After receiving the new edict of Emperor Tianyou, Zhang Ping, the envoy of the supervising army, personally rushed from Chenyang to Datanzhai to appease Xiying and other chiefs.

At this time, the Wuling army had gathered nearly 7,000 soldiers and horses in Chenyang, Qianyang, Longya and other places, while Tanzhou was suppressed in the lower reaches of Yuanshui, and did not dare to continue to stretch the battle line at all, rashly attacking Chenyang City against the current, let alone attacking Xuzhou, the base camp of the Wuling army.

Xiying also knew that he would not accept the appeasement again, even if Tanzhou could inflict heavy losses on the Chu army from other directions, but with the forces they had gathered in Datanzhai and Lipu City, it would be difficult to resist the siege of the Wuling army from the two directions of Chenyang and Wukouzhai.

And Emperor Tianyou's new edict is really generous to them, and the explicit restrictions on Xuzhou's new policy also eliminate their worries.

In addition to his second son, Xixaosheng, who served as the commander of Lipu County and stayed in Lipu County, personally led 1,500 soldiers into Chenyang City to accept the reorganization, and formed an independent battalion under the Wuling Army to participate in the attack on Yuanling.

Xiyingge removed the post of Chenyang County Commander, but with the command of the battalion and the command of Chenzhou Sima and the envoy of soldiers and horses, the follow-up recruited from Chenzhou will also be incorporated into the camp.

At the end of the first month of the sixteenth year of Tianyou, the water camp warship carried the fan camp led by Xiying as the vanguard, and arrived at the river beach outside Yuanling City, officially launching the offensive against Yuanling City, Chenzhou Prefecture.

Although the combat strength of Tanzhou's naval division is not weak, it is necessary to prevent the more elite Jinlinglou ship army from directly penetrating into Dongting Lake to attack the hinterland of Tanzhou.

At this time, the Wuling Army, the water camp has rapidly expanded to 12 large and medium-sized warships, 1,800 generals, and the Yuanjiang River in the Yuanling section of the river is narrow and the water flow is turbulent, no matter how strong the Tanzhou water camp is, it does not dare to meet the Wuling Army water camp warships against the current.

Ma Rong led 5,000 troops to defend Yuanling City, and the Wuling army landed on the river beach south of Yuanling City in an orderly manner, and first swept away the peripheral forces of Yuanling City and established a camp.

Han Qian also rushed to Meizi Mountain, forty miles south of Yuanling City, in early February to make final preparations for the attack on Yuanling City.

Meizi Mountain is located on the west bank of the Yuanjiang River, the mountain is cut down, deep into the Yuanjiang River, forcing the river to surround the mountain bank around a big bay, also makes this section of the river flow rapids dangerous, after passing the Meizi Mountain, all the way to the Yuanling City, the Yuanshui River channel is relatively open and straight.

Therefore, in any case, Meizishan is a relatively important interruption point for the Yuanling operation, and the logistics base is built in Meizishan, which not only facilitates the transfer of materials, but also takes into account the defeat of the Yuanling operation, and can also contain the enemy's pursuit north of Meizishan, and cannot rashly break through the turbulent rapids and continue southward.

To tell the truth, many people in Xuzhou have a lot of opinions about the preferential treatment of Xiying and other subordinate chiefs, even if the loyal and honest Ji Xiyao saw Han Qian coming, he couldn't help but muttered in private: "Is it that the imperial court is still worried about the power of the young man and the old man in Xuzhou, so it treats Xiying and these thief chieftains so favorably, preventing us from reaching into Chenzhou?" ”

"What nonsense?" Han Qian glared at Ji Xiyao and reprimanded, "The imperial court must end the battle against Tanzhou before the Liang army frees up its hands from the northern front, the window period may not be long, Your Majesty hopes that the Wuling army can exert stronger military pressure on Tanzhou, and sometimes some compromises must be made!" And after Xiying was attached, not only could we successfully enter a village like Meizishan, but Ma Rong also did not dare to trust the forces of the surnames in Yuanling City anymore, and even had to disarm the soldiers with surnames in Yuanling City and imprison them! And if Xiying wants to prove his loyalty and reliability, he must first lead the battalion to attack the city and fight to the death, and the Wuling army can greatly reduce the casualties of the siege for this, what are you not satisfied with! ”

Yuanling as the state of Chenzhou, the city is strong, Ma Rong is a veteran, and the defense deployment with Yuanling City as the core is very rigorous, and there is no flaw to be found.

And from Yuanling to Wuling, Yuanshui is turbulent and long, there is no possibility of bypassing Yuanling to attack Wuling outside the 300-mile waterway, then you can only attack Yuanling honestly, which will be a bloody and tough battle.

Even if Emperor Tianyou had the intention of restricting Xuzhou, Han Qian also hoped that the soldiers could replace the generals of the Wuling Army at this time, and attack the head of the city first to fight a war of attrition with the Tanzhou soldiers!

Han Qian reprimanded Ji Xiyao, drove him and the others out to work, leaving Feng Yi alone, and said: "In March and April last year, there were rumors that my father and son conspired with Jinling to cut down the domain of Tanzhou, but until the trap of Eagle Fish Village, they were not accepted by Ma Yin - do you think such rumors are groundless? ”

"Ji Xiyao and they have grievances, it is true that His Majesty is a little mean to the adults and fathers, Feng Yi definitely didn't say anything." Feng Yi hurriedly clarified himself.

"Do you need to say something directly if you want to make something bad?" Han Qian looked at Feng Yi calmly and said, "I won't pursue you about this, you haven't answered my question just now." ”

Feng Yi pondered for a while and said, "My lord, are you saying that anyone has already seen through Emperor Tianyou's plan to cut down the feudal domain, and reminded Tanzhou in this way?" ”

"Think about it again, who would have already seen through His Majesty's plan to cut the feudal domain, and deliberately reminded Tanzhou?" Han Qian asked.

Feng Yu frowned, fell into deep contemplation, seemed to answer Han Qian's question, and said as if talking to himself: "Whoever peeks into Emperor Tianyou's plan to eliminate the domain and has the motive to remind Tanzhou to take precautions, the first thing that can be thought of is naturally Shu and Liang, but the people who peeked through this strategy at that time should also see that Emperor Tianyou cut the domain and used the people and horses of the county prince's mansion, in addition to the adults and the old man out of the town of Xuzhou, Shen Yang and Zhou Yan also went to Ezhou to prepare for the war. They deliberately sabotaged the policy of cutting the domain, and when reminding Tanzhou, it was impossible not to remind the prince and the king of Xin, after all, the prince and the king of the letter would never want the county palace to continue to grow their power by cutting the feudal domain this time...... I understand, my lord said that there have been such rumors in Tanzhou for a long time, but Jinling was calm until the end of last year, and no related rumors came out, which revealed a bit weird! Could it be that the prince had already noticed it, but it was just inconvenient to destroy it publicly, so people went to Tanzhou to spread rumors? ”

"There may be suspicions on the part of the crown prince and the king of letters, but the rumors will not be spread by them. Spreading rumors is obviously beyond the reach of the whip, and as a result, Tanzhou did not pay attention to this matter, and the crown prince and King Xin really wanted to sabotage this matter, and there must be more means. In fact, after July and August, after the staff department learned about it, it also fully cooperated with the reduction of Tanzhou, and there were no obvious errors or omissions in the information collected and transmitted. Han Qian shook his head and said.

"Your Excellency is saying that it is indeed the two kingdoms of Shu and Liang who did it, but why don't they spread rumors in Jinling, and take advantage of the contradiction between the crown prince and King Xin and Yang Yuanpu to further sabotage this matter?" Feng Yi asked puzzled.

"Why do you think they didn't do anything with the prince and the king?" Han Qian stared at Feng Yu and asked.

"Are you saying that the crown prince and the king of Xin actually knew about Emperor Tianyou's support for Yang Yuanpu by cutting the domain, but they just chose to forbear, keep silent, and even deliberately blocked the spread of these news in Jinling?" Feng Yi asked in shock.

"It's all speculation, I mean I want you to be honest with me for these two years, and stop doing these things for me behind my back!" Han Qian glanced at Feng Yu and warned him.

"Two years? Are you saying that there will be chaos in two years? Feng Yu blurted out a question, but then realized that it was really stupid for him to ask directly, so he hurriedly changed his words, "Two ships of supplies have just arrived, so I will go over to count them and not disturb the adults." ”

"There you go!" Han Qian waved his hand, motioned for Feng Yi to leave first, and then smiled with Xi Yi behind him, "Your Majesty uses Zheng Hui to divide the power of my father and son, but the Zheng family is more powerful than my Han family's father and son, and it is the proper intention to appease the soldiers, Feng Yi didn't understand it, and he was almost angry." ”

"Can anyone be as treacherous as you?" Xi Ying asked disdainfully and curiously, "Are you really completely resigned to it?" ”

"It is up to people to make things happen, and it is up to heaven to make things happen, what is said is the word 'potential'," Han Qian said, "Your Majesty is very strong, but he can't go against the trend, if it weren't for him, he wouldn't be uncomfortable for the Xu family." His Majesty used Zheng Hui to appease Fanying, but everything that will happen in this landscape will not be under his control. ”

"I don't understand." Xi Ying said.

"Then you'll have to wait and see." Han Qian said in a tricky manner.

Seeing that Han Qian was making a fuss, Xi Ying asked again: "Jinling has really had a big change in two years?" ”

"Just wait and see." Han Qian said.

Xi Ying couldn't wait to kick Han Qian's feet, and said in his heart to see your mother's head.

Han Qian set up the Zuo Division, divided into the sub-room, the military room, and the craftsman's workshop, in addition to the engineer and scout, he trained nearly 100 secret agents and chazi in two years, but according to the need, these secret spies and chazi were mainly lurking in Jinling, Shouzhou, the base camp of his cousin Xu Mingzhen, Chuzhou, the base of King Xin, and Bianjing, the capital of the Great Liang State.

Emperor Tianwei was determined to cut down the domain of Tanzhou, leaving Han Qian with very limited time, he didn't want to leave a flaw, not only did he not have the ability to mobilize this part of the secret force to lurk in Tanzhou, but even escaped from Kaijinling, and "abandoned" most of the chazi and secret agents.

After Zheng Hui, Yuan Guowei, and Zheng Xingxuan arrived in Xuzhou, Han Qian resumed his command of these spies, but Tanzhou was already vigilant at that time, and outsiders could not enter Tanzhou at all, and the simplicity and inconvenience of the means of information transmission in the world at that time, even if the information detected by Chazi and secret agents was sent to Han Qian's case, it was already old news that was almost more than a month behind.

Even so, Han Qian still saw some strange clues from these old news.

Last year, there were rumors circulating in Tanzhou that his father and son cooperated with Emperor Tianyou to cut the domain, of course, it was not that no one in Tanzhou was wary of such rumors, but they did not get Ma Yin's attention, but Jinling did not spread such rumors, if Han Qian still noticed the weirdness in this, it would be too dull.

Han Qian couldn't help but think of the situation when he was summoned by Emperor Tianyou in Chongwen Hall that night, and the sweet and greasy fragrance emitted by the few big candles lit in Chongwen Hall really impressed him.

Although Han Qian had asked people to investigate this matter, but his "absconding from Xuzhou" was too realistic, affected by this matter, the Chazi and secret spies who stayed in Jinling were in chaos, even if Jiang Shu and Yuan Guowei took over the relevant affairs, but the people were panicked, and the matter was suspended, and no clear information has been transmitted so far.

However, the crown prince and King Xin cooperated so well with the reduction of Tanzhou, others might think that the majesty of Emperor Tianyou was solemn, but in Han Qian's opinion, this was just silence before the arrival of a greater storm.

Han Qian originally planned to wait for the coming of the storm, and he tried his best to meet any requests and hints of Emperor Tianyou, not to treat a dying person at this juncture, but Feng Yu was somewhat impatient, so he had to give him a small reminder, lest he have any unnecessary moves, so that Emperor Tianyou secretly deployed in Xuzhou's eyeliner to look over, causing unnecessary suspicion.

Of course, Han Qian also hoped that he could successfully cut down the Tanzhou domain before the biggest storm broke out in Jinling, and only in this way could the three princes really be able to thwart the conspiracy of the crown prince and King Xin......

Yes, Han Qian had no doubt that the crown prince (Anning Palace) and King Xin of Chuzhou were plotting something!