In early September, outside the city of Suiyang, Songzhou, the autumn wind is blowing, and the yellow leaves have fallen from the treetops, making people feel that the autumn is strong.

Thousands of soldiers outside the city waved their flags and thundered with joy.

The fire was still burning on the ruined city walls, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of burning oil mixed with firewood and corpses.

The gap torn open by the whirlwind cannon is like a shocking wound on the city.

When the field of vision was pulled closer, there were broken halberds, bows and spears everywhere, and the rammed earth city wall full of huge cracks was densely packed with arrows, and the corpses with broken limbs and broken arms and arrows stuck in their bodies were lying on top of the city wall, and in the gap of the collapse of the city wall, they were planted in the moat more than ten zhang wide.

In order to overcome the dangerous city walls and wide moats of Suiyang City, the attacking side requisitioned tens of thousands of strong men outside the east city gate, and carried a basket of soil to the city with arrows and flying stones as dense as locusts, and filled in the moat ditch that was more than ten zhang wide, and piled up a ramp more than a few zhang wide, which was directly filled to the same height as the battlement wall at the head of the city, so that thousands of soldiers could directly kill the city head from this ramp.

For more than a month, in order to build this climbing ramp, countless civilians were killed by arrows and stoned, and the corpses were directly filled into the ramp, increasing the height of the ramp, and the soldiers of both sides who died in this ramp were soaked in black with blood.

"Your Majesty, look!" A rider rode his horse straight in front of the guarded array, and only turned over and dismounted before the big tent approached, and then threw a body hunched on the horse's back directly to the ground, causing a burst of flying dust, the rider knelt down on one knee in front of Zhu Yu, and said, "Your Majesty wants to catch Feng Ting's mouth alive, but the last general will lead people into the courtyard where Feng Tingge lives, and this soldier will strangle his wife and concubine, his young son Feng Yanzhang and his two grandsons who are less than ten years old, and then draw his sword and kill himself, and he can't catch the live mouth, it's a pity......"

Zhu Yu, who was wearing brocade and brown armor, stood silently in front of the big tent, Lei Jiuyuan took a step forward and saw a large wound left between the neck of Feng Tingye's corpse, and his clothes and armor were already stained with blood.

Feng Tingye is the cavalry general who followed Liang Taizu to create the foundation of the Great Liang and relied on the most, and Qin Shixiong, Gao Jihai, Han Jian and called the famous general of the Great Liang, before Zhu Yu usurped the throne, he was the deputy envoy of the privy council, the commander of the Bianjing Horse Army, and the supreme commander of the cavalry camp of the Great Liang Forbidden Army.

Han Jian was killed by his nephew Han Yuanqi, Feng Tingye killed himself, and two of the four famous generals who laid the foundation of the Great Liang have died; Although Qin Shixiong, the original Wei Bo Jiedu envoy, was ordered to enter Bianjing as a privy envoy, he was drunk every day, singing red and wine, for fear that he would be killed if he crossed the slightest, only Gao Jihai was injured, and at this time, he insisted on resisting the southern attack of the Jin army in Zhongmu City with his sick and weak body.

The older generation of the Liang can be regarded as withering the stars at this time.

And the battle of Suiyang in Songzhou, before and after nearly three months of fierce battles, the generals on both sides were killed and wounded more than 60,000 people, even if the rebels who followed Feng Tingye suffered much more casualties than Xuanjia, but the losses were always the elite of the Liang, and the injuries were the vitality of the Liang.

Han Yuanqi, Chen Kun, Jing Zhen and others rode horses and galloped, dismounted in front of the big tent to see the new emperor Zhu Yu, and said: "Except for a small number of remnants of about seven or eight hundred people who broke through and fled to Chenzhou, after meeting with King Bo, Feng Tingyi's headquarters was completely annihilated in this battle - and then the army waved to Chenzhou, and Your Majesty may be able to return to Bianjing in time for the previous year." ”

"No," Zhu Yu's thoughts suddenly retracted at this time, shook his head and said, "Chen Kun led his troops to stay in Songzhou and recruit the displaced people to resume farming, Yuan Qi, you and Jing Zhen immediately led their troops to Xuzhou ......."

"Xuzhou! At this time, the army went to Xuzhou? Han Yuanqi and Jing Zhen both asked suspiciously.

Xuzhou defense envoy Sima Dan, after offering allegiance, he sent dozens of small relatives to Bianjing to live, the loyalty of Xuzhou soldiers and horses should not be questioned, and in a short period of time they should not take advantage of the victory to pursue, completely eliminate the Bo King Zhu Qi retreat to Chenzhou

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With the remnants of 20,000 people, will all the prefectures and counties of Daliang be completely brought under the rule of Bianjing?

How could it be that at such a critical moment, when it was necessary to give Bo King Zhu Qi a respite, he had to transfer the main forces to the Eastern Front?

Could it be that Sima Dan sent his heirs to Bianjing as hostages, deliberately using a plan to hide from the sky and cross the sea, and when he returned to Bianjing on the surface, what other ambitions did he actually have?

Zhu Yu spread out his hand and handed a secret letter to Han Yuanqi and Chen Kun, who had been concentrating on supporting the siege battle.

"Gu Zhilong joined Yueyang, and Yang Zhitang then fell over, he will also turn too fast, right?" Han Yuanqi gasped, thinking that their progress was fast enough, where did he think that the civil strife in Dachu would subside so quickly at this time.

"Gu Zhilong surrendered to Yueyang, and after the Xuanzhou soldiers merged with the Chishan Army and Qiuhu Mountain, it meant that Yang Yuanyan, the king of letters, and Anning Palace completely lost the initiative in the southern wing. Although Yang Zhitang's subordinates did not have elite soldiers and strong generals, the main thing was that although Emperor Tianyou used the clan, he also deliberately prevented someone from sitting in the clan, but Yang Zhitang's ability to judge the situation was not bad, and Yang En and Yang Jian were the three main pillars of the Yang clan, which was beyond the reach of Yang Tai's old guy," Zhu Yu stood in front of the big tent with his hands in his hands and said, "This thing means that Poyang Lake, Dongting Lake, and more than 20 states along the Ganjiang, Xiangshui, and Yuanshui rivers will all be merged into Yueyang in the next two or three months." If everything goes well, Yang Yuanpu will probably be able to complete a new round of troop mobilization by the end of October, and by then there will be 167,000 troops and horses on the three routes, and Yang Yuanpu will probably be able to descend on Jinling City before the end of the year......"

"I led my troops to Xuzhou to force Yang Yuanyan to withdraw his troops from Jiangnan as soon as possible, so that Anning Palace could free up his hands to kill Yueyang's soldiers and horses?" Han Wonqi asked.

"I hope it's in time." Zhu Yu sighed.

"Maybe it's too late, right?"

As the commander of the Chengtian Division, Jing Zhen had a better understanding of the internal situation of the Chu State, the deployment of soldiers and horses, and the mentality of the local forces in Zhuzhou County, and said,

"Gu Zhilong and Yang Zhitang have joined one after another, Yueyang only needs a letter to recruit Sherao Fuji, Ganshao Prefecture, Yueyang also estimates that a new round of troop build-up can be completed by the end of October, and there is no exaggeration, and Li Zhihe and Gao Chengyuan's troops can even use troops against Jiangzhou in advance without waiting for the completion of the assembly of troops. And in such a short period of time, when the food and straw of Anning Palace were in short supply for a long time, there was no way to make such a big adjustment in the defensive deployment, at most, the troops were gathered on the west flank of Jinling to resist Yueyang's soldiers and horses, but it was also difficult to last. Why didn't we let Yang Yuanyan stay on the south bank of the Yangtze River, but instead forced them to retreat to the north bank of the Yangtze River? Yang Yuanyan wants to be rigid and self-serving, but the army is definitely not weak, even if the Chuzhou army will be defeated in the end, it can also make Yueyang's soldiers and horses suffer a lot of vitality, right? ”

The Nanya Forbidden Army and the Shouzhou Army in Jiangzhou and Chizhou on the western front currently have a total of less than 30,000 soldiers and horses to prevent Yueyang soldiers and horses from advancing eastward.

Before Yang Zhitang surrendered, although Yue Yang was able to gather forty or fifty thousand soldiers and horses in Ezhou and Huangzhou, it was obvious that he did not dare to attack Jiangzhou easily, and now the situation is completely different.

Not only can Yueyang mobilize troops and horses to gather in Ezhou to the greatest extent, but at the same time, Yang Zhitang is very likely to gather more than 40,000 soldiers and horses south of Jiangzhou before the end of October.

Even if the Chuzhou army chooses to retreat north as soon as possible, it is impossible for 100,000 soldiers and horses and a large number of materials to be completely withdrawn in three or five days, and when the time comes, there may be less than a month left for Anning Palace to adjust its deployment?

In just one month, how could Anning Palace be able to ignore the containment of Han Qian and Gu Zhilong's troops on the southern front, and transfer a large number of elite soldiers to Jiangzhou as quickly as possible, destroying the combat intention of Yueyang's main force to enter Jinling City?

The situation in the Chu State reversed too quickly, so fast that not to mention them, even the Anning Palace in the bureau was caught off guard!

"Yes, if we force the Chuzhou army to retreat north at this time, it will only prompt the local forces in Huhang to see the wind and rudder and quickly throw themselves to Yueyang, right?" Han Yuanqi thought about it, and he led the main force of the Caizhou Army to move to Xuzhou at this time.

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It would only make the situation more favorable to Yueyang and Yang Yuanpu, and he couldn't help but sigh and said, "But speaking of which, no one really thought that Han Qian would gather a group of rabble and reverse the situation on the periphery of Jinling in such a short period of time." ”

"Han Qian is too strong, before June, who would have thought that Yue Yang would have such an opportunity?" Chen Kun couldn't help but sigh with emotion, he once judged that the situation in the Chu State was much more chaotic than their Great Liang, where did he think that such an insignificant chess piece of the Chishan Army would play such a big role?

Yang Zhitang's grandson is too unprincipled and insistent, they originally expected Yang Zhitang to have greater ambitions and stir up the situation in Chu State even more!

"Yang Yuanyan is not without the opportunity to curb the Chishan Army, in fact, there are two excellent opportunities, both of which were missed - Yang Yuanyan is still too rigid and self-serving." Lei Jiuyuan said with a deep groan.

Lei Jiuyuan admitted that Han Qian was powerful, but from the information he had collected so far, it also showed that Han Qian was not so strong that he was completely unbalanced.

"No," Zhu Yu shook his head slightly, and said with his hand, "Yang Yuanyan with Wang Wenqian's help is definitely not weak, but Han Qian is too strong." Yuan Qi led the main force of the Caizhou Army to Xuzhou, which could help Yang Yuanpu capture Jinling more easily, but Yang Yuanpu succeeded to the throne of Emperor Chu here, and it is not in my eyes, and the people in the world who can really threaten my Liang are probably Han Qian, except for the Mengwu people who have no power to fight the Jin army from the north. Han Qian gathered three or four hundred thousand old and weak women and children in the north of Xuanzhou, so that the Chuzhou army and Anning Palace were at a loss, and we couldn't give Han Qian enough time to digest these three or four hundred thousand old and weak women and children. ”

"Ahh Han Yuanqi, Chen Kun, Lei Jiuyuan, Jing Zhen and others were all stunned, but they didn't expect His Majesty to arrange this, the most fundamental purpose was to prevent Han Qian from having enough time to digest the old and weak women and children gathered between Fuyu Mountain and Jieling Mountain, and even did not hesitate to directly send troops to force the main force of the Chuzhou Army to withdraw to the north bank to help Yang Yuanpu recover the Jiangnan region in the fastest time.

After Zhu Yu broke it, the more Lei Jiuyuan, Han Yuanqi, Chen Kun, Jing Zhen and others thought about it, the more this truth came:

The Dragon Bird Army and the Chishan Army have all transformed from a group of rabble of mud feet into jaw-dropping elite soldiers, but the burden of the Chishan Army is too heavy and too big, and it is on the side of Jinling's couch, as long as they can help Yang Yuanpu recover the gold insurance in the fastest time, and help Yang Yuanpu gather the forces of the local family lords in Jiangnan in the fastest time, then the monarchs and ministers of the Chu State will not be able to tolerate Han Qian taking root only more than a hundred miles away from Jinling, and they will also have the ability to force Han Qian to hand over the military power of the Chishan Army.

Not to mention that Yang Yuanpu was already suspicious of Han Qian at this time.

And if the time drags on for a year and a half, or if the main force of the Yueyang Army is greatly injured by Yang Yuanyan, then it is really difficult to say.

"In addition to these, my Liang soldiers and horses also need time to rest!" Zhu Yu then said with emotion.

Han Yuanqi turned his head to look at the corpses in Suiyang City in the distance, knowing that in successive battles, Da Liang's vitality was extremely injured, and the situation was actually more severe than that of Chu State.

Not only is the army suffering heavy casualties so far and needs to rest, but more importantly, the Central Plains will have less than a month to go into winter.

For the time being, they have not been able to complete the elimination of the remnants of Bowang Zhu Qi within a month, and when the time comes, the siege of the city will become more difficult, and the uncertain factors will also increase greatly.

Compared with the previous invasion of Jingxiang, Shouhuai and other places, the army could collect grain on the spot and plunder the troops to solve a considerable part of the supply problem, but at present, they are fighting in the territory, not only to transfer the grain of the soldiers to other aspects, but also to bear the responsibility of relocating and relieving the refugees, entering the cold winter of heavy snow to close the road and the river, the supply of grain and straw will also become more tight.

The previous campaign that lasted for many years and the fratricidal fighting within the Great Liang in the past year, the Jin army also strengthened the offensive against the Great Liang from Zhongmu, Weibo, Hedong and other places in the past year, and the pressure on the Great Liang was extremely great, and it really needed time to breathe a sigh of relief.

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