Lord of the House

Huaishan is the Sanshui field of the Yangtze River, Huaihe River and Han River, and it is also the boundary between Jianghuai and Jinghu. It stretches for more than a thousand miles. The southeast section is also called Huaiyang Mountain, and the northwest section is also called Tongbai Mountain. connected.

Xinyang is located at the northern foot of Huaishan Mountain. Huaiyang Mountain stretches for about 400 miles in Xinyang, Tongbai Mountain stretches for nearly 200 miles in Xinyang, and the Huaihe River also swims through Xinyang and joins the stream down from Huaishan Mountain. In the Huai River, Xinyang is also cut into many block terrains connected by Ganggu.

The special geographical location makes the horse thieves and bandits in Xinyang very rampant, and the mountain bandits are also in large groups, but the disaster caused by the horse bandits and bandits to Xinyang is far less than that which began in the ninth year of Chongguan and swept the Central Plains. disaster.

From the chaos of the ninth year of Chongguan to the twelve years of Chongguan, until Chen Zhihu was appointed as the envoy of the Henan system, Xinyang was occupied by several groups of refugee troops, and several prefectures and counties were invaded. The people of Xinyang were either under threat or fleeing from their hometowns. The local clans were also the key targets of looting by the refugee army and were severely hit.

However, Xinyang has a complex terrain, which can be used by rogues and thieves. In places with steep mountains, there are naturally many clans who survived tenaciously. They built forts and barriers in the steep places, built villages to protect themselves, accommodated refugees, and expanded village soldiers. The power has even been expanded to a certain extent.

Thirteen years after Chongguan, the war in Henan and Huaixi calmed down, refugees returned home, and Xinyang's broken situation gradually recovered, but this state ended when Chen Hansan led the broken into Huaishan.

Chen Hansan was unwilling to continue to decline like this. Three thousand people still had to survive and expand, in addition to looting or looting. Since Xiao Kuian led his troops into Xinyang in mid-February, Zhengyang and Huangchuan counties have successively attacked and looted Chen Hansan. Jiangning's newly appointed magistrate of Huangchuan County has given it to Hanging Shichengtou, and the villages in Xinyang have been looted. Several.

Huangchuan County was destroyed, and the magistrate hung a corpse at the head of the city. The Xinyang magistrate was so frightened that he abandoned the city and fled, but he went to Shouzhou to capture Dong Yuan.

Speaking of Xinyang, it was also a fluke. The prefect abandoned the city and fled, but under the leadership of Meng Zhixiang, a small official in the government, the clan forces in the city were twisted into a rope, and they even guarded Xinyang City until Xiao Kuian led his troops into Xinyang City.

Although Xinyang City is close to the northern foot of Huaishan, Liu An'er and Luo Xiancheng regard Xinyang as the northern screen of Huaishan. Although they were forced to give up Xinyang several times, they all want to retake Xinyang to defend Huaishan. Even when they retreated, they did not damage Xinyang's city walls. . Although the prefect appointed by Jiang Ning is not of any kind, the clan forces that have experienced the war have gathered some defensive forces, so that Chen Hansan, who is very weak at this time, does not dare to attack Xinyang at this time.

When Chen Hansan was in Xuzhou, he used the system of Xuzhou, which was conferred by the imperial court. Evil fierce.

After Dong Yuan greeted the representatives of the salt merchants in Haozhou, he rushed to Xinyang. Even if Luo Xiancheng is not considered, Chen Hansan is a great threat to Xinyang. If this cancer is not eliminated, Xinyang and even Shouzhou will not be peaceful.

After Dong Yuan took office in Huaixi, he hadn't slept peacefully for a few days. His thin and pointed chin made his face look a little feminine. He was also used to piercing armor. In the stockade looted by the robbers, they looked sadly at the majestic Huaishan Mountain to the south.

To the south is the junction of Huaiyang Mountain and Tongbai Mountain. Unlike the high and majestic ridges in the east, the terrain of the junction is relatively broad and gentle, mainly low mountains below 300 feet, with hills in between, and then westward. It is the steep east ridge of Tongbai Mountain - this is also the passage from Xinyang to Suizhou at the southern foot of Huaishan Mountain.

Luo Xiancheng's army wants to go north. If they don't go to Nanyang, they can only go this way.

On the north entrance of Huaishan Mountain Road, Minghe Village used to be a very prosperous town, but now it has completely declined. It has just recovered some vigor in the past two years, and today it was looted again. In addition to burning down the houses and looting money and food, Ding Zhuang and some pretty women in the village robbed more than 100 people, leaving the lonely, widowed, old and ugly sitting on the ground and crying, and dozens of villagers were lying on the ground. corpse.

"The thieves have horses, and a certain soldier came here after hearing the news. The thieves have already looted the stockade and evacuated..." Xiao Kuian said with a suffocated breath.

Dong Yuan's face was gloomy. After the defeat of Xuzhou, it was surprising that Chen Hansan did not lead the remnants to flee north. Indeed, the remnants of Chen Hansan who escaped from Xuzhou had many horses. Tao Chun had more than a thousand cavalry in his hands, and Xiao Kuian was so full that he could make up a hundred war horses.

Coming out of Huaishan, there are low mountains and hills, especially Xiao Kuian just led his troops over, the blockade of Huaishan is far from being strict, and mistakes are inevitable.

Dong Yuan didn't want to let Xiao Kui'an go, and said: "Without war horses, can mules and horses ride? You can find a way to get three or five hundred mules and horses, ride horses to chase the enemy, and dismount to fight on foot. This shouldn't be difficult, right? I don't want to do it anymore. It happened that a hundred or ten robbers could rob a stockade!"

"Yes." Xiao Kuian replied in a muffled voice, Huaixi did not talk about war horses, and mules and horses were in short supply. Xiao Kuian received money and food according to the head every season, and he could not disturb the people. Where would he get three or five hundred mules and horses? I just want to send someone to find Master Liu to find a way. The situation in front of him also made him have no confidence to argue with Dong Yuan.

Xiao Kuian excused himself to see the soldiers below to bury the bodies of the villagers, and walked away, followed by a cronie behind him, and said softly: "In a few days, it will be Duke Pengcheng's big day, why hasn't the general thought of sending someone to send a copy? Have a gift?"

"..." Xiao Kuian stopped and glanced eastward, thinking that he almost forgot about it. He didn't feel anything when he was in Huaidong, and only then did he realize that everything in Huaidong was much smoother.

Xiao Kui'an was originally the captain of the Huai'an Mansion, and was barely a mid-level military attache, but Lin Fu rectified the Huai'an military and government, and he was able to take charge of the mansion's army. Afterwards, he followed Liu Tingzhou to cross the Huai Army to the north, and suffered a major defeat. He was not severely punished afterwards, and he was able to continue to lead the government army. This is because Lin Fu showed mercy to his men, and even when Liu Miaozhen led the army eastward, Xiao Kuian He was able to lead his troops to cross Huai and keep Shuyang. This step is what makes Xiao Kuian really developed. Not to mention being the commander of the North Army of the Huaidong Army, the number of troops has also expanded from more than 2,000 to 12,000. Then he has the opportunity to go out to Guoyang with Liu Tingzhou and truly become a The commander of an army.

Xiao Kuian knows that his status today has the most direct relationship with Liu Tingzhou's promotion and trust, but without Lin Fu's help, he would never be able to sit where he is today, and he is still grateful to Lin Fu in his heart.

Now that Liu Miaozhen is married to Lin Fu as a concubine, there is a lot of clamor, and the world knows that Xiao Kuian is supposed to give a gift in the past, but thinking of Liu Tingzhou's attitude, Xiao Kuian gives up again, no matter what, he can't betray Liu Tingzhou's knowledge Zhi En, without saying a word, continued to walk outside the stockade.

Looking at Xiao Kuian's leaving back, Chen Jingrong said to Dong Yuan, "I'm afraid Xiao Kuian can't handle Chen Hansan..."

Dong Yuan just glanced at Xiao Kuian and said nothing.

Xiao Kuian was a general promoted by Liu Tingzhou from the lower ranks.

Sun Zhuang abandoned the two armies of Suining and Suyu, and moved Liu Miaozhen eastward. At that time, the Sibei Army of the Huaidong Infantry had to be abolished. Lin Fu gave Liu Tingzhou the establishment of the Sibei Army of the Huaidong Infantry in exchange for Liu Tingzhou's presence. Liu Miaozhen was silent on the matter of Dongjin.

On the basis of the Huaian government army, Xiao Kuian recruited refugees and brave people in Shuyang and Haizhou, so that the scale of the Xinyang army is today-Xiao Kuian is a general promoted from the bottom, and he has some talents, but most of his generals have not experienced much. A tough fight, hard to say.

The Xinyang Army could not say that it was useless. Fortunately, after Liu Tingzhou transferred to the west, Xue Huaidong reclaimed the wasteland in Haozhou, and most of the families of the Xinyang Army generals moved to Haozhou for resettlement. Liu Tingzhou withstood the pressure and allocated tens of thousands of acres of land to the generals and soldiers in Haozhou~www.readwn.com~, so that ordinary generals and soldiers are not afraid of death, but they are also against military discipline.

An army, as long as it has strict military discipline, has the foundation of elite soldiers - the Xinyang Army under Xiao Kuian cannot be said to be vulnerable.

The rise of Xiao Kuian is directly related to Liu Tingzhou. Dong Yuan also knows that he cannot win over him, and believes that it is not that Huaidong has not attracted Xiao Kuian - it is precisely because Liu Tingzhou can rely on Xiao Kuian in Huaixi, and in many affairs in Huaixi, They can compete with Dong Yuan in court. Similarly, Xiao Kuian has Liu Tingzhou to rely on, and he is also dissatisfied with Dong Yuan, his immediate boss.

Dong Yuan thought to himself that it would be good to ask Xiao Kuian to suffer in Xinyang, but Xinyang could not rely on Xiao Kuian after all.

"Master Meng is here!" The guards came to report on horseback.

"Okay, you can come with me to meet you." Dong Yuan said.

This "Mr. Meng" is not Meng Zhixiang, who guarded Xinyang some time ago, but Meng Zhen, the predecessor of the prefect who was dismissed from office, and went out with Meng Zhixiang from the Meng clan in Huangchuan. In terms of seniority, he is older than Meng Zhixiang-Meng Zhixiang Ying was a disciple of Chen Xibo, and he was regarded as a member of the Western Qin Party. In the last years of Chongguan, the Chu Party was very powerful. Meng Ying was involved in a case in Xinyang and was dismissed from office. He still lives in the countryside.

The prefect of Xinyang abandoned the city and fled. Meng Zhixiang led the children of various clans in Xinyang city to defend the city finally, making Dong Yuan realize that the preservation of the clan forces in Xinyang was much better than that of most of Shouzhou in the low hills and plains. Although Xinyang had asked Xiao Kuian to lead his troops to garrison, what Dong Yuan really wanted to use at this time was the local forces in Xinyang to suppress Xiao Kuian and then suppress Liu Tingzhou's influence in Huaixi.

Now that Huaidong is in full swing, Dong Yuan knows that there is not much time left for him. If there is no scale in Huaixi in a year or two, then everything will be difficult to say. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter