[The collection suddenly increased by one or two hundred, someone must have sent a red envelope, thank you, thank you, thank you very much......]

Hundreds of ships laden with military supplies and grain came down the Han River waterway in front of Xiangyang City. Shi Liang, who was standing at the head of Xiangyang City, could clearly see the thickly dressed boatmen on those boats, and these people, without exception, had no braids on their heads or necks in the past. They are the foundation of the water conservancy transportation that Chen Jiajun relies on!

When he was in Ruzhou, he was a local fisherman or a boatman in the river, but Chen Jiajun, who went out of Yunyang, collected the Han people in the Han River.

They either took refuge in Chen Jiajun directly, or were tempted by the money and food thrown by Chen Ming, anyway, the military supplies and grain that Chen Ming carried with the army all relied on boats.

Chen Ming put a few soldiers on each ship, in addition to the one hundred and ten cargo ships full of supplies, there was also a group of men who knew how to deal with the water that he had gathered, four or five hundred people, rowing twenty or thirty civilian boats, as the defense force of the fleet.

These people are not the naval battalion of the Chen Jiajun, but a logistics unit.

Chen Ming didn't think much of this 'sailor' of thousands of people.

"Lord Shi, Chen Cheng is going south." Xue Shiyan's head was a little confused, Chen Ming was so bold, he didn't pull out the nail in Xiangyang on the back road, and set sail?

You must know that yesterday and the day before yesterday, Chen Jiajun's artillery bombarded the north embankment of the north of the city for two whole days, Xue Shiyan did not doubt Chen Jiajun's determination to take Xiangyang, and discussed with Shi Liang last night to divide the troops to garrison in the west of the city, so as to support Wanshan nearby.

I didn't expect Chen Jiajun to sail away today......

From Xiangyang to the south is the Anlu Mansion City Zhongxiang, as well as Jingmen, but this is not a problem, the problem is to hit Jingmen straight south is the empty Jingzhou Mansion City Jiangling. There are tens of thousands of women and children living in the Eight Banners, Jingzhou City has just closed the city and wept, and now Chen Jiajun has come to the door, if you ignore it, Jingzhou Mancheng is afraid that Chen Yi will slaughter you, right? At that time, they don't even want to have their brains intact and stay on their necks.

"Xue Zhentai immediately led his troops south and rushed to Jingzhou by land."

A layer of cold sweat had already formed on Shi Liang's head, if Jingzhou was lost, even if he died a hundred times, it would not be enough to atone for his sins.

Yongrui lost more than 1,500 banner soldiers in that battle, and what happened to the dignified grandfather of the clan, Shi Liang saw it clearly, he didn't want to repeat the mistakes of the past.

There are 350 miles of waterway from Xiangyang to Hanchuan, but if Chen Jiajun wants to go all the way to Hanchuan, he must break the obstruction of the officials and people along the way, and then cross the Hanjiang River from Hanchuan to Jingzhou by land, with an interval of 120 or 30 miles.

Of course, there are still a lot of Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners in Jingzhou City, if you really think about it, Jiangling City can gather at least 4,000 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, including more than 700 horse armor soldiers. And all the men of the Eight Banners are all in battle, and this number can easily reach six or seven thousand.

As the core place of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's suppression of Huguang, the Manchu camp in Jingzhou reached 20,000 soldiers and civilians in the early years of Kangxi, and 3,800 horses and guns were drilled. From the late Kangxi Dynasty to the middle of the Qianlong Dynasty, the population of Jingzhou's Mancheng continued to increase, and now there are 30,000 people. There are nearly 6,500 bannermen in the register.

One hundred and twenty years ago, the city garrisoned by four or five thousand Manchurian soldiers was faced with the attack of 10,000 rebels, and it needed emergency rescue from Xiangyang soldiers and horses hundreds of miles away, which was a joke. But one hundred and twenty years have passed, and the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty have long been overwhelmed.

When Shi Liang and Xue Shiyan saw Chen Jiajun sailing south, the first impression of Jingzhou Mansion City flashed in their minds was that it was empty, an empty Jiangling City. No matter who the two of them were, they didn't take the remaining 4,000 banner soldiers in Jiangling City seriously.

When the last ship of Chen Jiajun rowed in front of Xiangyang City, the reorganization of the men and horses in Yichang Town had also been completed. Shi Liang also sent a manpower Pegasus Express to Wuchang, but if he waited for the governor of Huguang to make up his mind and Xue Shiyan set off again, it would definitely be too late.

Shi Liang still has a problem now, whether he should send a group of soldiers and horses across the river to take a look, if there is really no thief in Fancheng, then the Chen family army will really go south.

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Yuzhou. The weather is getting colder and colder, and as soon as the deadly north wind blows, the slightest chill drills into people's bones. The local ordinary people stay at home in winter and do not go out, and the cat winter is not to be lazy, but to avoid the cold. Only those who are really difficult at home, or who are themselves working for others, have to be busy in the cold winter days.

Zong Weifeng walked all the way into Yuzhou Prefecture, and he could see a man with a blue face and purple lips, and a layer of fine snowflakes floating in the sky from time to time, this day was no different from their hometown in the Lu camp.

Of course, Yuzhou City is much richer than Lushi County. For example, Zong Weifeng's destination today, this ordinary courtyard on the outside, there is a hole in the inside, a courtyard with several entrances and exits, corridors, roofs, wooden pillars, and leaky windows, ingenuity, by no means a gorgeous decoration, exquisite furnishings can be described. Walking into the room, Zong Weifeng looked at the beautiful porcelain, embroidery, gold and silver objects with straight eyes, knocking on the benefits to decorate every inch of space in the room.

The amount can be described as a 'lot', but it is not tacky at all.

There are also fires sandwiched between the walls, making the whole mansion warm like spring, Zong Weifeng walked all the way, and when he entered the room, he naturally took off the leather robe outside.

At this time, above the main hall, an old man with gray hair was sitting precariously, there was no maid and woman around him, and there were kettles, teacups, and snacks on a coffee table, and he wanted to eat and drink himself.

Although Zong Weifeng is an officer of the first battalion, his status here is not very good. He walked in, and the old man at the top of the room just nodded his head a little, which was counted as a gesture, but Zong Weifeng couldn't do it. You must know that this old man is the head of the Yuzhou medicinal herb shop, and even the governor of Yuzhou will let him score three points.

He is Fang Tinglan, the proprietor of the famous Taishenglong in Yuzhou. It has been fifty years since Tai Shenglong passed into his hands, and Fang Tinglan has made him even more prosperous for another twenty years. Let Tai Shenglong sit in the first position of Yuzhou.

Fang Tinglan coughed, his complexion was not good, and he didn't know if it was because he was old and afraid of the cold, or because of the news from Kaifeng Mansion.

Everyone in the hall knew that Fang Tinglan went to Kaifeng a few days ago, because there was a new master on the throne of the first chair in Henan Province, the former Henan political envoy He Xuan became the governor of Henan, and the former Anhui envoy Chen Huizu became the political envoy of Henan. Although this guy also fought a big defeat, but after looking at his experience, Chen Huizu's performance threw Yongrui and them three streets. Emperor Qianlong thought that Chen Huizu's defeat could be forgiven, and ordered him to temporarily take the post of political envoy of Henan.

Fang Tinglan glanced at everyone, a pair of squinted old eyes with a cold light like a poisonous snake, and he said in a wistful tone: "I don't know if the proprietors and shopkeepers have heard that this battle of Yanling, the official army, won it." ”