Han Qian asked the Zuo Longqi Army to move out of Shuzhou, even if all the princes in the political hall could realize that this was the general trend, but this matter was extremely involved, and no one wanted to express their position easily, or they still had the intention of delaying time to see if there were any new changes in the situation.

However, the matter soon spread among middle- and lower-level officials and the streets of the city.

Li Zhihe can make good decisions, since he was a child, he grew up in the camp with his father, and since he adopted the Marquis of Xinchang as his adopted son, he has established countless achievements, and also made great contributions to the new emperor's accession to the throne.

Li Zhihe has been in the army for nearly 20 years, and has experienced more than 100 battles of all sizes.

Whether it was presiding over the siege of Jinling City, or leading the forbidden armies to recover Chuzhou and Chaozhou, Li Zhihe had accumulated rich experience in commanding large-scale soldiers and horses.

In addition to the older generation of generals such as Du Chongtao, Zhou Bingwu, and Zhang Ji, among the younger generation of guards and forbidden army generals, Zheng Hui is comparable to Li Zhihe.

However, the eyes of the world are always on the most dazzling one, and other than that, everyone else is scum.

And speaking of light, who can match the light of Qianyang Hou Han Qian?

Although the Marquis of Qianyang is so unlikable and even disgusting, when it comes to his great military exploits, who can compare with him?

The left and right Wuya armies and the right Shenwu army were annihilated in Hongzepu and Zhongli City, and said with a sense of conscience that the responsibility was not Li Zhihe at all, and even Li Zhihe was also involved.

If Emperor Yanyou and Li Pu of Changguo did not have the trap set by Chinese Ruilin, even if the Liang army increased their southern aid to the Shouzhou army in the winter of the previous year, they would still be able to hold Chuzhou, Liyang, Lujiang and other major cities in southwest Huai, and wait until the ice and snow melt in the spring of the next year, continue to consume the strength of the Shouzhou army, and gradually advance the defense line to the north until the negative impact of the Jinling incident on Dachu is completely eliminated.

And this is also the most prudent, and it is also the way to use troops praised by Shen Yang, Yang En and others.

Although Han Qian tried his best to turn the tide several times, he was always on the wrong side of the sword, and he could never be called the right way.

However, the people of the world, even the middle and lower class officials, they are more looking forward to miracles, and only the legend of the sword going off the edge meets the most secret expectations in their hearts.

Before Han Qian won the victory in Wujinling, the atmosphere in Beijing was more friendly to Li Zhihe.

After the news of Wujinling's victory reached Jinling City, among the middle and lower-level officials and the streets and alleys of the market, when discussing the Jianghuai War in the past two years after Emperor Yanyou ascended the throne, it was inevitable that some people would accuse Li Zhihe of hesitating to use troops in Chaozhou at the beginning, and he failed to capture Chaozhou City for most of the year, which was the reason why the left and right Wuya armies and the Right Shenwu Army had to take risks and finally suffered a fiasco.

Although Han Qian deliberately delayed the news of Wujinling's victory for more than ten days, causing Deng Tai to have no reaction at all in Shuzhou, and watched the Tangyi soldiers take over the control of both sides of the Longtan River as soon as possible, isolating the Zuo Longque Army from the Shouzhou Army, but Deng Tai, Li Zhihe, and even Cishou Palace's side could not express the slightest complaint.

After all, when the Tangyi soldiers were alone and fought desperately in Huaiyang Mountain, the Zuo Longque Army did not move at all on the defense line of the Lujiang River!

Could it be that at this time, he could have the face to stand up and complain that the Marquis of Qianyang did not report the news of the victory of Wujinling in time, causing the Zuo Longque Army to miss the opportunity to send troops?

They are not afraid

The star who was sprayed on the face of the world, why should he be embarrassed?

And Han Qian wrote a letter to ask the Zuo Longque Army to move out of Shuzhou, and the vast majority of the streets and alleys in the market, and even the middle and lower-level officials, were supportive, combined with the previous Huaixi Forbidden Army's long-term attack on Chaozhou, which led to the destruction of the main force of the Great Chu Water Division, and some people even denounced the Zuo Longque Army as wasting national funds and eating dry food.

The officials of the Imperial History Observatory heard about the book, not only a letter of enclosure conveyed the middle and lower-level officials and the people of the market, but even the imperial history directly wrote to impeach the Marquis of Xinjin and the generals of the Zuowu Guard Army and the Zuo Longque Army for passive slackness.

It was delayed until late March, and the Chongwen Palace, Cishou Palace, and the princes of the Political Affairs Hall reached an agreement that the Privy Council would transfer the Zuo Longque Army to Suizhou, urging Li Zhihe to strengthen the attack on the upper reaches of the Huai River from the gap in Tongbai Mountain and Huaiyang Mountain.

At this cusp, no one mentioned Li Zhihe's further appointment as the envoy of the festival.

In late March, the reward for the Tangyi army was also handed down.

Han Qian was awarded the title of General of Sanpin Qianniuwei and the secretary of the Ministry of War for his merits, and he also led the Tangyi Xingying to control the envoy, as well as the Xingying Embassy to govern the military and political affairs of Huaixi, and Xu recruited 30,000 soldiers to organize the Tangyi Xingying left and right to control the army, and the envoy was given military resources and salaries according to the standard of 30,000 regular soldiers of the forbidden army.

In addition to a large number of military attache titles ranging from nine to four grades, only more than 9,000 horses of brocade silk, 400 horses of good horses and more than 10,000 pieces of gold and silver money made of palace can be talked about; In addition, the soldiers who died in battle and the disabled were given a pension of 320,000 yuan for military merits, which can be regarded as the largest amount of compensation money paid by the imperial court in recent years.

It is extremely difficult for the imperial court to squeeze out this reward and pension money, but in addition to Han Daoming's insistence, Shen Yang, Yang En and others also advocate squeezing out from between their teeth, after all, only in this way can the generals of the Tangyi army remember that they are the generals of Great Chu and the people of Great Chu.

In April, the change of defense between the Left Shenwu Army and the Right Dragon Bird Army was also completely completed, and Li Zhihe continued to strengthen the offensive in the eastern part of Gwangju and the western part of Huozhou, occupying the important town of Yiyang in Huaishang, forcing Xu Mingzhen to transfer Wen Bo to the west as the main general, so that Wen Bo served as the assassin of Gwangju to resist Li Zhihe's offensive, and let their two old rivals become entangled again.

Under the leadership of Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang, the main force of the Liang army took Weizhou as the center and besieged Zezhou and Luzhou, the important towns in the south of the Jin State.

Xu Mingzhen's second son, Xu Sizhao, finally led his troops to retreat from the north of Chaozhou in late April.

Topographically, Chaozhou City, located on the north shore of Chaohu Lake, is not much south than Anfeng Village and Mopan Valley in the east; At this time, the defensive situation on the eastern flank of Shouzhou did not look much different from that before the Hongzepu Water Battle.

At that time, for the Shouzhou army, it was also the fall of Chuzhou, mainly relying on Chaozhou City to confront the elite of the Chu army, and they were also expelled from crossing the river and the shortage of war materials, and the morale and combat effectiveness of the generals were weaker than those of the Great Chu Forbidden Army.

However, at that time, they defended Chaozhou City, which was also a risky strategy, mainly because they gambled that the young and vigorous Yang Yuanpu would lose patience, and that the mediocre and incompetent Li Pu would not be willing to be taken over by Li Zhihe.

What else can they bet on at this time, and bet that Han Qian will also fall into their trap one day?

Compared with two years ago, at this time, the mountain pass at the northeastern foot of the Huaiyang Mountains fell under the control of the Tangyi army; And Li Zhihe led tens of thousands of elite soldiers and horses to attack the western flank of Shouzhou from the eastern entrance of Tongbai Mountain.

These two Chu army soldiers and horses have super

More than 60,000 soldiers, 40,000 state soldiers or auxiliaries.

Along both sides of the Huai River, Han Yuanqi and Chen Kun's troops were pinned down by Yang Yuanyan's Huaidong Army, and they were only able to mobilize 60,000 regular soldiers and 30,000 garrisons or auxiliaries in the middle and upper reaches of the Huai River, and the total strength was already at a disadvantage.

Not to mention the new defeat, in the foreseeable future, Shouzhou materials will be seriously in short supply again.

Even if they still firmly controlled the four prefectures of Guanghuo Shouhao, after several losses, the total number of registered militia and military households in the four prefectures dropped to about 110,000, and they had to maintain 90,000 soldiers and horses, almost to the extent that each household could raise one soldier.

At the same time, more than half of the elite laborers had to be incorporated into the army, and agricultural production could only rely on the elderly, weak, women and children, and even if the land in the four prefectures of Huo Shouhao alone was vast and fertile, the output of grain and other materials was extremely limited.

Bianjing transferred more than 50,000 stone grains from Yingsong and other southern states every month to help Shouzhou, but Xu Mingzhen could only barely maintain such a large force, and the confrontation with the Tangyi soldiers, especially in the field battle, had extremely high requirements for armor and weapons, and the Shouzhou army was still very difficult.

In this case, they couldn't expect Han Qian to make a low-level mistake, what other choice could they have besides shrinking the defensive line?

In comparison, Yang Yuanyan is the most relaxed in Huaidong.

The main Shouzhou army suffered a crushing defeat at Wujinling, and the situation on the western front was precarious, which made Han Yuanqi and Chen Kun become cautious, and only maintained small-scale raids and harassment operations on a daily basis, which also greatly reduced the military pressure on Huaidong, and even took the opportunity to send troops to occupy Shiliang County during the withdrawal of the Shouzhou army from Chuzhou.

The improvement of the situation, and the fact that the imperial court allocated 50,000 stone grains and grains every month from March onwards to help the victims, allowed Huaidong to speed up the restoration of the cantonment.

Under the impetus of Wang Wenqian, Ruan Yan and others, the Huaidong Army also established a cantonment military government system independent of the center on the basis of the original cantonment system in Chutaiyang and other places, with a total of nearly 90,000 military households, accounting for almost half of the population of Huaidong.

Compared with Chai Jian's inaction when he was stationed on the Wuzhiling defense line, Zheng Hui led the Right Dragon Bird Army to the south, and then Huang Hua and others from Hunan Xingshangshu Province began to plan to clear the remnants of the Ma rebels and recover the two states of Yongchen.

In addition to the four prefectures of Kaichen Siye Xu, when Hunan officially promoted the system of Xingshangshu Province, Ezhou was not included in the traditional meaning of Jingxiang region.

However, Hunan Xingshangshu Province controlled the five prefectures of Shaohenglang, Yuetan, and the local military and political system was thoroughly sorted out in the past five or six years, recording 400,000 households and 2.7 million households, and the amount of land taxes and miscellaneous donations collected was even slightly higher than that of Jiangdong Prefectures.

At present, Jiangdong (including the two Zhejiang), a total of 14 prefectures, the family clan has a large number of slaves and maids, plus the fugitives living in the mountains and forests, a large number of Dingkou are outside the control of the state and county, and there are only more than 400,000 households and 3 million people in the register.

To tell the truth, if it had not been for the relatively thorough combing of the fields and acres of land in Hunan, Hubei, Huangjiangchi, and other prefectures after the war of cutting down the feudal domains, and greatly increasing the revenue of the import centers in these areas, the huge expenses of the Jianghuai War in the past two years might not have been able to support the huge expenses of the Jianghuai war.

It stands to reason that the war on the northern front has not been settled, and it is necessary to allocate money and food to help Huaiyang tide over the difficulties, and it is really difficult for the imperial court to support another large-scale war, but Miao Yong, who defected to Yongzhou in Nantou, had internal strife with Zhao Sheng and Luo Jia......