Du Fuwei and Fu Gongyou arrived in Biancheng to pay homage to Li Fengyun and gave a gift on behalf of Wang Bo and Meng Rang. This gift was exactly the military topographic map of Qilu that Li Fengyun needed, which made Li Fengyun very happy and thanked him repeatedly. But after he heard the message from Meng Rang that Du and Fu were conveyed by Meng Rang, he was not happy.

Zhang Xutuo went south to Juping and made a move to let Changbaishan rebels fight back to Qi County. It was obvious that he dug a trap, and there were two traps, and the north and south lines were both traps. Wang Bo and Meng Rang had no choice but to take a countermeasure to divide the troops into two groups. One way, Wang Bo led the main force to fight back to Qi County from the direction of Bocheng, and Meng Rang led the main force to kill Juping and Liangfu's line, and tried his best to block Zhang Xutuo's troops from Bocheng to siege Wang Bo to sacrifice himself to help Changbaishan's main force break through. However, Meng Rang was not completely alive. He also had the possibility of breaking through. If Xuzhou rebels could go north to respond in time, his confidence would be even greater.

Li Fengyun was actually unwilling to enter Mengshan. The Xuzhou rebel army was just a first-time arrival and had not yet gained a foothold. The Changbaishan rebel army occupied the convenience of the Qi people. Their arrival was very likely to "scatter the enemy", which led to the situation in Mengshan becoming very complicated, which then affected the development and growth of the Xuzhou rebel army. However, the situation in Lu County changed rapidly. After defeating the Lu County official army, Xuzhou rebel army won a short respite. At present, it does have the strength to go north to meet Meng Ran. On the other hand, Changbaishan rebel army was also divided into two groups. Meng Ran led a partial army with limited numbers and limited strength. Even if they still occupied the convenience of the Qi people at Meng Ran, it could not shake the absolute status of the Xuzhou rebel army. In this way, Xuzhou rebel army could use Meng Ran and his troops to stabilize Meng Ran faster and grow faster.

After carefully weighing the pros and cons, Li Fengyun immediately decided to go north to pick him up.

Li Fengyun urgently wrote to Lu Mingxing and Guo Ming. Because the battle situation on the Wenshui front line had new changes, he decided to lead his army across Hebei to Juping and Liangfu's front line. While supporting Meng Rang and his troops to break through the south, he formed a crossing force with Meng Rang to attack Juping and Liangfu's official troops, thus creating a better opportunity for Wang Bo and his troops to break through from Bocheng direction and help the main force of Changbai Mountain Rebel Army return to Qi County. For this reason, he ordered Lu Mingxing and Guo Ming to immediately cross the important pass of the Anti-Shan Mountain and once again

He launched an attack on Qufu and threatened Xiaqiu again. Taking advantage of the sluggish morale after Duan Wencao and the Lu County official army were defeated, he plundered and forced Duan Wencao to ask for help from Zhang Xutuo, who moved to Juping, so as to delay or delay Zhang Xutuo's time to lead his troops north to Bocheng to chase and kill the main force of Changbaishan Rebel Army. In order to ensure that this attack purpose could be achieved, Li Fengyun decided to immediately allocate three regiments to Lu Mingxing and Guo Ming, and attack Qufu with thousands of troops with five regiments and thousands of people on the front line of Xiaqiu.

Li Fengyun also urgently wrote to General Zhuanyu's mansion to explain his decision in detail to the Chief Secretary Han Yao, and asked him to immediately transfer a regiment of troops to guard Biancheng, and asked him to pay close attention to the movements in Linyi and Philadelphia, the capital of Langya County. Once Langya Yingyang Mansion was launched, he would do his best to defend the defense line of Nanwu City.

Li Fengyun ordered Sima Chen Rui to take charge of Biancheng, and he led three regiments of troops to cross Sishui overnight, entered Liangfu County, and rushed towards Liangfu City.

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Meng Rang led his troops to the south along the Wenshui River and directly killed Yang Pass.

Yangguan is located between Tingting Mountain and Huolai Mountain. On the east bank of Wenshui River, Juping City is twenty miles southwest, and Liangfu City is twenty-five miles southeast. In other words, as long as Meng Rang breaks through Yangguan and goes southwest, he can directly kill the Lujun Plain, and when he goes southeast, he can advance into Mengshan.

Zhang Xutuo was stationed heavily in Yangguan, while Juping and Liangfu were supported on both wings to ensure that the Changbai Mountain Rebel Army was blocked north of Yangguan.

Meng Rang's troops pretended to be the main force and launched a fierce attack on Yangguan from the day of their arrival.

Zhang Xutuo was in charge of Yangguan and commanded the two village groups under the tent to defend the pass.

Qi County has ten counties under its jurisdiction. The Zongtuan Township Groups in each county are integrated into a large township group. Each township group has a group of 800 to 1,000 people. One group leader and four to five people at the sect, all of whom are directly obeyed Zhang Xutuo. This time, when he went south to Juping, Zhang Xutuo led four township groups, and the other six township groups were led by the county magistrate Jia Wuben, and four Yingyangwei led by Yang Qian, all of whom were secretly hiding at the foot of Mount Tai, preparing to ambush the bandits who broke through from Bocheng. However, because the Xuzhou bandits suddenly occupied Mengshan and plundered Lu County, the situation in Lu County changed drastically. Therefore, the bandits in Changbai Mountain were very likely to go south and meet with Xuzhou bandits in Mengshan, which also made Zhang Xutuo's originally very sure of annihilation of the enemy uncertain.

At this moment, Zhang Xutuo received an urgent request from Duan Wencao, the prefect of Lu County.

Zhu Yingyang of Lu County was frustrated in Biancheng, and accidentally fell back and returned with great defeat. Now the bandits in Xuzhou were chased and attacked Qufu, and their troops were directly aimed at Xiaqiu, the capital of Lu County. At present, Duan Wencao had limited troops and his morale was extremely low. He could only hold on to the city and let the bandits in Xuzhou plunder the towns. For this reason, Duan Wencao asked Zhang Xutuo for help and asked him to rescue Qufu. Qufu is the hometown of Confucius, and the temple of Confucianism in Middle-earth, and scholars gathered. If Qufu was trapped, he was robbed by the thieves and even burned by the thieves, not to mention that Duan Wencao could not bear this responsibility, Zhang Xutuo could not refuse to blame. Zhang Xutuo was only more than a hundred miles away from Qufu, but he refused to save him when he was dead and allowed Qufu to turn into ruins. If the emperor and the central government learned about this, he would not have enough to cut him even if he had ten heads.

Zhang Xutuo was shocked and angry. What was surprised that the thieves in Xuzhou were so powerful. First, they made Dong Chun and Liang De of Xuzhou look bad. Now they made Duan Wencao, a veteran general of the Weifu, fall into a big flaw. If they don’t pay attention, they may have to "mistake". What was angry was that Duan Wencao was determined to be alone for his own selfish interests and was stubborn, but ended up in a dilemma of being attacked from both sides. The north could not stop the thieves in Qizhou and the south could not resist the thieves in Xuzhou, which pushed the situation in Lu County and the entire Qilu situation into crisis.

Will you rescue Qufu immediately?

The soldiers, Shuzuo Qin Qiong, immediately issued a warning, which was very likely to be the plan of Xuzhou thieves to siege Wei to rescue Zhao. Once the Qi army divided its troops to rescue Qufu, Yangguan might be trapped in front and back attacks by Xuzhou thieves and Qizhou thieves.

"How did Qin Bingsi determine that the Qizhou thieves and Xuzhou thieves have already reached contact, communicate with each other and support each other?"

Jia Runfu, the leader of the Linyi Group, questioned Qin Qiong's words. Jia Runfu was the son of Jia Wuben, the county magistrate of Qi County. He was in his early twenties and was in his prime. His words were full of aggressive momentum. Jia Wuben and his son were from Hedong. He came from an ordinary family of officials and had always been attached to the Xue family, one of the three wealthy families in Hedong. Jia Runfu was a guard next to Xue Shixiong, the general of the Right Guard. He participated in the Western Expedition to Tuyuhun and the Battle of Conquering the Western Regions. Later, he went home to recuperate due to injury. When the rebels in Qi County were in trouble, Zhang Xutuo formed an army to suppress the rebellion. Jia Runfu was unruly and worked with his father under Zhang Xutuo's tent.

Qin Qiong shook his head, "I have no evidence, it's just speculation. From common sense, under our siege, Wang Bo and Meng Rang will inevitably find an opportunity to break through, and more importantly, they must find a safe place to settle down. Mengshan is obviously their best choice, so they will inevitably send scouts to the Mengshan area to inquire about military information. At this time, the bandits in Xuzhou captured Mengshan and attacked Lu County along the Sishui River. The noise was very loud. How could Wang Bo and Meng Rang's scouts not know about such a big deal? Since they knew, how could they miss such a god-given opportunity?"

Qin Qiong walked to the map, pointed to the Pangweishan and Biancheng on the map and said, "The Xuzhou thieves are here, at the source of Sishui, and the Qizhou thieves are in the upper reaches of the Wenshui River. The two places are only more than 200 miles apart, so we must make the worst assumptions. Judging from the recent series of actions of the Xuzhou thieves, the purpose of supporting the Qizhou thieves is very obvious. Just imagine, a rebel who has just gone through hardships and stormed out of Xuzhou from both sides of the Tongji Canal and fled into Mengshan thousands of miles. The most urgent thing is to rest, take a breath, and gain a foothold in Mengshan, rather than as we see now,

I was impatient to go down the mountain to burn, kill and loot, but it was still not enough. I also burned Sishui City, attacked Qufu, and threatened Xiaqiu, the capital of Lu County. It seemed that I would not give up until I turned the world upside down. This was obviously abnormal. There were only two explanations. Either the thief general of Xuzhou was crazy or he had another purpose, but the thief general of Xuzhou was attacked by General Dong, a famous general of the Weifu. He could not be crazy. Therefore, the only explanation was that he had another purpose, and this purpose was to help the thief in Qizhou break through the sief south and meet with him in Mengshan."

Jia Runfu was speechless for a moment and could not find a reason to refute.

Zhang Xutuo remained silent. He agreed with Qin Qiong's analysis and inference, but Duan Wencao was already defeated. Because the incident happened suddenly and other important factors, Duan Wencao has not yet recruited Zongtuan Township Group of Lu County to form a local army, so he has no soldiers available, so he can only ask Zhang Xutuo for help.

Zhang Xutuo was in a dilemma. If he divided his troops to rescue him, fell into the trap of thieves, and let the thieves in Qizhou and Xuzhou meet Mengshan, the situation in Qilu will deteriorate in the future and he will not be able to escape the blame. On the contrary, if he refused to save him, he would not only offend Duan Wenzhen and Duan Wencao brothers, but also offend the Qilu aristocratic group. He made enemies from all sides. In the future, he would definitely be unable to move forward in Qilu and be controlled everywhere. Of course, he should not be lucky and deny Qin Qiong's inference. As Qin Qiong said, the worst-case plan must be made, which is beyond doubt.

Zhang Xutuo weighed the pros and cons, but it was still difficult to make a decision, so he asked Qin Qiong for advice, "If your inference is correct, how to deal with it?"

"Ming Gong went south to Juping and Liangfu's line. The original intention was to set two traps. No matter which direction the thieves in Qizhou broke through, we could kill them. However, Duan Jun suddenly defeated Biancheng, and Xuzhou's thieves had room to move, which led to the situation changing again. Now we are in a passive position. If we want to reverse the crisis, we can only give up one trap, otherwise we will most likely fail."

Qin Qiong said it very bluntly and did not shy away. Zhang Xutuo sighed inwardly that all his previous efforts were wasted, and there was no way. He had no soldiers in his hands and could not even fight, so he could only make a choice.

Zhang Xutuo then made a decision. Since it was impossible to decide in one battle and wipe out the rebels in one fell swoop, considering the long-term interests, we should first maintain a good cooperative relationship with Duan Wencao brothers and the Qilu nobles group to avoid intensifying conflicts and expanding conflicts. As long as you can stay in the Qilu area, get the support of some Qilu nobles, and continue to lead troops to quell the rebellion, everything is possible in the future.

Zhang Xutuo ordered the two village groups of Linji and Zhangqiu and Duan Wencao to stay in Juping and Liangfu's two brigades Yingyangwei, and immediately followed him south to rescue Qufu, and Yangguan's important task of defending the enemy was fully entrusted to the military commander to assist Qin Qiong, Licheng and Linyi.

Although Zhang Xutuo did not clearly express his resignation to defend Juping and Liangfu's front line, his meaning was very obvious. When the situation was developing in the worst direction, he allowed the thieves in Qizhou to break through and go south.

Duan Wencao absolutely did not want to see the thieves in Qizhou and Xuzhou met with Mengshan. If Zhang Xutuo directly ordered, Duan Wencao would have to use malicious intentions to speculate on Zhang Xutuo's real intentions. In order to avoid conflict between the two sides, Zhang Xutuo had to put Qin Qiong in Yangguan, and then he would blame all the blame on Qin Qiong. It was Qin Qiong and the two village groups that could not defend Yangguan, which had nothing to do with me. Zhang Xutuo. In this way, Duan Wencao could not catch Zhang Xutuo's handle. Even if he was so angry that he gritted his teeth, he could only knock down his teeth and swallow them.

A gentleman takes care of his roots. The interests of Qi County are the interests of Zhang Xutuo. In a forced manner, Zhang Xutuo would rather the thieves in Qizhou go south to Mengshan than to kill them back to Qi County again. Although Zhang Xutuo had to bear the responsibility for this, Duan Wencao was more responsible. If Duan Wencao had not failed in Biancheng, why would the situation worsen?

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Chapter completed!