Early the next morning, the Sui army began to land on a large scale in Danyang County, in addition to the 10,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry who went ashore first, this time there were 30,000 infantry ashore, and another 20,000 sailors occupied Yanling County, Yanling County is also known as Jingkou, that is, today's Zhenjiang, and it is also the starting point of the Jiangnan Canal. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

But Zhang Xuan has his own plan of action, winter is coming, he doesn't want to fight this battle in winter, he must first complete his strategic deployment in Jiangnan, not only to attack Wu County, Huiji and other counties, but also the next step of the extermination war against Lin Shihong.

Therefore, the first step is to build a foundation in the south of the Yangtze River, which is Zhang Xuan's consistent method, when the foundation of Qinghe County was built on the other side of the Yellow River, so that the Qingzhou army could smoothly enter Hebei, and a few months ago captured Shangdang County and Changping County, which also laid the foundation for the Sui army to enter the state.

This time it was the same, Jang Hyun chose Danyang County as his first root base in the south, and spent a winter to fully control it.

Ten days later, the Sui army advanced and captured Qu'a County, which was guarded by only more than 1,000 soldiers, at this time Meng Haigong's army had withdrawn south to Piling County, with 50,000 Sui troops fully stationed in Danyang County, the threat faced by Jiangning County was lifted, and more than 100,000 Jiangning people who lived on the opposite bank for 12 days began to cross the river to the south and began to return to their homes one after another.

The Sui army camp outside Jiangning City has been built, this is a huge plate wall military camp no less than Jiangning City, the circumference is twenty miles, more than 6,000 big tents and a vast training ground, at this time, 50,000 troops are neatly arranged on the training ground, accept the Sui Army's supreme commander's lecture, Zhang Xuan stands on a two-zhang high wooden platform, behind him stands more than a dozen generals.

In the slightly chilly river breeze, Jang Xuan's voice spread far away.

"From Xuzhou to the Central Plains and then to the south of the Yangtze River, we fought in the south and the north, and made great achievements, which is enough for us to boast to our children and grandchildren, and today we have crossed the Yangtze River and are ready to sweep the south of the Yangtze River, but not now, what we need now is rest, the New Year is coming, we must eat and drink enough, we must write letters to our distant families to report safety, actively train, and wait for the beating of the war drums of spring."

Zhang Xuan took a deep breath, his sharp gaze swept over the faces of every soldier, he seemed to hear the heartbeat of the soldiers, and said slowly: "There are many veterans who still remember that a few years ago we only had a few thousand people, occupying a county in Beihai, but today, we already have Qingzhou, Hebei, Xuzhou, Central Plains, Jianghuai, thousands of miles of fertile fields, with a population of more than 20 million, but not enough!" After the spring of next year, we will begin to march to the south of the Yangtze River, I will take all the soldiers to sweep the south, that will be our new journey, our goal is the world, we want to unify the world, cast the most powerful empire, soldiers, use our roar to express our mood at this time! ”

Jang Hyun raised his right arm and shouted, "We will win!" ”

"Victory!"

Fifty thousand soldiers chanted together, everyone's eyes welled up with tears of excitement, a belief in being willing to die generously burned in their hearts, and everyone, whether a soldier or a general, raised their arms hoarsely and shouted, "We will win—"

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Chang'an Taiji Palace, Li Jiancheng hurriedly walked up the steps in front of the Wude Palace, but heard someone calling him behind, Li Jiancheng turned around, but saw that it was the servant of Shang Shu who shot Pei Lian, during this time Pei Jiancheng deliberately stammered Li Jiancheng, and virtually alienated Li Shimin, the king of Qin, Li Jiancheng also took advantage of the situation to envelop Pei Lian, and the two have gradually reached an alliance.

There is a reason why Pei Lin stammered Li Jiancheng, because Li Yuan was intoxicated with wine in the harem, and he actually fainted at the court meeting on the fifth day of the first month, which aroused the discussion and worry of the ministers, Pei Lin even secretly bought the chief imperial doctor to understand Li Yuan's physical condition, and the imperial doctor implicitly told him that if the saint continued to indulge himself like this, I am afraid that he would be seriously ill within three years.

It was precisely because he was worried that Li Yuan's life would not last long that Pei Lian began to hug Li Jiancheng's thighs instead, giving up his consistent position of supporting Li Shimin, the king of Qin.

Li Jiancheng stopped and said with a smile: "I thought I was late, but I didn't expect Xiangguo to be late." ”

"Just now I counted the newly made armor in the Ordnance Supervision Warehouse, and it is estimated that the Holy Lord will ask about this matter today."

"Oh—I wonder if there's enough armor for new recruits right now?"

In the past two months, the Tang army recruited 130,000 recruits in Guanlong, bringing the strength of the Tang army to 300,000, but the logistics could not keep up, mainly because the armor left in Chang'an by the Sui Dynasty in the past had been exhausted, but the forging progress of the new armor could not keep up, which affected the formation of the army, which made Li Yuan very annoyed.

Pei Lin smiled bitterly and shook his head, "There is still a gap of 40,000 sets of armor." ”

"So much!"

Li Jiancheng was taken aback, "What is the reason for the lack of craftsmen?" ”

"The lack of craftsmen is only one aspect, the key is that there is no pig iron in our warehouse, and without pig iron, it will be difficult for a good woman to cook without rice!" Pei Lin let out a long sigh.

Li Jiancheng was about to ask again, when a eunuch walked out quickly, and happened to see the two of them, and the eunuch hurriedly stepped forward and said, "The Holy One is going to be angry, His Highness and Xiangguo should go quickly!" ”

Li Jiancheng nodded, and walked quickly towards the hall with Pei Lian.......

In the imperial study, Li Yuan's face was full of anger, and he walked back and forth with his hands in his hands, and under the hall, Li Shimin, Chen Shuda, Liu Wenjing, Tang Jian, Cui Mingan, Dou Jin, Dugu Huaien and other important ministers stood with their hands down, and no one dared to speak.

"I talked about recruiting soldiers a few months ago, and it seems that it is the end of the year, and the recruitment has not yet been completed.

The more Li Yuan spoke, the more angry he became, he grabbed a stack of scrolls on the case and threw it to the ground, "It's all a group of incompetent rice buckets, a Liu Wuzhou can't take it for two years, and he returned empty-handed when he sent troops to the Central Plains, Zhang Xuan has already taken Jiangnan, but we can't take a step east, what kind of face do you still have?" ”

Everyone knelt down, "Your Majesty is angry!" Calm your anger! ”

At this time, the eunuch reported at the door: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Pei Xiangguo ask to meet!" ”

"Let them in!"

Li Yuan sat down on his seat and waved his hand: "I'm a little out of shape, you all get up!" ”

Everyone stood up, they were very ashamed in their hearts, today they got the express report, after the Sui army destroyed Du Fuwei, and sent troops to Danyang County, the Jiangnan Shi clan surrendered to Zhang Xuan, this news shocked everyone, I didn't expect the Sui army to expand so rapidly, so that everyone has a very heavy sense of crisis.

After a while, Li Jiancheng and Pei Lin walked into the imperial study one after another, stepped forward and bowed, "See my father!" "See Your Majesty!"

Li Yuan reproached Li Jiancheng unhappily, "Why are you only here now, I don't know if I'm in a hurry?" ”

"Qi Qi father, the son was about to go out of the palace to inspect the market, and as soon as he walked to the Suzaku Gate, he learned that his father had summoned him, so the son came in a hurry."

Li Yuan's dissatisfied eyes looked at Pei Lin again, and Pei Lin hurriedly said: "Weichen is counting the armor that has just been put into storage in the ordnance superintendent, so he is a moment late, please forgive your majesty!" ”

"You all have excuses, just settle down!"

The two saluted and got up, and Li Yuan said to Li Jiancheng again: "I brought everyone here today, presumably the emperor also knows the reason, the Jiangnan Shi clan was forced by Meng Haigong to belong to Zhang Xuan, the power of the Northern Sui has expanded to Jiangnan, but we can't move an inch, and we can't even complete such a simple thing as recruiting troops for several months, I am really disappointed and angry." ”

Li Jiancheng bowed down and said: "Father, the slow progress of recruiting troops is not because the ministers are ineffective, recruiting troops itself is not a simple matter, it is necessary to have the corresponding national strength to support, not only need a lot of money and food, but also have the corresponding armor, the reason why we set the strength at 200,000 at the beginning is because our armor inventory can only supply 200,000 people, and now it has increased by 130,000 people, and the supply of armor is insufficient." ”

Li Yuan snorted coldly, "You mean to say that in the past two years, we haven't even made a single knife, and we are all eating the old books of the previous dynasty, is that what you mean?" ”

"Erchen doesn't mean this, the armor will continue to be consumed, a knife can only participate in two battles at most and can't be used, the armor is the same, it is easy to damage, difficult to repair, we have also built a lot of armor in the past two years, but the consumption is too large, so it seems a bit beyond means."

Li Yuan ignored him, and asked Pei Lian again: "Just now Pei Xiangguo said that he was counting the newly stored armor, I want to know, how far are we still missing?" ”

"Your Majesty, there are probably 40,000 sets of armor left."

Everyone was in an uproar, and Li Yuan said angrily: "Why is it so bad? ”

"Your Majesty, the craftsmen have done their best, many craftsmen have not gone home for a month, eating and living in the workshop, we really have no pig iron, Your Majesty, there is no more pig iron in the left storehouse." (To be continued.) )