The courtyard where the Feng family secretly hid their wealth was located deep in the northern foothills of Maoshan Mountain. It was surrounded by high mountains and deep valleys. The valley in front was relatively open, allowing for the stationing of slightly more troops and horses. There was also a passage to Damao Peak at the middle foothills of Maoshan Mountain.
, Lei Pingfeng.
The valleys near Damao Peak and Lei Ping Peak are also the main gathering places for 40,000 to 50,000 women and children. Han Qian stationed the main force at the northern foot. He was not afraid of being surrounded by a small number of elite soldiers and horses in the valley of the northern foot. Once the enemy army
He could send elite soldiers and horses to go around and attack the women and children at the middle and southern foothills. He could also divide his troops through the narrow pass in the mountain to reinforce them in time.
Before there was any further reaction from the Chuzhou Army and Anning Palace, Han Qian planned to use this manor as his temporary commander to reorganize his troops. In this case, they could also use the middle and southern foothills of Maoshan Mountain behind them as a deep hinterland.
Take advantage and relieve some of the stress.
Seeing that the night was getting dark, Han Qian directly designated a private courtyard on the west side and imprisoned Wang Jun and two maids. He also asked Shi Ji to select ten trustworthy healthy women and keep an eye on the inside and outside of the courtyard, but he could not do anything yet.
Stop and rest.
Although the terrain of Maoshan is usable, it is not a majestic mountain like Xuefeng Mountain or Wuling Mountain. There are dangerous passes that can be defended by one man and ten thousand men.
It is imaginable how difficult it is to use 3,000 remaining soldiers to protect the safety of nearly 50,000 women and children in the Maoshan Mountain with the highest peak only a hundred feet high. Not to mention that the two armies of Anning Palace and Chuzhou are two times stronger.
Thirty times as many enemies are just around the corner.
Jiangcheng City, currently controlled by Anning Palace and the Shouzhou Army, is only thirty miles away from the northern foot of Maoshan Mountain. Danyang City, which was destroyed by fire after being captured by them today, is fifty miles away to the east and north of the northern foothills of Maoshan Mountain.
Jingshan Nunnery, where the Chuzhou Army's vanguard is located, is about forty miles away from the northern foot of Maoshan Mountain, Dantu City, where the main force of the Chuzhou Army is located, is more than seventy miles away from the northern foot of Maoshan Mountain, and Jinling City is about eighty miles away from the northern foot of Maoshan Mountain.
At such a close distance, Han Qian led 3,000 remnant soldiers and nearly 50,000 women and children. It can be said that they are right at the mouth of the two evil dragons. As long as one of them pounces, even if they cannot kill Han Qian and the others immediately, they will still call Han Qian.
They were covered in bruises.
At present, in addition to the 3,000 remnant soldiers, Han Qian has also selected 3,000 healthy women and 3,000 young people aged 12 to 15 from among women and children to form a women's camp and a youth camp.
The military households in Taowu were all born as refugees, mostly in areas along the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers. They were displaced due to war. The fierce folk customs and the hell-like years of suffering also made the women of the military households fierce and brave, and fearless of life and death.
Taowu Jibinghu has long been under semi-military management, and strong women with strong bodies and aggressive styles are selected and armed. Their combat effectiveness is not necessarily much weaker than that of ordinary local state soldiers.
There were only 3,000 remnant soldiers who could not defend Maoshan. Whether it was to collect food or to expand their momentum, they had to go out of Maoshan to guerrilla prefectures and counties in batches. Han Qian would inevitably need a female battalion and a youth battalion to supplement the lack of internal defense forces in Maoshan.
Regardless of the aggrieved faces of Kong Xirong and Wei Chang, Han Qian appointed them to be in charge of commanding the women's camp and the youth camp, and appointed Guo Nuer to be in charge of scouting and reconnaissance. Zhao Wuji, Yuan Guowei and Dou Rong, who served as the deputy battalion commander of the Shaozhou Army, each
He commanded 800 remaining soldiers, while Shi Ji and Xiao Dahu commanded a guard camp of 500 people.
Although the generals from the Xinchang Hou Mansion and some grassroots military attachés were eliminated, Han Qian brought the first batch of fifty people from Xuzhou, plus a group of veterans with rich combat experience selected from the military households.
The soldiers served as grassroots military attachés. Yuan Guowei also had more than 20 elite Jinyun Tower scouts who had evacuated from Jinling, 3,000 remnant soldiers and the female battalion. The establishment of the youth battalion could be barely maintained.
That night, Han Qian put away the armor and weapons hidden in the secret warehouse of the village. He also had to seize every moment to cut down bamboo and wood, make bamboo guns and wooden spears, make wooden walls and bamboo fences, and resist horse and deer antlers.
Digging trenches at valley entrances and other places that are easy to attack...
Without a staff team headed by Feng Liao and others, Zhao Wuji, Yuan Guowei, and Kong Xirong had to use all their time to get familiar with their troops as quickly as possible and seize the time to train. Han Qian could only make many arrangements for defense, logistics and other matters by himself.
After taking away the military power from Li Pu, Han Qian didn't sleep much. When he was tired, he would just lean against the wall or a chair and take a nap with his clothes on.
Li Pu and Chen Mingsheng occupied a courtyard on the east side and moved in late at night to rest. However, Han Qian was destined to not dare to slack off at all tonight. He waited until the sky was bright and then leaned on the bed with his clothes on and closed his eyes for a while.
god.
But he felt like he had just closed his eyes for a while, when he heard the footsteps outside the room, he woke up again. Through the window, he saw that the sun had climbed up to the treetops. He didn't expect that what he thought would be a short while actually made him sleep for nearly an hour.
Seeing Shi Ji peeking in cautiously, as if he knew something but was afraid of disturbing him, Han Qian suddenly rubbed his face and asked, "What's the matter?"
"A group of people, about 300 cavalry, claiming to be the guards of the Zhedong County Prince's Mansion in Hongzhou, arrived at the west foot of Xiaomaofeng with a stick of incense and asked to see the Lord. Marquis Xinchang and Chen Mingsheng rushed to Xiaomaofeng first!
" Shi Ji said.
The person Li met?
Han Qian was slightly startled, his mind was a little confused, and he couldn't understand why the three hundred cavalry guards of the Zhejiang Province Prince's Palace suddenly appeared at the northern foot of Maoshan across thousands of miles at this time, but Li Pu, as Li Yu's biological brother and general,
, he and Chen Mingsheng rushed to Xiaomaofeng. The identities of these people should not be false.
"Are these people really asking to see me, not Li Pu?" Han Qian asked.
"Yes, he was intercepted by the sentry post we arranged at Xiaomaofeng. He immediately named him and asked to see the Lord." Shi Ji said with certainty.
At this time, Yuan Guowei walked in and listened to Shi Ji talking about the fact that three hundred guards from the Zhejiang Prince's Palace rushed to Xiaomaofeng. He was also very confused and asked: "Isn't the Zhejiang Prince's Palace being watched by Yang Zhitang? How could it be possible?
The palace guards are coming to Maoshan? Should we send a team of soldiers and horses over..."
Yuan Guowei was worried that the three hundred guards of the county prince's palace would join Li Pu and his companions, and Li Pu might be tempted to regain military power, so he thought of sending a team of troops over just in case.
Han Qian looked at the peaks in the south and understood something in his heart. He shook his head and said to Yuan Guowei: "Li Yu may also be in Maoshan."
"...How can we be sure?" Yuan Guowei asked in shock.
As a veteran who had followed Emperor Tianyou in the north and south in his early years, Yuan Guowei had naturally seen the style of the most famous general in Chu, but he never expected that Li Yu would be in Maoshan at this time.
As a veteran official, Yuan Guowei was competent in the daily work of Jinyun Tower. Even though he was nearly sixty years old, he had no problem commanding a battalion of soldiers and horses to charge into the battle. However, he and Jiang Huo failed to grow into a great Chu army in their early years.
In terms of overall strategy, they are indeed inferior to Zheng Hui and Li Zhigao. They are not even as good as Gao Chengyuan, Guo Liang, Tian Cheng and others, let alone Han Qian and others.
Therefore, he still had not figured it out at all. How could Han Qian be sure that Li Yu had left his former residence in Hongzhou? At this time, his people were most likely in Maoshan, and not the guards of the county prince's palace who were ordered to come directly to serve.
Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang?
"Shi Ji just said that people came to me directly and asked me by name, which means that they have been lurking near Maoshan for more than a day or two. It was probably Li Yu who had spied on Wang Wenqian's siege strategy!" Han Qian explained briefly.
Yuan Guowei thought about it. These people had been lurking nearby for a long time. They did not come to serve Li Pu. Moreover, they also knew that Han Qian had taken away the military power from Li Pu and did not fight against each other. Except for Li Yu, the king of eastern Zhejiang, there was such a thing.
Brave, who else can do it?
Yuan Guowei asked again: "Master Han thinks which Taoist nunnery Prince Li may be hiding in, so I will lead people over to invite him to see him?"
"Since Li Yu didn't show up, there's a reason why he didn't show up. Why are we forcing him to show up?" Han Qian said, "Let's go see the guards sent by Li Pu..."
Although Li Yu surrendered his military power very early, he was granted the title of Prince of the County and returned to his former residence in Hongzhou to live in seclusion. However, the Prince's Mansion had a battalion of elite guards as Li Yu's personal unit, which was only responsible for guarding the Prince's Mansion and Li Yu.
The clan is not subject to the restrictions of local state governments.
This battalion of elite palace guards is also a soldier carefully cultivated by Li Yuzhi during his years of seclusion. Its combat effectiveness is beyond the reach of ordinary elite cavalry.
Han Qian did not expect this elite cavalry to obey his command, but as long as they stayed near Maoshan to fight together, they could share a considerable part of the pressure.
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"Xiu'er, Qi'er, when did you arrive in Jinling?"
Seeing his nephew Li Xiu and his young son Li Qi, who had been left for foster care in Hongzhou many years ago, standing in front of the mountain with their horses, Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang, was so excited that his eyes filled with tears. He had been bullied miserably by Han Qian, the thief, in the past few days. He wanted to
Feeling the grievances of the past few days, I couldn't help but trembled and said,
"It would be great if you could come four or five days earlier."
Chen Mingsheng was also extremely excited, thinking that Li Xiu, Li Qi and others would lead the 300 elite guards of the Prince's Palace over five days in advance. If Han Qian dared to seize the military power, they would chop him into pieces on the spot, but it seemed that they were not ready at this time.
Before it was too late, he secretly tugged on Li Pu's sleeve.
There are only 300 remnant soldiers at the west foot of Xiaomaofeng, and Han Qian only has more than 100 personal guards around him. They can bring the 300 guards over, kill directly to the village courtyard, control Han Qian and recapture them.
military power.
Chen Mingsheng did not notice that Li Xiu looked embarrassed when faced with Li Pu's questioning.
"We have actually been here a long time ago, but my uncle and Brother Xiu arrived in Jinling first and asked me to hide them in Jilong Mountain. It was not until last night that I was notified that I would lead the guards to Maoshan to see you, my father." Li Qi said with a look on his face.
Feeling aggrieved, he ignored Li Xiu's previous warning and directly pointed out that his uncle Li Yu was nearby, but he was just hiding in the mountains without showing up.
Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang, was inexplicably shocked. He stared at Li Xiu in disbelief and asked, "Your father is here too. Where are the others?"
Li Xiu looked embarrassed and said, "My father didn't let me tell him where he was. He just asked me and Li Qi to come over and try our best to help Han Qian defend Maoshan!"
At this moment, Xinchang Hou Li Pu was completely punched in the chest, and he sat slumped on the fallen tree stump beside him.
If Wang Jun hadn't pointed out the Chuzhou Army's siege strategy, he might still not be able to figure out why his elder brother Li Yu would make such an arrangement, but he would be too stupid if he still couldn't figure it out at this moment.
His eldest brother was the kind of fool who longed for the world to end the war as soon as possible and allow the people to rest and recuperate. He handed over military power so easily back then, but had no intention of helping Shenlingsi.
Because of this matter, he and his eldest brother had a big quarrel and parted ways. Apart from leaving his youngest son for foster care in Hongzhou, he had little contact with him and did not even exchange a single letter in ten years.
His eldest brother must also have seen through the Chuzhou Army's siege strategy. He couldn't bear to see the millions of people in Jinling being killed and injured under the siege, so he ordered Li Xiu to lead the guards to help Han Qian instead of joining him.
After all, his elder brother never took him into his heart.
At this moment, Xinchang Hou Li Pu felt frustrated and angry, but when he saw the aggrieved look on Qi'er's face and Li Xiu's troubled look, a glimmer of fire ignited in his heart...
Yes, his eldest brother is broad-minded and noble, but it does not mean that the younger generation who grew up in the Li family has no desire and ambition for worldly power and achievements. His eldest brother is getting worse. Is it possible that he can still suppress Li Xiu and other Lis forever?
