July 14 of the first year of the Han Dynasty.

Li Xinchen led the army and Pei Zilie, who broke through Wuhu, to meet Gushu under the city.

Chen Shuying, the king of Southern Chen Yuzhang, led the remnants of the army to abandon the city and retreated to the line from Liushan to Putang in the northeast of Gushu, echoing with the Jiang General Divisions in the north, forming the last line of defense to defend the west side of Jiankang Mansion.

Li Xinchen's soldiers entered the county seat of Nanyu Prefecture in Gushu without blood, while Pei Zilie entered the city first and was already waiting for Li Xinchen outside the palace.

"Tuas!" Li Xinchen was a little helpless, "It seems that someone lost." ”

Pei Zilie smiled and said: "Although it was Chen Shuying who blocked the quarry, it made the Chen people in the quarry rock high-spirited. But this is the case, and His Highness should be willing to gamble and lose. ”

"It's okay, anyway, our sons and daughters can't run away." Li Xinchen couldn't help laughing. According to his bet with Pei Zilie, if Pei Zilie wins, Li Xinchen will promise a daughter to the Pei family in the future, and if Li Xinchen wins, it will be a prince who will marry the daughter of the Pei family in the future.

Pei Zilie bowed slightly, skipping the matter: "Chen Shuying is running fast······"

Li Xinchen said lightly: "Gushu is a horse outside the city, Chen Shuying saw the battle situation in Wanling and Wuhu and other places, and naturally knew what the result would be if he continued to stay here, so it was better to retreat quickly." On the contrary, it is Putang to Liushan, the terrain is undulating, and there are swamps, which is a good place to stop us. ”

"In this way, all of Nanyuzhou will fall into our hands," Pei Zilie smiled bitterly, "I can't understand what the Chen people are thinking, so the layers of resistance can only delay time." If a certain person comes to preside over the war, he can't say that he will send soldiers and horses from Jiangnan or even Lingnan to fight us to the death directly. If you win like this, you still have a chance to survive, and if you lose, you can still make a big splash. ”

Li Xinchen looked at the map hanging on the wall and did not speak. The historical Nanchen was obviously also deployed in this way, so Li Xinchen actually didn't feel strange that the Nanchen court would come up with such a strategic arrangement.

The longest time in history to hold the south of the Yangtze River is the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, and the reason why these two dynasties can do it is because with the line from Xiangyang to Jingzhou as the backbone and the Lianghuai as a trap, as long as the enemy can't break through Xiangyang, there is no way to threaten the upper reaches of Jiankang Mansion, and there is no way to go down the river like Li Xinchen. As for the two Huai, it seems to be very close to Jiankang Mansion, but here are all plains, and the river network is dense, easy to attack and difficult to defend, and the army is slow to march.

Especially when the southern naval division had the advantage, in fact, it was difficult to break through the Lianghuai defense line, whether it was Cao Wei's several attacks on the Eastern Wu in the south of the Yangtze River, or the later Jin State and Mongolia from the Lianghuai south, all suffered setbacks without exception, and in the end they could only play a tug of war with the southern dynasty in the long water network.

Therefore, when Li Xinchen took Jingzhou, Nan Chen's national fortunes were actually doomed.

Therefore, Chen Shubao, Jiang Zong, and others could only hold the mentality of preserving their strength and supporting them for a while, believing that as long as they could rely on the defense line to stop the enemy army and make the enemy's casualties reach a certain level, the two sides would naturally be able to negotiate peace.

In fact, not only the Nanchen court, but also Shen Jungao in Lingnan obviously had similar thoughts, but the Nanchen court and Lingnan were obviously fighting their own battles, and it was impossible for both sides to really do their best, so whether it was Shen Jungao's defeat at Yanguan or Chen Shuying's retreat from Putang, it was actually reasonable.

Thinking of the historical Nanchen soldiers and civilians eating pot pulp to welcome the Sui Dynasty army, Li Xinchen felt a little emotional. Obviously, I am treated similarly now. In the final analysis, it is because of the turmoil in the Nanchen Dynasty, coupled with the political system that has not changed, that the people of Nanchen have lost confidence in this dynasty.

It seems that the Nanchen court is constantly suppressing the family and appointing the children of the Hanmen, but it is obvious that the new Hanmen will grow into the family again, and everything will fall into a dead circle. In particular, since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the housewarming system of the state capital has made the local administration extremely chaotic - when Li Xinchen gained a firm foothold in Xiangzhou, he had already found that after more than 20 years of rule by Nanchen, the administrative divisions of Jiangnan and Jingnan were not much better than Bashu, a place that changed hands several times.

Taking the Nanyu Prefecture where Li Xinchen is now based as an example, when the Southern Dynasty was just established, the Southern Yu Prefecture was four times larger than the current Nanyu Prefecture, and the former Nanyu Prefecture extended to the north to the south bank of the Huaishui River, which was actually equivalent to all the Anhui boundaries south of the Huai River in later generations, and the current Nanyu Prefecture corresponds only to the territory of Xuancheng County in the original Southern Yu Prefecture.

However, with the land of Huainan changing hands several times, Nanyu Prefecture has been compressed to the south of the Yangtze River, that is to say, the territory of a county once had the name of a state, and under this state, there are still Xuancheng County and Huainan County (the county governs Gushu, also known as Gushu County, now Dangtu) The setting is equivalent to dividing the original county into two.

This means that the people of one county are now under the management of officials from one state and two counties, but the problem is that after the Hou Jing Rebellion, the people of Jiangnan are poorer and less populous than when the Southern Dynasty was first established, which naturally means an increase in excessive taxes and an increase in official corruption and bribery.

In other words, if the same businessman wants to get convenience in the local business, he used to need to take care of one set of government teams, but now he needs three sets. In addition, the Yuzhang Wangfu sitting in Southern Yuzhou may even be four. In the same way, the government team that set up a name to collect taxes has also changed from one set to three or four, and no matter what class it is, it is natural that it will be miserable.

Moreover, since the beginning of the Southern Dynasties, such a redundant political system has never changed, which naturally makes the government and the opposition eager for change. As for the common people, they also longed for peace, food and clothing, and longed for the rule of Wenjing and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which had become a distant history, and it was obvious that Li Xinchen was more likely to bring them these than Chen Shubao.

"Your Highness, how should we arrange it next?" Pei Zilie said in a deep voice, interrupting Li Xinchen's thoughts.

"The army will rest for two days and continue to advance," Li Xinchen said thoughtfully, "We have come this far, so let's just go to the end." ”

This Gushu City is the Ma'anshan of the later generations, and it is very close to Jiankang Mansion from here, and there is no city in the middle to block it. This reminded Li Xinchen of the jokes of later generations. Nanjing is the provincial capital of Anhui Province.

After all, Jiankang Mansion is Jiankang Mansion, although Nan Chen's rule has been eroded, but it is still the core of Nan Chen's rule, and the Southern Dynasty has been operating for 300 years, so that this stone city is still a first-class city and fortress in the world.

Especially when Nanchen had not yet recovered Huainan, Jiankang Mansion was the first line to resist the northern army, so the Nanchen court made very careful arrangements here.

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