Yang Yuanpu had his insistence, and he delayed for three days without convening the courtiers to discuss Han Qian's recital, but the imperial court had its own operating system.

Chen Zhiyong came to visit, but Feng Yi and Guo Rong crossed the river this time, in addition to presenting a note on behalf of Han Qian, they would also negotiate with the Privy Council, the Du Branch Division and other departments according to the normal procedures, and would not rush back to Tangyi to meet Han Qian and Zhou Yi for the time being.

Therefore, Han Daoming and Han Daochang's inner anxiety has not been alleviated in the slightest in the past few days, and they can't guess Han Qian's inner opinion of the Han family; And the old man was angry, and no one saw him, let alone cross the river to see Han Qian in person.

Han Daoming and Han Daochang could only pay attention to Feng Yi and Guo Rong's negotiations with the hospital department first.

Regardless of whether or not the defense of the first line from the Great Thorn Mountain and Chuhe River to Tangyi was finally handed over to Han Qian, as long as the Empress Dowager's edict was deemed valid, the Xuzhou Water Battalion, as the Qinwang soldiers and horses, would have to cooperate with the necessary cooperation in the food and military merits of the generals, the repair of the damage of the armor and ordnance warships, the construction of the camp, the transfer of mules and horses, and the transfer of strong people.

Of course, after the main force of the naval division was destroyed at Hongzepo, the imperial court also took into account the unfavorable situation of storming Chaozhou Castle, and also made further requisitions in Kingi prefectures such as Gyeonggi, Seonhuchi, and Surunchanghu, and at this time there were also a large number of mules and horses, grain, village soldiers and people, and hundreds of merchant ships and fishing boats that were intended to be re-used to form the naval division.

Among them, there were 60 ships of supplies, more than 3,000 people, and more than 1,000 horse infantry requisitioned by Guangde Prefecture and personally escorted by Chen Jingzhou, the governor of Guangde Prefecture.

This part of the people and materials was originally planned to be transferred to Chaozhou Daying through Tangyi.

In the past, there was nothing, and the imperial court also preferred an experienced figure like Chen Jingzhou, who could personally lead reinforcements into the front line.

However, after the Xuzhou Shuiying advanced eastward, especially under the leadership of Han Qian, and rushed to Tangyi to join Zhou Yi, who led the Jiangzhou soldiers to come over for reinforcements, many things became sensitive.

The matter of negotiation, the Privy Council can also drag it out, and in the end I still want to see what the emperor and the queen mother mean.

At present, most of the people who can be requisitioned from Guangde Mansion are actually the old department of the Zuo Guangde Army, can you ask this batch of people and materials to be transported to Tangyi, Feng Yi and Guo Rong They went to Changchun Palace for a few days in a row to ask for peace, and actually negotiated with Lu Qingxia and Yao Xishui.

When Emperor Yanyou was delaying, the edict issued by the Queen Mother from Changchun Palace could also legally determine the whereabouts of this group of people and materials.

It didn't take long for things to get going.

On December 16, the news that 20,000 infantry of the Liang army had entered Zhongli reached Jinling, and at this time, 40,000 Shouzhou troops had arrived in Chaozhou from Huozhou and Shouzhou, increasing the garrison of Chaozhou to 60,000, and Zhongli's 40,000 cavalry infantry could move south at any time, and the situation west of Hangou became tense again.

At this time, it was also confirmed that from the direction of Songzhou, Chenzhou, and Yingzhou, the people, mules and horses requisitioned by the Liang State were transporting a large amount of grain and materials southward, and the team stretched for more than ten miles.

And the hinterland of the Liang State also rushed to officially post the emperor's list in these days, publicly canonizing Xu Mingzhen as Huo Guogong, canonizing the emperor's grandson Yang Fen as the Duke of Chu, canonizing Zhu Gengru, Wen Duqiao and others as marquis, and Xu led more than 100 children of the Yang clan to move to Bianjing.

Many people know in their hearts that in the past year, the soldiers and horses of the Shouzhou Army have been pressed and beaten by the forbidden army of the Northern Army, and it is not that their combat effectiveness is not strong.

The Shouzhou Army led by Xu Mingzhen had confronted the Liang Army in the middle and upper reaches of the Huai River for more than ten years, how could its combat effectiveness be weak?

How could the forbidden army and guard the pro-army used by Emperor Tianyou to defend the imperial capital be weak?

The weakness of the rebels, in addition to being defeated by King Yang Yuanyan at the beginning, on the one hand, was the confusion of the military spirit caused by the Jinling Incident, and another important reason was that it was in a shortage of materials since the Jinling Incident.

As the rebels of the Anning Army fled across the river to the north, the problem of material shortage became more prominent and acute.

And even so, the battalions of soldiers and horses attacked Jinling City and Li Zhihe led the Huaixi Forbidden Army to besiege Chaozhou City, but they failed to get much bargain.

When Shouzhou was extremely short of supplies, the forbidden army on the north bank could attack with their hands and feet, but even if the main force of the Liang army turned to attack Chuzhou, the situation in Huaixi can be said to be completely reversed.

On the one hand, the main force of the imperial court's naval division was destroyed in Hongzepu, and the Youshenwu army, which had only a few mobile horse infantry and cavalry, was almost wiped out, and the strength of the forbidden army of Great Chu on the north bank had been seriously weakened.

Purely in terms of the number of soldiers and horses, including the generals of the Hanshui Division, nearly 120,000 men and horses were gathered on the north bank before the war, but except for the remnants of the defeated generals who were not gathered in Tangyi, Li Zhihe led the retreat to the southeast foot of Qianshan from the city of Chaozhou, only more than 60,000 people.

After the Shouzhou army was replenished with sufficient supplies, its combat effectiveness would soon be improved, and 20,000 Liang troops would be reinforced, and its total strength in Huaixi would also increase to 140,000.

It is difficult for anyone to imagine how severe the defense situation of Gyeonggi would be if the enemy army fell to Tangyi, Dazhushan Mountain, and Chuhe River, and the warships of the remnants of the Louchuan Army could directly enter and exit the Yangtze River from these areas.

Although there are still 60,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Gyeonggi on the south bank of the left and right guards and two forbidden armies, these soldiers and horses are still drawn from the Zhuzhou soldiers after Yang Yuanpu ascended the throne and hastily formed.

No matter what kind of speculation and suspicion there is, you can't smash the pot first.

No matter how big and deep the prejudice of the family patriarch is against Han Qian, he has to admit that Han Qian is the most likely candidate to turn the tide.

Although Du Chongtao and Zhou Bingwu were both famous generals of Great Chu, they had no reliable descendants to use, and they did not dare to say that they could cross the river to the north bank to replace Han Qian.

After Shen Yang, Yang Zhitang, Zheng Yu, Han Daoming, Du Chongtao, Zhou Bingwu and other ministers of political participation repeatedly wrote to request, Yang Yuanpu finally ordered the establishment of the Tangyi camp in the evening of the 18th, and appointed Han Qian, Marquis of Qianyang, as the head of the camp and the commander, and added the rank of squire of the military department, and was fully responsible for the construction of a 100-mile-long defense line in Tangyi, Dazhushan, Chuhe and other places, as well as responsible for the operation of a theater about 300 miles deep between Fucha Mountain on the east bank of Chaohu Lake and Yangzhou's west flank of Yangzhou.

At the same time, it was also agreed that Han Qian would summon the old troops of Zuo Guang's German army and the displaced people to be brave, and the new infantry battalion would assist Tangyi and other cities, and Chen Jingzhou led the first batch of men and horses to rush to Tangyi to listen to the use, and the money and armor of the Tangyi camp, as well as the loss of war weapons, and the construction of the camp, were temporarily allocated by the Du Zhi Envoy according to the number of 20,000 soldiers, and 100,000 yuan was drawn out according to the precedents......

The holy decree was immediately conveyed by Zhou Bingwu, the privy deputy envoy, and Jiang Shu, the young eunuch of the Inner Servant Province, who crossed the river to Tangyi.

It is not known how the situation in Huaixi will develop, but the return of Qianyang Hou Han Qian to the center is a foregone conclusion.

On the 21st, Han Daoming asked the labor army to join Han Daochang, Han Jun, Han Duan, Chen Zhiyong and other Han people, and after meeting Feng Yi, who stayed on the south bank to supervise the transportation of grain and grass materials, they crossed the river by boat to Tangyi to meet Han Qian.

Tangyi is less than 40 miles away from Jinling City in the north, when it is sunny, standing on the north wall of Jinling City, you can vaguely see the wall of Tangyi City on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

At this time, there are only ten days left before the New Year's Festival, and the weather is also the coldest time of the year, and the water level of the Yangtze River drops to the lowest.

The Yangtze River section in the north of Jinling City is only 112 miles wide.

However, from the north bank of the Yangtze River to Tangyi City, there are still shallow depressions of nearly 30 miles, and the traces of river erosion can still be seen in these areas, and there are sedimentary silt everywhere, and the streams and rivers meandering in these shallow depressions, and there are also many lakes and ponds.

Every summer and autumn, when the river rises, these areas are almost inundated, and the river even spreads directly to the city of Tangyi.

Sometimes the floods in the upper reaches of the city are particularly severe, and the land north of Tangyi City will be submerged in a vast ocean.

This particularity makes even if there are streams and rivers flowing into the Yangtze River on the periphery of Tangyi City, the riverbed is also silted up to a very shallow level.

Even the Chuhe River, the main stream in Chuzhou, stretches for more than 500 miles, and the river channel is 350 miles long downstream, which seems to be 3 or 400 zhang wide, but the water level is only three or four feet deep in winter.

The main warships of the Xuzhou Water Camp had a draft of seven or eight feet deep, and they couldn't even enter the Chuhe River, and there was no way to reach Tangyi City directly through other streams and rivers.

Han Daoming and the others crossed the river by boat with Feng Yi, and saw that there were four rows of war ships that had just arrived in the center of the river and anchored directly in the surging waves, completely unafraid of the impact of the river waves, and hundreds of small paddle boats gathered from the north, as if to transfer the materials and generals on these four rows of war ships to Tangyi City.

Seeing this scene, Han Daoming thought to himself that it was no wonder that Han Qian insisted on expanding the defense line on the north bank to the Great Thorn Mountain, which was more than forty miles to the west.

Han Daoming may not be a famous minister or general in Dachu, but he also knows the mountains and rivers near Chizhou and Gyeonggi well.

The north of the Great Thorn Mountain is pillowed by the Chuhe River, and the south is dependent on the Great River, especially the southern side of the mountain intrudes into the Yangtze River, so that there are several natural bays on the south side with extremely deep drafts, which can be used as a water camp to accommodate large warships.

It was obvious that Han Qian wanted to set up a naval army in Dazhushan on the north bank to ensure that the combat strength of the only naval army in Jianghuai would always be under his control, rather than setting up the naval army in a place on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

At this time, there is a canopy boat from the direction of the mouth of the Chuhe River into the Yangtze River, the canopy boat is not big, and it is shaken by the waves in the Yangtze River.

The ships on the Yangtze River, no matter how big or small, are all in a team of three or five, hoisting the battle flag of the Xuzhou water camp, only this canopy boat crossed the river alone, there were dozens of generals on the boat, but they did not hang any flags, but the Xuzhou warning boat on the river did not go over to intercept.

"Who's on that ship?" Han Daoming asked Feng Yi curiously.

Feng Yi has stayed on the south bank for the past few days, and in addition to the necessary information will be reported, it is impossible to know everything about the situation on the north bank.

They were sailing in the opposite direction, and soon saw the ship approaching, Feng Yi stood at the bow and was about to open his mouth to ask, when he heard a mournful cry from the other cabin: "The general has swallowed his breath!" ”