Jiaohua

Chapter 1491: Go and beat Song Zhiyi!

Going north from Hengxiang is Taoanling, and after passing Taoanling, it is the Yuntian Mountain official road to Youzhou.

At that time, Wen Lang, a general under Song Zhiyi, led his troops to attack Youzhou. He won few battles and lost many. In anger, he surrounded Weiping Prefecture and diverted the water of Huimen River to submerge the entire city, causing the people of Weiping Prefecture to be displaced.

Since then, the entire area of ​​nearly 100 miles south of Raochi Township in Xin Prefecture has been littered with corpses and bandits.

However, after Xia Zhaoyi led the Xia family army to become famous in Hengxiang, and Shen Lie led 100,000 Yan troops to Hengxiang, Youzhou's strategic position in the territory occupied by Tian Dayao was suddenly elevated.

The most obvious thing is that the several large post stations on the Yuntian Mountain official road, which were originally a little deserted and had few garrisons, were suddenly heavily guarded by times more troops.

As night fell, Xia Zhaoyi led the Xia family army to the first post station after entering Youzhou.

Several guards who saw the commotion from afar tumbled onto their horses and ran back to the post station to report the incident.

The postmaster and the captain stationed there were shocked. They had already undressed and were about to go to sleep, so they hurriedly got up to discuss countermeasures.

The postmaster said in a panic, "We are heading south to Hengxiang. If other troops want to get here, they must first pass through Hengxiang. But we have not received any news of war in Hengxiang before, so the troops coming here are most likely Hengxiang's own soldiers. Only they can be faster than our scouts who are watching in Hengxiang. They don't have time to report back!"

The captain was even more panicked than him: "If it was Hengxiang's troops, who would they be? Xia's army? Yan's army? Or those useless captives from Jingzhou?"

If we want to fight the two families in front, we can forget about it with the current strength of the post station.

  As for the captured soldiers mentioned later, it is impossible just by thinking about it. Which family can provide so many first-class horses to the captured soldiers?

"Are they really going to attack us?" The captain's wife, who had been following the captain in a dress, asked worriedly, "If it is really them, what should we do?"

They certainly couldn't win by fighting, but if they surrendered without a fight or turned around and ran away, they would have to wait for King Dacheng's axe to chop off their necks.

The captain gritted his teeth and looked at his wife: "Go back and pack your things immediately, take the children to Congxin Mansion! I will stay here to meet the enemy!"

His wife opened her eyes wide, stepped forward and held his wrist. Before she could say anything, another soldier came running in from outside: "Gone, sir, those soldiers, no, gone!"

The postmaster and the captain were both stunned.

"Gone, what does that mean?"

"Which troops are missing? Ours or Hengxiang's?"

The soldier said in panic: "Those soldiers from Hengxiang, they suddenly disappeared, I don't know where they went!"

The captain and the postmaster looked at each other and walked quickly towards the table.

There was a map on the table. Because the location of the post station was very sensitive, the captain and the post station master only did three things on a daily basis, which were training troops, sending scouts to various places to inquire, and looking at maps.

The map was almost worn out by them. The captain pointed to the official road on the map and said, "If it's gone, then they must have disappeared along this stretch of road."

The postmaster said solemnly: "There are high mountains to the west. If we can't find them here, then..."

His eyes looked towards the Cangjiang River in the east.

"Crossing the river?" asked the postmaster.

The riverside used to be filled with a terrible stench, filled with the corpses of the people of Weiping Prefecture, which attracted countless birds and beasts.

After months of exposure to the sun and erosion by river rain, these completely skeletonized bodies were washed into the Cangjiang River in large numbers, with a small number remaining on the cliffs and riverbanks along the coast.

The captain looked solemnly as he looked towards the east bank of the Cangjiang River, which was Ningzhou, the smallest prefecture in the world.

Ningzhou is very small and has almost no mountains. If they really went to Ningzhou, their vision would suddenly become wider and they could go anywhere in all directions.

"Could it be that he went to find Song Zhiyi?" the captain suddenly thought.

"Song Zhiyi?" asked the postmaster.

The captain's wife, who had not yet left, said happily, "Isn't that perfect?"

The captain thought for a moment and looked at the soldiers: "Keep investigating and report back! Keep an eye on the gorge. If they come, tell me immediately!"

"Yes!" the soldier responded and left quickly.

The captain turned around and told his wife to continue packing her bags and taking the children away.

The captain's wife's eyes turned red: "Why do you want us to leave? They have already gone to Ningzhou."

"It's just a guess. If anything changes, it will be too late. Go quickly and don't be a burden to me here!"

After saying this, the captain no longer looked at his wife, but looked back at the map in front of him, and discussed with the postmaster how they should respond if the Xia family army appeared.

His wife looked at him, sighed deeply, and turned away.

Half an hour later, Xia Zhaoyi led his troops to gather on the west bank of Ningzhou. Behind them, the ferries with bright torches returned one by one.

Xia Zhaoyi was sitting on the horse's back, and the girl's thin back was uniquely graceful on the horse.

Yan Haiqi came back with two personal soldiers and said respectfully, "Second Miss, the count is complete, and all the people are present!"

Xia Zhaoyi smiled and said, "Okay, we'll go five miles east and set up camp to rest for three hours. Tomorrow morning, the entire army will raid Jinle Town."

Xia Xingming and Xia Junnan were both stunned.

"Second Miss," Xia Junnan said, "Are we really going to fight Song Zhiyi?"

Xia Zhaoyi said: "Yes."

Xia Xingming said: "You actually want to go. I thought you said that on purpose."

Xia Zhaoyi's smile brightened: "Uncle Xia, why do you think I did it on purpose?"

Xia Junnan said, "Oh! Don't we know the Second Miss yet? She announced it so loudly in public, there must be some ulterior motive!"

Xia Zhaoyi: “…”

It turns out that she is so easy to "guess". Not only does Zhao Ning have a tacit understanding with her and know that she is lying every time she talks big, it turns out that everyone around her knows this "problem" of hers.

But this time, she did have some little thoughts, but she also did want to deal with Song Zhiyi.

  Otherwise, if Zhuge Pan sent the message and she didn't go to fight Song Zhiyi, wouldn't Zhuge Pan's message be distorted in the future?

Then how can we make use of Zhuge Pan?

Xia Zhaoyi said with a smile: "It's advertised so loudly to boost morale!"

She rarely showed her girlish playfulness, and Xia Junnan and Xia Xingming laughed even more happily.

"Second Miss, do you really want to beat Song Zhiyi?" Xia Junnan asked again.

Xia Zhaoyi nodded: "If we really want to fight, we will do it tomorrow. We will catch him off guard and then we will run away immediately!"

Xia Xingming worriedly said, "But, will he turn around and deal with Hengxiang? Hengxiang currently only has 500 soldiers."

The Hengxiang Guard Station and the Chengnan Duwei Mansion had long been merged. The combined number of people was actually less than five hundred, only more than four hundred.

Xia Zhaoyi said, "Uncle Xia, guess why I didn't cross the river in such a good location in Zhenzhou, but came here?"

Xia Xingming frowned, then suddenly became happy: "I know, the second young lady wants to make a big noise to alert Youzhou in the north!"

"Well, in fact, what Song Zhiyi fears most is not us, nor Yun Bozhong, but Tian Dayao."

Xia Xingming and Xia Junnan nodded. They agreed with this point because over the years, the only one who had been fighting with Song Zhiyi and had a positive relationship with him was Tian Dayao.

Yunbozhong does not occupy much land. Although the Yannan Army and Hengping Army are powerful, their numbers are indeed limited.

With Tian Dayao's Youzhou in the north, Song Zhiyi did not dare to cross the river to attack Hengxiang easily.

"Besides," Xia Zhaoyi smiled again, "there is also Shen Lie's mysterious Yan Jun."

When she mentioned Shen Lie's Yan Jun, Xia Xingming, Xia Junnan, as well as Jian Jun and Xia Chuan who had just arrived, all laughed.

Indeed, Shen Lie's Yan Jun is indeed a mystery.

The second young lady's description is so accurate.

Not to mention Song Zhiyi, even they themselves didn't know how many soldiers Shen Lie's Yan army had.

They didn't want to ask directly, nor did they want to inquire, but no one else had an explanation either.

When I asked casually one time, I found out that even their second young lady didn't know how many people there were in Yan's army. Anyway, they were still recruiting.

Moreover, Shen Lie's use of troops requires surprise, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as elusive, as if they could suddenly drop from the sky.

However, the four veterans roughly knew what was going on from Du Xuan.

In a word, that part of the Yan Army is always there. When their second lady needs it, the Yan Army will appear. When their second lady doesn't need it, there is no need for it to appear. That's why it feels like a divine soldier descended from heaven.

Even though they are considered "our own people", they don't know the true situation of Yan Jun. How could Song Zhiyi not be afraid?

In addition, there is Youzhou in the north, and Chen Xihua and Qi Yong in the south who have been tied up by the captured soldiers and are the sixth in command of Jiao Jinhu. Indeed, if they were Song Zhiyi, they would not dare to attack Hengxiang easily.

This is almost exactly the same as the constraints that Lu Dun encountered when he first came to Hengxiang!