The 5,000 troops under Lu Chang were all carefully selected soldiers, and although the Jiangnan army had a strength of 10,000, he did not covet quantity, but paid attention to quality.

After Lu Chang recruited civilian ships to transport supplies to the south of the Yangtze River, in fact, after letting the fleet of the Giant Kun Gang transport some of the supplies and troops to the other side of the Yangtze River, the ships of the Giant Kun Gang loaded with 500 soldiers led by Zhang Yu plus 5,000 people and most of the heavy equipment went up the Yangtze River and went to Poyang Lake first.

"Zifan, this trip has worked hard for you. After arriving at the destination, we set up camp, which can be regarded as our baggage arriving on schedule. The land route is slower than the water route, but it is estimated that it will not take a few days to travel lightly. ”

"Childe, those who are stupid will not leave them a handle."

Zhang Yu's family has a long history, and his military affairs are much stronger than Lu Chang, so Lu Chang is very relieved that Zhang Yu will march first along the way.

Sent away Zhang Yu's waterway, and Lu Chang also led the army to pull out. In this way, Lu Chang's army was much easier, only part of the grain was transferred from Jiangdu City, most of the grain and grass had to be requisitioned and transferred from the counties along the way, and the rest were light equipment. Coupled with the fact that Lu Chang mobilized a large number of horses, the speed of the march was not slow at all.

Because the location of the battle was in Yuzhang, one reason was the long distance, and the other reason was that a large number of troops had gathered in Jiangdu City, and the grain and grass were already in short supply, so the Great Sui Emperor Yang Guang issued a holy decree for the army to mobilize grain and grass and other support along the way.

The Great Sui Dynasty was very rich and did not lack war horses, so Lu Chang used horses in large quantities to transport. In addition to the 500 supplementary war horses that the baggage battalion was equipped with for the cavalry of the Xiaoguo Army, Lu Chang also asked for the use of horses for transportation. War horses participate in transportation, and their brains are funny, can people agree?

If you don't agree, you can't, can you carry the materials to Yuzhang with manpower? There is a waterway to go, but the sailors sent are not even enough to fight the army, what do you say?

Even, Lu Chang also used Chen Ling to intercede, and finally managed to get five hundred war horses.

In this way, Lu Chang had a thousand war horses in his hands.

After this matter was done, Lu Chang breathed a sigh of relief. A thousand war horses, Lu Chang was ecstatic in his heart!

What is most important in this era of war, of course, is the war horse. The wealth of the world is concentrated in the imperial court, except for the Great Sui Emperor Yang Guang, who has war horses here, and the rest of the way is only the grasslands in the north. It's a pity that it's too far away, and even if you can buy it, you can't ship it.

Therefore, Lu Chang did everything possible to take this opportunity to get more war horses.

The officials of the imperial court didn't know Lu Chang's dark heart, and Chen Ling didn't know Lu Chang's inner thoughts, and thought that he was worried about land transportation. For the sake of the war, Chen Ling helped him very much.

The southern army of 4,500 people, plus more than 5,000 people from Minzhuang, Lu Chang had about 10,000 people on this road, and he advanced to the southwest.

Along the way, he also had to requisition grain and grass from various county governments, after all, the distance was long, and it was not cost-effective to transport grain and grass from Jiangdu to Poyang Lake.

There is a court saint in hand, Lu Changhu fake tiger and dog to fight against people, and loot along the way. Not only grain and grass, but also local people to help take care of transportation.

Huainan County, Nanling County, Taiyuan County, and Poyang County have not been left behind, with more and more grain and grass, and of course more and more manpower that needs to be transported, and the number of people recruited and mobilized has grown to nearly 20,000 people.

Lu Chang set up a large camp in the southeast of Poyang County as the general supply base of grain and grass. The 20,000 people worked together, and it only took one day to prepare all the camps.

The army rested for one night, and the next day Lu Chang left Xin Wen to lead 500 troops and 10,000 Minzhuang to stay in the baggage camp, and continued to select qualified Minzhuang for military training. He personally led 4,000 troops and 10,000 people to continue westward and join Zhang Yu, who had already set up camp on the front line.

Lu Chang took these 10,000 people to be relatively good and could join the army after training. Lu Chang's calculation was to select at least 10,000 soldiers to join the army out of 20,000 people, so that Lu Chang had an army of 15,000 people in his hands.

After joining Zhang Yu, Lu Chang handed over the 10,000 people to Zhang Yu and asked him to secretly carry out military training in the camp.

The farmer is a farmer of the Xinyi Cao family in Poyang County, with a bold temperament, extraordinary strength, and a hobby of fighting. When he was a child, he studied for a few years, and later followed his father to farm and practice martial arts at the same time.

His village, located on a plain surrounded by mountains, used to be infested by bandits. To this end, he discussed with the villagers, opened up a training ground and a racecourse in the village, and organized young and middle-aged villagers to conduct military training. At the same time, a walled gate was built in the village to prevent invading enemies.

The behavior of the master begging caused dissatisfaction among the government, and every time the official came to a new righteousness, he never excused himself. Gradually, he became the target of the government's expulsion.

Liu Quan, the Taishou of the South China Sea, passed by Poyang, and the imperial court issued an edict ordering him to "beg for thieves" on the spot.

The officials forced the people to rebel, and the master was determined to seize the opportunity and immediately started an incident with Lin Shihong. At this time, Lin Shihong also had an armed peasant army operating in southern Poyang. The two hit it off, and the two peasant armies quickly converged and marched towards the county seat, and the poor people responded when they heard the news, and the ranks of the rebel army soared to more than 10,000 people.

At that time, the city of Poyang County was not well prepared, and there was a person named Yuan Bin, who "advocated righteousness and gathered the residents of Guo to protect each other" on the grounds of defending against military rebellion. This person is a little familiar with military affairs, quite skilled in martial arts, and he is actually in charge of the defense of the city.

However, he completely underestimated the strength of the peasant army of Cao Shiqi, and once the battle was fought, he could not support it, so he had to abandon the city and flee. When the officials in the city saw that the county was not protected, they also fled for their lives one by one with their families and small and soft.

The first battle was a brilliant victory, and the master immediately ordered to appease the people and open a warehouse for relief.

In October of that year, Cao Shi Qi claimed to be the King of Yuanxing, and the year name "Tiancheng" Subsequently, Cao Shi Qi captured Fuliang, Pengze and other neighboring counties.

In the autumn of the twelfth year of the Great Cause, the rebel army led by the master beggar to Yuzhang County, an important town in Jiangxi, took advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness and captured Yuzhang in one fell swoop. In Yuzhang, Cao Shiqi appointed Lin Shihong as a general; And determined to take Yuzhang as a base, and gradually expand to all parts of the south of the Yangtze River.

Can the master begging make such a big move in Yuzhang without alarming the Great Sui Emperor Yang Guang?

Jiangnan is the Great Sui Emperor Yang Guang as an important bargaining chip against the north, even if the north is currently out of control, Yang Guang's worst plan is to hope that he can survive in Jiangnan. It can be said that Jiangnan has become the back garden of Yang Guang's heart.

The situation is becoming more and more chaotic, and the current Yang Guang almost does not expect to quell the war in the north, and has begun to arrange a retreat to the south of the Yangtze River. Even, as soon as he came to Jiangdu, he had already arranged for someone to build Danyang Palace.

This time, more than 20,000 Xiaoguo troops were dispatched to conquer and suppress, which shows the importance that Emperor Yang Guang of the Great Sui attaches to Jiangnan. Yang Guang of Jiangdu had 100,000 Xiaoguo troops, which were life-saving troops and would not be sent out.

At the beginning, Chen Ling fought against Du Fuwei, and the imperial court gave him 8,000 troops, so a comparison shows that he attached great importance to Cheng Dù.

Liu Ziyi, the secretary of the imperial history, led 20,000 troops to enter Yuzhang City, and a major battle between the two sides was about to break out.