In February, Xin Lei received a large number of reinforcements and supplies sent by Yang Guang, the emperor of the Great Sui. Xin Lei was overjoyed www.biquge.info there were not many reinforcements of 1,500 people, it was better than nothing.

The soldiers he captured from Lin Shihong's army were not regular soldiers after all, and having these soldiers join can at least make the army's combat effectiveness not weaken too much.

Those supplies are also very timely, and the army is expanding rapidly, although the original baggage battalion has a certain amount of equipment, but it always has to be consumed, right? Besides, if Xin Lei's army is to be further expanded, the more weapons and equipment the better.

Xin Lei was happiest about the holy decree given to him by Emperor Yang Guang of the Great Sui, that thing was good!

Although the world has begun to be in turmoil, the Great Sui Dynasty is crumbling, after all, the emperor is still there, and the trick of pulling the banner as a tiger skin is still useful.

If anyone doesn't look long and doesn't listen to the greeting, won't he give himself a reason to go all-in? Don't listen to the emperor's holy decree, and you didn't discuss it!

Holding the holy decree of Emperor Yang Guang of the Great Sui in his hand, Xin Lei was extremely excited.

As soon as he said it, Xin Lei immediately launched an operation, conducted a major assessment of the entire army, eliminated some weak soldiers, and supplemented the reinforced army.

With the holy decree given to him by Yang Guang, he led five hundred cavalry and two battalions of infantry plus the city defense army formed by the eliminated soldiers, Xin Lei set off.

From your own station, head north and east along the Yangtze River. Every time he arrived in a county town, Xin Lei first showed out the holy decree and read it.

No one is stupid in the county guards, the meaning of the holy decree of Yang Guang, the emperor of the Great Sui, is very clear, and the counterinsurgency in the land south of the Yangtze River is handed over to the young dignitary in front of him. In addition, the comer was armed to the teeth, and no county guard dared to wait for him.

Don't look at the chaos of the Great Sui Dynasty, almost all the ambitious ones who should rebel are reversed, and the rest are either guts and officials. Even if there are still a handful of ambitious guys, it will have to wait until Yang Guang dies to start up again.

Xin Lei's trip went smoothly, and almost a routine everywhere he went, sweeping away the local army and drawing it under his command. Then recruit troops locally, select qualified soldiers to return to the army, and leave the others to the city defense army. Then he looted skilled craftsmen for later needs, and of course, all the arsenals of the counties and counties would not be left behind and would be looted by Xin Lei. Along the way, a large amount of grain, grass, and materials were pulled into their hands, and they also asked local people to help transport these materials.

The city defense troops brought by Xin Lei were all officers, or empty shelves, and they helped them complete the establishment before Xin Lei left, and a place after the establishment was completed was controlled by Xin Lei.

Immediately after that, Xin Lei continued to pull the banner as a tiger skin in the next county, and collected all the troops in the eastern part of Jiangnan in his own pocket, and by the way, he also controlled most of Jiangnan in his hands.

Xin Lei knew very well in his heart that these troops scattered in Jiangnan would defect sooner or later. As soon as the emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty dies next year, who will still be loyal to the Great Sui Dynasty?

In order to prevent rebellions in various parts of Jiangnan, Xin Lei first controlled the armies of each county. It is difficult for the counties to rebel without an army, and with Xin Lei's city defense army guarding all parts of the south of the Yangtze River, Xin Lei's backyard is considered safe.

When Xin Lei walked to Wuxing County, the county guard here was Shen Faxing. Xin Lei knew that Shen Faxing would cause trouble after Yang Guang's death, and this person was the object of Xin Lei's attention.

In the second year of Yining (618), Yu Wenhua instigated a mutiny in Jiangdu and killed Emperor Yang of Sui.

Shen Faxing thinks that he lives in the south, and his family has been a prestigious surname in the county for generations, and there are thousands of clans with the same surname. Shen Faxing conspired with Yuan You's generals Sun Shihan and Chen Guoren to capture Yuan You, and raised troops in the name of punishing Yu Wenhua.

In March, Shen Faxing set out from Dongyang, collected soldiers and horses while marching, advanced to Jiangdu, captured Yuhang County, and when he marched to Wucheng, he already had 60,000 elite soldiers.

Bilingtong guarded the road and led the troops to resist Shen Faxing, and Shen Faxing persuaded him with clever words and agreed with him to join the army. And Shen Faxing took the opportunity of the alliance to attack and kill Lu Daode and enter the city of Biling.

In August of the second year of Wude (619), after Shen Faxing conquered Biling, he thought that the south of Jiang and Huai only needed to issue his own orders to pacify, so he proclaimed himself King of Liang, built the capital of Biling, and set up hundreds of officials. Shen Faxing had a cruel temperament and advocated harsh punishment, and if a soldier made the slightest mistake, he was immediately beheaded, and his subordinates felt resentful of rebellion.

But now that none of this has happened, Xin Lei has nothing to do with him. On this trip, Xin Lei passed through Dongyang and destroyed the rebellious thief leader Lou Shigan first, so that Shen Faxing had no reason to control the military power in the future.

Xin Lei transferred the soldiers of Wuxing County cleanly, and the city defense army here also arranged a lot. Xin Lei was not worried about Shen Faxing's rebellion, and by the time the Great Sui Emperor Yang Guang died next year, Xin Lei had already gained a firm foothold in Jiangnan. At the end of the year, the army was secretly deployed around Wuxing County, and once Shen Faxing's rebellion was discovered, it would be suppressed in the shortest possible time.

Xin Lei's scavenging craftsmen from the counties south of the Yangtze River had a purpose, and he set up a shipbuilding base in Yuhang to manufacture sea and river boats. Xin Lei also encircled the Haiyan tidal flats in Jiaxing, and prepared to set up salt pans here in the next step.

The salt industry is a profiteering industry, and Xin Lei's first fortune plan fell on the salt industry. It's just that the current war tension can't be taken care of for the time being, and it will be slowly implemented after the elimination of Lin Shihong's rebel army.

In late March, Xin Lei and his entourage walked to Jin'an County and could not go any further, Boyang was in a hurry, Lin Shihong's army began to attack the city, and Xin Lei had to march north to meet Lin Shihong.

At this time, Xin Lei had looted more than 60,000 troops in his hands, and he was not afraid of Lin Shihong at all.

It turned out that Xin Lei had already arranged the deployment of the army before leaving, and had formulated a detailed battle plan. Shortly after Xin Lei left, at the end of February, Lin Shihong led a large army to attack.

According to Xin Lei's instructions when he left, the cavalry of the Xiaoguo army harassed the enemy army outside and cut off the supply of food and grass to Lin Shihong's army. The infantry held the city and relied on the favorable conditions of the city wall to resist the attack of Lin Shihong's rebels.

In order to deal with the 3,000 Xiaoguo army, Lin Shihong led the 60,000 troops to kill violently. This time there is trouble, not the trouble of Xiaoguo Army but the trouble of Lin Shihong.

How much grain and grass does Lin Shihong's 60,000 army need every day? The food and grass that the army carried with them were not much, and they were almost consumed soon. I was expecting to rob wherever I went, but when I came here, I didn't even see a figure, which made Lin Shihong directly dumbfounded.

Nima, you can't get into the city, the countryside is empty, and you can't even see a ghost and there's no place to rob it, who the came up with such a vicious countermeasure?

The only way left was to transport grain and grass from the rear, but the enemy's cavalry was elusive, and almost all the grain and grass transported by the baggage soldiers were taken away by the cavalry of the Xiaoguo Army, or they were burned, and even if they were lucky, a little grain and grass would not be enough to stuff their teeth.

Since he came and would not return empty-handed, Lin Shihong was ruthless and ordered the army to capture the city within a limited time, which caused the defensive pressure of the Xiaoguo army to be unprecedentedly great.