Chapter 81: Scarlet March (2)

This time, the Southern Han court had no objection to the revenge of the Guiguan region for sending troops, but there was a dispute over the specific time of sending troops.

The powerful factions in the army such as Cheng Pan Chongche of the Southern Han Dynasty were quick battle factions, insisting that the soldiers were fast and should take advantage of the good opportunity for the Chu and Tang Dynasties to send Wu Yue and have no time to look west, and take the Guiguan region in one fell swoop with a thunderous momentum.

The others all became rational, insisting that the war between Tang and Wu Yue was still unclear and that they should observe for a while before acting. In case the Guiguan area cannot be taken for a long time, the Chu-Tang coalition army will win, and attack the Southern Han from the coast and land at the same time, and the Southern Han will be in danger!

Pan Chongche scoffed at this argument, he raised his fingers and counted the comparison of forces and war strategies between the Southern Tang Dynasty attacking Fujian and the current attack on Wu Yue in the past few years, and demonstrated that the Southern Tang Dynasty's attack on Wu Yue this time was definitely a profit and wisdom, and they might be able to achieve some results at sea, but on land, they were decided!

Because the main battle faction returned from a fiasco last year, the rational faction also had more confidence to fight with Eunuch Pan, and unceremoniously exposed the shortcomings: last year, the eunuch general Wu Huaien also swore before going out to take Guiguan, at that time, the defenders in the Guiguan area were only a few thousand Chu soldiers, but they ran into a demon Lin Feng and returned in a fiasco. Now, there are more than 10,000 defenders of the Chutang coalition army in the Guiguan area, training day and night, which is very difficult to attack; And the Southern Tang Dynasty sent troops to Wu Yue this time and there was one more demon Lin Feng than when he attacked Fujian before, it is difficult to say whether the victory or defeat is too much, don't act rashly, the Southern Han Dynasty will not be far from the country after another fiasco!

After the Battle of Guizhou, coupled with the terrifying "Jingguan" Mountain, Lin Feng's notoriety even had the effect of deterring children from crying in the Southern Han Dynasty, and all kinds of rumors were widely circulated, and the demon was already a relatively conservative statement.

Pan Chongche, who was stabbed in the foot, blushed, turned his face and said angrily: If you can't win the expedition, you will never say anything about the war.

Liu Sheng, the king of the Southern Han Dynasty, was also said to be Mao by everyone's arguments, and finally made a compromise plan to send troops: with Pan Chongche as the commander of the Western Expedition, he sat in Xingqing Mansion and continued to recruit Han soldiers from other regions as reinforcements; With Xie Guan as the deputy commander, he led 40,000 forbidden troops to take the lead. This means that if Xie Guan's 40,000 people don't go well, they won't play in the future. The loss of 40,000 people in the Southern Han can still withstand it, and no matter how much, it will hurt the muscles and bones.

For a while, after four months, the Guiguan area will fall into a bloody storm again.

At this time, Lin Feng, who was worried about the Southern Han Dynasty back and forth, finally waited for Liu Qi, who he wanted to see the most, in the Jianzhou Jiedu Embassy, and told him about the next stage of the attack plan, and asked him to inform the pirate leader Jia Yuhang, and he took more than ten special soldiers to rush to Jianzhou (now Nanping, Fujian).

On the evening of March 10, Lin Feng rushed to Jianzhou. At this time, Jianzhou became the dispatch center of the Southern Tang Army, all of which were under martial law, and no one had a customs clearance document jointly signed by Chen Xu, the envoy of the Jianzhou Festival, and Lin Feng, the general of Yunlu, so he didn't want to go half a step at all.

At the same time that Lin Feng rushed to the Jianzhou Assassin's Mansion, Chen Yu had just rushed back from Fuzhou City, two hundred miles away, and Chen Xu, who had not seen Lin Feng for several days, grabbed Lin Feng's hands and praised loudly: "Brother Lin, after listening to the overall layout of this battle before, Chen could only sigh: It is better to be ashamed, and the future is terrible!" When I went to Fuzhou, King Qi chatted with me about a lot of things about you along the way, poetry, skills, inventions, reforms, and military training...... I wondered even more, what else would this Lord Lin not do?

Lin Feng's face was embarrassed, and he hurriedly said modestly: "The juniors are all stained with everything, and everything is sparse. Unlike Chen Envoy, who is good at military training, after this battle, the reputation of Jianzhou soldiers will inevitably be famous in the world! ”

"Of course!" Chen Yu raised his face proudly, and he smiled and pulled Lin Feng into the mansion.

"King Qi shouldn't have anything to do under Fuzhou City, right?" Lin Feng asked uneasily.

"Don't worry, there is still no problem with the 10,000 Jianzhou army to protect themselves!" Chen Yu said confidently. According to their plan with the King of Qi in Jianzhou, only 10,000 of the 30,000 troops forced into Fuzhou were real soldiers, and the remaining 20,000 were all played by Minfu, while the other 20,000 Jianzhou troops all sneaked to Jianzhou to prepare for a surprise attack on Quanzhou.

"Brother Lin, when do you expect the combined fleet to reach the Fuzhou territory?" The two of them walked all the way to the map in the study, and Chen Yu asked.

Lin Feng looked in the northwest direction, measured it on the map with his knuckles, and calculated: "The fleet departed from Jinling on March 2 and went to sea on March 4, according to the original daily sea advance of eighty miles, it can reach the sea off Wuyue Dongfu today and tomorrow. ”

Chen Yu also stepped forward and gestured a few times, patted the wall and sighed: "If there is no obstacle all the way, the fleet should arrive at the sea off Fuzhou around March 18!" ”

Just as Lin Feng and Chen Zhi calculated, Ma Kegui, the commander of the Zhan Dynasty, led more than 300 warships to Hangzhou Bay on the morning of 11 March, and could already see the mast forest of Wu and Yue warships from afar. More than 200 other two-wheeled ships gathered in the southwest direction of the Zhoushan Islands.

On the evening of 11 March, Ma Kegui, who had been waiting for a day without Wu Yue's naval army attacking, secretly led all the two-chariot warships quietly around the Zhoushan Islands and headed south at full speed.

On the evening of 15 March, the vanguard fleet that opened the way in front of the head sent a person who claimed to be a special soldier Liu Qi to the Ma Kegui ship. Ma Kegui verified that Liu Qibao had the seal of General Lin Feng, and understood the next step, and immediately ordered the fleet to spread all the sails and go straight to Quanzhou.

On the morning of March 17, the Southern Tang Dynasty suddenly sent a messenger to Quanzhou City, and personally handed over an ultimatum to the Qingyuan Jiedu envoy to stay in the city, stating that the Jianzhou army besieging Fuzhou City captured a hundred soldiers in Quanzhou's white uniforms, and asked why Liu Congxiao did not listen to the orders of the Tang Dynasty, and sent troops to help Wu Yue without authorization, ordering him to hand over the main envoy within two days, otherwise don't blame the sword soldiers!

Liu's nose is almost crooked, I'm insane, only send a hundred soldiers to cross the border at this time? But just in case, he urgently asked Zhang Hansi and Chen Hong, the deputy commanders of the northern and southern battalions, and the two were also confused and vigorously denied it.

The messenger who got the answer was Zhao Tianba, a special soldier, who pulled out two sets of blood-stained Qingyuan military uniforms from behind his back and threw them on the ground, pulled out his waist knife and brushed a few knives to chop his clothes to pieces, and without saying a word, he turned around and left.

Liu Congxiao also threw the teacup in his hand to the ground in anger, his face turned pale.

At noon on March 18, Liu Congxiao suddenly received two urgent reports:

The first to arrive was news from the north, there were 20,000 Tang soldiers who should have been separated from Fuzhou, and suddenly moved to the Wu-Yue border line stationed on the north side of Dehua, claiming to track down the traitors in the Qingyuan army, and demanding that they immediately withdraw to the defenders and hand over the mastermind behind the scenes; Subsequently, there was also an urgent report from Datian County on the western front, and the 30,000 Jianzhou troops suddenly came out from the direction of Yong'an, Jianzhou, swept across the border, and came straight to the east!

Hearing the urgent report, Liucongxiao was furious, and urgently ordered 10,000 soldiers of the Beida Battalion to immediately pull out the camp north to Dehua to block the enemy army in the north, and 10,000 soldiers of the Beida Battalion were stationed in Nan'an and Yongchun in the west of Quanzhou to block the enemy army in the west of Quanzhou layer by layer, and at the same time, urgently summoned the civil and military generals in Quanzhou to Liufu to discuss.

At this time, the soldiers defending the city sent a letter of arrows, saying that the unusually arrogant messenger shot into the city the day before yesterday, and Liu Congxiao opened it to take a look, and there were only two sentences: hand over the mastermind behind the scenes before tomorrow morning, otherwise the city will be slaughtered.

Liu Congxiao threw the most crooked and crooked letter to the generals attending the meeting, and said angrily: "Xiao Tang is really too deceitful!" Fight with them in full arms! ”

Just as they were discussing how to deal with the Southern Tang army, the commander of the war commander stationed in Hui'an Harbor came with another shocking bad news: at least two hundred two-chariot warships suddenly appeared on the sea on the north side, had already attacked them, and were heading in the direction of Quanzhou!

At this time, no matter how stupid a person is, he understands that Nantang has come up with so many tricks, and the ultimate goal is the Qingyuan Army!

The civil and military forces present looked at the stunned Kang Renjie with angry eyes, and the same thought came to everyone's minds: "Chu and Tang joint attack are aimed at Fuzhou" is all analyzed by Kang Renjie, could it be that he has always been a meticulous work of the Southern Tang Dynasty?

Chen Hongjin roared angrily, pulled out his knife, and stepped forward to split Kang Renjie, but was stopped by Liuxiao angrily, pointing at Kang Renjie and not speaking.

Kang Renjie was like a sifting chaff, knelt on the ground and cried: "I didn't expect that the forest thief was so cunning, and his subordinates were stupid, and they were also deceived!" If the subordinate is a forest thief, there will be countless opportunities to slip away in the past two days, and there is no need to come to participate in this military meeting, but the subordinate did not leave! The subordinates are loyal, please make a clear example! ”

Liu Congxiao's face was gloomy, silent, and waved his hand to signal his subordinates to take Kang Renjie away and imprison him.

Chen Hongjin took a step forward and said eagerly: "Liuxiang, there is a group of special soldiers who can fight well under the villain of Nalin, in order to prevent a surprise attack, the minister suggested that all the special soldiers of the Beida Battalion be sent into the city to protect the envoy. ”

Liu Congxiao once again thought of Kang Renjie, who had just been escorted away, and then thought about the suspicious things about the special soldiers of the Beida Battalion that he secretly received every day, and shook his head lightly: "There are 8,000 guards in Quanzhou City, and there are 3,000 soldiers in the city who have stayed behind in the city, so I will be able to keep the old man safe and sound!" Special soldiers are sharp weapons in the army, so it is better to send Lu to spy on the military situation! ”

Subsequently, Liu Congxiao urgently ordered:

The gates of the whole city are closed, and no one is allowed to enter or leave without a military order;

All warships were urgently stationed on Da Fall Island at the entrance of Quanzhou Bay; The North Battalion and the South Battalion each sent 10,000 soldiers to rush to the Lower Palace in the north of Quanzhou Bay and the Shaxiang Battalion in the south.

The remaining 20,000 soldiers of the Nanda Battalion are stationed at the four gates of Quanzhou, ready to be dispatched at any time!

Just when the Quanzhou Military Council announced its disbandment, and Zhang Hansi and Chen Hongjin led their respective lieutenants and guards out of the envoy's mansion, a pregnant woman from the countryside kept shouting "ouch" and was pushed to the west gate of Quanzhou by two strong men.