Zhang Yue led his troops into the state government, and the main force of the Yao Chongyu Department intercepted on all sides outside the city, and Pan Shuhei, the main general of the Chu army who had just escaped from the city, panicked, was slashed by Yao Chongyu under the horse, and then the remnants of the Chu army surrendered. An hour later, the battle was over, and Yao Chongyu led his troops into the city and took over the city defense, and then rushed to the state office.

"How? It's not a small gain, right? Yao Chongyu laughed as soon as they met.

"There is a lot of money and food on the books, but the actual inventory is very small, it is estimated that Uncle Pan has squandered it, and his family has not had time to take it away, what do you think of it?" Zhang Yue immediately threw this problem out.

"This still needs to be asked......" Yao Chongyu pouted with a look of contempt.

"That's good! You will deal with the families of the enemy generals who died in battle, and I will just ask ...... "Made!" Ruthless characters! Zhang Yue smiled helplessly.

"Forget if someone is a guarantor, if you don't have it, you just sell it as a servant, it's been like this all these years, you can't stand it, don't come to be a soldier!" Yao Chongyu said very politely.

"Alright! So what are you going to do next? Zhang Yue took out the map and spread it out, looked at it and raised his head and asked.

Yao Chongyu thought for a while and said: "The soldiers are fast, tomorrow we will rest for a day, select the fleet outside the water gate in the west of the city, and the day after tomorrow we will lead the fleet to capture the three counties of Huarong, Yuanjiang and Xiangyin around Dongting Lake." You send two commanders to capture Changjiang, and a complete Yuezhou will be in hand. ”

"Hmmm! That's fine! It's just how to deploy troops? "Zhang Yue's forces account for more than half of the troops, but he doesn't want to be transferred everywhere by the medicine, and he is completely scattered.

"Fill your belly first, write a military newspaper and send it back to Tokyo later, and then discuss it!" Yao Zhongyu understood Zhang Yue's thoughts, but sold Guanzi.

The next day was still cloudy, Zhang Yue arranged for Zong Jingcheng to temporarily lead the first and second commanders, plus five commanders of the army, a total of 3,500 people to defend the city, and Liu Tao and the people were on the list, dealing with the affairs of the concubine, and arranging the aftermath.

Yang Shouzhen was transferred to the fourth commander, still with Zhang Congzhao as the deputy envoy, and led the fourth and sixth commanders to the south to capture Changjiang. As soon as the logistics were in place, Zhang Yue personally sent Yang Shouzhen out of the city, but the deputy commander Zhang Congzhao was very unhappy and kept complaining.

Because Changjiang County is very remote, on the bank of the Miluo River more than 200 miles southwest of Baling, close to Tanzhou, and the junction of Hongzhou in the Southern Tang Dynasty, but there is a Mufu Mountain that stretches for hundreds of miles in the middle. It takes five or six days to get there by land, which is not an easy task.

In fact, you can also take the waterway, go south along the east bank of Dongting Lake, transfer to the mouth of the Miluo River, and then go south down the river It is easier, but the Miluo River extends tactfully, there are many big bends, and the time may be slower, so the waterway is automatically ignored.

"What's it called? Do you still want to be promoted and make a fortune? Zhang Yue looked serious, and smiled and reassured: "Don't worry!" Defeat Changjiang County, reduce the reorganization of the soldiers, and leave a competent commander to garrison, you can go back to Baling! ”

"And that wasn't until last month...... Don't lie to me......" Zhang Congzhao shouted.

Out of the vicinity of Baling Dongting Lake, there are very few villages along the way, sometimes dozens of miles are deserted, it is difficult to supply some fresh food, Hunan has not been developed in these years, the registered population is not much, and there is a bit of the taste of a wild land.

Yang Shouzhen's marching speed was super fast, but he also walked for a full six days, because there was a mountain road in the middle, and he took a certain rest, and only then suddenly accelerated when he entered the territory of Changjiang County, and arrived at the city of Changjiang County in one day, and did not stop, under the banner of Pan Shuhei, the defender of Yuezhou, and rushed directly into the city.

The commander of the garrison, named Liu Zhifu, found that it was too late when the situation was wrong, so he had to surrender obediently, accept the disarming, and then live in the barracks, waiting to be reorganized.

Because the Southern Tang Army came over before, the county order of Chu had already run away, and after the Southern Tang Dynasty withdrew, he also took away the county order he appointed, so Changjiang County only had one chief bookkeeper and one county lieutenant, with a group of small officials to deal with the affairs of the county.

Yang Shouzhen successfully took over the county government and became the county parents, because the common people in this year called the county magistrate their parents, not the county lord. With the chief bookkeeper and the county lieutenant helping to deal with the logistics, as well as the civil affairs of the county, the county government quickly resumed normal operation.

Zhang Congzhao wanted to go back, and under the pretext of going back to Baling to report the victory, but Yang Shouzhen not only disagreed, but in front of Zhang Congzhao, he sent a small soldier to do it. At the end, he reprimanded without giving any face: "Look at the two of the six commanders, Quan Daojin and Yan Chengwang, those are old qualifications from Hebei, you still came from Dengzhou, only a few months?" They didn't squeak, so why should it be your turn to go back? ”

"But I said it before I came...... Zhang Congzhao whispered, and his confidence was a little lacking.

"Here it is! Labor and management have the final say! Yang Shouzhen put his hands behind his back, raised his head and scolded him, and learned Zhang Yue's scolding of the junior officers.

Zhang Congzhao was helpless, he didn't dare to disobey the order, so he could only go back to the camp and continue to train the soldiers to sulk.

The good news was sent back to Baling, it was half a month later, and the season was almost in the middle of the lunar month, but there was still no sign of snow in the south of the Yangtze River, but the frost was heavier in the morning and evening.

Zong Jingcheng and Liu Tao, who stayed behind, received the report, and their faces did not show much joy, and it seems that the war is going smoothly so far. First of all, Huarong, then Yuanjiang and Changjiang, the good news of the three places was sent back one after another, and now only Xiangyin in the south of Dongting Lake is left.

But it is Xiangyin, it is likely that there is a problem, you must know that from Dongting Lake to the south of Xiangshui, to Xiangyin County is much faster than to Changjiang, but there is no news so far.

"Huarong County is said to be able to pass on the Yuanjiang River on the edge of the lake south of Dongting Lake, and after taking advantage of the situation, you can leave a command to garrison, so that after arriving in Xiangyin, both of them have 3,500 soldiers in their hands, and 50 large and small warships, and there is no problem in advancing and retreating freely." Although Liu Tao is a civilian official, he still has this bit of military common sense.

"Something must have happened, think about it...... We rested for a day after capturing Baling in the evening, and on this day there must have been fishermen in the lake, or sentinels who went south to Tanzhou to report the news. In this way, when they go to Xiangyin, they may be ambushed. This is entirely possible, because Tanzhou Yiyang is not far from Xiangyin, and Liu Yan's headquarters stationed in Changsha will definitely go north along the Xiangshui River to support. ”

Zong Jingcheng was restless, constantly measuring and calculating back and forth on the map, this was a trick that Zhang Yue taught him. But the map was too crude to accurately calculate the distances between places.

"What you say makes sense, but we don't have any troops to support us! Those troops are barely able to defend the city, and I'm afraid something will happen when they are taken out of the city! Liu Tao was shocked when he heard this, but he couldn't think of any good way.

"No! I must go south to help! "Zong Jingcheng has always acted impatiently, even a little impulsively, once he understands things, he will immediately make a decision. He immediately went to the barracks and transferred his troops south.

"Zong's command is slow, both of them entrust Baling to you, you can't leave lightly, or ...... Is it good for the old man to lead 300 people south? After all, Liu Tao was an old and serious person, so he immediately dissuaded him.

"Young Eunuch Liu is an important minister, is this appropriate?" Zong Jingcheng listened to what he said, and suddenly hesitated.

"What's out of place? The old man is still afraid that he will not be able to feed the shrimp and turtles in Dongting Lake! Liu Tao's straightforward appearance made Zong Jingcheng secretly surprised, this old man was actually very bold.

In fact, Liu Tao also has his own thoughts, he was originally a Zhongshu on the fifth grade, because his son Liu Zuo drafted the edict on his own behalf was reported, demoted to the Shaofu and young eunuch from the fourth grade, and this time he was sent out as a guest provincial envoy is a great opportunity, make a contribution to go back, and there is hope for promotion.

Moreover, he had heard someone say before he came that Liu Yan of Tanzhou was actually entrusted to Jingnan Gao Baorong to make up, and he had the intention of returning to the Great Zhou, and he was also an important minister, even if something happened on the road and was captured, no one dared to do anything to him. In this way, he is not afraid of anything, he is afraid that he will lose his job as a guest and make this beautiful difference.