Chapter 586 Youzhou urgently reported

On the last day of October, a light snow fell on Hebei Road. Many rivers have begun to freeze. Winter is coming. Winter is the season for all things to hibernate. The leaves are withering, the grass is withering, the vitality is silent, and the earth is bleak.

Winter is also the season for the army to recuperate. Soldiers enter the warehouse, soldiers return to the camp, and ordinary people are also busy preparing for the New Year. No one would have thought that war would break out in winter.

In the Nandaying in the south of Youzhou City, the atmosphere seemed a little nervous. All soldiers were not allowed to go out in the tent. Teams of fully armed soldiers patrolled back and forth near the tent. When they approached the tent, they were even more nervous.

In the handsome tent, An Lushan, who rarely wore a military uniform, wore a golden helmet and a golden armor. His fat body almost burst out the golden armor. He also wore a sharpened golden helmet on his head, which looked like a big toad coated with gold powder. Although An Lushan was funny in his makeup, none of the counselors and generals around him dared to laugh out loud, because what An Lushan was talking about at this time was related to the wealth and life of each of them, and An Lushan had decided to raise an army.

It should be a rebellion rather than a rebellion, because An Lushan also established a Tang emperor. Although the Tang emperor was locked in a dilapidated temple and enjoyed crickets and catching grasshoppers all day long, he was the Tang emperor after all, and it was an excuse for An Lushan to send troops to seize the throne. What does it matter if the people in the world don’t admit it now? As long as he has a hard fist, he will defeat Guanzhong and push this cricket emperor to the throne, then who dares to say that they are a joke?

"I'll say it again. I can't really wait until the Yellow River is frozen before taking action. No matter what, I have to take down Xiangzhou before the Yellow River is frozen. Do you understand?"

An Lushan's eyes were cold and looked at the people in the tent like a knife. Everyone was nervous. Everyone understood that An Lushan originally wanted to attack Xiangzhou after the Yellow River freezes, and then directly cross the river and sweep Henan Road from the ice. Because Henan Road had no army, only the wandering soldiers such as Xu Shuyi and Ji Guangchen were dispersed. Moreover, Xu Shuyi secretly surrendered to this side, and it would be even more difficult to take Henan. However, the man's plan was not as good as the heaven's plan. Li Qing'an took action in advance, sweeping across Henan Road, occupying Henan Road in one fell swoop, and constantly increasing troops. Now Li Guangbi has more than 200,000 troops under his command. In this way, if he waits for the freezing, it is probably not them who occupy Henan Road, but Li Guangbi crossed the river to attack Hebei. Maybe they can't even capture Xiangzhou.

An Lushan's eyes finally fell on Gao Shang and said to him: "Mr. Gao, what do you think?"

Gao Shang gently stroked the rat beard under his jaw. His thoughts were different from others because he knew the truth. An Lushan sent troops in advance not because he was afraid of Li Guangbi. They had 500,000 troops in their hands. With An Lushan's pride, they had not taken Li Guangbi's 200,000 troops seriously. They attacked Xiangzhou and then besieged the city to attack the city and attacked the city. Isn't that just right? The reason why An Lushan sent troops in advance was that he was forced by the Khitan and the Xi people. He lent the army to him for so long, but he had no money and no woman. The two tribes could no longer wait and proposed to withdraw their troops. An Lushan was forced to do so and could only agree to send troops immediately. Gao Shang knew the reason, but he could not tell it, and he also wanted to find the best reason for An Lushan.

"I support His Highness the King of Yan's decision. The news I just received is that Chang'an may have to make a second immigration to Hebei."

His words were said lightly, but in the ears of the generals, there was a sound of discussion in the big tent. These generals followed An Lushan for many years, and almost every family was a powerful landlord. Who had no millions of acres of fertile land? Who had no thousands of tenants? But the last time he immigrated from Hebei, he left more than 400,000 tenants, and almost every household was hit. The worst was Shi Siming Mansion. His 3,000 tenants and two thousand slaves fled half, so that no one was available when the grain was harvested, so he had to spend a high price to hire people. Almost every household had such an embarrassment. Now, Li Qingan was going to engage in a second immigration, which was like stabbing a hornet's nest and exploded in the camp.

"He Li Qing'an is a big shot, and he dares to take care of Hebei's affairs!"

Cai Xide couldn't hold back his anger at first and shouted loudly. Li Huaixian, who was shy next to him, stabbed him with his arm. Cai Xide immediately shut up. At this time, Shi Siming stood up, he glanced at everyone, and said sternly: "The general has made a decision. What are you still objections?"

There was silence in the tent, and no one dared to say another word. Shi Siming bowed to An Lushan and said, "Master, please just order me, we will go through fire and water!"

An Lushan glanced at him, nodded and said, "Okay!"

He waved his hand and said, "Come in!"

When the curtain was opened, nearly a hundred soldiers carried into a huge object, a four-meter-long and three-meter-wide platform, which almost occupied half of the tent. Everyone flashed away, their eyes flashed with surprise. This was actually a sand table. Li Qing'an took the lead in use and was quickly imitated by other troops. An Lushan also made several large sand tables. What he carried in today was the sand table, plains, cities, mountains, rivers, bridges, and official roads of Hebei Road, almost everything, and he also had thick copies. The population, officials, money and grain income, fertile fields, and mulberry trees, etc. of each city, and there were detailed records, but these were not important. What was important was the small flag and icons of the sand table. Careful people would find that each small flag was the name of a general, and the icon would guide the small flag to do what and when it was finished, and there were detailed statements.

Everyone immediately understood that this was each of them's task. There was no need for An Lushan to remind them. Everyone gathered up together and looked at their tasks. They looked joy or sorrow on their faces. In contrast, Shi Siming's face was serious. His task was to attack Xiangzhou, and he had to be captured within ten days. An invisible pressure made his heart heavy.

However, Cai Xide looked depressed. It was not that his task was too heavy, but that his task was too light. His task was to attack Jingxing. He didn't like such small-scale quarrels.

"Old Shi, let me get your mission!" Cai Xide whispered to Shi Siming.

Shi Siming was stunned, and then he felt ecstatic. Cai Xide did not see An Lushan's intention. Those who attacked Xiangzhou would have to cross the river to deal with Li Guangbi, Henan, and those who took Jingxing would have to go to Hedong in the end. Hedong was Guo Ziyi's army, which was much easier to deal with than Li Guangbi's Longyou Army.

He thought about it and said, "It's okay for me. I'm afraid the commander has decided and it's hard to change it."

"It's okay! As long as you want, I'll tell the coach."

At this time, An Lushan spoke, "I have arranged your tasks. When to set out and which route to take, you should take, and you will be optimistic about it. I will not restrict your military discipline and give rewards to my brothers. Don't be stingy. I only have one requirement. You must complete your tasks within the time specified. No matter how you do it, if you complete my heavy reward, if you fail, don't blame me for turning against you!"

An Lushan glanced at everyone, raised his voice and said, "Did I hear what I said?"

"The last one will obey the order!"

"The generals go back to mobilize and deploy, and three days later, the flag will be sacrificed to raise an army!"

"Abide by the order!"

The roars in the tent soared into the sky, and the storm over Hebei suddenly changed, and the dark clouds of war began to cover the sky above Hebei Road.

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The atmosphere in Youzhou City suddenly became tense, and the inspections at the gates of each city became extremely strict. In the past, almost ignored them, but now everyone is searching their bodies, and the carriages and luggage must be strictly inspected, and they do not let a corner go. Even if the carriages carrying the forage are in and out, they must be stabbed with a spear.

Not only were the city gates strictly inspected, a team of soldiers began to patrol the city, and anyone with suspicious signs would be stopped and interrogated immediately. Anyone with a foreign accent needed to protect the locals. Those who could not provide guarantors would be arrested immediately. The same is true for inns, restaurants, and brothels. Soldiers searched from house to house, and foreigners were interrogated and inspected one by one. From time to time, some people were dragged away by soldiers and cried and screamed. Youzhou City was in chaos.

At dusk, the snow gradually stopped, and the entire Youzhou land was covered with a light white layer, which was particularly elegant and white. The weather was still cold, and most people stayed at home and were unwilling to come out. At this time, the dense drum sounded, which was the sound of the curfew that began. Teams of cavalry ran and shouted: "The curfew began! You must not go out!"

At this time, a carriage rushed past and rushed towards the west gate. Before the door could be at the door, a soldier shouted loudly: "Stop!"

The carriage slowed down and immediately ran up to surround the carriage. At this time, the city gate was about to close, and no one was in and out of the city gate. Suddenly, a carriage caught the attention of the soldiers guarding the city.

"Who is going to leave the city?" a general asked on his horse.

When the car window opened, I saw a civil servant wearing official uniform sitting inside. He bowed and smiled, "I am Ma Jun, the Yan army's military farming branch, and was ordered to go to the Yizhou school to prosecutor the military field and collect land rent."

The military farmer was just a middle and lower-level official with a low status. However, when Lang General Lang saw that he was a civil servant of Yan army, his face was obviously relieved. He took the document and looked at it. Although he was illiterate, he knew the seal of the big red Yan army yamen below. He returned the document to Ma Jun, and then looked at the carriage. There was no one else, so he waved his hand and said, "Let him go!"

The city gate slowly opened, the carriage drove out of the city gate and rushed towards Yizhou.

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Ma Jun was Yan Zhuang's old subordinate, and was the confidant promoted by Yan Zhuang. He was once the official of Fan Yang's salt and iron envoy and held the economic lifeline of Fan Yang's army. After Yan Zhuang disappeared, he gradually fell out of favor. He especially Gao Shang held great power and demoted Yan Zhuang's old officials. Ma Jun was demoted to the military farming envoy. A year later, he was demoted to the military farming envoy and was in charge of Yizhou's military farming. This was already a position similar to that of an official. Last time, Yan Zhuang sneaked into Youzhou to win over some old subordinates, and Ma Jun was one of them. He was completely disappointed with An Lushan and wanted to leave Youzhou with Yan Zhuang immediately, but Yan Zhuang advised him to stay in the Yan army and have a better chance of making meritorious contributions.

Now, the opportunity to make meritorious deeds has come, and he has received accurate news that An Lushan will officially rebel in three days. Ma Jun was anxious. No matter what, he would notify the surrounding prefectures and counties and Chang'an, but An Lushan had blocked the Gexin from Youzhou, so he could only go to Yizhou to ask for help.

Yizhou is located west of Youzhou. Two days later, a dusty carriage arrived in Yi County. The carriage drove into the county town and stopped at the side door of the state yamen.

Without waiting for the carriage to stop, Ma Jun turned over and jumped out of the carriage, and ran straight to the side door of the state yamen. The front and back of the state yamen were behind the prefect's private residence. Two doorkeepers stood at the door. Seeing someone rushing towards the night, he quickly put up a red and black stick and shouted: "Who dares to trespass the prefect's mansion!"

"Don't you know me anymore?"

Ma Jun often came to Yizhou and was very familiar with the Yizhou government. The two family members were stunned for a moment and suddenly recognized him, "Is it the Ma Tuntianyuan?"

"It's me, can you prefect be there?"

"Here! I'll report now, please wait."

The family left in a hurry. Ma Jun looked at the night and felt anxious. An Lushan was about to rebel after all, but Hebei prefectures and counties knew nothing, and disaster was coming and life was in trouble.

At this time, the family came out and said, "My prefect invites the envoy Ma in, please follow me."

"Thank you!" Ma Jun followed him into the mansion.

The prefect of Yizhou was named Wu and named Wu Chongyi. He was promoted from Yixian County to Yizhou Prefecture. He has been an official here for seven years. He is about fifty years old this year and is dark and thin. He was born in poverty. He passed the imperial examination in the tenth year of Kaiyuan and became the chief clerk of Mi County. It was precisely because of his poor background that he had a special liking for money. After nearly thirty years of officialdom, he had collected tens of thousands of coins of property and had a mansion worth thousands of coins each in Chang'an and Luoyang.

He was reading a book tonight, and suddenly heard that Ma Jun was visiting. He couldn't help but feel a little surprised. What are you doing so late?

"Sir, the horse envoy is here."

"Please come in!"

Ma Jun quickly walked into the room and said without hesitation: "Does the prefect still have the heart to read? An Lushan's army is coming soon."

Wu Chongyi was shocked and asked hurriedly: "What is the meaning of the envoy?"

Ma Jun told him the news that An Lushan was about to rise up and said, "Prince Wu must notify the court immediately, and also organize the people immediately. Without further ado, the prefect please proceed immediately!"

An undetectable sneer flashed in Wu Chongyi's eyes. He patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, I will notify the court immediately. The carriage will organize the people to retreat. The silence of the lord will be exhausted all the way. Please go to the inn for a while."

Ma Jun felt relieved. He had been running for two days and two nights and was extremely tired. He nodded and said, "Okay! I'll go to the inn, so the prefect must pay attention."

"I understand, come here, please ask the envoy of Ma to go to the inn to rest."

Two family members took Ma Jun down. Wu Chongyi sat down. His eyes flashed in the light. At this time, he took out a letter from a secret box in the drawer. This was actually a handwritten letter written to him by An Lushan. He read the letter over and over again. He thought about his wealth and his beautiful wife and concubine. Under the lights of light, his face gradually became ferocious.

"Sorry Jiang Sima to come and see me!"

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The inn is not far from the state yamen. It is a courtyard composed of forty rooms. In fact, it is an official guesthouse. There are almost no people in the inn. Ma Jun lives in a separate yard. He is exhausted and soaks his feet in hot water to prepare to go to bed.

As soon as he got on the bed and was still half asleep, a burst of rapid footsteps suddenly woke him up. He felt that the footsteps had rushed to the yard. He turned over and sat up and whispered: "Who is it?"

With a loud bang, his door was kicked open, and two black shadows flashed in, holding a long sword in his hand. Without saying a word, he suddenly slashed at Ma Jun, who was sitting by the bed in a daze. He was so scared that he grabbed the bed board to block it. He recognized that these were two yamen runners and shouted: "I am Ma Jun, the military farming envoy, why do you kill me?"

"stop!"
To be continued...