Soon after the Sui army wiped out Lin Zhengbiao's army west of Ganshui, spies immediately sent this important information to Wuchang County in the form of flying pigeon messages. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

For more than a month, Li Shimin had been staying in Jiangxia County, on the one hand, he needed to know the progress of the Sui army, and on the other hand, he wanted to urge the millions of catties of pig iron stored in the mines of Jiangxia County to be transported to Chang'an as soon as possible, and he had to transport all this batch of pig iron before the Sui army exterminated Lin Shihong's army.

Li Shimin, like his eldest brother Li Jiancheng, is also a very pragmatic person, without the somewhat unrealistic illusions of his father Li Yuan, nor is he as keen on imperial art as his father.

He didn't consider sending troops to help Lin Shihong from the beginning, although he sent an envoy to contact Lin Shihong and deceived Lin Shihong into reneging on the covenant with Meng Haigong, but he was just fighting Lin Shihong's idea of warships, but unfortunately he was not able to succeed in the end, and the Sui army burned all Lin Zhengwei's warships with a thunderbolt, burning this second naval army in the world.

After getting this news, Li Shimin was completely uninterested in the battle of Poyang Lake.

"Your Highness!"

The eldest grandson Wuji walked forward quickly and handed a pigeon letter to Li Shimin, who was standing at the head of the city and pondering, "The latest news from Yuzhang County." ”

Li Shimin glanced back at the intelligence and asked lightly, "What do you think it will be?" ”

"I feel humiliated...... It should be Lin Zhengbiao's army that is finished. ”

Li Shimin nodded, "It must be it!" ”

Li Shimin still took the information, opened it, looked at it, and handed it to the eldest grandson Wuji.

The eldest grandson Wuji sighed and said: "This Lin Zhengbiao is really stupid, he didn't retreat to the south, and actually attacked the idea of Poyang County, did he think he could compete with the Sui army?" ”

Li Shimin sneered and said: "Things won't be so simple, Lin Zhengbiao must have a reason to go east, don't you see it?" Zhang Xuan laid a net to the west of Ganshui, and Lin Zhengbiao drilled into it, which shows that Lin Zhengbiao has been tricked, which is also in line with Zhang Xuan's consistent combat principle, annihilating the enemy with the minimum loss. ”

"Your Highness is right, this is indeed the performance of the scheme, maybe Zhang Xuan gave Lin Zhengbiao an illusion, our army has entered Jiujiang County, and the Sui army must return to help, Lin Zhengbiao wants to take the opportunity to go east, maybe he still wants to kill Jiangnan."

"Don't talk about him anymore!"

Li Shimin has no interest in this Lin Zhengbiao, the Sui army's destruction of the Poyang Lin family is the result of his expectation, Li Shimin is now concerned about Nanjun, they have not had time to launch a campaign against Nanjun, but the Sui army has ended the war against Lin Shihong, which makes Li Shimin feel very worried, do they still have any hope of capturing Nanjun?

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On the fourth day after the fire of Qigong Island was burned by the water army that came to Hu'er, Zhang Xuan sent Ling Jing to Jiangling City again to negotiate with Xiao Mo to jointly resist the Tang army.

But Ling Jing did not go alone, and there were fifty other warships and 10,000 sailors who went to Jiangling with him.

At this time, Jiangling City was already rumored, 40,000 Tang troops from Bashu arrived in Yiling County, and 30,000 Tang troops from Xiangyang also arrived at Jingling County, the two Tang armies formed a left and right attack on Nanjun, and the east of Nanjun and Jiangxia County were also captured by the Tang army, the status of Nanjun was extremely passive, and Xiao Mo even had the idea of moving the capital back to Baling County.

However, Xiao Mo also got news from Liu Lancheng that the Bashu Tang Army in Yiling County was seriously short of food and would not launch an attack on Nanjun in a short time.

Liu Lancheng even suggested that he take the initiative to attack the Tang army in Yiling, the Tang army had no food support, and would be defeated without a fight, and retreated to Shuzhong in embarrassment.

However, Xiao Miao's subordinates unanimously opposed Liu Lancheng's plan, on the grounds that if they sent troops to Yiling or Dangyang, Qu Tutong's army in Jingling County would inevitably take the opportunity to kill Jiangling.

Although Xiao Mo also felt that Liu Lancheng's plan was good, he couldn't resist the opposition of the generals, and finally did not adopt Liu Lancheng's bold plan, but decided to defend Jiangling and wait for Zhang Xuan's rescue.

On this morning, a Sui army fleet consisting of fifty large warships slowly arrived at Jiangling City.

The arrival of Ling Jing and fifty warships was undoubtedly a relief in the snow, and Xiao Mo was excited and personally came to the dock to welcome the arrival of the Sui warships.

At this time, Ling Jing walked down quickly from a big boat, and Xiao Mo hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile: "Welcome Mr. Ling to Jiangling again, and I welcome the sincerity sent by His Royal Highness King Qi!" ”

Ling Jing smiled slightly: "The Tang army is coming to the city, the situation is critical, my Royal Highness is worried that the back and forth negotiations will delay the time, so he directly sent the navy into Nanjun, there was no discussion in advance, please forgive Liang Gong!" ”

"Where! How can I blame you, it's too late for me to be happy, your arrival has made me no longer worry that Nanjun can't hold on. ”

"Didn't Duke Liang mobilize troops from the counties?"

"It's hard to explain this matter, it's better to go back to the palace with me first, and we'll talk about it slowly."

Xiao Mo ordered Zhao Bi, the secretary of his military department, to arrange military camps and food for the Sui soldiers, while he took Ling Jing to his white horse and gold chariot and drove towards the palace in the city.

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In the palace, Xiao Mo invited Ling Jing to sit down, and a palace maid served them tea, Xiao Mo sighed and said: "Now I don't have to hide Ling joining the army, our 400,000 army includes the army of many barbarian tribes, but they do not accept the rule of Liang State, and we can't command these armies, in fact, the army I can control is less than 100,000 people, and at least half of these 100,000 people are distributed in the southern counties to maintain local security, if there are no soldiers in the place, it is likely to be sacked by the barbarian tribes, in this way, There are only 50,000 troops that can really mobilize defense, of which 30,000 are deployed in Nanjun and 20,000 in Baling County, while the Tang army we are facing is nearly 100,000, and the pressure is not ordinary. ”

This fact did not surprise Ling Jing, in the process of exterminating Lin Shihong's army, the Sui army found some strange things, Lin Shihong except for the water army, the rest of the army are vulnerable weak brigades, and there are only 80,000 infantry in total, if Xiao Mo really has an army of 400,000, in last year's war, Xiao Mo would have been able to destroy Lin Shihong a long time ago, and not just a disastrous victory.

This can only show a truth, Xiao Mill's army is by no means strong, the so-called 400,000 troops may be just a verbal number, if the Tang Army really attacks Xiao Mill with all its might, Xiao Mill may not even be able to resist for ten days, it is based on this understanding, Zhang Xuan changed the way of supporting Xiao Mill, originally wanted to support Xiao Mill from behind, give him weapons and equipment, etc., but now Zhang Xuan decided to directly send troops to intervene, 10,000 naval troops and fifty large warships appeared on the river surface of Nanjun.

Ling Jing smiled slightly: "Duke Liang doesn't have to worry too much, the Tang army is too late to leave Yiling County, the fighter plane has disappeared, and now it is unrealistic for the Tang army to want to destroy you again, His Royal Highness the King of Qi thinks that the Tang army is currently trying to seize Nanjun and make Xiangyang, Jiangxia and Bashu as one, so His Royal Highness sent 10,000 sailors to prevent the Tang army from crossing the river, I am afraid that this confrontation will be very long, half a year or even a year, I hope that Liang Gong can make full preparations, especially to ensure the supply of grain and grass." ”

Xiao Mo nodded, "The food problem is not big, we are also prepared for a long-term confrontation, will His Royal Highness King Qi also stay here in Jiujiang County?" ”

"His Royal Highness the King of Qi will return directly to Zhongdu after inspecting Yichun County and Luling County, and the Southern Campaign will be over for the time being, and there will be naval troops stationed in Jiujiang County and Yuzhang County in the future."

At this time, Cen Wenwen, who had been silent next to him, asked, "Isn't the Sui army ready to attack Jiangxia County?" ”

Ling Jing bowed slightly and said: "The Northern Sui has been in a state of war for more than a year, not only the soldiers are very tired, but also the national strength is difficult to support, Jiangxia County is the strategic place of the Tang Army, and Li Shimin, the king of Qin, is personally in charge, once we launch a campaign against Jiangxia County, the Tang Army will inevitably fight back desperately, and the Sui Army will fall into the quagmire of war, which is not in our long-term interests, so Jiangxia County will not attack for the time being, and it will be solved together with Xiangyang County in the future." ”

Cen Wenwen wanted to ask again, but Xiao Mo waved his hand and didn't let him continue to ask, "His Royal Highness King Qi has his own considerations, so don't ask more about the text." ”

Xiao Mian is very shrewd, he knows that as long as the confrontation in Jiangxia County exists, then Zhang Xuan needs to use himself to contain the Tang Army, on the contrary, if the confrontation in Jiangxia County does not exist, he will lose his use value, and the first person to destroy the Liang State is probably not the Tang Army, but Zhang Xuan. (To be continued.) )