When Lin Jiang dragged Liu Zishu back, Liu Zishu, who had broken his left arm, was covered with blood and swollen like a peach, seeing that he was out of breath and less in breath, Han Qian remembered who he was at this time, and ordered: "The palm is to punish him for his gaffe, disrespectful to the Queen Mother, and the generals should learn from it, but his crime today is not death, whether to increase the punishment, it still needs to be dealt with by the Queen Mother, and drag him down to save his life first, don't harm his life." ”

Seeing that Han Qian wanted to spare this person's life, Feng Yi hurriedly gave him a look, thinking that he should not leave the scourge.

Han Qian ignored Feng Yi's gesture.

Although it is said that Liu Zishu has an old grudge against Han Donghu, and colluded with Wei Zhen and others inside and outside to brutalize the old department of Zuo Guang's German army, and he deserves death, but as a person in charge, he must grasp the degree of leniency and severity, and today is not the time to turn over the assassination case, so he cannot torture Liu Zishu in public.

As for how this person would hate him and Xuzhou, and whether it would be a scourge to stay, he had nothing to worry about.

Although Lin Jiang and the others were unwilling, they didn't dare to disobey Han Qian's order, so they dragged Liu Zishu down for treatment first, leaving him alive.

With Liu Zishu's experience, and Zhou Yi cooperated with Han Qian to blockade the whole city, the remaining Tangyi County officials and Jiangzhou soldiers and generals who accompanied Zhou Yi to reinforce Huaixi, where did they dare to find excuses for not acting under the edict of the Queen Mother?

Although it is only separated by a river from Jinling, the capital division, Han Qian and Zhou Yan are ruthless and kill them, who do they talk to?

After Han Qian was not allowed to sit on the main case, Zhou Yi sat on his left, although Chun Shisanniang was taken by Han Qian as a hostage at this time, but at this time, she acted under the edict of the Queen Mother, and she sat on the right as an edict envoy, which is equivalent to the military envoy, but it was the generals of Xuzhou, Jiangzhou and Tangyi who sat under it and discussed the situation.

According to the latest news before nightfall, a cavalry of the Shouzhou Army had arrived at the top of the turtle almost in the afternoon.

At that time, the Right Shenwu Army had a soldier and horse guarding the top of the turtle, and in just a few days, it did not sort out how strong the camp was, and it was difficult to win when the Shouzhou Army was menacing, so he didn't want to be surrounded in the wilderness, so he hurriedly fled to Zhongli.

Although all the generals in Tangyi City, except for Zhou Yi, did not know the plans of Emperor Zhu Yu and Xu Mingzhen of Liang, the main force of the Shouzhou cavalry, gave up on responding to the defenders of Chaozhou and brazenly marched eastward, and made a situation of intercepting the southward retreat of the Right Shenwu Army.

At this time, Han Qian did not need to point out that Wen Ruilin was Liang Jian, and bluntly said that the sailor's attack on Hongzepu was the conspiracy of Emperor Liang Zhu Yu and the rebel Xu Mingzhen, and no one questioned it, after all, only this can explain the current situation changes.

At present, what needs to be considered is that after Li Zhihe led the main force of the forbidden army to withdraw from Chaozhou City, from the west of Hangou in Yangzhou to the Bijia Mountain across the river in Chizhou, more than 500 miles deep, only a few cities such as Chuzhou, Yongyang, Nanqiao, Tangyi, and Liyang can resist the enemy.

And Yongyang, Nanqiao, Liyang and other places of the city wall is dilapidated and small, not enough to hold, Chuzhou city is slightly larger, but the material is limited, from the north bank of the Yangtze River and more than ten miles, easy to be besieged by the enemy.

Although Tangyi is not a big city, but as the gateway to the north bank of Jinling, the city is quite solid, about 20 miles away from the main road of the Yangtze River, when the water rises in summer and autumn, there is no embankment on the north bank to stop, and the river will even overflow to the city of Tangyi.

Tangyi was able to hold on and was not afraid of being besieged.

Even if Han Qian didn't point out his intention to take in the south-fleeing refugees according to Tangyi City, which was directly south of Shiliang, everyone felt that they should stick to Tangyi, and they all knew that even if His Majesty was asked to judge the situation according to the current situation, he would issue an order to order them to stick to Tangyi and not retreat.

Since we have to keep it, we have to discuss how to keep it.

The combat effectiveness of the Jiangzhou soldiers is inferior to that of the forbidden army, but the constraints of Zhou Yi are very strict, and they are not much worse, but the number is only 3,000.

Even if the Xuzhou water battalion came to help, it could only send 2,000 elites in a hurry, and it would be difficult to compete with the enemy army with a total of more than 200,000 troops and horses on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Even if there is a strong city to defend, it will not work.

As the first city to be recovered in Huaixi, Tangyi is also the first area where the clan lords and the eunuchs of the court sent people to occupy the fields, and the war threatened the north bank of the Yangtze River, and the nearby villages could gather more than 10,000 young people in the city.

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However, most of these people are domestic servants and domestic slaves of families or courtiers, but they do not pay attention to rules and mercy in times of emergency.

At the same time, the number of displaced people south of Hongzepu and west of Fanliang Lake in the north of Tangyi is even larger, and if they can all be absorbed into Tangyi, they can provide 20,000 or 30,000 young and strong men.

In order to prevent the enemy from being alerted and will divide troops to intercept the refugees fleeing south, the news that Han Qian is in Tangyi City must be strictly blocked before, and in the four cities of Tangyi, except for the warrants issued by Han Qian and Zhou Yan, no one is allowed to enter or leave.

Early the next morning, Su Lie and Guo Xiao led the first batch of Chishan congregations from Xushan to Tangyi.

More than 6,000 people from the Chishan congregation and their families withdrew to the mountain in batches, they were different from ordinary women and children, women and children were organized into women's camps and juvenile camps, in an orderly manner, and the speed of retreat was much faster than that of the rabble, but more than 6,000 people may also need to be delayed until tomorrow before they can all withdraw into Tangyi.

Fortunately, there is an old post road along the way, and the streams and rivers are frozen and people can walk, otherwise they will have to collect fishing boats and build pontoon bridges along the way, and the speed will be even slower.

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The city of Chaozhou was in a depression, hundreds of corpses were abandoned on the battlefield, broken halberds everywhere, and the city walls were also full of arrows.

In the past half of the time, the forbidden army filled in six offensive passages more than 40 paces wide in the east, west and south directions, and the other end of the offensive passage was almost directly filled to the head of the city.

The city of Chaozhou (Luyang), which is more than ten miles long, has no one intact in the city wall, and more of it has been repeatedly opened by the whirlwind cannon, and the defenders have repeatedly refilled it with earth, stone, and wooden fences.

Li Zhihe's siege of the city was extremely steady, but it was not unattacked.

For most of the past six months, in addition to constantly building whirlwind cannons to bombard the defenders in the city, dozens of siege battles of various sizes have also been organized.

The defenders were able to hold on to this moment, in addition to the sufficient food and straw hoarded in the city, the most critical point was that before the war, after excluding women and children, almost nearly 30,000 young men were driven into the city by the defender Wen Bo.

Wen Bo just used the lives of these young people at any cost, little by little, and at this time he still had 20,000 elites in his hands.

However, Wen Bo is a weak brigade, and the situation is extremely unfavorable in all aspects, and he can be called a famous general if he can hold Chaozhou City for so long under Li Zhihe - this battle is even more remarkable than when he defended Chizhou City.

It's a pity that his military exploits are such defeats.

Li Zhihe grabbed the reins and looked at the head of Chaozhou City, although he knew in his heart that withdrawing from Chaozhou City was the wisest choice, but he was somewhat unwilling to give up halfway.

"Commander, shall we go back to the camp?" Deng Tai gathered the big wind, blocked the cold wind out of his body, and said to Li Zhihe.

Withdrawing from the city of Chaozhou is the first step, and the next step is how to abandon the humble Chaozhou camp and withdraw 80,000 soldiers and horses to Shuzhou.

Li Zhihe and Yang En have studied it repeatedly, and feel that Chaozhou falls into the hands of the enemy, and they retreat to Chuzhou, which is slightly north of Chaozhou, and there is still a risk of being besieged - once again, in the prefectures and counties west of Shuzhou, the local soldiers and horses have been evacuated, and they do not stick to Shuzhou, as long as the enemy army divides a few light cavalry, they can stir up the hinterland of Jingxiang.

Even if Han Qian sent someone over to inform the Xuzhou Shuiying General to defend Tangyi with Zhou Yan, Li Zhihe and Yang En felt that it would be more appropriate for the main force of the Huaixi Forbidden Army to withdraw to Shuzhou.

In addition to Xu Mingzhen leading 20,000 cavalry to the east last night, today he found that there were a large number of foot soldiers from the direction of Shouzhou and Huozhou, coming to Chaozhou City.

Although the foot soldiers were slower, the elite cavalry in their hands was very limited, and they could not be released to entangle with the enemy, and they were more likely to cooperate in battle, which also meant that the time left for them was only three or four days.

Of course, the baggage and the vassals withdrew first, the state soldiers followed, and there was no shortage of walled cities along the way, and the elite soldiers and horses were not afraid of losing, but it is unknown how the situation will develop in the future.

The Shouzhou army really became a member of the Liang State, not only did the Liang State get 100,000 elites, but the 100,000 soldiers and horses of Shouzhou occupied the land of Huaixi, even if Han Qian barely held Tangyi, there was no way to completely block the Liang army's troops in the Yangtze River

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Beyond the road.

Imagine that the hinterland of Gyeonggi may be attacked by the Liang army at any time, so what is the economy and people's livelihood?

Thinking of this, Li Zhihe gathered the big horse, handed over the war horse to the entourage behind him, he had been running around endlessly for the past two days, and the people were also sleepy, and he strode towards the back house, wanting to rest for a while and then go to Yang En to discuss other matters.

Li Zhihe just walked into the back house, but when he saw Li Pu living in the courtyard, he asked, "What is the father's business to find the child?" ”

Seeing Li Zhihe come in, Li Pu said with a bitter face:

"I have become a prisoner of your subordinates, but Li Xiu, Li Mo, and Li Chong treat you like siblings, how can you see death and not save you?"

"The child sent six groups of messengers before and after, and more than 40 elite cavalry were killed and wounded, all of which were intercepted by the enemy, father, you also know," Li Zhihe said, "The only formed cavalry in Dachu fell into the hands of Xu Mingzhen, and now in addition to the Huai River, the gently flowing streams and rivers between the rivers and Huai are almost frozen and frozen, it is the best time for the cavalry to gallop across the river, and the child will not be saved if he dies!" ”

"Wen Ruilin among the enemies, did you really deliberately go away?" Li Puyu didn't believe it, stared at Li Zhihe and asked.

"The child said that Wen Ruilin was an enemy, and his father didn't believe it, so why did he suspect that the child deliberately took Wen Ruilin away?" Li Zhihe asked with a smile, but when he said this, his eyes flashed, and he glanced at Su Hongyu and Yao Xishui who were standing in front of the corridor, and secretly felt that Deng Tai was brave and brave, and he was also decent in commanding the troops, and there would be no mistakes, but after all, the delicate work was insufficient, but at that time, he was busy seeing Yang En, and specially instructed Hongyu to be careful to help Deng Tai keep an eye on Wen Ruilin so as not to make any mistakes, could something go wrong here?

Li Zhihe was suspicious in his heart, but his face did not change and he responded to Li Pu first.

When he and Deng Tai walked into the hall, without waiting for his face to darken, Yao Xishui said faintly beside him: "I don't blame Sister Hongyu for this, I must not help Sister Hongyu for this......"

"Why?" Li Zhihe asked.

"Does the eldest brother want Li Xiu and Li Zhen to fight their way out of the encirclement single-handedly, or do you want them to take the soldiers and horses of the Right Shenwu Army to fight their way out of the encirclement?" Yao Xishui asked.

"Hey!" Li Zhihe sighed and sat down in the chair with some haggard energy.

Deng Tai had an intuition that the back of his neck was itchy, and he thought about it for a long time before he understood.

Considering that the Liang army must have other scouts lurking on the side, since he can quietly dispose of Wen Ruilin on the way, he can delay for a day or two at most, and the enemy army will be aware of the abnormality.

These two days are not much different from the main force of the forbidden army under Chaozhou City, after all, the enemy army is watching the main force of the forbidden army under Chaozhou City at any time, but as long as Li Pu can be persuaded to submit and act according to the edict of the Queen Mother, one more day and one less day, the fate of the Right Shenwu Army will be completely different.

I got the news a day earlier, Chen Mingsheng, Li Chong and others dealt with it decisively, and it was still possible to lead the main force of the Right Shenwu Army to flee back; One day later, the right Shenwu army in front of him was completely blocked in Zhongli's situation, and wanting to break through the whole army was tantamount to going to the sky.

It's just that, as Yao Xishui said, Li Xiu, Li Zhen and others single-handedly broke out of the encirclement, and led the main force of the Right Shenwu Army to break out of the encirclement, which had a huge impact on the future political situation.

The Right Shenwu Army retains its strength, and even if Li Pu cuts officials for the people, it is inevitable that there will be a chance to make a comeback.

What's more, their next goal is to win over and restrain Chai Jian, and then absorb the remnants of the Wangfu family of Zhedong County for their own use.

The Right Divine Martial Army retains its strength, how can they possibly achieve this goal?

Even if Yang Yuanpu and the princes of the court will eventually punish Li Pu's crimes, and may even implicate Chen Mingsheng and others, it is very likely that Li Changfeng will come forward to reorganize the Youshenwu army.

It's just that when Yao Xishui crossed the river and returned to Jinling, he was not sure whether he could persuade Yang En to help, so he used himself to deliberately leak such a flaw, wouldn't it be too risky?

What if Yang En can't be convinced, what if Li Puning dies and doesn't obey the edict of the Queen Mother?

Yao Xishui said: "Wen Ruilin dies or flees, it has no effect on the Huaixi Forbidden Army - and if Wen Ruilin really dies so quietly, wouldn't no one know that he is Liang Jian in the end?" ”

"Hey!" Li Zhihe sighed again, but didn't say anything after all......

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