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Five days later, Wang Shen's army of the Western Expedition had arrived in Huangpi County. Speaking of which, Huangpi County is also a county under the jurisdiction of Huangzhou led by Wang Shen. It's just that as soon as the thief army fell, the officials here fled and became a three-person territory.

Early morning.

It was already summer, the sky was high and the clouds were clear, the wind was whistling through the wilderness after the drought, and the long grass was stirring, making the great plain in the distance look like an endless sea of green.

To the west, to the west, to the west, to the west is the rich Jianghan Plain. Standing on the ruined and defenseless Huangpi city wall, Wang Shen held a small wooden basin and quickly pulled the rice grains into his mouth with his chopsticks, while looking greedily at the vast western plain and the clear horizon with his eyes.

The army has not much food and grass left, and the soldiers have changed from three meals a day to two meals a day. There was no meat, vegetables and fruits, and even a commander like Wang Shen hadn't seen oil meat for several days. When you stuff this coarse brown rice into your mouth, it tastes like sawdust, like taking medicine.

Yes, this is the medicine, the cure for the sickness of hunger.

It's strange to say, there is no oil star, but the amount of food is good. In the past, it was enough to eat half a catty of rice, but now that I swallow a catty, I still feel empty in my heart.

After roughly calculating, in another five or six days, I won't even be able to eat this brown rice.

It is necessary to take Anlu within these five or six days to replenish military supplies.

In ancient times, when there was no pollution and no haze, standing on a high place, in such a blue sky, it was easy to see the majestic mountains hundreds of miles away. It is tall and straight, stretching for thousands of miles. Further west, there are Dahong Mountain and Jing Mountain.

This series of majestic mountain ranges forms a huge barrier to isolate the cold seven in the north, making the Jianghan Plain mild. It also blocks the water vapor from the south, so that the rain is abundant here, and the rivers are criss-crossed. A large number of rivers brought fertile soil, making the Jianghan Plain the most important granary of the entire Southern Song Empire in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.

The Jianghan Plain starts from Yichang in the west, ends in Huangshi in the east, flows from Suizhou in the north, and connects with the Dongting Basin in the south, covering an area of about 50,000 square kilometers, mainly including the three prefecture-level cities of Wuhan, Xiaogan and Jingzhou in later generations, the three county-level provincial municipalities of Tianmen, Xiantao and Qianjiang, and some areas of Jingmen and Yichang.

In this era, because there was no military disaster, a large number of displaced people were absorbed, and countless products were innumerable, it was simply one of the two purest pearls in the crown of the empire, the other being the Sichuan Basin, which was still in peace.

In the case of the whole of China, the political, economic, and military significance of the Jianghan Plain can be compared with that of Jingzhou during the Three Kingdoms. Moreover, this place borders eastern Henan and Shaanxi, and it has always been a strong army in the north, and it is easy to hit Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan, which is about the reason why Guan Yu wanted to defend this place during the Three Kingdoms, and Yue Fei's Northern Expedition set off from here!

If the Sizhou Army moves with high morale, Wang Shen has no doubt that this pearl will fall into his hands.

As long as you get this anointed land and get the manpower and material replenishment, no one can stop your rise.

Of course, Zhang Yong, Cao Cheng and others, who entered the Jianghan region one step ahead of Wang Shen, have also been greatly supplemented. As for their current situation, the spies of Chen Da's Judge Advocate General's Office were busy with the battle against Kong Yanzhou a while ago, and the information they returned back was also very limited.

However, based on historical data, it is inferred that this group of thieves has made a fortune. In real history, because the armies of Zhang Yong, Cao Cheng and other rogues who occupied Anlu blocked the east-west shipping of the Yangtze River, which greatly threatened the political, economic, and military security of the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Gou was ruthless and ordered Zhang Jun, one of the four generals of Zhongxing, to lead the army to conquer.

At this time, Zhang Jun's army went south through the Jin army to search the mountains and check the sea, and fought in Huang Tiandang to cooperate with Han Shizhong, and has been greatly improved in countless battles to quell the civil strife in the south. Coupled with the infighting between Zhang Yong, Cao Cheng and others, the war went very smoothly.

Zhang Yong couldn't resist and accepted Zhang Jun's recruitment in August of the first year of Shaoxing. At that time, Zhang Bu still had 50,000 horses, more than 2,000 war horses, and countless military resources. This is the case of infighting in the troops, the division of the army.

It can be imagined how prosperous and powerful the thief army is at this moment.

The more this happened, the more excited Wang Shen became. As long as these thieves are cut off, their own strength will be further enhanced.

The best thing is that at this very moment, there is already friction between the thief army and the thief army. In order to grab territory, the Eighth Route Thief Army fought with each other for an unknown number of times, and relied on the alliance's good personal charm and tough means to finally suppress the discord between the various armies.

Just a while ago, something very funny happened to Li Hongbu, who was stationed in Yumo Cottage. Because of the uneven distribution of spoils, several generals of the Li Department were dissatisfied with their own leaders, and even ambushed Li Hong, wanting to kill the main general and seize military power.

After Li Hong pacified the military rebellion, he didn't dare to stay in the cottage anymore, and only led a force that was absolutely loyal to him to move to Xiaogan. At this moment, the morale of the regular army is unstable and low.

"This first battle of the westward journey must be majestic, so that the thieves know the strength of our Sizhou army. The last time he defeated Yang Zaixing, although it shocked the group of criminals, he would not feel pain if the knife did not fall on him, and now the opportunity is just right, so he will first knock Li Hong's head on the mountain and shock the tiger. ”

Wang Shen felt that the fighter plane had arrived, and even the stupidest person knew who to attack first among the eight thieves now.

"General Wang Shen, our army still has a long way to go tomorrow, I heard that you are going to attack Xiaogan, the troops are rearming, and the Chinese army should also set off." The arrangement of accompanying the army made Li Heng walk proudly surrounded by a group of staff.

The newly appointed envoy of the imperial court and the prefect of Xiangyang was Wang Shen's nominal superior. Originally, Wang Shen regarded him as an ornament, and he could cope with it on weekdays. However, since entering the Sizhou army, Li Heng has been thinking about wanting to seize Wang Shen's military power, and he has to meddle in military affairs, no matter how big or small.

This expedition to the west followed him directly, and he commanded the Chinese army.

Listening to Chen Da, Li Heng has talked to leading generals such as Lu Can, Gu Lie, and Wu Xianxian during the march in the past few days/What kind of fame he wants to do behind his back, even a fool can guess it. It is nothing more than to win them over and make them work for themselves.

It's a pity that he touched a nose of ash among these three people, Gu Lie was originally an old man in the Western Army, he liked to talk coolly, and he had been depressed for a long time before. It was Wang Shen who single-handedly promoted him from an ordinary capital to a military commander, this northwestern boy would not give Li Heng any good face, and after only saying a few words, he ridiculed Li Yanping and the court enough: "The court, the official family, what kind of thing?" When the old race and the small race were slightly fair, our Western Army fought well. Later, as soon as you civilian officials intervened, you were defeated again and again, and you lost half of China, and we soldiers don't want to be treated as fools by you, and listen to your blind command to send them to death. ”

As for Wu Xianxian, he was originally born in a bad way, and when he saw Li Heng, he was just a hippie smile, with a gun and a stick in his language, but people couldn't catch the handle, and Li Heng had no choice but to take him.

I thought that Lu Can and himself were also famous people, and they should be able to speak. However, this man is even more difficult to deal with.

As soon as Lu Can spoke, his posture was extremely high, and Zi said that the sage of Shiyun said a lot. In the end, Li Henglai was taught a counter-lesson, saying that as soon as the envoy came to Jianghan, he wanted to do something without knowing the other or himself, and he was rash and rash, and he did not know how to unite the masses with what he said and did, but instead created discord in the army, and he did not disappoint the holy grace, and he did not think so. For the generals...... Whoever shepherds one side, let it ......

He is a man of letters, but he is not afraid of Li Heng. The words of the upper platform made Li Heng very embarrassed.

There is no breakthrough in these three people, as for Yue Yun, it is Wang Shen's future brother-in-law; Du Shu is simply a cadre of the Du Party; As for Kong Xian, he also followed Wang Shen to the black, and Li Heng would not waste his efforts on them.

At this time, Li Zhizhi was stunned to find that the Sizhou army was simply monolithic, and the needle could not be inserted or splashed with water. A deep sense of powerlessness hit him, and he was in extreme depression for the past few days.

Li Heng's small actions naturally couldn't hide from Wang Shen, and Wang Daosi was naturally resentful of this bastard thing. However, at least for a long time in the future, he still needs the banner of the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty to gather people's hearts and accumulate strength, and on the surface, he still maintains a basic politeness with the surname Li De.

But Li Heng didn't give him a good face anymore.

"Okay Li Fujun, when I have eaten, I will go." Wang Shen spat a mouthful of spittle and spit the sand and gravel in the brown rice down the city wall: "Don't worry, the army is moving slowly, advancing like a wall, and Li Hong will not be given a chance to take advantage of it." ”

The troops were short of food and only planted food around 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. every day. If you march in a hurry, I am afraid that the physical strength of the soldiers will not be able to keep up, so we must distribute our physical strength reasonably.

"The general doesn't need to be polite, he doesn't need to shout from the prince of the palace, just call me Li Heng!" Li Heng's tone was cold: "My Sizhou army has just defeated Qichun, and the soldiers are tired, do you think it is feasible to use troops against Anlu at this moment, and do you have the certainty of victory?" This is the only soldier available to the imperial court in Jianghan, if there is a mistake, can you afford it? ”

Yes, now in the entire Jianghan, there is only the Sizhou Army, a field army that can fight. Although Jingzhou, the westernmost city, is still in the hands of the Song Dynasty, the military and economic significance of that place is not great, and the city is full of temporary requisitioned villagers and people, relying on the strong city walls to defend the city, and pulling it out to fight with the thief army in the field is afraid that it will be dispersed immediately and cleanly.

"The gentleman said it well." Wang Shen smiled faintly, as soon as Li Heng arrived in the Sizhou army, he did not hide his intentions, and he had already made the contradiction public. Li Heng vigorously opposed this expedition to the west, and the reason for his argument was that the troops were too tired and the weather was hot. In fact, the lack of food in the army is also clear to the surnamed Li.

Wang Shen had always been afraid to guess the civil officials of the Song Dynasty with the greatest malice, and he suspected that Li Heng was trying to use hunger to demoralize the army, so that he could fish in troubled waters.

If the truth is as you suspect, it is unforgivable.