It's May in the blink of an eye.

As the Northern Tang had predicted before the war, with the capture of Eyue, the Southern Alliance immediately began a major strategic contraction. From the original crazy attack, he retreated to his own territory, and began to frantically strengthen the city, build fortresses, and set up heavy troops on the dangerous arteries to prepare for the attack of the Northern Tang army.

On the Yizhou side, after Cao Bin took Xiangyang, he originally planned to go down the Han River to take Jingnan, and attack Jingnan with the soldiers and horses led by Tian Mantang on the other road, and take this land of fish and rice as quickly as possible, but now he had to give up this plan. Cao Bin held on to Xiangyang, and Tian Mantang was unable to move forward after he occupied Zigui in Izukawa, so he could only form a confrontation with the Jingnan army.

Yueyang Ding Taiyi's cooked duck watched him fly away again.

Qian Biao was about to be beaten to the end by him, and he only relied on water support to support him, but as soon as the battle in Eyue ended, Shi Qiang's army immediately approached in the direction of Yueyang, and Ding Taiyi was reluctant, but he could only give up the piece of fat on his lips and hurriedly shrank back.

Now, it was his turn to worry day and night that the Don Army would attack him.

At the end of May, Shi Zhuang's army officially arrived in Yueyang. Setting Yueyang as the location of the Chinese army is also integrating Qian Biao's department into his right guard.

Qian Biao officially left the army, and Chang'an appointed him as the governor of Hunan. Although he still only controls more than a dozen counties around Dongting Lake.

Qian Biao was satisfied.

He is confident that he will become the true governor of the whole of Hunan. Ding Taiyi is just a dry bone in the grave, but he will walk the dead for a while.

And his son Qian Bin and daughter-in-law Zheng Wenjun all entered the Right Weiwei, but what made Qian Bin lose face a little was that Zheng Wenjun was directly appointed as the Zhonglang General, and Liang Han was tied to Shi Zhuang, and he didn't even get a position in the front-line troops, and became a general in charge of the logistics of the Right Weiwei.

was angry in his heart, and he couldn't help but give Zheng Wenjun some looks, but after being taught a lesson by Qian Biao, he also wilted. Can he compare with Zheng Wenjun?

Although Zheng Wenjun is a woman, her sense of smell, keenness, and overall view on the battlefield are not comparable to Qian Bin, and more importantly, Zheng Wenjun was born in a secret camp and is Li Ze's real hardcore descendant. There is such a daughter-in-law, so he will steal the fun!

The Jingnan army, including Tian Guofeng's subordinates, was ordered to integrate into Min Rou's left leading guard, with Tian Guofeng as the lieutenant general, and carried out a comprehensive reorganization. At this time, Min Rou was still in Guanzhong, preparing to enter the Qinling Mountains, capture the five passages out of the Qinling Mountains, and then force Hanzhong.

Although Min Rou is not yet in place, the military layout of the entire Tang Dynasty has been fully revealed.

The northwest direction was handed over to Min Rou, who led the army on the left to fight against Yizhou.

The southwest direction was handed over to Shi Zhuang, who dealt with Hunan and other places with the power of the right guard.

Li Mi's right Qianniuwei, who was stationed in Ezhou, aimed at Jiangxi.

You Yong's Zuo Xiaowei entered Zhejiang, staring at the direction of Fujian, and at the same time, he could also threaten Jiangxi.

Zheng Wenchang's Department of Dongting Lake was incorporated into Li Hao's inland water division and was Li Hao's deputy general.

Although a large-scale reorganization was carried out, the actual number of the Tang Army did not grow, and the ministries still maintained their original establishment. A number of former Yueyang troops whose combat effectiveness did not meet the requirements were withdrawn, and a group of soldiers who had reached the age were discharged. Through these measures, the Tang army released a large number of young and strong laborers to return to the localities.

Ding Jian was officially inaugurated as the governor of the newly established Hubei Province, and the entire Hubei Province, except for Xiangyang, which was still under the control of Cao Bin, was already under the control of the Tang army.

The Don Army did not take advantage of the situation to launch a large-scale offensive, as the Southern Alliance imagined, but came to a halt. However, for the Southern Alliance, especially Jiangxi, which suffered heavy losses in the previous stage, it did not dare to relax in the slightest. Soldiers are still being recruited in a big way, and a steady stream of soldiers is being sent to the front line of the confrontation.

The large-scale war on land was paused by Li Ze.

For Li Ze, there are more important things to do now than waging a large-scale war against the Southern Alliance.

Of course, this does not mean that the war has stopped.

Taking advantage of its huge military superiority, the Southern Alliance has been forced to constantly strengthen its military strength, recruit more troops, build more equipment, and store more food, so that it will spend more and more on top of military spending.

All in all, Li Ze's aim is to slowly drag down the south on top of the economy.

But the absence of large-scale wars does not mean that there are no small-scale conflicts. Just because there is no attack on land does not mean that there is no attack at sea.

The Southern Alliance, which lost its confrontation with the Northern Tang army at sea, suffered losses not only because their foreign trade channels were completely cut off, but also because they lost a large piece of the cake of foreign trade.

When the two sides entered a new phase of confrontation on land, they immediately tasted the threat from the sea.

The sailors of the iron hook Pan Motang unscrupulously attacked the coasts of Fujian and Guangdong.

Under the clear blue sky, more than a dozen small fishing boats floated on the sea, and a man wearing only a pair of shorts stood on the boat, accompanied by a powerful shout, the fishing net in his hand was thrown out, suddenly unfolded in the air, and then fell into the water. After a moment's wait, the man bent down and began to recycle the fishing net.

As the fishing net came out of the water little by little, the man became more and more strained, the muscles on his body bulged one by one, and his face turned red. The nets were a little more up, and the swaying and pulling the nets could no longer hide their happy smiles, the nets were only half out of the water, but there were already a big fish one or two feet long jumping desperately and struggling, trying to break free from the calamity that fell from the sky.

But the misfortune of these fish is the joy of the fishermen's harvest.

A few steps of the rocking oar rushed to the front, shouting with the man pulling the net, dragging the fishing wind to the boat little by little.

With just a net, the cabin of their boat was already filled with all kinds of marine fish, shrimp, and crabs.

"Oh my God, what did I see, Niu Er, what is that?" The man who was pulling the net suddenly jumped into the cabin, stretched out his hand and picked up some miscellaneous fish aside, grabbed a big fish with both hands, and lifted it up.

"Big yellow croaker, big yellow croaker." Niu Er jumped a tiger, stood in the fish pile with two feet, a big crab raised its two big pincers and clamped his legs fiercely, he didn't notice it at all, but stretched out his hand and grabbed this big yellow croaker weighing more than ten catties with Niu Da.

"We can pay off the taxes we added this year." Zhu Da's face was full of happy smiles, big yellow croaker was very rare, and it was even more rare to see a big yellow croaker weighing more than ten catties like this. This one alone can be sold for more than ten taels of silver, and there will be people rushing to buy it. With this money, the war tax, which has just been increased this year, can be paid.

Ordinary trash fish is not worth much, but such a rare big yellow croaker is different.

"Bring the bucket, bring the bucket, keep it, you can't let it go, if it dies, it will be sold for at least half of the money!" Zhu yelled.

Niu Shuang hurriedly poured in the cabin, but took out a large bucket of fresh water they stored, poured the fresh water inside without hesitation, leaned over and scooped half a bucket of seawater out of the sea, and then the two carefully put the big yellow croaker in, and then covered it with a lid, and firmly fixed it on the boat.

"Flip through it again and see if there's anything left?" Niu Er squatted down, stretched out his hand and tore off the crab on his leg, regardless of the blood on his leg, he directly turned off a crab leg, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it, while rummaging in the fishing pile, "If we can still find one, even if it is smaller, we will also be rich." ”

"You kid don't have enough heart. Let's go, go home, enough of today's harvest! Zhu laughed and walked to the position of the rocking oar, ready to return home.

He had just held on to the oar, but the whole person froze.

In his field of vision, a huge white sail shadow appeared, and then, the gray and huge hull of the ship was completely displayed in front of his eyes.

Niu Da screamed, "Northern Tang people, Northern Tang warships, Niu Er, go, go!" ”

Zhu Er straightened up from the cabin, also exclaimed, and grabbed his eldest brother's side, and the two brothers grabbed the handle of the oar with four hands and shook it desperately.

On the surface of the sea, some of the other fishing boats like them fled desperately in the direction of the near shore like frightened birds.

These big ships have a deep draft, and there are many places near the shore that they can't go. As long as you escape to those places, you have a chance to live.

They had also encountered the warships of the Northern Tang Dynasty before, but as long as they fled to the nearshore waters, those large warships did not bother to pay attention to them anymore.

This time, it's gone too far.

If it weren't for the war tax that the government had just raised, how could they have risked going so far? But if you don't go so far, how can you have such a rich harvest, you can't pay taxes, and the government really wants to rip down the house and demolish it.

Beads of sweat from the faces of the two of them, their bodies flowed down like water, and the two of them had already exhausted all their strength, but the Northern Tang warship behind them was still getting closer and closer.

With a bang, a fishing boat that landed behind their brother was rammed and sunk, and in the blink of an eye, it was engulfed by the huge hull of the other party. The cow screamed: "Hurry up, hurry up, it's coming." ”

The other fishing boats are basically one person, only their brother, which is two people.

"The big ship is slowing down!" Niu Da turned around in his busy schedule and screamed in surprise.

They had already entered the shallow water, and the warships of the Northern Tang Dynasty were indeed slowing down, but the next scene made Niu Da desperate.

On top of the big boat, small boats were put down, and on each small boat, there were about eight or ten sailors on board, and the oars were flying, like white dragons in the waves, and they were speeding towards them.