On October 12, Shen Luoyan inspected the soldiers and horses of the various armies that had arrived one after another in Nanling City.

Huainan Army, South Vietnamese Army, Zhennan Army, Jiankang Garrison Army, Palace Guard, Water Division, Regent Iron Blood Guard, 100,000 cavalry, 70,000 sailors, 180,000 infantry troops, a total of 350,000 troops, known as one million. The army was at its peak and its morale was high.

On the same day, the Chen army of the five counties of Jiujiang and Yuzhang had been frightened and fled without a fight after hearing that they were advancing westward. The soldiers and horses of the five counties had already crossed the Yangtze River and retreated into Jiangbei last night under the support of Chen's naval division. Dozens of cities in five counties have all been reduced to empty cities at this time.

"God help me!" Shen Luoyan's eyes shone and he said happily: "The Chen army is weak and takes the initiative to avoid the battle, which just saves us a lot of trouble. But now that they've retreated to Jiangbei, we can ignore them for the time being. In this dispatch, we aim to recover the lost territory of Jianghan, and we don't need to pay attention to the rest for the time being. The order went down, the whole army did not stop, and the generals Chen Dang, Jiang Yanchao, Xu Lingyan, Wang Hua, and Liu Ziyi each led 5,000 men and horses to take over the five counties of Jiujiang respectively, and cleared the local North Chen Yukou. In addition, Li Baiyao is the temporary governor of the five counties, leading the civil affairs of the five counties, and is responsible for collecting grain and grass. The rest of the army did not stop, and immediately crossed the Jiujiang River and rushed straight to Jiangxia. ”

Du Fuwei said: "Jiangxia is now where the two sons are, what if they refuse to welcome us?" ”

"If you don't want to open the city to greet you, then go in." Shen Luoyan didn't reply.

The soldiers are fast, and the corresponding military orders are conveyed immediately. Immediately, the trumpets sounded, and the army marched forward at a rapid pace, day and night.

Shen Luoyan governed the army strictly. There was no sound of the march of the army except for the roar of horses and iron hooves. Wherever they passed, the people along the way would not be awakened in their sleep by the crossing army until the next morning. The residents suddenly opened their eyes wide and looked at this huge army that suddenly appeared like magic, and felt that they were almost dreaming.

When passing through Wuchang City, seeing the smoke and dust raised by the huge army, the residents of the city all thought that the Northern Chen army had arrived, causing hysterical panic.

It wasn't until the army was stationed close to the city that the residents could see the "Shen" flag embroidered on the red handsome flag fluttering under the sun.

Only then did the residents of the city admit that it was not the hostile Chen Jun who came. It's a savior to save them! For a moment, the peak of ecstasy could not be expressed by anything, and the wave of cheers shook the whole city.

The defender of Wuchang City is under the command of Shen Xi, the fourth elder of the Shen family, and the subordinate general Chen is guarded by the town. He heard that a great army was coming. rushed to the city to watch, and saw countless banners, swords, and guns, and was shocked for a while. Originally, Lu Shishen, who also thought it was Xiangyang, arrived, but after seeing the Shen character Daxu and the red fire phoenix banner clearly, he immediately understood that it was Shen Luoyan who had arrived. For a while, I was happy and surprised. Thankfully, reinforcements have arrived. What is surprising is that now the Shen family brothers are fighting, and this Shen Luoyan was suddenly killed, but no one knows what her attitude is.

A herald rushed to the city gate and asked the city to open the gate, but Chen Zhi hesitated and refused to open the door. After waiting for less than a moment, the army under the city shouted to kill and had already killed the city to attack the city. The defenders of the city were surprised to see their own family attacking the city, but they scattered with a bang. In less than half an hour, Jiangxia's outpost city of Wuchang had already been taken by Shen Luoyan. Before Chen arrived and sent a message to Jiang Xia's master, the city was completely controlled by Shen Luoyan, and no one could run out of the city.

Wuchang is less than 100 miles away from Jiangxia City in a straight line, but the actual distance is about 1000 miles. A rapid march can be reached in one day, cavalry can even reach it in three hours, and a boat can be reached in half a day because of the adverse water.

After Shen Luoyan captured Wuchang City, he immediately blockaded the four cities, and the whole army lit a fire under the city to cook and temporarily rest. …,

Shan Xiongxin proposed: "Our army suddenly arrives, and Jiangxia City will not know about it. Now that our army occupies Wuchang, at this time, it is a surprise attack on Jiangxia in one fell swoop, if there is any delay, I am afraid that Jiangxia will know. At that time, I am afraid that the two sons will not come out of the city, in case the Chen army will come down the river to attack, and then our army will have no city to defend, and we will be forced to fight with the Chen army in the field, I am afraid of disadvantage. The last general is willing to lead the headquarters to ride 3,000 light horses to attack Jiangxia! ”

After resting for half a day, just after dusk, Shan Xiongxin gathered 3,000 light cavalry in the Zhennan Army under his command and went to the night with a title.

When the three thousand light horsemen galloped all night and arrived outside Jiangxia City, it was exactly the fourth watch, which was the most defenseless time of the day. When the autumn wind howled at the right time, when the three thousand horsemen touched the city of Jiangxia, no one in the city knew about it.

In Jiangxia City, Shen Xi climbed down from a beautiful woman with satisfaction. This woman is not a beautiful woman, but she is still beautiful. It's just that some of the bad things are that although this woman has a good skin, she doesn't understand the amorous feelings at all. When he was on the couch, he lay there with his head twisted like a corpse, not only did not move, but he refused to even hum, just blindly biting his lip and closing his eyes.

Holding such a woman is always like holding a corpse. But when he thought of the other party's identity, he was still very satisfied. Although this woman doesn't understand the amorous feelings, she is Jiang Ling Xiao. This Xiao clan is not an ordinary clan, this Xiao clan is the Xiao clan of the Xiliang royal family. This woman's father is also after the Xiliang royal family, and her generation is actually a cousin with Yang Guang's queen Xiao Meiniang, and even her name is about the same. Empress Xiao is called Mei Niang, and she is called Li Niang.

Shen Xi has always heard people say that Yang Guang's queen Xiao is charming and charming, not only Yang Guang is fascinated by it. It is a hero like Chen Pojun, the Emperor of Northern Chen, who has never forgotten the Xiao family, and now Chen Kefu, who is the emperor of half of the Central Plains, is still hiding in the palace and often entertaining with him. Shen Xi didn't have a chance to see Xiao Meiniang, but now he can have Xiao Liniang in his arms and press under him.

"Brute, even the women of the brothers should be robbed and insulted! Shen Wei will kill you. Xiao Liniang suddenly opened her eyes, gritted her teeth and glared at Shen Xi angrily.

"Don't worry, the third child has already been killed by me, otherwise, how do you think I can snatch you?" Shen Xi smiled coldly, and that smile made Xiao Liniang's whole body cold.

When Shen Xi talked about killing his brother, it seemed as casual as killing a chicken. Shen Wei is his third brother, and when Lao Tzu Shen Faxing saw that he was seriously injured and couldn't survive. The brothers began to make their own calculations. There are five brothers, the eldest is the son, but the other four brothers are not convinced by the elder brother. The third and fourth children were also secretly recruiting troops at the beginning, but unexpectedly, the fifth child entered Jiang Lingcheng first. killed the boss, killed Lao Tzu to death, and robbed himself of the throne of King Wu, but actually established himself as the emperor.

As a result, Shen Xi didn't wait for a few days, and the second child led Chen Jun into Jiangling City. However, the second child was also stupid, lured the wolf into the house, and finally became a prisoner of Bei Chen. Seeing that Lu Shishen was aggressive, the remaining three and four had to retreat to Jiangxia City. The two joined forces.

However, although the two brothers retreated into Jiangxia, they were not well-intentioned, and they both wanted to calculate each other. In the end, it was the fourth child who made the first move, and tricked Shen Wei into the mansion to go to the banquet with a glass of poisoned wine to solve him. Foreign. Shen Xi said that the third child was sick and did not see the guests, but secretly he was taking over the soldiers and horses of the third child, and most of the soldiers in the city thought that Shen Wei was alive, but in fact he had already been buried in the ground.

The woman laughed miserably, and looked at Shen Xi coldly. Said lightly: "My cousins Xiao Yu and Xiao Mo are both ministers of the Chen Dynasty, and they will avenge me." The Chen army has already captured Jiangling, and you won't live for a few days. ”

Shen Xi stretched out his pale hand and stroked Xiao Liniang's delicate face, and chuckled, "Don't worry." Jiangxia City is high and strong, and the Northern Chen army cannot attack it. You will follow this king with all your heart. Now the eldest and third and fifth are all dead, and the second is captured. I am the only one left in the Shen family, and I am King Wu. Follow me, maybe one day I can crown you as Princess Wu. ”…,

After tossing in the middle of the night, Shen Xi was also a little tired. He picked up a rope and tied Xiao Liniang's hands and feet and threw it on the couch, poured himself a bowl of wine and drank it, and then lay down next to Xiao Liniang. Shen Xi really likes this woman, although he is worried that he will be killed by this woman after falling asleep, he would rather tie her up and put her on the couch to sleep together than arrange her to another room.

Just after falling asleep for a while, Shen Xi suddenly heard countless people shouting in a daze. Frightened, he rolled over and rubbed his heavy eyelids, and there was already a sound of hurried footsteps outside.

"Report to Your Highness, there is a fire in the city, and now several neighborhoods have been burned in the northern city. The fire was so great that the brothers asked the general to move to the southern city for the time being. One of the guards shouted.

Shen Xi got up in his clothes and pushed open the door, only to see that the air was full of the smell of charcoal ash, and the sky in the north had been burned by the fire. In the autumn wind, the sound of the fire was clearly heard, and from time to time there was the sound of the rumbling house collapsing. The cries for help of hundreds of people, the sound of wind and fire were mixed, and Jiangxia City was noisy.

Shen Xi looked at all this with a headache, and shouted: "Why don't you quickly transfer the brothers to put out the fire together, if the entire Jiangxia City is burned, then where will we live?" ”

"Yes," the guard turned and hurried away.

Outside Jiangxia City, Shan Xiongxin and 3,000 men and horses have been hiding outside the south city gate, carefully watching the movements in Jiangxia City.

"Marshal, fires are raging everywhere in the city, and many soldiers in the city have already gone down to the city to put out the fires. It's almost time, are we going to start attacking the city? ”

It seems that the brethren who infiltrated the city have already succeeded, but wait and see if they can open the gates as planned. If the gates of the city could not be opened, the brothers would have suffered great damage. Shan Xiongxin also looked at the city gate with a solemn face. Jiangxia City has belonged to Nan Chen for several years, and Shen Luoyan has already installed a lot of henchmen in the city, most of whom she used to collect intelligence when she traveled around the country.

This time Shan Xiongxin came, Shen Luoyan also handed over these internal responsibilities to him, and asked him to find a way to send people to sneak into the city to join them, and then create chaos in the city to help Shan Xiongxin enter the city.

Squeak————

The heavy gate was slowly pushed open, revealing a gap that grew larger and larger.

With the sound of the city gate opening, a loud shout rang out: "What people! ”

"An enemy has infiltrated the city!"

"Closing the Gates"

All sorts of cheers rang out, and began to be accompanied by the sound of fighting. A few figures jumped up the rope of the drawbridge quickly, and a few sharp axes quickly landed on the cable, and there were a little sparks in the middle of the tinkling sound.

"Bang!"

The suspended bridge was slammed to the other end of the moat due to the breaking of the iron cable, and the thick gate in the gate hole was finally fully opened, opening its mouth like a man-eating beast.

Shan Xiongxin, who had been hiding on the ground, immediately jumped up, drew his sword out, and shouted with a finger of his long sword: "Brothers, rush!" ”

One knight after another jumped from the ground. One after another war horses were led from the ground by their masters, turned over and jumped on the war horses, rode their horses and raised their guns, and roared wildly.

The rumbling sound of iron hooves broke the silence outside the city. Three thousand knights galloped forward like a whirlwind.

Outside the gates, many of the defenders were still fighting fiercely with the insiders who opened the gates, trying to reclose the gates, but it was too late. Like a gust of wind, the knights, armed with autumn winds and swords, split the defenders who stood in front of them in two.

The sound of iron hooves stepping on the drawbridge is like a dense rainstorm hitting the leaves of the sycamore trees, and it is like a passionate war drum beating on the hearts of the knights.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!"

Meteors slid across the inky night sky and spread across the city. It's as gorgeous as the goddess scattering flowers. Most of the "petals" hit the ground, jumped, and went out in an instant. There are also a small number of orange-red "petals" that unfortunately splash on the wooden planks or firewood and grass piles, which quickly cause a fire. …,

"Stop. There are few enemies, don't run away, let's work together to kill them! Shen Xi was anxious and shouted at the top of his voice. The number of enemy troops could not be too large, otherwise his subordinates in Chuyang and Baling would not have noticed the signs of the county's army gathering. Besides, Chen Jun went south along the Han River from Xiangyang. Or go south along Changhan from Jiangling, and you must first pass through the two counties of Chuyang and Baling. But now that the two counties are still completely under his control, and the front line has not received any information that the enemy is attacking in the two counties, how can it be possible that most of the Chen army will attack Jiangxia City. It is hundreds of miles away from Jiangling or Xiangyang to Jiangxia. Even if Chuyang and Baling can't stop the Northern Chen Army, at least there will be an alarm. Come and think about it. Shen Xi felt that this army of soldiers and horses must be a small group of light horses.

From beginning to end, what Shen Xi didn't expect to kill was this. This soldier and horse that attacked him in the middle of the night was actually his sister Shen Luoyan's soldier and horse. And even if someone really told him all this, he wouldn't believe it, because just a few days ago, the Jiujiang Counties were still in the hands of the Northern Chen Army, and he didn't believe that his sister, who had attacked Jiujiang several times and hadn't captured it, could capture Jiujiang so quickly this time. Moreover, Shen Luoyan is his sister, and there is no reason to attack his Jiangxia City at all.

"Don't run, pass my orders, prepare to fight back, and kill those who flee!" Shen Xi kicked away the soldier who had escaped from his side, and then grabbed the neck of another escapee. He shouted hoarsely, but no one listened to him. Including the little soldier who was carried by his neck, he struggled hard, left a rag to the king of Wu, and then joined the fleeing ranks without looking back.

In the dark night, not only Shen Xi thought that it was the Northern Chen army that attacked the city, but even all the soldiers and people also thought so. After Lu Shishen and Zhang Zhongjian in Xiangyang broke through Jiangling in one fell swoop, swept through the four counties, and annihilated Dong Chun, who had defeated King Wu and killed him in the first battle, these old and weak soldiers who were cowering in Jiangxia City had already been frightened. Now that the army has broken through the city, which one still has the slightest heart to fight again.

No matter how Shen Xi shouted, how he used both soft and hard, coercion and temptation, no one was willing to gather and resist.

In fact, there are a lot of soldiers and horses in Jiangxia City, although they are old and weak, but a few of them are the two surviving Shen family masters who have already mobilized the soldiers and horses of dozens of cities in Jianghan to Jiangxia to save their lives. The sturdy Jiangxia City has high walls, and it was the capital of the Western Liang Dynasty decades ago. When Yang Yin occupied Jianghan, Jiangling was also Yang Yin's old nest, and later Shen Faxing captured Jiangxia, and also regarded it as the base camp of the western part of Nanchen, and established it as the capital of Nanchen, and for several years, it was also painstakingly managed.

At its most prosperous time, Jiangxia City had more than 500,000 people, and even now, there are still more than 200,000 people. The Shen Xi brothers retreated to Jiangxia and transferred soldiers and horses from various cities in Jianghan into the city, adding up to more than 100,000 people.

However, most of these more than 100,000 people were old and weak, or newly recruited, and almost all of the elite soldiers and horses of Jiang and Han died in the battle against Yang Yin, and the defeat of the four brothers of the Shen family when Yang Yin counterattacked later. It's just that if Shen Xi knew that it was only Shan Xiongxin's 3,000 cavalry who attacked the city, if he was really willing to fight, even if Shan Xiongxin's 3,000 cavalry really took one as ten, they would be piled up to death in Jiangling City. It's just that at this time, the soldiers and civilians all over the city thought that the Northern Chen army had broken through Jiangxia, and no one dared to raise the heart of a war.

In Jiangxia City, 3,000 Shan Xiongxin light cavalry was divided into several units, and began to rapidly advance along the street, crisscrossing all streets and roads, and any soldiers and horses who dared to gather together were immediately routed and crossed. And according to the information known in advance, he quickly occupied the barracks, warehouses, government offices, and the residences of the generals and officials in the city.

"Woo woo————"

"Woo woo————"

The city constantly sounded the short sound of the horn, and this short horn sound came and went, which was a military order specially used to communicate and command the advance and retreat in the Zhennan Army. The cavalry marched back and forth through the city in small groups, sweeping through everything unstoppably.

Some cavalry specialized in seizing the four cities, some captured the barracks, some seized the warehouses, and some outflanked the mansions. Some drove away the people and soldiers, and some cleared the streets.

There are only 3,000 people, but in the dark night, the entire huge Jiangxia City is full of them.

Most of the people were ordered to go home and not go out, the soldiers were driven to the open school yard and squatted to guard with their weapons, some were ordered to put out the fire, and a special part of the cavalry was responsible for cleaning up the law and order and preventing riots and looting. Everything was so well organized and so orderly.

When the dawn finally appeared, Shen Xi was also searched from a people's home and brought to Shan Xiongxin. Looking at the fierce and strict cavalry, looking at the familiar armor on their bodies, and the phoenix military flag fluttering in the morning breeze, Shen Xi finally understood that the army that broke through his Jiangxia City overnight was actually his own horse. Just when he looked at Shan Xiongxin's dark face, and the face that fluttered high and embroidered 'Princess Shen of Chu Kingdom, the regent of Great Wu', he finally understood everything, it turned out that he had forgotten that sister. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )