Jingshan Nunnery is the name of a market port at the southeast foot of Baohua Mountain, there is a nunnery hall built in the early years, so it is named, it is located in the water and land intersection of Runzhou City leading to Jin, and Longhua Town, Yanling Port is the same, it is a large town where business travelers gather in the periphery of Jinling, and people live intensively.

Xu Zhu, the general of the Anning Palace and the deputy commander of the military camp, was on the side of a low slope ten miles away on the west side of Jingshan Nunnery, and was beheaded by Yang Yuanyan, the king of letters.

More than 30,000 Nanya forbidden soldiers cried for their fathers and mothers, and were killed to the point of losing their armor, leaving corpses in one place, and bleeding and drifting.

By this time, in the long abandoned fields outside the town of Jingshan'an, it was still possible to pick up severed fingers, severed hands and feet that had been cut down and rotted from time to time.

The fence wall stretched for miles, connecting the ditches and enveloping the huge town, and in the past two months the temple has become a huge camp.

Tall and sturdy arrow towers were built one after another, and thick walls of rammed earth crisscrossed each other.

Although the camp city did not have a regular thick city wall, it also built a relatively reliable defense system through fence walls, moats, and a large number of obstacles such as horses and antlers.

Even if this part of the Nanya Forbidden Army led by Xu Zhu suffered heavy losses, the Nanya Forbidden Army, Lou Boat Army, Su Guard Army and Shouzhou Army controlled by Anning Palace together still had 160,000 soldiers and horses.

In particular, the Shouzhou Army, under the command of Xu Mingzhen, insisted on fighting against the Liang Army in the Huaixi region for many years, and its combat effectiveness was not under the Chuzhou Army, and it was far from being comparable to the newly formed Nanya Forbidden Army, which was unstable in the army.

Chu and Yang Prefectures on the north bank of the Yangtze River and east of Hongzepu, as the foundation of Chuzhou, need to be stationed with enough elite soldiers and horses to prevent Xu Mingzhen from raising troops to directly copy their back road, so Chuzhou recruited troops during this period and expanded the total strength to 120,000, but at present, only 50,000 elites can be transferred to cross the river.

On the south bank, the Chuzhou army is still at a great disadvantage in terms of troops, not to mention that Anning Palace is still constantly drawing elites from Shouzhou to strengthen the defense and strength of Jinling City.

At present, the Chuzhou army has crossed the river with 50,000 soldiers and horses, and Yang Yuanyan, the king of letters, personally led 30,000 elites as the vanguard, and was in Jingshan Nunnery, keeping an eye on the remnants of the Nanya Forbidden Army only 20 miles away from Qiuhu Mountain and the Shouzhou army stationed in Longhuabu and Jiangcheng City.

The other elite Chuzhou troops who crossed the river were mainly stationed on the front line of Dantu and Jingkou City in Beigushan.

Although the great victory of Jingshan'an greatly deterred the prefectures and counties east of Jinling, due to the disadvantage of the troops, the main direct control area of the Chuzhou army on the south bank of the Yangtze River at this time was still limited to the cities located in Runzhou, which were close to Dantu.

The farther states and counties mainly exchanged grain and grass for peaceful coexistence with the Chuzhou army.

And the farther away Huxiu, Hangyue and other states that are beyond the reach of the Chuzhou army for the time being, they are riding on the wall and watching, and they do not forget to seize the time to recruit troops and expand the state camp, so that when they have to make a choice in the future, they can hold more chips in their hands, and even these states have no shortage of careerists who are secretly planning something.

Therefore, as far as the overall situation is concerned, Chuzhou is far from being able to laugh out loud.

In this situation, the remnants of the Taowu army gathered troops brazenly attacked and seized Danyang, and then burned the remnants of the fire, the ordinary generals of the Chuzhou army were naturally angry, and they were extremely angry, and they couldn't wait to immediately gather troops and horses to tear the remnants of the Taowu army households to pieces, but the generals who really knew the general trend felt that it was like being stabbed hard in the harmful part of the waist and eye, and it seemed that there was not much bleeding, but it was painful.

Wang Wenqian was still in Beigushan yesterday afternoon, looking at the construction of Shuiying Dazhai over there, and when he learned about the attack on Danyang, he was not clear for a while, and he did not know whether it was Danyang that the Shouzhou army that crossed the river the day before yesterday had elite soldiers and horses that bypassed their reconnaissance network and attacked Danyang.

At that time, who could have guessed that it was Han Qian who sneaked to Jinling and took away the military power from the hands of Xinchang Marquis Li Pu?

Even though Qin Ran's side quickly figured out that it was the remnants of the Taowu army that attacked him, Wang Wenqian and the other Chuzhou generals were more worried that Yue Yang might be afraid of the strength of the Chuzhou army after the victory of Jingshan Nunnery, and secretly colluded with Anning Palace.

At that time, Chu Junzhou's soldiers and horses in Jingshan Nunnery were rumored to be loud, and they were more worried about what would happen to the elite of the Nanya Forbidden Army and the Shouzhou Army stationed in Longhuadu and Qiuhu Mountain than to immediately organize soldiers and horses to counterattack and retaliate.

Wang Wenqian also hurried to Jingkou, Dantu and other places as soon as possible to check whether there were loopholes in the defense to avoid being taken advantage of by the soldiers and horses of Anning Palace.

It was not until the early hours of this morning that Wang Wenqian rushed to Jingshan Nunnery to meet with Yang Yuanyan, the king of letters, that their scouts caught a few Taowu soldiers near Maoshan and learned that it was Han Qian who had secretly arrived in Jinling four days ago, replaced Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang, and took command of the remnants of the Taowu army.

At this time, he finally recognized that there was no collusion between Yueyang and Anning Palace, except that the blood feud between Han Qian and Anning Palace could not be resolved, the Nanya Forbidden Army and Shouzhou Army at the southern foot of Baohua Mountain and Jiangcheng City did not make any due reaction to Han Qian's attack on Danyang City for a whole day and night.

Even so, how to deal with the attack on Danyang City, the generals of Chuzhou who gathered at Jingshan Nunnery were still extremely controversial.

At the moment when Zhang Ping, Lin Haizheng and others stepped into Maoshan to meet Han Qian, King Xin's Yang Yuanyan was stationed in the temporary garrison of Jingshan Nunnery, and the large hall was also divided into two columns full of more than a dozen generals, all of whom were the core figures of the Chuzhou army who crossed the river with King Xinwang Yang Yuanyan, discussing how to deal with the attack on Danyang.

The core generals of the Chuzhou army include Rao Geng, Su Xingzhou, Zhao Zhen and others, who are all commanders, and Wang Wenqian, Ruan Yan and other secretaries and auxiliary ministers at the level of Zhongmen envoys.

Rao Geng, Su Xingzhou and other generals who commanded the army, thinking more directly, at the same time they were strong-willed, Danyang was attacked, and at this time it was clear that Yueyang and Anning Palace did not collude, Han Qian only had 3,000 remnants of the weak brigade, they naturally strongly advocated the immediate deployment of troops, to give a firm counterattack, to eliminate the hidden danger in the south.

Wang Wenqian and Zhongmen envoy Ruan Yan were more worried.

It is good to be able to defeat and annihilate the 3,000 remnants of Han Qian's weak brigade in one fell swoop, but the problem is that Han Qian helped Yang Yuanpu, the king of Tan, to defend Xichuan, which was three years ago, and it was only last year and the year before last year that he organized soldiers and horses in Xuzhou to help Yang Yuanpu destroy the Ma family.

Taowu gathered 3,000 remnants of soldiers, and under the command of Xinchang Marquis Lipu, their morale was low, the morale of the army was weak, and they were so weak that they were vulnerable to attack, but yesterday, under the leadership of Han Qian, they brazenly dared to attack Danyang City, which was garrisoned by the elite of the Chuzhou army, and captured it in one fell swoop at a very small price.

How many troops do they have to send over before they can be sure to capture Maoshan in one fell swoop?

Although Yueyang did not collude with Anning Palace before, and the Nanya Forbidden Army and Shouzhou stationed in Qiuhu Mountain and Jiangcheng did not react to the attack and destruction of Danyang City, but when they dispatched troops to attack Maoshan Mountain, Anning Palace would continue to remain silent, and there would be no reaction at all?

Han Qian's brazen raising of troops to attack and destroy Danyang is very likely to change the situation around Jinling, and they must consider countermeasures from a deeper level and a larger situation.

After discussing for a long time, especially in the afternoon, after receiving a report that there was an elite cavalry of three or four hundred people, they set off from Jilong Mountain in the north of Xuanzhou at night, and rushed to the western foot of Maoshan Mountain to meet Han Qian in the early morning.

The generals dispersed, and the letter king Yang Yuanyan left Wang Wenqian alone to speak.

Yang Yuanyan is tall, majestic, with a thick short mustache on his lips, which is very similar to Emperor Tianyou when he was young, and his eye sockets are quite deep, which will make his appearance look a little gloomy, sitting behind the long case, he took the tea cup handed over by the concubine Gu Mei, looked at Wang Wenqian and said:

"Yue Yang should have peeked through Mr. Wang's siege strategy, so he sent Han Qian over......"

In addition to blocking the news of the Anning Palace, besieging the city and driving hundreds of thousands of civilians into Jinling City in order to consume Jinling's food stockpiles, and then provoke a popular uprising and disrupt the defense of the Anning Palace, it is all intoxicating.

Therefore, at any time, the siege strategy is not a topic that can be openly discussed, and it can only be deployed in an idle chess game at present.

Whether it is Yang Yuanyan or Wang Wenqian, they will not think that Han Qian's move is to relieve the people of Jinling, after all, from Yueyang's point of view, after seeing the strength of the Chuzhou army after the battle of Jingshan Nunnery, they will not sit back and watch Chuzhou easily capture Jinling and occupy the entire Jianghuai region, and they even expect Chuzhou and Anning Palace to lose both, so that Yueyang can finally get the benefit of the fisherman.

As for whether Han Qian was sent by Yueyang to sabotage their siege strategy, Wang Wenqian was puzzled, and said: "Tanma sneaked into Maoshan and captured a few insignificant women and children, and the interrogation learned that Han Qian was not in harmony when he took away the military power from Li Pu. After Han Qian attacked and destroyed Danyang, he did not lead his troops to flee to the south or to the shore of Taihu Lake in the east, but instead stuck in Maoshan like a nail, there are too many places that people can't see through, but there is still too little news, and further confirmation is needed to figure out his true intentions. ”

"But you can't wait for all your doubts to be cleared before you deal with it, in that case, the daylily will be cold." Yang Yuanyan said with a cold face.

"Yes, Your Highness." Wang Wenqian said.

"What do you think you're going to do about that?" Yang Yuanyan asked.

Wang Wenqian pondered for a while, sorted out his thoughts since this day, and suggested: "Your Highness should send troops to take over the two cities of Jintan and Liyang, defend the city, and send another 3,000 elite cavalry to cruise between Danyang, Jintan, and Liyang, and if there is a chance to fight, seek to annihilate Han Qian's department; If you don't have a chance, you must not easily storm Maoshan so as not to be taken advantage of by Han Qian. ”

Yang Yuanyan nodded and said, "Yes, whether or not Yue Yang sent Han Qian over after peeking through our siege strategy, it would be of great benefit for us to send troops to directly control the two cities of Jin and Li in the east of Maoshan Mountain." On the one hand, we should now further cut off the communication between Jinling and the prefectures and counties in the eastern province of Jiangnan, with Han Qian as a buffer based on Maoshan, there is no need to worry that Anning Palace will send a large number of soldiers and horses to bypass the attack, we will send one or two thousand armored foot soldiers in each of the three cities of Danyang, Jintan, and Liyang to defend, but we need to be careful not to let the attack of Danyang happen again; Doing so could also force Han Qian's forty or fifty thousand old and weak women and children to go west of Maoshan to raise grain. In this way, the siege strategy of the gentleman is still flawless, and at the same time, we should also use this to exert some pressure on the counties of Suhu and Suhu. ”

"In Weichen's opinion, Han Daoxun is talented, but he is still easier to deal with than Han Qian, His Royal Highness must not take Han Qian lightly." Wang Wenqian said.

"This is my province, I want to take advantage of this opportunity to set up a separate camp on the southern front to manage military and political affairs, and the station will be placed in Jintan, Zhao Zhen is calm and moderate, and he is also very resourceful, so I sent him to be the head of the camp and the commander of the army in the past. In addition to Zhao Zhen's 6,000 horse infantry army, he can recruit another four or five thousand soldiers and horses in the local area, and it should be more than enough to block the area east of Maoshan and take into account the raising of grain, grass and soldiers - Yin Peng is more familiar with Han Qian's situation, and you will send Yin Peng to Zhao Zhen as the army commander. Yang Yuanyan said.

"Your Highness can think so carefully, the southern line should be fine." Wang Wenqian said.

"I'm going to let Ruan Yan go to Dantu to supervise the rear formation, you still stay by my side to plan, and then you have to be careful with every step, I'm afraid that I have something to think about." Yang Yuanyan said.

"Yes." Wang Wenqian responded.

"Qin Ran carelessly lost the city, causing Danyang to be destroyed, and the army's morale is fluctuating, what do you think should be done?" Yang Yuanyan asked in a calm tone.

"The crime of losing the city should be punished, how to deal with it, Your Highness will deal with it." Wang Wenqian said.

"Then call him back to the camp, and let him lead his troops into battle, and forgive him for the loss of the city without dying three times." Yang Yuanyan said.

"Your Highness is wise." Wang Wenqian said.

Wang Wenqian knew that King Xin's handling of dereliction of duty generals had always been harsh, and there was no room for intercession, if he helped Qin Ran intercede, in addition to exacerbating His Highness's speculation that they were doing something in private, it was more likely to increase the punishment of Qin Ran.

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Bidding farewell to Yang Yuanyan, the king of letters, Wang Wenqian returned to the courtyard where he temporarily settled in Jingshan Nunnery, and sent Hu Wei to find Yin Peng.

Wang Wenqian's heart sank suddenly, signaled to retreat left and right, and asked Yin Peng: "Still no news from Jun'er?" ”

"Now that Maoshan is full of old and weak women and children gathered out of Taowu, it is easy to catch a few scattered women and children from the periphery and come back, but our people still have no way to sneak to Yinyun Nunnery to find Miss," Yin Peng felt guilty and said, "I should have taken Miss to Dantu a long time ago." ”

"Jun'er will protect herself, and besides, Han Qian and the other rebels won't know that Yinyun Nunnery is a secret contact point for us, and Jun'er may just be trapped in Maoshan Mountain," Wang Wenqian said, "When the guards in the depths of Maoshan are not so tight, Jun'er will find a way to get out by herself." ”

Of course, although Wang Wenqian said this, he knew better in his heart that this was most likely just self-comfort.

From the information obtained so far, Han Qian led the remnants to retreat into Maoshan, and the armor was replaced, and it was not captured by the attack on Danyang - Qin Ran led his troops to defend Danyang mostly light armored cavalry, and there were not so many armor and scale armor.

This shows that there are some war materials in Maoshan to prevent trouble, which is also an important reason why Wang Wenqian opposes hastily organizing soldiers and horses to counterattack and retaliate - they cannot draw more troops for the time being, and hastily organize four or five thousand people to pass, and it is more likely to suffer heavy losses again, and the scene will only be more ugly at that time, so it is better to send five thousand men and horses to Jinling, Liyang and other cities to blockade Maoshan from the east.

The 3,000 soldiers and horses under Han Qian and the 3,000 remnants under the Marquis of Xinchang Li Pu are not the same concept.

However, Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang, led the remnants to withdraw to Yanling in the east of Maoshan in advance, and did not send a large number of men and horses into Maoshan to carry out activities, and it seems that he did not know that there were war materials hidden in Maoshan.

There were still many doubts that he hadn't figured out for the time being, but no matter what, he could now be sure that Han Qian had already noticed the strategic position of Maoshan, so he should have already touched the situation of the many Taoist temples and nunnery in Maoshan.

At this time, it was difficult to say that Han Qian must not have noticed the suspicions of Yinyun Nunnery.

Yin Peng saw the gloom in Wang Wenqian's eyebrows, and said, "Why don't I personally lead a team of people to sneak into Maoshan and find Miss?" ”

"She went to Xuzhou with my father, she was already too willful, how can she allow her children to be long?" Wang Wenqian shook his head, suppressed the worries in his heart, and said to Yin Peng, "Your Highness is determined to set up a camp in Jintan, with jurisdiction over Danyang, Jintan, Liyang and other cities, and appoint Zhao Zhen as the head of the camp, and I want you to go to Zhao Zhen to be the military Sima; I also think it's more appropriate for you to go, after all, you are more familiar with Han Qian's situation......"

"Han Qian occupies Maoshan Mountain, if it is not resolved, I am afraid that the adult's siege strategy will be difficult to implement?" Yin Peng said worriedly.

According to their original plan, the remnants led by Xinchang Hou Li Pu were not only a tool they used to consume the grain stocks in Jingnan and disturb the Jingnan region, but also a bait to lure the Nanya Forbidden Army or Xuanzhou soldiers and horses, and the next step would be to drive the remnants of Xinchang Hou Li Pu to the west and move in the direction of quarrying—Xinchang Hou Li Pu had the intention of abandoning and fleeing, and led the remnants to the west and moved in the direction of quarrying, which was also located on the south bank of the Yangtze River, without even deliberately driving them away.

Xinchang Marquis Li Pu led the remnants and 40,000 or 50,000 old and weak women and children to march westward, and they sent a small number of elite cavalry to harass the places on the left and right, and they would step by step in the east and south of Jinling, all the way to quarrying, forming a buffer zone for the people to flee from their hometowns, cutting off the connection between Jinling and Xuanzhou and Shezhou in the south, so as to finally achieve their goal of cutting off Jinling from the eastern prefectures and counties in Jiangnan.

Now they are sending troops and horses to Jintan and Liyang, which is to block the passage for Han Qian to lead his troops to retreat east to the shore of Taihu Lake, but Maoshan to the south and Xuanzhou are empty, do they want to directly send troops to insert them?

If they don't send troops to intervene, Jinling's contact with Xuanzhou and Shezhou will always be severe.

Yin Peng was extremely familiar with Han Qian and knew that Han Qian was extremely difficult to deal with, but it was not because Han Qian was too powerful that they could fear the enemy without fighting.

Wang Wenqian nodded and said, "Maybe Your Highness will have to fight another battle with the Nanya Forbidden Army and the Shouzhou Army on the shore of Chishan Lake first, so that he can calmly turn around and allocate more troops to clean up Han Qian; You follow Zhao Zhen to the southern front, and you must not act rashly in a short period of time, as long as it is difficult for Han Qian to break through the blockade of the eastern front, you can ......."

Yin Peng nodded, indicating that he remembered this.

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After the establishment of the Taowu Jitunying Military Government, the land on the north bank of Chihu Mountain was divided from Jiangcheng County.

Now Qiuhu Mountain, which is the core of Taowu Jijunfu, faces Jiangcheng City on the south bank of Chishan Lake across the lake.

In Jinling in late April, it was already a little hot.

Zhao Mingting was wearing battle armor, standing at the head of Jiangcheng County, facing the scorching sun, looking at the faint green mountains under the clear sky in the south.

After the Jinling Incident, Zhao Mingting gave Xu Zhu the deputy general, and led 30,000 Nanya forbidden troops to march west along the north bank of Chishan Lake, wanting to completely eradicate the remnants of the Longque Army near Jinling City, and expel the Chuzhou army, which was less than 10,000 people who crossed the river to the south at that time.

In that case, they would be able to smoothly control the entire Jiangnan East Province, eastern Zhejiang, Poyang Lake, and Huaixi region.

It's just that who would have thought that in the battle of Jingshanan, they would lose so badly.

Zhao Mingting was a little calmer at that time, first led the soldiers and horses to retreat to Qiuhu Mountain, and then used the defense system of Qiuhu Mountain to block several waves of strong attacks of the cavalry of the Chuzhou army, collected the remnants, and successfully pursued the Chuzhou army to the east of Qiuhu Mountain.

Because of the merit of collecting the remnants, Zhao Mingting officially became one of the six commanders of the Nanya Forbidden Army, first commanding more than 10,000 remnants of the army to guard Qiuhu Mountain, and waiting for the deputy envoy of Shouzhou Jiedu, Xu Mingzhen and Xu Hou's sister-in-law, and Zhou Zhen, the general of the Shouzhou Army second only to Xu Mingzhen, led his troops to cross the river to the south, Zhao Mingting ceded Qiuhu Mountain to Zhou Zhen to settle in, and he led his troops to move to Jiangcheng City south of Chishan Lake.

In this way, relying on the huge warships of the Louchuan Army and the Naval Division to enter Chishan Lake, Jiangchengcheng and Qiuhu Mountain are horns of each other, and it is difficult for the Chuzhou Army to advance half a step west on the eastern flank.

In any case, Zhao Mingting did not feel that it would be more beneficial for them if the situation dragged on, but the battle of Jingshan Nunnery not only made the army's morale fluctuate, but also made many officials in Jinling City wander their minds, and before making all preparations, it was determined that it was not appropriate to rush into war with the Chuzhou army.

Who would have thought that at this time, Yueyang's remnants in Jinling, who had once joined forces with Chuzhou to issue a letter to fight against the rebellion, and had joined forces with the Chuzhou army in the battle of Jingshan'an, would send troops to raid Danyang City, where the Chuzhou army was stationed, and burn it down?

Yes, Zhao Mingting didn't know at this time that Han Qian had taken over the military power from Xinchang Marquis Li Pu, and they were also in extreme shock, but their understanding of Maoshan was not as urgent as that of the Chuzhou army, and the scouts sent to scout horses were only in Danyang, Yanling and Maoshan to reconnoiter intelligence.

To tell the truth, Zhao Mingting and the other generals of Anning Palace even suspected that this was a bitter ploy jointly made by Yue Yang and Chuzhou.

"Commander, this is a letter from Maoshan to the surrounding towns. Yesterday, it was not the Danyang City led by Xinchang Hou Li Pu to fight, it was the Tan Wangfu Advisory and Military Han Qian who had arrived in Jinling! More than a dozen rode in the sunset, raising the sky and flying dust, and walked to the front of the Jiangcheng South City Tower, one of them couldn't wait for the city gate to open, so he directly tied a notice they had just collected and threw it on the city, and said loudly.

"What?"

Hearing the shouts of his subordinates in front of the city, Zhao Mingting was incredulous, he stretched out his hand to take the notice thrown into the city, but saw that Han Qian had accepted the entrustment of Yang Yuanpu, the king of Tan, and Hunan Xingshangshu Province to serve as the envoy of Jingzhao Mansion and Jiangdong Prefecture to fight the rebellion, and set up a Chishan rebel army in Maoshan, and told the surrounding Jingzhao Mansion and the counties of Jiangnan Dongdao to listen to their requisition of grain and send them to serve on the army, and to recruit the slaves and maids of the counties of Jingzhao Mansion to join the camp and serve in the army, and reward Xuntian with military merits, and no family can stop it......

"What is this guy going to do, is he really crazy, and he is not afraid of offending everyone in the world?"

Ying Guogong and Zong Zhengqing Yang Tai came to Jiangcheng to come to the labor army today, and when they heard that Han Qian was in Jinling, they were shocked, and they were even more shocked when they saw the content of the letter, and they couldn't guess that Han Qian, who had a deep blood feud with Anning Palace, suddenly rushed to Jinling to attack and destroy Danyang City in the hands of the Chuzhou army, and then issued such a letter to do something.

Zhao Mingting's thick eyebrows furrowed tightly......