At the beginning of June of the 14th year of Chen Guotai's construction, a piece of good news from Yingzhou in the upper reaches shook the capital Jiankang: in early May, the imperial court water and land army marched west to the west to repel the Zhou army that crossed the Jiangnan to recover the entire territory of Yingzhou!

The news soon spread and the specific battle situation became a household name, and people in the wine shops and teahouses in Jiankang City were talking about the heroic deeds of the imperial army in the bloody battle to repel the Zhou army.

First of all, the land route, the imperial army pressed step by step to force the Zhou army entrenched in Jingling County, Yingzhou to flee without a fight, followed by the bloody battle of the waterway, the heroic Chen soldiers fought for several days and then the Zhou army entrenched in the five continents was beaten to the ground, and the Zhou army warships moored in the five continents were burned.

Despicable and shameless, the main force of the Zhou navy who only knew the sneak attack saw the imperial army by water and came into Wuchang, and the dog jumped over the wall in a hurry to set up a ship formation in Zhengrongzhou, and the commander of the army, Chen Shujian, the king of Changsha, knew that the other party had set a trap, but in order to recover Yingzhou as soon as possible, he knew that there were tigers in the mountains, and he sent the main force of the navy to fight a decisive battle.

The battle was earth-shattering, the Zhou State Navy laid many traps, the actual strength was more than twice that of the official army, the Chen State Navy soldiers with the ambition to protect the family and defend the country, fought bloodily under all difficulties, and the casualties amounted to seventy percent, but they still fought to the death, and finally fought to the death and fought to the end of the Zhou army, and repelled it.

The navy was defeated, and the Zhou army knew that it was not good and did not dare to stay in the south of the Yangtze River, and the embarrassed head rats fled back to Jiangbei, and the land army regained the states and counties of Yingzhou without blood.

"If you want me to say that the southerners' naval army is powerful, no matter how rampant the northerners' soldiers and horses are, they can't gain a foothold in Jiangnan!"

"Of course, there are thousands of warships of the official army, where can they be compared to the tattered sailors of the Zhou State, and there are hundreds of warships of the naval army on this expedition alone, such as the Golden Wing, Qinglong, and Pingyu, where can the Zhou Navy get together so many big ships!"

The people are discussing this victory after dinner, and everyone has more experience of the power of the official army and the navy, but in the eyes of insiders, they are not so optimistic, and Emperor Chen is now listening to the report on this matter in the palace.

The situation is bad. First of all, the imperial army suffered heavy losses in the battle of Zhengrongzhou, and the loss of warships and troops was more than sixty percent.

Secondly, although Yingzhou was recovered, more than 20,000 households in the rest of the prefectures and counties were taken captive by the Zhou army, except for Shangjun County. Even pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese and other livestock and poultry were all taken away.

All the state and county warehouses have been looted, all the grain, silk cloth, silk and linen and other belongings have been removed, and all the crops in the farmland have been damaged, and this year's harvest is a foregone conclusion. The city of Xiakou in Yingzhou Prefecture was razed to the ground, and even the bricks of the city wall were demolished, and all the wells were filled.

Wuchang City is not much better, the north wall of the city has been demolished, the Fankou Water Village seems to have never existed, the garrison on the top of Fan Mountain has also been reduced to ruins, and the Zhou army is gone, leaving a mess for Chen Guo.

Yingzhou, especially the cities of Xiakou and Wuchang, are important places, so even if they have become white land, they must be rebuilt, and the original garrison suffered heavy casualties, so it had to be transferred from other places. The garrison alone is not enough, and the people must live in order to provide food, so they have to relocate.

In order to rebuild the navy, craftsmen and timber shipbuilders had to be mobilized, and the people who had moved to the prefectures and counties of Yingzhou needed shelter, all kinds of farm tools and cattle needed to carry out farm work, which had to be requisitioned from all over the country.

"What does Aiqing mean?" Emperor Chen Shubao asked, his tone was a little impatient, in his opinion, the army regained the lost territory is the most important thing, as for the aftermath, there will always be a way, why bother him.

"The official, Weichen means that it costs a lot to rebuild Yingzhou." The official Shangshu Jiang said that the official in front of him didn't seem to be very interested in government affairs, but he still had to explain carefully, "In order to prevent the Zhou army from going south again, it must be redeployed." This matter should not be delayed. ”

"I know, since I have repelled the Zhou army, I am not in a hurry. We'll talk about that later. Chen Shubao waved his hand, and Mr. Jiang was about to speak again, but Shi Wenqing, a Chinese scholar on the side, spoke first: "Jiang Shangshu, the big thing is important." ”

Jiangzhong's interest was silenced, Chen Guanjia is now thinking about other things, if he doesn't know what to do, it will be a bad luck, and besides, the emperor is not in a hurry about this state matter, what is he anxious about, today is the official family to convene a few of their henchmen, there is something important, and the matter of Yingzhou is just discussed by the way, he is a minister, and he has a lot of books, but he hates ghosts and hates.

Another person walked into the hall, but it was another person from the middle school, Shen Keqing. He smiled and saluted Chen Shubao and said, "Official, Concubine Zhang has been arranged in the imperial garden to celebrate the imperial court's recovery of Yingzhou." ”

When Chen Shubao heard this, he got up and left: "Let's go, all of you will go to the Imperial Garden with me to have a look!" "The people present were all courtiers who were already close to him when he was still the prince, so he was an indispensable 'poetry friend' on weekdays.

For the newly enthroned Dachen Tianzi, there is the Yangtze River moat in the Northern Dynasty, no matter how rampant the Northern Dynasty is, it will not be able to dye the country, since Yingzhou has been recovered, so why bother about some trivial things. Having fun in time is the right thing to do.

"Jiang Shangshu, I will have to write a good poem in a while to celebrate Da Chen's expulsion of the northerners!" ……

An Lu, the Anzhou Governor's Office, the military meeting is underway, and the successful completion of Chen's operation is now a 'summary meeting'.

For the Shannan states, the Sui State located in the northwest direction is the great enemy and the first direction to be guarded against, while the Chen State in the south of the Yangtze River is like a man, which makes it difficult for people to sleep and eat, and the enemy on the back is the reality that Yu Wenliang, the Daxingtai (Shangshu Ling) of Shannan Road in the Zhou State, must face.

As the saying goes, there are tigers in the north and wolves in the south, if the Sui army in the northwest attacks on a large scale, then it must be dealt with with with all its might, but the Chen State that led to it must contain a large number of his troops, and this situation must be solved, so there is this operation: to attack instead of defend.

The best offense is defense, so this operation is carried out for this goal, attacking the border of Chen Guo and Yingzhou in the south of the Yangtze River with all his might, crushing the naval army of Yingzhou and then crushing the naval army in the counterattacking Chen Guo's army, and then moving all the population of Yingzhou to Jiangbei.

It will take at least a few years for Yingzhou to recover after such a toss, and Chen Guo can only honestly shrink in Jiangnan to lick his wounds without a strong naval army and repeated defeats, which can be regarded as a tribute to Chen's attack on Jiangling, a subordinate state of Liang State of the Great Zhou Dynasty last year.

In order to prevent fires on the grassland, people will take the lead in setting fire to the selected area in advance as a fire prevention isolation zone, and Chen Guo's Yingzhou is this isolation zone, the Zhou army moved tens of thousands of households on the border of Yingzhou, and the tens of thousands of water and army soldiers who were captured outside can be said to beat Chen Guo to vomit blood.

At the same time, a large amount of grain, grass, money, and livestock were taken away, and it was still more than enough to deduct the consumption of this operation, the rewards for the meritorious soldiers, and the pensions for the casualties.

After the success, the county city of Yingzhou Prefecture was completely demolished, especially Xiakou has become a white land, which not only increases the manpower, material resources and energy to be invested in the reconstruction of Chen State, but also avoids the Zhou army trapped in Jiangnan and Chen State to carry out a war of attrition, which is different from Chen Guo's own great victory, of course, since the other party has recovered Yingzhou, it can also be regarded as a victory.

The house was ransacked by thieves and then fled with the stolen goods, the head of the household can claim that it is a victory to beat the thief away, and the thief can say that it is also a victory to return with a full load, as for how others understand it, it is another story.

Taiyu Wenliang, a major hanger of the Southeast Province, praised the performance of the generals who participated in the war at the meeting, and the various commendations and the distribution of the spoils were carried out according to the plan drawn up in advance, and the main force of the navy was the Xiangyang Navy, and the commander of the navy was Zhou Fashang, the assassin of Hengzhou, and the person who personally supervised the battle was Du Shijun, the governor of Xiangzhou.

It was the Anzhou and Huang governors' armies that besieged Xiakou, and the Hulin army and the state and county soldiers under the command of Shi Yuwenwen, who attacked Wuchang and fortified Wuzhou, and the newly established naval army in Bazhou also entered the battle during the decisive battle on the Zhengrongzhou River, and the follow-up strength against the Chen army was borne by the Huangzhou governor's office.

This is a pre-arranged ratio of troops, so the trophies are also carried out according to the size of the output, and then kill a Yuwen Wen halfway desperately 'brush his face', this time the battle against Chen successfully completed the task, but he is on the verge of bankruptcy, so he must strive for 'stop loss' on the basis of reason.

For the land boat Yu Wenwen consumed countless lard, and the fat pigs on the territory of the Huangzhou Governor's Mansion were scavenged at the same time, a lot of manpower and animal power were mobilized, and it was also expensive to make Wuzhoushu a "hedgehog", and Yu Wenwen, who burned the bun to the point of stomach convulsions, was shameless in order to recover the loss.

Sensational remarks such as "the soldiers of the Hulin Army suffered heavy casualties, half of the soldiers of the prefecture and county were killed and wounded," "Sixty percent of the people of Wuchang who settled in Xiyang died of the plague," "Seventy percent of the grain brought from Wuchang was moldy," "Eighty percent of the prisoners of war brought back rioted and died," and so on.

When he was slapped on the table by Yuwen Liang and drunk, he asked for some loot, all of which were related to manpower and animal power such as ploughing cattle and prisoners of war, and everyone here knew that the plan to attack Chen Guoyingzhou was put forward and strongly advocated by this unobtrusive Yuwen Erlang, so they all smiled bitterly.

After the meeting, Yuwen Wen, who was full of spring breeze, came to the compound, where the entourage of the participating generals and officials was waiting, two of them saw him come out and hurriedly greeted him, one was Yuwen Fifteen and the other was the shopkeeper Wang Yue.

"The people on the list are no problem, you hurry up and get people." Yu Wenwen said in a low voice, Wang Yue nodded when he heard this, they didn't do anything illegal but had something strange inside.

Xiakou City was put to a pot, and the besieging army relied on the "long-range gravitational projectile cannon across the era" that stood like a forest to capture this important town in only a few days, so except for a few Chen soldiers who broke through, the rest of the people were 'packed' and taken away, including those who were engaged in trading.

Some of them are familiar faces who have 'business' dealings with Wang Yue, so Yu Wenwen wants to get people, but the other party is just a businessman, not a military and political dignitary, so it is just a matter of his words.

Of course, this person is particular about how to 'fish' the method, as for the particularity, Wang Yue also knows it, so Yuwen Wen handed over this favor to him to do, today's meeting 'reasonable' said that the hoarse Yuwen Wen was about to lead Yuwen Fifteen to go away, but was stopped by a person, and when he looked back, it was Hengzhou Assassin Zhou Fashang, and the other party explained that he wanted to invite him to the 'elegant seat'.

"This official is a drunkard, and the kind of wine that doesn't pour a thousand cups is the most boring!"

"I don't know where the envoy goes?"

"Fifteen, old place, go book a room!" (To be continued.) )