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The Jianghuai army retreated to the northeast, and before Li Qin's land camp landed, they walked neatly, and even the large battalion that still had a certain amount of military rations was lost to Li Qin.

Because of the rapid withdrawal, Du Fuwei's army naturally did not suffer any blow, they went all the way east, starved, and retreated overnight into Fenchuan County, northeast of Jingling City. After resting for a day in Fenchuan County, Du Fuwei's army replenished some grain and grass, and then continued eastward and retreated to Qingteng County.

When he arrived in Qingteng County, Du Fuwei was relieved, because Qingteng County no longer belonged to the Hanshui Basin, but he didn't have to worry about the pursuit of Li Qinshui and Lu Ying.

The Jianghuai army rested in Qingteng for three days, and then continued to the east, retreating to Anlu and from Anlu, passing through Mulan and Macheng, returning to Lujiang.

Because of the fast movement, Du Fuwei and Fu Gongyou controlled the army properly, and when they retreated to Lujiang, the Jianghuai army of 100,000 still retained about 80,000 - it can be said that the strength of the Jianghuai army did not suffer much loss.

Of course, the Jianghuai army's navy was completely annihilated in this battle, which made Du Fuwei no longer able to make waves on the Yangtze River. In order to deal with Li Qin's increasingly powerful naval army, Du Fuwei had to defend Li Qin with heavy troops along the Yangtze River, such as beacon towers, bed crossbows, and trebuchets.

This was after the middle of June of the 14th year of the Great Cause. At this time, Li Qinjun defeated Du Fuwei, and the news of the rescue of Jingling had also spread all over the world. As Wanwan had guessed at the beginning, after defeating Du Fuwei and taking possession of Jingling City as a matter of course, Li Qin had become the strongest prince in the world.

At this time, Li Qin's territory has reached the sea in the east, including the south of the Yangtze River, Linchuan and Luling in the south, and the Hanshui and Dongting areas in the west.

For such a powerful prince, the southern princes were all worried and afraid.

On the third day after Li Qin defeated Du Fuwei, officials from Qingjiang County, Liyang County, Yiling County, Anlu County, and Chuyang County sent envoys to discuss various matters of defecting to Li Qin.

Among them, Qingjiang County, Liyang County, and Yiling County are prefectures and counties located to the west of Nan County, and their guards were originally those appointed by the Sui Dynasty. Under the summoning and persuasion of Dou Qing, the Taishou of Nanjun, they lost their sincerity to Li Qin.

Despite his old age, Dou Qing was the most loyal to him among the new recruits under Li Qin's command.

How so?

When Guy Yang Guang died, Xiao Mo assassinated Dou Qing in order to seize Nanjun, and Dou Qing was in great crisis at that time. If it weren't for the fact that a master happened to pass by, he would have saved Dou Qing's life by killing the assassin for Dou Qing, but I was afraid that Dou Qing would have died a few months ago.

The master left without leaving his name. It wasn't until Dou Qing saw her again that he knew that she was Li Qin's fiancée Li Ya - that is, the pseudonym of Poison Island Tsunza in this world.

Li Ya has a life-saving grace for Dou Qing, and Dou Qing is not a white-eyed wolf, so he naturally remembers it in his heart. Now that Li Qin is acting so strongly, he naturally thinks that Li Qin is the true son of destiny who can end the troubled times, and then plans for Li Qin wholeheartedly.

The three counties west of Nanyang were the first big gift he gave to Li Qin.

This is the case in Qingjiang, Liyang, and Yiling, and it is a different situation in Anlu and Chuyang.

These two counties were captured by Duvowe, and the defenders of the city were also those who had surrendered to Duvowe. It's just that Du Fuwei attacked Jingling very quickly, and did not remove them in time, but let them continue to dominate the original city.

Duvowe came quickly and retreated quickly. He returned to the Huaisi area with his army at once, but sold these two counties to Li Qin's mouth.

Anlu is very close to Jingling, and Chuyang is on the edge of Jingling. In the absence of enough troops to defend, these two places can be said to be facing Li Qin's troops.

The governors of the two counties were also sensible people, and they knew that they would definitely not be able to resist Li Qin's attack, so they simply betrayed Du Fuwei again and offered Chuyang and An Lu to Li Qin.

Li Qin took over the two counties at the moment and made some adjustments to his front: Li Qin took Chen Guogong Dou Qing as the host governor to lead the three counties of Anlu, Chuyang, and Jiangxia, organized new towns, and seized Yiyang and Yong'an at the right time; With the six sons of Rongguo Gong to protect his children, he was the governor of Nanjun, and he led the three counties of Yiling, Nanjun and Qingjiang, and organized the new town to prepare for entering Sichuan in the future.

As for Li Qin himself, after a busy wave, he went to the Pegasus Ranch to visit the owner inside to seek greater support from the ranch.

After a fierce battle, Richin's territory had expanded several times compared to its initial size. As the territory expanded, so did Richin's front. At present, Li Qin had no intention of continuing the campaign, but in order to maintain the security of the territory and ensure superiority over certain enemies, it was imperative to expand the army.

Expansion requires population and equipment. There is no shortage of population, and there is no shortage of equipment and support from the Saddle Iron Factory, which has a huge output. It's just that to compete with the Central Plains and even the grassland heroes in the future, Li Qin also needs enough war horses. In the south, the only thing that can supply Li Qin's war horses is Pegasus Ranch.

In order to gain the support of Pegasus Ranch, Li Qin sent two of his apprentices, Xu Ziling and Kou Zhong, who were also the world's best-stirring sticks, to the ranch, intending to maintain a good relationship with the ranch and preserve the independence of the ranch before he took Jingling.

Now that Li Qin has captured most of the south of the Yangtze River and taken the border between Jingling and Pegasus Ranch, Li Qin feels that he should need to make some adjustments to his attitude towards Pegasus Ranch.

Pegasus Ranch is located in Jingling County, and in a broad sense, it can be regarded as a citizen under Li Qin's rule, and Li Qin's own power. For such a force, and with such an important resource as war horses, where is Li Qin willing to let Pegasus Ranch continue to supply others.

Although Li Qin has something in his hand that can completely restrain the cavalry, if he wants to produce such a thing, he must at least have to count it, or even more than ten years of hard work, and before such a divine object is produced, the cavalry is still the absolute king on the battlefield.

For such a king, Li Qin naturally hopes that he can have more in his hands, and others have less.

So, Li Qin came, and brought Xu Ziling, Kou Zhong and Li Ya, as well as his main advisers, such as Cen Wenwen, Shen Luoyan, Xu Xingzhi, Geng Xun, and a dozen people to Pegasus Ranch.

Pegasus Ranch is located in the southwest of Jingling County. Here, the two tributaries of the Yangtze River, Zhangshui and Fushui, demarcate a large triangular fertile plain. After that, the two rivers flowed through them, irrigating the fertile fields on both sides of the river, and finally joining the great river.

The climate here is mild, the soil is fertile, and the products are abundant. Among them, the field where the Pegasus Ranch is located, the pasture grass is particularly abundant, surrounded by mountains, surrounded by more than ten miles of fertile fields, and there are only two gorges in the east and west for entering and exiting. The situation is dangerous, forming a natural screen for the pasture.

Li Qin and his entourage came from the west of Jingling, and they had already handed over a greeting to the Pegasus Ranch in advance, so the group arrived at the Yakou Gorge of the Pegasus Ranch, and there were people from the Pegasus Ranch to greet Li Qin.

After all, Xu Ziling and Kou Zhong had been in Pegasus Ranch for a while, and they were very familiar with the people in Pegasus Ranch. When the two sides approached, Xu Ziling whispered in Li Qin's ear:

"It's ...... The new third deacon Xu Yang, this is the second deacon of the ranch, Liu Zongdao, and this is the archdeacon of the ranch, Liang Zhi...... There is also Shang Zhen, the big housekeeper of the ranch. ”

"Why don't there be ranchers? What about Shang Xiuxun? After listening to Xu Ziling's introduction, everyone found that Shang Xiuxun, the owner of Pegasus Ranch, was not in the welcoming crowd, and the expressions of the ranch knights who followed behind several housekeepers and deacons were also very imposing, and they suddenly felt strange in their hearts.

Shen Luoyan, Cen Wenwen, and Xu Xingzhi are all resourceful and resourceful people, and they all thought about it a little in unison, and their faces became not very good.

"Be careful, my lord, Pegasus Ranch has a bit of a problem with our attitude." Shen Luoyan reminded Li Qin in a whisper.

"Questions? What's the problem? Li Qin was slightly stunned, he looked at the several deacons in Pegasus Ranch seriously, and found that the expressions on their faces were a little wooden, even if they had smiles, they seemed fake, and the knights behind them looked at themselves with even more vigilance.

"Are they wary of us? Why? Li Qin was a little puzzled at first, and then he understood: "Because I am too strong." It is so powerful that as long as you are willing, you can completely take down the Pegasus Ranch at a small price.

Pegasus Ranch is used to being self-reliant, and suddenly there is such a behemoth as themselves around them, no wonder they are very uncomfortable. Especially after experiencing the attack of the Four Great Kou and the planning of Li Mi's son Li Tianfan, they were even more wary of outsiders like themselves. ”

"Alas...... Isn't this a bit of a lying gun? I want to shine the ditch with the bright moon, but the ditch refuses to reflect the bright moon! Li Qin sighed in his heart, but he was not so confident in whether his trip would succeed. He had already expected that his trip to the ranch might have to pay a lot of money.

A moment later, the crowd met. Li Qinhe came to welcome him for a while, and then walked into the gorge under their leadership.

The gap is deep and spacious, but this spaciousness is only for a small team of ten or twenty people like myself. In fact, the width of the entire gorge is about 100 zhang, and there is no problem as a general passage, but if you use a large army to attack. Then this bit of width can only be hehe for the army.

The two sides of the gorge are naturally cliffs hundreds of feet high. There is not a trace of any special vegetation on these cliffs, and it is difficult for even monkeys to climb here.

There is a city tower at the exit of the gorge, the pit of three zhang wide and five zhang deep is dug out in front of the building, the mouth of the gorge is crossed, the following is covered with spikes, it is necessary to pass by the suspension bridge, there is indeed a husband when the pass, ten thousand people are difficult to cross the trend.

The main part of the pasture is located in a basin-like valley. Coming out of the gorge, there is a slightly gentle hillside, and walking here, you can naturally see everything about the pasture: you can see the fields below the mountain like blankets of different sizes, intertwined with each other, forming a beautiful pattern. More than a dozen lakes of different sizes are dotted like mirrors on the meadows full of pleasing colors, green, green and daisy. The turquoise water and verdant pastures compete with each other, and the beauty of the lake is so beautiful that the two of them take their breath away.

No matter from any angle, the end of the grassland is an undulating line of mountain peaks, stretching endlessly.

In this fairy-like valley, there are all kinds of livestock: white sheep, yellow or gray cattle, horses of all colors, each resting in their own way, adding color to the whole pasture.

And in the northwest corner, there is a magnificent castle, backed by a steep cliff, and in front of a small river that winds like a belt, which makes people even more breathtaking.

This is Pegasus Ranch, located in the valley southwest of Jingling, a fairyland-like existence.