In the land of Jianghuai in late October, a cold snap has invaded the land.

The early morning wilderness was frosty, and it was white.

A river from west to east meanders through the eastern part of Chuzhou, and a cloud of mist is rolling on the surface of the river, spreading to the fields on both sides.

A troop of cavalry broke through the silence of the morning and made a rapid eastward march along the riverbank.

The war horse snorted and spewed hot white steam.

Li Pulp grabbed the horse's head, reined in the reins, and looked at the three thousand elite cavalry behind him with a hesitant attitude.

At this time, a small group of cavalry waded from the south, and a small colonel turned over and dismounted, and ran to Li Pu to report: "The ship of Lord Cheng Zheng in the imperial history has docked in Jiangdu an hour ago, and at this time it should have been quickly whipped up and galloped to the city of Yangzhou, just wait for the prince of the country to lead the cavalry of the right Shenwu army to rush over to meet and take over the Hangou waterway!" ”

Fanliang Lake, Hongzepu and the Yangtze River waterway, there are many streams and rivers, such as Shiliang River, Xiaojin River, Shitang River, etc., but the river channels of these rivers have not been vigorously dredged for decades, and the embankments have not been vigorously repaired for decades.

Small boats and boats can pass through these rivers unimpeded, but hundreds of sailors and warships, often six or seven hundred stones, or even thousands of stones, the draft is more than deep, and if you want to enter Hongzepu through these rivers, even if a large number of slender men are arranged along the coast, it may be blocked for more than half a month.

In this way, not to mention the surprise attack and the remnants of the Lou Boat Army, it is likely that before they entered Hongzepu, the Huai River and Hongzepu were frozen.

Taking over the Hangou waterway, the warships of the Wuya Army on the left and right took advantage of Shao Bo Lake and Fanliang Lake to enter Hongzepu at the fastest speed, which was the key to the raid battle.

Walking through the ditch, the main force of the left and right Wuya Army Naval Divisions can be assembled on the river south of Guazhou Port by noon today at the earliest, and tomorrow afternoon at the latest.

That is to say, even if the rebels of Anning Palace have eyes lurking in Yangzhou, and rush to Shouzhou to report the news at this time, it is completely too late to deploy troops, and at most the remnants of the Louchuan Army and Naval Division will be withdrawn from Hongzepu and withdrawn to the Huai River waterway.

However, as long as they can take the opportunity to capture the west bank of Hongzepu and defend the empty cities of Haozhou, they will also achieve the fundamental purpose of the raid.

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"Zheng Chang and the emperor's decree are outside the city gate!"

Wang Wenqian is diligent in political affairs, and when the day is bright, he has been sitting in the study to deal with official business for a period of time, and at this time he is sitting in the small hall with his daughter Wang Jun and his concubine Yang for breakfast.

The guards of the South City Gate hurriedly came over to report that Zheng Chang, the middle of the Imperial History, was outside the South City Gate at this time, and he was so startled that he almost knocked over the porridge bowl on the table.

It is normal for Yang Yuanpu to have a will, but what is the most important holy decree, and it needs to be so bothered that Cheng Zheng Chang, who had an old friendship with him, personally ran this trip?

Wang Jun also sat up straight in shock.

She knew that Zheng Chang personally rushed over to deliver the decree, which was definitely not trivial, but she couldn't guess any important decree at this time, and she needed Zheng Chang to run this trip in the imperial history.

In any case, as long as Zheng Chang did not lead the army over, Wang Wenqian had no reason to block people outside the city, and while sending people to inform Yin Peng and Zhao Zhen, he arranged for people to go to the south gate to welcome Zheng Chang into the city.

Zheng Chang entered Wang Wenqian's assassin's mansion, and Yin Peng, Zhao Zhen and other major Huaidong generals stationed in Yangzhou also received the news and rushed over.

Zheng Chang also had nothing to hide, and directly took out the holy decree, announcing the battle plan for the main forces of the left and right Wuya Army Naval Divisions to raid Hongzepu, and asked Wang Wenqian and the Huaidong garrison in Yangzhou to immediately withdraw from the banks of Hangou when they received the holy decree, so that Changguo Gong Li Pu led the first and second cavalry of the Right Shenwu Army to take over the weir and embankment along the Hangou to ensure that the main force of the left and right Wuya Army Naval Divisions passed through Hangou and entered Shao Bo Lake at the fastest speed!

"It's a big matter, Wen Qian needs to ask His Highness for instructions." Wang Wenqian finally suppressed the shock in his heart, and said with a cloudy face.

"Your Majesty's holy decree is directly issued to Lord Wang and the generals stationed in Yangzhou, and there is also a holy decree that Jiang Xu, the deputy supervisor of the Inner Servant Province, will go to Chuzhou to give His Royal Highness King Xin, and there is no need for Lord Wang to worry about this." Zheng Chang was ordered to come over as the middle prince of the imperial history, and to put it bluntly, he didn't give Wang Wenqian a chance to delay the opportunity.

Wang Wenqian can either resist the decree or obey the decree, and there is no third way to choose.

Zheng Chang's eyes were fixed on Wang Wenqian, asking him to give an answer now.

Wang Wenqian has gone through countless winds and waves in his life, and at this moment, he still feels like a mountain pressing on his shoulders, which makes him feel difficult to breathe.

"May I think about it?" The stakes are so high that it is difficult for Wang Wenqian to make a decision, and it is difficult to weigh the pros and cons in such a short time.

"Changguo Gong led the cavalry of the Right Shenwu Army to march at night, and it will probably take less than an hour to enter the west bank of Hangou." Zheng Chang said.

"Please stay in the hall for a while." Wang Wenqian knew that he had to make a decision within an hour whether to let him out of the Hangou waterway, so he left Zheng Chang and his entourage in the hall to rest temporarily.

Before Wang Wenqian was about to ask Yin Peng and Zhao Zhen to move to the side hall next to him to discuss the matter, he couldn't help but ask Zheng Chang again: "Dare to ask Lord Zheng, can Wen Qian know that His Majesty decided to send the main force of the water army to attack Hongzepu, who offered the strategy?" ”

"Your Majesty the Minister of Changguo." Zheng Chang's march and attack, there are many places that need Huaidong's cooperation, he has told Wang Wenqian about the detailed plan for using troops before, so he naturally doesn't mind that Wang Wenqian knows more, and he doesn't even mind that Wang Wenqian guessed that this matter is aimed at Huaidong.

Wang Wenqian nodded, and walked to the side hall with Yin Peng and Zhao Zhen.

Wang Jun was standing in the side hall with a lacquer plate, and when he saw his father walking in, Yin Peng, Zhao Zhen and others, he hurriedly said to his father: "My daughter thought that there were still some sealed Ming Qian Yunming in the house, so she came over and asked General Zhao and Uncle Yin to taste it. ”

Wang Wenqian knew that his daughter couldn't suppress her curiosity, so she ran over to eavesdrop on the news, I don't know if she heard anything just now when she was hiding in the corridor, and he didn't say anything.

Yin Peng and Zhao Zhen's minds are not on tea.

Walking into the side hall, they looked at each other for a long time, and then Yin Peng asked hesitantly: "Is it caused by the Xuzhou merchant ship entering Yangzhou?" ”

Wang Wenqian nodded.

At the end of September, the Xuzhou merchant ships entered Yangzhou, and less than a month later, the Jinling side fundamentally adjusted the combat strategy against the rebels in Anning Palace, and wanted to use the main force of the naval army as a partial division to attack the remnants of the Lou Boat Army in Hongzepu, how could there be no connection between the two?

And Zheng Chang just made it clear that this strategy was offered by Li Pu, the Duke of Changguo, so he was more sure that it was aimed at Huaidong and Xuzhou, after all, Li Pu was most afraid of Huaidong and Xuzhou, and he suffered the most and the greatest loss in the hands of Huaidong and Xuzhou.

If it was Shen Yang or Yang En and others who offered advice, he would think that it would be another possibility.

Then a careful analysis of the situation around Hongzepu also supports this judgment.

Haozhou is located on the west bank of Hongzepu, the place is dilapidated, at present, in addition to the remnants of the Lou Boat Army stationed on the west bank of Hongzepu and the coastal counties, the Anning Palace rebels do not have many soldiers and horses stationed there, after all, Shouzhou and Huozhou in the west are the base camp that Xu Mingzhen has been operating and building for many years.

The main force of the Wuya Army Water Battalion on the left and right raided into Hongzepu, and Anning Palace was very likely to abandon the ruined Haozhou, and hastily withdrew the remnants of the Louchuan Army from Hongzepu into the Huai River north of Shouzhou.

For the rebels of Anninggong, abandoning the ruined Haozhou, the situation is not necessarily worse.

For the Great Chu Forbidden Army, the situation in Haozhou, which was forcibly inserted between Shouzhou and Hongzepu, was not necessarily very good, and it might directly prompt the rebels to completely surrender to Liang.

The only benefit is probably to cut off the direct connection between Huaidong and Shouzhou, right?

"Do you want to get out of the way?" Zhao Zhen asked.

At present, the garrisons along the Hangou are all the elite of the Yangzhou marching camp under the direct command of Zhao Zhen, but let them not give way, this is for Wang Wenqian to take the idea.

"Let's let it," Wang Wenqian pondered for a while before he said, "If you don't give way, that is if you don't say anything about Huaidong's resistance, you will definitely fall into the pretext of colluding with the rebels; Let's make my debut, see how far the Wuya Army can fight when they enter Hongzepu, and then discuss the future......"

Speaking of this, Wang Wenqian looked at his daughter who was standing aside with a teapot and dragging her with some uncertainty.

Wang Jun sighed slightly in her heart, hearing her father say this, she also knew that her father predicted how the situation would develop next.

In my father's opinion, as long as the Anning Palace withdraws the remnants of the Lou Chuan Army from Hongzepu in time and preserves the elite of this naval division - the rebels of the Anning Palace are desperate to withdraw the remnants of the Lou Chuan Army from Hongzepu - because the main channel between Hongzepu and the Yangtze River is under the control of Huaidong, which means that after this raid, even if the imperial court can capture Haozhou, the main force of the forbidden army's horse infantry army and water camp does not have a foothold in the north of Chuzhou.

With the suspicious nature of Emperor Yang Yuanpu of Yanyou, stimulated by the liaison between Xuzhou and Huaidong, in a hurry, he may have the courage to carry out this raid, but he may not dare to let the main force of the Great Chu's naval army be in a situation of being attacked by the rebels of Anning Palace and Huaidong for a long time.

In that case, the impact on Huaidong would be quite limited.

Of course, if the left and right dragon tooth army sailors were to severely damage or even completely annihilate the main force of the Lou Boat Army in this raid, they would be able to fear the threat from the Huai River in the future, and the situation would be different.

However, in any case, there is no need for Huaidong to resist the decree and block the Hangou waterway now.

The biggest problem, the main force of the Great Chu Water Division will go north through Hangou, and there will inevitably be a large number of horse infantry approaching the south and west banks of Hongzepu in the future.

Wang Jun glanced at her father, Yin Peng, and Zhao Zhen, thinking that most of them also thought of this, but at the moment, they didn't seem to have the intention to take care of the Chishan Society, she said: "Daddy advocates giving way, the forward warships of the main force of the sailors can arrive at Zhuyu Bay as soon as tomorrow afternoon......"

Wang Wenqian looked at Wang Jun, in addition to the feeling that the woman was not left behind, he also knew that his daughter reminded him of some truth.

At this time, the Chishan Society had a special person to stay in Zhuyu Bay to receive supplies and the congregation that moved north, that is to say, if Han Qian remained in the eastern part of Chuzhou and did not leave, it would be possible to speculate at the latest tomorrow that the imperial court would send sailors to attack Hongzepu.

If Xuzhou had eyes on the banks of the Yangtze River, maybe Han Qian would have gotten the news at this time.

That is to say, he does not pass on the news, Han Qian or the people who stay in Xuzhou to preside over the Chishan Society will be able to know the news tomorrow at the latest, and he will send someone to spread the news, and Han Qian will only know the news one day earlier at most, and there is no special difference to the people who will stay in the White Hoof Gang in Chishan.

However, as far as the relationship between Xuzhou and Huaidong is concerned, if he can't pass the news, the meaning is different.

"General Zhao Zhen and I went to see Zheng Chang, you immediately go to Feng Yi to spread the news!" Wang Wenqian said to Yin Peng.

"Daughter will accompany Uncle Yin, right?" Wang Jun said.

Wang Wenqian hesitated for a while, waved his hand, and went with Wang Jun.