Chapter 140: Heading South

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Li Chengsi sat stunned for a while, and then the guards outside came to report, saying that the garrisons of the battalions outside the city also expressed their allegiance to Yang Xingmi and obeyed Li Chengsi's orders after hearing that Zhu Yanshou had died.

Li Chengsi didn't say anything about this, he was just a hairy boy with no power, no soldiers, and no prestige, even his father was killed, even if he escaped, what could he do?

After dawn, Li Chengsi ordered all the generals above the head of each battalion to go to Li Chengsi's big tent to discuss matters, and none of the generals dared not to do so, even those generals who had been relied on by Zhu Yanshou as their confidants also entered the city to meet with trembling at this time, and listened to Yang Xingmi's edict.

After everyone arrived, Li Chengsi first announced Yang Xingmi's edict, and then spread Zhu Yanshou's head to all the generals.

Li Chengsi also comforted the generals and asked them to perform their duties, and at the same time made some necessary adjustments to the garrison generals to prevent some people from secretly plotting to cause chaos.

Since then, the entire Shouzhou has completely fallen under the control of Li Chengsi, and the news of the outbreak of civil strife in Huainan has spread rapidly.

In Hangzhou, Qian Biao was one of the first people to get the news of Tian Yan's army.

When Tian Yan retreated from Hangzhou, Qian Di, Gu Quanwu and other people of insight expected that Tian Yan was about to rebel, so his secret agents had been paying attention to the situation in Xuanzhou, and he got the news the day after Tian Yan took the oath of troops.

However, when Tian Yan withdrew his troops, he still thought that he would raise troops in the future to take advantage of the fire and return all the things that Huainan had done at the beginning, but during this time, there were new changes in the states under his command, which made him have to change his mind.

Although Qian Biao's prestige has declined after experiencing the Wuyongdu Rebellion, his strength is still there, so although the states under his command have an unstable trend, they dare not do too much under the pressure of Qian Biao; But in this life, because Suzhou and Huzhou were captured, Qian Biao's strength was greatly damaged, far less than him in history, so the local ambitious state assassins were even more unscrupulous, and even openly raised troops to conquer.

Last month, when Huainan sent troops to respond to Wang Shifan, Chen Xun, the assassin of Muzhou, raised troops to attack Lanxi, because he was worried that Tian Yan and Huainan would take the opportunity to attack Hangzhou again, so Qian Biao only dared to send a small number of troops under the leadership of Fang Yongzhen to resist, because the number of troops had been barely able to maintain the situation.

And Ding Zhang, the Wenzhou general who took advantage of the rebellion of Wuyongdu to expel the assassin appointed by Qian Biao, and became the assassin himself, was very magically killed by a carpenter, and Ding Zhang's subordinate Zhang Hui took the opportunity to call himself the assassin history; But before Zhang Hui could sit firmly in his position, Shi Luyo, the assassin of Chuzhou, sent his younger brother Lu Ji to lead troops to attack Wenzhou, Zhang Hui was caught off guard and was defeated, and even Wenzhou was lost, so he could only flee to Fuzhou alone.

In addition, Chen Zhang, the assassin of Quzhou, was also expanding his army during this time, although he had not yet rebelled, but his disobedience was clearly revealed.

In the face of the local chaos, Qian Biao had long felt anxious, and the news of Tian Yan's rebellion made him relieved, and while gloating, Qian Biao also made up his mind to take this opportunity to send troops to pacify those unstable states and counties.

On the seventh day of the second month, when Tian Yan sent troops to attack Shengzhou, Qian Biao also swore in Hangzhou, and Gu Quanwu was the general to attack Chen Xun, the assassin of Muzhou, which was closest to Hangzhou.

Yongxing County.

This is a large county belonging to Ezhou, and it is an important source of military food for Du Hong, the envoy of Wuchang Jiedu.

Since the dispatch of troops last month, Li Shenfu and his lieutenant Shuzhou regiment training envoy Liu Cun led the army to the west The first target was here, but Du Hong's general Luo Yin gave up this place directly after learning that Huainan had raised troops and did not wait for the battle with Li Shenfu.

After occupying Yongxing bloodlessly, Li Shenfu said to Liu Cun with a smile, "If you get Yongxing, you will have already got half of Ezhou." ”

Although the main purpose of their western expedition was to lure Tian Yan to rebel, the western expedition to Du Hong was also an important target for them, and now they were very satisfied that they could easily take Yongxing Li Shenfu.

On the eighth day of the second lunar month, when Li Shenfu led his army to continue the westward expedition and drove all the way into the siege of Ezhou City, the news of Tian Yan's rebellion suddenly came, and at the same time Yang Xingmi's edict to quickly withdraw his troops to quell the rebellion.

In history, when the news of Tian Yan's rebellion came, Li Shenfu had already defeated Du Hong's main force, and defeated the 100,000 army of Jingnan Jiedu in the battle of Dongting Lake, which was the time when the momentum was amazing, so when he received the edict to withdraw the army, the frightened Du Hong did not dare to send troops to intercept him, and finally easily withdrew his troops and returned.

But in this life, Li Shenfu has not yet achieved the amazing record of defeating Cheng Hong's 100,000-strong army in a battle, and Du Hong's main force is still there, and his morale is not low, so if he hastily withdraws his army, Du Hong will definitely not sit idly by as he did in history.

Of course, this is not difficult for the resourceful Li Shenfu, Li Shenfu released rumors that he was ready to withdraw his troops that day, and at the same time retreated with great fanfare, and at the same time secretly arranged for Liu Cun to set up an ambush.

As a result, Du Hong really sent troops to chase after him and was defeated by Liu Cun's ambush soldiers, and Li Shenfu withdrew his troops and returned.

Shengzhou.

Different from history, because of Yang Wu's reminder in Shengzhou in this life, after Li Shenfu set out on the expedition, Yang Xingmi sent Sun Yan to guard it.

As soon as Sun Yan arrived in Shengzhou, he began to strengthen the vigilance, so that the military discipline of the Shengzhou defenders, who had slackened off because Li Shenfu was out on the expedition, was boosted, so when Tian Yan led the army to attack Shengzhou by land and water, he hit a nail here.

Next, Tian Yan naturally couldn't threaten him with Li Shenfu's wife and son as he did in history, and Li Shenfu didn't have to personally order archery at his son, which was also a positive change brought by Yang Wu in this life.

Sizhou.

After receiving the news from Li Chengsi, Yang Wu breathed a sigh of relief.

In history, Tian Yan's rebellion was suppressed without much turmoil, but in this life, the situation has changed dramatically because of the arrival of Yang Wu.

At the beginning, he single-handedly pushed his father Yang Xingmi to force Tian Yan and the three of them to rebel in advance, and he was full of confidence at first, but when An Renyi attacked Guangling under Zhang Hao's response, and even almost broke through Yacheng, which made him scared into a cold sweat and was glad at the same time.

Of course, this is because Yang Xingmi considered that he had a close relationship with Yang Jing and was worried that it would affect his command of the battle, so he concealed the news of Yang Jing's death, otherwise he would definitely grieve and blame himself.

Then, because Zhang Hao's sudden rebellion was too unexpected for him, Yang Wu was also worried about whether there would be an accident on the Shouzhou side, so he kept urging the army to speed up his advance in the past few days, and he had already rushed to Sizhou at this time, and he was not completely relieved until he received the news that Zhu Yanshou was dead.

Now that Zhu Yanshou is dead and Li Chengsi is also in control of the situation in Shouzhou, there is no need for him to rush to Shouzhou again, and the next thing is the focus of this war.

"Order, turn the bow of the ship and go south, and target Runzhou!"

PS: There are only two chapters today, another one in the evening, and one will be added tomorrow.