It rained for several days, and the Qiantang River rose and was a little muddy.

The river breeze and the sea breeze collide in Hangzhou Bay, and the water vapor increases, and the layers of mud walls, trenches and fences cannot stop it.

The soldier on duty in the sentry took the time to dig out his crotch, so that the part would not rot or get sick. There is an extreme shortage of medicines in the army, and even if there is, it will not be the turn of a big soldier like him.

Not far from the sentry was Yu Yunwen's tent. From time to time, Lord Yu scratched with a copper handle jade and didn't ask for help, that is, a luxurious version of the itch to relax his back, and the rest of the time he squinted at something.

Yu Yunwen couldn't take care of resting late at night, and he had to sort out as soon as possible the compensation and reward promised to the casualty sergeants, especially the casualty sergeants who desperately stepped forward when they retreated from Jiangbei.

The bereavement reward is doubled. It is strange that the officials who handle this matter do not pick up a few layers of skin, and do not fool the small people who are illiterate.

Yu Yunwen once swore in his honor that he would take care of the aftermath of the fallen soldiers. Doctor Shi attaches the most importance to personal reputation, and Yu Yunwen does not dare to make a slight mistake, otherwise his reputation among the people will not be preserved.

Zhang Tianlei was in his tent, and he was also busy with the same thing, he was mainly responsible for finding someone to check the bereavement and reward of Xunyang's foot soldiers. Most of the Xunyang foot soldiers brought to Jiangnan were gone, and the pillars of thousands of families fell.

Zhang Tianlei still has a conscience, and he doesn't want his hometown father to poke his backbone, so he wants to ensure that the bereavement and reward are sent to the families of the fallen soldiers. Lord Yu didn't do a good job, he would only be whispered, and a martial artist like Zhang Tianlei did something bad, so he had to be careful of his ancestral grave.

Zhang Tianlei found a lot of low-level soldiers and asked them about the deduction of pensions they had encountered before. Zhang Tianlei, who has learned a lot about the operation, combined with his own knowledge, carefully checked every link, for fear of a big mistake.

Embezzlement, deduction, and goose plucking, this chronic disease cannot disappear. There is no perfection in the world, and there is no way to put an end to greed.

Yu Yunwen sternly reminded many times that Zhang Tianlei talked to martial artists every day, but there were still people who stretched out their hands.

Annoyed, Lord Yu did not consult with the officials of the Jiangnan and Jiangnan roads, and directly impeached more than a dozen officials in Bianjing, most of whom served with the army. The dynasty did not kill scholars, but when the war was critical, Yu Yunwen issued an impeachment, which was a sensitive matter related to the morale of the military, and those offending officials were inevitably exiled.

The dynasty does not kill scholars, but it has always been unkind to warriors.

Do extraordinary things in extraordinary times. Yu Yunwen caught out a few moths and asked Zhang Tianlei to cut off his head one by one to show the public. At that time, the soldiers of the entire camp wept bitterly and shouted "fight to the death for the country".

Yu Yunwen and Zhang Tianlei stared closely, and handed the documents to the Ministry of Rites and Taichang Temple that were needed to distribute the bereavement and reward, and there were no major problems in Jiangnan.

Thousands of miles away, how much can the families of the fallen soldiers get from the hands of officials and officials, and Yu Yunwen needs to contact the important ministers of the DPRK and the central government to take care of them, and Zhang Tianlei and others need to pay attention to them all the time.

As a result, more than eighty percent of the bereavement benefits were distributed to the families of the fallen soldiers. Among them, Li Xiang also contributed a lot, and he sent the details of the reward back to Mingyueji in advance, and then the entire Jingnan Road knew about it. Everyone was ready to watch the excitement, and the economic officials in various places tried their best to protect their reputations, and only then did they have miraculous results.

Halfway through the hour, Yu Yunwen finally checked the list and amount.

Lord Yu rubbed his sore eyes and pinched his sore eyebrows. Breathing a sigh of relief, he stood up and played a set of Badanjin, and was refreshed and ready to sleep.

Tonight's sleep was interrupted by the gold medal express.

Gold Medal Express, Gold Medal Military Newspaper, Gold Medal Mestry, also known as Gold Medal Letter, is the highest-level, extremely fast, and costly communication method in the Great Zhou.

The sergeant holds a gold sign and has the right to demand the full cooperation of all military posts, post shops, post stations, military barracks, and even civilian post posts along the way. The Centaur Clipper rushes to the death, so that it can bring extremely high transmission speed, and it is not responsible for hitting and killing people.

The 100,000 urgent gold medal express was sent to the camp by clipper. Yu Yunwen put on a round-necked regular uniform and sat in front of the big tent, and Zhang Tianlei and other senior generals soon arrived.

After reading the emergency report, Yu Yunwen's expression was very solemn, and the civilian officials in the army were very shocked. Zhang Tianlei and other generals were either worried or eager to try, and their reactions were mixed.

At this moment, the battalion commander in charge of patrolling the camp sent a message that the Fang La army, which had surrounded the camp, had withdrawn beyond the wall. They also carried supplies, removed the planks from the trenches, and put on a look of encirclement.

The rain stopped and the clouds went away, and the moonlight was bright.

Yu Yunwen was on the wall, looking at the retreating Fang Lajun who was holding on, and said in the fierce burning sound of the brazier:

"Fang Lajun has given up attacking the camp, and he is determined to surround this official here. Han Shizhong and Wang Yu were not mistaken, Fang La really wanted the dynasty to divide the troops and go to Hangzhou to fight him to the death. ”

"If the dynasty wins, the Yongle puppet dynasty will disappear. If the dynasty is defeated, not only will the two roads south of the Yangtze River not be protected, but the two roads of Jianghuai and Fujian will also be in danger, and the two roads of Jinghu will also be carefully defended. At that time, the Yongle puppet dynasty would not have been able to be laid in ten or twenty years, it was really a good calculation! ”

"I actually used the last trick of burning jade...... Fang La's traitor still hopes that the northern land will start the war again, can he save his Yongle puppet dynasty? Joke! ”

"If it weren't for Fang La's trouble, the dynasty would have made contributions in the north at this time, and collected the land of the sixteen states of Youyun. 200,000 troops gathered in Jiangnan, consuming countless money and food, Fang La wanted to finish his work in one battle, why didn't the official want to. ”

"The waves crashed on the shore, and the waves surged. The waves hit the embankment, and everything is broken. What this official means is to go to Hangzhou City and fight a battle! ”

The court urged very tightly, and even invested all the money and food that Shengxi could take out in three years to Jiangnan. Some of them were also overdrawn, and in some places the people were miserable, such as the six kings and seven brothers in Suizhou, who were forced to rebel in anger.

If the war could not be ended before the autumn harvest, it was very likely that the Yongle Dynasty would breathe a sigh of relief and hold out until the next year. At that time, not only will it be difficult for the dynasty to afford the huge expenses of another war, but what will also make it difficult for the important ministers of the dynasty to accept is that at least until the first half of next year, the Great Zhou will not have enough strength to support the 100,000 troops gathered in the Daimyo's Mansion to advance north.

If the fortified cities, camps, and strongholds were gnawed through one by one, the minimum casualties estimated by generals such as Han Shizhong, Wang Yu, and Zhang Tianlei would not be less than 200,000. In other words, all the troops besieging the Yongle Puppet Dynasty must die before they can reach the city of Hangzhou!

For a whole day and night, Yu Yunwen's gold medal letter made the two envoys, two transfer envoys, and five salt and iron envoys west of Taihu Lake fidget, hesitate, and sweat like rain.

The fundamental plan involving the encirclement and suppression of Fang La, which is directly related to the court's external policy within a few years, is not something that Liu Guangshi and the other four envoys and other generals can easily put their beaks in.

The warriors on the front line could only give their opinions euphemistically, and the decision was in the hands of Yu Yunwen and other civilian officials.

Taking advantage of the precious opportunity of the Great Zhou army to temporarily withdraw its troops without fighting, the Fangla army north of the Qiantang River seized the time to adjust.

Fang Tianding hurriedly returned to Hangzhou City, hurriedly took two thousand elite armor, and one thousand orphan soldiers got together and went out of the north gate of Hangzhou City. He wanted to take 3,000 elites to wander in an area of dozens of square kilometers east of Deqing County and north of Tangqi Ancient Town, shielding Deqing County and at the same time, containing more combatable troops in the Great Zhou Dynasty and reducing the pressure on Hangzhou City.

On the battlefield north of Hangzhou, Wu Fu died in exchange for more Fangla troops to withdraw to several strong camps and towns in time.

As the last barrier to the north of Hangzhou, Tangqi Ancient Town gathered more than 20,000 troops, including nearly 6,000 elite armor who wanted to avenge General Wu Fu.

In the northeast of Hangzhou, Shi Bao, Deng Yuanjue, Si Xingfang and others will continue to carry out the work of brutally clearing the wilderness, breaking bridges and destroying canals, and driving out the people, and strengthening the hourglass-shaped defensive front.

Counting the young adults who had only been training for a few days, Shi Bao had gathered an army of 50,000. Coupled with the thousands of wounded soldiers who can heal in a short period of time, the troops needed to maintain a few fortified cities and dozens of camps are barely enough, after all, there are still more than 100,000 people who firmly support the Yongle Dynasty.

May 15, the night of the full moon.

The Yongle Dynasty successfully completed the adjustment of troops north of the Qiantang River.

Directly north of Hangzhou, in various towns and fortified camps, a total of 50,000 regular soldiers were gathered, and more than 150,000 civilians stood on the side of the Fangla army.

To the northeast of Hangzhou, Yuhang County, together with the hourglass-shaped defense line built by Shibao, has 60,000 troops, and more than 150,000 civilians also contribute to the defense.

As the center of the Yongle Dynasty, the city of Hangzhou has now gathered 80,000 regular soldiers and miscellaneous soldiers. There are more than 100,000 young men with all kinds of weapons in the city, more than 300,000 people loyal to the Fangla regime, and a large number of fine ordnance.

Soon it was the second half of the night, the air was fresh and humid, and a small breeze was blowing from the seaside through the devastated land of Jiangnan.

Han Shizhong and Wang Yu successively received orders to march.

Less than a day later, Yang Keshi received an order to attack Jiaxing City and contain Shi Bao.

Fang La still has the courage to break the kettle and sink the boat, and if he doesn't succeed, he will become benevolent. The scholars and doctors of the Great Zhou had no choice but to choose to fight to the death!

Advancing to the decisive battle under the city of Hangzhou, the money and grain allocated by the dynasty were very insufficient. The government of the two roads in the south of the Yangtze River, from the pacification envoy to the detention department, has been invested in the crazy collection of taxes and donations, and they are almost crazy.

The front-line generals were once again given the right to arbitrarily decide on the spot.

The military order also hinted that the south of Taihu Lake and the east of the hilly ridgeline are all battlefields, and it is hoped that the generals will "suppress thieves".

The wording is very ambiguous, but in fact, it is to let the soldiers do it, and they will not ask about things such as burning, looting, and humiliating women, as long as they are not cowardly on the battlefield.

As for the dozen or so adults with the highest status, whether or not the soldiers were allowed to massacre the small people in the occupied areas of the Yongle Dynasty in order to reduce the pressure on money and food and reduce the risk of marching, it is up to the wise to see the wise.

Ahem, scholars and doctors are righteous gentlemen, children of saints, Confucian masters, and Wenqu stars descended from heaven, how can they have such thoughts!

The decisive battle is approaching, but the strategic position of Deqing County is becoming more and more embarrassing.

The Great Zhou Army and Fang Lajun seemed to have reached an agreement, neither of them wanted to kill or injure too many people in that corner, so Liu Chengdong drank more wine every day.

may think that Li Xiang's trained straight archers are very good, or it may be compensation for Liu Chengdong. In short, Liu Chengdong still stayed in Deqing County, and fought against Fang La's army for a while, but Li Xiang took a thousand people to the north and then to the east, out of the mountains and forests to Han Shizhong's camp, and was about to follow Han Shizhong to the south to attack Hangzhou City.

Li Xiang looked at the bright moon like a silver plate outside the tent, remembering all the tragedies and evil things he had seen in the past few days, gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.

Ding Shihang ran over sweating profusely and handed Liu Sheng's secret letter to Li Xiang, which was full of crooked pinyin.

The content of the secret letter is very terrifying: Xu Bai and Ying Ming, who were checking the terrain in the mountains and forests, were served by Liu Sheng!