Gangneung Fortress

Jiangling, also known as Jingzhou, the former capital of Chu, is located in the middle reaches of the river. One of the five capitals of Emperor Xiansuzong, called the southern capital of Jiangling Mansion, the trade of Gangneung Mansion at that time reached the rich world. This city is bordered by the river in the south, the Han River in the north, the Bashu in the west, the Xianghan in the north, the rivers and lakes in the placket, the finger arm Wu Yue, is the key point of the Central Plains to communicate with Lingnan, and is called "the southeast important town", "also the metropolis".

Such a capital city has always been coveted by all forces. Almost every siege battle is extremely brutal, and the corpses of soldiers killed in battle alone are enough to fill the entire moat!

Guo Yu and He Yin originally thought that there would be a fierce battle, and the Guizhou army was even ready to besiege the city for a long time, but the progress of the battle of Jiangling greatly surprised everyone!

In the face of Guizhou's attack, Wang Jianzhao abandoned the city and fled with almost no decent resistance. The victory was so simple that Guo Yu felt a little unbelievable! It wasn't until he stepped on the top of the city and looked around that the doubts in his heart disappeared, and he finally understood the reason.

Guo Yu stood at the head of Jiangling City, with a lot of thoughts and a lot of feelings! Ten years ago, he was a general under Chen Ru, a prosperous capital with more than 30,000 households and more than 100,000 people. During the day, the crowd in the downtown is full of people, businessmen gather, and the sound of selling is endless. In the evening, the wine shop and song shop are full of lights, the singing and dancing are leveled, and the pipa and silk bamboo are pleasant to the ear.

And in just ten years, Gangneung City has been ruined! As far as the eye can see, the city is as devastated as a huge tomb, and there are not even a few intact houses in sight. Wang Jianzhao really has no reason to fight him to the death for such a ruined city!

Guo Yu did conquer Jiangling City, but he hated those vegetable thieves and rogues. When Wang Jianzhao was defeated, he had already plundered the city, and burned all the things that could not be taken away, and even several large warships with high cost by the river were set on fire because the draft was too deep to sail into Qianzhou. The most vicious thing is that they also coerced the people in the city to defeat Qianzhou with them. Just now Zheng Zhun came to report, after careful search by the army, the huge Jiangling Mansion has almost become a dead city without people! The people who were not captured by the vegetable thieves were only more than 200 people from 17 households, and most of them were sick and weak.

At the beginning of the war, the princes and thieves of all walks of life fought back and forth, and the only purpose of conquering the city was to plunder the gold, silver, wealth and food, and when faced with the people who were useless in their eyes, they all abandoned them one after another! But they later discovered that if there were no people to work under their rule, the government treasury would not be able to collect grain and taxes, and even if they had more gold and silver treasures in their hands that could not be filled, it would be useless. So they changed their course and began to search for and plunder the people for their own use. It was only at this time that I suddenly discovered that the common people who were once regarded as sloppy have become scarce!

Guo Yu sighed in the face of Jiangling, which was like a dead city under his feet! I couldn't help but lament in my heart: "Did I capture a city, or did I get a ghost prison?" ”

Faced with the dilemma, Guo Yu naturally had to rely on He Shilang to solve the situation. At this time, He Yin was sipping tea with Xu Cun in his grass house, chatting and laughing.

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The young man in front of him gave He Yin too many surprises, and these surprises did not only come from the Qingjiang raid battle with less to win more.

In He Yin's original strategic concept, the battle of Qingjiang, whether Xu Cun won or not, actually did not hinder the overall situation. As long as these 300 new soldiers can be used to temporarily hold down the troops of Mu Quan, so that they have no time to take care of Wang Jianzhao and cannot rush to the aid of Wang Jianzhao, when the main force of Guizhou attacks Jiangling, it is enough to have no Qingjiang to restrain him. As long as the army successfully takes Jiangling, the small Qingjiang River, which is located between Guizhou and Jiangling, is naturally in the bag.

He Yin didn't expect that Xu Cun cleanly captured Mou Quan and collected all his subordinates, and forcibly turned an inconsequential idle chess Leng Zi into a nirvana! In order to make Guo Yu have no distractions and easily defeat Wang Jianzhao, which is naturally an unexpected surprise.

He Yin's biggest surprise lies in Xu Cun's open-mindedness! The deployment of troops in the raid on Qingjiang implied suspicion, and He Yin knew that he could not hide it from Xu Cun, or that he had no intention of covering it up, but did it intentionally, so as to take this opportunity to observe Xu Cun's reaction.

If he was furious or grumbling, He Yin would laugh it off. For such a person must be a reckless man who has no heart, and can only be driven to do some rough work in the future. If Xu Cun is full of resentment and grievances, he must be a narrow-minded and low-minded person. This kind of person also has other wonderful uses, that is, when the lord is in danger, he is the best choice to throw out the disaster and prevent the disaster!

And Xu Cun's performance surprised him! Knowing that he was suspicious, he neither complained angrily nor was he discouraged, but focused on the war, and took Qingjiang in one fell swoop!

Xu Cun's command ability in this battle was also deeply appreciated by He Yin!

Although there were only 300 new soldiers under his command, Xu Cun arranged his troops in an orderly manner, and the battle steps were also interlocked, thus stimulating the strongest combat power of his subordinate soldiers. In the raid, there was both the main force attacking the fortification and the flank protection, first using the forces of the rivers and lakes to burn the warships to create chaos; Later, he took advantage of the chaos to capture the leader of the thieves, so that the enemy army was leaderless, and it was impossible to form an effective organization among the emperors in a hurry, and they could not give full play to the superiority of troops; In the end, after the enemy completely relinquished control of the waterfront, he completely defeated the troops of Mou Quan with the powerful lethality of the waterway soldiers......

He Yin, who was deep in the city government, naturally did not put praise on his face, but chatted with him calmly, but carefully looked at the other party in his heart.

The young people who have made new achievements are neither arrogant nor pretending to be modest, but still so plain and calm.

He Yin was very sure: "This son will become a great weapon!" ”

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It's a pity! Xu Cun's calm temperament, which was admired by He Yin, could not be maintained for long. When he saw Chen Lingwan stepping into the grass house, he immediately looked nervous and lost his demeanor.

Today's Lingwan is a little strange! did not wear the narrow shirt and short skirt of Keju on weekdays, but a goose-yellow cloud shirt and long skirt; On the high upturned hair bun of the beauty, there is a multicolored pearl and jade hairpin, and a plum petal flower is also embellished on the forehead;

She walked into the grass house, looking forward to her life, with thousands of manners, like a lady's demeanor, but she was still young and slightly thin.

After Lingwan entered the house, she was not in a hurry to greet others, but first took a burden from the hand of the maid Xiaoyu, gently put it in front of Xu Cun, and said softly: "The previous time was that Lingwan acted abruptly and stained Captain Xu's clothes. After speaking, he smiled at Xu Cun, and then turned around to give He Yin a salute.

Xu Cun, who was stunned, reacted at this time, and hurriedly got up and thanked him: "The girl is polite, Xu is ashamed!"

Seeing that Xu Cun had accepted his clothes, Lingwan didn't say anything more, smiled and said goodbye to the two of them, and walked out of the door.

He Yin was also surprised when he saw this! It wasn't until Lingwan walked away that she slowly closed her mouth that was slightly open in surprise.

Chen Lingwan has been frolicking around him since she was a child, where have you ever seen her dressed up like this and posing like a weak little woman?

He Yin thought about it for a moment, and then understood the reason, stroked his beard lightly, and couldn't help but smile secretly in his heart: "The little girl has grown up and has something on her mind!" ”

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"Lightly pay for the meager endowment, and share weal and woe with the people; Recruit displaced people and strengthen people; Be kind to businessmen and open up sources of wealth. These are the three long-term strategies that He Yin has prescribed for the Jiangling dilemma.

"First of all, report to Chang'an, show that our army has defeated the remnants of the vegetable thieves and recovered Jingnan, and asked the imperial court to seal the Jingnan Festival. In order to justifiably govern the rest of the states in Jingnan in the future. ”

"At the same time, we should step up the reorganization and reduction of the military system to prevent the enemy from attacking and harassing all around."

"There are many soldiers and little food in Jiangling City, and there is a fear of trouble over time, so we should record the military exploits as soon as possible, reward the three armies to boost morale, and wait for the opportunity to take the initiative to send troops to pursue Wang Jianzhao or attack the rest of the vegetable thieves to raise the army in battle, and also take advantage of the situation to open up the territory and break the ground. ……”

This is the recent strategy that He Yin planned for Guo Yu.

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Guo Yu is very pleased that he can have He Yin, a wise friend and a dedicated subordinate! The piece in his hand was sent to Jiangling by a light boat by a light boat by He Yin in the early morning, and it is still fresh, and it should have been written last night after staying up late.

Thinking about his old friend's night book and trying his best to plan for himself, Guo Yu's heart was moved! Especially carefully read the content of the recital, think far and near, and hit the nail on the head, He Shilang is really thoughtful and calculated, according to this, the Gangneung dilemma can naturally be solved! It's a great blessing to have such a talented person to help!

After Guo Yu watched the recital, he immediately felt that Chengzhu was in his chest, and ordered Zheng Zhun, who was good at playing the right paperwork, to immediately write the recital and report the victory to the imperial court......

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In the Taibai Liquor Shop in Guizhou City, Xu Cun was pacing back and forth in a cyan dress.

Wearing a cloth on his head, he is wearing a cardigan with large sleeves, a bib and a jade scarf......

Xu Cun, who is dressed up, is indeed a talent in Yushu Linfeng! It's just that the pair of torn boots with exposed toes under his feet look a little nondescript.

Fan Jiutong smacked his lips and stroked his palms in admiration: "Junjunjun!" Xu Ye is really handsome when he dresses up! ”

Lu Ben was also intoxicated, and the old donkey circled around him like a grind, and Xu Cun couldn't help kicking it when he saw that he was furious in his heart.

"The clothes fit so well, it can be seen that Miss Chen is very attentive to her eldest brother?"

Lu Ben said with a wicked smile;

Xu Cun was stunned when he heard this, and then scolded angrily:

"Don't talk nonsense, the little girl is only thirteen years old!"

Lu Ben was unmoved, he still looked at him obscenely, and looked at Xu Cun's face red!

Even the thief on the side, the old fan, began to be suspicious, and it seemed that as long as he was overly dressed, he should be attributed to the likes of well-dressed beasts.

Seeing that Xu Cun, who looked embarrassed, was thoughtful, but suddenly his face changed, and the two bad embryos thought that he was really angry, so they quickly restrained the lewd smile on their faces.

They didn't know that Xu Cun's sudden change of expression was not because he was annoyed, but because he remembered something casually mentioned in his casual chat with He Yin;

While searching for the surviving civilians in Gangneung City, the soldiers met a strange man. It is said that there was a one-armed man in the city, and with only a handful of stones, he managed to repel a group of thieves who had taken the people captive, and also saved a young man......

Xu Cun, who was excited, suddenly pulled Lu Ben, who couldn't dodge, and said in a trembling voice: "Ben'er, Xun Zheng may be in Jiangling City!" ”

Attached: "Zizhi Tongjian" volume 257;

"Guo Yu, the assassin of Guizhou, attacked Jingnan, chased Wang Jianzhao, and Jianzhao went to Qianzhou. Zhao Yiyu left behind Jingnan. In the absence of the war in Jingnan, there are only 17 ......"