Xiao Yanhan glanced at Xu Huai in a daze and asked, "I can only say what you said to my elder brother?"

"You are not stupid either, but you can't be considered very smart if you ask this." Xu Huai calmed down his emotions and said with a smile on Xiao Yanhan.

"I'm serious to you!" Xiao Yanhan gave Xu Huai a look.

"Those who say seriousness are you who have to believe me." Xu Huai said.

"How serious is this?" Xiao Yanhan complained.

Xu Huai also wanted to ask Xiao Yanhan if her arm and elbows were hurt, but Shi Hu brought the elders from the remnants of the village of Weishui.

"I've seen the Junhou!"

The remaining village of Weishui is Majiagou Village. There is a stream ditch to the south coming from the northern slope of Lishan to flow into Weishui. Ninety percent of the people in the village are surnamed Ma.

The eldest son of the Ma Fang family was originally a family in the village. They had learned martial arts when they were young and had traveled through the world. They were just over 40 years old, which was at the age of Kong Wu.

The enemy soldiers who were cruising in the four prefectures of Pujiang, Shaanxi and Shanxi (Junhezhong Prefecture) retreated northward as the Eastern Route Army retreated, and the number of people decreased greatly. The Ma side wanted to take advantage of this gap to go into the mountains to log wood and strengthen the defense of the village. When the village was attacked, he and his son Ma Jun and his ten young and strong men escaped in the valley of more than twenty miles.

Of course, Ma Fang, Ma Jun and his son also felt regretful, thinking that if more than a dozen young and strong people were involved in the defense of the village at that time, they might have asked his family members to avoid being massacred and more than 400 people in the village to avoid being massacred, rather than the fact that there are only less than 70 people left to survive after the disaster.

"What's the matter with Mr. Ma?" Xu Huai saw that the yard was bright and he couldn't hide his haggard face. Ma Fang, the sad Ma Jun and his son sat down and spoke.

"I have done everything that Junhou told him at dusk. I came over and asked if my father and son could follow Junhou to kill Hu Gou?" Ma Fang asked with his back teeth.

"Why do you want to follow me?" Xu Huai asked.

"... Follow the Junhou, you can kill a few more Hugou," Ma Jun said with a hatred, "There are millions of people in the river, but no one can fight as Junhou as Junhou..."

"The three prefectures of Pu, Jin and Jiang in the Hezhong River have more than 20 counties, with a population of 1.5 million and 600,000. How could there be few heroes? I just have brute force." Xu Huai said with a smile.

"Of course we cannot know all the heroes in the river, but when Hu Gou came, more than 30 cavalry attacked Shenshan County. The magistrate Gu Chengru organized three or four thousand county soldiers and townships in the city to go out to siege and kill, but was killed by these more than 30 cavalry Hu Gou, and many people were killed. Since then, no city in the river dared to organize troops to meet the enemy!" Ma Fang said, "The Hu Gou came along the Fen River after the New Year, there may be only two or three thousand people, but he was asked by the Hezhong Prefecture, which has a million people, to ravage it!"

"Ah..." Xiao Yanhan stared at Ma Fang in disbelief. It was hard to imagine that the soldiers in a city would be killed so miserably by more than 30 Red Guard cavalrymen. They had never heard of such a war report before.

Xu Huai just sighed slightly. The three or four thousand defenders had no strict organization and were trained, and they were not fully equipped with swords, bows and armor. They were defeated by more than 30 elite cavalry and were blocked and killed, and even caused collapse by trampling on each other. This was not unimaginable.

Of course, the Chihu cavalry with a scale of more than thirty or forty people dare to directly attack the defenders who are hundreds of times their own, which shows the bravery of the Chihu people.

Such a crushing defeat will inevitably hit the local military and civilian will, and the Western Army has been reluctant to cross the Yellow River and enter the Fen River coast. No wonder for so long, a small number of enemy cavalry can travel downstream of the Fen River as if they are no one.

Xu Huai also had no intention of exploring the details of the defeat of the Shenshan County defenders, and asked Ma Fang and his son:

"You father and son follow me to kill Hu Gou, what should the villagers of Majiagou Village do?"

"Some people want to join relatives and friends, and most people still have to stay and clean up the village and rush to plant the food for the season. However, my father and son's family were destroyed and they had no worries. They could follow the Junhou." Ma Fang said.

Xu Huai shook his head and said, "The war is far from a temporary stop. Fen River is likely to be trampled by Hu horses in the future. You have witnessed the strength of Hu Gou, not to mention that they have so many soldiers and horses, they are not under the Great Yue. Just our fighting force can't save the situation. Even Heluo, Guanzhong, Hehuai and other places will become war zones one after another. You and your son should advise the villagers to move south as soon as possible. In the face of life, don't be stingy with houses and fields. Those who are unwilling to fight with the enemy will move to Jinghu to open up wasteland and plant grain. At that time, they can also support the battle and avenge their relatives. Those who are willing to pick up a knife bow and fight with Hu Gou can follow us. In the future, if you have a life, you can move to Chu Mountain!"

Among the four prefectures in Hezhong (Pu, Jin, Shaanxi, Jiang), more than 20 counties, Xu Huai knew that the vast majority of the people still had fantasies about the court and that their hometowns could not be separated. However, no matter what, as long as there was a slight possibility, he still wanted to persuade more people to move south.

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"You are not the only one who is not bad for the people in Majiagou Village - the people who have suffered a great tragedy, and the matters of the husband's conquest can be exempted." Xu Huai said.

In the past four months, although the downstream of the Fen River is only separated from Guanzhong and Heluo, it has been plagued by two or three thousand enemy soldiers. Not only are there slaughtered tens of thousands of people, but millions of people are trapped in more than a hundred cities and villages and dare not come out. It is naturally miserable.

Therefore, no matter how strong the atmosphere of surrender in the Korean Central Government is, or how ambiguous the attitudes in Jianghuai and Jinghu are inconsistent, the counties contacted by King Jing Zhao Tuan are eager to welcome the tomb guards to the north.

There is no shortage of people, food, fodder and chariots and horses for transporting food and fodder.

They are still going to march in secret and only contact the four counties passing by, and only hope that they can provide support in food and fodder. However, when the first battle of Qinshui can be fought beautifully and make the momentum start, Xu Huai predicts that King Jing will not be a problem in adjusting grain from the four prefectures of Hezhong.

Xu Huai asked Shi Hu to help Ma Fang and his son. In addition to persuading the villagers of Majiagou Village to move south, he also asked Ma Fang after the main force of the tomb guarding army entered Taiyue Mountain east. Ma Jun and his son tried their best to persuade the villagers of the nearby villages who were severely invaded by the enfeoffed soldiers to move south.

As for those people who have been hiding into the city and have not yet suffered a fatal blow, they will not leave their hometown easily and they will not have time to take care of too many people.

After dawn, King Jing, who had not rested for a long time, sent someone to call Xu Huai to discuss the matter; Xiao Yanhan and Zhang Xiongshan also rushed to resign, saying that they were worried that Chen Zixiao had returned to Xishan to send a message before, but had not responded to it for more than ten days. It was possible that she would encounter unexpected changes on the way, so she wanted to rush to Xishan in person and lead troops to assist in the battle.

After Xiao Yanhan said goodbye, no one mentioned the matter of cedeing land and discussing peace envoys, but the Chihu people hidden a large number of elite troops in the construction of camps in Hanxinling. King Jing Zhao Tuan and Qian Shangduan were still scared.

Although they chose to advance eastward into Taiyue Mountain, Qian Shangduan was worried that once their whereabouts were exposed, the Chihu cavalry hidden in Hanxin Ridge would go down the Fen River and cut off their retreat.

The Great Yue respected civil and suppressed military affairs, and used civil and military affairs to control military affairs. Most of the scholars guarded the border and commanded the troops as their commanders.

For more than a hundred years since the founding of the dynasty, the Privy Councilor, the Privy Councilor, and other prime ministers who were in charge of military affairs across the country, only a few were truly military officials, mainly served by scholars; even the chance of eunuchs as Privy Councilors was much greater than that of military officials.

In addition to the senior dispatch of the military and political power, the commander-in-chief, the general manager of the military and horse capital, and all deployed other positions, and the opportunity for the sergeant ministers to serve was higher than that of the military ministers.

Qian Shangduan was a local official and had rich experience in life. He also read several military and horses. Although he was not very clear about the details of commanding troops, he still had his own opinions on the major strategic issues.

At this point, even though Qiao Jien was a eunuch, he did not give in.

When they learned the news dug out from the prisoners, they were worried that once the guards entered Taiyue Mountain, their rear route might be cut off by the enemy soldiers along the Fen River. Even if they could solve the Qinshui incident, they would most likely be trapped in Taiyue Mountain.

"This is okay. Our people are not enough. The Chihu people are asking them to change the overall strategy. What they are looking forward to is the main force of the Western Army going north to clear the Taiyuan siege through the Fen River. How could they look down on us?" Xu Huai said without much worry.

"The situation is difficult, and we should sacrifice ourselves to avoid danger and turn the opportunity. We don't need to worry too much," King Jing Zhao Tuan asked Xu Huai calmly, "When can we march into Taiyue Mountain?"

"As long as I further confirm the situation in Wuling and Hengchengling, I will lead the Yiqi Camp to go first!" Xu Huai said.

Wuling is Yicheng County. Jiang County goes east to enter the border ridge of Qinshui County, Zezhou, and Hengcheng Mountain goes east.

The official road that crosses Taiyue Mountain from Zezhou to Jiangzhou is the most dangerous section of Wuling and Hengchengling. Cui Wei, the mountainsides on both sides of the official road, has no other road to go by except the official road.

Once the enemy establishes defense in these two places in advance, it is no easier for the army to pass through than to capture the city.

The tomb guards could not enter Qinshui and hide their whereabouts. However, as long as they pass through Hengcheng Ridge and go east, there is a shallow hilly terrain that is connected to the Qinshui River Valley and there is no huge obstacle. The enemy will realize that there is no other choice except to fight with them in the open area of ​​Qinshui River Valley.

Before Xu Huai finished speaking, a reconnaissance responded: "There is nothing abnormal in Wuling and Hengchengling. The Zhou army envoy led more than a hundred elite troops to lurk near Hengchengling. Even if the enemy is alert, he can resist until noon. Please ask the prince and the military marquis to send the Yiqi camp to Taiyue Mountain as soon as possible!"
Chapter completed!