In the third year of Guangqi (887 AD), at the beginning of April, the spring was thick, and all parts of Weizhou were busy one after another, and Li Bao, the king of Qin, the lord of Weizhou, had already set off for Xingyuan.

Before setting off again, Li Bao had already issued an order, ordering all towns to send troops to attack from the east, west, north and south to suppress the rebels of Qin Zongquan.

Li Bao led an army of 20,000 men to attack the West Road, that is, the East Road of Shannan. Li Keyong, the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, promised to send his son Li Siyuan, together with Li Cunxin and others, to lead 10,000 troops to Henan Mansion as the Northern Route Army.

Zhu Wen, who had received Li Bao's favor, together with Zhu Jin's brothers in Yanzhou, sent 20,000 troops to attack Song, Hao, Chen and other prefectures and counties as the Eastern Route Army.

And Huainan has now been monopolized by Gao Yu's cronie Divine Stick Warlock Lu Yongzhi, because these guys are very disdainful of the edict of the center, so there is no feudal town in the south to fight.

However, the three-way army was enough for Qin Zongquan to drink a pot, so Li Bao didn't force it, and Gao Biao was able to ignore his orders.

And Li Keyong's division of the Northern Route Army and Zhu Wen's department did not deal with it, and Li Bao did not know what kind of fight he could make at that time, but since these two sides could obey orders, Li Bao was still very happy.

No matter what the results of this meeting are, Li Bao will not care, after all, his goal is only to take Shannan Dongdao, as long as he can achieve his goal, he doesn't care whether Li Keyong and Zhu Wen really obey his orders.

As a strategy plan that had been formulated at the beginning of the year, Weizhou must take Xiangyang as soon as possible. Xiangyang is the thoroughfare of seven provinces in the world, where water and land meet, especially suitable for commercial development.

Now just after the New Year, Li Bao transferred Zhou Rui's Weiyuan Fifth Army out of Shuzhong, and then Shuzhong ordered Zhang Qingping's Tiger Army, Zhang Siliang's Weiyuan Sixth Army, and Xiahou Haoyue's Tiger Wing Remnant Army to sit in the town, and the civil officials were mainly Wei Zhuang and Wang Jian, and Yang Yinyue also went to Shuzhong to form the Honor Academy.

Zhou Rui's Weiyuan Fifth Army plus Zhang Zhifang's Weiyuan First Army were the main force of Li Bao's attack on Shannan Dongdao this time. In addition, he also ordered Song Wentong to strictly guard the northwest border, and not to provoke with foreign clans without authorization, and wait until he took Shannan Dongdao.

Ye Qiqi and Han Jian had also set off for Yuzhou to form a fleet after the beginning of the year, and all the sailors in Shuzhong had been handed over to the two of them. As for how to train the water army, Li Bao gave them some suggestions based on his experience in film and television dramas in later generations. In addition, they were also instructed to respect the officers and soldiers of the original Shuzhong Naval Army.

As for the marketing of well salt in Shuzhong, it was handed over to Wang Jian and Wei Zhuang to be responsible for docking with them respectively.

After rushing to Xingyuan, Feng Xingxing, the defense envoy of the Jin Shang Capital, had also rushed to Xingyuan and met Li Bao as soon as possible.

Feng Xing is over forty years old, the appearance is Zhouzheng, this person is very courageous, the fourth year of Zhonghe is the first year of Guangqi, Qin Zongquan's subordinate Zhao Deyan led his troops to attack Shannan Dongdao, at that time Shannan Dongdao Jiedu made Liu Jurong immediately abandon the city and flee to Shuzhong to Chen Jinghuo.

In the face of the surging rebellion, Feng Xing was only the assassin of Junzhou at that time, and he immediately organized soldiers and generals to block Zhao De's troops in Shangzhou, and then kept Jinshang Junfang and other states from being occupied by Zhao De's army.

It was in the imperial court that commended his merits and promoted him to the defense envoy of the Jin Shang Capital, so as to resist Zhao De's annihilation. However, before Li Bao set off from Weizhou, he wrote to the imperial court, promoted the defense envoy of the gold merchant capital to the Zhaoxin army, and praised Feng Xingxing as the ambassador of the Zhaoxin army.

Li Bao used this reward as a bargaining chip to win over Feng Xingxi, as the most prestigious clan in the Tang Dynasty, Feng Xingzheng knew very well how heavy the weight of this Qin King Li Bao was. So he worked tirelessly and braved the cold to rush to Xingyuan early to meet Li Bao.

Li Bao admired such a brave official as Feng Xingzheng very much, and he knew that such a person's loyalty to the Tang Dynasty was based on his ability to ask for credit and reward for Feng Xingxing.

Feng Xingxing is also a smart person, so after he saw Li Bao, he was very humble and very respectful when he saluted Li Bao.

Seeing Feng Xingxing doing this, Li Bao was even more satisfied, so he enthusiastically took the hand of this powerful official to the inner hall and sat down, and then personally poured tea for him, and pointed to the small snacks on the table and said: "These Baiwei crisps and croissants were made in Chang'an in the past year, Ambassador Feng will try them first to see if they suit your taste." ”

Feng Xingxing saw that Li Bao reciprocated the favor, so he immediately followed Li Bao's instructions, first ate a snack and drank the tea advocated by Li Bao, and immediately praised it loudly.

Li Bao was already immune to the praise of his subordinates, so he didn't care much, and the two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and Li Bao asked about the details of Shannan Dongdao.

"Shannan Dongdao Zhao De's annihilation department, how many military horses are there in total? Are there any particularly brave generals? ”

Hearing Li Bao speak, Feng Xingxing put down the teacup in his hand, and then said unhurriedly: "Back to the king, this Zhao Deyan's army is just a collection of ruffians, and the military horses under his command are all embroidered pillows, and they have no combat effectiveness. But his soldiers were very brutal, and now Shannan Dongdao has been ruined by them, and he asked the king to send troops to eradicate the rebellion as soon as possible. ”

Li Bao listened to Feng Xing's return, he nodded slightly, Qin Zongquan This guy is a very famous demon in the late Tang Dynasty, his troops can be called a demon army that eats people and does not spit out bones, they burn, kill and loot all kinds of evil. The entire Central Plains region has almost become a reckless land in the few years when he became emperor, full of white bones and wilderness, and thousands of miles away.

Sun Ru after Qin Zongquan became even more violent, his troops did not prepare military rations at all, and every time they marched, they used carts to pull salted corpses. When there was no food, they went to arrest people, and the poor people were called "two-legged sheep" by them.

Zhao Deyan was now appointed by Qin Zongquan as the queen of Shannan Dongdao, and did not make him the envoy of Shannan Dongdao. But he is still the king of the mountain in Shannan Dongdao, since Li Bao plans to make a move, he will kill this scumbag Zhao De and leave no armor behind.

At present, the mobilization of the army is still in progress, and the military rations have not yet been delivered, and the Han River flows through Xingyuan, Jinzhou, and Junzhou until Xiangyang, because Li Bao planned to use the water route to transport military supplies in the eastern province of Shannan, and because he placed the forward position of the army in Junzhou, which borders Zhao Deyan's army.

It was especially important to make the former Junzhou assassin Shi Feng attack this time, and Li Bao spent a lot of effort to win him over in order to better make this person available to him. Weizhou is now developing too fast, all aspects of talent is very lacking, it is very important to gather talents, especially the talent who can be independent.

Since Zhao De's annihilation was not very worthy of the battle, Li Bao felt a little relaxed in his heart. However, now that the soldiers under his command are very precious, Li Bao still wants a more secure way, and it is best to be able to die less.

It was Li Bao who attacked Feng Xing and said, "Is there any clever plan for Ambassador Feng to teach Gu this time to attack the enemy?" ”

"The lowly officials don't dare, the king's wisdom is unparalleled, how dare the lowly officials laugh and be generous, if the king explains the strategy of this trip to the lowly officials, so that the lowly officials can have a long insight."

Li Bao was too cautious when he heard this Feng Xing, and he didn't know if he was really modest or pretending, but he had nothing to hide, after all, he was now using a conspiracy that was not afraid of leaking the strategy. In an era when strength is respected, no matter how much intrigue and trickery there is, it is useless.

It was Li Bao who attacked Feng Xing and said: "At that time, the army under the lone hand will go down the Han River until Xiangyang, and all of them will be crushed if there are any obstacles along the way!" ”

Li Bao's words were calm, but Feng Xingxun felt the domineering in Li Bao's tone when he heard it, and he also had his own ideas about how to attack Shannan Dongdao, but just now Li Bao asked him, he didn't say it in order to hide his clumsiness.

Now that King Qin has determined the attack strategy, he can only follow it, and he is very curious about Li Bao's strategy, what does this Qin prince plan to do?

Although most of the eastern provinces of Shannan are in the plains, the high walls of Xiangyang City are thick, and it is really difficult to break through. Moreover, Xiangyang is crossed by the Han River, and the moat of Xiangyang is very deep and wide. The widest part is more than 80 zhang, and the narrowest part is also 20 zhang wide. If you want to break through such a fortified city, you will inevitably need more powerful siege weapons.

Weizhou's weapons have always been strong, but in the face of the dense water network in Shannan Dongdao, it must be very difficult to transport siege equipment, and I don't know how King Qin planned it.

Thinking of this, Feng Xingxing immediately expressed his worries, but Li Bao laughed and said: "Ambassador Feng, don't ask, this orphan has already thought of it, and there will be results in less than two months." ”