“…… Yuan Pu can know that as a prince, he has the responsibility of guarding the mountains and rivers, and he is very comforted by his father......"

Emperor Tianyou's edict is only a few hundred words, in addition to encouraging the soldiers to use their lives, sealing the third prince Yang Yuanpu and leading the history of the Junzhou assassination, and talking about the relationship between father and son with Yang Yuanpu, he can't write too much content, and the current situation in Jinling and Dachu has to listen to Shen He and Yang En's face-to-face statements.

Before Han Qian sent someone to inform Guo Rong, he had already sent a boat down the river two days in advance to Jinling to meet Xinchang Marquis Li Pu.

Han Qian and Chai Jian also hoped that after Xinchang Hou Li Pu got the news, he would be able to meet the saint in time, so that the Jinling side could be ready to send reinforcements as soon as possible.

However, Jinling still delayed until the end of January to confirm the news that Zhu Yu, the king of Liang Yong, led the elite of Xuanjiadu into Nanyang; At this time, the news of the fall of Yingzhou, Suizhou and other places has also reached Jinling.

In fact, Jinling had a great deal of controversy over how to reinforce Xiangzhou.

The root of this controversy is mainly that the people of Jinling do not have much confidence in whether the third prince Yang Yuanpu can hold Xichuan City and whether Du Chongtao can hold Xiangzhou City.

If Jinling organizes hundreds of thousands of troops to enter the Hanshui Valley, at this time, Xiangzhou City and Xichuan City have fallen one after another, and the reinforcements will face the head-on attack of the main elite of the Liang army.

At the same time, Jinling also had to consider the attitude of Tanzhou in the south and Shu in the west.

But no matter what, even if the third prince is not in Xiangzhou, Jinling will definitely not give up the land of Jingxiang easily, Emperor Tianyou immediately sent the privy deputy envoy Niu Gengru and the young eunuch Shen He of the Inner Service Province, Yang En, the right school office, and Zhao Mingting, the director of the Ministry of Staff, to Jingzhou to ensure that this important town will not fall into the hands of the Liang army.

Jingzhou looks at Tanzhou in the south, Xiangzhou in the north, and rejects the Shu army in the west, and its strategic position on the territory of Chu is not weaker than that of Xiangzhou.

In addition to the local military garrison, Jingzhou also has 10,000 elite garrisons of the Right Armed Forces of the Southern Yaban Camp.

This is also the key reason why Zhu Yu, the king of Liang Yong, led the elite of Xuanjiadu to attack Jingzhou in a hurry to attack Jingzhou after capturing Pingzhou.

Of course, in the face of the menacing Liang army, the general Zhang Qian only guarded the gateway to the north of Jingzhou, and did not dare to rashly send troops north, because he was afraid that Jingzhou would lose.

If Jingzhou loses, the Great Chu will lose its foothold on the west bank of the Han River, and after the Liang army and Tanzhou face each other across the river, once they secretly make peace, the situation will become even worse.

After the privy deputy envoy Niu Gengru arrived in Jingzhou, he stabilized the panicked hearts of the people in Jingzhou and fought an outpost for Jinling's reinforcements to march westward, and after Shen He arrived in Jingzhou, he changed into civilian clothes and carried his will to trek through mountains and rivers to Xichuan City, which was a direct order of Emperor Tianyou.

Du Chongtao, as a general of the same level as Zhang Peng, has made great contributions to the Great Chu Dynasty, and his experience is also quite old, and he also has a small family in Jinling, and the elite of the Zuowu Guards is available, whether it is Du Chongtao or the generals of the Zuowu Guards under him, his loyalty to Emperor Tianyou has also been tested.

Before the grain and grass were cut off, Jinling still had some confidence in Du Chongtao to hold Xiangzhou City, but even if Du Chongtao could hold Xiangzhou City, whether Xichuan City could be held or not, and how Jinling's reinforcements entered the Hanshui Valley, there was a great difference.

To be able to hold Xichuan City, not only can the Liang army's soldiers, horses, grain and grass in Guanzhong not be transported into Jingxiang through the Danjiang River, but also a considerable number of Liang army elites will inevitably be able to contain a considerable number of Liang army elites from the flank. Otherwise, the flanks of the Liang army's line from Fangcheng to Fancheng would be exposed to the prying eyes of the Xichuan defenders.

Maybe the city guarded by the Liang army on this line is not afraid of Xichuan soldiers and horses, but its grain and grass must be continuously transported from Xuzhou in the rear to Fancheng, and how many soldiers and horses must be sent to protect it, so as not to be afraid of sneak attacks?

It's just that the third prince Yang Yuanpu resolutely sat in Xichuan and vowed to lead the Dragon Bird Army to strangle the Danjiang Channel, but no matter how the Xinchang Marquis Li Pu Shi Concubine said, there were few people in Jinling City who felt that the Three Princes and the Dragon Bird Army that had been recruited and infected with the hungry people had the possibility of resisting the Tiger Wolf Liang Army to hold Xichuan.

After Emperor Tianyou ordered Shen He to arrive in Jingzhou, he rushed directly to Xichuan, just to confirm the state of the Xichuan defenders and how likely it was to hold Xichuan.

All these will directly determine how the specific reinforcement operations will be deployed after the Jinling soldiers and horses arrive in Jingxiang.

Although Yang En did not have the opportunity to directly lead the army in the early years, for so many years, Emperor Tianyou conquered the southern and northern wars, and Yang En presided over the construction of major cities and the supervision of war weapons.

From the bottom of his heart, Emperor Tianyou also longed for Xichuan City to be able to defend, in addition to saving the life of the third prince Yang Yuanpu, holding Xichuan City could also make the Jingxiang war much easier.

Emperor Tianyou instructed Yang En to go with Shen He and take great risks to enter Xichuan, hoping that Yang En would be able to make a big contribution when assisting the three princes to defend Xichuan City.

Shen He was worried all the way that they had lost when they arrived at Xichuan, and their trip to the north became a self-imposed net, but they didn't expect to rush to Xichuan, not only did the city not only lose, but also the remnants of the city, the defenders, and even the heroic situation of the third prince Yang Yuanpu himself, were much better than they guessed when they set off.

Even though Yang Yuanpu had sent people back to Jinling many times before this to state the progress and situation of the war from Xichuan to Jingzikou, Shen He had personally seen the secret twists of Yang Yuanpu and Shen Yang and others before the imperial case, but he still didn't believe that the three princes could control such a complex and bad situation.

He even thought that after the Third Prince, Shen Yang and others were trapped in Xichuan, they did not hesitate to exaggerate in the song, just so that the Jinling reinforcements could enter Jingxiang and fight against the main force of the Liang army as soon as possible, so that they could get out of the siege themselves.

However, if this is the case, the Jinling reinforcements misjudged the defensive situation of Xichuan and rushed into Jingxiang, which may be an adventure that directly threatens the survival of Great Chu.

Now seeing that the three princes and Shen Yang and others are all truthfully reflecting the situation on Xichuan's side, Shen He breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and at the same time secretly shocked, he didn't know how they did this.

After all, in the note sent to Jinling, the scheming behind it will not be clearly written.

In front of Shen He and Yang En, Yang Yuanpu and Han Qian would never admit that they had already known that King Liang Yong was in Wancheng before they went west.

However, after hearing that the three princes marched westward, they first killed Xia Zhen, and Zheng Hui's troops scraped and divided the Yingzhou state soldiers, stabilized the hearts of the Xichuan army, and then surrounded the cottage soldiers, decisively abandoned Canglang City and Iron Crocodile Ridge, and concentrated the men and materials in Jingzikou and Xichuan, Shen He and Yang En both took a long breath and couldn't help but praise:

"Thanks to His Highness's wise decision, this last chance to win was reserved for the Jingxiang battle."

Although Shen He and Yang En also knew that without the assistance and advice of Shen Yang and others, the three princes would not have been able to achieve this step, but they could not deny that Xichuan had not been lost, the situation in Jingxiang had not deteriorated to the point of despair, and the determination and courage of the three princes also played a vital role.

Shen He was shocked for a while, and then looked at the three princes at this time, and had to admit that the three princes were still young, but compared to when they parted from Jinling, their bearing was more calm, and they looked more heroic, and they thought to themselves, could it be that this is really the dragon kind of temperament that His Majesty is looking forward to and that Anning Palace can't suppress with all his efforts?

"The eastern provinces of the Han Dynasty are all lost, only Xichuan and Jingzikou are as stable as a rock, which is the screen of Xiangzhou, making it difficult for the Liang army to drive straight in, in addition to His Royal Highness, all the generals are also meritorious in guarding the palace. Due to the dangers of the road, the reward of money, food, beauty and jade is difficult to come by for a while, but His Majesty also ordered the two of us to carry more than 100 blanks this time, and His Royal Highness will decide who will be rewarded. Shen He untied another package he was carrying with him and handed it to the third prince.

He and Yang En came over this time, in addition to the official decision of Emperor Tianyou to establish a new Junzhou, so that the three princes could also lead the Junzhou Assassin History, but also brought a large stack of blank letters of the commanders and ministers, so that the three princes could inspire the morale of the generals and defend the two strategic places of Xichuan and Jingzikou.

Although the three princes and Shen Yang's recitals have asked for credit for Li Zhihe, Han Qian, Zhou Yi and even Yang Qin, Tian Cheng and others, the most elite scouts will take a month to go back and forth between Xichuan and Jinling at this time, and Jinling will not be able to grasp the development of the situation in Xichuan in time, and I don't know who is still alive after the book is made to Xichuan.

To motivate morale, it is natural to motivate the living generals first, and the rewards for the dead generals can only be carried out after the war, so they simply brought blank books by Shen He and Yang En, and the three princes filled them out directly here, and then the Privy Council, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Officials will be posthumously recognized.

Yang Yuanpu also needs these confessions.

Li Zhihe, Zheng Hui, Guo Liang and others are all Great Chu generals, and if they can hold Xichuan, they are not worried that they will lose their rewards. And even if they die in battle, their children will enjoy the grace, but Yang Yuanpu needs some substantial rewards at this time to settle the hearts of Zhou Yi and other cottage leaders.

The situation in Xichuan and Jingzikou has not deteriorated further, except for Zhou Yi and others who led nearly 2,000 soldiers and more than 3,000 people to directly participate in the defense of the city, and more importantly, the mountains and mountains west of the Danjiang and Xichuan rivers to Jingzikou are all the spheres of influence of the cottages, which makes the generals who defend the city, from the psychological level, believe that Xichuan and Jingzikou still have a fairly open and deep hinterland at this time, and they have not completely fallen into the desperate situation of being besieged and isolated by the Liang army.

Although there is not much direct assistance that the cottage can provide for the time being, from a psychological level, it is difficult to estimate the role of stabilizing the morale of the military.

On the other hand, the Liang army scouts could not penetrate into the mountains west of the Xichuan River and the Danjiang River, and Han Qian and Yang Yuanpu could grasp the development of the peripheral situation at any time in Xichuan City, which also made Shen He, Yang En and others come over without danger.

At the same time, Yang Qin led the warship back and forth between Jingzikou and Xichuan, and did not have to worry about being blocked and attacked by the Liang army, and even dared to break through the blockade of the Liang army in the Iron Crocodile Ridge, and sailed the ship to the front line of Canglang City to spy on the deployment of the Liang army on the front line of Heilong Mountain.