Here in Taiping Mansion, the Chuzhou army fought for three days.

Quarry Rock is under the rule of the local government, and the prefect naturally pays attention to the Quarry Rock Water Pass.

Unexpectedly, there were more than 10,000 people from the Jinling Navy Division and the defenders to defend it, and they only held it for half a day.

The Taiping Prefecture has a full quota of 5,000 soldiers, but the shortfall is as high as 30%, and half of the remaining 3,000 people are also old, weak, sick and disabled.

How can such a man and horse fight against the imposing Chuzhou army?

The Taiping prefect was afraid.

He did not dare to meet the battle, nor did he dare to throw himself into the enemy, so he hanged himself.

Taiping Tong was dumbfounded.

There is no prefect in front of him, and he is the one who decides.

He sat opposite the two of them for a long time, and when he saw the Chuzhou soldiers approaching the city, he also wanted to hang himself.

Ants are still stealing life.

The prefect can only die, but it is easier said than dead.

It's still the captain who advises the verdict, and you don't have to think too much.

Now the yellow and Huai are erosive, and the news is not clear.

This sentence is from the northwest, for example, the distance between Beijing and China is far away, and you can send someone to send a letter to ask your relatives to avoid trouble before the imperial court attacks.

It's not as good as the prefect, it's a Shandong clan, next to Gyeonggi.

The Taiping Tong Judgment and the Taiping Lieutenant opened the door to the city.

Although Fanchang Zhixian is a donor official, not a righteous official, he is quite a backbone, closed the city and resisted, and decided to die in the city.

Helplessly, the old gentleman had this feeling, but the local county and county lieutenants around him were reluctant to be tied up by the clan, and the two joined forces to tie up the old county order and dedicate the city.

It's Wuhu County, and it's all in one mind.

The small city was guarded like a turtle shell, so that people had nowhere to start, and they stopped Du Lao Babu for two days.

It was not until several other troops came to help, and 30,000 horses attacked that Wuhu County was taken.

On this day, the owner of Ma Zhai led the crowd to Hezhou and handed over to Huo Wu.

Huo Wu took 10,000 horses and horses on the same day to cross the river and join the generals.

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Binjiang County Ya.

Hou Xiaoming and Li Yuan both sent people to send back the news.

The news from Hou Xiaoming's side is that the gentry and people on the side of Dashengguan should have gotten the news that the Chuzhou army attacked the Taiping Mansion, and the family moved not one household or two households.

As early as before, at the beginning of September, people had already begun to move out, either to Jinling or directly to the south.

Li Yuan inquired about the news of the victory over the guards.

This guard will be a native of Henan.

This is not surprising, the northern official is in the south.

Strangely, at the beginning of September, he ordered soldiers to guard the river under martial law.

Huo Bao listened, thinking about the strangeness.

At the beginning of September, it was the time when the Chuzhou army entered Hezhou.

Dashengguan is to guard against the Chuzhou army?

Is that looking down on the Chuzhou Army?

At that time, it was on guard, so now that the Chuzhou army has crossed the river, isn't it even more necessary to be on guard?

Why are you not on guard now?

Or, at the beginning of September, it was not the Chuzhou army that was on guard at Dashengguan.

Who is that guarded against?

To the east of Dasheng Pass is the Jinling Water Division, and to the west is the Anqing Water Division.

At the beginning of September, the Anqing Navy Division was blocking the North Pass of Chaohu.

This big victory, even if it is not a person who lives for thousands of years, can be bought.

Precautionary ...... It's the Jinling Sailor......

After all, at that time, the Chaohu Sailor still belonged to the imperial court, and the Anqing Sailor was rebellious.

If the Jinling Sailor is dispatched and goes north along the Yuxi River, the back road of the Anqing Sailor will be blocked.

As for the appearance of sending Neisong at the moment, does this mean that he is against the Chuzhou army?

In this case, it will be possible to explain the strange reaction of the Great Victory Guard.

Huo Bao breathed a sigh of relief and sent someone to Taiping Mansion to deliver the news.

Huo Bao's guess was right, the big victory over the Guan defenders did have the intention of throwing the Chuzhou army.

He is a native of Henan, and Maitreya has been preaching in Henan for 70 years, with the largest audience.

Even the relatives and friends of the defenders, there are also Maitreya cultists, so he has no ill feelings towards the White Shirts.

As early as when Shou Tianwan sent someone to woo him, although he was moved, he hesitated, after all, Dashengguan was thousands of miles away from Qichun.

After receiving a heavy gift from Qi Chun, he arranged a sailor on the river and made a gesture of intercepting the Jinling sailor, but he was more on the sidelines.

If Qi Chun subdued the Chaohu Water Division and had the capital to cross the river, then he would have voted.

However, the Chuzhou Army was born, and in ten days, it connected Hezhou and Luzhou, and the Anqing Naval Division that had just been obtained by Qichun was annihilated.

This big win will have to be considered.

When the Jinling Navy Division and the Jinling garrison came to aid Quarry Rock, he made a decision.

Looking at the battle situation of Quarry Rock, if the officers and soldiers win, there are barriers on both sides of the east and west sides of the Great Victory Pass, and there is still room to defend; If the quarry rock is lost, there is no barrier in the west, and the victory pass will face the Chuzhou army and the Chaohu water division.

On the 20th of September, Dashengguan got the news that the Chuzhou army had captured Quarshiji, and the next day the guard sent his henchmen to Hezhou to ask for Huo Wu.

By the time Huo Bao's news reached Huo Wu, Master Lin had already gone to Dasheng Pass as a representative of the Chuzhou Army.

On September 23, Huo Wu and Feng went to Dasheng Pass by land, the generals of Chaohu Water Division went to Dasheng Pass by water, Deng Jian, Shui Jin, and Ma Juzi went to Moling Pass, and Du Laoba stayed in Taiping Mansion.

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Jinling.

The Jia Yuan brothers and Shi Jin received the news that the Chuzhou Army had won the three counties of Taiping Mansion, and also received a handwritten letter from Huo Wu.

In the letter, Huo Wu thanked the two families for their help to the Chuzhou Army in the past few months, and solemnly invited the three to join the Chuzhou Army.

The day before, Xue Biao had arrived in Jinling and had a banquet for the Jia brothers, "moving with affection and reason", wanting to persuade the two to join the gang.

Jia Yan and Jia Yuan's brothers looked at each other and were very surprised.

Huo Wuye didn't even say anything about their brothers?

The brothers were grateful.

After all, before Jinling was defeated, the more secrecy it was, the safer the two brothers would be.

Xue Biao didn't know the inside story, but the two brothers were shocked by the expansion speed of the Chuzhou army.

"You and I have been friends since the early years, and they are about in-laws...... It is time to advance and retreat together and seek wealth and wealth! Xue Biao was very sincere in his invitation.

Now among the leaders of the Chuzhou Army, in addition to a few leading generals, Master Lin has Du Lao's eight departments behind him, but on his side, the power in the army is insufficient.

seems to be commensurate with the owner of the horse village and the eight brothers of Du Lao, but he knows what the relationship is with each other.

With the Jia Shi family, it is different.

Xue Biao's intention to solicit an alliance is straightforward, the Jia Yuan brothers are not fools, where will they respond?

Directly to Huo Wuye's subordinates, and to Huo Wuye's subordinates, they are both Chuzhou Army, but they are different.

The two Jia Yuan brothers discussed under two excuses and prevaricated

Neither of the brothers took Xue Biao to heart.

Even if Xue Biao said it, he ranked third under Huo Wuye.

But the seat does not represent the strength.

In today's world, the number of soldiers and horses is the strength.

Under the Chuzhou army, there were five or six people, a few generals, but Xue Biao did not have any military power.

Even the logistics are not held in the hands.

The true status can be seen.

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received Huo Wu's reply today, and the two Jia Yuan brothers put aside Xue Biao and discussed with Shi Jin again.

There were 15,000 defenders inside and outside Jinling City, and 4,000 people in four thousand households outside the city, totaling 19,000 people.

On September 18, 5,000 defenders were transferred, and now there are only 10,000 defenders left, and 4,000 people from thousands of households outside the city, making a total of 15,000.

In the past few years, the atmosphere of Jinling officialdom has been corrupted, and civil and military officials have vied with each other to collect money, so that the shortage in the army has reached more than 20 percent, so that the actual garrison inside and outside the city is more than 11,000 people.

"The old Zhao in the north of the city is old and spares his life, a few days ago he was so scared that he didn't sleep well for a few days after hearing the news from Hangzhou...... He is easy to persuade here, thousands of households in the west and south of the city are all newcomers this year, one is from a businessman, donating officials just to get a background, and the other is the Zhen family, a cousin of the sister-in-law...... These three places are not to be feared, but on Brother Shi's side, I am afraid that I have to think of a way......"

Shi Jin is the deputy envoy of the Jinlingwei Command Envoy Division, and he is the fourth product, and his subordinates are in charge of 3,000 defenders.

However, this time he transferred troops to aid Quarry Rock, because he was the least senior of the four deputy envoys, he was transferred 2,000 people, and now there are only more than 800 people left.

Shi Jin thought for a while and said, "Deputy Envoy Miao and the commander have a vendetta. ”

Jin Lingwei has four deputy commanders, one is the commander's confidant, one is related to the political envoy, and the remaining two are Shi Jin, and the other is the oldest Miao deputy envoy.

Deputy Envoy Miao is the old man of Jinlingwei, and when the command of the guard was vacant, it should have been promoted by Deputy Envoy Miao; As a result, now the commander has directly left the relationship and crossed the position of Deputy Envoy Miao.

In the past, the robe was immediately reversed.

It stands to reason that 5,000 reinforcements, Shi Jin's side transferred 2,000, leaving a deputy envoy of 1,000, but the commander was not biased, but the deputy envoy who was close to the political envoy did not move, and the henchman deputy envoy was the main general of the reinforcements, leading the headquarters of 1,000 people, Shi Jin's department of 2,000 people, and Miao's deputy envoy of 2,000 people, to Taiping Mansion.

The four thousands of households outside the city are not a problem, and Jinling is guarding here, so you can start from Deputy Miao's side.

Even if Jia Yuan only brought one thousand households, he could confront the other two thousand households for a few days, waiting for the main force of the Chuzhou army to come.

However, the Jinling defenders are here, even if Shi Jin convinces Deputy Miao, the combined number of men and horses under the two is less than 2,000, and it is still a little difficult to deal with more than 6,000 defenders.

"Ask Fifth Master Huo for help!"

Jia Yan, who is the oldest and has the most stable temperament, took the idea.

Even if you want to make meritorious contributions, there is no need to really gamble, not to that point.

Jinling City is destined to be difficult to defend, and what they do is only a matter of merit.

The credit for this capture of the city is the icing on the cake, and it is very important to gamble with your life if you increase your qualifications.

Jia Yuan and Shi Jin pondered the pros and cons for a long time and agreed to Jia Yan's proposal.

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On the evening of September 23, Huo Wu, who was already in the Dasheng Pass, received a letter for help from Jinling.

Huo Wu immediately asked Yu Dutong to come over and speak.

"Tomorrow, General Feng and I will go to Jinling by land, and please bring warships to capture Jinling Water Pass, let's go together by land and water to take Jinling!"

Yu Dutong has no objections.

The main force of the Jinling Water Division was wiped out, and now there are less than 1,000 people in Jinling Water Pass, but they take advantage of the geographical advantage.

There is a battle in front of the quarry, and Yu Dutong has the confidence to take the Jinling Water Pass.

Needless to say, the artillery with the strongest deterrent power on the Jinling Water Closure must be the same as the quarry rock, which is nothing but nothing.

If the Jinling Sailor still has gunpowder reserves, he will not fail to fire a single shot at Quarry Rock.

"Fifth master, don't worry, I will go all out and take the water pass!"

"Leave some more ships in Jiangpu, and after taking the pass, carry Xiaobao's people to Jinling!"

Yu Dutong should not mention it.

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