In the depths of the Hanging Ridge, there is an ancient plank road built in the Spring and Autumn Period, which connects Huzhou and Runzhou by land.

Although the shipbuilding in the Jianghuai region has improved rapidly since the previous dynasty, the water of Taihu Lake is ethereal, and it is difficult for small boats to withstand the wind and waves, so that this ancient plank road in the depths of the Hanging Ridge is still an extremely important land transportation key for the connection between the two states of Hurun.

Sitiandun seems to be occluded, but it is located on the side of the ancient plank road, and the commercial port has flourished since the previous dynasty, and the people are luxuriant.

However, after the Chuzhou army crossed the river to control Runzhou, Huzhou Thorn Shi Huanghua sent troops to block the south entrance of the ancient plank road out of the Hanging Foot Ridge, but he did not think of sending troops and horses to enter the Sitian dun.

The defense of Sitiandun is mainly responsible for the collection of family soldiers and the soldiers of the left and right villages of the Xu clan, who have long occupied the posts of the elderly and the villagers.

No matter how elite the Xujiaji soldiers who were cut off from the periphery, and how strong the Xujiaji walled city was, it was only reflected in the obvious advantages in preventing and defending against bandits, but in the face of the Qiuhu army, which had young brave generals like Li Qian and the Qiuhu army that had been trained by the county king's mansion for many years, it was very insufficient.

The Wei family and other families have fallen to this point, and at this time, they also gave up the scruples at both ends of the first rat and some other careful thoughts, in order to gain a foothold in Sitiandun, Wei Huang and other disciples were far more active in attacking the Xu family Jizhai than when they were defending Lishui City more than half a month ago and fighting a contact battle with the infiltrated Nanya Forbidden Army.

Xujiaji Village was built on a low mountain, and the terrain of this low mountain was relatively stable, so that the Qiuhu Army did not need to build climbing vehicles and ladders, as long as they climbed the low mountain in the north, they could directly attack the walled wall in the north.

Wei Huang, Tian Wenzhong and other Lishui family sons led the troops to attack first, as tired as possible to the defenders, the defenders felt good, and even two hundred defenders out of the north wall, wanting to drive the Qiuhu army from the low mountain in the north, at this time Li Qian led the county palace to kill bravely from the side front, and killed none of the two hundred defenders who went out of the north wall to fight a counterattack on the low mountain.

The defenders' will to resist also collapsed at this time, opened the gate of the wall, and chose to surrender......

The Chuzhou army may be aware of the contradiction between Han Qian and Li Pu, but the Huzhou Thorn Shi Huanghua is not clear, and he does not dare to take this risk.

The Qiuhu army occupies Sitiandun, and there are more than 4,000 soldiers and horses in the surrender of the rebels, and once they are killed from the south entrance of the ancient plank road of Jiaojiaoling, they will be directly inserted between Jiudu Mountain and Changxing City, and threaten the 5,000 Huzhou soldiers of Jiudu Mountain and Xianshan Lake from the flank.

Seeing the loss of Sitiandun, the Huanghua army of Huzhou did not dare to let the five thousand soldiers and horses bear the risk of being attacked left and right and the back road cut off, and saw that the Sitiandun was lost, and without waiting for the Qiuhu army to kill from the south entrance of the ancient plank road, he couldn't wait to transfer Huang Tianxing's headquarters back to Changxing County.

Gao Shao effortlessly led his troops to control the area of Jiudu Mountain-Xianshan Lake......

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Wang Wenqian stood on the back of the dragon at the northern foot of Maoshan Mountain, and after more than half a month, he could still see the wolf in the camp at the foot of the mountain, empty, who would have imagined that half a month ago, this was still the main village of the Chishan Army located at the northeast foot of Maoshan Mountain.

In the end, Han Qian still led his troops to the southeast.

Of course, if Han Qian really led the Chishan Army and two or three hundred thousand old and weak women and children to directly enter Huzhou, Wang Wenqian would not be so worried - if the Chishan Army and the state soldiers in Huhang and other places won or lost, they would have already separated the victory from the Anning Palace.

The key is that Han Qian dismantled so many women and children into pieces and evacuated them into Fuyu Mountain, while Han Qian led the main force of the Chishan Army to retreat between Fuyu Mountain and Jieling, seemingly withdrawing, but it was only more than 100 miles away from Maoshan Mountain, and there was a possibility of killing back from the southern foot of Jieling Mountain at any time.

Jieling Mountain stretches for more than 100 miles from east to west, is located in the south of Runzhou, is the division of Runzhou and Xuanzhou, the mountain is not comparable with Fuyu Mountain and Yishan, especially there are large and small gaps on the west side, which can make the Chishan army infiltrate, which means that the garrison of the Chuzhou army in Liyang and Yangyang counties needs to be divided into more cottages located at the pass in order to form a complete defense line.

Of course, the soldiers and horses of the Chuzhou army on the south bank have expanded to 100,000 people, and the number of troops is relatively sufficient, and the problem of distributing more than 35,000 troops is not serious, and the more critical problem is that the situation in the south of the Yangtze River was fragmented and confusing by Han Qian, which made Wang Wenqian feel sad and confused, and he could no longer see what Han Qian's next intention would be.

"The Chishan Army has limited grain in its hands, and I also think that Han Qian's next step should be to open a gap in Huzhou and win more living space for the Chishan Army between Huzhou and Hangzhou......," Yin Peng stood beside Wang Wenqian and said his judgment.

"Not necessarily! To the west of Liyang and the two counties of Lishui and Pingling, the grain is empty, and no one can raise grain, Han Qian led the elite main force of the Chishan Army to fight back from the western foot of Jieling Mountain, and it is unlikely. Even if he really comes back, we can deal with it, after all, the pressure on the Anning Palace will be even greater at that time. This is no different from our original intention of blockading the Red Mountain Army on the western flank. However, whether the Chishan Army will attack Xuanzhou or not, it is impossible to speculate on Han Qian with common sense, let alone presumptively conclude that the main force of the Chishan Army will definitely enter Huzhou! Wang Wenqian frowned, shook his head and said.

"Before His Highness and Anning Palace distinguish the winners and losers, it is obviously impossible for Gu Zhilong to go to Yueyang, which is thousands of miles away; And Han Qian's destruction of the family's gate lord's foundation in the local area actually cut off the connections and influence of the Han and Feng families in Xuanzhou, so that Gu Zhilong could better control the local forces - Xuanzhou is narrow and strong, and the strong attack can win a disastrous victory, and there is not much grain in stock, why did Han Qian gnaw on this hard bone? No matter how Yin Peng looked at it, he believed that even if the Chishan Army did not attack Changxing and other big cities in Huzhou in the next step, it would divide its troops to infiltrate Huhang at the eastern foot of Fuyu Mountain.

As long as the Chishan Army can raise enough grain in Huhang, the time is actually on the Chishan Army's side.

On the one hand, they were worried that Xu Mingzhen, who had stayed on the north bank of the river at this time, would bypass Hongze Lake to launch a large-scale offensive against Chuzhou and Yangzhou, and on the other hand, they were also worried that after the situation of the Liang State stabilized, the Liang army might move south to attack Shouzhou or Chuzhou at any time.

In addition, in addition to the increasingly tight food stocks in the hands of the Chishan army, except that Han Qian sent Zhang Ping and Feng Yi to Langxi City to make peace and compromise, after the Chishan army occupied the remnants of Guangde, it did not rebuild the city wall and consolidate the city defense, which also showed that Han Qian did not want to waste the extremely scarce resources at the northern foot of Fuyu Mountain.

Seeing that Yin Peng was not vigilant enough against the Chishan Army, Wang Wenqian sighed in his heart, knowing that it would be more difficult to convince His Highness and Rao Geng, Ruan Yan and others, but then again, even if they were vigilant enough against the Chishan Army, what could they do in the current situation?

Send more soldiers and horses to the southern front?

Even if Han Qian was forced to give up his intention to plot against Xuanzhou and honestly advance to Huhang and other states east of Fuyu Mountain, all this would have any other benefits for the Chuzhou army except for a slight delay?

In the final analysis, they can only hope that the Xuanzhou soldiers and Huzhou soldiers can perform better at this time, and they can curb the current expansion trend of the Chishan Army.

Han Qian was so good at taking care of the proportions that the Chuzhou army couldn't make up his mind now at this time, let go of the Anning Palace, and aimed the main spearhead at the Chishan army.

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In Yueyang at the beginning of July, the sultry weather was drenched by a torrential rain, and the hearts of the people who were restless because of the heat also calmed down, watching the eaves tick and the raindrops hanging down, and the distant mountains were green, revealing the light and green green.

In addition to the croaking toad frogs, the restless cicadas also rested after the rain.

Qingyang rolled up his silk sleeves, revealing an inch of snow jade carved arms, holding a flower-like and moon-like face, staring at the distance of the courtyard, a pair of smart and beautiful eyes seemed to be a deep and clear spring.

A letter brought from Yuzhou was being opened and spread out on the bookcase.

A few days ago, the soldiers and horses of Yuzhou finally captured a very important Linjiang fortified village in Banan, which also meant that her eldest brother Wang Yong had made key progress in the strategy of Baan, at the behest of his father.

It is very likely that after the autumn of this year, the Qianjiang waterway will be opened, and then Yuzhou will not only be able to open up the liaison with the central Guizhou region, but will also cut off the source of private salt for the southern Sichuan bureaucrats, curb the expansion of the power of the southern Sichuan bureaucrats, and lay the foundation for fundamentally solving the problem of the southern Sichuan bureaucrats.

In this process, the warships and weapons built in Xuzhou played a great role, and the shuttle-shaped boats of the Wu people were vulnerable in front of the Xuzhou warships.

The shipyard in Yuzhou also tried to imitate a new warship in June.

These are all great news, but Qingyang is somewhat absent-minded, his beautiful eyes as deep as a spiritual spring stared at the direction of the Carrier Palace, and when he saw Du Qiniang coming over, he asked, "Your Excellency is in the Carrier Palace, what can you discuss?" ”

"Your Excellency hasn't left the Carrier Hall yet, so no news will come out so quickly." Du Qiniang said, and also looked at the direction of the carrier hall quite tangled.

In mid-May, the news that Han Qian had recruited slaves and maids into the army in Jinling and made a covenant to grant land reached Yueyang, which caused an uproar in Yueyang.

Although too many people, including the concubine, the descendants of the Marquis of Xinchang Mansion who stayed in Yueyang, the Zheng family, the Zhang family, and even Han Qian's two uncles, Han Daoming and Han Daochang, too many people strongly opposed Han Qian's move to be the enemy of the family gatekeepers, and some even advocated drawing a clear line with Han Qian, but Shen Yang, Xue Ruogu, and Zhou Yi, Chen Jingzhou and others, who were born in the cottage forces, more or less thought that the Chishan Army wanted to survive in such a difficult and sinister environment with enemies all around, and even wanted to further open up the situation. Conscripting slaves and maids to expand the army was an expedient measure of last resort.

Of course, the general will not be granted the king's order, and more people will see that no matter how controversial Yueyang is, there is no effective way to save the Chishan army in Jinling for the time being.

Under the dispute, Yue Yang only did not express his position in the end, but under the opposition of Zheng Yu, Zheng Chang and others, he did not give additional support to the Chishan Army for the time being.

More people probably still have a wait-and-see attitude, thinking that Han Qian will not hesitate to make enemies with the family gate valve and recruit the rabble who are useless, and finally suffer a lot under the strong resistance of the Jiangdong family door valve.

Han Qian then mainly transferred manpower and some scarce resources from Xuzhou, or transferred ships and boatmen from Xuzhou, and ventured into Jinling through the waterway blockade of Jiangchi and Chizhou to make up for the lack of the Chishan army.

The Chishan army took Shangjiabao, proving that recruiting slaves and maids into the army was not so unbearable, and many people's attitudes had a more or less subtle change, but it was not obvious.

At that time, what was even more exciting was that Li Xiu and Li Qi led the brave guards of the palace of Zhedong County to Jinling to meet Li Pu.

Even though Li Pu captured Lishui City and incorporated the soldiers of the Lishui Clans, there were less than 2,000 soldiers and horses directly under the direct jurisdiction at that time, but Yueyang's side still unanimously decided to give a town banner to this army outside the Chishan Army.

This can be seen as the deep dissatisfaction of the people of Yueyang with Han Qian, and it can also be regarded as the influence of the county king's mansion in Dachu, which is enough to dominate a town.

Now when Jinling passed the news again, the Chishan Army had gathered nearly 300,000 old and weak women and children and moved south to the northern foot of Fuyu Mountain, and the Qiuhu Army then sheltered more than 20,000 Lishui County residents and withdrew between Jieling Mountain and Fuyu Mountain.

Han Qian sent someone to deliver the letter back at this time, and it was still a top secret to the outside world, but Qingyang and Du Qiniang, who was mainly serving by Qingyang's side during this time, also saw the content of the secret letter yesterday when Tan Wang Yang Yuanpu was thinking about it all night.

Han Qian hoped that Yue Yang would make a positive gesture towards Gu Zhilong, the assassin of Xuanzhou, this move was not only to relieve the huge pressure caused by the Xuanzhou soldiers on the Chishan Army from the west, but also to win over Gu Zhilong to be loyal to Yueyang, and to win over the Xuanzhou soldiers to be used by Yueyang.

Once this move is successful, it will mean that Yueyang will first grasp the possibility of reorganizing the Great Chu after the Jinling Incident......