The situation in Fuzhou City, three hundred miles north of Quanzhou, is also dangerous.

Under the leadership of Qian Hongyu, the envoy of Wu Yue Jinghai Jiedu, 100,000 troops and 50,000 surrounding people attacked the city continuously, and at the end of October, they successively broke through the Yingxian Gate in the west of Fuzhou and the Ningyue Gate in the south, and the outer city of Fuzhou was broken.

After Chen Decheng and Zheng Yanhua, the deputy generals of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who had been mentally prepared, personally led their troops to break off, they withdrew the defenders into the inner city, and continued to defend them by virtue of the connecting waterways around the inner city to resist the enemy.

Long before, the second generals Chen and Zheng had already moved all the food and equipment into the inner city, but at this moment, they gave up the outer city, and the army of 12,000 people guarded the dangerous place, but it became much easier. However, this move has also completely turned them into "trapped islands", and without external assistance, there is only a dead end.

Further north, Wu Yue's 10,000 elite reinforcements rushed to the city of Wuxi in Changzhou in the Southern Tang Dynasty in late October, and the troops under Qian Wenfeng were immediately equal to the forces of Li Jingda, the king of Hubei in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Further north, the Southern Tang River was in a state of panic:

Because it is located between Yangzhou City, the eastern capital, and Nanjing City, the western capital, the town navy in Runzhou was temporarily divided into three parts, a part of the most elite rushed to the western capital, and the remaining military strength was divided into three, one was requisitioned to the eastern capital, and one crossed the river to defend it, centering on the north bank of the eastern and western capitals, leaving only a few soldiers to defend the city.

From Runzhou to the west, to Hezhou (now Hexian County, Anhui) upstream, and on the south bank of the Dajiang River upstream and downstream of the Nanjing section of the western capital, Ding Zhuang was everywhere temporarily and urgently requisitioned from all over the country. Nominally, large battalions are set up along the river every 20 miles to set up defenses, but in fact, they are pulled together for the most basic training, and the vast majority of Ding Zhuang do not even have the most basic weapons and uniforms, and can only train with their bare hands or with wooden sticks and knives every day.

Under the harsh reprimand of the captain, these Ding Zhuang spirits are okay, and the shouts of killing are shocking every day. However, once training stopped, they always looked north involuntarily, hoping to get a hint of good news from the north shore.

Because of the extremely strict policy of closing the river, Ding Zhuang and the people along the coast could only see small boats shuttling back and forth on the river, but as soon as these people crossed the river, they would immediately be protected by heavy troops, and they would go straight to the Chinese army camp, or directly escort Nanjing.

But in the dark, the gossip has been continuous, for a while the Qingliu Pass has been broken, and for a while Chuzhou has been besieged; For a while, Haozhou was broken, and for a while, I heard that Haozhou was still holding on; For a while, Shouzhou was broken, Lin Feng was dead, but for a while, Shouzhou was fine, and Lord Lin was still holding on. These contradictory news made Ding Zhuang and the people feel hot and cold, depressed and frightened.

However, compared to the south bank of the Great River, which is better than watching the fire from the other side, the north bank of the Great River can be regarded as a horse barrenness.

In particular, Chuzhou, the northern throat of Nanjing, the western capital, was on the crest of the war, but the generals in the first cadre army were arguing about the war almost every day and did nothing.

Wang Shaoyan, the assassin of Chuzhou, was a hardcore conservative, and he counted back and forth, from the importance of Chuzhou's defense to the comparison of military strength between the two sides, insisting that the army should not be able to hold out, as long as it was defended, it would be a victory.

Wu Qing, who had been influenced by Lin Feng's special offensive thoughts, naturally disagreed with this kind of shrinking turtle defense, thinking that Chuzhou was not enough to defend at all! Chuzhou, in essence, has become an isolated city like other cities in Jiangbei and Huainan, and if it is trapped for a long time, there is no way to solve the existing food for the army and civilians! To break the game, you must rush out and defeat the enemy. He thinks Chuzhou shouldn't be guarded! Now there are nearly 40,000 soldiers, plus thousands of Ding Zhuang in the city, there is no need to defend the lonely city at all!

Because the northern camp should be supported by the envoy and the Fenghua Jiedu envoy Huang Fuhui was captured by Zhao Kuangyin, the capital supervisor Yao Feng had to temporarily act as the military and political governor of Chuzhou, he knew that he must be a transitional figure, so he naturally sought stability, and his attitude swayed back and forth between the two factions of Wuqing and Wang Shaoyan, and he hesitated.

As early as when Qingliu Pass had just been lost, and Hou Zhang and Zhao Kuangyin were disturbed by Hou Zhang and Zhao Kuangyin in the Great Zhou Dynasty, Wu Qing built a night attack to concentrate elite troops, and after defeating the enemy, he tried to recapture Qingliu Pass, which not only stabilized Chuzhou, but also effectively supported the war in Shouzhou.

However, because of Hou Zhang and Zhao Kuangyin's repeated attacks, Chuzhou City was shocked three times a day, and Wu Qing's proposition was not supported at all.

When Zhao Kuangyin led his troops to retreat and prepared to join forces with Guo Wei to attack Shouzhou, and Hou Zhang led the remaining Zhou troops under the city to retreat, Wu Qing asked for an attack again, and Wang Shaoyan insisted that this was a trick by the Zhou army to lure troops and should not be acted rashly. Yao Feng, who couldn't decide, was silent, and acquiesced to Wang Shaoyan's statement.

Wu Qing was so angry that his red face turned black, and he personally sneaked out of the city, lurking along the mountain road to the big mountain on the east side of Qingliu Pass, and found that the enemy troops in and under Qingliu Pass were just bluffing, and the overall defenders should not exceed 3,000 people, so he immediately returned to the city, claiming that he dared to make a military order, and asked to lead the army to attack, attack from the east and south, and take the opportunity to recapture Qingliu Pass.

This time, Yao Feng was also moved, but he insisted that such a large-scale military operation must be reported to Nanjing City and received instructions from the Holy Lord and the King of Qi before attacking.

Wu Qing was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and could only look up to the sky and roar, this time and again, how many fighters would be delayed!

Three days later, that is, on the second day of the first month of November, Li Jingsui, the king of Qi, who had finally straightened out the major military affairs, was finally able to get out, and led 5,000 forbidden troops to Chuzhou City, and ordered to explore Qingliuguan again.

Naturally, this is Zhao Kuangyin, who was killed in Shouzhou City again!

Zhao Kuangyin, who had a belly of evil fire, came out of the horse and pulled out the posture of the victorious division, first led 20,000 soldiers to surround the defenders of Chuzhou City, which had exceeded 50,000, and then threw some shabby Southern Tang military flags and heads into the city, claiming that the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty drove the imperial expedition in person, Shouzhou City was broken, Lin Feng returned to the Great Zhou, was immediately named the deputy minister, and was escorted to the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Tokyo City, he ordered Chuzhou City to open the city immediately and surrender, otherwise the army will be killed after the Great Zhou, and there will be no one left alive!

Chuzhou was shocked all over the city, and Li Jingsui urgently convened a meeting of civil officials and military generals.

Without waiting for others to speak, Wu Qing was the first to jump out, insisting that this was a trick of the enemy army, it was impossible for Lin Feng to surrender, and Shouzhou City would not be lost! At the same time, he pulled out a knife on the spot, cut the palm of his hand, and pressed a bloody handprint on the white paper, saying that he could make a military order, and secretly sneaked to Shouzhou alone to find out the truth.

Of course, Li Jingsui hoped that Lin Feng would be fine, and Shouzhou City would be fine, so as to stabilize the overall situation of the war in Jiangbei, take the case, personally go over to bandage Wu Qing, and ask him what he wanted.

Wu Qing looked around the crowd full of civil and military forces, and whispered his request to His Royal Highness King Qi: There are many guards in Chuzhou now, and the fierce generals are like clouds, and he is also dispensable here. If he finds out that Shouzhou returns unharmed, please allow him to pick a thousand elite soldiers out of the city, as a mobile force in the Huainan Jiangbei battlefield, capture the fighter plane by himself, regardless of life and death, the consequences are at his own risk, if there is no good, he will repay the country with death!

Li Jingsui held Wu Qing's palm, which was still bleeding, silently stared at his big red and black face, and found that his eyes were full of perseverance and sincerity, his heart was hot, he gritted his teeth, and nodded.

Wu Qing knelt down gratefully and knocked his head heavily, and Shane retreated away, slipping out of the city just as it was dark, and disappeared without a trace.

After an untasteful dinner, Yao Feng rushed to the place where King Qi was staying, and asked whether there was a holy decree to give Wu Qing the right to make a temporary decision.

Li Jingsui raised his eyebrows, seriously inquired about the details of the incident in front of Qingliu Pass, and finally said goodbye to Yao Feng without saying anything.

A day later, another 20,000 Zhou troops drove out of Qingliu Pass and joined the besieged procession, and the comers played the victory drums all the way, and the cheerful drumming continued, and from time to time fireworks were lifted into the air. Subsequently, Zhao Kuangyin and several generals threw a lot of Southern Tang battle flags and heads under the city, and finally set up a table of banquets in front of the camp under the city, let Lang drink, and laughed wildly.

Could it be that Shouzhou City has really been breached? This question slowly turned into a bigger and bigger shadow, slipping between the eyebrows of Li Jingsui, the king of Qi, and the soldiers and civilians of the city, covering their hearts, and the uneasy feelings were continuing to ferment.

At the same time, the entire eastern capital of Yangzhou is also shrouded in unease.