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Chapter 1250 Rear
A huge dark cloud floated in the distance and covered the sun.

Zhuozhou seems to be raining.

Looking south from the tallest tower in the city, you can see the camp of the Tang Army from a distance.

Namuhan and brother Xiangyi are watching the formation.

"The Tang army is increasing its troops every day, and Li Xia has already arrived at the Jumahe camp. The strange thing is that the siege has not yet started in the past few days."

"Of course Li Xia is not in a hurry. After getting the food stored in Taiyuan, it will be more beneficial to him in the future."

"Not necessarily? Don't forget that there are soldiers from Song and Tubo in the south attacking him."

Brother Phase Shift shook his head, and said: "I can't tell what's going on in the south, but if I were Li Xia, I would definitely surround Yanjing while cleaning up Shandong and cut off our connection with Boyan. When the soldiers and horses are exhausted, he will make the final attack."

Namuhan thought to himself, what these Zongwangs said was very reasonable, but they always lost in battles.

"Father Khan has sent people to take over Shandong, and ordered Boyan to destroy Li Xia's rear as soon as possible..."

Brother Xiangyi listened to this, and pressed the binoculars to his eyes, as if he was trying hard to see what was going on behind Tang Jun.Why do people always say that its rear is unstable, but Li Xia remains unmoved.

"You know? I'm so anxious, I can't wait to make the decision to withdraw the troops for Li Xia."

Na Muhan who was talking eloquently was taken aback for a moment, and said: "It's a pity that you are not him."

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Kuizhou.

Looking from the city head to the Yangtze River in the south, you can see the navy with dense banners of the Song army.

The Song army has been attacking Kuizhou City for three months, but there are really not many methods in this terrain.

Although this section of the river is not as dangerous as the Three Gorges, the terrain on both sides of the bank is not open. The only open place is Kuizhou City, which has a city wall and various defensive equipment such as artillery on the top of the city.

The strength of the Song army was not easy to deploy at first. Most of them could only shoot arrows at the city from the warships, and they did not dare to get close to avoid being sunk by artillery.

Coupled with the turbulence of the river, it is not easy to keep the boat steady.

Occasionally, a small group of Song troops landed downstream and tried to attack Zhoucheng, but the Tang army was prepared.

Therefore, the Song army's strategy for Kuizhou mainly hoped to besiege the city until the city ran out of food and recruit Zhang Qiyan, the defender.

On the third day of May, Jia Sidao sent someone to persuade him again.

The two sides had formed a tacit understanding, as long as Zhang Qiyan didn't kill the envoy, the Song army wouldn't attack by force that day.Therefore, the envoy can safely arrive at the city of Kuizhou by boat every time, and talk to Zhang Qiyan.

"General Zhang, I haven't been here for several days. I came today to tell you big news."

The shout spread to the top of the city, but there was no response.

However, Zhang Qiyan was looking down at the city with a binocular in the battlements, and saw that the Song envoy who came this time was Yao Di.

Only Yao Xi shouted again: "General Zhang, Hu Huaixiao, deputy envoy of Wanzhou Transshipment, has killed the guard Sun Gui and returned to the Song Dynasty!"

In the city, Zhang Qiyan squinted his eyes, revealing some surprise.

Wanzhou is located in the upper reaches of Kuizhou. If Wanzhou has already fallen, it can basically be said that Kuizhou cannot be defended.

Zhang Qiyan shouted: "Will I believe you?!"

Yao Di shouted: "The general doesn't believe me, why don't you let Hu Huaixiao go to the city and tell you, okay?!"

Another person in the small boat stood up and waved to the top of the city.

Zhang Qiyan thought it was a boatman at first, so he turned his binoculars and glanced at his face.

Although he and Hu Huaixiao had only met Liao Liao a few times, at this moment he had to admit in surprise that it was really him.

Yao Di said again: "General, please let us go to the city. It doesn't matter whether we surrender or not. It is for the sake of the people in the city. Let me tell you the details!"

Zhang Qiyan was worried about the situation in Wanzhou, and after pondering for a while, he made a decision.

"Put down the gondola! Bring them up!"

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On a warship in Jiangxin, Jia Sidao and a group of officials were watching from afar the hanging basket lowered from the top of the city and the people boarding the city.

When the two shadows climbed to the top of the city, all the officials could not help but smile and discuss.

"It's not easy, Zhang Qiyan finally let go, and is willing to talk with our people face to face."

"If you care about it, you will be chaotic. He cares about Wanzhou, so of course he will make this decision."

"If you say it's just out of curiosity, I can't see it all. It's a fact that the city of Kuizhou is running out of food and grass after months of siege. According to what the prisoners said a few days ago, at the end of the month, one day's food was divided into two days. "

"That's right, the rebels guarding Kuizhou looked hungry, Zhang Qiyan surrendered, it should be just a few days away."

"Even if he doesn't have the heart to surrender yet, if he takes a step back today and another step tomorrow, sooner or later he will surrender."

"With this big city, our army has a foothold in Sichuan and Shu, and it will be convenient to transfer troops and food."

"..."

Jia Sidao didn't feel impatient when he heard this.

In his opinion, Zhang Qiyan should have surrendered long ago.

They are all completely blocked and surrounded, and the external news is cut off. If they don't surrender, can they wait for reinforcements to break through the densely packed Dasong Navy to support them?
However, Zhang Qiyan stayed on guard for two months longer than expected, which made the current situation a bit ugly.

For example, Lin'an issued several edicts to ask whether it is possible to collect grain locally in Sichuan and Shu, and the imperial court can give paper money and money, because it is really unable to continuously transport grain to Shu.

However, Jia Sidao has not captured a big city, how can he get food on the spot?

He felt that his pressure was greater than that of Zhang Qiyan.

"Mr. Pingzhang."

"Say."

"Su Liuyi sent someone to report to Ping Zhanggong, saying that there is something wrong with the upstream waterway."

"What's wrong?"

Liao Yingzhong said: "One is that more than ten boats going to Wanzhou have not returned, and the other is that some pieces of wood have drifted down..."

Jia Sidao stopped by raising his hand, walked aside, and asked again: "What does this mean? What guesses does he have?"

"The students don't know about this either."

"Where is Xia Gui?" Jia Sidao said again, "How about Xia Gui?"

"Mr. Pingzhang, Su Liuyi bypassed Marshal Xia and reported the matter directly to Mr. Pingzhang. He also said..."

Speaking of this, Liao Yingzhong hesitated, thinking that it was military affairs after all, and then continued: "This is the news of the day before yesterday. Because Hu Yinglei prevented Su Liuyi from seeing Marshal Xia, he had to report to Duke Pingzhang."

Jia Sidao glanced at the distance impatiently.

"What's the matter?"

"The students don't know either. Hu Yinglei and Su Liuyi lied about their military exploits..."

Just hearing this, Jia Sidao probably already guessed what was going on.

Recently, he valued Su Liuyi very much, so he was promoted to the official position of Su Liuyi. In this way, soldiers and horses from Lianghuai came under his command, and Hu Yinglei was one of the generals.

Hu Yinglei is Xia Gui's son-in-law, perhaps for some reason or other, he doesn't listen to Su Liuyi's control anyway, and the two sides started to quarrel.

"Damn, I solve these troubles every day..."

This time it was Hu Yinglei who used his identity to obstruct Su Liuyi's military affairs, Jia Sidao raised his head and glanced into the distance, seeing that today's battle is not urgent, he said: "Let Xia Gui come to see me."

"Yes."

Soon there was a small boat to bring Xia Gui over.

Xia Gui is 71 years old, perhaps because he was not acclimatized to the environment after entering Sichuan, he walked a little tremblingly.

Seeing his behavior, Jia Sidao suddenly realized that he was naive before, thinking that Su Liuyi was from the Lu family army, and that he would not let this old guy mind if he shared some of Xia Gui's military power.

Looking at it now, since Lu Wende is dead and Xia Gui has ruled alone for a long time, how can he allow others to divide his military power?
Of course, the Song Dynasty has always suppressed martial arts with literature. With Jia Sidao suppressing Xia Gui, there is nothing he can do, but he will show some dissatisfaction to some extent-"The old man came all the way to follow you to suppress the rebellion, but you reuse Su Liuyi , won’t you promote my sons?”

Thinking about this, Jia Sidao couldn't help cursing inwardly.

"Damn, in recent years, the local warriors have become more and more domineering."

However, he showed a free and easy smile on his face, greeted Xia Gui, started talking about the weather, and tested each other tacitly...

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"Why didn't Duke Pingzhang respond? Do you want to invite some more ships to reinforce?"

"Don't worry, wait a little longer."

On the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, by a small bay called Badantuo, Su Liuyi was urging ships to transport his soldiers to the shore.

He planned to lead 2000 people and only bring dry food for ten days, and go overland from here to attack Yun'an County upstream.

But Xia Gui didn't seem to support his plan, thinking that his plan was too risky, and he should persuade the city of Kuizhou to surrender, so that the army would have a foothold before going upstream to Xutu.

The reason why I say "seems" is because Hu Yinglei said so.

From Su Liuyi's point of view, all he had to do was wait for Xia Gui to support the plan.

"I heard that Kuizhou City is about to surrender. Maybe it's at this time, they don't want to make trouble..."

While chatting with the lieutenant general, suddenly a soldier shouted.

"General! Look!"

Su Liuyi looked up and saw soldiers waving flags on a high mountain not far to the north.

"No, with Tang Jun, they really found us."

At this moment, Su Liuyi's first thought was that his plan to attack upstream was about to fail.

However, the soldiers in charge of the observation ran down from the high mountain and reported more troublesome things.

"Tang Jun's ship! It's coming down from the upper reaches, very fast!"

"how many people?"

"There are not many ships, there are about two hundred ships of all sizes."

Su Liuyi was not flustered, because he had thought about this matter.

After all, the Song army had surrounded Kuizhou for so long, and it was normal for the Tang army to have reinforcements.

Even coming now, it was actually much later than Su Liuyi expected.As late as some time ago, they had already asserted that the Tang army was short of troops upstream, and their defenses were a little lax...

At this time, Su Liuyi had a faint thought in his mind, whether it was because Tang Jun knew the amount of grain stored in Kuizhou that he came here on purpose.

"Hurry up, take a small boat and go downstream to report that Tang army reinforcements are coming."

"Here."

"Go too, and fortify our ships."

Su Liuyi gave orders one after another, and then shouted: "The rest get on board! Follow me to intercept Tang Jun!"

"No, general, the Tang army is coming along, but we only have 2000 people who have just landed here, and the warship..."

"Don't talk nonsense, stop them!"

Su Liuyi has been away from the army for several days, and he is not very clear about the status of the Song Dynasty Navy near Kuizhou.

He didn't worry that the Tang army's navy could defeat the Song army, but he was only worried that if they were allowed to help Kuizhou, all the hard work of Duke Pingzhang would be in vain.

"Quick, get on board!"

……

The wind helps the water potential, and the water borrows the power of the wind.

Soon, with the eyes, you can see warships approaching quickly on the river at an extremely fast speed.

Su Liuyi was still boarding the ship, looking at it, he was secretly surprised that the Tang army had such a skilled sailor.

You must know that such water potential can easily capsize the boat.

He squinted his eyes, and what he saw was a general flag with the word "Zhang". It was not Zhang Hongdao, but he didn't know it was someone unknown...

(End of this chapter)