"General Zhihe is really fast in dispatching troops, the state soldiers in Shao Heng and other places haven't been pulled out to Ezhou yet, right? In this way, many soldiers and horses can directly meet outside Chizhou City! ”

Before Han Qian returned, Li Pu, Gu Zhilong, Chen Mingsheng, Li Xiu, Wen Ruilin and others were first accompanied by Feng Yi and Feng Xuan into the public hall of the embassy, drinking tea and laughing while waiting for Han Qian's return.

The original plan was to wait until the end of October for the troops and horses of Hunan Prefectures to rush to Ezhou to complete the assembly, and then advance by land and water to force Jiangzhou.

However, the Caizhou army of Liang moved eastward in mid-September and entered Chuzhou, and Yueyang was worried that after the Chuzhou army withdrew northward, the main force of the Nanya Forbidden Army would advance westward at any time to reinforce Jiangchi and Chizhou, greatly increasing the difficulty of their eastward advance.

Jiangzhou governed Pengze, Xunyang, Chiwu, Duchang and other counties, and before the war, the defenders gathered nearly 20,000 local soldiers and horses, most of whom were half assembled in the two cities of Xunyang and Chiwu on the west flank of Poyang Lake.

The two cities of Xunyang and Chiwu, sandwiched between Jiugong Mountain, Lushan Mountain and the Yangtze River, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the defenders have strong combat effectiveness, and the city is extremely strong - Xunyang is a thousand-year-old famous city that has been continuously built and strengthened since the Qin Dynasty.

Jiangzhou Assassin Zhou Ang was a general of the Guangling Jiedu Embassy in his early years, and his sister was Xu Mingzhen's successor, loyal to Anning Palace and Xu's family, and there were many generals such as Zhong Yanhu and Zhou Zhao who could be called the rising stars of Great Chu.

Everyone still thought that even if Anning Palace did not have reinforcements to move westward, it could take Jiangzhou at a relatively low cost within two months, which would be considered quite smooth.

In fact, after Li Zhihe left the town of Ezhou, he had already drawn up a detailed plan for attacking Jiangzhou, marched eastward along the land and water, and advanced to force Chiwu City on the west flank of Jiangzhou, and at the same time sent an elite army to abandon the extremely convenient Yangtze River waterway, but to climb over the steep mountains in the southern region of Jiangsu and Hubei Prefectures, and lurk in the mountains and forests between Xunyang and Chiwu.

When Zhong Yanhu sent 3,000 elites to reinforce Chiwu City, he used the Wuya Army Naval Division to attract the Jiangzhou Water Battalion warship to the mouth of the Hengjin River, and used ambushes to seize the Hengjin River ferry between Chiwu and Xunyang City from the flank and rear, burned the pontoon bridge, and cut off the retreat of Zhong Yanhu's department.

At this time, Li Zhihe personally led the main force to abandon the plan to attack Chiwu City, turned his head to encircle and annihilate Zhong Yanhu's troops on the west bank of the Hengjin River, captured the Jiangzhou warrior Zhong Yanhu alive, and severely damaged the morale of the defenders......

Everyone sat in the hall of the public hall and listened to the messenger from Jiangzhou tell in detail about the details of Li Zhihe's attack on Jiangzhou, and Gu Zhilong and other generals who knew the military affairs also felt that Li Zhihe's attack on Jiangzhou was very remarkable.

Outsiders don't know the gap between Li Zhihe and the Marquis of Xinchang's mansion, but they only know that Li Zhihe is the adopted son of Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang, and the most core and dazzling military general of the Marquis of Xinchang - Wei Zhen, Zhou Yuanhe and others are still praising Li Zhihe in front of Li Pu at this time?

After all, Yueyang is in the family, and if it is possible to say that it is possible to keep pace with Han Qian in the matter of commanding the army and governing the army, it is only Li Zhihe, Zheng Hui and other two or three people, Li Xiu, Li Mo, Zheng Xingxuan and other rising stars, who have not yet had the opportunity to independently lead the army to fight.

Even if it was Li Xiu and Li Mo, they could feel the estrangement between Li Zhihe and the officials of the Marquis of Xinchang, but they at least regarded Li Zhihe as their brother, and at this time, they were sincerely happy for Li Zhihe's successful capture of Jiangzhou.

Feng Yi, who knew the inside story best, sat quietly on the side and saw Li Pu's gloomy old face......

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When Han Qian returned to Langxi City, he happened to encounter a torrential rain, so he first went back to the back house to change his robe and armor that was soaked by the rain, and listened to Feng Yi, who was waiting for him to come back in the inner house, about Li Pu and others waiting in the front government hall, and asked with a smile: "Do they have the courage to come to Langxi City this time?" ”

It has been almost two months since the official establishment of the Guangde Army and the embassy, but Li Pu, Gu Zhilong, Chen Mingsheng, Li Xiu, Wei Zhen, Zhou Yuanhe and others have all been

It was incorporated into the Guangde Army sequence, but it rarely came to Langxi City.

At least it is impossible for all of these people to enter Langxi City at the same time.

They were more or less wary that the unruly Han Qian would make an unreasonable move.

If Han Qian was bold and reckless, played his cards according to common sense, and detained them all, wouldn't he be blind?

However, this time, they all walked into Langxi City without any scruples, waiting for Han Qian to return from the north.

"The Jiangxi Recruitment Army and the Yangtze Recruitment Army have a total of 1230,000 soldiers and horses, so smoothly captured the cities of Xunyang, Pengze, Chiwu and other cities to which Jiangzhou belongs, and opened up the passage under the city of Chizhou - and at this time, the garrison of Anning Palace in Chizhou was less than 10,000. Even if the Chuzhou army has more than 40,000 soldiers and horses on the south bank, they will all withdraw to the north bank in these two or three days, so that Anning Palace can send more reinforcements to the Chizhou line as quickly as possible, but if you want to resist the 120,000 main troops and horses of Yueyang on the two roads to the west of Chizhou and not advance eastward, it is not possible at present, right? Previously optimistically estimated, Yueyang Sanlu soldiers and horses can meet in Jinling City as soon as the year before the year, and it seems that the time may be pushed forward for another month, and the current situation of Anning Palace may not dare to fight on three fronts," Feng Yi said, "Now Li Pu, Gu Zhilong and others are bent on recovering Jinling, assisting His Highness to succeed to the throne, and then dividing such a big incense dumpling, of course, we are not afraid of what we are playing in secret at this time." In any case, if you really want to fight for power again, it will have to be after His Highness succeeds to the throne......"

"You've seen it through now!" Han Qian smiled and said.

"People are always growing," Feng Yitian replied shamelessly, thought of something again, and said, "After Li Pu came over, he specially asked Zhang Ping to send someone to invite your old man over, and he should also go to the front office at this time, right?" ”

Hearing Feng Yi say this, Han Qian was slightly stunned.

After persuading Gu Zhilong to surrender, Han Jun returned to Yueyang with Yuan Guowei, and then Yuan Guowei returned to Xuanzhou, but Han Jun stayed in Yueyang and did not follow him again; Han Daochang then went to Raozhou to serve as the assassin, and the old man's body could no longer withstand the bumps in the road, so he stayed in Langxi City to recuperate.

Although it was claimed to the public that it was after prior discussion to lure Gu Zhishan out of the cave, Han Qian himself could not take it seriously.

And when Li Pu and Zheng Yu were tempted by Wang Wenqian in Qiuhu Mountain and decided to give up their father, the old man did not come forward to stop him in Qiuhu Mountain, and Han Qian could not be completely free of mustard in his heart.

So for more than two months, Han Qian didn't even go to the old man's house to recuperate, at most occasionally sent Xi Ying or Feng Yi over to greet him.

Han Qian was stunned for a while, and when Xi Ying served him and put on his crimson official clothes, fastened his cow leather belt, and wore a sword, he walked to the front of the government hall with Feng Yi, Guo Ke, Kong Xirong and others......

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"Dare to ask Lord Han, when will the main force of the German army in Zuoguang mobilize and assemble and march north from Nantang Village?"

Seeing Han Qian, accompanied by Guo Ke, Kong Xirong and others, walk into the courtyard from the outside, and stand in front of the corridor of the public hall to greet Li Pu and others, he couldn't wait to ask.

Although under the advance of the Liang army, in mid-to-late September, Yang Yuanyan, the king of Xin, was forced to withdraw to the north bank with Ruan Yan, the envoy of Zhongmen, and others, led a part of the elite soldiers and horses of the Chuzhou army to strengthen the defense of Chuzhou, the foundation of Chuzhou, but in order to have more time to plunder more resources and slaves in the three states of Su Runchang, Yang Yuanyan played Wang Wenqian, who was in charge of the secretary and deputy envoy of Chuzhou's defense, and led Rao Geng, Zhao Zhen and other generals, and led nearly 50,000 elite soldiers and horses to stay on the south bank.

Under such circumstances, not only was the main force of the Nanya Forbidden Army unable to move westward to strengthen the defense of Jiangchi and other prefectures, but after the Guangde Army integrated local troops and horses, its strength expanded to more than 40,000 people, and there was no way to immediately go north to recover Lishui, Liyang and other cities -- the three parties were still in a state of entanglement and stalemate in the past month or so.

Of course, the southern side is mainly Han Qian's side that is too negative.

No matter how Li Pu prompted it, Zuo Guang's German army only retained a small number of elite combat forces and retreated to Langxi City and Nantang Village.

In addition to having nothing to do with Han Qian, the situation at that time had not yet been completely clear, Li Pu and Gu Zhilong themselves were a little bottomless, and naturally they did not dare to let the main force of the Youguang German Army be too prominent on the western flank, let alone go directly

Seize the strategic points on the first line of Maoshan and Lishui City.

At present, the remnants of the Chuzhou army have been looted on the south bank for more than a month, and a large number of slaves and maids and materials have been transported to Yangtai and other places to be hoarded, in the case of Yueyang's main force quickly capturing Xunyang and Pengze, I believe that Wang Wenqian will soon lead the remaining soldiers and horses of the Chuzhou army to cross the river and retreat north, Li Pu has no intention of biting the Chuzhou army, but he does not want to recover the merits and light of Jinling, which are occupied by the other two armies.

At this time, Li Pu hoped that Han Qian could make further mobilization of Zuo Guangde's army as soon as possible and be ready to advance north at any time.

"Zhihe and the prince of Yuzhang County have captured Xunyang, Peng Ze and others so smoothly, no matter how late Wang Wenqian is, they should all withdraw to the north bank within three days,"

Han Qian led the crowd into the public hall, and when he saw the old man sitting in the public hall, he bowed his head slightly, and stood in front of the terrain map, and said to everyone,

"Three days later, as long as the Chuzhou army withdraws as scheduled, Zuo Guang's German army will divide a part of the elite soldiers and horses to the north and take over the three cities of Liyang, Jintan, and Yangyang - I believe that the Huanghua of Huzhou Thorn Shi should not wait and see at this time, and maybe ask Lord Zhang to work hard again, and immediately go to Changxing County to see Huanghua. If Huang Hua is willing to send his two sons to Langxi City to serve in front of him at this time, Li Houye and I will ensure that he will serve as the deputy envoy of the Guangde Army, and he will immediately divide his troops to recover the two states of Changzhou, and stabilize the situation in these two states from deteriorating - Li Houye, do you think it is good to arrange the eastern flank in this way? ”

"The German army of Zuoguang only took over the three cities of Liyang, Jintan, and Yangyang, can it be said that the German army of Zuoguang will maintain the current elite combat strength of 10,000 people and will not make further mobilization?" Li Pu stared at Han Qian with blazing eyes and asked.

After Zuo Guang's German army captured Langxi and Gu Zhilong surrendered, Huzhou's attitude towards the yellowing of the assassin Shi had softened.

After Yang Yuanyan, the king of letters, led a part of the elite of the Chuzhou army to cross the river and retreat north, Zhou Qinian, a famous man from Huzhou, took the opportunity of traveling to Langxi and Xuancheng to visit Li Pu, Gu Zhilong and others.

Although Zhou Qinian did not hold a formal high-ranking official position, but during the reign of Dong Chang, the king of Yue, he was the suzerain of the Huang family, the step father of Huanghua, and Huang Wenyi, the former assassin of Xiuzhou, as a guest of honor - Dong Chang, the king of Yue, was defeated, and the two Zhejiang were merged into the Great Chu, Zhou Qinian did not accept the conquest of Emperor Tianyou to enter the court as an official, he lived in the countryside and taught for a living in Huhang, but he was quite famous in Huhang, and Huang Hua and Wu Zun, who served as the assassin of Hangzhou at this time, had a very personal relationship.

Zhou Qinian traveled to Langxuan and other places in September and October, and came into contact with the family gate lords in these places, to put it bluntly, for Huang Hua and Wu Zun, he closely observed the situation in Guangde's embassy and Jinling in the north, so that they could make the final choice.

At present, the main force of Yueyang's soldiers and horses has successfully captured Jiangzhou, and Hunan and Jiangxi are completely connected.

Zhang Ping went to Huzhou to persuade Huang Hua to send his heir to Langxi as a hostage, and then gathered Huzhou soldiers and horses to go north to recover Chang and other places, Li Pu did not think there would be any problems.

And to give Zhang Ping the credit for persuading Huanghua, Li Pu didn't feel that there was any problem, anyway, after recovering Jinling, who would have nothing to do to fight with Zhang Ping for the position of the inner court?

However, after the Chuzhou army completely withdrew, Zuo Guang's German army only thought about sending troops to take over the three counties of Jintan, Liyang, and Yangyang?

After the capture of Langxi City, Zuoguang's German army still had 24,000 troops at that time, and then it was greatly reduced and reorganized, in the view of Xinchang Hou Lipu, even if Han Qian did not make further mobilization, before Zuoguang's German army advanced north, how should it be restored to the previous strength of 24,000 people!

And his intention to come over with a group of people today is to persuade Han Qian to immediately carry out a general mobilization of the German army in Zuoguang.

The army along the Yangtze River is planned to be expanded to 80,000, and the number of troops assembled or deployed on the way has reached more than 85,000. The Jiangxi Recruitment Army also actually had more than 45,000 people, and after they collected and merged the soldiers and horses of the two prefectures, the Youguang German Army was also expanded to more than 25,000 people.

Li Pu looked at Zhang Ping, thinking to himself if he, the envoy of the prison army, continued to make decorations at this time, and had no intention of restraining and urging Han Qian on behalf of Yue Yang?

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