1. "It's almost the New Year!" Bian Wenzhong walked to the window, looked at the snow drifting outside the window, and said to himself: "Father, are you going to leave for Jinghu County immediately?"

"Nature." Bian Wushuang nodded: "Shouldn't people like us be in a hurry to establish meritorious deeds for the new master?" It's not just me, you're going to get ready to go."

"I'm going to leave right away, too?" Bian Wenzhong said in surprise: "In this weather, the army is dispatched to exterminate the rebels? Father, can I find those traitors?"

"The army can not move, but you can lead the cavalry first, in this cold winter, ordinary people have a hard time, and the traitors have a better life? They're afraid they'll have to worry about food even more, right? When a large army is dispatched, they will hide like rats, but if you lead the cavalry first, the brigade is scattered, and the small force is raided, first find some people who are not open-eyed and have committed great crimes to train their troops, and be familiar with the terrain!"

"My son got it." Bian Wenzhong nodded.

"Will they give us some help?" Bian Wenzhong asked suddenly.

"Of course, before you go, there will be some people who will go to your place to join your cavalry with my warrant." Bian Wushuang said: "They are the ones who help you."

"Father is going to Jinghu, is there anyone who will help you?" Bian Wenzhong showed a worried look on his face: "My son went to suppress these rebels, it can be said that he used a knife to kill chickens, a trivial matter, I also know that the more important thing is not to suppress the bandits, but to lay out. But Your Majesty, you not only have to face Zhou Jiyun, but also beware of those forces behind Jinghu who are loyal to Cheng Wuben!"

"If it's not hard, what's the fun?" Bian Wushuang laughed: "As for the helper you mentioned, there must be one, if I guess correctly, Jinghu Water Master Ning Zhiwen must be doing things for the Ming people. In fact, Cheng Wuben may not know, but Jinghu can't deviate from this group of people. Even if he knew that Ning Zhiwen had a bad intention, he could only use it with trepidation. As for the others, I really don't know. But with the techniques of the Ming people, naturally there will not only be this chess piece, not to mention that this chess piece is almost a Ming chess. So in the dark, they must have a backhand."

"Is Egamiyan counted? He fought for the Ming Kingdom in the Ming Dynasty for many years, but he was deeply used by Qin Feng, and now he is under Cheng Wuben, and he is still thriving, and now he is the only cavalry under Cheng Wuben, which is a cavalry of up to 10,000 people, which can be said to be the only force in the Jinghu defense line that can launch an attack, and it is the essence of the Jinghu defense line."

"Egami Yan is a pure soldier." Bian Wushuang was silent for a while, and shook his head: "In Ming, he fought wholeheartedly for the Ming Kingdom, and the Chu State was in danger, he immediately abandoned his high position in the Ming Kingdom, and only thought about returning to his homeland to serve.

"Such a person is very respectable, but also annoying!" Bian Wenzhong frowned.

Bian Wushuang's eyes flashed, and he said with a smile: "That's true, we all want our subordinates to be like this, but we all hate that the enemy is like this. But this time, a pure soldier like this can be bullied."

"Father's departure, it is clear that he wants to seize the power of Cheng Wuben, Jiang Shangyan is Cheng Wuben's old subordinate, I am afraid that I am very wary of you! Father needs to be careful of him, too." Bian Wenzhong admonished.

"Be careful, what's there to be careful about!" Bian Wushuang didn't care, "I'm here to recapture the six eastern counties, so I think so, and I will do the same. It's not about doing anything bad. If I can't achieve consecutive victories in the war in the six eastern counties, what will I use to gain a foothold in the east? What do you take to make Emperor Chu believe me? What to take to recover the hearts of the military and civilians in Jinghu? You must know that capturing the six eastern counties, even if you can't take all of them, can create a buffer zone in front of Jinghu."

Bian Wenzhong showed a smile on his face: "If you do this, the Eastern Commander will naturally be in the bag. Then Cheng Wuben may have died without regrets."

"When the time comes, I'll give him a stick of incense and a bow." Bian Wushuangdao.

Jinghu County, although it has become the first line of the Chu State to resist the Qi army, but after all, it is the New Year, and it has always been shrouded in the clouds of war, and it is rare to have some festive atmosphere.

A large number of merchants also gathered here. For ordinary people, a war zone has always been an area that cannot be avoided, but for others, a war zone is an opportunity for them to grab more wealth.

Jinghu is a place where opportunities and crises coexist. The Jinghu defense line built by Cheng Wuben, although it can block the large forces of the Qi army and prevent them from entering, does not mean that it can cover the whole line, there can always be some small groups of special troops, using various methods to infiltrate and sabotage in Jinghu County, and the ghost of Qi is very active in this area. Of course, correspondingly, the internal guards of the Chu State are also closely deployed in this area, searching, and exterminating these Qi people who have infiltrated Jinghu County.

Wars are breaking out everywhere in Jinghu County. These battles were not large, but they were more tragic than the battles of the large armies on the front line, because once they were fought, they would end with all of them killed.

Generally speaking, it will be the Chu defenders who will win, and this will be their home stadium.

In addition to these, there are also some bold people who gather as bandits and loot when the time comes, and their targets are mainly caravans. These people are civilians when they lay down their arms, and bandits when they take up arms, but they are some of the most difficult people to deal with, and it is difficult to deal with them unless they are stolen on the spot.

The perennial war has also made the people of Jinghu County miserable, the entire county is serving the war, the fields are barren and uncultivated, and the support from the imperial court is not always able to arrive on time, even if it arrives, it must first satisfy the army, as for the ordinary people, who cares?

Such a place does not breed great chaos, but it is only because there is a strong army stationed. But that's all there is to it, the army of little bastards can't take care of it, and they don't bother to take care of it.

In the face of the powerful Qi offensive, they didn't have so much energy.

Those who can come to this place to do business in such a chaotic place are naturally people with quite backgrounds. Most of these caravans were guarded, and these people were still very good at dealing with ordinary bandits.

After a long time, there are also some small merchants who have figured out the doorway, purchased some goods, and then paid a little protection fee to these large caravans, and they can go with them in formation, although they have paid the protection fee, but as long as these goods are successfully transported to the ground, it is several times or even ten times the profit, and still make a lot of money.

So up to now, the caravans that generally walk in Jinghu County are quite large, and the goods are extremely complete, and the big caravans disdain to do it, so naturally there are these small merchants to make up for it.

Compared with the rest of Jinghu County, Jinghu County and the front-line army garrison are unusually prosperous, because there are hundreds of thousands of troops stationed here and hundreds of thousands of people who rely on the army to survive.

The size of the Jinghu army is always expanding. First, Lei Hu and Lei Bao led the army, and although the Fire Phoenix Army under their command retreated, they each brought 10,000 new troops to Daci City, which was not far from Jinghu. After that, Suqian brought another 20,000 men with the Western Army, but these 20,000 people were stationed in Jinghu.

These troops are the sand that Min Ruoying mixed with the Jinghu defense line. However, whether it is Lei Hu Lei Leopard or Suqian, the qualifications are still shallow, and they cannot shake Cheng Wuben's status.

And among these teams, there is an extremely special existence, that is, Jinghu Water Division. Although it is still called the Jinghu Water Division, the original Water Division has long been cleaned up, and the water battles have been fought one after another, and these guys who lack combat experience, fighting will, and combat skills either die in the battle in a daze, or they see that the situation is not good, and quickly change careers and leave the Water Division team. The current Jinghu Sailor Division is a brand new team, a fleet that is completely in the hands of Ning Zhiwen.

There are not many people, including the personnel who maintain the ships, there are only 5,000 people, but they are an indispensable force in Jinghu. Because the Jinghu Lake and the ditch are vertical and horizontal, there is no sailor to connect the various defense lines, so it is difficult to play the role of overall defense.

Although Ning Zhiwen is an authentic Chu person, he has an inexplicable relationship with the Ming people, and his second son Ning Zeyuan is even the highest commander of the Great Ming Water Division. Now it's no secret anymore. The relationship between the Ming State and the Chu State is really inexplicable, and the reason is still chaotic, for example, the younger brother of the Chu State when the head of the court, Ma Xiangdong, is the oldest local county guard in the Ming State, sitting on one side. And Jiang Shangyan is even more meritorious to the Ming State, and now he is in the Chu army, while Ning Zhiwen serves the Chu State, but his son is an official in the Ming State.

Now Ming Chu is in the honeymoon period, and the army of Cheng Wuben on the Jinghu defense line basically uses the weapons of the Ming Kingdom, and these weapons are transported to Quanzhou by boat, and then sent to Jinghu. And a large number of loans ensured that the Chu army's salaries and grain were complete.

Ning Zhiwen was very suspicious, but he was indeed fighting for the Chu State, and the water battles made great contributions to the stability of the Jinghu defense line. Zhou Jiyun of Qi State worked hard to set up a shipyard in Wanzhou, and transferred sailors in batches, but under the attack of Ning Zhiwen, it was miserable. It wasn't until the men and horses of the Bozhou Zhou clan appeared in Jinghu that Qi people regained their disadvantages little by little, and now it has finally become a situation of equal strength.

Jinghu County is preparing for the New Year, and the front line is also preparing for the New Year, and the Qi army has no intention of attacking at this point, and after a whole year of fighting, everyone has to relax, the string collapses too tightly, it is going to break, whether it is Cheng Wuben or Zhou Jiyun, they all understand this truth.

And in this calm, Yiye Bianzhou leisurely rowed across the waterway, heading towards the foggy front, sitting on the boat, but it was the boss of the Jinghu Water Division, Ning Zhiwen.