I saw that in the place where the violent explosion just now, dozens of big trees were blown to pieces, scattered within a radius of 100 zhang, and a large pit more than ten zhang wide and at least one zhang deep appeared in the middle.

The main general, Lai Wenbo, had heard of the Iron Fire Thunder, but today it was the first time he had seen it with his own eyes, and the powerful power made him desperate.

At this moment, a cavalryman galloped forward and shot a letter of arrows into the city.

A soldier picked up the letter and handed it to Lai Wenbo, Lai Wenbo opened the letter, only to see that it was written: "The king of Jin got off the car and rode the general Su Zhen to your Excellency the guard general of Xuancheng, 10,000 troops have been killed, in order not to hurt the people in the city, your Excellency is willing to surrender to the Jin army, then you will be treated preferentially, if you are not willing to surrender, you can also open the north gate to go, the cavalry will not chase, if you resist stubbornly, the Jin army will not accept surrender after the city is broken, and you will be killed!" ”

After reading the letter, Lai Wenbo looked at the soldiers in the city again, one by one panicked, all of them were frightened by the explosion just now, and their fighting spirit was completely lost, Lai Wenbo thought that he abandoned the city and fled, and Liu Shining would not forgive himself.

He couldn't help but sigh and ordered: "Pass my order, Kaesong surrender!" ”

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With the surrender of a thousand defenders, the Jin cavalry marched into Xuancheng County, which meant that this strategically important city was raided by the Jin army, and the tide of the battle began to turn abruptly.

At the same time, 200 large ships, escorted by the Runzhou naval army, carried 20,000 soldiers along the south bank of the Yangtze River to Jiangzhou.

The main commander of this fleet is Yang Miao, a cavalry general, Yang Miao is also a veteran of Hexi, who served as a general of the heavy crossbow army, and he and Su Zhen and An Zhong became Li Bing's right-hand man.

This time, Li Bing led 30,000 troops into Jiangnan, plus the 10,000 troops who returned from Guangzhou, there were actually 40,000 Jin troops, plus the integration of 20,000 militia troops, so that Li Bing could use an army of 60,000 people.

This time, Li Bing mobilized nearly 40,000 people to launch the Xuanzhou offensive, and the remaining more than 20,000 people were deployed on the front line of Jiangning, Changzhou, and Huzhou to prevent Liu Shining from jumping over the wall and counterattacking Jiangnan.

And Li Bing himself sat in Changzhou and controlled the operation remotely.

At the same time, the general An Zhong led 8,000 men from the direction of Jiangning County into Xuanzhou, and hurried to Xuancheng, where he was responsible for taking over the defense of Xuancheng and freeing 10,000 cavalry from Xuancheng.

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Xunyang County, Jiangzhou, that is, today's Jiujiang, is where Bai Juyi wrote "Pipa Xing", but Xunyang County has always been the nest of Liu Qia's father and son, and their control is mainly a large area of land west of Taihu Lake and east of the Ganjiang River, including the entire territory of Xuanzhou, Jiangzhou, Raozhou and Fuzhou, as well as half of Hongzhou and Jizhou and Qianzhou.

However, the territory controlled by Ma Sui was west of the Gan River and east of the Xiangjiang River, and west of the Xiangjiang River was controlled by Liu Pi.

This month, Liu Shining has been relatively low-key because of his mishandling of his father's funeral, and he spends most of his time training recruits in Xunyang County.

Liu Shining's 10,000 troops were wiped out in Changzhou, and the surrendered soldiers were not released, so that the strength of Liu's soldiers was sharply reduced to 25,000, and his 25,000 men were divided into two, half of them were stationed in Xuanzhou, and the other half were stationed in Jiangzhou.

This month, Liu Shining recruited 10,000 young men in Raozhou, Hongzhou, and Jiangzhou and organized them into a new army, and he was personally responsible for the training of this new army.

On this morning, Liu Shining was training the queue of the new army on the school field, and at this time, there was a commotion on the side of the school field, and I saw a group of soldiers pushing a veteran with white hair forward.

The veteran was covered in alcohol, bleeding from the corners of his mouth and eyes, and it seemed that he had been beaten quite lightly.

"Lord, this old thing is drinking and scolding again!"

This veteran is called Wang Yangui, who has followed Liu Qia in the southern and northern wars for many years, and has always been Liu Qia's right-hand man, but he has a short temper and speaks mercilessly, which has offended many people.

Back then, he also persuaded Liu Qia not to give too much power to Liu Shining, although it was not adopted by Liu Qia, but he offended Liu Shining.

After Liu Shining took power, he promoted his henchmen and belittled the veterans, Wang Yangui bore the brunt of the attack, Wang Yangui was the first emperor Dezong Emperor to be the fourth rank of the loyal general more than ten years ago, and now he was demoted by Liu Shining to the logistics general.

He was depressed, often drunk, and scolded Liu Shining when he drank.

Liu Shining knew that he was insulting himself again, and he was suddenly furious in his heart, and whipped him head-on, a bloody mark immediately appeared on Wang Yangui's face, Wang Yangui turned his head away, and without saying a word, he hated it in his heart, but he didn't have his usual irritability.

Liu Shining was even more annoyed in his heart, and he whipped out again, "Old horseman, if you want to find death, I will fulfill you!" ”

At this moment, Fan Hong, a staff member, shouted in the distance: "General! Checkmate! ”

Liu Shining pointed at Wang Yangui and said: "Alcohol is not allowed in the army, this person seriously violated military discipline and dragged down to beat a hundred military sticks." ”

The generals stepped forward one after another to plead, begging Liu Shining to spare him again for the sake of the old master!

Liu Shining snorted, "If I don't kill him, this old man will cheapen him, how can I spare him any longer, drag it down and beat him, and kill him to give him a broken seat!" ”

The soldiers dragged Wang Yangui down, and Liu Shining urged him to step forward and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Fan Hong hurriedly said: "General, I have received two urgent pigeon letters, one is sent by Qian Yi from Runzhou, saying that the cavalry of the three thousand Jin army has been killed to Xuanzhou, and the other is sent by Li Feng, the chief general of Liyang County, and his scouts found that the cavalry of the brigade has entered Xuanzhou, and the number is around 10,000. ”

Liu Shining was taken aback, "Is this the Jin army going to raid Xuancheng?" ”

"It should be like this, the content of the two pieces of intelligence is consistent, but the number of people is a little different, one is 10,000 cavalry, the other is 3,000 cavalry, I don't know which one is correct."

"Let's go back to the barracks first!"

Liu Shining was a little flustered, how could the other party have cavalry? This is something he didn't think of before, if the other party is cavalry, then there will be a problem with the deployment of his army, the cavalry can easily break through the defense line and raid Xuancheng, can the three thousand defenders of Xuancheng hold it?

When he returned to the big tent, he asked, "Is there any news of Xuancheng?" ”

The secretary shook his head, "The latest news has been given to Mr. Fan, and there is no news now?" ”

Liu Shining stood in front of the map, looking at Xuancheng County on the map with a burst of regret, he knew that it would be fine if he concentrated his army in Xuancheng, why did he have to divide his troops into three places, and he called each other horns.

Staff Fan Hong persuaded: "If there are really only 3,000 cavalry, then they can't capture Xuancheng, if it's 10,000 people, then it's irretrievable now." ”

At this moment, a soldier said at the door: "General Qiyu, Xuancheng County emergency pigeon letter!" ”

Liu Shining turned around suddenly, and said sharply: "Hurry up and bring the letter!" ”

The soldier knelt down on his knees and presented a pigeon letter, Liu Shining opened the pigeon letter, glanced at it, and breathed a sigh of relief, "It was written by Lai Wenbo, the Jin army's 3,000 cavalry attacked Xuancheng without success, and now its whereabouts are unknown!" ”

Fan Hong frowned, "Then why did Li Feng say that it was 10,000 cavalry?" ”

"This can be explained, the other party bluffed, crossed the border at night, and one person took three big flags, it seems that the formation is big, and it is estimated that the spies sent by Li Feng hurried back without reading them all."

"Then what's the point of the enemy sending these 3,000 cavalry to raid Xuancheng?" Fan Hong asked puzzled.

Liu Shining took a few steps with his hands in his hands, and said slowly: "The other party's target must be Xuancheng, I suspect that the cavalry is not used to attack the city, and the siege should be another army." ”

Fan Hong's mind flashed, his brows furrowed and said: "These three thousand cavalry should be here to deal with Li Feng and them, once another army attacks Xuancheng on a large scale, Li Feng will inevitably withdraw to Xuancheng, and these three thousand cavalry will wait halfway!" ”

Liu Shining also thought of this, the high-speed movement of the cavalry was suitable for ambushes, but there was one thing he couldn't figure out, where would the other main force attacking Xuancheng come from?

At this time, another soldier reported at the door, "Runzhou urgent letter!" ”

The soldier walked into the big tent and presented a pigeon letter, Liu Shining opened it and looked at it carefully, this is the second urgent information sent by Qian Yi from Runzhou, which is written very simply, Li Bing personally led 20,000 soldiers to kill Xuanzhou from the direction of Jiangning.

All of a sudden, it was the 20,000 troops led by Li Bing who really attacked Xuancheng, and the cavalry was only used to ambush the retreating army.

Fan Hong nodded, "I understand, the cavalry came from Changzhou and attracted all Li Feng's attention to the central line, and the enemy's 20,000 troops silently entered Xuanzhou from the northern front. ”

"The question is, what do we do?" Liu Shining asked.

"It is recommended to support Xuancheng, no matter what, Xuancheng is too important and must not be lost."

Liu Shining pondered for a long time, nodded, he adopted Fan Hong's suggestion, their food and supplies are in Xuancheng, and they must not be lost.

He then said: "Immediately send a pigeon letter to inform Li Feng and Sui'an Zhang Yansheng, asking them to lead the army to retreat to Raozhou!" ”

Raozhou is going southwest, so that it may be possible to bypass the ambush of the enemy army.

Liu Shining ordered his brother Liu Shichao to lead 10,000 new troops to guard Jiangzhou, and he personally led 10,000 elite troops to Xuanzhou.

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Just as the 10,000 troops in Xunyang had just moved south, the spies who had been ambushed in Xunyang County in advance immediately sent the news to Changzhou by pigeon letter.

In the Changzhou military office, Li Bing was discussing their battle plan with Wang Yu, and the entire Xuanzhou situation was planned by Wang Yu, which can be said to be interlocking, and the conspiracy was brought into full play.

In fact, the key reason is that Xuancheng County is too important, Liu Shining does not want to lose Xuancheng and Xuanzhou, not only Xuancheng County has hoarded a large amount of money, food and materials, but more importantly, once the Jin army occupies Xuancheng, it is equivalent to occupying Xuanzhou, and it is easy to cut off the connection between Jiangzhou and Hongzhou and Raozhou, so that Liu Shining is trapped in Guzhou, so Wang Yu believes that Liu Shining will definitely save Xuancheng County.

Li Bing remembered something at this time, and asked a little strangely: "Jiangzhou is bordered by the Yangtze River in the north and Poyang Lake in the south, and the waters are vast, but haven't you heard that they are developing a water army?" ”

Wang Yu said with a smile: "In fact, I know the reason for this matter, not only Liu Qia, Ma Sui did not develop a naval army, both of them were transferred from the Central Plains to fight, after settling on the south bank of the Yangtze River, there were only a few thousand people left in their respective armies, and their focus was on expanding the army, Ma Sui expanded from 4,000 to 20,000, Liu Qia expanded from 5,000 to 35,000, just the monthly military salaries made them sad, and the Southern Tang Dynasty court did not give them a penny, they were even reluctant to maintain the army, where is the money to build warships?" However, Liu Bi has a naval army of thousands of people in his hands, but that is the foundation left by Hun Xuan, and it has nothing to do with Liu Pi. ”

At this time, the soldiers reported at the door, "General Qiyu, there is news from Jiangzhou!" ”

The soldiers came in and presented a pigeon letter, Li Bing unfolded the pigeon letter, and couldn't help laughing: "The strategy of the military advisor is really clever, and it really lured Liu Shining out!" ”