Tang Yishun left Li Xinchen's mansion in a daze, he didn't even know how he got out step by step, he just knew that he finally mortgaged this life, and even the future of the entire Wanchuan Tang Clan, before all the families made a statement.

As for whether this gamble is a victory or a failure, it is no longer up to him to decide, all he needs to do is to quietly wait for the final result, or the final verdict.

Of course, Tang Yishun still believes in his heart that it is impossible for that devil to lose.

Subconsciously reached out and touched his waist, and the Wanchuan Taishou seal ribbon, which symbolized the identity of the first person in Wanchuan County, was still hanging there. Just now, Tang Yishun had already handed over the ribbon to Li Xinchen, but Li Xinchen weighed it in his hand and returned it to him, and the meaning was naturally clear.

The Taishou of Wanchuan County is still him, but this Taishou of Wanchuan County is too far behind the promise given to him by Li Xinchen, and it can't be compared with what Li Xinchen wants, so Li Xinchen is not rare at all who this Wanchuan County Taishou is.

However, Tang Yishun didn't know that there were not so many people left in every county under Li Xinchen's subordinates now, so he continued to serve as the Taishou of Wanchuan County because Li Xinchen had no additional candidates there.

Looking at the back of Tang Yishun leaving alone, Li Xinchen shook his head slightly, although he didn't expect the Tang clan to really be able to provide much crucial help in his next series of expeditions, but the accumulation of small amounts and the accumulation of armpits into fur, this kind of help from the local family is of course more and more for Li Xinchen.

Using the position of the head of the Tang family in exchange for the Tang family's strong support for him is a fair and reasonable deal, whether it is for Li Xinchen or Tang Yishun.

"The general really grasped Tang Boxian's weakness." Dai Cai walked into the council hall quickly, but when he saw Tang Yishun's expression when he left just now, he already knew what was going on.

Obviously, Li Xinchen made a condition that Tang Yishun couldn't refuse, and successfully bought his soul and future.

Li Xinchen smiled to himself, in fact, what he knew more about the specific situation of the Tang clan in Xiajiang was hearsay, otherwise he would not have waited for Tang Yishun to explain the situation clearly before making a judgment.

But now it seems that his words are the most important straw to break his psychological defense.

After introducing Xiao Shilian and Dai Cai to each other, Li Xinchen didn't give them more time to greet each other - in fact, with Xiao Shilian and Dai Cai's completely different personalities, what is it strange to be able to greet each other - he reached out and knocked on the map:

"Ba County's situation, Zidong, please introduce it."

Dai Cai didn't shirk either, stepped forward and said in a deep voice: "Two generals, please see, Ba County is the seat of Chuzhou Prefecture, and down the river is Fuling County, you can reach Luzhou by tracing the river, and you can reach Dianjiang County in Hezhou by going north along the Han River, and continue to the north to reach the Sword Pavilion." ”

(Author's note: During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, today's Han water was called the Han River, which is why the Xiangyang area is called the Han River.) And the Jialing River is called Han Water. ）

Seeing that Li Xinchen and Xiao Shilian were both looking at the map, Dai Cai did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly continued: "Fuling County (now Fuling South, the upper reaches of the Wujiang River) is located in the southeast of Ba County, so it can only block the enemy coming from the southeast, and there are not many defenders in Fuling County, so it is difficult to pose a threat to us, so taking Linjiang County can actually go directly to the city of Ba County. ”

"How many defenders are there in Ba County?" Xiao Shilian directly asked the question he was most concerned about.

"It's about two thousand, and if you count Ding Zhuang, who may be mobilized in the city, and the defenders in several camps outside the city, the number will have to double or even quadruple." Dai Cai said worriedly, "What's more, the three counties of Linchuan and the White Emperor City are all owned by me, and it is not so easy to hide from the defenders of Ba County." ”

Xiao Shilian couldn't help but take a breath lightly, defending the city is not as good as attacking, some of the people and Ding Zhuang in the city can be mobilized to stand on the city wall, after all, defending the city does not require soldiers to be able to do the order and prohibition, as long as they can do their best to block the enemy.

Therefore, don't look at the fact that there are not many defenders in the city, but once these Ding Zhuang are added, the number of troops is not less than that of Li Xinchen, who attacked.

According to the art of war, this attack is absolutely unrealistic. However, Xiao Shilian also knows that it is impossible for Ba County not to fight.

Almost subconsciously, he looked at Li Xinchen slightly, and Dai Cai's eyes didn't know when to turn over, obviously both of them knew that only Li Xinchen could really make a decision.

"It's not early, let's get ready to set off after lunch, we can't move forward slowly like the army behind, we must rush to the southern county first." Li Xinchen said in a deep voice, "I'm afraid Chen Zhishen can't wait for a long time. ”

Xiao Shilian and Dai Cai glanced at each other, and both nodded slightly.

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It was not only Xiao Shilian and Dai Cai who rushed to the southern county with Li Xinchen, but also more than 200 soldiers and several naval warships who stayed in the White Emperor City. Now that there is an army that will come later, Li Xinchen does not have to worry about the defense of White Emperor City, and he can even send another four or five hundred soldiers to garrison Wanchuan County to ensure the safety of the road from White Emperor City to Southern County.

"Linjiang County has taken it?" Li Xinchen stood on the flying house of the building boat, and the mighty river breeze blew his sleeves, making him subconsciously squint slightly.

"The news I received when I passed Wanchuan County can be regarded as cheap Chen Zhishen's kid." Xiao Shilian sighed. Chen Zhishen actually didn't use any commendable tactics at all to take the three counties of Linjiang, that is, he simply called the door with the prisoners in front, and the army followed closely to break the three cities in a row.

In fact, this is mainly because the three counties of Linjiang are all close together, relying on the advanced ships of the Southern Chen Naval Division, Chen Zhishen can travel between the two places within half a day, so before the defenders receive the news, Chen Zhishen has already led an army disguised as a defeated army to appear under the city.

Most of the guards and guards of these county governments are people who have never experienced a real war, and of course they are as defenseless against this sudden army as Tang Yishun and Huang Zhanzhu were at the beginning, so it was naturally easy for Chen Zhishen to get his hands on them.

Except for the Taishou of Linjiang County who died in the chaos, the rest of the county guards and the generals of the Northern Zhou Dynasty chose to surrender very neatly.

There are only one or two hundred soldiers under their command, and most of them are from local families, and when Chen Zhishen leads the army to surround the mansion, there is no choice but to surrender.

After all, the Northern Zhou Dynasty didn't give them much actual favor, for example, for Wanchuan Taishou Tang Yishun, his identity as Taishou could not help him become the head of the Tang clan in Shangxiajiang, even if he was not Taishou, no one dared to challenge the dignity of the Wanchuan Tang clan in Wanchuan.