In view of the current situation, Ling Yu finally decided to start directly from Chongqing Prefecture, take the waterway north to Hezhou, and then turn west to Anju, along the Fujiang River, through Tongnan, Suining, Shehong to Tongchuan Prefecture.

Then turn west again from Tongchuan Prefecture, take Luoshui to cross the Zhongjiang River, and finally enter the boundary of Chengdu Prefecture, arrive at Luojiang, and go straight to the back road of the rebels.

After recovering Luojiang, he went south to recover Deyang, and cooperated with the Xindu official army to block the rebels in the Hanzhou area and encircle and annihilate them.

Ling Yu thought about it, and discussed it with Li Shu, Lin Qing and other generals, and everyone agreed that there was no big problem in doing so, so Ling Yu wrote down the plan and ordered someone to send it to Xindu and hand it over to Li Xin, along with Li Yun's handwritten letter.

Why should it be handed over to Li Xin? The first is that Ling Yu felt that Li Jiajun still had some combat effectiveness in the official army through the analysis of the battle report, and the second was that Ling Yu did not trust the generals of the local garrison troops, and Li Xin was because of Li Yun's handwritten letter, so he must have listened to Ling Yu's words.

After doing this, Ling Yu did not have too much contact with the local officials of Chongqing Prefecture, and gave up the necessary greetings, and then replenished it, and then repaired for half a day, and then led the fleet to set off for Hezhou.

The news of Ling Yu's arrival in Chongqing Mansion naturally spread to the two camps of the fierce battle in Xindu, at this time, the rebel camp, in the handsome tent, An Hongyi has begun to get anxious, because the elite Beijing army of the official army has entered Sichuan, and it will soon be able to kill under the new capital, of course, he didn't know that Ling Yu's plan was to kill him directly behind his back, cooperate with the official army of Xindu, and encircle and suppress him near Hanzhou.

"Mr. Yan, what is good now, the officers and troops of Xindu are too tenacious, it seems that they are planning to defend Xindu, and the Beijing army has also arrived in Chongqing Mansion, and now we are in a dilemma." An Hongyi said.

"General An, don't be anxious, according to the next opinion, the official army of Xindu is already the end of the crossbow, what if the Beijing army comes, as long as we capture the new capital, the official army near Chengdu Mansion will be almost gone, and other places dare not come, we just need to capture Chengdu as soon as possible, if it is really impossible, we run in the direction of Lizhou, I heard that the Tusi over there is also ready to move, and is waiting." Yan Zhongdao thought about it and said, he just wanted to fool An Hongyi to fight Chengdu, and he didn't care if it was successful.

After listening to Yan Zhongdao's analysis, An Hongyi's eyes couldn't help but light up, yes, if you can't run, out of the Chengdu Plain, there are mountains everywhere, running in the mountains, they are afraid of who is coming.

At the moment, An Hongyi is no longer worried, even if the Beijing army comes, maybe it will be a straw bale? During this period of fighting, he was used to seeing the erosion of the officers and soldiers, and An Hongyi's morale was still relatively high at this time, not to mention that if he couldn't beat it, he would run deep into the mountains to the west.

"What Mr. Yan said is extremely true, then let's step up the attack." An Hongyi thought for a while.

Yan Zhongdao smiled and nodded, did not speak, he was very disapproving, he was actually not very optimistic that An Hongyi could conquer Chengdu, when An Hongyi did not listen to his advice, he had already expected today's result, and it was indeed not a good time to raise troops at this time.

Xindu Daying, Ren Xiang and Li Xin naturally received the news, but Li Xin received more news, and then he was also happy, the arrival of reinforcements also strengthened Ren Xiang's determination to defend the new capital, Ren Xiang did not propose to give up again, at least at this time he behaved like a boss.

Li Xin looked at the letter written by his sister to himself in his camp, understood Ling Yu's important position in his sister's mind, and also understood that Ling Yu might be his brother-in-law in the future.

Originally, he didn't pay much attention to the secret letter that Ling Yu sent him, and he was only going to deal with it, but now that he had his sister's letter, he couldn't help but get serious, since his sister admired a person who was optimistic about him so much, he naturally chose to believe it, after all, he had an extremely good relationship with his sister since he was a child.

"Go and call Tan Wu over." Li Xin thought for a moment and instructed the soldiers on the side.

The soldiers took the order and left, and after a while, Tan Wu opened the camp tent and walked in and said, "Young master, what are you calling me?" ”

"General Tan, this is Ling Hou's secret letter, you can also take a look." Li Xin said and handed Ling Yu's secret letter to Tan Wu.

Tan Wu didn't say much, took the secret letter and read it.

"How do you think we should cooperate with Ling Hou?" After waiting for a while, Li Xin felt that Tan Wu should finish reading, so he asked.

"Young master, my subordinates think it's a good plan for Ling Hou, but can the people on our side really block the rebels who want to flee like crazy?" Tan Wu said worriedly, he recognized Ling Yu's strategy in his heart, but the person who executed it, the remaining 2,000 people of the Li family alone was not enough.

"Ling Hou said in the letter, we mainly set up checkpoints on the main traffic roads, and we don't need to confront them head-on, although the number is smaller, but it's not impossible, not to mention that Ling Hou's army will soon surround it, we only need to block it for a while, as for the other garrison troops, I don't expect much, they don't add to the chaos." Li Xin thought for a while. First Literature

"What the young master said is extremely true, the garrison force is indeed not enough to make a plan, so the subordinates will send people to survey the vicinity, select a suitable card place, and prepare for the future." Tan Wu arched his hand, and then turned around and went out.

Li Xin looked at his sister's letter again, and was a little looking forward to meeting Lingyu, the Marquis of Lingwu of the Great Zhou Dynasty, who was boasting in his sister's mouth.

In the past few days when Ling Yu was on the road, the rebel offensive on the Xindu side was becoming more and more fierce, and it could be seen that An Hongyi and the others were in a hurry, although they did not get the specific whereabouts of Ling Yu and his party, but as time passed, they naturally got closer and closer, but until Ling Yu arrived in Zhongjiang, An Hongyi and others did not make effective progress, and the new defenders fought very tenaciously.

Chengdu Mansion is also afraid of the loss of the new capital, Helian soldiers issued a death order, from the Qiongzhou Mansion and Meizhou Mansion near Chengdu Mansion forcibly dispatched 2000 soldiers to the new capital to support, which relieved the pressure of some of the new capital officers and soldiers, with the addition of these 4000 new forces, and there are people like Long Mingyuan who can fight, and when necessary, there are Li Jiajun's elite to remedy everywhere, and the officers and troops are finally stumbling and holding the new capital.

Ling Yu walked all the way for more than a month, entered the boundary of Chengdu Prefecture, and when he recovered Luojiang, it was already early February, and the rebels stationed in Luojiang were only 500 people, An Hongyi certainly didn't expect Ling Yu to appear here, and it was so fast.

After recovering Luojiang, Ling Yu immediately ordered a strict blockade of the Beijing army to reach Luojiang, and the news of recovering Luojiang was set up on the road to the south, and various checkpoints and light and dark sentinels were set up on the road to the south, and An Hongyi must not be informed before recovering Deyang and arriving in Hanzhou, so that he would attack Xindu frantically, or simply run away, after all, it was the western Sichuan Plain, and it was still possible to escape.

Ling Yu ordered the army to repair in Luojiang for one day, and then set off on the night of the second day, because it was now necessary to take the land route, so Ling Yu invited a few guides in Luojiang City, and the people in the province were not familiar with the place and took the wrong road.

The officers and men of the First Division have experienced such a long time of water navigation, and they have just arrived at the ground and have been recovering the Luojiang River non-stop, although they have not fought any battles, but after all, it is a long journey, and it is still very hard.

After a day of repair, on the night of the second day, Ling Yu ordered officers at all levels to reorganize the ranks, in order to reduce the chance of being discovered by the rebel scouts, Ling Yu chose to go out day and night, at least before arriving in Hanzhou, Ling Yu did not want to be discovered.

However, Ling Yu was too worried, An Hongyi didn't send scouts to the rear at all, as for Yan Zhongdao didn't know if he thought about it, he didn't bring it up anyway.

In the camp of the rebels in Hanzhou, in the tent, An Hongyi said to Yan Zhongdao with a sad face: "Mr. Yan, I am afraid that the reinforcements of the Beijing army will soon arrive in the new capital, a few days ago, Chengdu Mansion has sent more than 4,000 troops into the new capital, we have been fighting so hard in the past few days, we still can't break the city, how is it good now." ”

"General An, the old man doesn't have a particularly good way now, this kind of thing is a siege, in addition to using human lives, what can we do, we don't have better siege equipment, we can only use stupid methods." Yan Zhongdao thought about it and said, he actually didn't have a better suggestion, but he had already expected the ending, so there was no need to say it, not to mention that he had already planned to find an opportunity to slip away tomorrow after tonight, and if he stayed here, it was estimated that he would end up with An Hongyi.

"However, 50,000 or 60,000 have been filled in before and after, even if we have more than 100,000 cannon fodder, there is not much left now, plus my elite, there are only about 60,000 left, and if we continue to fight like this, those cannon fodder will definitely rebel, so they are not stupid to use their lives to fill the city." An Hongyi said sadly, it was like this before, using his elite as the supervising team, pressing the coerced victims with rudimentary weapons to consume the defenders' materials and physical energy.

After such a long time of fighting, some of them have been lost in Hanzhou, especially after the official army retreated to Xindu, the fight became more tenacious, and the losses of An Hongyi's side were even more heavy, which also caused the leaders of the disaster victims to have quite an opinion, if An Hongyi still dared to play like this, the disaster victims estimated that they would rebel first.

But if you don't play like this, will you fill it with your own elite?

"General An, the old man suggested that it can't be delayed any longer, even if you lose a little elite, it's not unacceptable, it's because General An, you're worried that the loss is too big, and you've been using the disaster victims to attack, so the progress is slow, if you replace all of your elites, you must be able to break the new capital soon." Yan Zhongdao looked at An Hongyi and said, he was very disdainful of An Hongyi's style in his heart, he wanted to conquer the new capital, and he was afraid that the loss would be too big and he was unwilling to use his elite, where was there such a good thing.

"Alas, sir, you are right, I was too greedy before, and tomorrow I will send my elite to follow the victims to attack the city." An Hongyi said with difficulty.

Yan Zhongdao shook his head in his heart and sighed: "It's not enough to plan, at this time, you still have to play some cleverness, and you are so reluctant to fight the so-called elite, if you can't beat Xindu, I'm afraid you won't have a way to live, forget it, my old man will find a chance to run away as soon as possible." ”

thought so in his heart, but on the surface, Yan Zhongdao was not moved at all, acquiesced to An Hongyi's statement, and then confessed that he was tired, and then went back to rest, An Hongyi naturally would not stop him, and now An Hongyi can be said to rely on Yan Zhongdao to give him advice.

The remnant sun is like blood, and all kinds of traces on the head of the new capital city are all telling the tragedy of the battle just now, An Hongyi made up his mind in the big tent to let the elite play tomorrow, so when he saw that it was already evening today, he Mingjin withdrew his troops.

The soldiers of the Xindu defenders finally breathed a sigh of relief, sat down to rest in twos and threes, and some were organized by the officers to clean up the battlefield, they have experienced a lot of such a situation, every day is a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, although the rebels sent up cannon fodder, but even if it is tens of thousands of pigs, it will take a long time to kill, naturally after the battle every day, the soldiers are not very tired.

Fortunately, after more than a month of fighting, the soldiers of the garrison force have gradually become a lot more elite, and now there is no big problem in guarding the new capital.