Hangzhou, the news of the loss of Mingzhou has reached Qian Hongyu's ears, this news surprised him, he can't understand how Pan Xianyan could lose Mingzhou City, but now is obviously not the time to discuss how to lose Mingzhou City, what he needs to face is the problem of how the Tang army will act after the loss of Mingzhou. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Tang army's actions were nothing more than advancing by land and water, the naval division attacked Hangzhou Bay, the army attacked Yuezhou, Qian Hongyu summoned the ministers, some advocated holding on, some advocated attacking, after all, the Tang army came from afar and the troops were insufficient. The ministers had their own opinions, arguing endlessly over this matter, Qian Hongyu had a headache, such an argument obviously had no result, he waved his hand and signaled to retreat.

Back in the palace, Qian Hongyu thought about it again and again, called Wu Cheng, changed his clothes, and walked out of the palace with the guards. Things have come to this point, I'm afraid that only the old minister Hu Jinsi can give him some advice.

A group of more than 50 people, riding war horses, rushed towards the edge of the West Lake, walked for an hour, everyone stopped in the area of Wengjia Mountain, at the foot of the mountain, is Hu Jinsi's home, a big house, covering an area of 100 acres, a personal soldier dismounted, knocked on the knocker.

"Bang Bang Bang! Bang Bang Bang! The knocker rang for a long time, and after almost half a meal, the door was opened, and a man with a white cloth on his head and a sackcloth on his body appeared in front of his soldiers. The man wiped the tears from his eyes and said, "Who are you looking for?" ”

"May I ask if Hu Shangshu is in the house?" The soldier was told and asked very respectfully.

The man sighed and said, "Grandfather, he has already gone to the west." ”

"Huh?" The soldiers were taken aback, looked back at King Wu Yue, who was standing more than twenty steps away, and said, "The king came to see Hu Shangshu today, and he couldn't think of ......."

"Is the king here?" The man was taken aback, and went out, and sure enough, among a group of guards, there was a man of medium height, but extremely gorgeously dressed, and the guards around him were silent about him, thinking that he was the king.

After all, he was the king of a country, and the man hurriedly rushed over, half-knelt down, and said, "Hu Jing has seen the king." ”

Qian Hongyu couldn't help but be stunned when he saw him wearing linen and filial piety, and said: "Hu, Hu Shangshu is ......."

"King, just last night, my grandfather passed away." The man said, wiping away tears.

Although Qian Hongli had a certain conjecture, he couldn't help but shake when he heard the words, which was very bad news for him. Anyway, Hu Jinsi once served Wu Yueguo, and now that he is dead, Qian Hongyu felt the need to go and see him, and immediately took his own soldiers into Hu Mansion, the dead are the greatest, Qian Hongyu put on three incense sticks, comforted him with good words, and then left Hu Mansion.

Hu Jinsi died, Qian Hongyu felt that no one could give him an idea, whether to attack or defend to the death, Qian Hongyu had no idea for a while, thought about it, and had to take the guards back to the palace first.

Mingzhou, after a few days of preparation, the sailor has prepared enough swim bladders and lime, in addition to loading a lot of soil, Yang Lian ordered Zhang Wenji, Zhang Wenchao brothers to guard Mingzhou, from time to time to send cavalry to harass other states and counties, and he went to Wanghai Town, in general, Mingzhou has more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, currently mainly defending, waiting until the spring is warm, and then marching north.

Yang Lian went to Wanghai Town, inspected, most of the battleships were repaired, due to the capture of the warships of Wu Yuejun, the number of Tang warships surged, these battleships Yang Lian intended to be used to stay in Wanghai Town, Fuzhou Zhang Wenying led the troops to garrison, rested for a day, Yang Lian and Lin Renzhao, Zhang Wenyi and others led the troops north.

Since the defeat of Zhao Chengtai in the first battle of Zhoushan, the islands around Zhoushan are firmly controlled by the Tang army, fifty ships of the naval division went out of Wanghai Town, and walked towards the Shengsi Islands, at this time the Tang Dynasty military department Shangshu Fang Jinzhao, the commander of the Haizhou Navy Zhu Qi are stationed in the Shengsi Islands, after some preparations, the soldiers and horses of the Shengsi Islands are full of 5,000 people, of which there are only 1,000 foot soldiers, and the rest are sailor soldiers. During this period of time, Zhu Qi had already reorganized his soldiers and horses, whether it was the Runzhou Army or the Guangling and Jing Navy, they all temporarily accepted Yang Lian's jurisdiction, which was due to Fang Jinzhao's contributions.

Fang Jinzhao thought very thoroughly, now that the Tang Dynasty has the upper hand, only by integrating these soldiers can the fists be harder and destroy Wu Yueguo in one fell swoop. Hearing that Yang Lian and Lin Renzhao led the sailors to arrive, Fang Jinzhao personally greeted them at the pier. From a distance, seeing the Tang Army's battleship coming, Fang Jinzhao couldn't help but nodded.

Speaking of which, Fang Jinzhao still can't understand why the battleships of the Dengzhou Navy Division are so hard, and they have an obvious advantage when they are hard against the Wu Yue Army Navy Division. Fang Jinzhao faintly felt that the sailors under Yang Lian's jurisdiction, I am afraid that the other sailors of Datang are not opponents combined, sometimes the number does not represent anything, the key is to see the combat effectiveness.

When Fang Jinzhao was thinking, Yang Lian's sailors had already arrived at the dock quickly, the soldiers put down their sampans, Yang Lian walked down, saw Fang Jinzhao, and said with a smile: "Fang Shangshu, the weather is cold, Yang is panicking." ”

Fang Jinzhao smiled and said, "Yang Jiedu won Mingzhou, which is really gratifying. ”

Yang Lian smiled and walked to Fang Jinzhao's side, and the two chatted as they walked.

Fang Jinzhao listened to Yang Lian's thoughts, and was slightly stunned, he originally thought that after Yang Lian captured Mingzhou, he was going to attack Yuezhou and take the opportunity to expand his advantage, but after Yang Lian captured Mingzhou, he chose to hold on. This made him a little confused.

When he arrived at the hall, Yang Lian explained to Fang Jinzhao, although he captured Mingzhou, but the army was insufficient, it was still necessary to focus on the water division, if he could annihilate Wu Yueguo's water division in Hangzhou Bay, the Tang army would be able to control the Qiantang River, and then use the water division to blockade Hangzhou, this plan was obviously more reliable, because in the naval battle, the Tang army's chances of victory were relatively high.

Fang Jinzhao thought so, he knew that the Wuyue people had a very lethal fire oil, if they attacked the city, the consumption of the Tang army would inevitably be very large, and the current battle situation in Suzhou City didn't explain all this? With the passage of time, the battle situation in Suzhou became more and more intense, both sides invested a large number of troops, at least 1,000 people died on the battlefield every day, as for the number of wounded, it was impossible to count, and the baggage camp was full of wounded soldiers.

Fang Jinzhao said the battle situation in Suzhou, Yang Lian suddenly frowned slightly, Zhou Zong was in charge of the war in Suzhou, and it was crazy to storm Suzhou City, which had been run by Qian's father and son for many years in such weather, and he was so fierce and fearless of death, it was very likely that he wanted to attack Hangzhou first and win the first success.

Fang Jinzhao also felt that it was possible, of course it was necessary to die in a war, but there was no such way of fighting, compared to Yang Lian's true and false, secretly sending people to infiltrate Mingzhou City, waiting for an opportunity to seize it, Zhou Zong's strong attack seemed too clumsy.

The war in Suzhou is becoming more and more intense, the more people die, the greater the damage to Datang, this kind of fighting method of killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred, even if Suzhou City is finally taken, Datang has not been able to breathe at all for seven or eight years.

Yang Lian shook his head, he didn't have much of a good impression of Zhou Zong, or that the entire Zhou Mansion didn't have much of a good impression of Yang Lian except for Emperor Zhou E. If Zhou Zong wants to grab the merit, then let him grab it, and the war is not just a strong attack.

The combination of rigidity and softness, and the complementarity of odds, can achieve the effect.

After the Tang Army's naval division arrived at the Shengsi Islands, Yang Lian sent a relatively fast speedboat to cruise outside Hangzhou Bay to check the situation of Wu Yue's naval division.

The Tang Army's sailors were out to investigate, and Wu Yueguo's sailors came out to chase after them, but because the Tang Army's speedboats were fast, Wu Yueguo's sailors couldn't catch up, so they had to watch the Tang Army's sailors escape. This Tang Army's naval division did not attack, but only observed from a distance, which gave the naval generals Shao Keqian and Zhao Chengtai a little headache.

Shao Keqian fought with the Tang Army's naval division, in his opinion, the combat effectiveness of the Tang Army's naval division was average, even if the naval division led by Yang Lian used trickery, but the Tang Army's naval division's battleship was very sturdy, Shao Keqian felt that this was very likely to be Zhao Chengtai's defeat.

Although he was suspicious in his heart, Shao Keqian also knew that after the first battle of Zhoushan, the strength of the sailors on both sides had changed, and he could only choose to forbear.

After Yang Lian got the situation of Wu Yue's naval division, he made a deployment, Wu Yue's naval division mainly guarded Hangzhou, and there were more than 30 warships deployed in Hangzhou, and there were more than 20 warships in Yuezhou.

Yang Lian invited all the generals, including Fang Jinzhao, the secretary of the military department, and after some discussion, everyone believed that in the current situation, it was the best policy to attack the Yuezhou Water Village first, the number of Yuezhou warships was small, the chance of victory was relatively large, and they could be deployed calmly, and if the Yuezhou Water Village was occupied, they could directly threaten Hangzhou.

Of course, if the Yuezhou Water Village was attacked, Hangzhou should react, so Yang Lian would send a fleet to guard the places where the two places must pass, and this important task was handed over to Lin Renzhao, who led twenty elite warships to block the Hangzhou Naval Division.

Fang Jinzhao, as the secretary of the military department, did not need to attack, he led the naval divisions of the former Runzhou, Guangling, and Jing navies to garrison the Shengsi Islands to prevent the sneak attack of Wu Yue's army.

Yang Lian led the remaining warships to attack the Yuezhou Water Village and fight for control of the sea. The matter was agreed, and all the generals went back to convey military orders and prepare equipment and food. The soldiers of the Dengzhou and Haizhou naval divisions were busy.

The next day, the weather was unexpectedly sunny, and the southeast wind also blew, which was conducive to Yang Lian's army, and there were a total of 60 naval warships, which successively went to Yuezhou in addition to the Shengsi Islands.

On the Yuezhou side, the speedboats patrolling the sea discovered a large number of Tang warships, and they quickly reported the news, and the Yuezhou side suddenly became nervous, and while they were actively preparing for war, they sent people to Hangzhou to pass back the situation of the attack of the Tang army's naval divisions.

At this time, Qian Hongyu has not yet made the decision to attack and defend, received the news that the Tang Army's sailors were killed, his heart was like a stone, and suddenly sank to the bottom, the Tang Army's sailors were very numerous, if the water war was rude, Wu Yueguo would completely give up the sea power, if it really came to this point, Hangzhou, which was near the sea, would be very dangerous. (To be continued.) )