Liangzhou is located in the southern part of Tongzhou, between Tongzhou and Jinling Daoqiongzhou. Less than thirty miles south of Liangzhou City is the Seventeen-lid ditch. The terrain is extremely low, forming a deep ditch that stretches for only more than ten miles, but it is the place where the Xishan Army defends the heavy defense.

In fact, there is no steep barrier between Liangzhou and Qiongzhou, and the journey is extremely convenient. Only a dozen miles south of Shiqiligou is within Qiongzhou. There is an arc river called Qiong River, which extends from west to east, then turns south to Qiongzhou City. Its tributaries cover several places and spread to the southwest region. The most important thing is to connect with Rao River, which leads directly to Luo'an, the capital city of Luo'an, and the Jinling Cang is built along the river, less than fifty miles away from Shiqiligou. Among the four major granaries of the empire, Jinling Cang is the most important.

It is located in hills, with a dangerous situation, hard soil layer and waterways, so it can be connected to the capital city. When I chose to set up a warehouse here, it was located in the axis of the water transport artery, and along the waterway, it could quickly send food to the capital city in less than ten days to meet the needs of the capital city. The Jinling Warehouse was surrounded by water on both sides and leaning against Tushan to the west, which could be said to be extremely steep.

The grain in the southwest of the empire will be stored here. There are more than 20 miles around the warehouse city, with a total of 3,000 tannes of grain. Each warehouse can store 8,000 tannes of grain, and the total capacity can reach tens of millions of tannes. It is the veritable first granary of the empire. Its capacity is so huge that even the two warehouses of Jiping, Northeast China and Chen Yang in the north are incomparable.

Although Jinling Cang never stored all grains after its founding state, at its peak, the amount of grain stored here was as high as tens of millions of dan, and now the stock is as high as millions of s.

The four major granaries of the empire and the other three are almost exhausted. As the most important reserve of the empire, they will not easily mobilize the grain of Jinling Warehouse unless they have to.

Jinling Cang has always been a strong defense officer, and he was strictly guarded. The prince supervised the country. The imperial capital was in danger and ordered to transfer grain from Jinling Cang. Jinling Governor Yuan Buyi suddenly attacked and raised his flag to rebel and proclaimed himself king. Jinling Cang was occupied for himself. After that, Yuan Buyi was killed. Xu Chang occupied Jinling Cang, the three major rebel kings of Jinling. Xu Chang occupied the richest central and northern regions of Jinling and occupied Jinling Cang. It can be said that it is one of the most powerful forces in the southwest.

There are many people watching with treasures in hand, and Xu Chang naturally knew the reason for the crime of possessing a treasure. He laid heavy troops in Jinling Cang, and based on this as the foundation, recruited soldiers and horses, and the team expanded rapidly. In just a short time, he had 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers under his command. Although most of them were temporarily recruited, they were hard to reach the general forces.

Xu Chang's strength expanded rapidly, not only did the other two rebels in Jinling, Rumang, but also Qiao Mingtang in Xishan, who was also afraid of it and deployed heavy troops in Liangzhou to guard against Xu Chang taking advantage of the situation to go north.

Wei Tianqing is the number one strong general under Qiao Mingtang. Qiao Mingtang is the candidate for Yunshan and Liangzhou, so naturally Wei Tianqing is the one who is the one who is in charge of Yunzhou.

Wei Tianqing knew that Xu Chang had the Jinling Cang and was unique, and his power would expand rapidly. He wanted to capture the Jinling Cang and cut off Xu Chang's foundation. However, Xishan's financial resources were limited. Although Qiao Mingtang was taking advantage of the chaos, he also recruited soldiers and the Xishan Army expanded its military strength, but its strength was difficult to compare with Xu Chang, who was rich and powerful.

Since he could not attack, Wei Tianqing could only focus on defense. Not only did he strengthen Liangzhou's urban defense, but he also built fortifications in the Shiqiligou area to deal with threats from the south.

Fortunately, Xu Chang's current strategy center was placed in Jinling. Jinling was vast and had a large population, very rich, with one stroke of three points. The other two anti-kings knew that Xu Chang was strong, so they formed an alliance and formed a horn to pose a threat to Xu Chang. If Xu Chang could not get rid of these two anti-kings, he would be like a stunning person and dare not move north easily.

Under this situation, Xu Chang and Xishan were for their own interests. In a stalemate, they were engaged in trade in private. Xu Chang had money and food, while Xishan had minerals for smelting weapons and equipment. The two sides were in private and traded in full swing, each taking their needs. Although Wei Tianqing knew that this would be the case, when Xu Chang grew stronger and raising a tiger was a disaster, Qiao Mingtang was very interested in this trade. Wei Tianqing's advice several times was ineffective, so he had to give up.

The trade and exchange teams between the two sides actually shuttled from the Shiqiligou area, which is a key defense zone. Although the two sides seem to have a harmonious relationship due to trade, Wei Tianqing strictly investigated the exchange teams and issued a military order that the number of people coming and going to the caravans should not exceed 200, in case Xu Chang had other plans.

Although Xu Chang suddenly rose up, he was able to emerge in the power struggle in Jinling. Even Wei Tianqing knew that this person must have outstanding features and dare not underestimate him.

He trained his troops in Liangzhou. Although he took defense as his current strategy, he did not give up on the idea of ​​seizing the Jinling Cang. Instead, he hoped that the three kings of Jinling would fight each other, find opportunities to seize the Jinling Cang.

He stared at the Jinling Cang, but he didn't expect the fire to catch a fire in the backyard. When the messenger who came from Tongzhou to ask for help saw Wei Tianqing, Wei Tianqing was still supervising the construction of fortifications in Shiqiligou. After seeing the letter presented by the messenger, his expression changed drastically and frowned and said, "Is this written by Lord Xu himself? Is the Northwest Army really at the city?"

"The military command is absolutely true." The messenger said anxiously: "The Northwest Army captured Xigu Pass and defeated the thousands of soldiers and horses retreated from Xigu Pass, and the troops were aimed directly at Tongzhou!"

Wei Tianqing held the letter and stood on the slope with a solemn expression.

Wei Tianqing naturally knew clearly when Chu Huan expanded his strength in the northwest. When Xigu Pass was blocked, Wei Tianqing knew that the northwest would encounter great trouble. He also looked for Qiao Mingtang, hoping that Qiao Mingtang could advise the prince to open the pass. After all, once the pass was blocked, although it would severely hit Chu Huan's expansion of strength, it would also cause the northwest to fall into a more serious famine. He even expected that once the pass was blocked for a long time, there would be a large number of hunger in the northwest.

Wei Tianqing was very complicated about Chu Huan. When he learned that Chu Huan implemented the equal-field order in the northwest and defeated Zhu Qingyue and Xiao Huanzhang, Wei Tianqing even felt a little excited. He even thought that Chu Huan would continue to be loyal to Qin and be loyal to the prince with Qiao Mingtang. In this way, Qin's recovery of the country is just around the corner.

But he also knew that when Chu Huan entered the capital, Qiao Mingtang once hoped that Chu Huan could also become a member of the princely party, but things went against his wishes. Not only did Chu Huan not be with the princely party, but instead became the core figure of the Qi King Party. After the Qi King Party replaced the Han King Party, it became the biggest enemy of the princely party. The two parties fought each other, and Chu Huan was once at the forefront.

Wei Tianqing regarded Chu Huan as his brother, but sometimes he felt that the development of the situation made the two go further and further.

After the prince was reigned, he was killed by the Qi royal party. Wei Tianqing knew at the time that under such circumstances, Chu Huan could not surrender to the prince. He had even vaguely felt that Chu Huan, who had rapidly expanded in the northwest, could not only become the help of the prince as he wished, but one day he would become the biggest enemy that threatened the prince.

Although he had not been with Chu Huan for a long time, he knew Chu Huan's temperament quite well. When the prince ordered the blockade of Xigu Pass, Wei Tianqing knew that there was no way out. If there was a very slim hope to persuade Chu Huan to be loyal to the country, then if Chu Huan's heart was completely cut off, he would have felt that if Xigu Pass was taken into his hands one day by the Northwest people, Qin would usher in a furious Northwest Cang Wolf.

But he didn't expect the day to come so quickly.

"Master General!" The messenger called out twice, and finally called Wei Tianqing from his thoughts. Wei Tianqing frowned and said, "How many soldiers are there in the Northwest Army?"

The messenger was stunned and said, "It should be less than ten thousand people!"

"Ten Thousands of people?" Wei Tianqing frowned and said, "Of all, how many people, have they attacked Tongzhou City?" Seeing the messenger's eyes flashing, he said sternly: "Tell me the truth."

The messenger gasped and said, "Mr. The little one is quick and fast, and there is no delay along the way. It was yesterday morning, and the commander of the magistrate to come to ask for help. When the little one left, the Northwest Army was about to arrive at the city. Thousands of soldiers were easily defeated by them. It is small one, and they estimated that they had tens of thousands of people!"

Wei Tianqing said coldly: "You are so brave. Since you don't know the truth, how dare you talk nonsense here?"

A general next to him approached and whispered: "Mr. Commander, Tongzhou's location is extremely important. If Tongzhou is really taken down by the Northwest Army, it will cut off the road between us and Yunshan, making it difficult to transport money and grain, and the consequences will be unimaginable."

Wei Tianqing nodded slightly and asked, "What's the situation in Tongzhou City now?"

"When it came, Lord Xu asked Xiao to tell Lord General that the city had sufficient food and grass, and they would stick to the end, but the Northwest Army was strong and strong, and they didn't know how long it would last." The messenger said anxiously: "It's just Lord Xu who said they would stick to the end and wait for Lord General's reinforcements to arrive!"

General Lang's eyebrows were locked in a line and said worriedly: "Sir, Tongzhou's defense is weak. Since Chu Huan is determined to capture Tongzhou City, there should be many soldiers. Even if the defenders in the city struggle to support it, the last general thought it would not last too long." He glanced at the messenger and asked: "Did you say that when you set out yesterday, the Northwest Army was about to arrive at the city?"

The messenger hurriedly said, "That's right."

"In this way, if nothing unexpected happens, the Northwest Army should have already attacked the city at this time." General Lang clenched his fists with both hands, "If they take down Tongzhou City, it will be difficult for us to take it back. Sir, the rescue is like putting out a fire. We must immediately rush to help between the fall of Tongzhou and not delay."

Wei Tianqing also knew the situation was serious and hesitated for a moment before saying: "This time, the troops are indispensable. Otherwise, not only will the siege of Tongzhou not be able to be lifted, but it may be eaten by the Northwest Army!"

"Sir, we have 18,000 horse and infantry troops in our hands. The other side of the Governor will definitely dispatch troops to rescue them. The two reinforcements will definitely be able to repel the Northwest Army." General Lang said: "If you trust the last general, the last general will lead 8,000 people to rush to help, and the eldest general will be in charge of Liangzhou."

"Eight thousand men are not enough." Wei Tianqing shook his head and said, "Since you send troops, you must repel the Northwest Army with all your strength. You are right. Since the Northwest Army is invading, there are naturally many troops. We must draw at least tens of thousands of troops to compete with the Northwest Army!" After thinking for a while, he said, "But if there are too many troops drawn from here, will Xu Chang take advantage of the situation to attack Liangzhou?"—

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