(Just started school, it was epidemic prevention and control, risk investigation, and civilization creation, as for safety, I was so busy that I didn't even have time to pee.) You know what I mean, but that's all there is to it today. I owe three chapters, and when I'm busy with this paragraph, I'll make up for it when I'm free. Xun Tang has entered the last volume, and he is closing it in, and before it ends, he must make up for the difference. ）

Lewen's judgment is undoubtedly accurate.

But it was a wrong decision for him to lead all his troops out of the city before he could figure out the exact situation in the early days. And this wrong decision finally made him doomed.

Just as he was hurrying back to the county seat, the two thousand elites led by Teng Jian caught up with him. These two thousand men, all of them had horses, and in addition to the cavalry, they were foot soldiers, and there was also a horse that could be used as foot power.

There were more than 1,000 people in Lewen who were caught up, about 300 people were veterans he brought from the Observation Embassy, and the remaining nearly 1,000 people were all strong men recruited from the De'an people, although they had been trained for more than a year, but they had not been on the battlefield, and compared with the group of tigers and wolves under Teng Jian's command who had been in battle for a long time and were fed with silver, they were not at the same level at all.

As soon as the two sides fought, Lewen's department collapsed like an avalanche. It was Lewen who was also killed in the chaos, if it weren't for Teng Jian's lack of heart to chase and kill the remaining deserters, these more than 1,000 people would not be able to escape even one of them.

After defeating the only army of De'an, Teng Jian did not stop, and before the county seat of De'an had received the final message, Pegasus had already arrived at the county seat and completely occupied the city.

Teng Jian did not allow the 2,000 soldiers under his command to participate in any looting operations.

This is also what Liu Xinda means.

A well-disciplined army, once contaminated with this disgusting, is very likely to cause a devastating blow to the troops, so looting and looting have always been the work of Liu Chen's second-line troops, and Teng Jian, the main elite led by Liu Buwu, just take money.

And this money, in the eyes of these soldiers, is the salary given to them by their superiors, the reward given to them, the money they have exchanged for their lives, and every penny is clean.

After Liu Chen's troops entered the county seat of De'an, Teng Jianli led his 2,000 elite soldiers to the next goal.

Naturally, Teng Jian and his soldiers would not see that after they left, the whole of De'an would immediately become a hell on earth, and this relatively rich city would be impoverished in the blink of an eye.

The only thing that has changed is that far fewer people have died.

This is thanks to a sentence that Teng Jian said to Liu Chen when he left.

"Money can be robbed, food can be snatched up, anything of value can be snatched up, but there must be fewer deaths, otherwise the people of the north will not be happy. If they weren't happy, we wouldn't have a good time. ”

Teng Jian said this, maybe it was his guess, maybe it was because he knew that Liu Chen's actions were too much, so he relented for a while and said such a sentence, but this sentence saved countless lives. In the process of looting De'an, as long as he did not resist, he left a life after all.

De'an, Wuning, Xiushui, Tonggu, Yifeng.

Teng Jian's march was fast, almost a day to take a city, after taking Yifeng, Teng Jian's department stopped to repair, and Liu Buwu took the place of Teng Jian's forward at this time and continued to attack.

After Liu Xinda left Jiujiang, the army attacked so fast that even the spies on the Northern Tang side were surprised.

Don't stop, take a place, loot a place, and leave immediately.

And in taking these places, they hardly encountered any decent resistance, and the troops of the Jiangxi Observation Envoys, which were stationed in various places, did not even have a chance to assemble, and were broken by this well-equipped army with a rapid marching speed, and suffered heavy casualties.

When the news reached Hongzhou and Qian Wenzhong's Observation Embassy, Qian Wenzhong was furious.

Liu Xinda simply regarded him as nothing, after the defeat of Eyue, his people were suspected of colluding with the Northern Tang Dynasty, once occupied Jiujiang, if it were not for the direction of the Guangzhou court to persuade him to focus on the overall situation and not to conflict with Liu Xinda, he would have gathered a large army to go to the expedition and take back Jiujiang.

Now, the Guangzhou court's hopes of becoming the first line against the Northern Tang army after Liu Xinda's troops occupied Jiujiang were completely bankrupt. This person is completely a wolf cub who can't be fed, and he is not satisfied with occupying Jiujiang, is it possible that he still wants to occupy Hongzhou, go straight to his own lair, and replace himself?

However, anger is angry, but Qian Wenzhong is still afraid of the combat effectiveness of Liu Xinda's department. Jiangxi Observation made the vast majority of the army with considerable combat literacy have been wiped out by the Northern Tang army in the battle of Eyue with Xiang Zhen, and now the remaining part has become the lifeblood of Qian Wenzhong, which is where he lives and lives, and the other conscripted troops have not been trained for a short time, but the gap between them and the elite of a hundred battles is not a star and a half.

said that he was going to crusade against Liu Xinda, but in the field, Qian Wenzhong really had no confidence.

And as time went by, more and more information came back, which made Qian Wenzhong even more suspicious.

Because Liu Xinda took down these places, he slipped away after looting them, and it was the Northern Tang army that took over these places behind his ass.

"Liu Xinda has definitely surrendered to the Northern Tang Dynasty!" Qian Wenzhong looked at the civil and military people under his command, and he really couldn't hide the panic in his heart. Didn't you say that Beitang wouldn't do it now? Why did you call? Liu Xinda alone, he felt that he could still hold it, but with the addition of the Northern Tang Dynasty, it was not a level at all. "Fu Xuan, what should we do now?"

As Qian Wenzhong's number one henchman, the strategist, Fu Xuan pondered for a moment before saying: "Marshal, the possibility of Liu Xinda surrendering to the Northern Tang Dynasty is not high, we all know very well that the military discipline of the Northern Tang Dynasty army is the strictest, but Liu Xinda is walking one place this time, grabbing one place, and where he passes, it is almost a blank land, this person is more like he is fleeing, and he was forced to escape by the Northern Tang army." However, the people of the Northern Tang Dynasty followed him to pick up ready-made, and from this point of view, they were more like they had reached a tacit understanding. ”

"It doesn't matter if he really surrendered or not, but the consequences, aren't they the same?"

"It's different." Fu Xuan said: "If Liu Xinda really surrenders to the Northern Tang Dynasty, the next step, he is afraid that he will come to fight Hongzhou, if he does not surrender, he will never come to touch a big city like Hongzhou." Because such a big city is enough to make Liu Xinda's head bleed and suffer heavy losses. ”

"Do you mean that Hongzhou will definitely be safe and sound?" Qian Wenzhong asked.

"Not bad!" Fu Xuandao.

"But even so, are we going to sit back and watch him poison the region under our rule? What are we left with? Qian Wen Center made a big decision, but his face was full of sadness.

"Of course not!" Fu Xuan said: "Dashuai, we still have to encircle and suppress." Leaving an elite army to guard Hongzhou City, the rest of the army, divided into several roads, steady and steady, never rash, step by step, gradually narrowing their area of activity, if Liu Xinda was really forced to run by the Tang army, then, he will never have a head-on collision with us, because he can't afford to lose. ”

Qian Wenzhong nodded slightly.

"In addition, we have to ask the Guangzhou Imperial Court for help, asking them to send elite troops to support. Third, send an official letter to Hunan, asking Ding Taiyi to cooperate with us to jointly encircle and eliminate Liu Xinda. Fu Xuan continued.

"Where is Ding Taiyi willing to take millet from the fire for us?" Qian Wenzhong sighed: "When I asked the general to send troops to Eyue together, didn't he also refuse? ”

"If Liu Xinda has a wandering army, then it is not only our Jiangxi that may be threatened, can they be left alone in Hunan?" Fu Xuan sneered: "Once we stabilize our foothold, once Liu Xinda can't succeed easily, he will go to Hunan to find his trouble, at this time, if everyone does not work together to encircle and suppress Liu Xinda, I am afraid that in the future, it will become our henchmen, this point, Dashuai made it clear to the other party, if he is still unmoved, we will have no choice." I can only tie my own fence tightly. Once Liu Xinda is forced to leave Jiangxi, he will never be allowed to have a chance to come back. ”

"Okay, that's it!" Qian Wenzhong nodded again and again. "Hongzhou now has more than 30,000 troops, leaving 10,000 people to guard the state city, and the remaining 20,000 troops with tens of thousands of young and strong people, divided into three roads, to encircle and suppress Liu Xinda."

"Don't fight in waves, don't fight lightly, just force the other party to leave Jiangxi!" Fu Xuan advised: "The three-way army must echo each other, and you must not rush forward and lose each other's support with the other two." ”

Not to mention the full mobilization of Qian Wenzhong here, after more than ten days of assembly and preparation, the army finally began to move slowly, only to say that Liu Xinda's main army, which had been repaired in Yixing for more than ten days, finally dispatched again, but this time, they touched a big city.

Five thousand elites came out and surrounded Yichun, and after using grenades to blow open the gates of Yichun, the army poured into the first Jiangxi city they had captured since they sent their troops.

Here, their harvest far exceeds the sum of their previous gains. After all, with their dispatch, the big families in the vicinity fled into this fortified city one after another to avoid risks, but they didn't want this big city that looked extremely strong, and the city with 3,000 defenders stationed, was still vulnerable in front of the other party.

Yichun was swept away, and countless large and wealthy families were killed and looted.

After taking Yichun, Liu Xinda's department made persistent efforts to attack Pingxiang again, this time, they encountered slightly more decent resistance, Liu Xinda's department was hindered for three whole days before taking it, and the consequence was that after the city was broken, the entire Pingxiang suffered more cruel retaliation.

After taking Pingxiang, Liu Xinda's department paused again.

Next, they are ready to set foot in Hunan. And before entering Hunan, they need to replenish their ordnance again. In the two battles of breaking Yichun and breaking Pingxiang, the grenades purchased from the Northern Tang Dynasty played an important role, especially in the first battle of Pingxiang, because their actions in Yichun were too cruel so that the wealthy gentry who fled to Pingxiang no longer reported the illusion of protection, everyone took out all their family resources to put up desperate resistance to Liu Xinda's department, and finally let Liu Xinda almost consume all the grenades and fierce fire oil bombs before taking Pingxiang.

Liu Xinda is not short of money now, he is very rich now. He now cherishes his thousands of elite troops more than money.

The Northern Tang people were very shameless, the price of their ordnance increased, and a grenade rose by five taels of silver.

However, this is not a problem for Liu Xinda at all, after seeing the power of these weapons, Liu Xinda doesn't care about money at all. As long as you can buy it, and the money, if you don't have it, you can grab it again.

Yichun, Pingxiang was broken, so that Jiangxi observation made Qian Wenzhong almost vomit blood in anger, this time he was more sure that Liu Xinda would not touch Hongzhou, he personally went to the front line, commanded the encirclement and suppression of Liu Xinda's department.

At this time, Ding Taiyi in Hunan also received a letter from Qian Wenzhong.

Everyone understands the truth, and now Liu Xinda is entrenched in Pingxiang, which is only one step away from his territory, but although he understands this truth, it is not so easy to mobilize troops on a large scale. Because at this moment, Shi Zhuang, the general of the Northern Tang Dynasty in Yueyang, moved frequently, and the front-line troops were continuously mobilized, and the general Shi Zhuang and the provincial governor Qian Biao appeared on the front line of the confrontation between the two armies many times.

Facing Shi Zhuang's strong pressure, where did Ding Taiyi have the heart to pay attention to Liu Xinda's mere rogue? He could only order Zhuzhou and other places close to Pingxiang to take strict precautions and resist Liu Xinda's invasion of Hunan. Regarding Qian Wenzhong's plan to jointly encircle and suppress Liu Xinda, he was powerless.

For the Northern Tang Dynasty, this was originally a big plan that spanned two provinces and two guards. In order to cooperate with Liu Xinda, Shi Zhuang's department and Li Yu's department have taken action.

And this is also the reason why the internal guards of the Northern Tang Dynasty unscrupulously increased the price of the ordnance sold to Liu Xinda, does our army need no money to move for you? Are these sold to you now still cheap? The implication is that if Liu Xinda can offer some more money, it will be the most suitable.

The Guangzhou court agreed to Qian Wenzhong's request for help, and an army of 10,000 led by Xiang Jun quickly marched into Jiangxi, and Xiang Zhen, who was still in the camp of Lotus Mountain, after seeing these reports, after a long silence, began to write down the case again, and then these letters flew quietly in all directions.

The situation looks getting more and more dire. His previous judgment was a little wrong, the Northern Tang Dynasty did not have the intention of sending troops on a large scale, but this does not mean that they will not make a move, Liu Xinda, this disaster they planted in advance, at this time finally began to show his great power.

On Xiang Zhen's map, drawing the trajectory of Liu Xinda's actions since he sent his troops, Xiang Zhen can almost judge that Liu Xinda's next target is definitely Zhuzhou in Hunan. And with Zhuzhou's current strength, it is simply impossible to resist Liu Xinda's attack. Jiangxi is in turmoil, and then it will be Hunan's turn to be in turmoil.

The Northern Tang Dynasty barely used a single soldier, and the entire Southern Alliance was about to be in chaos.

And he, now, can't do anything.

This is not going to happen, everything has to change.