Chapter 33 Above the Huai River

In the middle of Quy Nhon town.

Wen Huaizhong looked at the mess.

Quy Nhon town is a bustling emergency town, with three or four miles of streets paved with bluestone slabs. The houses on both sides are mostly wooden three- or two-story buildings. It's just that Zhang Xuan's army passed and was in disarray.

It's not that Zhang Xuan did anything hurtful in Quy Nhon Town. Instead, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses passed by, even though Zhang Xuan only forcibly requisitioned the grain of the gentry from all over the country, and did not kill many people, but it also brought great losses to the ground.

At least the people in the town who had a little way to do it had already gone to the countryside to take refuge.

On the streets, there are fewer people to clean, and many houses have become empty. Naturally, it looked like a ghost had walked by.

"Say, where have all the thieves gone?" Wen Huaizhong said.

"My lord, I don't know." An old man said.

With a "squeak", the long knife was unsheathed, and the light of the blade flashed through the old man's eyes. The old man's pupils contracted, he couldn't stand, and said: "My lord, I really don't know, I only know that the thief went south, went south, yes, it's Fengyang, it's Fengyang, I seem to have heard the thief say it's going to Fengyang." ”

"Fengyang." Wen Huaizhong's face changed suddenly.

There was no air traffic for the old man, so he immediately turned over and got on his horse and said, "Let's go." ”

He said hello, turned around with more than 100 horsemen around him, left Quy Nhon Town, and headed east, he was originally ordered by Lu Zhenfei to explore the whereabouts of Zhang Xuan's department, however, Zhang Xuan's cavalry was not weak, and Wen Huaizhong did not dare, so he was too anxious to follow, so he could only fall behind and get some news from the people.

It's just that although his official position is not high, he also knows how important Fengyang is to find energy, so without saying a word, he immediately went to report back to Lu Zhenfei.

Lu Zhenfei is on the east bank of the Yellow River, which can also be said to be the east bank of the canal.

After getting the news, he was taken aback, and without saying a word, he sent someone to Fengyang by boat to warn Ma Shiying.

The messenger bypassed Hongze Lake from the Yellow River, entered the Huai River, and arrived in Fengyang City, and the alarm reached Ma Shiying, who just glanced at it and threw it aside.

Without him, news came too slowly. At least slower than Zhang Xuan.

"Are you ready on the Huai River?" Ma Shiying asked Yang Longyou.

"My lord, don't worry, all the boats from hundreds of miles of the Huai River have been gathered to the south bank, and even if Zhang Xuan is fast, it is impossible to fly across the Huai River." Yang Longyou said.

"Write me a letter." Ma Shiying said: "Give Lu Zhenfei and ask him to get all the sailors on the canal for me to guard the Huai River." ”

"Yes." Yang Longyou said.

Ma Shiying asked Lu Zhenfei for the army, it is estimated that Lu Zhenfei will not be able to make any names, he does not have many troops in his hands, but the sailors are different, Qingjiangpu is a famous shipbuilding center in the north of the Ming Dynasty, not only to build tank ships, but also to build sea ships. Along the Huai River from Qingjiangpu, which is also the mouth of the Yellow River, most of the ships that travel to and from Liaodong, Korea, and Japan are made by Qingjiangpu.

Even the grain and grass that supports the battlefield in Liaodong now are transported to Liaodong by sea, and a large part of the ships used are from Qingjiangpu.

And the naval division, although people are also a very important factor, but more is to beat the boat, Lu Zhenfei has no shortage of boats in his hands, even if he temporarily organizes a large fleet to control a section of the Huai River, there is no problem.

"My lord, but what should General Huang do over there?" Yang Longyou said.

"Huang Degong." Ma Shiying racked his brains and couldn't do anything for a while.

Huang Degong has asked Ma Shiying for help several times.

Huang Degong and Luo Rucai have never fallen behind, more often than not, it is a tie, after all, although Huang Degong's department is elite, it can't stand up to many people's families. If it continues to be consumed like this, Huang Degong can't hold it anymore, and Shouzhou City will be a little unbearable.

Shouzhou City is more of a regimental training organized by local officials, and when Cao Ying feinted before, there was naturally no problem, but when Cao Ying used the real character, Shouzhou City couldn't hold it. frequently asked Huang Degong for help.

Huang Degong had to take the initiative to attack and find a way to send people into the city to support.

However, it is in Luo Rucai's hands.

Luo Rucai doesn't want to fight a tough battle with Huang Degong now, but wants to eat Huang Degong in one go. The army turned around and headed south. Therefore, around Shouzhou City, the two sides fought a series of large and small battles, and Huang Degong did not stand on any cheap, but consumed more.

Huang Degong had to go to Ma Shiying to ask for help.

You must know that if Huang Degong has a strong temperament and takes the initiative to ask Ma Shiying for help, it also shows how difficult Huang Degong's situation is.

Ma Shiying also understands this.

It's just that Zhang Xuan came suddenly, bypassing several cities in a row, but almost day and night, bypassing in one breath, Hongxian County, Wuhe County, to the northeast of Fengyang, if it weren't for the Huai River north of Fengyang, it is estimated that Zhang Xuan would have already come to the city.

Ma Shiying also didn't expect that the fish swimming at the bottom of the kettle back then had swelled so much in one breath, and the night on the front line did not stop and said, Zhang Xuan's department had a small number of 100,000 people.

The division of the economic system in Ma Shiying's hands is probably only forty or fifty thousand, some of them are Liu Liangzuo's people, and some of them have been staying in Fengyang, and the people and horses who have stayed in Fengyang, Ma Shiying will never dare to move, and it is planned to let Liu Liangzuo go west to support Huang Degong. It's just that now it must be dispelled as well.

"How is Luzhou? Didn't Zuo Liangyu react? Ma Shiying said.

"Luzhou sent thousands of men and horses to rescue, but halfway through, it was defeated by Cao Thief's son, as for Zuo Liangyu, he has been ordered to go west, and it is estimated that most of the army is at the junction of Huguang and Nanzhili." Yang Longyou said: "It is estimated that I will not be able to withdraw back." ”

Ma Shiying gritted his teeth and said, "Tell Hushan about the situation and let him make a decision." ”

Yang Longyou knew all the camera decisions, and actually told Huang Degong that he could run if he couldn't beat him. It's just that many things can't be put to paper, otherwise wouldn't it seem like a governor of Ma and afraid of the enemy like a tiger?

Ma Shiying was dying in Fengyang. And Zhang Xuan is on the north bank of the Huai River, and he also has some headaches.

The Huai River is by no means an ordinary small river, and it is impossible for soldiers to swim across it, just find a boat to cross it, and tens of thousands of troops crossing the river is a rather dangerous action, otherwise there is no so-called half-way crossing.

However, Zhang Xuan is mentally prepared for this. Although I feel that the Huai River in front of me has a headache, I can still accept it.

What made him even more troubled was the newly reorganized battalion heads.

From Xuzhou to Wuhe County, Zhang Xuan went around a lot of circles and walked a small thousand miles in one go. It is a big test for the soldiers under his command.

For Zhang Xuan, Yuan Shizhong, Yang Shenzu, and the old soldiers under Jin Shenghuan, it is not a problem, such as Yang Shenzu, who fought with Luo Rucai, who has done everything that has been done for three hundred miles in one day, let alone this way.

But the new ones were added to the Grand Soldier.

But it was all a problem, they had never accepted such a hard march at all, not to mention that after Quy Nhon Town, it was almost day and night, Zhang Xuan wanted to hit Ma Shiying by surprise, but he overestimated the combat power of his newly formed battalion.

When Zhang Xuan saw the Huai River, the resentment of the soldiers was also extreme.

North of the Huai River, Zhang Xuan encountered the first mutiny of his leading career.

However, this mutiny was all caused by the newly formed battalion, and the hardest hit area was the German army, but the Xuzhou army was also affected. It's just that Zhang Xuan is in the Ying camp, the Baoding camp, and a few other old camp leaders, even if all these new camp leaders are betrayed, they can be suppressed backhanded.

Not to mention, some soldiers made trouble.

The troublemakers are all old fritters in the official army.

These soldiers, it seems that they have misunderstood the difference between the official army and the righteous army, after the middle page of the Ming Dynasty, the people below have made mutiny commonplace, even if the official army suppresses it, it is only to punish the evil, and the threat never asks, but Zhang Xuan is unwilling to compromise with these soldiers.

Therefore, if there are too many criminals, Zhang Xuan has to pinch his nose and admit it, and the so-called law is not responsible for the public. It's not unreasonable.

But in Zhang Xuan's opinion, there are not enough criminals. At least it will not make Zhang Xuan pay the price of credit bankruptcy to appease.

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