On the head of the quarrying city, Wu Guosan's cavalry, special jin, Jin Ziguanglu doctor, general of the guard, and Shen Fasheng, the marquis of Jian'an, were all draped, standing on the head of the city with a sad face and overlooking the river in the night.

Shen Fasheng is father is a general who followed Chen Baxian to establish the Southern Chen, and went through several dynasties of the Southern Chen, including the official Jiasan cavalry, the governor of Guang, Heng, Dongheng, Jiao, Yue, Cheng, Ding, Xin, He, Luo, Ai, De, Yi, Huang, Li, An, Shi, Shuang, and other eighteen states of the military, Zhennan general, Pingyue Zhonglang general, and Guangzhou Assassin History. Later, he was a special doctor, Jin Ziguanglu. He and Shen Faxing are brothers, and in the early years, they followed their father and brother together to lead the various branches of the Shen clan to follow Chen Baxian to conquer the world.

How many years have passed in the flick of a finger, and when he first stepped on the battlefield, he was only a teenager, and he had not yet been crowned. In a blink of an eye, the Shen family has been going through Nanchen for decades, after several generations of emperors, it has been up and down for decades, and in the blink of an eye, it has witnessed the restoration of Nanchen again. He also watched his brother run the Shen family into the first clan in Jiangdong, and now, he has openly replaced the Chen family.

Now Nan Chen has been changed to Wu again, and he has just been crowned the king of Jian'an by the princess regent. This time, he was even entrusted with the important task of staying behind, but standing here, this old man who had already had a gray beard and had gone through the wind and rain was full of gloom. The death of his brother Shen Faxing, the death of a brother of the Shen family, and even the fact that Nan Chen became the state of Wu, and the Shen family replaced the Chen family as the royal family, and everything was turning like a marquee.

But the old man was not happy at all, but had a deep worry in his heart. There is no one in the Shen family, and the family court has fallen into the hands of Shen Luoyan, the niece. On the outside, Jiangdong and the Shen family were quite calm, but the old man had already smelled a smell of the building about to collapse.

Half a month ago, the head of the family, Shen Faxing, led half of the people of the imperial court to a great defeat in Sanba, and was recently counterattacked by Dong Chun, and finally died and was defeated. The elite of the imperial court was defeated. Immediately after that, the head of the family died. The loss of the important town of Jiangling was followed by the brothers competing for the throne, and then the four counties of Jianghan were lost.

The niece who has always been incomprehensible shot at the time of Guan Jian. actually took over the power of the family and the court. Although Shen Fasheng didn't support it in his heart, he also knew that he couldn't change it. In the midst of these troubled times, he thought. As long as the Shen family can be saved, even if it is a woman in charge, she can reluctantly accept it.

Three days ago, he had received information from Jiangxia City that Luoyan had captured Jiangxia, and the last heir of the Shen family had also been imprisoned by her.

Although he didn't want to see this kind of fratricidal and sibling fighting, he could only accept it at this point. Originally. The Shen family was finally able to end this unbearable civil strife this time, and the Shen family could still support it.

But yesterday, he received an urgent report. Jiujiang County, which had just been recovered, was actually lost again.

Yesterday evening. received an urgent report again, and Yu Zhang was also lost.

Then there is the probe. Linchuan was lost, Luling was lost, and Jiankang was lost.

In the second half of the night, some people even reported that Panyang County was lost, and Xin'an County was also lost.

Countless secret reports reached Jiankang, which made the old general who presided over the responsibility of Jiankang's stay in trouble also panic and confused.

In just one day, even if Chen Jun really attacked on a large scale, it was impossible to take so many cities and counties at once. What's more, Jiangxia City, not far from Jiujiang, still has more than 300,000 troops.

Seeing these true and false news, the old general did not dare to hesitate, and personally rushed to the west of Jiankang with a team of soldiers and horses to quarry. With his years of experience in warfare, Shen Fasheng felt that this matter was strange, but what was strange in the end, he couldn't figure it out for a while.

However, he understood that it was impossible for so many Chen troops to emerge in Jiangdong at once. Therefore, he is most worried about Jiangbei, quarrying is one of the two major ferries in Jiangbei, and what he is afraid of is that Jiangbei will move at this time. …,

Throughout the day, countless spies were sent across the river to inquire about the movement, but the scouts who reported back all said that there was no movement on the other side. The defenders of Huainan seem to have retreated to the two major towns of Hefei and Jiangdu. The rest is that there is a troop of soldiers and horses stationed in Liyang along the river, and the spies who can report back also claim that the defenders of Liyang have no abnormal movements.

There is no change in Jiangbei, but Jiangdong is really abnormal.

In the morning, I received a call for help, and a large force of the Northern Chen army had invaded Jiangdong, and I did not know where this army came from. However, according to reports, there were at least 20,000 people under their banner. The banner shows that this army has both the army of Hu Hai, the governor of Jiangxi, the army of Chen Shan, the governor of Anhui, and even the banner of Henan soldiers and horses, which is amazing.

At first, he thought that this was another false information, but it didn't take long for him to meet many officials in Yuhang, and he learned from them that the cities of Yuhang County had actually fallen. And listening to them, it seems that Wu County has also been captured.

And in the afternoon, there was an urgent report that the Feng Xian clan in Lingnan had also sent troops, and there were many rumors that the Baiyue native soldiers of Feng Ang and Feng Wan's father and daughter had actually captured the cities of Jian'an County, and they had killed all the way to Yongjia County, and they were rushing to Jiankang.

All of a sudden, it seemed that except for the capital Jiankang and the nearby Danyang County, the nine counties of Jiangdong had suddenly fallen into the hands of the Northern Chen Army.

A series of news made Shen Fasheng unable to calm down.

Such a fierce offensive reminded him of the great battle in June, when the Northern Chen army invaded on a large scale, and in less than half a month, it almost fell into the Jiangdong counties. Although most of the Northern Chen Army was transferred to the north in his news, now the nine counties in Jiangdong are even more empty, and they are basically undefended. There is no need for 100,000, if there is really a Chen army of 20,000 or 30,000, and there are troops sent from Lingnan, it is normal for the counties to be lost. Even the Jiankang capital is already in danger.

Asking for help everywhere, Shen Fasheng was in a dilemma.

If you want to save it, you have to send a group of soldiers and horses, and according to the previous information, this is a Chen army of 20,000 or 30,000 people, and the Lingnan army has also come up, at least 20,000 or 30,000 people, to deal with them, there are no 50,000 or 60,000 people who can't stop them. But now there are nearly 100,000 people in Jiangdong near Jiankang, and most of them are miscellaneous old and weak. If there is less pie, not only can you not get rid of the siege, but it is also possible that the meat buns will not come back and will be swallowed up.

Send more people, but the defense line between Kangcheng and the Yangtze River is weak.

At noon, when there was an urgent report that a Chen army was moving rapidly from Yuhang to Jiankang, Shen Fasheng finally couldn't sit still. For a long time, Jiankang's defense has been focused on the front line of the Yangtze River, but Yuhang and Wu County behind Jiankang have nothing to defend against. If the enemy does intervene, then it will be passive. What he was most worried about was that Chen Jun would cut off the connection between Jiankang and Quarry and Jingkou first, and the 30,000 old and weak people in Jiankang City who had never seen blood at that time would be difficult to hold on to when no one was in charge of the overall situation.

100,000 soldiers and horses left behind, and the rest of the real elites are in quarrying and Jingkou, the two frontier places with Jiangbei, and the people in the capital are all old and weak.

Shen Fasheng did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the transfer of 20,000 horses in the two cities of Dangtu and Chushan, and sent people to Jiankang and Jingkou to send orders to each transfer 10,000 horses to Siping Mountain south of Danyang, and prepare to assemble men and horses to block the Chen army coming in Siping Mountain.

There were originally 30,000 horses in quarrying, including about 10,000 elites, but this time Shen Fasheng gritted his teeth and basically transferred 5,000 elites from the quarry. In this way, although there are still 10,000 horses in quarrying, there are only 5,000 elites left, and these 10,000 horses are still guarding three cities and one village, and the soldiers and horses are suddenly a little stretched.

Shen Fasheng sent all his sons to lead the 40,000 horses that had been put together to meet the invading Chen army. He stayed in the quarry, and there were only 10,000 horses left in the quarry, and he really didn't worry about this strategic fortress. …,

After his sons led the troops away, Shen Fasheng immediately began to send rangers to block the roads, and ordered that fishermen along the river should not go down the river, and all boats should not leave the wharf. On the one hand, he ordered the gates of the three cities and one village to be closed, and on the other hand, he urgently recruited all the young men and women in each city to help defend the city.

In this tense atmosphere, Shen Fasheng was so worried that he couldn't even eat, and he had already inspected the city five or six times in half a day, for fear that there would be any movement on the Yangtze River at this time. In his mind, Chen's army invaded on a large scale, and the biggest threat was naturally the enemy crossing the river.

The night was dark, the moon was dark and windless, and the stars were bleak.

When it was approaching the fourth watch, Shen Fasheng, who was patrolling the city, suddenly found a light horse running from the west. Faintly, I saw that the rushing team was playing the banner of the Wu army, and the soldiers were wearing the armor of the Wu army. The number of people doesn't seem to be much, about 500 people.

Shen Fasheng didn't dare to be careless, and immediately asked the soldiers to shout to the city.

"Stop, which unit are you in?"

A lieutenant officer rushed out of the city, holding a letter in his hand and said: "Under the command of General Chen, under the orders of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent and General Chen, he will return to the quarrying at night with special stars." We waited for the light cavalry of the forward battalion, and General Chen Dang immediately led the foot soldiers to rush behind. This has the military order seal of the princess regent and General Chen, please send someone to check it. ”

Shen Fasheng's brows moved when he heard this, stopped the soldiers who were about to move, and personally stepped forward and shouted: "Isn't Jiujiang lost? Why did General Chen Dang bring people back to help again? ”

"Jiujiang was indeed taken by the Chen thief, but His Royal Highness the Prince Regent then sent someone to take Jiujiang back. His Royal Highness received an urgent report from Jiangdong, and immediately led the army back to the division. Because of the loss of Jiujiang, General Chen of my family specially asked the princess regent to atone for his sins and quickly return to the aid for the forward. ”

Shen Fasheng sent someone down to inspect it again, and confirmed that the person below was indeed Chen Dang's department. The officer came back and reported that he knew many of the officers below, and that they were indeed Chen Dang's subordinate generals, and that he and Chen Dang's subordinates had been stationed together before.

After hearing this, Shen Fasheng finally breathed a sigh of relief. If Wu Jun didn't come back to help, he didn't know how to deal with the two armies of Hu Hai and Lingnan. Well, now, as long as the army comes back to help, even if the Chen army can toss again, as long as the Yangtze River line is held, then these tens of thousands of Chen troops will not be far from defeat.

The Shen family has finally survived this hurdle again.