Fu Song

Chapter 664
Where is Yunheng Qinling's home, Xue embraces Languan, and does not move forward.

The sky was blue, and the golden sunlight fell on the white snow, almost dyeing the entire mountaintop into gold. On the mountaintop farther away, a rainbow spanned the sky, which was extremely spectacular.

The wind blew slightly, and the snow fell, revealing the pine needles covered by the snow. Perhaps they finally got rid of the weight on their bodies, and the emerald green pine needles danced happily with the wind. On the branches, some thin Accompanied by a slight cracking sound, the ice edges fell from the branches, piercing small holes in the snow.

Standing on the top of the mountain, Zhang Cheng stared at the blue pass across the road in the distance.

The blue pass rebuilt on the basis of the blue pass in the Qin Dynasty is naturally incomparable with the past, but it is still a dangerous pass guarding Shangluo to the Guanzhong Plain.

Originally, there were only 500 people stationed here, but as the land of Heluo fell into the hands of the Song army, the number of troops stationed here suddenly doubled.

Today's puppet Zhao regime has only the surrounding areas of Kaifeng left in Henan, and on Shaanxi Road, Jingzhao Mansion has become another place that they cannot afford to lose.

Today's Shaanxi Road is a mess.

The forces from all walks of life divided it up in an extremely messy manner, and everyone had a foot in it, but for a while, no one could do anything to anyone else.

In the north, Liu Quanyi of the pseudo-Jin Dynasty controlled most of the Yan'an Mansion and a part of the Suide Mansion, and Zhang Yunsheng, the general under the command of Xiao Ding, the Great Xia King, used Luowu City as his base, constantly invaded Hengshan, and fought against the Liu family forces in Suide. It's hard to beat.

But above the northwest direction, it is the traditional sphere of influence of the Western Army, such as Dingbian City, Shentang Fort, Huanzhou, and Qingzhou are all under the control of the Western Army.

And Tongzhou, Huazhou, Yaozhou in the southeast, including Jingzhao Mansion, are in the hands of Zhao Guoquzhen.

In the past, Li Chunfeng on Qinfeng Road looked forward and backward, because he was concerned about the Liao Kingdom, the big backer behind Jin and Zhao, and worried that the Western Army Xiao Ding would send troops to annex his territory, so he had some connections with the Liao Kingdom in private. shot.However, with the changes in the current situation, the Xin Song Dynasty, whose capital was located in Jiangning Mansion, won again and again on the battlefield, beating Qi and Zhao into a mess, and even the Liao Kingdom suffered a big loss. He stretched out his hand to this area.

At this time, he has already surrendered to the regime of Jiangning and Xinsong in name, and has reached an alliance agreement with Xiao Ding, king of Daxia, and began to move eastward with confidence, but now he has occupied Ningzhou, Binzhou and other places .

On Shanxi Road, heroes gathered, each trying their best to get the most out of it.

Among this group of people, the one with the strongest strength is undoubtedly the Great Xia King Xiao Ding.

But in fact, he is the one who has the least spare time to show his talents in this area.

In the northeast direction, Xiao Ding wants to confront Yeluhuan on Xijing Road.

To the northwest, Yelumin, King of the North of the Liao Army, is competing with Xiao Ding for the Western Regions.

The main force of the Western Army is basically concentrated in these two places.

This made it so that in the south, the Western Army could only maintain a defensive position. Even if Zhang Yunsheng attacked repeatedly, he would only use offense instead of defense, so as not to be too passive.

And in this chaotic situation, there is another force that no one dares to underestimate in the slightest, and that is Zhang Cheng, who was under the jurisdiction of Shaanxi Road in the former Song Dynasty.

That year coincided with a great change, the Song Army was first defeated by the Western Army on Shaanxi Road, and then was betrayed by Hebei. The Liao Army suddenly arrived, and the 10,000+ Song Army was almost wiped out on Shaanxi Road and Hedong Road. In the end, Zhang Cheng led Some confidantes fled all the way into the Qinling Mountains. However, with the fall of Tokyo, these people could not return home, so they could only occupy the Qinling Mountains and became bandits.

Over the past few years, several major forces competing with each other have made life difficult for the people in this area, and more and more people fled to the deep mountains because they couldn't survive, which made Zhang Cheng's strength grow step by step.

From the initial thousand men, now there are thousands of soldiers available for battle.

The dependents, the old and the weak, ten times as many as the soldiers, reclaimed wasteland in the Qinling Mountains, farming, gathering, and hunting, as if they were their own line.

Of course, these productions are far from enough, so Zhang Cheng will lead troops down the mountain from time to time to attack the surrounding forces and rob materials to strengthen himself.

Back then, Cui Ang went to the mountains to suppress him, and later Qu Zhen also went to the mountains to suppress him, but without exception, they were all defeated by Zhang Cheng. In addition to sending food and grass, sending people's heads and giving armor and weapons, the puppet Zhao did not like this stock. The bandits entrenched in the Qinling Mountains could do nothing.

In the end, he had no choice but to hold on to Languan, preventing Zhang Cheng from coveting Lantian County and then robbing Jingzhao Mansion.

As Zhang Cheng's strength grew step by step, he gradually became the target of various forces.

Zhao Guo, Jin Guo and even Liao Guo Zhennan Wang Yeluzhen personally sent envoys to say surrender.

Jiang Ning was naturally not to be outdone. The Zhiqiu Institute, which collects foreign intelligence in the Overwatch Council, has not let go of its infiltration here and has been persuaded.

And Li Chunfeng, of course, has also joined it now.

Even Li Shilong, governor of Yizhou Road, sent people to form an alliance with Zhang Cheng.

Only the Western Army did not send anyone.

Probably everyone in the Western Army knew that Zhang Cheng might defect to any side, but he would never defect to the Western Army.

Because Zhang Cheng's father, Great Song Taiwei Zhang Chao, died at the hands of Great Xia King Xiao Ding.

Although Zhang Chao wanted to die at that time, Xiao Ding only fulfilled his wish.

But Zhang Chao was stabbed by Xiao Ding after all, and his heart was chilled.

On the battlefield at that time, thousands of people could see clearly.

So, how could Zhang Cheng bow to the murder of his father and enemy!

"It's not easy to fight!" Gan Quan shook his head again and again: "There is no attack surface to expand at all. It can be said that one man is in charge of the gate, and no one can open it. Taiwei, instead of attacking here, we might as well take a detour, it doesn't have to be Hit Lantian County!"

"If you take Lantian, you will be able to approach Jingzhao Mansion with lightning speed!" Zhang Chao grew a long beard. He is a few years older than Xiao Cheng, and he was also a well-known playboy in Tokyo back then. Together with Gang, he left his own reputation in the brothel.It's just that he looks very old now, not to mention comparing with Xiao Cheng, even compared with Luo Gang of his same age, he seems to be a round older than the other party, it seems like two generations .

"Then we can only select the elite and make a surprise attack!" Gan Quan said: "But there are thousands of people guarding Languan now. If there are too many people, it is impossible to make a surprise attack. If there are few people, it will be like meat buns beating dogs."

"Grab a few tongues first, then ask about the situation!" Zhang Chao waved his hand. "Didn't it mean that these dogs often come out to hunt?"

"It might alert them!"

"After asking the confession, I wiped my neck and threw it into the forest. It won't take long for jackals, tigers and leopards to clean it up. Even if they find out, they will only think that they were unlucky and were attacked by ferocious beasts!" Zhang Zhang Cheng smiled coldly.

"Understood, I'll do it right away!"

After one night, Zhang Cheng, Gan Quan and others started to return to the camp.

The basic situation of Lan Guan was finally figured out.

There came two battalions of 1000 men.

The Lan Pass, which is claimed to be guarded by two battalions, has only more than [-] people.

Xiang Si, the commander of the Zhao Kingdom stationed here, actually ate the vacancies of nearly [-] people.What surprised Gan Quan and others even more was that these people stationed here now have problems with their supplies.

Before the heavy snow closed the mountain, the food was not enough, or it must have been enough, but there were no people who tampered with it and corrupted it. Now the survival of hundreds of soldiers in Languan has become a problem.

After figuring out these situations, many generals finally did not have the slightest hesitation about winning the blue pass.

No matter how dangerous the pass is, it still needs people to guard it.

What's the use of shutting down again when people are dying?

A group of guys who can't even eat enough, do you expect them to resist desperately?
In the valley bordered by the two mountains, rows of thatched huts and wooden houses appeared in everyone's field of vision, with happy smiles on everyone's faces.

It's always a joy to be home.

Over the past few years, this place has become their home.

In this valley, nearly two thousand soldiers and tens of thousands of family members gathered.

Fields have been reclaimed from the bottom of the valley to the hillside, planted in spring and harvested in autumn, and the spring water at the bottom of the valley ensures that these crops have enough water to irrigate.

Even if it is freezing cold, no one dares to be negligent. Everyone has their own things to do, even children are busy, even if they just dig out a nest of voles, it will be a great reward.

Here, nothing is wasted.

And everything just revolves around the theme of being able to survive.

"The captain is back?" Seeing Zhang Cheng and his party, someone happily waved their arms and greeted them.

For these people, being able to survive is already very good.

And their survival was all thanks to the man in front of them.

Most of them are nestled and motionless, but there are still many people who are working hard for everyone's survival.

Someone was cutting bunches of vines collected into small pieces, and then beating them in a stone trough. Milky white juice flowed out of it. The weather was very cold, and the juice quickly condensed into pieces. These are all food, and they are still good food, but the output is too low.

These rattans that have been hammered to pieces have become silky and hempy, so they can be used, whether you use him to rub hemp rope or weave hemp clothes, in short, they can be used.

There are also some people who are carefully peeling pine nuts and other collected fruits. Good things like this will definitely be preserved and given priority to strong laborers.

There used to be some pigs and sheep raised in the mountains, but after the winter, they were all killed, and there was nothing to feed them. Once they lost weight and became skinny, it would not be worthwhile.

After waving at these people, Zhang Cheng walked all the way back to his residence.

It was a very large cave. Now the ground in the cave was first covered with thick sand, and then covered with a layer of wooden boards. Even the walls and top of the cave were also nailed with wooden boards, and then Separated into rooms one by one.

This is a wooden house built in a cave.

It is also worthy of being warm in winter and cool in summer.

"Taiwei, there are people from Jinghu Lake again!" A thin figure dressed as a literati greeted him: "I want to see the Taiwei!"

"Oh, here we go again, what good things did you bring us this time?" Gan Quan laughed.

From Jinghu Road, which is now the Lianghu area of ​​the Jiangning court, people will be sent here every now and then, trying to persuade them to surrender to Jiangning. Of course, every time they come, they don’t come empty-handed, they don’t come with weapons, It is food and medicinal materials, although the amount is not large, but for them, no matter how small a mosquito's legs are, it is still meat.

For these things delivered to the door, Zhang Cheng has always been willing to refuse.

Of course, accepting something does not necessarily mean agreeing to your conditions.

Zhang Cheng accepted Qu Zhen's gift very happily, but he didn't hesitate to grab Zhao Guolai.

"Army rations!" The scribe laughed.

"How many?"

"Not much, it seems to be just a few cars. It will not exceed two thousand catties!"

"It's like seeing a Taiwei so rarely? I can see it!" Gan Quan flattened his mouth.

"They said that these truckloads of military rations may seem small, but they can be used as tens of thousands of catties of rations in the past!"

"Fart!" Gan Quan laughed and said, "These lobbyists speak nonsense all the time."

"Take a look!" Zhang Cheng took off his hood and ordered. "See what's wrong with it? He shouldn't be able to talk nonsense in our land. Wouldn't he be exposed in a blink of an eye if he talked nonsense?"

After a while, Zhang Cheng, Gan Quan and the scribe were all silent.

Because the clerk just removed a small piece of the so-called military rations wrapped in oil paper and threw them into the bowl, and then added hot water. After a while, the small piece of dry food turned into a big bowl.

Ganquan tasted it, and it tasted quite good.

"There's still meat!" Gan Quan looked at Zhang Cheng, his eyes widened.

Zhang Cheng silently looked at the military rations in front of him, stretched out his hand, put a little bit in his mouth, and chewed slowly.

"Jiang Zhihe can't get these things out. The envoy this time should be from Jiangning, right? Let him come over, I want to hear what Xiao Erlang will say to me!"

The envoy from Jiangning sat in front of Zhang Cheng with a smile on his face. He was very courageous, but he did not restrain him at all.

"Our Chief Assistant said that Little Taiwei Zhang will definitely do something in the near future, but it's freezing cold, and it's a bit difficult to get food, so he sent me to send these things. If Little Zhang Taiwei can see it, follow-up I will send some more. At least it can ensure that Taiwei Zhang's military operation will go smoothly this time, and the soldiers will not go hungry."

Gan Quan's expression changed suddenly, but Zhang Cheng remained calm.

"Your chief assistant knows what I want to do?"

The envoy laughed and said, "Little Taiwei Zhang is very well guarded here, and we can't find anything, but Qinfeng Road is like a sieve. It's not difficult for us to know something."

"In this case, why does your chief assistant still do this favor for me?"

"The fake Zhao Quzhen, the fake Jin Liu Quanyi, and the fake Qi Liuyu, these people are all traitors of the Song Dynasty, willing to serve as lackeys for the Liao people. If Xiao Zhang Taiwei wants to beat them, they will naturally be our friends. We will do this. If you are helping your friends, why not helping yourself!"

Hearing what the messenger said, Zhang Cheng laughed.

"Xiao Erlang, oh Xiao Erlang, you always say one thing with your mouth, do another thing with your hands, and think another thing in your heart, admire, admire!"

(End of this chapter)