From the city of Hangzhou all the way to the north, in the dark night, over the turbulent Taihu Lake, over the dense rivers, canals and ponds, to the beautiful city of Jiangyin.

Jiangyin is on the edge of the Yangtze River, and the opposite bank is the Jingjiang River. Both cities are prosperous and culturally rich in peacetime.

In addition to its prosperity and wealth, Jiangyin also has one advantage: the distance to the other side of the Yangtze River is very short, and it is rarely short. Relying on this convenience, Jiangyin Wharf has become one of the most important ferry ports in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

At this time, the torches of Jiangyin Wharf were bright and the voices of people were boiling. In the last decade, even the busiest day has not been as lively as tonight.

In a shadow about two miles from the Jiangyin wharf, the two Fang Lajun scouts were immersed in the water, almost forgetting to breathe as they watched the endless fleet of ships coming and going between Jiangyin and Jingjiang.

The torches of the fleet almost connected the two sides of the Yangtze River, and you can imagine how many ships there are!

In the feeling of the two Fang Lajun scouts, the river water at this time was so cold that it almost froze the heart.

"Go separately, don't stop for a moment, and report the news of this place to General Shi Bao as soon as possible!"

The older scout said to the other. The two of them immediately dived into the water and swam eastward as much as they could, but in the end, only one of them passed the information to Shi Bao.

Late at night on April 17, Wang Yu and Yang Keshi led an army of 70,000 and crossed the Yangtze River with more than 600 official and merchant ships!

After Yu Yunwen landed, Da Zhou finally showed his hidden fangs!

On the afternoon of April 18, Fang La received the news.

"Impossible, impossible! Let Shi Bao carefully investigate and then report, how can there be no less than tens of thousands of Great Zhou troops who crossed the Yangtze River in one night! ”

In the dimly lit chamber, Fang La paced rapidly on the steps, not believing the terrible news reported by Shi Bao's people.

Some of the civil and military generals of the Yongle Dynasty who were sitting there bowed their heads, some were worried, some were short of breath, some were out of focus, and no one dared to reply for a long time.

Fang La sat on the chair, her chest rising and falling.

After a long time, Shen Shou coughed twice, "Your Majesty, General Shi Bao has sent three waves of messengers in a row, and the information presented is more detailed each time, it doesn't look like a fraud. ”

"The most important thing at the moment is to find out how many people there are in the Great Zhou army crossing the river, whether it is a forbidden army or a box army, what ordnance to carry, and where the Great Zhou will mobilize more grain and grass."

Fang Fei seconded it, and the waiter Gao Yu seconded it, and soon most of the others seconded it.

Yongle nodded to His Majesty, Sheng Gong Fang La, and ordered the entire army north of Hangzhou to prepare for a big battle, and at the same time to clear the field again.

After Fang La calmed down, he asked Tan Gao, who had returned to Hangzhou to report on his work, to set off overnight and rush back to Muzhou. Fang La also sent a secret letter to the ancestor who guarded Muzhou, instructing him to defend Muzhou in the southwest of Hangzhou.

Fang La began to stay behind.

The news that it took more than a dozen elite scouts to die before it arrived in Hangzhou was naturally not fake, but the content of the news was too terrifying, and Fang La couldn't believe it.

How did the more than 70,000 Great Zhou troops gather quietly?

The reason is related to Wang Qing in Huaixi. In the name of suppressing Wang Qing, the ruler of the Great Zhou Dynasty made frequent movements of the armies on the Jianghuai and Huai roads.

It is difficult to notice that more than a month ago, more than 70,000 Great Zhou troops were mobilized near the canals and lakes on the Jianghuai and Huaihe roads, and a large number of ships were transferred to the vicinity of the Great Zhou army.

After Yu Yunwen stabilized the camp on the south bank, Wang Yu and Yang Keshi, who received the news, immediately took action and gathered the Great Zhou army all the way south.

Wang Yu and Yang Keshi led the army without stopping for a moment, and finally arrived at Jingjiang on the north bank of the Yangtze River on the night of 17 April, and crossed the river overnight to reach Jiangyin.

Jianghuai's battleable army was evacuated, what should Huaixi Wang Qing do if he took advantage of the situation?

Characters like Zhao Ding and Wang Boyan would not miss Wang Qing.

To the west and north of the area occupied by Wang Qing, nearly 50,000 Xiang troops, village soldiers and archers began to counterattack the territory occupied by Wang Qing. The 35,000 forbidden troops guarding Ying Tianfu went south at the same time, filling the vacancy, and preparing to fight Wang Qing at any time.

To the east of Wang Qing's territory, most of the elite Jianghuai East Road, which had been drained away, organized village soldiers, archers and fleets, preparing to use rivers and lakes to deal with Wang Qing.

Several rulers of the Great Zhou Dynasty made exquisite arrangements for the forces of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and restrained Wang Qing's hands and feet to the death.

More than 70,000 Zhou troops came to Jiangnan, where to find 200,000 young people?

The epidemic has basically passed, and the millions of hungry people gathered west of Taihu Lake are the best young people who follow the army.

Proceeding from the actual situation in Jiangnan, Yu Yunwen suggested that Bianjing implement cash-for-work in Jiangnan, and ordered the warriors who earned money west of Taihu Lake to organize 300,000 young men to come out in exchange for the court's openness to them.

The strategy of the state and the dynasty was to be kept secret, and the actual orders received by the warriors west of Taihu Lake were to take care of a certain number of hungry people according to their rank, and wait for the next plan.

Han Shizhong, Yao Pingzhong, Liu Guangshi, Liu Chengdong, the combined strength of these people is close to 50,000, of which the troops in Liu Guangshi's hands have been discounted to a certain extent. Counting the village soldiers and archers who cooperated with the battle, the four generals who rushed to Jiangnan first led 80,000 troops.

Yu Yunwen's troops were in the early 20,000s, and Wang Yu and Yang Keshi brought more than 70,000 soldiers, adding up to nearly 95,000 people. As Yu Yunwen, Wang Yu, and Yang Keshi participated in the war one after another, the number of township soldiers and archers who were mobilized again was close to 25,000.

In the south of the Yangtze River, around the Yongle Dynasty, the Great Zhou Dynasty actually mobilized 200,000 soldiers and horses!

Even if we do not count the hundreds of thousands of people mobilized on Jinghu Road, Jianghuai Road, and Fujian Road, there are nearly 300,000 people in Jiangnan who eat. Plus 200,000 soldiers and horses, that's 500,000 mouths.

The hundreds of thousands of hungry people left in Jiangnan also have to eat. Under the rule of the Yongle puppet dynasty, I am afraid that there will not be one or two million people, and the problem of eating these people must also be taken into account.

The 200,000 army entered, consuming huge tens of thousands every day, and could only fight quickly.

If the Great Zhou Dynasty wants to completely stabilize Jiangnan, it has to consider the problem of eating millions of people, and it needs to take out at least two million stones of grain, and it must be taken out now.

The strings of Da Zhou have been tightened to a certain extent, and several Zaizhi do not dare to continue to pressurize, so as not to force out a greater disaster.

Da Zhou really didn't fish for millions of mouths to dry up, otherwise the movement was too big, and Fang La would definitely be aware of it. The question arises, where does the food come from?

The answer is still in the waterways.

In an emergency, Sichuan Road, as the granary of the Great Zhou, once again played a vital role.

Ignoring the soaring grain prices in Sichuan and the bloody and tearful complaints of the merchants who "voluntarily" donated food and supplies, the officials and scholars of Sichuan Road loaded a million stone of grain onto a ship and went down the river.

Jingdong East Road, that is, the land of Shandong, in recent years, can be described as drought and waterlogging. Frequent disasters in the west gave birth to tens of thousands of bandits in Liangshan. However, the Jiaodong and Jiaoxi areas have been in good weather and have had a bumper harvest for three consecutive years.

In the port of Mizhou, 200,000 stone of grain has been loaded onto ships, and hundreds of merchant ships and ships have set sail.

In the port of Quanzhou, 500,000 stone of rice purchased from Siam, Nanyue, Srivijaya, Boni and other places is being inspected on the maritime merchant fleet headed by Pujia, and will go north within a day.

The port of Guangzhou, which also purchased 300,000 stone rice from Nanyang, has completed all the preparations before departure.

There is the Sichuan Road, which is known as the land of abundance and can save the scene in an emergency, and there is a maritime merchant fleet that cleaves the waves and sells silk, tea and porcelain to tens of thousands of miles away, and takes out two million stone of grain in one go!

Food alone is certainly not enough.

On the eastern coast of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the large and small salt farms from south to north inspected the court documents, and the internal officials and field supervisors in charge filled a boatload of salt with pain.

In the hot Hanyang Iron Prison, a fleet of swords, guns, axes, and shields was filled, and the iron furnaces and armory workshops on the shore never stopped.

Deep in the mountains, plains, hills, and wastelands, the Li Guojian in all parts of the Great Zhou Dynasty received an edict from the imperial court to transport the gold ingots, silver nuggets, and copper coins that had been urgently mined and smelted to the south of the Yangtze River to supply hundreds of thousands of troops with bereavements and rewards.

From south to north, from east to west, even overseas countries are involved. The rulers of the Great Zhou Dynasty used waterways and fleets to resort to a plan to conceal the sky and cross the sea, and completed a strategic deception that was unheard of in the world, with the aim of crushing the Yongle puppet dynasty in one fell swoop.

On April 19, Han Shizhong left 5,000 weak troops to defend Huzhou, and led an army of 25,000 to attack Wu Fubu.

On 20 April, Wang Yu led an army of 19,000 troops with a relatively fast rest to rush through the city of Suzhou and attack the Wujiang company camp garrisoned by Xing Zheng.

On April 21, Yang Keshi led an army of 40,000 troops south from Taicang, and cooperated with Yao Pingzhong's troops, who had landed a day earlier, and attacked the 30,000 square troops led by Shi Bao, Deng Yuanjue and Si Xingfang, and the battlefield instantly entered a white heat.

On April 22, Liu Chengdong led more than 3,000 men and horses to rush out of the mountains and forests to counterattack the county seat of Deqing.

On April 23, Yu Yunwen opened the gate of the camp on the south bank and ordered Zhang Tianlei to lead the troops into battle......