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In late September, after nearly half a month of travel, Jiangxia Qu Marshal Chen Miao led his army to Zhaoling County.

At this time, his troops were divided into two routes, and sent his generals Tian Yi and Guo Xi to Xuchang with 10,000 troops each to reinforce Xiang Xuan, the general under Guan Shuo, while he himself took another general, Zhu Yuan, to Kunyang with 10,000 troops to join Guan Shuo.

On September 28, Chen Miao and Zhu Qian led 10,000 troops to Kunyang.

On the way, the two received a summons from Guan Shuo, hoping that the army led by Chen Miao and Zhu Yuan would cross the Shahe River and reach the southern suburbs of Kunyang to join the army led by Guan Shuo.

After receiving this news, Chen Miao was very surprised and said to the subordinate general Zhu Xuan: "It seems that not only Xiang Xuan, who is in Xuchang, needs assistance, but Guan Shuo doesn't seem to be having a good time......

Zhu Yu smiled and nodded in agreement.

The two of them naturally understood the deep meaning behind Guan Shuo's plea, which was nothing more than to put pressure on Kunyang County, which meant that Guan Shuo's current situation in Kunyang was not optimistic.

A county town, does it give Guan Shuo such a headache?

Chen Miao also felt incredible.

Although it felt incredible, Chen Miao still complied, and together with his general Zhu Yuan, he led the 10,000 troops across the Shahe River to the southern suburbs of Kunyang County, and came to the camp of the Guanshuo garrison.

I have to say that when he realized that the camp built by Guan Shuo was only five miles away from Kunyang County, Chen Miao also felt quite surprised, and realized that the battle situation here might be more tense than he imagined.

On the other hand, Guan Shuo also learned the news that Chen Miao had come in person, and in addition to being surprised, he immediately led people out of the camp to greet him.

Around midnight, Guan Shuo really saw Chen Miao, and he said in surprise: "Brother Lao Fuzi Mian came to help in person, Guan is very ashamed. ”

Zi Mian, that is Chen Miao's expression, unlike most of the civilian-born soldiers in the righteous teachers, Chen Miao's son was born in a cold family - Hanmen means 'Shu clan', and in layman's terms, it refers to a small family, even if the family is in the middle of the road and the family is as poor as a commoner, but they are still different from civilians in nature.

And Chen Miao is from a small family in Chen County, Chen County.

Of course, since learning that he had defected to the rebels, his family had already distanced himself from him.

"Haha." Chen Miao held Guan Shuo's hand and smiled: "It's rare to see Brother Guan's embarrassment, how can you miss it?" …… Jokes and jokes, in the next purely to avoid a purity. ”

The first half of the sentence made Guan Shuo a little embarrassed, but when he heard the second half of the sentence, Guan Shuo immediately came to his senses and asked in a low voice: "Because of that Xu Jin?" ”

"Who else?"

On the way to the camp with Guan Shuo, Chen Miao said with emotion: "The people of Taiping Dao are still adhering to the strategy of 'quick attack' and advocating what 'seize the opportunity'...... I do not deny that in the early days of the uprising, it was indeed important to seize the opportunity, but now, with the great northward march of my righteous division, the Jin State has already received the news of the defeat, and I have no doubt that the Jin State has been organizing an army to prepare for a counterattack...... Blind expansion will only give the Jin Kingdom a chance to take advantage of. ”

Speaking of this, he changed his words, lowered his voice and smiled: "That Xu Jin has been bothering me day by day in the name of Jing Chu, and I am very troubled, so I came here to avoid purity. ”

Yes, there was no need for Chen Miao to personally come forward when it came to send reinforcements, and the reason why he personally led the army to come was nothing more than to avoid the titular 'Jiangxia Canal Envoy Xu Jin'.

Or some people think that since Xu Jin is the 'Jiangxia Canal Envoy', then he must be on the side of Chen Miao, but in fact it is not, Xu Jin's 'Jiangxia Qu Envoy', to put it bluntly, is the special envoy sent by the 'Xin Chu' who established the country in Jing Chu to contact and supervise Chen Miao, which is equivalent to the supervision of the army.

In fact, today's New Chu Yishi can be roughly divided into three areas: 'Jingnan', 'Jiangzhong', and 'Jiangdong'.

Among them, Jingnan refers to Jingchu, which is the founding place of Xinchu and the place where the rebel army first raised the banner of "anti-Jin".

At the beginning of the founding of the new Chu state, it was originally planned to advance in two ways, one to the north and the other to the east.

So the Jin State sent two generals to contain it, namely 'Wang Shangde, the general stationed in Nanyang', and the 'Han Yan, the general stationed in Jiangxia', intending to curb the development of the new Chu forces in Nanyang and Jiangxia.

So far, in recent years, Nanyang and Jiangxia are still the main combat locations of the New Chu Yi Division and the Jin army.

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It wasn't until Zhao Zhang, the lieutenant of Xiapi County, rebelled against the Jin State and defected to the righteous division that the Jiangdong righteous division developed rapidly, and after defeating Han Yan twice, he was in the limelight for a while.

It is no exaggeration to say that it was the rise of the righteous teachers in Jiangdong that greatly encouraged the righteous teachers in the two regions of Jingnan and Jiangzhong, and made the New Chu State think that the time had come to 'overthrow the violent Jin', which is why there was this joint northern expedition of the righteous teachers from all walks of life south of the river.

It is undeniable that the Northern Expedition has achieved remarkable results in the early days, in just a few months, Jiangxia, Lujiang, Jiujiang, Runan and other counties have been captured by the righteous division, and the Xinchu Imperial Court and the Taiping Road behind it have vigorously urged the righteous division to continue to advance north under this good news, and strive to push the battle line closer to the Dahe region as soon as possible, and completely occupy half of the country.

He said very bluntly: "I came here in person this time, and I also want to know the progress of you and Jing Chu's 'flanking Nanyang', which will determine whether I want to accept Jing Chu's order and continue to push north." ”

Of course, Guan Shuo didn't think that Chen Miao's point of view was wrong, but when he mentioned the matter of 'pinching Nanyang', he couldn't help but show a little embarrassment.

Why?

Because he has not really advanced this matter so far, he has been restrained by Kunyang County, how can he have the strength to attack Ye County and attack the rear of Nanyang?

If it is facing the ordinary generals of Jiangxia Yishi, Guan Shuo can still hide it, but in the face of Chen Miao, the commander of Jiangxia Qu who is on an equal footing with him, Guan Shuo is naturally not easy to hide.

After hesitating, Guan Shuo told the truth with an embarrassed and ashamed face.

After listening to Le Guan Shuo's narration, Chen Miao's face was full of astonishment.

You must know that when capturing Yingchuan County, Guan Shuo had 80,000 Changsha troops and nearly 20,000 green forest thieves under his command, even if the nearly 20,000 soldiers lost in Zhaoling County were removed, and the 10,000 troops taken away by Xiang Xuan to attack Xuchang, Guan Shuo still had 50,000 troops and nearly 20,000 green forest thieves under his command - this does not include the new troops recruited by Guan Shuo in Zhaoling, Yuncheng, Dingling and other places.

On the Xuchang side, Xiang Xuan suppressed the county army of Yingchuan County with only 10,000 troops, but in Kunyang, Guanshuo's 50,000 troops and 20,000 green forest thieves couldn't help but have a Kunyang County?

Looking at Chen Miao's strange face, Guan Shuo explained embarrassedly: "In fact, the army used to attack Kunyang is not as much as you think, I have reserved 20,000 troops, and Tian Xu and Zhai Shang are in charge respectively, clamping down on Ye County, and the army used to attack Kunyang is actually only more than 30,000 soldiers and nearly 20,000 green forest thieves......"

The more he talked, the more embarrassed he became, and in the end he couldn't say it at all, after all, in terms of this force alone, it was definitely not small, and it was more than enough to capture a county under ordinary circumstances.

Seeing Guan Shuo's embarrassed face, Chen Miao didn't ask any questions, but instead asked about the situation in Kunyang County: "Kunyang ...... Is it so difficult to deal with? It's even more difficult to fight than the county town of Yingchuan County? …… By the way, who are the county commanders and county lieutenants of Kunyang County? ”

Guan Shuo understood what Chen Miao meant, shook his head and explained: "Kunyang's difficulty does not lie in its county order or county lieutenant, now in Kunyang to resist my righteous teacher, it is a local bandit leader named Zhou Hu......"

"Bandit leader?"

Chen Miao asked rhetorically, as if he couldn't believe his ears.

Guan Shuo could understand the stunned in Chen Miao's heart, because before that, even he couldn't believe that a bandit leader had blocked his tens of thousands of righteous troops.

But that's exactly what happened.

He explained with a little depression: "This bandit leader named Zhou Hu is quite famous in Kunyang, when our righteous army did not arrive, it is rumored that Kunyang County has organized officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress Zhou Hu many times, but it is said that it has repeatedly failed. …… Until our righteous army came to this, Zhou Hu somehow got together with the county government of Kunyang, replaced the county government, led the Kunyang army and people to resist stubbornly, and even joined forces with Ye County, and Ye County also transported a lot of armaments and food to Kunyang, and even sent 3,000 Nanyang troops ......"

Chen Miao, who also said that he was right, was incomprehensible, in fact, even he didn't understand how the bandit leader named Zhou Hu persuaded the Kunyang County Ya, and even the Ye County Government acquiesced to the existence of this person - isn't this guy a bandit?

After telling Chen Miao about the several battles between his righteous division and Kunyang County so far, Guan Shuo said in a deep voice: "According to many battles, the guards of Kunyang County are roughly composed of Nanyang soldiers, black turban thieves and local militiamen, Nanyang soldiers are only 3,000 people, with our army attacking the city several times, it has gradually become difficult to see, and I think it has almost been killed and wounded, only the black tiger thieves and the local militia remain...... Among these people, the most difficult is a group of black turban thieves known as 'brigade wolves', they are not only good at dispersing the patrol soldiers who sneak up on our army at night, but also know how to defend the city, and they are the group of people that Zhou Hu and even Kunyang rely on the most......"

"Amazing?" Chen Miao asked in surprise.

Guan Shuo thought for a while and commented on the group of wolves: "Scattered wolves are troubled, and gathered are tigers!" ”

Hearing this evaluation, Chen Miao's heart flashed a little surprised, after all, Guan Shuo's evaluation was really not low to him.

Surprised, Chen Miao asked curiously, "Have you ever tried to recruit this Zhou Hu?" ”

Guan Shuo was silent for a moment, and said with a little depression: "Before the army started, Zhang Zhai, the envoy of Nanyang Canal, sent me a letter, asking me to try my best to fight for this Zhou Hu, but I didn't care much at the time, not to mention, that Zhou Hu proposed to divide Kunyang, Xiangcheng, and Runan counties into its territory, and did not allow my righteous teacher to settle in, this condition was only in exchange for him nominally submitting to my righteous teacher, how could I agree?" ”

"I see." Chen Miao nodded clearly.

Not to mention the excessive demands made by Zhou Hu, he could understand why Guan Shuo didn't take that Zhang Zhai's reminder to heart, just like he didn't want to see Xu Jin, because that Zhang Zhai was also a person from the Taiping Dao - they have never been very kind to these prison soldiers who pointed fingers in the name of fake 'canal envoys'.

However, that Zhou Hu was able to block the attack of Guan Shuo's army with only the soldiers and civilians of Kunyang, and Chen Miao was still very interested in this person.