Cao Gan arrived in Jinling, has not been ignored, he thought that the Great Chu courtiers deliberately snubbed him, in fact, it was the day he arrived in Jinling by official ship, the Great Chu gathered troops and horses in Shuzhou and other places, and officially launched an offensive against Chaozhou.

Jinling and Chuzhou, Chaozhou across the river, stationed along the south bank of the Yangtze River soldiers and horses are also noisy, the six departments and departments are running at full capacity like a machine, almost everyone's nerves are concerned about the movement of the north bank, who can be idle at this time to take care of the affairs of Shu Chu and the peace discussion?

Drag it on.

Nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses gathered in Shuzhou, and it took nearly half a year before launching an offensive against Chaozhou, which was quite unfavorable to the state of Chu in terms of the overall situation.

A large number of generals and soldiers and civilians stayed in Shuzhou for a long time, and the additional grain and grass consumed during this period was as high as millions of stones.

At this time, the all-out offensive against Chaozhou was chosen, and it was in time for spring plowing and sowing season, and a large number of strong and strong people were in the army, resulting in a lack of sufficient labor force in the cantonment camps and military offices in various places, and spring ploughing was inevitably seriously affected.

Of course, for Dachu, which controls Jiangdong, Jiangxi, Hunan, Jingxiang and other places with a population of more than 12 million, this negative impact can still be bearable.

In comparison, after the rebels of Anning Palace withdrew to Jiangbei, it seemed that the elite soldiers and horses were still maintained at the scale of 100,000, but the supply of grain and straw could only rely on the four prefectures of Shou, Chao, Chu, and Huo, which had been affected by the border war between Liang and Chu for a long time, with a population of only about 600,000 left, and large fields that were uncultivated.

Delayed until the spring of the second year of Yanyou, in order to maintain the necessary supplies for the army, Anning Palace could only loot and exploit in every possible way in the area under its control, and use all kinds of means.

Under the suppression of elite soldiers and horses on such a scale, not to mention the ordinary people, the local family lords have no strength to resist.

A large number of people were powerless to resist, but the grain and even the seeds of spring ploughing were scavenged, and they did not want to starve to death, so they had to leave their homes and flee their places one after another.

Even though it was blocked by the mountains and the defense lines of the two armies to the west, the Huai River to the north, and the Yangtze River to the south, the passage for thousands of people to flee to Huaidong with their children and daughters was unblocked.

This also made the situation of the rebels of Anning Palace on the north bank of the Yangtze River more and more embarrassing.

Attacking Chaozhou, there is no trick to speak of, the Privy Council has drawn up a detailed strategy for using troops as early as half a year ago, and Emperor Yanyou has also discussed it many times when he convenes the princes of the political hall, and now it is mainly implemented according to the strategy.

Also because the destination recovered at this time was only separated from Jinling by a river, it was also very convenient for Emperor Yanyou to directly direct the course of the war through the Privy Council.

The rebels' defense on the southern front was mainly concentrated in Chaozhou; To the east of Chaozhou, Chuzhou, located between Chaozhou and Yangzhou, is empty in defense.

However, considering that Yang Yuanyan, the king of letters, was not trustworthy, even if the rebels' defense in Chuzhou was vacant, the main direction of the Chu army's attack was to choose to launch an offensive from Shuzhou in the west to the east.

Gao Chengyuan led the naval division warships of the Wuya Army, mainly responsible for blocking the waterways of Chaochu and other places into the Yangtze River, and blocking the remnants of the Louchuan Army in Hongze Lake.

Wait until Li Zhihe's more than 70,000 horse infantry troops assembled in Shuzhou, from uprooting the walled cities on the periphery of Chaozhou, and then advancing by land and water, pushing to the city of Chaozhou, uprooting the core stronghold of the rebels on the southern front.

After that, if you take advantage of the situation to recover Chuzhou, you don't have to worry about what kind of demon moth Yang Yuanyan is doing behind his back.

The war has been unfolding for seven days, and everything is going smoothly according to plan in all aspects, but the court does not dare to relax in the slightest.

Han Daoming rushed to the political hall to participate in the deliberations before dawn today, and in the afternoon, he was summoned to the Chongwen Hall to deal with it because of the matter of the household department.

Seeing two carriages parked outside the gate of the mansion, Han Daoming walked into the West Garden, but no one had any guests visiting, and asked the steward of the mansion curiously: "Where else are there guests in the mansion today?" ”

"It's a guest from Xuzhou, bring some gifts to visit the old lady - do you want to summon the guests from Xuzhou to greet him?" The steward replied.

"What do I see these people doing?" Han Daoming's face was gloomy, but there was no way to drive people away.

In the Wuchuan River Valley, the scales compiled by the bandits have fought fiercely with the Shu army, which makes it difficult to question the collusion between Xuzhou and the bandits and the Shu army, but it is not difficult to question, which does not mean that the suspicion in the heart of the palace will be completely eliminated.

Xuzhou has nothing to do and sends people to run around, it's really idle!

Han Daoming was irritable and took the white fungus soup handed over by the maid, took a sip, and felt that it was too hot, "snapped" and threw the porcelain cup on the table, and was about to walk to the study, but saw Han Jun coming out of the inner compartment in a panic, opened his mouth to stop him, and asked: "What are you doing in a panic, you don't have to go to Changchun Palace to be on duty today?" ”

"Daddy, the child is about to go out of the city and go back to Changchun Palace," Han Jun replied with some panic, "Huang Xi and the others took leave to return to the city today, looking for a letter to the Privy Council, thinking that they would be transferred to the Jiangbei battlefield, and the child accompanied them." ”

In the current draft arrangement, with the advancement of the follow-up war, there are still some forbidden troops on the south bank of the Yangtze River who will be transferred to Jiangbei to garrison, but the duty of the guards is to be responsible for the defense of Jinling City and the Imperial Palace.

Some of the young military attachés and generals of the guards and pro-army were enthusiastic and wanted to make war exploits, including Huang Xi, the son of the Hunan Xuanzhi envoy, who repeatedly wrote to request that they be transferred to the Shuzhou army to participate in the war.

Han Daoming said unhappily: "What are you doing with these things?" ”

At present, the Han family, not to mention Xuzhou, he served as the governor of the government and the head of the household department, Han Daoduan served as the waiter of the Ministry of Works, his daughter entered the palace as a concubine, and Han Jun is currently serving as a guard and pro-army, so it can be said that it is impossible to be promoted in the army in a short period of time.

Otherwise, his Han family would be too jealous.

Han Jun hesitated for a while, but thought that if he really wanted to ask to be transferred to the Shuzhou army, his father would definitely resolutely oppose it, so he said: "I also accompanied Huang Ji and them back to the city, but I didn't get involved." ”

"If only you knew it in your heart." Han Daoming waved his hand and motioned for Han Jun to hurry out of the city and return to Changchun Palace to be on duty.

However, watching his son Han Jun walk out of the yard, Han Daoming thought about something wrong, someone from Xuzhou came to see his old father, why did Han Jun think that there was no such thing?

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Han Mansion covers an area of more than 40 acres, a total of more than 10 buildings, Han Wenhuan is old, does not go out much, so he lives in the green bamboo garden next to the back garden, there are six or seven servants, maids waiting for personal servants on weekdays.

At this moment, the servants and maids were all guarding the courtyard, the door of the hall was half hidden, the candle was burning, and several guests from Xuzhou could be seen from the courtyard, all sitting with their backs to the door, talking to the old lady, and their faces could not be seen.

Han Wenhuan's thin old face was wrinkled like the bark of a tree that had been old for a long time, and he was old, only his pupils were still quite energetic to look at Feng Yi, whose face was yellow, his face was slightly hypocritical, and only the outline could be recognized.

After a long while, Han Wenhuan asked hoarsely, "Didn't Han Qian ask you to come to the old man?" ”

"My lord really doesn't want to trouble the old lady, it's Feng Yi who can't bear to see the old people of the Guangde Army being persecuted, and thousands of families have to live in the mountains, but they will be slaughtered by the officers and soldiers as rebels at any time, and he thinks that with the help of Xue Ruogu, this case will be completely turned over, maybe he can really understand this matter." Feng Yi said.

"Your mind is not so simple, I don't bother to ask, I'll do my best in this matter, and you don't have to expect too much - don't say now, what I said earlier is useless." Han Wenhuan said with an old look.

Xue Ruogu was already disliked enough in the Yushitai, and I don't know how many people wanted to kick him to the place.

Besides, after Shen Yang presided over the political affairs hall, he always deliberately avoided officials from serving in his ancestral hometown when selecting officials.

In order to avoid the excessive expansion of the power of the family gate valve in the local area, it is also very normal for someone to propose to transfer Wei Zhen from the Lishui County Commander.

The key is to have someone step up and bring these two things together.

Otherwise, Xue Ruogu would not have been released to Lishui County.

Feng Yu didn't expect the old lady to have any good feelings about him, and when he saw that his goal was achieved, he got up and retired immediately.

Feng Yu pretended to be a visitor from Xuzhou, and when he walked out of the courtyard, he followed others, passed through the deep passage of the Han Mansion, and walked towards the gate of the Han Mansion.

Walking to the gate of the Han Mansion, just as Han Jun came out of it, Feng Yi was shocked, he was also worried that Han Jun would detect something from his demeanor, but he didn't want Han Jun's eyes to glance at this side, so he took two followers to lead the horse out of the mansion gate, and galloped towards Dongcheng.

Seeing Han Jun's preoccupied appearance and having no time to take care of other things, Feng Yi frowned suspiciously, he really didn't know what it was, called the eldest son of the Han Mansion, the senior general of the guard and the pro-army Du Yuhou, and the red man Han Jun in front of the Queen Mother, who was worried like this?

Everything was the same in the Han Mansion, he came to the door at dusk, and he didn't notice anything unusual.

Sitting in the carriage, the more Feng Yi thought about it, the more wrong it became, he opened the curtain of the carriage, and said to a guard who was riding a horse and following the carriage: "Arrange for someone to keep an eye on the eldest prince of Han, it is best to gain his trust, serve him directly, and see what troubles our eldest prince Han has encountered recently, so that he is stingy with the guests who visit the Han Mansion at night and do not take a second look." ”