Since ancient times, the five mountains of Yuecheng Ridge, Du Pang Ridge, Mengzhu Ridge, Qitian Ridge and Da Yu Ridge have formed a long dragon that winds and horizontally, separating the south of the Yangtze River into two major areas in the north and south. However, there must be a passage in the mountains, and there are many north-south passages that run through the five mountains, among which the Ling Channel, Linhe Road, Guiyang Road, Liulong Road, and Hengpu Pass Road are the most important.

Hengpu Guan Road is located at the junction of Dayu County, Jiangxi Province and Nanxiong City, Guangdong, because there are many plum blossoms on the side mountains around it, so it is also called Meiling Ancient Road. Meiling Ancient Road set up customs began in the Qin Dynasty, rooted in the ancient name of "Saishang" of the big Yuling, north to Nanchang, Ji'an, Ganzhou, south to Nanxiong, Shaoguan, has always been the north-south traffic artery, but also the past dynasties of the soldiers must fight for the place.

Pan Chongche, who claimed to be 80,000 and only 50,000 soldiers from the south, went north along the ancient road, like a surging flood gushing out of a high dam, swept up the border camp at the northern end of the ancient road defended by only 500 Southern Tang soldiers, rushed out of the mountainous area, and went straight to Qianzhou (now Ganzhou City, Jiangxi), where the Baisheng Army of the Southern Tang Dynasty was located.

A few days ago, Yan En, the envoy of the Southern Tang Dynasty, received an order from the southern envoy, Chen Xu, the envoy of Jianzhou and Zhangwu Jiedu, to evenly distribute his troops in Qianzhou and Tingzhou (now Changting County, Longyan, Fujian) and other large prefectures, and waited for the battle. Hearing that the Southern Han army had invaded blatantly, the army directly killed Qianzhou, and sent an urgent report to Chen Zhi on the one hand, and urgently mobilized the whole army on the other hand, and fortified layer by layer to prepare to meet the enemy.

Who knows, when Wu Yue's army was not far from Meiling and was still a hundred miles away from Qianzhou, he suddenly turned his head and went to Tingzhou in the northeast. Yan En was shocked when he heard the news, and immediately led 10,000 elite soldiers to kill Qianzhou and follow after him.

On the evening of September 30, Yan En and others, who were in a hurry and sweating, received an urgent report from the scouts who went forward, and Wu Yue's army turned back to the southeast and headed towards Shanghang.

Yan En was shocked, immediately stopped the horses, ordered the whole army to immediately choose a place to set up a village, and sent additional men to search in the direction of Lu Shanghang.

Sure enough, it is a ship that sails carefully for ten thousand years!

In the middle of the night, the scouts in the army reported in a hurry, and there seemed to be a voice from the depths of the Longwang Gorge thirty miles ahead, and there was a suspected ambush.

Yan En was shocked into a cold sweat, and immediately ordered all the soldiers in the battalion to take turns to rest, and the fires inside and outside the camp were not extinguished all night, and the whole army strengthened the patrol around the perimeter.

This night, from Yan En to every soldier, was spent in an extremely tense atmosphere.

On the first day of October, Yan En, who had barely slept all night, received another report from the scouts that they had witnessed at least 30,000 Southern Han soldiers retreating from Longwang Gorge and heading in the direction of Shanghang.

Yan En secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately ordered the whole army to pull out the village, and slowly followed southward in a battle formation, and the scouts spread forward thirty miles to investigate.

However, just when the Southern Tang Baisheng Army was suspicious at night, the 20,000 Southern Han army that rushed overnight rushed to Shanghang, and joined the 20,000 army that had divided the troops in advance to raid Shanghang, and the 40,000 soldiers attacked the city on all sides without stopping, and successfully broke through the Shanghang City guarded by 3,000 Southern Tang soldiers on the first day of October.

At this time, a total of 70,000 Southern Han troops all gathered in Shanghangcheng, Pan Chongche urgently ordered to leave 5,000 soldiers to defend the city, and the remaining 63,000 troops rushed eastward according to the established attack strategy.

On the evening of October 1, the Southern Han army, which had successfully surrounded the county seat of Longyan in Zhangzhou, once again divided into 30,000 troops, and the troops pointed northward to encircle the county seat of Zhangping, and both places attacked the city overnight.

On the 2nd of October, the Southern Han army successfully captured Longyan and Zhangping, which were not much defended, leaving 3,000 soldiers to defend the city in each place, and the 47,000 army marched eastward in a pincer shape, sweeping all the way to Hua'an, Changtai, Pinghe and other small counties along the way, and killed all the way to the city of Zhangzhou, and surrounded the city of Zhangzhou in the afternoon.

Although Zhang Hansi was mentally prepared for the attack of the Southern Han Dynasty and had already received the news of the invasion of the Southern Han Dynasty, he never imagined that the Southern Han army would have so many troops, and the total number of defenders in Zhangzhou and Chaozhou was only 30,000 people, and the strength was really limited, and there was no way to block the offensive of the Southern Han army. At the same time, the military situation was informed of Chaozhou and Quanzhou in advance.

The Southern Han army, which took the lead, continued to attack, on the one hand, it quickly sent troops to sweep all parts of Zhangzhou, and on the other hand, it sent 8,000 troops to rush north, and the vanguard force was directed at Quanzhou in the north.

Chen Yuanzao, the assassin of Quanzhou, who learned of the emergency military situation, urgently discussed with Chen Hongjin, the envoy of the Quanzhou regimental training, and sent Chen Wenshan, the deputy commander of the infantry army, to lead 5,000 troops to the south to block the Southern Han army.

On the evening of 2 October, Chen Wenshan's troops and 8,000 Southern Han troops met in the Xipu area of Taohua Mountain in the south of Quanzhou, and the two sides camped and confronted each other across the river. At this point, the land passage from Zhangzhou to Quanzhou was completely blocked.

Almost at the same time, Guan Feng, the commander of the Southern Han Dynasty, led nearly 80 Southern Han warships to the north and arrived at Tong'an Island (now Xiamen Island), blocking Zhangzhou Bay and completely blocking the sea passage of Zhangzhou.

That night, Pan Chongche, who learned that the army had successfully pacified the periphery of Zhangzhou City and that the land and water armies had reached the designated position, breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately sent a deputy to envoy Li Tuo to lead 10,000 troops south along the coastal road to attack Chaozhou from the north.

At this point, Zhangzhou and Chaozhou, with a total of only more than 30,000 troops, were besieged by 140,000 Southern Han army regiments, and they were trapped to death on land and water.

At this moment, the southern Tang Dynasty in Quanzhou was so angry by the bad situation of Fu'an on the northern line and Zhangchao on the southern line that Chen Yu summoned his subordinates to discuss countermeasures all night, but the bad news came one after another:

Since October 1, there has been no news from the Zhangzhou and Chao areas;

Zheng Yanhua's troops in the north had been forced to Gutian County by the fierce Wu Yue army, which was only two hundred miles away from Fuzhou City;

The coastal patrol boats and soldiers have not found any trace of the Wu Yue naval army so far, and the direction of the attack of the enemy naval army in the north is unknown;

……

After much discussion, Chen Xulian sent an 800-mile fast horse to deliver the message.

The first is to urgently play Jinling, state the current predicament, briefly analyze the future situation, and request that troops and food be urgently dispatched;

The second is to urgently order Baisheng Jiedu to make Yan En divide his troops to attack the Southern Han army from the west on the one hand to relieve the strength of Zhangzhou, and on the other hand, send 8,000 troops to quickly rush to Fuzhou and Quanzhou;

The third is to urgently order Jianzhou and Jianzhou to urgently launch regimental training, and the township soldiers to guard the border and defend the city, so as to strictly prevent the Wu Yue army from attacking with troops.

Fourth, he urgently ordered Chen Decheng, the defender of Fuzhou, to strengthen the city defense and coastal defense, and not to fight to the last person, and never to abandon the city lightly.

Turning around, Chen Yu urgently summoned the famous families, gentry, and chiefs of Quanzhou for secret talks, and proposed to collect their ships, grain, and household goods, and make every effort to deal with the impending crisis. The Kang family and the Pei family in Quanzhou, as well as the Manichaean Fan Chang Mo Hui and the Islamic Fan Chang Shi Zhizhi have now been deeply tied to Lin Feng's big ship.

Just when the whole city of Quanzhou was in turmoil, Yang Xiong and Zhang Zhihao, who were carrying a large ship and two medium-sized ships, encountered big trouble on Mindoro Island in the Philippine Islands.