At the same time when Zhu Feng, Yang Ye, and Hao Shi successfully prevented the Liao cavalry from marching out to the land of Ci, Jiang, and Xi, the situation in the world was also changing dramatically.

At the southernmost end of the battle, the Cham soldiers who continued to arrive were all complete war maniacs, one by one, they did not die or retreat, and continued to attack day and night, successively breaking through the two defense lines of Lu Rong in the north (now Hue, Vietnam) and Nha Trang in the south, and completely compressing Jia Yuhang's expeditionary force in Da Nang; At the same time, hundreds of Cham warships, large and small, completely blocked the exit of the harbor, trapping Jia Yuhang and them from both land and water directions.

Jia Yuhang was also forced out of the ruthlessness in his bones, before retreating, all the surrounding Cham people and their property and food were plundered to the port, and forced them to build a temporary defense line around the port with a knife.

A little further north, Wan'an Prefecture, a de facto independent Qiongzhou, is also in trouble.

At first, Yi Wuxian offered policies such as not being held accountable, sharing money and food, and joining the army freely to attract great attraction, and quickly expanded his team to 6,000 people. But as the month passed, the number of people rushing to enlist in the army continued to decrease, and the news of trouble continued to increase:

There were constant contradictions between the Han and Li people in the training of the Tang Free Army, and it became common for the two sides to gather to fight and clash;

Zhenzhou in the south is gathering troops and horses, and the target is Wan'an Prefecture;

Qiongzhou in the north has frequent exchanges with Danzhou and Yazhou, and there are already Southern Han soldiers gathering in Qiongzhou, needless to say, the target must also be Wan'an Prefecture.

In a word, Wan'an Prefecture will face a joint attack from the surrounding four states in the case of internal instability!

According to investigations, the total strength of the above four states is about 12,000 people, which is exactly twice the existing strength of Wan'an Prefecture; However, because the four states are all close to the water and there are many warships, there are at least more than 10,000 sailors who can be mobilized to fight. In this way, the ratio of forces between the two sides is about one to four.

Yi Wuxian, who faced the big war for the first time, did not dare to slack off, first, he accelerated the selection of masters mainly of the Li nationality in the army, quickly formed and trained his own special forces, and spying on the peripheral situation became one of their main training directions; Second, three lieutenants were selected from the original team and temporarily promoted to adjutant generals, leading 1,000 troops to garrison the south, north, and west directions, and began to actively deploy defense; The third is to send ships to the south and north, trying to contact the Jia Aerospace Department and Quanzhou of the Tang Dynasty, and other places, if they can contact Shouzhou. Although Yi Wuxian knew that the water was far away and could not quench his thirst, and the situation in those places was unknown, it was at least a psychological comfort.

Further north, the battle situation became even more chaotic, and at the junction of the Southern Han Dynasty and Quanzhang, the city of Chaozhou, which had been held for eighteen days, fell.

At noon on October 18, after Zhang Yunkai, the deputy general of the Southern Tang Dynasty, led 6,000 soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty to resist bravely for 18 days and nights, the east gate of Chaozhou was the first to be breached, and tens of thousands of Southern Han troops poured in, sweeping away the only remaining 2,000 defenders in the city.

Zhang Yunkai, who was besieged, did not retreat and died bravely, and in the end, only dozens of soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty escaped in the chaos of breaking the city, sneaking into the surrounding vast mountains, and more than 300 soldiers who surrendered were also hacked to death by the uncontrollable chaos, and the 6,000 defenders of Chaozhou in the Southern Tang Dynasty were wiped out!

Li Tuo, who led the army, quickly cleaned up the remnants of the Southern Tang Dynasty in Chaozhou City, leaving only 3,000 soldiers to defend the city, 10,000 soldiers to sweep the surrounding area, and he led the remaining army of more than 60,000 to return to the north.

On the morning of October 19, the army of the South Han Road rushed to Zhangzhou City, and nearly 100,000 soldiers of the South Han Dynasty surrounded Chaozhou. Pan Chongche, the envoy of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Inner Servant Province, personally rushed to the city with Zhang Yunkai's head and persuaded Zhang Hansi to surrender on the spot.

Zhang Hansi only has Zhang Yunkai as a junior, and he treats him as if he were his own on weekdays, and immediately burst into tears in the city. However, in response to the persuasion of the Southern Han to surrender, the old general shot an arrow full of anger with tears in his eyes, declaring his determination not to surrender.

Pan Chongche stopped talking nonsense, turned his horse and left, the drums of war under the city rose, and the siege of Zhangzhou officially kicked off.

At the same time, Pan Chongche sent 10,000 elite soldiers to aid Xipushui, facing a total of 18,000 elite soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty, and only 5,000 subordinate commanders of the Southern Tang Infantry Army, Chen Wenshan, could only take the initiative to retreat, quickly retreating to the northernmost mountain range of Taohua Mountain, and holding the most rearmost mountain defense line.

Jianzhou and Zhangwu Jiedu, who commanded the Southern Tang Southern Front War, naturally did not sit back and wait for the enemy to surround him, and gathered a total of 8,000 sailors from Quanzhou with 100 warships and 200 merchant ships, and gathered on the evening of the 19th to go south and attack the Southern Han naval army on the outskirts of Zhangzhou.

However, since the Southern Han naval army went north, Quanzhou upstream was the top priority of defense, and the small boats cruising on the periphery discovered the sneak attack fleet in advance, and the sneak attack turned into a melee.

From the night of the 19th to the afternoon of the 20th, the two sides fought in chaos outside Zhangzhou Bay for nearly seven hours, each losing nearly 30 ships. After the last battle, the slightly inferior number of the Southern Han naval army retreated while fighting, retreated to the mouth of Zhangzhou Bay, and sacrificed a joint attack of the land infantry, and the exhausted Southern Tang naval army had to take the initiative to retreat north to Quanzhou, and the plan to break through by waterway and rush to the aid of Zhangzhou was declared a failure.

Zhangzhou officially fell into a situation of isolation and helplessness.

Going north again, Wu Yue Jinghai Jiedu made Qian Hongyu lead 100,000 troops and 50,000 surrounding people, and adopted the methods of piling up soil mountains, blocking the river, building pontoon bridges, etc., and attacked the city for three days in a row, erected several pontoon bridges on the river around the city, piled up two climbing ramps, and rushed to the city several times, but they were all repelled by Chen Decheng and Zheng Yanhua, the deputy generals of the Southern Tang Dynasty. However, it was by no means easy for 18,000 people to deal with the attack of more than 100,000 people, and the defenders of Fuzhou felt a little overstretched for a while.

And Chuzhou, which is located in the hinterland of the Southern Tang Dynasty, outside the city of the Great Zhou Wusheng Festival made Hou Zhang and Zhao Kuangyin not in a hurry, today there is a small night attack, tomorrow there is a fixed-point attack, and Chuzhou City is shocked three times a day.

For a time, except for Li Jingda, the king of Hubei, who led his army to temporarily stalemate with Wu Yuezhong and Wu Jiedu under the city of Wuxi, Qian Wenfeng was at a disadvantage in all other battlefields, and the situation could be described as extremely critical.

This news spread to the Southern Tang Dynasty, Emperor Li Jing, King Li Jingsui of Qi and a group of important ministers held emergency military meetings in the imperial study every day, but every time there was no magic method to discuss, the three directions of the Tang Dynasty had to deal with three mortal enemies, and all the troops that could be mobilized were mobilized, what else could be done?

At this time, someone suggested that he should learn from Lin Feng and then transfer troops from Chudi.

This suggestion was immediately rejected. Not long after the new harvest of Chudi, what if all the troops are transferred and there are changes in the local area? Besides, Chu is too far away, far water can't quench the thirst of the near, and no matter how much they are transferred, they can only transfer barbarian soldiers, what should they do if they are yang and yin?

A group of generals argued around the world every day, moving the small flags representing the troops, and the result was always too frustrating for them, and now they found that their own troops were too small!

At this time, some Wenchen jumped out and proposed that it was better to temporarily suspend the army with Wu Yue and the Southern Han Dynasty and make every effort to deal with the Northern Zhou State. This point of view was refuted by Li Jing himself, people are obviously the union of the three kingdoms, and if they don't beat the Tang Dynasty, they won't collect their troops, how can they suddenly enlarge Tang Yima? In the current situation, how much does Datang have to pay to convince these two ambitious countries?

In the end, in desperation, Li Jing listened to Li Jingsui's suggestion and issued a nationwide war order, conscripting all men between the ages of 15 and 55 in Datang to enlist in the army, urgently train, and prepare to join the follow-up war.

The war began to develop on a larger scale.