This is a mountain road in Guangfeng County, Raozhou, on the narrow mountain road, a long queue, and you can't see the end at a glance.

A fast horse came from the north, came to a carriage in the center of the procession, took the letter from its back, and handed it to the people in the cart.

Xu Chen in the carriage opened the letter, and there were many contents on the letter, all of which were sent from Chang'an.

"I didn't expect so many things to happen, this Chang'an can be regarded as lively!"

There was only Xu Chen in the carriage, and Lao Zhoukang was at the front of the team at the moment, leading the whole team of soldiers and horses. The second eldest Lu Hao took Zheng Tai to transfer many of the farmhouse residents who had not yet evacuated and the families of the newly recruited soldiers to a new base in the southeast of the Ryukyus.

Speaking of which, Xu Chen will appear in the mountain roads of Raozhou at this moment, but it is because he received a military order from Wang Zhonghe.

Since the last time Xu Chen completely carried out Wang Zhonghe's military order to transfer the Shengzhou Water Division, General Wang's indifference to Xu Chen has completely disappeared. This time, the Shengzhou Naval Division dispatched along the Yangtze River and the canal carefully searched for the traces of the rebels without success. The news of the fall of Fuzhou and Quanzhou reached Wang Zhongsi's camp.

Wang Zhonghe's title is the general manager of the march of Huainan Province, Jiangnan East and West Provinces, and Lingnan Road, and almost the entire southern Tang Dynasty. It's just that the southern army is weak, and the defense is especially insufficient, let alone attacking.

After the first battle of Yangzhou, Wang Zhongsi only had less than 70,000 soldiers and horses, and the court in Chang'an is now in such a situation, whether it is the emperor or the military department, there is almost no possibility of increasing troops for Wang Zhonghe.

With less than 70,000 people, there are already many factions, and they have to defend the huge south at the same time, and Wang Zhonghei has even fewer soldiers and horses who can be mobilized to take the initiative to fight.

It just so happened that Xu Chen recruited some soldiers and horses in Shengzhou, counting the manpower in his hands before, adding up to exactly 3,000 people. At the beginning, the imperial court issued an edict allowing all localities to recruit troops for self-protection, and various prefectures and counties did take out a lot of money to recruit some so-called warriors. But in Wang Zhongsi's opinion, instead of believing in this complex rabble, it is better to choose Xu Chen, a young man who seems to be just a teenager.

After learning that the rebels had taken Fuzhou and Quanzhou and advanced to Jianzhou, Wang Zhongsi decisively ordered the division of troops.

Leaving a part of the wounded soldiers, the old and weak to guard Yangzhou, Wang Zhongsi predicted that the rebels would be heavily guarded by the Xianxialing Ancient Road, the main road from Zhejiang to Fujian, for this reason, on this way, Wang Zhongsi did not send many people, only let his cronies lead a group of elite soldiers, stationed troops at the north entrance of the Xianxialing Ancient Road, the purpose is only to strangle the land passage of the rebels to the north. The terrain of the Xianxialing Ancient Road is dangerous, and the terrain is the same for the rebels and the official army, and an elite soldier is enough.

The remaining large number of men and horses were personally led by Wang Zhonghe, and went south from Jiangnan West Road, entered Lingnan Road from the mountainous area of southern Gansu, and detoured to Guangzhou, thus blocking the rebels' way south.

The rebels have elite sailors, and the strength of the Shengzhou Sailor Wang Zhongsi is not very clear, and he has also asked Xu Chen, Xu Chen is naturally telling the truth, after all, Wang Zhongsi is asking about the Shengzhou Sailor, not his brother.

As a result, Wang Zhongsi had no choice but to give up the plan of letting the Shengzhou Navy Division carry the army south to Guangzhou by sea, and instead made a big circle and went south by land.

Xu Chen's team also received an order from Wang Zhonghe, and it happened that Shengzhou had been abandoned by Xu Chen, and Xu Chen also needed to develop southward, so he took the order.

It's just that Xu Chen excused himself that the new army had just been formed, there were still trivial matters to be resolved, and he was afraid that he would not be able to arrive as scheduled, so he begged Wang Zhongji to delay for a while. After thinking about it, Wang Zhongsi actually revised the military order issued to Xu Chen, and instead ordered Xu Chen to lead his troops to borrow the road from Raozhou, directly insert into the Wuyi Mountain Mountains, and clean up the rebels' strongholds in the Wuyi Mountain Mountains along the way.

According to Wang Zhongsi's estimate, since the rebels were able to take the states north of Lingnan Road so quickly, the main force would definitely pour out, and now the Wuyi Mountain area must be empty. For this reason, Wang Zhongsi gave Xu Chen a military order to clear the rebel strongholds in the mountainous areas.

For this military order, Wang Zhongsi also thought about it for a long time, and did not intend to embarrass Xu Chen, Xu Chen's information, Wang Zhongsi also checked some of it, presumably those pure martial artists in the marching camp, Xu Chen, a general from a scribe, obviously has more advantages for dealing with the complicated situation in the mountainous area.

In the mountainous area of Wuyi Mountain, there are a large number of Hakka people, these Hakka people live in clusters, relatively closed, and the folk customs are very different between the various settlements. Not all of the Hakka people have followed the rebels, and obviously they can't wait.

Since ancient times, the rebellion of ethnic minorities has required superb political wisdom to deal with, and Wang Zhongji did not want to hand over such an important matter to Xu Chen, after all, no matter how mature and stable Xu Chen is, he is only a half-old child.

It's just that Lingnan Road is in an emergency, and the land in the south is in danger, and Wang Zhongsi, the chief manager, is urgently needed to go to the town, and Wang Zhongsi's original team has all stayed in Hedong Military Town, so he can only pin his hopes on Xu Chen at this moment.

Xu Chen in the carriage was still looking at the letter, there were too many contents, involving all aspects, and it would take a lot of time to sort it out.

Since Xu Chen officially received Wang Zhonghe's military order, he no longer has the same transcendent status as before. The ambassador of Shengzhou is a temporary dispatch, and his power seems to be not small, and his status is very transcendent, but in fact, it is a dispensable role for the Chang'an court. Because it is dispensable, Xu Chen does not have much to do with it.

But now it is different, he received the military order of Wang Zhonghe, the chief of the march, as the general of the army, although Wang Zhongsi gave himself the military position of captain Zhaowu on the sixth grade is also temporarily sent now, but according to the Tang military system, the head of the march has the power to temporarily canonize low-level generals.

Although Wang Zhonghe's identity is embarrassing now, Xu Chen is Xu Xiangye's student after all, and it is impossible for the officials of the Ministry of War to refute Xu Xiangye's face for such a low-level military attache position. For this reason, Xu Chen is not very worried about the implementation of this official position on his body.

In this way, Xu Chen at this moment is also considered to be in the officialdom, the sea is turbulent, there is no need to be safe on the battlefield at all, in order to go further and grasp greater power, Xu Chen can only start from now on, and take every step carefully.

The analysis of the situation in the court is naturally Xu Chen's most important homework today.

"Hmm, the new commander of the water division is called Wu Qi, who is this?"

After turning to the manuscript of the imperial court's edict on the appointment of the commander of the water division, Xu Chen was puzzled.

Xu Chen didn't know this Wu Qi, but if the two of them met, Wu Qi was afraid that he would be able to recognize this young man who impressed him at a glance. About this Wu Qi, it is no stranger. When Xu Chen came to this world, the first battle was completed under the attention of this person. That's right, this Wu Qi is the big man who saw Xu Chen attacking Sun Batian and his gang from a distance on the upper floor of Wanjia Restaurant that day. It's just that Wu Qi has seen Xu Chen and knows Xu Chen's name, but Xu Chen doesn't know anything about this Wu Qi.

Fortunately, under the manuscript of the edict, Wang Ce attached a detailed information about Wu Qi.

This Wu Qi was originally a personal soldier under Wang Zhonghe, but after the battle of Sahe Neishan, Wu Qi resigned from his military post and returned to his hometown. Speaking of which, Wu Qi is a native of Raozhou. When he returned to his hometown, he went to Yuzhang to visit his old friends, and it was also at that time that he was noticed by the Yuzhang family, and then there was a night banquet that night, the specifications of the night banquet were very high, and the two generations of heads of the family were accompanied together.

Xu Chen naturally didn't know about this night banquet, but there was speculation about Wu Qi's background in Wang Ce's information. Xu Chen is a thoughtful person, and according to the speculation of the situation in the court in recent days, he has a vague impression of the origin of this Wu Qi.

In fact, Wu Qi was able to be pushed out to serve as the commander of this water division, and behind it was all the operation of the Southeast Maritime Business Group, especially the forces in Yuzhang, which was the biggest promoter.

Wu Qi, as soon as he appeared in Wan Jia's sight, he was won over by Wan Jia's great efforts. Although Wu Qi is from Raozhou, his family is not a big family. In Wu Qi's generation, it is even more single-line, and Wu Qi's parents died early. However, his wife is from Yuzhang, Wu Qi joined the army abroad, and his wife and children were raised by his wife's mother's family. Such an intricate relationship is destined to make Wu Qi unable to get rid of the shackles of the Yuzhang family's forces.

Wu Qi is also an understanding person, at the beginning, Wan Jia did not hesitate to expose his strength in front of his eyes, and from that moment on, Wu Qi knew that he might not be able to escape the control of Wan Jia. It's just that Wu Qi returned to his hometown to work as a farmer at the beginning, and Wan Jia only wooed Wu Qi out of the intention of burying an idle chess piece for later use.

For more than a year, Wu Qi's life has been dull, and the Wan family has not made any requests, Wu Qi, who thought that things were going to pass like this, did not expect to be pushed to become the commander of the water division.

Because Wu Qi was originally Wang Zhonghe's personal soldier, the princelings took it for granted that Wu Qi was Wang Zhonghe's person, that is, their own person, so they did not obstruct Wu Qi's appointment.

Wu Qi was born in a water town, and he also led a fleet when he was in the army, such an experience, coupled with the promotion of the Southeast Maritime Business Group, Wu Qi's appointment was soon unanimously agreed by the Ministry of War and the Political Affairs Hall.

In the end, I didn't know much about Wu Qi, and I heard that he left Wang Zhongsi when he was at his most beautiful

At that time, only Guangping, Jianning and the soldiers of the four armies were only 2,000 people. From the north of Fengtian, the night is eternal, and the people cover the road and offer cow wine. There are white clouds from the northwest, several zhang long, such as the shape of a pavilion, and the speaker thinks that the breath of the Son of Heaven. Wuxu, to Tan Binh County. Running for more than 300 miles day and night, more than half of the soldiers lost their equipment, and the people who survived were only one brigade.