After the reorganization of the Southeast Xiang Army, a total of seven major legions were formed, among which Zhao Lianjin, the commander of the Second Legion, can be regarded as the most resourceful general under Zhang Mingqi, and among the eight guards under the jurisdiction of the Second Legion, there are also the Eighth Guard, the Ninth Guard, the Tenth Guard, the Eleventh Guard and the Twelfth Guard of the Southeast Chamber's combat effectiveness.

Even if the other three guards of the Second Army of the Southeast Xiang Army have not been formed for a long time, the backbone is also drawn from the above five guards, and their combat effectiveness is not weak.

However, after the Second Army of the Southeast Xiang Army, with a total strength of one million, entered the east of Fuzhou, it suffered a big loss from the Eastern Barbarian Coalition Army led by the Qingyi Nationality, and the newly formed 38th Guard of the Second Army of the Southeast Xiang Army was almost completely annihilated by the Eastern Barbarian Coalition Army, and the Ninth Guard, which can be called the trump card in the Second Army of the Southeast Xiang Army, also suffered heavy losses.

"What is Wang Heng doing to eat! The two guards added up to 250,000 people, and they were defeated by the Qingyi army of less than 200,000, and also lost 150,000 people, so immediately asked Wang Heng to come to Fukang City to meet me! Zhao Lianjin, the commander of the Second Army of the Southeast Xiang Army, said to several generals under his command with a gloomy face.

After Zhao Lianjin led the troops of the million-dollar southeast chamber army to Fukangcheng, the capital of Fuzhou, he divided two partial divisions to attack the two county towns occupied by the Eastern Barbarian Coalition Army, the ninth guard and the thirty-eighth guard were one of the partial divisions, and the other partial division was composed of the twelfth and thirty-ninth guards.

Zhao Lianjin led the soldiers and horses of the four guards and stayed in Fukang City, preparing to wait for an opportunity to attack the main force of the Eastern Barbarian Coalition Army.

Peng Yong, the commander of the Eighth Guard of the Second Legion of the Southeast Xiang Army, hesitated for a moment and said: "The marshal is angry, according to the news sent back by Wang Heng, the ninth guard and the thirty-eighth guard should have encountered the elite of the Qingyi clan, otherwise with the strength of the ninth guard, they should not have suffered such a big loss." ”

"Hmph-don't make excuses for Wang Heng, no matter how you say it, the Qingyi clan only has more than 100,000 people, and almost all of them are infantry, but Wang Heng has 250,000 people in his hands, and there is a brigade of cavalry, how did he fight this battle?" Zhao Lianjin said angrily.

To tell the truth, Zhao Lianjin and the top of the Southeast Xiang Army did not pay much attention to the almost pure infantry of the Eastern Barbarian Coalition Army, you must know that the Southeast Xiang Army had just driven the powerful Lu Army out of Zhejiang and Fuzhou, and the Southeast Xiang Army was at a time when morale was high, but the Second Army of the Southeast Xiang Army was unfavorable, and lost 150,000 people in the first battle.

Peng Yong then said: "Marshal, now that the Ninth Guard has suffered heavy losses, and the Thirty-Eighth Guard has suffered heavy losses, it is better to let these two guards temporarily retreat to Fukang City and join the main force of our Second Legion." ”

Zhao Lianjin took a deep breath and calmed his emotions a little, "Order the Ninth Guard and the Thirty-Eighth Guard to withdraw to Fukang City immediately, and let the Ninth Guard and the Thirty-ninth Guard also retreat, since the combat power of the Eastern Barbarian Alliance is stronger than we expected, then the only way to change is to change the tactics." ”

The purpose of Zhao Lianjin's division of the two partial divisions was to use the two partial divisions to attract the main force of the Eastern Barbarian Coalition Army, and then Zhao Lianjin led the four guards of the Second Army Corps to wait for an opportunity to attack the main force of the Eastern Barbarian Coalition Army, but now the main force of the Eastern Barbarian Coalition Army has not moved, and the second army's partial division was disabled by the troops of the Eastern Barbarian Coalition Army, which made Zhao Lianjin's original tactics basically impossible to achieve.

In the state pastor's mansion in Fukang City, the capital of Fuzhou, Fuzhou Governor Bimo sighed and said to his henchman Fuzhou Kou Xi: "I originally thought that after the Southeast Xiang Army entered Fuzhou, it would be able to drive the coalition army of the Eastern Barbarian tribes back to the 100,000 mountains, but it seems that the Southeast Xiang Army does not seem to be worthy of the name, and it has just lost 150,000 troops at once in the battle with the Eastern Barbarian Coalition Army, and this official is more and more worried about the situation in Fuzhou. ”

"Ahem-cough-the Southeast Xiang Army is in Zhezhou and Fuzhou, the reason why it can block the invading army of the Lu State, cough-cough--largely because of the advantage of the terrain, cough-cough-cough-but the Zhou Mu doesn't need to worry too much, this time the imperial court at the cost of half of Suzhou, in exchange for the Southeast Xiang Army to send troops to Fuzhou, the Southeast Xiang Army...... Ahem--the Southeast Xiang Army will definitely try every means to drive the Dongban Coalition Army back to the 100,000 mountains, with the millions of troops of the Southeast Xiang Army, the Dongban Alliance Army can't afford to spend it, cough-cough-" Fuzhou Don't Drive Kou Xi coughed while saying to Zhou Mu Bimo.

Zhou Mu Bimo saw Kou Xi's constant coughing, and said with concern: "Lord Kou, has your illness improved recently?" ”

"Ahem-thank you for your concern, Kou has invited many famous doctors for this disease, but unfortunately these famous doctors are all helpless, cough-cough-Kou can survive for a day, cough-"

Zhou Mu Bimo suddenly gritted his teeth and said: "Don't let this official catch the murderer of Lord Kou, otherwise this official will definitely cut him with a thousand knives!" ”

It turned out that Fuzhou Don't Drive Kou Xi suffered an assassination more than two years ago, although under the protection of the guards, Don't Drive Kou Xi finally saved his life, but he was seriously injured by an arrow shot by the assassin, and this arrow also injured Kou Xi's lungs.

If Kou Xi hadn't been seriously injured more than two years ago, the situation in Fuzhou would definitely not be that Bi Mo and Jiang Jian, the Taishou of Qinghua County, would be on an equal footing, and even the strength in the hands of Jiang Jian, the Taishou of Qinghua County, would be higher than that of Bi Mo.

Don't drive Kou Xi smiled bitterly: "Ahem-ahem-none of the assassins who assassinated me at the beginning were left alive, and there were no clues left on the assassins, ahem-ahem-it seems that it can only be a headless case, it's over, ahem-"

Zhou Mu Bimo immediately said: "Lord Kou, do you think it could be that Jiang Jian, the Taishou of Qinghua County, sent someone to do it?" ”

"Ahem-whether it was sent by Jiang Jian, the Taishou of Qinghua County, we have no evidence in our hands, not to mention that Jiang Jian, the Taishou of Qinghua County, has now occupied the land of the four counties, even if we have evidence in our hands to prove that it is someone from Jiang Jian's faction, ahem-what can we do?"

Zhou Mu Bimo listened to Kou Xi's words, and sighed helplessly, "Lord Kou, do you say that the Eastern Barbarian Alliance will come to fight Fukang City next?" ”

"Ahem--Lord Zhou Mu rest assured, in the opinion of his subordinates, this time, the Eastern Barbarian Coalition Army, which is dominated by the Qingyi Clan, does not mean to fight to the death with our Great Jin, ahem--Otherwise, the Eastern Barbarian Coalition Army will gather a large army to take Fukang City directly before the Southeast Xiang Army enters Fuzhou!"

In the county government of Luanxi County, Suwei County, Fuzhou, Wumengkezi, the southern king of the Qingyi tribe, said excitedly to dozens of generals of the Eastern Barbarian tribes: "I didn't expect that the famous southeast wing army of the Jin State is nothing more than this, this time our Qingyi tribe dispatched 100,000 people, and the Dai tribe dispatched 50,000 people, and defeated the 250,000 troops of the southeast Xiang army, and only captured more than 70,000 prisoners, it seems that we don't need to return to the 100,000 mountains for the time being!" ”

It is no wonder that the southern king of the Qingyi tribe, Wumengkezi, was so excited, this time the 100,000 troops of the Qingyi tribe, plus the 50,000 troops of the Dai tribe, and the two guards of the second army of the southeast Xiang army fought on the plain, and the combined forces of the Qing Yi and Dai tribes first used the infantry battle formation to block the charge of the seventh guard cavalry unit of the southeast Xiang army.

Subsequently, the combined forces of the Qingyi and Dai tribes used a counterattack to defeat the multiple infantry battle formations of the two guards of the second army of the Southeast Xiang Army, which caused the southeast Xiang Army to be defeated, and finally the combined forces of the Qing Yi and Dai tribes annihilated the 150,000 Southeast Xiang Army with a loss of less than 25,000 people, of which almost half were captured.

The Tusi Shamari of the Dai tribe said loudly: "King Wumeng, the army of the southeast chamber army entering Fuzhou this time, the main force is gathered in Fukang City, the capital of Fuzhou Prefecture, and the main force of the army in the hands of Mu Bimo of Fuzhou Prefecture is also gathered in Fukang City, it is better for the army of all ethnic groups to concentrate their forces and take Fukang City directly!" Once Fukang City is defeated by our armies of all races, the Jin army of the entire Fuzhou will have no strength to stop our armies of all nationalities from attacking the city! ”

Wumengkezi, the southern king of the Qingyi tribe, listened to the suggestion of the Dai tribe Tusi Shamarira, hesitated for a moment and said: "Although this big victory has let us know that the combat effectiveness of the Southeast Xiang Army is also very average, but the strength of the Southeast Xiang Army entering Fuzhou this time is placed there after all, and the army of the Southeast Xiang Army and the Fuzhou Prefecture Mu Bimo still occupy the advantage of the city in Fukang City. ”

The Dai Tusi Shamarira nodded and sighed and said, "The Great King of Wumeng is right, the most important thing now is to let the people of the Jin Kingdom send Umeng Isa and Umeng back as soon as possible." ”

Dai Tusi Shamarira is very affectionate to the Qingyi princess Wumeng Isha, and after learning that the southeast wing army of the Jin Kingdom entered Fuzhou, the Qingyi people are likely to retreat, and Shamariela transferred 150,000 troops from the Dai people into Fuzhou, making the total strength of the Dai He army into Fuzhou reached 350,000, and you must know that the entire Dai He people have only a population of more than 2 million.

Shamarira hopes that with the performance of the Dai people, he can influence the decision of the Qingyi Tusi Wumeng Aguo, and not let the Qingyi army easily withdraw from Fuzhou in the Jin State.

The Dai Tusi Shamariela then asked the southern king of the Qingyi tribe, Wumeng Kezi, "King Wumeng, what are your plans for the next step?" ”

Umengkezi pondered for a while and said: "Our coalition army is still in the east of Fuzhou, Jin State, waiting for the southeast chamber army to attack, in this way, the benefit of the city is on the side of our coalition army, as long as we can form a stalemate with the southeast chamber army in Fuzhou, in the end it must be the Jin people who can't stand it, I hope the Jin people can return Umeng Isa and Umeng to our Qingyi tribe, alas - I don't know what happened to Umeng Isa and Umeng now?" ”

In a conference hall in the Chengzhou Pastoral Mansion in Ningbo, Zhang Mingqi, the governor of the southeast, threw the letter in his hand to the ground, and then said in a cold voice: "The Second Army really gives our southeast army a face!" The two guards combined with 250,000 people, and about 25,000 cavalry, were defeated by less than 200,000 infantry, and the losses even exceeded 150,000, what did Zhao Lianjin, the commander of the army, eat! ”

At this time, in the conference hall, the six most important generals of the Southeast Xiang Army were all there, including Zhou Jiling, Liu Fengbao, Wu Zhan, Chen Hongxin, Fan Dongying and Yuan Tianba, but Zhao Lianjin had a bad relationship with the front four, and he was not familiar with the two behind, so no one came forward to defend Zhao Lianjin.

At this time, Zhang Mingqi's confidant Tang Yan opened his mouth and said: "The lord is angry, judging from the battle report sent back by the commander of Zhao Lianjin, the combat effectiveness of the Eastern Barbarian Army is much stronger than we expected, the two guards who fought with the Eastern Barbarian Army this time have the ace of the Second Legion, the Ninth Guard, and the commander of the Ninth Guard, Wang Heng, is a fierce general who has been fighting on the battlefield for many years, and the two guards of the Second Legion were defeated by the Eastern Barbarian Army in the case of superior strength, which shows that we underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Eastern Barbarian Army. ”

Zhang Mingqi snorted coldly and said, "Could it be that the Eastern Barbarian army can still be stronger than the Lu army?" Millions of elites of the Lu State were also driven out of Zhejiang and Fuzhou by our Southeast Xiang Army! ”

Strategist Tang Yan did not answer Zhang Mingqi's words, in fact, strategist Tang Yan knew very well in his heart that the Southeast Xiang Army was able to block the Lu army in the territory of Zhejiang and Fuzhou, and forced the Lu army to withdraw from Zhejiang and Fuzhou in the end, all because the Southeast Xiang Army occupied the advantage of the terrain, and even if the Southeast Xiang Army has been on the defensive, the losses far exceeded the attacking Lu Army.

Strategist Tang Yan diverted the topic and said: "My lord, since the combat effectiveness of the Eastern Barbarian army exceeds our estimate, should we send some more troops to Fuzhou, just relying on the Second Army, we may not be able to drive the Eastern Barbarian army back to the 100,000 mountains." ”

Zhang Mingqi thought about it for a while, and then nodded slowly and said: "Now that the imperial court has handed over half of Suzhou, including the state capital Qinhuai City, to the hands of our Southeast Xiang Army, since I, Zhang Mingqi, have received the benefits, I will not be discredited, so I will send some additional troops to Fuzhou to drive the Eastern Barbarian Alliance Army in Fuzhou back to the 100,000 mountains as soon as possible." ”

Then Zhang Mingqi looked at Zhou Jiling, Liu Fengbao, Wu Zan and Chen Hongxin, and finally stopped at Chen Hongxin, "Hong Xin, how about your Sixth Army go to Fuzhou to reinforce the Second Army?" ”

Chen Hongxin, the commander of the Sixth Army of the Southeast Xiang Army, quickly got up and said, "Obey the Lord!" ”

Strategist Tang Yan saw Zhang Mingqi arrange for the Sixth Legion to go to Fuzhou, and couldn't help but nod slightly, the First Legion and the Praetorian Guard Legion of the Southeast Xiang Army are all descendants of Zhang Mingqi's lineage, and they will not be used easily, and the commanders of the other four major legions, only Chen Hongxin and Zhao Lianjin have a slightly stronger relationship.

Zhang Mingqi said to Chen Hongxin again: "Hong Xin, after all, Zhao Lianjin entered Fuzhou one step earlier, and his understanding of Fuzhou and the Eastern Barbarian Army must be above you, so the Second Legion and the Sixth Legion must be dominated by Zhao Lianjin!" ”

"Rest assured, in terms of war, his subordinates will definitely take Zhao Lianjin's army commander as the leader!"