Seeing Zhang Ping coming up from behind, escorted by two guards, Xinchang Hou Li Pu could no longer maintain any dignity and roared at him:
"What is this bastard Han Qian going to do? Is it possible that he is so domineering that he completely ignores Yue Yang's feelings and wants to trap us all to death here? As the military supervisor, are you completely kept in the dark by Han Qian, or are you
He has already been in cahoots with Han Qian!"
Zhang Ping could understand the anger of Xinchang Marquis Lipu, cupped his hands, and said calmly: "When Master Han arrived in Jinling, he made a statement to the Marquis and made a solemn oath that unless he dies, otherwise, he will advance and retreat with the women and children.
Mr. Han is currently evacuating a large number of old, weak, women and children to Fuyu Mountain. If the Chishan Army does not withdraw to Fuyu Mountain and move around, the main force will not have to focus on the state soldiers in Huxuan and other places who are eyeing Geng Fengtu, but stay on the Maoshan front line.
, how can you take into account the safety of so many old, weak, women and children in Fuyu Mountain? Mr. Han strictly kept the withdrawal secret, and he was also worried that some aristocratic families in Lishui would leak the secret, but I will hand this letter to Mr. Hou today. And I have always been
He asked the Marquis to make preparations in advance, but he ignored it. Of course, the Chuzhou Army and the Nanya Forbidden Army did not react so quickly. The Marquis still had time to lead his troops to withdraw to the south of Jieling Mountain. Lord Han also
It is impossible not to welcome the Marquis."
"I..." Xinchang Hou Lipu was so angry that he almost spit out his blood, but he could not open his mouth to question Zhang Ping's words.
Zhang Ping has been in Lishui City these days and told him that Han Qian was evacuating women and children to Fuyu Mountain. However, in his opinion, this was just Han Qian's way of evacuating the old and weak women and children to avoid being dragged down.
On the one hand, he had long believed in his heart that Han Qian would lead the elite Chishan Army, which was the main force, to stay on the Maoshan front line with the Chuzhou Army and Anning Palace.
Li Pu felt that Han Qian would do this. In addition to disturbing the Ning'an Palace and the Chuzhou Army, which had a grudge against him for killing his father, he could also gain greater military exploits and strengthen his status and influence in Yueyang.
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On the other hand, Li Pu also believed that if Han Qian really wanted to take care of so many old, weak, women and children, he could only move eastward as a whole to the southern plain of Taihu Lake, where grain was abundant, to get food.
Only in this way can it be possible to raise enough grain to ensure that so many old, weak, women and children do not starve to death due to famine, and only in this way can it be possible to resist the resistance of the highly organized local elite soldiers and horses on the south coast of Taihu Lake.
Think about it, throwing 200,000 to 300,000 old, weak, women and children who have no ability to protect themselves and throw them into the deep mountains and old forests with no food to raise, what else is it but throwing away as a burden?
Based on this, Li Pu made up his mind to seize Lishui City, and then quickly gathered the aristocratic families in Liyang, Pingling and other places. In just ten days, the Qiuhu Army, which received the flag from Yueyang, gathered more than 3,000 elite soldiers and horses.
, and with Lishui City as the core, they frequently went to Dangtu and quarrying in the west and Pingling, Jiangcheng and other places in the north, showing extremely active behavior.
Li Pu also made great efforts to demonstrate to Han Qian and other Chishan Army generals the principle that "the most important thing in a soldier is quality, not quantity."
Based on this, even though he knew for sure that Han Qian was rushing to Fuyu Mountain to evacuate the old, weak, women and children a few days ago, he did not make any response. However, he did not expect that Han Qian actually killed all the elite soldiers of the Chishan Army overnight.
After pulling out the clouds, they were left alone in Lishui surrounded by wolves!
At this time, several people climbed up the back of Canglong from the opposite mountain col.
Seeing that familiar figure barely staggering up the stone steps with the support of two healthy servants, Li Pu was so ashamed that he wanted to bury himself in it, but there were dozens of people around him and they didn't care what Li Pu looked like.
I went to greet him, but I was worried that the mountain road was slippery and the old man in green robe might accidentally fall.
"Everyone is really gone, Han Qian is so cruel!" Yun Puzi looked at the deserted Wolf Camp at the foot of the mountain, sighed, and then saluted Li Pu with his hands clasped, "Yun Puzi has met the Marquis.
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"Your Majesty, Mr. Gu, is too polite." Li Pu said coldly.
In the previous dynasty, Emperor Zhaozong established the Shenling Division, which was inseparable from the Shence Army. Later, they both fell under the control of the eunuch group.
At the end of the previous dynasty, the Jianghuai region still retained a ray of loyalty to the imperial court. At that time, Gu Yunpu was the official envoy of the imperial court and sent to the Jiedushi Mansion in Shengzhou to supervise the military envoys. He was also nominally the general manager of the Shenling Division in the Jianghuai region.
It's just that the Shenling Division's secret spy team lurking in Jianghuai has always been directly controlled by Lu Qingchen, Li Pu and others, while Lu Qingchen, Li Pu and others were nominally controlled by Gu Yunpu.
The last emperor of the previous dynasty executed Liang Taizu in Luoyang and declared the end of the previous dynasty. Emperor Tianyou led the Huainan army to cross the river and occupy Shengzhou. Gu Yunpu once thought of leading the troops of the Shenling Division in the Jianghuai area to surrender to Dachu and Emperor Tianyou. In the end,
Forced by Li Pu and Lu Qingchen's tricks, he retired to Maoshan.
Seventeen years have passed in the blink of an eye. Unexpectedly, Gu Yunpu, who is nearly seventy years old, has a rosy complexion and an awe-inspiring appearance.
Faced with Li Pu's indifference, Yun Puzi smiled slightly and said: "Master Hou finally opened up some situations in Lishui, so it seems that the only way left is to retreat south in embarrassment."
Regardless of whether Yun Puzi meant to add insult to injury, Li Pu was filled with bitterness in his heart. He looked at the rickety figure of the old man in green robe looking down the mountain, and stopped talking.
He didn't want to stay in Lishui, surrounded by wolves, and wanted to retreat south, but how?
He recruited nearly two-thirds of the 3,000 elite soldiers and horses who obtained the banner of the Qiuhu Army from Yueyang, and they were private soldiers directly led by the sons of Lishui families.
Under the threat of Anning Palace, the surrendered Lishui families may choose to follow them and retreat westward. But in this case, their 3,000 soldiers and horses, surrounded by nearly 20,000 families, are retreating south. What is the difference between them and the ragtag Chishan Army?
After losing the protection of the city, they retreated to the southern foot of Jieling Mountain. If they wanted to continue to form their own group and not join up with the Chishan Army, they would have to raise grain for more than 20,000 old and weak women and children and protect 20,000 old and weak people.
If the women and children were not attacked by the Xuanhu state soldiers, even if they had three thousand elites in their hands, they would not be able to do much, and they would soon be dragged down by so many old and weak women and children, and they would soon become like the refugee army.
There is no difference.
However, if he wanted to rely on the care of the Chishan Army to take care of so many children, or perhaps evacuate them to the mountains at the northern foot of Fuyu Mountain controlled by the Chishan Army, wouldn't his efforts and struggles during this period become a joke?
The more critical issue is that he does not think that evacuating the old, weak, women and children like a piece of loose sand into Fuyu Mountain can really solve the survival problems of so many people.
He wouldn't believe it, and neither would the family members, and they might even think it was Han Qian's plan.
Who would have guessed that Han Qian's withdrawal of the Chishan Army from Maoshan this time was not a retreat for advancement?
The old man in green robe turned around after a long while, walked tremblingly in front of Li Pu, and said, "No matter what, you can only take one step at a time."
Li Pu had too many scruples and suspicions, but as his elder brother said, he could only lead his troops to retreat south first and then think about how to deal with the future situation. Otherwise, whether the Chuzhou Army or the Anning Palace sent troops to Maoshan, they would all be in trouble.
Completely block the gap for them to break out to the south.
Thinking of this, Li Pu swallowed a mouthful of blood-smelling saliva and said to Zhang Ping with difficulty: "The Chishan Army still has more than a thousand cavalry operating on the front line of Baihu Ridge. Can you please ask them to cover the flanks of our army..."
Both the Chuzhou Army and the Nanya Forbidden Army have scouts operating nearby. At this time, they must have noticed signs that the main force of the Chishan Army has all withdrawn south. No matter how slow they react, they will definitely send more cavalry south to spy on the situation. They want to cover the 20,000 soldiers.
It is not easy for the old, weak, women and children to evacuate southward with a large number of people.
Furthermore, under his pressure, the Lishui families had a falling out with An Ning Palace, but if they decided that retreating south was not a good idea, they might not be willing to surrender to the Chuzhou Army.
At present, the Qiuhu Army is divided into two capitals. The first capital is the 800-horse infantry led by Li Xiu. The second capital is the 2,000 family clan soldiers led by Chen Mingsheng. The other is the 300-horse infantry led by his son Li Qi.
The elite of the Guards Battalion.
In order to create a unique situation in Lishui as soon as possible, although Chen Ming was promoted to the general in the second capital, the eight battalion commanders including Wei Huang and Liu Zishu were all descendants of the Lishui family, and the generals under their command
, also tacitly acknowledged that the private soldiers and clan soldiers were directly controlled by the Lishui family. Chen Mingsheng only had control over them. In the appointment of military attachés below the battalion commander and the selection of soldiers, Chen Mingsheng and Li Pu had no right to interfere. They were all based on the family members and their
The direct descendant serves as the director.
At this time, Li Puzhen did not have the confidence to suppress the Second Dudu, who had nearly twice as many men and horses, with only a thousand elite members of his direct family. Then he coerced more than 20,000 family members and fled to the border in embarrassment in just one or two days.
Go to the south of Lingshan.
In the face of the cruel and severe reality, no matter how resentful and resentful Li Pu felt, he could only choose to bow his head.
"I will send someone to contact General Zhao Wuji to see if he can lead the cavalry camp to stay near Maoshan for two more days." Zhang Ping agreed, and then raised his hands to the old man in green robe and Yun Puzi, and said, "Maoshan
It's a mess, and there will be no peace in the next few months. It's time for the prince and the envoy Gu to go south to avoid the limelight, right?"
Yun Puzi looked at the old man in green robe.
The old man in green robe with a gray face nodded and said: "I have old bones and only a few days to live, but I don't want my body to be ruined, so I can only go south with Xiu'er and the others. Lord Zhang is worried about me."
After speaking, the old man coughed violently. He took the handkerchief handed by the attendant and spit out a mouthful of bloody phlegm, which relieved him a little.
Seeing that Li Yu was so ill, Zhang Ping was just worried that Li Pu and the others would not be able to control the situation and dragged his body to go with them. He stopped trying to dissuade him and wrote a letter to the cliff asking for a guard to ride.
Go quickly to see Zhao Wuji, hoping that after Zhao Wuji receives the letter, he can lead the thousand cavalry that the Chishan Army finally scraped together to rush to Lishui, suppress the restlessness of the Lishui family, and help Li Pu's newly formed Qiuhu Army retreat southward...
