In November, the weather gradually became cold, and even Suzhou was a bleak scene, and when it came to the front line of the war, Hangzhou and Jinling everywhere, it was even more bleak.

Han Jian has been studying the deployment of troops against Jinling City for several days, and if he wants to take a city like Jinling City with a very complete defense, Han Jian knows that it is not enough to rely on force alone, even if he attacks the city with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, it is still quite difficult to capture a city as large as Jinling. He also knew that in any situation of war in ancient China, a city of such a scale as the capital was rarely captured by people, and many times it took some skill.

But Han Jian can't get more internal responses in Jinling City now, so as to knock on the city defense of Jinling City.

Zhu Tongjing mainly relied on the eyeliner he arranged in Jinling City, including the people he bought from King Hui, to help him take Jinling City effortlessly. This trick worked very well for Zhu Tongjing, but for Han Jian, it was too difficult to draw a scoop according to the gourd. First of all, Zhu Tongjing was once a major force in the imperial court, and when he withdrew from Jinling City, he thought that he would make a comeback one day, so he could make effective arrangements in advance, and Zhu Tongjing himself used this method, after he captured Jinling City, he replaced the main yamen in the city defense with people he felt trustworthy, and it was very difficult for Han Jian to start from these people.

“…… Your Majesty, if this goes on for a long time, Jinling City can never be captured, our army should also withdraw as soon as possible, take the land of Jiang and Jiangxi as the foundation, and after the spring of the next year, send troops south again, and then you can drive straight in, all the way to the South China Sea, and level the land of the four seas. ”

At military conferences, there have already been calls for the withdrawal of troops on more than one occasion.

It's not that these people are afraid of death, or that they are slacking off on the war, but the current situation is indeed dragging in the direction of the unfavorable situation of the war. Han Jian never came up with a practical and effective plan for marching into the army. Those who know will understand that Han Jian wants to wait for Lin Zhan's troops to move from Shuzhong to Chudi, and then move closer to Jiangjiang and Jinling, and those who don't know think that Han Jian's advance is blocked and needs to be delayed so aimlessly.

In the face of this kind of discussion, Han Jian had always taken the attitude of ignoring it, since he wanted to listen to the opinions below. It can't be too one-size-fits-all.

This military meeting is still the same, Han Jian did not explain the big strategy, but only stated that he would wait for the "convergence of the three armies", the three armies, that is, the soldiers and horses of Suzhou, the soldiers and horses of Su Tingxia, and Lin Zhan's troops, others can only think so, but in fact, Han Jian wants to wait for Lin Zhan's troops to arrive, and then use Yangzhou and Suzhou to capture Jinling City with three routes of soldiers and horses.

By November. Su Tingxia's troops were also stationed around Jinling City for a long time.

After being left aside for a long time, Su Tingxia felt Han Jian's "distrust" of him, especially after Han Jian personally led the troops to Suzhou, Su Tingxia also guessed that Han Jian was waiting for him to give in, once Lin Zhan's troops gradually occupied the fruits of his victory, then he would lose the capital to continue to ask Han Jian for credit.

Su Tingxia waited for Han Jian to order him to transfer troops from the beginning, and then he could only take the initiative to "ask Han Jian" for help, proposing to lead the troops to the south. Continue to pacify the southern land, and finally complete the "encirclement" of the southern land with the northern soldiers and horses.

Han Jian received invitations from Su Tingxia several times. didn't agree, in fact, it was a cold reception to Su Tingxia.

In the case that Han Jian had arranged all the advance plans, it was Su Tingxia's unauthorized transfer of troops that ruined his plan, if he continued to follow the previous advance plan at that time, Su Tingxia might have raised the banner of rebellion early and become a force in the south that was even more terrifying than Zhu Tongjing and Sima Yi.

Han Jian took Su Tingxia's recital. After much deliberation, he still couldn't decide what to do with Su Tingxia.

If he continues to ignore it like this, in about a month or so, Lin Zhan's soldiers and horses will arrive in Jiangjiang. If Su Tingxia "takes a risk" at this time, the land of Jiang and Jiang may fall into the infighting between Su Tingxia and Lin Zhan, with Han Jian's understanding of Su Tingxia, his leadership and strategy, etc., are impeccable, Jiang Gan's battle broke out, no one could predict the final result.

"Yi'er, I really want to completely abandon the place of Jiangjiang, there are too many unfavorable factors in this war. If Su Tingxia continues to march south, then I will not be able to contain him in the future, and there will still be one more king of the south in the future court, which will become a hidden danger to the court. ”

Han Jianjian can discuss military aircraft matters, but there is actually only one law. There are many things that Han Jian is inconvenient to say to others, to Ke Qu'er and Song Zhi'er, they don't understand this, the little girl's heart, what do you care about Su Tingxia and Zhu Tongjing? Although Fa Yi is indifferent, Fa Ye is not completely ignorant, Fa Ye is born as a secret agent, she understands the affairs of the world much better than an ordinary woman, and Fa Yi's political mind is actually very sober, and sometimes Han Jian has to admire.

"Since I can't take it, let's put it away for the time being." Fa Yi thought about it for a while, and said in a very plain tone, "The most important thing now is to take Jinling City, isn't it?" ”

Han Jian nodded, Fa Yi is right, the most important thing now is that there can be no civil strife within the Northern Dynasties.

Even if Lin Zhan and Su Tingxia may have a war in Jiangjiang, and in terms of winning, Lin Zhan has an eighty or ninety percent chance of winning as the king of the Northern Dynasty, but once this battle breaks out, the Northern Dynasty army will fall into self-doubt.

Han Jian finally hesitated to pick up the pen and write his troop transfer warrant on the paper, asking Su Tingxia to lead 40,000 troops and wave troops south from the Jiang and Jiangxi generations.

This is a difficult decision for Han Jian, and now it is equivalent to letting the tiger return to the mountain.

Su Tingxia's favorite is this kind of war that gives him soldiers and horses and gives him free rein to play. He can lead troops like bandits, all the way to fight and grow his power, this is the way Su Tingxia relies on the development of the army, and now Han Jian let Su Tingxia go, it is equivalent to transferring this time bomb from the most dangerous place of Jinling to the edge of the chessboard, although for the time being, Su Tingxia will not be a threat to Jinling City and the big strategy, but Su Tingxia will gradually increase his power at the edge of the chessboard, and in the end, Han Jian will not be able to clean up.

"Raising tigers is a problem, raising a tiger is a problem." Han Jian said with some emotion.

In the end, he had to hand over the warrant for the transfer of troops to the guards below, and let the guards pass it to Zhu Tongjing.

Su Tingxia went to the south. It will mean that there will be a threat behind Sima Yi, and Sima Yi will no longer dare to have too much thought about Jinling City, because Su Tingxia alone is enough to give Sima Yi a headache.

Han Jian could only comfort himself, as if he was reluctant to let the child trap the wolf, and divided a powerful part of the army in order to contain Sima Yu. This is also a little sacrifice to facilitate the "three-way army" conceived by Lin Zhan and Han Jian to complete the final siege of Jinling City.

When Han Jian issued the order, he could only think with a little expectation that if Zhu Tongjing went south this time, it would be Sima Yi who won in the end, or it would be a real good thing. But among the soldiers and horses led by Zhu Tongjing, there are too many soldiers from the Northern Dynasties, and Han Jian feels that this is trapping those soldiers who are loyal to the imperial court and Jiangdu in a place where they will never recover, but if you think about it carefully, in fact, this is nothing. After all, it is a war, and there will be gains and losses in the war, and we must not lose the initiative on the battlefield because of a little leniency.

On November 19, Su Tingxia, who had been stationed around Jinling City for two months, finally withdrew to Jiangjiang with his troops and horses after receiving Han Jian's order. Temporarily, this eased the situation around Jinling City a lot, and Jinling City was almost out of breath when it was strangled by the three-way soldiers and horses of Yangzhou, Suzhou and Su Tingxia. With the withdrawal of Su Tingxia's troops, Jinling City restored several traffic arteries to the west and southwest. There will also be supplies that can be transported to Jinling City.

Su Tingxia returned to Jiangjiang, mainly to rectify the soldiers and horses, and immediately waved his troops south. Because Lin Zhan's army would arrive in Jiangjiang at the end of November at the latest, Su Tingxia himself knew that with his current strength. There is nothing to fight with Lin Zhan, who is the generalissimo of the Northern Dynasty, firstly, he can't fight, and secondly, even if he fights, it means that he has officially rebelled against the imperial court. At that time, Han Jian didn't even have to do anything else, as long as he withdrew all the troops and horses to Jiangbei, he would fall into a state of isolation and helplessness, and with his only soldiers, he would not be able to survive in the land of the Southern Dynasties.

Han Jian also tried his best to enjoy his last leisure time in Suzhou City, because by the end of November, after Su Tingxia sent troops south, Lin Zhan led his troops to obtain the land of Jiangjiang, and then the Battle of Jinling was about to begin.

Han Jian will be distracted at that time, not only will he not have time to accompany the women around him, but even he may go to the front line of the battlefield and personally lead the troops to attack Jinling City.

On November 24, Su Tingxia quickly led his troops south after a brief rest. Han Jian's authority to transfer troops to Su Tingxia was 40,000 soldiers and horses, but Su Tingxia brought 60,000 soldiers and horses south, except for more than 20,000 soldiers and horses he brought from the north, the remaining 40,000 soldiers and horses were the new troops he recruited through the situation of recruiting troops in the Southern Dynasty, or the local garrison soldiers and horses of the Southern Dynasty.

Only four days after Su Tingxia ceded the land of Jiangjiang, on November 28, the main force of Lin Zhan's Chinese army arrived in Zhennan first with a fast and mobile cavalry.

This meant that Zhu Tongjing's plan to create chaos within the Wei dynasty was completely bankrupt.

Zhu Tongjing stole chickens and couldn't help but lose a handful of rice, he originally wanted to exchange the land of Jiangjiang for a respite, create contradictions within the Northern Dynasty army, and let Su Tingxia rebel, so that the threat of the Northern Dynasty to Jinling City could be self-resolved, and when the civil strife in the Northern Dynasty ended, he would take the opportunity to "regain the lost territory".

But Han Jian unexpectedly did not fall into his trap, first went to Suzhou in person to stabilize the army's heart, and then left Su Tingxia dry for two months, so that Su Tingxia felt the pressure of the enemy on his abdomen and back, Han Jian issued an order to transfer troops, although Han Jian did not solve Su Tingxia's internal trouble, but at least Su Tingxia is gone, and it will not have any impact on the Northern Dynasty's attack on Jinling City, but because of Su Tingxia's southward movement, Zhu Tongjing and his Qinwang soldiers and horses have to be distracted to deal with it, so that the Northern Dynasty attacks Jinling City, and there is one less force to restrain it.

And Zhu Tongjing's territory is still only a few hundred miles around Jinling City, and Zhu Tongjing can really garrison only Jinling City.

Three days after Su Tingxia sent his troops south, the defenders of Hangzhou chose to take refuge in Sima's subordinates.

Because at this time, even the people inside Zhu Tongjing also felt that Zhu Tongjing belonged to the "general trend has gone", even if Zhu Tongjing owned Jinling City and had become the weakest force among several forces in the south, the next step was for the Northern Dynasty soldiers and horses to besiege Jinling City, and the end of Zhu Tongjing was coming.

With the surrender of Hangzhou City, Han Jian also began to compress the battle line from the east and west roads of Jinling City to Jinling City.

What Han Jian wants to do is to completely encroach on Zhu Tongjing's territory outside Jinling City and complete the final siege of Jinling City.

The Northern Korean naval army, which had disappeared on the Yangtze River for two months, reappeared on the river, and this time the Northern Korean naval army also brought a large number of troop carriers, without Lin Zhan's troops marching eastward from the land of Jiangjiang, just the soldiers and horses that Han Jian had recruited from Jiangdu in the previous two months were enough to complete the capture of the prefectures and counties around Jinling City after crossing the river.

Zhu Tongjing was in Jinling City, and he could only watch the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty continue to move south, and he was powerless.

After Zhu Tongjing captured Jinling City, when his troops were at their peak, the number of soldiers and horses once had 780,000 and nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses, but now, with the surrender of Hangzhou City, and the local governments and counties have successively cut off relations with Jinling City, all he can use is less than 30,000 soldiers and horses he has arranged in Jinling City. But this is also his most elite strength, he wants to rely on the strong city defense of Jinling City to have a final battle with Han Jian.

Therefore, Zhu Tongjing had no intention of sending troops out of Jinling City, and at this tense time, Zhu Tongjing tried his best to "requisition soldiers, horses, and grain" from all over the locality, and transported soldiers, horses, grain, and grass to Jinling City. But the problem is that the local people have long been separated from Zhu Tongjing, so how can they easily obey his orders to transport soldiers, horses, grain and grass to Jinling City?

In the last recruitment, Zhu Tongjing used a ruthless move, directly using his swift cavalry, before the Northern Dynasty soldiers and horses completely occupied the local prefectures and counties, just like Su Tingxia plundered Chu, even the villages inhabited by local people were not spared, and every household was looted, which made Zhu Tongjing's only remaining prestige disappear without a trace.

Zhu Tongjing's so-called king's army finally became a group of bandits, and he was also ashamed of the local officials and people. Originally, some prefectures and counties were still preparing to fight against the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasties, but after Zhu Tongjing sent troops to plunder, these prefectures and counties took the initiative to send letters to Han Jian in Suzhou, saying that they would return to obedience.

The battle against Jinling City was wound again. (To be continued.) )