August 15, 14th year of Jianxing.

Mid-Autumn Festival, reunion night.

Xu Shisong, the new commander of the Shenwu Rear Army of the Great Zhou Dynasty, stood in front of his camp tent, holding his head high and quietly admiring the moonlight.

A few months ago, Xu Shisong left Qi Province and took Li Feihu's sea ship to send Princess Renfu and half of the palace maids, eunuchs, monks, and about 2,000 forbidden officers and soldiers back to Jiangnan.

The journey was smooth, but when he was about to arrive at his destination, Xu Shisong got the news that the Fang La Rebellion Army was besieging Jinling.

Xu Shisong immediately made a decision, ordered the fleet to turn, landed near Jinling, and flanked the besieging Fangla army from the east.

At that time, Fang Lazheng personally led 200,000 rebel troops to block Tong Guan, Gao Yu and Xu Shiliu in the west, and at the same time ordered his general Fang Qifo to lead 100,000 people to attack Jinling.

Jinling's defender, Prince Wuyi, held the city, and Fang Qifo and Nine could not attack.

No one thought that at this time, a new force would suddenly appear in the east.

After Xu Shisong landed, he just took a short rest and immediately launched an attack, although Fang Qifo's army was numerous, but its combat effectiveness was not strong - the core of the anti-army was dominated by Jianghu rangers and green forest high-rollers from all over the south of the Yangtze River, and it was okay to fight bravely and ruthlessly, but they were not familiar with the real war at all, and the number of this core was also very small, and most of the others were people who were coerced.

Xu Shisong led 2,000 soldiers of the forbidden army who had experienced the expansion war of Qingzhou, and broke through the encirclement of Jinling by the rebel army with a single charge.

Wang Ziwu immediately went out of the city to respond, and Xu Shisong should join forces with the outside, flanking Fang Qifo, the anti-army collapsed, and trampled on each other under the pursuit of the Zhou army, and was pursued by Wang Ziwu and Xu Shisong for dozens of miles.

In the end, only a few thousand of the 100,000 rebels merged with Fang La's main force.

When the attack on Jinling failed, Fang La had to try to turn south and try to find a new opportunity, but the southward operation was also attacked by Xu Shiliu, so it failed.

At the beginning of August, the total number of Zhou troops from all walks of life was nearly 300,000, and the 200,000 rebel troops in Fang La were completely surrounded.

At about the same time that Xu Shiyang was holding a victory celebration meeting in Qi Province, because of the brilliant victory under Jinling City, Xu Shisong was appointed by Emperor Jianxing of the Great Zhou Dynasty as the commander of the Shenwu Rear Army, and jumped from a civilian to a four-rank military general in the imperial court in one fell swoop!

Moreover, the 2,000 forbidden troops who came back from Jiangbei have all been under his command, and with the addition of 3,000 auxiliary soldiers selected from the rebel army, Xu Shisong has become a powerful general with 5,000 troops.

Xu Shisong, who originally planned to return to Qi Province to fight the Tartars, was forced to stay in Dazhou because of the war in Jiangnan.

When he finally found time to return to Jiangbei, news came from Qi Province that the Qingzhou army had broken the Tartars, and the war over there had been won!

Xu Shisong thought that there was no point in going back now - when everyone was facing the onslaught of the Tartars, he was dealing with a gang of rabble in Jiangnan, and going back after everyone won the battle, which would give people the feeling that they were going to grab the credit.

It's better to stay in Jiangnan altogether, anyway, everyone is loyal to the imperial court.

Well, he didn't know, or deliberately blinded himself, that he couldn't see that most of the people in the Xu family actually had no loyalty to the Great Zhou court, except for himself.

Xu Shisong wants to stay in Jiangnan, and the real internal reason is probably this - he supports his uncle and cousins to put his father under house arrest, which is a great rebellion in the feudal era, so Xu Shisong has made up his mind that there is no way out to never rebel again.

It's just that, after all, most of the relatives in the family are in Qi Province, and on this kind of reunion night, Xu Shisong is still a little homesick.

Now he is participating in the siege of Fang La in his own military camp.

Tong Guan, the commander of the Zhou army and the privy envoy, seemed to be a little afraid of the huge strength of Fang La's army, so he chose a more stable method of warfare - surround 200,000 people with 300,000 people, besiege the rebel army to the death, and limit the scope of activities of the rebel army, so that Fang La could not be replenished with food and grass, and could not increase his strength by coercing more people.

Tong Guan did not attack, but he would never give Fang La a chance to break through, let time consume Fang La's strength little by little, and wait for the fruits of victory to ripen.

Xu Shisong didn't want to evaluate Tong Shumi's strategy, after all, this strategy was indeed a foolproof method.

But ......, after all, Xu Shisong was the one who once cooperated with the Jinling defenders to break the 100,000 rebel army with 2,000 people, and he had a clear understanding of the actual combat effectiveness of the Vara army - it was stronger than the bandits, but the land battle was estimated to be inferior to the Japanese and even more incomparable than the Tatars.

If Tong Guan continues to drag on, he will naturally be able to win, but if Fang La is not removed for a day, the court will not be at peace for a day.

The war is concentrated in the core of the imperial court, and if the war drags on for a day, the finances of the imperial court will inevitably deteriorate even more, so that even if Fang La is killed, I am afraid that there will be another round wax or triangular wax in the future.

Xu Shisong, who had already made up his mind to be a loyal minister, was worried about this.

"General."

A nice female voice sounded beside Xu Shisong.

He turned his head and saw that it was one of Princess Renfu's personal maids.

"Girl, what does the princess command?"

After Xu Shisong returned to Jiangnan, he immediately participated in the counterinsurgency war, and never went to Lin'an City, Princess Renfu didn't know what to think, and she didn't take the initiative to leave, but always followed Xu Shisong's army.

The little palace maid held an expensive red velvet cloak in both hands and looked at Xu Shisong with adoring eyes:

"General, the weather has turned cold at this time, and the princess instructed the slave maid to send a cloak to the general to protect against the cold."

"Your Highness has bothered with humiliation!" Xu Shisong hurriedly bowed.

I don't know why, after Xu Shisong won the Battle of Jinling with 2,000 and 100,000, Princess Renfu seemed to be a little caring for him.

It seems that ......, well, it seems that the princess has some interest in him.

This is not difficult to understand, after all, the princess was almost given to the Tartar by her father, and after such a terrible thing, it is also an instinct for young girls to want to cling to men who are strong in force and reliable.

Xu Shisong just wanted to reach out and take the cloak, but the palace maid actually stepped forward directly, gently shook off the luxurious red cloak, and put it on him with her own hands!

Xu Shisong was stunned for a moment, are the girls in Jiangnan so open?

"Slave Caihe, I wish the general a victory!" The girl blushed, stared at Xu Shisong's eyes boldly, said her heart word by word, and then turned around and ran away.

Only Xu Shisong was left speechless.

"Am I so charismatic?"

After a long while, Xu Shisong whispered to himself:

"Are there really so many girls who like me?"

Well, if the princess really marries him, then as the princess's personal palace maid, the Caihe girl just now should also enter his mansion as a dowry, right?

It's also normal to make a good impression on the man in advance.

Xu Shisong found that he had found another reason to be loyal to Da Zhou.