In late autumn, mist covers the land on both sides of the Tangbai River, and hundreds of cavalry come along the post road.

The cavalry's momentum is always much more spectacular than the infantry, and hundreds of cavalry look like three or four thousand people coming over the sky.

Without receiving any notice in advance, the Bianyang defenders hurriedly closed the city gate and watched hundreds of cavalry go around Bianyang City and head towards the warehouse southwest of Zhufeng Hall, without knowing what was going on.

The cavalry did not move very quickly. Many business travelers who went north had encountered it before, but they couldn't figure out what was going on in the north, and they all turned back one after another. The news they brought back to Biyang City was that they saw the troops going south along the way. Not only were there six or seven hundred cavalry in front of them, but there were more Chushan soldiers advancing into Nanyang behind them.

The Marquis of Jingsheng had already led more than a thousand cavalry to Jianye before. His Majesty was mobilized and Chushan made a large-scale mobilization of troops to move south. What happened?

Ning Ci, Zhou Yunze and others rushed to the top of the city. Seeing the first batch of cavalry entering the south cargo warehouse in Zhufengtang, they were shocked, but they did not dare to speculate and speak randomly.

They received an edict from Emperor Jianji's death the day before yesterday, and the prefectures and counties also arranged memorial service and mourning for officials and people according to the edict.

The edict did not mention the Zheng father and son who acted in absurd manner and wanted to deal with the successor Emperor Huai. However, Ning Ci and Zhou Yunze were the prefect of Nanyang and the magistrate, and were also the backbone of the scholars. They had old friends in the court, and Jin Zhuang Cheng served as the Minister of Rites in the court, so they would not be completely unheard of the news.

Yesterday, several private letters were sent to Biyang City with a quick horse and a whip. Ning Ci, Zhou Yunze and others also knew that after Emperor Jianji passed away, Xu Huai led his troops to detain Zheng Huaizhong, Zheng Cong and his son in the Political Affairs Hall.

Chushan joined forces with the Huai Prince's Mansion to send troops to Huaidong to deal with the remnants of Zheng's father and son in Huaidong. This is something that everyone can think of, but the problem is that if Chushan wants to send troops to Huaidong, he should not go east from Xinyang, Huaiyuan and other places directly along the south bank of the Huai River. How can he mobilize troops south in large quantities?

"Magistrate Cheng, maybe you want to go there!" Ning Ci looked at Cheng Lunying with a gloomy expression and said.

After Zheng Huaizhong, Zheng Cong and his son led the main force of the Shenwu Army to Huainan, in the middle of last year, in order to transfer the Nanyang Prefecture Army to participate in the garrison of Ru Cai and other places, Cheng Lunying almost publicly stood with Chushan.

If Chu Shan really had any abnormal movement, Ning Ci didn't think Cheng Lunying would definitely get the news in advance, but at this time, Cheng Lunying went to Zhufengtang Cargo Store to meet the commander of Chu Shan's cavalry to Biyang, and could always ask for some information - of course, Cheng Lunying might not find out what news he found and would not follow them, but it was better than if they were sitting in the city without any thoughts.

Although there was no transfer order from the Privy Council, Nanyang Prefecture should refuse the Chushan Army to enter and exit at will, Ning Ci did not feel that he should stand up with a stubborn attitude in this situation.

Cheng Lunying was also full of fear, but this time he did not refuse Ning Ci's order and came to Zhufengtang's warehouse with several followers.

The cargo warehouse in the south of Biyang City is located on the banks of the Bishui River. At first, together with the warehouse and stable, it was only a courtyard covering an area of ​​three or four acres. The wharf is located on the south side of the yard and can only be parked with two wooden sailboats four or five meters long. As the Chu Mountain comes out of the mountain, the freight transport from Biyang to the river is getting bigger and bigger, and the cargo warehouse and wharf have been continuously expanded in recent years. Last year, Xu Huai moved craftsmen, craftsmen and their families to Longtan Ridge, the upper reaches of the Dongzhao River, a tributary of the Baihe River, to build a land refining and porcelain fireworks.

The Tangbai River is divided into two branches of Tanghe and Baihe in Nanyang Prefecture. It was not until Xiangcheng County, Xiangyang Prefecture that it merged into the real Tangbai River.

The Baihe River on the west side is affected by the undulating terrain and soil quality of the west wing of the Nanyang Basin, and the shipping conditions are very poor. Not only does the tributary Dongzhao River only provide shallow-bottom sailboats with a load of 20 to 30 stones, but even if the main stream of the Baihe River is in Nanyang County and Xinye County, there are still large sections of shallows with a depth of only one or two feet of water, restricting the passage of boats.

At the same time, no embankments were built along the Baihe River, and the river channels often change due to floods.

Although there are no artificial dams on the Tang River on the east wing, the terrain is relatively flat, the flood disasters are lighter, and the shipping conditions are much better.

In view of this feature, Chushan further expanded the cargo warehouse in the south of Biyang City last year so that the iron and porcelain produced by Longtan Ridge would first come out of the mountain through small boats, and transport it to Biayang through the horizontal canal between the Tanghe and Baihe River in the northern part of Nanyang County. It was concentrated in the cargo warehouse in the south of Biyang City to exchange medium-sized wooden sailboats for transportation to Xiangyang and Nancai and other places.

At the same time, Zhufengtang was able to purchase grain from Nanyang counties last year. It was also concentrated in the south of Biyang City, and then went north through the Tanghe River. After transporting it to the east|Shedian Cargo Store in the south of Fangcheng County, it was then transported by land through Fangcheng Pass to the south of Wuyang by river bank, and then changed to the river transportation to Wuyang, Zhaoling, Xiangcheng, Liangxian and other places.

The difficulties and complexity of the current commodity freight transportation, as well as the relative terrain relationship between Biyang City and Chushan County, all determine the special status of Zhufengtang in the south of Biyang City.

                                                                                                                              

In addition, the cargo warehouse also uses the depression on the west side to open a boat pool that can be parked for more than 100 small and medium-sized boats.

After more than 500 cavalry in Chushan arrived in Biyang, they were able to enter the cargo warehouse directly. After all, in the busiest season, the cargo warehouse basically had to accommodate a team of mules and horses with a size of thousands of people to rest and transport merchants.

Cheng Lunying rushed to the south of the city cargo warehouse and saw Xu Wujiang, Tang Pan and others standing in the courtyard. He was shocked and stepped forward and bowed, "Why are you here to biyang?"

Xu Wujiang was the left Sima of the Chushan camp at this time. Among the generals in command of the Chushan army, Tang Pan and Xu Xin'an had higher status than other commanders, and Du Yuhou, second only to Xu Wuli, Chen Zixiao and Wang Xian.

The two of Xu Wujiang and Tang Pan here mean that the scale of the troops dispatched in the south of Chushan this time may be much larger than expected, and it is unlikely that only two or three thousand soldiers will be only.

"It's just right that Mr. Cheng is coming. We're just about to send someone to invite Mr. Cheng," Xu Wujiang explained while asking Cheng Lunying to walk into the hall, "The imperial court order may be one or two days later to arrive at Nanyang Prefecture. We received the military order from General Jie to move first, and we didn't have time to report to Nanyang Prefecture in advance..."

Before Xu Huai set out from Nancai to Jianye, he ordered Chushan to gather some troops in the passfort north of Fangcheng to prepare for the attack on the Jing bandit army. He even went to the Biyang Goods Store in advance to gather materials, including increasing the scale of grain purchases from Nanyang counties, but the Nanyang Prefecture did not notice any abnormalities.

"Horse Xu has returned to Nancai and wants to personally lead Nancai troops into the Jing bandit army to suppress the cave?" Cheng Lunying asked in surprise.

Biyang is more than 800 miles away from Nanyang. In addition to the fact that the art is not so stable and reliable, it is mainly Nanyang Prefecture. Xiangyang Prefecture is directly under the central government. Xu Huai proposed in Jianye to organize a group of troops in Nancai to participate in the attack on the Dongjing thief army. After the Privy Council issued the recruitment order, he knew at this critical moment that he would send messengers to inform Yueyang (Jinghu South Road System Division) and Jiangxia (Jinghu North Road System Division Division). In a hurry, no one thought that they would go to the Xiangyang Prefecture and Nanyang Prefecture.

Xu Huai had never forgotten this point, and it could even be said that he did not mention it intentionally.

Xu Huaizhen wanted to remind the Privy Council that it was necessary to explain the specific deployment of the additional mobilization of personnel, horses and food and supplies from the Chushan headquarters. The Privy Council would even make specific regulations or restrictions on the mobilization of personnel, horses and supplies through Nanyang and Xiangyang in writing.

The Privy Council did not write a document, but Xu Huai did have a recruitment order in hand, so many things could be ruled. Even if the Xiangyang Prefecture, which was under the control of Wen Hengyue, wanted to restrict it at this time, Xu Huai would turn against him.

At present, in addition to concentrating a large amount of supplies from Wuyang, Huaiyuan and other places to the south of Biyang City, Xu Huai also had to set up a large transit station at the intersection of the Tanghe and Baihe River at the junction of Nanyang Prefecture and Xiangyang Prefecture; after a material supply line arrives at the mouth of Hualing River east of Jingmen, it will also extend along the Hualing River and Changlin River to Jiangling County. In addition to mobilizing tens of thousands of baggage troops and a larger number of personnel, it will use chariots, horses, boats and ships to transport grain, fodder, and other materials between the transit stations, and at the same time, it will also transfer thousands of elite troops to guard and protect these transit stations.

This is also a necessary task for logistics support during the war. Xu Wujiang, as Zuo Sima of the Chushan Camp, rushed to Biyang to take charge, and was fully responsible for the normal and safe operation of the supply line from Wuyang to Hualing River mouth; Tang Pan, as Xu Wujiang's deputy, was responsible for the leadership and protection of the Chushan soldiers on such supply line...

Your Majesty is in a new mourning. Xu Huai not only detained Zheng Huaizhong, Zheng Cong and his son in Jianye, but also led troops directly to the Jing bandit army after the ceremony of the funeral. All of these shocked Cheng Lunying. After hearing Xu Wujiang's statement and the supply line, he suddenly came to his senses and asked in surprise:

"It is said that soldiers are very fast. Xu Hou recruited troops in Nancai. In a hurry, Chu Shan might need to directly supply some combat materials first. But at the same time, shouldn't various materials be recruited on the spot to minimize road losses as much as possible?"

Cheng Lunying thought about it again that the entire supply line was located in Nanyang Prefecture and Xiangyang Prefecture. There was no threat to the entire journey except for the bandits. Chushan should ask Nanyang Prefecture and Xiangyang Prefecture to send troops to protect it and further reduce the consumption of Chushan, instead of sending so many elite Chushan troops to Nanyang and Xiangyang Prefecture.

In addition to Xu Huai's real purpose, is to send so many elite Chushan troops to Nanyang and station them in Xiangyang Prefecture?

Cheng Lunying was confident that Xu Huai was still trusting. Thinking of this, he looked at Xu Wujiang in a low voice and asked, "Xu Houyi is not suppressing bandits?"

"Jing Zheng still wants to suppress bandits, but the situation in the court is more complicated than imagined. We are not very clear now. The military orders we received are just like this. There is no way to write too many details in the military order. We can only be clear after seeing Ji Zheng..." Tang Pan said.
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