Jiangxia Yishi, that is, refers to the Jiangxia New Chu Army, and its commander is called Chen Miao.

This Chen Miao, he is one of the 'Five Tigers of Chenmen' and an old opponent of Han Yan, a general stationed in Jiangxia, and Han Yan 'hates him to the core', the reason is that Chen Miao is a native of Chen County and Chen County, and Han Yan's father-in-law, Chen Taishi of the current dynasty, and Chen Zhong are from the same place.

It's hard to move forward a few generations, more than a dozen generations, and the two are still the same one.

In addition to this origin, the 'antagonism' between the two is also the reason why Han Yan hates Chen Miao deeply.

You must know that although Han Yan is the official of the 'General in Jiangxia', the area he controls is only the part north of the river in Jiangxia County, and the part south of the river in the county is controlled by Chen Miao.

Because of this, although there is only one Jiangxia County, there are two armies named after Jiangxia, one is the Jiangxia army of the Jin State under Han Yan, and the other is the New Chu Jiangxia Army under Chen Miao, who supported the Jingchu 'New Chu State' - the latter is more known as the 'Jiangxia Yishi'.

Around mid-September, when Changsha Qushuai Guan Shuo sent a letter asking for help, Chen Miao was attacking Xinyang and Yilu counties in Runan County.

Since then, Guan Shuo led the Changsha army to the north to attack Yingchuan County, while Chen Miao continued to lead his Jiangxia army to attack the scattered county towns in Runan County that had not yet been captured.

After all the Runan counties were captured, Chen Miao would also move his army north to attack Chen County, until he joined forces with the new Chu Yishi in Jingchu, Changsha, Yuzhang, Jiangdong and other aspects to converge on Liangcheng, the southern capital of the Jin State south of the Great River.

As for the future, it is naturally a joint attack on Hebei, or even an attack on the capital of the Jin Kingdom, Handan.

Whenever I think of Chen County, Chen Miao can't help but sigh: "I have been away from my hometown for more than ten years, and I never thought that I would return to my hometown in this way in the future, I don't know how the neighbors of Chen County will spit on me......

The guards beside him persuaded each other many times: "We are doing things for the sake of righteousness, and the villagers of Qu Shuai will definitely understand." ”

"Understanding?"

Chen Miao smiled bitterly and shook his head.

He didn't think that the people of Chen County would understand him, or even welcome him, after all, as the hometown of Chen Taishi in the current dynasty, no matter how greedy the officials were, they would not dare to be powerful in Chen County, so the people of Chen County still had a good life.

Naturally, the villagers of the rich land will not support their uprising.

But Chen Miao still feels that the rise of his righteous teacher is the trend of the times, because before joining the righteous teacher, Chen Miao also traveled south and north to increase his knowledge, during which he saw too much unfairness in the world.

For example, when a poor family marries a wife, they are only willing to spend dozens of copper coins to buy wine and food, while those nobles of the Jin Kingdom do not hesitate to spend a lot of money to fight for wealth and compare.

Especially those children of the royal family and the princess, there are tens of thousands, tens of thousands of monthly salaries, even if they have no contribution.

The magnates of the royal capital were lavish in silk and satin, and the people in the poor land were unclothed and had no food for the next meal.

How can such a dynasty be considered peaceful?

Chen Miao, who was indignant at this, resolutely defected to the new Chu army south of the river.

However, when he defected to the New Chu Army, he realized that the 'righteous teacher' was not righteous, and it was also full of all kinds of people who were driven by profit, even if it was the commander and envoy of the righteous teacher, and even the 'King of Chu' in Jingchu, Chen Miao did not think that they were completely righteous and uplifted.

Just when Chen Miao sighed, a soldier suddenly came to say: "Qu Shuai, Xinyang County is willing to surrender." ”

"Good!"

Chen Miao's face was excited when he heard this, and he immediately led the guards to the camp gate.

I saw that outside the camp, there was an old man who seemed to be about fifty years old, wearing a county official uniform, standing with an official seal in his hand, and a few county guards with angry faces standing behind him.

Chen Miao hurriedly stepped forward, grabbed the hands of the Xinyang County Commander, and said happily: "Yan County Commander is willing to obey my righteous teacher and dedicate the city to obedience, and I am deeply gratified. ”

The old county commander looked at Chen Miao expressionlessly, and whispered in a helpless and threatening tone: "I hope that Qu Shuai will keep his promise and don't violate the people in my city, otherwise, the old man will die, and he will turn into a ghost to entangle you!" ”

Hearing the old man's words, Chen Miao couldn't help but be happy.

However, seeing that the old man's face sank, he immediately assured solemnly: "Strict county order and rest assured, Chen will definitely keep his promise." ”

A moment later, under the leadership of this Yan county commander, Chen Miao waved his army and stationed in Xinyang County.

said that he waved the army, but in fact, there were only a few thousand soldiers he brought to the city.

This soldier of the Jiangxia Righteous Army took over the city, removed all the banners with the word "Jin" erected on the city wall, and replaced them with the "Chu" banner of his righteous division, indicating that Xinyang County has been under the rule of the "New Chu State".

Subsequently, Chen Miao sent someone to issue an example to appease the restless people.

During this period, Chen Miao restrained his subordinates, so there were no soldiers of the New Chu Army to burn and loot.

In all fairness, whether it was the Changsha Army under Guan Shuo or the Jiangxia Army under Chen Miao, it was still strict in terms of military discipline, unless the captured city had previously resisted and caused heavy casualties to the soldiers of the righteous division and thus resented it, otherwise such a thing as slaughtering the people was still almost invisible in the righteous division.

After all, the purpose of the new Chu Yishi is to replace the Jin State to govern the world, of course they will not come to the city they have defeated, on the contrary, they will also give all kinds of preferential treatment to the local civilians, inducing them to turn to the righteous master and support the righteous teacher, so that the righteous master can replenish the source of troops on the spot.

For example, when Guan Shuo, the commander of Changsha Qu Shuai, shouted the slogan of 'slaughtering the city for two days' when he attacked Kunyang, it can only be said that he was really angry about his own casualties.

As for Xinyang's side, under the condition that the overall situation has been decided, Chen Miao only led the army to besiege Xinyang for a few days, and Xinyang County ordered Yan Huai to surrender the city, so the soldiers of Jiangxia Yishi did not have any grievances, coupled with Chen Miao's constraints, they naturally would not come to Xinyang Hu.

Of course, the main reason is that the gang of green forest thieves who followed the new Chu Yishi either followed the Changsha army to Yingchuan County, or followed the Yuzhang army to Xiapi, and there was not much left on Chen Miao's side.

In fact, Chen Miao did not welcome this group of guys.

In terms of looking at the green forest thieves, Chen Miao is similar to Guan Shuo, just because he doesn't want to get rid of the world's thoughts of 'voluntarily defecting to the righteous teacher', and by the way, he will reuse the green forest thieves.

Since Runan County had almost no strong resistance, Chen Miao naturally wanted to send that group of people away, so as not to cause chaos for him.

The next day, Xu Jin, the canal envoy of the Jiangxia Righteous Division, rushed to Xinyang with a cadre of soldiers from Pingyu to inspect the Xinyang County newly captured by his righteous division.

After inspecting Xinyang, Xu Jin Zhengse said to Chen Miao: "Xinyang has been broken, and the truth to Chen County has been opened, I don't know when Qu Shuai will wave Chen Jun?" ”

Hearing this, Chen Miao chuckled and said, "Taiping Dao is in a hurry to go to Chen County to preach?" ”

Seeing Xu Jinyi frowning, he smiled and changed his words: "Joke, joke." …… But then again, I think it's too early to capture Chenjun at this time......"

"Qu Shuai......" Xu Jin frowned, and as soon as he spoke, he was interrupted by Chen Miao's outstretched hand: "Guan Shuo's Changsha army wants to go to Nanyang to assist Jing Chuyishi, Cheng Zhou's Yuzhang army is also going to reinforce Zhao Zhang in Jiangdong, and it is meaningless for me to wave my army all the way to the north, but it will be taken advantage of by the army of the Jin State." In my opinion, we should first stick to the territory, win the hearts of the people, recruit soldiers, and train the soldiers while restoring the livelihood of Runan County...... This is the right thing to do, please listen to me. ”

Xu Jin took a deep look at Chen Miao, and said, "I hope Qu Shuai will not miss the opportunity." ”

"Of course not." Chen Miao replied with a smile.

Hearing this, Xu Jin flicked his sleeves and left, looking at the back of this person leaving, Chen Miao had a guard beside him and whispered: "This guy doesn't understand anything......

"Shh

Chen Miao made a gesture of silence, but there was no intention on his face to blame the guards for talking too much.

Because he also felt that this Xu Jin really didn't understand anything.

But there was no way, they were envoys sent by Jing Chu, who served as a bridge between him and Jing Chu, and behind them were Taiping Dao and the monarch of their new Chu State—at least nominally.

Therefore, Chen Miao has to give the other party more or less respect, after all, if he offends the other party, it is not worth it for the other party to say a few bad words in front of the old man who is regarded as the son of Chu Tianzi.

After all, he is under the command of Jiangxia Yishi, and he is still using the name of 'Xinchu'.

Not only is he a righteous teacher in Jiangxia, in fact, the righteous teachers south of the river are basically named 'Xin Chu' and support the king of Chu in Jingchu, but Chen Miao doesn't know how much integrity this support has—because even if it is himself, he can't talk about any loyalty to the son of Chu who is in the land of Jingchu.

He even suspected that the so-called Chu Tianzi was completely made by Taiping Dao......

He wasn't very comfortable with the guys who were pretending to be ghosts.

Not only him, like Guan Shuo and Cheng Zhou, are all wary of that Taiping Dao.

"Alas, a plate of loose sand...... Jing Chu wants to control the righteous teachers in various places, and although we are in his name, we have to prevent being annexed by it, so it is really ...... to fight against the Jin State in this situation I, my righteous teacher, is still one less real leader after all, not those gods and ghosts of Taipingdao, but a real leader...... I wonder if Cheng Zhou saw that Zhao Zhang?"

Chen Miao suddenly thought of Cheng Zhou, and thought of Zhao Zhang, the leader of the Jiangdong Yishi.

Recently, Zhao Zhang, the leader of Jiangdong Yishi, has been in the limelight because he defeated Han Yan, one of the Five Tigers of the Chen Sect, and even Chen Miao has developed a strong interest in that Zhao Zhang.

After all, he has always won less and lost more against that Han Yan, and it is hard for him to imagine that someone can suppress Han Yan like that, it is incredible.

Just as Chen Miao was thinking about it, a soldier suddenly invited him to report: "Qu Shuai, Qu Shuai Guan Shuo of the Changsha Army, sent a messenger to see you." ”

"Huh?"

Chen Miao was slightly stunned, and then said with a smile: "Call him." ”

"Yes!"

A moment later, the messenger sent by Guan Shuo was brought to Chen Miao, clasped his fists and saluted, and respectfully presented Guan Shuo's letter.

Chen Miao opened the letter and glanced at it twice, and then his face showed surprise.

"Guan Shuo actually asked me for help? Isn't it unfavorable for him to conquer Yingchuan County?'

Because Guan Shuo was ashamed to write down the fact that he had been defeated in Kunyang several times, Chen Miao did not know what it was.

However, considering that the Changsha army and the Jing Chu army 'jointly attacked Wang Shangde' was very important to their righteous division, Chen Miao decided to send reinforcements after thinking about it again and again.

Considering that Runan County also needed garrisons, Chen Miao decided to send 30,000 troops to see the situation first.

The next day, Chen Miao, who wanted to know the reason, took several generals and personally led 30,000 troops to Yingchuan County.