses in large groups rushed to the front, it would not be easy for the Nanyang soldiers and horses to rely on the side wall to hold on for a long time.

In addition to the more than 10,000 troops stationed in Wuguan, Danfeng County, Baiyangguan and other places in the west, Nanyang also deployed heavy troops in the lower reaches of the Kao River and in Xinye City to prevent any changes in Luo Xiancheng's troops in Xiangfan in the south.

In addition to leaving thousands of reserve troops in Nanyang, Liang Chengyi's troops deployed in Fangcheng and the surrounding Wuyang bases were even less than 16,000.

And Yanhu's troops assembled in Ruyang were as high as 160,000. In addition to the partial division led by Chen Zhihu on the left wing to contain Huaixi, Yanhu could directly add troops to Wuyang and Fangcheng as high as 100,000.

Even if the relevant frontiers can be relied on, the defenders of Fangcheng and Wuyang are not the soldiers of Huaidong.

Although Yue Lengqiu was worried in his heart, there was no worry on his face. Instead, he said excitedly to Liang Chengchong, Yuan Guizheng and others beside him: "Before I came to Nanyang, I was very worried, worried about the iron hoofs of Yan soldiers. It's hard to stop. Today, when I see Guanshan in Nanyang is like iron, I realize that I was overthinking it before. I was in Shouzhou, and I heard that the Huaidong grain ship had already set off from Shanyang; the privy envoy also assembled tens of thousands of elites in Luzhou, thousands of The soldiers stepped up to repair the post road in Xinyang to help the road; and Mr. Dong also led his troops and horses to cross the Huaihe River to fight. I wanted to meet Mr. Dong and come to Nanyang, but Mr. Dong was the first soldier, and he had 100,000 soldiers under his command. , I did not hesitate to fight with the enemy soldiers at risk, took a small injury, and rested in Guoyang, but I couldn't bear the temper to come to Nanyang first..."

When people were in the water, they saw the straw drifting by, and they were overjoyed. Yue Lengqiu's remarks made Liang Chengchong and others look up, and felt that many of the previous worries were unnecessary.

Only Yuan Guizheng was worried and asked Yue Lengqiu: "Yuan Hu canonized Yuan Lishan and Chen Zhihu as false kings, does Yue Du know?"

In the more than two hundred years since the Yuan Dynasty established the dynasty, only the Cao clan was a special case of the king with different surnames. And Yan Hu chose this time to confer Yuan Lishan and Chen Zhihu to be kings with different surnames, which is no different from Shewenzhuang, Luo Xiancheng and other rebels.

Now Nanyang is in the west and in the north, and it seems to be somewhat defensive, but in the south, only Xinye City stands on the lower reaches of the Kao River, with thousands of troops stationed there.

If the remnants of the She family or Luo Xiancheng go out and use tens of thousands of troops to bypass Xinye and directly penetrate the heart of the Nanyang Basin, how should they be treated?

In particular, passing through Tongbai Mountain from Suizhou, there is a channel to directly attack Xinyang, and then the channel from the northwestern foot of Huaihuai to aid Nanyang will be cut off.

Before Yue Lengqiu went north, he believed that Lin Fu would not die for Nanyang, but after arriving in Huaixi, this confidence began to shake, and after arriving in Nanyang, this confidence almost collapsed.

Yue Lengqiu didn't care what he thought in his heart, but his face was calm, and he said lightly: "Yuan Lishan and Chen Zhihu don't care about the court's favor, they recognize thieves as fathers and tigers, and sooner or later they will bring their own demise. To seal the king or not, it's just a matter of time. No need to pay attention."

Yuan Guizheng signaled everyone else to stop, he and Liang Chengchong accompanied Yue Lengqiu to continue walking a step forward, and said in a low voice: "Even if Jinghu Lake and Huaidi are all thrown away, Duke Chongguo can still be ruled by the river. , Yue Duzhen is not worried, Huaixi really firmly believes that Huaidong reinforcements will definitely send troops from Luzhou?"

Yue Lengqiu glanced at Yuan Guizheng, and secretly said: Liang Chengchong may have martial arts, but Yuan Guizheng has a deep government. Could it be that he lost Nanyang after all, and also kept a remnant for the Queen Mother?

"The Marquis has been thinking too much. Duke Chongguo manages Xuzhou so carefully, how could he easily abandon the land in Jiangbei?" Yue Lengqiu said.

"But Duke Chongguo also manages Luzhou with his heart," Yuan Guizheng said. "Even if Jinghu falls, the east of Huaishan can still be supported by Luzhou, so that the situation in Huaixi will not collapse immediately. Now Duke Chongguo has already To hold the land in the south of the Yangtze River in your pocket, instead of throwing 100,000 elites from Huaidong into Nanyang, it is better to use a knife to cut off the dissidents, and then calmly clean up the rivers and mountains."

Yue Lengqiu sighed inwardly, Yuan Guizheng was decisive and could see more clearly.

After the fall of Nanyang, the remnants of the She family and Luo Xiancheng will join Yanhu, which will suddenly increase Yanhu's troops on the western front to nearly 400,000. Of course, this situation is not good for Huaidong.

However, even if the Yanhu army was called into Nanyang, Xianghan and other places, at the northern foot of Huaishan Mountain and in the upper reaches of the Huaihe River, Dong Yuan barely maintained the situation in Huaixi. As long as the two main points of Jiangzhou and Luzhou are kept in the east and west, the resources in Jiangnan regions such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian can be easily integrated.

Jiangnan has jurisdiction over hundreds of millions of land and thousands of thousands. With Lin Fu's governance and penetration ability, in two or three years, he will not be able to make up 200,000 or 300,000 elites to compete with Yanhu on the western front.

The further the situation is, the weaker Huaixi and Jinghu will be, and the stronger Huaidong will be. As long as Yanhu cannot conquer Jingzhou and Huaixi in one go, it will be a foregone conclusion that Lin binds the Yuan clan to stand. The Si area will be turned into rubble due to the war, but for Lin Fu, at least he can make a river and become king.

Is this really what Lin Bie had in mind?

Yue Lengqiu thought silently in his heart.

In any case, even if Nanyang really regarded Lin Fu as an abandoned son, as Yuan Guizheng had guessed, Yue Lengqiu knew that he could recover this situation.

Yue Lengqiu thought so in his heart, but said on his mouth: "Master Hou, you have been worrying too much. If Nanyang is lost, the extravagant family, even the Changle bandits, will inevitably surrender to Yan. He laughed again and said, "I went to Nanyang to see it today, and I will go back to Shouzhou and Luzhou tomorrow to urge grain and troops to continue to be sent to Nanyang, so that the worries in Hou Ye's heart will go away early..."

Who is Yuan Guizheng, how could he send Yue Lengqiu a word, and Yue Lengqiu's eagerness to leave Nanyang made him more and more worried.

At this time, a team of horses came from the north, chasing down the villagers who were too late to avoid the fortress. A group of dozens of cavalrymen gathered and scattered suddenly on both sides of the upper reaches of the Kao River, looting villages and chasing and fleeing.

Clusters of bloodstains opened on the beach, like blooming flowers on the cracked ground.

On the north side of Fangcheng, although Wuyang City still stands at the northern foot of Tongbai Mountain, it can not fail to support the periphery of Fangcheng Pass. But three days ago, the Yanhu 5,000-foot cavalry pioneers crossed the Shahe River, and the Wuyang garrison was blocked from fighting in the city, allowing the Yanhu sentry cavalry to boldly intersperse directly in front of the side wall of Fangcheng to provoke, in Fangcheng Between Wuyang and Wuyang, some villages that did not evacuate to the south in time were hit by a catastrophe.

Liang Chengchong, Yuan Guizheng, and Yue Lengqiu all turned a blind eye to the killings outside the border wall.

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The Gan River traverses the Nanyang Basin, from Xinye to the south, and joins the Han River through the east of Fancheng.

Fancheng and Xiangyang stand on the Han River and are called Xiangfan.

Xinye, the gateway to the south of Nanyang, is only a hundred miles away from Fancheng.

On the one hand, Luo Xiancheng deliberately managed Suizhou, and on the other hand, he also weakened the hostility of Nanyang and Jinghu, and there were not many troops stationed in Xiangfan. Although the Changle Army has nearly 80,000 soldiers, most of them are concentrated in Suizhou, and there are only more than 10,000 troops stationed in Xiangfan, and there is no sign of increasing troops here. Therefore, Nanyang's defensive situation in Xinye was also relatively loose, and some people in Nanyang believed that Luo Xiancheng did not have the courage to cooperate with Yan Hu to attack Nanyang.

The secret envoy of Yan Hu had already entered Fancheng, and Luo Xiancheng also entered Fancheng quietly yesterday. Except for Wei Zhang, Hu Zongguo, and Ma Zhen, there were only a hundred cavalry escorting them into the city.

After the Cao family abandoned Guanzhong, although Nanyang had heavy troops stationed in Wuguan, the Danjiang River and many rivers west of the Danjiang River originating deep in the Qinling Mountains were all tributaries of the upper Han River~www.wuxiaspot.com~, so that the rivers from the south of Chang'an or the Shang Within the territory of the prefecture, there are many dangerous trails that can bypass Danfeng County and Wuguan, and directly connect with Xiangfan. Although it is difficult for a large group of troops and horses to pass, it is not difficult for thirty to fifty people to pass through, and it can just become the channel connecting Guanzhong and Jinghu.

Yan Hu's secret envoy, Nahe Azige, was the younger brother of Nahe's concubine Yejier's favorite concubine, and also the chief cavalry general of Yan Hu's troops in Chang'an.

When they went out of Shangzhou to attack Danfeng County and Wuguan, the mountains along the way were steep and steep, and they could only use infantry to attack, and cavalry would not be of much use. Beiyan also lacked envoys familiar with the She family. In the early years, Azige had contact with the She family when he was on a mission to Goryeo with Na Hexiongqi. Meet the rebels on all roads.

The deputy envoy who came to Fancheng with Azige was Shen Zhi, the former magistrate of Jihe County. Before the war in Xuzhou, he had been ordered to send the envoy to Suizhou, saying Jiangluo Xiancheng.

Azhige came here this time, and the edict of Yan Ting he carried with him, in addition to canonizing Shewenzhuang as the king of Linjiang, also canonized Luo Xian as the king of Xiangyang, on the condition that Luo Xiancheng will give up Xiangfan, and let the soldiers and horses of the She family go along the Han River. They headed north to attack Nanyang, while troops and horses from Suizhou sent troops from the middle of Tongbai Mountain to attack Xinyang north.

Although the remnants of the She family had to guard against the Chizhou army and the Jinghu army from stealing their way, the She family controlled the Han River and could quickly dispatch 30,000 elites to the north. It would be very convenient to have Xiangfan as a foothold and send troops north to raid Xinye.

Once Xinye is captured, the portal to the south of Nanyang Basin will suddenly open, and the defenders on the northern and western lines will be separated. Whether it is Wuguan in the west or Fangcheng in the north, as long as one is captured, Yanhu will be destroyed. It is integrated with Xiangfan.

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